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CPU's have real value.

As to ethics that's mostly irrelevant to this discussion. Both sides could have ethical behavior, I am simply pointing out which side has the larger incentives to exaggerate. After all the stock could drop and a short seller could still lose money. They need the stock to drop a lot even over a minor issue.
Why just conspiracies ? Why not cults ? Political speeches ? Nutrition ? Science ?

And who decide what's a conspiracy ?

After all, we were regarded as paranoid lunatics wearing tinfoil hats about the NSA surveillance, until PRISM came out and it became obvious we weren't.
Replacing higher operational costs (from laws mandating a higher minimum wage) with a one-time capital cost. Bound to happen.

The local McDonalds now has kiosk ordering.
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New Tab Override should do the trick for you. I agree that it should be a built in though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...
The flip side to that is to ask whether AMD have been "profiteering" from their customers by deceiving them about the security of their products?

It's not like their marketing copy makes accurate claims like:

"We're reasonably sure our Firmware Trusted Platform Module is trustworthy, but we ran out of time to pentest it properly before we shipped it."

or

"Ryzen features Probably-Secure Encrypted Virtualization! Our interns couldn't break it in a afternoon of trying! The data looks random enough to us..."

How much does "the intent" of their marketing copy and claims come into play?
Apple has 800 people working on its iPhone camera.

https://bgr.com/2015/12/21/iphone-camera-60-minutes/

Do you think that natural language processing, knowledge graph, translation, speech recognition, multiple hardware devices, etc will require fewer people?
Well then why is the tl;dr literally only one of the configurations/examples they describe in relation to their numerous other large points?

This related to the larger point that it is a misnomer that authoritarianism emerges only in larger groups, agriculture/ civilizations, etc, and that actually egalitarianism is not some default mode for small groups.

One of the biggest points, for example, was that ‘civilization’ does not come as a package. The world’s first cities did not just emerge in a handful of locations, together with systems of centralised government and bureaucratic control. That it no longer makes any sense to use phrases like ‘the agricultural revolution’ when dealing with processes of such inordinate length and complexity.

Another point made early on was about the assumptions about the probability of achieving emancipation from more authoritarian modes organization. The likelihood we’ll all just place ourselves in some form of voluntary servitude. The myth that our innate drive for freedom somehow leads us, time andtagain, on a ‘spontaneous march to inequality’.

That the attempt to form ‘big picture’ narratives has been a source of much of the bullshit (pop history, pop science, drawing on outdated economic theory, and outdated archeology, cherry-picking sources--basically anyone Joe Rogan has on his podcast!).

Their summary alone was about 8 large paragraphs long.
Well, I don't know about others, but personally I wouldn't get much out of spending my effort disproving obvious quackery. It certainly wouldn't be effective at stopping future claims of the same nature, since the practitioners could always claim their method wasn't tested. It probably wouldn't even be effective at stopping you from thinking it works, because you gotta have a screw loose to believe this stuff in the first place.

It's enough evidence for me that billions of people have died from starvation, including people from all nations, religions, and races. Pretty much all of them were strongly opposed to dying and would've loved to learn one weird trick to remain living.

Thankfully, there's no money in peddling such garbage to people who actually struggle to obtain enough food. That would be truly evil. Selling $2000+ "Pranic Living Workshops" to new-agey first worlders is mostly harmless old-fashioned scamming, though the occasional mark does starve themselves to death now and then.
Buses are good too, though bus rapid transit doesn't have the appeal of trains. I'm not sure if this is a problem inherent to buses or BRT systems having worse service on average giving them a bad image.

200kph close packed cars would be nice, though you have to deal with:

- Close packing which definitely needs autonomous driving. I want something we can build in 2018.

- Merging at 200kph in tunnels. Those on and off ramps are expensive to dig.

- Load balancing between on/off ramps. If everyone wants to get off the same exit at 200kph I don't know where the load goes when you have to transition to 50kph traffic. Are you going to disallow exiting from an off ramp if it's at capacity and would slow down the tunnel? Where do these people get off?

- Where do you park all of these cars? That's a hell of a lot of downtown parking! How much does downtown land cost per square metre, multiplied by the area of the sum of cars in the city?

Trains solve all these problems, and more importantly are here right now! It's not a technical problem, it's a political one.
I don't understand the obsession with all these far off possibilities that might be better than rail.

