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> Theoretically, landlords would have the same incentive to purchase the longest lasting things for their rental units. In my experience, both as a renter and someone who designs buildings, the directive is "get the cheapest possible thing that will work".

This is a great example, and it also has many parallels in—e.g. provision of online services.

The gp isn't wrong, service-providing companies are incentivised to optimise for low waste in certain areas, but it breaks down in other areas like this because service providers aren't optimising for QoS, they're optimising for perceived value.

For example (from the gp's comment):

> if I subscribe to a service to keep my food and beverages at a certain temperature, then the company has the incentive to make the fridge last as long as possible.

This depends. If the company is doing the above by leasing you a fridge you keep in your house and are responsible for maintaining, they getting you the worst fridge and replacing regularly may be better for them (see also ISP routers). Your statement only holds if they're running a large refrigeration warehouse where you keep your food at all times, in which case the logistics get a bit tricky.

The "perceived value" argument gets worse when you have large corporations with multiple offerings outside of their core: here the core competency can lend credence to less optimal/efficient/sustainability-friendly side-offerings.
yeah, sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_banning_foss...
The housing is right next to an industrial trainyard from the looks of it. It was already undesirable before the bridge was built over it.

On the BBC the person they interviewed said that those apartments were abandoned however, so it may not be as bad as it looks.
Biking, woodworking, reading, musical audio synthesis, cooking, hiking, smithing, etc. The most active hobby changes based upon what sort of itch I'm trying to scratch as well as the season.
Pizzagate was unfortunate and pathetic, but is controlling every post on the Internet the right response?

Once censorship is in place, how do you prevent the wrong people from taking control of it? How would you even know?
I think you assume too much about which type of fridge represents the lowest cost. Countless enterprises have already embraced "cheap to buy, cheap to replace" products in favor of long lasting reliable products.

Now, the one place a company with a fleet of fridges could really do the world good would be maintenance & repair. When you've got all your own repair crew on the payroll and you operate one kind of fridge, those costs plummet.

They will happily externalize as many costs as possible as well. Your electric bill is high? Oops, guess you should have negotiated that in the contract. Five hundred dollars of fresh groceries went bad because we gave you a shoddy refurb? We'll have a new unit out to you tomorrow, good luck with the rest.
> Same here - I tend toward military sci-fi (most of it is very bad)

As a reader of many many Kindle unlimited military sci-fi books I sympathize and recommend the "Nameless War" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12356877-the-nameless-wa... ) trilogy as the rose in the manure of books I have read of this genre in the last few years.

There are occasional spelling mistakes etc but the story itself is fantastic and the military scenario believable.
That’s a perspective that is common these days, but awful in practice. I don’t want to be a tenant, period — it’s almost never a better deal or value for me. I don’t need to pay a premium for the overhead and financing of a “cold food as a service” company while getting a level of service that meets the most minimum standard possible.

What we are missing today is meaningful competition. You can’t buy an appliance that isn’t a piece of garbage because we have a financial environment that encourages consolidation above all else. There’s only a few companies making anything, so there is no incentive to use quality as a differentiator.

I first started become aware of this when I started having trouble finding shoes. In many categories, all shoes are made by one manufacturer, often in one factory in Guangdong.
I can only imagine getting caught trying to defeat these systems will have horrifying ramifications.
The thing is, they don't need to be going through a change. A crazy man did a crazy thing; that's no reason to upend life. The next lunatic's lunacy will very likely be different.

In a logical, computerized, HN-centric world, that is correct. But we live in a world filled with people, who aren't always logical. The hotels also have to think about insurance liability, lawsuits, and a million other wetware factors.

Do they offer guests a place to check their weapons?

It is possible, but I don't know for sure. The reason I say it's possible is because there are a lot of people who fly to and through Las Vegas to go hunting, and stay in the casino resorts because they're all very close to the airport.

Earlier this year there was a news story because someone was stopped at the TSA checkpoint because they found a dead cougar in his luggage from a hunting trip.† They let him go because it was weird, but not "Vegas weird," and not illegal.

To illustrate how close the resorts are to the airport, the runways had to be shut down during the October 1 massacre because a number of people fleeing the festival grounds ended up on the tarmac.

Another reason it's very likely that weapons can be checked is because Las Vegas hosts several enormous hunting, weapons, and arms conventions throughout the year.

Also, having lived in both Nevada and Texas, IMO, the chances of some random (local) stranger having a concealed weapon on him is exponentially higher in Nevada than even Texas.

