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> This is the author's failure, not the commenters'.

Putting all the blame on the author is oversimplifying things. Yes the introduction and title could be made better, but that's not an excuse to interpret the post in a way the author obviously didn't intend it to be interpreted.
> The traffic break is usually used to scan the road for debris, or to create an opening for emergency services down the road to stage without having to completely shut the road down. Not typically used for flow management - having driven daily in SD, LA, and the Bay Area, I personally see it maybe once every 4-5 years.

I've seen "traffic breaks" done to catch motorcyclists. Completely stops traffic with hundreds and hundreds of cars just to catch one guy speeding - not really worth it imo. Sometimes it's for debris but see plenty of pulling over too...
There is no evidence that a tree can't be used a ram stick either.
A 2018 court ruling had limited the U.S. government's ability to obtain location data from phone companies, but purchasing commercially available data is a way for them to sidestep the rule. That same year, ICE bought $190,000 worth of licences to data stored by Virginia-based Venntel, who describe themselves as "pioneers in mobile location information."

Experts familiar with the situation say that this is one of the largest troves of bulk data being deployed by law enforcement in the United States. The data had initially been used to track human and drug-smuggling organizations but has since shared the data with ICE's arm that carries out deportations.

Why is this legal? Abusing government funds to get access to location data is the worst of all worlds, for everyone involved.
Great commentary.

The idea that insights on history, society, future and humanity can be obtained by studying existing history and extrapolating it, is called historicism. Unfortunately, we don't actually know whether it works or it's a completely misguided school(s) of thought. It's simply impossible to do any controlled experiment on the history and society.

From time to time, I'll imagine how many of our serious social problems can be completely solved if it's possible to simulate the past and future accurately using a sandbox, allowing hypothesis and policies to be tested. And it's not a new idea in SciFi, for example, Isaac Asimov's Psychohistory is one.
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I’ve toggled the switch before on an iPhone. It’s not a night and day type difference. Feature creep kills it way more than battery throttling.
In Norway we pay three different amounts, sometimes to two separate entities.

I pay the company that supplies the electricity per kilowatt-hour for the energy and the company that owns the local distribution network for the rental of the cables and a per kilowatt-hour fee for transporting the energy.

In my case it is just one company but the energy supplier could be separate from the infrastructure owner.
I can speak from personal experience that NVIDIA GPUs will use bilinear scaling on Windows to display non-native resolutions on displays that don't have built-in scalers. This isn't a rare situation either. As far as I know, every display with a G-SYNC module inherently does not support display-side scaling. Also worth noting, NVIDIA lets you choose whether to use their scaler or the display's scaler.
You're putting words in my mouth. Your examples aren't consistent, either:

> operating a slave-manned factory

This is wrong. Slavery violates the personal liberty of the enslaved

> training volunteers in crafting concealed remotely-detonated explosives

I don't see an issue with this. The information is already available online.
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If this is true (and it sounds sensible to me), then why not just give the vocal minority a way to opt out? This way everybody's happy.
I’m interested in testing, and might contribute to the iOS app.
That reminds me of that old, old joke: "For God's sake, don't tell my mother! She thinks I'm a piano-player in a brothel"
BASIC, arguably. People often say C is 'high level assembly' but in some ways BASIC is closer with the absence of block structure, scopes, etc. Control flow in a BASIC (basic BASIC, not fancy newer BASIC) program ends up looking a lot like that in an assembly one.
This was the basic premise behind the book "Expert political judgement" by Phil Tetlock.
While we wait are there any sites where people actually intelligently discuss this article?

It seems like a 100 year old tech they are trying to optimise. I feel like random optimisations would mean there are no advances to get here.

But it is possible using computer simulations they could do something of value. Have they?
If this letter would have started with, "I stayed at Google for 15 years even though I knew it was unethical. I'm a piece of shit. BUT I'm going to try and redeem myself..." then it would have been much better. Some kind of redemption arc.

The damage has already been done, man. You don't magically earn the moral high-ground for "quitting" after 15 years with an angry letter.
How would you use a new kind of assistant that never says I don’t understand?
Tuck your lower back in. Don't rest your weight on your arms. Try not to let your back muscles fall into disuse by leaning on the chair back. Whatever chair setup helps you achieve these is probably fine.

For me what works well is backless chairs that allow me to angle my thighs downward slightly and tuck my feet underneath me and to the side. Right now I'm on a yoga-ball-chair (basically a yoga ball that does not roll). Previously I sat on a large round ottoman.
Many of the works that are protected by IP law, arguably most of those that are created for commercial purposes, are the product of many people's labor.

The abolition of private property and profit motive renders IP law useless. Unless there's something you're seeing that I'm not.
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40,000 gallons is approximately 150,000 L, while an Olympic pool is in the area of 1,000,000 L.

