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That's mainly googles fault. Xposed still lives on somewhat with the Riru project, but even a rooted phone without any mods will fail securitynet checks today, rendering it useless for most consumers that would have been willing to do the process before. With every android version things become less modular and less moddable, so the community shrinks as a consequence.
> Because two drinks in I get melancholic, three I start crying, at night I have nightmares and sleep lightly or not at all, and the next day I’m depressed or sick or both

> Because drinking makes me want to smoke cigarettes; it makes me accept (but not like) bad food and bad sex

> Because it’s an expensive way to make myself unhealthy, sad, and fat, and to embarrass myself

All of those seem like her personal issues, not alcohol's.
Uh, okay. People like John Carmack (programmer) have proven you wrong.
Most compilers don't have to worry about registers nowadays, since they compile to LLVM or C.
My team is currently leading the gocoder bomberland competition. I wrote a very very long thread in their discord (help channel) about all the RL AI stuff I tried and how things failed and what finally worked in the end. (Some people are participating as part of their university studies, so they asked for help on how to get started).

https://discord.gg/NkfgvRN

Even for a seemingly "simple" game like Bomberman, tabular reinforcent learning isn't going to work. I tried it with a huge table with 1000+ states and 1mio+ transitions but it still couldn't capture the complexity of that game. Plus you can mathematically show that the value estimates aren't going to converge, due to exploding variance.

In short, I believe you'll need serious research to go from the current "state of the art" in RL AI to something that is remotely tolerable in a AAA video game. But that sounds like a interesting idea, so maybe you should get your feet wet by building a small RL AI for Bomberman yourself, so that you know how things work. I have replays and instructions for that in the discord too, search keywords "gocoder-bomberland-dataset" and "behavioral cloning".
There are several options (including my domain host) that seem very attractive. Shockingly so is iCloud. My only iCloud issue (and I have ZERO Apple products) is that I can't find a way to mount the storage on Linux. If I could do that, it's what I'll choose.

For the record, I don't think I trust Apple either - but nowadays they're clearly less evil than the big G. Heck, I'm thinking of trying out the first iPhone I'll have used since 2010. That's my level of upset.
"If you spend 10% less on birthday presents for your children, will that make them love you 10% less? How can you justify spending this much on presents?"
I don't have sources that I'm willing to look up, but no, not really. Trickle down economics doesn't work like promised.
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https://philip.greenspun.com/humor/media-lab.html

>Generation of Bits

>Tales of shame and degradation in the Big Idea Lab

>by Hunter S. Negroponte

[...]

>The Big Lie

>Media Lab critics (there have been a few) have occasionally questioned the practical application of our work. Well, have you heard about the Holographic Television? No longer a device found only in the back of comic books, we've actually made this sucker work. An honest-to-god motion-picture hologram, produced in the Media Lab basement on a 2000 pound holography table by computers, lasers and mirrors spinning at 30,000 RPM. It's real! It works! Life Magazine even came in to photograph it in action (of course, they had to fill the room with smoke so the lasers would show up on film). Practical application? Sure, it requires a 2000 pound air-suspended rock table and a Connection Machine II to run, but hell, everyone knows the price of computing power and 2000 pound rock tables is cut in half every year. My point, however, is more mundane: we have created a demo literally from smoke and mirrors, and the Corporate World bought it. Even my good friend Penn (or ``Penn,'' as I call him) Jillette would be proud.

>In fact, I'm a few points up on Penn. You may have heard of the Interactive Narrative work that is proceeding in the lab. Folks, I'll be honest with you for a moment. I know as well as you do that it's a stinking load of horseshit. Roger Ebert said ``Six thousand years ago sitting around a campfire a storyteller could have stopped at any time and asked his audience how they wanted the story to come out. But he didn't because that would have ruined the story.'' You think Hollywood would have learned this lesson from the monster ``success'' that Clue, the Movie enjoyed several years ago. But no! I've repackaged the ``Choose your own Adventure'' novels of childhood as Digital Information SuperHighway Yadda Yadda crap, and again, they bought it! Sony right this minute is building an interactive movie theater, with buttons the audience can push to amuse themselves as the story progresses. Dance for me, Corporate America! I'm SHIT-HOT!

>Why, just the other day I listened to a member of my staff explain to potential sponsors that we had spent \$US 4,000,000 of Japanese sponsor dollars to construct a widescreen version of ``I Love Lucy'' from the original source. And HE SAID IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE! CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THAT? Boy, I bet those Nips wish they had their money back now! Earthquake? No, we can't do much to rebuild your city, but we SURE AS HELL can give you a 1.66:1 cut of Lucy to fit all those busted HDTVs of yours! HA HA HA!

