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> That seems incredibly naive. I can’t think of a single program off the top of my head that doesn’t use the Internet to some extent while running.

It is not.

Imagine that I don't have that great wifi coverage in all places around the house. But I take my laptop there.

You know what happens when you have poor wifi connection and you wake up laptop? Even the keyboard+mouse are unresponsive. I was wondering why on earth my keyboard stoppe working on a brand new laptop.

All suddenly started to work when I moved to a different room.

I don't have issues with notarization if and only if it does behave normally when the internet connection is spotty - it is a laptop for gods sake, not a desktop with ethernet.
"Never ascribe to conspiracy, that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
If you ever get the itch to run this on AWS cloud, just don't. I ran Jitsi ( the whole system) on AWS on-demand EC2 for my Kid's class to collaborate on their projects during Covid lockdown (in Toronto) and it burnt a hole in my wallet. Not prophbitively expensive but still. So now I advise them to use Google Hangouts or Zoom. I often wonder how much Zoom and its competitors pay for bandwidth.
At least the NYT should credit Trump for making the election more secure than last time, no?
Primarily to learn for the sake of the thrill of learning. I would like to have a better understanding of the analytical methods for understanding markets. I'm interested in the application of game theory from more of a beginners point of view but any mathematical tools to understand the world better are interesting to me. I'm not really focused on making money, just interested in better intuition/understanding of economics.
> All the time. It's fucked and Russia fucked it.

hahahah case in point right here folks
When I see this, I fear that the US value of Freedom of Speech is going to be permanently damaged.

How can abuse like this be stopped when one of our most important values is the ability to say and publish whatever you want?
> offering no machine suitable for developers and power users

This perception strikes me as having warped in from a different decade. Nowadays, at least in my neck of the woods, developers almost universally use laptops, and Apple's still plenty competitive in the (high end) laptop department.

For the most part, the only developers I know who still use desktops are machine learning folks who don't like the cloud and instead keep a Linux tower full of GPUs in a closet somewhere. And then remote into it from a laptop. Half the time it's a MacBook, half the time it's a XPS 13. And they were never going to consider a Mac Pro for their training server, anyway, because CUDA.

I couldn't speak to power users, but my sense is that, while it meant something concrete in the '90s, nowadays it's a term that only comes out when people want to complain about the latest update to Apple's line of computers.
How can you deal with negativity?
My entire industry (subset of healthcare) mostly uses a single application for 95% of our core business functions. That application is written in Visual FoxPro and is, predictably, pretty terrible. Obviously it isn't going to get better, either, but it'll be a decade or more before there's a serious competitor.
In the article the images clearly show it's an evaluation license. Are you really worried about dead emulation on a dead OS, running other dead OS's and an evaluation key?
No offense, but neither the 2 major parties in the US are left/workers rights. I don't see any candidate running on the "improve quality of life for wage earners" platform. for example Joe "nothing with fundamentally change" Biden...and well the last 4 years.
Seems you have fallen into the paradigm that the article talks about, DNC = Good and moral, and implying that RNC == Bad and Evil

The reality is the wealthy are entrenched into ALL political parties, even the so called "3rd parties"

the DNC is not a "moral and ethical" bull fighting the good fight against the "pure evil" of republicans which is what your comment seems to be implying
This should be improved to give more granular control - for example an app would not be allowed to leak contacts outside of the phone.
Chomsky did a lot of work to show that it's not optimizing for profits or some subconscious biases of people influencing press, but very deliberate power structure pushing specific censorship, propaganda, it's all very conscious effort. Private ownership here helps a lot of course, not because of profits, but because owners are able to push policies and narratives top down.
They had matches, and you could still message. I don't imagine the app version was much different than the web version in that respect and I used the latter.

It's really not hard to look up. See here: https://help.okcupid.com/article/40-how-to-send-an-introduct...

The only thing that's changed since I used it is they want you to hit "like" on their profile before you send a message. That's not an impediment. The option to send messages is not gone. Use it.
Well technically (joke)... a decimation is 10%.

I agree. Very interesting. Realistically, paperwork & bureaucracy is an ideal target for automation. That said, every input that you feed an algorithm is legally debateable... Structuring your inputs to be both legal and optimal is more storytelling than mathematics. There's enough play in these "subjective" parts that results could be anything.

Still, having a major algorithmic in the mix changes the game.

The fact is, that while PCs have been (a) on every desk and (b) paperwork efficiency machines for the last 30 years... the total number of legal/accounting/hr/admin jobs has increased in this period.

