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I'm not sure you are totally correct, even though I would agree that some of the stuff he lists as part of the linked revelations about the aerial surveillance programs run by various FBI and DHS organizations, is not at really as nefarious as he makes it may seem … at least not yet.

The reason that you will likely not see certain military flights report on any flight tracking systems is that you are likely close to special military use airspace. Other times when military air vehicles are traversing space, they are also flying in special aerial corridors reserved for that purpose and under military flight control. It's not the military that any of this would involve.

Something that will become more of an issue is that rather advanced UAVs have been authorized for use domestically now too, likely precisely because of the discovery of these types of aerial surveillance operations. They would be operating at altitudes that are also special use and would therefore also be flying blind, i.e., not signaling.

That said, these types of operations would be for the surveillance of far more interesting people than you likely are, i.e., hispanic cartel operators and leaders living in the USA, terrorists, both muslim and likely increasingly leftist, etc. These are not surveillance programs that would be following you after running a red light.

Unfortunately, the relatively low altitude aerial surveillance programs using eye in the sky type technology are actually very good crime solving tools because they allow for backtracking or even following perpetrators after the fact.

Unfortunately too, as with most major technology transitions like the one we are going though, they will likely have to be grossly abused and misused before people wake up and realize the utter destruction they cause requires controlling them, e.g., nuclear weapons, chem/bio weapons, fire/carpet bombing, etc. And we are unfortunately nowhere near a necessary number of people realizing the awful potential of the abuses being and which will still be perpetrated.
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> I do wish we had some better cross-platform solutions though, instead of cementing nVidia's hegemony. There's no technical reason why GPGPU should be any more difficult on AMD hardware.

Then look no further than GPUCompiler.jl. Tim factored out all the platform agnostic parts of CUDA.jl (successor of CuArrays.jl and CudaNative.jl) into GPUCompiler.jl and that is now being used by the AMDGPU.jl package. It works today!
Hello Manisha, that is very kind of you, and I admire your work. I will agree I am the most motivated and accountable person in their lives.
Maybe elaborate your comment further to prevent confusion? When you commented

>"I hear ya, but something smells real bad about how Epic decided to wage this war"

I read it as

"I agree that the situation is unfair but I disagree with how they decided to uncover it because it was deliberate".
Many geodesic domes were designed exactly this way. And with vents at the bottom to let in cool air.

Eg http://www.eps2016-wiki4.dee.isep.ipp.pt/lib/exe/fetch.php?m...
Considering that Computer Sciences are in a software crisis since the 70ies, with no end in sight I'm not that sure they have anything useful to offer, except bloat, sidechannel attacks, cargo culting and enabling of BS-jobs, which they promised to eliminate.

I really don't get your point.
"major changes in cognition can go either way. Be careful!"

I read some spiritual books about LSD in my late teens and I almost believed the "holy spiritual drug changing consciousness" motive.

But I was cautious and never took it and wanted to wait for the right time (it never came so far). One of the main reasons of waiting longer was, that I met some LSD gurus in real live - who where just retards.

So I focused more on staying clear .. but a bit later I also met quite some "clear" people who never do or did drugs, but only meditated - and they were also so disconnected from reality, I found it even quite faszinating. Not illuminated. Just disconnected.

So, when I meditate, my focus is to connect more to reality. And to find a balance between it all. Drugs can be tools. Various meditation technics can be tools. Nothing is the universal golden way. Find the right balance of technics, that works for you. That is my takeaway after quite some years exploring the area.
If we reduce people to pure levels of drive and motivation, maybe it’s a reasonable comparison.

However, in my experience the types of people who thrive in climbing the corporate ladder (Facebook included as a bureaucratic corporation) are very different from the types of people who seek out building their own successful companies. There’s less overlap between the two personality types than you might expect.
yes, you can run regular sql queries on your database where you can join/group tables.

if you want to join/group static files (like csv/excel), then you'd need import your files into dropbase DB first and then run sql query on that DB.

let me know if this answered your questions.
Do you know what the half life of methane in the atmosphere is? I did a search for it but couldn't find it.
His job affects peoples lives. He certainly is human. I'm not criticising his project. I'm not saying he can't have personal hobbies.
And I'm not the one that decides the bar.

I'm saying that there is a bar and it's higher when lives depend on it.

There is a long list of activities that people could do in their personal time that would be considered inappropriate. What is done outside of work is relevant. It can form part of a character assessment which can have political and legal ramifications.

