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In America, you would first need to improve the political system (ie: ranked choice voting, no more gerrymandering or disenfranchisement, prohibitions on lobbyists), and improve K-12 education.

To accomplish that, you would need to exert more pressure on politicians than the lobbyists, who fight against such things, do. Since the lobbyists have more money, it would have to be social and peer pressure. Also, you would have to pressure individuals (ie: influential people, not their companies. Influential politicians, not their entire party).

With that done, the obvious is possible. Raise taxes on the rich, crack down on tax havens, gut military spending, expand public heathcare, improve infrastructure, etc.
Very niche, but anyone with eye floaters may be interested in a newly published podcast that interviewed the leading researcher in the field, Dr.Sebag.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-2-hope-happiness...

Skip about 10 minutes ahead for the interview.
Read Notation as a Tool of Thought for reasons why APL looks the way it looks.

It's a pretty common idea "let's rename all those ugly APL primitives with descriptive names". And it's easy to do. Why do you think the idea doesn't stick in APL, even though it works in say Matlab? Maybe it is because for APL programmers \. is perceived on the same level as + and you don't ask to rename + to 'plus'.
Were you a math major?

Almost every math major covers an intro to Group Theory, Ring Theory, Field Theory. That's just about all you can do in pure math immediately after Linear Algebra (except number theory and some probability), and the foundation for almost everything you'd try.

If "applied math" was not separated from "pure math" in your school, and you did non-math electives after the minimum core math classes, then you might avoid these topics in favor of a broad curriculum of differential equations, graph theory, probability, and such.

Galois Theory, or Module Theory would be electives or touched on in high-expectations program.
I don't have a contract or prior agreement

You mean, except for criminal law? I don't see how this is in any way equivalent to adding ads to Whatsapp.
I have no objection to the utility of something like AAD. What I'm saying is that this same very instruction can do more at a machine level. AAD assembles to D5 0A, even though D5 is the part that refers to AAD, 0A is hardcoded for base 10. One could machine code something like D5 08 (to have base 8 conversions). You can really do just about any base. Even the Intel manual states you can do this, you just have to do it at the machine code level, you can't do it with the assembly level instruction of AAD (it's too high level or abstracted). This is all I meant by my comment.
Python does encourage the perspective that there is a single right way to do things. This isn't necessarily true at the high-level, but at the low level of a handful of lines, it often is true.

Like Hillel, I have often thought that my solution to a problem in J was good, only to see much shorter solutions from prominent J programmers. What makes it shorter is usually that there are direct but less obvious ways of doing things using the primitives. I have the experience of having a first look at things like grade-up and remembering it as a way of sorting, but when you see the various ways that grade-up is used in practice, there are a lot of uses for it that do not strictly have to do with sorting. This is in contrast to Python where lists can be sorted and that's all sorting does for you. I frequently forgot about the match builtin and would do convoluted things like equals with rank (0 1) and insert-equals or sum. There's more than one way to do things, but often beginner code is obviously worse.
Not to mention the health angle requires Apple lock down the device even further to stay HIPPA compliant; to keep from prying eyes. Apple has pit the FDA against the FBI.
One common recommendation for SaaS is never to over unlimited pricing. I'd see charging $0 as unlimited. Limiting that, e.g. to the first year, seems fine though. I'd still ask for $50/month. The difference is that any invoice amount means they (e.g. product manager) needs approval, signatures, review. That's a higher commitment from them while the amount is hopefully nothing compared to whatever they pay for the legacy software.
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This is a very good and clear explanation of how bitcoin type blockchains work. It could easily have been made simpler and more general at the same time by omitting the proof of work aspect, which is not even discussed actually. The "begin with four zeros" rule is completely arbitrary, it could be any prefix of any length depending on the necessary amount of work that you want, including zero. And with an empty prefix we still have a blockchain with all the properties presented here that hold.
Funny because I think a lot of technical people would say that the technical side is the only interesting part of block chain, i.e. it’s a neat data structure. However, every proposed use of it neglects all of the other non-technical aspects of human society. Hence all the calls by people with understanding of the technology for explanations of where it could actually be applied in society.
> it's a way to synchronize data between parties without relying on a trusted intermediary

At the expense of time. So most real-world use cases (securities trading, vehicular networks, payments) fail when you introduce a 10-minute delay required for distributed confirmation.

