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Are we sure that Assange is better off in the UK? Reports from other sources suggest he is being kept in terrible conditions in UK as well.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/julian-assange-is-kept-u...

>> "Each day Julian is woken at 5 am, handcuffed, put in holding cells, stripped naked, and x-rayed. He is transported 1.5 hours each way in what feels like a vertical coffin in a claustrophobic van,” Morris said.

>> The lawyer pointed out that during the criminal hearings Assange is kept in a glass box at the back of court from where he cannot his lawyers properly.
Sure. But that is the sort of thing that one says about something that is still a conspiracy theory. It hardly demonstrates that he was murdered with sufficient clarify to elevate this to the realm of accepted fact.
That's genius. It's more than PR, it's an organic user experience with mainstream familiarity for hundreds of millions of people. If I were at a large car company, this is easily worth the price of 2-3 engineers.

As a product manager, I would use the popular understanding of KITT as a reference early-adopter customer experience, not to replicate, but as a median.

KITT's dashboard instrumentation is amazing (and oddly seems to have a synth ASD envelope if you look closely), which seems hilarious, but the point is to be a sophisticated command console for powerful operations, which is what it looks like. Totally different from the disconnected infotainment web pages of today.

The entire car UX today is about permission, approval, safety, and comfort, like a kind of suburban living room in a display case. Whereas what the KITT (and motorcycle) UX is about is measurement, instrumentation, and consequence. A KITT style UX may be the secret to getting self-driving car traction because almost nobody will believe autonomous land vehicles are safe, but they will believe they are powerful.

I should do a self-driving car startup.
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“Value creation” is not in the labor of pushing a button. It’s in the human capital, management that led to the creation of the system.

This example is nonsensical as a bunch of behind the scenes contractors and management presumably set up the system. Except that as soon as the contractors leaves, you’ve lost your primary factor of production: the knowledge of how the whole thing works. the days where management doubles as knowledge workers are long gone.

As for profit sharing, that is a longer conversation, but most of the largest companies today do profit sharing in the form of stock grants, pension and share purchase programs.
Typically any rewrite of a piece of code will result in speed gains because you can take all of the knowledge that resulted in the previous version and use that in writing the next one. To properly discount for this you'd have to do two rewrites: one in the original language and one in the new one.
Should 'travel' really be a category? Won't 'time spent in buses/cars/planes etc', unless driving them, always also be time spent 'idle', 'procrastinating', 'culture>books', or one of the others?

This sort of thing is what always stops me or is the problem I hit in categorising anything. Labels/tags are the usual solution, but that doesn't really work in this case, since you can't then say how you spent your time using a 365 days per 360 degree pie chart or whatever.
> I always wonder how people evolve from fiddling with package configurations to using emacs at this level.

One step at a time.

If getting better at Elisp is something you want, just keep at it :)
Well US auto manufacturers went bankrupt because the choice was: 1) agree to maintain unaffordable union benefits or 2) end up in a worse situation with a prolonged strike that hurts the business even more.

So they kicked the can down the road and chose 1 until they just went bankrupt and the courts allowed contracts to be renegotiated and high cost union employees to be replaced with younger employees at a far lower compensation package.
Sarcasm doesn't work very well on the internet. Even when it's obvious, it rarely improves the discussion.
Here is an example on ebay of a book that has an index by phone number and even an index by street address.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Phonebook-1987-LAS-CRUCES-N...
I don't understand how you think putting more economic strain on them puts those billions less at risk.
Do you do these things now, just to a lesser degree?
Great answer. Thank you. I considered trying to answer myself, but (a) I was too lazy and (b) it wouldn't have been as good as your answer anyway. To make amends, here are two additional points about the relationship between the two.

(1) One of the statements in the CRUSH paper introduction is flat-out false. Specifically, it says that "RUSH [a predecessor] remains the only existing set of algorithms in the literature that utilizes a mapping function in place of explicit metadata" etc. By 2006, other approaches - including Kademlia, but more commonly circular consistent hashing - were extremely well known. Just as Ceph itself grew from this paper, so did the tendency to make exaggerated claims on its behalf (e.g. "it's a filesystem" years before that was actually true).

(2) One of the key problems with any "deterministic placement" approach like CRUSH, which relies on clients later duplicating the process by which data had been placed, is what to do when the map changes. Section 3.3 addresses this in terms of how much data has to move, but that process is hardly instantaneous. What to do in the interim? And how does the new map get propagated? These issues are not addressed in the paper, which is fine given its mathematical focus, but anyone who hopes to build an actual system based on an algorithm like this needs to think through the answers, and those answers have a large effect on how well the system really works.
> I'm willing to forgive

This website was ~7 years before her mental health issues became apparent. They don't need your forgiveness.

