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If anything mumble rap is a devolution. Add auto-tune to this and you are left with a worthless corpus of shitty rap, hip-hop and also pop music.

It is samey, because everybody does the same thing. You can’t really differentiate music by different performers anymore. Each song is the same.

There used to be a cost to producing music; you needed a studio, producer, physical copies of the samples you wanted to use (in case of most rap), etc. Now you can just boot your computer and use one of the many digital studios.

It is a blessing in some ways, but a curse in most I think. Quality is by no means the element by which (popular) music is judged. It is all about presentation, which somehow means the most deplorable people get the most praise.

Note: I am talking about what is mainstream and played on still high quality radio. I don’t listen to rap stations and luckily there are stations that have a good selection of older music and only play some of the new stuff. The new stuff there is already worse than music from the past though.

If you look at the rap and hip-hop scene however, the quality has plummeted even more. It is just one homogeneous soup of crappy, lazy music. In no way like the music of 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G and Outkast but still all the same as the other new crap.
True. Apple could make it impossible to request permission. I’d be okay. As long as users who want it have a way to enable it.
This is very true. They got this profitable though by gutting every long term investment in new forays: they sold off their ARM business, their modem business, they never bothered to make a serious GPU or mobile chip, etc.

The margins on those big Xeon chips have been so good that they ditched everything else, and painted themselves into a corner, sitting by the sidelines for the past 20 years as new markets emerged.
> These laws and regulations predate most of the service sector

I'm not sure why you would think this is true at all. The EU has had a trade in services deficit with the US for a very long time (especially in financial and ICT services). The GDPR has only adopted 4 years ago. Even if it was enforced equally across all companies, it would still be a protectionist policy. However, it most certainly is not, having dished out about €12 million in fines to EU companies (not counting UK), about €200 million in fines to UK companies, about €160 million in fines to US companies and a total of €88,000 in fines to companies from all other countries.

This recent ruling simply adds another layer of protectionism to the regulations. The risks associated with US companies are prohibited by regulation. Those very same risks when associated with EU companies are perfectly legal. Not because the risks aren't as serious (they are exactly the same in every way), the only difference is where the company/commerce is located.
Well if one is against this so-called 'Russian interference' of the 2016 US Election, then surely they should be against the CCP's direct involvement with TikTok and its use overseas, which is much worse.

I don't know how one can be in favour of both of these, but thank goodness I don't have an account on any of these social media platforms.
From my understanding, pretty badly. COM having an IDL and being way more explicit about things helps.
I want to say that in Flight Simulator X, if you set the in-sim date sufficiently far back it would reappear.
>out-out-only

What is "out-out-only"? My google fu is failing me.
GP is not in beta, the $1 is a promo. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass#join is clear I think. $5/mo is also temporary.
Referrals are the best form of cover letter!
TikTok makes me nauseous. It’s literally crazy to me that we’ve normalized an app targeted to kids and teens that encourages them to make hypersexualized mini music videos that rewards the “sexiest” videos with likes/followers/views/trending.

The absolute creepiest part is that anyone can browse and fully download any video without even logging in. You would have to be completely naive to think that there aren’t a million pedophiles on TikTok everyday downloading content of teenage girls and boys twerking to Nicki Minaj songs without a trace. All while we sit back and laugh about it like we’re on Facebook circa 2009.
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Even then a text editor isn't necessarily a necessity, I've been reading a lot of IBM 1130 code, (for example Guy Steele's LISP, and Chuck Moore's Forth)

There was no text editor. The code for these was entered on punched cards or tape. Somebody typed those cards from sources on paper, maybe on a bunch of K26-5994 forms
> Certainly better than just bricking the thing.

I think we've seen a lot of backlash where companies treat their (disposable) products as disposable, and this is a good thing to see.

Also, companies like Harman Kardon have lifetime relationships with their customers.
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in FHE you need to execute all branches, but the result could be just like you executed the right one.

Consider the following conventional code:

if (flag) {
a = b + c
} else {
a = b * c
}

In FHE it could look:

a = flag * (b+c) + (1-flag) * b * c

That way, you can express almost arbitrary programs. I don't make a claim that a Turing machine could be, though.
> Intelligence sharing has nothing to do with this.

If the issue in contention is US companies being unable to protect against privacy intrusions from the US government, then EU companies being equally unable to protect against privacy intrusions from the US government sounds entirely relevant to me...
lets face it itunes in general is a pretty bloody awful piece of software, especially on windows
Anecdote:

working at a court room I was bemused by the security talks about usb keys, yet the OS setup still allows usb driver installs automatically (granted their local presence). I know because I brought a keyboard to replace the busted one they had in-house and windows gladly set up everything plug`n`play.