The effects of technology/efficiency on "clerical" work is not predictable in the way it is on factories.
In my experience, the “elites” support better wage laws and worker protections. It’s the small business owners I know that rabidly vote against better protections for wage earners as it would lower their profits, and might affect their lifestyle.
Sometimes scaling up is a better choice. Reduced complexity.
So, I decided to try it for myself and I'm personally quite happy with what GPT-3 responded! I wrote:

A deity materialises from the ether. The deity says loudly: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42." The deity smiles and says "What could the question possibly be; a question so profound as to answer every mystery; with an answer that is 42?" The deity crept closer, smiled again and said: "I will tell you. The ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, whose answer is 42, is..." He paused for a moment, then spoke a final time, revealing the mystery of the question and that question was:

And GPT-3 completed the story by writing:

"Why am I here?"

The deity vanished into the ether. Nothingness took it's place.

Not sure how the answer to that is 42, but I find that a pretty great question!
There is no floating point representation for 'gross', 'egregious', or 'blatant'. At least not one that will be suitable in all cases.
Improve Notion's UI/UX with a browser extension
Much of the discord would be fixed by banning Twitter, where group hatred gets organized into political platforms. And on top of it, their content editors have a very particular slant, that so far has brought a lot of whining, and nothing positive.
Not sure how you can say there isn't any evidence? The wealthy most certainly donate to political causes, campaigns and opinionated non-profits. It wouldn't be a stretch to argue that such money amplifies those entities' power, thus causing societal level problems with the amplified power of their wealth.

It's not 100% valid or exhaustive proof, but at the very least shows that it's a reasonable avenue of exploring rather than shutting it down and calling it "unproven, cruel and vitriolic".
I think its worthwhile trying to test the hypothesys, but i dont think anyone takes privacy on a book reader with the same passion as they do on a mobile phone.
Oh, I am pretty sure they realize that. However the ones taking the decision will not bear the consequences. They didn't the last time. That's what I fear.
> Germany tries buying gas from Russia and the USA sanctions the fuck out of companies that are even just marginally involved in it.

Good! Russia is an enemy.
So, we should take away the market's incentive to infringe upon our privacy: by making user-tracking illegal.
If there wasn't massive inequality and poverty to be tapped, bored energy wouldn't be so easily redirected to the culture war.
This isn’t journalism, it’s blatant propaganda.
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I think you underestimate the intelligence of animals.
What's missing from this system(and P2P systems in general), is automatic pinning - i.e. the system automatically choses which files to pin on which user, to ensure every file is available on the net.

It's a bit of tricky problem, because people may not like unknown, random files on their pc, and probably, because such algorithm is distributed and will need to resist attacks.

But i think that the payoff is big: what Bitorrent did to popular files, such an algorithm could do to rare files.
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> Just to be clear, I'm not against imperialism

As an aside - why? Imperialism seems like something one should obviously oppose. Who wants their lives governed by these forces?
I saw this as well, very sketchy. I'd rather not use a feature that requires me to give out banking details - I don't think that even is allowed in bank's T&C. Probably if a 3rd party stolen your money because you give them your details, you won't be covered. I was asked this once and I refused. I'd rather enter things manually than let someone "have a peek".
A quick look at TBIJ raw data (https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-01/dro...), under Trump, air strikes:

- went on in Afghanistan on +/- the same pace

- scaled down in Pakistan and Yemen to almost zero

- scaled up in Somalia, although they were already intensive in 2016

So it is a bit of a mixed answer although overall it appeared to go down compared to Obama presidency. Now of course there is the question whether a war can be won from the sky, and whether the CIA is pursuing its own goal or Trump administration's goals. My opinion is that air strikes alone do more bad than good in the long term, because basically there is no way it could put an end a conflict.
My first impression was that the software was from (as in, last updated) around 2008, possibly earlier. It has a very Windows XP era vibe.
I think there's an element of people desperately wanting to believe that apple is their tribe, rather than just another company.

I can believe Apple do care about privacy, but ultimately they're just another company. For example, I'm sure apple would love the Epic lawsuit to be decided based on a poll of HN users - "I would rather not have the freedom to run whatever I want, because [insert bizarre anecdote]".

Don't project your own beliefs onto apple, vote with your wallet if they annoy you - it's just a trackpad.
It looks like I'm a bit too novice for Empirical Asset Pricing. I'll check out the website though, thanks.
I spend the whole day playing video games and still look down on culture warriors.
By not pretending it’s abuse and accepting other opinions
I assume you upgraded OS, in which case it's annoying but not unusual that plugins stop working.

