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>There's no guarantee that computers will do better.

This seems like a fallacious argument from incredulity. There is no reason to believe that humans are the ultimate existence for navigating around multi-ton land vehicles at 20-100+ miles an hour, and there is plenty of reason not to. For computers, there will be bugs and edge cases, but there are plenty of examples of high assurance low bug code in areas it matters. Additionally, any experience gained can be applied to the entire fleet at once. Computers have fundamentally better response times. And sensor input absolutely can better. A self-driving vehicle need not have any blind spots in 360°, and can "watch" all of that at once. No human will ever handle animals at night the way a vehicle with a FLIR could.

Meanwhile we know for sure that there are whole classes of issues that simply do not exist for computers. They do not get tired. They do not use drugs. They do not get distracted by the passenger or texting (humans are awful at multi-tasking). They do not "have a bad day". They do not get angry at that "jerk" in the other lane. They will know all the rules of the and not forget. Perhaps most of importantly of all, for all these things there will not be variability within a fleet. Sure, there are very good human drivers, but there are also endless awful ones, and every single person must be trained anew and go through a high risk phase while they get experience. Not with a computer. Consistency and attention to boring details and checklists, every single time, has proven a key driver of health & safety improvements across many industries. And even all that are just a few of the first order effects, there will be second order ones too like much less incentive to put off maintenance when the car can drive itself to the service center and another can take its place.

Sure there will no doubt be more obstacles along the way and it'll take a lot of time and effort. There may well be high profile screw ups, it's still humans doing the developing. But you've got a real steep hill in my opinion if you can look at all that and the casualty stats and still want to argue that computers won't ultimately be better.

>There is no incentive to make it better, at least not in our Capitalistic system

This is just utter bullshit though. Our capitalist system includes cost internalization in many cases, and cars are one of them. It's called insurance, and since you're required to carry it by law the fact that it didn't occur to you raises will questions in my mind about the basis of your opinions. Unlike many fields, in cars improvements in safety have a direct financial bottomline. Furthermore, self-driving will most likely enhance that, not detract it, because there the model of people giving up direct ownership and buying shares instead will become possible.
Ask the person with missing appendages how much money was saved by not buying the tool with the safety features.
The entire rest of the article is just pointless misleading fluff.

No, it's not. It's a press release, which while being pretty technically basic is broadly accurate. It includes some comparisons with existing technology, reasons that this development is different, and possible applications. The point is to make this development known to other people outside the field who have less knowledge about the underlying technology. That's a totally reasonable goal; not every article has to be an in-depth technical review.

This article does commit one unforgivable crime, which is failing to link to the research itself. I absolutely cannot understand why media outlets and press offices are so reticent to do this simple thing.
Even if you do, probably not in Racket and German at the same time
I generally agree, but we should acknowledge that "the real stuff" can be, in its way, somewhat fake.

Portable code can be run on whatever filesystem the user chooses. We can only test with what we have. So this boils down to another way to say "works on my machine" and that may or may not be relevant depending on how well the OS and hardware we test on matches the customer's setup.

It's good to be able to run your tests against whatever filesystem you choose, though.
You probably need more than one analyzer to find the physical location of the signal within a reasonable amount of time. Make friends with local ham radio operators. Almost everyone loves a good fox hunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting
Regardless of your opinion on Facebook, I don't think its employees should have to deal with a personal attack like that. It's one thing to try to get them to reconsider their viewpoint on their job, and quite another to flippantly call them out with a response that doesn't foster discussion.
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I think you're off to a Great Start. I love the selection of music pieces and the interface is easy to use and clean. There's a good emphasis on Quality over quantity, which I appreciate.

Here are some features I would like:
1. Allow downloads without having to change windows.
2. If the song is already downloaded, the UI should indicate that: so i know what I've downloaded and what I haven't.
3. Perhaps, make some recommendation for an offline music player that defaults to downloaded location. Explanation: For those of us who are just getting started with offline music, it's hard to find a player that can play the music.

And, don't forget your primary value prop:
Offline/royalty free music is awesome because it doesn't use Data and its free.

Thanks!
>Like a Jew in Nazi Germany

Really? You're going to compare your situation to that?
All the discussion ITT so far has been about the concept or hardware implementation of full-memory encryption. I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts about the proposed API.
You created a single strawman scenario where female selection doesn't exist.

