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> One way I've conceptualized comedy, especially satire, is as a kind of soft cultural version of Karl Popper's falsification principle.

Interesting. Can you elaborate a bit more?

Do you mean that it’s demystifying and/or cathartic in some way?
This truly is amazing.

I've noticed that GPU does help a lot with inference.
It would be nice if it were easier to make projects like these mobile.

Google and Apple have SDKs for running nets on phones, but its a shame its so hard to do things like this on the Raspberry pi...
Could it be a reference to the SURF feature detector? I thought that was for images though
"Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the overlay network setup problem one that has problems at almost every level of the stack?"

It works for me and has worked for others. The keyword here that distinguishes this idea from almost every other "peer-to-peer overlay network" project that you can read about is "small". If you limit the size of the network, you can avoid some problems. Most projects you read about aim at the ability to create a single, large network that potentially everyone can join. Open to the public. However using a different approach it is possible to create only small networks that are only open to people you know, e.g., friends, family, co-workers. There are still problems, but there are always going to be some problems. The internet you are using right now has problems. The question is does it work well enough. The small overlay network idea has worked well enough for me that I consider it one of the better ones.
It is really impossible to debate these ideas on the internet. Opinions are strong and negativity is even stronger. If you want an answer you need to try things out yourself and draw your own conslusions. No peer-to-peer solution is "perfect" and if you are always looking for the solution with zero negatives and zero limitations, you will never find it. Worse is if you never actually try these solutions, you just read about them. After you try many of them and learn what you like and do not like about the design/implementation, it is easier to chose one idea that works for your use case. Everytime someone starts promoting a peer-to-peer project you can quickly evaluate it, based on what types of designs/implementations have worked for you and which ones didn't. Well, that's my opinion, anyway.
Congratulations!!
I started a ST-80 on my TRS-80 w/an external gfx board in Z-80 asm, then tried to continue on my first PC in C, swapping floppies for each C compiler pass while temp files went to a RAM drive -- between the pitiful state of the "dev environment" and the difficultly in getting the ST VM image in the correct "magic" state for startup (and my inexperience) I never finished the thing. (I should have gone more the route of "A Little Smalltalk".)
The experience makes me appreciate your work and the orig. impl. even more!
This is true even for enterprise sales. Hello "contact us for pricing"!
> Ultimately, Butterfield thinks Microsoft is trying to force the Teams comparison because “Microsoft benefits from the narrative that Teams is very competitive with Slack. Even though the reality is it’s principally a voice and video calling service.”

Is the CEO of Slack confusing Teams with Skype or something?

The first time I saw Teams (which was years ago when it was much more rough than today) the first thing I thought was “Slack clone.”

I don’t believe for a second that the Slack CEO believes this delusion.
> Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning.

I have a hard time believing foreign state hackers are using "script kiddie" tactics. But that's just me.
Hidden price increase. Just making your cereal package smaller and charging you no less.
It's no longer the case only because some companies understood what piracy offered and adapted (note that the most reactionary parts of the industry fought back even against this -- they thought every one of these services encouraged piracy. The movie industry is noticeably backwards, which is hilarious when they themselves thrived thanks to breaking laws. But let's not digress). A lot of game devs I know (some semi-well known) cut their teeth with pirated games. I wonder how many will openly admit it.

DRM is still a step backwards. I like law-enforced laws ( :) ) because if they overstep I can ignore them. DRM/tech enforced laws often overstep, and it's harder to ignore them, and it's ultimately my business what I do with the stuff I bought. I can share paper books, and I can damn share digital books I bought if I so want. When did we let this nonsense of DRM happen?
Also the Boston Tea Party wasn’t anticorporate. It was against the tea tax to be paid to the government of England. “No taxation without representation”. It was anti government without representation.
In the case of Unity, why do you need Linux crossover? I can see also having a Unity development setup in bare-metal Linux if you plan to target Linux gaming, but WSL currently doesn't give you graphics.

The game development scenario feels to me like a case where a Windows based toolchain is going to be more coherent. I might be missing something though.
> confirmed that lockdown was not necessary for the stated purpose of “flattening the curve” of infection to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system.

I'm not big on mathematical models based on incomplete testing data, but overall I agree with the article.

The lockdown started as "flattening the curve" for ventilator use, then general hospital staffing/PPE, then "until we test and trace all Americans", which was never going to happen with the US' lack of preparation and general lateness.

Antibody tests for Covid-19 wrong half the time, CDC says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/health/antibody-tests-cdc-cor...

What is the point of testing when it's wrong 50% of the time, and when somebody can contract it the day after the test at the grocery store? None.

