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> Internet points don't add value to my life.

Absolutely. I don't want points. But I'm collecting negative points whilst giving honest and authentic contributions. I'm being judged and found wanting. Why?

I don't mind hearing or being deconstructed (or ignored for that matter). But why take one on what I have to say, when I'm being straightforward? I'm acting in good faith.

It feels like I have to be part of the 'hive mind' or f* off like you suggest. But I like this site and what's discussed.
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I know of people (in real life) who use Alexa devices and are quite enthusiastic about them. In some respects, they are quite sensible and look at how the device contributes to their lives. In other respects ...

... well, let's just say that I'm in the category of people who find the technology creepy. My tendency to avoid prying into other people's lives and desire to lead a quiet life leaves me with uneasy feelings with the massive amounts of data collection happening these days.

The thing is, not everyone is like that. If someone is okay with the noise of world intruding into their lives and are curious about the lives of other people, I can think of very few reasons why they would find these voice assistants creepy. That list includes the realists concerns about security and plain old paranoia.
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It's simply not true for the cities, people largely drive around 50 km/h if that's the limit. On the highways however going 30+ over the limit is a norm.
I disagree that it's a move in the wrong direction. When I got a scooter at 15 it suddenly opened up my world - I could ride it to other cities and meet distant friends after school, and just get a lot more things done without having to involve my parents. It was an incredible mobility improvement for a young person, and I imagine this will serve the exact same purpose.

And I rode a bicycle at the same time - me and my friends used to cycle 2-3 times per week, 100-120km per day, just for fun. But that's not a good option to go with friends to a cinema, when the nearest one is 45 minute bicycle ride away along major roads. A scooter improved that ability immensly, and I'm sure a small car will as well.
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Your comment reminded me of the piss-take someone made of moped noise. Once the exhaust system has been modified it’s awful. https://youtu.be/0UotZ_ZLB5A
Actually fail2ban takes care of that for me. Anyway, the important part was having my home PC not crawling and its disk filled with failed connection logs because of the deluge of bots requests. Avoiding being DDOS'ed, for short.
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Don’t slopes go both directions depending on what side you’re coming from? (Update: One ways, clearly. I blame brain fog, it’s very early)
Then they will get banned if they happen to succeed, don't worry about it.

At the current state of affairs a lot of people put in a little bit money and very few happen to profit from it. Due to the fact that most people put negligible amount in, it doesn't create societal problems, thus not banned. AFAIK there is max amount spent per person in some jurisdiction though.
> Breach a user's trust and/or misuse their data and you'll know about it pretty quickly.

> I'd wager that the average user cares much more about protecting, say, their browsing history,

No, you won't, for a lot of reasons.

1. If people gave a fig about their browsing history, they wouldn't have Facebook accounts. (Which, combined with tracking cookies, do a great job of leaking their browsing history.)

2. If people gave a fig about their browsing history, they wouldn't use browsers with omnibars.

3. Or browsers which sync their accounts across multiple computers/devices.

3. People don't even understand which part of the tech stack (The OS, the app, the browser, the website, the third-party cookies served by the website) that they use actually compromises their information.

4. Unless you're a political dissident being hunted by the CIA, the House of Saud, and the Mossad, when this information is compromised, the harm is difficult to quantify, and is never directly linked to the part of the stack that caused the compromise.

Ask five different people 'Who knows your browsing history?', and you will get five different answers, all of which will be wrong. If normal people cared about this in the particular, they'd be tech-literate about this sort of thing. They aren't. As long as some asshole is not using that compromised browsing history to harass them personally, as long as it's being used in the abstract, by some information broker to show them ads, most of them don't give a damn. I know that they don't, because they don't take any steps to secure it.

Obviously, the users don't care about the B2B spat between Apple and developers. I'm not asking them to - I'm pointing out that rigged markets rarely produce good products.
So like a gameboy
As u/londons_explore mentioned, in theory you can train a model for lossless reconstruction - there are several papers about this, e.g. [1] is a good recent example. Lossless compressors need to learn a probability distribution over each input pixel, which amounts to maximum likelihood estimation in the original image space.

The model in the demo is a lossy compression method because it first projects the input to a lower dimensional space and performs quantization of this representation to integer values so the result can be ultimately entropy coded. It uses the mean-scale hyperprior model introduced in [1] to estimate the necessary probability distributions in the lower-dimensional space for entropy coding.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12817
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01436
Been using it professionally now for over four years successfully and getting paid for my work.
IMO the GP is being downvoted because irrespective of one's personal feelings regarding 'smart home' devices, it's difficult to see how someone could genuinely have never encountered any users of those devices (assuming you're living in the US). I can understand how someone extremely tech-savvy and cognizant of the privacy and other downsides of those devices may have friends who similarly would not use or purchase the same; but to have genuinely never seen one, whether it be in the home of a relative, an acquaintance, in popular television or movies - and having never read any reporting about their popularity - seems beyond the realm of possibility. Given that, the GP's question seems conceited. I can see how they might have intended to direct the question towards HN users in the assumption that most HN users would be wary of the aforementioned devices, in which case it'd be interesting to read the perspectives of those individuals who use them despite their downsides. But that isn't immediately evident.
Is it actually under active development? Are pull requests getting reviewed and merged?
One-way, so pick a slope where the one-way is downhill.
I've always felt that 'moral barriers' were the main forces which have allowed capitalism to operate relatively smoothly in the past (at least in some countries). That's why I've always been against Milton Friedman's philosophy that each person should only be motivated by-self interest.

In many ways, this philosophy is the reason why we ended up where we are today; with a deep and growing class divide fueled by colluding self-interests, moral depravity and hypocrisy.

This is because self-interest and cooperation are not mutually exclusive; it's the opposite; they are mutually reliant.

But cooperation born out of self-interest does not yield the same results as cooperation born out of altruism and a sense of moral justice or collective pride.
It's just a local online marketplace... and there's nothing in the news about anti-competitive practices or whatever. You may have the name confused with something else.
I always understood a substantial number had lost their license after a drink driving offence.
Answers from the thread with thanks:

news guidelines here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

format doc here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

an unofficial guide here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973

In summary:
You need 501 karma to downvote a comment.

Stories fall from the front page when they get many flags. You need only 31 karma to flag.

When a story gets much more comments than upvotes, it gets a penalty.

The mods can sink a story, or remove the penalty of the flags or the automatic penalty.
There are electric scooters (not push-bikes) in Prague, it's absolutely quiet. A better future awaits you!
> nobody really call us on the weekend anymore to fix something that can't wait till monday

I'm freakin sold, gonna learn rust now.
I agree 100%. I didn’t get my license until I was 22, and looking back I strongly feel like it was a mistake. There was just so much missed opportunity in being stuck within the range human power can get you.
Most of the devices have a switch for the microphone that is supposedly implemented in hardware rather than software. And the vast majority of smart home devices do not have cameras.

Granted, the ease of use of their functionality is largely dependent on the microphone being on at all times.
In browsers you can use webworkers to get parallel execution.
For a non-expert individual who would like to replace commercial cloud storage with a self hosted server such as a NAS, do all these steps apply equally?

I am limiting the services to simple storage.

Looks like maintaining a secure self cloud requires knowledge, effort and continuous monitoring and vigilance.
It's much less than 2 years. I think it's only 6 months if you're over 25. (you have to have had your restricted licence 6 months to get a full licence).

If you do an advanced driving course it's 3 months
>They are not scams, they are “funny taxes”

Or, as the cynics over here refer to it "The Stupid Tax".

The odds of winning £1million on the UK National lottery are 14,000,000-1. If you really want to maximise your chances of winning £1million, go down your local friendly bookies and see if you can find 1,000,000-1 odds being offered on any stupendously unlikely event and put your money on that. Your bet is 14 times as likely to come up as your lottery ticket is.
But ... let's look at GE.

It's basically worth nothing at net now.
And it was the great poster child for brilliant management decisions - that take any industry and run it using GE managers and allocate capital the GE way and it will win.

Turns out not so.

This is the lesson of history - great Kings and Emperors really do make great world beating decisions. But anything less than great leads to disaster whereas parliaments don't do great but they do keep growing and managing well for centuries.

We need to stop relying on great CEOs and kings and look for ways to run a company well.

PIRC has lots of research on the central founder risk to long term value.

but just ask this - imagine Elon Musk retires tomorrow. Do we want to hope we hire his clone or do we want a strong driven community of engineers to keep knocking out battery improvements for 2 decades.

