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How does it take 150 engineers to run a platform like that?
> Boldface strikes me as a lack of respect for the reader. An adult reader is supposed to read the whole text.

Yeah, that's bullshit. Open any CS book on your shelf and you'll see different fonts, different sizes, different weights, different background colors, etc. Those books are not written for kids, they're written for adults—for professionals. The goal of a writer is to control the reading process; changing what the text looks like is one way to do that.

We separate the text into paragraphs to delineate different ideas, but also to space out the text and give the reader a chance to breathe. We organize points into bullet points because they're easy to spot, easy to scan, and we don't need to make the text longer by adding flow between each point. We sometimes use frames and a darker background for summaries, auxiliary information, etc. to show that it's not part of the main text. We use large letters to identify different chapters and sections. We use a monospaced font for code examples. We write technical terms in italics when we first introduce them and want to highlight that fact to the reader.

There are a multitude of ways in which we format text so that readers can better follow. Bold is just one extra tool in that arsenal. Don't abuse it, but don't forbid it entirely either.
I have been waiting to hear his take on the protests going on there because back then he said he chose HK because of the freedoms it exercised.
Isn't that like saying BMW needs to address the economy car market?
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>IIRC, the police have hired people who are just really good at recognizing faces and given them a giant stack of photographs of criminals. Driving down the difficulty of that sort of process - identifying suspects with known faces

It's believed in some circles this at least sometimes just BS and is a cover for parallel construction.
I took a neuroscience course back in the day that discussed findings related to autism. I don't remember everything, but there was a discussion on excess dopamine early in the brain and a later depression of glutamate levels. All in all this would lead to more sparsity of neural activations in the brain. This made sense. Too much dopamine would lead to excess plasticity, causing a normal amount of glutamate to have too great of an effect, so the brain compensates by producing less glutamate, producing the same amount of neural activations but now sparsely spread out in a post-plastic brain. From my naive common sense perspective, it would make sense that an autism prevention would be some mechanism to limit plasticity during development. I'm really stretching argument here, but maybe this has some connection to autism brains "kicking in" early.

The connection to estrogen is an interesting one. Estrogen does have an important effect on neurotransmitter receptors, including dopaminergic, but my speculation is worthless here. Is there anyone here that has a better understanding of this that can provide some clarity?
I'm sure you're correct that ideas are more fluid than gender, and this is a major aside... but I'm not convinced ideas are quite as fluid as they seem. Have you felt life would be a lot easier if you didn't believe something was true?

I've read that some students and faculty on college campuses feel like "closet" conservatives (this certainly isn't the only place where people feel at risk for their ideas, and it certainly doesn't always go in this direction).

But I'm not sure people are 100% in control of what they believe. Sometimes, you look at the data, you consider the analysis, and you reach a conclusion that you know would harm friendships, alienate you from your community, and so forth. This often happened in religious contexts - for example, I'm sure a lot of people who were/are atheists in environments where this is a socially abhorrent idea aren't pleased with their conclusion, and keep it very close to their chest, revealing this only to very trusted and close friends and family. But this sort of belief isn't really voluntary - it's more mutable than many other traits, but it's not entirely fluid, either.

In short, I think that ideological minorities may have something in common with minorities in general - though not everything in common. For instance, it's a lot easier to hide, though being forced to listen to and agree with things (either explicitly or through your silence) actually does take a psychic toll after a while.
I'm fully aware of that, however currently as a population we have nearly nothing to show for decades of oil extraction other than pockets of extremely concentrated wealth. If we make a wild assumption that we did exactly the same with our reserves and somehow contrived to create exactly the same sovereign wealth fund, that'd work out to around £13,000 per person. That's not enough to make everyone a millionaire, but it's much greater than the £0 we put aside the way we did it.

