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This is one of the points I'm more pragmatic about. Secrecy breeds loss. The products of human creative toil should be kept and enjoyed by all, versus being locked-up being veils of secrecy that inevitably lead to their loss. The only way to preserve ideas is for them to proliferate.
> So long as you understand the basic principles, you could make an integrated circuit using hand-drawn acetate or glass sheets and some really simple optics. Or ignore integrated circuits and make stuff from discrete components which you made yourself. You only need to care about making complex EUV scanners much, much later on.

Yes, in the universe, they can easily make microelectronics on technology level of twentieth century eighties.

The main idea is that they have no hope to make anything remotely approaching even 21st century "advanced tech" level, without an actual civilisation that had few decades of peace and prosperity to allow for civilisation-wide supply chains, knowledge sharing, and economy.
For autonomous, you're maybe running 2-4 kilowatts continuous load for the computing? At least no more than that?

Then you have 2 kW for the air conditioning, probably 2 kW for cooling of the battery pack when running hard? Depends on whether you include those in onboard tech.

Seems like the Model S does around 35 kWh/100 miles, at 50 mph that's 17 kW average power draw at highway speeds. If you're stuck in traffic, however, it's far less.
Good. It should not be cheaper to ship across the Pacific ocean than ship domestically.
> voted 3rd party

So you're planning to have no effect on the outcome of the election?
My dad is a beekeeper and I've been with bees all my life. A bee colony is a wonderful, inspiring emergent organism.

When you know the bees, you can optimize for any dimension among many.

Depending on the needs around our farm, we'd optimize for honey production, for pollen, for pollination services, for bee or queen production among others.

Now, my dad optimizes for joy. A bit of honey to give the grandkids, friends and neighbours. Pollination services for the berry farms (those farmers are his buddies) in that critical time when blossoms must be pollinated or there will be no berries, nukes (what we call fresh new bees with a queen, the nucleus 'nuke' of a colony) for other beekeepers that need more bees, teaching at the local community college.

Sometimes, we go into the bees with no protective gear. If you know the bees, you can do that. There is a sense of calm/zen/awe you get when among the bees that is hard to describe.

All this is to say, it is misleading to think of colony collapse as a problem. Rather, it is a choice some beekeepers increasingly make to optimize other things. Death rates under 10% are quite possible with a different set of choices. We get single digit death rates, even near zero, but getting there gives up a lot of other dimensions.

Bee production itself is so effective that it often makes economic sense to, in effect, stress a colony to death and replace it with a fresh one, rather than give the colony the space or attention needed to make it through.

The economics is clearer if you have dozens or hundreds of colonies. Then, you have to handle them en mass and accept higher losses as a result.

If you are going to hit peak pollination time in Florida, then truck your colonies across the continent to catch the sweet pollination money from California, you are going to stress your colonies far beyond what they can handle and lose a lot as a result. But, the oranges and the almonds will be pollinated and what you make will more than cover the cost of buying fresh new colonies.

Running the bees to burn through them is not a choice I'd make, but I understand the math even as I don't need the bees to support my family.
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From the description of the filters applied, it feels like the bottom is the original as the palettization unifies the colour and the top is definitely more pixelated. But to me I like the colours of the bottom more and you can see some places (like the tent in the top right) where there's significant detail loss in the top one, which is also why I think it's not the original.

That said, there are some things that are improved. The inconsistent shadows and harsh differences in level of detail are very clear in the bottom one and not so much in the top one.

So I'm with you, I can guess which one is the original, but I couldn't pick a "better" one.
> The metro in Berlin was pretty decent though.

Crazy expensive compared to the cost of living though. One subway ride costs almost as much as a cheap meal (döner for example) and often more than a pint of beer. Contrast that with Paris where a subway ticket hardly gets you a coffee at the counter.
Does this mean lower government spending?

Kind of blows my mind the government gets tax money and private people get the benefits.
I find the gigatron very interesting for this. It bypasses all the vhdl/tooling complexity. https://gigatron.io/
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> When digital replication is easy -- as it is with arts like music or software -- piracy destroys innovation and hurts creators who want to earn a living by selling their creations.

There's no evidence this is true. This is already the world we live in, and creativity is high.

> It's not like the farmers or the apartment owners are going to let people "pirate" a warm place to sleep or a good meal.

I made a specific point that IP is fundamentally different.

> The Grateful Dead, for instance, let people freely copy mix tapes of their concerts and made their money on gate revenues. (They didn't let people in for free. Nope. )

That exactly the point. Monetizing through live shows is already how most music artists make money.

> This creates inefficiencies and it just isn't fair to those who just want to sell their creations without holding a concert or drumming up some other scheme to get people to pay.