† http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/37149625/cougar-found-in-mans...
To me buses and truck market seems niche as compared to personal cars for companies looking to build electric tech to drive them. Number of state departments and businesses willing to pay for electric vehicle are fewer compared to electric car customers.
There could be cases where exceptional talent is kept motivated on exciting cutting edge projects, but those projects don't "contribute to the bottom line", either because the project is canned or doesn't generate enough profits (or cut enough costs) or some other reason. The chances are that these cases wouldn't be an intentional waste of talent, but if you've been around a while you sometimes start to wonder.
The form of this argument is very popular wrt to the minimum wage, too. But setting aside the claim's veracity -- obviously, people had conflicting desires and intentions even at the time -- it's not a very convincing style of argument. We can make these programs whatever we want them to be. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care very much about the intentions of the people who happened to write the original law.

Even if it happens to be true (and, again, it's not clearly true), it's not a very interesting discussion (outside of a history course) and certainly not one that helps us navigate the best path forward at the present time. Your own references to employer pensions demonstrate how totally irrelevant the original intentions now are, since such pensions have waned in influence significantly in the intervening years.
I worked as an AI engineer on a few Playstation titles, by far the most important part of AI is messaging whats happening to the player. Usually a well scripted animation or voice cue will beat and cleverly written reasoning engine.

We always had loads of cool ideas, like enemies running out of ammo and throwing clips to each other. But the reality is, the player will never see it.

Uncharted does a great job of messaging the AI's intent to the player. The AI itself is fairly decent, but the messaging of intent is excellent.
Why on earth would you pay $ per month to have access to music you like, when you can just have it in MP3/Ogg form, stored on multiple devices (PC, phone, backup HD) and be able to listen to it at any time you want for free?
This has been going on for more than a decade. I implemented something like this back in 2004 for a payments page. The goal was completely focused on 1) fighting fraud 2) finding problems with filling out forms and 3) improving the experience for users.

People can argue that these things can be used for nefarious purposes, such as serving up targeted ads, but that's literally every browser you've ever used. That's literally the internet, and how it works.
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Let's not conflate correlation with causation.

It's industrial revolution that caused the increase in irrigated land. It's possible that in the absence of British rule, Indian kingdoms would have found a way to trade its resources for agricultural equipments and engineers.
Unlike China and Japan, Indian kingdoms weren't isolationist, and were well connected to Europe and Persia.
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Yes, but that's not what this is. This shows you the weather where you are, regardless of your hometown or if you're there. You can also do this in Apple's weather app, here is what it looks like when you open it for the first time:

https://imgur.com/a/zodvD9g
Side-note: a barrel of oil gives a fixed amount of gasoline and diesel fuel, and that's hard to change [1]. A given refinery could slightly change the amounts, but not much, and that's billions in investments. Even if you replaced diesel vehicles by electric ones, the diesel fuel will be burned somewhere else.

[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/fsc432/content/overview-refi...
The problem is that most consumers don't plan ahead for wanting to buy a porn subscription. It's a spur of the moment decision. Any form of barrier you put in front of that decision -- whether it's extra verification, or a different digital currency they need to buy, or a prepaid card just for adult content -- drastically reduces the percentage of surfers that go from "guy looking at the site's preview page" to "guy that became a member."

This is why few Adult companies have setup Verified by Visa or 3-D Secure (though as I noted elsewhere, 3-D Secure rarely actually works) for verifying cards before charging the transaction. This is why Adult companies in the UK started scrambling when they passed legislation requiring driver's license verification. This is why no prepaid adult content card -- and there have been numerous, including one promoted by Howard Stern -- has ever really caught on. Any extra step required to pay for a site increases the percentage of people that just click off to somewhere else. Luring those people to your site in the first place is expensive, involving all sorts of advertising and affiliate deals, so anything that reduces the conversion ratio is a deal breaker.
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This is two years out of date. Current state of the art for CIFAR has about 1/4th of the errors

https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09501
> Is that really it, though?

Largely.

> I mean, that seems really weird on its face... "I'd like to own my own copy of this movie rather than just stream it, but I really have to get back to hating Republicans."

That's beause you are assuming that, e.g., political identity fights are an alternative to economic concerns, rather than forces which shape the cogntive filters that determine the perception of the nature, cause, blame, and appropriate response to economic disappointment.
Treating "the industry" as a single entity doesn't make sense.