For time-insensitive examples you've provided - supply chain and health records - the use cases work better, but who will dedicate the resources and mine the blocks to ensure that specific blockchain's survival?
The fact that we did it to the UK doesn't mean it's good for us to let China do it too. I mean, we exterminated the native Americans and stole their land--if someone tried to do that to us, should we sit back and do nothing? "Oh well, cosmic balance and whatnot!"
Francis Cabot Lowell, who was instrumental behind the industrialization of the US, visited textile plants in the UK and committed their designs to memory, which were later introduced to the famed Lowell textile plants in Massachusetts.

At the time (1826), America's per capita GDP was $2,460, which is 68% of the UK's per capita GDP of $3,600. Today, China's per capita GDP is $16,000, or 29% of of the US's per capita GDP of $55,000.
This acts as a proxy server for any API. All the request capture by intercept and it'll capture the response from the original endpoint and reply back
> It’s just another webkit, fostering the monoculture;

Ignoring that Blink and Webkit are feature identical, what negative effects are there with an open source rendering engine monoculture?
To implement the improvements you suggest on this site (which appears to be a static site), the best way would be to have your proposed image compression as part of the static site preprocessor, correct? Just trying to understand how it would be implemented, as this site is an interesting idea but the dithered images would likely not have mass-appeal.
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Which cofounder? They’ve both left.
I use firefox as my primary browser but used chrome as secondary for misc. Did away with chrome recently and am trying vivaldi.

So far i observed that session restart is not reliable. Tab open by default takes you to the page and there is an option to open tab in background but its quite annoying that its not the default. Calling a norm as being out of place is quite a stand. Developers who normally have the tendency to open multiple pages at once from search results will find this feature bothersome when trying it out.

I don't think its a game changer but can be a worthy contender for a secondary browser option.
If this was as big of a problem as you say, political figures and public personalities would be screwed. Spoiler: it's not, because people tend to understand that a username is not always a person.

Also some names are super common and therefore cannot be proven to be just one person. Just google Rick J Wagner and tell me if you only find one of them.
Could well not happen, but the most likely driver of slimmed down websites, anyway, would be a desire to make them load better in India, Africa, parts of Latin America and eastern Asia that have low connection speeds. Not saying that's how it will go, but it's feasible that to get to the second and third billion internet users, you need to be slimmer.
I would agree that there was at least potentially an issue due to it re-logging you in. But I'll note that no one wrote a blog post about that. Someone just mentioned that on twitter after this was already a big "controversy".

In other words, you had half of HN claiming to be leaving Chrome over something they had no reason to believe had any privacy implications, and in reality, has either 0, or really close to 0, actual privacy implications.

I made a claim about HN being a small group in the grand scheme, and someone countered by claiming that most users didn't understand what was changing. But I think the funny thing is that the average user, who had the understanding that "literally nothing" was changing, would have been closer to the truth of the situation than the average HN commenter.

Not to say that the result of the hullabaloo was bad, I actually think this set of updates only improves things over where they are now, but its still a really strange sequence of events.
Is there an off the shelf gravity battery that one could purchase for charging over USB?
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Agree. I had to contact Microsoft about a store app.

The service felt nothing less than amazing. All for a US10 purchase on a single Windows 10 machine.
Which language did you pick?
Then why buy it, dude? Do you think Alexa isn’t listening to you when you scold your kids in the kitchen? Seriously.
One difference could be that if you discover your phone is listening and sending data that's a scandal right there while digital assistants do it by design. It simply lowers the bar to you being spied on, all else being equal.
Monetization is really hard. The ‘90s was filled with the wreckage of companies that couldn’t get it right, with debris spreading out into the early ‘00s. The ad monetization model is one way to do it, and it can be rolled out to a wide variety of products, but it is unlikely to be the only model.

Business is hard, and it can take a long time and many failures to be truly innovative. I’m an engineer, but I’m a little sad that so few people with strong business backgrounds are trying new things. Maybe in another decade or two.
It’s not like if he turned down the acquisition offer he would shut down the company.

They could still have done a secondary and stayed independent.
I spoke directly with the pihole maintainers. They took a Hardline position that them blocking email from my city was the right thing to do because it used click tracking or some other metric gathering and was deemed a privacy risk.

I understand the devotion to a cause but it was too myopic for me.
That’s my running assumption and why I don’t use it.
Could be. Like I said there's not much functional difference, but one is more palatable somehow. IMO.
Fair enough, but as I recall, respect for patent law at the time was very limited, particularly where other countries were concerned.
Signal has voice calling
You wanted a company that doesn't sell your information. It would take five minutes to read their privacy policy to confirm this for yourself. Much easier than switching providers.
I agree with you on pretty much all of that. I was replying to aphextron who wrote:

> the Utah government is essentially a theocracy... which dictates every aspect of society in the state. It makes the place completely unlivable for normal people

Which is a pretty strong claim and does not seem grounded in reality. Especially when you consider many "normal people" from the rest of the US have moved to Utah in the last few years. People seem comfortable making unsupported claims about Mormons in ways they would find abhorrent if similar unsupported claims were made against other minority cultural or ethnic groups.
> ToDo list app idea

Have you actually ever used it?

