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It's not exactly a double standard because...

Like many things in technology, there are few write ups explaining this, including the pros and cons, in simple terms that most people can understand. So, people are not well informed.

When they are not well informed they will tend to make decisions based on other things, like their business model. We know that Google makes money displaying ads and has generally soaked up information on people to use for their benefit. Apple has been advocating privacy and makes money selling hardware and services.

If there was an "explain it to me like I'm 5" write up on how the changes to Safari and proposed changes to Chrome would work I could imagine it would help people see something other than the business model.

This isn't a double standard. It's people making judgements on something other than the technology.
The current situation does not change this.
If that is indeed the case then I am very thankful for the past couple of years and next year.
Oh. Maybe back then. But we don't use phones to make calls any more. Only robots actually call you out of nowhere, so you just turn the ringer for incoming calls off. If you actually need to communicate synchronously, you text the person you want to call first, so you know it's okay to call them, and they know to pick up when you do.

Every once in a while, leave your phone at home when you go somewhere. Every step you take, you can think to yourself "yeah, try to track me now, chumps". Pay cash for all your purchases. Refuse to give real information to anybody. You're a digital phantom now!

The only thing you can't get from a less-trackable non-phone device is cellular network connectivity. And you can sort of get around that with gratis wi-fi connections, if you're careful to de-fingerprint your device. I'm imagining a handheld qubes/tails. It would be nice to have a less-centralized mesh network that explicitly valued peer confidentiality, but apparently there's no profit in it yet.
It's a perfect topic for the "middlebrow dismissal". Contributors can start from a true-but-myopic fact, that renewables are intermittent. They can then deploy their biases that "everyone else is stupid and hasn't thought about this", and/or "everyone with the opposite opinion is a paid shill", and get very exercised about it.

Global warming attracts a certain kind of "gotcha" nerd who will hunt for the one set of data that can be arranged to make it look not so bad while ignoring all the evidence on the other side of the scale. There's an entire site devoted to that (WUWT).

Meanwhile there's a set of quietly competent engineers keeping the lights on and ignoring all this social media nonsense.
Honestly, the thing that makes me go back to Safari every time is the interface. And this is coming from someone who used to speak about Firefox in open-source events like Latinoware.

While Safari feels like home, Firefox looks horrible — seriously, what is up with that border-top-color on each tab? And the black border around white icons on the light theme?

Yes, you can fix anything using userChrome.css — heck, you can make it look exactly like Safari —, but each update breaks some pieces of your CSS file, which after a while becomes quite annoying.
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You sound like it's now forbidden to joke on the internets.

Besides, when one buries some mildly radioactive materials in 20 meters of ice with a median temperature of 230K or something like that, it just doesn't matter what neutron flux they release. And if they heat up, they would just sink deeper.

What matters is that that the neutron flux is adequately dissipated. Which it would be.
Playing around on a chan is not the same thing as researching these things for a living.

It's probably a sign of good mental health if someone is disturbed by violent imagery. I am worried about people who aren't disturbed by violent imagery.

Personally, when I was younger I perused a ton of violent and disturbing imagery online. I was curious and I thought I was "tough-minded"!

It turns out that I just had difficulty accessing my emotions. Now I literally begin to tear up watching Netflix shows. I much prefer myself now since I can be emotionally available for the people I care about. I shudder to think what I would be like if I never outgrew my puerile obsession with being a "tough guy".

As for "tough guys" I have noticed how quickly they leave the room when difficult situations arise. I also notice how easy it is for them to alienate people in their lives. I am beginning to wonder if "toughness" is really just an excuse not to grow up.

Toughness is not the same as courage, courage requires you to be emotionally invested in the suffering of others, which often means you will be affected by images of suffering.
Any experiences with using tensorflow models with TI Deep Learning (TIDL)?
Never heard of the CD-i is there an emulator out there? Also is this the last time Nintendo made a game for a console they didn't own?
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And then what? Google will say that it's protecting critical functions from breaking and to piss off. Suddenly Google is a monopoly in the ad space because they have the predominant browser and let through only their ads.
Answering your question in good faith, even though I am unsure it was asked that way-

I am not a Julia programmer, I mostly write in python, but I find their community welcoming and not condescending at all. I think it would have a positive impact on most people’s personality

The language is very interesting too but doesn’t yet have a google, apple or msft behind it so I would understand why lovers of it maybe overstep a little promoting to try to keep it alive

Personally I find the integration with cuda to be really well done and I could see it being easier than python for highly customized deep learning (custom kernels etc)

Your comment above seems kind of unnecessarily mean spirited to me - maybe I’m reading it wrong?

