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I've filed bugs about this before, part of the problem is that every node in the chain needs to handle video ranges correctly. Once you introduce hardware decoders you can be in bad shape here because the range becomes a guess. Depending on which GPU vendor you have and what OS you're on, there may be a system-wide default output range (and a separate default for videos without range information), and the range assumptions may depend on application. If you use nerdy video compositors like madVR you can get them to tell you how much info they have on video ranges, and in many cases the answer is 'none' so they guess. At least on Windows, it is a fact that some of the range issues are not under Firefox's control, because some of this stuff is delegated to the decoder and to the video driver. (You can configure it in NVIDIA's Control Panel application, fwiw.)

In practice people seem to solve this by just using limited range all the time because it's much better to have limited range content displayed without expansion than to have full range content erroneously limited->full expanded and have a bunch of the range destroyed. If you try to stream to Twitch, for example, they tell you to use limited range, and it will look VERY bad in most players (not just Firefox!) if you disregard the advice. I've also had problems with full range uploads to YouTube that can't be attributed to Firefox.

EDIT: Checked my bug history. For the NVIDIA + Windows + Firefox combo, here is the workaround for range issues along with an explanation of why Mozilla has no way to fix it in this scenario. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1229304#c8
It's easy to use face recognision on someone that has nothing to hide. That does not make it useful to track someone that does have something to hide. Is it enough to put on a mustache and some glases when you walk around a corner to fool the system? A painted face on the t-shirt and a helmet on the head?
It'll be easy for them to ship UnGoogled Android because that's what Huawei (and other manufacturers) use on their phones in China. Demand, however, is another story...
That premise assumes that one can control safety, but that might be a hard assertion to build shared understanding on because not everyone shares that assumption.

Perhaps you would have more luck trying to build a foundation on the relationship of risk management and privacy. Mitigation vs acceptance vs avoidance, etc.
I'm sure you can just jam their signal. It's very easy to overpower a distant signal from space with a nearby transmitter and ground-based power.
If you ask me, not likely. Simply because the Starlink satellites will need to be replaced regularly. And thus will be expensive. While your terrestrial fibre is always there and easy to repair. Launching and building 12k satellites will also be very expensive and time consuming to begin with. But than reusing rocket boosters requires a certain number of launches to be economically feasible (I don't remember the correct number from the ESA (?) study I read a while ago). Just how Starlink will help SpaceX reach that number of launches and whether this results in overall profitability is the real question I have. But I guess this data will never be published...
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Not the OP by technology like this will explicitly make racial profiling legal again, because the power that be will hide behind the decisions taken by algorithms: “The computer told us to stop and search this black person’s car, it wasn’t us, the computer is smart, we were just following the computer’s orders”.
It is crazy how much the quality of the camera's has changed. I haven't looked into DSLR camera's for a few years, since I have one and am not really in the market for one now, but have there been similar advances in that tech? As in, ground breaking higher quality, more compact form factors, etc? You'd imagine if you can get this type of quality from a phone's camera, you'd be able to make truly amazing things happen with dedicated camera's.
At Kyso (https://kyso.io) we see a lot of people get hired into data-science jobs and the biggest success factor that I've personally seen is having some example's of projects that the candidate has worked on. This can be either public projects online (thats what we started Kyso to help with!) or a description of a project they worked on while studying/working.

Something I've noticed about data-science candidates is that they are very happy to jump into the technical details of an implemented model - but sometimes struggle on is communicating the reasons for the model in the first place and how it can help the company/research project. A lot of data-science projects are smaller ad-hoc jobs where the data scientist is trying to answer some business question and here communication is a vital skill.
How are you measuring safety, and how are you measuring privacy, to make the 'inversely related' claim? What is your evidence for this claim, measured in the measures you are using?
At least to my own experience, I would say, the variation is gym to gym, depending on the instructors background / experience (or lack-of) and less between countries.
As impressive as this is, I am gravely concerned that this (and the generally lower cost of entry to LEO these days) will drastically increase the chances of a Kessler Syndrome event sooner rather than later?
It serves the same purpose as a bible then
It's pretty common in the UK, not as common as mph mind.
That's faster than your average turboprop plane, the Q400 can get up to ~660km/h but that's one of the fastests (commercially available today)
Matthew, that document appeared on the first page of a Google search for Delysid, where it was the first result of 187,000 [https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&hl=en&source=hp&ei...]. I'd never heard of it until seeing the name in the comment I replied to. It's a one-off as far as my having others like it to send on. FWIW, as a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist (38 years experience/age 70) on three antidepressants (lithium/Wellbutrin/Paxil) for life after four severe episodes of major depression, I found it (the document) as fascinating as you did. P.S. This: https://mattwie.se/ is very cool.
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It's free in the sense that it is not bound to an actual atom.
I do, but at the same time I think that lower-hanging, yet not so easy-to-pick, fruits are ignored already. In that case, it becomes more feasible to target far out approaches that are simply easier to implement. Unfortunately, those also happen to be ones that compromise privacy.
> Be a traveler, not a tourist!

