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This article seems like fear-mongering/muckraking.

The voices in the article complaining about the FCC ruling are saying that it's impractical to share in-use home wiring runs, so of course the Article 52 law shouldn't be read as requiring MTE building owners to allow such sharing.

Okay, except that DirectTV had petitioned the FCC to do exactly that in the past - multiplex their signal over an in-use home run to a tenant unit. The FCC said that the feedback they received at the time on DTV's proposal cast doubt on the ability to do this cleanly, so they would not accept DTV's proposal to require it.

In this present ruling (subject of the article), the FCC is agreeing with the MBC petition that the City can't now require this. The City says their law doesn't require this. The FCC responds that okay, then no problem; but if someone were to try an interpret it this way (since we have providers on record trying to do exactly this in other venues) just know that it would be invalid.

So what's the problem? Why try and frame this as an oppressive FCC crushing the benevolent City's intentions? It's a boring clarification unless someone has interest in actually doing what the FCC is prohibiting, which the City says it's not, so.. someone's making much ado about nothing, probably to fan political sentiment. And Ars Technica is being a stooge or complicit.
> Yes, but I think it's safe to say that there were a lot more original movies a few decades ago than there are now.

This is false.

Sequels and book adaptions have dominated the top 10 every year for decades and decades.
The entire thing is written in a very overwrought and dramatic style, he’s trying to be funny. The ending is probably supposed to capture an emotional climax the likes of which you’d find at the end of a Melville or Kafka story (but it’s not that funny and kinda nonsensical)
If they are using monte carlo tree search or some other minimax algorithm the standard way to do this is to limit the depth of the search tree. But not sure how they would use MCTS for starcraft. Could be they are using unsupervised learning to figure out how to represent the search nodes
It's just amusing a company that sued individuals/companies for selling digital currency for World of Warcraft and has banned accounts from various games for relatively simple bots like mining and fishing in WoW, is going to allow much more 'intelligent' software to play against people.
Netflix would like nothing more than to have the government force production and distribution to be separate. Their core business was using data to buy better content for cheaper and then figuring out what you want to watch better than anyone else.

If production and distribution were separate, everyone would want to be distributed by Netflix because they have the largest global reach. And they could get out of the huge money sink that is making content. They only make content because they saw this consolidation coming.
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Wouldn't people that only work 4 days get outcompeted by people who work harder and longer?

Just seems like a very unsustainable equilibrium without some sort of legal backstop by the government.
It is just more recent.

Plenty of articles about phones listening too.
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Have you seen the MaNa-AlphaStar games? The bot was restriced in APM (and had lower average APM over the whole game than the human players), but it wasn't restriced in how many times a second it can move the screen around. And it used APM limit very strategically - for most of the game it had low apm but in fights it had sometimes over 1000 APM :)

It outmicroed MaNa (one of the most micro-focused protoss players) in several games, attacking and winning from positions it shouldn't be possible to do so. In one game it countered MaNa's big immortal-archon army with pure blink stalkers. The general consensus is that immortal-archon is the ultimate counter to stalkers :) The bot was doing perfect blink stalker micro from 3 sides of MaNa army at once over an area that was like 3-screens wide.

It would be physically impossible for a human player to play like this, because moving the screen to blink each stalker as it gets near 0 hitpoints back and forth just can't be done fast enough, with 50 stalkers fighting - but for a bot it's easy.

After these games they limited the alphastar to have limited speed of moving the camera, and that bot lost to MaNa (but it was also trained for less time so it might be not a good comparison), and MaNa strategy was a little cheesy in that game - harrasing with warp prism making the bot move his army back and forth.

Starcraft 2 is as much a strategy game as a mechanical arcade game, different mechanical restrictions change which strategies work well vs which other strategies. The balance of the game is designed with human limitations of micro in mind, so when a bot plays it has to imitate these restrictions, or the game isn't fair.

With perfect micro mass marines beat everything with ridiculous cost-effectiveness.
Which title? By which bank? Country?

What about when there was a war and Jews want to go back to Poland to their house?

What if a native American or a Palestinian descendant wants to go back?

Do we count heirs over bank deeds?
Users could probably select their own escrow, right?

For me, I'm not tying up the majority of my net worth in a single crypto. I could set an escrow at double the value of my wallet. It's highly unlikely that I do lose my secret key, and if I do, it'll be a huge pain to come up with the escrow, but it'd be doable.

And of course, you could probably set a cap so that even an in extreme spike of values, the escrow won't ever reach an amount that's infeasible for you.
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For context, Boeing is making about 50 of these planes per month to the point that when they were grounded but production continued they had Tetris'd unpainted planes across the site including in staff parking areas. I hadn't seen much news on production slowing but they have massive orders to fill at designated times.
Blizzard developed a special version of the client just for Deepmind, so no, they never had to process images.