If Tesla ends up with a dangerous product then it becomes very relevant.
Cheap housing and low utility bills would be prime selling points.

IDK how you keep such a city from dilapidating though.
The "making of" is almost as impressive: Braudel was an involuntary resident of Oflag XII-B while working on it.
That's odd because new Chinese cities, in my view, are probably the least exemplary, to the point of dystopian. Other than some pragmatism concerning density, there's nothing to love unless you like miles of fantastically ugly concrete.

Think: if you didn't have to worry about work or money, and could live 'anywhere' - where would it be? Almost all of the aspirational places are not 'planned'. They're generally made before cars and therefore 'human sized'.

Do you fantasise about living in the suburbs (ie generally more planned?) probably not. People live there because of space, lower prices, but not because they're otherwise idyllic.

Some 'nice things' we get from 'planning' (more consistent rooftop solar) would be overwhelmed by all the inhuman artefacts.

Most places in W. Europe offer 'good living standards' - beautiful and 'postcard idyllic' situations that go on and on and on. (The jobs are lacking, but not civic beauty).

If we can somehow figure out transport without cars, and get a lot of the ugly infrastructure 'out of the way' - that would be nice. But otherwise, we already know how to make 'human sized' places.

Edit: I should add, nobody wants to move to such planned cities, unless they are implored by their condition to seek opportunity, i.e. jobs. People in happy situations don't seek this out.
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> Google was a bit smarter about avoiding potential anti-trust though, because they at least give the illusion of choice with 3rd party app stores.

I'd argue the opposite -- one of Epic's allegations is that Google scuttled a deal Epic had reached with OnePlus to ship Epic's own Android app store.
It's useful at burning incredible amounts of energy doing essentially nothing useful.

It currently uses about 0.25% of the world's electricity, which, for a market cap of ~100B, is an astounding waste.

Global currency trading, at $6+T per day, at that scale, would use 15% of global world electricity usage, which is more than any country besides US and China.
Could it have been "probably the most financially successful video game of all time" if it hadn't agreed to the terms of the various consoles and phone stores?
Apps usually rely on ADS-B data, rather than IFF. US military planes to my knowledge don't use ADS-B.
> That 8% return is about as risk free as you can get

Yeah no. The S&P 500 lost about 35% of its value in 2008. If that's the year your kid starts college or you were planning to put down a big down payment on your first house, you'd be completely fucked.

I used to think the same way as you, but when you get a little older and major life milestones and/or retirement aren't distant concepts it'll change your perspective.
> Why is there no app store for personal team apps?

Honestly, for most people the App Store is good enough. For a long, long time, it wasn't good enough, and Apple was much stricter. As it got better, Apple started loosening the restrictions around deploying whatever you want to your device. People didn't really notice, and that's because the App Store was good enough. I suspect this was the game plan all along.
You need to re-sign it frequently because the certificate is only short-lived, and I think there are difficulties in signing existing binaries that make it mostly only useful for things you can distribute the source for.

It's not really an alternative to an app store. There are also enterprise signing certificates for distributing custom apps within large companies without these restrictions, along with cases in the past where people have abused this to distribute; these are usually shut down pretty quickly as a blatant violation of the licencing agreement.
Depends on what rules you break, but yes generally they will.
Wikipedia says the very opposite of what you're claiming.
I live in Gilroy, and we've had 3 days of 105+ weather. When the house I live in was built, they put in a 3-ton unit, which was complete fine for the first 20 years my family lived here. I replaced it a few years ago with a 4-ton unit, and added extra blown-in insulation. It has barely kept up with the heatwave. Next is dual-pane windows, I guess. There are a lot of folks with less who are straight-out suffering. They re-opened the local library to function as a cooling center. Difficult to do during covid, but heatstroke is dangerous, too. Rough times.
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Ask HN: What tools does the news use?
What tools do news writers (either for publication or broadcast) use to get context when writing articles or monologues?

I'm thinking about politics specifically, though this is a more general question. How do writers get context when reporting about, for example, the passage of a bill in the legislature? Who voted which way, what were their previous votes on this bill, what were their previous votes on similar bills, what are their published policy points, what have they said publicly about this bill, what have they said about similar bills, what analysis has been done on the bill, what has already been written or broadcast about this bill, what has the president said about the bill, etc.?

This would be a great application for a knowledge graph. I'm envisioning a tool that allows for browsing and searching, in addition to a browser extension that automatically adds context and links to context directly to the web page being viewed.
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It was a mother and juveniles, and it would have been decades ago.
Maybe not exactly "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kindom" but something similar.

