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> Watching an unusually well-Foleyed action movie on a good sound system can probably fool any recognition system Google can jam into next year's $150 smart speaker.

Sure, but pair that with "Shazam!" style song recognition and now it knows you're watching a movie, and what movie it is, and can more easily filter for false positives there, no?
I don't understand how this is surprising or why this is a bad thing. Comparing a country's actions to ethical ideals is great, but it is subjective and does not achieve much. The only realistic benchmark is to compare one country to another.

There is also the aspect of hypocrisy that leaves a bad taste. Putin criticizing the lack of black rights in the US is just as hypocritical as the US claiming to take military action to promote democracy.
who cares? not our problem.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090817 points out that rats, rather uniquely, cannot process erucic acid (part of canola oil) and the rat studies likely do not apply to most other mammals (including humans).
> The agreement needs to be reciprocal. China should have to jump through the same hoops if it wants to do business in the US, UK, Australia, etc

Then deal with the woke cries of xenophobia.
Yes, I agree that you should also not dismiss the brain when making decisions. This is widely assumed to be the desired, appropriate behavior. (Whereas dismissing your gut is widely regarded as the right thing to do, which is actually a wrong thing to do and is an avoidable bad decision.)

However, I think you underestimate the brain thinking that the anti-vaxxers are making—-believe me, they have done hardheaded rationalization of their beliefs.

Egg-headed decisions come from bad brain thinking, not from trusting your gut.
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I can't help but feel pity for the author here. They've correctly been able to see through all of these tactics and psychological hacks employed by the marketing industry, but then they've gone on and tried to better themselves and made a big ol fool of themselves trying to do it.

The fact of the matter is that proving things and making a strong point in an argument is HARD. To really convince people about complex issues, you can't just make claims and then cite references. Complex issues will often have aspects where both sides can make well referenced scientific arguments in favour of their side. Hell, if tobacco could do it, why the author expects to do so much better when they try the exact same thing a few paragraphs later is beyond me.

I certainly don't have a great solution either here, but I can say that the things in my life which have nudged my thinking have not been better someone who cited a better reference, or who argues harder for one side. It's been someone who explains as much as possible about the underlying mechanisms involved, and why something is BOTH good and bad which is almost always the case. This usually takes around an hour or 2 of presentation, and is presented by someone who has done years of research in a field. That's what did it for me and sugar at least: https://robertlustig.com/sugar-the-bitter-truth/
Here in Australia my expensive fibre connection still has no ipv6 support. I file an issue every year or so to my ISP asking when they're going to add ipv6 support, so at least they know I care. But the answer is always "Its not on the roadmap".

Its difficult to remember to write ipv6-compatible software when I can't use or test it myself. Short of writing to my member of parliament and asking them to legislate it, I'm not sure what else I can do.
I think you are missing GP's point: a parent post to theirs is suggesting piping exhaust gasses from cars into the very small space that cabin has. Our sewage does go to rivers, lakes or seas (a huge environmental issue as well), so GPs example is quite to the point, because that's the equivalent in water use (with the benefit that our apartments are bigger and we do not reuse the water right away so there is more time to filter waste out).

If you still don't get the parallel, let's move one step up: all greenhouse gasses produced from your energy use in your apartment have to stay in (including those from coal power plants, grocery production and delivery...). Sorry, no opening windows for you to get your own CO2 out to other people.

My point is that air is a shared resource, and thus a shared responsibility. But someone turning the narrative extreme does not help drive any solution forward (I am reminded of Stan's dad Randy getting a Prius in Southpark).
Of course I can imagine those problems! Those problems are brought up literally every time I mention that in-home speakers are not the end-of-the-world-nightmare-scenario so many people treat them as.

I just don’t particularly care.

Also if someone wants to cut out the middleman and buy my personal conversations directly, feel free to reach out. Great value! Last night I talked about weed and Top Chef!
It depends on your role entirely. Management level or engineer you don't need to be a drinker only on certain social company events. If you are on the Sales team you likely need to be in order to close deals and be part of the team. However I am curious if that is changing within the new Covid ERA. Hopefully this is vestiges of the past and we will move past an alcohol based era. It can be a catalyst for problems in the workplace. To be fair it does have some positive attributes as well. edit: typos
Not sure if someone who'd genuinely take issue with someone else not drinking would make a quality friend. Perhaps a good acquaintance, friend-of-convenience or friend-for-a-purpose, but friend-friend?
> It occurred to me the weak link for the Blue Marble team is wisdom. Humanity has achieved sufficient technological power to change the course of life and the entire global ecosystem, but we seem to lack the perspective to choose wisely between alternative futures.