I do remember them turning facebook down multiple times... everyone has their price though, hard to turn down winning the lottery.
I am afraid this simple telepathy is of the same type of impressiveness as SHRDLU (AI program) or acoustic levitation.

It is impressive, but underlying approach seems to be hard to scale in certain directions (bandwidth, model world complexity, payload mass). So, no fast progress should be expected.
Could be pretty stylish I'd think. Chandelier with moving crystals? #LowTech :P
They may be suffering in silence. Ask them if any sites or emails seem broken.
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That would have stopped working in a few years: nowadays lot of different people stopped using WhatsApp almost entirely using Facebook Messanger / Telegram / etc. 1$/year is just too low-proft and too risky
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Nah, the tension was already there, since forever. It’s just that, after the failure of the misguided FFOS white elephant, they have gone back to the realization that their main source of funding will remain the browser for the foreseeable future, and that inspired (and inspires) some poor choices here and there. Eich’s departure was coincidental, imho. Quantum (which is very good) came way after he left, for example.
My guess is that this is mostly a way for them to object if you start using too much bandwidth. Most ISP's "guarantee" way more bandwidth than they can actually provide on a daily basis. If you're hosting a website that gets low traffic, normally, they probably will not only not know, but not care. Just my guess.
The critical feature is that it’s always listening locally for a wake word. It doesn’t record anything until it hears that.

There’s no real difference between “my Echo claims to only do low power wake word recognition when idle, but actually sends everything to Amazon” and “my cell phone claims not to listen to me, but actually sends everything it hears to the manufacturer.”
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Yeah, I also disagree. My J projects include a lot of explorations in REPL - get this snippet to work, add some more, make sure it does what you need, refactor in a bigger primitive... repeat. You do think - but you also do a lot of experimenting in form of running pieces of code in the REPL.
The baseband of your phone is basically an entire closed OS that runs in parallel with the OS that interact with and has complete control over all the hardware. This OS has it's own file system, programs, network access, everything.

The Amazon echo isn't even that mysterious; it has low-power hardware to listen for the wake word and doesn't even power up the main CPU until that point. And you can always monitor the network traffic. The fears are massively overblown for home assistants. Mobile phones, by comparison, track your position in real time everywhere you are and send that information to paying 3rd parties all the time.
I agree, but I would also expect to only receive text data and not images (or very highly compressed images). The other part of keeping the bandwidth cost of an RSS feed down is keeping a smaller number of articles in "rotation".

EDIT: I just pulled their RSS feed - 50 articles currently in rotation! 32.42kB according to FireFox of just snippets of text and links!
There's no contradiction; the standards in the 1800s were much lower across the globe. These standards are no longer acceptible today.
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saved you a click:

>How will the results of your model be delivered to the end user? There’s a knowledge gap here.
Android is open source but the Play Store and Play Services are closed source. If Google needed to secretly install a rootkit to listen to the microphone they could.
It would put rich people in the same long-term position as poor people, so everyone would have an incentive to create a robust societal safety net.
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Azure is $0.08/GB, which still seems high
verified how?
Rasterization has just as much to do with physics as raytracing. They can both get you a correct solution to the rendering equation (i.e. be physically correct) if you wait long enough, or get you an approximation of it in a reasonable time scale.

For example if all you need are shadows cast from a point light source, a rasterization technique like stencil shadows will give you the same exact result as simple raytracing, and neither will be physically correct.

It is just that depending on your rendering time budget, some things are better done with rasterization and others are better done with raytracing. Real time engines, with simplified models typically work better with rasterization, while precalculated scenes, with more realistic models work better with raytracing.
What else could it be, besides a local machine(s)?
In what region? I see $0.09/GB as the starting price for the first 1 TB.

Granted it’s still way overpriced but it’d be $18, not $30.
There's a rather surprising attitude in this discussion that the IP belongs to a country (e.g. "Allowing non-citizens to get access to the IP should be illegal."), as if it were some sort of nationalised asset in common ownership. It's a privately owned asset for private benefit. It's not a form of property that pays property tax.
The other co-founder left later, and it’s unlikely that the acrimonious departure helped.
Other Western nations are also behind the US in terms of GDP per capita but not as much as China.

