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I'm still annoyed that Google bowed down to them in their litigation settlement. Getty wanted have their cake and eat it too, by having Google surface the images, but not really surface the images. Google should have treated it like any other DMCA copyright infringement case and removed Getty images from their index. It would have allowed Google users to use more free images, and Getty would have no copyright claim.

Instead Google removed their direct image button, frustrating all users of their platform.

I started using DDG after Google settled the lawsuit with Getty Images. The "view image" button is incredible handy.

You could also poll the client to see what threads they're reading. You could add this to an engagement score of some sort.

On a page with a long list, you add this score to all the items on it they're reading

Removing Flash from the web was done with good intentions. It was a propitiatory system plagued with security holes. Instead of replacing it with similarly capable open standards, we've got a propitiatory Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), flaky HTML5 calls that differ between browsers, and webassembly.

It's a shame that HTML5 never really reached the ability of flash. And it's also a shame that Adobe didn't simply release the swf spec.

This is great. Frankly ctrl-r is almost useless. I've never had it find the command I want, because if I can remember enough of the command to find it, I can just write the whole line myself. And if it was a black magic command I'll wind up digging through log files because I won't be able to remember enough of it to find it.

Taking away the the struggle to live is great for the human psyche. There's plenty of evidence that being in poverty creates a mental trap. When you're worrying about the roof over your head or food on the table, you're less concerned about your career or education. There's also the damaging long term mental affects of poverty such as impulsive buying, and the health effects such as poor diet, diabetes and obesity.

The biggest issue with UBI is mass unemployment. With ML threatening to take 40% of all jobs in the future it will be the perfect storm. It would create a massive, permanent, underclass. With no way to introduce capital into an economic system via labor, the only people able to make money will be landlords and business owners. It will be our current societal issues, only amplified to the next extreme. Landlords and business owners will see increasing UBI as dangerous, as buying land or creating a new company would be a threat. So they'll do their best to keep UBI at the level of being able to live, and not grow.

The difference is that automation is now targeting skilled, social, and technical work. Traditionally they've been aspirational fields of work due to their resilience. Limiting capacity to enter these fields is only going accelerate the destruction of the middle class.

Completely agree. The developer account is a great way to disincentive malicious apps from being made. I would accept the following for not supporting MacOS:

* lack of vulkan support * porting code to the apple SDK * cost/benefit for small indie titles

pointing out how many people logged bugs doesn't mean that the OS is buggy. it simply means you've written shitty code. Another odd point with OP is that he's made the effort to start supporting it. Dropping support is always more expensive than simply fixing some issues, as you've already made the investment.

Most developers seem to have rational decisions behind their support. This post seems like they're jumping on the Apple hate bandwagon.

Have you thought about making the data distributed and p2p? that way it's more resilient. Reddit at one stage was also minimalist and open source

very interesting, thanks!

Experiments with mice have shown that if you shock mice at certain times during sleep, their fear conditioning will change. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/26/5/527/2707886 This seems to indicate that sleep acts like an unsupervised learning reinforcer.

Sleep might be required for a certain level of consciousness.

> that these craft are extra terrestrial.

I'd say it's more likely there are other intelligent earthbound beings rather than from outer space. It's called the Silurian hypothesis. There have been several extinction events here on earth which mirror our current one caused by humans. Evidence of us on earth disappears surprisingly quickly: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...

Here's a 2019 APA study that suggests that technology, and digital media use, and sleep disturbance may play in mood disorder.

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/abn-abn0000410.pd...

Seems like a move to prevent RISC-V from gaining a foothold in the server market. Recently there's a potential for server market upset; with trade wars, Intel struggling with die shrinks, ML and custom silicon demands (see FPGA), and recent x86 security flaws. Large players will be looking at optimizing how their infrastructure is set up.

It's a good move on behalf of IBM. But it might be a bit too late. If you were a company with a demand for custom silicon, you'd probably choose RISC-V as they already have experienced companies willing to provide support and services to meet your needs. With POWER your choices will be limited.

Also cosmonauts smuggled Armenian cognac during Salyut 7. This was just before the dry laws of Soviet Union, when they started cracking down on drinking on the job.

Leaking a bit of code will unlikely cause a problem, but the guns that can backfire are some of the cert checkers and SAML validators.

These changes are very welcome, but in my opinion are too little too late. Qt has missed the boat with the current developer mindset. While I want Qt to 'win', as the end result is superior to say an electron app, most developers are willing to sacrifice usability and add bloat by using electron. Or simply paint them selves into a corner with a native SDK.

Qt has a massive uphill battle to try and stay relevant. Like it or not, there's a reason why electron apps and native ui sdks become the zeitgeist. While reusability is often cited as the main reason why electron has become the cross platform defacto, there's a lot more to it than that.

