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The article doesn't talk about fault - it simply says such events are more likely now that temperatures are higher.

If I do a postmortem at work and conclude that, say, kernel X.Y's page cache makes deadlocks under unusually high load more likely, that doesn't mean that kernel X.Y caused the outage. Something had to provide the high load in the first place. But the kernel was a contributing factor - we could have survived the unusually high load otherwise.
One clarification: The dates specify the date of release, right? I went to the site expecting to hear popular songs from that era/region, but I've never heard of any of the songs it plays.
Being scared of being scared is also a thing. If water got into my loved one's lungs, I wouldn't take a 1-2% risk of them suffocating in their sleep. I only gamble with what I'm willing to lose.
One of the facinating things about this is that simulations show that it "may have been captured by Earth around 2016–2017" [1].

In 2017 we had a visitor from outer space called ʻOumuamua :)

This new object is also about 2-3.5 meters according to wikipedia so I want someone to send a ship to capture this Van Neumann probe [2]!

(Yes I know it's not likely but it is cool to think about)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
Github says the goal is to hide your privacy from customs agents. That's the honorable use of this. But is a tool, and just like any tool can be used for both bad or good things. A scammer or spammer will have use of this faster then a person facing customs agents.
College kids should very well be allowed to offer a lower price for a service that someone else does at a higher price point - the problem is a multi-billion-USD-valued company trying to weasel around laws to profit off of both of them.
Wow! This is one of the most creative, fun website I have seen in years, thank you!
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Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world.
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I look forward to the first test of 1000+ self driving vehicles going through a swerving road, multiple merge, plus toll plaza situation (like merging onto the lower deck of the GW bridge east-bound). If this technology is as good as claimed, it really should put human drivers to shame. Imagine no more traffic jams because of the needless “jockeying for position”, or the drivers who are clueless about the boundaries of their own vehicle. As someone who has been driving for over 30 years, I honestly can’t wait for the day this promise materializes.

Of course, if self driving cars defer (in a predictable manner) in order to prevent collisions, I can easily see how one or two human drivers could reap havoc to their advantage. It would become a new sport.
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My work schedule on one side and the additional effort on the other (coordinating with my wife, changing alarm regularly, matching that with public transport.
That depends on what knowledge you're trying to retain. When I majored in Spanish in college I was extremely efficient compared to my classmates. Whereas most would memorize lists of words and sentences and dedicate tens of hours to it, I would average less than 5 hours of preparation time per exam.
It's like not sleeping for a week and then when your organs start failing and you're deeply depressed and have to sleep for 4 days saying "it's the culture's fault!"

No, it's your fault for thinking you're better than a billion year old process.
It also shouldn't be too difficult to restrict mobile apps to specific folders - so those that need to actually access all photos have to ask so explicitly, while others just ask to store files...
I agree Australia could not have prevented it on their own but given a clear, devestating example of the possible effects of climate change both parties shrug it off.
28 deaths on a population of almost 9 billion, do we really need to put so much resources and energy into such a figure?

This is a philosofical question, not trolling. Given that most if not all of our modern problems stem from overpopulation, do we really need to save all people from bad things happening to them?
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You're correct. But it never says what the base likelihood of a severe even is.

30% higher than a base of 0.01%? 30% higher than a base of 10% probability?

That makes a difference.

Especially if other factors have much higher contributory rates. Like "letting underbrush accumulate increases chances of severe events by 400% YoY".

And it's not a postmortem if you only discuss a single factor. It's an opinion/position piece.
I agree, except in this case it was on Digg.com a week ago. I rather like Digg.
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I'm not entirely clear what point you are making, or what question you are asking.

A conclusion may 'seem obvious' to some people while still being doubted by others. Careful analysis of the evidence allowing us to put credible and defensible numbers to the influence of climate change is important work. This research isn't making a vague claim along the lines of warmer temperatures 'maybe' amplifying the effect of a disease, it's quantitative study putting real numbers on a measurable effect.
Recent versions of Android do have a picker that lets you choose a folder for the app to have access to, but everyone just uses the scattergun "all of it" permission, I think.
No, I really meant what I said. If you see a video that's labeled "60 fps", quite likely it's actually 60/1.001 fps. It applies to the entire 24/30/60/120 range.
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It may not be stylish, but I was very happy when I realised that CTRL+L will clear the screen, decent speed up if you're doing a load of demos and want the cursor at the top of the terminal
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Indeed. Software is a supplement to the physical world. But we do what we can, and at least in the realm of software, we can have freedom.

