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I'm getting a little sick of the level of entitlement in tech conversations — every firm must adhere perfectly to some set ideals or else the most vocal members in the community turn the conversation into an end-of-the-internet melodrama.

We laud companies that start by doing something small well, yet the second they don't support our platform of choice, it's time to banish them to the hills. (In this case, clearly there are material differences in video chat performance across browsers, or else why would Slack force Chrome support?)

We preach focus, then act appalled when customization feature X stagnates on the backlog.

We castigate businesses that spend investor dollars frivolously, and are then furious when well-funded companies act frugally and choose to make tradeoffs (like, say, only supporting one browser for a feature that doesn't work the same on all browsers, until they can achieve a certain quality threshold.)

I look forward to the day when we collectively accept that companies are groups of humans generally working in earnest to do their best, not some faceless behemoth that responds only to screaming "you're awful, do my feature or I'm leaving and tweeting about it" like some petulant child. Maybe there are cases where that is a reasonable response, but when the volume is always turned up to 11 it's hard to tell the real crises from distractions.
Even under the so-called cookie law, cookies that were used for example for logins did not require consent. It’s always been about tracking.
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The point is that they are Google's major competitors.
Both.

It's a kind of shoe in Spain forty years ago. Also the word might be getting obsolete, so yes difficult to source:

https://www.calzadoslobo.com/tienda/bambas/bamba-de-lona-con...

There was a time when a lot of people in the irc added an "x" to their nicks in the fashion of unix, linux, aix, hp-ux... I can't help to make the association every time :)
I don't agree. I feel that chess engines have killed chess as a pastime that people play. I know growing up in the 80s I played it during lunch at school, and schools had chess clubs which really weren't on the order of forming neophyte pros, but just students who liked the game.

But now it's rather futile to play it, because at some point you'll run up against a machine that can outplay you perfectly. I mean, before you could play a grandmaster or something, but the moment you or someone else for you buys a ten-dollar chess program, you realize that despite improvement, the computer will always defeat you.

I don't really see chess as that big any more in the public eye. The kids might play Minecraft, which rewards human creativity and doesn't really force you to compete against an A.I. optimized to beat 99% of all Minecraft players.
> You don't magically get or lose celiac disease.

Who made that claim? Why do you reply to ME?

> And 1% is not huge no matter the context.

Wow, you are truly stupid. May I suggest you don't comment on topics that are WAY beyond your comprehension?

You have reading comprehension problems AND don't have a clue about the topic - just great.
Vast majority of people aren't willing to subscribe so Internet outlets will become even more dependent on partisan funding.

Many esteemed newspapers are already propaganda arms for their rich benefactors (see WaPo and Bezos) without whom they couldn't keep the lights on. This will only hasten this process for European media.

Maybe accelerationism is the right approach here but it is very unlikely to improve quality.
Most merchants accepting credit card are not allowed to charge extra for credit card use (by the merchant agreement), thus card users have always been subsidised, with the difference being that credit cards do charge 2% to 3%.

My point is that both cash and modern cashless payment systems (debit/cash cards) are way better than oligopolistic credit cards with their gaudy marketing and high fees.
> Why are you capitalizing the "C"? Makes me think that you don't know much about Bitcoin.

I usually don't capitalize the 'S' in Javascript, unless I'm on my phone and it does it for me.

Doesn't mean anything other than I like the way it looks with just an uppercase 'J'.
>"Until AMD comes up with their version of CUDA, and convinces the authors of deep learning frameworks to support it, they will be behind."

I agree AMD needs to do this badly, but don't think it will take much convincing as long as it works. You can read reddit/etc ml forums and see people are desperate for some alternative (AMD or otherwise) due to Nvidia's abuses of its monopoly.
Despite hype and success, Machine/Deep Learning have their own limitations, which is a generally admitted fact.

At a fundamental level - are our brains actually comparable to how ML works (beyond some basic analogies)? Do we have an statistical engine running inside our heads, needing tremendous "CPU power" to do something remotely useful/accurate?

I'd say that no, and that that conceptual mismatch indicates that the next big iteration on AI will be something more like what D. Hofstadter advocates/researched.

(Using ML as a sidekick, why not. No need to trash out the current progress)
That was supposed to be comment on the parent/original post. Sorry about that.
You don't see a moral/ethical argument for making sure your PCs don't become part of a botnet? Liability is a well-established legal principle at this point, what you are doing is effectively creating an Attractive Nuisance for attacker, and you should be held liable for anything that happens as a result of your negligence.

