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>...to dangers that in reality don't really exist in the first place or are so minuscule that you need sales people to market these. The security hysteria of the last decade is laughable, if it didn't cost us that much...

I don't believe that this is true.

For example, the world wasn't a "safer" place to be in between 7 Dec 1941 and 11 Sep 2001, just as it's not a "safer" place now. The danger was ever-present, as the Munich Massacre (1972) clearly demonstrated (and the entire world witnessed).

Instead, what's happened is the ongoing implication that your safety is paramount and any concessions to privacy are an ultimately necessary byproduct to keep you safe from that "new" danger; however, it wasn't a "necessary evil" for the preceeding six (seven, including the oughts?)decades and the danger - certainly - ins't new, right?
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> Oh, and this September will be see 40-year anniversary of WordPerfect [1].

The 'reveal codes' feature of WP 5.2 was just awesome. Does any GUI application have it?
That’s why I didn’t plan on using it for anything other than disposable demos or EP releases that would otherwise be Bandcamp exclusives. Uploading directly to Spotify wouldn’t break my dependency on Tunecore for the releases I care about.
My first search at taobao gives gtx1080 for 300 usd at first position
There are already cameras everywhere though.
Good times indeed!
unconscious biases
of the reviewers

This can of course also be turned the other way around: "less-qualified women are getting more funding over more qualified men due to unconscious biases of the reviewers"

studies that say this might be the case.

Those 'studies' generally suffer from various forms of bias, in particular
social desirability bias [1], and never reflect upon their social desirability bias. Often the authors of such studies also have a direct financial in the claimed outcome of the 'studies': To paraphase Upton Sinclair "It is difficult to get a woman to understand something, when her salary depends upon his not understanding it!".
I challenge you to show me studie along the lines of what you suggest that even mention social desirability bias and financial interest as threats to validity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias
To me when people say they don't want anything, they mean they don't want anything the way most people want it, or that they don't want it in a way that is expected of them.
So the solution then is to go beyond what is normally done, which can be done with courage.
Most people that have issues, have issues in the context of the society they live in. "I don't want to do extraordinary things (that is expected of me in this competitive world)", they say. "I don't want to live this or that kind of family life (that is expected of me)".
To me, there always seems to be this "that is expected of me", or "in the way things are done" present.
"Human interactions are not interesting, because the way I perceive how it is normally done, or how it is expected of me to be done, is not satisfying), and I can't seem to be able to do it any other way."
Don't get me wrong, but people have generally astonishingly absurd problems, that are in a way self-created (or rather created in collaboration with the society they live in), and that is very much related to how satisfied they are with their lives, even they might not admit it. They claim the problem is with the stars, oh stars.
And also, don't get me wrong. The problems are real. But they have nothing to do with the meaningfulness of life, they have only to do with the difficulty of having a meaningful life.
"I want to do ph.d (because I think it's the thing expected of me), but in myself, I don't really want it. I want to garden. But I can't do gardening, because I have this potential I have to fulfill (that is expected of me), etc.".
It seems to be hard to live simple life, or have simple life around, at least. People have created a problem out of their lives. People think, think, and think, as if there's nothing else. But to me, even though the status quo in this world is pretty crazy in general, there are ways to live a meaningful life, but not the way it's expected of you, but the way that you are able to create the interesting things yourself, not by expecting them from others.
Nice to hear that!
>But unexpected, says Stratmann, was that women in leadership positions reported experiencing sexist behaviour at a higher rate than others

If making such reports is rewarded in a way that can help career advancement, then it should not be surprising to observe such a trend.
You are mistaken, it's in effect today but EU members and businesses have UP TO two years to implement it.

Why would Spotify wait until they are sued to do something about it?
Ask HN: How did you find Hacker News?
I'm curious how everyone wound up here- personally, I got here by reading XKCD for years, reading "What If?", and noticing Hacker News get mentioned in the footnotes.
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Hi! Author of the post here.

Lighthouse definitely has some improvements to make for the audit suggestions that offer advice to improve the score. I think people get a little bit frustrated/blinded by the advice when there's nothing that can be done about third parties (I know I do!).

Our product Calibre (mentioned in the bottom of the post) has a n adblocking/third party blocking feature that allows you to compare your pages with or without third party scripts gunking up performance metrics (here's the release post: https://calibreapp.com/blog/release-notes-apr-2019/).

We've seen really good success in separating the two because it sends a clear signal of what a site WOULD score without ads. This is good because it makes it clear to PMs, management and decision makers that tracking tools incur a really visible cost.
I miss psp too. Photoshop doesn’t click with and has (had?) unbearable load times. We had it back when I worked for a small typography around 20 years ago and it was real job-grade boring.