So around 0.15 Olympic pools — roughly, a football field would fill an Olympic pool in a week.
“Consciousness” is too poorly defined to have a proper discussion about what is required to have it. We can only be somewhat sure about certain things altering or removing consciousness, but even then I’m sure you can have a very long argument about whether or not a dream is a state of consciousness. Or if consciousness is a continuous variable, where perhaps a newborn has less than an adult, or a dog has less than a human.
You can downgrade an iPhone's firmware IFF Apple is still signing that firmware version for your phone model. They don't make it easy to figure this out...but this site shows you what iOS versions are still being signed: https://ipsw.me/

You can see Apple is only signing iOS 7.1.2 for the iPhone 4. For the iPhone X (iPhone10,3) they're signing 13.3.1 and one version below it, iOS 13.3. So you could still downgrade to that.

In practice, if you're currently on the latest version and you update to a new version as soon as it comes out, you can almost always downgrade back to what you just had. But of course, if you wait too long without downgrading and Apple stops signing the old version you want, you'll be stuck with what you got.
Stating what it is for does not change the audience who is here, what they are interested in, and ultimately how they found it and why. Not as many climatology folks here as tech folks. Let's not be obtuse.
Check out http://camtwiststudio.com or maybe http://manycam.com.
Thanks, that’s helpful.

I’d seen reviews that the 2i2 could be noisy (e.g. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/newbie-audio-engineering-pro... ) but the output from your setup seems good. I guess you probably don’t have the gain cranked up that high.

Thanks also for the link to Curtis’s video. I get the impression I’m better off with a good dynamic mic for now. (Using a Rode Podcaster at the moment, which has great rejection of room noise and echo but leaves little control over tonality/gain and really stands out on video since it’s white. My experience with audio software for streaming and other live audio has not been great on macOS – crashes and delay being the main issues – hence why rack-based hardware appeals.)
And the solution was to replace the battery to get your old iPhone fast again, not to buy a new one. Not intuitive for most people.
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It isn't possible. The OS can't install without an Apple-provided key generated from a random nonce created by the phone. Once they stop providing those keys, even if you could restore the OS onto the phone, it won't boot without the ticket.
If you bought a top of the range machine for windows 95 and put windows 98 on it, it would have been slow.
I'm not sure swindling involves negating a battery peak performance issue for users on old hardware. I still use an iPhone 6 and had noticed less crashes with upgrades (loading big apps would often crash it), less now with iOS upgrades. I can disable it if I want, but I prefer not to.

On the flip side, I have friends with Android phones that are 4 years old, and barely usable.
> If there were no shoes (and hence no shoe sponsor money) of any sort, who would pay for the sport?

I assume this means that major , public competitions would diminish in popularity, and fewer people pursuing the sport as a job would choose that sport.

I’m failing to see how either of those is objectively bad, though.
>A large enough corporation is a machine

A machine in which the parts of are made up of humans with 'feelings'. Distilling human beings down to cogs in a machine is bad enough when it comes from executives. This belief that corporations are some kind of non-human machine like entity is part of why the world's so fucked today.

Maybe the world would be a better place if corporations weren't run as inhuman machines with no care or regard to their employees or the world in which they operate.
Agreed, but is it likely? Does any browser implement the even simpler feature "Show a placeholder for images. Tap the placeholder to load the actual image"?
Yeah, its just small drama compared to the real damage Google has caused. Its sort of tone deaf to include that in why Google is unethical. The SV bubble.
Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement
I'm skeptical that there is no thing you would prefer the government to regulate the purchase of for the benefit of the buyers. But if that is actually true, feel free to substitute in "almost everyone."
This made me laugh, because everyone I know does exactly this for the boards off of craigslist.
None of that is true. It's really annoying to see it repeated. It's even been covered on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304188 before.

There are parts of the F-1 engine that would be difficult to exactly replicate because while the engineering specs are known the exact fabrication processes weren't all documented. An exact workalike could be made for those parts that fit the specification without a problem. That new engine would need to be entirely requalified for use.

The F-1 is big and expensive and rebuilding them has long been outside of NASA's budget. If they were going to rebuild the F-1 it would be the same expense and effort to just design an entirely new engine.

This is why, for instance, the SLS is using the SSME as its first stage engines. It's a known system with a long and successful (the engine itself) flight history. It's been iterated upon and is well understood.

The design philosophy of rockets has also changed from the 60s when the Saturn was designed. Solid fuel boosters were not considered useful for Saturn but have been proven since then and have a long flight history. There's also the SpaceX/Soyuz model of an array of smaller/simpler engines. A small number of monster engines is just not needed like it was for Saturn.

