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If we started doing that in 1990 or so, after the first couple of climate summits we could've spread out the change over two or three generations. Now it hurts a lot more. If we wait another ten years, it will be even harder.
The UI and general use of these apps are so bad - that I literally find myself torrenting things from Netflix, Prime, and Disney+ rather than use those apps, purely to be able to consume it on Plex.

The VPN jumping lunacy bothers me. I moved countries - great so I can't use Disney+? I get it, but that now means I have to download (your new) content because you won't actually let me buy your content, directly from you. For the first couple of months I continued to pay for the service. Eventually I decided that if you don't want me as a customer, I don't feel bad about downloading it. Sad really.
For myself, better code completion is enough to lure me into the world of fully type-annotated python. I don't understand what you mean by saying "cargo cult", please enlighten me.
I remember having to do a full on interview at the airport to leave Australia. That didn’t seem normal to me
>If the guns pose no threat to would-be tyrants, why would they need to take them away?

because they pose plenty of threat to each other, which was in fact one of the reasons for the biggest change in modern Australian history, the Port Arthur massacre[1]

Australia, like many other nations does not have the same tolerance that the US has when it comes to violence.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australi...
> While every Debian developer has technical access to upload every package, it's strongly socially frowned upon to upload someone else's package.

I wonder how much malware is in there, that we haven't found, because of this. I'm willing to bet there is some in there, especially since at this point Debian is for sure targeted by professionals.
I might have mentioned that for your example, we can have good confidence in the Markov assumption -- we just say we need to trust the random number generator.

In real world practice, i.e., where we don't get to drive the stochastic part of the problem with our own random number generator, the Markov assumption (past and future conditionally independent given the present) can be, commonly is, difficult to justify.

But, then in just the theory, every stochastic process is Markov -- just let the state be the history -- I intend this as a joke, but actually, technically in the math, it is true.

If we DO make the state the history and have a problem in continuous time, then, at least in theory, we are conditioning on uncountably infinitely many random variables, and just defining how to do that is a bit interesting.

Then for our decisions. policy, we can encounter the problem of measurable selection, also a bit interesting and surprising.

I.e., dynamic programming in continuous time gets us into measure theory, the Radon-Nikodym theorem, etc.

Stochastic dynamic programming, when find a good application and can build a good solution, i.e., keep the computational demands within the super computer range, can seem really smart, of course is not prescient but first cut, intuitively, can seem to be. Your solution likely also seems prescient.

More applications would be nice.

Here is a potential, potentially large, collection of new applications: Develop a spreadsheet, for an example, for, say, budgeting for the next 5 years. To have a simple description, have one column for each month, for a initial column and then one more for the end of each of the 60 months, and have one row for each variable. Some of the spreadsheet cells might have random quantities (have them all independent, to keep the Markov assumption easy to justify), and some of the cells might be empty and available for decisions.

Now, presto, bingo, whether we knew or intended it or not, we now have formulated a problem in discrete time stochastic dynamic programming, and since in practice problem formulation is a common obstacle, we have maybe made some progress.

In principle at this point the software for a solution is well defined. And since long ago people wrote general purpose stochastic dynamic programming software, the software we would need is in a sense actually simple (if we don't care about execution time).

Now just feed this problem into a suitably large computer and get the resulting decisions and the expected earnings, we wanted to maximize, at the end of the 5 years.

If make the software more complicated, then can put in some ideas to make the computations faster by some factors of 10.
Losing $15B suddenly is indeed a massive threat. Apple shares would be bearish next day.
I always thought of Australia as an open and freedom loving country and planned to visit sometime. But what I'm reading in the (European) news the last months regarding all kinds of crackdowns on individual freedom sounds really bad and disturbing to me. Maybe it's just the news-providers here who report selectively, or are the Aussies really on board with this authoritarian direction of the government?
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I use Discord in a web browser for these reasons. The web sandbox has benefits.
I have the same feeling.

If they succeed, they will become Slack 2. If they don't, they will sink their ship.
What's the CI test suite look like? Does Debian create and execute test for CLI and GUI interactions?
Wait i don't get it, if some piece of software isn't signed or has invalid signature on MacOS, you don't get a prompt to run it anyway? It just says "nope"? If so, why would anyone ever use that system if you can't run apps of your choice?!
So often on discord i feel a vibe of "its our place our rules" something I never sensed on irc. People kick you blind at the first polite disagreement. IRC doesn't breed this to this extent even on the worst Channels I ran into. And o irc, kicks happen if someone abuses others a lot. Not if you voice a different opinion (again politely)

Hence my belief that discord makes people built tiny castles way too stiff.
So you are suggesting that FBI pressure is the primary reason Apple did not pursue plans to end to end encrypt iCloud Backups on the basis of one news article and lack of comment from Apple?