This doesn't invalidate literally hundreds of other possibilities where it could exist. Are you really serious about this right now? Do you not see flaws in the argument you constructed?
Movies Anywhere also makes the basic idea a lot more trustworthy, because it's effectively a full cross-redeeming of licenses between a number of services rather than just a single service. To lose any of the purchases linked with it, every involved company would need to shutter their video services.
The induction heaters you're linking are designed to be permanently installed. They're perfect for switch heating, but probably not a cost-effective option for maintenance work. You'd need to have the heaters installed very close together over the entire length of the track, and the likelihood that any one of them actually needs to be used to heat the track for repairs would be very small.

A portable option might be possible, but then you'd have to mess with batteries or generators or something to provide the power. Ropes soaked in kerosene sounds to me like the "the cosmonauts used a pencil"† option.

† (Yes, I know that this is an urban legend.)
I think your theories are really interesting but there's a hole in this one. Tribe A also has parents. Not all reproduction happens through force. Female selection was probably happening in Tribe A.

The war scenario and arranged marriage mix things (which is one of the reasons what you say is interesting) but I don't think it's so black and white.
It is rather unclear what you want. First you state you want the client to be a dumb plotter and fully generate the layout on the server. Now you want everything we already have, and in addition a set of common GUI widgets in SVG. These seem to be opposite ideas?
> 100% of the time, NYT, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo are running what they think is an effective awareness and information campaign - and is in reality going to cause scandal fatigue and hurt their credibility. Everyone complains about his Twitter... stop airing every single one of his tweets.

But right now it's good for those sweet clicks. They have an audience who loves to get worked up about Trump, just as there's an audience that loves to get worked up about the kind of people who get worked up about Trump. They have their own content, too.
Privacy also meets your test for “second-hand” negative effects. You can be a monk, but someone snapping a picture and writing up a post can destroy your privacy as well as using the service yourself. More realistically, you can use FB for the bare minimum, but if your friends and family use it a lot, your privacy is gone again.
This guy bases his claims on the following "So I went to the library, looked up the 1968 Outer Space Treaty and, sure enough, Article 2 states: "No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies." Meaning it was unowned land"
Later in this scheme, learn, "In 2001, I had 163,000 emails from customers asking me that. The conclusion we came to was to set up a democratic republic nation called the "Galactic Government." It took us three years to write the constitution and we put it online in March 2004, when we had 3.7 million property owners and 173,562 votes for ratification. So now we’re a fully constitutionally ratified sovereign nation."
So, first he says, it's cool because sovereign nations cannot stake a claim. But after decades of selling property, he formed a sovereign nation that claims ownership on the property he sold. Does this not strike everyone as contradictory and makes all claims of this Galactic Republic as null and void?
And new HQ buildings are the cathedrals of our time.
It's a point of internal discussion on scalable ways to achieve this, but nothing we can promise. We definitely see the need for it.
This is true, but doesn't mean what most think it does because it doesn't address knowledge/belief about whether someone's bad. Someone could vote for Trump because they're an idiot. To an extent that's true of working for Zuck as well, except that Facebook has a much more rigorous interview process than the White House. While it's not good to be an idiot, it's not the same as being amoral and I think that's what most people read in the original statement. Consider these alternatives.

"If you vote for Trump and know he's bad..."

"...it does mean that the possibility of someone being a bad person..."

Not quite the same, eh?
Having idols is a young people thing. Young folks just didn't used to attach to business leaders as much as they do now. When I was a kid, typical idols were music stars, actors, sports stars. The Internet created a new category of success for young people, and therefore created a new category of idols for young people.
We have been using it for over a year and this is good news. Hopefully a good product will move to a great one.
I would agree with the caveat that it has to be a master's or phd. There would be way too many graduates with bachelor's.
That's my experience. I wanted to teach programming to my SO, because I know she's extremely intelligent and she could do programming quite well. She just had a mental block, and never got it past the second week of the (Coursera) class, when she had to program something small and felt extremely stupid for not knowing how to do it.

I remember going through the same when I was studying programming though. Some people get over it, others don't. That's ok.
>distribute

There you have it. They can make the stuff opensource, put it on GitHub and let people install themeslves.

This is Apple controlling the distribution, it's not about controlling what's installed on the devices.

People can install the spyware freely.
The backend is almost entirely custom, though many common low-level open-source components are used pervasively. For example, for components written in C++ we use Abseil, Google Test, etc.

