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> I can (and do) repair my own car.

Out of random interest, what age is your car? Personally back when I had it I felt comfortable doing everything except steering, brakes and structural frame work on my 1994 VW T4, but I wouldn't dare touch a modern car. Too much investment required for special tooling, and diagnosis of problems requires a computer and specialized programs in contrast to a multimeter...
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Nvidia revenue is still slightly more gaming than data center (which covers AI), but the are about to reach parity https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
You might be missing that it is possible to download the subtitle using tools like youtubedl
Funny, i actually created my own alias which points to http://cheat.sh/

...that of course assumes I have an internet connection. Otherwise, fall back to man pages as well as my own directory of text files with reference info on commonly used commands - employing my own examples.
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A lot of the active RF spectra that people are concerned about don't penetrate deep into your body. They're either absorbed by the skin, the fatty tissue underneath or at the least, by the bone in the skull and ribcage. The reason your phone keeps working when your body blocks the signal is that the signal bounces of other surfaces.

Blocking signals with your body becomes more true as frequency (and bandwidth) goes up. 5G Wifi can't even properly penetrate dry wall, not even mentioning all that water and bone in your body.

Beside that, below the infrared spectrum, it is unlikely that much damage is done by common RF signals; the energy in a quanta from that spectrum is too small to effectively do anything but heat molecules up a tiny bit.

Photochemical effects, ie, things like chemical reactions being induced or cells reacting to the light, require atleast about 1Thz to work (low-end IR).

The heating occurs primarly for frequencies between 30 and 120MHz, which is actively used but not by B2C commercial things, it largely involves ham radio, air traffic radio, sea traffic, weather satellites, etc. Things you're likely to be closer to the receiving end of than the high powered sender.

Which also bring to the other issue; the energies in common RF close to you is too low. If you send with 100mW power, the power your body will capture, even if it's the phone right next to your ear, is likely below 10mW of power. Low enough that your native body heat already overpowers it easily.
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Here is a far better written intro to Rene Girard [0], the article linked is worst kind of overwritten academic verbiage with nothing substantive to say, almost incoherent.

[0] https://alexdanco.com/2019/04/28/secrets-about-people-a-shor...
One of my first hardware projects was homebrew related for the DS: http://kraln.com/passme/
Compound eyes may be even more basal than that:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-sharp-eyes...
> People give C++ lots of hate but thanks to not having an easy way of adding complex dependencies, it has less dependency driven bugs/security issues.

This doesn't stop people adding dependencies: most C++ software still has a complex dependency tree, just most of the labour of maintaining it falls on distro maintainers (and the poor souls which need to make windows builds) [0]

And I don't think C++ has any shortage of dependency driven bugs or security issues. Certainly if you asked me to pick whether I'd like to build something from npm or the average C++ project I'd pick npm every time: I expect to need to fix on average about 2 issues every time I attempt to run a non-trivial C++ project's build, each issue taking an hour or so to locate and fix or hack around. The nature of C++ dependency management means there's more likely to be vendored dependencies which are out of date and have security issues, perhaps introduced by the dependee project as patches (and ripping out this kind of vendoring and dealing with any required patches creates even more headaches for distro maintainers, though they are also quite capable of introducing their own bugs through their own patches).

[0] https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies
RL, including contextual bandits, is becoming more popular for personalization, i.e. adapting some system to the preferences of (groups of) individuals.

Plug/Source: I did a lit. review on this topic https://doi.org/10.3233/DS-200028
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let's get real, polygraphs are a ruse in order to humiliate people and see how they react in torture situations. Using them is a power play. It lets the victim know who the boss is.
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Nah, BMW uses tablets for it's screenwash that are about £7 for six, each makes 5 litres. BMW Part number: 83122298202

Less shipping cost/environmental impact too.

30 litres for around £7 (plus a few pennies for water) doesn't seem bad to me.
https://theoutline.com/post/1528/this-pizza-billboard-used-f...
In former CIA officer Valery Plame's book Fair Game, she describes how an old hand at CIA told her that the best way to get through the polygraph is to be as detailed and honest as possible. Even on subjects that would be embarrassing, merely focussing on describing the truth and knowing that the interviewers appreciate candor can often alleviate nervousness.

I've never been polygraphed and I have conflicting views on it, but I suspect if I were ever in the same situation I'd do the same thing. They may not work perfectly, but they are a forcing function to the interviewee. Are you going to tell the whole truth in all its messy detail or not?

