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I should add a caveat around "the BLM movement is about." One of its problems (like many progressive movements) is everyone has a different idea what it is about, and the mainstream media does not help with that in the slightest.

So, the original idea there is police in the United States are killing black people for stupid reasons, which is true. There are no statistics to worry about for that one and there don't need to be: just look at a handful of publicized cases and be angry.

But of course, people do like statistics. You can't be angry without statistics. (Truly, you shouldn't. It's unhealthy). Also, that framework makes a terrible export. (Which is unfortunate because Canada loves importing protests from the States instead of making its own).

So, various other progressive movements globbed on to the name, as they do, but fortunately it's a more visceral thing than, say, Occupy Wall Street, so they are at least mostly on topic. I think the real problem, which is the source of most of the recent anger (see the equally badly named and easily co-opted slogan "Defund the police"), is that police are killing a lot of people for stupid reasons.

It is still important to emphasize that black lives matter, because they do, and it's infuriating that that makes people uncomfortable. But the root cause is the United States has an unreasonable approach to policing in general, which creates as many problems as it solves. And I think if you talk to most BLM supporters, they aren't going to tell you about racial sensitivity training or hiring more black cops: they're going to tell you how the police in a developed country shouldn't act as if they're expecting a war.
I don't agree that they are not open source, I only agreed that it is a gray area and even on the previous comment mentioned that it is "pushing the boundaries". For eg, I maintain an "awesome-copyfarleft" list: https://github.com/LibreCybernetics/awesome-copyfarleft

> changing from an open-source to a non-open-source license is a significant change which, when done without the consent of the community, is wrong.

I don't think consensus is possible and even a 2/3 supermajority on a license change seems out of reach. I can imagine some are pushing for permissive licenses like MIT/BSD, others for GPL/AGPL, others to remain as Apache 2.0, etc.
So it's not the people that participated in an seditious attack on the capital and the most cherished democratic process, the democratic choosing of the US president that are the problem here? They built gallows outside the capital, they screamed "hang Mike Pence" because he didn't literally attempt to end American democracy for them.

It's still "those other people who want to take our freedumbs away" that are the problem?

This feels a lot like the group of people whose first reaction to when a school gets massacred by yet another school shooting is, "My Second Amendment is going to be under attack now, this sucks!"
I get where this comes from, but it’s very obviously wrong. It acts like media is the only group with money and influence. Many, many, many interests depend on the voting power that the Electoral College supplies to resource-rich states out west. I’d bet my left arm that the Electoral College will not disappear in my lifetime.
Per capita both rapes and murders happen in the USA at around 10x the rate that the respective crimes happen in Germany.

Rather than give lectures about how stupid the German approach is, you should probably be asking questions about why their approach is working better in practice. If you're looking for the time to do so, I'd suggest reallocating the time you're currently spending imagining the pleasure of torturing an imaginary criminal in the aftermath of an imagined crime that hasn't actually happened.
The lens of this camera certainly distorts at the edges or at distance but I'm not sure I can see any deep fake or post compositing here.
That's because each and every one of them is a stylistic genre called moe, that emphasizes the cuteness and sexual appeal of the characters.

The a.i. was clearly trained using moe only.

Moe and fan-service tend to walk as one. You will also notice that the overwhelming majority of the characters look female. A high to absolute number of female characters is also common to moe.

I'd actually be interested what turns out if an a.i. actually be trained from a completely random selection of last year's releases in animation from Japan and whether it would manage to keep different art styles apart, or somehow blend them.

I don't really believe in the common claim that it is easy to recognize animation from Japan from stylistic elements, it just so happens that it seems that moe is often what is being talked about:

- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dR-648aYD6s/maxresdefault.jpg

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENxzRVVVAAIzbOC.jpg

- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHB0hi...

- https://i.pinimg.com/474x/57/71/bb/5771bbd550c96e1799659e2a0...

- https://assets.mycast.io/characters/monkey-d-luffy-12086-nor...

- https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blame.p...

- https://miro.medium.com/max/3840/1*opC8ndIEWzVartwBG16Chg.pn...

I think it would be quite interesting to see what were to happen if the a.i. would be trained across a library of very different art styles.
Again, it's not about opinions when outright lies and fantasy have lead to an actual attack on democracy and democratic institutions in the US last week.

