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The change Apple is making will finally let users make the decision. Currently FB decides on behalf of users.

This seems like a straightforward example of something you should be applauding.
In reference to those stories about children remembering past lives, I never know quite what to make of them. For one, their stories seem to be remarkable in the fact that there seems to be no way a child would be able to fabricate the stories that they're piecing together to explain their past lives. But on the other hand, their stories' are often suspiciously close to the plot of the movie "Birth".

And, well, children have wild imaginations and I'm sure it's not unlikely that a small percentage of children in any population would have a wild imagination mixed with maybe a mild level of psychosis or other abnormal behavior. Also mainstream science seems to have ignored these children. So I mostly write these stories off, but I would not be closed to them having some paranormal component to them if some more interesting information presents.

I also typically completely dismiss all paranormal stories as having physical explanations. Although I'm also open to being exposed to these types of events if they present. One day in college I was sitting in my car just waiting for a friend inside. 12 inches from my face, there was a huge explosion of water, as if a balloon exploded, which left my entire car interior drenched. It was a sunny day, windows were closed, no water, bottles, or other water sources were in my vehicle. I wasn't scared, but never have been able to explain what the causality was there. So.. Idk. If anything, that has always left my perfectly rationalizing brain to accept that we might not always know everything.
How long ago was that? I've not seen anyone saying they've seen them in several months. This is not a fixed situation and SpaceX has mitigated most issues with them. https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/
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The MPAA is no better.
Imagine if governments put even a fraction of this kinda effort and resources into solving real problems?
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Rockets might not be cheaper but it could be close and they will beat the airplane by far on speed and views. Elon Musk is thinking/hoping that the cost for SpaceX to launch a 100 passenger Starship will be around $2 million[1] considering fuel and operational costs. The rockets will be fully reusable like airplanes and cost about the same to make. And, for long flights fuel use is similar. Hope it happens. Making rockets reusable was the key and SpaceX has been doing well with advancing that concept so far.

[1]https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-passenger-cost-...
Huh? The vast, vast majority of Widevine streaming is done to ARM devices - Qualcomm and Exynos chips for Android, which have a verified media path in hardware.
I've always wondered if I could take the Unix "everything is a file" approach way too far and hook it up to a web service. This looks like exactly the kind of glue to make that easy...
> Making a "copy" of an iPhone costs $20 or $30

I think you might be off by a factor of ten or so. [0][1]

[0]: https://technology.informa.com/596781/iphone-x-costs-apple-3...

[1]: https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-much-do-iphones-cost-to-...
Mozilla already accepts what you've described (a fee for a product
indistinguishable from the free version). The industry parlance for such a
thing is a "donation."
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That's mostly true, but even if every single one of the creators I followed were also on platform X, there's also all the instrumentation around Youtube, such as TV apps, Chromecast support, third party support from other sites, etc. The site itself has so many features that people take for granted until one of gone.

Hell just removing a tiny portion of one feature (user submitted subtitles) had a huge uproar from the community. Most of these alternatives on the other hand don't have 80% of the features Youtube does.
> You said you have trouble discovering apps now with a unified store, so I’m not sure how discovering apps on multiple different app stores will be any easier.

Because multiple competing stores pushes them to compete on something. Apple is super rich, it would be really hard to compete with price alone, so a competing store has incentive to compete on features or other innovations, including novel ways to make discoverability on their stores easier. Maybe it wouldn't happen, but right now, Apple have zero incentive to do anything to improve their App Store.
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I wouldn't call examining the controversy over school text books as a "deep dive" into anything. As far as education topics go, it's as shallow as a google search.

I've been to a few thousand school board meetings in my day. There are a lot of unmined topics there.
So you don't value your PC and you are completely ok loosing the configuration and have to redo it from scratch?

For me personally redoing my PC is worth couple of years of backup subscription plus HDD docking station plus two 4TB hard drives dedicated to backups.
Also in the interview - you expect the interviewee to answer what you are expecting them to answer - instead of acknowledging/accepting their point of view. Are these expectations playing any role in your observations?
Sorry, I didn’t really read any of that.

If you couldn’t tell that I completely disagree with your backwards notion of what’s right and good by now and that nothing you’ll say will convince me that less freedom for common folks is somehow better...even after I’ve told you this directly...yet you keep responding to me, I guess you just need to have the last word?

