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>It might buy half a seat in a future capsule once bigger fish have been pacified. Best if the Australian astronauts are already training in the US and ideally have dual nationality.

Ah yes, since Australians without US nationality have been flying into space this whole time right? All three Australian-born people who've flown became US citizens first. Meanwhile, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, and Israel have flown people on US spacecraft.

>The net effect will be to stifle Australian space innovation which competes with NASA goals.

What "Australian space innovation"?

>Launches from OZ will be a big no.

Ah yes, the Woomera field that has been used for manned launches for the past 40 years, right? No?

As misotaur said, Australia has nothing, absolutely nothing, to lose by allying with NASA. It's possible, for example, that SpaceX could get approval for using Woomera for launches, something ITAR currently prohibits.
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Quite true. Also, I like the fact that the abacus, counting board, etc., ease students into decimal arithmetic.
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Honest question: is there any coordinated responder effort to use RCE vulns like this one to patch the vuln and secure affected systems? Not asking just about this exploit in particular but about the entire world of 0day Internet RCE.
Yes! That’s the one I think. Thanks, that’ll help me find it next year for the thread that will invariably have the same predictions :)
The $1B valuation was for their last round which was a $50m investment by Tencent, the company behind WeChat. The investment was more about a partnership between the companies than the economics. At the time, Kik's CEO said: "Today, there are only five other companies in the world that see the future like we do: Tencent, Line, Facebook, Snapchat, and Telegram. One of them owns the largest internet market in the world. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with them as we run this race."
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Too many people sharing nudes (their own and not their own) and other pornography; for those normal people who stay 50+ miles away from the "chans".

Also, I agree with other that spam is cancerous in these messaging apps. Think about how much spam your email client filters; "publicly addressable" apps need the same logic.
I've read that Goodreads has kind of an opposite problem to shill reviews: everything you write about a book is always completely public, so people don't write them.
I use a tiling window manager and I dont really spend time positioning windows either. 99% of the time my programs are in one of two states. Either full screen or split down the middle.

In a tiling WM full screen is the default. I never have to manually full screen something, it’s automatically taking up the whole screen. I usually have it in tabbed mode, so all new programs are just full screen in tabs. (And split view is just a hot key or two away)

Really though my favorite thing is the easy multiple desktops. Win+4 is always my chat program. Win+2 is always my ide, win+1 is always my web browser. I never have to mash alt+tab a varying number of times. and more importantly if the second desktop is actually two programs in split screen, it’s still easy to switch to and from. Otherwise I frequently find myself looking at one thing in full screen, then having to alt+tab multiple times to bring two half-screen programs back to the front.

I’ve tried to install various windows tools to either provide hot keys to virtual desktops, or otherwise replicate my tiling WM setup but nothing seems to be quite as convenient to me. I feel like I waste so much time alt+tabbing and getting things where I want them whenever I’m in a normal WM. In i3 it’s all either already the way I like or it’s 1-2 hotkeys to fix it.
Except they aren’t, because subsidies are paid by someone (the government) who are themselves getting that money (I know there are other mechanisms) from your tax dollars.
there are already excellent suctions to this problem... why is this better?

and why do you need/want ai to be involved?
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Quoting/escaping would still be necessary, but the need would be less obvious. It would be deferred from a common annoyance at development time to a common cause of nasty surprises in production.
That's my opinion too. In many cases 'processing' is basically pre-digestion, it makes things more available. Simple to process (for our bodies) often means tastier since it's preferable in a calorie-poor environment.

I didn't see preservatives in that list. Though some of the items like salt and sugar are preservatives, added preservatives also abound in processed foods. Since the goal of preservatives is to basically kill bacteria/fungus to prolong shelf life that would presumably have an impact on our gut flora, which recent studies have shown is actually fairly important to our digestion and weight gain.
the article certainly does not endorse the claim you are responding to: "Bicycle helmets prevent neither concussions nor death"

Incorrect. The article makes the strong and accurate claim that there has been no clear, measurable proof that helmets prevent concussion or death.

This should come as no surprise. When cyclists are hit by cars or trucks the force of the collision is generally so huge that the aorta are ruptured, internal organs (including the brain) are torn from their moorings, bones are cracked.

Helmets are incapable of preventing any of the above.

What _is_ capable of preventing such deaths is the removal of the private automobile from the public roads.
Losing 30 minutes, eating in a noisy environment, and not being able to control how the restaurant manages a schedule the GP doesn't have insight into is awful?

Getting pissed off over an experience like that is probably an appropriate response. Or bringing the 10 year history of being a loyal client to the management's attention. But going to war against them for a once in 10 years event sounds like first world entitlement.

