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I didn't downvote your parent comment, but I was preparing to send you a couple of links that educate you about what hearsay actually is, like https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_801, https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_802, and https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/hearsay-evid... to correct what you mistakenly think hearsay is.

In this case, Mattis is a witness and would be called to testify under oath, under penalty of perjury and subject to cross examination, about statements the president made to him. The president or other witnesses could dispute that, also under oath and subject to perjury charges/cross examination. If they conflict, as they often do, the judge or jury as the case may be decides the case on the merits.

It would be hearsay if they called the biographer and asked him about Mattis's statement.

Furthermore, hearsay is admissible evidence in a number of exceptions that are described in the links I gave you (including excited utterances or statements against interest which may apply here)
The last four digits of your physical credit card number are stored by Apple Pay for the purposes of account identification.

There are varying reports of people seeing unfamiliar (i.e. device) numbers and their card number on receipts. I've no knowledge about exactly why there's no consistency, but my suspicion is that Apple Pay sends these four digits as metadata during the contactless transaction. Older contactless terminals would ignore it and naively print four digits of the account number, whereas newer terminals might recognise that metadata and print that on the receipt instead.

It's also possible that the physical card's last four digits are being sent back to the terminal by the network.
This is how you undermine employee loyalty to the point where they start stealing.
Assad. Iran. Russia. Hezbollah. Those are the perpetrators of genocide in Syria. 500k+ have been killed, 13 million displaced. Additionally, ISIS was invited into Syria by Assad (details in the Syria thread below) to muddy the waters and make things "complicated" as you describe, but also to add another party to murder Syrian Arabs. That is not a reductionist description, that is reality, just like the following statement: Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust.

There is no danger in calling a genocide a genocide. The danger is, in fact, in not doing so. The people should know the truth. Global cooperation and reaction will follow. "It's complicated" doesn't cut it. In fact, Russian and Iranian bots have spread mass confusion and disbelief on Facebook specifically so that the constituents of developed nations don't get emotionally moved regarding the genocide in Syria.

That is not to say the Russian or Iranian people support what their dictatorships are doing. I wish the best for those peoples.
Exactly. All's fair in love and war... Provided you play by our rules, is what the companies are espousing.

Going out to plunder foreign countries for cheap labour and materials and then complaining when they begin to 'return the favour' so to speak, is just being woefully ignorant.
> We literally don’t know the oldest word(s) for “bear” as a result of this sort of practice.

Your link doesn't support this. Latin and Greek are supposed to have preserved the Indo-European word; e.g. Spanish oso today descends directly from the word you're referring to.

Of course we don't know the oldest word(s) for anything, because the information is lost over time. Proto-Indo-European is as far back as we can reconstruct, but it's not like the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans couldn't speak.
> I am not convinced China would not respond in kind.

Indeed. In diplomatic retaliation, China responded to the Huawei CFO's arrest in Canada by quickly arresting two Canadians on charges without evidence or explanation. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. These Canadians have been in Chinese detention for over a year without access to a lawyer or the ability to speak to family or loved ones. Canadian pawns in a USA-China game.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6410460/michael-kovrig-china-cana...
> I have a family to finish raising, so yes, I'm powerless to change my circumstances.

Where do you live that changing teams or changing employers can’t be done until you raise a family? No offense, but in every case I’ve heard someone use that explanation, it’s just been an excuse to avoid the effort of change.
Apple really broke the stores with their reengineering process.

The store in my area is too small, always packed and too noisy. The employees are really good and make the experience bearable, but they really converted an awesome, friendly retail experience and made it stressful and inefficient.

The people who design the non-flagship stores don’t spend much time in them.
Dummy... this very site is called NEWS. The comments you are submitting are social media.
I've noticed some of this lately - in a significant fraction of cases, it comes from Firefox honoring X-FRAME- OPTIONS while chrome ignores them, so e.g. payments work on chrome on sites that don't work on FF.
> I don’t really care about letting go of people.

This really does seem like a common thread among us who were uprooted and move around during elementary and middle school.
You are right about battery issues with RPi.

I was planning to have a way to disable the RPi and have it just act as a basic bluetooth keyboard so I can save battery when I'm not using Plover.
It's clearly ahead in some respect and behind in others. Particularly ahead in 5G where it's the clear world leader, behind in video recording though. The P30's EIS is seriously garbage compared to iPhone.
Creative methods are not always the most effective.
Imagine a GPT2-like algorithm trained on all the world's music. It could then generate practically any style and probably quite creatively.

Then fine-tune it on a particular artist's style. It will then mimic that artist. Depending how strongly you fine tune it, you can bias more strongly towards the target artist or towards general music.

