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I thought Airplay requires that both devices are on the same network.

Can a person configure the wifi settings for an Airplay-capable Sonos speaker without the Sonos app?
I think another reason that Google et al don't pay customers is because they might realise how much their data is worth and get uppity.
Seal Beach still has an original red car set up as a museum right next to Main St.
I think they were saying the claimed performance of the interview-processing software has got to be fake, not that the article must be. I read it the same way as you at first,though.
> To a degree, yes. But are you really trying to pretend it's already perfect?

Perfect is the enemy of Good.

> Again, it could be worse. And I'm not trying to meddle in your life. If you and your SO want to live by traditional roles, that's great. But I don't want those thrust on (and thus being meddled with) my life. And I don't want to live in a society that doesn't even try to improve anymore.

Everyone is trying to pin an opinion to me here because I am just questioning the underlying assumptions. I don't really have one other than "You can't have it all" unless you are extremely wealthy or extremely gifted.

> But I don't want those thrust on (and thus being meddled with) my life. And I don't want to live in a society that doesn't even try to improve anymore.

Neither do I. However there will never be a utopia. I find it actually pretty immature to think that you can make everything perfect, there are trade offs to everything.
Can't control via Alexa or Google home without going to the cloud.
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The influence of “out there” thinking like this is pretty hard to spot if you’re looking for a direct descendent. His talk on interactive computing has affected the way that I personally design and build products, so there you go. I’m sure the same is true for many others.

This is like complaining that concept cars are bullshit because you haven’t seen a car that looks like one on Main St in Podunk, USA.

As a sidenote, the “wet in the knickers” language and overall tone of these comments is extremely juvenile if you’re actually trying to have a good faith conversation about this.
>>What’s groundbreaking here is not really the technology but rather the marketing: Clearview is selling a relatively cheap product to law enforcement agencies who are desperate to solve cases at the lowest cost.

Exactly. This is a prime example of commoditization. The product doesn't have to be sophisticated. Just good enough to handle the most common use cases reasonably well, at a cheap price.
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If that's the case, then how/why does Apply only charge $1/mo for their base iCloud plan?
Stop buying HP. All their products are trash... including printers and computers
https://www.warrantyweek.com/archive/ww20150416.html
Nope, I pay 1.99€ / month for 100 GB. No more, no less.
Ooh, the app should probably bundle all those things you've observed into one simple metric, a "score" of some kind.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/08/the_amazon_flex...

Amazon had a service that was built mainly with micropayments in mind. It never took off.

"Amazon FPS’s aggregation feature lets developers track and aggregate micro-payments into a single payment transaction, saving on transaction processing costs and avoiding having to build complex ledger functionality into their own applications. Using the aggregation functionality coupled with the lower Amazon FPS fees, developers can now pursue micro-payments businesses that previously have been cost-prohibitive."

Edit: Better Source and a quote
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> However, how should we handle distributing a limited number of parking spaces when there are more people who want to park than available spaces?

By regulating the correct resource: the issue isn't too few parking places, it's too many cars. London basically fixed this: put the fee on the car.
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Lol, wouldn't be surprised to find myself in one of these "loser" zip codes. Wish I could read the whole article rather than just the abstract.
> At least not in Germany. Every household has to pay a monthly fee even if they don't want to. No opt outs possible.

Yes, but you can simply not pay that. I've been doing that for decades now. They send you scary reminders and say things like "Hurr durr, we are going to impount your wage!" but that's where it already ends. Just send them GDPR requests which they can't/won't reply to on a regular schedule and they are actually the ones that have to deliver/comply first before anything else.

Side note: My household and car are broadcast/radio free and I don't consume these on the internet either.
This is a great thought. Do you know if anyone is looking at computationally examining these overlooked games and trying to find the ones with truly excellent depth, so that they may get greater attention? That sounds like a fun project.
No, harder and faster than coasting to a stop. Granted, full coasting to a stop really only makes sense for red lights but I'm assuming delivery drivers are doing some coasting when coming up to stop signs/yields which is what I do.
Agree. Throwing prior weights into hyperparameter sets is not helpful. If each hyperparameter or architecture decision were rigorously tied to an interpretable event or process, we'd have much better explainability and traceability. Its a step in the right direction to try.
Are you implying alien societies wouldn’t (don’t?!) have their own historical baggage?
Thank you so much for answering! That's fascinating! I hope that at some point someone expands on what features have been added.
It would be interesting to study the effect of this on donations and the endowment. There should be some measurable effect. Additionally, if there is an effect on donations and the endowment, it would be interesting to study the effect that that change has on endowment payouts. Does lower donations, due to lower legacy admissions result in less funds for University operations?
I hear you. But that’s like suggesting defeat. The problem here is bad city planning and Sacramento shenanigans. A very cunning move of turning people against people so the govt can get away with doing nothing while pocketing all the cash.

