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Authoritarian states tend to be not as advanced technologically (one consequence of authoritarianism!), thus their police forces should be less efficient in general despite the increased powers.

But controlling for other factors, why wouldn't enhanced surveillance help catch criminals? It's a pretty logical claim.

Perhaps you should look for the evidence and bring back to us. For now, it is reasonable to accept the common sense statement.
I wonder what the signup rate is. Does anybody actually start paying them money after getting this slammed in their face?
The QCs are unbeatable for noise cancelling. My QC15s are my best friend at school, or, at least they were until I got the new AirPods. If you’re using them on a plane, I doubt anything could beat the QC35s.
You have been able to do this for a long time.

Photogrammetry apps with a good, automated drone pipeline:

https://www.dronedeploy.com/

https://www.pix4d.com/

Generic photogrammetry:

https://www.capturingreality.com/

https://www.agisoft.com/

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom

I don't really understand what's unique about this patent, Structure from Motion has been around for ages, from video too. Maybe they have some optimisation around the processing, which traditionally is quite compute intensive
> limits commercial use to a short trial period of 32 days. When a commercial user’s trial runs out, they need to buy a private license or stop using your software.

So it's clearly not Free Software because it doesn't respect freedom 0. Hardly a surprise that Bradley Kuhn and the FSF object to it being classified as such.

This is hardly a failure of "free software", just the author wants to try to subvert the definition which the FSF has long established. Maybe the author should try calling it something completely different (I suggest "trialware") and then the FSF wouldn't be bothered.

(https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html)
I've been using the same set of parrot zik v1's for about 7 years.
Cons: heavy, 6 hour battery life
Pros: good sound, comfortable (for all day wear), over ear - so good for blocking out the extraneous noise, funky design

I quite often check mixes I'm working on from home while day jobbing on them and they are not studio grade, but they are good clear revealing without too much hype in any of the frequency ranges - they are a little 'smooth' compared to studio quality, but that seems good in a set of headphones that are primarily for blocking out noise.

I replaced the ear pads for the first time this year - now good as new.
Same here, tried or owned nearly all on your list + others. Airpods pro are magical.
I had never seen the blog before, and just spent way too much time reading it.

It's completely astounding to me that people would permanently mark their skin with text, without being able to read the text themselves!
I agree that downloads are important, so I'm committed to integrating with org's existing file/firewall policies and secure web gateways.

I'm interested in what you said. Would it be a terrible idea for you to tell me some more about this certain segment of small business users?
Gore isn't bleak. A pop up of a chuckling Vault Boy notifying you of a critical hit isn't really "dark humor". Fallout 3 is very on the nose compared to Fallout 1.

I'm not faulting anyone for enjoying any of the newer games (or even Fallout Brotherhood of Steel) but the tone is extremely different. You can call Fallout 3 bleak, but it's not bleak in the same way as Fallout 1 was.

<SPOILER>
The entire story arc of Fallout 1 is that you are cast out into the lethal wasteland to save your vault (one of the first things you find is the corpse of some other unlucky guy from your vault), struggle against all odds, bring down an army of super soldier mutants and a fanatic cult that wants to turn all humans into mutants while what's left of the US military sits in its own little bunker full of high tech equipment but refusing to help you, then once you make it back to your vault your Overseer refuses you entry because you would no longer fit in with the community. The entire journey is basically the premise of Rambo First Blood.
</SPOILER>

That's a lot bleaker than the gory ultraviolence in Fallout 3. BTW, Fallout 1 and 2 already had the Bloody Mess perk and ultraviolent death animations, it just wasn't slo-mo and first person. Those weren't what made the game bleak, though. If anything, that was intended as dark humor (cf. splatter "horror" movies like Braindead, ultraviolent "splatstick" comedies) and a nod to pulp fiction (cheap novels, not the movie of the same name).
It is always useful to fall back to basic when ever people try to redefine copyleft or GPL. A copyright license is a list of complex permissions. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you have a two set of permissions, compatibility is the logical conclusions of finding intersection and see which actions are permitted in both set. Set theory do not have submissive and dominant sets. The intersection is always the elements which are in both A and B.