Recently I found an editor that resembles psp feel: https://pixlr.com/editor/ (flash). I’m not affiliated with it in any way, just using it to crop my weekly memes.
> Why does it cost more to Spotify to let the unknown-Joe-Blow-not-signed-to-a-label upload his 4-minute song?

Unless I'm mistaken, Spotify would get the new Bieber automagically via an ERN (Electronic Release Notification) delivery which contains asset links, artist, meta, rights information etc. Since that's from a trusted* source, it can be ingested as-is and everyone is happy. For independent uploads, there's almost certainly several steps of human review and possibly interaction - which costs money and time.
Heyyy you're the one who wrote authlogic! What a blast from the past :) Thank you for your contribution to the Rails community, and congrats on shipping Timber & Vector!
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Learning the Arrow of Time
so, we use eye tracking in experiments to look at how people acquire information. For example, you can parameterize a drift diffusion model using input from gaze. But the equipment is not cheap. I see this as a means of acquiring that sort of data on the cheap. For example on mturk.
> Spotify please hire me so I can work on this, tack.

I know some people who are working on something like that with the added benefit* of being on Ethereum if that interests you... :)
A bit weak of an article. I absolutely hate how facial rec is going to be the norm in a lot of things outside security.

1. The infamous they, already have a picture of your face. Your id/passport. It's kind of too late to be anonymous when boarding a plane, for multiple reasons.

2. One agency has it, thus its easy for them to share it with others. HA! You, have never dealt with fed agencies. You want to meet the grownup versions of those toddlers that never learned to share their toys? Any fed agency. Doesn't matter how important the info is and how timely, "it's our data, our jurisdiction, we'll handle it".

Just two points that stood out to me.

Again, I agree that privacy now seems like a dream we had in the distant past due to tech companies and the results of a post-911 world. But this article is the equivalent to complaining how much sugar is in cake while eating said cake.
The company building the software also provides equivalents for other operating systems: https://mobile.twitter.com/0xdude/status/1146113174212661249...

We just don't have a sample to reverse-engineer yet.
I worked at Spotify and I am very close with several folks there who worked on this initiative. This is almost certainly the fault of the labels.
Yes, but the replier is saying that THC, the primary active compound in Cannabis, can in fact worsen some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. As someone with Type I Bipolar, which has many similarities to schizophrenia, I agree that this is often the case.
Correct. Apple certainly "reused" the infrastructure they established with realtime facial recognition and manipulation, all encapsuled in ARKit (https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/arkit/). Furthermore, these compute intensive codes are accelerated with special chips ("AI chip", "Neural engine", etc.). That's actually quite novel stuff which wasn't there five years ago.
I was a PC-gamer for 25 years, and recently switched to a PS4. I've also been a pretty avid Battlefield player. One of the pleasant surprises of the platform switch is the absence of cheaters. There always seemed to be at least one. My strategy was to bide my time, and switch to the cheater's side when I could. At least that way, he wasn't griefing me. Now I don't have to worry about it.

I'm not going to say that getting used to the controller from a keyboard and mouse was quick and easy, but it was quicker and easier than I thought it would be, at first. My rankings are almost what they were on PC now, so it doesn't bother me any more.
What exactly did you try? On the surface that sounds pretty straightforward.

The problem I most often see people run into is trying to use mismatched drives they have lying around. With ZFS you’ll have a much better time just purchasing matched disks to fit the zpools you have in mind. It was built for well planned, huge arrays in datacenters and that legacy shows.

I’ve used ZFS for years in a variety of configurations on Solaris, FreeBSD and macOS. My only training was the Solaris and FreeBSD man pages, so it’s not that dark an art.
I see where you're going, but I disagree with the "emotional truth" idea. It crosses the line for me: fixing eyes is on the same level as a gender swap or cat face filter. It modifies content and meaning and I'm against this being normalised in normal communication.
True, using dm-crypt. And iOS also has FDE.

So my comment about iOS vs Android only applies once the phone is unlocked. And I wouldn't be comfortable with just the root passphrase protecting me.

My main complaint is Apple -- and so anyone who can pressure Apple -- controlling what I can install on the device.
> a candidate treatment at such an incredibly embryonic stage being voted to the top spot of hacker news, to me, suggests our HN audience has significant room for improvement

It's a super hot topic right now because these shops have suddenly popped up all over the country - including in cannabis prohibition states - and some of them must be making a good amount of money for there to be so many. Business minded people are acutely interested in where this thing is going long term, so any data at all is seized upon, no matter how dubious.

This, of course, makes comments like yours even more important and appreciated.
disable camera. the day that is no longer possible is the day I go offline
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> I'd assume that, given more hurdles for women than for men, the women who do make it are likely to be more qualified than men, not less.

Sure — ashelmire's point was that right now there are more hurdles for men, which leads to men being more likely to be more qualified than women, which perpetuates and amplifies a stereotype.
This comment is a baseless accusation if you do not provide more information on WHY you think the same.
I do agree. It also sends the wrong signals.

But try to understand the thinking for a moment:

If no solution is applied at all because people are waiting for the perfect one, there will be continued discrimination against competence. This has costs too.

"Take no action" might not feel like a decision, but it is one and has ill effects.

Is this better than trying a fix for a short period of time that may be mediocre, but is at least effective?
you can replace multiple disks at a time, assuming you have enough drive slots.
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I've been suspicious of TikTok since I've heard of it.

So you're making some social media / video sharing app... not that the world needs another one, but fine, whatever.

Why on earth do you need to spend money on advertising? I've seen multiple ads on YouTube. I know I'm not the target audience, so that had to be expensive.

If you've got funny content, then it'll get posted around, and you'll attract viewers to your site and app. Spending millions on advertising seems weird and creepy to me. But maybe it is just that I'm old.
There are always the distribution broker services (DistroKid, CDBaby, TuneCore...) but they can go bad.

I've contemplated 1) writing some open source quality control software for scanning music distribution uploads, and 2) forming a collective (probably 501(c)(3) charity non-profit) which would serve in the distribution broker role and redistribute income.

I wonder if such things could ever come to pass. Any thoughts?
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The actual report[1] is very interesting to read.

I was surprised that there were zero App Store takedown requests from governments in North America, South America, and Australia.

All of the takedown requests came from China, Vietnam, and Europe; including Norway and Switzerland.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/pdf/requests-2018-H...
Not to mention having a hole in your screen when you just want to watch a video. It's a ridiculous idea, but funny to think about.

More seriously, I'm wondering if at some point the front-facing camera may be an intrinsic part of the screen. I've read that on-screen fingerprint sensors already use a kind of camera in the screen. If that were to become good enough to see images at a distance, that might actually work.
How is a smart phone any different? It has a microphone that, for most people, is always listening.

It’s not shocking at all. I find my Echo to be incredibly useful and I’ve decided that it’s worth the trade-off. Just like I did with the microphone I have on my wrist and the one in my pocket.
Emphatically, this is untrue to an almost hilarious degree. It's not even unusual to hear about cronyism and weird individual biases influencing almost every layer of the political machine (both in the EU and the US, the two big "democratic" powers).

Definitely spend some time interacting with people that work in the space and listen to their stories, you'll quickly find out exactly how fair a democracy inherently makes things (not at all fair, in other words).
Israeli researchers demonstrate gene-editing technique for sex selection
Humans did not invest radioactive decay. We merely discovered it.
Huh, I do it every time. Never behind a privacy screen. Never bothered me at all.

The only shitty part is when agents let your stuff go through the scanners but you’re stuck behind the machines. I’m always trying to crane my neck to make sure no one walks off with a laptop.

Usually the TSA agents are very nice. I ask them about their days, how things are, and then I’m on my way.

I like to exercise my rights just to make sure they keep being available, and there’s not much better to do inside the airport anyways.
On a technical level every photographic print or even SOOC jpeg has some level of image processing applied to it during development, whether analog or digital.

On an artistic level: https://toinformistoinfluence.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/19...
Why aren't there better Slicers? (3D printing)
There aren't good slicers which helps you save time and plastic (for planet earth) and helps you achieve the goal of strengths and flexibility required in your printed parts. Why is that?
You have got to be kidding. I just finished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and it was terrible.
Maybe we'll get to McLuhan's global electronic village after all.

Having come from a rural area, in a village it is just like in Cheers - "Everybody knows your name". They also know a lot about you, your family, friends and enemies. Much of what they know is true, but some of it is wrong (gossip).

Privacy and anonymity is of recent origin, starting with industrial development and large cities. It's a "security by obscurity" strategy for the more powerless segments of society. Powerful people are in the Social Register.
Hardware failing is a noisier (literally in your case) version of silent data corruption, which is one of the core original use cases and justifications for ZFS:

> BILL MOORE We had several design goals, which we’ll break down by category. The first one that we focused on quite heavily is data integrity. If you look at the trend of storage devices over the past decade, you’ll see that while disk capacities have been doubling every 12 to 18 months, one thing that’s remaining relatively constant is the bit-error rate on the disk drives, which is about one uncorrectable error every 10 to 20 terabytes. The other interesting thing to note is that at least in a server environment, the number of disk drives per deployment is increasing, so the amount of data people have is actually growing at a super-exponential rate. That means with the bit-error rate being relatively constant, you have essentially an ever-decreasing amount of time until you notice some form of uncorrectable data error. That’s not really cool because before, say, about 20 terabytes or so, you would see either a silent or a noisy data error.

> JEFF BONWICK In retrospect, it isn’t surprising either because the error rates we’re observing are in fact in line with the error rates the drive manufacturers advertise. So it’s not like the drives are performing out of spec or that people have got a bad batch of hardware. This is just the nature of the beast at this point in time.

> BM So, one of the design principles we set for ZFS was: never, ever trust the underlying hardware.

> […]

> Greenplum has created a data-warehousing appliance consisting of a rack of 10 Thumpers (SunFire x4500s). They can scan data at a rate of one terabyte per minute. That’s a whole different deal. Now if you’re getting an uncorrectable error occurring once every 10 to 20 terabytes, that’s once every 10 to 20 minutes—which is pretty bad, actually.
I don't see how the eye correction is any less of a "modification of content and meaning" than the use of an offset camera angle which it's correcting for. Just because the offset angle is currently a technical necessity and an "analogue" distortion, doesn't make it any less of a manipulation.
… but to answer your question better. It sucks that Google's own services don't live up to the performance expectations of tools made in other parts of Google.
You've definitely identified a correlation, but which direction is the causation, if any? I can easily imagine it going either way (or there be none at all), which means more investigation is required.
Did you miss that the post that I replied to claimed that a Dutch university will "only hire women for the next 18 months"?
Let's be clear around the allegations.

Three days before getting married and two weeks before she was going to give birth to his child he asked her to sign a pre-nup. He suggested she use an "independent" lawyer - and recommended the same attorney who had represented HIM in previous divorce proceedings. They then allegedly didn't disclose all his assets (so the decision to waive an interest would be informed) and her attorney they claim was actually working for Rubin and knew of the fact that he had a history of cheating and a bunch of other stuff given his past work on the divorce much less how much the attorney might value his relationship with Rubin (rich guy / senior at google). No conflict waiver was even prepared or signed.

The sex ring claims come from the allegation that Rubin procured the services of women to have sex with other men.

Plenty of other unpleasant claims.

This all in the context of a marriage where he has made promises to someone.

As to who might mind or be interested?

The employees he supervised might mind - especially since he allegedly pressured them into sexual relationships while simultaneously having lots of other sex. Crappy work environment and disease risks.

The public might mind. A poor black guy running a sex ring might end up in significant criminal trouble. A white guy working for google get's paid $80 million by google and no chance of criminal action.

These tech execs are masters of the universe in their areas. The tone at the top of a company absolutely filters down into their product approach and adherence to an ethical framework. Look at decisions around user controls in Android under Andy (terrible) vs iPhone (better). Are these necessarily linked? Maybe not - but you do tend to see a tone filter through a crazy number of places in various ways. So the public might like to know if the folks running the show are total amoral bastards.

The list goes on.

I hope she takes him to the cleaners.

Additional public interest in these situations is the special casing for these guys - behavior that no one else could get away with.
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I tried this with a Mac eGPU Dev Kit and a 2014 MBPr... right before they removed the ability to run it with a TB2 cable. Jerks. Anyway, the amount of hassle with trying this is high, and I say that as someone who ran Linux on all my desktops and servers from '94-'14. Installing Windows on Bootcamp to do this? That's a hard pass from me, dawg. I'm done with Windows. Even for gaming. It's all Mac-native or Playstation for me now.
If the weight of "Estimated Input Latency" is zero, why is it even mentioned?
I've used Amuse for two tracks (easily findable if you like minimalist dark ambient noisescapes) and ... it's fiddly (lots of form fields and you need your tracks in Dropbox/iCloud) but , barring an approval snafu for track 2 which got sorted out after I bitched at them on Twitter and their insanely long 30 day release window, it's working ok.
I understand https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This#Text_storage in a way that Postgres encourages users always to stick to the text type. Which is, from a non-DB-centric view, certainly the most convenient thing to do: Tell the database just to store a string, don't worry about length or so. Having worked with MySQL a lot in the past, I wonder if this is a kind of paradigm shift, whether PostgreSQL tries to be programmer-friendly or whether this is just the way how to do SQL nowadays...?
Air travel was more expensive back then so having long car trips and the picnics that go along with them weren't uncommon. Additionally, cheap fast food joints weren't as prevalent so it made more sense for families to just pack food for the trip than rely on a cheap eat being along the way.
I am usually opting-out of body scanners (in the EU its still optional). But at some airports the security people seem to not know that it's optional.

By now I always carry a letter from the federal police (responsible for border + airport security) explaining that it's optional.

At Berlins airports they usually ask for a reason why I opt-out of body scanners, which is ridiculous, as one needs no reason to NOT do something that's legally optional to do.
Read the translation by Louise and Alymer Maude. They knew Tolstoy and translated all of his works.

The Pevear translation is garbage.