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That’s completely wrong. Touch ID is not a sensor. Touch ID is an integrated system that was developed by Apple for phones.

Touch ID doesn’t do anything for door locks. It’s the fact that it’s a tailored for their phones that makes it work better.

The market didn’t develop Touch ID. Apple did.

Fingerprint sensors are widely available in the marketplace and they are better than what was available when Apple bought a sensor company.

In a healthy market, someone else would look at what Apple did, and work out how to apply any relevant concepts to use outside of phones.

This is work that hasn’t been done yet, and is open for someone to do. It’s normal for a general solution to follow a specific one. The idea that Apple should have developed a door lock solution makes no sense.
https://i.reddit.com/ still works. It's astonishing how much faster it is than the 'modern' version of Reddit also
I've been using Jekyll for my personal blog[1] since 2015. I think it took me a few hours to get up to speed and I've never coded ruby. There are maybe 4 commands you actually need to know and I don't think a newer version has yet broken any of my pages

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The subject was free will. I said "determined" in contrast to free will. So, if you've got Brownian Motion (or, worse, quantum uncertainty), then you've got some randomness in there, and it's not a purely deterministic system. But that doesn't give you any more free will; it just means that the machine that determines your choices has a random number generator as one of the inputs. You still don't get to choose, because you don't control the randomness.
Brace yourself...
On one hand, maybe the name is just unfortunate. The minute you mention AI the expectation is set to deliver machine sentience.

On the other hand, maybe it is a good thing to set the goalposts high. We may not reach the target, but still end up with worthwhile results; see: current ML use cases in industry.
As usual, prophets aren't really understood 'til later.
The Millenium Falcon is known to run with false transponder codes (May the 4th be with you ;) ).

... but for a more serious thought, and to trend deeper into hard sci-fi: you can have a lot of fun with questions like "How good is the technology to identify solid objects in space that are intentionally minimizing their radiation exposure?" You don't even have to go too fancy with stealth-coatings or Star Trek cloaking-devices; a challenge of modern astronomoy is that shipping-vessel-sized rocks in space are very far away, reflect very little radiation, and can be moving extremely fast. Do the authorities monitor space with optical equipment, or do they have the resources to solve the distance-to-target problem by blanketing the space they control with a network of ships or sensors? Such a fabric would probably be the saddle-point between cheap and effective if they could be mass-produced.

You can also have fun with propulsion. A ship "on the drift" can be much darker than a ship undergoing maneuvers... And it can even stay dark in the direction it's accelerating if it's using cold exhaust fired away from the observer (or if it has a lot of time to maneuver and does so by firing photons away from the observer, which will only be visible if they reflect off something behind the ship). This gets into a very submarine-combat feel, which the videogame "Objects In Space" explored.

Interesting idea I don't think I've seen in sci-fi before is deploying a grid of small satellites in to space where all they do is measure the distances between each other. Then any objects passing through the grid gravitationally disrupt it, and depending on how accurate the distance measurements are (and how much math you can do to account for other gravity fluctuations), you could hypothetically get a fairly impenetrable safety net if you stick to hard-science and ships can't create antigravity effects at range... A smaller-scale experiment like this involving two satellites orbiting the moon is how NASA mapped the mass concentrations resulting from meteorite impacts that disrupt the orbit of lunar satellites (and the trajectories of landing craft).
Should have used Scylla.
You're making assumptions that you won't find yourself in the same state one day where you require the selfless help of others.
Testing requires a mindset.

It always takes longer to write tests than not -- at least in the short run.

Some developers, at least, seem to get it now. Even if they don't write enough tests, they have some awareness that they should be writing tests.

Ops? There might be exceptions, but most ops folks don't even think they should be writing tests. And yet, many ops folks do more automation than before, write more code or complex config.

I agree there is no easy fix. Changing minds is always harder than finding a shiny tool.
This depends on the attachment style of the person. An avoidant would say 'I want to be independent and no one should take a dependence on me. I feel suffocated if someone does. Nobody likes it".

The other extreme is anxious attachment style. The extreme forms of both are considered personality disorders.

I have lived a significant part of my life being independent, without a partner. But now that I have, I enjoy the interdependence. It is very fulfilling.
This refers to Slashdot about 20 years ago.

