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> And even then, very few will know the cultural difference between, say, California and Tennessee or Alabama.

As an Australian, I will say I think most Australians understand there are cultural differences between California and Tennessee or Alabama, and could probably even identify what some of the differences are (even if incompletely and overly simplistically). Australians would probably struggle to explain the cultural differences between Tennessee and Alabama, but then I imagine many Americans would struggle to explain that too. I expect that this very basic understanding of US cultural geography is common in some other countries also (such as New Zealand or Canada or the UK or Ireland).

> Just like an American might think of China as one thing with one culture, we generally view USA as one thing with one culture.

I would think that most educated Americans would understand that the culture in Beijing or Shanghai is quite different from that in Tibet or Xinjiang.
The problem isn't being deprived of the use of the laptop in flight, it's that you're separated from the laptop, which increases the chance it will be damaged / stolen (especially given that bags can only be locked with TSA approved locks).
20 years ago they were adequately accurate in university lab experiments, 10 years ago it was very accurate, nowadays it is scary how accurate and fast this is.
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(Supposedly) Lee Gambles comment on Reddit -

"Hi. I am the original taker of the photo. There is a screen that normally shows peppes pizza advertisements in front of peppes pizza in Oslo S. The advertisements had crashed revealing what was running underneath the ads. As I approached the screen to take a picture, the screen began scrolling with my generic information - That I am young male (sorry my profile picture was misleading, not a woman), wearing glasses, where I was looking, and if I was smiling and how much I was smiling. The intention behind my original post on facebook was merely to point out that people may not know that these sort of demographics are being collected about them merely by approaching and looking at an advertisement. the camera was not, at a glance, evident. It was merely meant as informational, maybe to point out what we all know or suspect anyway, but just to put it out in the open. I believe the only intent behind the data collected is engagement and demographic statistics for better targeted advertisements."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/norge/comments/67jox4/denne_kr%C3%A...
Why is https necessary here?
I think about this a lot. Imagine a world in which all software (and other "IP") is FLO. How do we decide how to distribute money, without the mechanism of "consumers buy what they want and are willing to pay for"?

The best answer I have is -- it's no longer about paying for the software -- after all, anybody can fork it -- it's about paying the developer. If you've really enjoyed the Civ games, maybe you give your monthly donation to Sid Meyer. If you love Starcraft and Hearthstone, donate to Blizzard.

While there's some groupthink and over-indexing for excitement to look out for in such a system, the prospect of a more human-oriented approach to funding FLO development is exciting to me.
I think you are missing the point. It isn't that business travelers need their laptops during the flight, but that most don't check any luggage at all. When I was flying for business, I only traveled with hand luggage. No need to deal with the hassle of checking a bag, when all my clothes for the next few days can fit into a carry on bag.
IIRC this was something Cory Doctorow addressed in a talk or book, right now we can do something in the digital online realm, but as soon as this hits public space we're fucked and it had already started at the time.
> with essentially no women on the site.

I would have thought that some gold diggers would sign up for that sweet mistress money!
That looks awesome - thanks!
There was a minor scandal a few years ago when a school was sending laptops home with kids and randomly snapping photos via the webcam for similar reasons

I think this is the original story, you can follow the "related stories" links at the bottom to see how it developed:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/02/school-under-fir...
Nvidia will have to support the SPIR-V Vulkan environment that is different to the OpenCL SPIR-V environment.
But Vulkan is a graphics API not a compute API. Yes in theory you can write compute shaders but from my experience if you have a compute workload: use a compute API, they're much more suited for the job.

So, no.
Thanks for the detailed comment. Couple clarifying questions if you don't mind:

- do you know that loyalty cards are often used in stores to collect customer data (a kind of offline cookie)? do you consider it a bad/dangerous/unethical or does it sound ok for you?

- if instead of a camera there was a person looking at customers and recording his observation, would you feel bad about it?
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I take my glasses off, but with exactly the same expression and position; 15 years younger, suddenly a lot African(?) and very happy.
> If you use it commercially you have a social obligation to financially support it.