I was surprised - because I remember you responding to the “I made 500k with machine learning guy” and being really impressed with your willingness to try to teach the guy without shitting on him (I’m an ex algo/hft guy and think someone with your knowledge could have gone that route very easily)
Russia has a substantially higher population than you are implying.

Also, you give those in power far too much credit. If they had actually concluded the situation was hopeless, we would be seeing large geoengineering investments right now
Twitter is a private entity which has no obligation to host said speech.
> If the extension can't inspect the traffic it can't meaningfully filter content.

Have you ever used a content blocker? For all their restrictions, they’re still quite effective.
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"We" may not be waiting at all, the readers of HN and other tech-centric websites. Many people here may be improving their personal behaviors, but that is never going to be enough.

What WE need to do is VOTE, first off, and second, realize that politicians and corporate entities are those with the power to truly shift our behavior as an economy. Until politicians and corporations make huge moves, we'll be stuck waiting and making minor tweaks to our relatively inconsequential individual carbon footprints.
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I kind of wish our pop culture was this bad. People would go outside more.

One of the things that I find amusing about Chinese people I meet and talk with who are traveling outside of China is that they are not obsessed with pop music, celebrities or sports, or at least far less than we are in the west.

As an example, I met a fashionable young Chinese lady with an apparently large income who was traveling the world. You know what she did for fun? She played the piano, did tourist stuff and went out for dinner with friends.
It was this: https://go.bloomberg.com/attend/invite/bloomberg-odd-lots-va...

I'm not sure if it was actually recorded or not.
Adblocker apps/extensions don't require that assurance. The user requires this assurance, and if the browser ignores the user's wishes, the browser is the application that should be held accountable by users.
I assumed your hypothetical was framed in terms of the existing situation and interests. That it wasn’t along the lines of: “the US government has fallen to ISIS and cannot police its own territory; China accidentally kills some US civilians while bombing extremists.” If that was your hypothetical, then I think you’d be surprised how few Americans would be outraged. I’m pretty sure it’d make for a decent movie.
This is incredibly stupid. This is just going to make games even more unprofitable to make for their developers, and push it towards live-service/F2P games over traditional ones, since account selling is prohibited. Its hard enough to survive in that sphere making traditional games now; enabling the Gamestop effect on digital games is probably going to hurt beyond compare.
No, being just a little unsatisfied with Consolas, I thought this might be the answer, until I loaded it up in VSCode. A little too serif-y.
Gas is too cheap at the well head in many places. It's definitely crazy to encourage fracking while extensive flaring is still happening.

Which part of the thermal absorbtion/emission IR spectrum of CO2 do you disagree with?
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I am saying that even if pv gets cheap enough that the input power through 1/3rd efficiency is the same as nuclear... power to gas costs a lot IN ADDITION to the input power. And then burning that gas in a power plant costs something, too.

So reaching parity seems difficult.
It depends. I don't think seeing animals killed would affect me too much.

I do think seeing animals suffer would definitely help to change my behavior.
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You do not actually need to provide notification for necessary cookies. See https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-... and the following few sections. Most clearly, this paragraph on the ICO’s recommendations (quite unreasonable, in my opinion—if all you’re storing is a necessary session cookie, notifying the user in a non-actionable way is just being foolishly annoying):

> Although the exemption applies to both the provision of information and the gaining of consent, it is good practice to continue to provide clear information about all cookies including those that are strictly necessary, and if personal data is involved then you will be required to do this under the fairness and transparency requirements of data protection law.
And if your work is any means creative, 1000 true fans principle: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...
Even if it is, it doesn’t matter. The problem Apple faces is how to prevent the other bad actors from abusing their API. The answer they’ve settled on is remove those capabilities from the API. Another answer would be to leave the capabilities but somehow only grant access to them to “trusted” parties.

I’m sure that would have gone over really well, too. /s
I'm not sure what they'd need him to cooperate with. He already gave up all the sensitive information he had.

But I suppose he has been reluctant to openly condemn Russia's own human rights abuses. That could be simple self-preservation, or he could have been threatened.
With laws like this you generally have to ask what's best for the consumer. I'm not sure reselling is.

The current setup gives game developers a somewhat predictable revenue model and on the strength of that model they can encourage investors to put up money to make the games. Changing the revenue model may change how investors look at the market. Maybe for better maybe for worse. Who knows, but it would be a disruption if Steam has to adopt this model worldwide.

The thing that I don't like is if you allow reselling then developers get less long-term revenue but (hopefully) more short-term revenue. This will cause them to focus more on getting a big opening weekend than making a solid game that might have years of appeal.