I'm just as big a fan of Elon Musk as the next person but Hyperloop has given a lot of ammunition to opponents of rail. "Hyperloop/The Boring Company is coming so we shouldn't build efficient metros that are already implemented in Japan/China/Europe and reduce reliance on cars and foreign oil."
According to @svantana's profile he makes this cool looking bit of work, amongst other things:

https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/

Would also be interested in hearing more about recommended projects though. I'm building my first synth at the moment so I'm pretty keen on the topic right now.
That should be between the parents and doctors.
Sure, I've heard of the Xfinity MitMs which IIRC tracked users in some way. But would that realistically cause any "professional detriment" as expressed by the parent comment? Most users wouldn't even notice it's happening.

Basically, I see it this way:

- You can be MitMed broadly, like the Xfinity case, but the company in question can't really do anything crazy like inject viruses or do something that would cause the user to actually notice because then their ass is going to be on the line when it's exposed that Comcast installed viruses on millions of computers or stole everyone's data.

- Or you can be MitMed specifically, which will cause professional detriment, but would require someone to specifically target you and your users. And I don't see this as that likely for the average Joe.

Really, what I would like to know is: How realistic is it that I, as a site owner, will be adversely affected by the MitM that could theoretically happen to my users on HTTP?
Well, in the same spirit as NSynth, but miles ahead, we have:

https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth - morph all types of sounds, laid out on a 2d canvas (made by me)

https://soniccharge.com/synplant - treating synth parameters as genomes, allows for combination and mutation of sounds

These are commercial projects, but there is also a lot of interesting academic stuff going on, from IRCAM, CCRMA and MTG among others. Unfortunately there's not a strong tradition of open source in audio, although that is starting to change.
> Good guidance badly executed.

Could you not think of a nicer way to word this, given that you consider the guidance 'good', and presumably understand a lot of work went into it?
Not in cases where the deficits caused by the tweak are compensated for by modern culture. For example, it could be that natural selection made learning hard for adult humans in order to preserve scant knowledge in prehistorical times. But now that we have written culture this may no longer be necessary or desirable.
>The fact that all the components exist but aren't in common use in delivery pizza isn't due to lack of innovation in the area, more likely it's cheaper with better throughput to have the labour of 4 pizza chefs rather than the expertise to keep an assemblage of these machines running in all the local pizza places.

I think this is what it comes down to. I was picking up a pizza at Dominos the other day, and while the girl was ringing up my order, she was also taking calls for orders and manually entering them into the computer. The workload for one person seemed absurd. I started wondering "why on earth doesn't dominos just staff a call center in India and have the orders forwarded to the store's ticketing system?".

And then I realized It's because that would be a cost center, and the food industry is already on tiny margins (<2%) as it is. It is simply cheaper and easier to offload all of that work onto a $9/hr employee you're already paying that will be replaced every 3 months after burning out. Modern capitalism has become brutally efficient at the expense of humanity.
Props to the fungi making it happen.
I wouldn't describe charisma as a "mental ability." Rather, IMHO, there's a tradeoff between the type of thinking that helps you "win" status and power in a socially-fraught scenario (i.e. playing the Game of Thrones); vs. the type of thinking that helps you come off as being a person your audience would like to take out for a beer.

Or, to go even further, people will like you more (find you more "charismatic") to the exact degree that their predictive model of your current mental processes—built up by observing you—doesn't involve you putting in that extra work to seek status and power. You get more charismatic by shutting mental processes off! (And then signalling that you've done so, by e.g. saying things that cost you status that you wouldn't say if you cared about status. Like people do when slightly drunk!)
Getting the cheese from the same supplier doesn't mean it's the same cheese. I expect that they produce a somewhat different product for each major customer.

Little Caesars is completely inedible to my taste.
That's the fault of Medium, not the author. Are you going to post this comment on every Medium post?
> Arguing with a robot over spelling seems like it would be more distracting than hitting a button.

The discussion preceding this comment is about navigational buttons, not selecting songs from a playlist. Siri will not argue with you when you simply request the “next song”.
>There's no such thing as "Too Big To Fail" on the internet.

The article doesn't say that Google et al are too big to fail. It says they have entirely too much power over internet user's experience and are misusing it in many ways.

>We can help encourage the survivability by teaching new users of alternatives for search, blogging, following friends and so on.

Really? So you and some other people will somehow contact the millions of new users that come online each year and persuade them to stay from Facebook?
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Can you point to a javascript example?

I can think of a number of approaches, but nothing I could catergorise as trivial.
There's also Janitor [0], though since it's built with legacy projects in mind, it's a lot easier to get started on an existing project than it is to create a new one.

[0] https://janitor.technology/
I would like to see a chart of the autism spectrum.

Cause from where I am standing we are all on the spectrum but where are people and when is even worth talking about the spectrum.
And all this for what? "In some rare cases, less than one tenth of one percent of returns, we catch something fraudulent".

"Despite 99.9%+ of this activity being perfectly reasonable, we see fit to limit it because it might help us catch <0.1%"
> and then telling you about it?

