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> I really disagree with you. We have had a couple of dozen communist states, and every one of them has turned out bad. That's because communism is basically an unworkable system.

All of those have been Leninism or its descendants, which break strongly from Marxism. Starting with the required starting conditions.

> In fact, Marx claimed that capitalism in advanced economies has contradictions that would eventually lead to its being overthrown by the workers, but that has never happened.

It's happened in basically all of the countries that were capitalist at the time, where capitalism (that is, the 19th century system that Marx was pointing to) has been overthrown (largely, through democratic means) due to opposition from the working class and replaced with the modern mixed economy which retains some of the basic structures of capitalism, but many features of socialism applied to directly to mitigate the effects of capitalism which can critics from the time the system was named have targeted. (Many of those sytems even call themselves socialist, and the rest of them are labelled that way by their capitalist critics.)
I remember that I had a Synaptics driver on my old XPS laptop that allowed to customize three-fingers actions, so probably should be doable in other environments!
Thanks! I had no idea this was an options... any recommendations?
but it'll only take a second of your time /s
He was never an immigrant. He just came on a student visa, studied, then went back to Kenya.
Linus isn't _always_ right...
Once again: there is nobody in the world we couldn't direct this kind of "investigation" at. It's literally --- I mean literally in its original sense --- an investigation guided by Urban Dictionary. Did you not have 9th grade English class at your high school? I saw Lizzy Proctor speaking with the devil!
Didn't move there either for many of the same reasons :) . Nicer weather but otherwise most of the same issues
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Thanks. FWIW, GoG was not intended to be a trailing film. The target audience is people who have never interacted with homeless people beyond saying, "Sorry, can't help you." That obviously doesn't include anyone working at a homeless service.

While I was filming a number of my subjects did talk about what they called the "homeless industrial complex", and how it doesn't really care about getting people off the streets because that would put it out of business. I never found out how much truth there was to that, but if I were ever to take this subject back up again that is were I would probably start.
Binaural audio just allows changing the (virtual) audio source relative to the ears; the novelty would be to track their location, so that you can use the binaural audio to keep the sound coming for a fixed place while the user moves around.
They probably should have followed the PHP release pattern, which introduces breaking changes to the language in a more gradual way, over a couple of releases, instead of doing it in one big go.

On the other hand, the assumptions people have about the changes between Python 2 and 3 are probably bigger than they really are. I've started writing new code in P3 the last two years or so, and the only thing that still stumbles me from time to time is the parentheses around the `print` method.
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But if your data is structured in a semantically meaningful way, then your receiving program needs to understand those semantics. Maybe you could introduce new command line tools to refactor streams of data so as to adapt one program to another, but I can't see it being simpler and quicker (in terms of piping input from one place to another) than the current approach.

I do like the idea of a standard parser to avoid the ad-hoc implementation of parsers into everything.

Your last comment gives a hint at the real problem, which is people using command line hackery in 'permanent' solutions. It's duct tape. You don't build important system components out of duct tape. Well, you shouldn't, anyway.
Problem: current methods for training neural networks cannot learn continuously. Once they have been trained, they cannot easily learn new information. We propose a method to fix this problem. Our algorithm adds new neurons to the neural network which allows it to learn new information, while maintaining everything it already "knows".

I showed this to my father, a surgeon, and he said he understood it. But not the original abstract.
You can build an app that makes ICE sounds as you accelerate in your electric car.
It is, which is why the federal highway trust fund is broke.
If i'm not mistaken (I had the introductory class on Neural networks quite some years ago) this all started out of trying to simulate neurons in a manner.

Much so that one of the pioneers of this got discredited by other scientist that for some reason simply could not accept that these would work, and that same pioneer started to get his funding discredited and started believing in his opposition so much so that he sailed away to his death, some argue intentionally (as his life's work had been, even by his eyes, seen as useless).

Now, I'm having a hard time remembering the names of the people on that story, if someone knows who I'm talking about, please remind me of those
They don't switch to the Mac automatically. You have to select them in the audio menu.
Percentage wise very few desktop CPUs sell for $500.
The main problem I see with any alternatives is that ZIP is the only format that seems to work everywhere. On NIX-type systems you also have tar+gzip, and some Windows users have something that can open RAR files, but if you want to send an archive and know that the other party will be able to open it without hassle ZIP is the only way to go. Unfortunately this is impossible to change on any reasonable time scale (less than a decade) since everyone needs to have the archiving tools immediately to hand.
Are you saying that a 'cruel' winter is being deliberately cold?
Peoples' ears are all different. Apple's earbuds aren't comfortable for me, but they're the first choice for many people that I know. I can easily believe that the AirPods will be so comfortable that some subset of the population will forget they're in.
I have done a Windows Server, to Linux to AIX... it was only a matter of moving the "DATA" folder... and it worked perfectly each time...
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I haven't done work in the Bluetooth space for years now, but a big problem with audio streaming in the Bluetooth 1/2 days was that devices wouldn't reliably adjust their page and inquiry scan intervals (time the radio spends listening for connections and answering device discovery requests, rather than sending data).

