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Sure we did understand it, that is why they used an IDL. independent of programming language's type system.

Apparently DCE IDL now comes in proto files.

What newcomers did not bother to understand is why we were using those formats in first place.

Rest assured, maybe in 20 years we will be introducing this cool RPC protocol, based on YAML on something. Thankfully by then I should be retired.
> I have a feeling C19 has well and truly punched the nail in the high street coffin.

'Cxx' usually means the 'Xth century', by the way. (Even this year, with context, that briefly confused me as I wondered what the 1800s did to the high street and how bustling it was before!)
most of the news sites will use some form of programmatic ads which will involve Google in some form inevitably.
My point is that you cannot "lend" bits. Nor can you "return" them.

The meaning of "digital" is that the original never moves. Otherwise it would be "physical".
Don't fall into that trap of "I cannot do anything about it if I wasn't born rich".

The commenter above gave perfectly sensible and practical advice on how to reduce costs (e.g. choose your hobbies according to your income) and how to potentially boost your income (e.g. develop valuable skill such as plumbing or software engineering).

You might not become millionaire or billionaire, but you can definitely learn how to live within your means or how to boost your income.
You meant to say dealing with

- indirect consequences such as a very late recovery of economy, social habits changed for ever,

- or literally keep dealing with this pandemic (resurfacing again and again),

- or direct consequences such has ravaging other parts of body in an unseen manner which would become seen later?

Of course there could be and would be all of these but anything that would be very pronounced kind of a single major consequence?
If you test a population, regardless of the test, certain people will always do better on average. So IQ is real. Out of all the studies done in the social sciences, IQ is by far the most conclusive.

But the other half of the story is the myth of the genius. The idea that intelligence provides all the answers. It does not. Terence Tao, a child prodigy with an IQ of 230 (apparently), would know. [1]

Talking faster is like running faster. If you're a stand-up comedian or chasing a purse snatcher, you'll have an advantage. But neither would make life any easier unless you deliberately reinforce your talents with hard work and pursue paths where you maintain an advantage.

The world seems to be built around normal folk. Being average isn't that bad. Of course, now we must define average. No one is truly average. We're all over the place.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...
No idea why you're being downvoted.
When supermarkets and landlords start accepting them, then yes.
When I worked at MSFT in 2006, remote access required a smart card plus credentials.
For personal email of people in The Netherlands that I know it's a mix of Gmail, hotmail.com (so Outlook.com, but old accounts) and ISP-provided email. Older people being disproportionately more likely to use their ISP, and younger people being more likely to use Gmail. The Hotmail accounts all seem to be from the time that MSN Messenger was incredibly popular, forming essentially the first social network. Those people are in their mid-20s. I'm not sure about the overall distribution.
A lifetime of thinking that companies can reimplement cool tech they have in use somewhere else in a place that it would be even more useful has left me disappointed in the possibilities. I’m not familiar with Pixels because I don’t use them, but even if I took you at your word that it is automated captioning that works, I wouldn’t hold my breath that it will show up on YouTube just because Google has the tech on a Pixel.

It’s not like companies like Google have never had technical regressions either. Their core service, Google Search, is less useful to me than it was 10 years ago.
Seriously I worked on projects subject to government scrutiny and it was ok, but you had to be the right kind of person.

Account for your time in 6-minute increments. Milestones I recall off the top of my head were preliminary design, detailed design, 3-5% of your time coding, software integration, hardware software integration, acceptance.

It was stable, predictable, and (to me) very soul-crushing.
nginx is not well suited for constantly reconfiguring your infrastructure on very hot servers. This is a problem when you expose such infrastructure configurations to users (think cloudflare), but otherwise you can just mitigate this problem by having a sane deployment strategy.
Unrelated, but it's borderline frustrating how used to I have gotten to the Chrome ecosystem by now - to the point that the mere thought of switching to any other browser makes me queasy.

I tried Brave for a couple weeks but they didn't support DRM videos, so back I went to Chrome.
I assume everybody would understand that the overall numbers are a combination of gmail.com and GSuite.
> Will they just shut off Google for Australia?

And lose the billions of revenue over a few million in news payments?

Of course not. Good on the Australian Government for putting them in a position where they actually have to contribute rather than taking their toys home and pouting
>Many security researchers have already established that the benefits of a VPN especially in the modern distributed world are marginal at best.

Yes, with the (wrong) assumption that after you have connected to a VPN, all other services are free for the taking, without any further authentication.
Even if they had captions, it would be impossible to translate certain things (e.g. lyrics, technical or scientific terms) to another language automatically well.
They should comply and just delist all News Corp content.
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I think making the commit summary the "id" of this workflow is actually interesting. It is a step towards doing project management in git itself rather then an external tool.
I actually did this and while it follows the conversation quite well I think it’s really hard to make the argument that there was a decision early in the text what animal it thought of. That would only be possible if there were hidden embeddings in the output but that’s not possible after the output is converted into text. And I’m not sure how you’d prove that an animal was embedded in earlier layers since it’s pretty hard to inspect these neural networks.
From the article linked in the comment:

> News Corp has suggested the number is closer to $1 billion.

I highly doubt these companies will fork over a billion dollars each to just stay in Australia. Australia needs Google more than Google needs Australia.
14,000 years ago the sea level was more than 100 ft lower. All the settlements of the time that were near shore are now deep underwater. There is no limit to what may have been going on then that we may never find out about. Much of what is now sea between Britain and Norway was dry land, as was many thousands of square miles around what are now Indonesian islands, and between Australia and New Guinea. People lived there.

What we do know is that less than a thousand years later, a comet strike with most likely multiple air bursts, like at Tunguska, touched off wildfires as far afield as Santa Barbara, South Carolina, Chile, Syria, and South Africa, and plunged the planet into a 1300-year-long climate crisis that coincided with, and probably triggered, the beginnings of cultivation in what is now Syria and eastern Turkey.

The history we learned in school, based on writing that started <6000 years ago, followed tens of thousands of equally eventful life left unrecorded and only beginning to be discovered.

We know that the 50-ton carved stone columns at Göbekli Tepe were put up starting at the end of that 1300 years, about the same time the Mayans' ancestors were operating large-scale ochre mining in Central America.
> C++ instead of go to get even that extra performance out

Might as well use C then (with some hand-written asm sprinkled in where the compiler gets confused and doesn't see an obvious optimization) for that. And I'm not even being sarcastic here (I wish I was though)
I have not, but I responded to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006491

but the tl;dr amounts to just because a company has the technology does not mean it is broadly applied across all of its services where it would be most useful. That said, if YouTube ever implements automated CC that works I’ll happily scarf down that humble pie.
I would 100% support this mindset if tech giants paid taxes where they make their money. I don't know what the situation is like in Australia but in Europe it's pretty insane. You can't abuse the system on one side and then argue the "efficient market hypothesis" on the other.

Google&friends are not making money and competing "like any other business".
From the same article I linked:

Others, however, are not as comfortable with the relatively new currency. The first ever single-family home sale in Texas involving bitcoin was announced last month. The buyer, who works in the tech industry, purchased the newly built home in Austin using bitcoin, but the seller, a custom homebuilder, wanted the currency converted to dollars during the transaction.

This article is from 2017 I'm sure if I searched for more I'd find more examples but regardless is buying a house really the final test of something's potential as a currency?
What if people are doing nothing with their time [0]? If that's the case it wouldn't matter what the money is spent on. Of course it would be better to optimize everything perfectly but that is a luxury that's not available to everyone.

[0] Most likely mass unemployment due to the corona virus.
It’s about News Corporation’s exceptionally close ties to the party that currently holds the majority in Australian federal parliament. This grants them the opportunity to use Australia as a licensing model test venue, as well as hoping to normalise the idea as acceptable rather than farcical in at least one western laissez-faire capitalist democracy in the hope this can be leveraged into others.
Mine never unsets, unless i accidentally click that damn button. I often mistake it for the reddit homepage link.
The main benefactor would be News Corp Australia. Apart from some snippets of tolerable local coverage it's all a big pile of shit that stinks from Uncle Rupert's ugly head down.

Misinformation and conspiracy theories are what they peddle. This single company controls 70% of the newspaper market and lies, misleading and cheating are part of their DNA. I hope they don't see a single red cent out of this and if it takes the shutdown of Google News then so be it.
Yep not looking forward to this day.
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Could it be that OSS is simply not a sustainable business model for the long haul and it was simply successful in a period of history when vast money was made quickly by landgrab expansion of technology to consolidate/provide many basic services and the code itself wasn’t the competitive differentiator? I don’t know but that’s a possibility too. I question why one would be concerned in keeping OSS alive, as a business, assuming it cannot survive on its own feet. There’s no inherent reason OSS should somehow forcefully live. It’s already changing its character via AGPL and Mongo license-style things in the face of AWS cloud simply deploying and milking cash.

(The above is assuming the concern that it is funding that’s a problem today; I don’t quite see it that way [for instance, I strongly suspect Nginx to have made more money than DBX so far, so who are we to say who’s been more successful; market cap ain’t everything], but that’s a hypothetical to think about.)