Now, is anybody actually going to enforce that? No, of course not. But on the principle of the thing, you are being negligent, and justifying it to yourself on the basis that you're too smart to get a virus. The anti-vaxxer parallel is extremely relevant here, if everybody thinks like that then we have a problem.

Speaking in generals, it's absolutely a correct decision to have automatic/mandatory patching, whichever way you want to look at it. As for specific patches: sure, on a case-by-case basis there may be bad patches that need to be rolled back. You can do that on Windows, and again, you always retain the option to simply not connect your PC to the internet and it makes both of us happy - I don't have to deal with another zombie box on the internet and you don't have to deal with a patch you don't like.

At the end of the day you're just going to have to trust Microsoft to put out good patches. But if you don't trust them, why are you running their operating system? Do you have similar concerns about upstreams in the Linux community? You know patches can break things there too, right?
I absolutely agree that privacy is important. However, what I'd like to understand more is: What are the regulators actually expecting to happen? Looking at the first version of the cookie law, basically the end result was a worse user experience across EU websites. Large warnings that take up large screen real estate, people learning to just blindly accept without reading. I was trying to explain to my SO that I'd been to a presentation about GDPR and ePrivacy, and said "It's the new version of the cookie warning" "Oh is that those awful warnings? I hate those I don't even understand what they are trying to say"

From a pragmatic standpoint the result of these new regulations seems to be not that publishers and other ad-financed businesses are saying "OK, ads are bad, let's do less of those". They are finding workarounds that abide by the law, but still allow them to target ads as optimally as they can.

The true winners in this are obviously the platforms with the largest database of users and user interest: Google and Facebook. The two companies are are dominating already, and in essence killing smaller local (EU) publishers. So from that perspective, are the regulators hoping that publishers and local companies band together, creating cookie pools and sharing user information amongst themselves to strengthen their position against FB and GOOG? Or are they hoping that EU companies come up with the holy grail of new revenue streams that nobody has though of yet?

TL;DR: In my mind: T stop bad things regulators make laws against something, and also to promote the "right way". Example: People get hit by cars crossing the roads anywhere. They invent a crosswalk and make it illegal to cross the road anywhere other than the crosswalk. What is the ePrivacy version of the crosswalk?
Total aside but I recognised that domain because I used to play the MUD the author hosted ~20 years ago. Odd co-incidence.
LuaJIT’s DynASM would go a long way there; might even have reusable stubs. Or slightly crazier, if 520K isn’t too big a burden: wrap the LuaJIT cffi ...from C... and embed all of LuaJIT.

(by the way: thank you for libffi!)
I don’t agree that the goal was to target and brak up US companies. It just happens that the largest companies that rely on tracking are US companies. This law will hurt EU companies just as much, as evidenced by the article.
> Why will there be a loss of ad revenue?

Presumably the privacy invasive techniques are done specifically because they increase ad revenue, not because the newspapers want to be nefarious.
I believe neural networks are not quite the right approach, and their success is misleading.

Historically, almost all ML approaches were based on separation in Euclidean (vector) space, which is understandable because they were developed for much weaker computers. However, really useful ML tasks require to deal with huge nonlinearities, and the fact that you're training in linear space becomes less relevant.

Neural networks have surmounted the nonlinear difficulty by increasing the number of layers. But it's a question whether a similar result couldn't be achieved with Bayesian networks on binary representations (which is approach I favor).

There is some evidence that the precision of linear calculation in neuron (for example, resolution of the weights) doesn't really make much difference in the performance of neural network. Could it be that the neural learning through vector manipulation is just an artifact of the origin of the neural networks, and the really important thing is the overall organization of the network (the layers)?
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The huge used car market and the fact that ICE production will continue for as long as it is profitable muddies this timeline significantly. Sure ICEs could be legislated out of existence but that’d take a huge financial injection from the authorities - direct to the consumer and infrastructure. I don’t trust any authority to get this right in any sort of timely manner nor spend a the required money to make it happen.
No, because Alphabet is still Google. A layer of shell companies doesn't change anything. Chrome (and Android, probably) should be forcibly split off from anything to do with Google/Alphabet, as fully independent companies. Any collusion between them and Google should be illegal.

^- This is breaking up an illegal monopoly. Shuffling around which division owned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin it is is not.
I was excited to see a number of silent movies on Amazon Prime Video, but gave up in disgust after trying only a couple. None of the music even remotely matched the film, even when Wikipedia says a full orchestral score was originally produced.

Instead, each was backed by a piano playing Scott Joplin ragtime songs.

