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>Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me.

There is an interesting experiment you can do to directly demonstrate this to yourself

From Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

> Take any two unequal objects, such as a pen and pencil or two unequally filled glasses of water, and place them on the desk in front of you. Then, partly closing your eyes to increase your attention to the task, pick up each one with the thumb and forefinger and judge which is heavier. Now introspect on everything you are doing. You will find yourself conscious of the feel of the objects against the skin of your fingers, conscious of the slight downward pressure as you feel the weight of each, conscious of any protuberances on the sides of the objects, and so forth. And now the actual judging of which is heavier. Where is that? Lo! the very act of judgment that one object is heavier than the other is not conscious. It is somehow just given to you by your nervous system. If we call that process of judgment thinking, we are finding that such thinking is not conscious at all. A simple experiment, yes, but extremely important. It demolishes at once the entire tradition that such thought processes are the structure of the conscious mind.
Comfort. In the grain business my tractors don't get anywhere near daily usage, but when their window of usefulness opens, the days are long and the longer you can handle keeping the machine rolling the better.

Not all of the advancements are directly related to computers, but they sort of come part and parcel at this point.
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I hear this kind of argument pretty often. It's bizarre, because debunking it is pretty trivial. Even if we assume destroying plants is 100% equivalent to destroying animals (this is obviously a position not many would agree with), destroying animals is worse because animals require plant food to grow. And since animals burn calories that don't go directly to growth, it's an inefficient means of producing food (beef is especially inefficient).

So the choice is: destroy a plant to eat directly OR destroy an animal who needed n plants destroyed to grow sufficiently large to eat. Option A definitionally requires less destruction.
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yes, but without communication security
When I crossed the border from US to Mexico in a UK registered red camper van, there was no border from US to Mexico. I was meant to hand in some documents to show the van and family had left the US but we managed to get into Mexico without seeing any US customs / border. Speaking to the Mexican side they said the US border controls was about 2 miles back up the road so we didn't bother and just carried on South.

So probably a bit of room for some searches on the US side
The number of background checks should roughly track non-military firearm sales. There were 2.4m of those in March 2017 per the FBI [1]. (No, this doesn't speak directly to your question about manufacturing levels, but this does roughly track how many firearms are available for transfer.)

So yeah, there are more than enough guns in America to support this level of smuggling.

1 - https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_mo...
Yep, and also Italians "do it better", what gives?

It is rare to see all together such a set of (I have to presume) unrelated items, such as the popularity of a TV show as related to a (presumed) excess of physicians, or the high public debt or the scarcity of jobs connected (How?) to a long life.

About the Mediterranean Diet and the availability of fresh products (which in itself are IMHO very good things) it is doubtful that the good people of Iceland share the same, still they are almost as long living as the Italians.
Even if we magically stopped all emissions today it would not be enough. The time to act was probably 50 years ago.

1) Climatic feedback systems such as arctic ice melting, or permafrost methane have already been triggered. This means their effect will continue for centuries if not millenia.

2) Climate lag. There are a few decades between emissions and consequences in the climate. 40 years on averge from what I've read. This means we are now only seeing the effects from the 70s emissions, and we have emitted more CO2 in the past decades than in the previous 150 years before that.

3) Cooling from sulfate aerosols produced by industrial activity. It's unclear how much these are cooling the atmosphere but even a small number such 0.2ºC would be considerable.

Our only chance are very strong negative emissions.
We played Doom for a month and discussed it
Bitmain claims they don't use it on mainnet

https://blog.bitmain.com/en/

>Our ASIC chips, like those of some other manufacturers, have a circuit design that supports ASICBOOST. However, the ASICBOOST method has not been used by us on the mainnet. We have not seen any evidence yet on the main net that anyone has used it in the patented way.
Huh, I did not know that Librarian of Congress was actually a title/position.
Word on the street is a ham transmitter and a dtmf generator made it possible, and most are still unsecured around the country. Frequencies and codes are to be found by any determined attacker in scanner newsletters and old manuals. A few still use a dial-up activation. A duplex sdr, laptop, and linear amp should make it easy. Just blast your signal and move before you get triangulated.

Beware mucking with emergency systems is big boy jailtime.
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There is a handy Chrome extension that can solve this called xray:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...
Tomorrow, Wonga's data breech will be 247,450 UK customers.
DOS Game Club is a discussion group for DOS games, much like a book club. We play the same DOS game for a month, discuss it on our forums and record a roundtable podcast afterwards.