[...]
> Blender is such an amazing open source tool. It used to have a reputation (along with GIMP) of having a steep learning curve, but that is definitely no longer true. They recently (v2.8) did a major UI/UX overhaul and its now very easy to use.

Blender as a professional tool till has a steep learning curve, as all professional tools have. This is not a negative at all, as some has been led to believe.

There is a difference in "Hard to master" VS "Hard to get started with". GIMP is both at the time, and Blender used to be the same, but now Blender is easier to get started with than before, but as with any professional tool, it's still hard to master as the area is difficult (3D modelling, animation, simulations and more), not because the tool itself. Luckily, mastering 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, Cinema4D or any other 3D suite makes it easy to master the others, as it's mostly the UI/UX that is different between them, not the concepts themselves.

> I have an un-related hobby where I often have to edit video. In the past I've used iMovie just because it comes on my machine, but I've been meaning to try out Blender. I've heard some good things about its editing capabilities.

You're probably better off using something else unless you're using Blender heavily in your process already. It's nice that the UX of general Blender translates to the video editor so when you're deep into modelling and just need some quick video edit it's fast to do it without too much context switching. But for larger video jobs, you're better off using a dedicated video editing tool like Resolve, as it's still miles ahead of the competition.
Australia's online account takeover powers now in use
Hey, I am the author of the article. Thanks for the buzz here, it's amazing!

I just published on Hackernoon for the non-Medium members: https://hackernoon.com/about/thedevopsguy.

Also, you can find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_devops_guy and Discord: https://discord.gg/FKuAky4K8M
I disagree profoundly. You say that it wasn't a war because Israel didn't lose too many people? Perhaps the aggressor should have thought about that before starting a war. Israel put a lot of effort in defending itself, so your premise isn't even correct. It is a perverse rationalization that doesn't even warrant a serious response.

Frame it as colonial as you wish, the fact is a systematic prosecution of Jews in almost all surrounding countries. That was never caught up upon. Maybe start now. It would have been better to start yesterday, but it is never too late.
So the basis for determining whether a group is a race is the thoughts and actions of some psychotic meth-addicted tyrants?

It's a belief system, a way of thinking, just because some lunatic decide to persecute anyone blood related to someone with a certain belief system or who thinks a certain way doesn't make it a race.

If someone want to exterminate what he decides to call the Scientologist race and anyone related to them, does that mean it suddenly becomes a race?

And Jews believe it only gets inherited through the mother, that's not how race works. A biracial man with a black father and a white mother is just as white or just as black than a biracial man with a white father.
It's Alive, It's Alive
Google was able to provide the service before, now they patched it out. So clearly it is not a question of ability to gracefully degrade but of willingness.
Do most people function like that in your honest opinion? Do you?
Try searching for "waveform collapse". It's a brilliant technique for creating 3D maps based on 2D tiles by stitching together meshes from a library of predefined shapes. It's how many procedural games generate their levels.
Most of the times "fact" wars or "culture" wars are just covert interest wars. Just ask yourself who benefits and how, pull from the string, and most "facts" will just dissolve on a carefully crafted narrative that has nothing to do with the truth and a lot to do with gaining or not losing some type of power.
Sigh. How often do we have to go through these wars? My only response to governments that insist citizen's communications be transparent and open is "you first".

Didn't think so.
Does it really matter for 99% of us who are just working class people.
If Singapore can be a tax heaven and the profits are distributed more in the public sector i'm all for it.
Europe: Tank Tourism
>Nursing homes and care facilities mainly exist to drain the assets of the elderly and then get them on medicaid until they die

In some countries, elderly care facilities are being run by mob like organizations, as they are insanely profitable, draining the elders, their children and the government of funds simultaneously, while throwing PR to look like saints. Insane.

It's crazy, and I assume this business will boom further in the west with our ever increasing aging population. It'll be the new gold rush if it isn't there already.
Maybe he does both. I certainly do. I choose to use Smile because I can give 0.5% of my Amazon purchases to my chosen charity with no extra charge to myself. I also give a regular monthly donation; I know that the smile donations help them a lot.

I don't have the Amazon app though; I just use the website.
I would use JWT restricted to a specific algorithm.. or..

Use something like GCP service-accounts. So require that the client provides a service account ID that they control, and that the requests are authenticated with an id_token from the given service account, and audience set to your service.

That way you won't need to exchange secrets or keys, and consumer can delegate permissions within their organization.

I'm pretty sure AWS IAM has similar mechanisms for delegating access.

If based outside the cloud it doesn't add much for your customer, but if you customer is in the cloud they won't have to manage secrets.

Downside is vendor lock-in, of course, but supporting multiple cloud vendors wouldn't be hard.