I wonder if OSes have actual rules for this, and if there are secure corporate usb keys
Ok well, according to this https://www.awinins.ca/blog/am-i-covered-if-i-leave-my-front...

"As long as it can be established that your possessions have been taken without your permission most policies will pay out on a claim even if your front door was unlocked or your window open."

so - as it says later "Familiarise yourself with the terms of your policy" which I guess would lead me not to buying insurance from your company.

Aside from that allowing insurance companies to determine who 'deserves blame' seems to run counter to the common perception regarding the moral worth of insurance companies.
>“Arshole”

1 Result:

>“ho”, English: prostitute.

>Match inside word, may not be a problem.

Cool, I’ll go with that for my next website.
They might work, for some definition of working, now getting the full capabilities of the GPU is another matter.

OpenGL 3.3 when the proprietary drivers do OpenGL 4.1 for example.

https://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-AMD/Radeon_HD_6320_IGP.html
Good riddance!!
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The mythos around cover letters seems totally wrong to me.

You're telling me that when presented with two candidates, companies routinely pick the less qualified one because... The cover letter was more personalised? They put more custom messages in there? Come on. They're going to turn down a better CV for an interview because the cover letter was copy-pasted? Come on.

Companies like the best candidate they can get for the price, I honestly don't think much else matters.
The GNOME/GTK devs and systemd devs are pretty tightly coupled... Recall the infamous config defaults change that killed sessions impacting things like tmux/screen? Pretty sure it was done because of gnome-session...
Nobody else has reusable rockets (yet), which means that regardless of capability, it is much, much more expensive for anyone else to do an orbital launch.

LEO constellations require lots of launches.

This is not to say it’s impossible, just that for it to be within an order of magnitude of the cost on SpaceX, someone else needs to come up with reusability as well.

I have no doubt that someone will, I just wonder about when, and if it will be in time to benefit anyone else’s presently announced LEO internet access constellations. It’s also possible that Amazon will just eat the cost of disposable rocket launches; it’s not like they couldn’t afford it if they wished.
Yea, fully homomorphic querying of a database necessarily requires reading all of the data, or you could glean information from the access pattern.
>Arm China CEO Allen Wu has refused to step down after being dismissed by Arm's board

The story you posted is incredible. Does this happen anywhere else in the world?
Herpes has serious long term health implications and it is no big deal. Covid having serious long term health implications does not, in and of itself, mean it is a big deal. Long term health problems are a fact of life.

If people are going to argue it is a big deal, they need to articulate their concerns more precisely.
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Credit cards in the UK offer section 75 protection, so are definitely worth it for purchases over £100

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/section75-protect-...

I use my credit card for all my purchases and pay the balance off in full every month, mainly for the rewards, but that peace of mind for big purchases is great too.
Give up your prime money making years

Lockdowns only started four months ago.
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The big question isn't branching, it's unbounded loops.

It seems to me the only option is unrolling those loops. But that has a massive performance penalty. Because you need to always run through however deep you unrolled.
game pass isn't beta, but pc game pass clearly is labelled as such https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-game-pass-for-pc-beta...
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Here, my card on the travel netbook that I use,

https://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-AMD/Radeon_HD_6320_IGP.html

The open source driver is kind of ok if the only thing we expect from it is getting a working X session.

Now if one wants to do some complex OpenGL stuff, then it might work, or not.
Okay sure, but that still doesn't solve anything because the fundamental issue is with the Ctrl+C in Alacritty not behaving the way I'd want it to.
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The way I read this is that he simply encourages you to talk and share your thought process while solving the problem. If you are stuck, you will have to take hints anyway, but until then taking aloud helps the interviewer and might as well help you by forcing you to articulate your thoughts in a structured manner.

When interviewing people (non-technical roles, but roles heavy on problem solving) I always encourage them to share their thought process. Plenty people who I hired not because of the right solution, but because they convinced me that they can think creatively and in a structured manner (i.e., clarifying the problem statement, identifying things that are the most critical, ...)
set intersection is a big one.

If you want to share data on common customers, without revealing who your unique customers are, you need set intersection.
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> In other words, is there something about the structure of machine learning tasks which makes them more suited for FHE than other computing tasks?

Yes, FHE is not (currently) good at general-purpose computing. Complex conditional logic for example is a non-starter because every branch has to be evaluated. But tensor multiplication is well supported with existing FHE schemes, and many kinds of machine learning tasks consist of non-conditional tensor multiplications.
Is that the same social democracy as in Russian Social Democratic Labour Party?
I prefer good lyrics over mumble rap, but music is entirely subjective. You think it's a step backwards, but young people think it's a step forwards.