Couching this in terms of disagreement with opposing or unnaproved viewpoints is to (wilfully?) miss the point.

Democracy apparently cannot function when demonstrably false information flows so unstoppably and in such quantity. This is not theoretical. To repurpose a quote from Ben Goldacre, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

I'm not proposing a solution here, more pointing out a failure mode in the curre t setup. But I disagree that having unfettered lies abounding is the only way to execute democracy. Again I would ask - do you consider Germany undemocratic?
It seems to me that they are deliberately conflating "infringing someone's copyright" and "using to infringe someone's copyright" - there's a difference between "you have my copyrighted code in your github" and "you are providing software that can be used for copying my movie" - the first is what DMCA notices are for, not the second
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> You might expect the power supply to be a simple buck converter. However, the power supply uses a more complicated design to provide electrical isolation between the spacecraft and the clock. I'm not sure, though, why isolation was necessary.

A reason very simple, you don't want a short through the clock to set your space, or aircraft on fire!

A big reason why a lot of avionics still works on HF AC power, and not DC is that it makes isolation, and providing arbitrary voltages very easy.
Most people don't realize this but GameStop was actually very bad for console game developers. Games were often resold, with each time no revenue going to the developer. I worked on a popular Xbox / PS3 game that was resold like 7-9 times on average. Our marketing people figured that GameStop made a lot more money on the game than the developer.

Why is that bad? Big console games started to need to be really long, because if you could finish them in a week you would lose a ton of sales to retail. That's why you started to see games where you had to wander around, grind, play through a level backwards, chase achievements. It also caused an emphasis on in game purchases (in console games) and online play. It just got a lot harder to make a short single player game on console.

A lot of those problems go away as console games are sold in a digital store.
> are Kashmiri separatists terrorists or freedom fighters

Ultimately, I don't care; I support their right to free speech as much as I support anyone else's. It's for the law enforcement that has jurisdiction over them to decide what they want to do with what is posted.
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I don't see that assumption anywhere in the parent comment. Nor any call for authorities of some unknown nature to clamp down.

Just the point that the "marketplace of ideas" doesn't function very well when those in it are not acting in good faith. Qanon may be a footnote in ten years. The Tea Party is a footnote from the last decade. The Klan has gone down to footnote several times and been revived each time. (Although the current incarnation has gotten rid of the name and the outfits. Yay, progress!) I remember the 9/11 hysteria, and I remember checking on my Moslem friends about the free speech they were receiving. Anyway, and yet, here we are.

Blind faith in the marketplace of ideas doesn't work any better than blind faith in the invisible hand of economics.
And I pretty sure most these are tech money. Amazed at the amount of enthusiasm at team blind.
They’re completely different tools. Tensorflow is a specialised matrix math library. Pandas is just for sql-like data handling.
>4. Tried DuckDuckGo for sometime but results are not good as Google

DDG's results have gotten comically bad, unfortunately. xD It used to be unusable for code stuff, but the unusability's getting more generalized. Still, you're just a "g!" away in the search query from Google results.

>8. Planning to move from Android to _____

Usable Linux phones when ;3;

(There's Librem 5 and PinePhone, but...)
Two counter points. First, it depends on the personality. If you don't find programming on its own gratifying and enjoyable, there's no need to force it on the side. But second, if you do enjoy programming, are burnt out, and have never tried a side project, give it an honest shot. It is so utterly counter-intuitive that programming on the side can cure your burn out from programming as a job, but time and again that has been my experience. I don't quite understand how it has this effect on me (and others), but it does. A few hours or a weekend of coding on a side project, and I come back to work like I've just been on vacation, sometimes even struggling to remember just what it was that was bothering me so much last week.
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Where was this rhetoric when Antifa and BLM burned and looted for months with the blessings of all corporations and the mainstream media?

This is incendiary and false.
What makes you think I'm on a side? I see hypocrisy all around. I think the capitol protests should not have happened, and the people who participated in them should be held accountable.