The expense of the F-1 and the lack of real need has kept NASA from using them, not some loss of technology. The guidance systems...are a long long solved technology. Modern guidance systems are better than the Apollo and Saturn systems by orders of magnitude. They're far smaller which allows redundancy and still lower weight than old systems.

Since Saturn NASA has launched successful probes to every planet in the solar system and several dwarf-planets, landed several extremely long lived rovers on Mars, launched hundreds of satellites, over a hundred Shuttle missions, and assembled one of the most complex machines ever in orbit.

What's sad is the mistaken belief that Apollo was some pinnacle of capability and technological prowess for NASA.
Yeah.

A choice between telling customers you'll slow down their phones because <technical explanation nobody gives a shit about> and silently making their phones work better in a way that's likely to generate clickbait outrage if it gets out is one between a rock and a hard place. Companies do so much shit behind consumers' backs, and so many hardware vendors drop software support on ridiculously short timelines, that this feels wrong. Very legal and very cool, sure, but just barking up the wrong tree in terms of focus on good outcomes for consumers.
Don't you have any friends? That's what friends are for - to tell you when you're steering the wrong way. Here, all by yourself, you are analyzing your behavior and concluding that you're a narcissist, of all things. Maybe you're a psychotic, a sociopath, an alcoholic, an obsessive-compulsive, a father-raper or a mother-stabber or one other of the thousands of possibilities, but you are making your own (likely unprofessional) diagnosis. Bad idea!

If you have no friends and don't have lots of spare change, then join a group (any type of group, not group therapy): find others with common cause or interest and work from there. Try a bunch: feel free to join and leave until you find something comfortable.

If you have money to throw away, feel free to hire a friend (a "therapist", counselor or psychiatrist). There are plenty willing to take your money. As one psychologist told me, his is a really easy profession: he listens to people, gives them advice if they want it but need not necessarily do so. Nor need he solve any problems (that's up to the patient). It's an easy way to become quite well-off, if only somewhat respected.

I wish I had back all the money and time I gave for psychological counseling when I was young, even w/o interest. I'd be much wealthier and better off.
Conventional boat fuel burns fiercely, too.
And the regulatory office that fined them just made their budget for the year...
This is the perfect example of cutting off one’s nose to spite the face.
I found installing everything to get up and running with this to be effectively impossible; I think using tensorflow 1.15(and therefore requiring everyone to download Python <= 3.6) to have been a mistake. I've tried quite hard to get the environment running but eventually it always fails. A shame, this looked quite interesting.
These visually ableist articles need to be stopped. I have vision problems from an eye injury and I can't read the damn thing because the varying contrast between the pictures of every single sentences is very uncomfortable to read. Light-dark-light-black etc. If you turn off js or use a minimalist browser like netsurf you get the same long scrolling page without the pictures which defeats the articles purpose.

Tech and UX folks need to step back and realize that it's not just a silly design but a discriminatory one at that. Not everyone can enjoy literal flashy articles.
Misinformed opinions like this always make me so angry.
A major industrial power house like Japan or Korea simply has no way of building enough renewable energy sources. It is nonsense.
Yes, except: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality.
I have one simple question for you:

Do you always, without exception, study every single line of terms and conditions of every purchase you make and every service you use until you have completely understood the legal implications of all of them before you actually enter into a contract? Or have you ever agreed to a contract without that level of investigation?
> As part of the agreement, Apple must display a notice on its French-language website for a month. It says Apple "committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission" and had agreed to pay the fine.

I'm not seeing the crime notice on https://www.apple.com/fr/. Where do I go to see this thing?
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It'd be really interesting to know the proportion of Linux users who are now running under a VM for their desktop Linux use.

I have Linux on the three machines I use. But on each it's via a VM. I run Windows and MacOS on the machines. Where I work this is common as well. It's surely pretty prevalent. The other way a lot of people work on Linux where I work is on a VM on AWS.
By the same argument I'll never know if other humans are conscious.
AMD Threadripper Outperforms $20k Enterprise CPUs
...does the "0.6 of a worker" bit remind anyone else of the "Three-Fifths compromise" from American History class?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

Not sure if an intentional dog whistle
I'm working on this dilemma right now in LibreDWG. The problem is not the script to represent the parametric links and expressions, the problem is how to translate the database entries from one system to another.

Both systems are using scripts only, which need an interpreter and are therefore extremely system-specific islands.

Better standards come from SolveSpace and AutoDesk, and the industry formats STEP and IGES.
The problem with AutoDesk is that it's a closed and undocumented format, representing the various links and expressions between entities.
The SolveSpace modeler is much smaller, much more powerful and much easier to use.

