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I hear that. The latest update to kde / plasma5 changed something enough that it took me 4 logins before I got a task manager. Dealing with these these super disruptive / breaking kde changes only a few times a year are why I run the stable packages rather than the -current packages. I think I'm just going to give up and switch to lxde
Here is the entry point that I read recently:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-parasites-important.html

This is the link above which made me overconfident to easily find on the web many examples of such natural regulations. But I could not find a lot... what is more easy to find is mathematical studies showing the effect on populations.

Here is one study considering the potential implications of parasites eradication:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222570/

For some particular examples, the red grouse is a bird whose population follows periodic cycles, and the cause is a parasite. Removal of the parasite smoothed out the population variations. You can imagine other species (plants or animals) whose own population cycles would be adapted to the old cycles, and these species would be impacted by the smoothing out of red grouses.

Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4694?seq=1

More generally, when a parasitic regulation disappears, the next in line would be resources regulation, that is the species starves when the food is scarce, and thus the population plummets. That could lead to a very different population dynamics (as the red grouse example shows, but there can be situations where the graph is sharpened instead of dampened like here), and because of that one or several species can disappear.
I don't think you can get a live feed of a location since the satellites generally aren't geostationary (geostationary orbit is too far away, and are always above the equator). But AFAIK even commercially you can get still photographs of any point on earth within a couple days (i.e. you don't have to be a nation state or have your own satellites)
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This has traditionally been a problem on Wall Street also -- if your bonus is based on profit, traders maximize profit (but also risk.)

Then the company wizes up and the bonus is based on profit with a risk cap...and traders maximize profit and minimize some form of risk (while taking on some other unmeasured liability, e.g., liquidity)
According to Wikipedia the Texas City disaster had just over 2000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explode (as opposed to 2700 in Beirut) which they claim to be “one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions”.

Was there some other factor that caused the Texas City to have a bigger blast?
> There's only one thing that destroys privacy even more thoroughly than ad targeting: payment.

I disagree with this. Maybe you can elaborate?

If I am paying for a service then there is no incentive to mine my personal data for revenue. It's a mutually beneficial transaction. And there are plenty of ways to hide your personal information (even your name) when paying for something (e.g. using a service like privacy.com).
This is really great work and quite well documented .. I can't help but wonder at the .. high granularity .. applications in the audio-synthesis world, where SERV's could be deployed at scale to assist in timbrality .. I guess this might be very useful in a DSP context for things other than MI-synthesis too .. definitely going to check back to see where this goes ..
>A common feature of most blockchain systems is that they store the entire history of every transaction ever made in a public ledger. This type of system works well when you have just a few users transacting with each other, but it is inefficient when you try to scale to large numbers. The reason for this is that the entire history of all transactions must be downloaded by everyone, which grows the ledger faster than it can be downloaded. With the block lattice approach, each user can store only the last part of the transaction history and not the entire chain. If you want to look back into the past, then you must communicate with other users who are further back in the history.

This ignores the fact a full node must download and verify the entire history of every transaction ever made in a public ledger. Block lattice or not.

This Initial Block Download still limits scalability.

Furthermore, most Bitcoin full nodes forget most of the history (called pruning) after they verified it, keeping only the set of unspent transaction outputs (UTXO set).

It certainly speaks to GPT-3's qualities that I find it worthwhile to debate its "wisdom":-)
Some scenes, foregrounds, backgrounds, lighting conditions, movements, etc work better than others - there's a lot of potential for errors in videos and the videos from the examples page are straight from Unscreen Pro. We're continuously working on improving the AI though (NB: We don't use video uploads for that - see unscreen.com/privacy)
Not GP, but I don't block youtube and I block most other stuff (because uBlock Origin blocks be default). Google is probably the most likely to track more info about me, but it's also obvious that the ads played factor into the money the content creators get, and I felt bad after a while of blocking their revenue stream.

It's also got me really close to paying for YouTube red, which is the other option,and o e I wouldn't consider without the annoyance of ads.
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Think about that logic for a bit about distribution of expertise vs control. Reducto ad absurdum wouldn't that say we should get rid of doctors? They have an insurmountable competitive advantage if we personally aren't at least a canidate for medical school. Never in our lives could we do better than them.

I think the sheer stupid fear leading to a tall poppy competence treatment is far more dangerous than the dark future ever could be from actually competent entities in charge that we could never do better than.
Its not just about shareholders. You can better spread bonuses for overall happiness of employees and overall better productivity.
When you come into a conversation not knowing your interlocutor's intentions, I believe it is deeply unethical, inefficient and really a complete waste of everyone's time and energy to assume based on some weak superficial heuristic rhetorical cues that they are simply repeating a divisive talking point that you've heard elsewhere.