For the first episode, we played Doom and then talked about it for 80 minutes with 3 of our members.
Humans have more or less empathy for other animals. Some humans (me included) feel enough empathy for other animals, that they choose not to eat them, in order to reduce their suffering. I assume empathy is important evolutionarily to humans to ensure the society survives.

As to "why have empathy for non-human animals?": I don't know, but I guess having a somewhat-arbitrary rule of which animals it's ok to eat, and which not, can lead to a certain amount of congnitive dissonance.

There are also health issues with meat, that don't exist (or don't exist to the same extent) with a vegetarian diet.
> The report itself is not available without logging in, apparently

If you log in it just tells you the price: $3,800.
The point is that my phone is with me, so If i'm in the shower, the phone isn't 300 miles away, so if the phone says it's home, it's significantly more reliable than an IR sensor which will say i'm not home because i was out of sight for 15 minutes in the shower (or perhaps sitting on the toilet for that time, during which all the lights in my house turn off, my PC powers down, my doors lock, my thermostat goes into "away" mode, the water heater goes into "vacation mode", etc...)

I've had IR light switches before, not only do they have tons of false positives (I ended up removing it because I would roll over in bed and the lights would turn on at 1AM...), but they have a significant number of false negatives (I can't count the number of times i've had to stand up and wave at the damn thing like a crazy person to get it to turn the light on because it shut it off on me when i was sitting reading).

I also have 2 of them as part of my "home automation" system, and they are mostly useless. You say they are good at telling people from pets, but my 2 small cats set them off about 30-50 times a day, and if I point them up to where they don't go off that often any more, they won't go off for people at that point.

And like I said above, this isn't just "turns some lights on for a few minutes", this is turning the thermostat on/off, turning the water heater on/off, lights, locks, doors, tvs, computers, fans, speakers, etc...

And they STILL don't solve the other issues. What about notifications when someone enters/leaves the house? What about pre-heating/cooling the house when i'm close to home? what about external camera access? what about the alerts about water leakage, or gas usage while i'm not home? or the notification that I left oven on?

Why try to "reduce attack surface" of my door lock, when it's feet away from a window? I personally think a lock which sends a notification when used, or IoT devices which notify when used and nobody is home is magnitudes more "secure" than a dumb lock which will do nothing while all of my stuff is stolen.

Telling me I don't need those things isn't a "solution", it's letting perfect be the enemy of good.
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In the Readme you mentioned that you rip the games yourself - what hardware do you use for that?
Anyone have more insight into how Uber is competing here?? They're lidar tech is currently tied up in a $2B lawsuit w/ Waymo and it looks like there are a few smoking guns. Perhaps the report is trying to make a consultant-like case but bottom line is there aren't a lot of autonomous vehicle cos out there today and Ford/GM can make noise (if they want to) since they have mature manufacturing capabilities
I was there and this was a great intro talk. +1
It isn't all grey, it's green.
It's not always cut and dry. I was the "Jenkins babysitter" for a lot of years.

At scale I don't think most off-the-shelf CI/CD tools hold up. You will need dedicated people to take care of them.

Of course, if all you have is 100x plain software projects which don't depend on one another and there's no sort of other interaction between them, by all means, go for SaaS CI/CD.

If there's any kind of orchestration needed... it doesn't hurt to hire a professional to do it than force 40+ developers do it piecemeal between their other tasks, which will often have a higher priority due to management demands.

To rephrase your statement, I think you should get the best tools that are realistically affordable for your process. On top of that you should also get the best supporting cast for your process since often tools on their own don't cut it.
Then add in some of the face2vec algorithms coming out (takes in an image of a person, outputs a vector that stays roughly stable for the same person in different images).

Imagine the airport of the future where they won't bother with "Mr Smith, please report to Gate 6 for final boarding" while Mr Smith sits oblivious at the bar. Instead it will be "Mr Smith? We brought you your bill early because your flight is leaving in 10 minutes and you should get going" "But I didn't tell you my name or flight..."
Off topic, I really like that term. Can we promote that? I'd gladly true more "LAN-of-things" devices than the current internet-of-things hype.
> One way to fix this would be for a farmer to sue the manufacturer for business interruption for millions of dollars.

But you'd need to find a farmer who's willing to take a risk and spend a lot of money that they may not have while their crop rots in a field.
> In a way it is a bit unfair to IoT manufacturers. The problem is that to make something secure today, you need to be a network protocol specialist, a linux specialist, an expert cryptographer, etc.

