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> I disagree. In this case, it would be Google who is changing the status quo.

This code has been in Chrome since 2010. When you've been doing something for the last ten years, you aren't changing the status quo, now you are part of the status quo.

> I think it's legitimate for a fully internal server on an internal network that only handles internal clients to only implement the parts of the HTTP spec that are relevant to the exchange.

So, there are two ways of "not implementing HEAD": (1) ways that don't harm the availability of the service or other connections to it (return a HTTP error, abruptly close the connection, etc) (2) ways which do (e.g. crash the whole service upon HTTP HEAD on a single connection)

If a service isn't implementing HTTP HEAD in way (1), then Chrome isn't going to hurt it. If a service isn't implementing HTTP HEAD in way (2), then it is buggy, poorly written, and also insecure (HTTP HEAD becomes a denial of service attack), and that's not Google's problem, that's the problem of whoever maintains that service

In practice, few services which don't implement HEAD in way (2) are even going to exist, because browsers (both Chrome and others) regularly send HTTP HEAD in other circumstances as well (e.g. CORS checks). If HTTP HEAD makes your service crash, your service is going to be crashing a lot even if Google had never implemented this particular feature
Should add an explanation for what "sepOS" is.
A computation can represent causality without being made of causality-neurons.
Are you seriously arguing that if X fails to take action that would prevent some bad thing from happening, then any Y that comes along and takes actions that make that bad thing worth is completely without responsibility?

If someone burgles a place that left their door unlocked, do you think that the people who did not lock the door bear sole blame for the burglary?

If I build a campfire in an area full of dry weeds (ignoring a ban on campfires due to the fire danger) and that starts a big wildfire, I'm blameless--the blame lies solely with whoever maintains the campground for not having cleared out the dry weeds?
Definitely false. If you're using bitcoin and want to be uber-safe, then you should wait for six 10-minute confirmations. That's an extreme example though. In practice you can spend right after the first confirmation, which can be seconds to minutes for other cryptocurrencies.
The paper makes reference to the Symbol Grounding Problem, but I have not found the SGP's distinction between form and meaning to be completely convincing without some evidence of a physical, observable process.

At the end when you look long enough it seems to call into question the very nature of consciousness.
It's not just students.

A few weeks ago, I showed up a family member's house for a gathering. I thought it was going to be about 15 people, outside, with masks and plenty of distance.

Instead, it was a party, with all ages. Tables from a catering company were close together. My elderly aunts and uncles from both sides of my family were there.

I left immediately. Fortunately, no one's come down with Covid-19. Given that many people at the party were elderly, if Covid-19 was there, it wouldn't have ended well.
Maybe it is my preconception, but I always saw these apps as a hack, and thought the scanner produces more high-resolution documents.

Scanning receipts and other "volume" documents may mean I have to scale them down to save space in the future, though.
>It may be because they don't have a profile on me, but they have years of data on him..."

That might be true, but I'm not sure. Outside of local searching I am skeptical of the benefits of filter bubbling.

I think it is just as likely that you and your brother have different opinions of relevance (even if you were both returned the same exact results unrelated to past activity), and the relevance decisions Google makes more align with your brothers perspective.

I am the creator of one of the search engines [0] named in the post. It will return the same exact organic results no matter who you are or what your prior searches were. Feel free to give it a go with your brother and see how it compares for both of you. For organic results, it works like DuckDuckGo does with Bing, but the difference is the main source of our organic results are actually from Google.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/
It seems portable enough, I will try to find one. Thanks!
Right. If I went to a human speaker, who presumably possesses "actual understanding", and I said "I have some prompts for you. Please try to continue where they left off" and then provide them a question, it wouldn't be strange that they don't answer it. Do we ever answer a question right after we've asked it? Sure. Do we always?

I wonder if you can force "an attempt" at answering a question (to flagrantly anthropomorphize) by following the question with something like "The answer is ..."
I can't speak for the general case, but in the case of the small university I work at, a huge reason the student body is so irresponsible is that the administration is well-known to turn a blind eye to whole rafts of terrible behaviours (some of which are blatantly illegal, others merely really bad ideas).