Maybe not the most idealistic solution, but very pragmatic -- especially if your customer is in a cloud already.

disclaimer: I work for Google (not GCP), these are my personal views.
Well, this one supports the phosphoric acid bad thing, but not the carbonated being bad idea.
I don't know why, but I love Mapy.cz. Someone recommended it to me when I was hiking in eastern europe, and I use it daily for hiking and biking. I don't own a car but I occasionally also use it when I have rented or borrowed one and it works fine.
I thought this when I was younger too. Now I hate seeing the meme "code is the easy part". There are, of course, other hard parts too but to trivialize coding is silly.
Using twitter, a proprietary, non e2e encrypted, for profit platform with an history of political meddling and censorship to organize social change seems a dangerous bet to me.

This is basically hoping that:

- they are willing to play nice with you

- they won't get pressured into not playing nice with you

- nobody will use technical means to extract things from them

Meanwhile, while taking this bet, those people are creating a gigantic data graph of persons, backed by detailed twitter tracking, all enriched by tons of evidences of their action, thinking and desired in the form of messages.

So if the big guys want to hit them after that, they can grab this juicy data set and have a blast.
He is a very boring PM, and lacking ambition of his father. Singapore under him is in "maintenance only mode."
> Remember that the NodeJS runtime guarantees the setting of no environment variables. The NODE_ENV variable is simply a convention that was started by express.

You're right that the runtime itself doesn't guarantee any env vars. I'm not sure who used it first, but npm also sets NODE_ENV (and some other env vars I think) in its different lifecycles, depending on if you provide the --production/--no-production flag when running it. But not sure if that came after or before express started using it.
State of the Game: Current Progress – Rooms and Encounters
Easy. The insidious infiltration of advertising and marketing in nearly every aspect of your life. Behind every purchase you make, there's money changing hands between the seller and the person who nudged your hand just a little bit to the left. You're not in control of where you spend your money. Don't notice it? That's the point.
Ah yes, in terms of number of PhDs you can chuck out, fair enough.
I think you could have summarized all of that into ...

I'm working on private AR post-it notes that you can stick anywhere.

... which sounds like a great idea. But with your links and sections and stuff, that comment comes off (to me) a bit as trying too hard.
Honestly before the 2.8 I would have agreed that there was a little bit too much friction but now I think they strike the right balance and I really, really hope they never again change the UI except for minor tweaks.

Easy to use and intuitive should not always be the most important goal. Productivity and not breaking existing users work flow are also very underrated aspects.

I think the right comparison would be vim. Absolutely horrible UI, super difficult to use. The first few weeks will be pain but once you get over the hurdle, it is an absolute bliss.

For me blender feels similar. It took me multiple failed attempts before I got it but now any other 3d editing software feels really annoying and I will deeply miss my blender hotkeys.

Now of course there are indeed some actual UI problems with blender. It is a huge software so some parts have not seen much love for a long time and really need improvement. Some workflows are really annoying.

Generally though I would say, just take the bitter pill. The learning curve is steep at first but it is worth it. So yeah the bicycle might lack a seat but it is much more lightweight and reliable, sometimes it is the best tool for the job.
A simple math puzzle inspired by wordle!

Today's puzzle took me 4 guesses even though I added the solution yesterday haha
But what you believe alters reality, there’s a feedback loop involved.

I get your point that the color of your first car won’t change, but is there even an objective color to that car? My dad is colorblind and sees some colors differently than me. What’s the real one? If the numbers were reversed and the majority of population perceived as colorblind people do while I would be the minority, would that change the color of the car?

I bet you’d say of course not because we can, say, measure the wavelength of the light deflected off the car at noon and agree on a color name based on the result. And I agree with that. But still, the color as perceived by someone can change reality. Just imagine a command such as “follow the red car” and whether the person carrying out the command is colorblind or not.

Of course, there are real-life examples where the collective perception of reality ends up changing the actual reality and that are far more concerning than a car’s color (enough people believing something has led to wars, stonings, etc)
I can't say I'm envious of a person who risked destroying their own financial life going all in on a ponzi scheme and lucked into being at the top, the same way I'm not envious of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.
Tries to, but it too is flawed; misinterpretation of numbers, falsifying of numbers, publishing papers as a means to inflate one's own ego / CV, not publishing studies that don't look positive, and of course, companies and industries funding studies into the positive parts of their 'thing', see for example the campaign against 'fat' in the eighties (funded by the grain and sugar industries), being replaced with the campaign against sugar and carbs in the past two or so decades.

I'm sure all of those studies had merit, had adequate numbers, were peer reviewed and everything... but they were still made with an Agenda, and worse, picked up by the mainstream media so that they could push lifestyle advice, diets, and promote one category of products over another.