Sorry, but this is complete and utter nonsense.

Nobody is asking IoT manufacturers to provide perfect security. It's about the absolute minimum basics. There's one single security mechanism that's totally obvious that would have completely prevented the whole Mirai botnet: Don't use default passwords. It's not too much to ask for that.
the report just seems like a money grab and not necc. making a good case for any company or putting a tight criteria around the output
The way I understand it: Making money means a market, market mean consumer choice rather then government mandate, which means freedom.

The fact that there is no actual consumer freedom in many cases like this one never manages to register; the idealism of a free market overrides all the messy practicalities of reality.
Never is a long time. I see what you mean but there isn't much point in being defeatist?
You're very right, although that method of authentication (known as "Knowledge Based Authentication" or "Out of Wallet Questions" more specifically) is highly ineffective. Users can't answer the questions reliably, hackers can reliably steal the info. Look for that method to be entirely out of the industry within the next 5 years. There are better ways.
I think your regular expression needs a /g at the end, no?

Edit: This was a serious question, not sure I deserve multiple downvotes
Or better stopping vehicle-ramming terrorist attacks like the one in Stockholm last week. Just imagine a system setup on the vehicle where it detects above-average acceleration in a downtown area (GPS supplied) in addition to abnormal swerving coupled with pedestrian data from the sensor network, the auto-pilot system kicks in and takes over the vehicle bringing it into grinding halt immediately.
To set it up isn't that hard... just set it and forget it, and let the browser & server handle things from there.

In practice, it's going to be a lot faster than the default of not pushing resources.
What they will not do is adjust for cost of living or differences in taxation when comparing an offer in Mountain View with one in a cheaper locale such as Seattle (which is where two of the companies you listed above are headquartered).

Perhaps I dealt with a particularly nasty Google recruiter. I felt like the recruiter had misrepresented the health benefits and relocation package once I got the actual offer letter and related paperwork.
I won't forget the first time I served a perfectly cooked breast to my sister-in-law. Her reply: "it's too juicy."
Not good - only bad skiing lift accident I have seen was over 30 years ago when I saw someone hit in the head by a flying T-bar - lots of blood but I think (hope) that it looked worse than it was.

Did see 2 guys jump from a chair from about 10m up onto a pretty horizontal surface - no idea what they were thinking fortunately the snow was quite deep so they just looked dazed rather than badly injured.
From my viewpoint, the practitioners have all but secluded themselves for the time being, away from all public scrutiny. Very seldom do I hear of them mentioned, and of those very few are intelligent.

And I believe this is what could hold you back, atleast in public acceptance (if you're even aiming for this -- and not just discovery among the "initiated").

I'm sorry I can't offer you anymore words, getting a taste of the esoteric after all of this time away has left me in shock.

So, may you succeed in your journey and if there's anyway I may assist, I would oblige.
The amount of money at play is enough to corrupt anyone. IF you are working 40-50 hours a week for $80. And some one offers you $500 to just look the other way stating they don't want any trouble here, they don't even want to stop here, this is all going north, but with a clear hint there will be trouble here what are you going to do? Perhaps your kids are ill, need new clothes...
The breast is more homogenous, which is a nice touch.
if we're talking about level 1 autonomy, then I guess you could say every car is their product? or for that matter, every care of every manufacturer is autonomous since it has a backup camera and lane correction =/
> Google "jailed for writing on a school desk"

This English article, in an English publication, reports on research in England from an English university published in an English journal

Why is the US specific "school to prison pipeline" in anyway relevant?
Interesting, solves a problem I have. Although as I do not live in the US, I don't have it often.

I wouldn't include books at all in the lists. When I want someone to help me discover great products, I don't think about books. You will have a strong bias for the taste of your current visitors and also there are other, better ways to discover books.

But to discover a "water garden fish tank" that's the problem I have.
Uh oh. Looks like there was a bit of an overrun there. But you can clearly see that this is your signature on the release form, right?

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It's not red compared with the green cast?
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This is the same reason why all the software on "Smart TVs" and digital picture frames and net-connected refrigerators and in-car navigation systems all SUCK. They're made by hardware companies, not software companies. I've worked for mostly hardware companies in my career, and most of them just don't grok software. Most hardware companies see software as just some line item on the BOM, equivalent to a bolt or bracket, that just needs to be delivered with the product somehow. Nobody cares if it is secure, or if the UI is fast, or if the fonts look good. They just need to check off that line item somehow so they can ship the product.