If you've been demonstrating for the past 80 years that students who put on unsanctioned parties, put racist graffiti on their neighbours' whiteboards, and have suitcases full of heroin in their dorm rooms won't be punished in any way, why should they believe that now you're going to punish them for...putting on unsanctioned parties?
Here's a better search of this stuff:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I saw how money partially bought the presidency. (people actually love him, but the big luxurious personal jet certainly helped in the primary) In this case I don't mind. He's a good man. His money makes him far less tempted by bribes. The adventure has cost him over a billion dollars. Our more typical presidents get rich from the experience, despite the salary being pitiful. The US president gets paid like a San Francisco software developer, yet has the responsibility for running a nation with a GDP of roughly 20 trillion dollars. Somehow that pitiful salary turns into riches for most politicians. It's really delightful to see a president who is in it for fame and for duty to his nation.
It is the exactly the same hand symbol Henry VIII used to mark down interesting passages in Bible which he hoped would help him to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Thinking that other corporates won’t use your data is surprisingly naïve!
Apple use privacy as a brand value and not because the company or shareholders really cares, if there business dry out, you think they won’t use your data. same goes for all corporates.
I find it most important is you get best service no matter what company is / I wouldn’t mind if company use my data to give me and Other users better service and benefit in the process!
You would do the same if you build your own product!
With standard media because of its mass audience nature, it's easier to see how they influence people. The mass acceptance of the internet has started to push traditional media out but replaced it with incredibly personalised and thus a more effective version that is yet to have proper legal regulations in place.

My personal thing with Google and "convenience" is that the convenience is with just a low barrier to entry. Once you set up your own workflow with "Google alternatives", the convenience factor disappears.
Part of the hard reality of this is that colleges often depend on room and board revenue to stay solvent, particularly smaller schools[0][1].

This would seem to heavily incentivize bringing students back so as to collect this money. When things (predictably) go to shit, it's easier for the administrations to blame the students than it is to blame the perilous finances that made it all but required to try to bring the students back so they could collect that money.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/900782472/as-pandemic-hits-co...

[1] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/13/coronavirus-small...
As would I in your shoes! The rub is as a potential employer, I would be questioning if you will still be here in 6 months or will you spend your time as an employee looking for something "more appropriate"

I want to be clear that this is not any kind of know on you. You might be the perfect long term person for the job. You just need some kind of hook to convince potential employers that you are not a drive by.
Blockchain is based on Merkle trees and well, merkle trees definitely made their impact via git and other immutable log structures.

Blockchain is cool datastructure as an immutable log with proof work where integrity can be verified in a distributed manner by multiple parties.

It’s like quantum computers. Heavily hyped but only useful for a specialized set of problems.
This reminds me of how 2b2t PvP has evolved. At first everyone was just wearing fully enchanted diamond armor and had golden apples that regenerate HP faster than you can lose them. Hacking is allowed on 2b2t. Because of dupe glitches getting large quantities of specific items is possible. Ender crystals that are normally used to resurrect the ender dragon can be smashed to create an explosion which kills players in full diamond armor instantly. Suddenly it was all about who could deploy his crystals first. Then totem duplication + auto equip allowed you to survive instant deaths until your inventory no longer contains totems.

No matter how impressive each of these techniques were, each of them had a counter that was highly effective.
That's mostly true. Around where I live, most people own cars and parking isn't an issue. That said, if you don't own a car/can't drive public transit is essentially non-existent with a small regional bus system that is pretty much the option of last result.

Uber's probably nice for the people who need to be transported to medical appointments and the like. On the other hand, there were other options including taxis/helpers of various types/family/etc. before Uber came along and the on-demand/convenient nature of Uber isn't as big a deal under those circumstances.
I see a D option. Reduce the costs to the students to reflect the market price of the services rendered. While the pandemic isn't the fault of the colleges, the nature of operating a business is you can only charge for services you are able to deliver. Find a comparable online school, that's what you can charge.
> The most tedious part is moving accounts from your gmail

Every time google has done something to piss me off over the last few years, I have channeled that into migrating a few accounts away from google. It's a good way to unwind and has the bonus of being an action that speaks louder than words.
Funny, this is going totally against the philosophy of SAP which basically means to change your workflows to the way SAP works.
Several months ago I took small steps towards this direction.

It started with downloading Firefox on desktop and web. I love Firefox mobile. It's performant and supports multiple tabs. Also comes in Dark Mode.

Next came email, which was difficult. I'm still transitioning. Protonmail was my pick because of the price point and ProtonCalendar (currently in beta). Gmail and Gcal are deeply integrated and wanted an alternative that could offer a similar experience. The only con here is that ProtonCalendar is web only (please support on mobile soon, Protonmail!).

Duckduckgo is a solid search alternative. Results are quality. Between these services, browsing is a joy again.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Both of them sounds like great ideas, will add them to ToDo right away :)
Researchers estimate that Python, JavaScript, and R contribute billions to GDP
This. I thought I followed Mozilla closely but I never heard about this program until now.
It stated at the end: "I have concluded that I am not conscious."

1. If it's being truthful, it means it is right and not being aware.
2. If it's lying, it means it's untrustworthy.

Anyways, to properly debate consciousness, you first need to define the concept, or any debate is just meaningless ramblings.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0606 MAD with Aliens? Interstellar deterrence and its implications
The logistical challenges are considerable factor this election. Many people may want to vote for say Biden, but their ballots could be disregarded.

