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> But, assuming you just hate winter/snow, you've just described the entire northern tier of the US that's not right on the West Coast. Which is of course your prerogative. I'm just not terribly sympathetic to arguments that life isn't livable outside of the Bay Area because of the weather.

I think what he was getting at was that a northern winter makes the infrastructure problems considerably worse. Potholes big enough to bathe a toddler can be hidden by snow, and snowplows don't operate regularly and efficiently on roads where they are at serious risk of destroying an axle, wheel, or tire on any given day; and even if they could dodge the potholes, they couldn't clear the snow where it counts! If our road infrastructure here in Toronto, or my previous city, Calgary, were any more poorly maintained, winter could make life considerably harder for those who can't afford to travel by foot.

I recently had a ride on what IIRC our ministry of transport has deemed the worst maintained road in the country, and it's better than 50% of the roads near Pittsburgh, and in my (old, 2011-2012-ish) experience, better than 80% of the roads in Detroit. I can not imagine snow on these roads making life any easier.
Thanks. Unfortunately all queries to niemanlab.org are not returning any results i.e. the site is overloaded.
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Block chain still handy to verify that no one tried to rewrite history and pretrnd hash was different in first place. And hashes on larger documents are never safe from collisions.
Great project, definitely a worthy goal. I know several people who are skeptical of voice assistants because they aren't fully on device.

The blog article was very lean on the technical details apart from some basics about rust's safety and portability features.

could you elaborate on where the gains from rust come into play ?, is your model built on a DL framework that is written in rust ?.
It's possible to have a native (node?) app for the local side, which talks to a browser extension. This way you don't have to run multiple instances of the browser runtime. There's someone writing a full-featured, Patchwork-like SSB client in Firefox this way, but unfortunately I can't remember the name.
I was curious because I sometimes estimate recipe ingredients so I and compared my intuitive notion of a teaspoon and tablespoon to their measured amounts using table salt and found it to be off by a larger margin than I expected.
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New Skydio Drone Demonstrates Incredible Obstacle-Dodging Full Autonomy
I'm explicitly questioning "people still use them as primary means of communication"

Really? Even internal company phone systems have largely switched over to walled garden voip or videocalling systems in most places I've seen. Nobody calls anybody any more - the only use of phones I see is for dialling in to conference bridges. Email is used internally within businesses.

What do people really still use public phones and email for?
Teachers in my state work 180 days a year. You get the months of July and August off, two one-week holidays and all government holidays. In my wife's district you also get multiple religious holidays. The savings from a childcare perspective for us are probably on the order of $5,000-7,000 per summer for childcare alone.

Nurses can work in all sorts of places. Hospitals run shifts and have 8 and 12 hour shift options. Some hospital units run with two week schedules, so you can stack 12-hour shifts and work 6 days and take off 14. Surgical nurses often work 5AM-1PM. Nurses can also work per diem shifts on hospital floors, 9-5 shifts at doctor's offices or insurance companies, etc.

These professions do require that people actually show up to work and do so on time. Adulting is tough -- Many employers of programmers and engineers have similar requirements. The "upside" of that arrangement is that once your shift ends, your work ends. No boss is calling a nurse to demand that you respond to an email at 9PM.
My understanding is that pharma companies have been much more compliant with reporting than public institutions.
It's a sensible trade off when you're a single person needing to deliver a web, Windows, and MacOS application.
I looked at the scroll thumb after the first two paragraphs when I saw a long list of disclaimers and was disappointed that I hadn't read anything useful yet. I closed the tab.

I get that I'm not the audience, but still this conversation style irks me. It just seems like noise.

edit: To be constructive instead of just complaining. I'd like articles this long to have a Table of Contents. I can't skim this article because there are too many pictures. So I have no way to summarize the content and find something useful.
> because people who would have built a proper desktop application just wrap their web app in Electron instead.

Except no-one would have built clients for the linux desktop. Go back before Electron and count how many official clients for Linux there were from major software vendors, hell I'll even take massively feature incomplete answers like "Skype" just to help you.
Do not look into the laser with the remaining eye
Native offerings kinda suck too I don't know any standardized one. Swing, QT, GTK all look different depending on the OS.

Before web stack there was Flash it had hardware access but it was insecure, now web tech going the same way with web assembly and webgl.
Java supported hot code replacement since 2000 or so, they actually had/have a fairly decent implementation (better than .net). But since they didn’t have a declarative DOM representation, it would be hard pressed to use it to add or remove elements. JavaFX fixed that, but that effort failed completely.

Doing UI in C/C++ sucks, but that was also true in the 90s.

