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There are countless movies that blame US companies, US agencies, US military, etc. in movies. It’s not like all US flags wave the American flag around.

This is in direct comparison to what China tacitly enforces. Good luck try to show the Chinese as the bad guys, much less the the government itself.
If that's true it means others can unlock it as long as my eyes are closed. I'm certain that's not the case.
This sounds like basically every research operating system from the '80s and '90s.

Someone come up with a retread of CORBA, please, i need the work.
I prefer actual privacy rights that are inalienable than having my life commoditized and made the subject of contractual bargaining for every little thing.
Hm. I think the kind of fake news most people are worried about on social media has properties which distinguish it from merely "factually incorrect information".

It's a kind of "supernormal stimulus" - high virality, engineered to trigger tribalism and strong emotions in susceptible recipients.

The properties which make it a "weapon" are the ones which you'd want to mitigate. Unfortunately those properties also happen to goose the engagement metrics of social media companies.

Source reputation, rate and pattern of viral spread should be taken into account, as well as content itself and user flags. Also user engagement behaviour - e.g. average user shared this after reading for less than 10 seconds.

Basically, highly partisan content spread quickly by unthinking users, from a low reputation source.

Unfortunately the networks themselves have the best metadata to work this stuff out... and the least genuine desire to do so.

I'm in the "solving the worst of this looks fairly tractable" camp, but I agree that bare source text is going to be hard to work with.
you're recomputing it every turn, so you can treat actors as obstacles; simply make tiles that are taken non-traversable (same as you'd make a boundary wall). When moving each actor, by flowing downwards, if they collide then undo the move and select the next best downward tile. In the case he's surrounded at the start of the turn, the flowfield will simply not allow him to move (he'll be surrounded by obstacles). If he's surrounded by newly moved actors, he'll bump into people in all directions, and not move.

Assuming the crowd keeps moving, the problem will naturally resolve itself eventually (and the results are the same as if you'd done direct pathfinding -- a traffic jam is a traffic jam).

There's also the possibility an actor gets stuck holding the door: He's the last to move, so by the time he takes his turn, he's surrounded again; The gamey solution would be to cheat and let him phase through or temporarily merge with an actor.. alternatively increase his iteration priority if he doesn't get to move, so he gets the first move next turn.

But in the case of this simulation, such extreme crowding is an unnecessary edge-case to care about, since the goal really is to simulate to the point when crowding just starts to occur, so just "bump and undo" collision logic is probably more than sufficient.

If you want to go way too far, you end up with potential fields like [0] or [1] but I don't think a buffet line really necessitates that level of intelligent behavior

[0] http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/continuu...
[1] http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~anima/408/Notes/Crowds/HybridVect...
If you ever been around the legal system you get used to it. Get raped again and again.
...Wow. That's incredible. 10% isn't even like... a good discount or anything. What kind of hack judge will sign off on this?
What kind of error would you like to see here instead ?
And after scrolling for 5 minutes discover it isn't supported on my carrier anyway :(
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I suppose you could just keep posting this until they follow through with their idea of having only one set to prevent people like you from complaining about this non issue. Or do you think being passive aggressive on hacker news is going to change their collective, long held stance on this issue?
Yes. Which is why I said it's not functional. Because of a marketing choice.
I’d agree that theoretically the regulations could be made more complex in order to mitigate their regressive second-order effect. I believe that familiarity with the evolution of regulation in other domains should disabuse one of the idealistic notion that such complexity would “ensure that smaller organizations are not impacted” by the regulation. In practice, such complexity has a way of inhibiting companies from growing, for one thing because it creates levers which the incumbents can co-opt to make life more difficult for their aspiring competition.
> Freelancing is one thing but a comparing it to owning a company with employees is very different.

Yes of course, but I did not mean to do that. I don't know what the relative distribution is, but think HN readership plausibly has a particular view of "starting a company" which is not very reflective of that distribution...
I don't understand why any of this is an issue. He can get a loan to pay now, file a 10b5-1 to sell stock in the future and repay the load then.
I don't believe that YC made that assumption when they accepted the form builder. There are many things that's in-browser video editing app can evolve to.
Which startups?
This is always the problem with these sorts of things... TurboTax cares a LOT more about this issue than an individual citizen... sure, it costs each citizen $50-100 every year to file their taxes, and they would love to have a free public option... but it is literally THE ENTIRE BUSINESS for TurboTax. They are going to fight so much harder than the people who pay the $100 a year. Concentrated gains and widely distributed costs create this imbalance.
I was ready to weigh in with a defence of Naruto style.
Not specific to NYC, but the United States always seems to have plenty of money for the criminal justice system and incarceration, but relatively little for drug addiction rehab and treatment.

