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The world could seriously use some legislation for hardware devices tied to online (dis)services.

Maybe if you can't guarantee that your service stays alive for the lifespan of your hardware product, your product shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Wouldn't moving money effectively make the crisis happen quickly and inevitably many, or maybe most people would simply be unable to move faster than others?
fully agree!

but i push it even further: i'm for electronic cash, but i'm against some american company (visa, mastercard) to know every transaction of mine.

I want public electronic cash. A public, national, non for profit infrastructure that manage cash.
Alice and Bob just need to agree before hand on the proper distribution of 1s:

Alice will set the combination 100 if she was assigned either the first or the second rows, and the 010 if she is assigned the last.

Now Bob knows how to win if he gets first column since 110 will always win, and knows how to win if he gets the last column, because 000 always wins.

When assigned the middle column though, he needs to choose between 101 and 011. He will win if Alice got last row no matter what, but the other two are a toss up.

He’ll get it right half of the time, so he will win for sure if row and column meet at 7/9 squares, and the other two he’ll win half of the time, thus 8/9.
Consumption data (at least in the US) is tracked by two major vendors: Nielsen and IRI. They have all PoS data as it relates to you, and sell that data for $. The store, distributors, and cpg companies themselves all might buy this data.

Usually they sell it aggregated for reporting purposes but that's not to say they can't break it down to get to your granularity.
A good reason not to have facebook on your phone or create a facebook account linked to you cell number.
This is exactly the reason why the Twitter account "internet of shit" was created. Yes I know it's vulgar.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en

But it's worth scrolling through the previous posts by that account to see a myriad of similar "your expensive internet-dependent thing is now useless" scenarios.
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Article makes me want to have lunch with Bjork
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Yup you're right. On initial click it takes you through a bunch of tracking redirects. Subsequent visits don't show that behavior.
Taiwan and Singapore both managed to contain the spread with somewhat less harsh measures which provides evidence that China underreacted.

Containment in Taiwan and Singapore was possible because extensive measures such as strict quarantine, testing and tracing all contacts were implemented pretty much immediately since the first few cases. China delayed reaction for many weeks, so much harsher containment measures were necessary since the outbreak was already widespread; starting the same measures a week or two earlier would have meant much smaller scale of disruption.

On the other hand, if countries refuse to take highly visible measures until there are hundreds of known cases - well, by that time it's far, far too late for a Singapore-like approach to be usful.
The 1 and 2 cents problem can easily be solved by agreeing to stop using them and round all transactions to the nearest. Think we stopped using 1 and 2 cent coins in the Netherlands more than 15 years ago
The thing I like about Oliver Sacks wasn't just his academic achievements - it was how strong he got [1]. A 600lb squat is pretty immense. He truly was a renaissance man.

[1] https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-bodybuilder-olive...
This is abominable, there's literally no reason other than "It costs money to maintain this, and we'd rather make money selling new stuff than support what we already made". I have a v2 bridge, but back when I bought it about 3 1/2 years back, I payed a lot of money for it. It's not an expensive product to manufacture, so I expected that money to go towards supporting it long term. So much for that.
One of many good reasons.
Yes, it was implemented in a series of steps, but the cumulative result of those steps had zero business value and was not something that would ever have been released to customers until the final step was done.
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"This is a summary of the 931 apps and websites that have shared your activity." And "Some of your activity may not appear here." Holy cow!
Sounds bad on initial read, but to me this is a great shortcut for which applications to uninstall.
> It goes to show, Facebook's level of transparency of data isn't good enough.

I'm actually quite (pleasantly) surprised that Facebook provides this information, and somewhat curious why the author is angry at them rather than "Lan Tim 2".
This forced obsolescence is beginning to get out of hand.

I completely understand that running the online portion of this costs money, but that needs factoring in to the business model from the start. I imagine that they didn't think about this when the product first launched in 2012.

I do wonder if a u-turn (similar to the one Sonos has just done) will follow after bad media coverage.
Well - they've done a pretty good job of ensuring that if I get smart lights again, I'm definitely not buying Philips.

This change breaks all the digital assistant integrations ("Hey Google, turn on the lights"), which is pretty much the only reason to have smart lights in the first place. If you can't use voice commands, you might as well just use the wall switches. Who wants to pull out their phone and switch the lights on and off with an app?
As one of those salary workers, I was on campus briefly yesterday. I saw two FTE’s in my building while all the support staff in the cafe we’re still there. I’ve been proud to work there many times in the past ten years, but doubly so with this move. That campus will be so darn sterile and clean, and I hope a fun place to hang without all of us being there.
Cynically I consider the people most interested in surveillance of money to be the tax office. (Note that I'm a believer of paying taxes and not avoiding them, and using taxation to fund public goods, voluntarily living in Norway and all.) The flip side is doing a tax return is very easy as the tax office already knows absolutely everything about your financial situation.
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Your GP knows what other drugs you are on (maybe not in your case) and can tell you about counter-indications when combining them. Could easily save your life.

