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> Why does it seemingly have to always be an all-in-or-nothing proposition?

This is one of the reasons I love JavaScript so much, and one of the things that stood out to me in the article. JavaScript is extremely expressive and allows you to write code without worrying about following some specific paradigm, which always seemed to me to be one of its biggest strengths, not a weakness as the article seems to suggest.
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The reason the location history is not local is because the data is for Timeline, a feature of Google Maps which has its own web site. If the data were only local, I wouldn't be able to use a web browser on my computer to peruse my Timeline and photos from my phone. It would be broken.
Another thing is that you can pipeline, for example, multiplies. So in a CPU multiply you give the CPU inputs, wait a couple cycles, and then get the result. In an FPGA you can build a pipelined multiply. It's built such that you can feed it input every cycle and get an output every cycle. The only caveat is that the outputs are delayed relative to the inputs. i.e. you may give it (2, 3) to multiply on one cycle, but you won't see the result (6) of that particular input on the output until a couple cycles later.

[Yup, "pipeline" here is the same term used to describe how modern CPUs get their performance. They, too, are pipelining their instruction execution so that many instructions can be in the process of executing at the same time. Though what I describe is a more extreme and specific kind of pipelining.]

This is kind of like having a bunch of multiplies in parallel. But it's useful for, for example, real-time calculations. You get to perform all the calculations you need every single cycle, no matter how complex; your results are just delayed by X cycles. Pipelines are usually also more efficient than straight parallelism (i.e. an 8 deep pipelined multiplier uses less silicon than 8 individual "serial" multiplier units).

Another interesting thing: In a previous life I built an FPGA based video processing device. It sat in an HDMI chain, so it had to be real-time. If that had been built with a GPU, most engineers would build the system to buffer up a frame, perform the processing, and then feed the processed frame out. That results in at least 1 frame of delay. In contrast, because we used an FPGA, it was simple to just pipeline the entire design and thus only needed to buffer up the few lines that we needed. This meant A) we needed no external memory (cheaper) and our latency was on the order of microseconds. In my travels with that job I ran into tons of other companies building video processing devices. They _all_ used frame buffers, which made their devices unacceptable for, e.g., gaming.
Aristotle is c.300 BC, Exodus includes statements against usury and dates from before 500 BC (that's pretty much the upper bound AFAICT).
Drug companies suing to keep their drugs out of executions
Did not understand the tail tucking thing in the article. Can anyone explain with pictures?
You're conflating outright lies with liking sportsball.
FPGAs are indeed commonly used for SDR as well. Ettus has a range of USRPs with FPGAs on-board, and you can find readily available IP cores for anything from Bluetooth to DVB-S.
People tend to pick an ugly city over hours of traffic jams in a pretty city.
> The only bad thing is that if you're on a multi-way call, they limit you to 40 minutes.

40m limit is for free accounts. Paid will get you video calls as long as you want to go.

Besides some needed minor UI tweaks, I love Zoom.
Open offices are decreed by sociopaths because they have a control fetish for panopticon-level micromanagement.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies.
Nothing can “fix the problem”, but I propose that putting the essential machinery of production in to common ownership can help. In the stories I write, no one can force someone else to “pony up” for upgrades, and everything is open source.

Much of my writing is meant to be a thought experiment. I think it may be an improvement if groups of people support one another voluntarily, and share in common ownership of critical factors of production.

My writing is a way to explore a class free society (economic class that is) free of wasteful consumerism. It is not necessarily meant to be a literal plan.

However you ask about resource consumption: society already uses resources at an unsustainable rate. I claim The Machine will improve on our resource consumption by reducing consumerism and needless consumption. But the fact that a society with the machine may still be unsustainable does not mean it isn’t an improvement. The Machine only fails if you expect that I am proposing a solution to all problems, which is not the case.

Humans will still have inequality, but I don’t claim to totally solve that. I think The Machine could help reduce inequality, but it depends on how we use it.

Anyway, I’m a bit rushed and I’m sorry I haven’t provided a clearer reply. I just wanted to give you some kind of answer. Thanks for reading my work!
I can understand your frustration and there are valid concerns. As much as I like Las Vegas there are very real reasons not to have events like this in the US.
I tried Signal the other day to call a friend in the US from Greece and was blown away by the quality. It was as if I was using a landline to call someone in my city, it was amazing. Even the latency was nonexistent, which I don't know how it happened since they're bound by the speed of light.
Errata URL for reference [1] - Overview of Games using GOAP and related technical papers:

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html
I guess it's hazardous to your career to project any further out than that. Given the various positive feedbacks(1) at play, however, I can't think of a realistic argument for why anything would get better in four years.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback
It is becoming too easy to pick on Google. There are many Web apps that use location. BestBuy, just to pick one arbitrary example, will ask permission to discover my location in order to show me my nearest stores. This is, of course, very useful, and I am happy this service exists. What I do not know is whether or not BestBuy or many other companies are sharing this information with other companies. My assumption is that BestBuy et. al are using a middleware web service, and that company probably makes money selling location information to advertisers.

