Yes, the value replacement is there. And yes, tax dollars help "pay" for services.

What I mean by "physical transfer" is literally that if you mailed a brick of cash to the federal government, they would just burn it.

Taxation = money out of the system Money printing = money into the system

The difference causes inflation or deflation.

> either can't or couldn't (I haven't checked in a few years) open CSV files that start with a capital letter I.

It can't do this because it confuses such files with files in SYLK format, which was YET ANOTHER attempt to standardize spreadsheet data interchange, dating from the 80s.

No

Certainly much worse to burn a living planet, but even a hellhole like Venus is a uniquely beautiful and mysterious scientific wonderland.

It meets the tests of a tax: You can't opt out and the payee has a legal right to use the threat of violence against you in pursuit of payment.

> stimulant-based treatment of ADHD in childhood and adolescence does cause significant changes in brain structure. In a good way.

I've seen the literature showing evidence of reduced depression and suicide rates in adolescents who undergo long-term treatment with Ritalin and closely related drugs.

Are you aware of anything beyond that? Please cite the sources here so we can all learn. I have yet to see any conclusive evidence that the changes in brain structure and function are always 'good', and the previous citations I provided present evidence that counters your claim.

Can you point to a single instance of that happening where it was due to a false positive?

That’s pure fantasy. The system involves Apple reviewing any detected images.

Exactly. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/machiavellians-gulli...

If the two images looked the same, then the expected behaviour is a collision, so if collisions matter at all, it would only be for pictures that look different.

In general we do, because launching from west to east at the equator lets you use the Earth's rotation for a 465m/s speed boost. Launching the other direction means you need an extra 465m/s just to counteract the rotation you started out with. Polar orbits don't gain or lose much from the rotation since they're aimed over the planet's poles.

Which one is it? I found a “Tiny Habit” and an outdated “Tiny Habits” on App Store.

bspwm

See https://github.com/siduck76/dotfiles and https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad/issues/22#issuecomment-8138...

Seriously? You're using Donald Trump, who specialized in brand licensing and being a television character, as an equivalency to all the manufacturing engineers and supply chain specialists working to resolve the problems created by a global pandemic that's killed millions of people?

The amount of disrespect to highly skilled professionals in this thread working like crazy to respond to a massive exogenous shock, and then following it up with the idea that "well, the government should fix it" with no specific idea of how exactly, the government would fix it, is mind-bending.

Because this product doesn’t seem to be doing anything different and the only way they can get buyers it is to try to proclaim that the service is made specifically for “insert underserved group here”.

It’s a common trend with startups being accepted into YC nowadays.

Yes I was about to say the same thing. Hash collisions are an extra concern about what apple is doing, but even if they were as collision free as cryptographic hashes, that would not make the invasion of privacy OK. The technical discussion is something that apple can easily parry and is the wrong framing of this debate.

What I don't like about this article (besides the very obvious conclusions that it starts out with and then hits you over the head with) is that it doesn't attempt to reach any wikipedia mod or reviewer for a comment. It's only the author's side and the author's narrative. Also, correlation does not imply causation. The fact that women's pages get deleted more often doesn't mean that there is a gender bias against women.

Linking accounts is optional, and combined cross account data is used when they are linked. Otherwise, subsets of the apps may or may not "know" about the link between your accounts via your phone number, email address, or access patterns.

Wall St in general and Jack Welch in particular embraced the “avoid owning anything” at any cost model to juice the books.

Great point. A core cause of the endless wars in the middle east is people pushed into the truly evil British model of a minority in power over a weaker but larger other party. I get that there are lots of existing problems but doing this in countries on purpose is unforgivable.

My own country (the us) fucks things up too of course - Afghanistan being the latest example, but we have our own long list of shame (Iraq, many countries in south and central America...).

The damage is already done by the time it gets to the point of devices being confiscated.

>It was suggesting that we very temporarily give special treatment to a very small consumer of chips that has an outsized impact on production rate, in the midst of a global chip shortage.

Why would we do that if the fabs themselves don't think it is worth paying their equipment manufacturers enough to afford their own chips?

Giving "special treatment" is a price control. It is forcing a transaction that otherwise wouldn't settle at that price.

>* These were all approved at the time.

With conditions Fb broke.

It's not changing the format, that's the entire point. It's including a separate, optional, metadata file. Systems that implement the metadata can take advantage; everything else is exactly the same as it always has been.

Ha, ha. I also thought we were talking about Dynamically Loaded Libraries and I couldn't remember a time when Windows would show me how many DLLs I had loaded or stop me with, "Sorry, too many DLLs loaded". :P

That's certainly one view, but it's not my view. If people don't feel safe participating today on some topic that haters have google alerts set up for, then those future archives will be heavily biased in favor of content that's acceptable to the haters of that time. Sounds like a great way to ensure the spread of hate across social generations to me.

Bezos has said repeatedly that nobody is the tide itself. You capture opportunity not by swimming to the tide but by getting in place before it comes.

To be clear, AMP pages are often the same size as regular webpages. Often they can be much much heavier.

Probably Get that Job at Google for giving me some idea of things I should study, as a self-taught dev working in a tiny company by myself, if I wanted to play in the big leagues. Not as Google specific as the title suggests.

Single file with an open standard binary format based on Protobuf or CapnProto. This idea of using text files by default is ancient Unix cruft. Use binary formats unless you have a damn good reason not to, always, and release open-source tools for reading and processing files in your format. Then you can do some semblance of enforcing structure and types on your data.