Again it's this a priori assumption that the other person is dumb that has gotten us into this situation. It's also just bad manners. All else equal, I do not see how you can possible read what I wrote as specifically promoting anti-vaxers. I didn't say a word about vaccination. You're applying your own baggage to a simple message. Anti-vaxers are for the most part just frightened people who deserve compassion, not derision. They've simply overgeneralized a very rational fear of institutions that have indeed made some very careless decisions for profit.

If you treat every conversation as adversarial by default, you will continue making all your conversations worse. I recommend following the Gricean Maxims in your conversations. Be productive and cooperative with others until you are certain that they're not being productive and cooperative. That's when you leave the conversation. It's not as complicated as you're making it out to be.
2) costs lots of money, or you have to be a government.

following vehicles is near impossible commercially (resolutions are too low)
That's what makes "trust the science" or "trust the experts" a terrible mantra or budgeon to bash skeptical or uninformed people with. Whose science? What kind of science?
No offense intended, but the majority of work visa holders (H1B) are not in your scenario. I'm glad you are in a good situation (money wise).

I have seen them work for market average pay, but tolerate extreme hours and expectations that non-H1Bs would obviously reject.

The companies know what game they are playing in these scenarios - it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
> public health officials thought it was a good idea to lie to the public for months with vague dismissals of the benefits of masks - merely to protect supply chains for doctors

It was weeks, not months. By mid-march, conventional wisdom had shifted, as had most of the official rhetoric. This was before or simultaneous with most of the early lockdowns.

And it was wrong. But the real harm was caused much later when political actors started arguing not based on this early advice that masks were ineffective/harmful/tyrannical, or (even worse) that the expert advice now was not to be trusted because the experts then got it wrong.

Basically: the people who refuse to wear a mask aren't the ones slavishly honoring the whims of the WHO or Fauci, so I don't understand your point.
That's basically my position as well. I don't like ads, etc., but I don't run an ad-blocker. I did briefly have on installed, before browsers got better at preventing auto-playing audio though. That annoyed me enough to tip me over the edge. Now, it still happens here and there, but it doesn't seem to be as prevalent.
The employees want it, management want it, the owners want it – yes, considering user needs can sometimes be very low down on the list.
I just tried it based on your recommendation. Unfortunately it doesn't support private mode and I run Firefox in private mode.

Cookie AutoDelete works in private mode.
Disable it then, just because you're apathetic to such matters doesn't mean the application should assume everybody is.

>inconvenience

It's seriously doubtful you or any other user will notice any negative ramifications from third party cookies being deleted, because there basically are none.
Back when I did PHP, our company started using Laravel and it was amazing. The team was so much more productive with that framework and our platform was very easy to maintain. This article is bonkers. What a bizarre opinion, hopefully nobody listens to it.
That's a bit like when a site scolds you for putting spaces in your credit number, when it could just strip them automatically.
>> offered significant protection

Which, by the way, they do not if it's only the healthy who are wearing them or if people are wearing them with their nose sticking out above. And even if they did, C19 is now endemic, and without a vaccine (which might not ever materialize), everyone will get it eventually, if not now then 6 months from now. So lose that weight, deal with that blood pressure problem, manage your diabetes, while you still have the time.

As an aside, I find the response to C19 to be tragically (or comically, depending on your perspective) bad on the ground in almost all countries. Get this - one of the most reliable, easy to instantaneously test markers for whether you are _definitely_ infectious or not is _fever_. Contactless, accurate IR thermometers exist and could be deployed in arbitrary quantities. FLIR cameras also exist, and object detection algorithms can be run on-device in 2020 to identify the potentially sick people. And yet we do not measure people's body temperature when they enter public places such as a grocery store. It is well understood that we need to protect the elderly, yet instead of making it possible for the elderly to stay home indefinitely (by e.g. offering government sponsored groceries, or at least grocery delivery) we make them go to the grocery store. Several states went as far to thin the herd as to put C19 patients _into nursing homes_, which is absolutely insane. Medical personnel in some of those nursing homes is still not sufficiently isolated from the general population. Close to a half of US deaths are from those nursing homes - the statistic has been known for a couple of months now, but you won't find it in the press, for obvious reasons.