Have at it!
People appear to be downvoting my other comment so much that I can't even edit it so reposting again. Indigenous tribes won't have an issue with it as they don't have superhuman eyes to see 7th magnitude objects in the night sky. The satellites are not generally visible to the naked eye after changes SpaceX has made to the operations of the satellites and physical modifications to the satellites themselves.

https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/
Stephen Hawking did not have an important theory with an experimentally testable prediction, similar to the current crop of brilliant string theorists (Ed Whitten, for instance). Alan Guth should have the Nobel Prize, in my opinion, for his theory of inflation. It is widely accepted but does not have a specific experimentally verified prediction that can rule out all other scenarios. The Nobel committee does not want to be proven wrong later.
That’s true, but they won’t all be commonly used as names everywhere. Jesús is a common Spanish name, but totally nonexistent in English and French as far as I’m aware. María too is way more common than “Mary” in English (that is a real English name, but AFAICT it’s pretty rare in the last few generations).
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Lack of density is the ultimate externality: the increased resource consumption caused by the inefficiency of spreading everything out more has to be borne by every member of society.

Everyone pays in life-seconds, in money, in pollution, in reduced societal interactions.

Cities exist for a reason.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I always pictured Canada as being way more interventionist than the US.

Oil and gas, Hydro power in Newfoundland and auto plants all got bailed out.

I'm surprised they would give up support for a cutting edge industry like aerospace. That type of expertise will be almost impossible to rebuild.
Would be interesting if the Chinese-Japanese ones did homographs on Kanji/Hanzi too!
I’m not attacking you, which is why I immediately offered you a salve for the burn by marking my comment as snarky. It did have a real point though—that learning (even something inherently logical like arithmetic) is not a binary outcome, as fossuser also pointed out.

The claim that “GPT-3’s performance on arithmetic tasks is solely due to memorization / data leakage—it has no generalization ability on this type of task”, is easily attackable by...well, doing arithmetic and applying common sense.

There are 2(10^5)^2 = 20 billion possible 5 digit problems (both addition and subtraction). The accuracy on those tasks is about 10%, so roughly 2 billion* 5-digit addition and subtraction problems would need to be represented in the training data (Common Crawl + books as you said). Each problem is at minimum 5 tokens (e.g. 99999 + 11111 = 111110). So is ~2.5% of the training corpus 5-digit addition and subtraction problems that eluded their filtration process? (assuming it’s ~400B tokens like you said). Seems exceedingly unlikely, so much so that memorization ceases to be the simplest explanation.

That said, yes it is surprising that a language model can generalize in this way—that’s the point of the paper. How exactly this happens seems like a valuable thread to pull. Your critiques may help, but writing the results off as impossible magic does not.
What does that even mean? Death is the great equalizer anyway.
Neo-Nazi YouTube is not a viable alternative for average folks.
I think they're saying the names are easy to pronounce once you've heard them. They contain no non english sounds or tongue twisters.

I agree pronunciation is not 100% obvious from the spelling.
Every one of your examples are of the case of protecting the individual from hurting themselves or others. This is quite different from the question, which is to cite a law that restricts someone in order to protect them from others.
I am paying for Westworld but you know what I am not willing to pay for? Scientific articles. That's because in a lot of cases, taxes have already paid for the grants or sponsors/donors decided to support the research.

Blood sucking journals in between science and the public are overdue for dying off.
I had a fairly large home lab once. I had a fully topped out SPARCserver 1000E and a disk enclosure in my bedroom. I also once lived with an E450 on the kitchen table for a month. But they’re noisy as hell, inconvenient, expensive to keep running and expensive to feed with power and take up a lot of room and thus are not compatible with family and general sanity over time. They become needy balls and chains.

So roll on to now I’m using a silent build Ryzen windows desktop with 64Gb of RAM and a couple of mundane SSDs that I fire up VMs in virtualbox as required. At night it gets turned off. I’ve got a $5 digitalocean box that runs all my persistent linux stuff. If I want to play with networks it’s done with GNS3. Office 365 runs my email and all my stuff is sync’ed with onedrive and a couple of offline SSDs occasionally when I get nervous. My network is the fritzbox my ISP gave me plugged into the back of the desktop via Ethernet. That’s it!

My life is better for this. I hope people grow to realise this is much less of a mental burden over time which gives you more head space and a clean context switch away if you need it.
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This app is a perfect example of why you shouldn't show "raw" GPT-X output to users. "No" produced some great stuff like " No, I must not attend the meeting because the children cannot witness its nature." The site works as a machine learning joke, but its not clear if that's what the creator is going for...

Edit: I read the disclaimer at the bottom, there is some filtering (which explains why I was getting only casually racist, violent and anti-muslim answers and not blatantly offensive content :)). Also it's a one day hack project, so it is basically an ML joke.
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When I'm president of the world I'll keep the weekend at two days but shorten the work week from 5 to 4. This feels sort of like a 20% reduction in work but actually you'd only need ~7% more time-efficiency to make up the productivity gap. A lot of industries would recoup that for free just due to having a less exhausted work force.