For me it is just depressingly hopless: as soon as I go on the Internet of phone network, I have given up a lot of privacy.
CCC is very different to DEF CON, and I wouldn't say it's a "hackers" vs "industry" split either, because BlackHat is the more industry focused conference in the US, DEF CON has traditionally been the one for the hackers.

I think the differences between CCC and DEF CON are roughly:

- CCC is much more political, more about making statements about privacy, etc. There are often journalists there, and there's much more of a balance between political/cultural/privacy issues, and the tech side of hacking.

- CCC is based in the European hacker counter-culture which is quite different to the US hacker counter-culture.

- CCC is a bit more community focused, being very low-budget, accessible ticket prices, more hostels than hotels, etc.
At the hardware (RAM chip) level, yes.
At the software level, basically never.
> reinforce an invalid argument.

It's not about some logical argument.
That's for a judge to decide.
As an aside, nobody making a claim about life lost uses QALY (or any other metric that devalues old people dying slightly sooner than they otherwise would have) because it doesn't make for impressive headlines, sound bytes or claims. Much more impactful to say that X people died from exposure to X than to say a bunch of people in their 70s and 80s and a couple in their 50s died of <some disease that is a result of X exposure> because they were exposed to X. Reality rarely makes for impressive headlines.
For file syncing, I recommend Syncthing and/or Nextcloud (they're slightly different, Syncthing syncs directories peer-to-peer extremely well, Nextcloud is an OSS Dropbox alternative).
At least part of the original idea for those entities was to serve as a cadre to improve competence government wide.

Having some experience with why government lacks organizational development competence (TLDR; short-sighted management with the wrong goals), I don't think they can do that—they literally are addressing the wrong problem—but the idea wasn't to be a silo of technical skill.
Those test sets are definitely more real-world than Libri Clean in our experience, but still are not as "dirty" (noise, muffling, cross talk, recording quality, etc.) as we see in production.
WebAssembly: what it means for JavaScript and the future of web development
> "Our support team asks for reviews only if they sense that the customer is having a positive experience. We also utilize canned responses/snippets to increase efficiency here."

Hmmmmm .... Not sure how I feel about that. But I'm sure that's what everybody does so I appreciate their honesty I suppose?
Adopting this policy was what destroyed the first Ariane 5.[0] IIRC, a conversion from floating-point to a 16-bit integer overflowed, raising an exception which reset the flight control system. The flight control system was redundant, but both copies experienced the same error. The result that was being computed would not have been used.

The lesson I took from this is that neither of these two options is acceptable in software that has to work all the time, like much real-time software. Instead, we should detect all the bugs in such software before runtime, which is only feasible for small systems such as seL4[1]. So we should diligently minimize this software.

For other programs, the best way to handle an error is context-dependent. If a rendering bug will result in a glitch showing in a texture onscreen, that's preferable to exiting the game in the middle of a raid. If a PID motor control system for a robot arm has a division by zero, halting the program without first slowing the motors to a stop could be catastrophic, even causing fatalities. And of course there are numerous cases where continuing execution in the face of such an error is far worse.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815230639/http://www.esrin....
[1]: http://sel4.systems/
Oh. Now I get why some fonts hoist the tilde up high.
> Knowing where you are is the only way this feature can work.

I'm 100% confident that IPhone weather app updates automatically the weather for my home town. It doesn't need my personalized location, just the location for my home town.
It makes me a little uncomfortable that they're using curl|bash for something as simple as "put this 10-line script somewhere in your $PATH," especially when the script involves sudo (to move into /usr/local/bin). Sure, it's easy to inspect the script and see that it's not doing anything malicious, but it makes install processes like this, where it'd be incredibly easy to, seem normal.
Another example I‘ve run into yesterday is that HP now sells ink subscriptions, eg €3 per month for max 50 pages (+50 pages rollover to following months). The printer orders new ink automatically when it runs low. I can imagine that those ink cartridges will not be half empty, as usually.
Compression ignition is being used in gasoline by Mazda. Their Skyactiv-X technology uses the spark to control when the compression ignites (like fake-dieseling), and Skyactiv-X uses "dieseling" without spark to run the engine at low loads.

https://youtu.be/9KhzMGbQXmY?t=4m50s
Based on what we know so far, it looks like the blank page issue is limited to devtools only and doesn't affect devices: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/11253#issuecomm....

Chrome bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873571
> though I suppose there's some potential for abuse, somehow?