The overall point about the lengths needed to maintain an experience that keeps customers happy is real, though. You don't make money by trying to profit on every transaction or treating entitled people like you know they're acting like an ass.
What would be the practical effect if the U.S. had left? Having to negotiate fees separately with every country?
Still way cheaper than even getting a non-polarized from like Warby.
you might try putting some silicone wraps on your airpods so they fit more snugly, eg: https://images.mobilefun.co.uk/graphics/productgalleries/633...
vBulletin is closed source commercial software, isn't it?
Nim is not so simple language. A cheatsheet could be nice.
According to Wikipedia, there are only .5% of all physicians in the US who can perform neurosurgery. So it's probably safe to say the demand for brain surgery is much higher than the supply.

This incentivises people to become doctors that perform such complecated procedures as it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to be able to do those things.

If you were to force doctors to perform work on people that can't afford it, then presumably they will earn less money. If they earn less money, there is less incentive to do that kind of work as they will pick something easier and more profitable.

You will end up with fewer people to do brain surgery.
Also the "Firmware" package.
What pills?
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.
Yup. My wife works at Zenni in the manufacturing and product. I even tagged along twice to Danyang (Spectacle City). It's hard for another company to come in offering $7 glasses including lenses to the US when you don't have the supply chain optimized (incl. in-house manufacturing of certain parts) and the economies of scale and relationships with suppliers.

And then to deal with the sheer operations (talking like ten thousand plus frames per day).
> Ok, you drilled open a smart lock. Is the drill able to be positioned in such a manner when the lock is installed on a door?

He drilled it from the front; the face is off in the picture where he's opening the latch with the screwdriver to better show where the mechanism is.
Agree that the wind turbine thing is overblown.

However, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, there's no evidence cats are causing problems for bird populations in the UK at least.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...

This might be different elsewhere though.
The way I picture it; see the caps set (10) as the default. From there you can shift to the lower-case (11) set, figure (01) set, or control (00) set. But then there's no such thing as CTRL+; - you're switching to two different sets (figures and control) simultaneously. Your keyboard and OS may (should) be able express that, but ascii can't.
Who are you referring to when you refer to “savers”? Interest rates have been basically 0 for a very long time for retail bank customers.
Big CPUs / GPUs already have physical redundancy, and a way to cut / rewire a limited amount of faulty parts by laser etching in the die, prior to packaging.
Is the concern over repeated information about [load on the DB], [size of data sent to the client], or something like [processing requirements on the client]? I'm assuming you're talking about [size of data sent to the client], but shouldn't that data be readily-compressible?
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If you're correct and the pitch is simply that the category "processed" means "high calories relative to satiety", then the pitch is tautologically true and maybe not so useful. LOL. Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy in missing a more robust definition.
Agree with your second paragraph and that's actually been my real-world experience. I also think there's another effect where commoditizing a technology leads to the creation of jobs that specialize in that technology. With easy-to-obtain game engines, suddenly more companies are interested in using them, which itself leads to an increase in demand for engineers, just with different skillsets.

I wouldn't put money on this balance lasting forever though. To me, that's too close to dismissively saying "it's different this time", with regards to our profession.
What is the middle-ground? The end goal is behaviour modelling of some kind that requires selective information or censorship. I'm partial to unrestricted free speech 8chan / edge-lord internet openness, but western society broadly is drifting towards censoring extremely divisive content, aka the China model. The question is where do you draw the line? DOTA conduct points that banning the most toxic players (kids) that seems to be well received? Oh no that's social credit. I predict that western and eastern social media will converge on the same censorship solutions, maybe even overlap.
If you're in politics, you need restraint more than anyone.
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I was interning in Chicago when they first opened. I remember looking at the menu and it was so thoroughly boring (i.e. normal bakery/diner goods, but made with Nutella) that I didn't even consider going there.

It always blew my mind how long the line was when I walked by. It had to be just tourists who were willing to wait in that long of a line just for the novelty of being able to say they've been inside an official, Nutella-branded store.
I didn't think you were claiming marital rape was OK, I thought you were claiming it didn't exist, which is an unfortunately common belief. I misinterpreted your intent and I apologize.
Many bars will have a default policy for unclosed tabs. My local bar assumes a 10% gratuity and calls it a day, so walk out as you please. Though it's the type of place where the bartenders notice 20+% tips and will serve you significantly better for it.
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/ ?
Ask yourself this question: why does anyone get paid more then minimum wage?
Officially, per the App Store metadata, the YouTube app supports all devices on at least iOS 10 [0]. I personally intend on holding out on upgrading until YouTube is no longer supported.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-watch-listen-stream/id...
Vulkan is sort-of OpenGl 5 (apart from being radically different from OpenGL, haha) and they unified GLSL and compute shaders into one broad standard.

