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DJI Flight Simulator Possible Malware
Downloaded the DJI Flight Simulator last night (4/30/19). My antivirus program blocked the install, saying "DJI_FS.exe" contains a pattern consistent with "TR/Crypt.ZPACK.Gen [trojan]". So, I clearly cannot use it. I already deleted it, so cannot confirm the version -- possibly 2.20....

My tinfoil hat says to watch out for a non-US's company trying to infiltrate other countries' computers. But, nah, that'd never happen. Right?

My science geek side says that perhaps it's a false positive.

How do you prove it? My only options seem to be to either not use it or install it on a dark PC without connection to the rest of my network, but I don't know if the app will still work without a network connection.
No, nuclear is not reneweable. The main sources of reneweable are wind, solar, bio mass, water. Depending on the source the exact numbers might vary for small differences in counting, but to see the overall development, look here: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-sha...
His quote doesn't suggest you care about gay marriage. It suggests caring about PRIVACY because for example (amongst many other examples he didn't mention) gay marriage.
The ideal method would be CRISPRing up some algae to synthesize gasoline, but we're pretty far from that.
> he worked part-time to build and sell his own ant terrariums, which he calls “formicariums”, from the insect’s Latin name.

That's not just what he calls it, that's the official name for them.
The number is not the electricity consumed. Again capacity factor needs to be factored in plus all the other things I just listed for you.

So it's highly misleading. On top of that, we haven't even talked about the fact that it's increased the prices dramatically for the german consumer and it's not going to reduce CO2 emissions even looking into the future maybe even slightly increase it because of the need to support it with coal now that they are closing the nuclear power plants.

It's a huge failure.
> A state-of-the-art GPS receiver can slot straight into a missile.

I thought civilian grade GPS didn’t work at high speed or high altitude (meaning missile rather than aircraft) for exactly that reason?
More surprisingly the market cap on coinmarketcap is at $2850m, up from $2845m a week or so ago when the news hit. You'd imagine at least some people would be cashing in Tethers for other assets (BTC, USD) and so the number of Tethers out there would drop. It shows daily trading volume of $12,308,023,802 USD yet the market cap doesn't budge significantly. Something seems not to add up.

By the way I just tried selling 1000 tether short on Kraken. Dunno if anyone else is trying to trade this thing?
> (Tell them you have a lawyer friend who will never let you live it down if you say anything without speaking to your attorney first.)

Don't do this unless you really have a lawyer friend. Lying to the police, even when you haven't committed a crime otherwise, can be prosecuted as obstruction.

It's better to simply say that you will not answer questions without an attorney present, then just stop talking.

I'm not a lawyer either, but I worked alongside law enforcement for most of my adult life.
“Sleep” – Andy Warhol (1964; 5:20:27)
It exists, it's called :h(elp). I've barely begun to delve into the mountain of documentation that is :h.

You can read Pro Vim or Modern Vim as well.
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It's the current extreme right Tory party. One would normally expect their Environment Minister to pretend the protests and environment don't exist. Any admission is remarkable - but useless. For action we need a change of government.

We've already had a select committee on climate that was unequivocal about what action and urgency was needed.

> This thing you call a 'rather extremist position' is a traditional position industrial societies have held

No, that really isn't true. The extremist position is continuing regardless in the face of overwhelming evidence. Not acting back in the 19th before there was any knowledge or evidence is not really comparable.

It was Thatcher and Reagan that did so much to get the agreement for world phase out of CFCs in 1987. A more unlikely pair to promote such regulation I can't imagine.

Thatcher was remarkably well informed in the earliest days of climate science. Also one of the first to call for global action on climate. So despite being of an anti-regulation mindset she was happy to promote and implement strong regulation to save our skins. From her speech to the UN in 1989:

"What we are now doing to the world … is new in the experience of the Earth. It is mankind and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways. The result is that change in future is likely to be more fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known hitherto. Change to the sea around us, change to the atmosphere above, leading in turn to change in the world's climate, which could alter the way we live in the most fundamental way of all.

"The environmental challenge that confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world. Every country will be affected and no one can opt out. Those countries who are industrialised must contribute more to help those who are not."

She lost interest, or time, for the environment later in her premiership as it became ever more inept on most issues, caught up with in-party fighting (often EU related), and stupid ideas like poll tax. Yet her early and mid term record on climate and pollution is better than any since.

> we shouldn't put the environment ahead of the poor until we've exhausted every other option.

The poor will be more severely affected by climate changes than anyone.
At first glance, it's not a bad thing, but it does nothing to solve the pricing problem that America's healthcare system has.