Portal is still $10 on Steam. Maybe they only sell 100 copies a month at this point but that's still money coming in rewarding them for investing in interesting core game mechanics. I'd rather see them get rewarded for that than for dishonest advertising campaigns because 50% of their money will come from the first few days of sales.
> That was my impression at least, I never personally went through the source code.

That's the rub though. There's nothing but trust preventing them from including some spyware in the next automatic update. Actually not even trust, whoever has account access to publish for uBlock could have their account hacked and someone malicious could inject spyware into a version of the extension.
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Yeah, I think that while this seems like a small question right now, it will be incredibly impactful how it is decided for the future.

Imagine if Micheal Jackson made one album, but a week later AI’s made thousands of albums that sounded just as good and original (or better!) but were categorized as inspirations. Imagine how that would change the incentives of creation to know it will be consumed by the hive mind in mere moments.
Content blockers are also more performant.
I still had some money in USD on my paypal... I think this is a good time to convert those back to Euro's :)
> Cooperating or not, by being in Russia, he's helping Russia, which is why Russia has agreed to put him up.

The question isn't whether he cooperated with or helped Russia. The question is whether he had a choice.

Given that the guy has been asking the DOJ for a fair trial for the last 5 years so that he is able to come back home, I don't think he had a choice.

If he did not have a choice, Snowden is not helping Russia by being there, the US is helping Russia by forcing Snowden to be there.

So I don't think this hurts Snowden message. Somebody somewhere made the call that it would be more valuable for the US interests to send a strong message against leaks than what they would loose if Snowden were to leak everything they knew to Russia. Independently of that call was good or bad, it wasn't Snowden's call.
> Remember, we pushed Bush out and he was a war criminal

But never tried him, Rumsfeld or the rest - the only ones who really got a kick to their butts were those implicated in Abu Ghraib. And now you elected a president who not only is a serial liar, probably a sexual assaulter ("grab them by the ..."), but also someone who is involved in multiple lawsuits and probably either unwittingly (the satellite photo) or willingly (the recent whistleblower case) discloses classified information to all of Western enemies.

The party of the President is absolutely unwilling to hold him accountable for his (non)actions as long as they get their abortion bans. And there is no real progress in holding the real deep state (=three letter agencies - not all government employees that don't like the President) accountable and transparent, as evidenced in the original submission.
They aren't contradictory sentences. Methane is increasing faster than we expected it to. So, going forward, a higher % of warming will be due to methane than we expected before our recent methane measurements. This likely means more warming, as methane (CH4) is a much more potent warmer than CO2.
Nintendo would be another such company .. Impossible to get a refund from them if you buy something in their digital store.
European here, trying to actually buy the thing. You can't. The first reservations will be fulfilled in the middle of 2020, but those will only be the mid-sized battery versions.

If you want the version with a larger battery, there is no firm ship date, but it is expected in 2021.

What I find somewhat amusing is that for the past months we've been bombarded by a huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist :-)
Does this make it not exploitative?
On the question of "Are reserves too low" posed by the article:

Reserves are simply a low pass filter, making it very unlikely that high frequency events (routine events) will cause a crisis. But they still allow low frequency events to potentially cause problems.

Since the "cutoff frequency" of the "filter" is determined by the political process, then to answer the question about whether reserves are adequate we must consider how effectively the political process addresses these sorts of issues in general.

Consider the PBGC, the government coordinated insurance system for pension funds. It is dramatically under-funded, and if more than one or two large firms with big pension obligations went under, so would the PBGC. What this means is that it would be up to the political system to bail it out.

Underwriting capital (reserve capital, or capital that is generally kept idle) is useful for financial contracts because it is far more reliable than the uncertain outcome of the political system. It is also much faster to access pre-arranged underwriting capital than it is to wait for the political system to resolve an issue.

We learned in 2008 that underwriting requirements were too low, and the policy response was actually to reduce them further, allowing firms to use riskier assets for underwriting and the government buying some of those assets (QE).

From the perspective of a politician, the response to the 2008 crisis was superb. The Fed and Treasury teamed up to prevent more widespread insolvency of financial firms and even automakers. This led to both industries being increasingly beholden to politicians and the political process in general.

But imagine if the underwriting levels prior to 2008 had actually been adequate to prevent the cascade of insolvency. There would simply have been no crisis.

From the perspective of an insurance company or banker, reserve capital is sitting idle and going to waste. If the US requires more reserve capital, this gives a competitive advantage to foreign firms whose governments require less caution. So reducing underwriting requirements is a view supported by economic nationalists.

So considering that most policy discussion these days is dominated by the political class and by economic nationalists, of course the conclusion is that everything is being done in a very smart, sensible way.