It's possible Tor and Tails is dangerous software to use in certain states. But if they can safely use it, it's here for them.
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Which fits stylistically with the animated scenes in Vertigo
Sadly they do because security holes or bugs can be found in extensions, and those can affect third-party websites. Project Zero has found many bugs of that sort and getting them patched on users' machines is very important.

If the extensions' permissions are extremely limited the risk profile becomes low, but that makes them far less useful.
I'm in a similar position with my 2018 13" MacBook Pro. I want a working keyboard again and I have no interest in a 16" (13" is the perfect size for me) but that doesn't seem to be possible.

I'm also a little more out of luck because I'm looking at switching over full time to BSD which I've used on-and-off over the years for a desktop and consistently on servers.

Thinkpads seem to consistently be the go-to and currently that's where I'm at, looking at a few different models. Also came across System76 and Purism and haven't totally ruled them out yet but probably won't go with those for different reasons.
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> Letting underbrush accumulate because you have a zero tolerance burn policy is the problem everywhere there's been a severe fire.

Australia doesn't have a zero tolerance burn policy. New South Wales alone burned ("bushfire hazard reduction") 187,041 hectares in the 2018-19 financial year[1].

Your comment comes across as an American who doesn't actually know anything about Australia.

[1]: https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/12989...
This is only a variant of the old "that big group of peoples are much larger than our group, so they need to change first". The others are always larger, so easy to accuse. Total for a country is maybe not the best metric to use. Per person emissions shows much more than total for a group of peoples called a country. Of course the largest polluter both by country and per person need to change the most, but the total pollution is the total of what you, me, and everyone else pollute
My kids (neurotypical) don't just abstract and don't draw like untrained adults. They raw something completely different then what they like to look at. The brain also develops oddly. I guess this also depends on what age we talk about, but before 6 years old they have those typical mistakes where kids basically can figure out square, but can not figure out rotated square.

But mostly, it is not just about primary colors. It is more of preference for bright (primary does not matter) and simple - single color with no shading is better then realistic shading. Two color shading is acceptable, but does not seem to add to experience.
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I think you've created a false narrative where workers have no power to demand wages or benefits. If that were true then Google engineers would be making the legal minimum wage. When you understand why Google engineers don't make minimum wage, you'll understand the flaw in your analysis on wage pricing.
Yes yes, I agree. The way I tackle the threat of detachment from my cards is to aggressively delete cards as soon as I see boredom creeping in. I switched from Anki to Supermemo, though. Much better for managing context and even keeping organized notes that may or may not be used for active recall at some later point.
> Elon Musk's bet is that self-driving cars can just use just cameras, basic radar and ultrasonic sensors with enough compute resources and the right ML algorithms to perform better than a human.

I'm not sure that unsubstantiated claims from Elon Musk are actual evidence that lidar isn't necessary.
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My reaction was "These are all post-rock album covers".

Compare to the real things: https://www.factmag.com/2016/04/20/best-post-rock-albums/
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That's a shame, and although I never set up a LibraryBox, got some very good ideas from the concept. Thanks for the opportunity and inspiration though!

I also ran a PirateBox for a while and recently set up a "sharebox" based on an Onion Omega 2P which worked well. The biggest obstacles I found were that people were generally unwilling to connect to an unsecure wireless access point, even when the SSID was more "benign" than "PirateBox". Also, the struggle to deal with the increasing de-popularisation of HTTP in favour of HTTPS. Android phones also tended to not want to stay connected to devices that "weren't connected to the Internet".

The irony is that with the way the online world's going, the need for LibraryBox and similar devices is going to be greater than ever.
The ability to capture both stars and a daylit scene using the same sensor is pretty hardcore. But yes, there's some fancy processing layer which is far harder to replicate than the optics. Last time I tried if I point a generic (not specialised for the task) camera at the night sky I get blackness but my eyes see stars.
> Turns out, people are legally allowed to drive while being really shitty drivers

The UK actually has a law against this, see "Causing Death by Careless or Inconsiderate Driving (Section 2B of the Road Traffic Act 1988, amended by the Road Safety Act 2006, s. 20)" here: http://www.brake.org.uk/news/15-facts-a-resources/facts/497-...

