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> Notice Britain could have given more democracy for Hong Kong without China's pressure before 1980 but she didn't, like Young plan

The link from hker's extensive post (thanks man!) https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu... specifically says this

"But documents recently released by the National Archives in Britain suggest that beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing"

Do you accept britain actually tried to do what you say it didn't? (edit: I'm not denying we did some really bad stuff, but we may have got it right that time)

Also in your original post you said

> Stressing only on freedom towards mainland people sounds as horrible as stressing only on order towards protesters

This is very hard for me to understand as a westerner. 'Freedom' means the ability for me to choose, as an adult individual, what I can do (within the constraints of not messing up the lives of others; basic morality). You seem to be saying that mainlander chinese are actually afraid of or repulsed by that? That they do not wish to have that ability to be themselves? I think I'm reading you wrong, could you give me an idea of what you're trying to say.
No, you're right - but to say it's simple is ridiculous. That will take the entire city being willing to be displaced for years - millions of people without homes - what does the political will for that look like?
Reminds me of the quote: "Procrastination only ensures that circumstance makes your decisions for you."
I like that matrix!

One thing that I think gets lost in engineers (and humans) is scale.

Googazon doing {thing} might be "meh" for 10 people. But the implications look very different when it's doing {thing} for 10%+ of a country's population.

At 10 people, I may find out Ted likes to eat Italian. At 10%, I may find out an Italian chain has a sudden health issue and short their stock.

Which is in essence their original playbook: do things that only work at a scale that only we can play at.
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Ok, anybody else? My understanding is that it is not Zoom exclusively who does this. Strange to see only them take the heat for this.
If you want it for ML you could check out the Coral TPU. (Tensor Processing Unit over USB) I picked up a couple of those yesterday.
We're not extinguishing the only intelligent life in the universe, because I don't think this is nearly enough to extinguish humanity. It will be sad and miserable for us, but we'll survive it.

I firmly believe the last human will eat the last cockroach.
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* Get to sleep early enough to wake before the alarm goes off

* Strong coffee
>But capitalism is meritocracy.

That breaks down when you have inherited wealth.
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This as well as the recent imaging of the M87 black hole are both phenomenal feats of signal processing. Is this the new normal for astronomy?
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My understanding of recording law is that in One Party states you need to be part of the conversation to record it. Speculation: This would mean that the device / owner would be in violation if the owner was not in the room?
>More information has been flowing, circumventing traditional media, political and cultural establishments. But the result hasn’t been more democracy, stronger communities or a world that’s closer together. Countries with weaker social institutions felt the effects of social media most violently and immediately.

More information has made more people realize how corrupt and incestuous many powerful institutions are, and they are rebelling against them.

Seems very democratic to me.
the entire premise that companies should be large enough to influence the discourse is what the problem is, not the regulatory framework within which they do this..

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I still don't see your point or what you're disagreeing with. But anyway, thanks for your comment I guess. Have a nice day..
I'm reminded of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
A RasPi-compatible USB GPIO breakout adapter would be a cool product.
Pay real humans for user studies that the humans knowingly sign up for.
>> The audio clips can be recordings of conversations of people who have not consented to being recorded

My guess would be that the person who does consent to the terms of service of the device and plugs it in will be the one responsible for ensuring that it is used in a way that does not invade the privacy of anyone else. It would be similar to me buying an IP camera, agreeing to the terms of service then putting it in my neighbours house without their knowledge.

In the context of the GDPR, I think the question comes down to what rights a third party person has when a user puts their personal information on the company's servers. If someone uploads a video of me without my consent to YouTube, can I get it removed under the GDPR?
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Yes, it's per capita-ish. As implemented in Canada, rural residents get a bit more than urban, and children get half the amount as adults (paid to their parents, of course).

That poor person isn't taking multiple flights per year, buying lots of stuff, et cetera. So even with driving to work he's probably still keeping a small fraction of the dividend.
If the car is taking forever the plane won't go any faster. I'm about a year in with the tail mostly done and waiting on the fuselage to get in (QB wings).

My personal progress rate has been fairly slow since I work full time but others in my situation have gone a lot faster.
You're getting too lost in the weeds here.

It doesn't matter if a company takes your data, does a poor job of anonymizing it, and then decides to label it as "training" for their "AI" or if they just stick it all in a flat .txt files and process it in Fortran.