Going a bit deeper, however, it will most likely increase health care costs over time. This is because it splits the population into two separate risk pools (low-risk low-use, and high-risk high-use).

To save myself the time of explaining it in full, just compare it to the current state of the credit card market. When Discover pioneered the idea of splitting the risk pool (by offering cash back rewards to low risk clients), then it created upwards pressure on credit card fees (because the general risk pools slowly became high-risk pools, meaning that existing risk fees didn't cover the necessary spread). The traditional cards now started charging more to merchants, which left room for larger rewards for the low-risk pool in a vicious cycle.
Apparently FB hyper-targeted Google employees with ads based on the profile these employees had happily volunteered when creating their FB profile. (Wish I had a reference link).

Also, from what I understand (again, only hearsay, I don't have any proof for this), there were many employees at Google who thought "Don't be evil" was a joke.

And so they decided they will go to Facebook, which was more closely aligned with their morals, as explained in this rhyme -

Move fast and break laws,

Lets show these dumb fricks who's boss,

When shit hits the fan

The CIA will cover our arse
I don't know, but health care is at least as good in Europe, if not better.

I'm pretty sure some huge companies have important advantages by portraying that the expensive one of the US is better. But I highly doubt it.

And for the really rare cases for rich person's, people fly where the best specialist is.
How much is less.
Now I just get unsolicited dick picks via Apple AirDrop.
For many many years there was a shop on Victoria street in Edinburgh that appeared to sell nothing but brooms and large balls of string - it was even mentioned in Complicity by Iain Banks.

Here are some pics of it:

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_MY_P_S/0_my_photographs_shops_...

Edit: Sad to say that I passed that shop for many years going to uni in the Grassmarket (both as a student and working there) and never went in!
Don't they sometimes sign legislature with multiple pens for similar purpose?
Yes, there is a balloon shop around the corner. They don't have anything except balloons, but they go deep.
I don't plan on having kids :P
With the use of gesture controls and swipe-up menus and "soft keys", etc, why not put in something like the "pie control" apps on Android, where the OS controls one part and the app controls another?

Consider a semi-configurable universal menu with a well defined access method, where you always can back out of the app, and in the case of browsers also have guaranteed access to switching tabs and accessing options, etc.
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Also the power cost of running this analysis all the time can be higher than just turning on the screen even though the user didn't "request" it.
If you're adding marginal consumption to the grid that does not exist today, you can't account for it as being in part powered by renewables. You are producing no more renewable energy than previously, and fossil fuel consumption will increase by exactly the amount you're adding to the grid.

I'm not arguing that EVs aren't a good idea. I'm just in favor of being clear about the choice that's being made; a switch to 100% EVs would result in significantly increased electricity consumption powered by fossil fuels until renewables catch up, but lower overall carbon emissions since you're burning the fossil fuels more efficiently.
https://www.makerobos.com/
The disastrous effects of the longest technical generation in computer history
It's amazing just how much stuff there is under Tokyo - not just infrastructure like this and the usual transport links but entire multi-storey shopping malls. There's almost a whole city beneath the city. It's possible to travel for miles without ever seeing daylight!
It’s one of these debug interfaces they find all the time in network equipment, either Chinese or by Cisco.
“The question is no longer who committed the crime, but where’s the evidence to support the computer’s analysis?”
China and India emit far less per person than any Western country while simultaneously producing the most carbon intensive goods for Westerners and having that counted on their tally.

Unless you are willing to flat out say that you think an Indian or Chinese life isn't worth a Western one this line of debate falls apart.
Who produced the vast majority of emissions up until 20 years ago? It's rank hypocrisy.
I agree. Thanks. It was a mistake to use his case as an example of my concern.
OpenSCAD is nice for simple geometry, but products today never have simple geometry. Doing bevels in openSCAD is a nightmare for example, and bevels are everywhere.
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> articles have been noticably influenced by a defacto, anachronistic political (progressive) position

I hate it when the right pretends that everyone is biasing everything in terms of a progressive agenda, when that's just not the case, even in Wikipedia's case.

There was the case of Cross doing absolutely right-wing, biased, pro right-wing Israeli governments entries and edits and being protected by Wikipedia editors to do so.

I think what's often gets conflated is that munch of Western society and organizations are socially progressive, sure, but they're very much economically right-leaning, something that rarely gets acknowledged and which makes it difficult for me to have a honest conversation with the other side.

I'd also note that Wikipedia's founder is very much right-leaning, regularly attacking the likes of Corbyn and certainly not holding progressive economics dear.
This thread made me realize that while requiring victims to give up privacy is bad, we must thank them because it exposes fundamental issues with the law.

