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> I currently run a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 17.10) on Apple hardware.

It's important to buy hardware that is supported and properly documented by the manufacturer. Apple is not one of those that do that.
I can't answer authoritatively, but I would speculate it has to do with the highly parallel nature of GPUs.
>YouTube, Facebook, etc. should be public spaces

Where does it stop? Does the comment section on my personal blog have to be a public place? If I start a newspaper or open a book store do I have to publish or sell whatever anybody wants me to?

If I start a grocery store can I choose what to sell do the local farmers all get the right to sell in my store regardless of my wishes?

Where does it stop exactly?

> no single person can bear the costs of publishing videos online

I could. I am.

I have a server running Plex in the closet. It "publishes" videos over the Internet. Right now there are only two people who have access to see what I publish.

If I wanted to publish videos myself and let the public consume them, I could. It would take slightly different software, but the server is in the closet already. There might be some issues if something I published got to the front page of HN. There isn't much risk of that.
Re parameter selection, I’m referring to:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-argon2-03#sectio...

Specifically:

> We recommend the following procedure to select the type and the parameters for practical use of Argon2.

As opposed to just pick a profile, which, to be fair, the RFC also suggests :) So I guess that’s a fair point, it just feels like as with the i-vs-d thing there’s just more song and dance around it that I wish wasn’t there. The suggestion in the RFC vs published 3rd party recommendations (eg jjarmoc’s NNC reco) are also off by a factor of 100 or so? I’m happy to buy that that’s an unfair subjective impression, but when I was reviewing an argon2id python implementation last week I really just wanted to give people a function that just does “encrypt my damn password already”. Maybe that’s up to the implementation layers job, that’s fine - I did that for txscrypt too and I don’t remember where I got the magic numbers from :)

To be clear in case someone else reads this out of context: I am not saying not to use Argon2id!
Yeah, and I'm sure there are solutions smarter than I can imagine, where all user-generated data gets consumed through a pipe and it's just a matter of having guards that look at the combination of user data type and user location and filter it out. But it feels to me like there are still going to be a million little branching problems at places beyond the pipe.
The thing that really killed plain vanilla RISC is memory latency. Compared to on-die registers and cache memory might as well be disk. True RISC is more efficient to execute but it results in more instructions and hence more code that has to be read from RAM.

Modern CISC chips that immediately unpack CISC into RISC micro-ops are really something that I've termed "ZISC" -- Zipped Instruction Set Computing. Think of CISC ISA's like the byzantine x86_64 ISA with all its extensions as a custom data compression codec for the instruction stream.

We got ZISC accidentally and IMHO without us realizing what we'd actually done. The x86_64 "codec" was not explicitly designed as such but resulted from a very path-dependent "evolutionary walk" through ISA design space. I wonder what would happen if we explicitly embraced ZISC and designed a custom codec for a RISC stream that can be decompressed very efficiently in hardware? Maybe the right approach would be a CPU with hundreds of "macro registers" that store RISC micro-op chunks. The core instruction set would be very parsimonious, but almost immediately you'd start defining macros. Of course multitasking would require saving and restoring these macros which would be expensive, so a work-around for that might be to have one or maybe a few codecs system-wide that are managed by the OS rather than by each application. This would make macro redefinition rare. Apps are compiled into domain specific instruction codec streams using software-defined codec definitions managed by the OS.

The neat thing about this hypothetical ZISC is that while 99% of apps might use the standard macro set you could have special apps that did define their own. These could be things like cryptographic applications, neural networks, high performance video encoders, genetic algorithms, graphics renderers, cryptocurrency miners, etc. Maybe the OS would reserve a certain number of macros for user application use.
Why not? It is not much different that wanting a career in video elsewhere. There are many people who are successfully doing so. Also, most do not earn money only from Youtube, but also from sponsorships and patrons.

(Also, I am neither making videos on Youtube nor invest in crypto, I just happen to follow a bunch of people that do.)
But YouTube is serving them - the videos are kept online. They just don't show ads on them.
I must be watching a different set of videos. There's a ton of great content on YT that's not this. Then again, I mostly follow engineering, tradesmen, IT, car enthusiast, and gaming focused stuff.
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> if you've got a lot of stuff there or are using a lot of AWS-specific features.

If you allow yourself to be locked in to your hosting provider you are doing it wrong.

AWS is very clever about this but it is still your decision on whether or not you allow yourself to be suckered in. I point this out with some regularity to the companies I look at.
Aluminum corrodes a bit in sea water although it didn't need to last that long.
> Pressure in the system is only useful if people react to it

Indeed. And in Soviet system, nobody reacted for decades.

The main difference is fairness of playing field. In USSR, you could try to bribe your way into good living. In capitalist system, you can work your way through. In USSR, there was much less regard for quality work. On top of that, even the well-connected&bribed 1% of USSR would barely live like US middle class. If not lower-middle. Meanwhile working yourself up to middle class is quite doable in capitalist system.
And then we will have artificial problems, inconsistencies and imperfections.

There will always be capitalization and fabrication on what is popular and perceived to be "good". "Reality" TV is a thing :)
Some 20+ years later we still play QuakeWorld :)

https://quakeworld.nu

https://quake.world (discord)
Yes. I'd also like to add this: I believe there's a direct correlation with how unreachable the decisions of the corporation are. Youtube and Google in general are notoriously unreachable by users and regular humans: it's not ONLY wielding the ability to obliterate other peoples' plans, it's also the choice to do so behind a faceless corporate mask.

People really like protesting, people like yelling at those who've wronged them, people like finding the boss and giving 'em a piece of their mind. If you can yell at the person responsible for ruining your big plans, you've probably vented that feeling safely. If you can identify some middle manager or CEO as responsible for actions that have harmed you, then you can go yell at that person.

Creating a situation where 'go murder random employee people, as many as possible' seems like an appropriate choice, is actually quite difficult. If you can identify ANY more relevant target for your anger then you focus on that target, and if you can identify other humans then there are a wide range of options for hurting those humans non-lethally (including shame, simple verbal abuse and so on)

YouTube gives itself the ability to destroy individual humans' plans/destinies FACELESSLY. This is in fact the problem with setting up massive unanswerable corporate power as a faceless system. It enables you to abuse people far more than you could get away with face to face, or as a corporate manager publically known and subject to social pressures.

Unfortunately, when you abuse people on a vast scale while giving them no legitimate outlet for their anger, you expose your own people to personal danger to the extent they can be identified as you… since you aren't allowing anyone important to be identified as you. (the scale is important because it means that, statistically, you'll sometimes be extremely unjust to somebody that can be dangerous)
kUbuntu 17.10 + Kubuntu backports from 18.04 + kernel 4.15 (AMD open-source support of HDMI sound it's here)

- Works flawless.
- No issues with the webcam.
- Plasmashell don't crash.
- Even I can use my old Epson C-62 printer where on Windows I can't!

And I have nearly the same configuration on my workplace without issues.

The only issues that I notice:
- Skype for linux is garbage.
- OBS doing weird thing the last time that I try, I need to update it.
> you could tie the rise of workplace shootings to an increase in worker precarity.

Funny, outside of the US even in countries with high unemployment nobody goes around and shoots anyone.
I say this as someone who doesn't own a car and bikes or transits everywhere, but you really don't think there's problems with the bikes here? When I drive around Seattle I see these bikes just tossed anywhere. On the sidewalk, in the grass between the sidewalk and street, parked on corners with busy crosswalks, leaned against bus stops. It's like we've all accepted that it's ok to leave our junk just lying anywhere we please.
We played that, too. At 300 baud and a significant transatlantic delay, the typical interaction was:

- log in, read the usual You're-at-end-of-road-again stuff

- walk a few rooms (delay, delay . . .)

- find out you were killed by someone else

... repeat. Lag that affects a text adventure is impressive lag indeed . . .
This is the first time I've heard of 'MUDs'. I've played Nethack, Zork, etc but the idea of playing games like that with people is amazing. I actually was wondering the other day how I could make something like that, and of course, it exists already! Sweet!

2 Questions:

1) What's the best 'MUD' game to play?

2) Any resources on how to make one?

Thanks! Seems really interesting.
I think his comment was an oblique reference to the speed of light.
She would not necessarily have to buy the second gun legally. There are 100's of millions of guns floating around, getting one is easy.

I wonder how long she had this gun and where it came from.
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I wonder if maybe this person just doesn't understand Git / GitHub and was just trying to remove the credit from their own deployment.

Still a dick move, but maybe not as bad as what it seems.
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> MLP in France tweeted graphic images from ISIS actions as a rallying cry against them

Well, it's not exactly that: it was a response to a comment from a journalist, which could be interpreted as equating the Front National (MLP's party) to ISIS.
Yea, GPU's are a few nodes behind which means they will take longer to hit the same wall. Even the GTX 1080 Ti just hit 16nm.

Compare a 95 W (22nm) i7 2600k from January 2011 vs 65 W (14nm) Core i7-8706G from February 2018, that's over 7 years of progress for 30% lower power consumption and a fair speed boost.

That's what GPU's are facing starting now, though they can directly trade lower power consumption for more speed as they are embarrassingly parallel.
Ashcroft and Mermin is only an 'introduction' in the graduate student sense of 'introduction'. I don't think you can make sense of it without previous grounding in both quantum mechanics and solid state physics.
There is a difference between private people voting with their wallets and encouraging a mob to pressure a company to withdraw advertising from a company that they oppose politically.
That's not exactly right. First you would need to know how to use an ad system, probably DFP and maybe DFP Premium if you're expecting a high audience, and probably an organisation to book and handle all those ads to maximise your income. Your website also needs the infrastructure to be able to deliver your content to your audience. That can be hard for a non-technical person, hard and expensive.