A machine that's used for making professional music should not be upgraded or connected to the internet. If it's for a hobby... I think we will have to live with the compromise if we want to have the latest security fixes and connect to the internet.
My hobby: pitting woke issues against each other, a la https://xkcd.com/966/

For example, cultural appropriation (or cultural colonialism) versus blackface shaming. First you get somebody to agree about the problematic nature of cultural colonization. Then, you corner them to agree that blackface being problematic in your culture is an unnatural imposition of the U.S. culture into ours. For best results, you "prime" two people separately with each side of the argument, and throw them together in a party, while you drink beer.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot
Can he explain the loss of 250,000 lives?
It is not possible to accurately connect an identity with an IP address. Many computers share IP addresses, and many others jump IP addresses frequently.
After 4 years of Russia-gating, after denying election results in 2016, and 2018 (both Hillary Clinton and allies, as well as Stacy Abrams from Georgia continue to claim elections were stolen from them), after claiming EVERY election is crooked because of voter suppression (in a country that continues to have record turn out among minority populations), I can't quite see the difference between troll accounts and establishment media.

And oh yeah, this is so effin self-serving by NYTimes and co. Attack competition by forcing tech companies to ban or downgrade them, all to re-assert their traditional status as social gatekeepers ... and profit! And every single mainstream 'news' outlet that is pushing this social media censorship is backed by a multi-billion dollar corporate conglomerate. Thanks but no thanks.
If Dr. Gardner, who became director of library services in 2017, had continued with the self-serving rationalizations of her predecessors, she would have herself come to 'own' the problem, by becoming a party to the dissembling. So, I guess she instituted a thorough search, and when it failed, announced the fact.
“ I wish the U.S. had performed this much thought with regard to COVID.”

I don’t understand this side comment. What are you referring to? The supposed source (bats) came from an infested market in China, not the US
I suppose it depends on where you study. If you're at a school (a school based hospital), you pay to go. You might get a stipend, but I know people from NYU who have had to pay to attend residency.

I don't know the most about this field and you're right, a bunch of hospitals do pay. That's cool.
When we were middle school kids in Slovenia we used to have huge fights and “gang” beef over east side vs west side. We had no idea they were geographical, we just picked a side based on which rapper you liked.

American culture is weird like that. We all consume it via mass media.

I think it’s just an empire thing. During Victorian times everyone was trying to be a little British, or a little French, maybe a little German. Depends who’s closest to you. A long time ago, everyone tried to be a little Roman.

Another way of putting it: News doesn’t tell you what to think, it tells you what to think about.
Aphorisms such as these are loved by the think tanks orchestrating these conspiracies.
Your IP address is a very weak and unreliable way to identify you. If they actually wanted to identify you, they have much better ways to do it, and those ways are not used.
The technical issue is "can we provide these features without weakening privacy?"

The political issue is "if we can't provide these features without weakening privacy, should we still provide them?"

Aren't they both important points to discuss?
As a Canadian, I'm shocked at the attention the minutia of US politics gets in Canada. I was visiting family and watching the 6pm news and I'd say US politics dominates Canadian national news. It's not unusual for the first 20 min of a 30 min program to be nothing but US politics. Plenty of people say "well, what happens in the US is important to Canada", but what's covered is just stupid political bickering. And it's not even coverage from a Canadian perspective, just regurgitation of what's covered in the US.

Sure, when Trump says something about renegotiating NAFTA, yeah, cover that. When Trump says something stupid about the Democrats, no, that doesn't deserved prime time coverage in Canada. There are too many important things happening in Canada and the rest of the world for that to be front and center.

But I understand why they do it...ratings. Covering outrageous stories gets ratings. Generating outrage gets people to tune in tomorrow to see what happens next.
https://cluster.ipfs.io/
same here... I get why subscriptions are a popular business model, but I can only sign up for so many services.
It's not possible to reduce all lawsuits to compact formulae. Part of the legal profession is in interpreting old laws in the modern context, for instance, which would take something close to a general AI. More broadly, reasoning about legal edge-cases needs a sophisticated understanding of the law and of the world. Also, jurors can't be replaced by software, as they must be 'peers' by definition.

I imagine it would be much easier to build a system to roughly estimate the odds of a lawsuit being successful, inputting salient features of the case and running the numbers, without deep reasoning about the particulars. I don't know if work is already being done on this but I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of money must ride on knowing which corporate law battles can be won.
The MacOS OCSP feature has been documented to be non-functional when there is no internet connection, it does not interrupt or slow down any functioning in that case.
Apple's marketing basically boils down to "please trust us that we respect your privacy because we tell you so". You can at least reverse engineer the hardware you own and the software on it, but what about cloud services they're pushing so hard? You don't, and can't, know what happens to your data in someone else's infrastructure.
But my workhorse has had so many upgrades. Lots of storage in and out. I have a bunch of drive sleds. I updated the graphics card more than once. Presently it has 2x6 core, 5 ssds (one in a pcie slot), a 10tb hard disk, a pcie usb3 card, and a gtx980.
No, not really. Europe is a little bigger. The countries are more like eastern states. [1] This is somewhat important, considering most of the regulation on utilities are at a state level - and the utilities kind of are as well. Some of the countries are somewhat populous - you know, like states - and some have a pretty sparse population. You know, like states.