The effective remaining bandwidth fell far short of what the default Bluetooth codec, SBC, required. SBC was already pretty low end, more like MPEG Layer-1 audio. Even so, for point to point streaming if the devices cooperated well there was enough bandwidth for fairly good audio quality. It's just that it was a crapshoot what any pair of devices would get you.

The other big issue is that there wasn't, at least at the time, any standardized method for synchronizing the audio sampling rates of the source and sink. This could have been achieved by slaving the audio PLL to the connection master's frequency hopping clock, which the slave has to follow to even maintain a connection, but there wasn't any requirement to do so. Plus it'd be a massive layer violation in the Bluetooth stack. We basically ran a software PLL on the sink side to try to match what the source was giving us, but packet retransmissions due to loss could gum up the timing. You could get a pitch-bending effect as a connection was starting up, or had just suffered a lot of loss.

I imagine they've sorted most of that out by now.
Sure, but here Spanish orthography is actually representative of the sound, whereas English orthography is a mess (plus English has more than 5 base vowel sounds to begin with).

No matter how you cut it, English's vowel phonology is much more complicated than Spanish or Japanese. One misconception that native English speakers have is they think their language is simple to pronounce, when it really isn't.
You are only right the USA has no unions for tech. In other industries unions are still there (public sector and manufacturing mostly). The USA has labor laws, and they are enforced. And they affect Silicon Valley worker lives daily. Non-competes are near-unenforceable in California because of California labor law. There was also a thread a while back about how CA law allows you to retain IP over side-projects unrelated to your employer's business, regardless of what your contract says.
Is it plausible a procesador like this to be used on new Xbox scorpio, later next year?
No, I think errata would be more appropriate; the gist of my comment was in support of the idea behind the paper, but it's disingenuous to pretend that the model works as well as described on that task.

It's also disingenuous to trivialize the difference as 1-3% - that difference is more than a third of the actual error rate (7.42% vs. 11.27%) assuming you're referring to [1]. True, the IMDB dataset isn't a very important one, but it's important to clarify when you've made a mistake, especially if your paper has been cited hundreds of times.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.5335v7.pdf
I don't think you are alone. It seems most people on HN live in hub cities and don't, understandably so, like the commute in the cities they live in. So this is a means to remove that pain point. It should also drastically lower accident rates which seems to not get as much attention. If you have a self driving car who should pay for the liability insurance and if it passes enough safety tests shouldn't the premium be much lower??

That being said I absolutely love the idea of self driving cars for my aging parents!
For example in the abstract: "adding new neurons to deep layers of artificial neural networks in order to facilitate their acquisition of novel information while preserving previously trained data representations"

Nobody talks like this. In my head I read this sentence and I have to translate it to "we add extra neurons to existing networks so they can learn new information while remembering everything it already knows".
The E3 xeons use the same silicon as the desktop ships, but they do enable ECC. Amusingly the cheaper E3s are often cheaper than desktop equivalents, but have hyper threading enabled. A few times I've managed an E3 based system (4-5 generations out so far) CPU cheaper than the similar I7. Often something like $270 vs $340.
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I mean TI's DLP-based picoprojectors that were supposed to be built into phones.
Another thing is that it's practically impossible for a non-chinese person to get citizenship or even permanent residency - even if you marry a chinese citizen. At the end of the day the Chinese government (and maybe its people as well) does not want foreigners living their long-term.
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They are moving at an exponential rate... before you know, we'll be at Angular 16.
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just do what you want to do the best you can do, and learn as you go. mistakes happen and you learn from them. There are plenty of academics who have moved to industry in your field, may be they can chime in. but you should just apply, and go from there.
Don't all of the "user firendly" linux distros do this too?
Beyond other suggestions there's things like http://insightdatascience.com/, which is specifically aimed at PhDs.
Really? I can think of at least a couple of good reasons it matters (i/o related).
> The USA has labor laws, and they are enforced

Some of them. Lots of programmers are misclassified as FLSA exempt when they don't meet the standards for such exemption, but because of lack of organization and because of the status signalling that goes with FLSA exemption, they rarely challenge this, so it's poorly enforced.
Maybe that decline was caused by a rise in e-cigarette usage?

