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“Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.”

No, no, no! The possibility that this technology may occasionally be wrong pales in comparison to the world we’re marching toward. By far the biggest risk facing society is that having your every move tracked by governments will soon be next to impossible.

Also just imagine what our world will look like as facial recognition data slowly leaks out into the hands of non governments (or they find ways to collect it.) It isn’t hard to imagine a world where everyone knows everyone else’s whereabouts at all times. Facial recognition feels like the biggest looming step toward a dystopian world.

The fact that they throw out the possibility of this technology occasionally being wrong sidesteps the real risks in favor of something that’s just easier to explain.
It seems it's generated by the protoc compiler. E. g. https://github.com/weaveworks/common/blob/80ff0769bb38e575cd...
My point was about the implied effectiveness.
Apologies everyone, correct app URL is - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metasync-image-meta-editor/id1...
I'm actually coming from the Buddhist/meditation school of thought. It's neither about subjective nor objective meaning, it's about the emptiness of this word "meaning". For a lack of better language available - "meaning" does not mean anything. It's like pondering over the liar's paradox without defining truth (see Tarski's undefinability theorem for a strict mathematical example).

Just ask yourself - what does it mean that the "meaning" of X is Y? In the "meaning" sense that this thread is about.

The very fact that anything is happening, that there's something rather than nothing can be all absorbing. The "meaning" as people usually put it is typically a case of mis-wanting, trying to fit the reality to the language of thought, rather than the other way around, and a lack of focus on the present. In particular the religious concepts of heaven and hell are the most prominent members of this category (throughout the written history, and perhaps much earlier).
I grew up in the Deep South, a related cousin to Appalachia. I spent more than 30 years in the south. I have spent a lot of time in Appalachia, hiking, meeting locals. It isn’t a stretch to say “I get it”. I read Hillbily Elegy. This piece does little to change my mind about my own view point. There are parts of the culture that are worthwhile and valuable (to me) and parts I can leave quite easily. For me it is the almost resentful pride in their own ignorance of the rest of the country, and even the world, that was so hard to accept. You can paste over that, all these layers of complexity and beautiful mountain vignettes, but under that there are elements that are difficult to accept for me. There is a lot of stubborn pride for heritage that does the culture no good and I never understood it. Also, Appalachia is not unique to most other rural areas, they just have nicer scenery. Poverty is what it is and it does what it does to people. You either get out of it or it eats you. There is nothing romantic about it. There is no great stoic philosophy providing Appalachian poverty with any special resistance to poverty and being mostly ignored by the rest of the country. I don’t know, it isn’t some terrible reality to suffer through, but it is more tragic than anything else. Maybe this is the inevitable view point I have adopted as I have become more outsider to the culture I was raised in over the years. It isn’t all bad, I will still visit, hike, and enjoy the natural beauty there, but the people suffer like any other under-educated poor people do. There is no number of voices and view points that can change that. I appreciate what the author is trying to do, they must surely understand the culture well, but it is a big miss for me.
Sincerely, what is quaint to me, is that they are protesting (sometimes with destruction of public property against the government), yet, they all pay their metro ticket... with money that in the end goes to the government.

It would be much easier to avoid government tracking while spending the money, if they would just get into the metro without paying when going to a public protest.
Having just now read about Rhododendron destroying habitats all around the UK, I'm inclined to tear it out. I'll play it by ear and just keep an eye on it for the moment. If it starts growing unruly I'll be sure to take my shears to it. If only it wasn't so pretty, and so bee-friendly!
A bit late to comment but this is very relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M
Employee wages were lower as well I suppose.
The fact a stranger gets to look at me naked is undignified - like if someone was hiding spy cameras in gym showers, or walking up to people in public and pulling down their trousers.

From a Defcon angle, it's also an information security risk; even large government bodies have fallen victim to cryptolockers, so it's not like the government-grade IT security keeping the photos secure is impenetrable.