Why is this? Remember cringing when you had to vote for local candidates? People with little to no qualifications, some of whom (at least where I live) tell you in their candidate disclosure they're mentally ill? Those same people, after they are elected, go up the ladder, and some of them end up in the higher level positions in local and state governments. It's similar to Gell-Mann amnesia, in a way. They're still inept and insane. They're only there because other candidates were even worse. Yet people imbue them with some magical leadership and intellectual qualities they do not possess and rely on them with their lives.

There should really be "against all" option on the ballot.
> we're also now being told that a bandanna or any piece of cloth is a suitable replacement for a mask.

We are not. But we are being told it's better than no face covering, which is true.

You are, personally, wearing a mask though, right?
> Yeah, you get domesticated cats where there are grain crops

Right. You need grain crops to make cheezburgers, after all.
In the age of structured web APIs, the lack of types also makes generating those API services needlessly complicated. Rails was pretty nice in the days we were dumping out simple HTML pages on the fly, but those days are gone for most projects. While it has certainly tried, Rails has not done a good job keeping up with the times. A lot of that falls on the limitations of Ruby.
The Carolinas are very Republican. California is very Democrat. That's just one measure.

They're also geographically literally the other side of the country.
> BTW, giving this advice depresses me. I'm constantly amazed companies make such a weak effort to retain employees via good compensation policies. The cost of recruiting and interviewing candidates, not to mention training new hires, is huge.

On the other hand, turnover can bring a new perception to a problem. I have no idea what the value of that relative to the cost of recruiting and onboarding. In some companies like FAANGs it wouldn't surprise me if some level of turnover was intentional. Google probably benefits to some degree by hiring engineers that just quit over at Amazon; it gives them an insight into how Amazon is solving X problem, which may inform how Google tackles that problem.
Every generation throughout history believed it was a reasonable assumption that their state-of-the-art medical care was a net benefit. We're no different in that regard. This is a matter of faith, not hard fact. Intuitively this feels like a "simple question of fact" that I should be able to google and find in seconds. But it's a real brain scratcher. I love questions like that.
> How is it even plausible that sunlight does not have significant health benefits, given that Europeans evolved to have pale skin because they lived in high latitude environments?

No one is arguing that sunlight doesn’t have benefits. We just don’t know if those benefits are mediated through vitamin D (in which case supplementation could be enough!) or something else.
That is insane... Makes you wonder why on earth people think its a good idea to have weapons that can cause 100s of times the damage then this horrible event.
Workaround:

1. Shift+Ctrl+D to bookmark all open tabs (in the current browser window) in a new bookmark folder.

2. Right-click on the new bookmark folder and select "Copy".

3. Then paste into your favorite text editor.
I'm not sure if the graying out is the best approach. However, in real life, people may look at you funny, and if they do, others will notice this.

Tangentially, the lack of body language feedback is a major reason people are such assholes online. It doesn't exactly feel like you are talking to a real person and you aren't getting realtime feedback, so it is harder to adjust to the other person or even just treat them reasonably.
Well we know that Google would put elements on YouTube to prevent Edge from using hardware acceleration.

So there might be a factor there.
But perhaps it could be an add-on.
I discovered that Lastpass injection feature to autofilled had a performance impact.

Switched to Bitwarden and it was noticibly faster.
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In reality tho, there's a lot of manual work involved haha. Thank you! I get the images from Amazon api https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/.
Cherry picked, yes, but the author says they also edited the "GPT-3" article to some extent. The extent to which this was done is what I'm wondering about.
part 2 is https://www.techbuzzchina.com/bytedance/kelly-nan-zhang-byte...
To me, that wording looks like a scam attempt or a malware threat, and most first-level techs I've worked with would reject it out of hand for that reason.
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It's a wide variety of sites. Local news, tech news, science mags, other special interest sites, porn, discussion forums, Q&A sites, some social media. It's impossible to list them all.

Essentially, it's the great variety of what's available on the open Web that I don't want to lose. I don't want everything to become one big app store with all its suffocating narrow-mindedness and oppressive control freakery.
I don't think this tweet conflicts with what I wrote.
And physicists: https://xkcd.com/793/
I thought it did but you had to click to activate it.