(There is other counter-evidence: Apple rarely comments on speculation. In an interview with the WSJ, Apple’s answer to why now was that they figured out how to do known CSAM detection in a way they felt met their privacy requirements. The omission is at least slightly informative, if you think FBI pressure is critical. Finally, people more familiar with the legal context have argued it would jeopardize the program for there to be evidence that Apple is doing this work in response to FBI pressure as suggested. Finally, Tim Cook offered a more straightforward explanation and vision for iCloud end to end encryption in an interview with a German newspaper:

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is the data as secure on your iCloud online service as on the devices?

COOK: Our users have a key there, and we have one. We do this because some users lose or forget their key and then expect help from us to get their data back. It is difficult to estimate when we will change this practice. But I think that in the future it will be controlled like the devices. We will therefore no longer have a key for this in the future.
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If so, what information would change your mind? How confident are you that this is the full story?
Chemically, it is very possible, but terraforming a whole planet takes an impossible amount of resources and man-hours. Who would pay for this and why?
Yes, and this is what really bothers me. Feature detection is a thing in browsers. There's things like @supports in CSS, "if (<property> in <API>)" in JS, and there are even whole libraries like Modernizr to make it trivial to detect whether something is available. Web developers don't bother though, and then they complain that "browsers broke their code".

Browser vendors do a lot to make it possible to write robust code that doesn't break in the future. Maybe they could do more, but if web devs are failing to leverage the features that are there already then why would they? A whole lot of the responsibility for the broken ass nature of the web is not due to browsers.
> you re just wasting investor money

While it's bleeding investor money, it's also grabbing your data:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...
Discord enumerates processes to discover OBS to turn on streamer mode, as well as being able to display what game you're playing. Disable the "share my current game" feature and there is no longer any ptracing
Thanks for asking that question, I had sort of assumed the parent meant Compulsory Basic Training. i.e. those horrid multiple choice training sessions that HR departments love so much.
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Absolutely agree with this point. At the company I work for whenever we create reports its always done twice or thrice -
a browser version, a pdf that is printable and an excel version for business users to download and play with.
The various stunts that the Bundy family has pulled off prove less about guns being

> sufficiently potent weapons to give the government trouble

and prove far more about how the US federal government has and continues to be reluctant to pursue anyone that has support from "small-government" right-wing groups, even if they continuously ignore or break federal laws.
> I thought you were talking about search results and not algorithmic recommendations.

I don't personally see a distinction in irritation or creepiness here. They can't know I don't want experimental art streetcar or a modern remake. So I have to be a bit forgiving.

Amazon do something more loathesome: they proffer "in the style of" before hits for the actual author.
Humans are instinctively drawn to a lot of things that are really bad for us in significant amounts, because we are designed to fit into an environment where those things are scarce. Sugar, fat, inactivity, "interesting news", outrage. These all steal our attention because that response helped our ancestors survive and pick out these rare but important treats. But in typical human fashion we've now crafted a world that gives us these things all the time, and it's making us sick and miserable as a result.

"But we're just giving the people what they want" some might say. Well, depends on the definition of "want". In a taste test, junk food would win over broccoli for me, hands down - but it's broccoli that ends up on my table more often than not, because it's what makes me happier and healthier in the long run. It wasn't until my thirties before I realized just how sluggish I got after eating junk food. But if Facebook was running our diets, their algorithm would long since have "optimized" its way to junk food for all of us.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do is give people exactly what they ask for. Being healthy in a world like the one we've created requires much, much more restraint and self-discipline than it used to. "The algorithm" is basically the digital incarnation of the little devil on our shoulder whispering that we should treat ourselves.
Thanks Tito, you're a gifted speaker and you're right, the bit at the end hit the nail on the head. I appreciate your perspective and working to change hearts/minds.
If there ever was proof that Google isn't managed in any way shape or form, the messaging debacle is it.
I usually keep the window small, around 700-800px in height.
Blame capitalism for aiming for profit, not actual service to people.
While I understand the feeling, if you're emailing with anyone who doesn't use an encrypted provider (which is probably >99% of your email), state actors are easily capable of surveiling all of your email anyway, no matter what provider you use. Email isn't a secure form of communication. The advantage of a provider like Fastmail is that they're not profiling you based on your data like Google would do.
I was one of the few people outside google who was actually excited about Google Wave. We used it as an internal communicatoin tool within the company with great suceess. Looking at popularity of Slack, MS Teams, Zulip, etc., one could not think that Google Wave came out too early.
Your certainty that it's in disupte is misguided. It's not. There's a treaty signed which establishes joint soverignty over Aotearoa and it was signed in good faith by both parties. The crown and the NZ govt. have ignored it since it was signed, but that doesn't mean the foundation isn't there.