At this point the lockdown is just a pissing contest between politicians to see who is "tougher on corona" for the next election.

Unfortunately the governor of California, the most influential state, plans to run for the White House, so maximum politics is involved, not leadership. The SF Bay area doesn't appear to have a corona problem at all, with corona hospital admissions flat for months:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...

Although Americans cannot do testing and tracing on 300 million people, they can do that for nursing homes. That would be the basis for a workable plan, instead of the bogus slidedeck that Newsom released with no dates or actionable items.

How South Korea (and HK) avoided nursing home deaths

https://sports.yahoo.com/south-korea-avoids-care-home-deaths...
In theory, anything you'd like without fussing around with bank accounts. In practice, my local head shop has a bit coin ATM. That's about the only legitimate place I've seen that accepts bitcoin.

The biggest problem imo is that its unrooted, its value is purely speculative. At least the USD has the petrodollar system to keep it in check.
"No one left in the newsroom."
Related: This car was driven for Melissa Villaseñor's episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDg4cDMw_E4

[2] https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-1991-nissan-figaro-...
>IMHO removing them is helping Trump cover up what an unstable ass he is

More importantly, doing so would help the American people ignore what an unstable ass he is, and ignore their own complicity in electing him and giving him the world's biggest bully pulpit.

Americans need to be reminded of the consequences of their actions day after day after humiliating day, to have their noses rubbed into it like a dog that need to be housebroken, and then maybe they'll learn.
It does literally call itself 'master class' - a class with a master - so it's pretty upfront about this.
That’s a very good point. One line of thinking I’m interested in is social networking over email.

Everyone has email, so you could imagine a social networking app that’s just a thin layer over your email, and every interaction is encoded as an email being sent under the hood. Want to share a picture with your friends? Send an email. Someone wants to comment on it? They just send an email. Etc.

The main purpose of the app would be to offer a nice, device responsive, consistent presentation. Additionally if this were an open, documented standard, an entire ecosystem of “email apps” could emerge.

(Of course as far as your actual email account goes you’d want to auto archive the emails + not get notifications for them, but that’s easily configurable)
And if that is the case, then you have people taking both sides of the argument over a long period of time.... Pro economic freedom vs limits to economic power.

It isn’t well recognized. It’s just a debate/fight people have been having for awhile.
You can choose what blocklists you use and whitelist individual domains, so you can make it not block the t.co links.
At Baitblock (https://baitblock.app), we're working on something similar. It's called the Intelligent Blocker, and has the same intended goal as your user agent 'AI' (not yet open to general public, under development right now). With it you will be able to block all Facebook posts that are for example say not from your family, or not of a specific type or from specific person.

Or comments on different Internet forums that are blatantly spammy/SEO gaming etc.

Or block authors in search results or Twitter feed or any comment that you don't like. Basically the Zapier of content filtering.

This will be available to the user as a subscription service.

Some of these thigs are not possible on mobile platforms (Android, iOS) unfortunately because the OS do not allow such access, but we hope that Android and iOS in the future open up to allow external curation systems, apart from the app platform it's self as it's in the interest of the user.
IMHO if you came up with a workable solution, Google would buy you out in an instant.

Scalable reliable content moderation is one of the next major breakthroughs waiting to be solved. And it's not just Google it's everyone.
You have to embed deep within startup communities and develop your instinct. Otherwise you're going in blind. You basically have to think like a VC and evaluate opportunity, team, trajectory, product, etc. It's more of an art than a science.
I believe you can whitelist certain domains. That might be a solution if that was the only thing which wasn’t working for your needs.
> Unfortunately, people like Elon Musk are hell bent on horrible UI/UX depicted in their favorite sci-fi movies and shoehorning it into Space craft (dragon capsule has all touch screen interface with literally no buttons). Elon's vision about UI/UX is misguided through movies, it is embarrassing.

My, just today there was a piece about SpaceX I watched on the noon news and I noticed that as well. I was amazed, I refused to believe it was true until I looked it up. How could anyone possible think about touch-only interfaces and sci-fi aesthetics in such a critical piece of equipment. It's already preposterous (and dangerous) that they do it on cars, but in a space-ship! that's another level.
There not much point in having a famous practicioner teach the class if you're a beginner. Masters have littler reason to be great teachers, so the reason to learn directly from them is if you're so proficient that normal teachers can't teach you much.

It's clear in this case that the reason they have famous people is because of the celebrity value.
Responses have to be ranked, because some comments are much more valuable to the reader than others. Well-thought-out comments and spam lie at the extreme ends of the spectrum.