Her breakdown was handled very badly those 7 years later by society.

The Internets lack of empathy for mental illness in 2007 has been replace by the toxic virtual signalling we see today. It follows all the same patterns.

> why is there a "booble" search

If that's a genuine question, it might have been Brittney 'gif art' they have grabbed from somewhere, the logo seems to pre-date the website.

Internet humour in 2000, was like all societies as they progress, simplistic. It's a simple match of a 'rude' (but not extremely 'rude') kinda rhyme with Google.

Google also was not then what it is today, it might have been seen as somewhat of an in joke (I'm cool because I know Google and get the riff)

Britney Spears was also marketed around sex at that time. The internet allowed people to leave the medias bounds and parody it or cut to the chase.

See https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/memes-then-memes-now
> This will demoralize engineers to work smarter & harder.

This is, of course, why Germany is famously an engineering wasteland with no notable impact on the global economy.

In reality, it all comes down to contracts: union employees can have performance incentives just like everyone else. The primary difference is that they’re above board and consistent because they come from a legal agreement rather than private negotiations between individuals and companies.
Regardless of the truth of your narrative, viewing EVERY SINGLE ISSUE through the "x is evil" narrative is guaranteed to produce nonsense. We're very close to "a traffic accident occurred? Oh it's because evil CCP forces drivers to run over innocent people"
I for one believe a lot of services - also e.g. Twitter, Youtube, etc - don't do much about the bots because they earn revenue from it. Twitter doesn't care if an ad impression is from a bot, they will get paid for it anyway - until the advertisers decide to pull out of course. I'm sure they are constantly trying to walk the line between too many and not enough bot activity.

I mean with email, spambots are always a net negative because the services that pass e-mails through do not get paid for them. But Twitter does. If you get a bot tweet on your feed, or a bot-promoted one, you engage with it and Twitter gets paid (in 'engagement', the magical currency).
Regardless of Jack Ma's CCP membership, any major firm in China has close ties to the government at every level of the organization (including the officially embedded Chinese Communist Party cell).

The recent Jack Ma + Ant kerfuffle started after he gave a public speech that was mildly critical of the CCP's financial regulation. He probably should have known better given the current political environment in China, but alas.
> double-the-price ECC memory

I was buying DDR4 RAM last week and the cost for a 4x8GB ECC+Registered DDR4 3200 RAM kit for a Xeon W build I’ll be doing soon was about 5% more expensive than for a kit of otherwise identical RAM kit for a non-ECC Core i7 rig - which also came with tacky RGB LED heatspreader - about $230 in total for each of them.

The fact the pricing was so similar does make me wonder about the claims that non-ECC RAM is really ECC RAM just without the CPU/MMU being made aware of it - I think that’s possible if the RAM is already Buffered/Registered.
They do use the Lidar data in the viewer. You can see it with the positioning of the cursor on "surfaces" when you're looking around. The reprojection animation they do between photospheres is based on the Lidar data, it's just that's about the best you can do with the low-res data they've collected.

Imagine a situation where you're standing on a street corner with a mailbox or something standing on the corner. You move to the next photo position, which takes you past the mailbox. The smearing and warping you are seeing is from the continous mesh they've created from the Lidar data not matching the real world mesh in areas that were occluded from the original point of view. You get a moment of seeing "behind" the mailbox, but there is no data for what is behind the mailbox, so it all gets interpolated from the data that is known in the surrounding visual area. The mailbox becomes a rectangular prism that extends all the way from the mailbox's location through to the intersection with the ground that we can see behind the mailbox.

These are just the problems with single-image mesh recreation. You can't really get around them without some form of inference of the data that doesn't exist. You even see it in Facebook's images in the linked article, if you look closely. They try to cut the videos early so you don't see it, but it's there if you know what to look for.
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> why do people rely on an internet connection and Google for this?

It's faster than opening a dedicated calculator program. If you're in a browser already, just ctrl-t and type your equation.
Why does KYC exist? Well, people were:

1. Engaging in human trafficking, which is really unfortunate for the poor and often non-white females who are being trafficked

2. Sponsoring terrorism, which sucks for the again young and often non-white females in schools that are being blown up, the women in markets getting shrapnel wounds, and the children losing parents

3. Funneling arms to terrorists, which allows them to resist police forces and continue forcing young people to be unwilling participants in the drug trade, prostitution and other pretty subpar life outcomes

So yes, it's really inconvient to have to deal with KYC and miss out on that sweet stock growth on foreign markets - I encourage your example to work with his local government to pass the appropriate laws to join the world economy.
Are you really calling what Assange did "investigative journalism"?
Because, as qayxc intimated with "Contrary to conventional power sources", it is more expensive to turn gas turbines off and on again than it is wind turbines. Price will dictate action in a marketplace, so sufficient incentives need to be introduced to motivate greener supply.
Journalists are arrested in China purely because they criticize the government. Can you provide a case in China where a journalist stole troves of information and published it?
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Julia is not allowed to use its compiler (PackageCompiler.jl) but Rust and C are. It's really silly and imposed by the author of the benchmarks for no clear reason.
Not too many years ago all the props of movies and TV shows were simply destroyed when the TV show or movie ended. There was no "collector market". Since the items were worthless to the studios when filming was complete, actors were allowed to take what they wanted. This is why you rarely see items from the early days of movies (1920-1950) for sale, they were rarely saved. The movie posters from the movies in those days were some of the only items preserved, and those can command premium prices, even into the millions for a poster like "Metropolis". It also makes you appreciate the fact that the ruby slippers from "Wizard of Oz" were saved. (Source - the Hollywood ride in Disney Studios)
I've been doing that too recently, for work. The performance of TUI Emacs via SSH is much better than Tramp.
Sibling comments already mention that this is about custom instances and bridging. Matrix is an open network, you can participate with your own server.

But also note that there is a very actively developed new (official) server implementation called Dendrite. [1]

It's somewhere between alpha and beta.

Dendrite also has some experimental support for peer to peer. [2]

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

[2] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
That is true, though I have yet to run into that issue though for the devices I have tried it on (which admittedly is not a large sample size).
unintended consequences

1. Fat cats. What are the due fees? %1 now?, later then? %5 of gross annually? 200 people * 300k year * %5 of salary = 3 million. They will use this on fancy dinners with Google execs? Or spend it in "wrongful terminations" law suites with google for years? What happens when 50x more join.

2. Who runs it? Will it be a 10 year long president? What is her union salary? A non-google person? Will it be full time? A slack group? They dish out favors to win elections?

3. Who gets into the union? Base is on the newest woke culture? Base it on need? Salary? Scan their social media? Popularity contests? Seems like a great way to start discrimination.

4. Will being in this union freak out future employers? If your union spends most of it's time suing - will they want you around? EG. I don't see Tesla wanting a high ranking union person from google.

5. My wife worked at a union. Unions tend to not fire - so (non blue collar) you end up with hundreds of drained, demotivated, incompetent - due payers. This is the direction people at google want to go? Who will actually do the work? Non-union Sub-contractors?

6. Will they become political? Will you have to join this political party? What if you disagree on a few things? You still pay dues right - to the Fat Cat?

7. Will they corner off work? EG. You can't be a designer level III without being in the union.

One thing that wont happen: better working conditions.
That leaves us with a conundrum since the dealings of the ruling class in China are almost completely opaque. Speculation is often all we have, so yes of course we need to be judicious in what we believe, but we also need to keep open minds.

Since there are many factions within the upper echelons of the CCP, many of these speculations may not even be contradictory. It's quite plausible that Ant group was planned as a stalking horse for Chinese state infiltration of foreign banking systems, and also that Jack Ma and Ant were seen as conflicting with power groups within the CCP who eventually took them down.
A new dedicated IP is unknown and some providers will automatically treat it as untrusted and give it a lower score.

A smaller email provider can give you a shared IP that has other users and is therefore already whitelisted. Provided the email provider has good anti-spam approaches (e.g. enforced DKIM verification), you should have better luck with that shared IP over a dedicated one if you only send a few thousand emails a month.
Imagine something that doesn't exist and then claim it's "fair framing" to argue as if it does?

One of the most depressing things about the US is the corporate authoritarianism that many employees seem to suffer from.

Of course shareholders should have priority over workers because... that's just the "natural" order of things?

If a company fails, shareholders risk some small percentage of capital they can mostly afford to lose, while workers risk poverty and homelessness?

It makes no sense at all to me. Not just from the point of view of comp, but from the point of view of democracy. Because you can't have a functioning democracy when you have huge power differentials between different castes.

Unions - including board representation for unions - are one way to shrink those power differentials. They're not the only way and they're not infallible, but when they do work they're guaranteed to better than nothing.

They not only redistribute income, but they also give individuals collective pushback against corporate bullying and abuse.

Or perhaps you'd rather continue to grumble that HR is always there to take the company's side, but do nothing about it?
I find it interesting that on nearly the last page we see that the defense argued that it was an abuse of power of the courts to deny extradition. I wonder how happy he will be rotting in a UK prison instead of a US one.
This is an existential question for me. I am afraid to answer it.
> I'm much more inclined to believe that the purpose of unions is to extract maximum concessions from the employer(s) for the benefit of the people they control while ignoring any externalities.

I agree that this is one purpose of unions. I just disagree that it's the only purpose. Unions have multiple purposes, and it's a common misconception that there's only one specific type of benefit to them. This is why I intentionally phrased my comment with "Part of the reason for public employee unions is..."
It is hard to tell whether this is sarcasm or not.
A little off topic: as a developer living in the UK and considering joining a union, which one(s) should I consider?
"Just outcomes" is a huge signal for prioritizing equity over equality. Other than the obvious political ramifications, it probably means high performers and low performers alike will both get the same outcome from a union, leading to mediocrity overall.
I want to see the words "encrypted at rest", or something similar.
After a season or 2 — if it’s a hit — I bet it becomes pretty easy to negotiate ownership of items into your contract, since they can’t do the show without you anymore and it’s a relatively small price to pay.

See Sex and the City wardrobe.
So mistaken. My union has done so much for me and my fellow workers. Any time I have a meeting with management my union sits at my side. If I was wrongfully fired my union would fight it and even hire a lawyer. Why would I not want those protections? How is that not needed in a modern world? And finally what do you do for work that hour industry needs no union I am very curious?
I wonder if the company will respond to this sort of incentive by hiring hundreds of thousands of new employees to absorb the “profit” rather than pay employees far in excess of market rate.
I don't have a link but IIRC a single rotation of the largest turbines can generate enough electricity to supply an average home for a day.

edit: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/25/business/worlds-largest-w...
presitator = ???

president + dictator?
Those aren't mutually exclusive. For me being "productive" means not wasting my limited time on something that doesn't really matter. "Productivity" does not equal "making as much money as possible at every moment of your life".
I do. I get very little time to pursue hobbies. I do grow a garden, grow mushrooms, and do beekeeping. I don't get much time to work on those things either. I donate to charity a little now, but don't really have the time to volunteer.
"Gyro" is pronounced just like it's spelled, since it's an English word. There is no word "gyro" in Greek.

There is a Greek word γύρος, transliterated "gyros". In Greece there are several pronunciations, including "zhee-rohs", "gee-ros", and "yee-rohs", though the latter is preferred. Either way, the last syllable includes a long O and an S, roughly rhyming with "dose".

It's a singular noun, with the Greek "-os" ending similar to the "-us" ending in Latin. The plural is γύροι, "gyroi", though that word hasn't really been imported into English. Under the English rules, the plural of "gyros" would be "gyros", though a case could be made for "gyroses" (and Google turns up a few uses of that word).

There's no good justification for "yee-roh". Of course English pronunciation doesn't require justification, and no such thing as "correct pronunciation" of any word beyond what people understand. Any restaurant will give you meat on a pita when you order a "yee-roh". But if the owner is Greek, they'll be quietly rolling their eyes.
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What's the difference between a math phd and a large pizza?

A large pizza feeds a family of four^H^H^H^H two.

I need to make adjustments for pizza inflation too, even though it still beats out the phd. How depressing.
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I did not define what I meant by socialized health care, but I meant it in a positive way. Everyone is insured, and your insurance is not bound to any employer. Ironically, this means there is some actual competition in Germany (or at least more so than in the US where you can choose between the cheap and the expensive option your employer signed up for.)

No, you cannot work as an employee for as long as you want. My numbers were wrong, but it's a 10hr cap per day, and 48hr cap per week, as written in another comment. In its default, beyond that, your boss is personally responsible for this.

I am sure all you write about he financial system is true, but the thing is that compared to the US you can get away with much less savings and liquidity, and you get a much higher standard of living for a lot less money. Compare rent, cell phone, internet, health insurance, and you get a lot more for a lot less in Germany. With your health insurance not tied to an employer, you also don't run the risk of losing it when losing your job - e.g. in case of severe sickness, when you need insurance most. You don't need to save up for college of your kids, and can just send them to a public school.

[edit: typos and added schools}
Assange is accused of basically running hashcat. I am sure that a fair percentage of HN would be criminals under this logic.
We tried this on a b2b SaaS product I worked on where we had a lot of "third party" users (volunteers for a customer) who were only going to use the application once a year at most. One of the biggest hurdles we had was explaining it to enterprise customers - when they were doing their due diligence, it didn't "check the box" and we had to change it pretty early on in order to accommodate this.
I think the next major recession is going to be triggered by this bubble popping.
I read Foucault's Pendulum and finished it, but it was heavy going. I then read "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" [0] which I enjoyed much more, because it was more intentionally cranky and funny. It is to conspiracy novels as "Airplane!" was to disaster movies, and then some.

[Edit] Both of them make Dan Brown look really, really unimpressive. If "The Da Vinci Code" is a vaguely thought-through concept aimed at general readers, "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" is an explosion in a conspiracy theory factory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy