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This is your daily reminder that nothing in your digital life should EVER entierly depend on any Google services.

Im writing this from an android phone. It is not de-googled per se, but uses a replacement for every single Google service (files, books, maps, search, movies, ...). Yes I pay money for those replacements, but God its good to not my life in the hand of a overzealous ML algorithm.
> Deploying LiveView close to users is like deploying your game server closes to users – we have real, actual running code for that user so we can do all kinds of interesting things being near to them.

Then why do you start running forward instantly when you press “W” in counterstrike or quake? Why not just deploy servers closer to users?

Gamedev and webdev are more closely related than they seem. Now that webdev is getting closer, it might be good to take advantage of gamedev’s prior art in this domain.

There’s a reason us gamedevs go through the trouble. That pesky speed of light isn’t instant. Pressing “w” (or tapping a button) isn’t instant either, but it may as well be.
Right along with my idea to make a Facebook-alike that has no tracking, no ads, etc, but costs $20/year. Another dead end business idea.
Rclone. It has multiple backends and you can chain them: encrypt -> cache locally for performance -> store on backend.
Google is too successful. Their primary preoccupation these days is how to lose users they don't want.
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment, or at least, I can't figure out how yours relates.
This is great news for the germ line of humanity
this does not occur for me (Chrome, Windows)
As someone donating every month to foster R&D in this area this is very disappointing to read.
I mean the account lock-out was probably an honest mistake.

The lack of support, however, is not - and is part of Google’s business model.
It's the treadmill of solving previously thought to be unsolvable problems. Each step is going to be more "See it's impossible", until it's not.
I'm with you.

Despite the verbosity of the NS/Cocoa/etc APIs, Objective-C is a small, flexible, and unambiguous language. It performs very well at runtime, and is amazingly quick to compile. With version 2.0 and ARC, it became productive in addition to everything else.

I get it, it was long in the tooth, and the C legacy was both a blessing and a heavy weight holding the language back, but we lost a lot of the simplicity in the move to Swift.
“Apple is evil for adding CSAM checks, imagine if a totalitarian government used that to silence people”

“You should be permanently silenced for suggesting a medical drug”

Are you feeling any cognitive dissonance?
I didn't read that as insinuating anything. I saw it as noting a congruence between the new name and newly-grown meat, just as the top-level post was noting the congruence of the user name and the topic. I thought it was funny.
After reading the linked-to Humbird paper, I'm not so sure I agree with the glum outlook. A huge chunk of the cost seems to be macronutrients, which currently, yes, are very expensive. But even the report mentions emerging technologies such as plant protein hydrolysates that could be done much cheaper at this scale. The problem seems to be that nobody has ever had any reason to look into optimizing costs at this insane scale. I don't think we should just assume that means it won't get much cheaper once we do.
An interesting long running (2009-2021) discussion between H.G. Muller, author of Micro-Nax, and Oscar Toledo Gutiérrez, author of competing minimal chess program (and IOCCC winner [1]) nanochess, may be found on the chess programming forum [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod...

[2] http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26622
I continue to believe Right to Repair implies that we, the users, have a right to maintain & upkeep our devices long term.

Without this specific work, our phones will never ever be able to be maintained. (That said, the locked bootloader situation is horrific & a blocker.) This has been an extremely trying era, but it feels like we may finally be getting closer to fine.
Never heard of Amazon and Apple removing files from users' accounts? It was kinda big news. For a day.
I don’t think OP was suggesting merging the two countries.

My relatives in India would consider such a suggestion with horror. Pakistan rarely enters their conversations, except when there’s a terror attack. Most of them just want Pakistan to mind its own business and leave them alone.

Back to the story: In terms of size, diversity, and economic potential, Karachi is comparable to Mumbai, but the two cities couldn’t be more different today.
I'm surprised that backblaze doesn't checksum the files on the user's computer to see if they already have it on their servers to avoid duplicate uploads.
In my estimation, probably fewer than authorities think.

US Census collect data on reasons for vaccine hesitancy [1]. #1 and #3 are distrust - of vaccines and of government - which anecdotally matches my network. If that's the case, then we should expect that mischaracterizing treatments to promote vaccines [2] would not be very effective, and most Western countries now are leveling off fairly low in their vaccination rates [3]. But rather than more honesty, we're getting more mandates.

I think Dr. John's Cambell's position, of honest assessment, would have been better as the official position [4]. It's hard to imagine how trust could be regained now though without some sort of reckoning.

