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The problem with the doors and locks analogies is that it's not really what this is about.

This isn't about their ability to seize things you have after they get a warrant. It's that they want the ability to seize things you have before they get a warrant, just in case they get one later.

It's like requiring everyone to have video cameras in their house with recordings sent to law enforcement no matter whether they're under suspicion or not, and then claiming that it's fine because they pinky swear not to look at them without a warrant. (Never mind that then you can't prove that they're not cheating, and that it would be the world's largest target for organized crime and foreign powers.)
Faster + less bloat
GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding
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Interesting. Since this is from BBC Earth I guess it's legit, but from my earlier understanding, painter elephants typically go through long processes of torture to "learn" how to paint things for tourists. I will skip linking to any references since we are on the topic of a mass elephant death, but you can easily find them on the Web.

Or perhaps my understanding was incorrect all along?
Also, much nicer weather than people think.
> These days, every one of Kongregate's users has a smartphone with free games more accessible and convenient than the old browser gaming model.

The ease of developing, distributing, and playing Flash games is completely unmatched by phone games. I could open a dozen tabs of games in the browser in seconds. How do I do that on a phone? Then there is the playability of games. Gameplay involving a small touchscreen is very different than a keyboard and mouse. As a former Flash developer, I could produce a Flash game over a long weekend, release it to hundreds of websites shortly after, and would go on to get 100,000 plays. I've yet to be shown how I can do that on iOS or Android.
You tax all the rent they earn due to holding the land [0], since all the reasons rent is high in SF are not due to contributions by the landowner (ie. the community put in effort to make SF desirable, yet the landowner gets all that value).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[0] - But let them keep all the rent from the building, since they built it with their own capital and labour.
Nice find! That brings back memories. Yeah Ragnarok was the replacement for Niflheim, although both were buggy and stopped working altogether at some point.

KongregateHack was really young, impressive that he ran a whole online community aged 14 or 15. Wonder what he's up to now.
DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases and simplifies retrieval within our apps and our search engine.

Like our search results, the favicon service adheres to our strict privacy policy[1] in that the requests are anonymous and we do not collect or share any personal information.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
The land is still a scarce resource. What do you propose, that the government own all land? Let the property owners just own the buildings?

We tried that before, it was called feudalism. It's where the King owned all the land and the peasants were allowed a small piece of land to work and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

That system didn't work very well.
Stone knives and bear-skins...
Apart from Python, you could look at Julia.
You have to remember MSRP on an RV is about 30% higher than you would actually pay, its more like 120k new.

You can definitely build your own, many people do, there is a lot of work put into these thing and yes Winnebago makes a profit to do it for you. They are by no means ripping anyone off, good luck finding a 4x4 sprinter Class B for any less brand new. Good luck finding a 4x4 sprinter shell to convert, they are in demand.
All these years of caffeine addiction and no coffee machine at home.... sounds insane to me. I drink a lot of coffee; typically 3 cups in the morning at home (if I’m short on time I bring a thermos with me) then I buy maybe 1-2 cups at work. I like to treat myself to a latte sometimes but they’re now at least five bucks! I can’t imagine how expensive a 10 coffee a day habit must be when you don’t make it at home.
Thanks for writing the wraning comment.
What would the world be like if the entire military might of the major world powers was repurposed to providing aid and building infrastructure?
> As someone that has been a Julia user for more than half a decade and a part of the community I feel very uneasy about now having to opt out of this feature each time I install anything above v1.4.

I'd certainly appreciate it if you repeated this in the discourse thread
> Are you trying to argue that computers are not an intentional cost savings over floors full of accountants using pen and paper?

Yes. The key word there is intentional.

> Output volume increases as a result of higher demand.

Indirectly. Output directly increases from higher production capacity. Wishful thinking and consumer desire do not transform manufacturing without some changes to that manufacturing.
Why ungoogled-chromium or Firefox over Brave?