I know which one i want my money in, and which one will make better headlines.
I'd do it if I was in SIN. Changi's pretty nice, and you can't go airside without a boarding pass. If you fly business or first class, Singapore Airlines is a pretty nice experience. I'm usually extremely productive on flights, so it would make a change from working at home or in a cafe or whatever. Also, I like aircraft and the experience of flying, and it's been a while since the last time I did it.
J seems like this alien bit of technology that is powerful but inscrutable. It also doesn’t seem to have any nice introductions / videos on YouTube. Anyone have some pointers handy for someone who wants to get the “big ideas” of J with a minimum of time investment?
When I moved to Ireland I thought about one. Still kind of expensive for what it is when you add doors.
And that works great until a trust authority gets compromised. It's for this reason why the US DoD has it's own root certificate authorities and thus many military websites actually look like they have invalid https certs. Browsers don't ship with DoD root certs installed as trusted.
> "Therefore, we emphasize that our method is not suitable for sensitive image contents, such as, e.g., storing medical images, or important documents."

As an example of this going wrong previously, xerox had once implemented compression based on deduplicating duplicate parts of documents. Obviously numbers contains tons of duplicate symbols (digits). The problem was that the scanner software deduplicated different numbers with each other, leading to wrong numbers.

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
> Modern fiscal politics, from VAT onwards, is all about trying to tax the poor without them noticing.

The US income tax is even worse. The poor pay higher marginal rates than the rich as a result of overlapping benefits phase outs. Then there's payroll tax, which not only charges higher rates to ordinary people than billionaires, it hides half of what you're paying by pretending the employer is paying it, even though they're not -- but doesn't hide it when you're a small business owner, which provides a psychological deterrent to entrepreneurship.

The whole thing needs to be scrapped.
Appreciate the responses. Most of the things I work on involve financial modelling, so tests are as much part of specification as they are validation. I can see them causing some drag for evolving less algorithmic code, particularly UI. Always interesting to get different perspectives - thanks.
genuine question- why are so many from romania interested about their genome? is it to prove they are not related to a certain ethnicity? afaik racism is rampant to the point where people are held in ghettos and banned from public institutions in that country. so is it so that you can prove you are not roma? the race you love to hate in that country?
It's not out yet, for anyone who got excited (like me)
"_Many streets in the Paris city center are one way_
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> France destroyed basically all of their forest in the last few centuries. It's a funny claim. It's like a homeless man saying his wealth increased by 100% in one day.

Sure but the point is that it's not directly related to the "Wildlife in catastrophic decline since the 70's".

I'm not sure I follow the rest, there is no time for philosophical debates about wether the West has the right to lecture developing countries, the earth cannot afford developing countries going down that path, period.

My point was that adapting our diet in the west looks useless to stop that catastrophic decline happening now, but maybe it could be a powerful act of solidarity to lead by example? To be clear I'm not discussing the merits of eating less meat (I'm vegetarian), just pointing out that it doesn't look like a short term solution for the very issue in TFA.
But why is there no room for middle ground? If I’m personally fine with the risk/reward balance of non-protected partially backed finance, why is it not acceptable?
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I was also using JDownloader mostly, but looks that this comment isn't popular. Is there something about JDownloader that I'm missing?
Rural areas implies bigger roads. You aren't going to need it to get from one end of the village to another. What you need is something to get to the next town five or ten miles away. This doesn't look so attractive then.
This needs to be able to read my terraform statefiles
Sure, many people are fit enough to ride a bicycle for a bit on flat land when it is dry out. I'm not sure "most" people are, though, and I'm guessing this gets less the older folks get.

I do not live on flat land and I live in a place with winters. I, in fact, live in a mountainous area. Riding a bike is not an easy feat here - I've been testing this summer. Short slight inclines aren't too bad: The occasional steep hill isn't so bad. 15-30 minutes uphill, however, is too much for me. All uphill one way isn't easy. I'm not the only person that struggles with this: Biking forums are full of folks that struggle with uphill, and it takes time to get fit enough for this.
Well, sure, that's the reason why the CDO position isn't being filled.

