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JetBrains was initially going with a more traditional subscription model, and introduced the perpetual license fallback in response to negative feedback.

HN comments and the original announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165334

The followup introducing the perpetual fallback license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10278285
Probably because:

1. There is no small power of 58 that is only slightly more than integral powers of 256. The closest one I can imagine is 57^11 ~= 1.1186 * 2^64.

2. Bitcoin addresses are short enough that trivial bignum calculation is not a bottleneck.
Stadia is probably the main one for me. It'd work at 50 Mbps, but 4G speeds can vary (not consistently 50 Mbps at peak times), so it wouldn't always be smooth and lag-free at 1080p.

But in general, it's just nice to have faster downloads. Nice not to have to wait as long for those multi-GB OS updates, game updates, app updates, etc. Don't you agree?
This obviously can't work for any kind of contact sport. This can barely work for even non contact sports.
Apple still can enforce security inspection even they allowed third party app store or payment with taking some fee. Security inspection and content inspection is different thing.
Just to drive his point home, it takes 5 minutes to get nextdns.io up and running. Want ad-blocking/domainblocking on your mobile phone? Install the app, enter the code and you're done. I used to have a pi-hole, but the rpi broke so now I only use nextdns.io for everything. But you're not in control since it's in running in the cloud, so there's that.
Of all Murakami's books, the one that made the biggest impression on me was "Underground", his non-fiction book consisting entirely of interviews with survivors of the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attacks in Tokyo. It's simultaneously fascinating and absolutely horrifying, and it goes into a lot of depth on the lives of the people both before and after the attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Murakami_book)
> I wish Mozilla would join them by publishing a Firefox for iOS with their own renderer and Javascript

It would likely be unusably slow if they did. Apple doesn’t allow apps in the store with the required entitlements to make an optimized JavaScript engine of entirely Mozilla’s design.
what % of the votes?
> Most people in America who drive a car don't have a choice, because it's they're in a situation where they either have reliable transportation or starve.

Yet, they would have the choice to buy a small electric car and ride-share, but prefer to buy a huge gasoline SUV and ride alone.

And it's not just about the cars (sorry if my comment gave that impression). It's about consumption in general. Yes, industrial emissions are higher that communal emissions, but for whom are the products that the industry consumes? Do we really need a new iPhone every year? Apple wouldn't produce them if people wouldn't prefer a slightly better phone over sustainable living, then they watch "Planet of the Humans" and complain that Apple's attempts to "sustainable production" isn't as green as it seems.
Spanish govt. open sources its official Covid exposure notification apps
What kind of problems? If it didn't affect their customers, then it's not really a problem is it? Sure, if they have to find somewhere else to house people that's just a logistics issue. Problems come when income goes down.
I haven't tried it but I did look it over when I was investigating Starlette. May try it out in the future, it seems powerful, and I read about a few projects using it. I ended up just rolling with Starlette because I liked how minimal, yet flexible it was (why FastApi etc built on it).
Some specific tests seem too sensitive.

Different tests are used in different jurisdictions and at different times.
I can’t believe the amount of conspiracy nonsense pervading HN recently. Seriously what is going on? We’re pushing a zerohedge article? What’s next, infowars?
It is the dialog.
There is not one drop of Dune in it.
> But what if they can iterate and fix the problems on the next car on the line.

Cars aren't software; to do that with cars without large identical (by intent) production runs (to control for process noise) it would seem like you would need extraordinary process control (and every indication I've seen has that Tesla varies from incumbents in the opposite direction), otherwise you are chasing process noise.
What does he bring to the table that makes this something you'd want to do any ways? Is it a reward for something he's done in the past?
Its right in the footer on every page

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm sure they can. I grew up with identical twin mother and aunt and while many people regularly mixed them up, I never had an issue. I always thought it was quite obvious. So my suspicion is that whatever it is that I could see due to familiarity, is likely what super recognizers can see immediately.
Keith Alexander was great. He was my goto example of how every PotUS puts scumbags (exclusively) in charge of IC and LEO agencies.

Every president betrays us here. Every damn one.
Every other post is a misleading conspiracy theory with cherry picked facts and data. ZH is awful.
Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US
See upthread discussion of "Speaker For The Dead", which is about a very similar (though not identical) idea.
There's good general stuff in the piece. Governance is important, we do need better governance, and we need to cultivate virtue and responsibility in citizens and leaders. That's all true but it's also kind of obvious. That things go to crap if society is run by private interest, greed or straight up clowns seems self-evident.