Nothing like watching the hero getting struck by an arrow in a sudden betrayal while listening to the Entertainer or Maple Leaf Rag.
Why guess at a conspiracy, when there's a stated reason in the document itself?

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A3...

> 3. "The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind. The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality. This Regulation respects all fundamental rights and observes the freedoms and principles recognised in the Charter as enshrined in the Treaties, in particular the respect for private and family life, home and communications, the protection of personal data, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom to conduct a business, the right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial, and cultural, religious and linguistic diversity."

(and so on for 173 paragraphs before the directive starts)
They're in the weakest position.

The GDPR is composed of a bunch of vague hand waving subject to after the fact rule making by 29-ish different country specific privacy orgs, plus a fewer number of rules set out in black and white, presumably with limited local rule making capabilities. The black and white rules include that consent must be default opt-out, must specifically enumerate and permission each processing purpose, and cannot be required unless necessary to provide the service, even for free services.
Then it serves as example of what not to do. That helps a lot too, mostly because your own abstraction is always super clear the moment you figured it out and understand it. It is when you are forced to read it after few years or when someone else invented it you realize how complicated and difficult it in reality is.
Winner takes all, that's how human brain works... Thats why I am fundamentally pessimistic about human future. ..
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Sounds simliar to the US dustbowl where people were starving but entire crops were allowed to rot to protect commodity prices.
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How many of the cars built today will still be on the road in 10 years? The average age of cars on the road today is 11 years.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-repair-maintenance/make-...
Searching is pretty nice in slack, sounds like you haven't used it much?
That was always the case (consent only required for third party cookies), but nobody understood it. Or was willing to give up Google Analytics. The EU has a bit of an issue with communicating to the public.
It’s probably simpler than that; “hopes” really means, “hasn’t yet, may never.”
Here's a link that lists all sorts of laws in Georgia that makes you wonder what they were thinking.

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/georgia
Definitely not 2h for me.

Over all I thinl I spend more time deciding on music tracks to listen then things like social networks\blog posts etc.
Users are very attached to avatars, which IRCCloud was lacking last time I checked. Also I don't know if modern IRC supports audio/video calls.

Thinking about it, screensharing is becoming more and more important too. We still use teamviewer, I didn't want to move to slack built in screen sharing in fear of vendor lock-in (we had teamviewer for so long, if we move out, I'd like something a bit more open).
Google loves to claim something is administered by a "coalition" or "alliance". But that isn't how it works internally.

Remember the "Open Handset Alliance"? The industry group of companies which used Android? Well, Google threatened to remove Acer from it if Acer dared to release a phone without Google Apps on it. This was never a mutual organization, it was a Google-run organization.

"Alliances" and "coalitions" are the tools which Google uses to tame the companies they've more or less taken control of.
Take a look at http://slackarchive.io if you haven't already
I was under the impression that (albeit as of a year ago or so) 28nm was the cheapest node you could work on. The end of Moore's law is starting to hit the industry and smaller nodes were more expensive per transistor still.
> Many governments have announced that by 2040 it'll be illegal to sell cars with such engines.

That's very much incorrect. What they've all said is that it will be illegal to sell cars with only such engines. In particular, plug-in hybrids will be allowed, and will probably be the biggest success both commercially and for the environment.

I mean, if I can have something like the latest Mercedes C350e or BMW 530e, but with a bit faster charging and a ~50 mile electric range, that's going to beat an electric 300+ mile range car any day of the week once the subsidies start wearing off (which is a lot sooner than 2040).
They are referring to Minsky and Papert's 1967 book "Perceptrons". Which said that a single layer NN can't be turing complete because it can't do XOR. The big 1990s breakthrough was having multilayer networks...which actually were also described in the Perceptrons book, though at the time computers weren't powerful enough to implement them.
Etcd has been phenomenal. In terms of solving the simple KV HA story, I can't think of a single technology that I have ever used that is as simple to set up and operate. We run etcd clusters with millions of keys and 500+/sec write rates and I can count on one hand the number of problems / tunings / issues we've had over the last two years.

There are lots of reasons why you might not want to use etcd, but if you can live with simple K/V, need HA, and need something that is simple and just works, I can't think of anything else that is comparable except for Consul (which I haven't used much, but has similar design principles).
This year it seems there are some official recordings on the FOSDEM channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/fosdemtalks/videos

I've also seen some unofficial stream dumps here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOPCKYceoPwLI-A7tck3wg/vid...