Mesa is probably on a path to be more of an interact-with-graphics-card library than a graphics one.
That’s convenient lol.
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> Determining whether or not a DoH implementation requires HTTP cookie [RFC6265] support is particularly important because HTTP cookies are the primary state tracking mechanism in HTTP. HTTP cookies SHOULD NOT be accepted by DOH clients unless they are explicitly required by a use case. [1]

Am I the only one who think DoH clients will accepted cookies in a near future because of "security", "convenience" or "making our service better"?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484
I've noticed the same thing... "A crowd attracts a crowd"
A high school friend's sister killed one of my cousin's friends who was out biking in a similar situation. Cars + people don't mix on highways.
I hate talking to people who have their airpods in, in fact I require them to take them out if they are the one wanting my time.
CTRL would clear the 2⁶ bit. If any sufficiently primitive devices (electromechanical like the Teletype 33) had been made in the lower-case era, you'd probably have got CTRL-; → ; and CTRL-{ → ;
For those curious, it looks like Barnes and Noble is still around but Borders and Waldenbooks are not.
It's funny because reflecting on this thread later, I got what you were getting in that: the mere fact that NPM offers a private registry means that they are having to split focus on the two offerings. I completely agree in that sense!
Let banks fail? Arrest the execs and bankers who can't keep enough reserves?
I was interested until I got to the point where he cited Atlas Shrugged among the reading material that has influenced his personal philosophy. Just... Really?
> I’ve been wondering what they both share in common

Both groups cut a significant fraction of their intake calories and lost weight as a result?
This really has me wondering. I have always really enjoyed coffee but found tea was just not for me. Thinking back, I have only ever tried cheap shelf tea such as Lipton as you mentioned. Perhaps I need to try a real tea and see the difference. How is it a company like Lipton who aims to use the cheapest quality product success in the market?
"Can they be forced to store data?"

Yes, the Core Secrets leak said the "FBI" would "compel" companies to "SIGINT-enable" their networks if in America. In the Lavabit case, the judge was cool with FBI's proposal to compromise all the users, not tell them about it, and business owner's revenue would be fine. If overseas, there was a spy/soldier group that would take espionage-style action against them. That's if a payment didn't work.

I assume they backdoored all of them, including Apple, with them instructing the companies to hide that fact. They then use parallel construction for the important cases. The less-important cases would go through the regular system. The FBI made a big deal about that one phone to try to expand the All Writs Act to make their access easier. At this point, they probably have access to a lot of it but want their legal, observable powers to be expanded.

That's how it works in a Dual State: a police state with a regular government you can defend against running side-by-side with a more powerful, secret government that can do whatever they want to many targets with secrecy and criminal immunity. Unlike previous Dual States, they restrict the targets and methods of the Deep State more to make its damage invisible to most voters. They think it won't hurt them, just deserving people. Meanwhile, they gradually shift more power previously afforded by the Deep State to the Public State while Deep State collects and passes more information over time to the enforcers of the Public State.

The Snowden leaks confirmed both Deep State activities and the collaboration between the two with denials built in.
I don’t like voice assistants and would never wear this, but I know I’m a minority as I’ve met many people who love their Echo speaker/dot/etc.

This lets you use Alexa without taking your phone out or wearing ear buds. If I liked Alexa and wore glasses, I could see myself being into this product. Even if I didn’t wear glasses, being a hardcore Alexa fan user might justify wearing “fake” glasses just for the convenience.

On Amazon’s end, it’s a smart move. If this product sticks in any way at all, they’ll have a platform to iterate on in the upcoming years - such as making more premium versions with cameras/display/AR/etc. Because this is such a basic product, it will likely not face the same kind of backlash as Google Glass did, and lets Amazon usher the age of face wearables in a much smoother way than Google’s attempt.

So again, I hate voice assistants with a passion and have no interest in this product, but I think this is a very clever product move from Amazon.
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Food stamps (or the equivalent value in cash).

