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If the government controlled in what order you saw things on television, or whether or not you saw some of them at all, would you call television largely uncensored?

Why does Facebook's algorithmic ranking of feed content get a free pass, here?
Yes (I’m not the OP, but I work at the Broad Institute.)
Holders of bitcoin do not get value from these transactions. The transaction fees go to the miners, not to people HODLing bitcoin.
Yea. It's pretty funny people would pay that much for him just to tweet.
I've been using character names from my favourite movies. A different movie for each network (or each zone in a network, or however you want to categorise it).

Home network is all character names from LOTR, home office is Expanse, etc.

It's fun to try pick suitable names from the movie, for the device, eg my HTPC is Gimli, because it's a small case but carries more than its weight. Gaming PC is Gandalf because it's entirely white.

Sub-categories of characters is good for sub-categories of devices, so all our phones/tablets are named after the Elves.

The main problem with this method is the HOURS you spend angsting over the correct names because it's actually fun.
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As a counterpoint, this "being interoperable with everything" mindset is predominant. Everyone has an interop story, some languages are all about interop (Lua, before Python).

The worse case scenario shows up in Verner Vinge's scifi as the programmer archeologist (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky), that all the code that could have been written has been written, and programmers of the future will be more like archeologists sniffing it out.

In that future, there is no room for green fields, which I find to be very depressing.
> Grain is very caloric.

That's kind of a misleading sentence. Fat is about 9 kcal per g. Carbohydrates and proteins are about 4 kcal per g (it's slightly more complicated than that because proteins have slightly higher caloric content, but take energy to absorb, while larger carbohydrates are can not be absorbed at all, but let's just take these as rough values).

Grain isn't very "caloric" at all compared to, say, butter. 10g of white flour is 36 kcal, while 10g of butter is 72 kcal. Compared to lettuce it's quite "caloric". 10g of lettuce gives you only 2 kcal. But that's because lettuce is all water.

Although I really like eating grains, I'm also a pretty big fan of vegetables. If you imagine that a meal is about 600 kcal (give or take), I think it's instructive to assemble a variety of food and see what quantity of food that is. 3/4 of a stick of butter; or half a loaf of bread (assuming a 1 lb loaf); or 6 large heads of iceberg lettuce.

You can see pretty easily that if you want to eat more food, while maintaining the same caloric intake, then vegetables are the way to go -- because they have a lot of water. But you can also have soups, etc to get the same effect. Even grains work well: a bowl of porridge made with 250 ml of semi skimmed milk is only 254 kcal according to google -- but that tablespoon of brown sugar is going to bump it up to over 300 kcal.

So that's really the thing: if you remove water from stuff (flour, sugar, oil, butter) it's pretty calorie dense -- especially oils and fats. Eating things that are essentially dried out conglomerations of these things (potato chips, cookies, muffins, cheese, granola, etc, etc) means that you can only eat a ridiculously small amount of food if you are trying to hit a calorie target. Virtually all of our "convenience foods" fall into that category -- even sandwiches are often bread, meat, mayonnaise and a token slice of greenery. The secret is to cook so as to maintain flavour while keeping the water content up (or to enjoy eating more intense foods, with much smaller portions).
A few years ago I found myself reading pretty much every paper on methods that could give a better looking solution to "deblurring" an image than the more established methods. This is really a field which has overlap with many different areas of research.

You've got traditional iterative methods through to bayesian methods and machine learning methods. Each of these approaches seemed to be relatively isolated from each other and largely cited from their own subfield, despite all solving variants of the same problem. When they did cite outside the field, they tended to cite less relevant or far from state-of-the-art papers.

What was amazing was the number of papers where you would have a plot showing how amazing the new deconvolution method was in the presence of noise compared to other methods, often using a vaguely defined metric. This plot would take up about half a page, usually following a few example images that were set very very small, often ~2cm and usually in a grid. That was always deeply suspicious.

The other thing I remember were models with tons of unexplained parameters, which were carefully tuned to give good results for that image. But really it was guesswork. Sometimes the authors would carefully avoid well-cited work in another field that they could easily have found.

As a tinkerer with a scarcity of time you learn where not to waste your time and move on.
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My offer was competitive. With the 2yr cash bonus and the stock taking over in year 3 my total comp is projected to evenly ramp up 5-15% per year. Who knows where the stock will be until we get to the vest dates, but so far it's tracking well ahead of the 15% yearly growth that the company plans on.
If you don't think you have the right thing yet, having other people try out what you know is the wrong thing isn't going to be very useful.
I'm familiar with the case, that's why I mentioned it. My point was that although they lost the civil suit, there weren't any criminal proceedings against C-levels. I understand the argument of negligence being as guilty as malicious intent but it creates a sweeping blanket that's hardly fair or enforceable.

