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Whenever the issue with China comes up, there is this axiomatic notion of "freedom of speech" without further defining what it means. Then there is some "speech" that is more free than the other. And people can thus paper talk and finger pointing and assume they have the best solution. But in reality, they don't even know the difference between Hui and Uyghur. If a bunch of fat guys sitting on couch eating McDonald's, living on land forcibly taken from others, wants to shout out their canonical free speech, it's up to the listener to judge it's validity. And I know this will be downvoted because this is a less free speech.
In real mode, the BIOS intercepts it. But it's still not a hardware interrupt; it just never gets to the OS.
Interesting, didn't know the TSA was searching peoples phones now, but the article mentions a tweet and someone also replied with a link where the TSA is being sued. I thought all the TSA could do relating to electronics is swab them or make sure they power on, while customs have the broader authority... but I know people confuse them as the same but they are separate agencies even though both are under the same DHS department. For example custom agents are actual law enforcement with guns, while TSA agents are more like mall security with no guns.

It seems like traveling is getting more and more annoying the more I see stuff, already don't like the idea of taking off shoes and stuff. Plus stories of TSA agents stealing stuff. Then customs agents profile people, certain races or solo travelers. Because apparently you aren't allowed to vacation by yourself, and heard woman get looked at even more for solo traveling, they suspect they are coming to marry or carrying drugs. Just seems so outdated some of their thinking, seen on the news more and more people are vacationing alone too. A new trend. It's like something out of the 1950s.

I hope though over times things will get better than worse. I know I seen they have some 3D scanners now so in the future might not need to unpack everything, like a laptop, iPad, etc and speed things up. Anything bigger than a phone, not sure if cameras count(maybe depends on if a DSLR or point and shoot size wise) but a lot of stuff to steal if you are a geek or loves to take lots of videos or photos of your vacation. However a friend who travels frequently thinks this is a overworry since so much security cameras and stuff, it'd be stupid to steal. But I know there was a news story where a reporter got his iPad stolen so they took the news van and drove right to the TSA agents house with camera crew in tow to confront him.
In the southwest, the U.S. doesn't supply a decent set of emergency comms to Native Americans, so volunteer hams supplement it.
Use jpegtran, it can rotate jpg images losslessly.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/jpegtran
These are pure lies, top to bottom.
Absurd.
Most of what I do in the restroom is offensive. All the rest is more like an atrocity. I'd still prefer not to be filmed.
This is a company that restricts what you can and can't install on your own device and you're surprised they're okay with authoritarianism?
Yes. Nobody, including the person you replied to, is disputing that.

But we're scapegoating PG&E for global warming. CA is a tinderbox compared to 20 years ago. Utilities are always behind on brush clearing everywhere. It's only now it's creating megafires. It's not environmentalists either. It's the average summer being 3-4 degrees F hotter than average and increasing.
In the context of the incompleteness theorem a 'theory' consists of a formal language to describe theorems, some primitive axioms and some rules that can be used to prove theorems from the axioms. Godel's incompleteness theorem states (loosely speaking) that if a theory is rich enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers, is consistent and is 'effectively axiomatized', then there are statements that can be expressed within the theory and that are true, but that cannot be proven using the rules of deduction in the theory. In short, this is a totally different meaning of the word 'theory' to the one you are thinking of.
So to sum up - we should deal with a regime that runs concentration camps and threatens its neighbours because you once met a nice taxi driver. I'm convinced!
A fundamental problem a lot of this work has to confront is that interpreting motor behavior is generally the best way of interpreting brain activity.

The activity that's happening in the brain but never reaches the level of motor activity (in people that are not disabled and/or impaired in some way) is problematic to interpret as it is difficult to control and may not even be properly regarded as intentional.
Self-hosted, I'm assuming? Their hosted service is shutting down. https://sandstorm.io/news/
All string theorists are theoretical physicists, noz all theoretical physicists are string theorists. Many string theorists contribute in other fields.
But people in China can't really cross check things with sources that aren't controlled by their government. I've been in China for the entire duration of the Hong Kong protests, and unfortunately I often have to watch CCTV news at night.

They didn't even cover the protests for something like two weeks. They waited until they had some negative things to cover and their talking points all sorted out, then started hammering away about how violent the protestors were and how they were all that way because of foreign influence. It was truly absurd.

The Overton [1] window in China and amongst Chinese people is therefore very far from the truth. Combine that with social pressure, and poor reporting by Western sources, even overseas Chinese people have trouble understanding other opinions on the matter.