1.
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/ho...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gndsUjgPYo

3. https://youtu.be/hVtX7tY1B0U?t=210

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9cjy3Rydc&t=600
lol I was being sarcastic with a touch of jealousy. I do not work at FAANG and do not make 500k.
Ok sweet I see now. They used JavaScriptCore until 2011 or so, switched to V8 until 2013, and have been using their own implementation, q4, since then. The source code seems to be here: https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/tree/dev/src/qml/jsrunti....

Thanks! Will add and be live shortly.
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> (this includes the PRC and ROC -- they both technically claim it)

Neither claims it anymore. The PRC never did. The ROC did at least until the 60s, but they changed position around 2002.

The ROC technically recognized the independent Mongolia in 1946 after some pressure from the Soviets, though they backpedaled on that and blocked Mongolia admission into the UN in the 50s. Taiwan certainly recognizes Mongolia since 2002 at least. They have good relation.

The PRC has good enough relations with Mongolia since mid 80s.
This shouldn’t be true, ObjC’s only innate advantage is compile time, because the compiler is simply doing less and is capable of producing far worse (unsafe) code.

At runtime Swift can utilize static dispatch, where objective C is mostly dynamic. Good swift code should generally be faster.
The point about cattle taking 25 calories in grass to produce 1 calorie of meat is true but in most places, those cattle get their nutrition from grazing grassland that has no arable value. The grass grows with no human intervention and they wander around and feed themselves. Humans can’t eat grass. So it’s not really “inefficient” in that sense.
For example, China's birthrate is below replacement rate. Is China a "developing" nation in your mind?

That's why I said many, not all.

paternalistic western view of the rest of the world that lacks any kind of nuance

To reiterate again: there's nothing racist about the fact that many "developing" countries have higher birthrates than the West. Post all the statistics you want about them leveling off: right now in 2021, many are still higher than the West. You are saying it's "paternalistic". You are senselessly bringing in this irrelevant context. If I had to guess, it's because you feel the need to inject politics into conversations so you can argue in bad faith.

The term "developing countries" is a commonly used phrase; the UN uses it. Go complain to them if it's so racist.
Has anyone tried server-side Blazor in ASP.NET Core? How does that differ from the LiveView approach?
PHP, JS and Python all have great communities but they're still crappy languages.
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I think you’re forgetting how barebones iOS1 was. I had to jailbreak to get MMS and copy-paste.
a human flinging himself into a wall would surely be less of a PR nightmare than a computer bug killing someone who had been assured that the device was safe.

"this is much safer than if i didn't have robot assistance" is similarly poor consolation when the machine is misbehaving
RAID is overkill and bad designs can cause more issues than it saves.

Two or more external-DDs, copied regularly per how much they are willing to spend time and lose data. One stored in some other place if possible.
I agree with your general point but in all fairness part of doing a meta-analysis is weighting the studies included in it based on many of the factors you mention.
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This is such a great reply, thank you!
Is this technically true? Is there data on this? Just speaking for myself as a resident of Ohio, there are plenty of tech jobs between Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Cleveland. Not as many as in the tech hubs, but there are forty-seven states that aren't California, New York, or Washington.
I didn't think this was much, just some kind of chess rules engine, but this program also implements an AI opponent to play against.

That's insanely impressive!
haven't had to deal with it, but I would assume it works since you can call them. you don't have to be logged in to request support. https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9177339
If google really thinks he is a terrorist, which apparently they did, why on earth would they allow him to use gmail or android? It makes sense they would lock him out of everything possible.

What we really should be asking is why is google examining user data at all. They should not be in the position where they can even find out who is a terrorist.
You lose access to everything, yes. Which is really fucking dumb.
If everything I've paid for and supposedly own some right to access can be taken away from me by a wayward algorithm at a moment's notice with zero recourse, you bet your ass I'm going to "pirate" content, even if I still buy it first!
If you look at the original review videos (or even the keynote), you may notice that the first iPhone lags quite a bit. Of course, it's not Objective-C that causes it, but rather the limited hardware of the time.
>Most health visits, and the vast majority of all preventative care, does not fall into that category.

The kinds of easy issues you're talking about don't need to happen in a hospital. You can already go to an outpatient imaging clinic for an x-ray, a dermatologist's office to have a mole removed, or an urgent care to suture a laceration.

If you need emergent care or you want an elective procedure that requires a hospital stay, you're into the realm of custom services with variable pricing.

>This is the exact same argument that hospitals used to use against itemized pricing, and yet it turns out that requiring hospitals to give itemized bills on request has pretty solidly been a good thing for consumers.

