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I understand that concern. There are some compromise solutions already available, at least specifically for Mastodon, and certainly space to communally explore further solutions.

A Mastodon feed has built in ATOM (RSS) support so you could encourage someone to subscribe to you in Feedly if you wished and they were already a happy RSS user.

You can use tools like IFTTT or Zapier to cross-post from Mastodon to Facebook (or Twitter or whatever else).

There's a Mastodon to Twitter bridge [1] where Twitter users can volunteer a primary Mastodon account (on any instance) for people to follow and in turn see all of the people on Twitter they follow that have posted a Mastodon address to follow them on Mastodon. A similar bridge should be easy to set up for Facebook as well, I just don't think it has been done yet.

In a way that bridge is the closest to a public directory of Mastodon users, and there's certainly room for other sorts of public directories (Mastodon "yellow pages"/"Yahoo listings") or Mastodon-tuned search engines. (Of course, existing search engines often already return Mastodon results; Mastodon feeds are already web pages.)

[1] https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
Pages from disk are resident in memory when retrieved, so linear reads from ANY disk (not just an SSD), may be faster than random RAM access at some point (the curves will intersect after you pay the initial seek cost). If you're smart about queuing additional page fetches while traversing existing pages, you can accelerate this even more.
You forgot:

3) Run down the 4 minute clock each representative had to ask questions by talking as much as possible so as to avoid a meaningful exchange.

Representative Marsha Blackburn was the only one that actually called him out on this BS:

BLACKBURN: And where does privacy rank as a corporate value for Facebook?

ZUCKERBERG: Congresswoman, giving people control of their information and how they want to set their privacy is foundational to the whole service. It's not just a — kind of an add-on feature, something we have to...

BLACKBURN: Okay.

ZUCKERBERG: ... comply with.

BLACKBURN: Well...

ZUCKERBERG: The reality is, if you have a photo — if you just think about this in your day-to-day life...

BLACKBURN: No, I can't let you filibuster right now.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/11...
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I think this was posted not because it's news to anyone, but because up until yesterday, Zuck was denying that it was happening.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-h...
Well, multicore CPUs are generally manufactured with a higher core count than they are sold as. Automated testing detects defects and bins individual wafers based on the maximum clock frequency at which they run without errors. So in some sense, CPUs are robust to some flaws in the lithography process by virtue of disabling broken cores/cache banks. Of course, this isn't done dynamically like a brain.
Original recovery proposal: https://github.com/Musiconomi/EIPs/blob/78abec4751c877e7a12a...
We had a restaurant near us that ran as a co-op. The food was good, the service was OK (it was very self-serve, which was fine, but it was communicated poorly...), but they repeatedly could not stay afloat or manage a budget over a long time period.

That's obviously just an anecdotal example, but I don't know of any co-ops aside from REI that seem to really stick around and do well longterm.
There's good reason normal first aid kits don't have tourniquets.
Exactly. Google should have subsidiaries in each nation it operates and obey the local law - nothing more and nothing less. Canadia courts should not have an effect on Mexico, and Iranian courts should not have an effect on the US.

Google can sell/offer it's services anywhere as long as it's legal.
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Well, I don't really expect climate change to eat up me or mine. I live too high to be flooded, to far to the north to be fried, in a country with a low population density, on a farm with 21 hectares of land (7 hectare of which is under tillage, the rest forest). The climate may change, driven by whatever process - be it anthropogenic, natural fluctuation, diminished solar output or (most likely) a combination of these and other factors - but I do not see this lead to the disaster scenario you just sketched. The potential loss of antibiotics (which is wholly unrelated to the disaster scenario this discussion started with) would be annoying but not directly life-threatening. The chance of crops failing here due to drought is very small as nearly all scenarios with regard to climate change show the amount of precipitation in my area (currently around 900 mm/year) to increase instead of decrease.
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Culture (like shit) runs downhill.

Mr. Musk seems like he's becoming increasingly erratic and controlling, and there's a record of him being unable to take criticism. This is a pretty intense form of criticism.
Its interesting that Google is making a 'freedom of expression' argument when they themselves heavily censor YouTube content. Google controls the platform their users use, and the Government controls the 'platform' that both companies and users use. I suppose nobody cares about the users in both cases.
Be sure to read Google's response at the end of the article. Sounds like the researcher's patch detection method is not reliable.
It's not that people can't lie on the Internet. Back then, it was more or less expected that whatever was written on the Internet is no more truthful than someone telling a story. One of the major differences was that people we're necessarily tied to their online personas like we are today.