You could then generate music in the same general style as an artist but taking any amount of inspiration from the rest of the world of music. I imagine with enough data and the right algorithms it would work very well and sound fantastic.

The same applies to visual works which I'm sure the reader is familiar with.

Just remember the algorithms we have today are the starting point not the ending point.
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I was an engineer in Google Books in 2011 and got an impression that this effort turned out to be not as useful as expected. This took away energy from the legal fight. Having access to every printed book seemed amazing in principle, but it didn't translate to amazing demand for the service. My theory is that it didn't lower the barriers to knowledge much -- there's not that much useful information left in offline-only storage.
Yes, he's famously risk averse when it comes about talking things he's not familiar with. Like the tech sector.
It happened to me three times, once in middle school. The final time it happened to me was just before high school. I never quite felt like I managed to settle in to a group of friends in high school. It felt like I was "new" the whole time I was there. The trouble was that everyone else knew each other from middle and elementary school. I did start over with friends at my university but those people ended up being nowhere near me after we graduated. From what I can tell a lot of people never really left their friends from high school and kind of remain with these people through life but I don't really have any so I just have felt lacking for so long and wished I had that. But on the other hand I know it's not impossible to find new groups of friends.

I would definitely say the moves were very difficult. Leaving the old and the shock of not knowing anyone at a new school had a deep effect on me.
It still is. It's not quite the glory days of the alt.binaries.*, though.

Now people share using nzb files, which means the actual posts on USENET are often just title-less binary blobs, impossible to know what they even are without the nzb files, which are often shared via private or semi-private websites or other channels.
The entire social community on this site revolves around making ycombinator money and using and creating human connections and personal interactions for them to make money.

Anyone who would debate that for anything other than sport is delusional.
It seems like Adam Savage legitimately enjoys this type of project and I think getting to make a neat video about it might be an auxiliary benefit for him.

Either way, I enjoyed the video. What would you prefer he do with the Spot?
I've posted this on HN before, NHK 'raised' one dead singer who sang a new song for this year's New Years special using similar tech:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/10/films/nhk-ra...

It's starting!
I didn't get that from the article.
Yes, sadly so. I worked as a vendor to a retail company. Every time I went to their office (which was attached to one of their facilities that held product) I had to undergo a bag check. I never had to do the bag check if I went to an office that wasn’t attached to a location with product in it.
That’s surprising, if only because I’m not sure how you could steal more than $10 worth of stuff without a full garbage bag.

Didn’t seem to help them. They filed for bankruptcy.
I made a generic, non-specific comment about people using religion to manipulate and swindle a few weeks ago. As expected it got -4 because it had too many trigger words for the snowflakes. Then it was flagged into oblivion. I don't mind harsh downvote even when unmerited. What shouldn't be allowed is groupthink as an excuse for completely erasing non-incendiary discourse.
Ah, I took this quiz on my iPhone, luckily my pihole caught the trackers. I have a pretty extensive hosts list I use with the PiHole (full story included): https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/
Using famous actors for promotions after they die is already a business[0].

But why bother with living musicians or their estates at all? Use deepfake technology to generate a physical persona, and AI to generate a voice and style, all unique enough to be legally distinct and copyrightable, and fully owned by a company. Live performances can even be done via hologram.

I can easily imagine a future where most creative media, including movies, is entirely or almost entirely AI generated. Certainly, actors and performers won't be real people.

[0]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/539a5z/hollywoods-post-bi...
Apple has always had a metric ton of accessories ... so I would posit their SKU count is actually not that different than before. Technology is also greatly improved -- runner is accessible via an iPhone/iPad and that is also integrated with payments and whatnot. Previously it was a hodge podge of Windows CE devices.

I would imagine store operations are vastly more efficient than they were when I worked there -- so I am more surprised that this got worse rather than better.
It absolutely is but it’s not sufficient if both sides have credible witnesses. All we have now is an unverified claim in a biography. I am not arguing that Trump didn’t say it, he may have. We just shouldn’t rush to judgement on anything like this regardless of who is President. Let the court do it’s job.
That's pretty cool. Our team is currently working on making an addons marketplace for our service. I'd love to read some lessons learned about how you made it easy for devs to make apps, publish them, what they wanted, what hurdles and shortcuts you ran into while making the marketplace.
I used to work in stadium tech and you were searched when leaving the Cowboys stadium more thoroughly than when entering.
> "Huawei is alleged to have stolen source code for Company 1’s routers, which it then used in its own products."