I agree with your principles in theory but it's just impractical.
From what I've been hearing lately about Apple, the impression I keep getting is that Apple doesn't think of Mac as a product with a specific target market, but more as a sort of just-a-really-really-big-ipad.

As a long-time Mac user who's still basically happy with the product, this is what worries me the most long-term. YMMV, different strokes, go in peace with Ubuntu, but for me personally, macOS has been my favorite desktop Unix, hands-down, for about fifteen years. There's nothing that I want to do on even a semi-regular basis that I can't do, and a lot that would require, well, heavy adjusting if I moved to Linux. (Yes, I've used Linux within the last couple of years.)

I also love iOS and the iPad, but it's not a general computing platform; it's a computing appliance. It's very good at what it does, but by design it's difficult-to-impossible to do things on it that Apple doesn't want you to in ways that aren't true for macOS. (I'm sorry to those of you who had to disable SIP to recompile your own version of Apache, or who are infuriated you can't replace Finder with ratpoison, but you know that's not what I'm talking about here, right?) If "Project Marzipan" is about creating a new UIKit/AppKit hybrid that allows developers to create codebases that run on both iOS and macOS, that's already a little worrisome; if it's about "letting iOS apps run on macOS," as some of Gurman's reporting has it, that's a lot worrisome. I have a lot of apps that exist for both macOS and iOS, and in every single case, the macOS version is more capable. And iOS's "sandbox everything" model--and, I suspect, attitudes it engenders--make every app feel like an island not just in terms of data but in terms of functionality: there's much less of the "learn the basics of one app, learn them all" feeling that makes macOS, well, macOS.

If the Mac line moves to Apple's A-series chips, that's...not necessarily bad, but if it's being done in conjunction with sweeping software changes, it makes me extremely uneasy about the line's future in a way that even the Touch Bar doesn't (and trust me, I do not take the Touch Bar as a good sign). I'm not planning to switch platforms any time soon, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should buy an inexpensive Linux-compatible laptop so I can, you know, practice. Just in case.
As someone who's never smoked, but has stood next to people who have, I would guess it does quite the opposite. I imagine most people who don't smoke think this.
This reminds me of the Pets vs Cattle analogy https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle

With a pet, you obsess over the name and meaning of the name. With cattle, as long as names don't collide or cause problems, you couldn't care less about the name.
I've been thinking about doing the same thing. What hardware did you use?
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> I think a more fundamental long-term solution is to fix the education and critical thinking problem.

And who is going to do that? Governments have no incentive to do that because lack of critical thinking in citizens is a major factor to ensure they they can get away with exploitation and prevent them from revolting..
That depends on all of those actions being discrete, of course. If they aren't, then keyboard mappings aren't very useful.
> Facebook is in trouble because it sold political influence at a price that previously non-mainstream actors could afford.

Since there appears to be some confusion (it took me a few passes as well), I interpreted your statement as the following:

> Facebook is in trouble because it sold political influence at a discount from what previously only large nation-state actors could afford.

The implication, if I'm reading correctly, is that any mom-and-pop millionaire could practically launch the same sort of campaign on the platform. Or perhaps more succinctly and dramatically,

Facebook commoditized the weaponization of data.

Am I understanding correctly?
Does Libre's open source spreadsheet not provide the functionality you need? I took a small HP stream, replaced Windows with POP! OS (from System 76) and the spreadsheet comes as part of the package. As far as I know, it's also easily available with vanilla Ubuntu.
Maybe someone could go in to business and provide services that would help companies prevent these things from happening?
Then you don’t have the touchbar anyway.
Am I the only one who sees the similarity between the Apple requirements of shipping bitcode, the LLVM intermediate representation of your app, and the Taos method of having the VP2 code turned into the VP1 native code, as a way of having portability?
So Apple laptops will become glorified underpowered netbooks. macOS users totally won't start abandoning the platform even more than now.
Really nice. I'm a founder nowadays on the hiring point, but I kinda wanna give it a try :-)
i use the names of my favorite greek gods/goddesses in a (slightly) meaningful way. my monster tower is ATHENA, the goddess of knowledge. my laptop is ARTEMIS the hunter, and my phone is fleet-footed HERMES.
The specific metric you and the parent are looking for is "Labor Participation Rate".[0]

