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> would you flip a coin or hire the one never accused?

I'd try to do neither. The reality is, no one is equally qualified because no one is identical to anyone else. There are always tradeoffs.

But I'd try to weigh those tradeoffs without being swayed either way by the fact that someone was once accused and later acquitted. Personally, I'm not even sure whether I'd be more or less likely to want to hire a person on the basis of that detail; I really think it's not evidence of anything.

It's like the influence of an independent variable Y in the logical formula "X implies Z", or like a "don't care" cell in a Karnaugh map -- it signifies nothing.
It does only make sense that we don't waste human resources when machines' will do..
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Two observations:

1) You seem credible.

2) There's not really a mad rush for questions.

It seems like the magic really is over. ( :/ )
The simple answer might be the right one, it just felt bad for the seal. Nobody really knows how intelligent humpback whales are.
Have you ever gone to war? Have you ever been the mastermind behind a war on another? How can you say it’s overrated? It’s timeless and simple for a reason.
Who will own these?

Where can they fly them?

What happens when one falls out of the air and into a group of 30 people?

What license will I need to fly one?

Who will administer that license?

These questions should have answers before design talks even begin.
AFAIK, it's highly discouraged to use any charger or dock other than the official Nintendo ones. Apparently Nintendo really bungled the USB-C charging protocol implementation and it's possible your switch will get fried if using 3rd party chargers or docks.
Because Apple has already gotten away with giving the US government the finger over cracking iPhones at the request of the FBI and they backed down.

American politicians are in their pocket. Chinese not so much.

Users buying what you’re asking on the other hand :man-shrugging:
All the "Freedom Markets zealots" I follow are cognizant of everything you mentioned.
Or, as the article points out...

> In Apple’s case, the hesitation at least makes some sense. As long as USB-C compatibility is more tangled than a late-stage game of Twister, it will remain anathema to Cupertino’s mantra of “it just works.” USB-C can still feel more like "it works, just not always how you were expecting." Apple already achieved USB-C’s space-saving and reversibility benefits seven years ago with the introduction of its Lightning cable. And in those seven years, an expansive ecosystem of Lightning peripherals has emerged, all of which would head straight for the scrap heap with a jump to USB-C.
I think that is mostly due to the fact it could kick off a major war.
Why?

(Is this a setup for a joke?)
Damn, I'm totally having this logo professionally printed and framed.
I know somebody who studied orcas in school and she said that humpbacks tend to give orcas a hard time whenever they meet them. It’s understandable since orcas often attack their young ones.
I talk about this in the "ablation" section/appendix.

https://thegradient.pub/p/cef6dd26-f952-4265-a2bc-f8bfb9eb1e...
> When combined with a self-driving car, you could drive through a particularly unpleasant neighborhood and instead look at views of whatever scenic trip you fancy.

This sounds awfully dystopian…
My wife is an attorney at an appellate court and tells me she doesn't think a high majority of judges even know what a PDF is.

I'm guessing this patent is put there to give a big company like Facebook some basic legal framework to flex their muscles if ever needed; but I can't see this being enforced very easily. Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part though.
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Calling it "the most advanced [...] on the market" is probably tongue in cheek. Notice that this is being given away free and there is no mention of price anywhere.
This is the main reason I didn’t buy one.
How did you just turn this against Google? Google still has kept the app in the android app store. It's Apple that removed it at the first sign of pressure from China because Apple has no spine.
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Well, so far w3w strategy of bribing third world countries into "adopting" their system (Mongolia) and feeding stories to journalists about emergency services and others using their system - seems to have had the effect of bringing w3w into the spotlight, including many stories on HN.

Now the legal game of whack-a-mole against their leaked wordlist and code is producing a similar effect. Good for them for making it this far with a very flawed encoding scheme.
Can you legally install your own?
I’m maintaining an example polyglot Bazel-built monorepo if anyone wants to follow Bazel’s progress.

I aim to follow best practices and mark out any undocumented gotchas.

https://github.com/thundergolfer/the-one-true-bazel-monorepo
I didn't pay the $27.95 to read this, but the abstract is alarmingly wrong.

The analogous thinking is that software bugs, in particular data storage errors[1], are best understood as hardware malfunctions, and that precise interventions at the hardware level can solve them. It's not exactly wrong--for any given software issue, you might be able to devise hardware changes that correct it. But. I feel like I don't need to continue to make my point.

[1] In reality the lines blur between software and data, so the analogy might be better more solid between trained ML models and hardware, where trained ML models are both software and data in a way that can't be meaningfully distinguished. So we're talking about correcting a trained ML model via a precise hardware edit.

It's not wrong per se, not even insane in some cases. But the dismissive tone in the abstract of taking the trained model of the human mind on its own terms, versus as a purely biological object boggles my mind with how wrong-headed it is.
You're being downvoted for making a contrarian comment with no substance.