For example, should it be against the law to drink alcohol if you're underage? I'd say no. There should be no punishment for drinking alcohol underage.

Similarly, possession itself should never be against the law. It is a different matter if we are taking about toxins or biochemical weapons because we still need some kind of safe storage requirements but possession of photos and videos should never be against the law. Who came up with this?

The first season of black mirror had this as well (spoiler).
Why is ctrl-[ not better? You split the workload between two hands.

You -do- have the useless, enormous capslock key remapped to control, right? ;-)

Anyway, it's common to remap jj or jk to esc.
I don't think it is stupid. Retirement in this sense doesn't mean "sit at home and do nothing all day" - it just means getting out of the rat race and stop working for money at the job one hates. Once the financial pressure is gone, we can work on things that actually matter to us and those that we enjoy.

I do get your point about slaving away the youth though.
There are obvious disadvantages to being the PC -- your life is not stable or safe. In real life, there are no save points. It's not so surprising that people live real life as an NPC, but fantasize about the excitement of being a PC, and consume media that allows them to indulge that fantasy without risk.
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Sure a Prius can get as high as 38% (at the cost of two complete drive trains). But what about the average vehicle sold in 2018?

I suspect you'd be well below the 30% efficiency again. At least in the USA the Prius isn't particularly popular (except to trade in for a model 3). The demand is for the small crossover and SUV segments.
> come from China and India

Utterly irrelevant. Everywhere needs to take action to solve the issue, USA, China and India especially. Both China and India are investing heavily in renewables, though clearly they have some way to go. The odd one out, presently, is the USA. I expect that to change soon enough.

Doesn't matter who goes first, who does more, or when, just that everyone takes enough action.

You'll be able to level the same criticism against any of the first countries that start inching toward acknowledging and starting to change the system. Still doesn't matter. Even if it's not yet enough. Only the end result does. Maybe it will eventually come to sanctions and closing trade to nations that aren't doing enough.

Simply put, someone has to go first, the first step is never enough.
"Comments people who wish they were capable of doing such a project make on the internet for 800, Alex"
It's not really as clear cut as that.

Transformers work well in sequence tasks because both compare well in terms of accuracy but also scale better than a RNNs like a LSTM or a GRU. That means they can be trained on more data.

This isn't really the same as CNNs, where they model images by running at different scales. I'm not aware of any cases of Transformers being used particularly successfully on images.

They can be used on graphs of course, by translating the problem into a graph walk problem (ala DeepWalk).

All the examples you gave (language modelling, Dota2, music and protein modelling) are setup as sequence prediction problems, so are perfect for Transformers.
"Know your digital rights at the border" will be ignored as its meaningless to most people

"Your phone isn't safe at the border" is FUD.

"Your phone is subject to searches without warrant at the border" is accurate and concrete

I wonder if there is space in this world for non-manipulative political activism and advertising.
What about the plethora of cheap chinese ones?

Does the USA actually manufacture any of the things on the list any more?
Also in the news: "The European Commission has formally accused BMW, VW, and Daimler of colluding to impede the rollout of emissions limiting technology" [0]

I really hope all these German carmakers become the next Kodak.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18296540/european-commissi...
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So 1-2 years' worth of humanity's emissions?

Only goes to show how we're the culprit here.
He was definitely using Fahrenheit because he was talking in New York, and most of the conversations on global warming in the American sphere was conducted in Fahrenheit until about 10 years ago.
Be careful when writing longer comments or creating issues with long descriptions. Your work is not persisted, so in case of an unfortunate event you lose all your input. This happened to my colleagues several times and caused a lot of frustrations.

There's a famous issue dating all the way to 2006 for this:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-9292
Who is promoting an agenda?

I’m making quite incontroversial statements that should be trivial to verify if you have an inch of interest. I’m leaving it to you to make your own ethical considerations. I also gave you one source, and encourage you to explore more on your own. If you don’t to, fine, but then I don’t really see a point about going on about agendas and ideology.
That advise just fails miseably in practice. We can't go back to non-mechanical sources of power unless we want to economically regress to those times.

Can you imagine ships taking months to cross Atlantic? Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?
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Sure, but I still find it remarkable that they have achieved the profile they have, yet haven't even existed for a year yet!

Surprisingly the UK has done remarkably well on climate over the last decade, compared to many. Emissions have steadily fallen.

Normally demos, regardless of scale, have politicians pretending they didn't happen at all.