Of course this is speculation, featuring ifs/buts and using numbers plucked from our neighbour across the North Sea ... however it's pretty plain to see that we screwed this opportunity up.
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Putting the words “Ethics” and “Web” in the same sentence would already make for a perfect April's fool joke but also adding “Performance” is really overdoing it. If I had what the author smoked for breakfast, I might actually die laughing.
Personally, what I saw is “how to bind a box with rope or tape without looping all around it a dozen times.” And it's so simple in fact that either I'm a dumbass for never thinking of it, or I possibly did try it and failed miserably.
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”people learn that pattern first-hand in late childhood or later”

Is this a fact? If so do you have any evidence or references in support of it?
A federalist republic should mirror more like the EU than the USA. I don't see why states couldn't be their own countries.
If your population is relatively balanced then you need to worry about everybody because every vote might count. Sure a minority might only be 5% of the population, but if you anger them and they vote for your opponent that could absolutely change the outcome of an otherwise close race.
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Are you really implying that the police apply protection equally? That's a naive worldview imo. Do you have evidence for the contrary?
Lots of high-paying jobs would immediately be eliminated. Millions of people driving gas cars would see prices go up a lot. Airline tickets, plastic products... the prices of everything would go up.

There would also be big national security concerns. It's hard to hold, for example, Saudi Arabia accountable for misdeeds when your economy depends on them.

For the record, I think the US should do this gradually. Some of the money could go toward welfare and unemployment benefits for people negatively impacted by job losses or price increases.
Honest question: how long do you generally keep your Android phones? An iPhone XR is $750 retail (I would assume you can get it cheaper) and I would feel comfortable saying it will last 4-5 years and get all OS and security updates.

I’m sure from a TCO it will still end up being more expensive than Android but not quite as much when looking beyond initial purchase price.
I wouldn't consider mugging a petty crime.
When will the first manager manage accordingly? When do we see a job listing that says they want somebody who doesn't multitask?
There are some issues that don't fall neatly into the "50 laboratories" theory. We tried that with slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights/desegregation, gay marriage, and a host of other things. California or New York banning housing discrimination based on race doesn't help me if I'm a poor black family living in Georgia and can't afford (or other reason) to move to one of those places. Hence, federal housing discrimination laws that apply everywhere.

The problem is identifying at the time which issues fall into that bucket. Sure, any of the ones I mentioned are obvious to contemporary sensibilities in hindsight. But at the time they were being argued, people were making the same argument you are making. That's why the phrase "state's rights" has lost meaning as anything other than a dog-whistle for "the right to discriminate against people we don't like." It used to mean what you are arguing.

I don't disagree with your point, I've just never seen heard a reasonable way to distinguish which issues fall into the "50 labs" bucket vs. the "federal responsibility" bucket without the benefit of decades of hindsight.
What is this war in the heart of nature?

Why does the land contend with the sea?

Is there an avenging power in nature?

Not one force, but two?
I did see it! I haven't looked into it deeply yet, but I think it'll be valuable for later when I need to make the algorithm scale better.
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For me it varies widely depending on how I hold my hand. If I place them flat on a surface, palm down, fingers together, my ring fingers look longer. If I look at them palm towards me, fingers separated, extended, but relaxed, it's clear the index fingers are longer on both hands.
That's not strictly true. You just can't get reasonable terms unless you participate.

Credit used to be much, much harder to get, and more expensive. You got loans from friends. You shopped at a particular store for years and built up your reputation before they would offer you credit. You pawned something. Or you just saved your money and paid cash.
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> it has taken thousands of hours of spacewalks to keep operating.

The total eva time for all five servicing missions for Hubble is under 200 hours.
This could use a bit more explanation and CGP Grey actually has a very good video out called "The Rules for Rulers" which touches on one of the reasons this really is a terrible situation. Whenever funds are diverted to the common good the party in power is, by definition, kicking less money into cronyism than is possible - in a setting with a poorly activated public, where power ends up being concentrated into the hands of the few, there is a constant pressure from those in power to divert more money to those representative voices from the voices you're unaccountable to - this makes it more likely that even a well intentioned leader will be ousted in a coup.
Samsung has a lot more products and verticals as does Google.

Looking at all of the money that Google spends on research - they still make 90% of their revenue on ad sales and have had a string of failures and also rans.

No one can seriously argue that Apple’s ARM processor designs aren’t top notch, they just took over Intel’s modem division and they still depend on Intel for much of their computer hardware - except for the T2 chips that are part of their ARM designs

What else do you propose that Apple spend money on?