Moreover, supporting a project does not equate supporting its existing maintainers. It could mean taking some partial ownership including the review side and having some developers on your own payroll. Seems like that’s how the big project are done most of the time. The Open Core model we are focusing on is a niche and arguably more akin to fremium products than free software as a thing with communal ownership.
Exactly. Intelligence does not exist "by itself", it only exists in the context of the world. It cannot be emulated in an environment that's secluded from the world or even in an environment that is exposed to a carefully selected slice of the world. Because the world is a tangled web of interconnections and cannot be partitioned cleanly. It's always going to be a leaky abstraction and thus any model trained within that slice is going to deviate very quickly in weird ways.
I've never used Patreon, but couldn't people just put the password for a publicly accessible feed behind their paywall?
Also a user of Flock. Metaweblog was the best
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Can we talk about gboard, Google's default keyboard for Android for a moment?

On my phone at least, the backslash has an clearly and easily accessible shortcut (long press 'w'). Meanwhile, to enter a forward slash, one has to not only tap into the special symbols page, but actually tap again into the SECOND PAGE of that.

Does anyone have any insight as to just what these galaxy brains at Google are thinking?
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Your fun and joy definition might not meet the definition of others. I for example do not enjoy metoo comments. If you do, you are likely a minority.
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Which is why vendors selling compliant JavaSE for embedded deployment with real time support still exist, despite Android.
Sure it was, that is what I have done several times with WebSphere.
Even trying to use popular software in a relatively big language like Spanish still inevitably ends up producing lots of untranslated strings (or worse, semi-translated nonsense).

I always set my software to en-us, even though that mightn't be my preferred language or dialect, because it's the only way I can be sure the developers actually checked it.
Your suggestion aside, I find it odd that people call the Australian Liberal Party conservative.

They banned firearms, introduced the GST and made same-sex marriage legal. They've now introduced the largest welfare package in Australian history.

In comparison to most governments in the world, they're probably considered center-left at worst.
Another phenomenal channel is Retro Game Mechanics Explained: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRqWnW5ZkVaP_lZF7caZ-g
Seems the main point of this browser is that it limits the memory and cpu cycles, so more memory and cpu cycles are available for games.

I guess it can be nice. When I use Safari, it seems some sites can bring my Mac down to its knees occasionally. Especially back when my Mac still had only 8 GB RAM, though recently I upgraded to 24 GB and I don't have many of these issues anymore.
Reading Google's point of view on what happened in Spain they had yet another model over there:

"Legislation in Spain requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not."

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9609...

Maybe it is similar to that? I wonder who defines what "news" are? If part of this text I am writing ends up quoted on a website owned by someone in Spain, I would be forced by law to send them an invoice?
PHP's dependency manager, Composer, uses this approach too.
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I keep thinking...what is GPT-5 going to look like? It might be a lot like the movie "Her". And that's what, maybe five years away?

Obviously they can't just keep scaling up the number of parameters or working memory size. And the way it displays new behaviors in response to specifically worded prompts is still a little weird. But this is already very close to having applications that we could only dream of.

GPT-3 is definitely over hyped. But there is something real happening here. I'm still not entirely sure what to make of it.
Oh, you're right. I didn't know Android had that feature. Apparently I was way behind the times. I can no longer edit or delete my comment.
I write and maintain a lot of open source software for free.
Done for who? for you?

I'm still always going to get fresh produce from local stores, and I don't want that to change anytime soon.
There is nothing like the feeling of performing music for a crowd. There is also nothing like hitting a chord in a big empty space and listening while the sound slowly fades away.

Related to instruments themselves, the trial and error is one very important aspects I can think of right now that's enjoyable: playing something off beat or out of tune and correcting yourself. The feeling of correction and improvement.

It is a real pity the actual algorithm itself has no way to enjoy what it is creating.
I went with atom xml at http://purl.mro.name/ShaarliGo. Serves both as export format and can by subscribed to, too.
Also about journalism's complete failure to adapt to a changing business landscape and find a different business model.

In one way, this is good. It will fail miserably, and demonstrate to newspaper CEO's that "Big Tech" is not stealing their revenues. Then they can move on to try something different.
> Google&friends are not making money and competing "like any other business".

I don't understand this. Can you explain, please?
People in this thread seem to believe that this is only relevant to Google News. This is actually for all of Google, including Search. According to https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/facebook-a...

> Mr Sims said if Google took a similar approach to its actions in Spain when it was asked to pay for news on its Google News tab, it would be irrelevant because the code covered news content in Google's primary function, search.