But every time someone brings up old ideas, in this case Plato's philospher caste, there's an immediate question. If it is so great, and if it worked in the 19th century, why did it die out? Good things don't vanish randomly. Whenever someone tries to restore some old form of governance the question needs to be answered why it died out.

I think for Plato's Republic it's quite obvious. Modern commerce and technology, mass communication and the information society have melted all that is solid into air, and there's no barriers in the way of democracy. Celebrities and businessmen have more to say than the Dean of Harvard and that's not going to change unless you put technology back into its box, which is hard to do.

The author brings up China as a modern society that improves governance, and I think that's true. But Chinese politicians aren't philosopher kings. The CCP is more like a hyper-competitive, ruthless machine than some kind of school for the humanities. Xi himself was cast to the countryside for years, people who make it to the top have to proof themselves over and over, and punishment can be quite harsh. It's fundamentally still Marxist and technocratic, and sees economic and technological advance as a driver for pretty much everything. It's not virtue that matters but Darwinian competition.

Stalin said that Leninism is American effectiveness combined with Russian revolutionary spirit. I think when China decided to ditch parts of its socialist economic program but kept it's Marxist political system in place they created a governing body that embodies that quite well. I don't think it's possible to recreate that in the West at all.
OpenGL isn't supported everywhere. Apple deprecated OpenGL across all their platforms in June, 2018.
because school started?
Is it really so unbelievable to be wary of the former director of the NSA joining a company that has enormous amounts of data as well as literal microphones in millions of homes? I don't really care about the source, facts are facts and this appointment is a bit scary.
White House reportedly moves to eliminate Covid-19 security theater at airports
Same here. We do lot of processing in background jobs, which make no sense moving to async task.
11.1%.
That’s my point.

Granted, lots of APIs make it prohibitively difficult to authenticate such that it’s easier to simply scrape. Such is the case with just about every Microsoft product I’ve ever used, most recently the XBox Live API. I genuinely wonder what kind of nonsense goes on in Microsoft design review meetings.
Ah, that's good. I just did the first test. I wasn't up for the longer version.
Honestly I'm not sure if this is really very positive. Funerals are for the living. This is for the dead. Seems like it could cause a lot more harm than good, in some cases.
You're selling Eric Lippert too short
Epic needs a strong case, not a minimum viable case. They need to demonstrate the full extent of the problem. An allegedly illegal contract shouldn't stop them from doing that.
> The fact that it's needed in a precisely made complex machine

The fact that it's needed in a complex machine shows that it's not one that is precisely made, I would think.
> Console ecosystems are already open-by-law, based on past cases from the 80s and 90s.

I'm curious what cases you think actually established this precedent? Keep in mind that a court saying "reverse engineering is not copyright infringement" is not the same thing as a court saying "a hardware manufacturer is legally obligated to permit the distribution of third-party software on its hardware".

> You can already publish a game to a Switch or PlayStation without ever going through Nintendo or Sony (so long as you don't steal any copywritten assets to do so).

I don't believe this is accurate, at least not in the sense of commercially publishing a game in a physical store or on Nintendo or Sony's digital storefronts. I'm certainly not aware of any games that have been published in physical stores without the publisher having signed a publishing agreement with Nintendo or Sony.
Thank you, now I know the term to associate with one of our papers written by one of the students, a "sleeper paper". The twist is that Google ranks it consistently high in the very first page in Google search (but not Google Scholar) for well over a year now for two common keywords. Somehow it never get a good citation count mainly a few handful self-citations even it has over 99% classification in all the important metrics namely accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.

Curiously I have another co-author paper by another student that was published around the same time (same topic different application) and as of today it has over 60 citations count. It even cited by a Stanford University researcher but only with classification accuracy of below 90%!

I think this is a classic case of a sleeper paper where you have excellent results but then nobody want to cite you because it makes their paper look bad or negate their (fake) claim of novelty. FYI, most of the papers in the field use the same venerable open online database that make it easy to compare your results against others.
Wut? Pretty sure you're a misdirected Russian bot ;) Seriously, Sicario flet sterile to you?
I am going by outcomes.

That is dead people/recovered people, and that number world wide is roughly 5 percent. My local numbers are higher, like almost 8 percent last I looked. Some places are lower. New Zealand is pretty much 10!

Edit: I see 4.5 percent globally now. It has approached 7 before.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

People dividing by infections are actually getting a lower best case number. Think everyone infected not dying. Secondly, the cases in progress are not outcomes yet, so comparing them against known dead people reduces risk perception by over counting non outcomes and dividing into known outcomes.

One could get an upper bound and assume all infected will die for a similar worst case number.

People dividing by population are computing something different. Not death rate.