Chrome is a horrible debugger from a UI design perspective. Debugging through VSCode is better, but I still miss simple things like auto toString displays. Surely the tools could get much better, that they haven’t is depressing.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm doing a master's degree in computing and I think graphs are the most powerful modeling tool in the whole of computer science.
In the Roman empire they didn't even bother making a myth that their slaves were sub-human. It was simply a matter of might makes right: we conquered your nation so now we own you.
I was literally about to say.. sometimes the dumb ones are actually worse as many of them are transmitting the sound and video over the air with no encryption either :)

I imagine probably 99% of them are but I don't have any research to actually back that up.
You don't need to re-register Signal when you pop in a different SIM card. I've successfully used it abroad with a foreign SIM card without issue. Of course people won't be able to add you by any phone number other than the one you used to set it up, but that's hardly a concern when travelling.
If it's a .NET app on Linux, you just run Wine, and you're all set.
That's a great question. I'm curious for opinions on this as well.
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Also, a while back CHM did a live event talking to the author of _The Preservation Game: Saving Bletchley Park_: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-preservation-game-h...
What's more, while "npm install -g npm" correctly installs 5.6.0, "npm update -g npm" installs this apparently pre-release 5.7.0 version.
Show HN: Email as long-time memory
Not sure about elsewhere, but in the US, it is possible to spoof phone numbers. The only way to verify that the person you are talking to is actually associated with the number is to hang up and call them back. This is particularly a problem for companies like banks and insurance.

Android actually does provide some amount of filtering[1], but if someone, say, spoofs a seemingly legitimate number, it will come through fine.

[1]: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/07/25/googles-phone-app-n...
already accept it's happening and inevitable

I've almost given up. I'm pretty much despondent at this point.

There is a booth on my way to work where they give out free Lays chips in exchange for your photo. The gimmick is that it's like a photo booth. I asked the attendant to read the privacy policy, and it's frightening, to say the least. I have no doubt that they are contracting with some AI consultant to be able to identify your face in the crowd and link it to your email address, which of course can be used to identify you freely on the Internet.

People are freely giving away their identities and their rights for a free bag of potato chips.

I always try to make sure my face is covered when I walk by it, but I can't help but despair a little when I realize that I am still surrounded by security cameras. At least one would hope that the MTA police are too busy or understaffed to do anything malicious with my face.
They stab it with their (Guy L.) Steeley knives, but they just can't kill the beast...

(Yes, I know this deserves downvotes: knock yourselves out.)
I'm more concerned that AI will become a modern deity in that it's considered science and ought not to be questioned. Things like predictions of academmic success, criminal behavior, etc that impact the rights of individuals.
I can see that happening in the next few decades. Once sufficient amount of people have reliable access to internet, the physical option can be dropped completely.
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Well, that tears it. Let's never regulate anything because it has unintended consequences.

I highly doubt people are going to travel out of Taiwan (which is an island, making this inconvenient) or establish a "black market" just so they can have single-use plastic straws.
swordfish: 74,878 times

I guess the password is always "swordfish".
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Dehydration causes sugar binges for this reason.

There's many a time, I believe, I've mistaken a loss of appetite control for some "emotional event" when it's been mere dehydration.

I recently traveled for several days without drinking much and sugar binged when getting home. I assumed the travel had stressed me, rather, I was just severely dehydrated.
Many use the DECT Standard that was developed for mobile handsets. It’s not high security, but it’s also not plain text.

They’re also not networked, so an adversary would have to get into range, making a potential attack much more complicated. It certainly won’t defend you from a targeted attack, but it will keep $random_person_on_the_internet reliably away and I don’t have to rely on $companies server/network security.
I don't know about this project specifically, but typically with headless Chrome, you let it run the JS and then read the DOM.
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...except none of that happens.

Ireland was, IIRC, the first country to introduce a bag levy. In spite of some gnashing of teeth, the world didn't fall apart, companies didn't go out of business (in fact, they started producing reusable bags), and the result was a net positive that we didn't have a plague of plastic bags blowing around the place. People got into the habit of keeping a set of reusable bags in their car or close at hand.

The same story has been repeated wherever such a levy has been introduced.
I still feel like our mass burning/cutting down of forests for use in agriculture is the real start of the Anthropocene, which arguably began on a global scale thousands of years ago. It certainly made a large impact on the environment and climate, undoubtedly more than any other single species during that time.
+1 for fully on-device.

Where, generally, does a company like this get training data? Do you just hire a team to tag TV clips and YouTube videos?
I see it as going in the opposite direction. Laws created lawyers, much like processor op codes created computer programmers.

It's a specialization that not many people are in, yet which is in high demand.
As an American one of the things I'm optimistic for is that cheaper, more available per trip transportation makes more housing viable for people that don't want a car.