The parity license says "Make sure every part of the source code is available under this license or another license that allows everything this license does". It practically spells out that permissions in the intersection that lies between parity and an other license is acceptable to use when combining parity with an other license. It is true. It also true for any other copyright license, including GPL.
So you buy new hardware.
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Reading 'Dream Machine' now!
(1) Automatons need be able to create new AI models on the fly.
(2) The UI was created to increase speed of interaction between human brain and machine. Need the neural lace.
Google's AlphaZero can beat all other previous chess engines, and learned chess on it's own and invented strategies that were never conceived of before:

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-lig...
I agree that Returns wasn't as good as Dragonfall (I've yet to play HK), but I feel that the plot is more focused, as there's not that 'collect money' part in the middle, like in DF, which slow down everything. And I've felt the ambiance way better in Returns (of course that point is a big YMMV).
This will lead to people downloading potentially infected drivers from unofficial sites.
I'm fairly certain Gajim supports most of the standard XMPP features one might expect from a client [0]. I use it daily. Granted Jingle audio/video is not working in a cross-platform fashion but I'm fairly certain file transfer through Jingle does. HTTP file transfer is also fairly straightforward if your server supports it. My problem with Gajim is that it's not a turnkey solution. You need to adjust settings, maybe use a BOSH proxy if you're behind restrictive firewalls, manually enable OMEMO and deal with trusting and enabling keys. For instance I occasionally miss OMEMO encrypted messages (as in they cannot be decrypted) send from Gajim on a specific device. On the other hand Conversations does a much better job at hiding all this manual labour from the end user to the point that I can tell anyone: "just install Conversations; login into that server; done".

Pidgin is quite lacking as far as Carbons and OMEMO is concerned. Last time I checked you need to install custom plugins, issue text commands to configure the plugin, issue different commands to trust/distrust OMEMO keys etc. It's a lot of work which is probably partly due to the fact the libpurple tries to handle a lot of different protocols using a more-or-less transparent API. It does a fairly good job with most protocols (including proprietary ones through plugins; like hangouts [1]) but unfortunately its XMPP support is not really up to modern standards without effort (much more so than Gajim).

Dino is good and I think they solved some OMEMO compatibility issues they had. But it's Linux only. This is not necessarily bad since they can do much better work by focusing on a specific platform, both functionality- and aesthetics-wise. It's too bad there isn't anything comparable on Windows/Mac.

[0]: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/wikis/help/GajimXEPSupport

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/wiki/Home
What the NUC?
You comment is both funny and to the point. Applies to France as well.
> ...coincidence or a nod.

That depends on the patent status. Without patent => nod; with patent => theft.
Why is blatant advertising like this making it onto HN in the guise of newsworthiness?
that's interesting. if you read reviews about Bose (qc35 ou bose 700) they say to go to XM3 of you want more bass power. maybe you have a faulty unity?
> ... p2p transfer files ...

XMPP seems to be moving away from that as it is impossible to do reliably with the current brokenness of the internet. The current hotness involves uploading the file to the XMPP server and then just providing a https link to the other client(s). The contents can be encrypted but client support is spotty. So sometimes you have to trust the server. Still way better than the old thing.

I am personally not at all sad if my IM client can't do audio/video. Just let me send a damn text message and have it come out at the other end reliably.
It's dated Nov 27, 2019
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That's pretty terrible of Roku.
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I will admit that I do not understand that move; especially so if it is a cost cutting measure.

Then again I remember arguing with a VP that storage is cheap and email size limits are draconian enough already. She was not pleased.

Maybe it is really just about the budget.
Old for a colonial city, but you're right that French cities (for example) are far older. My own city [0] is closing in on its 2000 year anniversary - should be a big celebration when it comes around in about 20 years.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon#History_of_Lyon
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Slightly ot.

For sound quality, go for B&O Beoplay h9i.

Worse ANC than Sony XM3s or Bose, but the sound is so nice. I tried Bose QC35, bought and returned Sony XM3. For flights, as others have said, bose or sonys (maybe airpods pro?). But for music listening in the office, can't recommend h9i enough.
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Thanks for sharing. I'm not familiar with D, but it looks like compile time type introspection is something which is built into the language, which removes the need for something like the serde derive macro. Is that correct?
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It is a lie.

Counting subsidies from eighteen states as revenue does not make you profitable and Amtrak does exactly that. Plus they have such a huge backlog of repairs and maintenance so any "profit" claims are meaningless when you keep putting off maintaining your system and cars. However they make sure where the most noise is where the most investment goes.

Plus fleet age is a real problem[0] and requires billions of investment to bring that up to date

I love trains as much as the next person but Amtrak isn't profitable and they don't strive for actual profits because they know they are protected.

