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> I learned this a few years ago working in a corp environment with stubborn senior people with big egos.

Not disagreeing that corp envs are full of senior people with big egos, but this looks a little different from the opposite perspective.

Imagine you're a hypothetical "ideal" egoless senior corp person, and you have 20 people coming to you with their ideas. You know >51% of them are likely bad ideas (or at least it would be a bad idea to adopt most of them simultaneously). How can you tell which are worth adopting? If you trusted any of the suggesters absolutely they probably would've been promoted already, so it's difficult; you "stubbornly" reject most of them (probably some of the good ones too), or at the very least put them on the long finger for consideration later.

When you do get on board with an idea, yes there is still the problem of proper attribution and credit, and often there's non-benign human factors involved in muddying the waters there. But often ideas are Venn diagrams and defining them as atomic things from a single source isn't really practical.
Paper maps were often only marginally useful due to lack of proper street signs or building numbers, especially at night or in bad weather.
Well, sorry to break it for you but private companies have done this for decades.

Rupert Murdoch's Pirates is a fantastic book on the subject: https://www.amazon.fr/Murdochs-Pirates-hacking-Ruperts-skull...

Basically pay-for-TV companies went ballistic in the 90s' and 00s' against hackers, and people died in the process.
I don't get why they built the ISS and NOT a moon colony...

I think a moon colony could be good for mining helium3, maybe creating some sort of manufacturing facilities (or maybe even an asteroid colony) that's a hub for space-mining.

Got to start somewhere, and since it's more expensive to launch from our gravity, might make more sense if majority of space launches/etc was from space structures w/ less gravity.

Though, a space colony would have to maybe figure out gravity, or something if that was magenitized uniforms that made your body feel as thoughit were in earth's gravity so you don't lose muscle/skeleton mass.
You're right, but there's a difference between "it's not worth spending millions on an operation to slightly improve an unimportant part of someone's little finger" and "I have two people who will die if I can't treat them, and due to limited staff/hospital space one of them isn't being sent for treatment".

So yes, it's not binary between normally being infinate and now not, but it's also a bit too reductive to make that point without also being clear that Covid has caused more and worse triaging than usual. (But someone needed to make your portion of that point and you did it much better than I could have, so thanks!)
I think this related to the "illusion of control". People feel safer when they are driving, rather than a machine, even when they are not safer. I hope government regulators do not impose 5x safety requirements on self-driving cars.
Is there any evidence of his theory of consciousness?
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You're saying they may take an Apple approach and attempt to further scare people from downloading trusted .exe's and such?

I think Microsoft has been having a bit of a change in attitude just because they're more focused on making money in software. They don't care where you buy it so much as they get a chunk of it somewhere. But what do I know.
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You explained very well a puzzle that has been in my mind for quite a while, too. Thank you for putting that into words!

I am amazed that there's so much hypocrisy around different categories of violence in fiction. It's even worse than other manifestations of hypocrisy, because this one seems completely invisible to people — I don't recall having seen this discussed anywhere until I read your comment today.

Case in point: when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film came out, there was so much talk about it being immoral and/or illegal, and so many (eventually successful) calls to boycott, censor and ban. I have not watched the film, and I do not think I'll ever watch it, because judging by what I read about it, it seems utterly disgusting and horrifying. Disgusting to the level of scenes depicting the raping of a newborn, and the most imaginative mix of necrophilia, torture, rape, and gore. I think I could not stand it, and if I forced myself to watch it, I suspect I'd have nightmares (literally). So what follows is by no means a defence of this particular work, nor an endorsement of gloating over the most extreme and shocking forms of violence an artist/performer can conceive.

At the same time, there are so many depictions of violence in mainstream film, games, TV and literature. By far, most of that violence is done to male characters (and incidentally, also by male characters). That violence is usually not sexual in nature.

As Vladimir Nabokov put it, art has to be transgressive and shocking.

One more idea to consider: violence (as most things) comes in gradations. Murder > torture > punch > pinch. Rape > harassment. Actual violence > threat of violence. Violence to several people > violence to one. Sadistic violence > plain violence > violence as self-defence > physically restraining an aggressor. Violence committed taking advantage of physical superiority > violence among equals. Etc. There is no gradation, however, contingent on the sex of the victim nor on the sex of the perpetrator: violence towards men ≡ violence towards women.

Why then, it is so controversial to depict rape or sexual abuse, but so commonplace to rejoice in depictions of murder, torture and physical aggression?
The FCC probably has that data, though probably not in a form that you can filter by "IoT" and it's conceivable that only an internal radio module is registered for cheap devices that didn't undergo regulatory testing.
Oh I see. Server side mixing would probably be a good option to help it scale better. Cool stuff anyway :)
> I've been trying to propose this model in the companies I've worked at - but generally there is always some Napoleone on top who vetoes risky bets or force teams to work on non productive endeavours.