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/i...
I'm not assuming that, I'm giving the model more options and letting it decide what is functionally important/non-spurious. It might take it longer, but I don't assume that.
The problem is people are saying that the new machines are not living up to Apple's estimate (of around 10h) on a charge. Apple's response is to spin this to be about the battery estimate indicator. Basically, they are insulting their more sophisticated users.
It's not all about the codecs. On my Sony MDR-1RBTs — which are admittedly a few years old at this point — you can hear the radio buzzing when there's nothing playing. I don't know if it's possible to design a pristine, noiseless set of Bluetooth headphones when there's just so little room in the earcups.
You're making me seem old I guess, but I've encountered this a bunch of times. This was often done as a way to add metadata to things that otherwise didn't have metadata or needed additional info. Typical use cases include music players, trackers, drawing programs, media viewers, and anything that scanned files for metadata (ex: BBS).

The SAUCE spec adds trailing bytes after the EOF mark for instance. I wrote a few SAUCE reader/writers embedded in various codebases (and will release a stand-alone good one some day soon).

Generally, a trick was that if you wanted some sort of metadata on a file, you could add it before the contents of the file (as in MKV allows ASCII at the start) or after the EOF marker. The latter made sure you didn't interfere with a lot of existing programs on various operating systems of the time, including but not limited to DOS, Windows, and CP/M. This trick still works for a lot of OSs or in other forms today, we just don't rely on markers for EOF as much so there are other methods, and people have started to bake metadata into specs.

As for the BBS scene, although SAUCE was used, for zips DIZ tended to be used more and was just packed into the archive and could be found using the internal TOC, or otherwise just uploaded separately.
In a very hand-wavy sense, yes. The same can be said of paths to food by ant colonies. The way that ANNs have been drawn as circles with arrows between them looks like a cartoon version of neurons and synapses, which is the origin of the "neural network" part. The timing of data from hidden node to hidden node, the activation functions, and the hidden node outputs have very little to do with biological neurons. ANNs have more in common with a CPU than a brain.
They didn't do anything wrong. But users are left with massive Python 2 codebases (certbot/letsencrypt, caldav-server/twisted, blender, maybe some OpenStack stuff and probably much more) that are very useful/essential to their users. What do you expect mere users to do? Invest massively in porting (adding test cases in the process where there don't exist any)? They will rather keep Python 2 around forever.
Being a pedestrian sharing space with moving autonomous cars is not a future I'm looking forward to, not one bit.

1. Pedestrian->driver observation and interaction are the primary factors in deciding what's safe.

2. Roads full of networked autonomous vehicles are a hack away from becoming hoards of hurtling tonnage.

In my opinion this is all a solution looking for a problem and we should know better than to make our roads so utterly hostile to our own kind.
'Hilarious' describes the claim higher up that Apple didn't do anything to see here because wireless headphones are $20.

In reality, the only thing close costs markedly more, not at MSRP but at real selling price.

There's a reality distortion field, but it's inverted.

Not hilarious, just tedious.
That's not a tone in the sense of how mandarin has them. A better approximation of tones in english is saying these phrases out loud:

"Yes!"
"Yes?"
"Yes..."
>A seemingly innocuous comment on my Facebook page managed to put me in serious trouble.

Given that, do you think there'll be issues with having this blog up?
Yeah, training tends to be sucktastic anyway. I used to have long discussions with people on homeschooling lists about the difference between training and education and how much of public school and college these days is training rather than education.

But your film makes a critical and surprising point that I strongly agree with: These are, first and foremost, people. We aren't some separate population. We come from the rest of the population, but our lives have fallen apart and one of the most problematic things is the way social ties get cut.

People with more normal lives tend to be oblivious to the social fabric that defines so much of their life and which buffers them against simply going off the rails when something negative happens. They don't see this difference between themselves and homeless individuals, yet the reinforce the isolation by the way they interact with the homeless (or don't interact at all -- effectively shunning them).

I was pleasantly surprised by the film. I think more people should see it.
With video (again). Since they had it in 2014 and then yanked it out.
Right. China is in the business of colonising other countries - not being colonised itself.
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Except you don't have to do that. If you need the full-screen camera, just swipe right from the smaller camera view. You'll get access to your full-screen camera and any previously taken photos/videos in your library.
Here is an except of the FAQ of semver
'''
If even the tiniest backwards incompatible changes to the public API require a major version bump, won’t I end up at version 42.0.0 very rapidly?

This is a question of responsible development and foresight. Incompatible changes should not be introduced lightly to software that has a lot of dependent code. The cost that must be incurred to upgrade can be significant. Having to bump major versions to release incompatible changes means you’ll think through the impact of your changes, and evaluate the cost/benefit ratio involved.
'''

Having a calendar of the breaking changes already planned like explain in the video seems dubious.