[0]https://www.bts.gov/content/age-and-availability-amtrak-loco...
If the driver had been mainlined it would still work today.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-...
> with the majority of people who want (or have to) use cars

Car owners are actually the minority in many large cities, especially in the dense parts. (>75% of all households in Manhattan don’t own a car according to https://blog.tstc.org/2017/04/21/car-free-new-york-city/)
6 models? From the Apple website:

* All iPhones with Face ID (23 models)
* All iPhones with Touch ID, except for iPhone 5s (33 models)
* iPad Pro (18), iPad Air (6), iPad (7), and iPad mini (8) models with Touch ID or Face ID
* Apple Watch Series 1 and 2 and later (20 models)
* Apple Watch (1st generation) (3 models)
* Mac models with Touch ID
* Mac models introduced in 2012 or later with an Apple Pay-enabled iPhone or Apple Watch

I count 118 SKUs just for mobile devices. That is without the difference in storage capacity. And then you have all the country specific stuff. For Japan you need an iPhone 8 or later or the Apple Watch Series 3 or later. The iPhone 7, 7 plus or Apple Watch Series 2 work but only if purchased in Japan. In the Netherlands you can use Apple Pay on the web only on a compatible iPhone or iPad.
Block Javascript with uMatrix or similar, problem gone.
What a mean bully!
Nutella is a proper noun and also a loanword, I was expecting native common noun pairs. (Btw the issue exists in French too for this word, and a few others like Wifi or Gameboy)
This is old news. We already grabbed it all, when it was first announced.
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Unfortunately, I think that's their true intent...

But "potentially infected" is mostly paranoia scaremongering, unless you deliberately go for the ad-encrusted huge-flashing-download-buttons sites(and probably even those are OK) --- there's plenty of other community-based sites (like the one linked here) which I've used before for various software, and I'd say a lot of times I trust the community even more than "official" sources. Especially when the latter has commercial interests to uphold.
I just want to let everyone know there's also a version for Asia-pacific (in a HK Google datacenter) that will probably be faster if you're not in a US timezone.

https://hk.cloudbrowser.xyz
I would say that time has already passed since many social media companies have such a grip already.
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If you read more in the thread, Intel is also removing old gpu and nic drivers for currently supported hardware. There’s no other reason to do that other than to obstruct patch diffing.
I’ve never used Erlang but have shipped production Akka+Scala systems and let me tell you, it’s hard. A big part of the problem is that Akka only supports cooperative multi-tasking: No blocking operations allowed (unless you pin the actor to a thread). This causes a big problem with the code: all implicit state must be made explicit. This creates a lot of boilerplate and makes some problems very difficult, especially with regards to TCP/UDP connections. Even with Erlang that doesn’t have these problems, debugging and writing actor systems are some of the hardest programming problems I’ve ever come across.

Also actor systems are fundamentally stateful and don’t mesh well with FP. Are they better than threads? Of course, but it’s a low bar. Hopefully some abstraction will be discovered that offer significant improvement over actors, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Stuff like futures are great and can solve some problem, but are not general enough to replace actors or threads.
This looks like "coming out of the screen" to me: https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*-nm0AvcydVzyhgDFdh6V2g.gi...

Do you mean the effect doesn't work with back to front motion? Like that pan can't start in the back and move forward?
Any of these in budget range?
> SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothing, not even your data, and can trivially be spied on and monetized in other questionable ways

Spot on, and those companies managed to subvert and violate the spirit of FLOSS in many ways.
Not "ALL" BIOS drivers.

Just legacy ones, for boards released in the 90s and early 2000s.
I don't see this feature? FF 70.0.1
>> But I'm getting the feeling that, while you are making this extraordinary claim that "logic-based AI has failed to come up with anything of value whatsoever", you are not very familiar with the history of AI research.

Ugh. This sounds like a personal attack. I apologise unrservedly. I really did not mean to insult you or disparage your knowledge of AI research. There's much better ways to say what I wanted to say here.

Apologies, again. I can't edit my comment now.
I have a pair of Bose QC 25. I don't know whether they're the best in terms of noise cancellation (certainly good enough for listening to music or watching movies at a comfortable volume on a flight), but they are the most comfortable headphones I've ever owned, which is an important factor if you intend to wear them for long stretches of time. They are literally the only pair of over-ear headphones I can wear for a workday without my outer ears hurting.
Having lived in the US I know what it means to have "mostly achieved that". Gridlocked highways, unwalkable neighborhoods, the requirement of owning and driving a car (at least one car per family, usually 2 or more), and catastrophic CO2 emissions, both from cars, and from the fact that heating free-standing houses is way more expensive than heating apartments that share walls/floors/ceilings.

Until we invent teleportation, putting everyone in their own separate house is unsustainable.
K8s production best-practices, Spotify's event delivery and Clusterman (U&R #47)
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Yeah, I’ve already replaced the ear covers once. Now the head band broke. I’m limping along with electrical tape repair. I think 14+ years is reasonable life expectancy though l!
Close; you could use Zipf's law, recently discussed here on HN.

