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> possible interpretations of the officially recorded question and see if we can figure out what the congressman meant.

This is not how things work legally. If they want better answers they need better questions. It's not about interpreting what they meant but never actually said. Especially when what they said it accusatory of Google and very likely false. He asked a terrible question, and you're bending over backwards to interpret it in the most charitable way possible. That's fine on HN, or in a group of friends. That is not how things work at a congressional hearing. If I was Sundar, my answer would be that without photographic proof I don't believe this ever actually happened.

Cheers to whomever is downvoting my responses. It doesn't change the fact that it was a bad question and it got a deservedly snarky answer. I'm leaving this thread, it's clear most people here don't want to understand ads and just want to be angry at the big corp.
I don't think anyone that says it intends it this way, but this is how I read 'generation rent'.

Not 'forced into renting instead of buying property' but 'subscription over ownership for everything'. No money left, lots of stuff, as little of it as possible actually bought and owned. Lease car, rented flat, rented furniture, takeaways and meal box kits, craft beer / organic veg boxes, etc.

In many cases it's a reversion rather than a new idea, and fine, it's not wrong, just different. Very different though, and largely not for me (though I fall in the generation described).
With the extremely low interest rates, I wonder if the monthly payments are about the same.
More intentional damage by the renter for the landlord's policy. Usually the exception is under the wording of 'vandalism'. I think intentional damage by someone who bought the place is an OK thing to have an exception for. Although I wonder if banks have insurance for that case.
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When the world is awash in debt, pricing turns into a game of future-mortgaging chicken.

Who's willing to promise more of their future to buy an asset?
Well I guess that answers it, SQLite is the database of all databases.

> https://github.com/cmu-db/dbdb.io/blob/master/dbdb/settings....
Pompeo's support for Israel has a motive that goes beyond the American mainstream.

He's an Evangelical Christian and believes in an imminent "Rapture" that can only happen when Biblical prophecies are fulfilled. Among these is the return of Jews to the Holy Land. [1]

In other words, the Secretary of State is literally trying to bring about the end of the world.

If this were Iran, people would be talking about a delusional theocracy.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6959f506-6ee6-4d31-9372-ba34d5291...
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Writing a simple query engine can be accomplished with a trie and a hash map to be a bit like Dynamo DB and SQL is straightforward to parse (but a pain to implement).

https://github.com/samsquire/hash-db
https://github.com/samsquire/sql-database

These are my very straightforward codebases where I've been experimenting with SQL parsing (and execution) and dynamo db style querying.

You need an efficient range operator to implement a database.
I've never tried DMT, though it's something I'd like to try. I did have an experience with entities and salvia though. I've smoked it a few times and there was always things there...it always felt like to them I was an ant they'd suddenly noticed were aware of them and they just seemed kind of amused.

But one time, I tried smoking a small amout of it while chewing on some extract. I'd read that south American shamans would chew the leaves rather than smoking them.

It was a totally different experience. After about ten minutes I had this extreme sense of derealization, like everything in the world was flat and 2 dimensional the like backdrop of a play and if I tried I could have just ripped it all down to see everything hidden behind it. It was a really strange feeling.

Shortly after that though, was when the entity showed up. At the time, I was fairly addicted to minecraft. Like would spend ally free time playing that game.

All of a sudden there was a voice screaming in my head that i'm wasting my time and life...something made...I really don't know how else to describe it, stand up and start walking into the wall over and over while the voice kept going see, this is what you've been spending your time doing. If you've ever played minecraft, it involves a lot of walking into walls to mine blocks.

At that point, I started getting this overwhelming urge to go outside for a walk. I remember arguing with the thing saying it would be a bad idea to go outside. It ended up relenting and left.

The whole experience was strange...I swear that must be what it feels like to be possessed or something. I know it's like just a hallucination, but it sure felt real and even remembering it it feels real.

Real or not, I stopped playing minecraft after that. Haven't played more than a few hours since.
" from the core issue: as practiced today, it's malicious and immoral, and has disastrous consequences for society."

This is absurdly false.
Quick-protobuf has been around for a while and supports it.
> In Rust, for everything you need to do, there's at least 5 different libraries that implement that, all competing with eachother.

That's interesting. This seems like a good thing to me. I've had no issues with microservices in Rust related to having too many crates.
I disagree. They might have had a different name, but they would end up being essentially the same thing: a place to store a unique identifier (or other information), with an expiration date and some information about what server to send them to.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
you also have largely the same OS and hardware architecture that you did in 1999
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My use of pragmatic was really not meant to be dismissive. My English is not always as good as I'd like it to be :).