But look at the cost per day to keep one person in jail for a nonviolent drug offense...

Decriminalization in Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
Biometrics is often an order of magnitude less entropy than even an 8-character password. Your garage door opener code has more.
More likely riots and looting.

I say this as a proud New Yorker well versed in local history.
What about when given legal fees?
Err. "Obviously under duress"? It was Keynes (GB) and White (US) who initially inched toward Bretton Woods. The French were keen right from the start of their involvement. It was the USA that insisted on watering down Keynes' proposals. Well Harry White really, with the US as sole nation profiting from WW2, and now world's creditor which gave leverage, not victory.

It was the end of Bretton Woods that started the ball rolling that led to the Euro. The end of Bretton Woods and US abandonment of the gold standard, was hugely inflationary - the mark of the seventies - and saw Europe trying to continue with a Bretton lite, though the first attempts didn't survive long.
this is literally why I went into bio after learning to program: I thought it was like being told "this is a computer, but we have no manual, so just hack and let us know if you find something interesting".

30 years later, I'm back in computers because I can't deal with the constant ambiguity in bio.
Why is this disingenuous? Just curious :)
Which may not be awful depending upon how much time they spent on it--though I'm guessing it isn't great on a per-hour basis. The bigger point is that everyone else other than the plaintiffs got a coupon that's probably a lower discount than Zappos routinely emails out for Arbor Day.
Running for office on a platform of "removing useless laws" has been a dream of mine since childhood.
It almost seems like it'd be in their best interest for them to be sketchy. It'd keep people from trying to get their settlement so that the time eventually runs out.
I live among Christians and we're pretty happy. The only atheist is also the one screw-up and his life is a mess.

Statistically, Christians live longer than non-believers.
Nope, they are quite different exactly because "something you are" is attached to you and "something you have" is not. One can be swapped out if compromised or get lost. The other can not (intentionally or unintentionally) be replaced, but -- because it is something biological -- undergoes slow changes over time. These differences are sufficiently large that it makes sense to split it into two categories when modeling the whole system from a security -- or usability -- standpoint.
The page seems to be down already.

https://youtu.be/NeKXvINnk04?t=129
My sensibilities are very different from yours. I see some crazy risk biotech getting selected, not mention some crypto stuff that a lot of people claims to have near zero value. Even the regular software ones seems as risky as always.

My impression is: same quality, same risk level, more companies.
Probably the kind that spent their time on the other side of the bench executing similar settlements.

Lawyers and Bankers have destroyed America.
I think the comment you replied to was a joke.
They are different classes. Something you are can be stolen or copied, but you can't easily trade it away.

Something you have can have strong copy protection like a yubikey and can be given away.
Which is perfect for a company like TurboTax who wants to lobby for an issue... they don't care about the candidate, they don't have to coordinate with them at all... they just tell the representative, "if you don't vote my way, we will fund a PAC that will attack you". No candidate coordination, no problem.
I’m pretty sure Inkscape supports that, although I’m not sure how good it is at that function. I used to do my photo editing in Gimp, but it’s a pain. I'm going to check out affinity though based on the recommendations. I used to like acrobat too, but it got too bloated. I rarely use PDFs for anything other than scanning receipts for tax reasons and pretty much every cloud storage app supports that.
Hey! I haven't built this ! I just shared it.
I think the answer is "Mary".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9B%C9%99%C...
Uh, you got it backwards mate. I understand perfectly well what pi is, even though I will never calculate every digit.
Yeah. That's true..maybe they take care of that in the future
US legal system is broken af.

The point of legal system should be to compensate the wronged party, not to enrich lawyers.
Ask HN: Is WSL2 stable enough for devs to switch from MacOS to Windows?
For developers who've switched back to Windows, how is the experience like? Is WSL2 as smooth as actually working on Linux? or does it still crap out on random Node libraries at times (like on WSL1)?

I'm in the market for a new work laptop and a lot of people I know are in the same boat - holding onto older Macbook Pros (2015 and earlier) looking for alternatives, but scared to jump from MacOS. Obviously Apple is busy making the next pro devices thinner which is just.. wonderful for them.

Yes, switching to Linux is an option for many. But I also have to use Adobe CC tools which needs Windows (Wine is not a good option). Hence it's either dual-booting Linux/Windows or Windows full time as the two options for me.
The argument is that the total amount of the settlement is important as a disincentive to corporations to engage in negligent behavior, and that the disproportionate amount of money that goes towards the attorneys is necessary to convince said attorneys to take up such cases.