Enjoy the conference!
I have witnessed the case where whole products were created to fill gaps in sales promises on the threat of law suits. It's not a great way to do business, both Dev and the customer end up upset.
I agree. I have been in a pretty serious motorcycle "accident". Broke my wrist and banged up my ankle pretty bad. Full helmet (with a big scrape on it where I hit the ground), leather jacket (again, nice scrape on the back), jeans, and high boots. Glad I was wearing them. But I have ridden without a helmet (legal in NM at the time) a few times when the weather was right and I'm on a shortish, easy joy ride. Worth the risk for me in those few instances. It is also great to be able to give someone else a short ride on a whim and let them wear your helmet, while you go without. Not a big plus for me to live in a place where everything that the majority thinks is imprudent is illegal.
Politics ideally try to generate the highest sum of wealth and well-being across all citizens. Having healthy corporations is nice, because it means your citizens have work, get paid etc., but it's not a goal unto itself. If those corporations are healthy, because they exploit your citizens, then they generate on average negative wealth. So, you need to put laws into place that balance things out. That's why the EU might want to put these laws into place.

You also seem to be misinformed about the GDPR. An essential part of it is that companies outside of the EU now do have to abide by EU data protection laws, if they want to process data of people in the EU. This really improves the situation for EU businesses, as they do not anymore have to compete against Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the like on uneven grounds.

This is described in section 2 here: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
I am sure somebody will come up with a proprietary filament nozzle profile (like say Torx screwdrivers) to make sure you can only buy the filament from the one supplier..
How do you get from Polish "hebel" to German "Flugzeug", if not by dropping the "hand" part of "hand plane"? Especially when the Polish is a loanword from German Hobel...
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> I never assume that driving is a right, instead of a privilege, and the best way to maintain privacy is to just not participate in public activities in the first place..

You can extend that reasoning to public sidewalks. I mean, walking is indeed a "public activity" that takes place in a public space, so I assume that following your line of logic you'd be ok with any public authority following you or me (or anyone else for that matter) without any warrant, wouldn't you?
I'm getting a little sick of the level of entitlement in tech conversations

I'd argue it's gotten worse over the last few years, to the point that even questioning the attitude or bringing it up in conversation is frowned upon and heavily argued against.
If there were good intentions by Google here, it would block all ads, including Google’s.
Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299464
Be careful, there are lots of people passing themselves off as scientists who aren't these days.

It is all over the place. From medical research where they call people who try to check the data analysis "parasites"[1], to psychology where they call people who do replications "bullies"[2], to physics where they want to get rid of the need for evidence altogether[3].

[1] http://researchparasite.com/

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

[3] https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-and-philosophers-d...
The regulation is not implementation specific, it generically applies to user data.
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I'm sorry it is not so obvious: there is a difference between red, which means it doesn't work, and transparent, which means I didn't test any further back.
Tolerating ideas stealing (and other sorts of toxicity) is not good for company either through. Because what will happen is that people who steal ideas will go up and others will grow resentful or will stop sharing ideas. Not reacting to things like that enables it and makes it more frequent. If you want to be leader, you have to be conscious of shaping culture and this is part of it.

Also, leader needs to be able to protect team or company from under-the-belt attempts of customers, suppliers, competitors and such. Some of them will try that for sure and it is leaders job to deal with it.
I can agree slightly on some of this, but it quickly miss the point completely and is not even funny or satire.

It is quite simple: just skip the people and or technologies that make you vomit in your mouth and go for the interesting parts instead.

FOSDEM is huge and there is usually something somewhere that will be interesting. PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Firefox, (tomorrow Rust). Nothing to complain about, and it is free.
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I had casual thoughts about death, never thinking about it particularly. I am an atheist so the whole afterlife thing was not there.
But of course I was not particularly comfortable with the thought.

I then had minor surgery which required full anesthetics.
I was looking at the anesthetist who said "ok, shall we start?" and I tried not to sleep. I blinked and opened my eyes in another room. I had a complete blackout, like if time did not happen during the surgery.

I thought "this is what death looks like". I am not afraid of death anymore. I will just close my eyes and this will be the end.
Maybe it knows you're always late for meetings and appointments and is giving you a subtle hint that you need to up your game and get a watch. ;)

That, or their model has found a correlation between liking chairs, plants, and watches but doesn't account for your unusual distaste for watches. Take heart, facebook doesn't know you well enough to convince you to hand over your wallet to their customers (yet).
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Would you be willing to try http://www.deepl.com/ and say if it is better? Google translate is not SOTA because it has huge volume and they can't afford to use expensive models for free.
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