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> Also you have really funny spelling skills

Given the poor grammar of your comment, I’d remind you that kids in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
Bureaucracy sure got in those kids way.

Deflect your hypocrisy all you want.

Why anyone would take Americans seriously while barking about how free they are from bureaucratic committee is beyond me.

Your bureaucracy just externalizes the gate keeping to corporate HR and universities admissions.

Why not be a bit more scientifically honest: has nothing to do with nation states and much more to do with human biology.

You possess no moral high ground. Endless deflection and projection with humans.
I think some minuscule amount of energy is taken from the thermal bath (the environment is considered a thermal bath - you can take heat from it and it's so big its temperature won't budge), converted into electricity and then back to heat in the load resistor. They all remain in the same temperature if I'm not gravely mistaken.
Given the rate at which movies, music, and books are created, it stands to reason that most of the best art ever created was created more than 10 years ago.

One reason that's not a persuasive enough argument for many people is that what they want to get out of art is different. If you want the best sensory experience, then a black and white movie from the 30s is probably not to your taste. Other people appreciate the social aspect of media: being able to be participate in an ongoing conversation about some work, actor, or topic.

Both of those are valid reasons to like things, but ideally, you want to be able to see the value of a work independent of your own preferences. That doesn't mean denying your own preferences. But, part of a successful education is cultivating the ability to appreciate culture of all kinds, and on its own terms.
The spam integration wasn’t done in the way TRAI was pushing Apple to. On Android, the DND (Do Not Disturb) app could get permissions to the call log and SMS, but this wasn’t possible on iOS. Apple pushed back on that requirement for privacy reasons and instead developed a way for the reporting to be done by the user and the information passed to the DND app to compose (not send) an SMS. No compromises were made to grant any permissions. To this day, the SMS permissions doesn’t exist on iOS.
Forum is more useful for future users. Live chat gives a better experience for the immediate asker. Pick your poison.
Modi is a pure marketing person representing JIO and PayTM period, he just wants their spyware to be pre-installed. Nothing more, now if you want proof, watch the down votes. He is the kind of PM who doesn't meet journalists, doesn't take questions. And all he does is Marketing. No execution went atleast good till now.
Well. The user is writing a description in a human readable format. Then, the tool will take that description and start running the pipeline. From data reading, preprocessing until creating and evaluating the model. If this isn't automation, please define automation for me.

Also there are new features that I'm working on. The stable release was done this week.
I can't tell you how much I dislike the non-removable apps.

It basically killed my first android phone, which was very low end but fine for my needs when I got it.
But it came with a ton of non-removable apps which were fine at first, but then they slowly grew to take up more and more of the storage as they updated, til nothing left.
I could downgrade them again, I think, but they would soon update again and use up the storage.
I guess I could have disabled update, but I wanted that for other things.
Ended up jailbreaking my phone so I could remove them.
But then other apps like the one for online banking refuse to run because "security reasons"
I read the words "limitless power" and assumed it is crap. In case it it not, please reply to this comment, and I will give the article a read. There is no reason for you to do this, but thanks in advance, kind strangers.
This is awesome! I’ve been working with blender scripts a lot lately for my side project where I generate jewelry for 3D printing (https://lulimjewelry.com)

It’s an incredibly powerful tool, IMO one of the best large open source applications. I’ve learned some good ideas by reading the plug-in here, thank you!
Please, I want to read from one of the famous African philosophers who was prominent in the 17th century.

Can you tell me his name and paste some inspiring philosophical quotes here?

Tired of reading from all these apparent racist white philosophers like Kant and Descartes.
Not yet, for now the proprietary Xecuter modchips are the only game in town.

IIRC the XenoGC was originally proprietary too, but open sourced by the designer after a few years.
> even extremely intelligent people fuck things up all the time.

I think of the default condition being entropy and chaos and the exception to be whatever desirable order I was seeking. (It’s also the case that almost nothing I do except for relating to my family will really matter in 20 years’ time which helps [only slightly] me to rein in my perfectionism.)
But a (well-mixed) hash function must change to produce a larger output, requiring more elementary operations. That is, if you’re going to scramble the input, then you must do more operations to mix them as you increase the output size.

In contrast, the array does a single addition on a number that is larger, which seems different.
> I'm trying to come up with any legal, ethical reason to want to have and keep records on this.

What's even the non-legal, non-ethical point of recording employees' vacation experiences? Feel like I'm missing something.
Yes, it is a purposeful difference in philisophy. Python has challenges from the fact that its standard library is big - the interfaces (and so design) for a lot of these things are locked in place and you get stuck with suboptimal situations. And a lot of maintenance is required by the core team. Python 3 used the opportunity of backwards incompatibility to fix the worst issues, but that's a one time opportunity.