I've never really understood how IP theft works. I've been a software engineer for a long time and I know that Reading and making sense of an existing million line code base is a hella of a lot harder than just writing new code from scratch. Why on earth would anyone want to steal source code from a competitor?
> Most librarians would agree with you that the current situation is terrible, and if you look at library literature they've generally felt that way from the beginning.

I know! I’m a former librarian who has worked with a lot of “big players” on the institutional and software side of things.

> They are highly constrained by copyright law.

Here’s where I disagree with you: they’re largely constrained by the kind of administrative bloat that has permeated all of academia, which has no technical expertise and prefers corporate solutions or managing large-scale, dead-end projects for resume padding. I was on the receiving end of this so many times I left the field.

> re: microfiche, it lasts much longer than digital scans -- if kept in good conditions it has a usable half-life on the scale of >100 years, while digital files need much more active maintenance to both prevent bit-rot and to ensure the file-type is still readable (eg countless file formats have been abandoned and are only currently accessible via emulators of older machines).

True on the digital files part, not so much on the microfiche/ film which proved in many cases to be of poor durability and prone to data loss. But my comment was more about how it’s adoption caused libraries to destroy huge parts of their collections with little recourse once microfiche/film proved to not live up to its marketing claims or in cases where it was poorly implemented. I recommend Nicholson Baker’s “Double Fold” for a good account of all of this.
GUI toolkits certainly allow for containers to act on events before their children. For example sendEvent: and hitTest: in Cocoa.

The web's event handling is comparatively clumsy. It is cast in terms of "listeners" which are unable to directly control the event routing. Instead it exposes fixed, ad-hoc levers: stopPropagation, stopImmediatePropagation, preventDefault, etc. And because there's no good place to put these methods, they have to go on the event itself, which means that events are mutable (!).
do you have a sample app / repo to illustrate ? You can use repl.it to host
I like to give humanity the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

I’m not sure if that’s right, but I’d certainly rather not let it taint my appreciation of music.

I don’t think it will stop people from creating either.

But you might, unfortunately, be onto something with regard to the market. Maybe less because of what people appreciate, and more because the suits will pursue the lowest common denominator with the highest revenue potential.
And probably 9nly in California, too.
sounds like infosec control freaks trampling civil right to self-development as if their voluntary submission to work related "need to know" practices extend to the public at large who did not sign the contracts they did...

whereas in the past people fought to get their skills recognized, soon people will fight for skill privacy
Exactly this. I don't live in North America so perhaps there's different expectations there, but I'd be more worried about staff cohesion and loyalty than of occasional thefts.

How should any employee take a company's concern about theft seriously when the same company is so brazenly committing theft of an employee's time?
I wonder, do these security guards get searched at the end of their shifts?
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> I do wonder if this scheme was introduced to monetize users

Probably. As a shareholder I get it. The site needs to make money so it can keep providing the service it provides. And ads are the best way to do that.

I also get it from a development standpoint. It takes effort to maintain a frontend, and maintaining two of them takes twice as much effort. With limited resources, I can see why it makes sense to focus on the mobile interface and let the web interface fall by the wayside.

I'm not entirely sure I'd have made a different decision if I still worked there. I don't know enough about the internal structure or costs or revenue to say for sure.

I can say that I know the people in charge, and they are good people, and if this is the choice they made, it was probably for good reason.
> We are becoming. Only by getting there can we know what it is. But it sure is one-of-a-kind.

I have been having a bit of a rough month, one of those obdectively good on the outside view but subjectively on the inside full of self-doubt and existential angst.

This just yanked me out of that headspace, for a few moments at least.

Thank you :)
The irony of this comment is that this intellectual property theft is what America did in the 1700-1800s to get ahead.

And America eventually eclipsed the British that they were stealing from, so don't expect China to be "punished" too much.
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There is a great danger with convincing Americans that “they are bad and we are good” is justification enough to invade, kill, or otherwise bring destruction on another nation. Such simplistic reasoning allows those in power to do whatever they wish to other nations provided they can paint that nation as the bad guy.

I do not in any way support Assad. I also don’t fully understand what is going on there and what the various actors desire. But I do know that just saying Assad is evil is not enough to justify military action.

Overall though, your point here supports my view. It is hopeless at present to expect an informed populace. We are not psychologically prepared as a species to resist sustained, subtle propaganda and said propaganda is far too easy to do nowadays. Hence, I’m content to bury my head in the sand.
In life, society and politics, most things aren’t strictly immutable or mutable in a binary way though. What may be impossible for a single person to change, may still be subject to collective action - and collective action arises from the cumulative pressures, tensions and frustrations of many individuals. If all those individuals avoid information that could evoke these pressures, that collective action will never come into existence.
Turns out it's a lot of work haha but the payoff is, in my opinion, huge - and Grapl does the hard work for you.
> I guess I just disagree that the behaviour required to gain a karma cushion is "good", or "better" than the behaviour that stagnates or moderately shrinks karma.

