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> as any high false positive test, looses its usefulness when deployed on large scale, indiscriminately.

Well of course anything mis-applied is probably bad. But sometimes false positives can be a good thing. For example, in immunology, it's quite common to use cheap tests that have quite high false positives, but low false negatives to screen samples before applying more expensive, but more rigorous tests.
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You can abolish government. The results arent pleasant (see 90s mogadishu) but you can. This is the goal of so called "ancaps". It's great if you enjoy being a warlord.

You can abolish businesses too. The 2nd largest economy from 1950-1970 did precisely that, TINA propaganda notwithstanding. Chinese SOEs also serve as a model for a business that isnt really a business. It's great if you're on the central committee.

You can abolish unions as well. The results also arent exactly pleasant for the 90% of people who rely on selling their labor to survive.

But it's fucking great for that top 10% if they dont exist.
> we had the most charismatic presentation

Oh! The problems charisma can solve. THAT is a book right there.
It would be hell of a trick to inflitrate air gapped machine without physical presence.
I have noticed that too and it is pretty fucking annoying (+). If the article is about US colleges then the first comment is always about over education and how not every job requires a college degree. If the article is about trains it is about how the US, unlike Europe, is too large for train networks. If it is about renewable energy, the first comment is about how the green movement is shooting itself in the foot by shunning nuclear. And so on.

I think you could at least partially solve the problem by having the ranking algorithm bias more heavily towards recent comments. As it is now the first comments are much more likely to reach high scores than later comments, which is stupid because it might take an hour or two to read an in depth article and formulate something insightful.

+ - And I've been guilty of it too.
dragging UI knobs up and down (like a slider) is the standard though and anything that makes me drag it in a circle is infuriating because of how hard to control it is.

Yes, sliders are better, but if all the controls that should be sliders were sliders then I'd have so many I couldn't see shit. I agree that it's bad to not label controls and hide volume of all things behind a checkbox in a menu.

So yeah, it's not ideal, but that's actually the least worst way for it to work.
The name World War Two was a pretty big clue that humanity as a whole doesn't learn from its mistakes.
> You might do better to speak to that accusation directly.

That's the thing. I'm trying to figure out exactly what the accusation is. So far, every time I've challenged comments made about this, people have been vague and unwilling to state anything verifiable. To be frank, I don't even think any of the people making those comments are actually display people.

> Maybe the eink lads believe the tech can never scale beyond niche, won't take off, so are just milking the market at the highest licensing fees they can get?

I don't even know what the meaning of "eink licenses their technology" would mean. That's way too vague. It would be the equivalent of saying "Samsung Displays licenses their technology". All I know is that Eink sells electrophoretic FPL and then their various partners produce things using that FPL. You can buy miles of their FPL if you want for dollars per yard or something like that. You can drive it using your own tech, laminate whatever backplane you want to it. What I know for sure is the high volume displays like the ones that go into Kindles are cheap, and everything else is like 10x more expensive simply because they're so low volume they might as well be hand assembled.
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That's:

a) A theory
b) That in no way contradicts the possibility of a continuum where universes may rise, expand, contract and die, only to rinse and repeat
c) If nothing can be created out of nothing, and if in the universe energy cannot be created or destroyed that doesn't seem to be correct unless the universe is an artificial system
d) The only way for C) to be true is if everything is always the same thing in different forms, at which point we might as well say time is infinite

(caveat: artificial systems of course - but those still need to be initiated from somewhere else at some point down or up the chain of creation - so it should follow that something infinite must be at play)
> Any streaming system essentially should never start as a streaming system - it should start as a slow-path pull-based system, and have a fast-path push system added on top of it if needed - because then you've built your recovery path already, rather then what happens way too often which is just "oh yeah, we'll develop that when it breaks".

I think this is a quite interesting and important point. When we talk about "doing the simple thing first" too often we end building something that is technically simple but fickle. The trick to making the simple thing reliable is to figure out which part is the slow-path (or failure mode), and then only building that. Unfortunately, it often means out result ends up technically "boring" since all the interesting optimizations are what we cut out, but I think that's worth it if the end result is a more useful product.

It's something I've been working with and thinking about for a while. I think it applies to a way broader scope than this discussion.
After the last few months I can only assume the current administration is actually supportive of communism. At best they're ignoring the atrocities in Cuba and China, at worst they're supportive of these governments... I'm starting to think it's the latter.
Since we're on HN, the local wojak's ersatz-god is the computer.

"SCIENCE says we're all living in a simulation, and probability suggests it was created by a COMPUTER."
It is a fundamental truth that there is more work to do than time available to do it. That this pressure lands on developers is really a perpetual management failure.
The biggest take away from watching the demo is the impact of sound. Without the iconic Nintendo sound effects and background music the game feels so much more flat.