Because of that they have a problem with invisible and burrowed units - human players can miss the shimmer/shadow because it's barely visible, but their AI sees it every time. I think they gave up on simulating this stochastic human behavior.

Still, the game is complex enough that the fact that they can play it at a professional level might as well be a miracle.
I'm curious about comparing my Netlify Analytics numbers to my Google Analytics numbers. I'm seeing a lot more users and page views on Netlify Analytics. I know that GA can be blocked client side, but does GA exclude bot/crawler traffic from stats as well? Or can I assume that the difference between GA and Netlify Analytics numbers are due to adblock / noscript / etc?
They share the same offices and employees move back and forth between them, so yeah, I'd say they're the same.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, but the vast majority of these metropolitan areas are extremely low-density, single-use suburbs.

* The roads are long, winding, and poorly connected (so walking distances are excessive). This leads to ridiculous scenarios like https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/sprawl-madness-two-ho...

* The stores are generally large big-box stores that is often kilometers from ones' house; there are no small corner shops and restaurants, because they are illegal.

* If you're still determined to walk, you probably need to cross large, high-speed roads with short crossing times, and your origin and destination are probably separated from the road by a large parking lot. And you may not even have sidewalks or crossing facilities. Example: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Panera+Bread,+143+Alexander+...

* Public transit in American suburbs is a joke. Because it's so hard to walk around, ridership is very low, making frequency hard to justify, causing even lower ridership. And this is before you consider that

Americans are anti-tax

American suburbs have an associated history with white flight post-segregation, so people often object to transit because it'll let "criminals" in

So you wind up with situations like this Detroit man who walked 21 miles every day because he didn't have a car. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015...
We're investigating what happened, but we know this wasn't a DDoS attack.
These two are not mutually exclusive
I assert with exactly as much evidence as you (zero) that it is the extraordinary claim.

Show me a so-called "decentralized" coin that is designed to not just be dominated by a handful of miners. It's a natural consequence of proof of work, isn't it? Large-scale miners will always be able to buy electricity for cheaper than your average person.
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I wonder how durable it is.

"The primary Sharklet micropattern is very small – about 3 microns tall and 2 microns wide."

How long it lasts would be part of the cost vs benefit equation.
But I don't think Netlify provides logs, so that's not an option, right?
Paris is doing it with 2500 parking spots for escooters: https://www.cnews.fr/france/2019-07-08/paris-les-premiers-de...
Is the assumption here that you're recompiling and statically linking all of your dependencies?
Facebook is a major player in Africa right now.
Are people often reselling their laptops?

I wanted to downsize my laptop recently and found that the places to sell hard to find amounts offered ...not worth it.

One thing I found amusing is that they sell whole packs of "laptop stickers" on Amazon. I just sort of assumed they were like travel stickers you gather over time but.... I guess not.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's a valid point.

I think it's because people intuitively think of access control as an answer to the question "Who are you?", which means your authentication credential needs to be sent with every request to a given site.

The alternative solution is to use "capabilities" which are a way of accessing a given resource by the very fact that you possess a reference to it. E.g. the google drive feature where you can say "anyone with the link can {view,edit,comment,etc}".

The downside is obvious though: it would require everyone to adapt to this model, and rewrite all of their apps to use it instead of the session cookie model. Not gonna happen without a massive effort (see ipv6 rollout for an example of the effort required for something like this).
From the article, this sounds like it was a GateKeeper change, de-whitelisting the signature, rather than an update, per se.
Very curious how this is going to turn out... This sounds like they are trying to train a bot to actually not be perfect? Otherwise I think they would say straight out: "You'll only have the option if you are grand-master". Since they don't say that, it feels like they are probably training the bot to "play like it's at Gold League" etc.

If it could make the same types of mistakes and overlook things in the same way a human would, that would be very interesting for game creators. Most game creators would tell you: usually the hard thing is not making a good AI, but making an AI that is fun, but still loses. We've all seen that AI can usually just win any game, if you give it enough juice.
A web browser is different than a native app, because simply clicking a link can execute code from an untrusted party.

First of all, when you are using a web browser, if it wasn't for cross-browser request restrictions, code executing on one site (or web app) would be able to _use credentials stored in cookies_ by another site altogether. Because all these web apps exist in the same browser context. Native apps are all separate, code running in an Native App A can't say "make a request to facebook using the credentials the user already logged into in the facebook app." But Web App A could do exactly that with the credentials the user logged into on facebook.com -- if it wasn't for cross-browser request restrictions. Which then CORS let some sites carefully opt out of.

Secondly, when you download an app, you are trusting the developers of that app.

