skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a much easier target to me, if the ship passes over a secluded area. I suspect a cargo airship is also more likely to be unmanned.

How: drone with a harpoon, or a particularly pointy model rocket. Perhaps you'd attach a tether, so you can bring the ship to a specific spot (and reel it in gently without having to compromize its buoyancy so much it crashes hard).
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I feel that quote describes a lot of the current issues in Silicon Valley.
Does this look like reddit?
https://janayugomonline.com/ I couldn't find that image here, am I missing something ?
HN is not reddit. Judging by your karma and account age, you should know better.
> dirty compromises and band-aid solutions

Were the US or UK any different at the start? Founded by conquest and agreements, they involved a lot of give and take on all sides. Even ~100 years after independence and signing the Constitution the US was in the middle of a civil war with the compromises that followed.

The only way to have a union that doesn't require compromises is if everyone is on the exact same page. And that simply can't happen the second you cross a border (most times even inside that border). Once the union is created you start trying to homogenize and give it time.
How hard exactly is it to use Firefox instead of Chrome? It literally takes 2 minutes to switch. This isn't a Microsoft situation where, at the time, there was no alternative to Windows. It is the easiest thing in the world to change browsers. Google knows this too.

Not every surface is a slippery slope.
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Holding out since 96' here, while a consumer-level device with mass adoption is still some way off, the tooling to produce content is advancing at an impressive rate, given content, as opposed to new technology, is the main driver of media technology it's exciting to see what the next few years will bring and it's great to have another large company on board to drive adoption.
In fact Bert himself is answering questions in the comments.
Look at mobile CPUs? What limits them might have arised naturally, but it's still quite arbitrary (battery life, cooling capacity).
Not surprising: being good at something != being good at teaching this thing.
I remember seeing someone showing on TV how to open oysters, he was doing it with his bare hands!!
You say "tomato" I say "eat the rich".

Again: I get it's not the best look. I strongly support artists rights and the need for creatives to make money off their labor. However, the system sucks, and doesn't actually benefit the creatives anyway. Maybe creative/artist jobs shouldn't be "jobs" anymore, and people MBI or something needs to step in. Maybe the public need to subsidize the arts through state sponsored programs.

IDK what the answer is. But I know it isn't "more streaming services with no ability to share passwords".
Took me a few tries to get the flow, maybe hiding irrelevant workers (and highlighting the appropriate workers) when you click on a task might help make it slightly more obvious. It's also easy to forget who works on what tasks, maybe organizing those later on might also be worthwhile.

This is a great game, could eventually turn into an "idle clicker" if you so desire. Good job! I'm a fan of vanilla JS solutions.

Also: if you want to preserve some state: localStorage might be the api you want, cookies are a mess.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...
Wow, that's a powerful story.
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Boy, he sure committed a verbal Khashoggi murder there.
Oh, I just learned I have a money problem. Never heard that before. Sure, many Lidl products aren't great in quality, but some are definitely comparable with food bought elsewhere (at a much lower price). And buying non-local produce at a farmers market doesn't really make that much sense.
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The only way to have a union that doesn't require compromises is if everyone is on the exact same page
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It’s not just rudeness, it’s the belief that a media publications sees itself as immune to societal norms and values. Gawker truly believed that it could print whatever it wanted to, and be immune to responsibility, because it believed it was shielded by free press laws. It was nothing more than an awful tabloid. Good riddance.
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I think the author hasn't looked deeply at what Facebook and Twitter are doing.
Thank you for clearing that up, I think I misunderstood your original comment to mean that the Saudis and the US administration are opposites.

I think you're right that there is some hypocrisy involved when CEOs publicly denounce unpopular politics only to support deplorable practices as soon as money is involved.
Japanese rap tries to make the rhymes more interested by rhyming multiple syllables instead of just one.
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>it seems like they're later to market rather than on the cutting edge of things but bring a high design quality

That was true of Apple under Jobs but Tim Cook's legacy is one of terrible quality assurance and superficial design over considering function. Apple is coasting on their legacy.
Proper sun filters are fine and the best way to view the eclipse. They better be real and not knock-off, though!
Bigger news to me is that this paywall is $40 a month to get through. Wow!

Could anyone provide more information about this publication and why the price is so steep?
She likely has very different views. https://opensource.com/life/15/8/patricia-torvalds-interview
If you lose the book, you can replace it with another copy in good condition.

The policy used to be that you had to pay whatever the library paid for it, which could be quite a penny if they bought one of the library editions. Now a $7 trade paperback will do.
London supermarkets tend to have a bit poorer choice as real estate is so expensive. I found choice to improve the further out you go.
Nanotubes wouldn't really help much either I'm afraid. Hydrogen is 7% the mass of air, so even with a vacuum the best you can do is 7% more lifting power. Our only real hope is to terraform the Earth to have greater air density at sea level...
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I strongly support artists rights and the need for creatives to make money off their labor.
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I'm not saying Bezos isn't entitled to the fruit of his labor, and he should certainly be wealthy. But what does he do at Amazon that is worth $45,000 a SECOND. Not per year, or per month or even per day, but per SECOND!? I put forth no single human being is capable of generating that much value for anything, at any time, ever, and certainly not the guy who made it so I can remotely order Tide with 2 day shipping.

As a concept, I don't hate the rich. Some people will inevitably have more than others and I believe it's a solid carrot to dangle from a stick to get people to put in their best. But there comes a point where people are making so much money, to the detriment of the economy as a whole, and it's not doing anything. It's just running up a score for the person involved.

What on Earth can you even DO with 112 billion dollars? There's nothing you can't buy. You could buy everything a few times over and still have enough money to never work again.

And in and of itself, I wouldn't really care, except we have millions of people who can barely afford food, let alone the other necessities. We have diabetics dying because they can't afford insulin. We have combat veterans killing themselves because we broke their brains and don't take care of them afterwards. It should be a source of national embarrassment for us.
Maybe it's time to take another look at nuclear freighters.[1]

1. https://www.flexport.com/blog/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships
In my experience, poor performance is only very occasionally the fault of abstractions and frameworks. The problem is near universally between the chair and the keyboard.

I don't think we'll be throwing away the old abstractions, but adding new ones in beside them.

As an example, I made a demo a couple years back which processed and rendered about 64 MB of CNC G Code (a programming language for telling robots how to move and spin) in a web browser to match CNC toolpaths (the path of the robots motion) to their realtime run statistics (show me a realtime 3d map of where we can speed up the robot). To do this, you need to simulate the movements of the machine to build a 3d model, and then pair the model to collected data. You then need to cull/average data which is too fine to be visible, and ship this processed data to the browser as arrays of floating point numbers, where it gets rendered as -effectively- thousands of colored 3d arcs.

The naive implementation took minutes to run. The final version took about 1 second. I didn't have to throw away any abstractions or frameworks to make things faster. I had to use my language's new abstractions for massively parallel processing and stack allocated data to speed up server side processing, and then use libraries for decoding base64 binary into floating point arrays on the browser side to speed up data transfer and parsing.

I guess my point is that the end of Moore's law doesn't mean throwing old things away, it means using existing solutions when appropriate, and approaching new problems in different ways.
Nvm, got it
This whole thread misses the point - the "correct", natural-sounding text for the situation was simply "INSERT COIN". That's what ~every other machine of the era used, and what players expected.
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That's a huge reduction in world emissions for a rather tiny cost.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The NRPI expression is something I first heard about on the HBO show Succession. Does that phrase have a history of use before that show? If I google it, I only come up with hits for the tv show.
There is no moral issue with inequality. The moral issue is with equality. There will always be people who are willing to work twice as hard as someone else, and there are always people who if given the choice will not work at all, even if able bodied. Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.

It doesn’t take a computer simulation to show how free people wind up with different degrees of success. I want us to have more equality of opportunity but enforcing equality of outcomes with violence (government enforced equality, where violators are imprisoned) is a terrible evil.
I really like the sound quality of Amazon’s newest Echo Dot generation compared to it size and price.

However, in my experience Alexa is still pretty stupid. The only things it does well, is to play music, switch lights and read Wikipedia articles.

The one thing I'm scared of is Alexa sending everything it hears to Amazon, and not only things I said after the trigger word. I know for a fact, Alexa constantly records even today, because it can filter "trigger word in the middle of a sentence" scenarios, when no actual request is intended. I really do hope, that only actual requests (or false-positives) are currently sent to the AWS cloud.

If that won’t be the case anymore in the future, I’ll be out.
I think this is turning out to be harder than any of the big companies anticipated. IIRC Xbox had an internal roadmap that put AR in 2014, a year before a VR headset which is an interesting look at our collective ignorance about the type of problems we are looking at.

I do think Apple are the best placed to come to market on this though. Everything we’re currently seeing from them, like their over-powered mobile chipsets, seemingly premature ARKit, and Face ID sensor array are IMO all part of the push to cranking the price/performance of their hardware and software specifically for these upcoming headsets rather than addressing the current market. Which is genius, using the momentum of the iPhone to propel them into this new market.

I wonder if we’ll see them pull away in capabilities the same way the Watch has.
No paywall:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented...
Just looking at the 2017 numbers, a 5x population difference cannot account for a nearly 100x difference between uses of armed force vs people being killed by the police.
Ableton makes me wish I was a better musician, because their software is absolutely delicious to use.
We noticed you sailed to us at 10 knots when the speed limit was 5, saving you ten hours. You will now be held waiting to unload for 10*2 hours.
I think this is geared towards business and rich valley people. The few with deep pockets over a wider audience.
Pretty sure the atrocities in Myanmar, North Korea, and tsarist Russia we're also due to "internal stuff".
" If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa."

Really? Alexa is not available everywhere and it supports a limited number of languages, so if their language is not supported then people may not buy it, because not everyone wants to converse with Alexa via a foreign language. (Also, pronunication issues can cause speech recognition problems if one speaks, e.g. English or Spanish with a heavy accent.)
> The real question is how much of that is sales-pitch, marketing bs, and how much of it is really effective.

Sure, they may not be able to deliver super effective results today, few startups in their early days do.

What they’ve identified, though, is that there is a vast market of incredible wealth willing to pay for services like this. CA may have shut down, but Nix turned around and founded another company that does the exact same thing[0].

Keep in mind that these guys also have access to incredible investment money, they don’t have to go out and raise seed rounds, series rounds, etc. These companies are being built in secret, and it’s incredibly short-sighted to write them off for their capabilities today, because if they succeed tomorrow, we’re in really big trouble.

0: https://www.newsweek.com/what-emerdata-scl-group-executives-...
> Intercepting requests is still possible, just not blocking

False: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReques...

"There are the following kinds of rules:

- Rules that block a network request.

- Rules that prevent a request from getting blocked by negating any matching blocked rules.

- Rules that redirect a network request.

- Rules that remove headers from a network request."
If it's 3 to 4 years away from being real, would they really hold a presentation in the theatre? Not exactly an ideal setting for a discussion, and way too early for any kind of useful demonstration.

Also at this early stage in a product's development, Apple very carefully controls and compartmentalises information. The software team wouldn't have any idea what the hardware looks like, or who is working on it. If you know the people in other teams, there's more likelihood of cross-leaking. There's no way their whole road map would be shared with the entire team.

They may well have had some sort of meeting, but I suspect this is a case of extrapolating way too far from piecemeal and confusing scraps of information, combined with a fundamental misunderstanding about how Apple approaches projects like this.
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If you have 0 trust in Google, why would you ever use Chrome?
I'm sorry, what? Have you been paying attention? 24 hours from now almost no one will be talking about this.
This is not as terrifying to me as the other news brought to my attention by a post in today's Reddit's r/YSK, that if you use Adblock, your gmail can be closed.

In the new TOS of Youtube [1], it states that if your account is not deemed commercially viable, your Google account (i.e. your Gmail, your Google Photos, your Google Drive, etc.) can be closed down:

YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google
account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube
believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the
Service to you is no longer commercially viable.

Makes sense they would make this decision, as Youtube is a big money-loser for Google and they want to do something about this. Still, this is more of a wake-up call to me than anything else that I need to get off Google.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms?preview=20191210#main&
The Kerala model is indeed awesome, and Communist did great things there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
Intel's inertia ran out, and AMD surpassed them because they're actively innovating.

This is what happens when an incumbent company delays new products because of mismanagement or to maximize profits. (See also, Apple)

A CPU isn't like a database, it's easy for customers to switch to a competitor.
we live in a sensation world, articles like that are meant to have bold claims in the title, really nothing to see here.

As an early user of Alexa, unfortunately the technology is underwhelming. she does not understand names, she do not seem to improve while Google and Siri do actually, So yes Alexa Auto, or Alexa Show are good interesting devices, the reality is less rosy.
Depends on the definition of "insecure". I think we mean "the user is a victim of the owner of the product" or "the user has no choice but to overconsent to invasion from the producer". When ssh has a vulnerability, that's not a problem of me overconsenting to something OpenBSD wants to do. It's a problem where some third party has managed to fool OpenBSD into believing I want them to do something on my behalf, when I issued no such instruction.

But the vulnerability that is Google Mail is that Google will read any email sent to or from a Google Mail account, even incidentally, and use it to build up a profile which paying customers can use to manipulate me into doing things which, in the absence of the profile, I wouldn't've have done. Moreover there's just massive risks from all that data.
I know the risks. I just accept the risk-convenience tradeoff. I know plenty of people who work in infosec but have an Alexa (including myself).
This is just trying to spin a particular narrative out of an existing and larger trend where information (and media in particular) is becoming less and less valuable to individuals.

The world is saturated with hot takes, and I don't need your particular ad-laden website to enjoy them, even if you have serious but rude journalists. Ask every other journalist in every part of the world how the industry is doing and you'll understand this isn't specific to the "rude press".
Would anyone like to make a bet on whether ad blocking will still work in Chrome in two years? Something like "if you visit the top ten publishers in the US in Chrome Desktop with the best ad blocker will you see more ads than if you use Firefox Desktop with the best ad blocker"?

(Disclosure: I work at Google, not on Chrome, and don't have any inside information on this)
Not to gotcha this, but "I'm someone whose statements should not be taken to heart" is not a message I'd want to convey in an apology.

Then again, corporate communication is often a game of being as cynical as you can get away without getting arrested or having your business shut down, so maybe there's some meta-honesty here.
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The misuse of smart quotes in the code example is very distracting to me because backticks mean something in Unix.
I have hundreds of online accounts. The login data is currently stored in a 1Password vault and in my macOS keychain. Is there an efficient way to copy this data into Swifty?
> not ever going to be close to the levels we had in the second half of the twentieth century

Why not? Lack of inequality wasn't down to Bretton Woods, but to taxation and regulation that were the result of trying imperfectly to learn from the The Great Depression and World War 2.

It's disassembling all of that which has brought us to another gilded age. We're already seeing a rise in extremism and rejection of politics that are very analogous to the thirties. The cult of Neoliberalism from 1980 on, and its socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor is what is generating the risk.
Hardware Acceleration/Parallization is the next frontier. We've already seen the benefit of some pretty simple ASICs (TPU was built to be simple) as well as more general purpose accelerators. Hardware architects used to have a hard time, because often the best option was to simply wait for CPUs to get faster. Now that we've seen CPU power begin to stall it makes economic sense not only to invest in more parallel software but more appliciation specific accelerators.

CPUs/GPUs are beasts of hardware architecture, being complex mostly due to their flexibility. We can achieve higher performance with dedicated hardware (or FPGAs), and it looks like the economic reasons to do so are slowly becoming more certain.
They can't afford to quit their job over popovers when most of the ad money in their industry goes to Facebook and Google rather than content creators bc of the tech companies' reach and the massive amounts of data they have about everybody?
Maybe it's time to stop buying so much crap that we don't need.
Consumer Reports’ subscriber base trends older which is obviously not the same demographic as affordable performance car buyers. CR is still a great resource if you know nothing about a product market but enthusiasts outgrow it.
> The whole premise of autonomous cars is that they behave like limos

Those would be the fully self driving cars. Cars that can somehow navigate short distances to a parking spot where the next person takes over would be the middle step. They sort of act like a valet service or a "self driven taxi" (comes to you where you need it).

> I don’t see how that is any worse

A FSD is not worse. Just not better for anyone but the owner unless it's a shared vehicle. The only way we all benefit is if the number of cars goes down because they are shared or people move to more public forms of transport.
An interesting twist on this is in rural areas or the exurban fringe, it's common to see large multimillion dollar estates next to decaying mobile homes and middle class 3+2 ranch style homes. There seems to be very little friction between the different housing types.
Panama and Liberia together account for 1/3 [1] of global shipping (by gross tonnage).

Together they have a blue water navy of 0 ships [2].

Even if these 2 countries would like to add relevant laws, they will not be able to enforce them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_merchant_navy_capacity...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_level_of_...