Personally, the difference between using electron and Qt is black and white. Looking at setting up alone, With Qt you have to struggle to compile a massive library which inevitably won't work. After sinking hours into compiling it, you're confronted with a unknown markup language and toolchain just to get a window displaying. And the documentation is incomplete, and to top it all off the minor versioning differences will cause your app to break in spectacular ways. Compare this to electron, where everything just works out the box, and with npm you have every single library you could ever think of. Microsoft and Apple roll out the red carpet for developers to make ui development super easy, so making two apps with a shared library is often just as tempting.

The way I'd try and save qt would be to make a react-native binding a first class citizen and ditch QML/js engines. I'd also remove the custom tool chains and release extensions for VSCode/Atom that outputted jsx that could get interoperated by a virtual dom. developers would kill for that.

N7+ in early 2020 and 5nm by end of 2020 is pretty impressive. Intel should be worried.

This article highlights a massive issue with the field of philosophy in which there's a disconnect between advancements in neuroimaging analysis and metaphysics. The author claims that physical properties define "nothing at all". Yet what they tell are extremely valuable in emulating these systems and what they can teach us with the exploding fields of ML and AI. In the last decade big improvements have been made in the field neuroimaging. Trying to put the pieces together from neuroscience and emulation to lessons learnt is hard, but possible.

There's a worrying trend that's becoming more apparent in regards to the hard problem of consciousness. New neuroimaging analysis techniques indicates that when you take away individual functional elements of how the brain, we're left not much at all. At what point does a series of embedded components become a computer? At what point does a series of neural networks become conscious?

This is going to be an issue we're going to have to address now. Where is the line of conscious for an individual to make a legal choice? Think of someone wanting assisted suicide, in which they're often in a debilitated state. A call is going needed to be made if they're sentient enough. A tough call given it carries the massive burden. If we continue improving ML and AI we're going to have to make the call from the other end as well.

This is what happens when you lose a BDFL. While things become more "democratic", you lose the vision and start trying to make everyone happy.

I came to the same conclusion after reading his book. His book is pretty terrible.

His viewpoint (while interesting) was not very grounded at all. Simply because agriculture requires more work doesn't mean it's inferior to hunting. Try hunting an antelope if you've got a sprained ankle.

Another perspective that irked me was his blind faith that modern society is built purely conceptual ideas. Citing empires, car brands, and money. In reality all these things work because they provide practical benefits. Few people or groups go out of their way to work purely on ideological bases, and those who do, do so on a rational philosophy. Let alone as soon as it becomes impracticable (See Maslow's hierarchy of needs).

>It’s my own shortcoming

Physiologically, there's comfort in knowing that your community and government has your back. Increased depression rates, mental health issues rising, and social isolation is a result of living in a Neo-liberal multicultural society. Living in this society where your personal value is based from how much you earn gives arise to a vapid nihilistic existence. When your government doesn't back its residents and its culture, and is forced to belong to everyone to appease international corporations. You can't even feel loyal to organizations that once paid you, or your country you grew up in.

This might sound like a hard left wing or right wing rant. But a feeling of belonging (either to companies, nations, or relgion) is important for many people. This is disappearing from western society.

> since most of the information published by the Soviet authorities was intentionally incorrect or misleading

There's also the opposite - cold war era propaganda trying to make the Russians seem backwards and primitive. The Soviet Union at the time was also opening up through glasnost.

On top of this, fossil fuel companies had a lot to gain through scaremongering around nuclear energy. It worked as very well as almost all planned nuclear power plants were mothballed.

Products that serve ads and sell your user data should be free, see Facebook or Google Search.

If I fork out money for a product, I expect to do what is says it does. To have Windows auto update and serve ads in the start bar or lock screen is just too much

When the web started to mature, seeing the MSM lose control of the narrative was a breath of fresh air. However the average person started to understand and use the web, so did sponsored entities and governments. After this there was a noticeable change of narrative on the web. Everything was polarizing, right and wrong with no middle ground.

I used to fully support direct democracy, but after seeing this I've changed my views.

I still use Netbeans as my daily driver, but it's been in a death spiral. Now it's the Apache graveyard and will never get modern features like SASS.

Of all the IDEs I've been dabbling with for a replacement, I'm still deciding on Visual Studio Code or PHPStorm.

netmarketshare collect data from their slim clientele base. A few years they had to modify their data using weighting to get inline with other websites. Other sites have more accurate data which will reflect browser usage more accurately. I recommend using wikimedia's data. It's one of the biggest sites that open up their usage to the public:

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

If you select all the browsers, you can see Firefox numbers are even more dire. going from 10% to 5% in the last 5 years.

I want to love Atom. I really do.

But it's been four years and they still havn't fixed jump to definition in PHP.

Visual Studio Code has this, out the box. And it works really well.

It looks like nuclear didn't grow as much as they were hoping. So Sellafield's parent company could take their earnings and dump the tax payer with the clean up cost. I won't be surprised if they put Sellafield into liquidation before they finish clean up.

It seems quite suspect to me.

Why is mcrypt listed as a future extension? it's removed in the latest PHP version and probably best to not even bother with