The sound effects in demo the immediately made me think of Commander Keen. So it’s wasn’t unsurprising to learn this port was a predecessor to that commander keen.
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The Dutch might have a new industry, exporting their skill at reclaiming land from the sea.

And how to keep inland areas below sea level, pumped dry reliably.
I may be misunderstanding what you're asking, but the ErgoDox EZ has two different keycap shapes.

The printed keys are all the same shape and can be moved around as one remaps the keys. However, this results in a flat keyboard. You can get the same effect by buying another set of keycaps from a keycap company.

The blank keys are sculpted, so each key is unique to it's position or a set of positions. This makes reaching keys much easier from the default position, but makes learning the keyboard harder.
Corporate Average Fuel Economy. It's a regulation mandating fuel efficiency for vehicles.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/corporate-average-fue... is the full explanation.
It starts young; in grade school. I saw it with my son and his peers with simple graphing calculators and their math homework. They'd punch in some numbers, get a result, and that was that. Try as I might, I couldn't convince them that garbage in leads to garbage out. In their minds, the machine was infallible.
Office compatibility perhaps?
> The woman operating the computer explained what I was to do. When she gave me a signal, I needed to look straight at the camera, then turn my head slowly and steadily to the right. I was then to turn at the same speed back to face the camera. Then I had to turn my head fully to the left, and back again to face the camera. At the same slow, steady speed, I was then to tilt my head back and look up, then to look straight at the camera. After that, I had to tilt my head down at the same speed and look toward the floor, and then to return to the original position. Finally, I was to slowly and completely open my mouth and hold that position. After I closed my mouth and looked steadily at the camera, my facial scan would be complete. All of these movements needed to be carried out in the assigned order in a single, uninterrupted sequence, two seconds per position. If any movement did not conform to the requirements, the computer would give a signal and stop running, after which I would have to start over from the beginning.

> ...

> My wife, who had been going through these procedures immediately after me, struggled when she came to the facial scan. The sequences for men and women differed in only one way: While men were required to open their mouths wide at the end, women had to close their mouths tightly and puff out their cheeks. I wondered what the reason was for this difference.

Does anyone know the reason for the difference?
"Islamic" countries are dictatorships like China.
You can assume that a price comparison needs to be made between the saved price & the current price from the API.
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How many constants that exist in nature are also in logic?

Or is it just Pi and E?
I believe the goal for Google isn't to make money but deter abuse.
The eBeaver is about as relevant to conventional air travel as the existence of electric milk floats and forklifts was to ground transport for the past 50 years.
I hadn't realized that the absolute number in the Xinjiang camps --- "more than 1 million", according to the article --- is half the number of people in US prisons. It's 4% of the population of Xinjiang, compared to less than 1% of the population of the US, but of course it's 0.1% of the population of China as a whole, and there are US communities that are more heavily incarcerated.

The whole situation is appalling, in both countries, though it has not yet reached the extremes of GULAG, the US Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, the Taiping Rebellion, the Holocaust, the Congo Free State, or the Killing Fields of Kampuchea. What can we do to make this kind of abuse impossible? It seems to me that only state power can create such horrors; how can we prevent it from becoming so unrestrained?
I wonder if it has something to do with your language. I know they've had other random UI issues if your language wasn't set to english. Here's my volume setting for reference:
https://i.imgur.com/PwW0SwI.png

It's still frustrating though. I can't just click the volume icon and use the mouse scroller to change the volume. It takes two clicks now.
> They temporarily lifted this restriction at launch due to COVID.

due to Zoom. Covid was just a pretext. Google aggressively pushed Meet everywhere because Zoom posed a threat to them.
Yes and we've seen their shit get leaked over the years. From that we can see clear patterns in what they view as valuable and where they spend their significant, but still limited focus.
So then this devolves into no drinking and heath police. Too much sugar in your gum? Fine. Too many carbs, fine. Overweight? Fine. Drink alcohol, fine. Light incense in your house, fine. Don’t eat the required 3 meals a day, fine. Don’t eat the menu prepared by the health and nutrition czar, fine.

Is this a country you want to live in?

Also we don’t yet have, and hopefully will never get, socialized medicine. Why do we prepare society by starting to implement the boot on the neck when we’re not even sure if it’s needed yet? Seems a bit assumptive and preemptive no?
Can you share what makes forged parts better than others? Wouldn’t it simply be better molds or finishing I suppose? I’m only familiar with forged gun parts and even the cheapest forged parts look and function as good as the expensive ones, but then again going bang is easier than keeping people in the air through crazy stresses and heat and cool cycles.
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Thank you for bringing up this other conclusion. I still side with Wendover overall.