Netcraft confirms it. :-)
> Despite all this theatre, both app stores have become wastelands of broken and scammy apps to the point I never go there unless via direct link from a trusted outside source.

So basically you're installing apps from links on web-pages on the open web, like back in the days on desktop PCs.

But on all platforms they are now increasingly forcing those links to be in walled garden app-stores, which restricts both the user and developer.

I really hope some anti-trust verdict comes tearing those walls down, and then we can go back to just linking to our apps again.
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I've worked for one and consulted for another. Both were as you describe. The CEO was the grandson or son of the original founder and were little tyrannical despots.
> We're sorry but frontend doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.

I'm thinking that this site isn't as fast as it could be. (granted, that message appeared almost immediately, but I was expecting something more substantial.) Maybe that should be fixed first.
You can use "#!/usr/bin/env awk" to make it universal, this works on all the BSDs and Linux. Works for bash and other interpreters too.
I suspect the stuff that went into "fish sausages" is used to make surimi nowadays.
> Personally, that seems something of a dystopian solution to the problem

It's the one with the fewer externalities. Forcing an unhappy couple to stay together can traumatize children, produce widespread violence (another one of those things that were kinda just "accepted" in the past), and even end up in murder.

It would be much more dystopian to force women into distributing sex equally, surely?
No, because men's rights advocates are a smaller group further to an extreme end of the spectrum. Let's be generous and say it's 0.2 % of the population. Are the most extreme 0.2% of the population identifying as feminists just as unhinged? Could be. I don't think either of us could say for sure, but it's plausible. There's some value judgments to be made there. But there are crazies on both sides of the issue - that's self evident, right?
> I don't see the incompatibility.

Subsets can't contain elements that their supersets lack. If A is a subset of B, then if x is an element of A, x is also an element of B. So the claim that a state ideology is a subset of a method of analyzing history would necessarily imply that methods of analyzing history habitually contain elements of state ideologies at their core, which I haven't observed. Hence I see a contradiction there.

> You were talking about the focus on heavy industries of the Soviet Union.

I did not grow up in the Soviet Union, hence I wasn't talking about it.
Perhaps you meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ?
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Not the person you responded to, but I think I see where they are coming from and agree: we don't call them robots because we are used to them and have a specific name. I don't see how they aren't robots, unless we are defining robots as having a specific kind of manipulator.
i’m pretty sure it’s 95% bots who auto-close issues or whatever and 5% ai-driven git blames
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I don't understand, what's the relation or conspiracy here? The bulk of trading is done by WSB-types and reddit shuts down to cool them? Doesn't seem worth it since the overwhelming majority of users are probably not traders of anything.
Who decides what is a reasonable amount?

In the real world, that's called "negotiation".
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Ah, I see. Wow, that's a weird enough error that my brain did not flag it as wrong, just assumed that it meant "fewer people."
In addition to the other mentioned reasons, I guess it's valuable feedback for their providers, and if that feedback is acted upon, it's beneficial for them.
What is the causality?
A crude version of this exists: https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/

Except this is Tshirt manufacturers coming up with generic slogans on Tshirt ads that correspond to your interests.
This isn't some attack on Signal specifically the personal ads policy has already existed and it was enforced against us once with a somewhat similar idea for voter locality. It would have been approved likely if took out the 'you' voice examples in the policy below.

Though I understand the point of this as marketing & article to educate on what data FB does have and the ads look really cool!

https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/prohibited_content/per...
Can you explain why you think this is a "100% contradictory source to my claims"?

> A note that...

By that logic, I'll note that your link is to the CBPP, a left-wing think tank.
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I'm late but thanks very much for sharing your experience, and helpful explanations.
You can get an extremely limited look on the ad preferences page. "Categories used to reach you" and "audience-based advertising". Nothing quite as slick as this little instagram hack.

https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings
Even without seeing the result, it was entirely predictable what was going to happen when someone let a computer generate phrases from word lists. The guy who went out of business generated 700 different combos algorithmically and then did not proofread them. That seems absurd. 700 isn't really that many, a few hours of manual labor to cull the bad ones, and his business may have made money.
The problem is this bizarre set of expectations that's sprung up with some folks. Sex isn't equal. It never has been. It never will be. Think about it for real for a minute.
There was an excellent interview in Danish radio with male/couples therapist, his take was really interesting. There are three groups of men, in his view. The lower class, being uneducated and poor, the upper class, being extremely successful. Both of these group have no problem with the changing male roles or feminism, they just ignore it or it doesn't affect them. They just continue as always and it works for them. Then there is the largest group of men, the middle class. They're told that the male role has to change, or is changing, and they do as they always do, they adapt. The kicker in this thesis is that they're then told that everything is still wrong. That is confusing, angering and leave a large number of men in a state where they no longer care or they develop an anger towards modern society and women.