Sans the key word "financially", isn't this basically the premise of copyleft? It's free and open for anyone to use, as long as you pay it forward.
What is the "purpose" of that child

To generate future GDP (and thus tax revenue).
It feels both like an invasion of privacy and unhelpful beyond a point. I don't see the benefit rising above the societal cost.
> i can't see how the latter would ever come about or be effective.

Try picturing a future where having access to clean drinking water is a privilege that only some have, with no cheap energy available and unstable climate. This is the future we built for ourselves and admittedly internet and computer are useless when you don't have electricity.
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Care to share? I have yet to find the right mix of aliases that replicate SourceTree's overview of the whole project.
"What is a religion if not a big virtual reality game played by millions of people together?"

If only the flamewars about which reality game is better weren't so violent..
Dystopian? I think it was meant to desensitize people to the point of acceptance.
Needs a self-hosted version.
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Yes, if you developed Keras and enterprise is Google. But what if enterprise wants to use some small plugin for Wordpress which is opensource, and needs some new functionality or a bug fixed? It seems unlikely that each enterprise will offer a job to each of the OSS maintainers, even if the said persons are even willing to offer such support.
Brutalism: Is there a place for this type of design trend?
This is indeed the biological imperative bestowed upon us by our genes (and similarly for almost all the other species).
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Post codes in Australia are just 4 numbers, so when buying subway tickets in NYC, I just put in 10000 or something (I believe that's close enough to the local code?).
For other references, I collected dozens of FOSS Patreon pages here (two posts): https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1946197&p=13597636...
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Oss maintainers also need to provide 'commercial' licences that are no different to the normal license, except they come with an invoice. Some companies are happy to pay for free software as long as there is an invoice to keep the accounting people happy. A donation model doesn't work here.
One place to find people interested in your project is at local meetups or computer user groups. Search meetups to find if there is one that gathers people on similar topics. Consider starting a meetup, too. You might offer to make presentation at your local Linux users group, for example. Your product/service would be of interest to people doing web startups, so try to track down meetups of those people. Search Twitter bios for relevant keywords, too. I use Followerwonk https://moz.com/followerwonk/bio Hope this tips are useful. Contact me at @philshapiro (Twitter) if you have follow up questions. I work as a public librarian and answer people's questions for a living.
So they show erratic data on screen, preferably flattering (eg younger, happier) or just obviously wrong and record the real data on the back-end. Instant public acceptance without even writing big numbers on a red bus.
Why not say that instead?
We are talking about things to do on a plane seat.

The last (and only) time I did a long distance flight, I did 3 things: I watched movies (using plane hardware), I slept (badly), and I used my laptop (I played and worked a bit).

Without my laptop, I could only watch movies or sleep. With a paper notebook, I could do some work, but not much. I could also talk with my neighbours if they feel like it.

Also, I have reserved a flight this summer to see the eclipse. There's no way I'll let my laptop in the cargo hold, for 2 obvious reasons (theft and accidental destruction). So, no laptop for the entire trip. I'll guess I'll have to make do with my palmtop. Not great.

And this is a leisure trip. For a business trip, I would need a computer with my personal settings, that I'm used to: custom keyboard layout, unusual window manager, a GNU/Linux OS… Borrowing a computer can easily be a major hassle.
Totally agree with you. Even if you have delayed copies, you still need proper backup in place.
They recently implemented long term retention for Azure SQL backups in Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sql-database-no... as it was only allowing 'til 35 days.
I would expect that something similar is provided also for this type of DBs
There will always be some amount of this at play. But changing motivation of people offering support ("you get paid because this works, not because it breaks") would result in much better software and better aligned interests of all parties involved.
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Solar can also reduce grid costs, by e.g. shaving the yearly peak power demand, which is usually a summer afternoon so it's not clear cut.

Probably the bigger impact is bad incentives for the people building the grid, who are often able to do what they like and get a guaranteed percentage return on top, which pushes them to spend more than they need to. This has been particularly pronounced in Australia I believe.
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So Harvard paid the 35% share but didn't allocate it properly--if the lawsuit is telling the truth.