Only watched one once and feel like that’s where I did.
That's mineral oil, not cooking oil. Mineral oil doesn't go rancid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Do...
> it just seemed like the startup thing to do

This motivation sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Yeah, doesn't make sense to compare SV to "the Carolinas" any more than it makes sense to compare the research triangle in NC to "California". Both states contain proverbial multitudes.
We've built Unscreen on top of the tech of remove.bg, at least partly, and the #1 design goal for both products is a high result quality. We've summarized a few of the improvements recently here, if you're curious: https://www.remove.bg/b/introducing-remove-bg-x2
remove bg/unscreen are pretty much cool ML applications looking for a market
My understanding is that very few people go past the first page.
People should have the right to choose not to use it. Tik Tok isn't a monopoly for obvious reason. That level of government intervention would be unprecedented.
Firefox already includes many of these, some of those plugins are redundant or unnecessary.
Absolutely, the main feature any ORM needs before I will consider it, is how easy is it to write raw SQL with the ORM. Because you always have to do this on every large application, and if an ORM gets in your way, it's more hindrance than helpful. Actually love Laravel's ORM Eloquent, because it works for 99% cases, and gets out of your way and lets you populate Laravel models with raw SQL queries when you want to. After using many ORMs in many languages, it's still my favorite.
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1. Yes. Not just state actors - Planet Labs (https://www.planet.com/) in San Francisco, for example, is a commercial satellite company that photographs the whole globe once per day and sells that imagery online.

2. Live feed is a bit tricky, and that's where governments have an advantage - they own their own satellites, and can task them to follow a specific target. But you have to know where the target is at the start of the window, they don't have real-time video of the whole planet, and unless you've got a very big fleet you won't always have a satellite overhead when you want to look at your target.

3. Keeping track of the times of satellite passes overhead, hiding stuff underground, putting your aircraft in covered hangars and only moving them at night, putting a roof on your military docks, using upwards-facing camouflage, etc. Same methods that have been used for a hundred years to hide from air surveillance.
Yup, like Messenger.
When there are multiple parallel time-lines, you have to input a move for each one before you can advance to the next turn. But to win, you have to mate just one of the opponent's kings. One player can have multiple kings on one board, because they can move through time and between time-lines.

I have no idea what high-level play will end up looking like, but the streamer from whom I learned the above [0] said that the most common way to win is to mate a king on a board in the past. Those already have their options of escaping an attack restricted by ordinary chess rules; it gets worse when you can make additional threats from the future.

[0] https://youtu.be/LOotGsWbaeA
It seems like Instagram is Facebook's anti-competitive tool. Whenever some new social network crops up, Facebook bolts on a clone to Instagram. Eventually it's going to be such a bloated mess it's going to cease being useful to anyone.
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I remember this. https://daintree.app/#/
I hope you are not seriously suggesting making price gouging in disasters legal as a method of preparation.

Price gouging is nowhere near a reliable method of disaster preparation as actual expert planning.

The stockpiles you speak of are usually just ordinary current inventory marked up by an order(s) of magnitude.

Also, stockpiling goods is not the only thing needed for disaster preparation. One must also stockpile services, i.e., have the right people recruited, trained, equipped, and ready to respond. Prime examples are military and firefighters, who spend a much time & resources training, and little time actually fighting the wars or fires.
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Old news. Surprised this is still making any headlines -- people have been writing about this STEM myth for the better part of the decade now.
I get this, I usually ignore this bubble on website and I ignore it even more when it pops up and pretends to chat with me. So, I'm glad someone tried to remove it and got even better results.
Short version of a long story! A few years ago Google implemented autoplay blocking in Chrome. It was designed to fix problems like this, but was riddled with issues.

I wrote about it at https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/. The spec evolved a little bit since then, so not everything in that post is up to date, but most of the core problems still remain (or did the last time I checked).

Firefox was forced to follow suit, and to their credit their spec was a lot more sensible, but it was really only papering over the problems in the Chrome spec. It wasn't at a fundamental level thinking about video/audio differently than Chrome was, it was just trying to do the same thing minus the egregiously bad decisions.

I feel like a lot of the problems with hijacked interactions on the web can be traced back to spec histories like this.

A good implementation of video/audio blocking:

- wouldn't reveal to the page that audio was blocked, it would either silently mute the audio or refuse to render the video without reporting an error.

- wouldn't have exceptions based around trying to interpret user intent or (in Chrome's case) exceptions based on how you navigated to the page.

- wouldn't try to distinguish between things like GIFs, animated backgrounds, and videos (they're all moving pictures that use data and distract motion-sensitive users, you don't need to treat them differently)

My (subjective) opinion is that video autoplaying never really got better because we never really tackled the problem correctly from the start, and since then we've just been continuing to apply band-aides on top of a fundamentally broken strategy.

> am I the only one?

Depending on how much you hate this and how much effort you're willing to put into getting rid of it, disabling 3rd-party Javascript will fix the problem on most news sites.

Nearly all of them that I run into load the Javascript to run the player from a separate script being served from a separate subdomain or CDN. It's usually possible (even for news sites that require Javascript) to block that script in specific, or load just enough Javascript to get the page rendering and nothing else.