Now s/food/health
Is that so? I decompile the v7.4.6 APK file through javadecompilers.com and only find out they ask for several devices permission. Also, I think if they want to do this they will not put it in the AndroidManifest.xml because this file is not able to store the ID of devices and it will make it super easy for us to sue them.
After a rather surprising amount of digging, I found the underlying study and the menu they used, and it seems there was no set of rules or ingredients. The "ultra-processed" diet included:

Canned corn
Deli turkey
Refried beans
Sour cream
Whole milk
Canned peaches
Scrambled eggs
Sausages
Blueberry yoghurt
Bagels
Cream cheeese
Canned chili
Frozen macaroni and cheese
Canned green beans
Peanut butter
Non-fat greek yoghurt

And so on. All major brands, but it's hard to detect a theme; a lot of the items are not especially "processed" in any way, and don't seem especially unhealthy. And many specific items seemed difficult to distinguish from items in the unprocessed menu. Is canned corn less healthy than fresh or frozen corn in some way? How? Some studies have shown that canned corn contains more available nutrients than fresh corn, so what is the theory here?

For another example, the ultra-processed menu had scrambled eggs made with liquid, pasterurized eggs from a carton; the unprocessed menu had an omelette made from fresh eggs. Does pasteurizing eggs make them unhealthy? If so, how, and what studies support this? If not, why bother including different egg dishes in the menus?

Or for another example, some of the ultra-processed meals used as a protein source Tyson brand steak; some of the unprocessed meals used Tyson brand "beef tender roast". What is the difference between these, and why do we think Tyson steak is bad and Tyson beef roast is good? Alternatively if we don't think there's a difference why use different products in the two menus?

If if we accept that the study did show an effect, it almost seems designed to obscure the underlying cause, since it was so aggressively scattershot.

One could also quibble about the choice of foods; the ultra-processed menu leaned hard into meat and carbs with little or no greens, while the unprocessed menu had lots of broccoli and other green veggies. But obviously you could construct a much healthier diet from the ultra-processed menu, or a much less healthy diet from the unprocessed menu. I love broccoli, but if you drown it in rich sauces, it's not going to do your diet many favours.

Similarly, why is it the unprocessed diet snack selection had unsalted nuts? Salt doesn't count as processed (right?) so was this just picked to try and make the snacks taste less good so people would eat less, or...?

The menu PDF is here if anyone is curious; https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.008/attachme...

The methodology here seems SUPER bad.
But I believe you can search for subreddits as well? The same is true on BAND with searchable, public, joinable communities.
If the sounds are never recorded it is better than 'recorded, but kept securely'. Open hardware/software still has bugs and storage/processing is a daunting problem.
What I've noticed is that everybody in the system cries poor and believes that someone else is gouging us. But the system is so labyrinthine that nobody can figure out where the money is actually going. And every group (e.g., doctors) has an investment stake in the other groups (e.g., medical and malpractice insurance companies), or is a partner in an LLC that makes money by buying a machine and billing for its use. Etc.

The likely answer is: They are all gouging us.

One potential benefit of a single payer system is simply being able to untangle that mess and put every player on a reasonable footing. For instance, make medical school free, but then doctors get to work for the government for a decent professional salary. It might even change the mix of people who are willing to become doctors -- more middle class. The primary expenditures of the medical system should be materials (capital and consumable like drugs) and salaries.
I hate to resort to an extreme example, but Nazis thought they were being socially responsible. They obviously were not.

Regardless, I am pretty sure that TikTok's developers are aware that what they are doing is simply preserving the state's iron grip over those that dare challenge it. Just because they are fine with it doesn't make it OK.
It's like all they did was look for the easiest, laziest route to a payday they could have possibly found. I have to give them props for figuring out the perfect way to state the obvious.
Pretty much every suburban area has a decent amount of home burglary. Sure, rural areas not so much. But take a look at the the stats at the bottom of this page and you'll see lots more than Baltimore and Detroit: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-burglaries-in-t...
Oh yes, this is an amazing paper. I actually decided to include single qubit circuits after reading it.

Moving to higher dimensions and more complex problems is indeed challenging. I think that one key to the problem is how you design circuits. There are some elemental points explored here: https://qml.entropicalabs.io/native_gates.pdf

But also things that are hard to grasp on paper, with only theoretical reasoning. This "demo" is actually a derivative work of our "quantum machine learning lab" that we use to explore circuits and visualize landscapes. As you can see in the current demo: when you change circuits and use data re-uploading --as in the article-- the convexity breaks apart and local minima appears everywhere. As a consequence the learning does not converge well if at all.

We are currently working on the MNIST dataset (handwritten digits) with 5-qubit circuits and have first encouraging results. And you are right: well chosen cost functions is an important part of the equation :-)

We are still in the infancy of the domain but I think we will be able to scale these techniques to really hard, big problems. Classical perceptrons dates back to the sixties and some more decades were needed to evolve the idea in something practical. The good thing is that quantum machine learning can follow the steps of classical machine learning and progress a lot faster.

btw: we are hiring at entropica labs (both interns and long term positions). If you want to continue working on these problems you can definitely apply.
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