It's the exact same thing. You should be mad about the data being saved and used. Splitting hairs over implementation details to try and find a loophole is just a waste of time.
As somebody in an oil and gas town, I can assure you that more than zero oil and gas company owners and executives think global warming is a paranoid delusion or even a political conspiracy

Not everyone of course, but I just want to point out that “they know about it and are hiding it” isn’t always accurate. There is a lot of denial
Because its still a legal and valid object according to the standard.

A moved from vector might get reused to store new things for example.
Could a colony of ants form its own self-awareness? Do we understand enough about consciousness/awareness to know what the difference is between an ant network and say, a network of neurons?
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Apparently they sat down, like, accountants in front of this thing and they could derive trees (programs) that automated tasks just fine with a bit of coaching. shrug

(But that also worked with Lisp+Emacs!

> programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html )
> For example, what’s to stop me from saying “Hey Google, I am <full legal name / ID>

Even more fun, if you call a bank, you often have to key-in your account number (which can be easily decoded if your phone sounds back the tones, which most do), then tell you name, your address and sometimes your other PII like Social Security number or part of it. Record that call and that's a complete identity theft package, nicely wrapped, just replay it to the bank (which name you've also have recorded, if the user called on speaker, which they did because who wants to keep the phone pressed to your head all the time while you're waiting and listening to the muzak) and you get full access to the user's bank account.
Whenever I'm in the home of a friend who's enthralled with their smart speaker gadget, I like to make red-flag-raising requests to their gadget. Asking for good sniper vantage points in Washington DC, a safe rohypnol dosage for 10-year-olds, the soonest flight to a non-extradition country, those sorts of things.
People will pay a lot for the convenience - I think of all my coworkers who need to go pick their kids up from school to take them to soccer practice after work - that's really hard to do commuting.
And of course there are children to consider:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/suit-alleges-am...
I live north of Houston. We have more insects, snakes, and critters than most places on earth. Just in my area we have spiders (wolf, black widow, brown recluse, among others), roaches, ants (fire and normal), scorpions, centipedes, mosquitoes, and more.

I have successfully used these to combat insects inside my home. My wife does not like the smell of the orange oil, so I use it judiciously inside (laundry room), but outside around the perimeter. My children aren't exposed to toxic chemicals, but the bugs don't cross the perimeter much. Orange oil appears as "expensive" per liter, but it's concentrated, so I mix it in a gallon sprayer with water and spray. I might actually try soaking bay leaves in the water with the orange oil overnight. In this heat and humidity, the resulting water just might be really nasty for insects.

My grandmother swears by spreading cayenne pepper in lieu of bay leaf powder.

I think the market sees an opportunity, despite health risks, to market this stuff as an easy solution, but it's like doctors prescribing antibiotics for everything. It's efficacy is wearing thin as insects develop an immunity. I guess nature knows a thing or two about handling insects, so I appeal to the non-toxic stuff as much as possible.
if you have implemented fsync() to not sync to actual backing storage you have a bug in your design. That is orthogonal to caching the writes in RAM prior.
This is generally how I think self-driving will squeeze out human-driving, through regulatory capture. Don't love it for many reasons, but there is precedent.
> I wonder how people felt about handing all their personal photos over to a stranger just so they can get developed and printed, back in the 1990s. By today's standards, that would be incredibly creepy. But everyone did it because... having photos is pretty awesome.

This had its own set of norms associated with it: people would not take in photos that could be considered "indecent". Possibly by the extremely conservative standards of your local chemist. Then Polaroid invented a camera where you didn't have to submit your photos to the judging eye of someone else ...
What's most interesting to me is that an army of contractors is required to get even the low accuracy levels of voice recognition we have today. The "AI" revolution is pure smoke and mirrors designed entirely to bilk investors out of their dollars. There's been no improvement in "AI" in the last 50 years, except that we have a lot more data to push through the same useless models.
Apple pays real humans to enlist in research studies to collect data. That’s how they built FaceID for example. They have stated this publicly.
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There is a lot of evidence indicating that the megafauna extinction was principally due to the human hunters. Here is a very good (but long) Twitter thread by a biologist explaining it in detail: https://twitter.com/DRMegafauna/status/1084896526151942145
Sandisk cards for domestic sale in China have 18-digit authenticity code on scratchpad, and you can verify it online at verify.sandisk.cn.