[1] https://www.tripsavvy.com/so-just-how-big-is-europe-compared...).
They would not be accurately tied together, though, since these requests are not sent with any kind of identifier.
Paying with QR codes requires scanning the code on the restaurant receipt, which then implies that at end of the meal or beginning, depending on the type of restaurant, there was a bill exchanged between customer and restaurant.

I was discussing a no payment at all situation where you walk in and walk out without having to interact with a payment tool. Payment is integrated in the whole experience.
Fascinating.

A while back I set out to write some books on creating technology: how to build the right thing, how to build things right (This is not a plug)

As part of that, I had to address the meta issue: how do we learn anything?

The answer was "questions", but it wasn't questions like you're probably thinking. It was meta, the universal class of all questions. Turns out, by simply asking questions, questions nobody knows the answer to, questions with bad premises, rhetorical questions, and so forth? We end up creating a shared language about the world around us. That shared language is the basis for any kind of joint creative effort. It's something we've been doing since childhood but never realized it.

I guess GPT-3 agrees with me! Woot!
That's because almost every short phrase of commmon words or structure has been written before. There aren't very many that we recognize as grammatical and valid diction. That's what grammar and diction is.
Mysterious 'obelisk' in US desert draws wild theories
See the list of states with parental leave:

https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/states-with-pai...

Similarly, see the list of states (and cities) with half decent unemployment benefits, minimum wage laws, non tipped wages, sick leave, required meal breaks, non compete bans, Medicaid, marijuana legalization, etc.

You will see a trend in which parties’ governance wage earners have these benefits (which are a pittance compared to civilized countries in the first place) and which don’t.
The doctor-centric medical system is rapidly becoming technologically obsolete. It’s now cheaper to get an MRI with radiology report than a primary care office visit. Lab tests for most common ailments are less than gas to get to the hospital (GSA schedule pricing). Doctors don’t have any more information than the diagnostics tell them. Office visits are a functionally useless exercise. Innovations in private elective procedures have dramatically reduced costs and increased safety compared to procedures controlled by hospitals and paid by insurance. The government pays for drug development and then the FDA grants monopolies charging several orders of magnitude markups and giving kickbacks for prescriptions. Although there is little technological need for most doctors, the administrative demand is greater than any other industry, but don’t expect many H1Bs granted for physicians. Limiting access to the profession through high standards is actually great for innovation, if innovation is allowed, but protecting obsolete functions is probably bad for everybody.

I’d like to do some angel funding of new concepts in private consumer healthcare that go around the system. Medical hacker stuff. For instance, you can buy an imaging ultrasound system from China for roughly the cost of a single ultrasound appointment. I think micro-MRI is achievable under $10k, mostly a problem of data analysis. X-rays of course could be very cheap if people could be trusted not to abuse them. DIY blood and urine testing could be nearly free. I don’t want to sound like Elizabeth Holmes here; I’m mostly talking about known existing simple procedures with huge unnecessary overheads, replaced by DIY, community, or AI business models that are aligned with users.
I absolutely agree with that. And I have experienced a similar issue with my laptop from time to time. It is pretty dumb and seems like poor implementation. I don’t think that is relevant to OPs argument though.
Some of the responses here are amazing examples of this very thing.
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If I'm not profiting, I'll be out of business and these metrics will prove to be valuable.

At this moment, I'm very profitable.
I'm 45, 5'9 and have a 30-inch waist. How? I subsist on oatmeal, eggs, milk, fruits & veggies, peanut butter, cheese in moderation, TONS OF BLACK BEANS AND LENTILS, rice, bread and pasta. Boring stuff.

No meat. No soda. No fast food. Sweets and booze only on rare occasions.

Black beans are good for your brain and leave you full & satiated for longer than most food. Their notorious side-effects -- to those around you -- are somewhat exaggerated. Fats and sweets make me feel lazy. I like to stay active (weights, hoops, doing things outside) but can slack for weeks at a time w/out consequence.

I don't give myself credit for being disciplined -- just have good habits and decent genes. What I am proud of is that in spite of not being the most mentally healthy person, instead of turning to food or drugs to comfort myself, I use exercise, good food and a sense of humor to lift my spirits.
Programming, and the "A" is for application, and the application is a user. Albeit, one that is not human, but programmed. So the programmer is programming the application user to behave in a way that can interface with the application exposing the API.

Hence, and API is a UI. When I write user stories, all external applications are users (e.g., Payment Processor User), and the internal application is the system user ("As the System, I would like to...").
The Right looks at the Left and finds them misguided and stupid. The Left looks at the Right and finds them evil.