You navigate the web, you are trusting every single site you visit (to also not have their own code injection or other vulnerabilities to which web pages/apps are particularly vulnerable to), and most users have no idea what sites they are visiting, they are just clicking links.

What we really need a more clear explanation of the CORS threat model, with examples. I think we'd all be more clear about what it's for and why we need it if we understood it better.

It is definitely a developer UX issue, but it is sadly one that is baked into the web for legacy reasons.
Unfortunately, it is never revealed if the author enjoyed the Point Of No Return or not. :)

While I agree on the lack of empathy and understanding of simple thrill seeking and "unreasonable fun" (like sports, gambling, dancing, sex, music, movies, even reading...), the author unwittingly stands up for the few that are peer-pressured to take part in "fun" activities that might frighten or simply not entertain them.

However, the approach the author takes won't help them: it's better to recognize that you personally don't find a particular activity rewarding, and encourage everyone to find something that is. Perhaps it's not even a "few", but a lot. But just being negative does not help better understand how we are forced to do "fun" things we do not enjoy.

And it's also okay if you find fun in something that majority finds fun in (like water parks): you don't have to be absolutely different in every way to count as a smart person :)

By missing to realize this, the author seems like a disgruntled fake-intellectual guy who hates everyone for having any sort of fun and dismisses it as "intellectually useless": even though studies show that "fun" helps us perform better cognitively.
Neither did my cofounders when we got started.
It's not harmless if your laptop is plastic.
We are not pitching this as "THE" solution, but as "a" solution that can scale up to and beyond the global level of yearly CO2 emissions. Even after the "low-hanging opportunities" it makes a good amount of sense, as mining olivine is not difficult and there are large reserves on every continent.

You are incorrect that olivine mining at a large scale would incur tremendous energy costs, it will not. I would suggest you check out this model of a 5,000 tonne per day open pit mining for porphyritic rock. (This model also includes 5,000 tonnes per day of "waste" rock which will likely not be wasted in our use case) http://costs.infomine.com/costdatacenter/miningcostmodel.asp...

In this model, which is not in any way optimized for environmental efficiency, it requires a diesel fuel quantity of around 4,751 liters/day to mine the 5,000 tonnes. At 2.68 kg of CO2 per 1 liter of diesel, that generates 12,732.68 kg of CO2 per day. That 12,732.68 kg = 12.73268 tonnes of CO2. The 5,000 tonnes of olivine mined will eventually weather and sequester 6,250 tonnes of CO2 (1 tonne of olivine sequesters 1.25 tonnes of CO2), for a net capture of 6,237 tons at the mine.

We have life cycle assessment that calculates the CO2 penalty and loss on efficiency, including milling and transport to locations less than 300 km (186 mi) at around a 4% loss [1].

Just for your information and for others, from a financial perspective the mining in that model costs $7.32 per ton, and then the transport and milling/crushing only costs about $3 per ton, so olivine could be transported to a beach at around $10/ton, with the price per ton of CO2 sequestered at less than $10.

You are also incorrect regarding the mining impact. The mining of things like shale requires fracking and the injection of sand and chemicals, our mining is simply open pit. Essentially, you open a pit on the surface and simply dig it up. As mentioned above, it is not all that energy intensive either.

For global CO2 level removal in terms of mining, it would likely require 30-50 mines in the wet tropics, preferably at a level of greater than 100 million tons/year (due to economies of scale).[2] There are large reserves on every continent and plenty near coastlines[3]. If you wanted to open fewer mines, you could theoretically find a few large reserves. For example, there is an open pit mine in Bingham Canyon that has an excavated volume of over 25 km^3, which would be the equivalent of 2-3 years worth of the volume of material needed.

Don't worry about this idea getting "tossed out with the bathwater," if anything we will actually be removing CO2 from the bathwater and de-acidifying it at the same time ;)

[1] Environmental Life Cycle Assement of CO2 Sequestration Through Enhanced Weathering of Olivine https://projectvesta.org/science/#dflip-df_978/1/
[2] https://projectvesta.org/science/#dflip-df_77/9/
[3] https://projectvesta.org/science/#dflip-df_90/25/
You didn't leave any room for the Apple logo to shine through ...
I think you're assuming he's being 100% earnest. To me, a lot of this sounded tongue-in-cheek.
Not really. Third party code that you haven't installed does not run in an operating system at the click of a button. It does in the browser.