So, "buy in China because there's too many fakes in US store". Ironic isn't it.
there's no way to log out, the browser has to store it instead of a session cookie which can be invalidated if it's stolen.

plus what's in this comment https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/988/is-basic-au...
Both. The FPGA can interconnect the 16 RPi4s at 40 Gbps and also interconnect the 16 1G Ethernet at 16 Gbps, even interconnect the 16 HDMI, MPI and GPIO, depending on the FPGA. The FPGA can add 256 GB DDR3 and lots of other IO's like SATA and HDMI. (see my other comment for a $159 FPGA).
The FPGA can act like a switch, an IO and memory extender and still have room for up to 300 ARM or Risc-V softcores.
The prospect of children surfing the Web and clicking through their lessons while teachers, or non-teacher chaperones, pace the room is an emerging reality, especially in states such as Louisiana and Mississippi, where personalized “ed tech” is offered as a balm for budget austerity. “There’s been hyperbolic claims about the ability of these new technologies to radically transform schools,” Matthew Kraft, an associate professor of education at Brown University, told me.

This is personalized learning at its worst. Startups are marketing themselves to districts as a means of achieving the same outcomes with fewer teachers. That's harmful to society and will result in lower quality education for the poor.

Technology is a powerful tool for education but it is no substitute for teacher-student interaction. It's best used for administrative duties such as segmenting students into groups, aggregating data for reports, facilitating collaboration by making longitudinal student information more accessible and digestible to teachers. It's a useful replacement for textbook and handout based homework, and enables students to consume and information from a variety of sources. It's not a substitute for interacting with teachers.

Also, there needs to be more regulation to protect student information. FERPA (the law that's supposed to protect student data) makes student data less secure. Under that law, health records that pertain to the student's education (such as the diagnosis of learning disabilities) are no longer protected by HIPAA. FERPA has no such security requirements.
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I would love something with 4x SATA ports for a NAS like this one[1]. I've seen PCIe on devices like these, but I've heard there are issues getting drivers to work properly. I haven't actually tried it, but other limitations (RAM, CPU, Ethernet) have prevented me from actually giving it a shot (I want ZFS, which is a bit memory hungry). The Pi has just enough that I think it's doable.

I would absolutely love it if the Raspberry Pi foundation made a version with PCIe instead of USB.

- [1] https://www.newegg.com/syba-si-pex40064-sata-iii/p/N82E16816...
iPad would be overkill. You could get by with an OG iPhone.
It is not, it's pretty much equal to Sandisk Ultra A1 in performance. (not the same as the one tested in this test)

You can get original 32GB Sandisk Ultra A1 for $4.30 (or $8 incl. shipping) on aliexpress.

Evo+ is $8.60 (or $15.79 incl. shipping) on Amazon.
It's interesting that it also triggered their ballooning, the mad scientist in me wonders if you could create a big field over a large area (like your back yard) and trigger a mass exodus of spiders.
I highly doubt that selecting traffic signs in pictures does anything to help Google's self-driving efforts. The models used in autonomous vehicles are extremely state of the art and object detection is largely a solved problem (many people make object detection apps as Hello World projects).
The potential damage of climate change and rise in mental health issues and gun violence stick out to me, but on average I do agree with you that we live longer and probably have higher quality of life now.

Out of curiosity, do you think that's more a result of companies willfully choosing to reduce profits to be more ethical or because things are generally more regulated these days?
This is a good way of explaining the old expression, "What matters is the journey, not the destination"
>The oligarchs of the world have more than enough money to fix all the climate issues, but since they derive their wealth from exploiting the climate, there is no hope for a fix from them.

No they don’t. Money isn’t something you can turn into zero carbon infrastructure at the snap of a finger.

We have a very large global population and carbon keeps it alive, and materially satisfied. Shut it off too fast, and people get dead and grumpy. Shut it off too slow, and our civilization collapses.

We’re all part of the system, and the system is the problem. I think the best thing oligarchs could do is buy politicians to change the system to incentivize replacing carbon in a way that doesn’t make people dead or grumpy. Grumpy people vote out politicians with long term views for those who offer short term solutions.
I just set up my own Git central using HTTP basic auth (with cgit and Gitolite). It is refreshingly simple and also looks good in text-based browsers.

https://github.com/h2o/h2o/wiki/Hosting-private-and-public-r...
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A neat project and some of the other comments have shared similar projects for other databases. How do projects like this address security concerns? Specifically, mass assignment attacks?
There's some major PTSD that happens when you get hit by a multi-ton metal object with a fairly unempathetic operator.

If you ask a person on the street why they don't exchange a quick car ride with riding a bike or walking, they may tell you that they're scared of getting hit by a car - and this is probably before getting hit by a car.