It's competition that benefits the consumers of those creations and an opportunity for middle-men to connect creators with consumers (see Patreon). Define "fair" when copyright is often used as a way to censor and steal from smaller creators.

> Most "open source" companies spend endless hours trying to concoct ways to open source just enough of their product while forcing enough people to pay so everyone can eat.

And the outcome is that the public has access to countless sets of open source software alternatives. Which is amazing for users and innovators.

> I've found that most of the people who speak like pitaj are in universities and they make their money through some mixture of outrageous tuition bills that can't be dodged or government funding from taxes that can't be escaped.

Not true for me.
We're unfortunately in a place where public transit systems are starting to fall apart in many major US cities (I dont know if its all), such as Boston and NYC. At the same time, we're trying to reduce car usage. That's a pretty hard pill to swallow for many people.

If it was a cohesive strategy, where housing and transportation plans are moving together, there would be a lot less friction.
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Speaking of being happy with their commute. I'm very happy and I'm walking to work everday. Maybe you should rethink the need for cars/trains in the first place? Because I sure am not using trains in my daily life and don't own a car.
Exactly, that's why all this "free market" talk from its proponents is a bunch of hypocritical BS.
NoScript works fine on HN. Works fine on most of the Web, really; you'd be surprised.

To dig a little into your mindset, it sounds like you enjoy being needed and having an important part to play. But you've limited yourself by tying yourself to JS and not embracing a wider understanding of computer science.

JS is a portion of my salaried work as well. But that doesn't make it good. Plenty of salaried work is bad. It's up to us as ethical computer scientists to decide to avoid bad work, including deciding to avoid JS.

At the end of the day, JS still doesn't even have integers. It's just as harmful to you as BASIC was to Dijkstra's students, and the damage done is so extensive that you're unable to notice how much you've been hurt.

The only saving grace is that the ECMAScript steering committee has been infiltrated by capability-security folk and is slowly becoming a capability-aware language. You can't stop this, and you will be converted.
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Epstein himself also was interested in eugenics for this purpose.

It's incredibly chilling.
I feel like this author has not experienced living in a city where there was not enough parking to meet demand, and not enough public transit to make up the difference. It causes its own set of horrible problems.

People will not give up their car if they still need it to go to work.

You have to have the public transportation system before you remove parking spaces.

Otherwise you’re going to make the problem worse, not better. If you remove parking first, people are going to avoid dense areas even more, which is the opposite of what you want to solve this issue. You want to encourage people to live and work in denser areas, not encourage them to move further away. On top of that, you’ll get illegal parking which causes property damage and poses risks to public safety.
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> What's not okay is going around and arguing that you just can't do better than that. He could do better

Maybe he can't do better than that? Maybe not everyone can get good enough at art to make decent looking modern games on a tight budget? Using contractors well requires artistic skills so that doesn't solve the problem.

And don't come with the bullshit "Everyone can become great at X, it just takes practice, see I sucked once and now I'm great!". Sure you will never be great at something without practice, but it doesn't just take practice it takes a level of talent as well. Some people are just doomed to be mediocre at some things.

> His older post was disrespectful to all people that do take pride in what they do and want to improve it.

No it wasn't. It was about him not being able to make better art on his budget. Not about others not being able to make better art with similar budgets.
The key reason people have problem with data-mongers is deceit. Not that absolutist do not understand why privacy is violated, but how. For instance,

- Data Collection: No way to opt-out. Ex: Analytics.

- User Studies: The default is almost always opt-in. Ex: Siri recordings.

This, coupled with the fact that a majority of internet and smartphone users do not understand the second thing about the ad-industry makes this a racket of gargantuan scale.

Also, whether one pays for the services or not, tech companies have made it a routine to encroach upon personal data to increase revenue / profits without providing real value or any value to the end-user: There's always a grave concern of what happens to the data collected when a tech company goes down-under, for a reason.

- Third-party services: Blatant disregard of end-user's privacy with separate terms, conditions, and policy to first-party. Ex: Payment gateways selling purchase data.

- First-party services: Often weasel-worded yet ever-changing, generic and vague privacy policy. And, more often than not, eventually, user ends up being the product. Ex: Anti-virus software / Other free google services like mail, search, maps.

The concerns raised by so-called fundamentalists isn't so much privacy-related but the kind of strategy it entails, with companies from all corners vying for ever decreasing attention time-span to keep them hooked, addicted so they can show more ads, coarse them into buying things they don't want, manipulate them to further someone else's political motives, sway their thoughts to sell more outrage and anxiety, expose them to content just to push the right buttons, target their emotions to control their behaviour... aren't all of these dark patterns abominable? Aren't these in-use by the multi-billion dollar Internet businesses because its easy strategy?