Even if batteries have to be replaced that often now, the technology will continue to improve, becoming both cheaper and more reliable.

Computers used to be the size of rooms and break due to literal insects in them.
Answering yes on a poll about privacy legislation doesn’t mean that people think about it in their day to day life or make behavior changes. Look no further than annual reports of companies like Facebook and Twitter for proof of their success.
For OpenGL, it will perform conversions automatically when sampling from texture with SRGB type, and opposite when writing to SRGB rendertarget (on desktop GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB also needs to be enabled). I guess other APIs have similiar features.
I cannot figure out how to adjust my iphone volume half of the time. I think there are two, one is the ringer, one is for the speaker? dunno.
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If you cared enough to finance open access to the article, I'm sure they'd be amenable.
Its not as simple as that. Just because its the case of "we have lots of old stuff" doesn't mean you need to ignore the new stuff. Building solutions with traditional data centers and staff, even if you have a lot of it, is often a lot slower. You can spin up entire fleets of servers (or even use services such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB so you never use servers) and get a solution out in much less the time. Its not just about responding to load but also to be fast enough to get new stuff out there. Traditional financial services organisations are notoriously slow to adapt to changes in the market. Using cloud resources alongside the legacy infrastructure is one way to try and remain competitive.
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> What they lack in economic resources, they make up for in political power via bureaucratic control.

This would seem to imply equal footing, wouldn't it?

> Unions != Labor. Workers == Labor. This is the key point I'm trying to make.

So I'm not sure how this is relevant to the prop 22 discussion - did the legislation have anything to do with unionization? As far as I know it was only about extending existing labor protections to gig workers.

And there's a distinction there, to be sure, albeit a pedantic one. Outside of organized labour, how exactly do these "workers" exert any power in the work place or politics?
I try to spend that time either:

A. Doodling a system diagram.

B. Updating documentation of what I am doing.

C. Meditating in order to keep my mind clear.

In practice, I sometimes check hackernews.
Yeah, I totally understand why people don't like crypto. I don't like it for the same reasons. I just trying to find something valuable that I could miss behind this scam.

And NFT looks like for me as something that can be not just a regular hype. Maybe it can bring some value to people. And if it can, I'd like to help it.

Thank you for your feedback anyway!
>Shouldn't Islamic countries at least do something?

They're farther down the hierarchy of nation state needs than where you need to be to be in order to call out someone like China.

So they all shit on Israel because it's the only "local enough we could conceivably do something about it" problem they can all agree on.
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Personally, I play 3 MMO's on a regular basis and they are very different so the question is what sort of experience you're looking for. Do you want a "go anywhere do anything at any time" experience, where you look at nearly all the content from first level? Then Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) may be your jam - you can jump in at lvl 1 to the newest content (except raiding and max level dungeons). Do you want well crafted story with solid structure and the constant knowledge of what to do next? That's FFXIV - it's got a main story that's going to guide you through content all the way from lvl 1 to lvl 80, but you can't just go off for 30 lvls and come back and expect the content to match your level - you'll have to go back and catch up on things. I really like them both. I think FFXIV is superior in terms of enjoyment for your investment, but if you want content you can pick up and just go without any real commitment or requirements ESO is great.
That's a lot of "always"s for a situation you're making up that hasn't happened. I wasn't aware there are AIs taking food out of people's kitchens!
Overflowing timeout
If you are using Firefox, activate reader mode to access all the text (it's a soft paywall) and then bookmark the page to store it on your phone. You still have to load the page once, but only once and the font won't be a problem anymore.
> critize them harshly

does nothing.

> and take action.

How? Suit up and form an A*Team to infiltrate? Cyberattacks? Pool funds to bribe politicians?
I've heard of tweets taken down, but always assumed Twitter was self censoring
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When I was part of academia I was under the impression we were aiming for publishing papers, which is why I left.
I (for one) can't conceive it, but I also cannot really conceive what's happening in a black hole, or at the quantum level. And the weirdness of those phenomenons is nothing in comparison to a "brand new" different reality.
It's also still missing proper garbage collection, meaning languages like C# have to include basically the entire runtime if you compile to WebAssembly. This is a major part of why Blazor apps in .NET 5 are ~2MB for a simple "Hello World" (closer to 8MB if you use the AOT compilation options in the .NET 6 preview).
Who are they going to go to if TSMC does not have the next node ready when they need it? I only know of Intel and TSMC as far as latest-greatest nodes go, is there anyone else?
People like Tahir come to the U.S. and Canada to escape the regime, but also to warn us. We should take heed.
Set meetings for 50 minutes. Overrun problem solved.
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Not to mention that that same infrastructure you say is in abundance is usually pretty heavily utilised already so there isn't just spare capacity lying around. Procuring new hardware can take months and if there is no rack space you are looking at more months to get that deployed.