So, you have a website with your videos, you have proper advertising on your videos, maybe a subscription system setup. What next? Where do you get your audience?

Today the universal truth is that you get your audience on Youtube, and to some extent Vimeo. You just lost practically 100% of potential customers.
60 FPS? I had a desktop I built in 2014, with a 4770k and an r9 290x, run Overwatch at 144 FPS at 1440p with low settings. The machine could still play Just Case 3 and GTA 5 (2015 games, but I didn't really play any graphically intensive 2016+ games on it) at 1080p 60 FPS with decent graphics settings, if I recall correctly.

I have since upgraded to a 6700k and 1080Ti, but that 2014 hardware lasted well into 2017 - and the current GPU cost just under 3/4 the price of the entire 2014 computer, despite the r9 290x being a top of the line GPU. High end PC gaming definitely isn't affordable anymore.
> The $100 million-dollar, 10-year study is now underway and will ultimately enroll 7,800 participants aged 50 or over at 16 sites worldwide. Half of the participants will abstain from hooch, while the rest will imbibe one serving a day. Scientists will track participants for an average of six years, looking at risks of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and death.

Wow, how do you recruit people for a study like that? It would hard to convince me either to completely abstain or to drink every single day for six years, much less to have one of those randomly chosen for me.
It’s absurdly expensive to live in many parts of the US, and incomes in those same places can be insultingly low.

You can depend desperately on extra income even if you have a job (or two). “Real career/job” is just not something many people can count on in the US, and hasn’t been for a long time. I strongly recommend that you learn more about this. People are really, really hurting right now, no matter how many millionnaires there are.
Are you seriously framing the discussion as "people who think ill of Youtube's monetization scheme are shooter apologists"? I didn't think so reading this comment but you seem to imply than in all your replies in this thread. That's such a ridiculous strawman that I don't even know where to begin.

That being said I agree with your non-crazy point about how video uploaders shouldn't feel entitled to a share of the cake in the first place. If your business model is entirely based on some multinational corporation giving you scraps of their ad revenue then you better have a backup plan ready. Unfortunately the people who do that seem to be very young and probably don't plan that far ahead.
that doesn't make sense - if that would be the case, the back-emitted photon would have a random vector, not pertaining the same one as original one (thus preserving the picture beyond the sheet of metal).

you are stating somehow the direction of photon is preserved when absorbed by electron - absurd idea even for layman physics (not claiming I know how this works, but this can't be the way)
Andrew Ngs machine learning course as well as both Princeton Algorithms courses were the most challenging and valuable.

I did all the Scala ones a few years ago, the most interesting was building a distributed key value store.

There’s a really online interesting course on Milton at Yale. Great lectures but I didn’t try to work through any of the assignments.

Not really a Mooc but I recommend both Duolingo and Memrise for learning language skills on your phone
One distinction is that AWS has major competitors you could switch to, but YouTube essentially has a monopoly on that kind of content distribution.
Because shooting employees of a paid service is better?

You seem to be confusing respect for animal life with pacifism. Fighting to defend the helpless is company with caring for the helpless. Soldiers kill people to defend their countrymen.
Does this bolster the argument?

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3ddbwb/vancouver-dirt-now...

In case the logic isn't obvious:

If you own a house, you are wealthy.

Houses earn more than wages.

No taxes are paid on capital gains of primary residence.

Why should I have to pay higher taxes because I worked my ass off in school and continue to work my ass off, but someone who lucked into winning the modern day Canadian lottery gets a free ride? The legislation wasn't written with this scenario in mind I can tell you that for sure.

Our historic social contracts are starting to break down, if the state doesn't uphold it's end of the bargain, I don't see why I should uphold my end.
Your youtube clone will be lucky to have that problem.
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I don't think they used transparent aluminum in Star Trek IV.

I thought they paid for whatever they used (plexiglass?) with the recipe for transparent aluminum.

Although it could just be that I'm forgiving the poor writing.
I like the concept. Please correct me if I'm wrong: it looks like you'd need a lot more than "46 to 101 characters" in a message before you can apply this method reasonably.

An MD5 hash for any decent-length password is long, and this method only allows you to replace the subset of "confusable" latin chars in a text.

For instance:
C = 0x0043 = 0x216d

When you reach one of these replaceable characters, you either replace it or you don't, which you mark as either 1 or 0.

So for the string "password", our binary MD5 hash is "01011111010011011100110000111011010110101010011101100101110101100001110110000011001001111101111010111000100000101100111110011001".