The SDKs are all open source and make use of other open source components:

* Android: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/tree/master/firebase-firestore
* iOS: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/tree/master/Firestore
* Web: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/tree/master/packages/firestore

For example, the iOS SDK uses LevelDB for local key-value storage and gRPC for communication with the backend.
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how strongly you feel about Facebook or how right you are or feel.

The guidelines also ask you not to snark on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
Cars have been locking with honks when you double press the lock button ...forever
I have. Worked at a large networking company that is rampant w/ low-skilled H-1Bs IMO.
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Emby works well for me, better than Plex ever did. https://emby.media/
The exposure to air pollution from living in a city can be equated to number of cigarettes in terms of cancer risks. Living in San Francisco is about 1/3 cigarette a day, with an average PM2.5 of around 8ug/m^3.

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I have a lot of respect for the table saw when I do my hobby woodworking. Stupid me didn't think a jointer was that dangerous; I tried to joint a small (2"x3"x2") piece of mesquite using just my hands. The piece flew off and my finger dropped into the spinning blades. Luckily, while it did slice off the tip of the finger, it hopefully won't be permanent damage. It did make me realize though how dangerous things really are.
I don't know. I mean, the US should not be exploiting Latin America and some of this has occurred and there events like Pinoche that are pretty shameful.

At the same time, allowing an inept criminal syndicate friendly with the Russians to starve millions of people some hundreds of miles off the shores of the US is hardly a good idea either.

I'm generally against intervention but hopefully the Maduro regime is taken down somehow. This is hardly a fringe position either, most of South America and Europe has adopted the same position.

If anything I feel the US should be more involved there and less involved in the Ukraine and Syria.
It's boring to only ask questions with objective answers! The opinion section of the newspaper is often my favorite. I'm enjoying people's responses.
People report their personal wealth and income to the local tax authority every year, presumably that tells you something about a person's financial credibility.
> Going around the terms stated in an agreement to accomplish something forbidden by the agreement is a type of fraud. Fraud is illegal.

It’s going to be hard for me to take this seriously on a website where the traditional way to read WSJ and NYT articles is by using services that violate the newspaper ToS. It just sounds like pseudo-sanctimony.
Yes, it runs on racks of Google Pixel devices rather than servers. (I jest)
>But there's, at minimum, a strong case to be made that a park that all may use is a greater social good than a country club limited to a few.

Can't both sides be correct? There is certainly a host of good feelings one gets when they're a part of something that is exclusive. (Not saying it's morally right, just making an observation.) Whether those feelings are altruistic or not is besides the point. From that person's point of view, they no longer have those good feelings when their club is no longer exclusive.

From the view of the larger public, the ends justify the means as the happiness of all is larger than the loss of happiness of the few. But for those few, it's still worse.
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It seems like the sign on that equation is wrong though, no? If social media was really a means of avoiding hardships then wouldn't leavers report great angst from withdrawal? Instead they report being happier.

I keep seeing the word humblebrag come up in discussions on FB and I have to wonder if the real reason is that some people see social media as a form of competition. We now see both the good fortunes and misfortunes of people in a much wider global circle, which can provoke either jealousy or anxiety.

> I just don't care about the rest.

Everyone is different I guess. I could never say that I do not care about the welfare of friends and family.
Some people never got one.

People (in physics grad school in the 90s mind you) made fun of me when I had an HP100LX (a pocket sized DOS-5 machine you could carry around) for writing fortran code in microemacs or doing Derive/mathematica trace formulas while away from the terminals. It was also a good PDA and had an ebook reader for killing time on the bus. When I saw people with the early smart phones doing vastly worse than me nerding out on my HP, I knew there was no way I'd get one of those things. I'm on the bloody internet all day as it is for work; no reason to be more connected.
Don't remember to backup. I've had multiple drives fail (within 6 months!), luckily I always have at least 2 copies of my data.
I didn't think they were lawful but this book review says I was mistaken: https://www.lawfareblog.com/deadly-metal-rain-legality-flech...
Note that this was written in May 2018, and the author is probably in the US in the state of Massachusetts. I'm guessing the location based on a statement on the site that MA residents will be charged sales tax.

The next month, a major legal change took place for such sites when the Supreme Court ruled that states can force out of state online vendors to collect sales tax. At least half the states now have such requirements, and most of the rest are in the process of getting it in place.

This made doing a "get paid directly by the end user" site a lot more complicated, both legally and technically.