But go ahead, see a witch doctor and a herbalist and take some random medication you read about in the internet.
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In my experience with enterprise SASS products they mostly use SAML and most companies I work for use it. At the time I was trying to switch to OAuth or OpenID but the support was severely lacking for off the shelf enterprise software, especially older stuff. ForgeRock was also giving the identity management team issues so SAML was the only option.
The ironic thing here is that Sweden already does that. there is no 1c equivalent coin, the smallest denomination of currency is roughly 10c (1SEK) so things already get rounded.
4. The 5 eyes have some evidence that somehow China is reading their communications, and they're scared sick but they can't catch them doing it.
Just like the Hanjin, major container carrier, bankruptcy. Everybody was cought by surprise despite a lot of early warning signs.
Examples to base this discussion on would help.

I'm not a hardcore DB person, but I've designed and modified schemas and queries for quite a few DBs over the years and not once can I recall feeling the need to do an outer join for production code, nor do I recall seeing a hardcore DB person using them (but that might just reflect limited exposure on my part).

On the other hand, I do see LEFT OUTER JOINs a lot in code written by inexperienced people.

Basically, the main use case I have for "dynamically creating" NULLs is quick inspection of data by shoe-horning something with more dimensions into the rows with equal numbers of columns model (CUBE and also OUTER JOIN) – but this is essentially just for display purposes.

From a data modelling perspective outer joins seem quite dodgy to me and an aggregating subquery (such as in the teachers example) is not really conceptually equivalent, even if you can implement them with left joins, and in some DBs such as MySQL they have been traditionally faster. An aggregating subquery is a perfectly conceptually "clean" operation, no ternary logic involved.
>How do you navigate without Maps, Uber, etc.? Do your friends know you won't reply to texts?

It's crazy how everyday reality from 20 years ago is now seen as unimaginable as hermitic living.
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It can literally be any other speaker or amp with an aux port.
As anyone who is, or has, worked in ad-tech would tell you, this is pretty _tame_ in terms of the "offline conversion problem."

When there are $billions$ of dollars at stake for this type of information, you can guarantee there will be many companies attacking this problem.

Therefore, not to be a pessimist, but if you think that 1) using a fake cell number on Facebook is going to help or that 2) there aren't services like Google doing this already, potentially with just as good match rates as Facebook, or 3) that using Firefox + adblock is all you need, then you're going to be constantly plugging holes in a leaking boat.
I want to believe that too! And I'd be delighted to see evidence that it's possible and details of how it can happen.

These one-line drive-by assertions without any details don't inspire confidence.
Stop buying smart home shit.

People warned of exactly this when they started.
This is seriously just a purchase event for a t-shirt that OP got. There is no mysterious Lan Tim 2 its just a random app for a random merchant that uses FB Ads and uses offline conversion / uploads.
The reverse is true, embeddings are both the performance and memory-footprint bottleneck of modern NN models.

Check figure 6. of : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.00091.pdf

Embeddings are used to lookup sparse features, so you have those pesky data-dependent lookups.
I may be misunderstanding your question but I'm a big fan of Denon (or Marantz) receivers w/ HEOS. Their AVR line can support up to 3 zones and can be paired together. I have 11.2 and 9.2 powering 18x speakers and a sub in my house. You can use a single receiver to play music outside by our pool and simultaneously play 5.1 over the living room for sports or movies. It also handles the connection to Spotify (et al) directly so I can take a call or leave the house with my phone and the music will continue to play.
Same here. I stayed at home and worked remotely for one day last week. I've done about 30% of my regular workload. Granted, I was seek and I am in a management position, overseeing 20+ employees, but still.
This meltdown also exposed a bunch of embarrassingly poor engineering / design practices with several fintech startups.

PhonePe, a payment app valued at $7 billion and a subsidiary of Walmart owned Flipkart has been down since this morning since Yes Bank was the only bank they had partnered with since 2016.

A $7 billion dollar company running without failover / redundancy is just crazy.

Google Pay, their competitor on the other hand has atleast 2 banks (HDFC and Axis) it has partnered with.

What's worse is Yes Bank/Phone pe handled around 40% of daily UPI transactions - so millions of folks have been affected by this screw up.
I'm not 100% convinced that direct democracy is a good idea either. It has its own problems, as you point out.