So it seems like the ultimatum is: pay Australia media companies ~$1b or don't list any news media (including international news) on Google Search for Australian users. Interesting dilemma.
Isn't this something the publishers can just stop with a robots.txt? Or do they want Google to continue to link to them and just charge them for it? I hope Google just drops them from the index.
I do though ... Imagine a manager being dependent on a system he ~~bought~~ installed for free, which he didn't buy support for, and is now malfunctioning. It's his fault. And this is what I've seen in practice as well.

Just think about the commercial success of SUSE Linux?
This seems absurd. Companies typically pay Google to drive traffic through ads, but in this case they are legislating that Google pay them for driving traffic? This sounds like the store paying the customer to take its product. Wouldn't the obvious solution be for Google to just stop listing these news sites? Am I missing something here?
So much stockholm syndrome here on HN.
So we have complex secrets that you have to store digitally because you can't memorize. Where? In a secure store. That has access to it protected by a secret you have to store. Digitally because you can't memorize it. And the store where you store the secret for your secure store for your secrets...

A touch id protected secret store may be secure, and you lose access to your secrets if your laptop/phone gets stolen or breaks down? Or do you back it up to another store protected by different authentication that you have to store?

Looks like you cannot win to me.

The only advantage of generated complex passwords is that they'd be harder to brute force if the server has their password database stolen.
They’re kinda doing this to themselves with the paywalls or account login walls (medium comes to mind). I haven’t read a NYT article in months.
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Speaking from experience at a major infosec company, the impression I got internally was "we offer phishing tests, but we don't recommend them, because phishing succeeds 100% of the time".

So I'm confused by the idea "even infosec people think training will stop this".
Yes my frustration is the entire frontend in x framework now requires nodejs by default. I develop with Javascript (nodejs), Erlang(Elixir) and Ruby(Ror and Jekyll). The one pain point is managing the nodejs dependencies in these projects.
You started off well, but you ended with a logical fallacy.
Maybe helpful for test-fitting how non-flexible components will behave on a flexible PCB, whether they interfere with each other or something else in the case? Maybe? I imagine you'd just 3D model it though and be happy with that. But maybe if you already had the case.
The sad thing is there are numerous ways to stop or minimize this at this very moment. The fault here is very very few people are taking it as seriously as it should be. I just hope that people will get some sense before destroying this planet.
Hmmm... been downvoted and flagged. Here's my personal playlist I made for the day when Rupert Murdoch finally bites the dust, just a collection of ideas for those who read this article and are pushed to finally make their own if his actions over 89 hate-fuelled years haven't been enough already: "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Beautiful Day", "I gotta feeling", "Celebration", "Walking On Sunshine", "We Are The Champions", "Holiday", "Heal the World", "Lovely Day", "Another One Bites The Dust", "Don't Stop Believin'", "Chariots Of Fire".
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Uh, just be certain that the congresspeople already knew the answers to each question before they asked it and the purpose was to be able to tick a box saying "..and even in light of these FACTS, the company denied it on 7/30/2020 before this Committee" thus making it easier to condemn them and garner support for remedies/penalties already under consideration.
Turkey is wielding influence all over the Arab world
I'm wondering if this will cause a further reduction in traffic to certain Murdoch publications. The only profitable parts of their newspaper divisions seem to be centered around gambling.
I think it is wrong that these platforms promote certain content and even pay for the articles. This is how you get an unhealthy, nepotistic media landscape.
We are in it. That's pretty strange.
Should be Neural Net in the title :/
wow amazed pictures all the way back to 1980's hmm
This. I'm curious why We should use techs that could scale massively but has some limitation like Firebase DBs .
A year or two from now: Australia doesn't have mainstream news anymore after Google and Facebook ban links to them from its properties to avoid paying "for news".
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I think the example of an auto repair manual is illustrative. But because it's trained on real internet data, GPT-3 is actually quite good at "How-to".

For example, ask it a practical how to question like "how do I make a banana smoothie?" and you'll get a practical response. I haven't tested it, but I'm willing to bet you could get useful auto repair instructions for the most common models of vehicle right now without any special training. It might take some playing with the prompts, though.

If anything, GPT-3 is too tied to the real world. Like a search engine, it can quickly find the answer to almost any practical question. What we're trying to figure out is if it can do anything else.
For the record, Argos also operated in Ireland too, and hopefully most readers won't be surprised to learn it hasn't been part of the UK for about 100 years.

Otherwise the Argos nostalgia is identical.
Not everything is conspiracy. The US isn't unique here. Statistics is more important than it used to be. Schooling just hasn't changed.
It is interesting how they expand land, even make "islands" out in the seas(?)
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