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So would you do business with North Korea? Iran? Are you evading the question or did you seriously mean to imply that there is literally nothing a country can't do and you'll still go into business with them, no matter how horrendous their actions?

I think you might just not realize, or take time to imagine, what these regimes are actually doing to actual human beings. Maybe imagine it's your family, said the wrong thing, gets shackled up, underground, unable to move, injected with weird drugs for a couple of months--just one personal story I heard from an Iran refugee. I asked about his background, I meant engineering or what did he study, got a bit more background than I bargained for.

If your decision as an executive would be the same, then I suppose you agree you'd deserve that "applying lots of pressure to" just as much right? Why do it then? So you just get to ignore it and do it regardless? BTW this "pressure" from the other side doesn't quite look like "pressure" but utter disgust in the moral depravity of what people will do for money. If this is your choice, then I know exactly what you are worth as a human being to me. Don't forget to tell your kids their college is paid by torture prisons.

oh and IF you were a US citizen who doesn't believe the US government is involved in severely unethical behaviour, gently go fornicate yourself. it's called the CIA Torture Reports, it was a few years ago, and you can't pretend it's optional to believe it exists, because it does. It happened and is happening. I mean seriously, "IF" ??? Are you for real?

Sounds like your solution to this ethical dilemma is basically denial.
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>I am no fighter pilot, but I (used to) fly airplanes, floatplanes and helicopters. A watch with a 12 day battery life makes little sense to me as I find it too easy to forget to charge it. Even if you put it on a checklist, it may be too late to charge it when you are about to go.

Whereas a watch with a 24hr battery makes more sense?

I'd say, if you're to forget it, you are to forget it, whether it holds a 24h or 12 days...

And if you're doing an emergency landing and/or you're stranded somewhere, you'll want to have that 12 day watch with you, not the 24h one...
If we're getting into politics, I can't leave this uncontested. I think this is very disingenuous to say it didn't start with Reagan's "starve the beast".
Replacing humans with human level AIs isn't really automation, is it? Their work will not be automatic.

Also, humans will eventually start improving their biological capabilities, so human level AI is a moving target.
All Carrots and No Sticks:A Case Study on Social Credit Scores in Xiamen,Fuzhou
we are linux lovers, sysadmins, programmer and users who like build webpages, write blogs, chat online, play cool console games and so much more.
How does this work? Do you have two feeds into your house, one from the power grid and one from the generator-grid? Did the generator company lay new power lines to every house?

Or do you lease the generator and run it in your garage, but the generator maker somehow bills you for power consumed rather than just running hours?
That's not how things work. There is an advantage to automation. If you decide not to you are just leaving it to someone else to do it an be more competitive than you.

That's what is meant with inevitability in this context.

If you want to survive you don't have a choice.
you can ping me as well. Interested in trading, machine learning and new tech.
The people who upvoted it certainly think so.
That's often down to site owners, not Cloudflare. I know of a few projects using captchas for all visitors from non-core markets. It drastically lowers malicious traffic while not hurting revenues by much. Not that I'd support it but I can understand why people decide to do that.

In that case Cloudflare enables them to do it but I wouldn't call them responsible.
So what makes a country "third world" in your analysis?

The term arose out of the cold war, meaning countries that weren't aligned with either the United States (first world) or the USSR (second world). That can't be what you mean.

Later, it started to mean countries with poorly developed economies. That isn't the case, even if lots of our infrastructure is well used (really, if you have lots of infrastructure, you want at least some of it to be near the end of the useful life...).

I suppose a recent definition looks at places with stark disparities in wealth/income. The US has that, but low income people here are doing quite well compared to most of those places, with lots of support coming from the government. We are wealthy enough to do much more, but things like Medicaid are not worthless.
the "can you hack X" I get most often. But also questions to help with random programs I sometimes never even heard of, that they use at their job or whatever :D
I'll take unemployment all the time over not being able to get health treatments due to their cost. Another important factor is that even though US has recently a low unemployment rate, jobs are not enough to sustain people's life, so it's not rare to be forced to have 2/3 jobs. Employment quality is as important as employment quantity, not many seem to consider it though.
> Currently, the mainstream media narrative is a relentless Red v Blue. There is no narrative for Haves v Have-nots.

Are we following the same Democratic primary where Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both made these the centerpieces of their campaign and are 2 of the top 3 contenders?

It’s a bit much to say there is NO such narrative. Even Trump ran on this narrative, he just sprinkled some racism with it.
When the robots can create meaningful art, color me impressed.