If that happens, it's a way out of the car trap that we are currently in, directly, but also because more people living without cars will lead to more infrastructure for people living without cars.
and finally seductive
Ah, this is why carry out is allowed to have plastic for an extra 5 years.
> Put companies out of business that produce or import said goods

You don't have much faith in free markets. They will adapt.

> Reducing availability and increasing cost of medical goods that use plastic because the aforementioned companies no longer exist or are importing products

What detailed knowledge do you have of medical devices supply chains that makes you so sure?
Wouldn't Twitter be able to see who access was delegated to? It sounds like they'd just ban the app rather than all its users.
There's something odd about a website that urges you to test your security by typing in your password.
Yes, the answer is yes. In fact, Disney movies, like many others in the US, often come in a multi-pack with a Blu-ray, DVD, and a digital code. They can sell the digital code while renting out both the Blu-ray and DVD. Then after a while, sell off those used discs as well once demand goes down (they don't usually sell them all, but they obviously want to reduce inventory in line with a lower demand over time)
It's someone else's tracking junk which is actually fun because it ends up suggesting those privacy-invaders that lots of people came from "Benedict's Newsletter".
NY Times paywall business is growing as fast as Facebook and faster than Google
Morocco is already actively banning plastic bags since 2016.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2016/07/green-morocco-bans-plastic-bags-160701141919913.html
The least charitable possible interpretation is they're making Taiwan worse to make the world better.
This needs to be tagged as being an article dating to (2015).
Just don't use a baby monitor.
Here's the entire thing: https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-unless...

I've built plenty of wheels (servers of various protocols mostly), and one thing that I learned is that making things easy is hard - e.g. the protocol may not be well defined, or the user agents might have their quirks, or abuse it outright; the end user won't care, so the server needs to accomodate.
If you prefer a one-liner like me, the following line works for me:

VARPWD=P@ssw0rd; HASH=`echo -n $VARPWD | sha1sum`; curl --silent https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/`cut -b 1-5 <(echo $HASH)` --stderr - | grep -i `cut -b 6- <(echo $HASH) | cut -d ' ' -f 1`

If it doesn't return anything than your password isn't in the list. You should probably start your line with a space so that it isn't recorded in your bash_history.

If someone else can make it better or shorter, be my guest.
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That's an extremely terrible strategy.

It's the OS's job to use the free memory for caching the filesystem. If you have special workloads that benefit from more memory you usually change an entry in a config file to the appropriate value or change a settings in the GUI. That's it. No you don't just try to consume as much memory as possible for no reason. You're messing with the OS's ability to use the memory optimally. It's not wasted, you're the one who's wasting it.
Yeah people like to hate on Microsoft/Mac App Stores, but at least they don't let programs vomit files across the disk.

The Linux solution I suppose is Nix/Guix or Flatpak/Snap or Docker a la RancherOS. Perhaps more restrictive SELinix profiles could work as well.
> Most elderly don't feel comfortable driving but in the US...

I'm talking about people who can't do stairs anymore. They're not walking a few blocks or driving cars. They're taking shuttles places or taking trips with the family. Shuttling the elderly around is cheaper and simpler in car towns. Scooting around NYC or downtown SF with Grampa in his wheelchair is rough. Rougher still when it's cold, raining, or hot. It's often bad for their health, even.

Car towns, maybe just because they are newer on average, are easier to deal with.

* basically never having to illegally park just to function

* car towns have plenty of bathrooms and indoor places to stop and relax

* elevators and handicap accessibility is much more common; dense cities are lousy staircases, steps, and narrow aisles

* keep gear in the trunk (changes of clothes, extra diapers, umbrellas, ponchos, picnic lunches, etc.)

* buckling a tired kid in a car is safer and more convenient than dragging them across intersections

* a screaming kid in a car is nicer all around than a screaming kid on a train

* getting around a dense town with luggage is rough: cabs don't stop, big/extra suitcases on buses is rough, and there are stairs everywhere

The math changes, of course, if everyone in your party is old enough, healthy enough, and responsible enough to carry their own gear. Some families with kids are in this category. But most families aren't that way, at least through different seasons.
Well thats comforting :)
I've read that a dishwasher is less wasteful than hand-washing of dishes (perhaps this isn't true for people who are very, very scrupulous about their use of water while washing dishes, but that's not most of us).
Every time I have to frig around with debugging a new-fangled JS SPA UI, it makes me want to hurt whoever is responsible for bringing the industry to this state. It was easier in VB6. It's miles easier to but something decent together, that actually works, in .net WinForms.
This seems to explain it.. http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smal...
Three months in some places. Here in Victoria, unless you're in crisis, it's actually almost impossible for most people to get in to see a psychiatrist, and if you can, the waiting list is well over a year.
I love how he's still wearing the VR headset in-VR
Will not work. Someone else can easily take your picture and even do it from a distance with a telephoto.
>I would never be comfortable having an exposed, multi-watt laser in my living room.

