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> Also, combat zones != California suburbs.

We're just going to leave that one tee'd up, aren't we?
Aren't the products in the Google shopping carousel just search ads with images? Not actual product indexing like other sites?
One point that I think comes too short in every discussion on privacy is that you are not always in control of your data and you never can be fully.

Say we consider a privacy-paranoid individual who is taking great care not to put his personal data online. And then we take a look at his or her parents or friends or colleagues who most certainly will keep his or her real name bundled with phone number(s) and (e-mail) address(es) in their address book synced to their Google or Apple or Microsoft account. It just happens, there is only so much you can do about it. Your data is out there and it's only the question of the security measures the data holder implemented that's keeping it safe.

(Basically, it's nothing new, many people have your data, but possibly only in the "offline world" -- think insurance, prospective or current employers, even your go-to car repair guy. It's just that we normally have a law for protecting the offline data and ways to enforce it and almost nothing alike in the online world.)

Privacy is something that has to be enforced on a population, and not simply recommended to an individual. The only institution that can reasonably do that is the government, by introducing data protection laws, abiding by them and allowing a third-party to verify they really keep their promise. Until then, we might not have a choice.
yea its almost like the underlying model is... warming?
I imagine it's because lossy codecs are tuned for human perceptual limitations, and when you process audio, it can "pull" areas of the sound that are otherwise hidden from your perception into perceptual ranges, analogous to how fiddling with the brightness/contrast of a highly compressed JPEG image can accentuate the artifacts.
There are actually a bunch of different kinds of functions you can use in lambda expressions in Java 8 (43, to be exact).

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java8/java8_functional_interf...

Beyond that, by at least 1.4 you could pass methods using the reflections API, though that was kludgy in a lot of ways.
Never heard of aim-bots?
That makes sense, I was confused since the Birthday problem is more about the pigeonhole principle rather than larger samples being more likely to have individually unlikely outcomes.

But for this case, it would still be very unlikely. For any arbitrary 3-year span, the probability of consecutively getting a "1 in 500 year" flood for 3 years is (1/500)^3. If we have N cities, then the probability of none of these cities having 3 consecutive floods is (1-(1/500)^3)^N. For even a vast overestimate such as N=20000, it is still a significantly improbable event. Of course, this doesn't account for "3 consecutive years or more within some year range" and it is a gross simplification, but I think there are probably better explanations than selection bias, such as the inaccuracy of the model or the fact that these events might be temporally dependent on each other.
It's possible to store messages on the servers and be secure at the same time (I'm not saying Telegram in particular is secure). I think it's more because Whatsapp's model is much cheaper on server expenses (they only need to store messages on the server until it's delivered).
Sure, when you're editing music it can be helpful to have super high sample rates and lots of bits to work with. But for listening, it's just a waste of space.
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Not only that. Friend-or-foe identification can boil down to "only targets shooting at me are hostile". That policy isn't any good for human soldiers but robots operating on that principle could avoid a lot of collateral damage.
I've said it before, this video demo is one of the very best I've ever seen.

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

So well prepared, so well presented, so little that could be removed without ruining it.

I aspire to do such good demos but always fall so short.
That's what I thought as well, but I repeatedly find myself blocking the same elements on Medium. Maybe there's some element of randomization in the ids of the offending elements, or else I'm using the extension wrong and only creating temporary rules somehow.
My go to comparison track for sound quality for a new device, headphones, DAC, amp, codec etc, is "Speak To Me" from Dark Side Of The Moon.

I don't hear a difference between various rips that are 16/128 or 24/192, but I have noticed a difference listening to the Blu-ray version of it (which is many-many gigabytes in size). It is a definitely interesting experience, but the way I can describe it is as an absolute absence of noise.

Every single version but this one exhibits noise at the start (the heartbeat sound) as the sound goes from very quiet to loud.

But, to be fair, it could just be different masters.
I'm sure you know this, but for others: dealerships are separate businesses from manufacturers, but they are bound by something like franchise agreements.

They also represent the brand to the public, and (good) manufacturers care deeply about this perception and spend a lot of time and money tuning the dealership experience.
I think it's because processes that affect things at the individual sample level (which distortion/compression often do) have a lot more detail to work with. The author mentions this a bit in the article
Two I am aware of that kinda fit this category are Toxoplasma gondii[1] (not technically a virus) and Adenovirus serotype 36[2]. The former has been associated with a wide array of behavioral changes, the latter is associated with obesity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Immune_respo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenovirus_serotype_36#Role_in...
So where does it end. Do they remove maps and videos and images too?