If you don't have sufficient sales into a state, you don't have to collect tax, but unfortunately most states seem to be going with a threshold of 200 transactions a year or sales of $100k or $200k or some similar high number.

That "or" is the killer. If you are selling items that individually are cheap it is not hard to reach a state's "must collect and file" threshold by transaction count even if you have very little income from the state. You could easily lose all your profit and more in such a state to tax report filing fees.
> If Facebook was licensing EDCs for millions a year, this ban might not have been the first reaction Apple took.

Why would Facebook do this, and how?
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The US has worked from day one do destabilize any kind of government in Venezuela, having openly supported coups and now a blockade that is disrupting oil production, which is the main trading of that country. To say at this point that the economic and social situation of Venezuela is just the fault of Venezuelan leaders (whatever their problems might be) is baffling and a plain lie. The current US government is openly supporting an intervention to control Venezuelan's oil, so for me it is not a surprise that the people and the army forces of Venezuela are backing their government, the same way that I see no surprise that the Iran government receives popular support despite all its problems. The US and American people should do a mea culpa and stop what they are doing to destabilize the world.
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any implications for regular old Firebase?
His Wikipedia page explains that connection to David Tesarik: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

In short, Le Roux was the original author (under the name E4M) was later hired by Hafner to write a commercial disc encryption system together with Hollingworth who authored ScramDisc.
Later Le Roux released E4M under its new name TrueCrypt, and the commercial team (with Tesarik as its maintainer) sued him.
Some of the people using the Facebook spy app in this case were as young as 13 -- with "signed parental consent forms".

What do you think would be the proper response to a store selling cigarettes to 13-year-olds as long as they had a parent's signature? I think we'd still step in and stop them. The government can even revoke their license to sell tobacco to anyone in that case.

There's no "personal responsibility" at issue here. Our society has decided that 13-year-olds aren't old enough to give consent. I suspect there would have been less outcry, and for a different reason, had everyone involved in this issue been above the age of majority.
What is a "gold standard" study?
Isn't that already GlassDoor? Even better, they pull straight from the source: employees.
I was actually able to disable this in my GMC, but now I find myself double and triple checking to make sure it locked.
The honk is not the car locking, it's the alarm engaging as it usually comes from the alarm horn. Most cars with no alarm system don't make more than the mechanical sound of locking the car and the visual aid of the signal lights blinking.

There are some cars that use the car (not alarm) horn when locking so maybe their central locking system is connected to it, although it never looked like a factory option, rather an OEM alarm or something similar.
IS this why cell signal always seem to be horrible in grocery stores (aside from them being large concrete-block buildings?
Like all discussions of AI, I feel the discussion in the comments seems unmoored from actual predictive analytics in healthcare. We have this fantasy future of omnipotent AI machines controlling our destiny, when in reality the here and now is all we have solid evidence about. The reality is all of this "AI" in healthcare is just fancy mathematical equations crunched on increasingly large data-sets, and until humans themselves are much less biased, the math isn't going to solve these social problems.

My job involves creating predictive modeling for the VA hospital system. I have recently, in the past month, worked on models predicting the probability of death in the next year, probability of receiving Social work services, probability of receiving a screener which indicates food insecurity, and more. The idea behind all of these is to take our clinical intuitions and the intuitions based on prior research, then gather variables that allow us to use our theoretical intuition to predict future health outcomes. These predictive models may turn into dashboards, which are basically daily or weekly tables that show clinicians which of their patients are predicted to get certain outcomes.

Now, how does this all circle back to biases and disparities? All of our models include racial, ethnic, gender, rurality, age, and many other categories of sociodemographic information. However, at every step of this process, there is a human (whether PI, analyst, or clinician in the final step) looking at numbers/variables/values and making decisions.

Thus, I don't think we can truly separate the AI from the human in current healthcare analytics. We do our best to control for disparities and get down to the brass tax, the actual medical information, but there is simply too much human decision-making in the current workflow to truly divorce the "disparity differential" from whatever humans would do on their own sans mathematical modeling.

Overall: our models are mere collaborators, and until we minimize our personal and systemic biases and disparities, we can't hope to use our fancy mathematical models to minimize them for us.
This seems like a feature, not a bug. If developers know that tricking or coercing kids into IAPs will not profit them, they will stop doing so.

And even putting the kid issue aside, anything that discourages repeated-purchase IAPs is itself a net benefit to gaming and app development.