The 'reassurance' that I'm too ugly and unimportant for anyone to take particular interest in does nothing to restore this dignity :)
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Well, Lisp code can't be properly indented with just tabs. So tough luck, I guess? Why wouldn't editors programmers use allow to customize indentation space size instead? So you could set up each indentation space = 2 characters and get huge indents. Or set it to 1/2 character and get tiny indents. Seems easy to implement in e.g. Emacs.
Interestingly enough I had a reverse scenario a few weeks ago: ZFS alerted on rw errors on a drive, smartctl and the kernel was perfectly fine with it. The drive was in fact failing, the physical noises (!) made it clear, but other than ZFS, nothing was reporting it.
While the overall point is IMHO extremely valid (cash is some form of liberty), I somehow feel that something in the matter is queer.

Taking public transport to get to the area of the protests might have not been the best choice anyway.

I mean, is it so far-fetched that the queues at vending machines are monitored and recorded by security cameras and facial recognition can be later used (syncronized with the actual ticket emission time) if the government wants to know who went where?

I see from the photo of the linked within article:

https://qz.com/1642441/extradition-law-why-hong-kong-protest...

that many people wear surgical masks, but I dont think that would be an issue if the governement wants to identify someone.

And there is no need of a pre-made database, it can be built later, assuming that the holder of an Octopus card re-uses public transport, you film him/her next time.
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I get an email a day from an Indian company offering their services and Django and Python are never a part of their skill set. When I looked for a Django dev on Upwork there were very few Indians coming up. Ended up working with some Russians which were great but not much cheaper than local devs. I guess you always get what you pay for.
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It's always fun to watch opinion changes to where the money is. Of course it's not about freedom, community or niceness. Their revenue from cloud services is growing fast. :)
There will be proper controlled trials soon, there is no substitute.

However, it's worth noting that most complementary therapies actually do nothing - homeopathy is the classic example. Of course, we know many people find them helpful for a variety of reasons, but they actually do not have any physiological or pharmacological effect. CBD on the other hand is definitely a psychoactive substance, which may have side-effects. I think this actually makes it more likely a priori that it is a useful treatment. Put it this way, say we didn't know about CBD at all, if a drug company discovered CBD in some kind of drug screen, they would definitely test it and advance it into clinical trials.
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Can someone point to which OS youtube downloader OP is referring to?
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No offense, but the idea that "iOS is free of this intrusion" is your unsubstantiated opinion just as much. You don't know that for sure, do you?
This comment looks like a mashed up heap made of typical facebook replies under a public thread about depression. No arguments, just the good old starving african children and "why don't you just cheer up"
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Baker is himself a pretty fascinating figure for a peep into the insane corruption of mid-20th century US politics. Basically the fella was a pimp who ran a private intel/blackmail service using his ladies.
The company I work for (small on the world scale, but reasonably big in my country) forbids our standard issue laptops from going, instead giving us special travel laptops. These are blocked from the corporate wifi and do not have any VPN connection back to the corporate network. We do all email through webmail. We hand them back upon returning and they get wiped with a fresh install of the OS.
I love the scientific-y calculus of “stupid amounts” in any context. It’s always fun to see a sense of humor and people having fun with their work.
Are you saying it just because you read it in some online article? There is no current law that prevents your to trade in crypto in India. There is news of a proposed bill that might make it illegal in future, but that's about it. We don't know if it will ever see the light of the day...
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It goes to show how badly it is set up for a false alarm. In a real emergency all the primary functions would go up (taking over radio broadcasts for example) so there wouldn't be the same problem. It is still bad of course because of the "cry wolf" factor.
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And all these compliance requirements start to rack up costs to do the tipping.

Eventually, it'd be no better than using a credit card.
Tangentially, I know of killmouseaccel[1] which does exactly what it says: disables mouse acceleration on macOS. However, it needs to be executed at every restart, or deamonized.