Netflix takes that $X per subscriber per month and splits it up between all its different licensing contracts with different publishers. From the publishers' POV it's not all that different. In the past if they released good movies more people would buy more tickets, tapes, DVDs, etc. to view them; today, Netflix is willing to pay more to host better movies. I don't think that Netflix would pay the same for Citizen Kane and The Emoji Movie (now, which one they would pay more for I can't answer, but their analytics probably can make a guess :)).
The one that got to me admitted first thing that he already was told to knock it off, shrugged it off, and was still in the rotation anyway.

I didn't feel like giving that feedback to the recruiter would help if it was already known well in advance. That and a lot of other signals in two interview cycles seemed to indicate that the recruiter and/or Google were perfectly happy wasting my time, and I've not really felt like bothering to interview with Google since.
> the idea of ruling over others

The US political system isn't designed to "rule over" others. It's supposed to "represent" them.
> The one place a company with a fleet of fridges could really do the world good would be maintenance & repair. When you've got all your own repair crew on the payroll and you operate one kind of fridge, those costs plummet.

Yes, so the market will ensure that this kind of company will prevail.
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Article misses big point: This is not about electric buses. Electric buses have been a thing in many cities for decades. Vancouver BC has run electric buses since at least the early 90s when I rode them to school. This is about battery-powered buses. Running on electricity and running on internal batteries are two very different things.

Edit: Vancouver has been running electric buses since 1948.

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

And these are not cable cars running tiny tourist routes in a downtown core. These buses cover the suburbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_buses_in_Vancouver#/me...
The thief analogy does not exactly hold. A better one would be having the thief steal an item by threatening the victim with a pocket knife bought an Amazon. Are the manufacturers of the pocket knife guilty? Is Amazon guilty as well?

Although since dying of a drug overdose does not (directly) harm third parties, it's closer to trying to convict the manufacturers/sellers of rope for cases of suicide by hanging.
Does anyone have experience of Reconfigure.io [1] and their toolchain that transpiles Go for execution on FPGAs [2]? I am curious how it feels from the developer perspective, how it works in practice, and what types of applications it is a good fit for.

[1] https://reconfigure.io

[2] http://docs.reconfigure.io/overview.html
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I don't feel like the US is doing better. The public debt as a percentage of the GDP isn't the only public debt number that matters. The absolute number and the public debt per capita also matter.
You seriously think that’s a good idea? I’m all for capitalism (until we have somrthing better) but creating that kind of dependency between people and a service will put too much power in the hands of businesses like Amazon.

People need to own, people need to be reaponsible with their decisions, and to think a business or corporation can do it better is dangerous.
A fridge service provider would care just as much about your power bill as a fridge vendor.
Grad schools aren't an analogous environment.
I think the problem is slightly more complex for a large-scale social network. When we look at the cost of running something like facebook, we're looking at hiring an army of expensive developers (someone has to build that platform and maintain it), buying or renting an army of expensive servers to make sure it's up and running 24/7, designers so people can actually use it, extra offices in order to host everyone, etc. It seems to be a money issue as well as an organizational issue.

The scenario we'd be looking at would be a small internal network for a university or a small organization. I believe any government could handle such a thing. For something like facebook we're looking at a lot of money and a bunch of skilled people. Not sure that's in line with governments...
> trying to control every post on the Internet

Did I suggest this? The point is just unfollowing people as you suggested doesn't solve the problem.
> Where do you think banks got the idea? They just copied an existing shady business model.

Tracking user input methods is not a shady business model. I was doing this for web forms back in 2003/4 to fight fraud, improve the user experience, and find problems.

> If my boss got a contract with a bank that said I had to track users against their will

But they aren't being tracked against their will, so you would have done this.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance for a fascinating look.
Interesting - but there is lots of opportunity to burn it on boats or remote generators.
How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
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I guess the "never" is too absolutist. It is possible that there is a correlation, though it could never be 100%
>> This article is about the opposite

Well no, this article is about moral policing you do not agree with.
Take a look at the site that was posted in some of the comments[0]. A choice quote:

"Should the guy have to pay that much as a result of a casual encounter? Wagner says emphatically yes: "The child had nothing to say about being born or the wisdom of a one-night stand. That child should be supported exactly as if those parties had married and stayed married forever." Is he worried about an incentive structure where a one-night stand is more lucrative than going to college and working? "A judge would slap you silly if you pointed out that a plaintiff would be earning more from child support than from attending college and working," Wagner says. "Put yourself in the diaper of the child. Public policy says that he or she has a human right to be raised in the lifestyle of the two parents. If you don't like that philosophy get the hell out of California." Wagner explains that the current law came about because "California was ranked 45th in nation in late 1980s in the amount of child support obtainable. The legislature was astounded and created the current system. It is public policy that California will always be ranked among the top 5 states [in potential profits from child support]."