That said, I don't think they belong in the justice system. Someone who is already accused of a crime has to choose between either doing a polygraph and being potentially being nervous because their freedom is at stake, or denying the polygraph and looking guilty.
I didn't realize there was much of a homebrew DS scene. What is the state of it?
All the Reliability section of that page says is, there isn't a randomised study you can trust.
It's still not clear to a first time reader. Here is a better visualization, as much as HN let me do it, for RAX (same applies for RBX, RCX and RDX):

|63|62|61|60|...|34|33|32|31|30|29|...|18|17|16|15|14|...|10|09|08|07|06|05|04|03|02|01|00|

|.............................................|.............................|<-- AH (8 bits) --->|<------- AL (8 bits) -------->|

|.............................................|.............................|<------------- AX (16 bits - lower part) --------->|

|.............................................|<---------------------------- EAX (32 bits - lower part) ------.---------->|

|<------------------------------------------------ RAX (full register - 64 bits) --------------------------.------>|

(10 thousands edits, hope you guys see the same as I see, perfectly aligned)
If you're storing a large enough set of data for long enough, 2 copies will be woefully insufficient to ensure you don't suffer a loss of a given subset of the data.
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Different brands use different formulations, apparently the brand that the dealership puts in at BMW/MINI doesn't play nicely with some of the brands from supermarkers.

More of an issue for newer cars though, I will give you that.
The first one that comes to mind is how many android phones are out of date - upgrading to the latest version of android isn't a priority for mobile distributors and is a lot of work on some phones. So this causes a larger attack surface, Apple is very careful to make their phones all have the latest iOS - also makes it easier to develop to.

Another issue is trust - who knows what google does with your data, their business model includes exploiting your personal data, Apple has a vested interest in keeping your personal data secure and doesn't keep the keys to it - its their business model.

These two are enough for me, theres also a lot more reports of android apps with exploits - a google turns up a lot of them, less so with iPhone, and apple reacts if there is. Maybe these issues have been addressed in android, if so it's not something Google appears serious about, if they were then they'd be advertising how secure their phones are and how they don't touch your data - apple is very serious about keeping my data personal and has invested a lot of their business integrity in that.

Edit: tl;dr - googles business model is built around exploiting your personal data, apples is built around keeping your personal data secure
They certainly don't have less to a degree which makes up for the lack of tooling to support it. C++ dependency management is a nightmare which dwarfs even the worst of npm. Even if it were to half the number of dependencies it doesn't make up for the 10 times more dependency and build-related issues which appear.
It's not enough to support the entire industry, that's the point of the article. $20 a month has never been enough, bearing in mind it's effectively replacing (in north America) cable which used to cost much more than that and those channels used to run ads as well!
I suspect a lot of people buy or rent more than you and your friends.

For example, many people have either a cable TV or online streaming subscription that's another $50-100/month. HBO would be another $15 or so. And so forth.

There is an argument that, at some point, there are only so many hours in the day and a Spotify for video (i.e. most content for one monthly fee) makes sense but that's probably a $100-200/month fee in the US (assuming you could get most players to cooperate). YouTube TV alone is $65/month these days.
Make it prohibitively expensive to leak data (compliance fines, lawsuits) and the problem will solve itself. Companies that collect data will then be begging for certification and regulation.
I think you should basically kick advertisers in the nuts for stuff like this. I doubt it would be legal in my country and if it was, I wouldn't mind doing something illegal to the billboard. Can always use new cameras anyway.
We do mm/dd/yyyy because that's how we say it. In Europe if you ask someone the date do they say 2020, August, 18th? or 18th, August, 2020?

Stuff like this really isn't a big deal. I don't get why people get so hung up on it.
Yes, I remember GPG being in the news for that:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...

But I also remember the takedown about no one actually relying on email encryption for security:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888
Most of those 1-Euro houses are in Sicily, Italy. This is connected to the fact, that "la famiglia" ("the family", mafia) is controlling everything in society. They will even give you presents worth more than 1 Euro, because they know they will get every cent back from you. If you stay long enough there, they will give you orders (like "you need to make this and this") and if you refuse to do it, they will - and I am not kidding or making it up - just kill your children (if you have them). So - no - I would not buy this 1-Euro house in Sicily, Italy. It is cheaper to go to the hotel there than to own anything... People are relocating from Sicily because of this problem...
I wouldn't be so harsh on your homebrew solution, deja-dup uses the same strategy to verify backups.
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Sealing the prediction it is not requirement. All predictions are public as soon as they are published. It is a requirement though that a predictor shouldn't be able to publish contradicting predictions without easily being caught.
> So either 50% of FBI Applicants were actually foreign agents AND believed in polygraphs (why would they if they were trained foreign agents?) OR it's just total bullshit. I think the "it works if you believe in it and some people do" myth is just that...