Mumble rap is essentially just natural selection. Some random rapper started doing it, people liked it, and so it propagated. If people didn't like it, it would have died out quickly. You just aren't one of those people.

> It's samey as hell and stagnant and lacks innovation.

I've said the same thing about metal since the first time I heard it. Metal fans disagree. Who's right? Does it even matter?
Advice number 6 is the most important one and I learned it the hard way. You may be a genius but the interviewer won't know until you express yourself. Don't sit idle thinking about stuff. At least talk what are you thinking.
I struggle to find anything that Kanye has ever done, in or outside of the studio, that will be held as artistically relevant or meaningful in any way in twenty years. His music isn’t groundbreaking or innovative, and anyone can be an asshole to people.

At least Warhol had interesting and relevant things to say.
>Maintains all products/features indefinitely even if less then 1% of the users use it (Google killed RSS Reader)

1% of all Google users is what, a gazillion people?
It's pretty impressive to see the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement [0] construction beginning around 2010 and its final movement over reactor 4 being completed between 2016 and 2017.

Link: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=51.38202,30.09999...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
I agree, the infection rate in many countries such as U.K. is a finger in the air due to lack of testing especially early on in the pandemic where it was almost impossible to get tested. Also, many people will only get tested if they have severe symptoms.
> you set rules and law and enforce them. That is what China is doing.

Except the law is essentially "whatever CCP wants to do" since the only political entity which can affect its legislation process is CCP. And yes, it's intentionally vague so it can allow CCP to exercise its power in an arbitrary way.
Yeah, fglrx driver with the issues you mention, offered OpenGL 4.1 support on a graphic card I have.

The open source driver replacement only does OpenGL 3.3.

I guess I should be happy it does any OpenGL at all.
Okay but that example is just one conditional branching. Turing-completeness requires that you be able to e.g. keep looping back until some condition is met.

If you want to build arbitrary functions like you've described, it reduces to the question of whether you can "unroll" the function, given its inputs[1], into a (stateless) circuit. But that would still IIUIC just get you primitive recursive functions (i.e. those where you can know the upper bound on the number of loop iterations for any loop before it starts), not the general recursive functions you need for Turing-completeness.

Anyone know how you pull off general recursive functions from just addition and multiplication?

[1] and in FHE you don't know the inputs either, which is another kink.
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The assumption here is that companies will forego interviewing the best candidates because they copy-pasted their cover letters. I just don't buy that.

"This guy seems really good, but he didn't rewrite his introduction for us. What do you think? Remove his interview?"

Like hell any company is going to do that.
Ask HN: Why US companies are not beating TikTok in the field?
it's surprising that tiktok is so successful globally.
and there is not a US product that is truly beating it.
and now US are considering ban it or buy it.
I've been a hiring manager for 5 years and otherwise doing candidate screening for 10+ years. Looking back I don't think a cover letter has played a positive role in getting a candidate through, but probably has played a negative role a few times due to typos etc.
Those are those sort of numbers I'd expect for every candidate. The point of a technical screen is to filter people out. They're not an objective check to see if a candidate is capable; they're a relative test to narrow the number of people you invite to the next stage to the best 5 or 6 candidates.

If you're rejected at that stage it doesn't mean you're not capable. It just means the screener saw half a dozen people who answered to questions a little better.
He is wrong. Nobody will enforce this before its had its day in court and by the time it happens there wont be a president trump.
The UI might have been nice for small pockets of technical folk but it was a mess for a lot of others.

For example WP7s emphasis on big long lists made it very hard for me as a dyslexic to quickly scan for the one app I wanted in that list. My eyes would constantly jump about and the lack of other visual clues made it hard to anchor to the item I wanted. I don’t even have this problem menu bars because those have more visual clues that WP7 did.

Another issue was how the flat design made it impossible to distinguish between a button and a highlighted block. Also between a hyperlink and normal emphasised text (frankly, hyperlinks do not belong on UIs outside of document markups. There was one time my mum changed her WP7 language to Polish (she has Polish heritage) to see if she could read it. She couldn’t and that mistake was totally user error on her part. But she could read enough to get us to the language settings and it literally took both her and I more than 10 minutes to realise that there was a button that needed pressing after the language selection because the button blended in with all the text on that dialogue. If your only distinguishing feature of interactive elements is their caption then that’s simply bad UI design.