The way you describe "traveling" is actually tourism, just long-form. Read a book if you need to "expand your horizon," or I don't know, follow someone on Twitter.

Like, do you think wealthy expats aren't part of the issue? Sure, AirBnB has accelerated the process, but expat-driven price inflation and gentrification were displacing poor people for years before AirBnB exploded.
This will find appeal among those that wish to minimise their interaction with Google.

Having a smartphone (access internet, email etc) with camera is appealing, contributing to large surveillance corporations like Google, Facebook etc is not.

This will be a tiny minority of potential users.
I think this is largely a smoke screen and believe Assange will not be convicted of much. I think Assange has key information that will be useful in establishing that the prior administration used the DOJ and FBI to spy on political adversaries during a campaign year and I think the current administration, DOJ and FBI are intent on making that case.
Along the lines of “everyone is breaking some law”, there could be a shift from “technically illegal but generally harmless and tolerated” to “illegal and mindlessly enforced by automated technology”.

An example being China’s automated jaywalking-shamer.
As @pinboard noted back in the dark ages of 2016, "machine learning is money laundering for bias".
Nobody, there is nothing to see here.
Whenever I think of CrossFit as a brand/product, BodyPump comes to my mind. The biggest difference for me is how CrossFit managed to scale much bigger and keep popularity among their followers.
How does this differ from "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about."?

Surely it's not difficult for you to imagine fairly common scenarios where your equation is patently untrue. A battered spouse of LEO or a non gender-conforming individual in a theocratic society are only two really easy examples that come to mind.

If we assume that individuals who control or have access to surveillance mechanisms are universally magnanimous and actually capable of neutralizing threats to safety, then your negative relationship between safety and privacy might hold up to scrutiny. I have more than a bit of trouble seeing how that assumption is anything other than utopian.
Google Play can be rewritten from scratch to look like the real one and point to open source repositories, but the real hassle are device drivers: they're tight closed to the point there's not a single person in the world who managed to install a 100% open OS on a phone or tablet; even Purism themselves had to use some closed blobs here and there.
Closed firmware/blobs/drivers are the #1 problem; that's the battle to send more troops to, not play stores or apps. The day we eradicate them from devices is the day we can consider those devices really open and trustworthy, the day no entity in the world, not even the original manufacturers, can suddenly decide to make a device obsolete forcing the user to buy a new one.
There are a lot of "smart" people that lack critical thinking skills, and whom are also bootlickers willing to ride on the latest bandwagon fad.
The tourists waiting to see the changing of the guards are not driving London property prices.
A bit tangential, but you are mistaken in that you are confusing container formats and codecs. MP4 is a container format, which can contain, among other codecs, h.264 video. WebM is another container format, which can contain, among other codecs, VP9 video. MKV and AVI are other container formats, and h.265, VP8, and AV1 are other codecs. There are lots of codecs compared to container formats, and the same codecs can often go in multiple different containers (you can even convert encoded video losslessly to a different container format).

Licensing issues are almost all around codecs, not container formats.
Because I thought I would use it more. I will surely end up cancelling.
if they give me something like F-droid or their own market place which endorses FOSS in a better way than what Android originally promised, e.g. minus the Google / Spyware shit preinstalled, then I'd pre-order one now. There is a window of opportunity and massive momentum for this provided they play their cards right (wouldn't hold my breath ... though ZTE on the other hand has been doing not too bad in contributing and supporting FOSS in the past).
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What does the media have to do with our control over government besides nothing?
I agree to most, but because solutions like facial recognition are simply easier to engage than educational reforms or welfare-based safety [sic] nets, this is not necessarily something we get to choose.