But the parent poster I was responding to was painting it as a terrible job. I was pointing out that for those of us that don't have the privilege of being in the C-level of the Fortune 500 club (Which is, to some approximation, some large number of nines of the userbase of HN), this sort of job would actually be pretty good, not because of what you do in it, but because of the doors it opens.

I've seen too many political animals fail upward from one disaster to another to imagine that there's nothing career-boosting that can be salvaged from that job posting.
A lottery may be a poor investment vehicle, but unless the results are being biased in some way, or the published odds are incorrect, it is demonstrably not a scam.
Another historic alternative was VINES IP which was used by Banyan Vines systems. Like IPX/SPX it was inspired by XNS.

What makes it particularly interesting is that Vines was based upon AT&T UNIX System V which means it is was a widely deployed commercial Unix implementation which did not use TCP/IP for it's network stack.
Yes, the model is not lossless as this would require learning the PDF in the original input space.

However, the model does learn a conditional probability distribution over a lower-dimensional representation of the original image - this is unavoidable as entropy coding requires a distribution over discrete symbols. The GAN is almost auxiliary and not a central component of the model - in fact, you can get very good results without the GAN, but does seem to result in visually superior reconstructions.
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From what you say, it seems that mods are pretty powerful. They can turn a story around or bury it or whatever.. That is all invisible to us users, right?

This is to say, we can't say whether the story is authentically popular or unpopular, as we don't have that information.

Gah! What happened to free speech?

I know that this is a private site... I know.

But still, can't we even know that we're being manipulated? Is this our life now, where we cannot be trusted to make judgements for ourselves, but instead all information must be massaged and managed for us?!!?
The same thing is happening in C++. Just have a look at certain Boost libraries. The thing is, usually you can use something else instead.
I mean I once bought something from a neighboring country because it was not here but it makes no sense to buy same product from other country just because you can do it with bitcoin, maybe there are some exceptions but with local stuff it should be cheaper, cheaper transport, easy to return or get warranty.

What I ma thinking about is say someone offers to pay me in bitcoin I would have no choice to transform it in real money and put them on a bank account so I can use them. Probably makes sense to use bitcoin to create online accounts for stuff that you don't want your card or email to be linked to.
This is literally what GDPR will enforce. Under GDPR you're not allowed to 'trade' extra functionality or access for tracking.

I'm still applauding Apple for taking this stance on privacy, but want to point out that privacy in no way requires a walled garden approach to software.
The phrase 'monetary policy' has a specific meaning in economics.

If the quote is taken literally, then the concern lies with ensuring that ultimate control over the size of the money supply, interest rates, and inflation lies with government and not with the private sector.

Privately-issued currencies not backed by central banks are extremely vulnerable to liquidity crises (bank runs) and other failures. See the economic situations that lead to the establishment of central banks in most countries for examples.

If private, unbacked, currencies became widely used, internal crises could trigger recessions in the real economy. Most governments would rather avoid this risk by disallowing the establishment of substantive independent monetary systems.
Is there much point to anonymity when you give someone your DNA to sequence? You have to completely trust they will delete all records and samples, otherwise they can link you to relatives who haven't paid anonymously.
I get the same
The obvious workaround is to move from edges to facets.

Instead of Tardigrade (A) shipping arms to $TERRORISTS (B) and (B) sending money to (A) by paypal in a bilateral pattern AB, they should move to the next topological level.

A ships arms to $EMBARGOED_PARTY (B), (B) sends money to $FREEDOM_FIGHTERS (C), and (C) sends drugs with street value to (A), making a triangular pattern ABC.

Extension to tetrahedral trade is left as an exercise for the reader.
> pearl clutching with everything COVID related is quite concerning, moreso than the disease itself.

At the high points of the peak in the US, COVID 19 was killing more people per week than cancer or heart disease in the US. If everybody was just going on with business as usual, there's no reason to believe that the curve would have been turned.

If you're in an at-risk group, COVID is really dangerous. The case fatality rate is around 3% in the US, and it's extremely contagious, so it's plausible to imagine a world where everybody got it.

I think with these numbers in mind, a little bit of 'pearl clutching' is warranted.
Whole genome sequencing is made to understand someone's genetic diseases. It would be an overkill for heredity testing that can be made for $100.
Well.. it looks like that hasn't had any commits for over two years anyway. Which might be okay; it could be done.
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