To give balance, I’ve used nearly every Windows device on phones or PDAs. While Windows Mobile (and CE before it) had its own issues they were still enjoyable devices in their own ways. But I hated WP7 because the UI constantly left me guessing. My mum hated it for the same reason so switched to Android. One of my friends, who is a reasonably technical Windows fanboy but doesn’t work in the IT industry, he hated it too and then switch to Android. It was not a well design UI at all. And while I’m sure there are pockets of engineers who will miss WP7, I’ve never met a single end user who liked it.
I'd just call the function once by avoiding the global; construct your database access object at the start of your asynchronous main method and dependency inject it to other tasks.
> You can't eliminate the complexity; only move it,

Yes and by using null-in-every type for your messaging, now you've pushed the problem out of your app and published it to the world.
I find having friends makes burdens lighter. Having a conversation with someone during a stressful time is a great way to gain perspective, get helpful advice, just talk though it, or at minimum, escape for a bit.
Pls get help from a therapist. This is a story you’re telling yourself and it is toxic. It is not grounded in the external world. And this is not something which can be exited without someone else’s help. I’ve been where you are.
You can't unroll an unbounded loop, you don't know how many times to unroll. To have Turing machine you need to need to know from your program state if you reached the end of your loop or not (i.e., you need to evaluate the "while" condition), and by definition FHE shouldn't allow you to extract information from your program state.
> that would still IIUIC just get you primitive recursive functions (i.e. those where you can know the upper bound on the number of loop iterations for any loop before it starts)

The primitive recursive functions cannot be expressed using circuits. Circuits by definition can only express polynomials, which have a much smaller growth rate than what primitive recursive functions are capable of.

[edit]

Actually, probably a better reason is that in primitive recursion, the running time can depend on the input. For a circuit, the running time is independent of the input.
Correct! I’m not sure why comments here equate music on YouTube with giving it away - while it devalues it by making it free to listen, artists still get royalties from advertising.
There’s nothing like the rush of getting a post to the front page, even if it is vacuous compared to more difficult accomplishments.
Sure you can, by packing the network sensitive code into another Java library and using process internal bean calls across domains.

Now if those guys didn't understood the WebSphere capabilities that is another matter.
You’re just saying the same things older people have been saying about new music since time immemorial.
You know what will really lose us a whole depth of creativity?

Prescribing that novels should only be written in a particular manner.
And if SDGE did not do an investigation, what consequences would they face from the shrieking hordes of twitter taking offense on other people's behalf?

By now it should be well known that most companies are spineless when facing bad publicity, even of the manufactured variety...
> Do you not realize it was Xi and his propaganda that caused a massive change in opinion of the west? The state news agencies constantly blames everything on foreigners and the west.

I don't know where you got that from. CCP stopped long ago painting the US / western countries as enemies and sources of today's problems of China.

The fact is, Chinese and China in general are much less ideology sensitive now. Given current hostilities from the US, CCP propaganda and China's new medias still haven't called for hate of the US at ideology level. There were hash words against the US, but all targeting very specific actions, for example shutting down of Huston consulate, and specific person, for example Pompeo. There is no ideology level attack.

It is a very large topic to discuss why and when Chinese people stopped admiring the US. I would only say it all started in 2008 financial crisis. It was then China's elites, here I mean both the ones educated in the western countries and the ones with no foreign education background, started to question the soundness of the financial market regulation system of the US and corruption of the US politicians, and then everything else. And when China could produce its own hero startups and entrepreneurs, like Jack Ma of Alibaba, Pony Ma of Tencent, Yiming Zhang of ByteDance, Lei Jun of Xiaomi etc., Chinese people feel more confident that its own system might just work. And Trump administration and the handling of covid19 are the latest blow. CCP doesn't really need to do anything.

All the other matters you mentioned like South China Sea, disputes with India, Xinjiang etc. aren't new problems. They have been there for ages. They are not the factors driving the changes.
Power-off 180s precision for every landing, then?
Still way less than C based technology, and besides most of them were related to Java Applets, a completely different stack than application containers like WebSphere.
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To summarise the other comments: No, it's not actually Turing complete. The programs you can express using circuits have a fixed running time.
Probably the safest way to practice is to do interviewing at your current company. There's a lot of similar skills that you need to get good at to be good at interviewing others, and if you work at a good company, they'll want to train you and give you feedback on becoming good at interviewing others. You'll also get a much stronger understanding of what interviewers look for, how they evaluate, what a good interview looks like. So, once you're interviewing for a job yourself, you'll know how to recreate that same feeling.
Trying out the last snippet. What am I doing wrong here? Python 3.7.7

https://pastebin.com/E9KWCmky
Oh. But FHE means Turing-complete, right? So what else do they have besides addition and multiplication that allows them to do arbitrary computations?
A nation state would more likely facilitate a 17yo doing it.

Do you really think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone?

:)