I don't agree about your different form of censorship idea. It's completely different to have the majority of people disagree with or ignore your opinion than to have top-down censorship of different ideas. I can easily find Chinese opinions on social media and educate myself about your beliefs. Not so easy in China. To me it just shows weakness - if the government of China can't trust their people to make up their own mind, what does that say about their arguments?

I haven't tried to bring up the Hong Kong protests with many friends here in China, just because I'm afraid of losing their friendships. How must it feel for Chinese people who have sympathy for them?

As far as the NBA, some friends have actually broached the topic with me. They tend to be upper-middle class, educated types, and while they might disagree with what that one guy said (and apologized for), they aren't angry at the NBA, and they feel the government response is ridiculous and counter-productive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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Excluding conferences^ and events there's nothing special about the HN audience (other than affluence) that makes them particularly likely—relative to people in a hundred other industries—to need to travel to the USA.

^ ...which are mostly money-making scams anyway, targeting fat corporate and university budgets in return for limited benefit. Rarely do you learn anything that you couldn't otherwise learn from published materials a few days later.
> Zooming on my mobile (Chrome) works for dygraphs, but not for uPlot.js.

i haven't added touch events yet. right now zoom reset works on dblclick event which i get for free with a mouse, but there's no free doubletap event, so it's not terribly trivial to just add it quickly and with little code. but i'll have to figure out what to do eventually :)
Don't you just need to add the key base proof to your profile?
Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete, so if it is possible to build an artificial intelligence in a regular computer then it is possible to build one within the Game of Life. Also, understanding the basic rules of the game of life is not the same as understanding how an artificial intelligence within it functions. The rules that determine how patterns of pixels change in the game can be written down on a single sheet of paper, a description of an artificial intelligence built within the game would probably be absurdly complex.
Using a dog icon for the police isn’t exactly a great look if you’re trying to be neutral. It’s roughly equivalent to using a pig to represent the police in the US. I don’t see why they couldn’t have just used one of the standard emoji for police there - it’d be a lot less likely to offend.
The state of the art systems designed only to brake before hitting obstacles can't even do that. It's a pretty simple problem, as far as self-driving tasks go.

I don't think that bodes well at all for full autonomy - especially since at least one of those vendors (Tesla) is promising self-driving sooner than later.
Honest question. Are they fundamentally different, design wise? Or is it merely a measure of confidence & reliability?
I think the point I was trying to make is - I cannot imagine an empire such as the British empire going around conquering and taking over the world today. We have nuclear power. We have instant communication on a global scale. Organizing is easier than ever on the internet and once we have satellite internet, it is game over.

I just don't see the same type of century old analogies panning out in today's world. A superpower cannot antagonize, bully, invade and destroy neighbors like they used to in 13th century.

Your point of the Nazi party sounds plausible - if Nazi party had slowly built up their power, I think they'd had a hard time spreading on a global scale.
There is no meaningful comparison to make.

The "censored" talks immediately had their slides put online and were extensively advertised with Schneier in particular, stating it's your duty to read them now. Nobody was arrested because the courts would not even allow a prosecution as there's no law that has been broken. The rule of law, while imperfect, means something in Australia.

Let's be very critical of what has happened here by all means, that's how we preserve a rule of law and equality before it.
When true autonomous cars are truly ready, you’re not going to have a choice. It’s going to quickly become prohibitively expensive to insure a human driver.
It doesn't need to work in every place to be useful or worthwhile.

Sleepy truck drivers are a major safety issue by themselves, and highways are easier for SDCs to drive on.
It's easy. You just be active (post and/or comment) & behave like a good person should & you will be rewarded with much more than 2 karma :)
>Yesterday, English-language state media outlet China Daily blasted Apple’s decision to allow HKmap.live onto the App Store. “Providing a gateway for ‘toxic apps’ is hurting the feelings of the Chinese people, twisting the facts of Hong Kong affairs, and against the views and principles of the Chinese people,” the op-ed argued.

Wow...this type of language - "toxic apps," "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people," etc. - sounds disturbingly similar to SJW rhetoric in the States.

EDIT: In case it's not obvious - I am against censoring apps & speech.
Even the things they supposedly police e.g. name brand sunglasses, disney / lego stuff, etc. are very easy to find on Alibaba/Aliexpress.

They might bust a couple of stores as an example, but give it a few days at most and you'll be able to get the under the description "personal steam heater" or something similar (e.g. the "interlocking block toy" lego knockoffs) - there are indices mapping keywords to brands to help facilitate this [0].