If you had a negative experience with Qt for Android, go ahead and share it.
It's frustrating because it's the "least worst" option.

I use MacOS because it has a thoughtful, consistent, coherent, beautiful user interface and desktop environment. The things I use all day are basically a web browser, mail client, code editor, and terminal. I can do actual work on any BSD really, there is no proprietary app that causes lock-in, I don't use iCloud or any of their services.

All I want is their desktop and core system apps. If Apple stripped down the OS back to Mac OS X Snow Leopard standards, and charged $129, I would pay for it.

If there were an equivalent desktop environment for BSD that replicated the MacOS desktop environment, I would pay money for this. Charge customers to hire full time designers, developers etc.
> that's why dictators don't like juries.

Is that actually the case? A dictator should have little problem punishing jurors for bad judgments, incentivizing them to fall in line like judges. But in (western) democracies, dictators seem to arise from demagogues / populists winning elections. Such a zealous fan base will be reflected in the jury.
Are there any "open" 802.11ac chipsets? A quick search didn't find any.
There's every reason to be negative and cynical when you've had experiences like yours which also shape the lens of your current interactions.

In saying that, I don't believe it's popular in HN but you might find some usefulness in lectures by Dr. Jordan Peterson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZQjMesALM - why everything you do matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9Uu5eILZ8 - advice for people with depression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2MGEdBL2A

I picked out three of these that I think give a decent overflow on some of his central ideas.

Some people view his videos for different reasons, like commentary on cultural war issues in the west, or his studies into the societal causes of authoritarianism.

However, many are mainly interested in his lectures on how you can start to claw back some meaning in your life by focusing on adding a little order to small things, and then increasing that little by little over time.

There's no suggestions to abandon medicine if it can help you, or to avoid professionals who can assist you in this.

Rather than taking the usual self-help route of trying to lead with saying how awesome life is, his writings often explore the reasons people can rationally come to the conclusion that life is meaningless suffering and that we should instead pursue pleasure at all costs because of it.
Despite appearing rational on the surface, he then goes on to explore how that can actually lead to an empty vessel of a human experience.

By focusing on restoring order a little a time, it's thought that you can reduce suffering just a little, and that despite the nihilistic thoughts, reducing suffering can only be a good thing for both you and anyone you connect with.

There's a big focus on mythology and literature (pinocchio, peter pan etc), but it's usually a mechanism to convey the wisdom they try to distill.

I wish you well in finding some meaning, it can be a long journey without help and hopefully the videos provide a starting point.
Up until reading this article I was a big fan of w3w and was even thinking about including their geocoding into our XMPP clients.

Now I think best course is for whatfreewords to change coding algorithm (there are ways to improve, I think), and host a competing open source geocoding service.
What does that even mean? Can you elaborate at all?
If you mostly watch video — sure, you'll be happy with 16:9. For work, 16:9 on small devices SUCKS SO MUCH. Way way too short.
My only Linux laptop was a Fujitsu Lifebook. Turns out laptop manufacturers are garbage at writing ACPI drivers for their own hardware, and so Microsoft has been going around quietly patching them so nobody notices. I ended up having to create my own driver for the lifebook. I cobbled from two other people's failed attempts at making a better one (each fixed different problems) and some fixes from the newest model in that product line. At no point in time did I think it would be fun to write ACPI drivers.

I uploaded it somewhere so nobody else would have to deal with this bullshit, but you still had to recompile the kernel to get the new version to override the firmware.

At the time they were still talking about how Linux was going to take over the desktop, while the early numbers were already in that laptops were killing desktops. Linux is taking over the server room, but it's essentially nonexistent anywhere else, and it truly has earned that honor.
By coincidence, this newsletter just arrived:

https://angel.co/newsletters/youll-be-eating-crickets-soon-1...
It's incredibly rare to accumulate a billion dollars without an army of people in front of it to keep you from spending it on stupid things.
It's really great for travel. I can bring one charger that works for my phone, my MacBook, and my work PC.

Ironically, one of the reasons I went with Android instead of iPhone last time I bought a phone was that I could use my MacBook charger with it.
Our team has a similar experience using xgboost and catboost. Models perform great and beat (our) neural nets
1. I have no idea what you're talking about. You suggested the liability risk for employers is extremely one-sided such that the "safe option ... is always to discard people". I asked if you were aware of the enormous, court-tested liability risk employers face when they discard people. What leads you to believe the liability risk is nevertheless extremely one-sided?