Some want to argue about Covid causing deaths in people with existing conditions. True, but that does not make the basic outcome equation wrong. It does speak to some people having more risk.

Some want to argue about testing. And that we don't see all recovered cases. Both of those things do vary the metric some, but as an overall risk assessment, those errors do not change things much.

Note, recovered stats are no longer widely shown in the US. I leave you to make your own conclusions.

Finally, go look at the cruise ships and their numbers. Little test beds. 5 percent is entirely plausible.

Until I see a lot more data, I am going with outcomes.

Global stats show roughly 5 percent. That's high enough to continue to be careful.

If you are sick with something else, it will be higher.

If you are old, or feeble, or have some conditions, it will be higher.

BE careful. There are dead people in my circles already.

Also, not dying could mean being impacted. I don't know what those numbers really are, but they could be 20 percent. Depends on what data. We probably don't really know.

Heart problems.

Lung problems.

Brain problems.

All are being reported.

I myself survived this thing. Was sicker than I ever want to be again. Hoping I don't have post Covid problems.

Wish I did not have to worry about it.

As the data comes in, the death rate will change, and so will the post recovery conditions numbers.

In this pandemic, basically becoming endemic, it will pay off to be conservative, IMHO.

It is novel and that means all of us want to know more than we actually do. The only real cure for that is time for the people doing the science to get it done.

Ideally, politics stays mostly out of the way. Ideally...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-board/ex-nsa-chief...
Any mechanism (biological or otherwise) for seeing patterns in limited information is sure to also see a lot of erroneous patterns. Furthermore if one part of the brain is often seeing patterns that aren't there, other parts of the brain are likely doing the same. For this reason, I wonder if being a 'super recognizer' is correlated with schizophrenia.
They produce them for the average Joe. They don't force anyone to buy their products.

And if they would stop producing the products, what would happen? As long as people buy, someone else would produce them.

And, yes, a billionaire would have more power to change the world, if just buy giving them the ability to run a massive media campaign to change peoples minds.
Yet here we are in this very article blaming them for using their financial power to try and influence the public opinion.
I meant automatic integration.
This is really useful, since it's the first source that includes the Ct for each(?) test.

Combine that with [1] which makes a good argument that some high Ct levels may be too sensitive.

Just randomly looking, this test[2] approved in June uses the Ct of 40 which is criticised above.

[1] https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/09/01/covid-tes...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/139572/download
> Airport screenings are designed to catch infected people traveling into the country so that they don’t continue to spread COVID-19. They don’t usually end up catching that many sick people, though. Temperature checks alone aren’t going to catch people who caught the virus but aren’t showing symptoms yet or anyone who is asymptomatic. Fever is a common symptom of COVID-19, but some very sick people never develop one. It’s also easily masked by medication. Symptom screenings rely on people telling the truth and, again, won’t flag anyone who is pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic.

It's a step in the right direction to admit that the vast majority of this is "theater".

By continuing the theater we perpetuate the fear. Close the theater.
Which would make him the majority shareholder. By a margin of 5% - almost double the next largest shareholder and more than the next dozen shareholders combined.

In other words: he has unilateral control of the company. Welcome to publicly traded companies. You don't need 51% to control the company.
Most of the founding fathers were very pragmatic. The Constitution is one big compromise - it is the document that it needed to be to get 13 colonies to agree on a political union. There's plenty of stuff there (like the 3/5 compromise, or electoral college) that doesn't hold up ideologically today.

Certainly stuff like Declaration of Independence or Common Sense is ideololgically-sounding. But these are propaganda pieces: they are also what they needed to be to get the citizenry behind the revolution.

The way to tell an ideologue apart from a pragmatist is to look at their actions when faced like a choice like "Hundreds of thousands of people need to die, but it's for the greater good." The ideologue will choose the greater good; the pragmatist will choose the people.

(Interestingly, by this definition, America's two greatest ideologues are probably FDR and Abraham Lincoln. Which I think is accurate, but they're still widely esteemed. I still maintain that they are two of the most dangerous leaders in U.S. history though.)
That's interesting! I guess when i read:

> ...system uses a net of lasers surrounding the beam to detect obstructions, like a bird or person, and it automatically shuts off transmission until the obstruction has moved on...