What I mean to say is that the Internet is currently more closely linked to reality than it was back then. Digital identities aren't necessarily a separate entity from who we are. It may be a version of ourselves that we want to represent, but they tend to represent a part of us. This is why you may not have cared if some dipshit harassed you online back then. The internet was a mere source of entertainment. Now that it's an arguable necessity, it's no longer just an avatar getting attacked or lied to; it's the person behind the keyboard.
Problem is was it malfunction ? Driver is always required to pay full attention and it is just a driver assist.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. In fact, I have the impression that there's a rather interesting variation of the Dunning-Kruger effect in play on this issue. Usually, mentioning DK implies a derogatory connotation (akin "dumb people don't notice that they're dumb"), but in this case, many actually very bright people can't imagine the upsides of touch typing because they never experienced them themselves. There also seems to be a similar discussion whenever Vim and Emacs bindings come up. Yes, you don't technically need them, but they sure help you manipulating code at a pace where you're not constantly loosing your train of thought because of some small change you're throwing in.

I have no problem with people who decide that the learning curve of both is not for them. The thing I personally take issue with is when someone then tries to explain to me that those upsides are effectively nil, because "you're not really typing that much all day anyway". I call BS on that. If your code is non-trivial and you're trying to make it readable, you are going to iterate on it a couple of times. No amount of scribbling and diagrams is going to prevent that - even with the perfect data layout, the actual logic will need tweaking until it's suitable. So, the only argument you're then making from my perspective is that you actually don't care about readability, at which point there's a much bigger elephant in the room than your typing style.
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Except that’s not what happened here. In this analogy, that engineer made public statements before the investigation was completed and then the investgating group told them to leave.
The ocean is a dynamic environment. Nets get tangled, lines get tangled, wildlife interferes, weather and sea conditions are harsh and unpredictable. The ocean isn't a nice flat square corn field that a combine can lazily navigate through. We've just barely figured out how to automate picking strawberries in a nice safe greenhouse.
It's definitely a relevant point. If a large group of people who are not working seem to be predominantly unhappy, that's legitimate information that may be useful for discussion about universal basic income. You can make a compelling argument that the reason for that unhappiness is not innate to a lack of work, but rather due to the particular idiosyncrasies of the implementation of welfare, but that's not obviously true a priori.

The commenter seems to have made this observation in good faith. It seems rude to me that you would insinuate the point is irrelevant and "almost seems trollish" just because you disagree with it, particularly when you did the bare minimum to mount a substantive rebuttal. It's true that we shouldn't conflate the unhappiness associated with welfare with some sort of ennui induced by a lack of productivity; but that doesn't preclude the point you're disagreeing with, which could still be true.
I’m Australian and have never heard the word “munt” to be used in this context.
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Well, the mentioned analysis app the researchers placed on the Play store is potentially quite useful. If Google will "bless" it -- can we at least have a link to a copy of their statement as posted securely on their own domain?

The Android ecosphere particularly with respect to security is a really good case for the appropriate use of the word "clusterfuck".

And even once a user is aware their phone may not be up-to-date, it's not easy for them to determine this nor what they are missing.

So, why not at least give users a good overview of this? Turn them into a more informed consumer?

Unless all you want to do is push ads at them...
I dont think the driver was misinformed and he was clearly aware this is not level 5 autonomy.
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Google doesn't want that because not every subsidiary would be profitable, and they would have to pay local taxes in every country they have an office/employ people/generate revenue.
Agree. I just saw doyoutrustthiscomputer.org (still on YouTube) where it was stated by some guy that Google is building a 100 million server strong datacenter for DeepMind, which has access to all their data.

On the example of AlphaGo.. in 1997 a scientist and Go fan stated that it would take at least 100 yrs or longer for a computer to beat humans at Go. 20 yrs later the champion was beaten..
Plan 9 makes a strong argument that you can, just Linux doesn't.
I used to do a lot of dev against the NES. 6502 for the NES was my first language, wrote my own assembler, built games, cartridges, etc. etc. Hell, I even have a PCB, minus the PRG and CHR ROMs, from an old Ice Hockey cartridge on my desk in front of me as I write this.

Never had an NES growing up, never played one until I got into NES dev. I was turned onto it by a classmate. We're both too young to have had the NES growing up, so we simply couldn't be a nostalgia play. There's a lot of folks who get into because it's surprisingly approachable, and scratches the itch of "make a game." TFA just had a bad quote...
Summed up here, pretty neatly: https://lobste.rs/s/wjtu7c/webassembly_mozilla_won#c_yqsej7
I've harped on this before, but I think it's relevant here, too-- I'd love some kind of FLOSS sandbox, FLOSS centralized social network, and FLOSS "good-faith" adversary group to help invalidate ineffective and ineffectual software/tech.

