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>If both parties agree on something without significant contention, odds are a strong majority of the population also agrees with it.

For this to be true, you need a majority of the population to be well informed voters, which just isn't true. I'd be surprised if 25% of American's knew about a US bomb blowing up a bus of schoolchildren recently, and doubt a strong majority would support that bombing. Yet my vote does not matter on the issue.
Source? I'm not a lawyer and I don't know Illinois law, but I have generally read these are civil and not criminal offenses, e.g. https://www.wisemantriallaw.com/blog/2012/august/the-differe...
A) I disagree. Apple's incentive is in getting people to pay top dollar to live in the Apple ecosystem. They require a certain level of trust. Selling out people's data to Facebook does not achieve that end. The risk of getting caught is far higher than the reward from those analytics.

B) Apple controls the entire supply chain for iPhones. They have no need from a profit standpoint to try and insert hardware that allows other companies to do anything to their users. The secret backdoors are almost always the result of some exchange - FB offers data about users in exchange for the ability to insert hardware/software into a phone. Since that exchange doesn't exist for Apple, there's no reason for it.
As a non techie (for the HN crowd), to me that lends weight to the possibility that there might be some genuine risk.

Inability to prove or adequately articulate a risk is not the same as there being none. It's okay to take the position "What I know and what I can prove are two different things."

My life only works at all because of my willingness and ability to act on threats before they could possibly be proven, like when I got moved to another team before the guy calling me doll and babe took it over. He was fired more than two years later for sexual harassment or similar, but he wasn't a major problem for me because I never worked for him.

(Please note the "non techie" proviso and be kind if you feel the need to point out -- and explain why, using little words -- that it simply is not possible. Thank you.)
Wouldn't you assign readonly permissions to the account used to fulfill these requests?
By only using gpl apps at least I can take a look at the source code.
This is one of my all time favorite HN posts, a really good deed done with Unix.

So inspiring!
The initial product could be free, and that would still be a decent price for 10 years of any real support.
It's smaller than Volta, but that isn't saying much - as far as I can tell, Volta is the biggest commercially-produced processor die ever.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/nvidia-tesla-v100-gp...
it definitely isn't but unfortunately some of the smartest and most informative people have moved to Twitter and so we have to read what we can where we can
Is this the first step toward building a viable holodeck?

No. Don't be fooled by the marketing. No one knows how to produce realistic-looking 100% CGI. Raytracing is even worse in some respects than traditional raster based graphics, and better in other respects.

Here's a heuristic that has never failed: If someone claims to have found a way to make photorealistic graphics, ignore them, because they're lying.

(This is true until it isn't, but at no point in history has it ever been true, yet. But that doesn't stop thousands of people and companies from claiming it.)
754mm^2 = 1.17 square inches. That's a die size that's bigger than a postage stamp.
And is top secret more or less secret than double secret probation?

https://youtu.be/1tfK_3XK4CI
Your parent comment, its directed at the person you were replying to.
1. Yes
2. No, what are you smoking? I want some.

A "viable" Holodeck is a technology sufficiently advanced compared to the present day so as to be indistinguishable from magic. Ergo, no Holodeck anytime soon. No Arnold Judas Rimmer hard light holograms either because WTF is a hard light hologram in the first place?
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Rest assured that this was creepy, too. Albeit for moderately different reasons.
Pure raytracing sure, but raytracing assisted by other methodologies can get you farther. Imagine doing low resolution ray tracing and then compositing that information with other rendering techniques. If you raytrace then interpolate you can get really really good.
Tying together two recent HN submissions. This one, and the submission on Ali Wong wherein someone linked to Seinfeld explaining how he developed his Pop-Tart joke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWxXyCfW5s
There's a lot of data on this subject. BuzzFeed News recently had an article about how fires have changed over the past decades: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/california...

And for the HackerNews-y type, they even made all the data and R code for the visualizations publicly available: https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-07-wildfire-trends/

It is hard to pin the increase on any one cause - it's a confluence of factors. Here's a perspective piece by a few well regarded experts: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/07/californ...

One of those experts is Daniel Swain, who has an excellent Twitter account which posts a lot more data: https://twitter.com/Weather_West
When you compare the cost of Belt and Road to wars that cost trillions of dollars, the money spent is peanuts.