Are we any wiser today?
Wouldn't touch nut milks/seed milk unless I made it myself and got rid of all the lectins beforehand...
> there are plenty of horrible intermediate steps which could happen

I just don’t believe any of these are particularly horrible when considered in the context of the assorted horrors of the world today.
Most allergies are to a protein in the thing you are allergic to, and refined oils that have a high smoke point usually have all of that removed (or it would cause the oil to smoke.) I have a peanut allergy but can eat anything fried by a cheap restaurant in Sysco peanut oil while I have had a reaction to something done by a three star restaurant because they used unrefined oil (looking at you Manressa...)
Teslas are actually pretty bad in this sense, since they are fairly heavy and sporty. My car (a Nissan Leaf) makes me feel bad if I push it too hard (specifically, it has a deeply unsatisfying acceleration curve while in “Eco” mode) and is much lighter, and I think cars like that would be better for this kind of thing.
Here is the preprint on ChemRxiv:

https://chemrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Reinforcing_the_Suppl...

Title is slightly editorialized to remove "AI" buzzword from title.
A common misconception.

“Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
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> Apart from you question not being in good faith

Never attribute to malice that which…

> there have always been business models to support publishing and providing services that do not rely on adverstising and these models are well known

I am sure that these models exist, I just don't know about them because I haven't done the research. It would be easier for everyone if you just listed a few viable funding models for a search giant.

> Push advertising is unethical and culturally toxic

That is your opinion, and not one that most people share — most people think that advertising is an acceptable trade-off for good search results. If you want to persuade people of anything, you'll have to meet them where they're at, either by convincing us first that advertising is "unethical and culturally toxic", or by using some other argument.
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I am running iOS 14 beta right now - certainly a good update.

In my perfect world, there would be excellent open source software and hardware designs for home monitoring, etc., where we would have 100% control of our own data. We don't have a perfect world, and right now, Apple seems like the best bet (for me at least) for a company to trust (with healthy skepticism).
IAM is hard; but deciding that a web proxy shouldn't have access to IAM credentials should be easy. This is why I wrote imds-filterd.
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Why do we see this thing over-and-over-and-over again? It isn't true. It never was. Stop repeating it.
Interesting. I was going to suggest that was from using the English rather than the Spanish keyboard but I just saw my iPhone do that on the latter as well.
Quoting this study https://actascientific.com/ASNH/pdf/ASNH-02-0083.pdf (note: I get an error opening the PDF)

> Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) yielded low levels of polar compounds and oxidative by-products, in contrast to the high levels of by-products generated for oils such as canola oil.

But I formed my position from many other points, the degradation in public health in the USA has tracked perfectly with the switch from animal fats to seed oils for cooking (and other uses but frying is the worse offender)
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They have been actively moving to federated learning and analytics so far less data leaves your phone:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collab...
> If you want short term solutions; government guarantee of a place in mass housing (not particularly pleasant conditions, but indoors, safe & sanitary) + 3 meals a day. People shouldn't be starving on the street but people need to fund their own lifestyles - not taxpayers.

Be honest, what you're suggesting has nothing to do with cost effectiveness for the taxpayer and everything to do with believing that people should be made to suffer if the "market wants" (a phrase that you used above without any apparent irony) them to suffer.

It's definitely not about saving the taxpayer money. The $600/month we're debating in the United States is quite cheap compared to what you suggested. As a brief exercise in costing out your solution, consider what the government spends per day putting a person up in a barracks, incarceration facility, shelter, or literally anywhere at any time.
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Now that venture funding is much more widespread and entrepreneurship more celebrated (and I would argue more sophisticated), I wonder how much this advice applies.

Wouldn't a smart competitor wait to see what's working from a bootstrapped pioneer then pass them by with tons of VC cash as rocket fuel?
>I can't see an answer outside of decoupling

Maybe stop relying on IP as your business strategy ? Always be innovating so that you always be one step ahead those who copying.
This comes off as crazy and abusive gaslighting behaviour to me. I understand that founders being somewhat narcissistic is almost cliché at this point but that is behaviour that no human should be proud of...
As for Jupyter notebooks, REPL-driven development in Clojure gives you the same ease (arguably better) of messing around with code while also scaling to serious software dev. Though it's not as nice for sharing with others.