I think there's merit to the idea of requiring a response for upvotes or downvotes, but how can you tell whether a response is "genuine"? It sounds like it'd devolve into people leaving vacuous replies just to clear that prerequisite.
>It's just utter self serving hypocrisy.

I would say your post is reality-denial.

His experience was shit, total shit. Knowing his experience, I would avoid the site he chose like the plague. But now, let me ask you this, should I test each and every ebook retailer to try to find one that isn't shit, paying every time?

Should customers start maintaining their own index of which ebook providers are shit? Who pays to have someone go back and check them all once a week to see if they've changed their behavior since the last $7 purchase to check their DRM practices? Should customers pay a monthly subscription to some kind of digital mystery shopper service to find out who's webstores are just the fucking worst?

Your customers have _no_ reasonable path to control over shitty DRM practices. The only person in this entire conversation who has influence is Turukawa, because Turukawa is an author, and gets to choose who sells his books.

Bad news everyone: piracy exists, and provides a pretty great user flow. If authors want people to not pirate ebooks, they need to demand a not shit ebook option that /has a strong brand of being not shit/. Yeah, short term that might be really hard. Maybe authors need to form some kind of union and demand better from their publishers.

Because customers don't care. You can rant and rave about how they're immoral subhumans stealing from the mouths of authors children all you want, but piracy still exists and it's a much easier way of getting high quality ebooks that work on all platforms and devices. It's not the customers fault that zlib has a better reputation than your ebook retail partners, nor is it zlibs.
Fast.co – security loopholes – hacked as fast as creation 1/3
Following open questions to be asked team members, founders, clients and others using the Fast.co product. Anyone who can share some insight into the following would be great. Disclosure - first asked on Fast.co forum where their team members removed this post and said they work on a new system which is more secure than current system. We shall see when it launches, but these questions still remain open and valid.

1. What kind of security audits have you done to secure the data and credentials of your customers ? Have you already done the necessary certifications and compliances needed to process all this data and keep it secure so merchants and customers can trust Fast? Ex. ISO/IEC 27001 or SOX compliance is completed already at Fast?
2. Are you aware hacked versions of Fast are being sold on the dark web for as low as 50$. With all the new fintech companies like Neo banks and challenger banks - their KYC completed accounts go from anywhere between 200$ - 5000$ on the dark web. Used for all kinds of illicit trades and activities. Now Fast has also started appearing on those forums. Do you have internal security teams monitoring this kind of hacking and unauthorised uses ? Like a classic red team - blue team security team setup identifying and mitigating all attack vectors?
This is upside-down, I'm afraid. The problem is not that it is oppressive to tell people they shouldn't cry at work, though I suppose that is true. The problem is that the work (really- the stress, the social dynamics, the pressure cooker of the corporate workplace) is making people cry.

For all the talk of privilege and oppression, the author can't make that connection. It's a shame.
> We can’t ask you to trust us more than yourself

They can't, but it might make sense to do so anyway.

I always explain this when it comes to running your own private CA as well. In principle you might do a better job than anybody else, and certainly if you fall down you'd know exactly who to blame. But you also might do a pretty shoddy job and cut corners you know you shouldn't, and knowing whose fault it is will be cold comfort if things do go wrong.

People who do this for a living can never be as trustworthy as you could be, but they might very well be more trustworthy than you are in practice and it's worth a moment's honest introspection to consider that.
Fast.co – security loopholes – hacked as fast as creation 2/3
3. Why have you not taken the Apple sign in experience without requiring the actual email credentials of the customer - which by system design is more secure and privacy focussed ? Why is it even necessary for a user to enter the personal email when something like Apple Sign in is obfuscating it to protect the identity of its users. As much as I appreciate to not having all data pass through Facebook,google, amazon servers - but if your system is tiny but vulnerable - it compromises a whole lot of people which aint going to be pretty. And as I poked around a little bit - your system has some pretty gaping holes which can be exploited with easy hacking techniques like social engineering. Parents, moms, fathers, grandpas etc. who aren’t so tech savvy might leave a trail of breadcrumbs while using their favourite merchants using Fast and it will be perfect for further exploitation. Ex. Quora, Dropbox, Equifax - review their hacks in the recent years.
4. Since Stripe is your biggest investor you might want to them up and ask for an intro to Niels Provos or Jonathan Kaltwasser - those are tough security guys who might give you some tips on how to actually make your system secure. You don’t want kids at the next Defcon breaking your software in ways you did not imagine ;)
>I'd guess that if he himself decided to move to a private list that the same people crying for censorship would be crying about that.