Try to find a piece of hardware in your home that was not built by a software company where the software is even close to decent.
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Thank you for your very kind feedback.
Believe it or not, the ideal you are talking about doesn't really exist anymore unfortunately. Even university research nowadays is primarily funded by external sources (government and industry). The more affluent universities have internal funding setup which is typically quite competitive and needs some sort of deliverable anyways. Case in point: the most desirable skill in a university professor is figuring out how to convince others to fund your work, while also giving them something in return. The exception of course is government. NSF and similar government programs are the only funding sources for pure basic research as far as I know.
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> For many, coming up with enough sources of protein while satisfying their dietary restrictions is not easy without meat.

I'm not sure this is true. I know it's a pretty common argument, but in reality, it's not particularly difficult to hit your protein requirements on a plant-based diet. Even if you take a relatively low protein food, like brown rice, and eat your required daily calories worth of it in a day, you'll hit your protein requirements for the day.

Consider that most people don't eat just rice all day, and toss in some beans, spinach, nuts, seeds, etc., and it should be clear how easy it is to get enough protein (assuming you're eating enough calories).
It only needs "/". "g" finds all matches, but there is only one match in the string.
> It was PROPAGANDA. It was not true by definition. Almost noone believed it.

I think that you fail to entertain the possibility that a big part of the population did believe it. Propaganda might have been so prevalent because it worked. I remember seeing a documentary with some of the detainees in work camps in Syberia and they were saying thins like "Ooh, if Stalin would know what they are doing to us here."

As a inhabitant of an ex-communist country, I can tell you, the effects of propaganda are deeply rooted in the common consciousness and dismissing such things outright would be rash.

Perhaps highly intellectual people were more aware of their situation and their shortcoming as a nation, but even so, I am sure they had their vision clouded.
Not all red meat is raised like chicken.

Here in Uruguay, cows are free ranging, and it's some of the best meat in the world (they're also individually tracked, etc... that means you can track the individual animal but it also makes it more expensive like most "organic" food :) ).
> Since happiness is generally associated with good health

Is it? Isn't human happiness associated with human good health?
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And is this one of them?
I would've said: 1) news.ycombinator.com, 2) hn.algolia.com, and 3) hn.premii.com

But putting aside HN and the 'typical' daily stuff like weather, transit, uh, 'private' stuff, etc.:

1. De Correspondent: a web-only subscription-based newspaper that has a pretty unique and very successful approach. Instead of the classical 'lots of news items as things unfold, hot off the press, and lots of barely rewritten AP feeds' model, it publishes fewer, longer, better-researched articles that provide more context. Basically, it tries to avoid the 'whims' of the day. It actively tries to center itself around the correspondents who get to write series on their area of expertise, and has done a very admirable job asking readers what they should be focusing on. And best of all, they're in the process of creating an English version of it. For now you'd have to learn Dutch for most of it.

2. tvcountdown.com: despite my resolve to watch less television, I still follow a bunch of shows and always forget when they air.

3. duolingo.com: currently learning Spanish. I'm shocked by how well the 'few minutes daily' approach works!

PS: hey HN overlords. I truly love this wonderful timesink here, but can we have markdown please!?!
I try to avoid buying products to save time I have to spend working to earn the money.
I would like some kind of standard for testing that is recognises, in much the same way the FTC tests radio related items for compliance.

Which reminds me that it is not a new issue and a read of few years back raises concerns for IoT and security, by the FTC:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/federal-t...
The often wafer-thin margins in the agriculture sector do not invalidate farmer's demands because food security is a most fundamental national security issue, even more so than energy or border control.

Conversely, and unfortunately, the Great Barrier Reef is managed by Australian governments basically as a tourist attraction, rather than a unique and fragile national treasure.

There is a (locally) famous quote from the Australian writer Donald Horne: "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck." (1964). A great many idiot politicians, jingoistic fools, and tourist offices are fond of repeating the first clause of this statement whilst omitting the latter, oblivious to the sharp irony of the full statement.
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This isn't anything even remotely interesting, this is a much better example of the brain changing the measurements of colour to fit a pattern:

https://goo.gl/images/V0d0hx
"CEO pay is wrong"

What does this mean? Paying CEOs is wrong? The pay that all CEOs get is wrong? The pay that some CEOs get is wrong?
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