Brave is the only browser that includes strong ad and tracker blocking by default, which is the best way to ensure your privacy on the internet.

In fact, every decision I've seen from them makes me think they care the most about user privacy, period.
> also a lot of C/C++ (binary > source)

Unless you're doing a debug build, lots of metaprogramming, or have a tiny source where linker overhead is larger - C source is going to be larger than the binary.
Very little around the Boston metro is "cheap" but move 45 minutes to an hour out and prices can be a lot lower depending upon the town. Of course, you no longer have anything resembling urban amenities even if you're still in range of a day or night in town.
> When did this happen? Why? Did people lose interest in actual news? Is there less actual news to report?

1. Search engines prioritized longer content.

2. People are less aware of longer-lasting events and most people land on news stories from social media as a one-off. The additional context is needed.
This is exactly how it should be handled. If there's no monetary benefit for a particular organisation, it's gonna continue the same way it has always been continuing. Policies, rules and Government backing is a must for a proper waste management. If there is a proper tax incentive plan even retailers and supermarkets will be interested. All in all we are talking of collection of waste and processing it and providing incentives to entities which generate this waste.
I added the inverter, solar and cellular antenna and router.
In many cases, this is not only computationally expensive on the server, it also requires one or more requests to external APIs which further slows things down. Imagine needing to query the API of your tax vendor, then also your shipping provider of choice for every single item displayed on a page. Even if you did this client side, asynchronously, it would be a lot of extra requests for something that most shoppers won't even pay attention to.

I ran an ecommerce platform company for many years and you had merchants with very complex shipping and tax schemes, or you had merchants that made it super simple with a basic rate table. The complex merchants had margin on every order at the cost of processing external API calls. The simple rate table merchants had great margin on some, lost money on others but were happy with their average shipping margin.
I doubt that price point would work. But I do miss daily door side trash pick up from when I was an apartment dweller. I’d pay $50 for that.
My point is that most of the people that live in the city do it for the amenities. The people who are in it for the higher salaries tend to commute from cheaper places nearby.
Speed with location, as speed limit depends on where you are driving, which is tracking of your movement.
The parent comment is referring to conditions that have changed due to COVID (most businesses close their bathrooms now), not how available bathrooms were historically.
Thought so. But even so, I'd love to get advice from you regarding the points I raised above.
>For a scientist doing a ML system to reconstruct pixelated faces, trained with white faces, why is he/she responsible for "insert larger problem" outside of her/his field?

Because we're all responsible for how the tools we built are used and what they enable, and how they affect society at large. That's what ethics is about, something which seems to be absent in the education of the modern citizen and in particular engineer or scientist, who is supposed to come to work, program things and not think too much about the impact their products have on the world.
Apple will ship iPhone 12 without chargers, earphones
Digital or analog, λ is easier to read than "lambda".

In fact I've discovered ISO 9995-7 as I realized "⌘ + ⌥ + ⌫" is much faster and easier to find visually, read and comprehend (not just better-looking) than "Command + Option + Backspace" and there ought to be a similar visual language for generic PCs.
I guess the problem is when you want to quickly provide a favicon with the search result (beit in the omnibar or actual search page), as you're typing and results are being displayed you cannot send off a request to the site, wait for HTML html to finish up downloading, send off a request to the manifest if its defined for multiple sites at once.

On a technical level of course its doable but in reality it's a complete waste of data and processing, not to mention it could take a long time to show up. I imagine they have these favicons all cached on their side so they can quickly send the right file down and/or do this processing if needed.

That being said maybe they should just not use a favicon if it's that big of a deal.
There are a few things that contribute to this oddity (never using light vehicles to tow in the US)...

Speed limits. Americans generally refuse to slow down when towing. In most of western Europe, the speed limit is 20mph lower (give or take) when towing. In order to tow at a high speeds while maintaining stability, you need a long wheelbase and mass.