Rust consciously decided to keep the standard library minimal due to the backward compatibility guarantees they want to give, and then provide an excellent packaging story so that it's easy to pull in more capabilities. This allows for much faster iteration and improvement on what Python might consider 'core' capabilities.

Lots of the modules provided here are not the first attempt to achieve what they're doing. They're in the list because (the author considers them) the best. If they were in the standard library, maybe we'd be stuck with a worse version?
No, it's emphatically not a great feature, and it's not clear to me the commenter was recommending that so much as making a nit. Please don't automate the process of choosing and running algorithms on a single sample of data, it's unsound experimental design that undermines your results. If you insist on doing it anyway, at minimum you will need to automate an initial assessment of the sample data to determine if it has a suitable size and distribution to allow you to adjust the significance of results for the number of tests you're running, and partition the data into smaller subsamples.
Undoing the clickbait:

> many judges seem to believe that a fall from grace is punishment enough, especially since white-collar defendants (often older white men) pose little danger to society, at least with respect to committing violent crimes.
> But I've come to the conclusion that humans are just fundamentally stupid, because even extremely intelligent people fuck things up all the time.

This doesn't mean we're stupid, it just means we're doing complicated things.
Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now
typesense looks really impressive. good stuff.
Ask HN: Hollow app store for sideloaded apps on Android allowed on GPlay?
By hollow app store I mean an app that catalogs apps that can be sideloaded. It only provides the link to the app and does not host the apps themselves. It also has reviews, ratings and screenshots.

Does this still violate Google Play's policy if this hollow app store is available to download on the Google Play store?
Stop with this millennial shenanigans already.

NOT everything needs to be predigested so that you save 3 seconds of your time.

Article is fine, title is fine, you are the ones that need to change.
Same experience, and it's actually quite unnerving for this to happen when you're doing something like signing equity grant letters and equally important documents where the effects of something not working won't be known for a long time.
For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them
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The worst part about open ratings systems is that the people who choose to rate a movie select themselves. If a million people love a thing, they could be the only million people who love a thing (whereas the OP implicitly thinks of them as the only people who noticed a thing.) And as you say, some things have too large an audience due to marketing. There's got to be some way to offset marketing in ratings by deriving how much was done from the people who chose to rate a thing.

Even worse, a rating could be because the raters were most of the people to notice a thing, but in a negative way. All ratings on the internet about things that center women or racial minorities should be ignored. Because of the overwhelming population of white male (and incel-type right-wing internet subculture) commenters, they can get a hate-boner about a movie or tv show just from the title or subject, network with each other, and then be responsible for an order of magnitude more ratings on the thing than the people who the thing was made for.

I think the best way to find other things you like is to figure out what the authors of the things you like themselves like or have worked on. That stuff is hard to find, though. You can get it from references within the works or from interviews and biographies, but it's nothing that algorithms are extracting yet.

I also find a habit from my old punk rock days to work: find other people who were working in the same place at around the same time. You may actually just like the zeitgeist, but have assigned it entirely to the only authors from that place/time that you've been exposed to.

Critic's reviews I find to be worthless, or at least their text. The ideal critic for me is one that just says "yes" or "no" to a long list of movies. You'll figure out from skimming the list whether that critic is a good critic for you. I often find Ebert's reviews a pleasure to read, but I rarely agree with him about the films themselves. Artistic criticism is generally a writing exercise imo, not anything with an actual relationship to the thing being commented upon. I'd put it 3rd in the ranking of most meaningless journalism, right below sports writing, which is still more meaningful than the ultimate: analysis of the reasons behind today's market movements.
Why does the video footage need to be encrypted? I suspect it is because footage seized by the police during an arrest may be used as evidence, so people don't want to risk incriminating themselves.

The reality is that more people attack and abuse the police in the UK than the other way round.
In our case it's a 30 year old CAD application written in C++, so no
They would do the same if they got into power.

Let me split hairs. I am not convinced that Assange deserves everything he is getting, but it is really hard for me to care. The parent post was about why nobody cares, and I answered it truthfully.
Closing the Gap Between Rust and C++ Using Principles of Static Analysis [video]
What do you mean by “freeedom of choice” in this context?
What’s funny is if you’ve ever talked to a lawyer, which clearly you haven’t, you’d discover that

(1) the formatting of the document isn’t that important

(2) you don’t need a signature for there to be an agreement

(3) in situations where the above are in dispute, or where the above isn’t true, it’s not really about the contract, it’s about the partnership

I think HelloSign provides the right amount of magic for ordinary people who think those things matter. It should just be cheaper and provide an API for free.
His solution is a vague sentence at the end:

> Solving it will require a broad shift in an American culture that celebrates the accumulation of wealth and too often turns a blind eye to — or even glorifies — the success of the white-collar criminal.