It's even dumber than that. From what I've heard, the big failure rate is often with respect to drugs. You're allowed to have experimented with marijuana a specific, small number of times.
> Maybe I'm a fan, but the moat actually makes the user experience better.

But it doesn't. It makes it worse. I can't use cloud gaming services. I can't buy an ebook on Amazon or a comic on Comixology, without having to guess that I need to go to a website and buy it.

These are all bits of user experience that that are flat out better on Android, and the bad UI is directly caused by Apple's sole control of the app store.

But that pales in comparison to the rampant content censorship Apple causes (see Instagram admitting the clumsy, terrible policies that it implements are directly due to the Apple), or the geopolitical blocks that it causes on apps to help the populace of Hong Kong, or the apps that it permits (and blocks counter-software) to enable the misogynistic control of women's free movement in Saudi Arabia.

> As a consumer there isn't much benefit for multiple app stores, since every app store will be essentially exclusive to another, so don't really have more choice, just more app stores to manage and get the apps from.

There is a huge benefit to customers for multiple app stores - cheaper pricing, more competition on features and navigation, and most importantly editorial differences about what content will be allowed in the store. Don't agree with Apple's editorial censorship of code in the app store? Go and use someone else.

Apple will even be better off - without the coddling of the App Store being used to prop up it's poorer products it will actually have to make them good or have them die, much to it's long term benefit than turfing out poor quality software and the reputational damage that causes which has happened far too often recently.
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I've just been offered four figures for a 4 letter Instagram name.

Is this a scam, or are short instagram names valuable? If so, how?
I did some work as a consultant for a big outdoor publisher and this has been a problem they've been attempting to solve for a decade or more.

This kind of physical, outdoor advertising has been hemorrhaging dollars to online ads for decades for several reasons but a big one is online having a much better (but far from perfect) attribution story. Attribution is the big, thorny problem in _all_ of advertising e.g. how do you know if Customer A saw Ad B and that they then went on to buy Product C.

In my experience this type of tech has two goals:

The first is measuring distribution with aggregate data about how many people saw the ad and when, then combining this with ethnographic data about the location (e.g. what proportion of people in this area fall into income bracket Y). This looks like "1,293 people have seen your ad in the last 60 minutes and here some demographic information about them". This is done with video and gait tracking, or radar/lidar for measuring volumes and people who 'engage' with the ad by lookijng at it for >N $TIME.

This is all perfectly possible and scalable and is what ClearChannel are currently doing, the product trick is to make it 'real-time' so advertisers can adjust their buys and unit distribution more flexibly when combined with digital signage (e.g. I'm going to move our ad from this unit in this location to this other unit in this other location in 'real-time' as there's more high net worth people there today). This also nicely ups outdoor spend (people use it more, it appears more sticky) but they also charge more for these more 'dynamic' outdoor units. There's a bunch of seriously dubious data the the publishers use to justify this new way of buying outdoor.

The second (and WAY worse one) is doing direct attribution (e.g. Did consumer sKIFW3890 see ad sdoflij0934r and then did they buy product 029w3r29 from merchant 203ei2-309ir). This has been the holy grail of outdoor for a decade but no one's been able to make it work. ClearChannel very clearly WANT to do it, which is creepy as all hell, but in my reading between the lines (and working in the industry a little) I don't _think_ this is what their Radar solution delivers, at the moment. I could be wrong, though.
It's like with homeopathy; it's effect cannot be measured beyond base background noise, but plenty of people believe it affects their bodies anyway.
Hi HN, this is my new project.

It's tied to my other site Remote OK which is a job board remote companies post jobs on. Remote | Workers let you create a remote worker profile, with skillset, tags and resume.

Then if you set yourself as available, remote companies and recruiters hiring can browse and send you a message (for that they buy credits).

It also matches new remote jobs posted to Remote OK to fitting worker profiles within seconds.

The big goal is to help get more people (the right) remote jobs. Let me know what you think and what I can improve on!
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I'm aware of these efforts and just pointing out that it's likely to happen again. Not to mention we won't be able to blanket the nation in DDT this time...
The Panetta review (CIA-internal) and the SSCI torture report (one of those "S"'s are for United States Senate) concluded that torture is largely inefficient at extracting information from extremists. You can torture someone for years on end with them still keeping the things you ask from you. Someone who doesn't know anything, will tell you anything, while someone with deep faith will feed you shit.
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Do you have a link?