Sorry, Thursday.
If you have a legitimate interest, why not buy out the block yourself and live in your own little Shangri La? Otherwise, you are asking the government to subsidize your lifestyle preferentially over that of your neighbors. Believe it or not, the people living in the apartment next door with the spotlights are your neighbors too.
That seems intentional -- the 2nd header is to highlight that it has features that help in creating your own language variant (and is a big-part of it's many strengths).
Its about two things for me:

1. Users to have the ability to choose, on the expensive devices that they own.

2. Competition, which drives the companies to try to improve their offering (for users and developers) in order to stay ahead. Competition is healthy and prevents stagnation.
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The 42nd parallel by John Dos Passos - really good novel about America at the turn of the century until the depression. Considered a classic

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker Englishman follows a few peregrines around the English countryside documenting everything he can. Past the first quarter or so it's just a log of his days which has no real narrative and is hard to get through. I'm not going to finish it

I just finished Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler. Really good book about ancient China and it's relationship to the near present day (it was written in the late 90s and early 2000s)
Just by sheer, random, unplanned chance, we counted a string of 10 in a line while hiking in Utah, though only ~3 were visible concurrently. I'm really glad Starlink sats don't stay visible once they reach their final orbits, because part of the allure of the stars is that they are largely motionless.
It is easy. https://lbry.com/youtube
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what's so insane there? Even my very old ICE powered conbustion car drives 180km/h nicely with 70kW. And now tell me, why Tesla the Model S needs a 700hp setup?
"Keeping Democracy alive"...by preventing voters from attending an event by certain politicians.
FZF(and its vim plugins) really leveled up the game for Vim.
k8s is for teams that already manage something in flux. it's for teams that would be writing their own scheduler/orchestrator/manager/control-plane/platform.

sure, it's useful at much smaller scales too, but then you are not likely to feel the upgrade crunch, because you'll likely only use (and will be exposed to) a fraction of all the moving parts of it.
can you link to a resource for reading about debouncing?
Potentially also of interest: Rocket Lab is planning to launch a cubesat to lunar orbit soon as well https://www.rocketlabusa.com/lunar/

Then to Venus in 2023! https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-private-venus-mission-2023....
You can always choose to leave a city. You can't avoid polar orbits. A city warps the view in one place, while brightly lit polar orbiting satellites warp the view everywhere. That said, the Starlink sats are supposed to become invisible to the eye in their final orbits.
Not OP here but it takes me about an hour to rebuild my machine from scratch.
Ebooks available on IRC are often compressed as RAR files. More often lately Epub books are not being compressed since Epub files are already compressed, and compressing them again as RAR files doesn't really gain you anything.
Either you pay for it in full by having them in jail or on the street, or you pay (less) for it by addressing those issues. There is no way to avoid the costs of the fact that we need to help everyone in society.
Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it
Anybody knows if those kinds of power strips mentioned in the article are available for the Europian market (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFZ98YO/)?

I've been searching for something like that a few months ago but couldn't find anything that has schuko sockets on the other side.
Yeah, I think it is–however, it's still strange to have those two and then the third "Racket, the Ecosystem" that doesn't seem to fit the pattern.
I try to apply what I call the 50/50 principle in matters such as these.

It's all up in the air; some claim there is, others the opposite. And there's no way to prove anything.

The only thing that makes sense to me is to pick the version that makes you happy and run with it.
In earlier discussion of a draft, a year ago, I looked at a bunch of examples, and zeroed in on Nim's home page (at the time) as a possible good example/inspiration for Racket (especially since I was pushing on a "3 ideas" focus, which, IIRC, Nim was also doing):

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-dev/kJciZheDM...

I think a few pretty ordinary challenges are:

* Collectively, people think a lot of stuff is important, and don't want to drop it from the home page. A vicious designer would step in and cull and massage heavily, ignoring the screams of pain from most people. (Only in the end, might people generally agree it was worth the suffering, and then they'd help beat down anyone who tried to sneak bloat back in, after the carnage that everyone went through to get there.)

* The people in charge and doing the work on the site, as a group, don't have the same ideas of what's important that professional practitioners do, nor the state of competition. So, priorities, phrasings, assertions, etc. will sometimes seem odd. This has come up at least a few times, in various ways, and might be part of why Racket didn't go mainstream when it had a better chance. (Though the leadership is not just pure academics. Just to pick the most prominent example, Prof. Matthew Flatt, besides the research and domain background, is a very solid programmer, with some good sense of software engineering.)