But all in all, what a silly article. Sure we have been automating all mundane work since time beginning, but the article doesnt really give credit to the sheer complexity of the tasks humans are capable. We are a product of billions of years of evolution so any neural network used to simulate our brains has a lot of catching up to do. But I guess as a CEO of AI startup you have to build up the hype with non-informative predictions like this. Thank goodness they didnt throw out dates for specific tasks to be fully automated. They dont really explain the major problems what stops us from doing these super-duper robots already.
Maybe "inevitable" is too strong, but only slightly...

Those entities that don't adopt automation will be outperformed and supplanted by those that do.

It's a similar phenomenon with many technologies. Many people opposed cars, looms, cell phones... what happened to them?
OOC - could you share a link to your blog posts?
A manual for a trip sitter would have helped more than anything imho.

A trip is steered through belief. It was a belief that gave improv32 DP/DR. (Though there is always edge cases, like toxicity from being a black market drug.) A trip sitter can clarify the faulty belief steering them back in a healthy direction. There are certain techniques to identify this. On the tripper's side of things, they have to be comfortable enough with the trip sitter to openly talk about things, and ofc have a good set and setting, which is also in part the trip sitters job.
Distribution of Funds to the Needy
This should be done via churches,doctors,accountants especially nothern ie Gombe,Yola etc
I don't know the specifics of passwords, but Fenix definitely support sync. Open settings and the first menu item you'll see will be "turn on sync".

(Disclosure: I work at Mozilla but not on Fenix)
While I agree with you, I can also appreciate that intelligence/law enforcement agencies are not keen to go back to the alternatives. HUMINT is a nasty (in the moral sense), dangerous, and expensive enterprise. Would you rather train for a few years, then live a fake life with the constant threat of gruesome death, lying to everyone you know - possibly even your fake wife and kids or rather just tap a few phones/emails?

It's no wonder that most agencies have pretty much entirely dropped their expertise on this as soon as the alternative showed up. I don't think they are geared up to get back into that game.
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> I understood that Fenix won't support Firefox Sync

Based on my user experience Fenix (Firefox Preview) supports Firefox Sync in terms of bookmarks. I believe history and other data is also synchronized, but I haven't had occasion to test it thoroughly. In my opinion claim that "Fenix won't support Firefox Sync" is a bit too far [0]. I noticed the login/password sync feature has not been implemented yet [1]. I suppose it will might materialize soon, because lack of it could be a huge mistake in terms of usability.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues?q=firefox+syn...

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5074
> “The early-adopter travelers are already onto the next cool, cheap, relatively intact place,” Sheivachman says. Since the Skift article, the term has been widely applied to places like Barcelona, Venice, and Tulum to suggest that no one who’s in the know would want to go there anymore.

This might be true for certain countries who’s people have recently made a direct effort to subsidize tourism in an effort to increases it. But it’s just embarrassing to think anyone who is alive to comment now could claim to be an “early adopter” of a diverse and international city like Barcelona or Venice. These places have played host to cultural (and literal!) revolutions since before we were born and they’ll continue to do so after we’re all long dead, but perhaps there will always be someone to write a pretentious Vox article about how they know the real character of a city and others shouldn’t bother to try.
It feels like in Germany they are somewhat "hip" only in the last 5 years or so. Barely heard anybody talking or eating some before, but nowadays they are quite popular.
>I fly sport planes and the battery in the iPad I use to augment the cockpit has a 5 hour life.

You could trivially get a smaller than the iPad power bank with you and get up to days worth of battery life...
Curious a Yang/Bernie fan who is aware of populism/demagoguery.

How is this not a repeat of the ancient Greek Athenians?

(Serious)
Damn I know someone in SV who never types on a keyboard. Everything is speech to text. However if you’re getting issues with your mouth too. I’m really sorry.
The Mozilla Corporation is the only entity that can save us from Google; I can't blame people for getting salty whenever they screw up (which seems to be pretty often).

Given that the leadership of the Mozilla Corporation is completely useless, users have the responsibility to raise these issues so we can push them to fix them.
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Are you talking about the tracking protection?
Part of the theory of a warrant canary is that compelled speech (and in particular a compelled lie) may be easier to challenge than suppressed speech. While that isn't definitive, there's some jurisprudence to back that theory. If you have a warrant canary, you should be prepared to challenge any such order in court and use that as the defense.
Blog posts occupy the space between tweets and papers. Higher quality blog posts can contain a lot of useful information, but can never replace an actual deep understanding of the topic. You couldn't expect readers of your blog posts to then go on to write a novel blog post of the same quality on the same topic.
Brexit sits in limbo. Either it won't happen, which gets more likely as time goes by, or the government will do something extraordinarily stupid and put a border back between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Arguably one of the big impacts of Brexit is that the government no longer has or is capable of any other policy. Perhaps they could have attempted a rescue. Or a clawback of the donations (see Sir Philip Green and the BHS pension fund). But the Westminster government is crippled by its own incompetence, and Stormont has been absent for three years. It reconvened very briefly on Monday in an attempt to stop the abortion law in Northern Ireland being brought up to date (because that's obviously the most important thing facing NI, right?), but that fizzled out.
I felt the opposite when I visited Europe.