Liability and fear of lawsuits. My 2017 VW Sportwagen is rated to tow 2000lbs in the EU. It isn't rated to tow AT ALL in the US. There are no mechanical differences that would impact the tow rating. If a consumer wants a vehicle rated to tow, they literally can't use a mid-size sedan or wagon in the US (despite the exact same vehicle being able to tow a small travel trailer, horse, or small powerboat without problem).
I wish people were more creative with naming things. The other day I searched the letter S and the first thing that came up was some Swedish singer. Or at least have search engines understand guillemets.
Ok, that makes sense, I agree not using the browser to fetch the favicon is suspect.
> family fills your fridge

"stock" != "fill". We're talking, like, $50/month, tops. I could've swung that myself. Instead I put it into savings and graciously accepted the help.

> $12-13/hr wages

In an area with double the rent of the proposed scenario

> didn't pay for health insurance, but still had health insurance

No, I didn't have health insurance. I specifically said I didn't qualify for my employer's plan until I had already put in my notice.

(I was also uninsured after my second job all the way up to my current job, so covering about a 4-year span; given that the ACA's individual mandate was in full effect, this effectively ate hundreds of dollars out of my tax returns, at least for the years where I actually had returns rather than owing taxes on e.g. my less-than-minimum-wage contract work).

> have the skills to do IT work

That's cold comfort when you're stuck working a non-IT job (as I was), or when you don't have a job at all (as I was later, on two separate occasions, hence the riding of my bike to fix computers and supplement unemployment under-the-table).

Keep in mind I didn't (and still don't) have a degree. That probably helped with keeping expenses low (no student loan debt to worry about), but it also made it substantially harder to find solid work (given that even help desk positions typically required at least an Associate's; I got my first IT job specifically as a temp job that turned unexpectedly permanent).

> I just don't agree that your past self was actually poor

I mean, I obviously can't make you relive my working life (at least up until my current job, which does thankfully pay much better and is helping me bounce back). Nor would I want you to. Still, I definitely think I was poor, both when I was working my first job and after I lost my second job. Really boggles the mind how you'd somehow disagree with that assessment simply because of a marginal amount of support.
Is Google indexing the shipping cost?

I don't see how this is relevant because ecommerce sites will change the price in the cart (or reveal it) before shipping is even calculated.
This is true of a game development community that I made about 2500 contributions to (had a goal of making 5-6 meaningful posts per day).

They migrated their software and the accounts became unlinked to the previous contributions. In the last 7 years, I contributed only 40 more times.
All countries in Europe except Germany have a general speed limit, most around 80mph. Towing a trailer has even lower speed limits, for example in Germany the max legal speed while towing a trailer of any size is 50mph, even on the Autobahn.

This in combination with beefier rear frames on euro car models (and no truck sales this would cannibalize) results in a higher towing capacity rating. It is much more common to have a utility trailer for the 3-4 times a year you would need it.

In reality people go up to 60-65mph with a decent trailer, that is about 100km/h.
This doesn’t make sense for a browser: just embed the service’s logic in the browser, the browser has all the same information the service could get.
Are all these edge cases part of the html/w3c/whichever standard? If not, let the edge cases fail. I'm not going to lose sleep over an icon not showing for a site I'm visiting once.
I miss forums. Not reddit, but things like vBulletin. It felt like a community of people you would get to know instead of a faceless mass.
Hymer North America went bankrupt due various finial "irregularities". I believe what was left was bought by Thor. Left a lot of people out in the cold on warranties from my understanding.

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"This is not to say that DDG is perfect: links you click do seem to be redirected through a /l/ page on their domain ..."

I am surprised the user is not complaining about this instead of the favicons. Their privacy policy goes on about the privacy implications of Referer headers and instead of calling out browsers for sending Referer by default, they instead give themselves power to record all the user's clicked results themselves. The Referer problem is something that can be solved by the user at the browser level through, e.g., using a client that does not send Referer, browser extensions/plug-ins that can control headers sent, or perhaps with a local proxy to remove the Referer header.