Japan is about $39,000, Germany is $41,000, France is like $37,000.

But Poland which is part of the EU is $12,000 as well. Russia is like $9000 per capita.
Heh. I'm not, and all of those practices are compatible with running your own data centers.
I’m pretty sure the cellular baseband in your phone is closed source. Coincidentally, it also has direct access to the microphone and to an internet connection you can’t monitor.
Same here. I would like to see a version of the LOTR/Hobbit that has a "minimap" somewhere in the margins when locations are mentioned.
According to Wikipedia[0] China GDP(PPP)/capita is $16,624, just below Dominican Republic and Iraq. Not sure that's "wealthy" quite yet.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
I think part of is the nature of it. Why would you get sufficiently into this scene, care enough about this one game to post video after video of you speedrunning it, to then cheat? The challenge for someone doing it manually is to do it manually; the challenge for someone doing it TAS is to do it TAS. Without the challenge there is literally no reason to do it. So while lack of evidence can't really prove anything, there really isn't that much motivation to cheat. If it was a complete nobody claiming they had manually set a record, yeah, that's suspicious, but someone well involved in the scene either is playing the long con for something that they themselves don't care about (and which they can't really revel in since any sort of in person interaction would show they're frauds), which is unlikely, or they're legit.
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"I have no idea what Jones was doing"

Then it seems very bad faith for you to be using him as an example.

"For Jones in particular, I believe the appropriate channels of response are for the person being harassed to: (1) Sue him (2) Respond clearly."

This is simply not true. Further, if you're Twitter, and you have users that are harassing other users, that makes those users less wanting to use your platform. And you have other people that catch wind that Twitter is doing nothing about harassment, and now very few people want to use Twitter.

"The tech majors, who have mounting leaked evidence that their management is politically active in the workplace"

[Citation Needed]

"If they do, then they are publishers themselves, in which case they should be regulated differently and their status as publishers made very public."

I disagree. Asking someone to leave who is harassing other users is not causing themselves to be publishers.
There is no such thing as "an item" moving through the food chain.

In the EU we have a somewhat traditional system for cattle, created after the BSE crisis. Each animal has two ear tags which contain a unique ID. This ID will be carried through to the table if necessary. But it has to be "copied" along, for example when the animal is processed.

The idea behind block chains in food processing is to record the transactions between individual parties. The blockchain does not verify the food, but rather the belief that they passed on a certain product. A malicious party will now have much more problems creating, vanishing or forging material. It also doesn't matter that much, because after a malicious transaction the following transactions are perfectly traceable again (if at least those are honest...).
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I absolutely agree with you about users already running dnsmasq, but the context here is a malicious developer abusing their position. The actual quality of the software is orthogonal.

I still think you are understating the risk of a malicious DNS server. As you note, many users will have unpatched IOT or network facing devices (e.g. cameras, baby monitors or other smart gadgets). With DNS spoofing they all become vulnerable to a remote attacker...

Maybe we can agree if we consider different types of users? Technically skilled users are likely to stick to secure hardware and have an awareness of their general software vulnerability. They choose their passwords carefully and are concerned about compromise. Less saavy users are more likely to own insecure devices, use the same password everywhere and be less concerned by account compromise.

High skill users have more to fear from a Web Extension, its impact is undetectable and can siphon passwords. Low skill users have more to fear from a malicious DNS server, they won't notice the lack of HTTPS on none-HSTS sites and their hardware will get compromised remotely.
I've switched to the Vivaldi browser after all these privacy undermining "features" Google has been rolling out.

But I am happy Android now allows setting your own DNS - you are no longer restricted to Google DNS. I am waiting for X-Privacy to be made available for Android 9.

Apple products are not an option for me. It's Linux, Windows and Android in my world.
I don't get it: why not just not do business with China? If they're going to take your IP, just don't go there.
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Sure, but real-time raytracing at home is quite a new thing and that's what the hype is about. Right?
Thanks for taking the time to write it down - very fascinating indeed!
> You mean, except for criminal law? I don't see how this is in any way equivalent to adding ads to Whatsapp.

It's not against the law to lie to me in most cases, but I still have the same expectation/requirement that people will be honest with me that I do that they won't steal.
Sounds like your company needs a better processes on how proprietary code is distributed internally. Most companies have a review process for thins like this.

The download page [1] has a large bold warning that the license terms have changed. What else would you like them to do?

[1] - https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk...
That would only happen if the two forks contain inconsistent information, right?