If someone starts down the rabbithole of encrypted email, Tor, key-signing parties, etc., there should be a safe place they can go (physically and/or online) to get absolutely walloped by good-natured hackers who will do everything short of permanently harming the person's hardware/reputation to show them they don't know what the hell they are doing.

Without this, these efforts will fall flat because the users (and even devs in many cases) aren't doing a good job of testing whether their systems work. The only sure way to test them is to get the internet to hate you, and that's too big a price to pay for testing a privacy system.

It's a bit like someone running tests and celebrating their algo as the most performant without realizing the compiler simply optimized out the algo. Chances are that person is going to have a bad time when the thing goes into production.

There's also a fringe-benefit, which is that users/devs who don't give up and continue getting walloped will quickly realize the value of credential revocation and tell others about that value.

Edit: just so it's clear-- the point is for the user/dev to be able to enter the group/place when they wish to be taught, and leave when they are done. That's the current problem with testing by making the internet hate you-- you can't turn it off.
> At the time this was a feature, there were arguments that allowing that would help new competing services to emerge, but they never became law.

>"not allowing that export at all would probably be met with legally-binding criticism"

What legally binding criticism were you talking about? Why did you bring up the GDPR to defend this statement?

> Because they did not, competing services now rely on a handful of people claiming they switched, rather than have more effective (or invasive) ways to remind people to switch. That means that it’s extremely unlikely that any project competing with Facebook, many of which have recently felt a gust of interest will actually take off meaningfully. So the reaction you are asking now from Facebook, thinking you are being critical and provocative, happened six years ago and locked them as a monopoly. I guess that’s hindsight.

Oh please tell me, what reaction am I asking for? Are you saying we should have legally force Facebook to continue letting CA strip mine users data? WFT are you talking about?

> The main use-case that was discussed then was to empower services like Riot, to encourage competition — something that, surprisingly, Facebook was very supportive of at the time.

> Yes, because what I claimed is that external activists, developers who set up OpenSocial (OAuth and OAuth 2.0, Activity Streams, and Portable Contacts) were the ones asking for it.

No, you never claimed that at all. You claimed that facebook was discussing this API mainly as a means of fostering competition.

> Once information is shared, you have to trust people who are not the person who the information is about.

And you have to trust the platform to respect your privacy and not give any random quiz app full access. Obviously Facebook is not trust worthy and should not be given this information.

> Facebook empowers that trust: you can learn about how long lost friends are doing

Facebook doesn't empower trust at all: it abuses it to make money off of our information.
I was able to get flutter to run in Windows, using this https://github.com/ds84182/flutter_sdl (so thank you ds84182 - whoever you are :))

but had to do some hacks. At the end I had flutter_sdl.dll (~10-15mb, depending how you compile it), and was able to add flutter_gallery (among other things).

Things that are missing - keyboard input, but there is a very hihg-level plugin system how to achieve this. Just haven't had the time to do it.

Tried implementing mousewheel, by simulating pad touches - but it ain't the same. Feels kind of obvious now, why it's not the same, but generally the controls themselves need to know about mousewheel. For example a gauge-like spinner can't be emulated this way.

Still very snappy, and someone on the flutter-dev mailing list mentioned that he, or she got live reloading.
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Yes, what a shame it would be if Boeing made public comments about something being investigated by the NTSB... Oh wait they did [0] and the NTSB decided not to kick them off...

> The agency stopped short of restricting Boeing’s access to its investigation ... In some previous cases, the NTSB has gone so far as to throw participants off an investigation for violating its rules. In December 2010, the safety board removed American Airlines Inc. from an investigation into a runway accident in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, two days earlier.

[0] http://www.heraldnet.com/business/ntsb-scolds-boeing-over-78...
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I'm very sceptical about it.

First of all, the current state of AI and machine learning seems to be abysmal. The major breakthroughs (such as backpropagation) were made decades ago. The only reason that AI seems to be improving, is that a couple of companies are throwing an immense amount of money, data, and computing power into it. Even then, the results are relatively poor at best: systems like Google Now and Siri can only respond to a limited set of hardcoded queries and every kind of "suggestion" system seems to be actually getting worse in the last few years.