https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/tears-of-rangi/ I'd recommend reading this, it covers the history of the period of the signing of the the Treaty of Waitangi in a lot of depth.
Do you have a few examples, for someone who's never used Discord?
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You could do the same with Google Voice. Send and recieve calls and texts all inside of Gmail. I have no idea why Google got rid of this functionality.
> It probably does nothing significant when the Play Services are not present

Right, that's the part I care about. I think there are two possible situations:

- Signal's own open source code can detect the absence of Play Services and not call out to Google's proprietary code in the first place. Great, no problem there.

- Google's proprietary code attempts to use Play Services and doesn't do anything when it's not present. In that case I do indeed trust Google enough that I wouldn't expect it to actually do anything else, i.e. the first option you mention.
It does require a phone number to make an account, which makes actually creating multiple accounts a huge pain, but bizarrely enough once you have the account set up you can log into as many of them as you like in their mobile app (I don't think any of their 3(!) web apps support it though, but that's not hard to work around with containers). In comparison discord makes setting up multiple accounts easy but the app has no concept of this so it's a pain to manage (I don't know of a good way to have two instances of it logged into different accounts).
Those dont seem like dark patterns to me. They dont make you more hooked up, they make you annoyed and make you leave. These are just bad UI.

If they are designed, they are designed to make you watch less.
Why is this legislation needed if the Assistance and Access Act exists?

Could the difference be a lack of cost recovery for individuals or businesses having to implement backdoors? The new legislation[1] inserts a section 64B "Person with knowledge of a computer or a computer system to assist disruption of data" which appears to be similar to the Assistance and Access Act, but doesn't appear to allow a telecommunications carrier, data centre owner, computer repair shop, DNS hosting provider, some random contractor that worked on a software project 10 years ago and is now retired and going fishing every day to recover costs of complying with an order to backdoor something or provide advice on how to backdoor it?

[1] https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
Chronology correlates with importance here. IIRC, however, the Bill of Rights was passed as a whole, though, not piecemeal. So it could be that it's 2nd because the Founding Fathers thought it was important. "Security of a free State" and all that. Seems pretty important to me.
Plenty of water in California, all going to farming.
Because you can see lot more than like... 3 frames or whatever it is that gif has; plus you have other cues, like the wind, sound, ground vibrations.
> if the alternative was to pay $9 per gallon of gasoline?

It's easy to forget how incredibly cheap gasoline still is in the US.

In Europe you expect to pay somewhere between $6 (Baltics) to $8 (Nordics).

Given the enormous budgetary excesses of the covid situation, one would only expect these prices to rise even further. Gasoline consumption is something a society generally want to discourage given the externalities involved.
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Why would a mere 2 week quarantine be sufficient to prevent someone coming in from spreading it domestically? AFAIK 2 weeks is only good enough to catch around 99.99% of cases. That's plenty of cases getting through.
>I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX, I find it pretty intuitive to be honest.

You say this like they should contradict, but heavy use of Discord should only make the UX more intuitive to you. Maybe it's less intuitive to less heavy users?
...Including the production of the car itself. Buying a new EV every year has a huge co2 impact even if your mileage doesn't.
Switching from one search engine to a strictly inferior one will be a hard sell to customers, but going from one search engine to a superior one privacy wise but inferior one results wise is justifiable.

So they could send users to Bing, but I think it's more likely they'll send users to an Apple-branded frontend to Bing (or some other "privacy-first" frontend to an existing search engine).
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Voice chat with push-to-talk: Mumble

Streaming: OBS

> and I personally prefer when it is not self-hosted due to DDoS risk

Only let your friends connect via Wireguard.
It only takes one progressive government to roll it all back. Vote Green.
Any scale is understood best if one can put forth examples for any part of the spectrum.

Australia is actually fulfilling an important role here: Exemplifying a democracy just short of becoming a dystopian banana republic.
Focus Wall is a clean and minimalist wallpaper app that lets you keep everything you need to focus on right in one place, your wall!

We've all been there, creating numerous to do lists upon to do lists, both on paper and digitally, and ending up with something that might get a bit messy at times. The list in your phone memos is different from the one on your to do app which is again different from your post-its.