Unless DDG has changed, these prefixed result URLs are the default. It is possible to get unprefixed result URLs using the "lite" version of DDG however that is not the default. "Privacy-focused" search engine chooses less private default. News at 11.

I recently noticed that DDG has started redirecting queries submitted via POST to /lite/. The redirect is to the same domain. No explanation. I have a custom client that does not follow redirects and I now have to submit two sets of HTTP headers instead of one.

These guys are trying to make money from advertising just like everyone else. They have to be very particular in the methods they use to do it -- check the exceptions in their privacy policy -- but it is the same game. Ads and affiliate links. That sort of business and privacy are always going to be at odds with each other.
Here you go - I had to recover my password and make my profile public to give you this link! You're welcome! https://www.kongregate.com/accounts/medoc/favorites

But seriously, those are just a fraction of the amazingness I've experienced. I don't even think the 2D platformer Portal clone is in that list - that was amazing.
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The "nothing to hide" argument is so old and easily debunk-able, I don't take seriously anyone who offers it up at this point.
I think the prospects for an 11 year old hacker creating their first game with art, programmed behaviors etc, were much higher on Flash in 2006 than on WebGL in 2020.
I cannot recommend Brave due to the autosuggestions-for-profit feature.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842

You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.
In Cuba people drive classic American cars because that's the last model cars they could get before the embargo started. Huh, imagine flying on 201x plane models in 2050 because there's just so many left around.

(Yeah I know there are probably 30 year old airframes still flying nowadays, and they're still airworthy).
Oh, this is for putting an icon next to search results? Yeah, that changes the calculus considerably. I thought this was about showing the favicon in the browser for a site the user visits (per the issue title).

In that case, yeah, I don't think the icons are necessary to show at all...
This is basically what government is for. For funding things that are good ideas but not profitable.
As recently expired names, you should be aware that they may suffer an array of detriments.

Notably:

"Pinned" security properties like recursive HSTS may apply until they expire. Even if you have only ever operated http://clown-photos.example.com/ and never https://clown-photos.example.com/ the previous owner of example.com could have set policy saying all names are HTTPS-only.

Certificates issued in the Web PKI as much as three years ago for names in these domains may still exist and be valid. In principle some of them might even not be in CT logs. As new owner you are entitled to have those certificates revoked, but to do that you first need to know they exist.

Adverse user permissions decisions apply indefinitely. If the previous owner spewed notifications, or had unsolicited video content the resulting adverse decisions by users survive the change of ownership. (The other side of this applies too, if you buy a popular cat video sharing site, you're going to inherit lots of "allow autoplay" type permissions) but that's something you'd probably explicitly plan for rather than being a surprise.

White and black lists maintained by third parties may impact you. Whether that's a DNS blacklist that means some PiHoles block your whole site because the previous owner was an advertising network, or a spam blacklist that ensures your newsletter is never seen by its subscribers, that could be a real problem. Some list maintainers are very responsive, others not so much.

Speaking of lists, the domain could be on the PSL. Again you can ask to be removed (or indeed added if your planned use would mean the domain should be on the PSL and isn't). But if you don't realise the domain is PSL listed, you'll be astonished that it's impossible to get a Let's Encrypt certificate for *.example.com, or that cookies and frames and other origin-restricted stuff doesn't work as you expect.
Excuse me? There has been no ad hominem here.

Pointing out a flaw in your argument has nothing to do with your person or condition, which as you say I have no clue about. You have made your UI preferences crystal clear in this thread, and I disputed your arguments supporting them. Discussion is the goal of this forum, by the way.

If you really believe you have been attacked, then may I suggest we leave the discussion here and please flag the comments you find disruptive and let a moderator work it out.

As a friendly side note: claiming "all someone has to say is attacking ad hominem" is quite ad hominem itself, because you are attributing an implicit trait to that person (eg pushy) or a motive irrelevant to the discussion (eg not "liking you" or whatever).