The argument against your position that people are trying to get across to you is not that. It is that publication of vulnerability without giving heads-up and time to prepare solution to the vendor greatly increases the risk that a user will be harmed by attackers exploiting the public knowledge. Often substantial number of users are not going to mitigate or resolve the problem without their vendor giving out the official solution.
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> - Apple happily allows other products (like Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM, etc) to be installed and used on the device.

Can they implement same capabilities? Same AirPlay support, streaming to HomePod, Siri integration?
I am optimistic about self driving cars, but we also lower to floor of possible vehicle occupancy to 0. I'm curious to see if average occupancy goes up or down.

Linking up cars sounds great! Maybe we could make the cars electric. And we could create escape hatches to walk between them. We could make them shorter so the car is essentially a seat. And then we could make them 100% subscription based and shared so you never take them away. I think I might just have reinvented trains!

Our obsession with automobiles borders on insanity. Yes, the last mile is hard to do with public transit but for high capacity, high cost thoroughfares trains win every time.
Great! Maybe in the future it’ll be able to understand, at 10pm, “Alexa wake me up at 7” without asking if I mean “In the morning, or in the evening?”.

Considering the time this has been out and the apparent resources, so much of the basic functionality is locked behind formal command patterns rather than anything natural (and every “new features” email I get seems to just be variants of “tell me a joke/fortune cookie/fact”)
Cirrus were a pioneer in factory-fitting but other types, even microlights, are also fitted with recovery systems. Magnum is a common brand in Europe.

BRS who make the CAPS for Cirrus also provide retrofit kits for Cessna 172 and 182.
Interesting! Can someone provide some source for this “science backed” bit?
I’m a bit skeptical, but willing to give a try if the science is convincing
It's a first step to see if it's feasible according to the article:

> Wojcicki did not specify how many conspiracies were on the company’s initial list, but suggested it would expand over time. “What I like about this unit is that it’s actually pretty extensible,” she said. The company could show additional alternate sources of information under controversial elements in the future, she said.
If you believe so...
I dunno. I can and do do almost all of those things(minus maybe changing songs while wrestling with my kids, but I don't have kids) without a smart speaker and none of them are very difficult to do in the first place. For instance, when I want to buy something, I open an app on my phone. If I want to turn on a light, I walk to the light switch, and then I turn it on. I'm not trying to be facetious, I really don't see much of a benefit to having an alexa or similar device. I think smart speakers are going to have to do a whole lot more than I can currently imagine in order for me to adopt them.
Maybe not museums, but they certainly could have gotten some from the Arizona Boneyard.
If some security researchers are currently choosing immediate highly publicised disclosure and short selling because it's the most profitable path for them - perhaps companies should reconsider their default/expected response to vendor-privileged-disclosure?

It's not like AMD set their chip prices based on "ethics" or "duty to the public". As "the public" I'd prefer a Ryzen 1900X to sell for $150 rather than $500 - It's just a bunch of sand after all (plus some intellectual effort). I don't think AMD get to choose their pricing model but then complain about how security companies price/sell their intellectual work...
Close to 100% of software has bugs. Almost all drivers have bugs. Anything that prioritises company profit and release dates over complete correctness in sectors where bugs == deaths, will have bugs. (And even those sectors are not magically immune) So yes - I expect they do.
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HackerNews when Americans use face scanning: "Everybody does it, no big deal".

HackerNews when China uses face scanning: "Oh noes!!! That's the downfall of democracy!!! Civilization is going to end!!! What a horrible, horrible authoritarian dictatorship!!!! Oh Noes!!!!"
with Adobe Acrobat ;D

specifically, it's referring to the multiplication rule of probability (or counting).
Yep, and that to me should be regulated. It shouldn’t be possible to make a job so needlessly stressful and probably cruel.
Did you forget the most important on your page?

Where's the button create my own page? How can I test your product? Is your product scam?
I keep seeing you guys posting your website everywhere, but I haven't actually read any news, or seen any actual product.

You would get a lot more interest if you at least had some information on the product.

I'm really interested in the product, but I don't even know what the product is. Looking at your website, it just looks like a vending machine?
Yeah, my ban was temporary (120 days?).
The end of "full support" for RHEL 7 is "~Q4 of 2019".

After that, there's "Maintenance Support" until 30 Jun 2024 but that only includes "errata", which are "provided at Red Hat's discretion" -- and specifically excludes "Software Enhancements" ("additions of new functionality beyond correcting defects ...").