Imho needed are converters from the most used tool, AutoCAD, to the other tools, as mentioned, if CSG or B-Rep based, which carry better information than just STEP/IGES.
The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...
Well only the French have the stones to lay out a fine like this.
They can introduce a rule to just limit the cushion height of shoes to a max 1 inch or 25mm, and the problem would be solved.... as it is an easy rule to follow/apply...

Vaproflies have a ridiculous 31-36mm cushion....
Honestly, how many times you damaged your phone with water? In the last 23 years I spilled a bit of water on the phone once and it survived.
Take a photo before you go mate
Still a far-cry even from a proper competition bicycle.
> This belief that corporations are some kind of non-human machine like entity is part of why the world's so fucked today.

What point in history are you arguing was less fucked than it is today?
I was glad when Apple “slowed down” my old iPhone.

It fixed the sudden shut down issue for me that was driving me insane. The shut downs were unpredictable and rendered my phone unusable until it was plugged in to charge.

It would have been better if Apple acknowledged the sudden shut down issue in the first place, rather than rolling out this secret fix.

They denied all knowledge when I took my iPhone 6 in for service, and refused to replace the battery as it was still showing more than 80% of its original capacity.
Recent major iOS updates have been great for performance. Where they’re being let down is in robustness, particularly where cloud syncing is involved.

The iOS updates most notorious for slowing down iPhones were generally slower for a good reason. Most famously, iOS 8 introduced whole-disk encryption and the oldest compatible phones ran like crap.
Fukushima reactor design was terrible. Like legit bad. I wonder if open source nuclear power plants plans are the future.
>or to make sure you're getting work that doesn't touch on the right metrics.

What? The metrics should be distilled from the overall company/org/team goals and mission and if you're working on things that don't align with those of course you're not going to have a good performance review.
... unless referring to the highly customized ads provided by the platform.
And then there are the synopses...
If you're going to call someone misinformed, i think it would only be fair if you cited sources
Nuclear seems like the best hope for humanity, really a shame people are so afraid of it. Although, I guess the fear is justified given how many disasters there have been.
That seems like a myopic perspective for a book focused on software engineering. The creators of Go see the language as a tool of software engineering e.g. a tool of software development over time. It would be in the best interest of your readers to align with the creators and the community. Teaching people to use an unofficial dependency manager whose usage will only continue to decline in lieu of the official one will do a disservice to your readers and will not age well.
A lot of the infrastructure is a variable cost. The system is built/upgraded to support a peak demand, and your contribution toward that peak is variable.

And when things fail, demand can often be blamed.

And if you lump everything into the variable fee, at least you have more incentive to conserve.
open source browsers?
IMO it's not. First of all, I doubt many of the engineers here are actively selling the technology to the oil and gas companies directly, or even working on features that are especially designed for oil and gas companies - if they are, I think they have a little more of a case.

Second of all, the relevant point here is that cloud computing capabilities are by default available to any purchaser, just as encryption is available to any user of products that contain it. From a utilitarian standpoint, I think most would agree that encryption and cloud computing are of overall benefit to the world. One might believe that, from a utilitarian standpoint, it would be better to not provide material assistance to oil and gas companies, since they do result in a lot of damage to the planet (although I personally believe the more effective route is to instead actively favor the development and deployment of renewable energy). But that argument is the same in principle as one favoring restrictions on the use of encryption by child pornographers for utilitarian purposes, to say nothing about restrictions on the use of encryption by enemies of your nation (which was the basic argument by the US government in the 1990s about restricting the use of encryption by non-Americans).
you could increase train frequency during rush hour. One every 5 minute between 7-9am and 4-6pm.
Sorry to hear that! Has tensorflow been your main issue? It is only used in one of the example notebooks, so you can skip that requirement without too much of an impact.

If I can help with troubleshooting, send me an email at mlpoweredapplications@gmail.com

In the meantime I'll bump up the version in requirements.txt to solve the conflict.
There's nothing new about this. My first job back in 1979 came with ratings used to determine raises.

Corporations are rated, as well, on all sorts of numerical metrics.
TRX40 doesn't support LRDIMMs, only UDIMMs.
Also, who really NEEDS 802.11 ac?? If you’re that picky wtf not plug into Ethernet??
and the message was "pay 15 cents"
Servings of beverages in the US are still mostly in imperial measures. A can of soda is 12 ounces; so are most bottles. Beer in restaurants is usually a pint; if not, they'll specify ounces. A Starbucks venti is so called because it's 20 ounces; a tall is defined as 12 ounces. And American recipes still use cups and tablespoons (where the rest of the world has gone almost exclusively to grams, and not volume at all).

The soda industry went to 2 liter bottles back when the country tried to go metric, and it stuck. But most things haven't, including the individual serving sizes. So people never really got the feel for anything smaller than a liter.