Until the rest of the world has an exposed, multi-watt laser in their living room without incident, and then you'll be like "oh, guess it works."

Same with airplanes. "I'm never getting on that", until you see millions of people do it and live.
So they should do what?

1. Use current dev team to develop only the web version?

2. Hire X teams to develop for X platforms? (there goes your linux support)

3. Hire 2nd team to work on a cross platform native desktop client?

4. Open APIs and leave it to the wolves?

Everyone on here is acting like a few hundred meg of ram and barely 0.5% CPU usage is the end of the fucking world.
Kind of feels like a lot of governments are starting to make promises they won't be around to keep .. good for headlines support / minimal effort required.
Would drinking oral rehydration solution mixed with vodka prevent the hangover from occurring in the first place?
You hired those 100 employees for a reason: future growth. If you decide to employ them as subsistence farmers you're not only lacking employees in the future you're also bleeding money left and right.
For those not from the Netherlands (and since the second part of the article is not out yet). The Bijlmer was struck by a disaster known as the 'bijlmerramp' (dutch for: Bijlmer disaster) in 1992 when a 747 cargo plane crashed on one of the structures.

See [0] (Dutch) and [1] (English):

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijlmerramp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862
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> Those ridiculous "warranty void if sticker removed" stickers have been illegal in the US for decades

No, they've just had no legal effect. They aren't illegal; that would mean merely placing them on a product would incur some civil or criminal liability for the illegal act.
One issue worth mentioning is that psychiatrists are one of the hardest specialists to find that participate in health insurance. This is only anecdotal in my area, but many that take insurance have multiple month waiting periods for new patients. Or you can pay $200 to see one on your dime.

It's not the cost of the medication that's the problem. It's access to the professional to prescribe the medication that drives people to self-medicate, IMHO.
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Cool scene, I like it! Haven't seen that movie before but now I will :)
At least the name of Victor Stinner comes to my mind
Speaking as a man in the education sector, that's absolutely not the implication I took from this piece at all. She was telling the reader that that, though a woman, the problems she had were not particularly aggravated by the issues that can face women.
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I have about 20 pound worth of bags in the cupboard gathering dust, 5p doesn't make a difference. They should make it £1 in the UK from now and £5 from 2020. That will make a dent.

2030 is the same as saying "Lets kick the can down the road".
Yeah I’d really rather that people made extensions to Pupeteer rather than a whole new library.
That's a good point, gonna do it!
Edit: done, looks nice :)
It is true that you can analyse many cryptographic schemes by modelling them as games. In fact, my PhD was largely focused on this exact topic :-) Our discussion really depends on what we define as “game theory” and “graph theory” I suppose.

The game theory I studied in economics (albeit in my undergrad) I'm very skeptical of, though. It was about exact payoffs and rational agents and loads of assumptions that really don't work in real-life. I'd spend time literally analysing optimal strategies in board games. It all seemed kind of pointless. People always said you can apply game theory to political science and wars, but it all seemed like common sense and logic, rather than the specific stuff I was actually studying. I remember solving integral equations to calculate Nash equilibrium bidding strategies in third price bid auctions with perfect information and a uniform distribution of value to buyers. The solutions had a lot of maths, but had no bearing on reality whatsoever. What I studied was never really used to make any actual predictions in the real world. It seemed almost as if they were trying to make this subject mathematical to give it some legitimacy. A lot of it is common sense. One could argue that studying it helps you think logically I guess, but so do lots of things. Ariel Rubinstein is a famous economist and actually one of the founders of game theory and gave an excellent critique of the whole space. He is a lot more eloquent than I. You should listen to him and let me know what you think.

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/game-theory-a-critique...
Chicago started charging 7 cent a bag and that certainly made me think twice about my bag use.
You're right, I conflated too far.
everyone hated flash, remember the 100% cpu ads ? Well I do. Adobe air was just as bad too.
I believe this is how it works currently, the only issue is whether or not RedBox can resell the codes they purchase. But to use the code, you need a Disney Anywhere account.
Yeah, modern dishwashers use less water per washing cycle than it takes to fill the kitchen basin for handwashing.
While that is certainly a promising library to watch for in the future, I wouldn't say its ready to go today. Its based on libui which is in alpha and was stagnant for quite awhile. The developer just recently (this week) started working on it again so there is potential.
What you write seems so obvious. We definitely cut & burnt a lot of wood, but we were not that many earthlings... So have you any source for what you say ? I'm genuinely interested.