It seems like you think that upvotes are not being used to identify posts that add value, but simply as a signal of agreement with groupthink. Am I reading that right?

Also, do you think that downvotes are similarly misused? (I.e., to slap down controversial but value-add posts?)

My own experience is that the posts of mine that have gotten lots of upvotes have been thoughtful ones, not simple "party line" ones, and the posts of mine that have gotten downvotes have been thoughtful ones as well--just thoughtful ones that the majority disagreed with but didn't have any good refutations of. But my experience might not be typical. It is certainly more plausible on its face that both upvotes and downvotes would be misused, than that downvotes would be misused but upvotes would not.
Grinding up babies into a fine powder might be profitable too, just another business decision,provided they can get away with it.
It isn't, it isn't. Hearsay is testimony about a declarant's statement outside of court. If Bob confesses to Jane that he killed someone, and Jane is called in a witness in the criminal trial, that's not hearsay. It's hearsay if Jack is called because he heard Jane say Bob told her about the murder.

It's meant to prevent gossip as evidence.
You're being sloppy enough that this is frustrating and also uninteresting, so I am not going to continue.
Effective Problem Identification and then Requirements Capture.

Few do it well, a poor start almost guarantees a poor outcome regardless of the quality of the team.
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Do you know of such a tax? There are two types of freshly invented currencies:

1. Currency invented where there were just raw materials before. ("Conceptual invention")

2. Currency invented to replace or exist alongside other already-known currency.

In case 1, I believe the currency is generally an object that was already valuable, and therefore doesn't need support. Coins were usually able to trade a little above their value as measured in raw material because of the nominal standardization they provided.

Case 2 is not at all rare, and there are even cases of states deciding to make coins from a worthless material (iron) for ideological reasons. Everyone can have iron.

This seems like an ideal case for propping up the (otherwise too low to bother with) value of the ideological coins, but I'm not really up on the history of this kind of thing. I know the iron-coin states were often economic failures (e.g. Sparta). I know there were a lot of difficulties with paper money in China, but I don't know the details.
While I hear your reasoning, and parts of it make total sense, it is explicitly illegal to discriminate against someone due to their citizenship (yes, citizenship as well, not just national origin or anything like that) during the recruitment process (exceptions apply, i.e., if they are in the US illegally or if the position requires some sort of security clearance).

Imo the only way it would work is if there was a separate law passed that addresses hiring workers who have Chinese citizenship specifically (with no US citizenship at the same time, obviously, as dual nationals are a thing), but that would never happen unless the situation escalated dramatically way beyond what it is now.
Heritage Auctions is having floor bidding on March 6, which is where the value will really be decided. But a copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $100,000 last year. This thing is going to go for a lot more.

Just browse Twitter if you need sources for public opinion. Expectations are very high:

https://twitter.com/search?q=nintendo%20playstation&src=type...
"Judge sides with side A" is to my recollection pretty standard terminology in legal reporting. Interesting that they felt the need to change it.
Short form, Reuters and AP. PBS NewsHour is excellent if you prefer an audiovisual presentation.

Personally, I find all of that to be too much of a firehouse, and prefer longer form reads.

For those, I’d recommend subscribing to physical copies of magazines (or digital copies of the physical copies).

Something about the pieces of paper or emails in my inbox beckons me to read. Some magazines (New Yorker, Economist, even WIRED) have first rate long form journalism.

They’ll usually have at least one substantial article that’s deeply or tangentially related to current news blurbs, so you stay “in the loop”.

Magazines are nice because they seem to respect the reader’s autonomy and intellectual curiosity, by avoiding tantrums, outrage, and diatribes, and focusing instead on nuance and themes. It’s a more literary way of digesting current events than twitter or what have you, and it can even be relaxing!
The sad thing is, this could all be solved with Apple providing their employees lockers located outside of the security perimeter.
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thanx. the comments are entertaining - full of AS3 apologists. I wonder where are they now? probably writing javscript and posting videos on ig.
See the adweek article that was linked in OP's article, it has more details. The AI part was only lyrics, melodies, and percussion arrangements; not actually the production itself.
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Note how all comments citing US industrial espionage fail to mention that the young U.S. was at war with Great Britain from 1776-83 and again in 1812 when the Brits burned much of Washington, D.C. is the contemporary parallel that China is now asserting they are at war with the U.S. and therefore can appropriate technology at will?
> You would steal from your employees too?

if the benefit > risk/cost then absolutely.