I agree with you that the capitol riots and the summer riots are incomparable. The summer riots were much worse, lasted longer, targeted innocents rather than political institutions, were widely excused and often promulgated by the newsmedia and politicians, are still talked about as if they were just, continually avoid criticism by cowardly saying that such points are a "distraction" in the face of things like the capitol riots, and use dishonest sleights of hand like the changing of language from "riot" to "attack" to gaslight.
You can run up charges by requesting files in any number of public buckets without the AWS keys. The AWS keys don't change the threat model in this situation.
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Powerful alternatives? uh no.
Well, to be honest, some level of sarcasm was meant to be in this title because it precedes a 4000+ words explanation of the topic... But seems like I'm pretty bad at writing good titles. For sure I didn't mean to make anyone feel bad.
Another possibility is that those managed hosting providers could obtain another license for Mongo. (Dual licensing between (A)GPL and a commercial license does happen, for example with Qt framework)
They're being lazy, and trying to make an excuse for it.

They're self-limiting the effectiveness and thoroughness of their testing because they aren't willing to setup a proper integration test server w/credentials. Where else are they cutting corners?

The integration tests server should have its own credentials to access the resources it needs for testing, then it would support all types of testing beyond the "safe" read-only tests they're talking about in the article.
I agree with all this. I've been WFH remote for a little over 3 years now. My productivity went down a little the first couple years, but it's dipped a lot more in the past year, even though I was already "used to" WFH.

There was one particular instance that really stood out to me last weekend. I ran into a friend of mine for the first time in a while who asked "How have you been?" to which I replied "Well, it's hard to say -- the days kinda just blend together". He responded, "Yeah, same". And we sorta just left it at that. Sure we could've talked about specific work troubles or the media we've consumed lately or whatever, but it felt like we already had this understanding of what each others' lives have been like in isolation since they're largely identical, so why try to fake the "normal" conversation in abnormal times?

I should add I do have other friends I'm closer to with whom I have regular conversations about the minutia of quarantine life, but with this particular friend it was like "Well...we got nothing right now, let's agree to talk once life becomes interesting again".
Maybe something akin to Gresham's law?
These are not comparable situations.

In addition to redhat employing a large number of kernel contributors, ElasticSearch is a complete product the Linux kernel is just a piece of the overall redhat product. The kernel in and of itself is useless. Also redhat provides source rpms for every non-proprietary app/utility that makes up the redhat product.

A more comparable situation would be redhat and centos, and to the point that Elastic is making, redhat is very protective of their trademarks with regards to the CentOs project, they have never stood for and would never stand for a situation like this.
With respect, I don't think the other commenter is deferring to Facebook's abilities and openness to resolve bugs in the cryptographic process, but pointing out ways they can continue to act that align with open questions from their past.

e.g. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-bug-has-camera-activated-...

Where the question arises: was it a bug that the camera was on, or that it was revealed inadvertently? Hence the discussion of trust in the client. That is an instance where Facebook lost some of that trust "in buckets".

It's true that "shit happens", but when it "happens" reptitively the questions begin to emerge. I don't think that's unfair. I mean, I'm sure few people would use a stock Ford Pinto as their regular driver, regardless of Ford's intentions or engineering capabilities.
I don't believe you would be able to see it in your bandwidth utilization. I suppose you would be able to estimate which stream you're receiving based on number of callers in a conference but your outgoing stream is always going to be the same, assuming you're not network constrained.

The stream is a single H264/SVC stream which contains layers of varying quality. It's sent to the Zoom "cloud" where the appropriately sized layer is extracted and forwarded to clients. It's called selective forwarding and it's essentially how all of the WebRTC style video conferencing solutions work once there are more than 2-3 participants.
Because that Trademark is owned by the Linux Foundation who are very well positioned and financed (AWS themselves are Platinum members) and published clear usage instructions.
I find myself wanting a modern brick and mortar version of RadioShack. I buy electronics at Best Buy, Staples (they will price match Amazon if the model number matches exactly), and more recently GameStop...I guess the closest approximation for what I'm looking for these days is a local MicroCenter.
I love the fakefake.news one and how it shows how hard it has become to distinguish fake news from real news in US politics.

Sports is a different topic though: https://www.fakefake.news/article/17nwpk-dolphins-agree-to-r...
> You can call someone on the phone for 15 minutes who can monitor you for side effects. Or, walk back in after 15 minutes, tell the pharmacist you are OK, and then leave.

There is a reason vaccine sites don't do this. When someone has an allergic reaction the response needs to be quick.

The local health department runs pop-up vaccination clinics in concert with the local research hospital. They considered issues like this during planning and they choose not do it.

When someone sitting in the car starts to have an allergic reaction how does a response get there quickly.