[0] https://www.alimaniac.com/aliexpress-articles/brand-codes-co...
You seem to imply that iOS hasn't been lauded for it's innovations.
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Woah this is crazy. I don’t buy their excuse. You mean to tell me they didn’t investigate the app the first time it was removed, or when they decided to reinstate it? Come on, give me a fucking break...
Those numbers look very inaccurate. A 1 bedroom in Kenmore, WA for $1700 is the median? I find that really hard to believe, unless that is the median price for a unit built in the last 5 years in Kenmore. Ditto for the Puyallup, WA median 1BR price listed.
I believe the CCP is looking ahead at the next
decade or two and realizing that the global economic
boom is over for everyone - especially for them.

That seems like a credible way of thinking if you were only concerned with short term goals. But how does China see the next couple of decades play out - both for them and for others if they, like you say, took control of the situation?

Would they just sit back and let the turmoil play itself out? Would they not be drawn into it somehow via North Korea / Russia or their interests in Africa and the new Silk Road (the Belt & Road initiative) ?
>save thousands, and kill hundreds

Seriously. Why does everyone assume this? Because Tesla's marketing department says so?
> when did the US government try a "show of force" on its own soil only to be "reminded" that it was a bad idea?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/standing-roc...
The fun part about this is that it is publicly disclosed information. Blizzard revenue for Q1 & Q2 2019 were 88% in Americas and EMEA, with 12% in Asia Pacific. The percents are unchanged from 2018.

https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
As the only nation attacked by nuclear weapons, Japan tends to be anti-nuclear.
Those aren't the only people looking for product. I didn't mean to cause any offense, just that there is a growing addiction problem with marijuana that people for the most part gloss over. But /r/leaves is one of the fastest growing subreddits for a reason.
It may be quite comfortable in that walled garden but it can turn into a jail with a twist of the key.
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Doesn't apple have around 100 billion cash reserve. How much more do they require?
The flip side is every now and then a situation arises that requires machine reaction times or attentiveness.

Waymo cars have driven over 10 million miles so far without any fatal accidents. That's not nearly enough miles to compare against human drivers, but it'll be interesting to see who does better once they log some more miles.
FWIW, I grew up in a city on the Pacific rim (San Francisco) and Chinese people have always been a part of my culture. Our first Chinese New Year Festival and Parade was in held in 1858. (California was still part of Mexico only twelve years earlier.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Chinese_New_Year...

I don't hate China, but I fear the CCP.

I was reading a book about China written by an American journalist who was invited to visit in the 70's, when the Middle Kingdom was still literally mysterious to the West, and it dawned on me that there is no way a barbarian like myself could ever understand China. It's too vast, too old. My culture looks like an adolescent compared to yours. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

For example, the persecution and repression of the Falun Gong seems obviously wrong. But then I read about the Taiping Rebellion...

> For over a decade, the Taiping occupied and fought across much of the mid and lower Yangtze valley. Ultimately devolving into total war, the conflict between the Taiping and the Qing was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644 and it involved every province of China proper except Gansu. It ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the 19th century. Estimates of the war dead range from 10–30 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

I still believe that what the Chinese governent is doing is wrong: Tibet, the Uighurs, the Falun Gong, the censorship and rewriting of history, and so on. But I also have to admit that I see some truth in what you said:

> the truth is far more complex. A hundred times more complex than even the example I gave.

> Centralized control has a cost, but it also has a benefit.

My problem with the CCP is that the stability and prosperity of the Chinese people are too important to be bungled. I don't feel that I'm qualified to tell China what to do, but I do feel that I'm not too dumb to see that some things are obviously wrong.
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No. I am not scapegoating PG&E for global warming. With proper line maintenance Santa Rosa would not have had 5 separate transformers start fires. The wind was bad enough that they probably would have also had to cut power to not spark any fires. Climate change is a thing, yes, but PG&E dodging necessary expenses is also a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_perception

But I didn’t mean it distinct from computer vision, hearing etc.
We actually do have react in production as well. The header on our website is a react component, and our app is written in react-native. We also tried out flow for a while.

Elm compiles faster, has better error messages, is a simpler language (so our apps tend to stay simple, so easier to pick up again after some time) and has less churn.

We have experience with other technologies, we just find Elm better :)
At UC Berkeley all classes were cancelled today (Wednesday) because PG&E said campus would lose power. Buildings, libraries, computing services all shut down... but power stayed on all day. I'm sure the administration is very upset that all this happened for no reason.
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This is what you will get when you think some paper pushing clerk needs to decide what is good for others. California has already made up its mind. People have overwhelmingly voted for politicians to run everybody's life. This decision does not surprise me at all.
Yet more propaganda by people itching for war.