The belt and road is already working. China-Finland train link connects Nordic countries with China in 10-12 days. They carry heavy and expensive machinery and machine parts between China and EU. Too heavy for air-travel economically and needs to arrive relatively fast.
interesting, thanks for informing me! I checked wikipedia before commenting but I didn't read far enough, didn't know there was no legislation on lamb age. I wonder how old the "lamb" in the grocery store is? Might explain why there is so much variation in flavor. I can't remember if the lamb was "younger" tasting when I lived in Canada.
Parking tickets are civil, not criminal.
afaik raytracing is not worse if given the time
She isn't setting this up as a court case. She's trying to manufacture enough political cover for the governor and various other cronies to plausibly save her firm from its self-imposed predicament. They can pass any law they want, if the voting public is confused enough.
Am I confused as to what unicode.style is doing? Oh, yes I am. It's using U+1D400 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL A and such. I see. Ok, thanks for setting me straight!
I don't see any justification for the Soviet analogy other than wanting to conjure up the image of the impending collapse of China. This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year.

If one wanted to pick a positive story there would be the example of the American progressive era, the creation of the interstate system, the railway system during the 19th century, and so forth. Not every large infrastructure project is indicative of corruption, someone needs to build infrastructure, after all, I don't think we've somehow transcended the need for transportation.

That there's military or geopolitical motivation, especially as far as the land component of the belt and road initiative is concerned seems accurate, but doesn't strike me as particularly bad. From a Chinese perspective it obviously makes sense to invest into continental infrastructure because it does not control the sea.
To me this sounds very much like the superiority complex many doctors and hospitals take when it comes to patient care. They are the doctors. They are the hospital. How dare you disagree. As stated, hospitals are not prisons and unless someone is an absolutely, clear and present danger to themselves or others, that person should be allowed to walk out. Even still, the law should err on the side of the patient's wishes.
I live in California, not that hard for me to be killed by global warming. Our water is becoming scarcer, fires more violent. Combination of heat waves and blackouts are notorious for killing the elderly and children (and I have both parents AND a small kid).

The real question is why aren't you more worried? I wonder where your money comes from and where you live.
The title contradicts the story?!

But Facebook being/not being Internet can be true.

Did a similar survey and afterwords realised they did have access to internet.org, free Facebook basically. (also free wikipedia and other things but.. no evidence they where used)

In practice users with no data on their phones could access Facebook. So to a user it's totally different things

I suspect the premise is true (confusion), the numbers seemed to me to be to high for it just to be internet.org but never found out for sure.
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Roughly $700K between my wife (ex-bond-trader) and me. We are a couple years past 32 but had about $600K then, at which age I'd already quit my Google job and she'd quit her finance job.
After Dual_EC_DRBG, and the early warnings and raised eyebrows, I feel like "there's no smoke without fire" is a good way to operate nowadays concerning the NSA.
Walmart has spent a shit ton of money on their analytics systems including open source and Teradata. They have agreements with various cell companies for geo-fenced info. So they have location analytics and your "market basket" data to slice and dice. Yet the results are mediocre and Amazon is kicking their ass with strategy. They have no loyalty program (Sam's has membership) to provide compelling packaged deals to shoppers, they have their Every Day Low Price pretense but check Neighborhood Market prices that vary wildly from super-center prices especially for grocery. In reality, WMT is a quasi-monopoly that is dying under its own obesity - it needs to split up. eCommerce at $16B is a joke considering it doesnt make any profit and has take billions in overpriced investment. The management, especially in tech, barely see projects through and has lately removed several long-time employees for "fresh blood". Add turnover in SV and other places, it is chaos.
Ok, so, we're all agreeing on the same thing. The internet method I proposed is the same as faxing, but anything else requires more service providers, machines and steps.
needs to be combined with diffusion lighting or it doesn't look right.
Civil forfeiture?
So first you submit a FOIA request for the database schema...
Heaven forbid that bidding be competitive and that contractors be held accountable.
Because mere existence of such a thing would confirm existence of "vomit fraud" in the first place. There is no fraud according to Uber and Lyft, just maybe minor misunderstandings/clerical errors.
Oh crap. If there isn't already a hackerspace in part of it, I might need to move to New Jersey...
How long ago was this? California, which had been the primary driver of the flame retardants being added nationwide, recently updated the regulations. The labeling now will state that no flame retardants were added.
Is anyone else bothered that they paid 190 million for a database and interface to it?
Cheaper to either embezzle of buy one of those floor cleaning zambonies, lay off one of the janitors, give the rest a raise and expect them to get done in the same time.

There are other perks an executive could ask for that are harder to track as total compensation.
The main goal is to facilitate distribution. We work with research groups and provide "best effort" hosting with the resources from our sponsors. We expect the uploader has a backup of the data in all cases.
Look into CUSOs. There are players that cater to that niche.
If one piece of FTP software were both a client and server and allowed anonymous write access, yes, FTP would be fine.
PG&E has is not trimming vegetation back sufficiently. It is an infrastructure expense that is easy to defer -- for a while.

In the Sonoma County fires, trees contacting power lines and either catching on fire directly, or causing a short leading to a transformer explosion sparked a lot of fires. Of course, 100kph winds will cause the fuel to burn wicked fast. I saw a photo of a melted cast metal BBQ grill after the Sonoma fire. A fire that hot is hard to fight in any circumstances.