This is a personal favorite metric of mine, because it makes readily apparent some of the distortions the parent brought up. I imagine they're likely being downvoted for some combination of more vociferous language, less citations, different perspectives on the merit of the math/historical comparison the poster is referring to, as well as good old "you're wrong" downvotes, but I certainly found myself agreeing with the thrust of the point. (that unemployment and in related fashion CPI are regularly distorted for one agenda or another; for a recent example of this look at the application of C-CPI in the latest tax code to help address budget shortfalls in a way one might fairly call "slight of hand."[1])

[0]https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-20/the-big-p...
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Pretty much. There are for example studies that show that people who attempt a problem before finding a solution learn a lot more than people who just look at the solution.
Spaces are still there, but what they have removed is that “X”. It’s simply “MacOS” now.
The Department of Justice was able to dismantle Arther Anderson after their fraudulent audits of Enron. Lots of things that are impractical are possible with sufficient effort. And the government has unlimited resources for those efforts.

You must hold systemic negligence and corruption accountable, or it perpetuates the cycle.
The article is talking about patents filed that may or may not ever end up in products, not current technology.

But any wider use of audio processing to listen for keywords besides the wake word apply equally well to a cell phone. So again, the cell phone is at least as big a concern as an Echo, if not bigger since many people are rarely outside of arms-reach of their phone.
Somewhat dorky things like this are pretty common in computing and I love it!
Ever is a long timeframe especially if Tesla continues selling double yoy.
Actually. I have been with the team for over 2 years and a hacker news member for what feels like ten years. The reason I don't put my actual Walmart email is because of all the spam I actually get. If you are actually interested. Shoot me an email and I will reply from my Walmart email.
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The UN let Rwanda rot.

Rwanda was about radio stations.

Stop this Facebook blaming bullshit please.

You are picking out quotes to create a narrative.

I'm sure we could quote a refugee being warned about the up and coming problems and escaping on time. But once again it's a false narrative.
The fact they could be blackmailed means the rest of the society didn't like them either. If a minority is doing something today that the rest of society thinks is wrong but actually isn't, then don't we have a more serious problem already by persecuting whoever is the modern equivalent of early 1900's gays?
> Sometimes conferences pay a publishing company to do the review process for submissions, by the way. I'm not sure that your submissions are actually getting processed for free by conference volunteers.

Well, I'm sure, because I also review for the same conferences and journals that I submit to!
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I wonder if the author would classify the Wright brothers as 'tinkerers'. Overall I find the tone pretty insulting, nobody believes they are the bees-knees quite like academics.
The word research is pretty vague in comparison to the context the author interprets its meaning. He over-reaches on his explanation of what a researcher is, and leaves too much of a gap between researcher and tinkerer.
Because I get lots of spam if I use my corporate email. If your resume looks good I will reply to you from my Walmart account. It's not the first time I posted the job here, we actually hired two people from HN.
Can you point to where the author recommended that Google and co. be forced to hire black women (or any identity group for that matter)?

What she did say is that it's not surprising that Google search produces biased results, given that minorities are underrepresented and topics like ethics are barely discussed in engineering schools.

It sounds to me like she is attempting to raise awareness of a systemic issue in the tech industry, which requires no qualifications other than knowledge of the issue.
> If it bothers the Germans, why don't they change it? Is there some concordat that makes it difficult?

The church is still very powerful in Germany.

> Do I really have a right to comment given that I'm not German?

You have a right to your opinion about what is happening in a country even if you are not living there.

> Does it really makes sense for you to apply what are presumably post-revolution, secular French standards to Germany?

It is fairly exceptional to see the state harnessed to do a private institution's bidding like this.

> "co-opted by the church to act as their debt collectors " -- sounds conspiratorial. You think the Church is all-powerful and able to do that? Tithing isn't new.

That it isn't new doesn't mean there is a place for it today. The state and the church should be firmly separated. In Germany this is - not yet - the case.

> "disgusting and no longer of this day and age" -- appeals to time period are rather silly. We're not talking about fashion, and it's important not to fall prey to the Idol of Progress.

It's not the 15th century any more.

> Interesting that more religious countries, like Germany's neighbor Poland, have no such tax.

My point exactly.
USPS declined to carry leftist periodicals during the Red Scare. It's no bastion of free speech.

In the case of a government authorized genocide, however, it's likely the whistleblowers who would be silenced by government regulation of political speech.
The best thing about this approach is that replacment computers can use related but distinct versions of their ancestor's names.