[1] https://github.com/docwhat/killmouseaccel
additionally, there's (c) kernel and/or embedded.

in particular, and i've read that writing kernels isn't feasible in Go. it appears not to be an issue of performance. something about the runtime prevents writing kernels altogether.

like the linked article says

https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl...

rust has a lot of features (generics, etc.) aside and apart from the memory management strategy.

i'm also unaware of a procedural language that has the feature stability of C or Go as well as the ability to write kernels or embedded code with the memory safety of rust.

currently wondering how easy it'd be to tack rust's memory model onto another language, alef in particular.
Yes, local taxi company apps are another example: they are only available in the UK store. Which sort of makes sense, you wouldn't want someone to try to call a UK taxi overseas, although I did have to spend some time figuring out how to switch store countries when I moved here.
>If anything, Appalachian are uniquely under-represented nationally. While the region as a whole contains nearly 25 million people, WV is the only state to have two Appalacian senators. I think TN has one as well, but, overall the political power of Appalachia does not at all seem sufficient to warrant extra attention.

Technically that is 50% more senators than California with twice the population.
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When I skimmed over the title, I thought it said "KKK has acquired Corel". That was going to be one of the more interesting reads for the day!
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I don’t think he’s the one nitpicking. From a business perspective the site was down. Nitpicking is telling him: No it is in fact up, the customer just can’t use it.
Honestly I always thought that that was an open secret of ReactOS. How else are you gonna achieve binary compatibility with a closed source OS. Of course there's symbols but those only get you so far.
The private symbols have in the past ended up on the public symbol server (and quickly taken down), they have ending up "shipping" in public symbol packs. I can't point to specific incidents as the links to them no longer exist. This is why I said accidentally as they were not released as a conscious effort on MS's part.

However you seem to want to claim the only place those symbols can come from is being stolen. Of course in this case you use leak as a synonym for stolen, bit leak can just as much mean they were released accidentally by the owner, MS can't steal their own private symbols and release them on the web. I'm sure there's some symbol files traded in private scenarios which are actually taken through non public means but there have been actual incidences of public release of private symbols.

I'm not trying to claim that ReactOS is clean, I have no skin in the game from a project or user perspective. For all I know it might have lifted significant portions of its code from stolen source code or the WRK (which isn't stolen in so much as used without permission, which I'd regard as a totally different thing). I do however take exception to the typical software engineer's view there are somethings which cannot be reverse engineered into a almost similar form.

As to why ReactOS is stuck in the early 2000s, it could be because of all the source code which was stolen and put wholesale into the project. Although if that was the case I'd have expect MS would have sued the living shit of the project by now. It could also be because Windows was and is a very complex OS with many layers which if you're trying to re-implement with a team of 10s to 100s versus 1000s it's going to take a lot of time. It's seems unlikely that the project would spend the millions of man hours to create the abomination that is UWP.

Perhaps the best way to determine if ReactOS is unclean is for MS to open source the Windows Kernel, hell why would you even need ReactOS then :-)

edit: Cleanup.
Wrong in what regard? I found nothing wrong with Vance’s book. Having a similar family background to Vance, I think he has a great outlook on the matter.
This is an amazing point.
So a vulnerability is identified in a version of software you're running within your stack and doing nothing means you will most likely lose important and sensitive customer information if you do nothing about it.

Do you:

1) Don't fuck with it?

2) Make a mitigating code change. Patch / fix it (fuck with it)?
Presumably investigation of stolen devices has the owner's consent, should it be really counted as information demanded by the government?
Or can the police demand information about my phone that I myself wouldn't have access to?
This sounds extremely interesting, I guess you could infer the direction you're looking at even with pupil-tracking instead of gaze-tracking, considering you'll move both eyes to look at a specific spot.
The technical complexity involved here is far beyond my comprehension, but with the advent of nanotech and shrinking microprocessors, shouldn't it be easier to roll out an autonomous craft? In my humble and perhaps uninformed opinion, the toughest part is the lift-off, the journey and the landing, post that things should be easier.
It isn't an extra import tax, just enforcement of VAT that was always a requirement (and always happened if you used a courier like UPS or DHL rather than the post office). Some countries have minimums however, but that will be removed in the EU in the future.
The bio-metric data is not discarded but collected somewhere in a database, it could be abused in a few years or it could be leaked and now hackers have it,

I think it would be fair if the system would scan your passport , scan you, confirm the identity but not store your biometric data.
>This is delightful writing:

Indeed.