That 128 possible replacements needed in the original text.

I imagine the original text would have to be at least 10-20 times that length before we found enough "confusable" latin chars to replace.

I'm eager to hear what I'm missing, because I do like this method a lot.
sounds to me like the blockchain before blockchain. i personally feel blockchain hasnt lived up to its potential because it cant yet act as a viable database. i am curious to see who would take that throne . potentially cockroachdb seem to be in a good spot for that with some adjustments.
I wonder the same thing sometimes. I remember being happy when they lowered the bar to entry to the Partnership Program. Now I think that was a huge mistake and they should think of phasing it out completely. Too many people have misunderstood where the money comes from and whether or not they're employed by YouTube (they're not).
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I haven't seen any of the shooter's videos. But from what I've heard, most people were characterizing them as "weird" and not a rock-solid case that the is a danger to herself or others.

Given that, it sounds like very little would be able to prevent her from obtaining a firearm. She could likely walk right into a gun shop and pass a background check. As far as I know, she hasn't had a domestic violence conviction, involuntary commitment to a mental health facility, or anything else that would disqualify her from buying a gun legally.

Now, you may think that this is an issue in and of itself. But at least in the US, the right to bear arms is a natural right of the individual. It's protected by the constitution. And, there needs to be due process if you want to deny someone of their rights.
Every time the EU implements some law or regulation regarding control of personal data and privacy, someone has to dismiss all the problems those laws are intended to address entirely, and go on to post some defensive, nationalist spiel about it being an attack on US companies.

Perhaps the problem is that these companies make their money in an incredibly unethical way that an increasing number of people are very uncomfortable with?

Stop turning this into something it isn't. All you are doing is poisoning the debate.
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If I'm not mistaken, the weaknesses of AMD processors with regards to Spectre were less pronounced than Intel's, so maybe they could get by.
>that's well into apologist territory

No, no it's not.
The semi and the Roadster are low volume products that will take no where near the investment in infrastructure for their manufacture as the model 3. The model Y maybe higher volume and require more capex but it's unlikely to start until the model3 manufacturing has been sorted out and its cashflows have become steady and predictable. That's why Musk can say there will be no more capital raises for Tesla this year.
> There are people here who write that "It was only a matter of time until one of those furious victims took up a gun to get revenge." and that's well into apologist territory.

Are they wrong? It's only a matter of time until lots of bad things happen. Still bad, still going to happen.
> YouTube personalitys seem to be emotionally unhealthy

youtube was a platform for which people with issues could still produce an income, gain an audience, and be part of a social group (even if it was just subscribers and comments).

During the great boom era of youtube, it certainly helped lots of depressed and down on their luck people that had a creative spark. It's not that youtube draws them, but that they are desperate enough, and youtube was a good opportunity.

Now youtube becoming more mainstream means that those opportunities that it used to afford to socially awkward and/or depressed people no longer exists. It's a sad outcome imho.
There is no such thing as a 'pro Youtuber'.

That's about as silly as being a 'pro Mediumer'. There is such a thing as a professional blogger but they treat the thing as an actual business: with as much control over hosting and content delivery as they can get.

The moment you use a third party service as the key component of your business you lose your 'pro' status.
There are also sadly some segments of the human rights community who will hurt or even kill people to stop those people from torttuo or killing himans
Does the fact that there is aluminum inside of the ceramic mean that it has a higher conductance? I couldn't find a reference online (there seems to be a few papers over the conductance of two very thin plates of AL203, but no characterization)
Where does it say that Youtube was the sole source of this woman's income? But let's say it was. People lose their jobs all the time and don't result to violence. It makes zero sense to assign blame to Youtube for the shooting even if them de-monetizing her took away her only source of income.
I think the death of conventional Dennard scaling and Moore's law is part of why interpreted super-dynamic languages like Ruby have lost their luster. We can no longer just ride CPU performance increases to get increasing application performance, so these languages' implicit slowness becomes a liability that won't just go away magically.

My optimistic hope is that the death of easy CPU performance gains will lead to a round of serious evolutionary improvements in software architecture. Rust is probably a sign of that happening.
It's been a while since I've watched the movie, but I don't think they specifically needed transparent aluminum, but it's how Scotty paid for them getting what they needed. They didn't have money to pay for it, so this was a barter, the knowledge of how to make it for making them some.
As the facebook controversies have show, people have a remarkably bad time using common sense

I think the problem is that people are using "common sense", but depending on your background "common sense" can lead you to dramatically different places.
I don't know about that. iOS 7 didn't have any app discovery improvements in the App store. Unless you want to count slightly different top apps lists and the "Near me" feature. It wasn't until iOS 8 (a year and a half later) that they added the Explore tab.
Apple is an exception to nearly every rule