Everything is small in Europe, people seem to have bare minimums.

I suppose it's all about perception.

Edit- it seems like it depends on which quality metrics you use. I used "Stuff", other users choose life expectancy, and vacation time.
If you don't have a 4x4 Chelsea Tractor lobby, you can just use bendy buses. Boarding and alighting is much faster, and there's more space for pushchairs etc.
Well, I've been to small Chessnas that did have...
If I lived here, I would fit an Arduino and a bunch of SSR's to my electrical breaker box.

The Arduino would detect use of the generator, and detect load on the generator (with a current clamp), and if the load was too high, start shedding power-hungry devices like electric heaters, driers, ovens, etc.

The order of switch off would be programmable, and some devices like fridges or heaters could be programmed to only run on utility power to save money.

Total hardware cost of $30 would pay for itself quickly in both saved generation bills as well as a better quality of life, and the design/build cost of a few days would easily be recouped by selling devices to all my neighbours.
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> SF is just trying to tie jobs to adequate housing construction

And also making the assumption that only people who work in San Fransisco will live in San Fransisco? Because those Stripe employees who live in SF right now are likely not going to change their apartments. They'll continue living where they are, except now SF now longer benefits from the taxes that Stripe would otherwise have paid.
Almost 10 years ago I was living in Japan as a student and I saw a shitload of tourists constantly. Japan has been a major Australian tourist destination ever since flight became common, also the reverse.

While it’s true that since it’s more accessible, certain places have more tourists than they can handle, Japan has not been “closed” in the way you’re describing for hundreds of years.
That appears to be typeset, not typewritten.
You're right, GeckoView [0] is a lot like WebView.

GeckoView view = findViewById(R.id.geckoview);
GeckoSession session = new GeckoSession();
GeckoRuntime runtime = GeckoRuntime.create(this);

session.open(runtime);
view.setSession(session);
session.loadUri("about:buildconfig");

[0] https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/
It's trivial to have such things for your plane (talking about small planes with propellers etc used for hobby flying, commercial aviation of course would have specific requirements) -- it's getting them to pass the relevant regulations that's the deal. Eg.

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/ps/ipad_usb.html
The NIBOR (Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach) proposal addresses the issue of cryptography inside backdoored devices by installing a virtual machine underneath.

As discussed in following article, NIBOR also combats steganography: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3425957
A detailed look into China's famed social credit system by
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.

1. scores are computed using models like FICO (credit worthiness)

2. scores b/n 0–1000

3. scores computed based on “Big data” - basic data, +ve credit, notices, bad credit.

4. Scoring models are akin to standard "FICO"

5. Activities that boost score:
- on time contribution to social security, insurance
- volunteering
- donating blood
- using public transport
- separating waste
- work as teachers/doctors/public interest areas

6. Quantifying social behavior is at the core of the system. Algos used are far from mature or proven

7. No ML/AI models used

8. App-based/WeChat interfaces

9. Score benefits:
- deposit free access
- discounted access
- priority access to services.
0. You lose points by breaking law
- Minor (5-10)
- Moderate (15-20)
- Serious (30-50)
- Extreme (100-150)

11. Who can levy deductions?
- Traffic Police
- Common Reserve Fund
- Urban Mgmt Committee

12. No direct penalty for low score
Hah, the difference being some people still believe in conspiracy theories. Nobody believes in Pizzagate.
>things I should cultivate an interest in

It's only you who defines these things. It seems that currently you find random Wiki articles more worthy than machine learning or databases.

You think it is not so, but do not discard what you are actually doing as "bad habit", "lack of discipline" or something - see that this is not coming from nowhere, this is what you want on some level.
Ad-block friendly article: https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20181210lifee...

> "The latest CDC data show that the U.S. life expectancy has declined over the past few years," said CDC Director Robert Redfield, M.D., in a Nov. 29 statement.(www.cdc.gov) "Tragically, this troubling trend is largely driven by deaths from drug overdose and suicide.“

Of the various things that have been discussed as causes, one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-god-the-answer-to-the-suicid...