That's where Focus Wall comes in, keeping all your important to-dos in that one perfect place that see everyday, your desktop wall!
Can you not leave by boat? I heard about some guy who nearly escaped on a jet-ski and would have succeeded if not being actively pursued by the police?
https://i.imgur.com/dy13lcm.png

The entire app was full of crap like this - it's not funny or quirky, it's practically baby talk.
Considering how big Apple is already ($80 billion per QUARTER!) the idea that they could at some point still decide to add a search engine and the associated revenues is amazing to me. It obviously wouldn't be a 1-to-1 switch with Google traffic coming from Apple devices but if they seriously attempted it I don't see how it wouldn't be a very substantial business very quickly.

Presumably this payment is based on Google's evaluation of the search ad value attributed to Apple devices but only $3.75 billion per quarter still seems low for how much iPhone search traffic there must be? Especially considering the relatively lower level of iPhone ad blocking vs. desktop I see anecdotally in my non-tech friends. I imagine though that both companies send in fairly deadly teams of apex negotiators for a deal like this so it must be close to representing the true economic value of the tie-up...
Why do you think the Five-Eyes agreement exists?

This is exactly the sort "capability" that is designed to be used through the legal loophole of "you spy on our citizens and we'll spy on yours" which is the (realpolitik) basis of the Five-Eyes intelligence sharing agreement.
And that's why you want federated, pseudonymous networks and not a centralized walled gardens who gets to decide who you are and what you can do.
DRM to the "rescue"
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There is not much controversy about the seriousness of climate change in Europe, see [1] (poll from March/April 2021, before the bad summer), apart from maybe a few % of Lizardman Constant [2].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/citizens/support_en

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
If they let it run by itself like they did YT, might be a good idea.

If they try to somehow meddle with it, they'll destroy it.
Calm down. Citizens being forcibly kept from leaving the country has nothing to do with the Berlin Wall! Remember we're just talkng about disinformants. They're probably Russian assets anyways, or useless non-vaxxed scum.

Everything is great down-under!

> “Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!” (No one has the intention of erecting a wall!) Walter Ulbricht, State Council of the GDR, less than 2 months before they built the wall
Cargo cult probably refers to doing something based on superficial assesment without understanding what is actually done. Originally refers to problems in science. https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
The biggest climate bullshit is the narrative that climate change is the fault of small people. As if you should just recycle and stop eating meat and that's enough.

Climate change is out of the hands of common people and in the hands of CEOs and politicians, and people need to realize the only real difference they can make isn't their personal carbon footprint but pushing for political change.
That's a possible explanation, but the same happens to me during the day, even when I'm well rested.

Cold light is much closer to natural sunlight than warm light. So working in a warm-lighted environment can be seen as being deprived of the blue parts of the spectrum that should be there. Blue light keeping you awake is a feature because the natural environment in which we evolved is saturated by it during the day.

I use blue light filters on my screens too, but they're timed to turn on around sunset. Ideally, everyone would have adequate access to raw sunlight during the day, but that's not the case for many (myself included) - whether because they live/work in a city, or because it's overcast weather, or both (like me, right now).
I dont think you can connect this argument with afghanistan, how do you see the connection there?
I don't know the technicality of it but yes there definitely is
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Australia is nuts when it comes to overprotecting their bio-integrity. Even withing Australia, you're not allowed to bring an apple when you're crossing a state border.
Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
For the record, lol.
What a hilarious statement. How will the left, as represented by HN, ever solve anything if you have such a ridiculously naive view of the world? "Oh wait, that is totally different, we are OK with THAT loss of freedom!". Oh and, the states are left-wing, so umm, they are all fine! We are just here pretending to fight for freedom because the federal government is right-wing (not really)!

Everything you say is a lie and all of this comes down to left vs right instead of anything to do with freedom. You will take the chance to attack a right-wing whatever it is, but you won't have any consistent value system underlying it.
But could, for instance, the Australian government compel Fastmail to hand over and hide a silent password reset email for any of my accounts, more easily than they could another provider?
Does make me wonder what a sword would look like if made for modern combat, with modern materials and manufacturing.

Probably would look like mall ninja shit, black 'tactical' look and stupid curves.
Safari already comes with DuckDuckGo as a suggested search engine, and all it takes is Apple flipping a switch for users that use the default search engine, and most of that traffic would go to DDG instead of Google.

Many Apple users are pragmatic, and don't care as long the search engine returns the results they want.

I've been using DDG for years, and it could be DDG has gotten better, or Google has gotten worse, but where i've occasionally had to do a "!g whatever" search to get google results because DDG made no sense, i actually often get better results with DDG these days.