Of course, one could also argue that this has just created a new form of venture lawyering, with attorneys who give zero shits about their clients chasing compliance violations rather than ambulances, and businesses baking these lawsuits into their profitability calculations.
This is a really bad idea.
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Nice post - thanks. I'm guilty of sometimes splitting and other times not, making the choice mostly on feel. Never modifying local state when splitting functions is an easy rule of thumb to follow.
I'm working on a distributed, decentralized web forum system.

Demo: http://rusrs.com/

It works in modern browsers with some extra JS-based niceties, but is also compatible with just about every browser I've tried, including Mosaic and Dillo.
It's the same work as porting to a compatibility library but you don't have to carry any legacy long into the future once the port is finished.
I would honestly probably pay if they gave better controls on gif conversion. There's a ton of gif websites but they don't do longer gifs / multiple scene text editing very well.
researchers have been working on CBD much longer than it was in the popular culture (I'm not contradicting your statement that it garnered steam in the popular culture).
For example, in England there is a whole company that has gotten CBD through clinical trials and approval (you couldn't have done this in the US at the time). The researchers knew two decades ago that CBD had medical potential, although they only completed trials in 2015 and it was approved in the US in 2018.

One of the big changes for researchers (in the US) is that it's a lot easier to obtain materials, but it's still really onerous.
On the contrary, I think it’s one of the most accurate xkcd comics ever made. We’ve already seen how thieves savvy with how phone locking works will force you at gunpoint to disable any security; it doesn’t matter at that point how strong the encryption protecting your phone is at that point.
there is a difference between chronic stress and stimulating your brain by learning constantly. I very much doubt anyone can prove the latter shortens lifespan
I did click (and more importantly, read) the article, but found it vague. I was hoping for something that wasn't surface-level, unlike your comment.
This is absurd to me. They are bordering on having a total Monopoly and everyone knows about them. I can't imagine they are getting good returns on that spend.

I almost suspect that they actually think its a good look to go into the IPO losing money because it's a trend right now. Nobody wants profit they want growth potential so it's easier to sell that narrative while leaking money but growing sales.
Aside from the history of the prison, I imagine there are more profitable uses for that land as well.
Virtual Server Instances - VMs :)
Yeah seriously. Literally everything collects/uses/sells your data these days. I figured what a great way to do that by having access to the actual purchases themselves. But who knows they may sell it in the future. Still going to use it. It's great!
In a different country it probably wouldn’t have taken years for a violation to be found and a penalty imposed. And therefore any lawyers would be paid much less.
Either Micro Focus (through its acquisition of Attachmate/Novell) or Nokia (through its ownership of Bell Labs), depending on whether or not the Research Unix copyrights were part of the Unix business that AT&T sold to Novell. Bell Labs and USL were distinct business units within AT&T.

That's assuming it's deemed a work-for-hire (which if it isn't makes it the property of Ken Thompson and the Ritchie estate) and that it wasn't somehow "published" before 1989 (which if it was without a copyright notice, makes it public domain - but works written before 1989 but not published until after are under copyright regardless). It's confusing stuff.
Perhaps the best example is the effort to rebuild the flooded part of New Orleans after Katrina. I think it was important to help the victims, but it is also important to understand that building a major city under the sea level in a hurricane zone in dangerous. Sooner or later the walls will fail.
yes

the legal theory is that

1) punishing the bad actor is more important than restitution. it's more important that Zappos is punished to discourage bad behavior from Zappos or anyone else, less important how exactly the punishment money is split up

2) since lawyers can get paid out of the settlement, it incentivizes independent lawyers to go after bad companies wherever they may be rather than needing regulators. so you don't need to maintain and hire a bunch of regulators and their legal teams, which will often be too many or too few.

other countries may prefer things the other way around and often do. it's easy to think of pros and cons either way.
There are also Firkin pubs in Southern Ontario.
Big fanboy of musk here. His tesla Stock is highly overvalued now....probably a great time to sell but he cannot so easily sell it without company permission.
That’s extremely well written!

I’ve been struggling to document an open source platform I’ve built with some friends and colleagues [1] and this is finally giving me hope!

[1] https://play.socialgorithm.org
Not so much in the way that your services are being useful. But in the way that you serve or die.
Would be great if a settlement.gov site was used for all claims or something of the sorts
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Dying isn't as easy as you think, and being incapacitated in a an already-bad situation is immeasurably worse.
Is that even supposed to be considered a win for anybody other than the lawyers?
> Is freedom worth the harm it enables?

Yes.
The problem I see is that lawyers then only care to recoup enough to make their ledger work out.

If you said my settlenent is $80 I'd say go for broke. Take it all the way or go home. No but the lawyer sees a perfectly cromulent payday for themselves so they'll encourage the class to accept the deal.
> iOS is betrer about facial recognition than Android (and I'm not an Apple fanboi), but it can still be hacked with some patience and enough video frames of the given face at different angles.