Every time there is a discussion about climate change, there are comments in the lines of "we are in danger, Earth is not". That's entirely correct, but it doesn't help much :).

Thanks for the kind words, you are definitely right, many people are working in the right direction. We need to listen to them more.
That makes sense, I don't think I stated my question very clearly: how do you control/optimize the entropy of the latent space?

ie. what stops the network from laundering all of the information for reconstructing the image through a super high entropy latent space that is hard to code but allows it to reconstruct perfectly

e: I guess I should just get up to date by reading some papers
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I think the responsiveness problem will be tackled by specialized memory controllers like where the new gaming consoles are headed
I totally agree. Apple is great for privacy - and that's important to me - but I'm slowly starting to think I might move to something else. Sadly, it seems my only real option is Android. I miss windows phone and blackberry.
Wonder how close this phenomena is related with lucid dreaming. The reason I bring it up is back in college I was struggling with an assignment and could not get the solution to a problem. That night I had a extremely vivid lucid dream where I was told the solution to the problem. The crazy thing was I tested it the next morning and it worked. Most likely my subconscious solving the issue but it was extremely strange as the answer was very clear and was not a technique I was used to.
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> Among my friends that have bought houses, many of them have gone into significant debt just to buy a 3-4 bedroom house, even though they have no kids and only use one of the bedrooms, because they think that at some point in their life they will put them to use.

Are you sure your friends aren't just being rational? I thought about the rent vs buy thing pretty constantly in my 20s and always came down on the rent side. Not because renting Dwelling A would be cheaper than buying Dwelling A, but because I was happy living in Dwelling A (a nice-ish 1-bedroom apartment) but if I were to commit to ownership I'd want Dwelling B (at least 3 bedrooms). Life can change fast - you're not sure which fling will turn into a spouse or when a little one will come along or when you'll really need a home office. Selling a one-bedroom condo is obviously doable, but transaction costs are fairly insane on real estate, and it seems like low-end places (like 1-bed condos) haven't historically experienced the same appreciation as standard houses.

It sounds like your friends could get by with a Smart car but bought a Toyota RAV4 instead. And when they decide to trade up to a Tesla in a few years, they might find that the RAV4 retained value better than the Smart car, because that's what "everyone" wants!
How much of the microplastic contamination is from consumer goods packaging from western countries? The vast majority is from fishing nets and illegal dumping of household trash by developing countries.
Millenial here, looking to buy my first house in the next couple of years. My budget will be $1.5M to $2M for my "starter" home in Vancouver, Canada.
Thanks, I hadn't seen this. I'm curious about how they compare - it looks like quick-protobuf uses Cow, but I think pb-jelly doesn't?
> certainly they're the youngest end of Millenial, and can not really be said to have endured the 2008-2011 recession as they were not working at that time.

My 2 & 4 year old aren't working right now, and they've certainly endured the coronavirus pandemic. I don't know why not yet being in the labor force would prevent one from being accurately described as having endured an economic downturn any more than any other adverse conditions. It's hardly as if not being the breadwinner of the household insulates you from the effects if their income is reduced or eliminated.
Hi HN,

This idea came to me when I noticed that perceptually identical but slightly different images can’t be proven to Have existed at a certain point in time.

I‘m still in search of a compelling use-case though.

Happy to hear your thoughts :)
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Hi, also big fan of org-mode authoring, but how do you import/modify/use nice latex templates such as invoice or resume? https://www.latextemplates.com/template/invoice ?
> We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems.

I imagine this is all in good fun, but this disclaimer doesn't rule out data being derived from your face and stored or sold later.
Also true for all software projects.
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Others have already covered it, but it's mostly about limiting things that can go wrong. The single-threaded nature of JavaScript means data races are not an issue, but you can still get situations where a local variable (whether `const` or not) is mutated without it being obvious.

I see your concerns about performance, but 1) temporal objects are so small that there are plenty of optimization opportunities for the JS engines to eliminate or greatly reduce allocations.

2) The larger and older your project, and the more people are working on it (including authors of third-party dependencies), the murkier data ownership becomes. With that you are more likely to slip into defensive programming practices. "I have a `Date` object that is someone's birthday, but I need to pass it to multiple functions and then serialize it to storage. But I can't tell for sure what those functions are doing with that value. Should I serialize the date right away and persist that value later? Should I just create copies of the object to pass to the functions?"

But birthdays don't mutate, so now you're worrying about a thing that shouldn't be an issue! In the unlikely case that someone's birthday date is corrected, May 9th doesn't suddenly turn into July 15th. In the real world you don't drag the red circle drawn in marker on a paper calendar with your finger from one cell to another, or white out the day number and write in another one. You cross the old circle off and draw a new one in the right place.