If you're working in an environment where there's a lot of collaboration Clojure might be tough. But if you're actually going to be developing software that relies on data analysis (rather than just doing it as a one off) I think Clojure might be worth considering.
wumao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Sounds impressive, then you read the article and realize they surveyed 23 companies in total. I don’t even know what’s 1 in 5 in that context. Four? Five?
Does the existence of the worst thing make the less bad things not matter?

Then I could solve all your worries save one by stabbing you in the neck. But I don't think that's a good deal.
I do find it funny how HN used to really bemoan the strict IP laws of the US, especially when it comes to software or medicine.... but if it's China getting around those laws then boo them.
I don’t understand how anyone even came to the idea of offering $5/week as unemployment benefits. It seems like more of a joke or slap in the face than anything else
*edited “or” instead of “of”
It might not, but your “proper” drivers may be of poor quality and expose you to other issues.
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Enjoy your privilege of not being interesting or important enough to be the target of criminal activity or government opppression. Millions of people aren't so lucky, and they deserve empathy as they work to build a better world for you to carelessly enjoy.
This abuse was always likely to happen. We’ve yet to discover what secret subpoenas that get filed to eavesdrop on possible felons or other persons of interest. A wireless mic to the cops is not what you want in the house.
Yep. Naming things is hard.

First there was actually the Prologue theme, then P2 was the second version (~2010?). Then O2 because “communication is oxygen for an organization”. Now back to P2 because that is the name that has stuck and everyone uses.

We (Automattic) use it as both a noun and a verb at this point. P2 or it didn’t happen.
Haha that's a fantastic story!
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Thanks, that looks exactly like what I was missing! Will try that out sometime soon! In my defense, "page 115 of a pdf file" is not typically indexed by search engines afaik ;)
I am with you on this. Google sent me a free Google Home Mini a few months ago and I have an Amazon echo device. I sometimes like to experiment with both devices. I plug them in, use them, then unplug them.

Interesting technology, but I would rather have everything on hardware and software that I control.
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There are plenty of FOIA requests where the responder simply has to do a quick search of digital internal records that already exist but aren't "public" in the same way that PACER records aren't "public" because they're behind a paywall. Further, it's no longer the case that "most" such requests require human intervention such as "perform[img] manual searches on non-digitized or poorly indexed data," though it is true someone needs to check for redactions. Think of the average case being like the high touch PACER option: someone takes your FOIA request, performs an internal digital search, checks to make sure results look good, and emails them to you.

I'd say in this way they're relatively analogous, though you're partially correct in pointing out some of the differences.
> Ghost Dog (1999)

That really is a great movie. It doesn’t seem to get much attention, so I’m happy to see someone mentioning it here.
... which cover five nines of use case. A fragmented ecosystem would give us three to five sites to search that still cover only five nines of the use case, based on past experience.
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> obesity in transgenic mice.

I definitely read this as "obesity in transgender mice" the first couple times and was seriously wondering if that was actually a thing.
Do you want to bet your life on whether someone found that feature idea exciting enough for a promotion project at work?

Even if the feature works perfectly, were still talking about (hypothetically, as this isn't a real feature yet) automatically summoning a platoon of people with the
de facto legal right to kill you if they send danger which is exactly the reason they were called just because a potentially dangerous noise was heard
https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to...

I guess you have to choose your 'experts' carefully though. Blind faith in expert opinion is one reason the US has done so badly against COVID. Just because it wasn't clear that masks would really help doesn't mean that erring on the side of caution was not the right course. Finally we know that the pro-mask position was the right one, but it's already too late for the countries that listened to the experts from WHO and the CDC and Dr. Fauci and others. The majority of experts were clearly anti-mask.
Not to mention, in the US, a large amount of people "moving to the countryside", usually results in that countryside turning into polluted auto-dependent sprawl with 6 lane roads and a ton of traffic.

At least in the city you have constraints on how much traffic can fit and alternatives to driving.
Carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered in ancient Chinese city
It seems he fell into a classic trap, the Chinese partner never intended to make cars, as the only product they ever produced is a Smart-like "mini-four-wheel-car", which was itself stolen from an HK student design.