You need a separate R&D division that plays by different rules than the established product division.

New product/market R&D is expensive, slow, and risky. If a company swings too far to the sales-oriented mindset, new R&D ventures can look very unappealing under typical models. Sales-minded executives would rather focus on the investments they know, such as hiring more sales people or increasing advertising expenditure.

Having a separate division responsible for R&D allows them to play by different rules and take more risky, longer-term bets. However, this is easier said than done. These R&D budgets are usually the first thing on the chopping block when sales are down and executives need to clean up the budget numbers. It's also extremely difficult to transition new products out of R&D and into their own, sustainable divisions. Some companies, executives, and engineers get hooked on tinkering with new product R&D and forget that they have to turn things into long-term product offerings. This is how you end up with constant product churn like Google's ever-expanding graveyard of abandoned products.
I would argue that reviews aren't content. a review is implicitly understood as an opinion of someone without ties to the company and of someone who actually owns or have 'reviewed' the product. In the case of amazon I think ownership of a product should be mandatory to leave a review.
monospace source text: two spaces.

WYSIWYG or compiled final output: the layout engine knows how to adjust keming better than i do, and will strip out or adjust space distances to look “right” no matter how many spaces I type. So i might as well type two and maintain hand memory consistency.

So as far as i’m concerned, it’s a no-op in practice. For myself i learned two-space long ago, my hands are unlikely to retrain themselves to type otherwise, and it’s probably a slight legibility help in docstrings and latex source.

edit: as i edit this on my phone i realize that one place this doesn’t work is on an on-screen keyboard. There, typing the second space too quickly usually inserts another period!
If I wanted giant, tightly-coupled binary blobs for system services I'd just run Windows.
Maybe guaranteed pre-fab homes. Couldn't be hard w/ modern technology to even 3d print entire homes or make cob homes from molds or something. If you could make an entire 'dorm' with shared kitchens/bathrooms and a vertical farm it's almost self-sustaining.
> The distinction you're making doesn't appear relevant. If you're an employee and your company merges with one of equal size, your vote is diluted by half. If you're a shareholder and your company merges with one of equal size, your vote is diluted by half. It's true whether you own one share or a million.

But the dynamic and motivations of the actors in the two systems would be different. In every company I have shares of, my ability to influence company policy with my votes literally rounds down to nothing because I own such a small fraction of shares, so I don't care about that getting diluted. 0 * 50% is still 0. Even in contemporary companies, one-worker-one-vote would give the smallest actors massively more say, and in such a system I'd imagine there'd be incentives for companies to remain smaller so each individual worker feels like they have more say over their day-to-day life.

Having a say in your area in important, and for instance (IIRC) the founders of WhatsApp and Instagram quit Facebook after it became clear that their previous assurances of maintaining control over their creations despite their dilution was a lie.
I can't help wondering when reading this...just how many "free brain cycles" do people have in the world?

By "free brain cycles", I mean like one's not used for work and your family and perhaps one hobby...

I cannot even imagine how many people worked so hard and used their cycles to figure this puzzle out, and like I can barely remember what to buy from the store whenever I go.

Don't get me wrong, it's a hell of an achievement for everyone involved, but I just have such a hard time understanding the absolute motivation behind it.
There's very little money for the most part in updating old games. The same is true with a lot of old books, among other things.
I'm a lot more sympathetic to someone who manufactures their own drugs for personal consumption, yes, but only because the difficulty involved means you need a minimum of discipline to get there which would hopefully meliorate the negative effects of the habit. It's in the same vein as writing games being more virtuous (to yourself) than playing them.

Anyway, my vision of the future is hundreds of millions of obese NEETS who spend their entire monthly UBI check on overpriced insect-protein food, clothing, video, porn and AI girlfriend-as-a-service products. Pigs at the trough, given just enough slop that they don't kill themselves, while the people who can resist temptation (say, helped along by their upbringing) get to be human.
Ok, here are absolute numbers. PC sales look stagnant at best.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263393/global-pc-shipmen...
Money isn’t speech it’s volume. Anyone can speak, the one with more money yells loudest. The constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to free screaming.
Android is a Linux-based platform. The hard part of dealing with Linux is that the userland-is-a-free-for-all model means there are effectively hundreds of Linux-based platforms out there to deal with.
No anti-virus tooling caught this compromise, nothing in the Microsoft sales-pitch caught it either. In fact, Microsoft itself was compromised.