Has it? Has it driven down prices? Has the demonstrated value been worth the cost? Or has it just pushed hospitals into creating longer bills with more creative items and charges. Creative line items like $500 for aspirin perhaps?
> The rain pattered lightly on the harbour of the Belgian port city of Ghent when, on 21 June 2021, a team of professional divers slipped below the surface into the emerald murk. The Brazilian tanker, heavy with fruit juice bound for Austra—

No. Stop. This is not how you report news. This is a failed fiction author’s blog post.

When I read a news story, I want the facts, not a goddamned noir piece. Give me the facts, and I’ll respond to your plea for funding. I have a recurring donation to Wikimedia because they do this properly. If I wanted to pay for pretty narrative, I’d buy your ebook or subscribe to your LiveJournal or whatever.
This is not the idea. Interactions that don’t influence server-side state are suggested to be handled by JavaScript. Docs give an example for integrating AlpineJS, but you can use vanilla js or other libraries with little plumbing.
Man earns $22,000 making robocall companies pay for those annoying calls
explained-from-first-principles.com/
There's a middle ground too. I use lots of cloud services, but I also spent $300 on a home NAS device to sync copies of the stuff I can't live without. Not affiliated with them, but I bought a Synology unit, and the UI lets you pretty easily sync things like Google drive.

I'd still be scrambling around a bit to fix stuff if Google banned me, but I'd at least have copies of the most important things.
Remote work is widening the skills gap
One thing: The massive monoculturing of soy and other grains required to feed the cattle? That eclipses the deforestation used for animal pastures (the article goes into this in some detail.)
Scroogled lives on
In the link, he says that he can't even use his account to post on the support forums, so is using an alternate account.

So I assume it's the entire Google account.
I have more concerns about Google Docs than Google Drive. While files can be moved around and used pretty much the same offline as online, the same cannot be said about the use of Google Docs for collaborative document editing.

If you're trying to de-Google your life, what is a sane replacement for Google Docs in a collaborative team environment where you can have some confidence that you won't lose all your assets?
I worked as an intern for an archive digitizing old letters among other things. Many aspects of key historical figures are available — letters, etc. You know what they were thinking because you can read some of their personal thoughts.

In this day and age, if you’re lucky emails exist, but due to discovery, etc many entities just purge everything. Bad news, this era will be a black hole for future generations to understand. Good news is that the idiocy of this era will be toned down.
BFree – Battery free IoT devices with Python
I've got a Mark 1 Helium IoT kit in the basement somewhere. You want it?
I'm patiently waiting for the west to realize that insects are the future of protein. I will gladly munch down a handful of crickets, even before they're prepared to look appetizing. "Beyond" and "Impossible" meats, lab grown meats, and black bean patties are neat projects, but not the future. And movies like Snowpiercer that shows the horror of flavorful, nutritious, and sustainable bars of crickets (edit: cockroaches) really aren't helping.
In my anecdotal experience, a locked account == locked everything else. That's why they had to make the post from a different account than the locked one.
Note that the article is about bioreactor-grown meat, not plant-based meat like Beyond, Impossible, and so on.
Sent from my Xiaomi device:

No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”, ... 60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”, 61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”, 62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ... 145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”, ... 201 "民运", “Democratic Movement”, 202 "妇女委员会", “Women’s Committee”, 203 "伊斯兰马格里布基地组织", “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”, 204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper”, 205 "巴勒斯坦解放组织", “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,

Let's see
Animations were slick (compared to other mobile platforms) because they were hardware accelerated.
I highly doubt getting locked out of your google drive still allows you to download backups from google backup services...
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Uh, did something change? As recently as a year ago I just dragged files into iTunes (or Music or whatever they call it now, but this was definitely after the split) then selected which artists I wanted to sync, and I only had to do that step because I didn't want them all on there. I didn't have to do anything with playlists.

But then, my metadata's in pretty good shape, so it barely even matters how my music files are stored. One big flat directory, carefully named folders, not that important.

To be fair, I guess I did have to convert the Flac to m4a. Drag to converter program, convert a ton in one go, drag those into iTunes. So that's one more step.
I would love to see a similar analysis for Nokia phones (before they moved development from China to EU).
From the article:

Soldiers seized 167 antennas, more than 150 repeaters and thousands of cellphones and radios that operated on the system.

It sounds like it had both radio and cell bands if phones were able to use it.
I have to assume they realize this is terrible PR for them and engenders feelings of distrust, yet, they don’t seem care. Is it hubris?
Do you know what percentage of total meat production is represented by pasture-sustained animals? Because my understanding is that it is very small.
Of course, what made Dexamethasone such a breakthrough wasn't really the drug itself; I think there's some evidence now that other steroids might actually work better. The big breakthrough was that some UK researchers managed to use the fact that the country got hit hard early on in the pandemic to immediately run a bunch of large randomized controlled trials on all the most promising throw-things-at-the-wall treatments to get evidence on which actually worked as soon as possible.
> After the habit of scrolling and liking wears off, you suddenly find yourself in a joyful place. A quieter, calmer, less demanding place where you don’t want to know what others are doing. You focus on what you want to do.