As far as climate change, goes... well, maybe? We had five years of drought, followed by a very wet winter. I have property in the Sierra foothills. With dry, drought-stressed trees interspersed with a few drought-killed trees, there was a lot of standing "hot" fuel. The wet winter caused the grasses to grow like mad the next year -- by late summer, when the grass was dormant and tinder-dry, there was a lot of "cool" ground-fuel to spread fire. Some idiot drove through tall grass and the hot catalytic converter lit the grass, leading to the Detwieler fire, which burned over the top of my property -- most of which burned cool (I lost a few trees, and a 60 year old not-historical-at-all outhouse... some of my neighbors were not nearly so lucky.)

Back to PG&E maintenance practices, there was a tree that fell on a power line near my property taking a power for a short service stretch, luckily it didn't spark any more fire on the mountain.

PG&E can whine about climate change, but bottom line, they need to be much more diligent about vegetation control. It doesn't take a PhD to understand how some wind and a dry branch can cause a whole lot of trouble.
why is this downvoted?
The juice is worth the squeeze.
I've always wondered what rich people do when their savings/investments vastly exceed the FDIC/SIPC maximums of 250k per institution, because past a certain point, splitting among multiple banking institutions becomes logistically infeasible.

Do they tend to get some kind of private insurance against institutional failures for their entire balance? Or do they just not worry about it?
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I'm a RC alum (Fall 2012), and I strongly recommend it if you have that kind of time. I am also self-taught, but the time spent in the Recurse Center was definitely time well spent. I do wish I could take a sabbatical from work to do a second run, I have a much better idea of what I would like to focus on during my time there.
This is way beyond Hanlon's Razor assuming this article is both complete and accurate. Mayo Clinic clearly acted in a way that would protect their income and not their patient, going as far as to try to use legal leverage to ensure neither the patient nor the parents could decide to get even a second opinion. Would you step foot into a Mayo Clinic the same ever again if this happened to you?
> What's your comprehensive alternative?

Why can't they build this themselves? If the DoD is such a large customer, has such precise needs and requirements, they should build their own datacenters with their own staff and manage it in-house.

> (snip) And you're probably going to have to do that with other people. Probably in the form of a corporation.

The government manages a nuclear arsenal and a space flight program. There's no valid reason they couldn't build and run their own server farm without giving it all away to Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Oracle. There's no good reason everything in the entire nation has to be privatized like this.
The cottage industry around this specific contract is going to be massive.

Whats really interesting though, is that, a huge swath of talent will be ineligeble to work on this as GovCloud/FedRamp requirements for US Citizen employees, physically located in the US to be able to access and work on any of these systems really does impose some limits on the pool.

And while, regardless of how you look at this, it is dysopian from the Corporate-yberPunk-Future perspective (small book seller is now the richest man in the world, and is responsible for the company which monolithically provides the largest government military its computing infra) - There arent really any other alternatives.

I'd say that the opportunity sitting right in front of the talent pool who couldnt be legally able to work on GovCloud implementations would be to ramp up their training and setting up consulting groups who can.
Bezos was already on a Pentagon board [1], and already had contracts with the CIA [2]. Corporations run our government almost entirely, and are now getting into Military Industrial Complex. This is nothing new.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-joins-...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
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I can't decide if the caption writer for the image was incompetent or is putting massive spin on very poor frame rates:

"NVIDIA Turing architecture-based GPUs enable production-quality rendering and cinematic frame rates..."

Raytracing at 24fps?
Agree. However, the driver ought to be charged with fraud.
As a long time Gentoo user, switching to even a Ryzen 7 1700 was a big difference, @world recompiles in ~8 hrs instead of 24+ hrs on 4C/8T CPUs.
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Definitely interesting to witness the positive trend. A 5% improvement isn't bad over such a timespan.
Oops. Understood. It's just I've seen other countries with similar projects do a lot better with less, but I guess everything is custom for a particular situation.
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And what are their complaints?

Given that Oracle only exists as a company due to the fact that they built one of the first/earliest RDMSs for the CIA makes me not shed many tears for them...

Also, what is Palantir up to these days?
Oddly enough, the final output rather resembles a pixelated version of traditional Mongolian script, which in turn originates from Arabic written vertically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#/media/File:M...
I wonder if we could actually get gpg in use here; it's already a tightly regulated, controlled environment, so we might be able to push through actually standardizing on it, and being able to verify that something truly was signed by a doctor and then encrypt it in transit would be really useful.
Was the "Windows version" the one released 1-2 years ago that looks really pretty, with god rays etc?