I expect that after Python 2's EOL, we'll see very little in the way of updates for RHEL 7's Python 2 packages. There just won't be that much for them to do.
Ask HN: Meditation advice for a beginner?
So I friend told me about Headspace and the usual benefits of meditation. I'm on my 8th day now but I'm having a really hard time with it so far :(

Because every time he says now close your eyes I just start getting itching all over my body. He said it could happen but mine is quite uncontrollable. The more I resist it and think it will pass me by, the more physical agony I get into.

Also I feel a very strong urge to move my body, like shake my legs or something when I try to sit still like this. Sitting for like 10 mins in one position is just too hard. I just want to change positions like tilt my head, adjust myself every few minutes.

Why is something this simple so hard? Anybody else struggled like this? Any advice for me? I don't have any of those symptoms while writing this or coding though.

Since a lot of HNers like to meditate I guess this place is good as any.
Thank you for the nice comment, and for the lovely post on Prolog meta-interpreters that I linked here :) It seems I missed the part where you explicitly called out absorption and reification there! One of my reviewers actually suggested "elision" as well as reification after I had published the post, which seems quite similar.

And thanks for the info! I would love to learn more about compiler design and garbage collection in the future. Still working my way through some other reading materials but certainly something I would like to get to more!
We've actually had plans for an open source page and showcasing open source communities that use Discord for the better part of a year. We finally got around to doing it though - completely unrelated to Slack's recent announcements.
As far as I can tell his relation to farming is limited to his obsession with the processes and geological side-effects of agriculture rather than the act of farming itself. Calling him a "farmer" would be quite a stretch, when you compare the typical archetypes of the two. Especially in the context of his contributions to natural history/sciences.

In regards to inheritance, this analogy reminds me of the two brothers who inherited a farm in East of Eden from their father. Just because you both own it doesn't make you both a "farmers". Only one brother worked the farm as a traditional farmer, even after becoming wealthy.
> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reasons)

So mailing lists then? OSS communities have been using them for years, they even have offline browsing and offline search. There are a number of user interfaces available from online ones like google groups or gmail, desktop readers, terminal apps and even editor plugins.
Iain Banks' novel "Surface Detail" describes virtual hells where people can be tortured for eternity.
Many economists been warning this for years: increase minimum wages and it will hit the poorest the most.
Focusing on the exceptions doesn't help the rule. You could get an average US house for $20k and a brand new car for $2k in 1956, and a $4k annual income was a comfortable middle class living. Commercial flight wasn't just prohibitively expensive by modern standards in 1856, it was impossible, but you could live on $100 a year at the time.

If you want to pay 2118 people to resuscitate you (in the unlikely event the technology is feasible and people are willing and able and developed) you're going to need to invest that money well.
An alternative headline:

Rising Minimum Wages Encourage Automation [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregoryferenstein/2017/08/27/ne...
> The major feature is the formalisation of the concept of consensus. Forks are a manifestation of this feature. "a 51% attack on their own blockchain" is a major feature of crypto-tech. In the last century we would call this a revolution. In this century issues like this can be resolved enterily in software. It's an opt-in economy and in some years an opt-in society.

Huh? No. Distributed consensus was formalized in 1978 by Leslie Lamport and the first version of Paxos was introduced in 1989. If you're okay with centralization, Paxos or it's successor, Raft, are much faster and more scalable algorithms than blockchain, and have a wide variety of mature implementations.
So pay for a place to live and all your regular social responsibilities like cleanliness and paying for services on time are just taken care of...? That doesn't seem like a great way to transition into adulthood at all.
I could definitely use this tool but the privacy concerns would need to treated as be your #1 selling point along with user side encryption. The encryption could cost more but once a competitor arrives with these two necessities, I will sign up.
The "super-express" on the A-train is 5.3km and takes 8 minutes, that's 40km/h average (e.g. half of 55mph, with no intermediate stops).
cool.. I didn't realize that move meant memcpy.. does this operation destroy the original object?
Glad you are interested. The current level of information sharing is intentional.
Not even "polite" really, it's benefitting the vendors bottom line at the expense of the researchers.

Do you think there's _any_ chance AMD would have offered these guys money in the sort of magnitude they stand to gain short selling AMD?

I'm pretty sure if they'd asked AMD would have responded with a blackmail lawsuit instantly.
Perhaps as the pace accelerates, those affected will vote for politicians who want to tax automation revenue and fund safety nets.

Yes. Revenue, not profits. Why? See: Amazon

EDIT: dragonwriter's verbiage is preferred. Better we address it now before pitchforks get handed out.
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I'm the engineer who worked on the Search backend. Read our blog here: https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-indexes-billions-of-...

Cost isn't actually too bad, given how we've designed our search schema - and how we lazily index.
People who work in vulnerability research generally just point and laugh at him. His opinion on this doesn't matter.