At least you seem happy about that.

> All it takes is a wiretap warrant and Apple would have to scan on-device pictures and iMessages for whatever the wiretap says.

This is total and utter bullshit. It is a complete misunderstanding of how the system works.

If you and your family think this is true, then of course you are alarmed.

> Now, my 8 year old Macbook Air is still more or less as functional and useful as it was when I got it.

This is my frustration with Apple's policy of dropping support for hardware in MacOS. It made sense in the 90's to upgrade every 2-3 years because you got 1.5-3x more performance each time. So 6 year old hardware was almost an order of magnitude less capable.

Fast-forwarding to today, a "legacy" 10 year old ("Mid-2011") MacBook Pro supports just as much memory (16GB) as Apple's current M1 offerings. The M1 does put up some very impressive numbers on the single-thread CPU front, but that's because we've gotten used to such small progress every year--it's only about 2x the speed of the 2011 MBP for single thread tasks.

I'd also like to know.

Anonymity was mixed.

Definitely pretty much everyone was anonymous on warez boards and the like. On the other hand, a lot of local BBSs actually had something of a local community in real life as well. And the people accessing Usenet from corporate and academic accounts often used their name and affiliation.

ImageNet is a very well-known data set. Are we sure apple didn't test on it when designing this algorithm?

Related: LLVM bitcode modified for sandboxed untrusted code execution, recently deprecated in Chromium: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/introduction-to-p...

One of the problems with binary classifiers is that you can't simultaneously make low errors in both directions. That's not "an institutional failure", that's practically a law of nature. You have to live with the fact that sometimes you're wrong. What errors to make is the core of the feud between deletionists and inclusionists.

Interesting point. I think it has two sides to it:

1. I started using Spacemacs which got me into using Emacs(mainly for org mode in the beginning). I'm not capable of building an emacs config from scratch(nor do I care).

2. In Vim though I already have my vim config and have been customizing it. When I try to use these neovim distributions, they're very far off how I configured my vim and I have no idea how to reconcile these two things.

I feel like once you are capable enough to configure it on your own, you won't really be happy with these things, but neovim is also almost like the ever changing javascript ecosystem. There are new completion engines coming out every day, new file trees, etc. etc. I don't feel like changing to the next best lsp engine every 6 months.

Pretty much everyone understands that computer chips are needed for everything these days though.

The population can relate just fine. It's just there's no one rich and powerful who wants to make the investment that is making it an issue.

Any child of the Cold War thinks of the "Stasi" as an organization dedicated to cataloging every bit of information about everyone and using it to harm any detractors of the State. Do the same thing and make it publicly available for anyone to harm anyone whatsoever, and you have Google.

I believe for most people, the answer is: routine. Humans need it.

Was wondering the same

Part of the reason fabs are spread out is capitalism: if you manufacture the part in the country, you don't pay import taxes (e.g., Intel's Ireland fab debacle).

Another part is lax environmental laws. Hillsboro Oregon is embroiled in a suit with Intel where Intel dumped 100x the fluorine into the air that they claimed when D1X was first pitched. Don't need to worry about that stuff in Asia (for now).

Also, lead time. The x-ray litho machines take years to build and test. There are only two companies that make Intel's testers, and the lead time is years. So a "quick fix" isn't possible.

Speaking opinion: in the long term, it is mostly rich people trying to get richer that caused this. If greedy CEOs and shareholders would just be humans for once and think about the future we wouldn't have this trainwreck. That ain't ever gonna happen.

And by sheer coincidence, I very recently learnt on a HN linked article on big-endian and little-endianness that these terms come from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift [0], where Lilliput and Blefuscu wage war over which end should be cracked first when eating a hard-boiled egg:

> The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions ... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu.

This seems like a perfect fictional example of the Narcissism of Small Differences, published more than a century before the birth of Sigmund Freud!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#Satirica...

Excel does a fairly bad job when moving data between two computers that aren't configured the same way, which kind of defeats the purpose of using a data interchange format.

Where I work we have offices in the US, and in Europe where installing a localized version of windows will swap ',' and '.' when used as the group and decimal separator. Excel when loading a value 100,002 in the US will see one hundred thousand and two, in some parts of Europe it will see one hundred and 2 thousandths.

Character set handing can be just as bad, there is no good way to get Excel to auto open a CSV file as UTF-8 that won't break every other CSV parser in existence. The only cross platform option is ASCII. Excel will happily load your local OS encoding, likely some variant of ISO-8859, but any other encoding requires jumping through hoops.

EUV LLC was already heavily funded by DARPA in the 90s and is why we are able to have export restrictions on ASML machines used by TSMC for the latest EUV nodes etc.

It doesn’t matter if there are collisions if the two images don’t actually look the same. Do people honestly believe a single CSAM flag from an “innocent” image is going to result in someone going to prison in America?

PhotoDNA has existed for over a decade years doing the same thing with no instances that I have heard of.

If some corrupt government wants to get you they don’t need this. They can just unilaterally say you’ve done something bad without evidence and imprisonment you. It happens all the time. It’s even happened in America. Just look up DNA exonerations - people have had DNA on the scene that literally proves their innocence and they’re still locked up.

Luckily for me I'm not an admin on wikipedia, so I don't have to decide whose work is notable enough to justify a page. That's their problem.

And it's fine for them to get heat when they make bad decisions, or when people notice that those decisions are systematically biased. I don't have to solve the problem to say it's bad.