It applies pretty much to all languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Yeah, this would definitely be a "show your work" situation if Apple said it wasn't possible.
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I think trees are a fantastic building material. If left to rot in nature, much of the carbon will slowly be released back to the atmosphere. The carbon sequestering abilities of trees also slow down after a certain age.

Now this doesn't mean we should clear-cut old forests, or only have short-lived commercial forests. I think we should aim to have mostly natural forests with trees of different ages, up to hundreds of years, and use selective logging instead of clear cutting.

Timber buildings can last hundreds of years. In such buildings, using timber is a great carbon sink. Interestingly, it's the glue that will deteriorate before timber does.
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> The mobile apps don't have grammar, but the web site does, for most skills in most languages.

Ok, I’ve never been far enough on their website to see it (I mostly test the mobile app). I’ll check it soon.

> Also, grammar is easy to get from other sites.

Which defeat using Duolingo in the first place. And no, some language have quite complicated grammar (Czech, Turkish, Finnish for instance) and somewhat lacking in ressources if your native language isn’t English.
The looking Glass display is horizontal parallax only (HPO). HPO is a common information reduction method in the 3D display world. Most holographic stereograms, all rainbow holograms, and all 3D lenticulars are HPO. Occlusion, horizontal motion parallax and stereoscopic cues are preserved, which are our primary 3D cues.

The loss of vertical parallax changes computation from an N squared to N problem. An interactive display like the looking glass provides vertical parallax cues as a result of user interaction (rotating the object vertically with user interaction).

This class of display also does not have accommodation cues, but in the range of 3d cues accommodation is the weakest.

Looking Glass displays are great! Shawn and the team has done careful, practical engineering work to get these displays out there.

Ref: I have a PhD in 3D display technology and worked with holography pioneer Steve Benton and his group at MIT to develop the most advanced holographic stereograms at the time. I own a Looking Glass display.
CET and EST are also the same time in Miami as in Singapore. That's just how time zones work. The distinction with UTC is that it isn't tied to any particular physical location, it's not the "time zone" for anywhere.

But UTC is ultimately defined by consensus. We need a reference clock and we need to be able to measure or estimate our skew in order to sync to it.
Interesting, thanks. As a native speaker my best guess was that it was some stage of processing, maybe sliced into round fish steaks of a sort or something.
I didn't say I agree with that position. I think it's a terrible one, and the government that sold the 407 was incredibly misguided. But that's how it would work.
Plus, makes it easy to slap on a paywall for the vowels.
> zero dynamic content

This is true, but the reason why Fallout 2 is considered great (and why so is New Vegas), was in number possible paths that player can take during gameplay. Writing in those games was all about presenting gray and grayer dilemmas to the player and leaving it up to them to follow quest lines for either of those.

It was rarely things like "take the lost kitten from a tree or set the tree on fire" types of "good and evil" pseudo-dilemmas that end with player being a paragon of justice or chaotic evil, something that keeps plaguing role-playing games to this day.
This was my first thought as well, although I never expected Intel willing to resort to such low tricks since it indicates they don't care at all about their customers. I would expect that move from a used car shady salesman, not from Intel: there are businesses out there that would be forced to ditch perfectly working hardware just because of this. I'll surely consider moving elsewhere in the future.
Certified skydiver here. Mid air collisions would be tough to avoid. Altitude and course management for this at scale is a nightmare.

Changing weather patterns could also do serious damage, and you would need pretty big landing areas all over the place as well.

Good idea though!
Thanks but I also have my own side projects / products, the goal with this would be to invest in something to get a decent return without all of the risk associated with creating something new!
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"can't be used for monetary gain" is very difficult to define. A simple example is replacing a paid software with FLOSS for cost saving.

For a company, this directly leads to increased profit.

This is one of the reasons why FLOSS licenses cannot go further than AGPL in limiting scope and use.
I think the cost of storage will drop again sharply, after the current plateau, because there is so much push for it, and we are not quite at the physical limit yet.

In SW development, automatic code generation will breakthrough.
Don't hold your breath. AMD has been terrible at marketing themselves against Intel for nearly 2 decades.
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Microsoft did a similar thing silently to their downloads[1] and KB articles, but fortunately the majority of it --- if not all --- has been archived somewhere.

Now if only archive.org would make it all searchable...

[1] a notable example being "Calculator Plus", a 9x/2K/XP-style calculator with some enhancements, but the name has since been reused for a horrible bloated and slow buggy "app".