[]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Kingdom
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Well, there's some practical considerations - getting the refresh rate sync'd up, avoiding or filtering moire patterns out, getting the colors and such just right, things like that. However, it's possible enough that most theater projectors already have DRM restrictions that shut the system down if you start fiddling with the image path. The password to authorize an image path change is only handed out to supervisors. Evidently, access to such codes were so uncommon that, during the 3D movies era of last decade, most projectionists wouldn't bother swapping out 3D stereographic filters for 2D showings because it would require getting management involved.
Isn’t it a bit naive that we ever believed the notarization feature would not be used to blacklist developers for business reasons? I feel like a chump now.

It is definitely clear that apple does not have the best interest of me, their customer, at heart. Epic were being very sneaky towards Apple, but not malicious towards users in any way. Apple is being malicious. If I want to run Epic’s software without disabling security features of the OS I feel I’ve definitely spent enough money on my iMac to get a say in that. This is the sort of thing 90’s microsoft would have done. “It’s just business, they knew what they were getting into.” would have been Gates’ excuse for throwing them from the windows platform.
That advice might be feasible for the average HN reader, but what about the average person? How resistant do you think they will be against a social engineering attack telling them to disable code signing?
Ha,this! I have a running joke with my friends about the ironies we see in the world. Pro poor politicians living in posh areas sending their kids to private school. In my culture no one talks about sex yet we have a healthy birth rate in and out of wedlock. Older generation don't like booze so many of us drink like fish at our own homes then are teetotalers when visiting parents. It does get tiring I must say. Luckily with age I don't really like to drink so much anymore.
I’m not sure why the measurement problem is so difficult to understand for some; your explanation of it is very clear. You don’t have to believe in anything supernatural or mysterious to recognize there is a clear inconsistency here with “quantum systems sometimes evolve unitarily”.
> It doesn't feel any more mature than goading someone into throwing a punch at you so you can claim to be "defending yourself" when really you were just being a douche and you got what you asked for.

Still, illegal, and that's the question being litigated here.

You can stick anything you want in an EULA but it's not automatically enforceable. If Apple started adding a stipulation that your first-born would be a slave to Tim making iPhones for life, that wouldn't be enforceable. In general you can't sue until there's damages -- so you couldn't sue just for that term existing in the EULA. You wait for your first-born to enter slavery, then sue.
It's also possible that someone who lies 99% of the time has something really important to say with the other 1% (if you can even separate it from the 99%), but I wouldn't consider that person trustworthy or even worth dealing with.

Not saying that perfectly describes Walker, but the evidence does seem to point in that direction.

If you still want to trust someone like that, I guess that's your prerogative, but... well, that sort of thing doesn't seem like a winning strategy in life.
It hasn’t been a quarter in which i haven’t told myself how richard stallman was right, and a visionary, and how much we were fools to consider him an extremist.
This is called sortition, and the only common use of it in the US today is for drawing juries.
Perhaps changing offline files to offline data (files) as just "offline files" is pretty ambiguous of what is supported (and how I arrived at file system)
I think there is value in looking for boring solutions, but I think that's really a secondary type of problem ("how do we do this well?") versus the primary type of problem ("what are we trying to do?").

There are some types of tools (such as React, Rust, or Kubernetes) that are new and fancy, and which may often be unneeded vs a boring tech, but are also actually solving a different problem than their competition might be. Using Rust is genuinely not the same category of work as using C++, for example, and writing React is very different than writing JQuery. That doesn't mean Rust or React is always the right solution, but it's worth considering if a "fancy" tool actually does help you work on the problem you are actually interested in.

Of course, tech that actually makes a big step like that is pretty rare and still has costs. There will almost always be some costs to go with benefits. But matching your solution to your problem well can go a long, long way.
> Consider the collision events recorded at the LHC: the vast majority have never been looked at by a human

What tells you those records aren't in a superposition?

The only way to determine anything about the records is to observe them, and at that point you have a human (= consciousness) in the loop. Anything you put between yourself and the experiment might be in a superposition until you observe it.
Not really. In an open society, courts and government bodies will sometimes have to make private things public if there's a compelling public-interest reason for doing so. That's needed for public oversight, and all that can be asked is that reasonable actions are taken to minimize any private harm.

In this case, the email was redacted to hide the identity of its author, so I don't there's any real problem with making it public.
It creates a race-to-the-bottom for app stores.
> But many people are not in that situation. They buy stuff they don't need. They buy new cars on credit - which is a depreciating asset with interest. They buy phones they also don't need - sometimes in multiple installments too.