One day you want to post online a video obtained through illegal means (for example you film animal abuse in a US abatory), you buy a burner phone and go to an open Wifi, but the behavioral fingerprint you left behind while using YouTube is used to track you down.

I guess this is still fair game, you were breaking the law after all, but you get the idea.
> The former will always be more expensive than the other, and always be further capacity constrained.

Yes. But it's also much faster. This creates new opportunities. Rail freight is not replacing sea or air freight, it's supplementing it.

Expensive but faster freight means that heavy but valuable items can be delivered faster. Heavy Air freight (>100 kg) typically costs 15-20 percent of the value of the goods. Rail wright can be expected to cost 5-10 percent easily, more for items weighing more than 1000 kg. That's value created by the rail.
The comments here are mostly focused on the Vienna video so it seems the article failed to properly explain to foreigners the other (imho more serious) part: the whitelisting of origo.hu

It's difficult to explain in a few lines just how awful that site is. Used to be the biggest, well respected hungarian news site until it was bought by Orban's friends a few years ago. Since then the political columns are literal fake news and smear campaigns against political opponents. The kind of thing that would be (rightfully) censored by Facebook if it was posted by anybody else. Letting the government (and only the government!) peddle this kind of rhetoric with oversight explicitly lifted is a very dangerous and morally questionable practice.
Simply put, the cream rarely rises to the top in the public sector like it does in the private sector. As much as we bemoan financial incentives for the bad they incur, they also bring good ("good" in definition of quality, not morality).
Overpaying CEOs is a terrible way to motivate them
> The meme that (all) government is terrible at technology is getting tired.

And obviously wrong, when you consider the origins of the computer, the internet and the WWW.
It's the expectation that I dislike. Feels like people are resigned to poor systems.

"Hey most public stuff is crap, this is bad" - Fine by me.
"Don't make that public, it'll be bad because public stuff is bad" - Not fine. Also it implies the inverse, that private is always good, or at least better.

Good is good. Better is better.
Private can be good, and is best for most things.
Public can be good, and is best for some things.
That doesn't really sound far-right or populist to me: he was in favour of immigration, and naturalising the descendants of immigrants, which was a particularly progressive idea back when nationality and ethnicity were so tightly bound together.

Of course, the neat categories of the present don't really apply to the messy past, nor will the neat categories of the future apply to the messy present.
> Let's hope that the trolls don't take hold here on HN too.

They're already here. If you step back you can see how they've shifted discussion in a lot of threads with young or barely active accounts.
One thing you can do is expand your universe to include what would otherwise be "external" effects.

Instead of reading from opaque file handles use three-tuple of (hash, offset, length). Now you have pure input.

Instead of printing to a stream, modify a git repo. Now you have pure output.
If a crane falls over because the operator was playing Candy Crush, I think that can be placed squarely in the category of "user error".
> Nobody making a claim about life lost uses QALY because it doesn't make for impressive headlines, sound bytes or claims.

And because the actual measure only addresses, even in principal, quality related to health conditions (though you could apply the basic methodology to construct a broader quality measure), and because the entire theoretical construct by which it assesses quality adjustment is, to put it mildly, suspect.
Bitcoin key mechanism and elliptic curves over finite fields
> A hundred years ago, they were pretty common in big cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
What on earth is the Shopify App Store?
Boardgaming. As a father to 5, I have plenty of willing participants. My long game has finally borne fruit!
Industry trumps peer-reviewed science at US environment agency
Interesting parallel between this result and the technique of "dropout" which is a key technique used today in training neural networks that has found to prevent the network from overfitting to a locally optimal solution by randomly disconnecting nodes.
We can also create a crisis caused by government's debt equally well, see Turkey's 2001 crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Turkish_economic_crisis
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (1984)
Type Safe, Functional GraphQL with Purescript
Show HN: butterwire – Modern ML and tech to help investors outperform the index
3-D Secure is not a european only thing. If someone successfully signs up with 3-D Secure, the onus is on the issuing card's bank, not the merchant, so that would be ideal.

The problem we ran into was that since the 3-D Secure verification (which is a page you redirect the surfer to, or an iframe or similar) is handled by the credit card issuing bank, each page is different, and since no one actually uses 3-D Secure, when we tried to implement it, it mostly didn't work.