Horace Deidu just posted a graph on twitter showing that just their services revenue is larger than all of Apple’s revenue a decade ago.
I'm sure more people are reusing bags than before, I am not the best at it, but have about a 50 percent success rate at remembering to bring one, or just don't use a bag.
Autism is a disorder that can require medical treatment. If a doctor could screen for risk factors and provide medication to pregnant women that reduced the chances of autism developing in the child, it would be their duty.
I asked a related question 2 days ago. This is a great idea. But how does one make money selling such ideas/apps? Do we make partnerships? Do we list the app on appstore for a small amount? Any other ideas?
Yes, but all the content will be stored in Markdown (which is highly portable format), so you'd be able to download all your posts and switch at any time. And by blogging on your own domain you would be the owner of your traffic and SEO ranking (unlike writing on Medium).
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563430

> Today, you are not you, you are your data, a persona. And you are somehow responsible for it or anything that casts a similar shadow.

I think it is a similar case here. The main problem won't be that my face is out there. The problem will be that the police will stop you or stop by at your house to "just have a chat" because some algorithm matched your face to some input somewhere with a 90% confidence.

By the way, who owns the photographs and how do the departments have authority to share them with some company? If they can share with with that company, why not make the data public and let everyone have access to it? I'd like to play with the data as well.
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If we can't even get our Supreme Court to agree that gerrymandering is bad enough to believe that it should be involved, I'm pretty sure fundamentally changing how the entire government works is a bit unlikely, to put it mildly.
> Me: So we can't really do anything?

> Cop: Yep sorry

So let's add a face recognition database. Now, two possibilities.

One is they've got the DMV database or some other mass database with photos of millions of people. They run your video through and it comes back with 117 matches. They all look like your guy, because that's what facial recognition is, so which one is it? Still no way to tell. And that's assuming the perpetrator was actually in the database.

The other possibility is that they're only using something like mugshot photos. Now it's only thousands of people in the database, so they only get one match. Hurray, we've caught him! Except that it could still have been any of the other 116 people who weren't in the smaller database. Or any of thousands of people from out of state or other countries who aren't even in the bigger database. So now we're going to go convict this guy because he's the only suspect and we've got a video of somebody who looks like him, even though he probably wasn't even the perpetrator.

Notice that this is only a problem for justice systems that want to be justice systems. If all you want is a pound of flesh from some random schmoe to demonstrate that you're catching bad guys even though you're not, it works great. Same if you're an authoritarian dictatorship, because then you can murder all 117 matches and to heck with all this hard work of making sure we found the right person. Which is why mass surveillance does more harm than good.
I use this site a lot, it is pretty good for finding new music especially new genres of music. I discovered Arab Metal last week which was pretty good.
You missed:

> No idea what "ED" means here

If you don't know what ED means, that doesn't help you.
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Thanks! Do you have a link for what roodready is? I did a quick search but didn't find anything.
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I'm looking for good tutorials for getting started with DSP stuff (in Rust if possible although I know that may still be too niche) if anyone has suggestions
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You missed my point, which was that I don't mind being more specific in my searches if it means my privacy is respected. DDG doesn't work for you and you don't mind Google having a full profile of your web browsing habits in order to better target you for their advertising business? That's fine, but DDG is not without merit just because it doesn't work out of the box exactly as you expect it to.

EDIT: And as a response to the other comment pointing our that you didn't know what ED was in the first place, Google is not the be all end all of knowledge... type "ED !w" and figure it out based on the listing in Wikipedia. This is an inconvenience that I don't mind, that's my entire point.
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Assuming they had fully saturated their current market and wanted to grow. Not the best comparison in my mind.
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I can only speak from the iOS side, but naming it "notification" or "interruption" is entirely up to you. By default, I answer "Do Not Allow" to "AppX would like to send you notifications". Boom, I'll never hear from that app. If I later find that I would like the app to notify me of certain events, I go back in, turn the notification setting on, and customize delivery to my tastes.

You picked a particularly timely example, as just this morning I set Lyft to "notify me about ride stuff" and "absolutely do not ever again tell me I have a credit".
After reading the article, I'm pretty sure she doesn't have any staff.
If you worry about this, the reform you want is multi-member districts. Instead of voting for one representative people are picking several and the districts are bigger. This is how EU parliamentary elections work for example, a region gets say 5 slots and it needs to send 5 representatives to fill those slots, elected democratically but the EU doesn't tightly constrain the method used.

There are a few ways you can do this, Jefferson developed one of them so that's got a nice pedigree. It is also a good way for any third party to start to get some attention. Getting 20% of votes together to have your candidate as the fifth member for a district with 2 Dems and 2 Republicans is going to be easier than finding a plurality of voters for a single rep when the two big parties are both saying that's a wasted vote.