Food for thought: what does the phrase "law and order" mean to you? Does it mean to aggressively prosecute all crimes, or certain more visible crimes? I don't think I've ever seen the phrase "law and order" applied to white collar criminals.
For me as a use of such forums in the past, one extremely important thing is to search past discussions in order to find the quick insights that I need. Someone recently posted that there is a trend of communities moving questions from stack overflow to GitHub issues since finding related answers is often nowadays not about ”in javascript, go do I...?” but more like ”with npm lib, how do I...?” so problem searches has become much more specific than 10 years ago especially in the js world.

I find in the search sense that forums are much better because they are separated by topic and not only by channels, the tag equivalents used in forums.

Is the chat more a trendy thing that came along with the fame of slack, discord? or is there really some value to be gained from sync / real time conversations?
This is going to be a big mess. PayTM as a company isn’t known for respecting user privacy. The CEO’s brother was caught in a sting video saying they could sell any user’s information for a price (search online and you’ll find the video). All that these Indian startups care is for them to benefit and control everything. It’s not about equitable treatment. It’s more about regulatory capture and making sure that their apps somehow become pre-installed on devices. As for the government’s apps being pre-installed, one couldn’t ask for worse things. The COVID-19 contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, needs location and Bluetooth access all the time “to help the user.” You can imagine what a bunch of such apps can do.

If you think I’m being hyperbolic, just wait for Reliance Jio to announce its own App Store as the first one. It’ll come with the full force of the government behind it (who in a government wouldn’t love a telecom and network provider that loves slurping all data and is against end to end encryption when it’s done by other competing apps like WhatsApp?)

I feel bad for all the poorer people who already are forced to buy cheap Android phones that don’t get updates and are loaded with crapware and what not. As much as I despise Google for tracking users, I believe Google will look like a saint in front of these companies.
Doesn’t the article explicitly say that is not the case?

> Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.

I’m not a physicist or even an educated layman, can you explain your comment more?
I'm no media expert but this seems like a plausible explanation. Increasingly the American press seems to be less about "disclosing important news to people so they can judge what is happening in the world" as the article says and more about monetizing echo-chambers.
Yeah alternate app stores exist but when something like this is driven from a nation stare, the Indian govt will most likely mandate inclusion of their AppStore on Android and iOS. Once it is loaded on by default, you suddenly gain 800 million strong distribution channel. It would be a no-brainer for devs to put their app on the strore. The same case could not have been made for Amazon's and Samsung's store.
> children with ADHD require stronger incentives to modify their behavior than those without ADHD5; they also show a failure to delay gratification, have impaired responses to partial schedules of reinforcement, and preference for small immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards6,7.

I'm an adult with ADHD and that paragraph describes me to a T, though it definitely was worse as a child

I got my first D grade in a subject in fifth grade, and the next seven years were basically my parents trying every tool at their disposal to motivate me to get better grades.

I was on academic probation four more terms than I wasn't in college, and graduated with a low C average after 5.5 years, plus two summer terms.

I got hired at the only company that forgot to ask for my GPA.

I think if I were just sightly less intelligent, I would have been in a world of hurt and possibly dead by now.
And this is how you burn out from work.

If you don't stop to reward yourself for what you do, you will loose interest no matter what.

You cannot trick your own brain.
Let me guess, because rich people exchange favours with their rich friends in the government?

If humans were perfect and incapable of evil, we would have never needed a government in the first place.
The problem is that a government is made up of the very same people who are capable of committing evil.

I think it's pretty naive to think that human beings will stop being evil just because they're in charge. Sure they will make a lot of gestures and speeches, give a few cents to homeless and poorly maintain some roads, just so people won't lift their heads from their smartphones.

The real problem here is that it's 2020 and we still have entities that centralise immense power without considering conflicts of interest.

This is not a US phenomenon, it's happening everywhere, it's been happening since the beginning of time and it's the real cause of inequality between the 0.01% and the rest.
This is exactly what the press release say, but this is impossible due the the Second Law of Thermodynamics. So (select at least one)

1) The press release is wrong

2) The research article is wrong

3) The Second Law of thermodynamics is wrong.