There's more to privacy violations than meets the eye. I expected a more in-depth analysis than concluding that a compromise in privacy and security is okay 'cause it helps weed-out terrorists and pedophiles, and create successful business, like stratechery, online.

Also read: https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/06/superhuman-i...
Yes, also a few hundreds of terabytes of data are much less convenient to upload and share.
> In this case, HBO charges cable operators, such as Comcast, a monthly per-subscriber fee, corresponding to the wholesale price, and each cable operator decides on its own margin, which determines the final retail price.

There are so many holes here. Lets see how difficult an accounting analysis of piracy is, because interpretations of an absence of data could lead to opposite conclusions.

HBO is now owned by AT&T, some of whose Internet subscribers pirate HBO shows, so how does AT&T account for that in its books? Is that a "loss"? Is it passing on surplus to the consumer?

The answer is it doesn't. There's no such thing as a GAAP piracy charge. Nobody would believe it. Estimates from industry lobbies of the cost of piracy have never shown up in a finance charge the same way that say a "goodwill writedown" has.

Conversely, content pirates value their fast Internet connections and pay more for better speeds! You will never see a major corporation attribute revenue to an illegal activity, so that value is/was permanently unmeasurable.

What about changes over time? There are so many confounding disruptions in the creative content business. Game of Thrones, the article's leading example, was itself a disruption in the content business! It's really hard to do a cause and effect here, because the most attractive interpretation--post hoc/now was caused by the past--is going to be the least durable.

This piracy analysis stuff is really abstract and often misses the point. The best thing you can personally do to support creative work is to pay for it!

Although what is really debated here is the role of middlemen in discovery, profit-maximization, etc., so I personally do something a little different: I make an effort to pay for new creators most of all, because new creators are worst represented in corporate and mass-consumer interests.
There is a third option and that is demand management. Just turn off the load when the price is high. This can work for things like domestic water heating, space heating if coupled with modest amounts of heat storage, charging electric vehicles when the price is low.

We need to use all of them.
I got this too!

Quite sure my account is not compromised, have 2fa and a keepass password. The invites appear to be sent from my own e-mail address. Is this a separate issue? No third part access to calendar either.
> The vast majority of human expression was created before the concept of "IP" existed. The business models we've had in the last few hundred years are the aberration, not the other way around.

That's probably not true, for two reasons. The general reason is that most of anything was created recently, due to the exponential growth of human population and society. The specific reason is that copyright was developed hand-in-hand with the technology for creating easily-reproduced works.

> Shouldn't the laborers who carried the stones to build a bridge be entitled to an ongoing royalty paid by everyone who crosses?

There are, of course, toll bridges and roads, including private ones. (The fact that the laborer doesn’t get the payment is a function of the arrangement between the laborer and the person who owns the bridge, not a function of the nature of the property right.)
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Facebook quietly ditched 'It’s free and always will be' slogan from its homepage
I'm not sure how you could consider Google to have been given a "free pass", given the number of times stories about employees protesting those issues have trended here.
Yeah, minidump and breakpad/crashpad can be great when running native code on an OS!

One challenge with embedded devices (i.e ARM Cortex-Ms) is that it is not always safe/viable to try and grab the thread contexts at the time of crash. These MCUs have none or very limited support for memory management (a MPU at best), the OS/application state usually lives in the same RAM area, and the stack dealing with exception handling is usually quite small. For these reasons, it's usually desirable to grab a very simple memory dump and offload as much of the processing as possible to the server. The "core dump" format that is used for linux is saved as an ELF with a few special PT_NOTE sections to convey thread information. This would be hard to generate on most embedded devices. The coredump we collect for embedded devices is closer to a mini-dump. It is basically just a raw memory dump and the current register state on the device. On the server side, we recover the thread contexts and backtraces by using the debug symbols, the RAM capture, and analyzers for the RTOS that was used (i.e FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ThreadX, Mbed OS)
Having bought a couple drop-shipped goods from China, I, for one, won't miss it. The most noticeable effect I have seen is scammy listings on eBay and Amazon, unresponsive sellers, and unreliable delivery time.

I have not seen any arguments of the form "but the price of X will go way up."
Nice! That's the kind of thing I was looking for.
strong borders != a dumb, expensive wall.

The left's position has not changed much on border security at all. Process asylum claims faster, penalize employers for participating in illegal hiring, and use modern tech to control borders.
A city that only the rich can afford to live and work in.