JFYI, a great structural engineer I knew used to have a saying that can be roughly translated as

"Thank goodness materials do not read construction theory books: walls and bridges, despite the ignorance of the engineers that calculated them, and of the people that built them, keep obstinately standing up, totally oblivious of their errors".
with aggression

(Seriously, I wonder in what world some people live. Violence is everywhere.)
Often hotfixes came with private symbols, Microsoft has traditionally been very slack on this.

I’ve seen private symbols for sql server with the guid to switch editions published on the public symbol server for at least 6 months before they were pulled.

Full releases and service packs typically are stripped very well but if you are saying that no private symbols have been published to the public symbol servers then you are incorrect.

The only product that has been effective at stripping symbols traditionally has been office, they were always stripped if you could even get hold of them which was unlikely.

Don’t forget also you could download the checked windows builds which were very open.
Yes, but OS is not like a javascript webapp. It is terribly difficult work to do and debug. And there are many other kernels and OSes already. Most kernels don't support the HW you need though. Even Google is writing Fuchsia!
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There were apps which tracked US bombings and violations in war zones which were removed. I hope they’re on this list.
Surely there has to be a way for you to install apps on your own device while developing new applications.
So if the source code is available for an application can you compile and install it?
What is your limit? What about handing over all your social accounts? fingerprints, DNA , it seems that gradually if a thing can be done it will be done. 2
I found the energy costs for data interesting.

"Missions with high-gain antennas (HGAs) empirically require about 5 mJ per bit per astronomical unit to acquire and send science data to Earth"
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The way out of that would probably be the usual mutual removal of tariffs in the course of a free trade agreement. If it does take off, they might encounter other countries' import barriers which they would want to mutually remove.

That said, I'm skeptical for other reasons; it's a hard industry to build up and extremely competitive.
How much more are you prepared to pay for that, though?
Boat and Plane are for provinces - the airlines make most of their revenue via Cargo. PAL/Cebu Pacific/Air Asia.

But, within Luzon, there is infrastructure via Marcos Highway (renamed, but everyone still calls it marcos highway), NLEX, TPLEX, SLEX, Subic ExpressWay that make going from the north point of Luzon to the South Point possible. There is also the Pan Philippine Highway (which really sucks) that supposedly connects north Luzon to South Mindinao and has ferry points.

Regardless, Luzon - Highway/Flights.

Everywhere else - port side cities/flights. Last mile IS really hard.

This also goes hand in hand w/ refrigration - you'll never see yogurt or dairy for sale in the country outside Luzon and major city centers. The dairy products you DO see are highly processed and have high self life. E.g. Yogurt made from milk powder, cheese made from oils, etc. It's really interesting --- but the dairy industry of the Philippines is another interesting shortcoming of the country - if you read reports, something like 90% of all fresh dairy is consumed by Coffee Shops e.g. Starbucks.
Wouldn't that be incorporated in the inflation though?
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Shouldn't the report about first half of 2019 be published already?
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Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341997
From the article:

"The iPhones are plugged into a reader that scans them, while Android phones have the app installed to do the same job."

Yes, they cannot install an app, but that doesn't make your data secure from being taken.
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I agree. Android is not without it's problems but at least I can run my own code on it without jumping through hoops.
My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?
I appreciate the insider perspective (though I am definitely not qualified to assess these claims.) Unfortunately, it might be hard to prove these claims either way since it sounds like they have plenty of plausible deniability to fall back on.

What I will say is: I hope Axel's post doesn't negatively effect his career. We've all seen how controversial opinions and politically incorrect behavior have ended peoples employment in the past, and I honestly think its a ridiculous over-reaction.

I can't help but wonder if some of the answers here are driven by emotional, anti-MS sentiment. Some people seem way too invested, lmao. Just get some pop corn and see if anything interesting turns up. It might turn out to be a good history lesson.
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> Since when is getting to blow shit up one of the worst jobs in the world?

Since the guy that does that job agrees with that statement! I think he might be an authority on how he feels about it
Hetzner has provided a quality service for a long time but now they have no more GPU servers available. That makes it hard to scale.

Any other options out there without going bankrupt on AWS?