Secondly, Moore's law is as good as dead. If an algorithm requires a terabyte of ram, it is all but useless for most practical purposes. I'm currently looking for a replacement of a 5-year old laptop and the newest model is at most 20% faster, with the same amount of memory! Heck, last time I got a desktop it had an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T: for the same amount of money, you'd now get an i5 8500 or a Ryzen 5 1600x. The performance gain? Well judging by the Passmark scores, it would be a jump from ~5000 to ~13000. So that's roughly 2.5 times as fast in eight years, with a jump from 45nm to 14nm. Memory progression is about the same. Considering that the progression is slowing down, it'll take quite a few decades before the performance required for current AI is generally available.

Thirdly, the stuff which is impersonating AI isn't actually intelligent. Every current solution focuses on what basically boils down to a very complex set of linear regressions and similar methods. There is no adaptability, no sense of context, not even the slightest form of creativity. Everything which we consider to be intelligence is lacking. This isn't really a big surprise, because we simply don't know how it works in living creatures. Sure, we know how the neurons work, but the high-level understanding is lacking, so how could we even begin to imitate it or even improve on it? Sure, we could try simulating an actual brain, but a Blue Gene/L can only simulate half of a mouse's brain at one-tenth of the speed - and that's assuming the simulation is actually correctly modelling the biology.

So no, I don't think we're on the brink of an AI revolution. We might have something with the intelligence of a service dog in a decade or three, but even that would probably be a stretch. Unless a few very major breakthroughs occur, AI is going to be a bit of a disappointment.
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You're making this very hand-wavy calculation. Hardly any 45 year olds were dying of hep C, even the older ones had lots of comorbidities & other risk factors, which is what one would expect for a disease acquired through intravenous drug use, and often transmitted in prisons or unsanitary tattoo parlors, and the drugs don't have a perfect cure rate.

In any case it's nearly irrelevant because this was a completely post-hoc rationale for pricing this drug. I am not opposed to large cash bounties for major advances but our current system is not remotely designed around that principle. Forgive me for thinking you are defending the wrong system.
Hello, OP here.

This is something I've been working on for quite some time. The goal is to make it easy for anyone to build database apps by first defining a data structure and then creating forms and UI around it. Pretty much anything can be built with FormBolt - from very basic apps to replace excel spreadsheets to complex apps for inventory management, product management, or any custom business processes/data. This is not a tool for visual programming. Instead I think of it as a visual scaffolder - users visually create the app blueprint, which the background service uses to automatically create and deploy a fully functional web app. It offers granular user permissions and it's easy to create different forms/workflows for different user groups.

FormBolt can run locally without a centralized server (all data stored locally) or you can put it on a remote server, enable networking and have your own private cloud app.

As the title it has a visual builder and doesn't require writing any code (for the most basic apps), however writing some JS and SQL is necessary for more advanced functionality. From my experience with it so far I can say that building the usual CRM/project management/invoicing app takes a few hours (from idea to working app). In fact it takes me more time to decide what forms I need for an app than actually building it.

This is what I used to create it:
- Front: VueJS & Semantic UI
- Back: Golang
- Database: PostgreSQL

What do you think?
The arrow always reflects the direction of flow. Difference is just whether you like to have destination first or last. Basically are you Motorola or Intel..
They are epidemiological and their goal isn't to really prove anything but to generate new hypotheses and provide hints for directions of research based on the correlations found. Unfortunately, the popular press doesn't tend to distinguish between epidemiology and more rigorous double-blind studies.
But we're discussing a microkernel, not a large C code base, yes?
Restaurant customers are quite sensitive to price increases. This is why restaurants sometimes reduce the size of meals instead of raising prices.

In any case, the real reason for the article and its complaints about a "tight" labor market is to lobby for low wage immigration:

"Our industry is very much in need of a temporary visa program for the low-skilled, essential workers,” said Shannon Meade, the National Restaurant Association’s director of labor and work force policy. "

Translation : pretty please send cheap labor our way; our profit margins aren't high enough.
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Please provide more info on why "They deserve every bit of it". I respect HN that is why i am surprised a lot, and regarding other places on Internet there is so much going on to manipulate the stock price.
Neuroscience works at a number of levels of description or size. Neuroscience which focuses on synapses Neuroscience that focuses on dendritic tree or whole neurons, Neuroscience that ask questions of small groups of neurons, and Neuroscience that focuses on large scale networks. Most try to relate that function at that level to behavior in some way and to bridge the gap between levels of description.

When we try to understand deep learning, do we try to understand it at the level of individual transistors, at the level of a 'neuron', at layers, or at the level overall design? Well it depends, right?
I see a lot of people who like ember-cli, but after the first few minutes I just found it frustrating. Granted, this was a little over a year ago, but at that time if you simply wanted a npm module in your code you had to do all the extra work to wrap it in an ember plugin. IMO, this severely slowed down the ecosystem.