Looks like there are a lot of ways to screw people, or ways where people feel like they're getting screwed. Joining patents is one of them because you have to value the contribution of each patent to the mix https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i11/Royalties-suit-against-H...
I find it interesting that most things lead to either Computer science, Mathematics, or psychology.
> fire-and-forget Patreon-like system for OSS

Add in the element of mutual assurance (like Kickstarter), and you've got Snowdrift.coop (disclaimer: I volunteer on the team). 100% of donations (after Stripe's fees) go to the project; we [are/will be] funded as a project on the site (currently the only one; although it's possible to pledge -- I'm patron #6 -- we're not quite ready to announce our launch to the general public).
similarly sized apartments on the same floor vary by 15%

Is that so unreasonable. In the building I used to live in for example the apartments on one side of the house had a beautiful view from the balcony and the ones on the other side didn't. The view side apartments consistently sold for more. I've also looked at apartment buildings where the floor size is basically them same for two apartments, but the layout was different, and people where willing to pay more for the apartments with the better layout.
Assuming there is no privacy in public space, please tell us all the name, age, address, SSNs, CC numbers, health records, gender, buying history, sexual orientation, facial features of everyone you walked by in public space over the course of one day last week.

Now that you have failed to do that, try doing it for one day 5 years ago, a whole week, a whole month, everyday since you were born.

A public surveillance apparatus such as the one featured here who record everyone, every day, not forgetting a single thing or person.

Try thinking a bit and free yourself from the backfire effect before making claims that make you look bad.
I suspect RangerScience meant that he/she tells people she's "from California" rather than "from America".
Sometimes. Ongoing donation systems naturally build trust because your patronage is more valuable than this month's donation.
I imagine there's considerable variance in the weight of products, such that any attempted calculation of the final weight of a long list would be unacceptably vague. Also, if there's a single item whose weight is out of tolerance, it needs to be clear which one so that the issue can be resolved.
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You going to offer me another job that has comparative pay and work-time flexibility? I'll take if one's going, but right now this is my gig.

If you want to start a war, have a quick Google for the big players, they'll have this tech in and will be proudly advertising it on their site.

The thing is: People don't care. Not your HN reader (evidently), but your Joe Bloggs. Hell, Snowdon told them the Five Eyes are reading their email and they barely gave a damn.
Can confirm, this was already a thing 20 years ago.
Because now we are "culturally enriched".
Not really. If anything, the metaphorical dog has caught its tail. Maybe you can retire in peace? Whatever that means. Or maybe the goal posts start shifting on the definition of 'health'.
Yes, that was actually the original plan. It all seemed so easy! Let developers connect their standalone Stripe accounts and have sponsors pay directly into those accounts. But this proved problematic for a few reasons, e.g.

* Most developers didn't want to handle matters like global VAT reporting individually, so ideally the money would flow through a central entity which took care of that for them so that they only have to deal with a single source of income.

* The need to support ad-hoc transfer of funds between standalone accounts when maintainers approved transfers to other developers they are collaborating with.

Stripe Connect with managed accounts helps to solve some of these issues, e.g. by creating charges on the platform account and then creating individual transfers to connected accounts. But according to https://stripe.com/docs/connect/charges-transfers:

"This approach is only fully supported when both your platform and the connected account are in the U.S. If your platform or the connected account is outside of the U.S., you can only use this approach for less than 10% of your total volume."

So, is there some other method that's available? Because right now, I'm looking at handling the payouts myself and using Stripe to handle just the incoming payment processing. And it'd be great to use Stripe for both instead!

(P.S. Congrats on the new job!)
Yes. It is unethical regardless of how it is done.
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why don't they just say what the seller's floor price is, and start from there? seems foolish to auction at a starting price that's lower!
Seems like a case for making mindmaps like this out of wikipedia
Not GP but I've worked in a similar industry.

For me I knew how our data was anonymized. So while our system would be able to say "I have seen person 1234 at locations 4,7,9,11 on dates x,y,x" we had absolutely no way of knowing who 1234 was or anything about them, even the unique identifier was just a hash.

Obviously it depends on how much data you collect/store, personally I don't think the things shown in OP are all that onerous (sex, age group, gender, rage, time spent looking at ad).
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1. Fiber exists.
2. No knowledge of running a ISP.
3. I'm bored, I have savings and credit.
4. I don't really care about monetization yet.
5. There was some guy that made his own ISP for Rural America, I'll find him.