What a concept.
No one (in America) ever builds public transit without demand for it. And even when there is demand for it, it's a struggle. So you have to get rid of the parking first.
I have a bigger problem with how IP law is written and enforced than the actual notion of IP law. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that IP should enjoy some protections, however, the current enforcements are in many cases downright abusive to consumers and smaller creators alike.
What would be the concession from the Chinese?

Or do they up the ante and impose more tariffs on incoming U.S. goods?

Is this something that the Hacker News community actually supports Trump on? More curious than anything - you just don't see a lot of support for any of his initiatives here.

? Why all the downvotes?
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LA is hardly dense though.
(W)e (E)njoy (T)yping.
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If it's nonsense, care to provide some supporting links? The author provided 4 links, one of which was from the California DOT supporting the statement.
What I think you're trying to say is:

"A group of people who value diversity overwhelmingly support politics which promote diversity and reject politics which do not. But I wish they either didn't care about diversity or valued diversity in a way that didn't influence their politics because it annoys me."
Both kinds of layouts exist. Hub and spoke systems seem to be best suited to moving commuters from residential areas to commercial/employment areas and back, but aren't as good for city dwellers who want to get from one part of the city to another. Washington, DC has this problem in a pretty serious way: the Metro was built for suburban commuters, and lots of common origin/destination pairs within the city that are pretty inconvenient by metro because they involve circuitously passing through downtown. The system just wasn't designed with this use in mind.

Contrast with Manhattan, which has multiple north/south and east/west lines and could reasonably be described as a grid. This is a system that's designed for people who will mostly get around by transit, rather than just doing so at rush hour when their car would get stuck in traffic.
What do you think isn't quite right?

The article states that the bakery was in an area with a large "tunisian origin" population - which I think the right might say is an enclave - and if their views had more nuance they might say was a cheap area where immigrants tended to settle.
Content companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they do not care about cultural preservation.

Just as one example, the original versions of Star Wars shown in theaters are essentially lost now. Lucas re-cut them for home release and added horrible color grading, CGI, and even plot points. There isn't a franchise much more culturally important than Star Wars, and they can't even preserve that.

It took the (copyright-infringing) work of individual fans to try to re-create them as best as they can, and they've done a very good job. But those original prints are sitting in a warehouse somewhere, rotting away, never to be scanned in the quality available today.
What? C++ strings have an overhead of 16 bytes+the space left in the backing buffer. That’s really not all that much.
Huh? I'm not sure what this has to do with taxes or government spending. The USPS doesn't get tax money; it's financed by its customers, like any other business, it just happens to be wholly owned by the federal government. Postal rates are high because they're forced by the UPU agreement to deliver Chinese mail for almost nothing, so they pass the costs on to US customers.
> When farming, the questions are even more complex. The livestock generates manure that fertilizes the fields, so much of that "lost" energy is recovered.

Which is why grassfed > cornfed in pretty much every situation except for the extra fat/flavor you might get from cornfed beef. Having cows that consume grass is a win-win. The grass absorbs sunlight instead of reflecting it back into the atmosphere like a feedlot does, the grass is digested better, and manure fertilizes the grass. And when the cows are moved to different pastures and chickens are brought in, they help to agitate the manure into the soil to help that fertilizing process along.

I wish the grassfed beef industry was embraced more instead of people attempting to swear off beef completely.
It's easy to prove that statement false just by getting outside of big cities. I'm sure if they expanded I-5 in Weed, CA from 4 lanes to 6 you'd see zero impact on traffic.
You can also sink comparatively tiny amounts of money in to a network of physically separated, protected bike lanes - the kind you'd let your 6 year old use to ride to school.
> My hunch is that they’re trying to get their hands on TSMC 7nm with cheap terms.

I can't imagine a less diplomatic strategy for negotiating cheap licensing terms. Good luck to them if that's the angle.
Weird. I think it’s rubbish as a public library.

I mean, it’s an interesting building, and a nice place for a cup of coffee, but it’s absolutely useless if you want to go and browse some shelves and borrow some books; it’s like it’s been actively designed to make that hard to do.
I wish there was a meta study between pure math tutorials and gamedev tutorials.. Just to show how inferior material without intrinsic motivation is..
> (Can you imagine the wacky alternatives that private individuals and companies would write into contracts if "IP" law didn't exist?)

There are countless examples of trade secrets that exists in this exact state. These things are already in employment contracts.
And why, exactly, does LA cover so large an area?
Got hit by this. Super annoying. It's not through email. It just showed up in calendar. There's no way to know the original scheduler and no way to mark it as spam.

There's a variant to this, the calendar event triggered by an event invitation. Again no way to delete it except decline the event. Should have a report spam button in the calendar app.
> It's not the roads that cause traffic, it's the convenience of driving.

But more roads increase the convenience of driving, no?