FireEye caught the compromise only because $Attacker went a little too far.

So one big lesson for any software shop that claims to be professional is to verify builds. It's clear that SloppyWinds is/was completely incompetent.

Whoever executed this compromise left nothing behind to indicate a country or linguistic group of origin. (For example, comments or characters of a certain alphabet or encoding.)

The perpetrator built the infrastructure patiently [1] and ran small tests before activating a select few of the implanted systems.

Small-time $Attackers don't usually show this much attention to the craft. There is skillful software development at work here.

[1] https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/unraveling-networ... , https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/solarstorm-supply-chain-...
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The infographic lists "fitness" as non-essential. Maybe a $300/month fitness club membership is non-essential, but honestly, if one regularly uses the membership, it is still a good deal. Sure, one could go to planet fitness for $10/month, but then you have to deal with a crowded gym that has no free weights and has a "lunk alarm".

So many preventable and expensive health problems arise from lack of fitness, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and general poor quality of life.
Now you know why Section 230 has to go. Comcast, TWC & so on is just a series of pipes, but Facebook & co has editorial control or at least should have.
Success of Stadia? It's barely Presence of Stadia at this stage.
Fun fact : in the French version of Back to the Future, Pierre Cardin is the alias Marty takes instead of Calvin Klein.

(and I only learned that yesterday, despite being French I have always watched this movie in English)
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Does Section 230 remove Amazon's liability for misrepresentation, in the way it promotes is reviews as being tied to a particular product?

I'm doubtful about this.
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There was also a tank game, and a star trek game where you configure your ship and fight with it (and if you configured max cloaking, you regained energy while cloaked). Good times.
the troubling part: not at first.

Then when something is "normal" stuff is "added" and when people complain they are ridiculed by others who don't realize or don't care.

I think we should normalize a little common sense. You know, the golden rule.

If you would not snoop on other people, why should other people snoop on you (phone app, iot, car, whatever)
> And Linux is the only game platform without garden walls.

What do you consider a garden wall? Anyone can create and publish a Windows binary without permission from anyone. It might even be possible to do this from Linux, using 100% GNU tools, though I'm not entirely sure about that.

Such binaries will create a warning if they aren't signed, but from a user's perspective that isn't materially different from requiring a "chmod +x".
There are genetic differences between all humans.
Tsk tsk man, didn’t you get the memo? HN is a cesspool of trolls! Don’t read the comments! /s

But seriously, cheers man. I agree it’s a pretty unique place. Let’s not forget that a big factor of its endurance is dang’s moderation though! He deserves a lot of praise.
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> His theory of consciousness looks at these quantum microtubules that are found in proteins

So is he saying that human-like AI requires quantum computing? Or is he saying that even a quantum computer wouldn't be able to simulate the human brain?
Perhaps somewhat, but it adds an extra layer of (often) unnecessary complexity. This is especially the case which comes up often where you’re interacting with external libraries or even your own internal, older libraries. For example, if you have a vector, and want to pass its contents to a C API that takes a pointer and length. If it’s a vector of raw values/structs, no problem. If it’s a vector of std::optional<Foo> now you’re stuck unless you go through and recopy the whole thing.

That being said, I’ve never found the STLs use of initialized allocation to be a problem, but I don’t work in game design.
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Apparently there are people who try to mark public roads as "private" on Open Street Maps to discourage Waze from sending traffic. But Waze seems to love sending people via quiet roads, so maybe that's why Google is ignoring you. They think your inlaws driveway is a nice shortcut and don't care who owns it.
Which is also AT&T after the bought back Cingular which was split off from at&t
My first thought was, "it sure would be neat to work for BD".

Even though I'm pretty sure engineers have been driven to tears trying to get a robot to do the mashed potato. Worth it.

Nerd lust: confirmed.
But how is NATO not a military force? It’s kind of equivalent to the US military (except it includes them)... EU is similar to United States. Both are unions of independent states
Feels silly comparison...if someone can't dont that you can rule out them running Linux.
"Net positive" means here that despite negative effects, the end result is still preferable to other outcomes.

(While not quite applicable here,) the easiest example to explain this is when the pregnancy threatens the lives of both mother-to-be and unborn child. An abortion will end the life of the child but the mother gets to live. In the other case both mother and child would die. So an abortion would be "net positive" because only the child dies and not both of them.
Searle’s room is less a moved goalpost and more a claim that the question is ill-posed.

From very early days, the question of “what does it mean for a computer program to have agency” has been asked. Usually poorly. Never with a satisfactory answer, at least to date.

Perlisism 63: When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Well you have to consider that this is the "one hobby" for a lot of people, so your own division of brain cycles leaves room for a group who works on things like this for fun.
So they had poor search results? Didn't know how to sell ads well? What was wrong with it? You haven't provided arguments.
Top tax rates used to be 70% in US and CA post-WW2, and we had great economic growth; Clinton raised taxes and the doomsayers about economic catastrophe were wrong.

I'm with Piketty here and have no problem with more redistribution:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

We're living in another Gilded Age.
Yes, that's the point. When you're a content creator and you're making at most a couple of TB of data per month (typical figures), hardly enough to fill a handful of tapes a year, it's hard to justify the expense for a tape drive. OTOH cloud storage is either too complex (S3, Glacier) or too expensive (Dropbox, Box) for this volume of data.

Trust: yep, hard to say for this one. At least I can provide actual guarantees (for instance, none of our storage is out of the country).

Speed: it's possible to send us tapes directly. However the main selling point of our solution is to allow people to upload relatively small volumes of data continuously, then archive it all to tape in large batches when you have enough to fill an LTO.

Reliability: the interface allows the user to see where their files are (on which tape), to run checksum controls on tapes, and restore from tape. Every tape is sold with 3 free operations a year (archive, checksum verification, restoration).

Advertising: that's clearly not our strong point :)
Ever heard the term flatten the curve? That is the same as the "herd immunity strategy". There are only two ways of getting herd immunity, either through a vaccine or "naturally".

In march it became apparent that stopping covid would not be possible (at least in Sweden) and the time frame of a potential vaccine was unknown - possibly that it would arrive too late to be useful.

At that point in time there is only one strategy left, herd immunity. The ONLY choice you have is how you want to approach it. Full lock-down and wait for vaccine? - not practically enforceable nor desirable. No restrictions? - Would overrun the hospitals and lead to massive suffering even outside of corona victims (at least in countries with an old population, for countries with a very young population that could very well be the best hing you could do).

Flatten the curve is about curbing the spread so that the hospitals can keep up. Not about stopping the disease. Navigating that road is full of compromises. Taking more risk with children in schools - that have a lot to loose on a lock-down but has low chance of getting seriously ill shouldn't be that of a controversial statement. Even if it turns out that the assumptions made when making that decision was wrong.

There are of course infinite considerations to make but yes, of course he had that in mind when making decisions! As he should have.
I love the image of the mRNA yelling AAAAAAAAAAA throughout the body warning of the virus that is about to come (and then slowly losing energy and dissolving into nothing as all screams do).
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you still need to initialize the optional itself.

But the criticism is still questionable: an allocator can define ::construct() not to do anything, and leave actual construction to user code.

A few more of the criticisms are addressed in C++11 which fully support stateful allocators; they were not mandated (but still allowed) in C++03 because some implementors felt that the STL was too much work to implement already.

Most of the rest are QoI issues, and it is perfectly reasonable for EA to have its own STL implementation that give the same guarantees across platforms, but it is not a criticism of the standard itself.
Yeah, I find it their focus on sales tax a little bizarre. All governments still need money to function, and either they end up cutting services or raising money through other means (property tax, income tax, toll roads, etc.)
If you're interested in this sort of grammar application, I created a project a while back that uses a generative grammar to connect LEGO bricks into models:

https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar
I don't know much about the state of the art in image recognition but does it really seem plausible? The picture of him holding the beer is not super high quality, he has a different expression, a slightly different haircut and he appears quite a bit older. You can't even see his distinctive freckles. The idea that you could just scan random images of people online and find him that way is wild to me, tuning the network not to miss it but also not to report millions of false positives seems like a very high bar.

It's pretty creepy if we're already at the point where any random people can trace you online using apparently unrelated low quality photos.
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You're completely safe if you use an EmuNAND.
but I wrote "in their 60s and 70s", replacing people 50-59 with 70-79 will obviously give you different results.

I agree with you, people want to have it both ways and it's easy to get upset with them, but that's how the world is, and if the healthcare system gets overwhelmed because of people who don't care everyone else still suffers.
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You simply cannot offer support for Linux users because everything above the kernel is optional. Even if you limit yourself to a few distributions they have a bad habit of changing fundamental userland components every 2 years. Hell, Ubuntu nearly dropped 32bit lib support and consequently their status as the only Linux officially supported by Steam.
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Of course not this is just a civil liberties thought experiment. It’s not clear the founding fathers intended for this. Who makes the list? Is MasterCard bad (probably, visa equivalent)? AmEx? Brex? Mint? Random form on hacker news?

Who decides? On what criteria? Can you appeal? Are they elected or appointed officials? Who supervises the “list makers”?