But what if you don't know what you want to do?

I feel like this post was written from the perspective of someone who already has their own life goals sorted out, and social media was clearly acting as an obstacle to accomplishing those well-defined goals, so they dropped social media.

But when you're on your own, it is not a given that you have everything figured out and all you need to do is give yourself a lot of free time and just do what you want. The void that remains is exactly the kind that social media is designed to fill for many people.

That kind of feeling almost legitimizes the concept of FOMO, because at a certain point you cannot imagine how anything you're doing could be more interesting than the things that other people are moving forward with in their lives. You want to aspire to be something, and looking for someone else to copy would mean you at least have some kind of aspiration to work towards, instead of nothing at all.

Social media is a net negative overall, but once it's out of the picture you have to work on yourself, and in that domain there are no easy answers.
“Our strategy begins by a complete inventory of bats and their SARSr-CoVs at our intervention test site cave complex in Yunnan, China that harbours bats with high-risk SARSr-CoVs. We will collect data from three caves in that system (one is our intervention test site and two control sites) on: monthly bat abundance and diversity, viral prevalence and diversity, individual bat viral load and host physiological markers; and genomic characterization of low- and high-risk SARSr-CoV strains among bat species, sexes, and age classes; satellite telemetry and mark-recapture data on bat home range and inter-cave movement; and monitoring of daily, weekly and seasonal changes in bat populations.” (D1, p.5)

“However, our test cave site in Yunnan Province, harbours a quasispecies (QS) population assemblage that contains all the genetic components of epidemic SARS-CoV34, We have isolated three strains there (WIV1, WIV16 and SHCO14) that unlike other SARSr-CoVs, do not contain two deletions in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike, have far higher sequence identity to SARS-CoV (Fig. 1), use human ACE2 receptor for cell entry, as SARS-CoV does (Fig. 2), and replicate efficiently in various animal and human cells.” (D1, p.7-8)

Lovely.
I agree, that's well put and I think that could work very well.

I think the key would be having clear centralized standards for how the trials are conducted, or you could have doctors skirting the system and just using it as de-facto prescription, and patients being put at risk for ineffective treatment without producing any valid evidence.
I'm still wrapping my head around the whole Mastodon and Fediverse space, but generally I'm not disinclined. I think it would be mainly a technical challenge. Some googling actually brought me back to HN, to someone in a similar situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804081
>assuming the emails you're sent won't also eventually result in the locking and banning of your Google account
And yet another at https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/issues/186
Firstly, it wasn’t at all clear how quickly antibody levels would fall, because the data wasn’t available. But it was clear to everybody with scientific literacy that antibody levels would fall over time, because that’s how immune responses work.

What’s been fascinating about the data arising from Pfizer, moderne and astra Zeneca dosing intervals is that it seems quite likely that the spacing is quite to highly responsible for this rather than something inherent to the formulation which is adding to our body of evidence and understanding
Mongolia has a lot of copper, coal, and significant deposits of gold and other raw materials. Mostly, it's the Russians and Chinese that mine it, so that don't really have a reason to invade at this point.
GPT-3 stays incredibly in-topic. You can give it logic problems it won't be able to solve, but GPT-3 is capable of things that, as a GOFAI supporter, I never thought brute-force connexionist approach could do. I am now very cautious before saying a task can't be done by DL because it requires "understanding".

These approaches discover concepts and the relationship between them, and use that in their tasks. It is not far-fetched to say that there is some kind of understanding there.

For now we have trained it to generate fake text and basically made a master bullshitter, but I have no doubt that it can easily extract meaning and intent from text.
I imagine Google takes business from lots of places and people that are unsavory to some. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Seems like you guys should take a look at Brazil as a cautionary tale for what happens when these miracle treatments are adopted by politically inclined doctors and sold to the masses as the magical solution.
Looks pretty cool. I feel like I would be tempted to point people towards this rather than anaconda if they're just going to dip their toes into the python world.
Reference needed for (in most places).

I always heard most cattle is fed grain and have no access to pasture.
There was an absurd rush to report that ivermectin is bad that resulted in a pretty bad breakdown of the fact checking process. A lot of semi-adjacent facts and statements got merged. A hospital is full and a hospital treated someone for overdose became all the hospitals are filled with overdose victims.

(I think eating horse paste is dumb, but that doesn't excuse rolling stone lying about the consequences of doing so.)
Explains my experience with GCP...