Best case the patient is on the phone with a monitor in the clinic. That monitor has to notice there is a problem and inform a responder that there is a problem.

Right away you have a problem. An in person monitor can monitor more people than someone juggling phones. The clinic needs more people. Also, seeing someone get flushed or slump over is easier than noticing, hey NNN stopped responding. The monitors can respond quicker.

Once a monitor informs a responder they have to find the right vehicle in the parking lot, the patient may be slumped over. There's other people sitting in their car. Hell, 25% pf vehicles are white these day. Finding the right car takes a while.

Then they have to get into the car which might be locked or parked in. Only then can they provide care.

What the clinics do instead is keep traffic to a level where they can have people wait safely. Both in terms of waiting space, patient spacing, and availability of monitors. They know how many doses they're getting over time so this isn't hard to plan.

When vaccination throughput needs to go up they open a parallel pop-up that can also keep people safe.
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You're correct. I thought they removed it. I know that Kubuntu doesn't have that, but Ubuntu does.
This looks great! I've been using Serverless Framework for a project and have not been too satisfied with the experience. Could you explain the integration with that framework a little more? I see the two options for services with Seed are the Serverless Framework or Serverless Stack (which I have no experience with, but looks like a compelling alternative). Is Seed just compatible with existing Serverless Framework yml configurations, or does it integrate with your Serverless Framework account somehow? I see you offer an integration with Serverless Pro, which confused me as this appeared (to me) to be a full replacement for Serverless Framework.
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Well I always thought AWS had only one RSS feed for all their news thus parsing the feed and making this page. I did not know about a feed for each section. Thank you!
As opposed to KFC doubling-down?
20 years ago, this was the norm in IT. Sometimes I hate whats happened to our industry.
IANAL, and my limited legal knowledge is not of US law.

However, if you have copyrights which are of vast economic significance, to a very large number of copyrighted works, it seems unlikely that the law would would deprive you of all of that due to your suing someone for infringement. That seems highly disproportionate.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have no sympathies for the MPAA, but are you sure you're not overstating the effect of a "misuse of copyright" finding (regardless of the odds of such a finding being made)?
The Ars article is woefully deficient in not even mentioning r/wallstreetbets.
Sorry, let me elaborate. You said that the difference between my speed limit example and (presumably) the article/current events is that the latter is addressed by the Constitution. I disagree with that assertion — the Constitution specifically forbids abridgement of free speech by the government, not by private entities.

You can take the position that private entities should uphold the "spirit" of the First Amendment even though they're not compelled to. But that's a moral argument, not a legal one.
Completely agree, reading the news has been the single biggest detriment to my productivity. It's tough because it's so easy to do, and pretty much baked in at this point. Sometimes I feel like the only way to break it would be to switch to something entirely unrelated to sitting behind a keyboard all day.
OT, but I'd be curious to know what kind of frameworks are used to make this site.
> If amazon did this to a company critical of one of their private contract companies, this would be anti-trust behaviour.

No it wouldn't be. That is not how anti-trust works. Amazon doesn't need to rent servers to Walmart. Walmart doesn't need to rent storage space or placement to Amazon. There's nothing in anti-trust which compells companies to have to provide services to one another.

If people want to talk about these issues they need to frame it in terms of strengthening anti-discrimination laws for speech. If that's something we want to talk about it's valid - it's just not the route most people getting angry about this want to take since it would run against many other opinions they've made previously (Masterpiece Cakeshop, et al.)
I write Lua in my free time so I have a lot of respect for language. Regarding 1-based indexing I don't care one way or another. I often switch back between C, Python, JS and Lua. At first I was bothered by differences and blamed Lua for being more verbose or using unconventional indexing. After a while I can just switch the language mindset and use 1-based indexing where appropriate.

I agree about the scoping though, it should default to local.
“Reform is better than revenge”
Cite your sources where a rapist and murderer is a benefit to society after reform.

“This would serve only to turn good people into that which they condemn”
How is the murder and rape of an innocent comparable to the punishment of a murderer and rapist?

How do you measure reform? Are their limits to what should be reformed? Do the risks of relapse ever outweigh the benefit of reform? An example to consider are the France Shooters or the Boston Marathon Bomber.
Is something like this done in real time? I see there are sliders, but is this type of inference something that be done cheaply for a couple thousand users?
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Splendid work