FWIW, I don’t think anyone has done this credibly yet.
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Yup. Governments enforcing information about individuals to be deleted is a form of censorship that violates the first amendment. GDPR tries to make stipulations about how deletions related to 'public interest' do not need to be deleted, but they are still enforcing government-backed censorship.

It's something that some people want, obviously, but is the government really the best candidate to enforce it?
I agree with this.

Suits do not always make the suing party whole, for a number of reasons, yet still have value in enforcing law.

Additionally, many arrangements (particularly class action) have attorneys assuming the entire financial risk of the a loss, and it's reasonable for them to be paid for this service.

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That said...we're not taking about 30% to the plaintiff, or even 5%. It's 1.4%!!!

It's like saying Facebook founders get a combined 1.4% of the company.
>Because I think it is harder for people who have programmed with other paradigms

I still think there's something missing in your theory of cause-&-effect. A math topic like quaternions is hard and yet programmers in domains like 3d graphics and games have embraced it more than FP.

I also think Deep Learning / Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence is even more difficult than Functional Programming and it seems like Deep Learning (e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc) will spread throughout the computer industry much more than FP. Just because the topic is hard can't be the defining reason.

>The only reason FP has been successful as it is, is because its evangelists are incredibly vocal,

But why is FP in particular only successful because of loud evangelists? Why can't FP's benefits be obvious so that it doesn't require evangelists? Hypothetical example:

- Company X's software using FP techniques is 10x smaller code base, 10x less bugs, and 10x faster feature development -- than Company Y. Ergo, this is why Company X is worth $10 billion while Company Y is only worth $1 billion or bankrupt.

If you think the above would be an unrealistic and therefore unfair comparison, keep in mind the above productivity improvement happened with the industry transition from assembly language to C Language. (A well-known example being 1980s WordPerfect being written in pure assembly language while MS Word was written in C Language. MS Word was iterating faster. WordPerfect eventually saw how assembly was holding them back and finally migrated to C but it was too late.) Yes, there's still some assembly language programming but it's niche and overshadowed in use by higher-level languages like C/C++.

If Functional Programming isn't demonstrating a similar real world massive productivity improvement to Imperative Programming, why is that? I don't think it's college classes. (Again, see all the non-PhD enthusiasts jumping on the free FastAI classes and brushing up on Linear Algebra to teach themselves deep learning.)
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The comments on Zuckerberg’s free-speech address sure look censored
New York actually has a functioning police force. It's borderline amazing that it is such a nice, clean, well-running city. Despite Cuomo's attempts, it is still generally well-regulated.
Agreed. Privacy should be right for the everyday person, and not a right for the powerful, who should have no right to privacy. Progressive rights make a lot of sense in a context where people with power can take a right that is helpful in most contexts and twist it to increase their personal power and harm others.
Our system is totally broken as institution and cartels of lawyers on both plaintiff and defendant side have captured article 2 and administrative courts as well as a general cultute of litigation for the benefit of the bar.

Nothing can fix this. It must break the same way all highly complex protecetd systems.....slowly, painfully from within. Unlesss china conquers us from without ;)
Trying to figure out how a single compressed/encrypted buffer works given only it and its resulting image is certainly an unwinnable task, but increase the sample size to a few million or billion and I don't see why the algorithm couldn't eventually be cracked.
The most upvoted thing I've ever written on here by an order of magnitude was a post on yesterday's story saying I applauded the move to ban politics and censorship at gitlab. But sure enough it looks like they've given in to louder angrier voices instead of holding their ground.

And that's the most insane part of how this works. They are doing this to appease people but on average people hate these kind of politically correct fear/shame tactics. But I guess it's difficult to measure that and those few people sure sound angry so they buckle not realizing that they are ultimately making a much more unpopular move.
That's obviously not the point being made, but it's funny how you've still managed to name things that in the West are at least built around the needs of cars in most cases.

How many dams have helipads? Not many, how many can be driven over? That railway bridge? Sized to allow car traffic underneath.

Many airports have about as much car parking (or more) as runways measured by footprint, same for many power plants.

Houses either have a garage or can't be legally built without parking in many jurisdictions, how many of those require helipads?
> “whats your approach to fighting it”

I’ve found that you can’t fight ideology. The harder you push against someones identity, challenging their sense of self, the hard they dig in and often begin their own offensive to divert the challenge away from their identity.

Ideology isn’t often rational (unless the identity is based in being rational... but even then thats often more about being a person who is right or smart than actually being rational). You can’t fight it with rationality.

I have no control over you. I cannot change your mind for you. I can only attempt to make it safe for you explore other ideas without loosing your identity. It’s up to you to change your own mind.