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Activists call for total ban on Airbnb, occupied Dublin offices
I too am originally from the rest of the world, but currently living in the US, and agree that flying in the US is absurdly and frustratingly poorly managed.

My point about carry-on is that in other countries, you are strictly limited in what you can carry-on, and thus you either have to take less stuff or get checked luggage (free or otherwise). And guess what? Everything fits and people can just walk to their seat and sit down, as you described

I fail to see why the US has a system where everyone is allowed to take two giant items, and then without fail half the plane has to gate-check and it causes significant slowdowns and frustration. It’s like smacking your head into a wall repeatedly, wondering why your head hurts, and continuing.

I can see why people don’t want to check; short flights for business as so much faster when you don’t have to wait for the baggage carrousel or lost luggage. But when you’ve got a 50% chance of being checked anyway, everything breaks down.
The publication this article is in, Gizmodo, is also the one which ran a series of articles basically stalking the Oculus Rift founder Palmer Lucky for months.
For a very simple reason that, you have to start explaining things from the concepts you already know are true.
Are you saying that everything illegal is immediately prosecuted upon discovery? That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?
I kept waiting for the tech support call where someone said "Thank you for calling tech support, now please die" but it never happened. Even so, this was a really enjoyable read.
The Electric Chair That Might Soon Be Used in Tennessee
It's not a bug when the mod alters the binary.
Well, doctors globally warmed up to codeines medical benefits.
The fact that you can do nighttime "fast" but get anxious after 3 hours while awake indicates it's just a mental issue as well.
Lexus launched in 1989, a year after Reagan left office. The line was developed in response to voluntary export restraints initiated by the Japanese government, not US restrictions.
For some reason I can't reply to a child of this comment. It would be easy enough to require all advertising to publish the lowest and highest all in price within the geographic area of the advertisement. For many ads, it would also be possible to require at least per state granularity. That would not be an onerous burden.
The Trolley Problem
I have a experimental code that converts saved Keras deep learning models to a Racket friendly format, and I wrote a small Racket runtime for running pretrained models. My idea is treating models functionally and mixing in with old-School symbolic AI code. I am having some problems making the runtime efficient enough even using the native matrix libraries.
Apple don't maintain contact centres per se; instead, in the US have a fleet of teleworking contact employees who handle calls, online chats, etc.

From what I hear it's a pretty good gig, minus dealing with the public.
Nice to see a well mannered conversation between two people with definite opinions and a willingness to learn and explain.
Voya is the administrator of one on my financial accounts. I'm wondering if I should take my money out of this account and move it to another financial administrator. My first thought is "how would I find out whether my other financial administrator is any better at security than Voya?"
Ah damn, I didn't realize he died. A fascinating mind.
Elective induction of labor at 39 weeks results in a lower c-section rate than expectant management (waiting to see if labor will start naturally).

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/induced-labor-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049989/

Normally though, induction happens because there is some problem or because the pregnancy has gone past the due date, and in these cases your risk of a c-section is already elevated.
It the 'tragedy of the commons'. As soon as one US airline charged separately for checked bags, their tickets looked cheaper and they got more traffic. So the others had to follow. Now its $15-$50 for a checked bag, depending on what scam the airline is doing this week and how cheap they want their ticket to appear. Its sort of like shipping was on Amazon - 1 cent for an appliance! Oh, and shipping is $50.
The title is quite deceptive (not HN's fault, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised given TorrentFreak's calibre).

'Magical' powers = he was selling cheats.

That is not a comment on the substance of Epic's claims against these people; just on the clickbaity phrasing.
What does a rut look like, like what is the last recent tech rut folks use.

And what is an example of tech that non-rut folks have that rut folks don't have?
Sorry for not being clear, I was specifically talking about pitocin level induction.
Not sure I'd want to play the psychologizing game here. It could just as easily be used to explain the success of Dark Matter as a topic of discourse in the public imagination.

"Wow, look how insignificant it makes us feel, how insightful", or, "Just imagine how much is hidden from us every day!"
It seems pretty strange that they can do this. How does copyright even apply here, other than for the defendant? If I buy a book, I now own the artifact 100% and the first sale doctrine would tend to indicate that nobody else can tell me what to do with that book (with the caveat that I can't make more copies - the whole point of copyright).

So these folks bought a book and have figured out how to cut out a page and glue in another one. Seems totally OK.

Now they're selling a kit that helps you "mod" your book by teaching you how to cut out a page and replace it with another one. Still no problems IMO.

Could someone prevent you from running a service where someone mails you a book, you cut out some pages and replace them, and then mail it back? I don't think so.