It means you can be prosecuted for causing a death in a moment of inattention. It's a bad law from both sides: As you can see from the link above it doesn't satisfy the charity (who want stronger penalties), while at the same time being a catch-all law which could catch anyone out who drives, even if they are generally very cautious drivers.

By the way I should add there was already a separate law for causing death by dangerous driving.

One more reason why we need self-driving cars I suppose.
I wonder if it isn't easier to buy a laptop with two drives. Install a regular OS on the first, hide the second in the BIOS and nobody will notice.

The people doing the cloning / data theft would have to know about your particular model. Obviously, you encrypt the second drive, that in itself contains a hidden partition in case they do discover it.
This is also an issue in video game programming, where this lack of consistency causes issues in the implementation of replays or lockstep networking. The core idea of both is to store/share the inputs for each frame, such that the game's state can be derived from them. Even small inconsistencies every frame can explode in size due to the sheer amount of frames.

If you think this article is interesting, you may also be interested in learning about posits.

They are an alternative to floats with better precision near 0, which, the authors claim, makes them superior for things like machine learning. Relevant to this article is the fact that they are defined to be consistent, so if they become popular this will never be an issue again.

Here is an article from the authors of posit which explains its advantages. http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf

Here is a more nuanced look at posits, which explains its disadvantages. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01959581v3/document
A root cause for this is the incredibly unwise decision Google made to allow extensions to request access to All Websites (including https) without even a scary nag warning. The description for that permission kind of understates the danger and because it had no negative impact on installs many extensions requested it that didn't need it.

Worse still, the correct approach - specifically listing pages you need access to - has been broken for ages, such that if you add a new URL your extension will silently break until users go into a popout menu and turn it on manually. This discourages doing the right thing. If you want your extension to keep working you need to request wildcard access from the beginning, because Google's update flow for new permissions is broken by design.

Sadly Mozilla followed in their footsteps and the warning for that permission isn't much better. In my opinion any extension with that permission should be forced into a slower manual review cycle. Google does have the ability to do this - my extension was forced into a slow manual review cycle for a month after a fraudulent DMCA claim - but for some reason they opt not to do it. It would also be very beneficial for them to apply additional controls like requiring use of two-factor authentication and a code-signing key before uploading extensions with those permissions to reduce the risk of malicious code sneaking in. You can't completely safeguard it but manual review + aggressive authentication would help.

As-is, thousands of extensions used on a daily basis have the ability to steal people's gmails (including password reset emails), issue password reset requests, send emails, or manipulate your bitcoin wallet. A well-crafted extension could do this near-invisibly in a way the average user would not understand. Google has taken some steps to mitigate this, but it's taken them far too long and they haven't been aggressive enough.

Security-wise, web extensions are worse than desktop software has been in over a decade. UAC, sudo, the iOS app store - all dramatically more effective at protecting users. With web browsers being used daily by a billion+ people it's really unfortunate that this security blindspot has remained so long.

EDIT: It's kind of sobering to consider AddonJet's promised payout of $2500/day for 100k users. I maintained an extension with roughly 120k weekly actives across the globe for about 3 years and it mostly cost me money. Monetizing that would have covered medical expenses and rent for my family, plus potentially college for my nieces and nephews... oh well.
I sent feedback directly - no response. Told a Mozilla developer here on HN twice. Second time, got downvoted as off topic.

Firefox's current strategy is to manually label a handful of extensions as trustworthy in their marketplace.

The rest as untrustworthy so that when something bad happens they can throw their hands in the air and say, "we warned you?"
Computer vision is a very noisy application. Unless you have some extremely good software filters, that noise will reduce reliability, what in a car may end in disaster. Even humans are fooled by it once in a while.

And even if Google has those extremely good filters, there is an entire different order of magnitude of testing until they can be sure. They are probably jut trying to get something out of the lab by using reliable sensors, and letting optimizations for later.
>> When I majored in Spanish in college I was extremely efficient compared to my classmates.

Did you use spaced rep?
Are there any protection mechanism against that? Something like, even if you are being tortured you cannot provide the access to anyone else?
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Even taking into account the bear market of the last two years, bitcoin still has an average annual return of 350%. To say that all cryptocurrency equates to gambling is just foolish.
She did not wrote "every time bright color is used it is to distract" nor did she wrote anything that would imply that. No part of the article could possibly be interpreted as attack on bright colors.