States will prefer the former to the latter and firms will provide, at which point I don't think that the definition of safety-from is necessary.
The article speculates legal judgements & fines for violations. So, lots.
Possibly true - I compiled it and it's a bit rough for daily use as yet. It will be a long time (if ever) before it will compare with iTerm2 or Terminator.
> If you're thinking of climbing Everest: just don't. Climb some other mountain. There are lots of them. Let's leave this one be.

No. That is ridiculous, I have as much right to climb it as anyone else, if it pleases me I'll do it. Like you said, there are lots of mountains so I can choose this particular one like I would any other.
Not really because Starlink is in a such low orbit, that any collision would just mean they fall not causing more damage. Worst case scenario would be that most of the Starlink fleet goes down.
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he talks to the first world. we from the 3rd world thought we were included too.
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The worst case (satellite as near the horizon as possible, so as far away from you as possible) speed of light lag for a signal to reach the sat is <3ms. Since a request-response cycle needs to hop 4 times (req up, req down, resp up, resp down) the worst case lag over a single satellite hop is <12ms.

If the other endpoint is not within the field of view of the same sat as you, there needs to be a second hop, from the ground station up to the sat and back down again, which adds another up to 12ms, and so on and so on. Alternatively, they will likely put a ground station on top of all IXPs and from there the signal goes on fiber.
Could you share your current phone model and OS?
Also it may open the road to find metastable material at room temperature, although I don’t think that it’s the case for lantanium hydride.
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There has but the pace is significantly slower.

Fuji just announced the GFX100 which is a medium format camera in the same body as a Canon 1DS. And there are rumours they will allow for multi-capture i.e. 400MP image out of the 100MP sensor.

But in the middle between something like that and your phone camera the market is surely going to decline.
The answer is indeed yes. Just have a look at the relevant law, § 12, § 4 Abs. 2 MarkenG, which is conviently available in some English translation:

> The registration of a trade mark may be cancelled if another person has acquired rights to a trade mark prior to the date that is relevant for the seniority of the registered trade mark within the meaning of section 4 no. 2 or to a commercial designation within the meaning of section 5 and these entitle him to prohibit the use of the registered trade mark in the entire territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Where the cited section 4 no. 2 is

> The following shall give rise to trade mark protection: [...] the use of a sign in trade in so far as the sign has acquired public recognition as a trade mark within the affected trade circles

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_markeng/englisch...
Its sort of obvious if you see stuff like this:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/ai-gaugan-app-painting-neura...

The neural network basically has a huge lookup table of "natural" looking stuff. Just point into that table and get what you want out of it: grass, trees, a crowd, etc and the NN will produce it to your specifications.
If you make that the default, almost all people will continue to seed unless they never use the software again.
At pressures of more than one million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure ? Totally academic, no real application in real world problems.
Didn’t India’s recent anti-satellite missile test throw some debris into higher orbit where it became a potential (albeit brief) risk to the ISS?
Rust doesn't have a syntax distinction for passing by reference vs passing by value (which may sound terrible to a C++ programmer, but Rust has no copy constructors, and types are non-copyable by default, so nothing expensive gets copied by surprise). For example, in the C sense, `Box<u8>` is a pointer, and `&str` is a struct passed by value.

Rust is all about ownership, and `&` means "don't free() this".
Please don't theme our apps
Nepal should sign a Swiss concessionaire to turn Base Camp into a tourist destination and build a cable car as high as possible. Charge a lot.

Limit the number of climbing licenses to what the mountain can bear and charge the market-clearing price.

Use part of the profit to keep Everest clean.

Also offer a $1.5 million copter ride to the summit.

Nepal is poor and needs the money, and this would be better for the environment.
> It's a huge undertaking building an app for Android today without using Google's services, and sometimes even impossible.

F-Droid developers manage to do it. Sure, they might not publish their apps on the Google-Play Store (some do, actually) but so what? Any Android user can freely download these entirely open apps and install them on their own, by pre-checking a box in the phone settings. That's still more than you can say about iOS!
I don't mean to defend surveillance as a gateway to safety by any means, in fact I believe in the exact opposite. Unfortunately, it's going to be integrated into our society whether we like it or not, and after that point it's only a matter of time before we come to accept losing our privacy; having ignored all the exceptional "casualties" and enjoying the add scrutiny it yields to law enforcement.
Convnets were detailed 1980s and didn't become viable until hardware caught up in the 2010s.
I'm ready to sacrifice my extremely convenient way to unlock iPhone just to know this technology is banned worldwide.