Even without the political fight over USPS funding, it is going to be extremely hard for them to turn around in < 1 week as required in many states, there are also the issue with votes that which are postmarked earlier but delivered later than election date( this is with good reason as you don't want results delayed if you wait for votes to come in)

I am not sure how anyone, without detailed data access to postal operations can accurately predict how much of this going to be a problem.
I wrote some about my experiences using Leaflet with Svelte: https://imfeld.dev/writing/leaflet_with_svelte

I found you have to do some extra work to keep track of things to convert from declarative style to Leaflet’s imperative style, but overall I actually had a pretty good experience with it. Feel free to ping me on Twitter (same username) if you have any questions.
OMG this would have been handy so much. I used to track the call stack by following functions and writing it out to a text file.
quite the opposite, in a mass surveillance state anyone without virtual personality fingerprint and tracking data is suspicious
Yeah that totally makes sense, I understand why potential employers would have concerns. For what its worth, I was at one company for 4 years and about 1 year at my previous company prior to getting let go. I hope the tenure at my first company demonstrates that I'm not just a job hopper and do prefer to stick around and grow.
If this story were true, it would be evidence of voter fraud.

But no evidence of voter fraud exists.

Therefore, this story is not true.
I made two separate points.

The choice of N used in cutting out the N% most extreme results is not determined by widely accepted statistical best practice. Hence it is a source of forks. The algorithm might be deterministic but the choice of this parameter isn't.

My discussion of distributional properties was another issue concerning this technique. You seemed to have missed the point that dropping extreme points can also lead to biased estimates of the mean.

Ten years ago, dropping outliers was considered good practice in the social sciences. Today, it has become a reason for rejection in peer review. There are better techniques for dealing with noisy data, such as adding measurements to data points to measure "badness" that can then be adjusted for in a multi-level model.
Oh of course, your observations are totally spot on. But even when you get through the grind of loading this game, the performance goes completely to hell once Windows starts swapping out RAM pages.

I also agree with that note on how the credits were stacked up. And that’s literally how this game got built. Asobo came to MS with this awesome visualization tool and MS pretty much said “ok, why don’t we hand you FS14’s code and we can call it FS20?”

The product was literally built backwards.
Yes, I've been working through different parts of the 8086 lately. My goal is to understand the microcode. I hope people aren't getting tired of the 8086 :-)
To the extent dominating a collapsing market can be called "working"

* Digital camera makers sold over 120 million units in 2010

* This was down to under 20 million units in 2020.

* 2019 was around 15 million.

2020 was starting down from there, even pre-COVID, and I think COVID.

And it is the most open player, much like Symbian used to be for cell phones.

I prefer to use my cell phone to my big cameras for no reason other than not having to mess with things like memory cards. That's all stupidity by the camera makers. There's no reason the devices can't play well in an ecosystem. I can spend 5 minutes futzing around to get a camera to use my cell phone as a remote.
I'm partially with you. The article goes on to say:

>Like the movements against vaccines or circumcision or GMOs, orthotropics spoke to its newfound adherents’ reactionary desires, affirming their skepticism of authority and faceless establishments; promising to restore a stolen masculinity; and recounting a simple but exhilarating narrative that pitted modernity against the best interests of the human race.

Does it make any sense for opposition to circumcision at birth in the absence of complications to be compared to anti-vaccination and anti-GMOs? It seems as though the sentence is written to say that all of these are 'promising to restore a stolen masculinity', but I can't see how anti-GMO ideology works in that framework, and I'm not entirely convinced the anti-circumcision argument is all about that.

"Incel" is probably a debatable term that's thrown around a lot; while there is undeniably a community of misogynistic men who blame their misfortune in the dating world on modern society and its women, there are also those who are simply involuntarily celibate - no further qualification needed. Perhaps they accept that the problem is themselves, or they think it lies elsewhere - but neither of those necessitate the description of all 'involuntarily celibate' people as misogynists who are mad about 'Stacy' and 'Chad'. Worse still, to say you want to be in a relationship but are not, or you'd like to have sex but can't, thanks to the toxic online 'incel' community, certain connotations will be attached - whether you're an a male ('incel') or female (the less commonly used term, 'femcel').
to return to the menu?
I'm breaking the lease and moving out mid-cycle, and I bought the router independently (not rented from Comcast).
What's trippy is whatever workflow you have is probably molded around tools and biases that you take for granted. In modern times, there is no workflow that exists independent of technology. I can't imagine a way to isolate a "workflow" from a toolchain. And at that rate, you might as well just sample different tools until you find harmony.
On the other hand, I don't know any ten thousand year olds who are still alive.
Interesting to hear a perfect example of Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon on the article. Once the author knew what to look for, he started seeing examples of facial underdevelopment everywhere.

I had a BM moment of my own. I recently heard a theory on censorship. It is most commonly exercised by powerful groups that are at risk of losing their power (example, Catholic church vs Galileo). And now I see it everywhere, including in the examples of quoted orthodontists who want to shut down discussion even though (or because) they don't have the answers.
The Economist's weekly US election podcast "Checks & Balance" interviewed Elliott Morris about election modelling & this model:

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/06/12/modelled-citiz...

The podcast is for a general audience so it doesn't go into details of statistical modelling used in this model, but it does touch on polling, failures of polling to accurately predict results.
I never said managers where bad or that I disliked them. Sorry you got that impression.

In this case all I was referencing was that frequent process changes and repeated failures of process are typically an indication that a change needs to happen in management not process. No where did I state management be eliminated altogether. I stated that better managers need to be brought in to replace those that are underperforming.
Half the point is the delay of gratification. If you want to see the different islands of Hawaii, there will be some downtime while you're cruising.
The tension starts building once you get closer and closer, until you finally get to see the absolutely epic view.

Comparing Google Earth vs Flight Sim is the same as watching 3D images of hiking trail end points vs actually walking through the trail.
Hackers can get your PayPal information via your linked Nintendo accounts
Minimum wage isn't really that expensive. Suppose a driver makes $12/hour. That's $96 per day. If they do just 10 rides in 8 hours -- and they could do much more -- riders need to pay just $9.60 per ride. Sure, the rideshare company needs their cut, so add a 15% premium. It doesn't sound all that expensive. A 3 mile trip through town isn't going to become a $30 affair just because the driver makes minimum wage.
Agreed, and a quick search on pubmed shows some research that backs the claim that these are modern conditions. https://whyy.org/segments/could-old-skulls-help-us-understan... describes a few hypotheses as to why, one of which aligns with Mews’ claim.

I was disappointed the article didn’t engage more with the prospect that Mews is simply (or additionally) a grifter, though.

His very own claim seems to be that you cannot treat adults with his techniques, yet he appears to accept money from adults for treatment nonetheless.

Were the article primarily about the scientific claims, it could have used a more empirical approach. As a profile of a potentially dishonest subject, it also failed to dig deep enough, and Mews’ patients—who have their own psychological issues—may well be the victims.
tptacek's criticisms are quite valid. However, "it's not good" seems oversimplified to me? I found lots of interesting information in this.

For example: information about the activation process for Macs, importance of setting a firmware password, disable some of the Spotlight services, and binary whitelisting through Santa. The repo also has the most comprehensive discussion I've seen about evicting FileVault keys from RAM on sleep: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/is...

Also, I'm not sure if this has been changed more recently than the comment you linked, but it seems like they actually don't recommend AV software anymore: "Therefore, the best anti-virus is Common Sense 2020. See discussion in issue #44."

I grant you that having someone follow this top to bottom might be bad, but to say "it's not good" seems to both lack nuance and also to discard some useful, hard work done in good faith.
I'm assuming you mean to imply that I'm being overdramatic by suspecting something nefarious is going on when it isn't. That might be true, yes, thanks for your input.
The article makes the distinction, because it's a useful empirical distinction to draw :). While you're correct that linux is, strictly-speaking, an endpoint-dependent implementation, it goes to sufficient effort to reuse mappings in an endpoint-independent way that you can do useful things against it by treating it as an EIM NAT.

Similarly, commercial systems like JunOS try to stick to EIM behavior for as long as they can, and only shift to EDM behavior when load makes it infeasible to do otherwise. There again, strictly speaking that means you should abandon all hope... But in practice, NAT traversal still works much more often than not, and we can use that to build useful systems while we wait for IPv6 adoption to continue.
Combination of Acamprosate and Baclofen and ALS
I'm not sure about Mozilla's efforts in STT, but they were lagging pretty far in TTS. [1]

Google/Baidu, universities, and an assortment of Chinese/Japanese/Korean social media companies (Line, etc.) are posting the most compelling TTS research, models, and code. Mozilla's TTS system [2] is an amalgam of some of these models, but it lags pretty far behind state of the art.

Mozilla should focus on getting additional revenue streams. We can help them out by trying to get Congress / DOJ to strip Google of its ability to have and maintain a browser with which they entrench their search and advertising moat. I think they're clearly in antitrust/anticompetitive territory.

[1] I'm pretty familiar with this field as I wrote https://vo.codes and https://trumped.com TTS systems. Neither of those are state of the art in terms of mean opinion score (MOS), but they're incredibly efficient.

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
Surely you don't think expanding a sealed base within a hostile environment is that easy?