Still, this part:

> if you trust the person and like their policies you vote them in. If they under-perform you vote them out

absolutely doesn't work in practice. One, there's no way to build trust at the scale elections are held. For any given politician, you can have maybe a couple hundred people who know them who could actually trust them. Everything above that requires transitive trust - trusting someone who trusts that politicians. However, in my experience, in the general population, the proper chain of trust isn't happening. People trust media outlets, which they have no basis to trust.

Compounding the problem is that in some countries, you aren't even voting for people, you're voting for parties. At the moment, there is no political party on the planet I would trust to do a good job in governance.

There are a lot of failure modes in the democratic system; it's probably worthy of a dense textbook (and I'm sure someone has written one). The incentive structures, the feedback loops, are all wrong for delivering good decisions. The only redeeming aspect of democracy in my eyes is that it's designed to enable bloodless transition of power. And, while I suppose that this makes it the best system, I'd really love if we could figure out a way to make it stop consistently producing idiocy.
Michael Nielsen's essay, Augmenting Long-term Memory, points to an article from the late 80s which goes through a list of reasons why "Spacing Effect" hasn't implemented been implemented in US's teaching system.

http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Dempster1988.pdf
Airbnb and three other P2P rental platforms agree to share limited pan-EU data
The SLIDE algorithm is not serialized. The only issue is the sparsity.
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>> this change breaks all the digital assistant integrations

Don't know about Google but this is not true for Siri/HomeKit integration, which doesn't use any of the Hue online services.
You can also get the dimmer switches / remotes, I thought about getting some next to my bed because Google Home doesn't seem to work with my (Philips Hue) lights anymore.

I don't think this is related - it just stopped working a few days ago. Not sure why

I'll keep them though as I do have some automation setup - lights turn themselves on and off automatically
Maybe because Facebook doesn't tell you anything past "Lan Tim 2" so how do you know who to be angry with? Who is "Lan Tim 2"? What business or what transaction is behind that entry?
The title is slightly confusing. Note that it is a ((fake Airbnb) owner), not a (fake (Airbnb owner)).
NVidia could add special accelerator instructions to their GPUs to efficiently implement the same algorithms and then they would be significantly ahead of Intel and AMD.
Or maybe they factored in 8 years worth of service?
Yeah, and those gold plated HDMI connectors make the picture just so much, sharper!
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> many of the game developers and designers need special hardware (different game consoles, VPN routers, high speed Internet, interactive pen displays, additional software licenses, etc) that the company would have to buy for every single person to maintain the quality and development speed they have from working on-site.

Buying individuals what they need is likely still cheaper than maintaining a large office space. Likely much cheaper.

> Working from home reduces the creativity of every employee not just because the existing tools for telecommute are insufficient to create a good work environment but also because it prevents people from socializing with spontaneity.

The tools are not insufficient, people's use of them are. The tools will allow you to do most anything you could in an office, management must facilitate processes to produce to desired output. If team creativity is the aim you can organize situations that maximize spontaneity and interaction.

I've not worked for a game studio so I certainly can't speak to the nuances therein, however the reasons you've given here for not working remote aren't compelling. People always give a host of reasons that ultimately boil down to a lack of proper process and management, which is needed in office just as much as out of office.
> If you look at language modeling, then things there are even sparsier - typical neural language model has 1-from-several-hundredths-of-thousands for full language

Most real-world models don't use one-hot encodings of words -- they use embeddings instead, which are very dense vector representations of words. Outside of the fact that embeddings don't blow out GPU memory, they're also semantically encoded, so similar words cluster together.
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Agree with child comment.
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Interesting … it occurs to me that Signal ties everything to phone numbers, and is presumably able to see which phone numbers are communicating with one another (since they route messages between accounts and don't use private information retrieval). I wonder if they resell any of that information.
I think this is roughly accurate and agrees with what the experts at Twiv have been saying.

The next two questions are whether or not it can be contained without the economy-shutting down response we saw in China, and whether the upcoming warmer summer weather will sufficiently lessen community spread (at least in the Northern hemisphere) to allow for some meaningful containment.

...and then, of course, we're hoping for an effective vaccine by summer 2021.
Not much of what you said is actually true. Having it on your local network allows any wireless device to have a huge amounts of ads and trackers blocked automatically. Some sites were unusable on phones before and now they load fast and are readable.

Then there are things like 'smart' tvs sending data back, apps sending all sorts of data out etc. It is quite a game changer.

Also you can do both, but dns blocking for the whole network is always on for everything once you set it up.
Camera! My bloody camera application that came with a phone pushes activity to facebook!