Ironically, trying to good for `ff-dice` or `pngff` sends me back to this thread!
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This is a nice discovery. Thanks!
This seems a nifty utility...but I've slowly migrated to depending on manpages, my own directory of text files, and with an alias to http://cheat.sh/ (while online, that is). Looking at this tool, mnemonic, navi, etc., i almost prefer navi and mnemonic over cheatsheets, but obviously that is only personal taste, and with no offense to the makers of any of these utilities.

Specific to man pages, it actually took me a while to learn how to read them in order to gain maximum benefit from them. Surely, the quality of manpages is not the same across all or even most applications...but i guess i've gotten used to manpages enough that between them, and my own text files, with a rare dive into something like http://cheat.sh/ or good ol' DDG search, seems to have me covered.
No, what’s next is facial recognition and “the computer says with 98% certainty that the defendant’s face is a match, Your Honor.”
> But even if there weren't, the fact that there's only N things in the world doesn't make your random claim on someone else's property any more valid.

It is notable that basically every functional democracy in the world disagrees with this statement.
>That's a very nice story that even a casual awareness of the history of the Christian West makes totally implausible. The Christian West was not immune to scapegoating in much the same way that the sea is not above the sky.

Didn't have to be immune (humans are humans after all, nothing is 100% perfect), just more immune than what preceeded it.

The main idea Christianity added to the table was that the victims are not just unfortunate, or losers, or collatera damage to the natural order of things, but possibly even more justified than those who lord over them.

There were still masters and slaves, injustice, etc despite Christianism, and even in its name, but not because of it.

Similar to like there was injustice and slavery after the Constitution or injustice and racism in the US today, but it's not because of the Constitution itself - which was an improvement and placed a seed for betterment --, but because people are people).

The seed that got into the culture with Christianism was that this is not just "the way things are". Suddenly the victims had a claim to moral superiority and injustice. In the ancient/pagan world they would be laughed off. In the Christian world they might be driven off with sticks still, by those in power, by they couldn't totally eradicate their claim to injustice [that's also why Christianity caught on with oppressed populations, even with those that shared the religion with their opressors, like black slaves in the US or indians in Latin America: it offered a way for the slaves to claim moral superiority and dignity. Incidentally that's how it got its major boost in ancient Roman empire as well].

That's one of the themes of Nietzsche by the way, which he sees as a negative of Christianity (kind of like some lament the modern "victimhood culture") - he preferred the good old times, when masters where masters, and victims would just suck it up and admit defeat and accept that they are lesser men.

(As for the hunt for the "witches/satanists" it's an overplayed minor characteristic of Christianity. Plus, the reason we see those victims too in a favorable light, it's still because of Christian influence. The culture/religion of the group that persecuted them is exactly what promoted them to innocent victims to be pitied/vindicated. The ancient world only cared for effectiveness, victims were merely losers to be tossed aside.
A lot of HN users are hackers. That doesn't mean that there are no hackers outside of HN, nor that only hackers can keep a phone secure.
If you are using the Proton Mail javascript PGP client the browser would by necessity need to have access to your private key.
In the UK we say 18th of August, 2020
>Pretty much every manipulation technique used in negotiation, sales and interrogation is useless if the person it's being applied to realizes it.

That is just wholly incorrect. The whole point of marketing is that it works even if you know it's happening to you. Anchoring, a common sales tactic, works even if you know they're doing it to you. You can absolutely respond to it with your own tactics if you know about it, but it still effects you. We really aren't better than our animal brains.
Pretty cool. Props for the creative use of Bear. It’s not something I would have thought to use but I might start as a backup for some websites that I want to keep alive.
Burying the cable like every other country on this planet with decent infrastructure does, will not create "a cellular station,2 or 3 cameras, led street light and advertising displays". How would these even work underground?
That’s not the unfalsifiable argument. We’d already addressed Amazon and Wal-Mart. 2 of the 500+ billion dollar corporations that contribute to “inequality” as a nebulous problem.

Outside of that, you said:

> And dozens of stories like this play out nationwide every year, without much coverage

You’re arguing that there are “dozens of other stories like this” but that it’s apparently so commonplace, there’s no reporting on it. This is literally unfalsifiable, and more or less hogwash.
In my experience, it's fairly easy to keep the number of deps down to a minimum when writing an average Go application. I have several apps that take less than 5 deps total (including recursive deps).

However, there are a few outliers. Most famously, the Kubernetes client libraries are made of hundreds of packages because of how they're structured and autogenerated (due to lack of language-level generics).
Except for cases like the 4th of July, in which case it's suddenly DD/MM again. Much like the UK's relationship with metric/imperial, the problem with US dating is that it's not consistent.

In the UK we'd say "18th [of] August, 2020"