This technology opens wide doors for surveillance, for finding, identifying and pursuing political opponents - not just their leaders, but every person who was brave enough to protest on the streets.

It opens wide doors also for cyber bullying, and this issue is a problem for every country, not only for dictatorships.
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The same choice company allways have when acing government Intervention: they can fight in court.
I believe thats why they have lawyers.
Low-light performance is now phenomenal due to better quantum efficiency as they are now using some older CPU manufacturing process tech, and small full-frame mirror-less cameras have almost perfect autofocus now.
Manufacturing/logistics companies are inherently long term investments. It's not possible to get immediate profits from them. I opine that things would be more or less the same even if Gwynne or Tim Cook took the helm. What may miss without Elon is the coolness factor. I know it sounds weird but much of Tesla exists today because of the excitement around what the Tesla team does with the car next.
No github or colab?
> Who was expelled from the EU for hate speech?

At least Denmark and Austria have been planning to deport radical imams, especially when they have preached about killing Jews. Not sure about actual cases, though.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20160303/denmark-eyes-deportation-of...

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/8/17442240/austria-closing-mosque...
maybe not, maybe yes. $200 for 1 hour session where the lawyer explains me the options isn't too far fetched. that is the world we live in. you need money to sue. what I wouldn't do is post on reddit and try to start a pitchfork mob by telling only part of the story and screaming "China bad".
...and don't mind unwanted interaction with Baidu or whoever installs non-removable services there.
This company is facing trouble worldwide because of their likely involvement with Chinese spying. I don’t think this will find any takers among people who are privacy conscious.
I'm sure you're very knowledgeable and correct about a lot of things, but where your argumentation falls down most is user experience.

A concrete example: You say here that what Netflix provides is "visually indistinguishable from a lossless encode". Try actually doing this with an open mind and then make this claim again. It was definitely not the case when I last tried it (very recently).

Argumentation of this nature is sort of endemic in the tech industry: "You think you see or experience this, but I know what you see and experience and you are wrong". It happens in discussions about battery life, visual appeal of different encoding options, basically anything which is at some point subjective and while the people claiming to see a difference could be (factually) wrong in a lot of cases (I often cannot tell), it is very arrogant to sit/stand there and tell them that you know better than them what they see.
I'm still pretty sure that krypton isn't a real element.
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That's less than 12hrs London to New Delhi. Imagine the possibilities.
It's pretty much what's happening on my assigned project. It's a legacy app created in the 90s... most of the time spent is just things that takes 1-3 days but due to the constant tweaks and re-tweaks it can take months. In a personal sense it doesn't affect me. I do the work they require me to do and get paid for it. Professionally and personally, I'm a huge mess because I'm frustrated on how bad is the decisionmaking. I feel I'm just wasting, and even though I'm paid for it it just doesn't feel like I'm doing anything with my career. Sigh.
Indeed, but that initial error was quickly corrected and those cases are unbelievably rare these days.
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Busking is playing music for money on the street. Maybe you don't like it, but it's not exactly begging. In other contexts, I assume you're happy to pay to hear live music performed.
I don't think it is inversely related. At a point, you become less safe. I would not feel safe if every moment of my life was broadcast to everyone; I would be walking a razors edge, where I pay for every minor slip up. Life would be one long anxiety attack. Privacy means being able to relax, and absolutely required for mental and physical health. No privacy is inhuman.
Compare to Trump today `era`, which more devious?
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Knowing Musk, the subscription price will be ridiculous.
In China using AOSP base is fine as people there don't (and can't) use Google services.
How can the US fine Huawei if Huawei is not allowed to operate (and thus doesn't operate) in the US?
We built an event-catcher for cloud logs
U.S. gov. probably would put Snowden through a secret court process, which is widely regarded as a kangaroo court in service of the spook branch of the government. They will make sure he becomes a terrifying example of what happens to heroic whistleblowers.
I thought "high temperature", when talking about superconductors, basically means any temperature above the boiling point of nitrogen...
This really is true, I worked on a project where we were meant to be getting hourly files into a data lake, the files so small we couldn't reach the recommended size of 256mb per file (compressed parquet in azure adls) - the files were like 1 mb each - a years worth of data was tiny and the processing overhead ridiculous
They are no longer R cameras. They have removed the mirror and gotten good results.
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