I'm inclined to think all they need to do is keep at it.
The Reg is unusually bad, though. When they can't get plain science or tech right, it's time to not read them any more.
Since, as a startup owner, you are basically putting all your eggs in one basket, would it make sense to do a mutual investment with another startup?
Not sure what you meant by lower level mechanisms, but you can protect console logins and RDP with 2FA: https://duo.com/docs/rdp

https://help.duo.com/s/article/1084?language=en_US
This is useful for building more macros.
Yeah and "national security" has always been a form of rhetorical special pleading around the constitution and any check on power.

I personally have this heuristic for if it is potentially valid - if they can't even explain why it is important for National Security it is utter bullshit as a power grab.
It's only an embarrassment if you have a deep seated anti-commercial bias. Sure, your adjectives are quite invocative but let's contrast your prose with reality:

> smuggling

Taking something personal in the space assigned for personal use is not smuggling.

> schlocky trinkets

Envelopes from space are pretty neat and evidently highly valued by the people that ended up buying them. Those people now have something that is nearly unique and very special to them. Have you personally ever created or done something as meaningful for other people?

> national significance

No doubt. But how come a government bureaucracy like NASA can't make cool memorabilia like that to give to the fans that payed for all of it but can only watch?

> international spotlight

Few people cared about Apollo 15. It's actually already legendary how hard the public interest dropped off after the first few landings.

> triumph of capitalism

It is a triumph, absolutely. Hundreds of people got something really meaningful for them that they would not have gotten otherwise. The astronauts got a well earned pay off. Humanity got artifacts that will be preserved down the ages. Nobody was hurt or exploited. Win Win Win all around
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It's easy enough to create a private profile on Instagram and only post things for the benefit of your close friends. I have an account for exactly this purpose.
Have you submitted it to Virus Total to see if the other antivirus detect it? https://www.virustotal.com
Julian Assange jailed over bail breach
Somehow those free market proponents did a really bad job.
Why Learn Vim in 2019?
Most people who enjoy their work don't retire early. So I'd say that statement is not relevant.
The evidence from health care systems in other countries suggests that this type of excessive rent seeking does not exist in regulated markets. It’s the lack of regulation in the US that is the problem, not the other way around.
To bolster your point:

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volum...
One could say the same about HN comments. ;)
Instead of forcing people to give their mobiles, why not use the "innocent until proven guilty" age-old adage?

They aren't forcing people to give up their mobiles, merely saying that if a victim chooses not to, they are denying the police useful evidence. In the absence of other evidence, there's a risk that prosecutions won't go ahead.

The reason this is an issue at all is the presumption of innocence. The accused is presumed innocent and without evidence (which may or may not be on the phone) there is nothing the police or the courts can do.
You are asking for absolutes in science, which is something that does not exist because science is not dogma, thus open to corrections, which is inherently opposed to making absolute statements.

That's why scientific statements use probabilities and words like "might", it has nothing to do with "not demonstrated" but everything with admitting that humans are fallible beings and there's always a margin of error.
How does this effect open source?
Do these controls actually work? As in, do they prevent banned states from getting this technology or papers describing how to build it? My intuition says no.

And even if they are effective, is it worth the bureaucratic overhead?
i don't get the "retire early" part. who wants to be a retiree for ever? But financial independence is sweet freedom
Kaitai Struct: declarative language to describe various binary data structures
That's what this API provides:

https://api.watttime.org
To begin with you'd need some reason to actually trust that these certificates provide any value. Without that there's no reason for ISRG (the people behind Let's Encrypt) to spend five minutes on it.

Within an organisation in principle S/MIME can provide that value, on the wider Internet there's never been a serious attempt to do so. What exists already is left as it is, basically to rot.

Things you'd want (off the top of my head, there are probably more)

- One or more agreed mechanisms to ensure the legitimate owner of name@example.com can get a cert for name@example.com but no-one else can. If the owners of example.com can, you need a rationale for why that's OK, which will be a struggle - consider whether you think tialaramex@gmail.com is me, or might also be just anybody who works for Google...

- Oversight to ensure that the rules get followed. This is truly difficult to achieve, I think we got there for the Web PKI, but it's a journey not a destination and every year is a further struggle. Interest in doing this for S/MIME tends to fizzle after just a few weeks each time.

- Client interop good enough that any normal user can expect to send S/MIME signed and encrypted mail to any other normal user and have it be delivered

- Clients that can go get a user their certificate for myname@example.com using a key they created, not some centrally administrated key which renders this whole process useless outside of a centralised trust environment.

- Widespread clients that provide a reliable UX in respect of these features to ordinary end users.

Don't hold your breath.
ROBOT9000 and Xkcd-Signal: Attacking Noise in Chat
Reminds me of the XKCD experiment of an IRC channel that kicks you if your sentence isn't unique:

https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...