The word "bright" appears exactly 4 times. In each case bright is property of something that has many different properties and in no mentioned case is bright used for visual differentiation in complex or smart interface.
> Currently extensions either request access for a hardcoded list of websites, or it can request access for all websites. I really want the ability to install an extension for a particular website of _my_ choosing.

Extension can list this permission, and request access to specific website on demand.

Chrome has supported this for a long time, but I'm not sure if Firefox supports this permission or not.
PowerShell is a shell - a program that takes input, does work, and returns output.

Alacritty is a terminal - a container that transports user inputs to programs (like shells) and prints program outputs to the screen. The terminal owns the actual graphical window you interact with.

The default terminal on Windows is the Windows Console. Windows comes with two shells, the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and PowerShell. Both of these run on top of the Windows Console.

There is also a new terminal in development by Microsoft, called the Windows Terminal. It's much more modern due to not having to be backwards compatible.
I had the problem where it felt too time consuming making the cards and I just wanted to start off learning a few cards at a time, so I made my own solution. Its free
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Yes - couldn't resist. :-)
Tesla is using data from the radar to annotate the images from the cameras with distance before running it through the ML training, but for driving it is using a combination of all (stereo vision, ML and radar) to produce the final number.

The human neural network is of course fine tuned to this and my father who is blind on one eye will actually move his head sideways a bit to judge distance when he is driving :)
"it seems that all recent legislation worked against that" is blatantly untrue. The DMCA functions for individuals and Content ID does not, which is part of why big players wanted Content ID: it favors them.

I agree that it's very hard for legislation to fix this problem, but I think people are too eager to claim that legislation is unable to help small players when the situation is far more nuanced. Well-crafted legislation in this area could help a lot, but content filters aren't it.
It drives me nuts when people say that. It's like saying Toyotas are more dangerous than Lamborghinis because look at the fatality numbers!

Yeah, but if Ferruccio himself was cavorting through the streets and giving away Aventadors, the numbers would flip in a hell of a hurry.

Except even the old man himself couldn't give 'em away as fast as this is spreading.
Indeed. Had a fun issue once where a colleague had prematurely optimized an expression to (a * c * e) / (b * d * f), this was in a somewhat hot path hence he wanted to eliminate divisions.

Turned out that in certain cases, the factors were all tiny and so both the numerator and denominator became denormalized and the division returned a NaN, ruining all further computations.

After a lot of debugging trying to find the source of the NaNs and understanding why exactly this happened the solution was quite clear, simply expand it back out: (a/b) * (c/d) * (e/f).

This was because due to the nature of the math being implemented, those ratios would always be roughly around order unity, even though each individual variable could potentially contain a very small number.

This costs us like 0.1% performance, but made the code handle all inputs without issue.
I've done the same job. They pay the employee per mile, an amount that is intended to cover fuel and maintenance for a typical car. The rate they pay is presented to you before you accept the position at the company and if it is not agreeable to you then you don't have to take the job.
Yes :)

Success is more to do with user experience..

If you hit gold and scale you can almost always optimize the implementation later.
I tried to use Anki to study for a tech certification.

In the end, I got a lot more out of doing the research to create the cards than I did from the actually looking at the cards. I might even go so far as to say that after creating the cards, they were practically worthless.

This would be less true if the exam was further from the creation of the cards, though. It was within a month.

Someone else's cards might have helped a little, but not nearly as much.
I'll comb through that document and find it myself if you don't have it offhand, but do you know what section I'll find information about controlled / planned burns? And / or underbrush removal policies?

Strike that, found it after rereading your post
Sharded secrets... you only have one part of a key or keys needed to decrypt some data so even extracting that from you by torture will not suffice. Of course this isn't always practical.
But we are not talking about the DMCA system. We are talking about YouTube's own system that is not DMCA and for which they are not required to provide due process.
Every country has to pull their weight. All of them. No excuses.

You're probably right that events like this weren't avoidable even if drastic measures had been taken a decade ago. Maybe the effects could have been reduced, or the likelihood minimised but not eliminated. That doesn't matter though. What matters is what we do now, that we and politicians take this issue seriously and do what we can to address it.
In the 80's I went to a college's "yard sale" and picked up a HP 9100B programmable calculator; they have core memory. When I plugged it in I remember it starting to run the program it had in it, not missing a beat. I still have it, maybe it's time to see if it still works.