And about Chrome, Chrome is an implementation not a spec, Angular is both an implementation and a spec.

Do you really want a JavaScript 55 ?
> except maybe Canada...

... Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Spain...

The US immigration rate (immigrants/year/1000 pop) is significantly lower than all of the above. Norway and Spain are the top two in terms of rate. Australia is 21% foreign-born (excluding Brits and Kiwis), and NZ is not far behind. The US is only 14% (with no exclusions) - not much more than the UK's 12%.

I realise that these are 'just numbers', but the experience stacks up as well. NZ in particular is famous for its very welcoming attitude to migrants - they actually have a problem in that people use the easier-to-get NZ citizenship to 'hop' to Australia, where there's a better economy and hence jobs; thus NZ spends a lot of resources training new citizens in things like English skills, only to have them 'brain drain' away.
I'm not entirely certain - I use it to describe the opposite of "dull/distorted" sound, kind of a synonym of "fresh". I really have no idea where I picked it up, other than I grew up on the west coast.
Wow, companies are spending on average between $450k to $1M per deployment on these things. You don't need too many customers to reach $1B at that price.
I'm not talking about technical viability! I'm talking about product viability. Can this hypothetical device be manufactured and sold for a profit? Can it be used, profitably, for some purpose, for which it will be cheaper or in some way preferable to existing solutions? It is not enough that this autonomous car can drive around the block without crashing; it has to be good enough, reliable enough, efficient enough, that you can build a profitable business around the unique service it can provide. That is much harder than simply passing a standard driving test.
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Does Semver's spec take into account integer overflows?
Have you come across monodraw?

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

It was a ruby rogues pick a while back, you might like it!
Should be using ace-jump instead of counting the lines.
That's because the December shipments sold out in minutes. Contrary to the pessimism in this thread, people really want these.
Both are mainstream evangelical apologetics, of the form I was referring to, and illustrate my point. Please point to pages in either that you feel establish good-faith falsification criteria for any evangelical doctrine, as per the original comment.
The quality has nothing to do with Bluetooth, it has everything to do with the digital-to-analog converter. A $25 headset is going to have the cheapest chip the manufacturer could find. Non-Bluetooth headsets don't process digital signals and don't have to do this conversion, it's up to the device you're listening on.
>It's much more reasonable though: they're committed to using Semver, so even a minor breaking change (like upgrading Typescript) will bump the version number. So they're expecting the version numbers not to matter as much anymore, similar to how you no longer think of the version number of Chrome or Firefox too often.

That's contradictory.

Once you introduce breaking changes, you require people to update, and old code may not work on new systems.

Then you can't just say "Angular" like you can't say "Python" or "C/C++"
That's not the same thing. That's an inconsistent mapping of sounds (phonemes) to symbols (and one of the reasons English can be so frustrating to learn). Tones when referring to linguistics are changes in pitch to distinguish words. Given that these differences in pitch (tonemes) are created with the same system (mouth, tongue, lips, vocal chords, &c) as phonemes, you can argue that they're the same, but it's an important enough distinction that linguists find it meaningful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531

Modern applications of small networks regularly reduce sizes from larger state-of-the-art networks using distillation. Distillation compacts neural networks while affecting accuracy minimally.

Instead of pruning directly from the large network, just learn how it generalizes. Takes fewer nodes / overall operations (Multiplications / Additions).
Yes, a DB2 storage option for Notes existed, but it didn't do anything to solve the basic mismatch between Notes and a) performance of Notes views in databases with hundreds of thousands or more documents, b) one to many relationships / transactions / RI, or c) support SQL or other non-script approach for query or update.
I honestly wish they'd focus on battery tech instead of whiz-bang features like the touchbar.

Just accept that you're not going to make a touchscreen Mac. Accept it. That's fine. I don't want one anyway.

Give me a quad-core newish processor with 32GB of RAM, the fastest SSD that I can imagine, and ten hours of battery life.

If a 15" laptop weights between 2 and 3.5 lbs I don't care. I'm carrying it in a backpack 99% of the time. I'm not going to notice the difference. I will notice the difference when it stops working because my 2.257lb laptop stopped working after 2hrs because it's thin and light.
Treating the empty string as NULL, as ORACLE does, is the sane option on real world problems.
Having "" different from NULL creates a lot of problems and the advantages are minimal. As you say, in the rare cases that you must tell WHY it is null, it is better to have a separated Boolean field, than to store "" vs NULL and give a meaning to each one.

One of the first problems that you'll encounter if you use a DB with "" != NULL is at data display, because the natural display for NULL and "" are "an empty cell". Then you cannot tell if it is NULL or ""... then you must display something else for NULL... then...

You have no such problem if "" is NULL, an empty cell always means NULL
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