The "Truth" is in the middle, of course, and to make a completely opinion based and unscientific statement, too much of anything / overconsumption is a bad thing, but that's too vague a statement or advice; people like being told "avoid doing / eating this" and "do / eat that instead", sticking to simple rules as a lifestyle choice.
It's worth pointing out that OpenStreetMap has Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook and many other corporate contributors and they are contributing huge amounts of data, all the time, everywhere.

"Apple Maps, is by far the most prolific current corporate editor and was responsible for almost 80% of all edits to pre-existing roads in 2018."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstree...
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary...

Openstreetmap has never been volunteer only, but to be fair its only in the last decade that we've seen this change.
Yes I would say WIFI 7 falls under irresponsible technology.
I find myself agreeing with the author. We are regressing towards curated bookmarks. I actually changed my settings to show the bookmarks bar (again) in Chrome and Safari. Search engines, especially Google, are not the panacea they were 10 years ago.

My optimist side tells me we will have a revival of bookmarks in the mobile browsers too (now they are way too hidden). My pessimist side tells me Google will fight this trend to the user's detriment.
UK civil service was actually modelled after Chinese one after missionaries brought news of how powerful, and well oiled Chinese bureaucratic machine was in comparison to contemporary British one.
constant propagation is the standard way to solve soduku.
That's awesome. Really impressive. Is he a good PM?

My country's current PM is a school teacher but unfortunately doesn't seem to bring any of the good traits associated with that to the country. The last PM (and who will be PM again soon) was a doctor. Unfortunately he was is just a media/attention addict who won't tackle any big issues like housing costs or homelessness.
That explains why everytime I turn it off, it later turns on automatically. So shady.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/08/mozilla-firefox-goo...

Well. Seems that it cannot be ruled out.
Thank you for once again proving the point which you keep missing: you have to give `go doc` a path to a module, which means you have to know where the symbol you’re looking up lives.

Which has nothing to do with the article, or my comments. The entire issue of the comment is that Eli has a symbol whose origin they don’t know. Where the symbol comes from is 75% of the question.

Of course if you want the documentation of a symbol whose full qualification you know `go doc` gives you that, that’s what I wrote above.

But it’s not TFA’s problem, and thus not the problem anyone’s trying to solve here.
The code check shows in their data tables that some variations were 10% or even 25% from the values in Report 9. These are not "small variations", nor would it matter even if they were because it is not OK to present bugs as unimportant measurement noise.

The team's claim that you only need to run it once because the variability was well characterized in the past is also nonsense. They were constantly changing the model. Even if they thought they understood the variance in the output in the past (which they didn't), it was invalidated the moment they changed the model to reflect new data and ideas.

Look, you're trying to justify this without seeming to realize that this is Hacker News. It's a site read mostly by programmers. This team demanded and got incredibly destructive policies on the back of this model, which is garbage. It's the sort of code quality that got Toyota found guilty in court of severe negligence. The fact that academics apparently struggle to understand how serious this is, is by far a faster and better creator of anti-science narratives than anything any blogger could ever write.
For me audit institutions are here to provide to citizens a measurement of the effective policies in place vs what politicians are saying they're doing.

For example page 10 of the report shows that environment taxes have decreased in the past few years (as a share of all taxes) and labour taxes have increased, which is probably not what we want.
Fortunately tornado cash is already on L2, I think even on every single bigger L2.

Not with the same volume as on mainnet, but still gradually increasing.
AptX Voice does, yes. But Apple doesn't like paying Qualcomm licensing money.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Admitting I don't know much about Singapore.
Where a Thousand Digital Eyes Keep Watch over the Elderly
That's okay. I didn't think you were being serious so that makes us even.
I did actually look up the manual that's in the User Guide menu in the infotainment system and there is no mention of how to operate those things ...
> But we do see that the adoption of ubiquitous encryption across more and more platforms will have serious and real implications for safety, particularly around the proliferation of child abuse.

Children again, hm? At least be creative for once. Encryption protects kids from potential abusers. Abuse overwhelmingly happens in the direct vicinity. Funding schools that take a closer look would even provide many other benefits for kids.

What does proliferation of child abuse even mean? This is a ministry that is intentional dishonest or stupid.

Every time any ministry mentions arguments like this, I have the urge to further encrypt stuff. I hope many share that sentiment and react accordingly.
If you’re a dev or have access to devs then the ecosystem is exactly what you’re trying to avoid with few exceptions. You simply don’t gain anything over a solid web framework with decent CRUD editing on top, except familiarity.

It’s a malleable tool, but at some relatively early point you’re fighting against it more than you benefit from it over something like GP suggests. Just slows you down and erodes confidence.

WP is best if you have no or limited dev resources.
You need consent from the users - how did this pass compliance?