Location: Manila, Philippines.

Internet: unreliable.

WISP: avoid all that nasty property issues.

Pipe dream, yeah.
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Tools such as aptly will happily generate that structure for you. Hosting can happen on an s3 bucket or any Webserver that can serve static files.
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Not really. As an industry, computer science is still pretty young and disorganized. Dynamic, ever-changing.

There are tests - the silly interview questions you see, QuickSort, A* algorithm, trees..

And as a practitioner, there are some standard tropes which vary over the years and areas of specialization, like writing your own blogging software, a basic back-propagation neural network, or completing the Advent of Code exercises.

But I think for your position, as someone eager to learn and show his growth, you should just pick a project that is interesting to you and somewhat challenging and do your best at it. By publishing the work you will say "I completed this" and be able to show it as a badge of your skills. All the better if you "kill it" and produce something better than what has existed before.

And above all, congrats on your exciting transition into programming. It's a challenging and important field.
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Yes, recently noticed that I had some file upload issues with browser-based postman, and they suddenly disappeared when using the standalone. Not sure why, same settings. Looked like the browser based couldn't get the file/form encoding right.
> I don't like having my emotions manipulated

What about collecting statistics to make better decisions? Let's say, you go to your favorite jeans store, but find out that current collection is disgusting. Does it sound ok for you if some sort of system would analyze your attitude to the product to improve it in later versions?
> their likes are not really their likes, and has been artificially projected

Can you please provide a clear distinction between a though or an idea that has been "artificially projected" vs "their own"?
I think it's mostly simplicity. Say your ECC code is only fast with say 17 shards/blocks of data and 3 shards/blocks of parity. I hear numbers like that used for hadoop, backblaze, microsoft and facebook object storage, etc.

So sure you can split large files into groups of 20 pieces (17 data + 3 parity). But the real world often has low error rates, but the errors that do happen can happen in bursts. Say adjacent nodes dying, power strips/circuits blowing, complete loss of network connectivity for 30 seconds, etc. BTW, yes I'm aware you can tell hadoop to keep 2 copies in rack and 1 copy outside the rack, that's basically crude interleaving.

If your code can handle a larger number of blocks/shards you can average your parity over a larger number shards/blocks so you can plan for the average error rate, but still handle substantial bursts of error.

So maybe instead of 17+3 (17% overhead, survives 3 lost) you switch to 2048+192 (9.4% parity). That way you can survive a 9.4% error rate, even if that's 4 errors in a row. Granted updates become much more expensive, but for some cases it would be well justified by being more durable.
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This has been on my mind for a really long time and I'm trying to make basically the same thing except the focus would be on interactively building your own map rather than exploring others but now I got to see if I can add that to this rather than build my own.
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I agree. Perhaps Mr Harari wrote that to provoke the readers. The next sentence is: «People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.» – so perhaps a better term is the «unemployable class».
I am ready to commit suicide now. Please strap the explosives vest onto me, and help me find the people that invented this abomination.
> maybe call the cops or sue

What exactly are you going to call the cops for let alone sue for?

While I don't agree with this kind of technology you seem to be overly emotional about it which really doesn't help the issue.
Amazing how you can have a $2 billion loss which represents a 2000% growth year-on-year and which is 15 times higher than the revenue and yet you label it as NM (Not Meaningful).
and profession = circus sideshow?
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> employed by a soul-sucking corporation to make money

AKA providing a service or product to the society. They must be useful to their friends and family, of course - but they're sure as hell useless to another anonymous person.
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South facing roofs aren't essential to solar. East-West layouts can spread the energy production out through the day and work out better overall depending on various factors such as how much you make from selling excess to the grid.
that is only meaning projected upon us by us - anything convenient can fit in. otherwise, life has exactly same meaning for tiny bug as for human being - reproduce and then make room for new generation, thus ensuring survival of our species. why do we keep insisting there is something more just because we are a bit more clever than rest of the pyramid?

we can extend survival of our species into conquering rest of the universe, it is still same type of effort. us individuals don't matter in grand scheme of things.

the trick is to be still happy and well-balanced personality while accepting these facts.
Its non-consensual?
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