These aren't great analogies obviously. But it's hard to understand how they have standing given that they sold the copies of the game already. Seems like they'd have better luck going on some kind of contractual violation like their EULA or their agreement you have to subject yourself to in order to connect to the game servers.
TokuDB seems to be written in C++. It's neat that they managed to make that work in-kernel.

Also there are patent notices in the TokuDB files.

So probability of it being in Linux at some point approaches zero.
And with the patents they even made the whole technique unviable for any Linux fs (haven't looked at them in detail obviously).
Yes https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/13/massive-meta-study-confi...
A car's stall speed depends heavily on the car's altitude.
I think/thought there were Python and Julia SDSL libs...does anyone know the state of those?
> we weren’t graded purely on call completion time... basing an employee’s performance evaluation on how quickly they get people off the phone is a toxic way to measure work

And yet, it's unfortunately how all too many of these outfits have continued to run their businesses. Being spared this particular indignity was a major privilege.

> phone monkeys such as myself reached a state of "burnout" in no more than eighteen months... I hated the job and needed to quit before I hurt myself

Sadly, a great many of us essentially felt trapped in our positions for quite a bit longer. Never enough available time/energy to pursue greater things when we had bills to pay, and always insufficient meaningful experience to parlay into anything better.

> I’d take a minimum wage job doing manual labor over slapping that headset down over my head again

After way too many years, I finally crossed this bridge. I would prefer janitorial work or being a rideshare driver, and have (gladly) done both since leaving tech support.

> support, I’d rapidly found out, isn’t fulfilling or exciting—it’s a never-ending grind that wears down even the most optimistic and helpful souls... a Sisyphean torment.

This sums it all up in a nutshell. It would be nice to see the whole thing reformed into a ramp for more rewarding work of different kinds, but in our current 'disposable employee' culture, I don't see it happening any time soon. In the mean time, lives are being destroyed and tremendous amounts of potential are being squandered. I can only hope a few people in charge of such operations might read this and think about ways things can be improved.
I’m very sorry for your loss - my wife and I went through this and it was very difficult and awful, especially when you rationalize or question choices presented to you.

In the US, there are a couple of tiers of pressures and thought process. People make these choices from reasons varying from the medically advised, to cosmetic, to schedule based, to something else. Some people make choices for trivial reasons that are disturbing to the doctors who are placing people at risk, at their direction.

I think the medical concern is that there are more complications, the less informed people tend to correlate to folks who are less able to care for themselves afterwards in recovery and overall risk of anesthesia and other things.
my enterprise has gone full tilt. open offices, w/ hot desking and instead of laptops its a thin client. so yeah when you need or want to work from home you have to use the slow citrix client. fun..
100 or so years ago physics went into the wrong direction, ignoring people like Tesla who argued for the aether model.
The first iPhone had many flaws but none of these were false advertising, and it also had some unique abilities.

For example, it sported a capacitive touchscreen (touchscreens were mostly resistive back in 2007), it featured multitouch (you need a capacitive touchscreen for that), yet it didn't have 3G (it had EDGE), lacked copy/paste, lacked a repository ("app store"), lacked applications, and required a contract.

Add to that that Apple already existed, had a solid fanbase, and already released their first product for mass market (iPod), and well... Steve Jobs reality distortion field. Who knows what would've happened if Apple was a very new company with no such fanbase, history, or CEO.
No, you don't get to make major body and life decisions for a mom because maybe infant outcomes are 1% better in certain circumstances. Somehow I doubt you donate 90% of your income to children in need, which would actually drastically improve outcomes for 1000s of babies.
The issue is that clinical trials / proper research has not been allowed for so long. As with many other "drugs".
Not up to date on the latest, but when I researched it for a talk in Uni some 20 years ago, that was the biggest problem. The non-scientific research, or so to say, overwhelmingly suggests lots of benefits. The amount of reported pain relief alone is incredible. We will have to wait for research to catch up, and probably fight the industry quite a bit. Pillpushers will fight till the bitter end I fear.

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> General relativity being wrong would be waaaay weirder.

It only got empirical confirmation recently, it should still be open to disconfirmation.
I've had amazing "sci-fi" experiences in VR.

Lone Echo on Oculus, Farpoint on PSVR, and others. So blown away that certain geners of non-VR games are not completely non-compelling to me. Those 2 games, while not the best games ever, gave me the feeling of "being there".

The difference between playing games on a monitor and games in VR, the good ones, is like the difference between a picture of the grand canyon and being and the grand canyon. The picture does no justice. Sure it might be pretty but it gives no sense of the scale and presence. You don't feel that there's a mile deep canyon that's 20 miles to the other side. You just see a pretty picture. In VR though you do get that sense of scale. That volcano in the distance in Farpoint actually feels 3 miles high with a 20 mile high plum of ash. Hiding behind a piece of rock actually feels like hiding and not "pressing the hide button".
I've managed to get myself into what some might consider an ideal situation: a half-time job at BigCo. It means my work at BigCo is more interesting and condensed, and of course it means I have all the time in the world for side projects. BigCo total comp is so incredible that half of it still pays the bills in ExpensiveCity.