[0]http://www.realworlddivorce.com
Are you doing this in a commercial context, or in a university lab or similar? I've seen a few papers come out of universities using this technique but I haven't gotten to look at any commercial gear to see how it works under the hood.
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I've had grown women, strangers, inappropriately grab my butt in public or otherwise inappropriately touch me. Sexual harassment is inappropriate, full stop. There's no gender based excuse that allows it or makes it acceptable.
It seems like Twitter is a good thing. It’s great that politicians and leaders and communicate directly with the public. In the old days, it got filtered through anointed gatekeepers that have the ability to filter and interpret based on their “angle.”
The article doesn't make it clear - but "elsewhere" seems like it would clearly be better than urban busses. They assert that even in areas where grid electricity to charge the busses comes entirely from fossil fuels, there is less pollution produced - presumably because it is somewhat easier to make a fossil fuel plant cleaner at scale than 100s of busses. Fossil fuel plants could be any of natural gas (very clean), coal or.. oil, which in this case is something resembling diesel, or the diesel constituents of crude.

The title is (of course) fairly misleading - while we've got electric boats and semis it is unlikely that long haul transport for either will be electric any time soon. But - at least they are away from urban areas, for the most part.
I know that I have started to borrow more ebooks rather than buying now that my Kindle is finally compatible. Also prices on a lot of books are kind of high compared to new paper books, like a lot of times the price difference is $1-2. For things that I can wait on, I've switched back to buying used books and waiting.
> what are these tech companies going to do when pressured

Countries that wish to implement legal-based censorship don't care if an internet company has implemented moral-based censorship.
I might go so far as to say that our potential for a publicly operated social network is already here, or right close, but is being severely and intentionally hampered by ISPs more than anything or anyone else - and by extension recalcitrant, ignorant or paid-for representation.

Unrestricted symmetrical broadband would be a more than adequate foothold for robust frameworks that could fulfill the aspirations of one voice among billions in a truly decentralized fashion as well as provide a true springboard for thoughts, ideas and actions.

I believe the only role government should have here is ensuring access to the pipes that are regulated as an unhindered, affordable utility whose content is regulated only by you.

I also believe there are no words worth censoring. Yes, even nazi fucks. Let them speak and their words will prosper or fail on their own merit. We can't treat symptoms or causes if we drive unwanted words into darkness where they can fester and puss.
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Have you operated a website that gets lots of scammers? I've been responsible for the security on several major e-commerce web applications. Often, you have to make compromising choices, we found that the vast majority of requests over Tor were not converting, in fact I don't think a single visitor via Tor had bought a product (iirc, but I'd have to check to be certain). That combined with the number of fuzzing/strange requests from users via Tor was just too high to consider them to be meaningful traffic. We blocked Tor users outright and it resulted in no change in revenue and a more straight forward security landscape.
Not that this answers the question, but if they're big 5 they should be willing to give you more time. Ask them for a month and see what they say.
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Microsoft Creates Security Solution to Prevent CBSE Paper Leaks
This still reinforces that they do act as "moral police" and are practicing selectively enforcement by mandate. That is not a reasonable communications policy for anything of any scale or importance.

Facebook should not be tampering with and editorializing private communications or the public square, which they have become.
I like anything involving training. Weirdly enough, I love Marvel movies for the training montages.
Just checked that the Solar cycle only has marginal influence of less then .2 degrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
This is abuse and wrong. Just as it is abuse and wrong for every website or app that does something similar. And this couldn't exist if we as software creators didn't make it. We as the creators of software need to look at everything we create for its potential to be used against people and if it could potentially be used to abuse someone, like say exposing interfaces that can be used for biometrics, we need to refuse to make it. People have survived for ages without your software and they might be better off if it stays that way. Don't be a part of this.
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Katie Moussouris (https://twitter.com/k8em0) is, unsurprisingly, spot on with the problems from her experience. Being able to verify that people trying to get into your room are indeed hotel security is a perfectly valid request. Trusting an ID badge is always laughable, but even more so in an environment like Defcon. While the privacy concerns aren't invalid, the safety issue posed by this policy are much more concerning.

If a woman is worried about being put into a situation where they feel they are at more risk of assault/rape they should be listened to. Its a shame that is being drown out in favor of the invasion of privacy narrative.