I guess i assumed any obstruction would suffice in triggering the lasers...but now re-reading it, maybe the obstruction has to be more significant.
Typically 2.4 - 5.8GHz
Plus we've already had an impeachment trial. If there were damning, conclusive evidence that the CIA possessed on Trump, that would have been the time to present it.
Maybe NextDNS is more elegant or easier to set up, but I felt that depending on its free plan was too risky (what if it eventually goes away?) and didn't really want to pay for a subscription when I already had a server at home to run PiHole on. I didn't really like needing to go over the Internet to configure it either - the PiHole admin panel is just another intranet site.
Will this disrupt other signals in the ISM band? If E2E efficiency is 60% there's maybe 30% radiating uncaptured? 400w is enough to jam anything else using the band for a long ways, maybe a kilometer?
Apple is still pretty innovative, but it hasn't been as visible as a new product for a while. They already shrunk computers down to the size of a watch, it's not obvious what more they can do, and the technology is probably not ready for wearables, etc.

Some innovations I can think of are force touch, fingerprint sensor (arguably), Face ID, T2 chip / hardware security, Touch Bar, the heart sensor on Watch, and (possibly) wireless charging. Now, some of those, like the Touch Bar are widely reviled here, but whether or not you find it useful, it is an innovation.

Design-wise there's been incremental innovations, some of which haven't succeed (scissors keyboard). The Jet Black iPhone was a design innovation, or at least a manufacturing innovation, since they had to preprocess the metal surface so that the black dye would soak in beyond the outer layer.
I dunno, it seems like most VCs care about long-term visions. I mean, look at Uber and such. Still unprofitable.
>seeing patterns in limited information is sure to also see a lot of erroneous patterns

I don't think that the brain uses general pattern recognition on faces, but rather a distinct and specialized facial processing module. Without reading more about super-recognizers, my guess is that their facial processing module is OP. These people will never forget or confuse a face in the same way that you will basically never confuse your mom for someone else, except for a split second in edge cases. We don't worry about confusing our mom for someone else.
I sometimes think the US functions as a giant experimental ground for the rest of the world to learn in which domains a combination of capitalism and devolved regulatory authority (which seems to drive rapid innovation) works and also DOESN'T work :-)

We've had fiber to home for years now in the East. Largely driven i think by governments seeing this was one area where it didn't work.
You can’t realistically use relays in space.
N2n a Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN
Did you intend to post this over here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24427311
This film will cover the first half of the first book in the saga.
https://lcsc.com/product-detail/PADAUK_PADAUK-Tech-PMS150C-U...
This article left me wondering: Are there no options left with 68000 family CPU?
Even for those who haven't read any of the series but the first one (eg me), "Speaker for the Dead" is a job/title that the protagonist of Ender's Game takes up at the end of the book.
Dmitrii Kovalenin, Russian translator of Murakami has written a book on Murakami which is 1/3rd about the translation process, 1/3rd literary analysis of Murakami's novels and 1/3rd about author's experiences with Japan and Japanese people.

Kovalenin's chapter on the difficulty and involvement of translation the 'Hard-boiled Wonderland' is especially striking and goes into much similar details of how he had to be immersed in the book to a great extent to pull off a translation that would honor the original.

It is his literary analysis chapters that shed a great deal of light on 'why'. Turns out that Murakami's prose is highly structured, with subtle cross-refereces that, if translated differently will 'de-sync' and leave the reader of a translated version without the clues to understanding the real structure of the novel.

While an example of a structurally meaningful cross-reference escapes me at the moment, I do remember a different example of a structural clue. It occurs in the 'Hear the Wind Sing', the first book of the Sheep Trilogy, which ends in the much-recommended 'A Wild Sheep Chase' (technically it was later followed with a 4th book in 'Dance, Dance, Dance' so it's a 4-book trilogy). In the very beginning of the 'Hear the Wind Sing' there is a small unassuming line: 'This story begins on August 8, 1970, and ends eighteen days later — in other words, on August 26 of the same year'. If you follow the other time references given in the book -- such as days of the week mentioned on the radio etc -- this time frame given cannot possibly be true. The assumption that it is not an author's mistake gives a hint that there is a hidden structure to the novel, which on its face looks fairly simple and linear.

I personally think that it is very difficult to get to like Murakami if you start with 'Kafka' or, god forbid, the 'Wind-up Bird'. These are hard books and they require a specific mindset to enjoy. 'Sheep' into 'Dance' is much easier to enjoy and 'Norwegian Wood' and 'South of the Border' both provide a large tractable multi-layered experience that can be explored up to an individual desire for complexity in undertones.

According to Kovalenin, Murakami himself refuses to elaborate on his books' structures and recommends instead to 'understand [the books] via the way you feel about them'.
Eliza was great value for as long as you could stay within its limitations. Eliza was a true friend.

Imagine Eliza GPT 2020, speech enabled friend in pocket.

Who's going to implement it?
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ahh great, that will improve things I think. The first movie attempt just felt so rushed and skipped over so many details.