By the logic you're outlining there's no reason to sandbox a browser at all, since it's no different to an operating system. Experience suggests that would not be wise.
You could also do all that with just a PCI-E x1 slot and use the x1 to remote x16 connector referenced in the blog post to extend it. No reason to mess with Thunderbolt just to have any PCIE capability at all.
A case makes the laptop thicker and heavier. My wife and kids have cases on their MBAs and I don’t care for them at all.
My wife bought a plastic water bottle at McDonald's in Munich today. I can't say that I've looked at them much before, but I happened to look at this one. The label said "plantbottle®" and "14% nachwachsende Rohstoffe, 35% wieder verwerteter Kunststoff, 100% recyclebar" (14% renewable raw materials, 35% recycled plastic, 100% recyclable). The numbers might not be exact, just going by memory.

So there's something out there at least. It was Vio brand, which I think is a Coke or Coke-related brand?
How am I being silly? Logically if the same conditions caused an Ice age in the past and we take steps to replicate those conditions in the present then this is a genuinely possible outcome. How is this not something to think about?
I'm in both 3 and 4.

4 because not being explicit about the practice is misleading at best, outsourcing the difficult task of keeping the analysis private show how unimportant it's considered, and because big techs have a tendency to decrease privacy over time. Using clients who paid for the product as a dataset generator is also wrong.

But 3 at the same time because well, it's important to evaluate the performance of the product in the field not just in the lab. There were so many cases of catastrophic failures for ML models (ex. classifying black people as gorilla) that having a tight feedback loop is important.

It has to be done right, but evaluating a product that was primarily developed for (or at least by) English speakers and transfered to other domains seem like the right thing to do.

All in all, I don't and wouldn't use one of those assistants because 4 outweigh 3, but it's not binary.
Ah, right. But why not have browsers allow cross-origin requests, but let an individual server just deny it based on origin header?

I guess because we don't trust servers to do that, we need "don't allow by default, let the server opt-in" instead of "allow it by default, let the server opt-out", because too many servers would not opt out.
I call it my intellectual immune system, but it might be more like a runaway process killer or an OOM-killer. It hates ugliness, and it hates complexity. I kind of appreciate its attempts to clean Javascript out of my brain. Even though it makes it frustrating to do front end tasks, I appreciate the good intentions.

In the 2000s I learned Perl no less than three times. I was really impressed by what people could do with small scripts and one-liners, and I wanted that power for myself. I got really good three times, and each time it took me less time to forget it than it took me to learn it. I did not agree with its decision in that case, but I lost the argument.
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Turns out the NSA has an implant for smart tvs that among its features is keeping the tv on and recording you while turning the indicator light that indicates its on status off.

You don't own the device despite paying for it. It updates itself when it feels like it and does whatever its actual owner says including compromising itself if told to.
Not seeing a mention of PCIe there on the board?
I think you're making a number of assumptions that can't be backed up.

> Poor countries don't have expensive infrastructure investments in the current climate...

What do you mean by this? There are major cities in poor countries that are physically threatened by rising sea levels [0]. Agriculture throughout the tropics is threatened, because rising temperatures will dramatically reduce crop yields [1]. These are already affecting the poorest countries.

> ...can adapt to climate change by moving a few miles. Moving New York City and Los Angeles is much harder, and the loss much more expensive.

I think you're underestimating the effort required to migrate. We're largely not talking about a family here and there moving up the road. Climate change will cause -- and has already caused [2] -- mass migration of whole regions.

[0] https://grist.org/article/rising-seas-are-lapping-at-the-sho...
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613386/climate-change-has...
[2] https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-02-06/climate-change-overlo...
FunFunFunction is my favorite. It has a nice balance of silliness and interesting information.
A useful high language for cryptography would likely have to:

* Not compile to C because you'd be left with the same doubts that the generated machine code is constant time

* Not use gcc / clang internally to generate machine code for the same reason..

* ..but still optimize as well as either

* ..while also implementing SIMD for all the useful platforms

* ..and knowing which approach is most efficient for the target platform (SIMD vs scalar vs SIMD+scalar, instruction selection, instruction ordering, data alignment, etc)

otherwise it's easier to just use C, or if you're a masochist, qhasm.

There is also not a readability issue with constant time code as long as it's in properly named functions (which will get inlined away if necessary).
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Not seeing a mention of PCIe as an option that can be searched?
I'm pretty sure the AI can't see cloaked units, which is why it always built so many observers in the demo games.
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My Macbook pro froze this morning...the mouse moved, but I couldn't interact with anything. After a few mins, I hard rebooted it, and it worked fine after that. I'm not sure if it was related to this update, but it's the first time that this has ever happened, so it's a little bit of a coincidence.
That's because they are all worthless people.

I say again: They are all worthless people
What I don't get is why the same thieves do not steal the wheels, head lights and other parts of parked cars. Seems like it would be more profitable.
That's assuming we don't have a Conservative government later this year.
Prions don't synthesize themselves, they just self-assemble. RNA can encode it's own information while also catalyzing self-replication.