So the plan is quite apparent, the Chinese partner just wanted his reputation and brand recognition, in exchange for promised access to the China market, to leverage huge land quota (state controlled lucrative resource, highly coveted) and bank/government loans. It never planed to make any real cars, it's just a capital play to game and profit off of the system, like pennies for grands.
>It's just that CEOs that see a virgin population of over a billion consumers for their widgets can't help themselves and will agree to just about anything to be able to tap that market before their competition does.

Isn't that the point of forbidding it? You can't enter the market, but neither can your competitor, so there's no FOMO.
I get that. I can give up seeing the Louvre this summer.

But my loved one is in another country and the last thing my heart needs is more lock-downs. We need to consider what closed borders are doing to bi-national married / unmarried couples. They've been a largely ignored demographic during this pandemic and collateral damage due to the broad and sweeping policies that have taken place on the borders.
According to Wikipedia, Palm copied the “Pocket PC” from the PDA, who knew. Or was it Microsoft first named the “Pocket PC” the “Palm PC”. So as to render confusion in the public mind and steal market share. That's probably when Palm became “a newer entrant into the Pocket PC market”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC
>A wireless mic to the cops is not what you want in the house.

Yeah, that belongs in your pocket.
It might be good from a culinary perspective, perhaps smoke point is irrelevant, I was thinking of what causes degradation of the fats when subjected to heat.
This sort of 'nudge' is stupidly passive aggressive and frankly condescending and infantilizing.

Companies should really just grow the fuck up and stop doing stupid, cutsey things like pretending adults really just typo a reference to a bird regularly.
Relevant news coverage in Chinese: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
> What sucks about these languages is complex sentences that look like loose English but are actually formal syntax.

I really like this though!

It's true, you can't just write English sentences and expect the computer to understand you—you have to learn the "formal syntax". But, once you've written that code, it comes out as English sentences, so you can read what your code is doing in English!

I love this. I've never used Hypercard (too young), but I do use Applescript, which was based on Hypertalk's syntax and which—sometimes, when Applescript isn't being crappy—has the same property.

If there are other modern languages that do this effectively and can be used for more than just macOS automation, I'd love to know about them...
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Was the main problem the glucose spike? Could a person just test it out by measuring their blood glucose levels?
Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
Hi Hacker News,
Few months ago I met someone that shook my world a little. Things were a little crazy and happened over 3 different continents in a very short time. It was wonderful, and it was greyscale. It was grandiose, and it was so desperately poor. It didn't work out.

In the beginning of our relationship, just when I was about to leave the country for a few months, I made them a website. A small one, with some notes and songs and interpretations. I'm not a painter and I'm not a musician. Coding was my go-to tool when I wanted to tell them stuff.

Recently, love wilted but the website stayed [0]. I thought, all those things that we're doing because of love, aren't they great? Aren't they a beautiful expression of us being humans? Perhaps stupid, senseless, silly - but loving humans. I'm sure I'm not the first one to create something digital, online, out of love. I wished there was this exhibition where people could go and feel some warmth, and be reminded of the different ways love looks like.

Did you ever code something for love? Or any other digital form of creation? It would be great if people could share things they've done, and also, if they feel comfortable, I'd be happy to know if they want to get a subdomain at *.thingslovemademedo.com [1] and have their content there. I'm obviously not asking for any copyright permissions, just playing with the thought of creating this anonymous archive of all-things-love. And before someone asks, no, there will never be any ads or analytics there, and I have no plans on monetizing this...

[0] chelsea.thingslovemademedo.com
[1] thingslovemademedo.com
In general, any photo you see anywhere is going to be cherry-picked. Of course, that only goes so far. If you have a crowded school corridor with almost no one wearing masks, well--that happened. But it's hard to draw broad conclusions generally because of what seems like a somewhat crowded restaurant or an empty street.

A lot of people also bring their own beliefs about what is appropriate to the interpretation and discussion.
Because before giving lessons to others you should be irreproachable.

What would you think of Dijkstra if you suddenly discovered that he still wrote goto infested spaghetti code after his notorious "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" paper ?

So yes we should criticize China as the bad actor that it is, but let's not forget that the western world is hardly an example (a good one I mean ;)
The best way to learn something is incredibly subjective. I looked at SICM once, and I got nothing out of it. I learned classical mechanics from Arnold's "Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics". Now, I have total conviction that this is obviously the best way to learn it and I find it incomprehensible that anyone could disagree. And yet virtually nobody learns classical mechanics that way, so it's probably more of a idiosyncratic fact about me, and not a universal truth.