2. Someone sexually harassing his coworker and saying something sexual about her in his password seems magical and unlikely to you? You don't believe the hundreds of corroborated stories about men saying stuff like that openly? Or you think people are less likely to do that in something semi-private like a password than openly?
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I've owned a Plymouth Voyager, Toyota Tercel, Mercedes c280, Mercedes ml320, a Ford Focus, and a Jeep Wrangler in the past. Hands down the Honda is the most reliable and cheap to maintain car of any I have owned(other then perhaps the Toyota Tercel). My Honda Fit was $18,000 new and had features that were only standard on $25,000+ cars. Things like android auto, CVT transmission with flappy paddle shifters, moon roof, lane keep assist and anti-collision. Sure those systems have some problems, but I like still having them. I fully expect this car to last me 250,000+ miles.
the problem with "demoscene art" is that the final product is often only impressive if you know how it was done. really you want to display it in a way that shows off the mechanism. i guess quines don't have this problem.
About a year ago there was always this one guy at the MIT swap fest who had loads of memorabilia like you've mentioned. He had patriot missile mugs, miniatures of satellite projects from Raytheon etc. He was so cool to talk to, although I no longer live in Boston.
It's not even convenient.

Where in relation to curve.empty.buzz is grape.trunk.gossip? Is it closer/farther than slurs.this.shark?

The first is about 6 feet north. The second is 3600 miles east.

It's an almost intentionally terrible system designed for people to be reliant on their services.
For those who want to read the e-mail:

https://pastebin.com/dFyftCuZ

As for me, I sold my Apple stock yesterday. Tim won't miss my $10k. But I won't miss him when I am able to move to a better platform.
>A 2012 study published in World Development, “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?”

Ah yeah, that study which considers Ukrainian girls voluntarily coming to Germany for a job in sex industry as "trafficked".

These "studies" are unsound and plainly wrong. The very definition of trafficking they use is so ambiguous and varies from "a sex slave being transported in a container" to "a girl who legally(sic) emigrates to a rich country to legally(sic) work in sex industry". The latter is not a bad thing.

> We found that prostitution was multitraumatic: 71% were physically assaulted in prostitution; 63% were raped

Yeah, before it was legalized. I see no evidence that after legalization in Germany 63% of workers were raped. This is such a blatant manipulation. A very good overall review of such manipulations could be find here [2]

> What does the regulatory regime look like? Does requiring a license guarantee that women are willing, and not merely presenting as willing?

Lets start with a fact that a girl who want to work in a sex industry don't need to deal with delinquents, if prostitution is legalized. That reduces abuse terrifically.

Lets continue with the fact that legal market draws demand from the black market, making trafficking and related risks less attractive from a financial point of view.

The vast majority of prostitutes came voluntarily to biz, the percent of slaves is tiny, so removing the need to deal with delinquents and giving the opportunity to have a legal job would reduce abuse significantly.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jennyheineman/sex-traff...

[2] https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...
I remember, it was such that I despised USB for many years, but then it reached a level of ubiquity and maturity that made it really great. Like you, I think that in a few years this will all be like USB-a in the late '90s/early 2000s.
>hypothetically if nuclear fusion is solved, wouldn't that be the one of these three with the largest incentive to fix overnight?

Maybe but it's the only one that'd take probably several trillion dollars in infrastructure spending on top of just knowing how to do it. There's a huge difference between "net positive energy fusion reactor" and "economically viable fusion energy generation" and another huge gap between that and "fusion reactors are the primary means of energy generation". The other items are achieved either by a proof or by proof of concept / trial.
For my secure computer, yes please. I don't care how many extra milliseconds (or minutes) it takes to make a cryptocurrency transaction.

I do care that the in-memory key can not be read and transmitted without my OS' knowledge.

I have other computers for games and development and servers, and the NSA can have my steam password and already have my work email.
Not sure what point you are making. Android isn't closed, the entire os is open source. If anything is closed it is iOS.
A bit tangential, I have been pretty content with Apple's relative stability on their proprietary connectors on their mobile devices.

Just look at the mess of variants for USB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware

While I've only had to deal with 2.5-3* transitions for my Apple devices so far.

* Apple of course did cause their own mess transitioning away from Firewire while keeping the 30-pin connector:

- 30-pin Firewire data + charge

- 30-pin Firewire charging only

- 30-pin USB, no firewire charging (Remember all those Bose dock/car 30-pin adapters).

- Lightning port transition.

In this case, Apple's proprietary ports ended up feeling a lot more universal.
Tiffany removes advert over Hong Kong controversy
In the bay area:

We are! (Serotiny): https://serotiny.bio

Synthego: https://www.synthego.com/

Mammoth: https://mammoth.bio/

Zymergen: https://www.zymergen.com/

Boston:

Arbor: https://arbor.bio/

Asimov (kind of): https://www.asimov.io/

Ginkgo: https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/

Also just happy to chat about the (very interesting, vibrant, if still tiny) intersection of software & synbio.
The hypothesis at the end of the article assumes humpback whales are just acting instinctively. I think it is much more likely that the whales are able to reason that denying other prey to their babies' predator is a good thing. In addition to keeping the orca population in check and reducing the energy available to them, the humpbacks might also be fully capable of holding a grudge.
I wish I could recolor the usernames of the smartest people on HN like you, so I'd be able to quickly discern in future articles whether a bright and smart person like you is commenting.
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> No one counterfeits Kindles on Amazon because no one but Amazon is allowed to sell Kindles on Amazon. The lack of Kindle counterfeits there gives no useful information about the difficulty of keeping counterfeits out of markets that allow multiple sellers for a given product.

That is the whole point. Amazon doesn't allow multiple sellers of Kindles or Amazon Basics power cords, but it did/does allow multiple sellers of, say, Birkenstocks or Popsockets or Magformers or Ripple Rug. That they don't allow multiple sellers of Kindles proves that this is not an unsolvable problem.

For example:

- If there is a single manufacturer of a brand-name product, Amazon could make it so that only that manufacturer can sell on Amazon, just like it does with its own products.

- They could also make it more clear for commodity items which seller provided the item linked with a given review. Often different sellers sell entirely different goods under the same SKU, leading to wildly varying reviews.

- They could probably do some other things too. I bet if you ask someone who's products are getting counterfeited on Amazon, they have a lot of ideas for what could be changed.

> The lack of some rights for LGB+ people under current law does not prevent Amazon from employing them. In fact, that lack of rights probably actually makes it easier for Amazon to employ them by easily extending benefits beyond what are required. Once those rights are legally granted, all employers will have to extend them, reducing Amazon's advantage.

Yeah, that's a good point. I was assuming that LBGTQ+ people were powerful enough now that they didn't have to stay at a company that didn't believe in their rights, and would leave Amazon for greener pastures if Amazon came out against their rights.

> It takes government to establish regulatory frameworks

Or, a massive cloud provider could establish a policy against certain uses of facial recognition technology on their own platform, tomorrow.

A lot of the letter is of the form "We want someone else to put restrictions on everyone against doing bad stuff - in the meantime, we will continue to do that bad stuff, and/or continue to allow it on our platform"
Thanks for the understanding of issues involved. It is hard not just for Apple but for world at large when china turn tides. Instead of learning to be more free, it hurt freedom.

I live in the apple ecosystem. It is a surprise for a mac site spelling out this so well. Really thanks.
It is a cognitive difference between apple user and other users. Less is more. Control is not always a good thing. Think about it very carefully.

There is nothing on this world, nothing, is good anytime anywhere to anyone.
People survive gunshots to the head and chest, falls from high heights, heart attacks and smallpox.

Most things that are reasonably described as "fatal" aren't actually death sentences; well, no more than actual death sentences, for which reprieves are granted all the time.

Doesn't make them good, or even particularly less bad.
Except he didn’t say anything against China nor did he express support for Hong Kong. He played it extremely safe and didn't say anything to anger the Chinese, but enough to appease the gullible public. Statements aren’t all the same. Just because he says something doesn’t mean it’s on the same level as Blitz who explicitly expressed support for HK. And people need to stop being happy about empty statements.
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> Or, more accurately, Linux stopped Unix in its tracks

Thats hardly true. When Linux was ramping up steam the Big Iron companies were the only real option for stability and performance. Also for years the largest sites on the internet ran FreeBSD, not Linux.

What killed Big Iron was the cost, pure and simple; its much easier to scale horizontally with lots of smaller machines than piles of giant machines. We can thank open source software and operating systems for that.

To some extent, Microsoft also helped kill Big Iron as well. The advent of IIS and SQLServer made it possible to do real work on commodity hardware. PC Graphics advances killed the high end Unix Graphics workstation business too.

TLDR; Linux only contributed, its not the cause.
> Hmmm... I think I'm biased a bit because of something I'm writing recently where different iterations of a loop were independent.

That's a great place to be in :D.

BTW, I haven't tried to get implement an hash function in a while (I remember playing with carryless multiplication), but IIRC 6 clock cycles is not too bad.
Technically speaking so does the police in Venezuela and Zimbabwe feel threatened by protesters whom are also technically speaking violating laws of those countries. But those laws are meant to suppress freedom and to punish those wanting democracy.

By claiming such laws and such reports as valid reasons to remove apps and to aid corrupt governments these companies highlight the fact that they will be more than happy to suppress dissidence in their home countries as well.

The us, the eu, et al, are officially no longer the freedom loving freedom promoting countries they used to be.

In the us the masses are kept under control with managed healthcare and mortgages while in the eu they are kept under control with the threat of cheap labour imports.

Enjoy the new reality.
Cool that the term isn't defined once in the post.
Google can't necessarily upstream everything because of social problems in the kernel process. For example their datacenter TCP improvements have never been accepted by the gatekeeper of the net subsystem, which was a significant motivation to develop QUIC.