>

> Instead, try throwing anything extra you can scrape in investments. If you are aggressive about it, you can retire much earlier than you would be able to, normally.

Again, I don't think this is feasible for the majority of Americans, but let's push ahead with your premise that many people can scrape their way to an early retirement.

1) The length of time to accumulate that much wealth is really sad to me. Decades of living the one life you have as meek as possible under the hope of retiring early. Again, it's still a hope. Say you make $15/hr -> 1 year is $30k. After 20 years, you finally hit that $30k mark that takes you one year to make from wages. Idk man, that's super bleak to me. Obviously, the alternative to early retirement is that they work their lives away until they can't work anymore. For people who are not uberwealthy, early retirement requires a lowering of their lifestyles (I do understand that a lot of people find it fun or gamify it or find a way to validate cuts in their lifestyles). But they have to center their lives around it; it determines where they live, what you buy, what you wear, having kids, etc.

2). This is more of a question, but doesn't require answer.. just for thought provoking. Because these people are poor, are they not allowed to enjoy certain things like new phones, TV, entertainment? We've built our society to hold these things dear (save for the early retirement folks who have to actively ignore those pressures): We have ads that encourage spending, we talk about the American Dream... everything about our society encourages buying things, so I definitely understand why people do it. I'm guilty of it; one of the most exciting things is buying something. When things are so bleak, buying something feels good.. it hits that dopamine.

Both 1) and 2) are a consequence of the society we live in. It's easy to see 2), but a bit harder to see 1). If we had guaranteed necessities: food, housing, healthcare, etc, the early retirement folks wouldn't have to change their standard of living. The fact that poverty exists and that people struggle is an easily solvable problem with wealth distribution.

My point is, it doesn't have to be this way and that the pursuit of profit makes it this way. For just several handful of people to be as wealthy as they are, many magnitudes more of people have to live in poverty. We should be changing the system so that it benefits everyone, not try to find ways of survival within the system.
No one should have to pay 30% as long as Apple also competes in the same "marketplace".
Lock-in was their business model back in the 80s, it still is to this day. It got them to the verge of bankruptcy then, it will be their downfall now.
> Client orders are protected in this scenario by FINRA Rule 5320

That’s front running. It is illegal.

Market making is done at risk. Citadel fills the client’s order at the NBBO out of its own book. It then turns around and sells stock at the best price it can find, which it hopes will be better than NBBO. (It may not!) This is market making and it’s quite legal.
> Roads are public ways. People do have the right to use public ways to peaceably assemble.

Do they have the right to block the road while doing so? For hours?

More big-picture, I don't buy either your narrative or jariel's. I don't think the protesters are a mob. I also don't think that the violence is mostly because of the police.

I see it like this: There are two groups, the protesters and the troublemakers. There is some overlap, but they are largely two distinct groups. A protest happens. It's usually in the daytime. The population is mostly protesters. Things are mostly peaceful. There is probably a police presence, watching the protest, but they usually don't do much.

Time passes. Around sunset, many of the protesters go home. More troublemakers show up. It looks like the same protest, but the nature of the population has changed. There starts to be some acts of vandalism, maybe some assaults, maybe some throwing things at the police. Eventually the police say that it's enough. They either order the crowd to disperse, or try to arrest someone. The crowd, being by this time mostly troublemakers, won't disperse peacefully and won't accept having one of their members arrested without going the rounds with the cops. You now get videos with the starting point very carefully chosen to make the cops look like the instigators.

Now, I am not saying that the cops never start the violence. I am not saying that only troublemakers are around after sundown. I am not saying that all videos of police violence are refusing to show the antecedent/buildup. I am not saying that everyone the cops get physical with had it coming.

I am saying that the majority of the action follows the scenario I described.
I think that photography without film or printing isn't worthwhile (as a hobby). Until I messed around with an instant camera, most of my photos were just dumped into a folder I would never have time to edit them. But with the instant camera, knowing that each shot costs money, I try to focus on taking a better picture or capturing a certain moment. Having a price per shot certainly forces you to improve quality. I also prefer Olympus and Fujifilm cameras for having great out of camera JPEGs that don't really need editing. Paired with the Canon CP1300 mobile 4x6 printer it makes shooting fun like film since you have the intent of printing.
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Ah, so the key to a monopolistic company being a monopoly is that we have to wait for them to become a monopoly elsewhere, after they've banned their own competitors from the space they just entered/want to enter. Makes sense.