I wondered if it would be a hit, since 8 bit graphics is part of the charm and concept of minecraft, but I didn't consider the mod ecosystem.
That’s a shitty life.
Would you really call Republicans the US political minority in any meaningful sense of the word? Especially considering their representation in all three branches of the US government.
The most time consuming part of filing taxes for me is not the actual filing or the data entry, it's the gathering of the data. Logging into a bunch of websites. Calling people trying to figure out how to get the forms. Looking through folders and old emails, etc.

At a minimum if there was a secure way that we could look that up and then feed that into tax prep software I think that would save us 80% of the time.
Legal applications of AI
The difference in rational is pretty simple:
A plate identifies a vehicle. A vehicle is not a person. Govt can't give out personally identifiable information.
In the interview, Caleb is still not sure what exactly to do. It sounds like he doesn't take the design lightly, especially since (he thinks) these toys might shape the way people might later interact with actual human babies.
Their denoising looks interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yy18s-FHWw
He cost the city $60k in revenue by asking them to clear up confusing signage.

That's some small-government activism I can get behind!
I'm in my 40's and have only once received a correction that was an error on the IRS's part. I wonder why you receive so many, is your tax situation rather complicated?
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I've been to the region, but not to the specific site. It's really out in the suburbs, so hope you like driving a lot and everything being very spread out.

Surprisingly there are not the best choices and prices/competition for serious ISP connectivity in the building, for dedicated 1/10GbE business class IP transit with carriers that I would consider in the "top ten" list for transit providers. At least not compared to some places in/near Seattle, somewhere close to Infomart Dallas, or the suburban sprawl around Ashburn, VA.
If anybody wants to go to the source: https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=documents&tabmode=form&subtab=...

I skimmed through some of this and I don't see anything obviously rigged for AWS. There are mentions of 32GB VMs, but it doesn't say they have to be exactly 32GB. I found the 150-mile requirement but it also doesn't look AWS-specific. The description of the ruggedized "tactical edge" device doesn't sound identical to the existing Snowball Edge.
Definitely not. It's a conflict of interest. Perhaps for persons with lower income and simple taxes it would be worthwhile but why would the IRS help me make use of all of their loopholes?
Apparently the film can be seen on the website, or with a Curiosity Stream subscription or one week free trial, SBS on demand in Australia, and ARTE in France and Germany soon
One other option, and one that does occur from time to time, is contract defense manufacturing. When I was at the DSME yards, a contract diesel submarine was being built for a large European country. However, there's obvious difficulties for that route as a general one.

> Also, while Busan has a thriving port, having been to all three you'd have to down a few shots of soju and squint pretty hard until it starts looking like Singapore or Hong Kong...

Well, I definitely wouldn't compare the look and feel of the cities. But their raison d'être is similar.
Yeah, I think the git "chunks" are quite large though. A big enough move (e.g. an entire file) will be recognized as a rename and reuse a pointer to the underlying blob, but anything paragraph-sized will be recorded as remove and an add.

To be honest, I'm not sure if computing a fancy diff of the form {'added':<int>, 'removed':<int>, 'changed':<int>, 'moved':<int>} is a well defined problem because there are multiple ways one could interpret a given set of changes, e.g., is it a move with a small edit vs. and add and remove. We might need to define some "economy of diff" objective to optimize... something like Kolmogorov complexity for diffs?
How exactly is good quality Raytracing at 24 fps not impressive?
First, the return of the wall between the gambling (investing) side and traditional side Ala glass steagal. Second, enforcement of higher fractional reserve requirements (last I heard it's not even 10 percent anymore). Third, and most controversial, is a return of money making powers back to Congress and away from the unconstitutional Aldrich bill in disguise. Fourth, a reduction in abusing the imf to financially hold countries hostage for their wealth.

Fifth, bankers in jail that have broken the law, and revocation of charter for repeat egregious offenders.
> Also, a back of the napkin look at their changes probably means it was half to two thirds the die size, so a pretty good win at those volumes.

There is no chance that removing Y and its instructions saved 50% die area on a chip with 80K ROM and 128 bytes of RAM. The "savings" is likely due to this being in a 350nm or 500nm process rather than anything else.

Seeing as this is a cheap Chinese fabless company and these things were Chip-on-Board, they had a failure on the Y register and just datasheeted it into compliance. This is little different from the original 6502 which datasheeted the lack of Rotate Right into compliance on the first versions.

If it's cheap enough, nobody cares.
Maybe faxes have legal weight, but that's silly because they are easily spoofed. I agree that HIPAA violation via email is common.
>It says a lot, IMHO, that the U.S. didn't pursue a global empire at that point.

I think that, politically, it would have never been accepted by the population or the (conscription-based) army. Also they ended with big not-quite empire with NATO soon after.