The solution, again according to this theory, is not to redefine the male role in society, because that was never going to work. Instead we should return to the traditional male ideals, without the negative aspects. In essence to bring back the gentlemen.

Personally I like this theory, because it has practicality, something that is lacking in the idea that men need to evolve, adapt or "find their place in modern society".
I think we should come up with a corresponding law of software development 'as computers become more powerful, more of those extra cycles will be wasted'.
It doesn't matter how unintrusive _your_ ads are - the shysters that make up most of the industry have poisoned the well, making _any_ ads unacceptable.
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"Trying to shift to "social scales" to escape the central role of autonomy is a nifty trick."

I don't understand this comment. Isn't feminism addressing an issue at social scale, often in areas that include autonomy? Even looking at marriage, you are expected to treat each other fairly.
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The problem with older cars, is that safety standards have improved dramatically in that time. So while you might have a "dumb" car that isn't spying on you, in the event of an crash, you are going to be much more likely to be injured. If I had to weigh being spied on with being injured, I'd guess the odds of being injured actually impacting my life negatively as greatly higher.

I do miss my old Saab though...
There are several writers, you can see their handle and pic at the top of the article. In this case, Jun Harada.
Yup, I am from India and the experience of men from South Asian countries completely negates the argument in the original comment. Most men in these cultures have no problem finding strong friendships and family bonds, but can still struggle with loneliness and self-esteem when they fail to find intimate relationships.
I run s7 Scheme in audio contexts (with Scheme for Max), which is quite similar (soft-realtime), and I've found the impact of the GC to be much smaller than I expected. I need to run things such that an extra ms of either latency or jitter does the job, because the GC runs are bursty. So running in an audio app, if the i/o buffer is more than few ms (latency) in size (the norm when amount of heavy dsp is going on anyway), the GC runs just happen in that latency gap, and timing is solid. Or alternatively, timing is off by a ms for one pass and correct on the next, either of which are fine for music.
Your example definitely is something that should have been automated and not good use of an administrative assistant's time, but humans are good at navigating unclear processes and organizations.

For example, in one of my internships, it turns out that someone mistyped my address so my paychecks were sent to the wrong building; after a few weeks of that not getting resolved through HR, the administrative assistant took it upon herself to fix it and figured out whom to go yell at to get it resolved within a few days.

They're also good for things where having specialized knowledge of a process that's not done often can be done by someone who does it more often.

For example, when it comes to corporate travel, our company has a self service portal, and every time I need to book business travel I have waste an hour to figure out the right combination of flights and hotels to use, and another hour after returning to enter all of the expenses in the expensing system; I'd much rather send an email like "need to go to office X between Y and Z, no red eye flights" and "here's the receipts from our last trip, we took client W for a business dinner on May nth" and have it all happen.

Someone who does it several times per week would be much more efficient at doing it than me doing it a few times per year. But maybe in a few years we'll get some AI assistant that figures out that I like seat 3A, departures that are not too early, and figures out how to determine the expense types from various receipts.
Imagine that Apple charges a 0% fee. They could still undercut the pricing of Spotify, using their vast resources, and accomplish the same.
Facebook is bigger, much bigger. At least, bigger in the sense that matters for brand names. I'll use my mom as an example.

My mother uses Google every day. She'll do a search for the bylaws for her municipality. Or she'll search for ingredient substitutions in a recipe she's reading. She's got a toe dipped into the Twitter ocean. She'll click on the odd thing on Twitter to read a thread posted by her local councillor, or something by a comedian she likes. She's even shown me cat memes from Reddit!

But where were the bylaws being discussed, such that she wanted to look them up? Where did she find that recipe in the first place? Where did she hear about something written by her city councillor? Where did she see a link to a video clip on Reddit or Twitter?