* As a subset of general visual design, good graphic designers seem to do many subtle things that us techies don't fully appreciate. Familiar analogy: a novice software developer not only isn't yet able to do great work on tricky problems, but they don't even yet know what great work is, nor are they able to say what's great and not about some example they see. (The creators of the new site are mainly programming language and CS education people, not visual design, not HCI, etc., except sometimes people like [1].)

On the upside, if a site for some techie thing looks a bit homely or awkward in some ways, you know it's at least not a tech offering driven by marketing, fashion, and funding. :)

[1] One notable exception in Racket, though I don't know whether involved with the new site, is Matthew Butterick, as a diversely multi-skilled person. He did a lot of visual/graphic design work on other Racket stuff, which you can see by contrasting the old look of the documentation, with the current one. Old: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/neil/roomba.plt... Current: https://docs.racket-lang.org/roomba/index.html
That reduction is based entirely on their prediction of how many users will not give consent to be tracked.

FB is going to use less accurate forms of tracking, so they simply won't be able to charge as much. I'm not going to feel bad for a company that has to work harder to circumvent the users wishes.
The plan worked fine in "Mimic". Collapsing the fisheries in Florida will be a surprising twist plot. Will they cast Sorvino this time?
Widen out the scope a bit and you see Bode's law[1] all the way out to Neptune.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law
El Al doesn't fly over Jewish cemeteries in Israel because religious groups put up similar complaints.
That's not why drugs are illegal. In fact you'd be far more protected from bad actors if they were legalized.
Consoles are unique in that they sell the hardware initially at a loss which they recoup through game sales and future production efficiencies. If you allow people to install third party software without Sony's approval then you deprive them of this revenue stream and make the platform basically like a PC. Which us console gamers do not want.

Android manufacturers make their money from the hardware so it's irrelevant to them which apps you install.
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Here's a thing like that for youtube: https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs
That's a pretty valid reason. It's the community taking care of itself.
How popular is “download this minified file and use it!” Vs. Package management?

I feel like that’s an instant turn off. I don’t want to manually manage all my stuff.

Or is there some middle ground where people just put a URL to the download in their package manager solution, whatever it is.
Sure but not everything works yet which is not a trivial amount of issues but for nightly it is the near term plan https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14034
As it is now, it seems to be a partial book.
Is it really a best case scenario, lucid at 97?

How bad is it, being non-lucid for the person experiencing it, vs being lucid, when it's time to face your existence?
>This is the future if we projected it out in the 90s.

I have to break some myths, but Mac OS9 in movies and MacOSX specially since Panther was THE dreamt interface from the 90's.

It was so sucessful that even Fluxbox nerds wrote OSX like themes. Even for FVWM!!!

Metallic themes were a thing in late 90's, among with the bloat and bling bling from E16. But OSX was a mix between art, skeumorphing and UNIX zealotism being built-in replacing the OS9 ahem... scrap.
Is ALMA even affected by satellites? I would imagine parallax would make satellites disappear and satellites would just slightly increase the noise floor. So I'm not sure why you're using that as an example.

> For interferometry, knowing your location to the nanometer is just the first of many challenges. You have to station keep across the constellation (tricky to do continuously while you're in orbit!), it becomes even more important to minimize vibrations, etc

I didn't say it wasn't an engineering problem, but the major reason it hasn't been used yet is there was no real benefit to doing that over launching a single large telescope in terms of launch cost. I hope to see these problems solved soon in the future.
> the sf-tech crowds mocking the abstract and psychedelic tend to be a bit unaware where the world they both live and work in came from!

I think many of us view the thousands of men and women behind the Apollo missions, for example, as the world where we came from. Much more than Jackson Pollock (although I have no strong opinion on Pollock as an artist).

And I see already the sneering that dang was referring to (and I'm sure it's happening in the other direction down-thread).
one of the major attractions of the fuse abstraction layer is that once you have fuse you can interact with more exotic file system types without having to deal with new kernel drivers each time.

Instead though, you can translate the exotic file system types to nfs, and use the existing kernel drivers that already exist for mounting an NFS mount.
hilarious... well done
The logical connection between our comments is pretty tenuous. I don't think there is a need to continue the conversation. Good luck promoting your point of view!
> Integration, E2E, and smoke tests are generally slow, flakey, hard to write.

This is not really true anymore in a modern system.

I can spin up an entire cluster to mirror prod - including databases and all - and run approx 10k integration tests all in under 5 minutes.
With the relatively small size of the place and the mild weather the UK as a whole could probably switch over to 60kWh EVs tomorrow and nobody would bat an eyelash. Things will take longer in places with greater distances and more extreme climates.