They are literally pitting us against each other instead of fixing infrastructure, public transport, homelessness, community services and tax reform so its less taxes, not more.

Imagine you are a household and you want to maintain a standard of living. As family size grows, it makes sense to cut down the budget, eat out less and making the money and resources stretch more over more heads.

What the govt is doing is essentially vying for free money by taxing people more and creating more cash rich people. And pocketing the cash for the care and feeding of big Gov. they are making out like bandits. This is what Kings and feudal lords did...just tax working class more.

Just follow the money. I did it with just one thing. Prop 47. They don’t even charge people anymore for crimes that involve goods valued less than $950.

Why? Because it costs money to maintain prisons, police force and courts etc. waste of time and resources to petty crime.

This has resulted in more petty crime. Car break ins, property theft, chain snatching, lap top snatching, shopping mall robberies etc. the police won’t even take a report so there is a record of it. Who knows what that number is..

So you’d think they’d save oodles of money, right? Where is it going? It goes back to unfunded pension liabilities. It costs $70k per prisoner. Prison guard unions are the most influential unions. It’s going back to fill the hole that is unfundwd pension liabilities. It’s the same with teachers union, police officers unions, Fire Dept unions. These departments keep shrinking as density increases but they become more and more expensive and have larger budgets. Where is the money going? Pensions negotiated by unions.

Look at homelessness reforms. Where is all the millions going? Half the budget is for salaries and employees. It’s all coming from our taxes. Take every expense and scratch the surface. Beneath all the goop and gunk obscuring transparency, there is the govt playing with our money. With no accountability. We don’t ask questions because we are fighting amongst ourselves. Turning tech workers against seniors. Homeless against working class. Teachers against parents. And indoctrination begins at public schools where kids walk out to ‘support teachers unions’.

This has to end. Let’s not be suckers. This is the oldest game in the book. This is how the British colonized my people for 250 years. They called it Divide and Conquer.
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To be clear - I have absolutely no experience in this domain. I'm just speculating.

In the example I gave, everyone agrees that if you had long enough and enough processing power, you could solve every possible configuration, and store the results. Then you could instantaneously "solve" any problem.

Unfortunately, the problem I describe is a toy problem (too simple to be useful), and yet it would still take way way too long to solve all the possible configurations.

What if you solved some tiny fraction of the configurations though? That would be a sampling of the configuration space. Then a neural network could use that sampling to interpolate to the cases not solved. That would provide a significant speedup over actually solving the problem.

So the real question is what density you need to pre-solve the configuration space to make it work? It definitely depends on what accuracy you need in the solution, as well as how good you can do with the interpolation. If I said previously that gigantic numbers of examples are not needed, then I misspoke. I am sure they would be needed. Gigantic is vague though - is it the kind of number that can be rented from AWS, or is it the kind of number that would require civilization resources?

I have no idea if the math actually works out to make it a useful approach. All I am saying is that conceptually I can see that in some cases, it could be possible.
> provided you have enough charisma points

You answered your own question. Some of us don't have an ounce of charisma<del>, and some of us have been conditioned by years of loneliness to never initiate a conversation</del>. I think this is a pretty valuable service.
Why is the University allowed to accept tuition from more students than it has parking spaces? How would a student unable to park be able to attend classes? I can see using parking fees to allocate more desirable parking spaces, but effectively preventing tuition paying students from being able to attend classes is not acceptable (my opinion).
Hot take - the Golden Circle underwhelms.
No no, they get drowned out in the noise (that grandparent him/herself is producing).
Why do protesters have an expectation of privacy? You go out in public and someone might see you there. If you're a peaceful protester, it shouldn't matter. If you're performing criminal acts while protesting, you should be stopped.