My background is in backend services, hundreds of threads running on dozens of cores. The peace of mind that comes with being able to pass values to async functions and thread pool executors, and knowing that they won't turn into a pumpkin at midnight is a very real thing. There's a performance price to pay, sure, but it's so tiny compared to the wins in development and debugging times. And in the particular case of date/time objects, most things are around 8-16 bytes anyway so it ends up not mattering much.

Tangent: this is the fear that Rust talks about in its value proposition btw. Technically, everything is mutable in Rust. You can flip a bit in an integer that is passed to a function from inside that function if you want. But the difference is that you have control over who gets to do that, and you have visual cues in the code (the `mut` keyword), and you have assurances from the compiler that the rules are followed. One owner at a time. Many can look, but not while a value is modified. Best of both worlds. The end result is that it never bothered me that `Date` is mutable in Rust. Either I'm the owner, or I borrowed the value to look at it, or I borrowed it for mutation and have the guarantees that 1) nobody else is doing the same; and 2) nobody will see in-progress modifications until I'm done.
When I first started poking around Ada, I wouldn't say I found the syntax ugly but I very used to C++ and found it at least a bit odd. Nowadays I find myself expressing the exact opposite of your own sentiment. I wish more languages used a syntax more similar to Ada.

The parts of the syntax I'm very familiar with just get treated by my brain just the same. It's not "busier" in my head because words are written out. But things I'm not so familiar with I can basically just read. And anything really unfamiliar with is easy enough to search.

Syntax stuff falls out of my head pretty quickly if I'm not using it, so I find this particularly useful.
SpaceX also did the COTS thing to great effect.
If your point is that "monopoly" has a different meaning in a colloquial/political context and in a legal context, that it relies on non-obvious definitions of what the relevant market, what dominant is, and that it varies by country, I do not think it strongly supports the assertion that it does not have a loose definition.
I did the "starter home" thing in 2006 and then the market crashed and I was under water until 2019...

I would never recommend the idea of a "starter home" to anyone, ever. It only works when housing prices are on the rise and continue that way the entire time you live there.
I think it's because we're watching schizophrenia and a doc who feels it's just rich escapism.
Effective solutions to problems do not always depend on knowing the cause.
I have an unrelated question which may be dumb - printers have machine identification codes steganographically embedded in printouts. Do camera manufacturers do this (steganographically)?
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Entirely correct. And that's infuriating

Though it does not stop us from acting at local level.
Let us all stop replacing our phones every year, and there will be a shift in consumption models. We collectively, as a sum of locals, have the power to make things change.
Or maybe the self is an illusion.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/97/The_Illusion_of_the_Self
When I mentioned retro systems, I had in mind obsolete compilers in stock installations of IRIX, AIX, Solaris, BeOS, NextStep, Amiga Unix etc. Not modern compilers that target 8-bit microcontrollers like SDCC.
I still use tabs in apps despite using i3 for years. This firefox window has 13 tabs and would be much much crappier if I used 13 i3 tabs.

I couldn't open new firefox windows in the background and opening others in the foreground within firefox.

I would have to use i3's horizontal tabs instead of tree style tabs making it harder to read the titles.

I couldn't switch tabs separately from switching windows. This would make having firefox alongside another window suck because it would trivially become hard to navigate. I would have to manually put only the firefox windows in a tabbed layout with the other window outside of it. I would have to focus parent and then focus direction to switch to the other. This would be so for any window I want to use alongside it even briefly.

I couldn't close entire trees of tabs at once. I couldn't close everything except the current tree.

I couldn't save a particular set of tabs as a session to be restored later.

In theory could these features be implemented in an i3 specific nature? Perhaps so long as you are willing to do so for every specific environment and for every individual app.

If we pick 100 apps and the most popular 10 environments and the most desired 10 features we will find we only have 10,000 tasks ahead of us!

Tabbed environments within i3 ARE useful but not as a replacement for tabbed interfaces within applications.
My god that is a rabbit hole. Thanks for this! (But there goes my evening..)
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Yes, most video cards these days can run 3-4 monitors using DP. Make sure you check the stats on the specific cards you buy.

https://multimonitorcomputer.com/index.php is a good resource.
Foreign news, even state controlled (RT, for example) is always valuable. Partly because we know those news outlets are biased and politically motivated, and adjust our own perception accordingly. Though the glorification of suicide bombing and the killing of US soldiers on Al Jazeera always left a very bad taste in my mouth circa 2003-2004.