On Facebook, of course. She's generally aware that big tech is turning our society into a surveillance-consumption dystopia. And it's obvious how central Facebook is to this. More obvious than Google. Facebook is the first page she loads every time she gets on the computer. It sends her notifications on her tablet. She has an account on Facebook -- almost everyone here does. She doesn't have a Twitter or Reddit account. Just passive drive-by reading.

Facebook is the central pillar from her perspective. It's obviously heavily personalized content. You basically have to be logged in to use it. It's very obvious to see how they could manipulate you by selecting which messages and news stories you see on your personalized feed. Facebook might as well be the Internet for some people. So Facebook draws the ire. By comparison, Google and their ads, and their trackers, are under the surface, in the background, operating largely unseen by many. (Many people also seem to be unaware Google owns Youtube, oddly.)
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As soon as I saw this, I thought: 'how is this different from vega lite'.

An answer is here:
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite

It'll be very interesting to see this develop. My initial reaction, as a vega-lite user is I'm not sure it's worth learning the new API immediately.

Having said that, I do find the idea of writing transforms in javascript compelling, and I can see there may be some situations in which this is a very elegant solution.

I think the idea of a plotting library allowing transforms is initially a little jarring - feels potentially like poor separation of concerns. But the more I think about it, the more it seems really logical: a lot of transforms (e.g binning) are done only for plotting purposes, in which case keeping them in the visualisation logic makes complete sense.

Looking further ahead (not sure this is possible in Plot yet, but giving its integration with Observable I'm sure it will be), the idea of a reactive model where charts can both react to user interactions, but also be the source of inputs (select a range, drag a bar, draw a distribution freehand) is very exciting.

Transforms and signals are both possible in vega/vega lite, but I can definitely see the benefit of them being cleaner and being able to accept arbitrary javascript.
> I think that's the strongest criticism of incels as well; having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life.

Let me take this in another direction than most of the other comments:

Say you're talking to a homosexual person in a deeply homophobic society, one so bad that you risk becoming a pariah at the very notion that you might enjoy relations with someone of the same sex. Would you tell that person to basically get over it and figure out how to be happy anyways because it's "not a requirement for a happy life"? If that feels like it would be wrong to say, ask why it feels wrong to tell it to that person, but okay to say it to the subjects of the article.

I'm not really sure what should be done offhand. I know the situations aren't exactly analogous. But if you think it's bad to call homosexual people nasty things and they should be allowed to love, then how can it be okay to just casually dismiss straight people who have trouble finding love as being bad people and tell them to get over it?
But fixing income inequality would presumably reduce the number of women willing to sell sex, so you're back to square 1.
>Lonely? Make strong friendships!

Poor? Get rich?

Self-fulfilling prophecies are futile.

> romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life

We have proof of various intelligent animals, domesticated and wild, that display signs of depression, loneliness and self-harm when separated from their bonded partner. If anything, the need for intimacy and romance are central to life as we know it.
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I think that you have a good point, there’s other factors that could contribute to the stats. We have seen that war can throw demographics out of balance even in modern times, such as Russia after WWII.
Now that I think about it, perhaps it is like traffic. When they add more roads, the amount of traffic stays the same. There is a certain tolerance/threshold we can endure for traffic.

In this same way, we can tolerate a certain amount of lagginess in our computers. The hardware will get faster and faster, but the relative interface performance will remain the same.
Having been historically marginalized in gym class, I ask why stop at math?
I guess you are saying to yourself "I am worthless" every time you put a condom on... :|
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Are you saying that massive economic inequality is a-OK...?

These are all big problems we ain't gonna fix in 5 years or 10.
I live in Washington, DC, a few miles from Politics and Prose. They discount book club orders, and so there is a shelf, maybe six feet long by four feet high with books set out for clubs planning to discuss them. If I were looking seriously for a book club, I might drop in over the course of a few months to see what clubs have interests aligned with mine. How would I follow up? That part I don't know--slip a note into one of the books, perhaps. (I also don't know how the pandemic affected all this--I've hardly been into P&P in more than a year.)

But I'd suggest starting at bookstores.
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I didn't see any mention of this, but does Observable Plot support interactive charts? E.g. detailed summary on data point hover?
Good enough is not even close to native though. He was wondering about native.
And it's not like this hasn't been predicted by the cyberpunk genre... in the 1980's ?
But a locked in ecosystem is bad for innovation. Windows model is way better in the long run.