Except all the challenges echoed by others in the comments are real: overcoming procrastination and doing focused work. Actually the former I can manage, the latter is harder. All I have to show for side project time is a long list of smaller projects, I can't manage to take one of them and build/polish it into something significant. Somehow having the choice 100 fun project makes devoting time to just 1 super hard.

Maybe half-time off to some extend is worse for procrastination than full-time, since I can always fall back on my work at BigCo as a sign of progress in my life.

This situation should be ideal, I know the path I should take, the opportunity is there for the taking, but so far have not managed.
Lua (LuaJIT really) is battle-tested to the extreme and utterly reliable at this point (it's used all over the place, including in the game industry).

Guile is still very much focused on Linux and has well-documented issues on other platforms (including Windows and macOS) not to mention absence of developers and users. For all the talk about it being the "official" extensibility language of the GNU project, my understanding is that Guile has a minimal userbase.

Finally, having used both Guile and LuaJIT, I have to say that LuaJIT FFI blows Guile FFI out of the water. It's so much better in every possible way. I haven't tested Guile 2.9.1 but I wouldn't think it comes close to LuaJIT in performance either. Embedding Lua or LuaJIT is a piece of cake too, since it has no dependencies whatsoever. Guile loses here too:

$ port deps luajit
luajit @2.0.5_0 has no dependencies.

$ port deps guile
Full Name: guile @2.2.4_0
Build Dependencies: gsed
Library Dependencies: readline, gettext, libiconv, libtool, gmp, libunistring, boehmgc, libffi, ncurses, pkgconfig

So, empirically speaking, I don't see Guile as an alternative to Lua. It simply can't compete.
Depends on the fire safe rating (which is classified by temperature and time).
No, it is fundamentally wrong in itself, because it went into the wrong direction 100 or so years ago, when physicists ignored the aether model.
Because such a minimal change to the model ("there's just some more stuff we can't see") fixes a number of problems in one fell swoop (off the top of my head, galactic rotation curves, observations of gravitational lensing, a cosmological model compatible with obervations of CMB fluctuations, structure formation, cosmic evolution).

Theories of modified gravity can fix those individually, but as far as I'm aware, no alternative has been shown to be viable once taken in combination.
That may help Golden Modz - in the appeal, the Ninth Circuit said it wasn't copyright infringement:

Were we to hold otherwise, Blizzard  or any software copyright holder  could designate any disfavored conduct during software use as copyright infringement, by purporting to condition the license on the player's abstention from the disfavored conduct. The rationale would be that because the conduct occurs while the player's computer is copying the software code into RAM in order for it to run, the violation is copyright infringement. This would allow software copyright owners far greater rights than Congress has generally conferred on copyright owners.
The Facebook post referred to in the article: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015581190459122...

Its replies are widely supportive of the action.
As someone who was born as part of the race and gender being disparaged in the above comments, maybe I should be thankful. Yes, those comments were slightly hurtful, but mostly it was just really weird feeling hatred from another person based on the color of my skin and gender. I haven’t had a chance to feel that very often, and I honestly think the exercise was meaningful. Thanks for putting me in that position to know how much it hurts when people blindly hate based on race and gender. It might help me see things differently in the future (shrug). That being said, I would never disparage another race in the way that you just did. Way to keep it classy.
"Google Cloud Platform was built under the guidance of a more than 700 person security engineering team, which is larger than most on-premises security teams."

That's...encouraging.
I agree if they distribute modified binaries then the copyright could apply,
IMO creating the trainer/cheat program or instructions on how to cheat should be perfectly legal, the cheating though may breach the TOS but that would just terminate your license so your account should be banned from online mode, the only way Epic could win this if they distribute the modified binaries instead of some binary that injects itself into the original one.
So if I understand correctly, the situation is: MS is pledging not to assert patents on "Linux", but the kernel code for exfat isn't upstreamed into the official Linux kernel code, so the pledge doesn't apply to any patents on exfat (patents which MS has already used in past lawsuits). Have I got that right?
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Orson Welles.

"A forgery.....is still a painting."
The key to building fast hash maps for the cpu is to improve cache locality as well
Do you really think most people have the time to read a 160 page report?
Contrary to your argument, there is also the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Note that I am not saying it is the case here, but simply pointing out that the "experts" authority can also be challenged.

Furthermore, this happens rarely, but notably that someone with no serious "expert" qualifications, they produce revolutionary work (Ramanujan, etc.)
Ya its not that Zero page. This is just a page of zeros. When you allocate virtual memory the OS gives you the virtual allocation but the physical allocation points to the page of zeros. So when you read you get zeros. Only when you write does the OS allocate a real physical page of memory (which is should zero before handing over to the application). The reason why is important for the random read test is that if he does not initialize memory he might not be reading from dram but constantly reading the zero page which would be very fast.
Suing teenage brats is not an appropriate use of our legal system. I'm not sure of the policy implications but if someone brings an obviously frivolous suit they should pay a large fine. The legal system is being used to bully rather than dispense justice.
White men: less likely to be murdered, raped, sexually assaulted, sexually abused, involuntarily held in MH services, subjected to rapid tranq in those services, etc etc.

Of course there's a them and us and it's fucking pathetic that people like parent poster only care when their demographic receives most mild criticism and do fuck all about real injustice.

Tldr stop being such fucking snowflakes.
I suspect this is the case, and is exactly why I felt it was worth being commented on. It really cheapens an otherwise great analysis of ML.
TLDR:
> reading classical source code is a rewarding process, and you can consider to try it yourself.
I'm curious why you think Amazon isn't reading your docs (lambda function) but Google is?
It probably has something to do with the investment that would be required if the original item didn’t exist.

Suppose it costs you 10 million dollars to make product X, and you are able to make that money back barely (say 11 million). Then, someone else comes along and builds something quickly on top of your expensive investment and is able to make 5 million of their own. Wouldn’t you be mad? They’ve essentially found a low-effort way to make returns without taking any of the risk you did. Without you, they wouldn’t be able to do what they did unless they came up with the whole original item on their own and then built on top of it. Therefore, in essence they are profiting off of your investment.

The law may be significantly more complex and nuanced than this but it’s not hard at all to imagine scenarios where the original producer of a product does not want to enable profits of spin-offs from their work.

Edit: This is one reason patents exist. You are allowed to protect your massive investment for a period of time, no matter how much society may benefit from building on it immediately.
Is it faster than 5G?
High fat diets and obesity are not correlated.
So what? Mice dont normally eat fatty foods anyway.
yeah, we have suffered too. Initially we were using firebase Real Time DB for authentication as well as delivering messages. Messages suffered outages every now and then (and we suffered more cos our backend is in Python Django and Pyrebase comes with its own set of issues on top of Firebase). When we found out messages arent being delivered, we switched to pusher as a backup first and then to websocket. Now we use Firebase only for authentication (via real time database) and Notification sending, and still have a backend/app trigger every time there is an error on firebase.

I have always wondered what a reliable backup to the realtime db could be. Havent found much till date.
Fortnite's EULA [0] and virtually any EULA for any software produced in the past couple of decades includes the following bit:

The Software is licensed, not sold, to you under the License. The License does not grant you any title or ownership in the Software.

First sale doctrine does not apply. We don't own many things anymore. Books, music, software, movies—they used to be products you bought but now they are services you subscribe to. It is not a trend that I like.

[0] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/eula
Reminds me of QNXx
The worst is when someone walks over and starts talking but no one knows who they are talking to: Just me? My boss? Everyone? Is it rude if I don’t look and continue to focus on my work?

Everything can be heard and seen in an open office so I think it makes communication worse.
Do your side projects have customers? I’ve found that there is no motivator like someone else’s support tickets or deadlines. Put another way, it is easier to find motivation when the needs of your project are immediately helpful to someone else, rather than theoretically helpful. Just a thought.
Your arguments come from a traditional point of view. With laws like the DMCA and it's successors, copyright is an entirely different beast when those copies are digital. You can't make more copies, but you also can't circumvent any copy protection in place.
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You're missing the point. Nobody cares about the value of your bag.
It is a bug when the server trusts the client, for exactly this reason.
I'm a bit perplexed anyone would pay that much money just to cheat in a videogame. What's the point? Are they just really sore losers with too much money? Do they get any money back from cheating?
The Higgs field was in the realm of theory for a long time. The maths matched up, but it wasn't until the LHC that scientists had the instrumentation to even look for it. Two other collides at the time through they were getting close, but it turns out the Higgs Boson wasn't anywhere near where they thought it'd be.

It took a long time and a lot of work, but the experiments are reproducible (and they were reproduced several times to ensure they had found the Higgs and to learn more properties about it).
> but I think there is huge value with regular irl interaction

a) People vary hugely in the extent to which they find irl interaction helpful. You can’t make a single statement like this and claim that it applies equally to everyone.

b) Huge value to whom?