For instance, my old server was called TheQ (i.e. 'Q' from James Bond) and the new one is named Judy, because Judy Dench plays 'M' in the most recent films. It's convoluted, but it's neat to have what is effectively your own mythology.
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Digital rights are real words things though. Other forms of rights that are not currently digital could be made digital too.
Neat. I use the names of moons, like Europa, Io, Callisto, etc.
Is there any evidence that software engineers are protected in some way from criminal negligence cases?

The reality is that it is vanishingly rare for any engineer to face criminal charges for their professional actions. It doesn’t seem to me that software is held to much lower a standard.
I used to enjoy using names from The Wheel of Time series, the forsaken especially. I’ll admit to spending a bit more time than was practical on the endeavor, but I think it sort of helped me “bond” and care more about them?

Ah, it was fun at any rate. I miss you, Lanfear!
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>The same rationale that applies for allowing cars with Cruise Control?

Cruise control ll control the steering? I thought it just maintain the speed...
Perhaps a simpler definition of populism is to acquire power outside of traditional state institutions. What makes this a bit frightening is that those institutions cannot regulate the worse excesses of that leader.
EquityZen has an index fund of sorts, but the fees are high and it only includes companies that are on EquityZen which are probably not representative of the average.

I'm not sure how much you need to join a round with a VC fund (and they would distribute that into a bunch of companies for you), but that might be your second best bet.
I second that. I own a System76 laptop (Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed) and an HP stream that I bought specifically to run POP! OS. I have also replaced several of my colleagues' OS with a Linux distro and I have yet to encounter a problem that took more than an hour to solve...and even those minor problems rarely occur.

I am by no means a Linux guru - I just grew disgusted with Windows and wasn't willing to switch to Apple.
Do you use Netflix? If so, how do you get access if you use a third party DNS service?
Isn't there slight hint of insurance fraud odor in this story?
This particular theme is extremely common for servers.
His comment is an example of market forces. At 100 dollars they priced him and others out.

If millions will go see a show why hide the service charge/fee? Why not auction all tickets?
There is actually: BSD. In 1991 BSD transitioned to open source

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

Which of course gave us FreeBSD in 1993

Thats just one simple example I can think of. Intel, as well, was never monopolized as a chip manufacturer. They could sell chips freely to IBM competitors.

Also, the reverse engineering of the IBM platform is what made Compaq computer successful in the mid 80s.

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

I don't think even a quick examination of the histories involved here would yield any other result than open hardware and software was always going to be a big component of desktop computing.

These things ebb and flow anyway, historically what you usually see is that for at least a decade (sometimes more, a lot more, and sometimes dramatically less) what ends up happening is vertically integrated solutions are favored as they bring the most harmony to the average customer of said platform ('it just works!' was as slogan of many firms, not just Apple). Then as complexities can be either mitigated or eliminated these things tend to open themselves up.

I believe Mobile devices are going through this phase. I think in another decade or two you will have a situation where you start seeing really useable open alternatives to the major platforms even though right now it does not seem intuitive or obvious how that will work
We might be swinging away from the newsfeed
I once worked somewhere that used locations from LOTR, but by the time I got there, they were down to obscure things on the map that you wouldn't know if you weren't a true fan.
I watch morning news in the Chicago market for weather and traffic. I suppose I also get local news. And I get irked because I don't think cute Youtube videos are news but regardless of the station I can't seem to escape that. I'm getting tired of the transplant doctor that dresses up as a Star Wars character (the big furry thing) to deliver good news. Maybe I'm getting too old or just not enough of a Star Wars fan. (Wookie. That's the thing that the doctor impersonates.)

I looked for Sinclair station ownership in this market and according to The Book of Knowledge (Wikipedia) there is none.
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I see they have some instructions there for how they did it. Any chance anyone could make a small instructive tutorial, so we can start replicating this process for other apps as well?

Then we can put everything in a giant repo and make it publicly accessible information.
I've got an OpenBSD router setup on an APU2 (https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm). It's running dhcpd, unbound, dnscrypt-proxy, openvpn server and an openvpn client and the load averages are pretty low. Haven't bench-marked throughput properly yet as I'm still configuring PF properly.

I used these [0][1] repos as a starting point, I wrote a few helpers to update dynamic dns and a DNS ad blocklist for unbound. This replaced a pfSense install and I'm happy with it so far.

[0] https://github.com/elad/openbsd-apu2
[1] https://github.com/northox/openbsd-apu2
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It's kind of sad this task has mostly gone away for large datacenters, where choosing names for the thousands of servers is impractical. h223-16-32a just doesn't have same cachet as the carefully selected names.