Google Chromecast shares activity with facebook!
I use IntelliJ with IdeaVim plugin, that makes it's editor behave like a vim editor (at least pretty close). It is the best of two worlds: real IDE with a powerful and efficient text editor.

As for learning VIM, it is a complex professional editor, and I personally recommend just reading a book about it.
Hopefully your GP can tell you about counter-indications when combining drugs. There is a lot to stay on top of as so much new research is being done so often. Also, things like pharmacogenetics are often not considered to the extent that they maybe should be. In taking drugs, I'd say do your own research and talk to your GP.
What do you consider to be the defining set of features for an IDE, and what do you think Vim and Emacs are lacking from that list?
This is good news for stocks in 2021.
Any MITM'able protocol should at least keep a record of hashes of the shared secrets used for the connection.

Then, it would be possible after the fact to identify a MITM by checking those logs on both ends of the connection. Services could even exist to do this automatically.

The risk of being caught, even if small, would put most three letter agencies off sniffing this kind of thing.
The thing about Swedish debt is that it's largely local than national:

https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...
> The reverse is true, embeddings are both the performance and memory-footprint bottleneck of modern NN models.

They may be a bottleneck, but the alternative is worse -- you can't fit complex models with large vocabularies into GPU memory using sparse one-hot encodings.
Point is, nobody wants to pay.

> The two offenses are very non-equal and not remotely equatable.

Both sides are pretending to want to be eco-conscious while buying/selling more hardware.

> One is claiming to help the environment while doing something actively detrimental to it

I'd say something neutral to it as they are promoting recycling. Maybe detrimental as encouraging e-waste but all hardware sellers want you to upgrade so e-waste is part of the modern tech industry. How long does a modern smart phone last?

> the other is at most not going for a non-existant hypothetical option which resembled someone trying to sell them the Brooklyn bridge and added sales sleeze.

No, the other is wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Which after much scandal, they did!

> If that caught on without some through and validated accreditation method would rapidly see fly by night "recycling surplus" operations that ran off with the money without any actual recycling.

In the end it was Sonos that did offer a discount, so they couldn't run with any money. It's actually the consumers that decided the deal was not good enough so now they keep the old device and get the money.
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I don't follow this claim. I don't think anyone expects new features to make it to old Sonos devices. What's so hard about running a version of your v1 API indefinitely and occasionally backporting a bugfix or security patch?
Is it hubris for HN to routinely change published titles of articles?
As a regular reader and submitter, I'm always struck by how, on a regular basis, titles published by reputable newspapers, magazines, and — less frequently, but not never — scientific journals are edited and reworded and sometimes completely redone by HN moderators.
All of that is mere sophistry to justify their crimes. It is an addictive toxic meme like "neccessity" as it at best escalates from any actual neccessity to excusing mistakes to whatever is convenient to whatever they /think/ will help even if actively detrimental like torturing for information. This sort of delusion has a long history - often found as societies rail against "decadence" when it is really what they consider virtue which will be their inevitable downfall.

The secret is that information doesn't matter to the evil fools, it is all a pretext for self justification whether consciously or otherwise. In order for the delusional evil to die and stay dead the secret must be widely exposed.
I thought your English was great. Your post is perfectly readable. :)
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Captivating read, a rare glimpse. It's based on a personal diary, but sounds off more like an elegy. It's truly remarkable how Dr. Sacks could remain so actively writing in his final months, maintaining emotional discipline and his genius in face of impending fate.

At the same time the text left a feeling of solitude, not the loneliness kind, but the one devoid of distractions, very much determined and concentrated. Perhaps this is unfair to those last 6 or so years which were marked with his opening up to love and new relationship, and which surely had a great share of joy to them.

Thank you for sharing your genius, Dr. Sacks.
Different techniques don't mean it isn't still natural image matting. I was guessing to give people a starting point on what to look at. Does it reference a paper somewhere? Just saying 'deep learning's doesn't really explain much.
I remember snowshoeing in the Colorado Rockies years ago. It was around -15, with strong wind blowing. But we were at high altitude and the sheer exertion of it was making me sweat after a while, so much that I actually unzipped my coat.
IANAL, but my understanding is:
- lots of allowances are declared by employers in their handbooks in the US.
- unless there are specific union restrictions and/or state provisions, it is probably not illegal
You mean some sort of digital cash? Perhaps settled on a publicly accessible ledger with decentralized infrastructure not relying on any single party? Preferably permissionless to utilize but resilient to attacks and not putting the operators of the infrastructure in a privileged position of power with regards to private information?
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