[As a fast explanation, if the grapheme membrane and the lamp in the animation are at the same temperature, then the electrons in the lamp will get an equivalent amount of random jiggles and will counter the effect described in the article. (There may be also a similar problem with the diodes, capacitor, etc.)]
Whether they’re 21 or 51, if they can’t or won’t do the job after some reasonable period of trying, part ways with them and hire someone else. Just like you need to individually work on improving, the company employee garden needs tending to as well. That’s not just water and fertilizer; sometimes that involves removing plants.

FWIW, I doubt the problems you describe are age or age-group related.
I would argue that it is a very popular film released by a major studio, and directed by one of the most popular directors in history. Mulholland Drive is not a film that only "film buffs" saw. I'm not sure if I've every met anyone who hasn't seen a David Lynch film, and I rarely meet anyone who hasn't enjoyed a David Lynch film. He's a multi-millionaire in high demand that entirely dictates his own work conditions.
Please Stop Saying Sorry for the Inconvenience
[0] Kur..! Now you made me hungry! Need to get some Croques instead, I guess.
They could let people die from preventable illnesses if they can’t afford healthcare.

Is there any more hyperbole you can wring from this?
Proud of 3-second response times. Modern web-developers in a nutshell
But big businesses have been created so it's not entirely true.

Do you have any good examples where you think innovation has been stifled on the play store? (Apple's app store aside)
> Donald Knuth famously wrote that premature optimization is the root of all evil.

It’s funny how often Knuth’s actual point is left out of the re-telling of this quote. The actual point he was making was “we should not pass up our opportunities [to optimize] in that critical 3%.“ He wasn’t suggesting the avoidance of optimization, he was suggesting the avoidance of premature optimization.
I read about the railway situation in my local paper the other week. They were trying to get them to institute a no-horns rule in the area, which is not likely to succeed.

A passenger railway in a nearby city has the no-horns rule, but that case is different because the line was dead for more than a decade before it was revived, the train has a strict speed limit while in the city, the only at-grade crossings (2 or 3) are well-protected with gates, lights, bells, and pedestrian mazes, and it travels through a dense residential area.
> because if you perfect the art of not admitting mistakes, some people mistake that for confidence / skill

He definitely has a pattern. Something I presume he's perfected over the years? Intentionally? Unintentionlly? Probably both.

He drinks so much of his own Kool Aid that his disconnect is close to delusional. It's disheartening. The only redemption for me is being wired to solve problems. I'm not so sure I'll crack this one. Human behavior is difficult enough. This is a tough one.
Has there been a string of Iceland articles recently, or am I suffering from recency illusion?

My context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
It would be messy for sure but there is somewhat precedence for it. WeChat operates its own AppStores and is subservient to the CCP. 'Running' your own AppStore is forbidden in the iOS terms of service but when you have the might of a billion people, some rules are okay to be broken.
More important is they changed the acceptance criteria to be Merged PRs.
That is what it should have always been.
Or at least "not closed" PRs.
What is stopping the government from simply banning single monopoly app store and forcing Google to allow installation of multiple private app stores?

Why does it have to be a government app store?
"If you don't forward this email to at least 5 friends or family, something horrible will happen to you."
You're clearly not aware of what's been happening the past few days. It's not good contributions or help.
I use them wherever I can because they allow me to block ads, analytics and other unpleasant elements like nudges, etc.

But I'm far from an expert. What would be the benefit of a non-pw app?
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The GDPR explicitly allows companies to verify the identity of the requestor for the purposes of fulfilling a data access/erasure request.

The problem with the GDPR is that it was written with the assumption that companies are willing to abide by the regulation, and thus any data provided during the course of identity verification will not be used for any other purpose and so there aren't any problems with companies requesting more PII for the purpose of deleting PII.

Of course in reality certain companies are not willing to abide by the regulation, and entire industries are built on top of not abiding by the regulation, so much so that they're better off operating in breach and lasting for as long as possible (until investigations & fines shut down the entire business) than complying early. We're already seeing this with Google & Facebook that claim to comply with the regulation despite being in breach in various ways (the recent Google GDPR consent prompt is absolutely not compliant) and they are betting on the fact that 1) enforcement will not happen for a long time and 2) when enforcement does happen, the consequences will be less than the profit they made in the meantime.

The same thing applies with for example Facebook (or similar) analytics and pixel tracking. They claim they respect the GDPR and will erase any data upon request (in this case the request will need to come from the data controller, ie the entity that runs the app which embeds the tracking SDK), but does anyone actually believe that they will delete anything and that data is not also used for other purposes (shadow profiles) in way that's hard/impossible to detect from the outside?
Ungated: https://archive.is/6nVot
This is why they were fined.
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