In the past, before bailouts were so commonplace, we could expect the firms' selfish interests to moderate their appetite for risks to the firm's solvency, but this check is not really a factor anymore.
Yes, you’re right that is the connection.
Good point, better to keep exploiting than be a hypocrite!
The west is full of shitbags who get away with it because their offenses are small, but numerous, and no one is watching to accumulate them towards a punishment.
The "something" to be done is very simple:

1) End fossil fuel subsidies

2) Apply or increase taxes on emissions

3) Invest the money from 1 and 2 heavily in nuclear, renewables and CO2 capture and storage for industries that can't just switch to clean electricity, negative emissions and "mild geoengineering" solutions.

Unfortunately, this is bad news for lots of existing multinational companies, and for lots of rich people, who lobby politicians hard to avoid this.
That "day" never really existed; you always own the consequences of your actions, even if you choose to pretend you don't.

Seth, to his credit, is doing what he can about his. Legally, there isn't much. But if a minor inconvenience--and it is minor because Chef is already busily scrubbing his name from "chef-sugar-ng", including removing him from the cookbook's authors, they can get their replacement just fine--alerts members of the Chef community to their ratshit behavior, that's a positive. Because some, who do not hold amorality as a virtue as is en vogue in these parts, will probably take exception to it, too, and they should know.
"misinformation" - as defined by whom?

"encouraging unrest in politically sensitive climates" - La Résistance in Vichy France would fall under this. In some countries asking for fair and democratic elections would fall under this.
Ask HN: What is your strategy for obtaining clean drinking water?
I live in an area with questionable water supply that was also recently highlighted by some news outlets as being pretty poor.

I am exploring what avenues I have for getting clean water and I want to know what HN does for this (if anything)?

some options I was exploring are an in-house reverse osmosis, water deliveries and a water tank. I have not looked in detail yet but right now we simply have a 'filter' in our fridge that we get drinking water from and based on recent news I think it may now be enough.

please share your thoughts!
I originally thought so too, but based on the CEO's blog post, it sounds like they are more involved with ICE for this project than simply licensing their product to an independent contractor: https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/19/chefs-position-on-customer-e...
Re: Russia's population: it's aging, and relative to China? China could field an army larger than the entire population of Russia if they were sufficiently motivated.

Are there any geoengineering projects that would really work? What if we are on the precipice of a methane-driven feedback loop and military/intelligence secretly knows this?

In any case perhaps that's not how they think. The powerful nations of the world are still largely dominated by their militaries and military-type thinking, which leads people to think in terms of defense and strategic conflict not neutral engineering or cooperative approaches.
> That one feature alone keeps me on firefox. By removing the tab bar at the top of the screen, you regain a significant amount of vertical space on a laptop.

Last time I tried tree tab, it wasn't possible to remove the tab bar. Has this changed? And if so, would you mind sharing how to do it?
The last fork of uBlock Origin didn’t do so well: https://ublock.org/
How do they know which branch in my fork is mine vs upstream? Or in the case where I modify a forked branch?
>But who determines the cost? Who amongst us does not produce CO2?

Courts are responsible for determining fiction from reality. This is true whether we're talking about gunshot murder, or climate damage.

Whether you produce CO2 is irrelevant to truth or fiction.

>YOU are the customer if each of these externalities that you are arguing against. Are you willing to shoulder the cost?

You're also the target of the damages. If you think climate change won't absolutely skyrocket food prices, I have a bridge in the Sahara to sell you.
Hi. I'm the reporter on this story. Thanks for discussing it!

I thought it might be helpful for me to make a couple points.

First, national security letters have been around, AND controversial, for years now. A number of tech companies have fought the gag orders. The news here is really that we are seeing for the first time which other specific companies get a lot of these — especially banks, credit agencies and so forth, which have all been silent on the subject.

Second, @hammock is correct to say that these are not approved by a judge. Nor are they grand jury subpoenas. They are administrative subpoenas, but unlike other administrative subpoenas, almost all of these come with stringent, long-term gag orders. So, they're a pretty special type of subpoena, not one with which everyone is familiar.

Thanks again for reading.
So you propose specific solutions that should apply to everyone. BZZZZT. Wrong.

The correct answer was a carbon tax.
Oh hey! And you remember that time we wrote a book about a technology we were unfamiliar with? Shame driven development in action right there!
And that makes this less exploitative, how, exactly?

Whataboutism is not useful.
Apple is doing pretty much exactly the same thing Google is.
Sounds like some kind of Witness Protection program.
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Ah so you want to see America collapse? That'll turn out great for everyone I'm sure.
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