I can't really quantify the emotional stress riding bikes costs me now each, and every time a car almost hits me (which is a regular basis), but it's something I have to now live with. And I friggin' love riding bikes.
Ironically, if the owner were not in the room, I'd expect the device manufacturer would be more directly liable.

How can a homeowner be responsible for a device for which they (a) don't control the operation of & (b) don't control the software of?

At that point, whether a device captures incidental recording seems entirely under control of the manufacturer.
Per article:

> The man, who wants to remain anonymous, works for an international company hired by Google. His job is to listen to the audio clips and to write out what he hears, so that Google can improve the speech assistant.

So,

> It is quite another thing if they are selling my conversations to third-party vendors.

That is exactly what Google is doing.
Its like, building your own computer entirely from parts. One that never existed before.

And anyway, I call No True Scotsman. When is it 'really, really creating life'? If making something that lives, eats and reproduces from parts is not 'making life' then what?

I just meant to point out, the old tired philosophy issue of 'Until we can create life, God still has primacy' is out of date.
Sure, but for this use case if you're doing a set of database transactions each will be its own write to persistent storage. Which is why you care about the random 4k write speed.

"Sequential writes are much faster than random writes" is not at all a new problem, it dates from the hard disk era. Which is why most filesystems will cache as much as they think they can get away with.
And not just because all those dongles would significantly increase the cost of a relatively cheap device.
The problem is that people routinely underestimate the scale of vested interest. Bill McKibben famously quantified the problem as the amount of actual capital (as in, can be used as collateral) in the ground for some companies - trillions of dollars worth. But the problem actually goes far beyond this.

The real vested interest is Washington, DC - what is being confronted here is not a few oil companies and their lobbying power; that could easily be overcome, there is a ton of public interest and pressure in fighting climate change. The real barrier is that Washington's imperial power is tied to fossil fuels.

Starting as early as the 1920s there was the recognition that US oil supplies were dwindling (they peaked in 1969 and have been falling ever since), and that the bulk of remaining oil was in the Middle East. This remains the case, although Venezuela is an important new source in the era of not-so-cheap oil. Since that moment, Washington has used control over the Middle East not as a way to get oil, but as a way to exercise imperial control over world affairs.

This is why our foreign policy includes a close, bizarre, and to most Americans anathema, alliance with the repressive, dictatorial, feudal monarchy in Saudi Arabia; one of Obama's signal achievements was selling this regime $115 billion in weaponry. All of this effort, along with the effort of the Iraq War, the Afghanistan war, and the 70-year long campaign to control Iran, was organized to ensure the continuation of American power by maintaining dominance over the global oil supply.

None of this power is possible without this concentration of oil resources. If the world, instead, moves to a decentralized system based on cheap, accessible technologies, the result would be an instant loss of control for Washington. All of the military power arrayed to dominate the Middle East would become irrelevant. This is intolerable.

It is THIS vested interest that we must overcome to fight climate change. Few activists appreciate this; little of our rhetoric around climate change is organized around the war machine. It continues to be along the lines of, "This is just good sense, why can't we have a technology transition, screw the oil companies?"

Without confronting the war machine, without aiming at the real organized power that stands behind our use of fossil fuels, we're unlikely to win.
I can't help you if you don't see the connection.
I grew up as a kid in a country ruled by Securitate [1], one of the few institutions that rivaled the East-German Stasi when it came to spying on its own citizens, and as such I'm very, very perplexed of why would anyone bring in a listening device in his/her own house out of his/her own volition. And those people even pay for the privilege of having their home-lives actively monitored and listened to almost all the time, it's crazy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitate
Well of course you will have some qa / quality monitoring just as you will with telecoms and I seem to recall that the Dutch go in for monitoring of phones in a big way.

Also does that article remind me of the Monty python sketch "news for wombats"
The single best thing as an individual you can do for yourself[1] and the planet[2][3] is adopt a vegan diet. we could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 24% simply by abstaining from meat and dairy products.

[Edit]Other key insights from J.Poole's study addressing climate change thru food[1]

>Eating vegetable products - even the highest emitting products, will still have a better impact on the environment than selecting only low emitting meat products

>Food responsible for 31% of global GHG

>High impact beef producing 5000% more emissions than low impact beef

>Agriculture sits at heart of all environmental problems

>Population size highly correlated with global c02

1.
https://www.drcarney.com/blog/health-issues/diet-linked-to-h...

2.
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b...
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