The problem is that our news outlets are biased and politically motivated as well, it's just the pressure comes from money and "access". And we don't admit it to ourselves.

A simple example is a person or company will go to a specific outlet to break negative news so they can get a head start on the story. For access to the scoop, the outlet helps write a truthful but "friendly" narrative.

This happens all of the time with large businesses also, and it's evident in the headlines. Where did you think all of that PR consulting money goes?
Sure that proves that Wirecard was not regulated properly, and needs regulation.

If a city burned down because all firefighters were drunk, noone would be arguing that we don't need firefighters.
As a 29 year old, I reject this sentiment. I may not have been working but my decisions regarding college and overall early adult life were heavily affected by the 2008-2011 recession because of how it affected my family.

We endured it, just in a different way than those who were working.
Wipe out 90% of pollutants or wipe out 90% of humans in a mass die off. The animals (except for rats and raccoons) will rejoice but I don’t think that’s what humans want.
You can't link against the new SDK, but you can link against an old SDK, but fix the bugs which are associated with iOS 14.

~All of the bugs I've ever seen on a new iOS release are just where they've tightened up some behaviour.
I never realized how low that comment's ID was until now. We've all said a lot since then :)
Yes, reducing consumption as a sum of individuals is the most impactful thing we can do, next to voting.
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Well, there's cause and there's cause.

If you have a smoke problem you can put the fire out without working out how it started.
I've noticed that every issue ends with this exact post. Despite the actual complexity or circumstance of the issue, at the end is always a guy on a soapbox talking about exactly one thing. It's only ever one thing and it never has anything to do with the complexity of the situation. It is always, always always about anthropogenic climate change due to carbon.

It's like getting pamphlets at the airport. You do not read them but you know what they're about.
IMO the time spent choosing a library in Rust is about equal to the spent debugging a null pointer in Go, but a Rust project will have a lot less libraries than a Go project will have null pointers
It's not actually the instability as such (I think), but the scale of the power and decision-making. The US in particular has centralized a ton of power and decision-making in Washington, where the original vision (at least among the early Federalists) would be that the federal government would remain weak and the power would be largely left in the hands of the states.

If government were better-federated, to push the power and decision-making to smaller and smaller units, then citizen buy-in would be a lot easier because the answer would always be "get involved in your local legislature", not "cast your vote into an ocean of millions of votes and hope for the best".

Americans sometimes look at Iceland as an example of Scandinavian Utopia, but I think the single best thing Iceland has done that's the cause to a lot of the effects has been to stay small. It's easy to know someone in government personally even if you're an outsider. Sure, there's still corruption and centralization of power and wealth, but the scale is so much smaller that it's a lot easier to just kind of shrug it off than when the fate of the world's data is at stake.
This administration's xenophobia is really starting to annoy. But the silver lining is that at least President Trump and his supporters have all but guaranteed 16 years of Democrats in the White House. Maybe the damage he has caused in just 4 years can be repaired in that time.
How many apps that are just an interface to a website and could be viable as a website if only iOS Safari had push notifications would actually bring in any significant amount of revenue?

Besides that, according to the latest App Store rules, apps that just surface cross platform services aren’t required to have in app purchases.
That… would be jcranmer's point, they're replying to a toplevel comment advocating for not having precedence.
I thought this was common knowledge?

As a 10 year old we saw this in elementary school in Belgium...
That's exactly why I worded it without referencing airplanes. It's kind of a universal statement about committees.
Loved the results. Worked fine for me. Tried with a 28Kb JPEG image with lot of noise, but turned out good.
We need to go to Venus as soon as possible
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Despite the fetishization of “real engineering” and “standards”, once again we come down to the bare truth: software engineers are the only ones with true ethical standards. Easily measured by numbers of people killed. In fact, web front-end engineers are far more ethical than any others. If you work at Slack you are a better engineer than Boeing aeronautics. Never forget this.
Once you dispatch your binary/text protobuf into a proto message type however, you do get type safety, and it makes sense to carry over that type safety to implementing languages.

Plus, Any [1] is an effort to standardize the ability to carry the proto type (as a global identifier that can be used to retrieve its schema) alongside its serialized format.

[1] - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#a...
You don't see a problem when a legal hearing that's been criticised as "undermining of due process and the rule of law" by the International Bar Association only offers a tiny number of hard-to-get seats to the public and then asks Amnesty International to compete with them on a first-come, first-serve basis?

From the Amnesty tweet thread: "The general public has a right to the few seats in the public gallery; trial monitors should not be competing with the public to secure a seat that belongs to the public-at-large." - https://twitter.com/JuliaHall18/status/1306198935816613889
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