Call me when they write an article warning of the moral hazards of dealing with a country that invaded Iraq without provocation, causing hundreds of thousands of people to die; which overthrew the government of Libya, plunging the country into chaos; which armed Sunni extremists in Syria; which has backed Israel's occupation of Palestine for decades; which ran a global kidnapping and assassination program; which operates a vast, unaccountable global surveillance network; where tens of millions of people go uninsured or under-insured because profits are paramount. Once the NY Times publishes that Op-Ed, maybe I'll consider their moral posturing as something other than propaganda.
What possible reason would I have to lie about it? You think I'm worried about investigators raiding my VPN service so they can track down and charge a grown-ass man in juvenile court for something that happened 15 years ago? You think I'm worried about my reputation on this throwaway account with a grand total of five previous comments? What's the point in believing that this whole escapade happened at all if you're going to randomly doubt a particular element of it?

I was a kid, I was stupid, but I wasn't an asshole. I didn't go peeking and violating people's privacy because that would have been a dick move. Just like tons of people on Hacker News today have access to personal data on SaaS systems we maintain and don't go peeking. Just like tons of people are perfectly capable of picking their neighbor's locks but don't walk into their house for no reason. It's not even tempting. I don't care what's in my neighbor's house, and I don't care what's in random other students' homework documents or email or whatever. The only interesting part was breaking the security.
Each user could provide their own rules.
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> The Chinese leadership does not understand that leadership is about inspiring others, taking care of the weak, keeping your promises and being able to independently think, innovate and set an example for other nations to follow

Which nation is demonstrating this leadership then? In the current world, no one.

I believe firmly on the other hand: hard power is what makes a superpower, superpower. US is the superpower not for the moral sugar coating, which itself is an afterthought and curated national mythology by the said scholars, but for the dollar's reserve status and the military that enforces such status.

China probably couldn't be the superpower like US in 90s, a role model that everyone aspires to be. However in a world everyone is equally self-centric and nationalism-driven, it surely can be a superpower.
> It applies to any user in the EU and since its hard to know if a particular user is or is not in the EU or a citizen of the EU its easier to just do the right thing by everyone.

This still assumes you care about being punished by the EU.

A company with no financial contact with the EU doesn't have to care about that, any more than a company with no financial contact with Saudi Arabia has to worry about offending the House of Saud.
Sounds like a good reason to indemnify utility providers from fires their systems cause for reasons other than outright negligence...

Otherwise, facing potentially billions in liabilities, it just doesn't make economic sense _for the utility_ to provide power to high risk areas during high risk weather.
Sorry, am I reading this right? You replaced a service that required a team of five Erlang developers with an AWS offering for $1000/mo? Why wouldn't you do that regardless of the language involved?
In my opinion, this is a case where a supplier (IT consultant company: Bekk) uses a non-standard unpopular technology, to implement a technical solution, for a customer who is state owned and has almost monopoly (Vy/Norwegian Railways). I suspect, the reason for this choice, is to lock the vendor in. For the customers of Norwegian railways, the results is a more expensive train journey.
Actually, you do. You have to look at the intentions of the fees and rules and how it affects everyone involved.

Often it is a no-brainer to allow volunteers to do their thing for free. And it is quite common, surely even in america.
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>> moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.

> I do not understand what you mean by this, and what long term is to you. I want to be convinced, but I fail to see this as true.

I too am curious what it means. The only thing comes to mind is a variation of the just world fallacy.
Ah then it's normal, like an employee is supposed to participate in company's marketing efforts in that way. I see no problem with it, as long this is a part of the job and written in contract, i.e. something he's getting paid for.

It's not like they wanted me to make a Facebook account to keep tabs on my private life.
Sure, you can do that with formal methods, but proving that a program is correct or that it halts is not the same as solving the halting problem.
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Try reading the rest of the comment.
Way to compare your political opponents to Eichman while lecturing them on not being hateful.
> We've now had at least two generations of spreadsheet-wielding MBA's optimizing corporate costs to reduce what is spent on materials and labor. Evidence of their success is showing up across the economy, and politics, and society at large.

Or on other hand we are enjoying more from life with less resources. Not only it helps more companies to be more profitable thus keeping more people employed, it also does a great service to the planet and the future as we continue to reduce our footprint.

I agree with your point about the loan paybacks which of course is off topic.
I was reading Groklaw at the time, but not closely enough to be able to summarize the entire thing in a single Hacker News post without simplifying.