Reducing chargebacks is great, but if you lose 30% of your sales by redirecting them to broken pages, it defeats the purpose.
Surely this mostly depends on what you care about? Refusing to unlock a device at the border has much heavier (potential) consequences than requesting an alternate search, but I think there are a lot of people who willingly go through body scanners and wouldn't unlock a device.
Seems that some politicians are trying to amplify the immigration/refugee crisis and destabilize the entire European continent...
Especially poignant since he became blind later in life.
In some case there is direct harm caused by the posts. Pizzagate was an example which led to a man turning up to a pizza shop with a gun based on the fake story and the business owners received death threats. Not everything is as easy as just unfollowing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

When it comes to hate speech, incitment to do harm or lies about elections a subset of people unfollowing doesn't mean there still won't be harmful consequences.
It's Shopify's (NYSE: SHOP) app ecosystem: https://apps.shopify.com/
I had a buddy in college whose main hobby was sending foias. The amount of information he was able to collect on me and all of our friends since it was a public university was astounding. He wrote a little google map applet that matched the student base's names to their parent's homes. He only showed about 6 of us what he did and we were all horrified and amazed at the same time. I miss CpE college.
NN quantization has been an area of active research in the last 3 years, but it's not trivial when going to 4 bits or below. Usually to achieve good accuracy during inference, a model needs to be trained or finetuned at low precision. The simple post training conversion usually won't work (it does not always work even at 8 bits). Models that are already efficient (e.g. MobileNet) are harder to quantize than fat, overparameterized models such as AlexNet or VGG. Increasing a model size (number of neurons or filters) helps, but obviously it offsets the gains in efficiency to some degree. Recurrent architectures are harder to quantize.

See Table 6 in [1] to get an idea of the accuracy drop from quantization, it seems like 4 bits would result in about 1% degradation, which is pretty good. However, as you can tell from the methods they used to get there, it's not easy.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10029
Very much not rightly so, as they are giving special privileges to one group.
That argument only holds if he provided the only marketplace where it was possible to buy contraband drugs.

Every single customer could then and can still withdraw cash at an ATM, and then visit down the chain of "guy that knows a guy" until their non-narc bona fides are established, and the psuedoanonymous cash-for-drugs transaction occurs.

He's in prison for life because the War on Drugs principals needed to set up an example as deterrent, because their usual methods of investigation and interdiction were less effective at fighting obfuscated online services, and his was the most popular at the time. The judges went along with it, because they balanced the interests of the government against one guy who is almost definitely a sleazebag, and found that turning the negative PR from the apparent untouchability of Silk Road users into a win by shutting down the system, seizing the Bitcoin, and railroading the operator was fine. Even if they got reversed a few years later, after it was mostly out of the news, that was still an acceptable result. The claim that he tried to hire a hitman for contract murder definitely put a thumb on that balancing test. Without it, you're just tossing someone in prison for starting up a better Craigslist.

From what I know about the case, the prosecution was probably more influenced by politics than justice. If he were market-making for insider trading tips and discreet temporary matchmaking services, instead of drugs, stolen property, prostitution, and murders, he'd still be in business and richer than Croesus. They nailed him with a pseudo-plausible argument and a pressing need to get online black markets out of the mainstream news. It's the same reason Pirate Bay keeps losing domain names, while lesser-known trackers never seem to get the same level of opposition. The first rule of your online black market is to not talk about your online black market. If it gets too popular, it becomes the enforcement target pour encourager les autres.

There's no way in Hell he'd merit a life sentence without the attempted murder claims. Silk Road wasn't intrinsically more criminal than Visa or Mastercard payment clearing services, aside from it not automatically banning merchant accounts suspected of engaging in certain lines of business that are illegal in most jurisdictions. Silk Road was making the War on Drugs actors look like chumps, so they made Dread Pirate Roberts their public enemy number one.

I don't think he deserves the sentence that he got, but I also don't think they're ever going to let him out, because he's back in the news the instant they turn him loose. It'd be nice to believe that the justice system was more about the justice than the system, but I just can't.
Thanks for that tip! If we were to roll out both a US version and an international version early, is there anything in particular you would want to see different between the two?

Of course the US market has way more average citizen debt than a lot of other places, so the two markets would undoubtedly have to be approached from different angles.
> The porn industry is violently against even basic things like condom use

THAT is a matter of profitability, whatever else you may think. SMH I have to wonder what's wrong with people who think there's some other motives.
If it is not solvable in practice, I don't see how finiteness addresses my objection...
Rod fragmentation by cascading cracks: why spaghetti do not break in half (2004) [pdf]
I'm not sure Apple is the one to yell at here. The iPhone is one of the only phones that continues to get updates and is useful beyond 18-24 months. Short of destroying the motherboard, few iPhones are likely sent to landfills until they are many years old. They certainly do not end up in landfills because the lack of a user replaceable battery.

iPhone users either get the battery replaced, sell the phone, or they trade the phone in. The trade in then gets sold again, and likely again after that. The iPhones resale value makes sure it is a long time before any are simply thrown in the trash.
Can't tell if this is some kind of recursive sarcasm, but this is literally the point being debated. Are you even paying attention??