He can't. The courts have already decided that because his personal Twitter account is a de facto official channel for White House communication, it has to be public and it has to be preserved. It's why he can't even block people anymore.
Those were neither roomy nor nicely configured.
One of the questions I was thinking about when I took that course on existentialism is why might religious existentialism be superior, for lack of a better word, than vanilla existentialism. Research on that question led me to an essay titled "The Other Side of Despair" by Thomas Merton [1]. It's a really good read that I think you'll like. I like the reference and analysis of Kierkegaard's idea of "leveling" - a process "by which the individual person loses himself in the vast emptiness of a public mind" - which is a lot like "alienation" in modern day. Which also reminds me, I should check out Kierkegaard's The Present Age.

[1]: https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/saturday...
People speak up more when they disagree than when they agree.

Which is why I'm commenting right now.
Heya ladberg:
* Were you doing direct light sampling (next event estimation)? If so that would explain it. It's the most naive path tracing you can imagine, so it's easier to understand.
* Or, it might be how shadertoy is vsync limited to 60 fps which means each pixel only gets 60 samples a second, when it could be getting ~64x as much before i see any slowdown.
No one's saying not to have algorithms involved at all. Humans don't have to review all of the content, just the stuff the algorithms are unsure about, as well as takedown/review requests.
the point of Federation is to build lots of custom communities and have them politely talk to each other, or ignore the ones that violate community's expectations

Vehement agreement from a Masto admin who works to keep her instance a nice quiet chill place for people like her, with some connections to other nice quiet chill parts of the Fediverse, if you want to argue then go to Twitter or go to a "free speech" instance - and accept that you will probably be cut off from the chill places unless you make a second account and abide by the chill rules.
> Most of them are totally justified. Is HN outraged about that?

Well that's the crux of the issue isn't it? Obviously there would be no controversy if everyone agreed on which removals are justified. Every censorship article that reaches the front-page of HN includes a litigation over the specifics of the removal, including those who are quite clear that in an ideal world all large social media websites would be prohibited from filtering out content based on the site operator's judgements about content acceptability.

> Also, keep vs. remove is a false dilemma. Facebook has many more options than keeping or removing items. Most of the time, it's about what they choose to boost or reward in other ways

A distinction without much difference for the sake of this discussion; if the system is hiding the content it's as good as deleted or perhaps even worse than deleted in the same way that shadowbans are often perceived as more hostile than explicit bans.

> But personally, I think that calls into question whether Facebook or anything like them should even exist.

I share that perspective. I believe that social media is a net negative to society despite the nice things its given us like a stream of friend and family photos, but the genie is out of the bottle and there is no going back. Ultimately this is a cultural problem, it costs a user nothing to have the Facebook app sitting on their phone even if they only open it once a year. Literally billions of Facebook users don't care at all about what Facebook removes from the site, most users know what they want out of the internet and know which places to go to get the things they want.
The car I drive has the same problem as that image: undifferentiated buttons to control the AC. I want to turn on the windscreen defogger (or whatever it's called). Now which button is it, oops, now I have to look down cause I can't remember nor can I locate it by touch if I did.
Fwiw, Working Copy on iOS is a good git client.
I never stated an opinion on the policies, and you don't seem to be saying I'm wrong. I have to wonder how anyone can say anything positive about China, if even accurate descriptions are "propaganda".

If you actually want to help China's reputation I'd also advise skipping the whataboutism.
In the right medium, perhaps the user agent would also decide when my posts are shown to people versus an ad being shown in place of my post such that I make money. Then a site like Facebook would only make a small portion of my ad revenue in exchange for hosting it.
Predictions for the Future of Contactless Payment
The news said it wasn’t a big deal until March. And if you need the news to tell you about a pandemic maybe it really isn’t one.
Case in point: Mass Effect, criticized elsewhere in the thread for having too much/bad text, where for me all that text (including the encyclopedic content in-game) was what built one of the most immersive and engaging virtual world I've ever experienced.
I worked at a company that had names for all the conference and meeting rooms based on various science fiction names and other "nerdy" stuff instead of some sort of building-floor-room_number scheme. It was neat at first, but quickly became agonizing trying to remember what _building_ a conference room was in much less where in that building. It added an extra few minutes to every meeting for me where I had to either look it up on the internal wiki or go ask someone at the front desk where I was supposed to go or make sure at least one person nearby attending the meeting already knew where we were going. It took months to get the hang of for even the more routine rooms.
(That's a great John Mulaney impression.)