I see a lot of people saying that it's terrible that protesters might be identified. I think at least some of these people are secretly upset that people can't break windows and burn cars with impunity.
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Many think/prefer that it is a compiler's job to convert conveniently (Algol-style) written program into AST, even if this reduces the macros capabilities - even Norvig switched to Python long time ago :)
What would be the motivation for Tesla to "snitch" on their customers and kill sales?
There's another reason too; there are strong reasons why the timing of successive code executions should not be linear. Typically the first call to a function will incur the cost of fetching data into a cache. At minimum the basic blocks for the function will be loaded through the l1/l2/l3 pipelines.

2, 3, 4 function calls in a row will benefit from that caching, but also help train the speculative execution engine. At some point that speculation may radically alter performance. Later, with a sufficient number of runs, the timing will also suffer from preemption, context-switches, or other interruptions that can invalidate both the cache and the speculative execution engine.

The idea that there is a fixed performance time for a function is naive on modern hardware.
Renters pay twice, because they pay for the infrastructure that increases the homeowners property value. Its an uneven tax structure for a renter to pay for the bart station that increases the prop value and thus their own rent.
Of course you can, but it is illegal by german law. And german citizens do not like to commit illegal things. ;-)
I went to a large university located in the middle of nowhere. On any given day, only half of the avaliable spots were filled. A parking pass was $300 a semester IIRC.

When parking isnt a limited resource and students are already paying large amounts of money to attend a rural campus that has poor public transit options what then? For me at the time it really just enforced the idea that college is more of a bussiness then it is actually concerned with education
Uh, what kind of companies are using AI to screen candidates?
I think Excel proves this is a lot more possible than often thought.
This article's only value is as a counterexample to the assertion "there are no stupid questions." Not charging (or paying) people at all is not the same as charging them zero, you have to be being deliberately obtuse to pretend that it is.
The PE lines were money losers before before they were bought, and the final shutdown was under the ownership of the predecessor to the MTA.
That’s a lot of assumptions. The point stands that Tesla’s perform just fine in the absence of a network.
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Would it be correct to say your brother is also not the type to network with others easily?

An automated system is the last-line in hiring; recommendations -- internal and external -- are the first-line. If one finds themselves in a position where they're manually submitting cold resumes, it's almost always more productive to start networking into the companies you want to work at, and getting the recommendation firsthand, turning your resume into a hot one.
I was always surprised that Mongo used SeaMonkey for running scripts. Why didn't they pick V8?
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Though trade with China flows both ways, if you look at know-how and production capacity, it only goes one way - towards China.
If you're storing for a longer term, what about a small self-storage unit?
... Not rocket science ... You reduced a complex problem to a simple short term solution. Too many people act like we have infinite land, Earth isn't getting any bigger. There are also consequences to policies that assume you can always build out further and further. By building on more farm land, you might reduce the amount of grown food and produce more chemical food. This leads to obesity. Which means people need more room... etc. Living further from your job means your commute is longer, meaning we need to get more foreign oil.

If America has 2 Billion people in 100 years, building a little further away won't work, it doesn't scale. Cities need to build better cities that allow people to have the space they need and get to the jobs they have. Where they don't need to be commuting 2 hours each way.
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Lisp user here. Scratching my head on this one: What's it build exactly? Why would I use this over, say, Quicklisp? Is this just a Nix thing?

Edit: Also, why do you need to specify all the .lisp files in the build(?) file?
Hope the eu wont come up with ways to make these more expensive than they are, just to protect german carmakers.
If law enforcement should have a monopoly on encrypted communication, why not a monopoly on guns? Cartels with guns are far scarier than cartels with encryption. If we actually had the power to take either away, we would choose guns, right?

So what makes you a staunch supporter of the second amendment? Why does it not apply to encryption? And don’t give a legal answer like “one is protected by the bill of rights and the other isn’t.” I want to hear an ethical reason. The second amendment is about keeping the power to dissent in the hands of the people. Encryption is perfect for that, and as an added bonus it is extremely useful in day to day life. So why are you so content to throw it away, staunch defender of freedom that you claim to be?
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And whistleblowing anonymously is getting more difficult, due to all the surveillance whose downsides are purely theoretical...
yes, which is why building housing and transit has become a nationwide failure
I have a suggestion to solve this issue and the "low-paying customers aren't sticky" issue mentioned in another thread:

Only make the really cheap plans available as annual subscriptions. Charging $3/month isn't very viable, but I bet $36/year is. (Assuming that the costs of providing the service itself permit that.)
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For now, because it still sounds cool and futuristic, but if the whole audience of HN is already rejecting smart devices wholesale, that's a bellwether the industry might want to consider before the attitude percolates out to public at large.
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Another one:

> Police officers and Clearview’s investors predict that its app will eventually be available to the public.
Mr. Ton-That said he was reluctant. “There’s always going to be a community of bad people who will misuse it,” he said.