> A 2016 study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that American women who attended a religious service at least once a week were five times less likely to commit suicide. The findings—based on data from 90,000 women from 1996 to 2010—are consistent with 2019 Pew Research findings that regular participation in religious community is clearly linked to higher levels of happiness. It’s true that correlation doesn’t prove causation, but there’s strong evidence that people who attend church or synagogue regularly are less inclined to take their own lives.

Decreasing marriage and fertility rates are another potential cause, especially given that suicide rates have increased fastest among women: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/the-suicide-statistics-releas...

> Marriage rates have declined, particularly among less educated Americans, while divorce rates have risen, leading to increased social isolation, she said. She calculated that in 2005, unmarried middle-aged men were 3.5 times more likely than married men to die from suicide, and their female counterparts were as much as 2.8 times more likely to kill themselves.

Which all makes some sort of sense, right? Life expectancy has been increasing for decades, and the US has lacked universal healthcare this whole time. With ACA, healthcare coverage has never been higher. So it seems hard to chalk declining life expectancies to factors that have only been getting better over time.

Economics is likewise a suspect causal factor. The last time suicide rates were this high was the Great Depression. Unemployment and wage stagnation were worse in the 1970s yet suicide rates were never so high.
Or make the roads smaller...
Just take scooters that are in your way and put them on a parking spot for cars. A single parking spot fits a dozen at least.
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Someone else on HN made the same comment recently about the California power shutoffs.

To me it seems that the US is becoming a Latin American country, driven by the same forces that apply south of the border. The reasons that created the endless drug war and the original "banana republics" ruled by the United Fruit Company.
Thank you for this. The only waste of time here was a result of this individual’s lack of commitment (sorry, but it’s true) and misinformed understanding of the efforts involved in the launch process of any business, let alone his. I hope he sees this and realizes all hope is not lost if he sticks with it, evolves it, and plans for the ramp period accordingly. Success is never guaranteed, but you have to give it a chance.
Is it normal to get pain killers for a dislocation? Never heard of that happening in the US. My friend dislocated his shoulder cliff diving last month. The doctor popped it back in and that was that.
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A Look Inside the Groq Approach to AI Inference
It's far from proven science.
If their finished product costs less than its constituent parts, they're kind of doing manufacturing wrong.
I like how the server crashed even though the website has CloudFlare... They could've easily added caching for HTML resources...
Personal bike? Technically probably not, but it's a known personal use nobody frowns about unless the bike is obstructing other traffic (whether foot or vehicle), at which point it'll be taken away. Commercial bike? Same as scooters.

Stroller? If you tried, somebody would probably call a bomb squad. It's not something you do with strollers.
Also want to add that I don't believe all jobs can be automated but resolving the issues would allow us to actively working towards more automation and not only because companies want to reduce their costs to maximise profits.
I think the key issue with the optimizations that ICC is performing for C++ but Rust is not doing in this case is just FP-contraction, which is related to, but not the same as, assuming associativity.

The RFC about that is https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2686 , where you see users kind of split into the "I want faster binaries" and "I want more deterministic execution" camps. Neither are wrong TBH.

Some people have tried to show there that enabling FP-contraction by default isn't always better / more precise, but I'm not sure if they succeeded.
Drugs and obesity. It sure seems like we have too much abundance.

But the top comment is about inequality.

I do think we have everything we need, but we don't like seeing people have more than us. I find this strange, maybe this is genetic and used to find the best mates.
I built and shipped my revenue-ready MVP in 4 hours using low code tools
Out of interest, how do you go about debugging code when you live on the command line? In an editor you have nice features like a visualisation of the call stack, and the ability to set watches and conditional breakpoints. Are there vim equivalents, or do you live without?

FWIW I'm using vim bindings in VS code.
> But the more you spend on yourself, the less you spend on family which is quite a dilemma.

Can you include your family in your workouts.
Ask HN: Who should I follow and read on open source?
I'm become interested in the open-source ecosystem over the last 6 months and have been working on my project to aggregate interviews with open source maintainers[1]. This was initially inspired by having read work like Nadia Eghbal's Roads and Bridges[2], detailing some of the problems in open source. I'd love to hear from others who they think is worth following/reading with regards to open source. I've read Nadia Eghbal's and Devon Zuegel's work which is great. I listen to the To Be Continuous and Changelog podcasts, and I've read plenty of other odd articles here and there. I'm planning to read some older stuff from RMS, Eric Raymond, etc. soon.

Who else should I be following and what else should I be reading around open source?

[1] - https://sourcesort.com

[2] - https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf