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He might not have moved hotel that frequently. http://mrr.trains.com/magazine/press-releases/2007/10/rod-st...:

”For example, during a 63-show North American tour in 2007, Stewart relocated his wife Penny Lancaster, the couple's toddler son Alistair, and seven massive traveling cases of model kits and tools to a suite of rooms in Chicago. From this central location, he flew to each night's show. After the performance, a limo would rush him back to the airport where his private jet would be waiting. After a quick flight back to Chicago and a few hours rest, Stewart would be up bright and early and busy at his model railroad workbench. Stewart said he could usually manage a few hours of steady model building each morning before setting aside his tools and spending the remainder of the day with his wife and son.”
> TV is doing better than ever as a medium. Why? Because a lot of us are now paying directly for the things we like. I think the same thing would happen with the web.

What are you on about, TV is essentially dead as an over-the-air/cable-bundle medium.

The only reason "TV" survived, is because it was reimagined by streaming services who charge a monthly fee. That model has certainly been going through a golden age, but the story is far from finished there and things are about to get very very bad with dozens of streaming services on the horizon, all wanting 5-10$/month.

We have yet to see what's going to happen when consumers rebel against their content needing 100s of $/month to access. The Tivo of the 2020s will involve VPN, or Piracy with a new face, or some form of account sharing, and will be resisted just the same.
Just curious, what is your opinion on Ethical Ads (no tracking, cookies, selling data)?
Exactly. Once the woman is pregnant, she’s all-in unless she has access to an abortion (and she’s okay with having one).

Plenty of times the guy has been all-in right up until the moment he becomes a father, then he bails. If he has no financial stake in the relationship either then there’s nothing holding him to the marriage except his word and his feelings, both of which can be broken.

Single motherhoods is ridiculously common these days. I think a big part of the reason why is that tradition and commitment are dying out, and marriages based on romance are dying along with them.
Presumably they'll add some kind of innovative feature so it isn't just a traditional checking account.

If you don't think those features will be worth it because you don't think Google is good at customer service, then I guess that's for you to decide for yourself. I don't really see how it's relevant to my comment, though.
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> That really isn't an argument worth taking seriously.

I think it is. I've used Google search, gmail, youtube, and Google docs since they've existed. I've paid $0 for them. My understanding is that these services are paid for by ads but I've had an ad blocker most of that time. If everyone started using an ad blocker, what would happen to Google/those services? I don't know, but I feel uneasy about the fact that services that I use depend on people not doing certain things that A. seem rational and B. I have been doing for years.

> When the Tivo was new, it was argued that it would destroy television, because people could now skip ads. 20 years later, TV is doing better than ever as a medium. Why? Because a lot of us are now paying directly for the things we like. I think the same thing would happen with the web.

It seems to me that Brave is attempting to make it so that people "pay directly for things they like" and they're attempting to solve that problem generically, in the browser. Maybe it would be better if this problem wasn't solved in the browser. Maybe all the companies providing free services funded by ads should solve this problem individually, by charging a monthly fee. But that solution:

1. Leaves out individuals who make a living providing "free" entertainment who are funded by ads (so-called content creators)

2. Requires people to juggle many monthly subscriptions

3. Will cut out people who cannot afford subscriptions

4. Will never happen unless something forces these companies to change (maybe something like a browser with a built-in ad-blocker gaining market share...)

Brave's approach is interesting. I have no idea if it will pan out but I think they've identified a real problem.
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If that's the justification, would it would be cheaper to stop throwing the money away over and over on rebuilding in flood areas and just subsidize Florida directly?
> It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB.

Where do you see that?
The other poster stated "predictive model". A predictive model could easily identify males to be "more fit" (higher p-value) than females, in aggregate. The programmer tries to evade this bias, by ie. removing gender values in the system. However, the system STILL identify males "more fit", due to correllated values (likes Mancester United/Liverpool). Machine Learning is not much more than advanced statistics, so data biases gets amplified, thus naive application is often a poor fit. Even worse, the experts are at loss on how to make such predictive systems "perform better", without introducing biases on their own, since the data and categorizations themselves may be full of biases.

In the real world, incompetence may not be a huge hurdle when selling complex systems. Also, these biases are invisible, until one thinks about them or spots them in the wild.
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Same here. I love using just one charger and cable for my laptop, tablet, game console, headphones, and more. I’ll never go back to USB-A.
I actually have read parts of it. My work stopped subscribing to O'Reilly's Safari Online Library so I lost access to it, kind of forgot about it but thanks for the reminder, I might just grab a copy today.

And thanks for the kind reply, there's nothing I hate more than speaking incorrectly or out of turn on HN!
So one can view Rod Stewart's entire career as an attempt to achieve enough fame to preserve his model railway layout after his passing?

Tongue in cheek, but I do think modelers keep these questions in the back of their mind, about the worth of this thing they put thousands of hours into. You accept that you do it because you love it, whilst recognising that most don't share your passion. Hopefully it goes to a good home after you depart, but finding that home is a big ask for others. Even then, if the value is in the journey/making rather than the destination, will another "passionate" even benefit from the ownership?
Any chance we can take a look at that Tech Tree? Sounds interesting.
>No they are not opt in for a site

The parent never claimed that. And since the ads aren't tied to specific sites I'm not even sure how that would make sense.

>And who tells me brave is not tracking me? If anything they have even better data than eg Google.

Feel free to examine their privacy policy and their source code. If you find they are doing something contrary to what they claim please be kind enough to share your findings. Just as you would for Firefox, Linux, or any other open-source software.

Until then, it's fine to be sceptical but can you please dial back the inflammatory "propaganda war" rhetoric. It's unnecessary.
> There’s a lot of motivated reasoning by men that their innate characteristics are selected for computer programming. There’s a lot of hostile behavior by men towards women who are in computer science. You can view this like any other resource scarcity turf protection gambit.

That is entirely your opinion. Framing biological differences as turf protection is laughable in my opinion.
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I've done a single-blind test and could tell, but to be completely honest I don't think they're similar enough that you need to set up an experiment. Go to a jewelry store near you; you'll be able to tell the difference quickly if you try.
Sure, I suppose I should have qualified that statement to refer to left leaning Americans (which are the primary demographic in US tech companies). Among these circles it is not socially acceptable to acknowledge disparities between groups, particularly when those disparities are related to demographics considered marginalized.
As I understand it, Gecko is much harder to work with, so it would take a lot of time to make something like brave compatible with both Chromium and Gecko/Firefox's APIs (or to even only move to Gecko/FF). See the following comment from [0]:

> More significantly, in my book: it’s difficult to use Gecko and Firefox in these ways. Even the simplest app requires substantial and arcane boilerplate. And the docs are comprehensive but outdated. The platform may be powerful, but it’s hard to use.

There's also now qbrt[1], but the readme itself recommends not using it, and it was last updated 7 months ago. If this matures to a usable state, I can see Brave developers considering it.

0: https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/

1: https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt
It'd be like taking a walk in the park and paying/supporting the park utilizing a corporate currency - by having a salesperson walking beside you trying to pitch some product - if you feel the need to
Very interesting link! but indeed, I have a lot of cores that are just on a private network.
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That seems unlikely given that the Air range are by far the most popular models, and are squarely aimed at the mass consumer market. Also it’s seems a bit unlikely the masses of people crowding in the Apple stores in the UK all the time are all developers.
Britain lost 7k jobs because Musk thought Brexit too risky for Tesla
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I don't think it was ever clear that atomic weapons wouldn't be used, especially not near the time of their invention. Remember the Cold War?
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Ahh... thank you for explaining. :)
If you're just tossing it in your bag, why not keep one of these permanently attached to the the USB end?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jtrs-Na%2...

That's what I do with the cable I use with my ancient Garmin cycling GPS.
Yes, Ubik has half-life states.

But I'm thinking of a different PKD book where there were actual artificial personality constructs instead.
Fair enough, but I personally use my credit card to pay several content creators monthly on Patreon, I don't see this as being that different.
Looks nice and has the specs to back it up, you might can find another laptop with the same specs for $2300 but the build quality, software, and support will be lacking.
> in favor of "biological differences would mean permanent, uncorrectable injustice, therefore it is impossible that biological differences exist."

That's because the issue of men vs women in programming really is an all-or-nothing topic. Either you believe that a female is capable of being an equivalently skilled programmer to a male, or you don't.

Referencing biological differences always cascades to a question about the innate ability of a female to program. The best example I can point to is the infamous internal Google manifesto on male vs female programmers. If you read that text, it appears reasonable enough: the author thinks that there are biological differences, and these differences might lead to differences in programming strengths. But it is a wolf in sheep's clothing; as soon as you believe that there are differences, it follows that one set of differences must be advantageous to the other.

I can understand that there are biological differences between females and males, but I absolutely and vehemently choose to believe that there is no inherent difference in ability - females are 100% as capable as males when it comes to programming. Full stop.

Yes, this is double think. But I'd rather be a hypocrite than hold a secret belief that my biological sex makes me a better engineer.
This has gotten better for me.

Starting a few months ago, I now clearly see a indication if the item would ship to my country.

(also in Europe)
> First thought... canopies, entire communities with public spaces covered with walkways, pools, parks, all under tent-like construction.

It won't matter because of all the cameras under the canvas. Cell phones will continue to track every person's location in real time. You can try to hide from the satellites and drones, but you can bet that your every movement will still be tracked somehow.
I’m not OP, but I would argue that. There’s no realistic scenario in which leaving the single market makes Britain a more attractive place for (most) businesses.
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Not that it makes blood diamonds ok, but I would be curious to know how many people sneering at people buying real diamonds made their comment using hardware produced in a sweatshop, that was produced using minerals acquired using practices that are just as bad as those to acquire diamonds?

Obviously the diamond trade is terrible and is built on the backs of suffering, but a lot of the people I know IRL who literally used the movie blood diamond (or material talking about the benefits of artificial diamonds) to convince their fiance to go for an artificial diamond. But when trying to discuss the ethics of electronic production they literally just do not give a shit. Maybe it's just a classic case of people can only care about so many things, and these people just made the diamond trade their thing to care about, but to me, it came off like they only acted like they gave a shit about the diamond trade to save a few thousand on a ring without pissing off their fiance.
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The lady and right keys are easy. But up and down are difficult. With the half height left and right keys it’s easier to find the up and down keys. The down key is between left and right and the up key is an island (or a peninsula at least). Does that make sense?

I bought the last half height model when I upgraded my MBP 13”.
I think one of the author's main points is that just as much about the development of wide surveillance was contingent, we're still at a point where we could choose not to have this become more pervasive, and it would be a mistake to assume that that's inevitable:

"For the masses, the feeling that technology develops along an inevitable path reflects their lack of agency — the fact that the crucial decisions about the technological conditions of society will be made by a largely self-regulating confraternity of elites. For engineers and scientists, technological development appears to be driven by a combination of what they can imagine, what is technically feasible, and what governments or markets demand. Even those whose particular genius produces the breakthroughs feel this as an inevitability, as if they are possessed by some inner logic that is the real force ushering in this new world."
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So you're saying you only need one USB-C port... whereas the Macbook Pro has 4 and not a single USB-A one.
It really depends on the specifics of the optimization problem in question.

If ML is trained on biased data where an optimality exists only at an unbiased solution (think a shaped reward function in RL to disincentivize class bias or something similar), then no, the ML is most certainly not supposed to echo the bias they've been fed.

On the other hand, if an optimal solution to the ML optimization problem exists at a biased solution, ex. a naive prediction of if a nurse is a man or a woman, then yeah, we would say that it was supposed to echo the bias.

All too often I feel people forget that ML is just an optimization problem. What you're trying to optimize really matters - generalizing about all ML without talking about the optimization problem in question is pointless.
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If you're dealing with Apple/an Authorized Service Provider, there is a replacement method available to them to get data off of a failing system. (Uses the USB-C ports and DFU mode).

Anecdotally, it does work on some boards that are otherwise hosed, but may be less frequently successful than with the prior data connector, as there's more pieces that do have to be still functional for it to work.
Google had something that did this, where it would show you pictures of cats instead of ads, but still allowed you to pay the website a couple pennies:

https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

Unfortunately, it only worked on Google ads, which is something like 40-55% coverage, so you would still see some ads from other networks. Not sure what they're doing with it now, but it was nicer than dealing with funbucks.
Maybe a little less insidious than your examples, my first thought was being able to generate voice actor lines for videogames. Maybe not main characters, but background NPCs and the such. Might make the VA union a little nervous going foward though!
The account was fine but the posts weren't making it past a software filter. We've marked the account legit so this won't happen again. In the meantime, the killed comments were all vouched for by users, which is great!
So Brave is tracking all of the content I consume? That will be a hard pass from me, thanks.
See also: the Netherlands, a country in ruins. /s

Frankly the problem with Venice is not where it's built or climate change. The problem is that Italy has become a country living by the day and entirely unable to discuss and plan and act seriously for the future (or the present, for that matter).

The MOSE project that should have saved Venice from the high tides has been discussed for almost thirty years before even starting the construction, which then proceeded at snail pace with stops and go, lack of funding, corruption, and political quarrels.

Nature has never been benign. There are countries that are organized and efficient and dominate it- see the Netherlands. There are others that spend time in squabbles and suffer from each flood, storm or earthquake- see Italy.
I am 100% more likely to buy from your online store if you have a simple checkout process that lets me use Apple Pay. And if you want an email to send the confirmation to use Sign In with Apple and I will default to buying from you over another provider. It’s as simple as that: I get far less spam, I know my privacy is being secured, and I get to support a company that supports the easiest checkout process ever.
I heard that too; being a Brit (and working in languages) probably helps. It did pick it up occasionally though, which gives hope that increased sampling and training could fix the slight miss there.

It was that and the Swedish-accented English ("Sentence in Different Voices" section, middle recording) made it struggle. No traces of the Scandi-lilt were left in the synth version.

Final note would be the French speaker at the bottom of the page seems to be English first language, despite having very good spoken French. Not quite as pure a test of that last part as I'd have liked, despite the ability for the speaker to perhaps read the synthesized version in English back in English. That could be fun.
I wonder if Webkit still have any resources behind using it on Windows since the documentation for building it[0] still says "Windows 8.1" (and I can't find links to the documentation or website SVN repo).

0: https://webkit.org/webkit-on-windows/
> This is simply not true. Secondly, the restrictions around urban development are self-imposed at either the State or Local level.

Made possible by the unending spigot of funding for laying down asphalt. These decisions become less and less tenable when the underlying substructure goes away.

What’s more is that it’s not even accurate. There is no equivalent federal impetus behind building walkable neighborhoods and transit the way there is to subsidize the maintenance of road expansions and interchanges. 4 out of 5 federal transit dollars go to highways.

And it even goes into what we do through industrial policy. We didn’t bail out people who make trains or buses, we made the auto industry the national manufacturing priority. For God’s sake the government doesn’t even build railroads. They’re all private and leased.

> Just how much has the CA never-to-be-completed train cost again?

A fraction of DoT funding to serve way less dense population clusters. What’s more, transit projects get decided in ways that are lousy with veto points while highway funding just gets put through with little resistance.
I tried to buy my Mom a birthday gift with such an apple pay checkout from a manufacture's site, and I have been unable to set the shipping address to her's vs mine. It was a bit cheaper than Amazon, but it is coming to my house today and not my Mom's (happy birthday mom!). Now she has to wait till thanksgiving.
It doesn’t work in the menus for example. The cursor keys are still important.
Nothing but the pun is intended!
I did something like this before my grandmother passed. She was a teacher and loved reading books to kids. I recorded her reading Dr Seuss and the Giving Tree to my cousins so I could give my future children a glimpse of that wonderful woman.

It seems that we aren’t far from being able to take those recordings and spin it into a reading of anything. Fascinating. It’s kind of scary though. Grandma’s voice can read anything. Anything.
I think a lot of people's passions are driven by a hole in their heart, that they hope their work will help fill somehow. I suspect that no small amount of the enthusiasm for XR is due to a deep and abiding desire to be someone else, somewhere else, among the people developing or early-adopting for it. Of course, it doesn't have to be so high-tech; much non-profit or social work is prompted personal experience with the presence, or lack thereof, of the service being rendered.

In the end, I don't know if any of that works. But what's being subscribed doesn't seem too far outside the norm. Deprivation often leads to desperation for even a taste, however imperfect it may be.
According to the Vedas, mind gets conditioned simply by living life. It is so ingrained, we don't even notice it, but we can't live a life without it either. It's not a negative, but an awareness thing.
Comcast has multiple competitors already out in the wild.

First they have XFinity Flex. Their competitor to Roku.

Then they have Peacock, which at the moment looks like a competitor to CBS All Access. Coming soon.

Somewhere in between a channel and a platform you have Live TV broadcast. Who knows how they will brand it in the long run (they will want you to pay for their variant of "cable service / satellite".) ATM they have the Xfinity Stream Beta App on Roku.

They also have the NBC Family of streaming apps: bravo, e!, nbc, oxygen, syfy, telemundo, universo, usa. They would absolutely benefit from a single "guide" interface like ATT TV Now/ / PlutoTV.
Do you have something to cite for this?
You're being unreasonable.
Leaving aside copyeditors, etc. editors tend to be more senior. Furthermore, a lot of "editors" also write stories; it can be more an indication of seniority than an indication that they just assign stories and edit other people's work. (Which there's often not a huge amount of these days.)
I found this out the hard way as well, at some point since I last logged in they quietly enacted a policy of deleting keys that aren't used for roughly a year.[1] This meant I couldn't use the not so public method of verifying I still had access to various associated keys.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/d...
You can fill out DNSMPI once for a business and it applies for at minimum the next 365 days. You do not need to specifically enumerate systems; it is a blanket prohibition.
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