The people that need to plan, coordinate and install all of this are also pretty heavily overworked at the moment because, believe it or not, there is a very large shortage of skilled sys admins in the world.

Using the cloud doesn't solve those problems, but it does help reduce their impact.
There's a few things.

1) One thing to keep in mind is that religion is usually only the backdrop for some geopolitical issues. Yes, ISIS was an Islamist movement, but it was first and foremost opportunists seizing a vacuum of power in Iraq, and the instability in Syria, to put themselves into power. When looked at through that lens, why would a Muslim in Morocco or Algeria or Indonesia care that much about ISIS? Does a Catholic in Rome feel intimately connected to violence in Mexico? Most of them thought ISIS were a bunch of assholes, but it wasn't happening in their backyard.

2) Another thing is again politics. It's good for Arab leaders to criticize Israel and blame it for their problems. (Most of them) don't need Israel for anything. They rely more in China. That's the same reason most Western countries are falling short of accusing China of genocide.

3) From a purely religious point of view, Jerusalem/Al-Quds is a very important religious site Islam. It's the direction they originally faced when they prayed (Mohammed moved it to Mecca later), and is the location from which Mohammed ascended to heaven in one of his visions. China has no religious value.
a) very few people work on the scale where miles and feet are interconverted.

b) The mistake was picking base-10 as the basis of the metric system. The Base-12/Reciprocal-halves (2^63/2^4) system of feet, inches, fractional inches, is hands-down the best way to engineer and build things on the human scale. It makes it super easy to scale measurements by N/2, N/3, N/4, N/6, N/8, N/12, N/2^m. Three weeks ago had to make 9 evenly spaced holes in a 24' board, with an inch of buffer on either side, which works out to 35-3/4". This results in really convenient interval of N3'-less-N/4" (35-3/4, 71-1/2, 107-1/4, 143"), so convenient I still remember them weeks later.

The yucky part is when you have to use a base(2*5) calculator. Now you get 35.75, 71.5, 107.25, 143", which is a much less obvious pattern.

Every day I'm in the shop, I yearn for a dozenal calculator and measuring tape.

One can dream.

http://www.dozenal.org/

Base 6 is also nice:

http://www.seximal.net
It’s to avoid “hanging out” on Hangouts, er, Meet, and instead use it for Meet-ing. It steers the product.
"the software said so" is 2020's way to denying something to someone while also trying to deflect blame.

Not very different from "not financially viable", "your health insurance have expired", "your credit score does not meet the requirements".

The decision of implementing such rules and methods and use such phrasing is entirely done by humans.
isProbableTime -> isProbablePrime.
The problem is a lot of people who work these roles are so demoralised, they see themselves as a kind of almost-robot when it comes to fulfilling their job duties. They don't feel they have the autonomy to apply common sense.

It's a weird mixed feeling of annoyance and pity when you run into one of these folks.
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What false flags are you referring to?
Their progress is astonishing. I've been following it for a few years and their research is barely starting to reach the mainstream media. He will get a Nobel for sure.

These are wild discoveries, maybe one day regrowing a lost arm we be more than science fiction!
Boo, my contribution didn’t make it to the gallery.

I created a volume control panel that combines the sound Volume with C:\ Volume and links them together. If you wanted the sound louder, you had to fill up your C: more to raise the disk use percentage. I was proud of it.
Britain to ban all new diesel and petrol heavy goods vehicles from 2040
Hi man I hope they can buy you out.
Now, 40% is nice and all that. But are there any modern 122 key keyboards?
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How is my comment dismissive?

I'm sharing my experience of this exact problem we have right now. Users cannot install python on their machines, in an org of 60k engineers, asking for changes to a small group of users comes with heavy resistance from IT.

On these machines (most computers in most offices in every western organization) no software can be installed from online, and running any form of executable requires IT/Admin elevation.

It's like you guys have never worked in an office in the real world that isn't dev/tech.
“jest-monger” is my new favourite insult - kind of a subtler way of calling someone a clown… Thanks for the interesting article btw.!
I'm guessing it's probably similar to Android: it's context-specific; with nothing going on, you're controlling your ringer settings. Then you need to wait until music/a game is playing, then you can control the speaker volume. Want to get to the master volume controls? Have fun menu hunting.