Google is not a web search engine, it's a search engine. It finds things. The EU's position, taken to its logical conclusion, would push European web search 15 years into the past.
Not trying to start a flame war, but do you know for sure “he” is a “he”?
The core is here: https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_1ch

When you play something stored at 44 khz, there are no ultrasonic sounds recorded.
At 192 khz instead, there are, and the speakers may push some of the ultrasonic sounds down to the audible spectrum, causing distortion that the human ear can hear.
This is just a single person's account of a love affair, and not a general theoretical and evidence (or even story-vased) analysis piece, and as such that title is terrible clickbait.
If you don't think the risk is much higher for a woman to walk alone, especially at night, you are not paying attention.

There are several videos of women walking alone in city streets while being discreetly filmed by an assistant walking in front of them. The men who approach them range from bold to aggressive to creepy. It's not the majority of men they pass--but it is way more focused attention than I would get as a man walking down the street, and all of it is unwanted.

In one video, a guy starts silently walking next to the woman for three blocks. That's nerve-wracking behavior, and this is in broad daylight. Given low light and an otherwise empty street, some of those same men would have no qualms about using force. The danger that an unknown man presents to a woman is much greater than the danger that he presents to a man.
As soon as the guy from Digg "pivoted" I equated the two. I assumed everyone did.
Yes And - if you own your own roof, put solar panels on it.
But if you're filtering out ultrasonics, then you've guaranteed that the extra samples will be wasted. There won't be any difference in the reconstructed signal at all.
The bytecode representation is more compact than the compiled JavaScript. And this has an impact on execution speed.

See past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050625
> But if it isn't, that's probably the slowest way.

It's probably the slowest way the first time, but if you call atan2 in a loop, won't it be much faster?
Not building Houston in the first place.
A bit off topic, but I would be curious to hear about the process in which your doctor(s) diagnosed your cancer. Mostly because I would not think to attribute fatigue as a common symptom of cancer.
What the heck? This makes me hate SQL and Clojure....
And why would a judge (And not someone in environmental sciences) be making that claim anyway?!
> should

Being the operative word. If you wish to pretend America's political process can approximate a hypothetical ideal on paper you're lying to yourself.

Until campaign finance regulations are back in place (the FECA amendments in the 70s would be a good starting point), until parties are wrested away from being the nigh-privatized dichotomy that led to the latest election's outcome, until the revolving door between government and the private sector is stopped, none of the rifts between that hypothetical and reality will be mended, because they are all symptoms of those key issues.
Because the Google car works with pre-registered and mapped out terrain, and the enemy rarely will let you pause for a few months and run a bunch of ladars through their area of control? Because the google car is trying to solve the problem for roads and not figure out whether this stream is fordable? Because the google car's autonomy has never once had to worry about silhouetting on the top of a ridge line?

I'm 95% certain that each one of the vehicles there was produced by contractors for a government agency (and if these particular vehicles weren't, certainly such contracts do exist- I used to work on one). If Google wanted to compete for a contract it certainly could, but its experience isn't particularly helpful in attacking the problem set that the Army is interested in.
If you're tired of writing HTML that isn't inside Javascript.

Seriously, though -- the company I'm working for is serving SPAs that interact with APIs directly, so you can serve everything except your API from a CDN. You don't need a server to render your pages, and perform your API actions; you can just use a SPA.

I'm not super knowledgeable about all this frontend stuff, so I can't really speak to if it's the only option, but it does seem like one thing that's pretty unique.
I don't understand how tech people continue to misunderstand the logic of the EU's argument or antitrust law in general, even with the benefit of the history of the Microsoft case.
> Increasing the data rate does not continue to make the waveform more and more detailed to human auditory perception in the way that raising the pixel density does for human visual perception.

Early low data rate codecs - such as the one used for GSM mobiles - are obviously inferior, but still functional. I think a better analogy is that an iPhone 7 has a 1 megapixel screen, so there's no difference between a 1 megapixel image and a 5 megapixel image, except one is much larger. Of course visually you can zoom in (or move closer in real life), but audibly you can't.
It's not that much different to think of than 480p vs 4K/2160p -- dramatically higher resolution, increasing the width and length of the 'grid' that sound is recorded into -- except that in the case of audio fidelity, quality after a certain point causes problems with playback systems, resulting in audible artifacts and distortion.
I doubt that is the case. Most systems which I have used actually sound better at the higher sampling rates. This is not because the sampling rates cause anything to sound better, but because the hardware works better at those rates. In a blind test, you wouldn't be able to decide which one you liked better, only that there is a difference. At least on the machines I have, there are some clearly audible differences.
Yeah for the time being, unless you are making a showcase piece or exclusive, then an independent third-party cross platform kit like Vuforia is still the best choice currently due to market size. Vuforia works on phones back to 5s and nearly all androids with cams. Though this is more basic AR based on OpenCV that use target tracking, they do have smart terrain and some VR/AR switching capabilities.

Vuforia's mobile kit for iOS/Android/desktop and has been around since Qualcomm made it starting 2012ish. Though they do not have the point cloud tech and ambient lighting tech as far that make ARKit/ARCore a leap. Vuforia will probably not be able to keep up in the long run but is widely available today because it is hardware independent.

With ARKit/ARCore hardware requirements it will take a few years before there is a large enough market to make a mainstream app not just a showcase AR app/game. For this to truly be something that you can get into games that are cross platform, it will take an independent third party like Unity/Unreal/Vuforia/metaio (before Apple bought them) etc to make it mainstream, or an app architecture that can switch out AR depending on device/capability.

I have launched lots of AR apps, mainly games for kids, using Vuforia, OpenCV, metaio and some other kits, primarily where the AR is an extra feature where people play the game on their desk or unlocks from AR targets/trackers on products. Currently it is a nice gimmick without real-world awareness but great for games.

ARKit/ARCore are better than Vuforia but still locked to a platform which will bring challenges until it is abstracted into a common feature to use in Unity/Unreal/WebGL etc. Exciting progress on AR though between Apple and Google and competition like this always benefits.
Personally, I'm just fine at impromptu public speaking, or giving a presentation, or just talking intensely for an hour or more, but 5 minutes of reading aloud gives me a dry mouth and tired jaw. Like you, I can't wait to be done. It's probably a practice thing; we'll see how I do when I have kids.
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It does include multi-AZ redundancy, which means that your data is spread across multiple physical locations within a region.

AZs are usually within something like a 50-mile radius, which doesn't get you meteor level separation but does get you fire level separation.
I would love to see actual examples of this. It’s something that sounds interestint in theory but difficult to know how to render into practice (especially to validate that is the correct priority).
Wasn't the point that if you have a system capable of outputting a 192kHz analog signal on the DAC, essentially hitting your speakers with 96kHz audio, any non-linearity starting at the DAC and beyond could cause distortion in the actually audible range?

And if you do any downsampling, or any low pass filtering in general, then having 192kHz sampling is even more useless, in addition to only having the "benefit" of adding a frequency band to the spectrum that's completely inaudible anyway.
uBlock origin allows me to select elements and add them to a universal blacklist. Slowly but surely I am defeating all news websites auto-play videos.
Ethereum's planned PoS is not delegated PoS. Instead, it is actually byzantine fault tolerant (and validators/stakers get punished for acting badly).

For example, if a current validator signs two blocks that conflict in any way (aka, creating two conflicting forks), they lose their deposit.

Also, many of the issues with PoS have effectively been addressed at this point (nothing at stake, stake grinding, etc). This comes with a compromise of weak subjectivity - namely, that when a user syncs a client for the first time, they have to start with a valid hash from w/in the past couple months that they trust.

After this initial starting point, as long as they sync their client every-so-often, no further trust is required.
There is I think, they just use lobbyists and direct personal influence instead.
I maybe missed it in the posts, but would you mind to explain why you focus on MongoDB in particular and NoSQL in general?
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Their model is wrong, but it's because it assumes climate is stationary. Climatologists are actively debating what the models should look like when global warming is taken into account:

https://i.imgur.com/HLxUBim.png

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. I can only assume the downvotes are political in nature, which is a shame.
We are not really talking about lossy codecs here, though, are we?
How about "if you try to game what should be a free market"?
Yeah, either we find medical ideas on what's going on we need to work around that.

Also I think a lot has to do with excitement. Maybe in another context you stay up late and wake early because now you're too excited again.
Digital imaging definitely has sampling concerns too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing

Even analog imaging has concerns that are better described in the frequency domain than the spatial domain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_transfer_function
The enormously high cost of war (both economical and humanitarian) is the main reason why our time is the most peaceful in human history. Do not change that.
Someone with the right skillset can get some ideas from the discussion. Not randomly pick a good one, but the one that fits you.
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More bits means:

• Less quantisation noise, so your noise floor is a bit lower and therefore, when you're mixing stuff together, you accumulate less noise

• More numerical room to play with, you can scale or shift the volume up and down more without clipping and with less loss of accuracy

With 16-bit CD audio, you can't just convert to 24-bit and suddenly have less noise. You might get more room, though.

As for higher sampling rates (more kHz, if you will), I think Monty mentioned some benefit regarding less sharp aliasing filters (can have a larger transition band from 20–48kHz, say, rather than from 20—22.1kHz), but it's not something I understand the benefit of well.
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Perhaps this is a silly question but the explanations mostly make perfect sense to me but in the case of sample rate, what happens when two waves with very different frequencies overlap?

Say I've got an 18kHz wave and a 9kHz wave and the 9kHz wave is ever so slightly out of phase. Then imagine there are 10 different waves under 20kHz all interfering with each other in different wages.

Is it still possible to reproduce everything accurately?

And on bit-depth and dynamic range: Given that much audio doesn't use the full range available to it, wouldn't higher bit depth increase the fidelity in the range the audio does fill? The article talks about the bit depth and range only in terms of the maximum volume but what about fidelity? What's the minimum difference in volume the human ear can hear?
Which would be in line with the article: a SACD release pressed onto a CD-R sounded better than the CD release, because the SACD release had a better master.
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The article you posted says that "the vast majority" of those 87 schools are private.

I said most public schools.

I don't really care about the cost of private schools just like I don't care about the cost of private boarding high schools.
> The purpose of ARCore is for high-end Android devices to be competitive with the iPhone technologically, not to get on 2 billion devices, at least not now.

This article is explicitly spun to promote ARCore as "Android scale" and leads with a sentence pointing out that Android is on two billion devices.

You're right, their ambitions are much lower, but it's fair to point out their actual goals aren't anywhere near the image they are trying to project and they really shouldn't be bragging about it being "Android scale" when it's nothing of the sort.
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Because, crucially, your mortgage may require you to buy insurance in flood plains. And it can be quite expensive.

see also https://qz.com/1063985/hurricane-harvey-why-85-of-homeowners...

There's gonna be lots of screaming when homeowners in Houston realize how much flood insurance is going to cost them in the future. We all got a preview of this in coastal Florida.
I get what you're saying, that if you remove the ability to zoom you can equalize things, but without that twist I think this preserves the essential problem with the analogy that Monty works so hard to correct. If your data rate is too low, you don't have enough samples to recreate the waveform. So you create an approximate. But there is a finite number of samples that you need to recreate all of the information in the waveform, so once you have that, there isn't any additional information there for you to obtain if you continue to increase the sample rate.
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The best form of communication to circumvent surveillance is not Signal, it's some Japanese MMORPG that no one has ever heard of or ever think of monitoring.
A ex and I used to read favorite novels to each other, a chapter or so every night one of us stayed over. There's something very intimate about it, and it's fun to be able to discuss characters and the books' deeper concepts as you go along. Maybe I romanticize it because I was read to a lot when I was a child.

On nice days my partner and I've been going to a nearby park, where I'll read Snow Crash to them.

It's a bit like putting a record on a record player. You make a conscious decision to focus on the experience and cut out other distractions.
and that someone will eventually be replaced by more robots
"In a blind test, you wouldn't be able to decide which one you liked better, only that there is a difference"

That would have to be the noise. The math doesn't lie...
Stranger rape is extremely rare though. Most reported rapes are by people the victim knows. You seem to be saying that walking at night is definitely hugely more dangerous for women than men, but that seems to be an assumption rather than something definite and concrete.

I sometimes walk at night. Many people view it as weird or slightly deviant behaviour. But where I live it's very safe. Their loss.
Ah, my mistake. But perhaps you could consider 24/192 -> 16/48 a lossy codec in this context; the same argument does apply, for the same reasons.
What I never understood about tape people is that they almost always forget the existence of a microphone. The microphone is far more invasive than a camera in my opinion.
As an engineer, those extra samples are never wasted, and as a listener, I could care less about the "wasted space." Drive space is meaningless at this point. When I buy a piece of audio, give me the highest quality available and I will make my own decisions regarding the frequency I want to listen to it at. The reasons behind not giving the user the highest quality possible all sound like a misguided excuse to prevent piracy.
when I listen mp3s via 24/192 M-audio spdif to denon 1705 there is a huge differenc to just optical from the motherboard. why is that then?