(...)

> Asked about the implications of bringing such a power into the world, Mr. Ton-That seemed taken aback.
“I have to think about that,” he said. “Our belief is that this is the best use of the technology.”

And then read this:

> Because the police upload photos of people they’re trying to identify, Clearview possesses a growing database of individuals who have attracted attention from law enforcement. The company also has the ability to manipulate the results that the police see. After the company realized I was asking officers to run my photo through the app, my face was flagged by Clearview’s systems and for a while showed no matches. When asked about this, Mr. Ton-That laughed and called it a “software bug.”

Wow. Just wow.
> Every household has to pay a monthly fee even if they dont want to

Even if you don't own any screen or audio devices they still make you pay for it. I always fail to see how this isn't pure theft.
In theory there's no reason it shouldn't be used. CL has OOP, GC, very mature optimizing compilers. It was used in industry a lot as the faster-to-develop alternative to C, but then Java/Python pretty much took over since the dotcom era.

In Java/Python (and now Go), there's generally only one way to do any given thing. A business can hire people who were trained the same way to stamp out idiomatic code. Lisp hackers create works of art that no one else can figure out after they leave.

If you're working on something on your own, or with a small group of people, then you don't have to dumb yourself down. You can always rewrite it later in Java/Python/Go if the project gets big enough that replaceable cogs need to be hired.
To expand it a little bit:

What does "deserve" mean in this slogan? Are people who made a strategic mistake undeserving of fair treatment? This sounds a lot like the con artist's rationale that his victims had it coming because they were stupid.

Also, which liberties are considered essential? What kind of safety are we talking about? If a mugger threatens you maybe you should cooperate? Should people on the losing side of a war always fight to the end? If you think the police are corrupt and you won't get a fair trial, should you allow yourself to be arrested?

I don't believe there is a simple slogan that tells you what to do in all situations.
I guess they are moving towards web standards? (like Vivaldi). I don't think they will ditch XUL in favor of native (C++) tech.
But have you got an onion on your belt tho.
I'd bet that Apple sees it as a loss leader for something else.
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Can you empty that box yourself and reuse it?
Just asking because I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could do this for a similar box in our office copy machine (this one catching waste toner particles) when the machine from one moment to the next stopped working without prior warning and wanted a fresh box.
So the "algorithm" is just... running the code different numbers of times and then using least squares linear regression? Or am I missing something?
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Buying small is the wrong financial decision in a rising real estate market. By taking a giant mortgage and buying more that you could otherwise afford you’re essentially investing on margin. And interest rates are even lower than they seem if you take tax deductions into account. If you buy at the right time & place and property value increase a lot (which has been true in a lot of places the last decade), you get the gains. And as a bonus you get to live in a nicer house that whole time (unlike investing that money elsewhere).
Believe you're thinking about SpiderMonkey. SeaMonkey is an application suite with email, browser, IRC, etc.
While this is true about user data, this is definitely not true in the context of real physical world data.

Getting a picture from the tip of a wind turbine blade is done with a drone in the best case, or a rope access technician in the worst (legacy) case. Analyzing this picture with AI to identify anomalies takes a few seconds. That’s one of my company’s use cases.

In the same way, ask the google maps team about what scales better: flying real airplanes to capture photographic data, or just processing this data to get 3D models...

Edit: typo
> We really need regulation here. Urgently.
>
> The US appears to have been the leader in such regulation in the past. The problem is, they don't do that anymore. They haven't passed any laws related to user rights or privacy in a long time, and are actively trying to make encryption illegal.

This cat is out of the bag. Findface.ru now actively courts law enforcement and other interested parties. The west does not have the monopoly on this.

https://findface.ru/
As a writer on Medium I didn’t know it requires sign in for free content. I plan to move my content to a personally hosted blog but haven’t got to it yet. I also get a lot of views (10k+ mon) with no real effort on my part.
The main thing I use my printer for is printing postage when I send packages. Is that not a thing in the Netherlands?
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