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Raising offspring presents a huge cost to the parents, but every living organism does it because it's the only way to ensure that your genes will propagate on to the next generation after your death. Those that don't are washed out of the gene pool, and irrelevant after one lifespan.

Similarly, death is obviously bad for an individual - it's the termination of your existence. However, it frees up resources for new individuals who may be better adapted to conditions of the time. Species where individuals rarely die may see the whole species die off at once as they get outcompeted by other species whose individuals are better adapted to the environment.

(There's a societal analogue as well here: historically, societies that hold tight to tradition and preserve the internal firms & institutions within them end up being conquered, en masse, by more competitive societies where the individual firms within them either adapt or die.)
I built my own time tracking tool (https://logmyhours.com) for tracking my time and creating invoices for any side freelancing I was doing. I'm actually hoping to go full time on this in the next 6-12 months.

I use a bit of Trello and Freedcamp for my todos and planning.

I also use RescueTime to make sure I'm keeping productive. I'm actually exploring adding integrations with RescueTime with LogMyHours, to see how productive you were for each timesheet, and reporting period.
Er, that's easy. It's done already by large corporate news sources. Just go browse The Guardian or The Independent (both UK outlets) to find a constant series of clickbait stories designed to maximally upset people with Clinton-style views. Random Macedonians can't make money doing it because those advertising dollars are already sucked up by much larger and better known brands.

There may also be a structural issue (in the USA). If you lean Democrat you probably trust mainstream US media sources like the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, ABC etc. These sources all very openly pushed Clinton and her policies. If you hear a story that sounds initially dubious, you search Google and you don't find anything to support it, you probably will conclude it's not true.

However if you lean Republican and already don't trust these media sources, searching for a story and not finding it will not tell you anything, because you are already expecting those sources to try and suppress information that makes left-leaning causes look bad. So you might find a bunch of YouTube videos or right wing blogs or whatever and conclude that is sufficient.

The US media does publish a lot of biased unfactual garbage, including lots of opinion dressed up as fact, but it's usually quite skillfully done and they avoid pushing stories that are trivially false like "Putin issues arrest warrant for George Soros".
You're going to find that your abilities don't scale - the people who do what you do as well as you need them to to be able to provide good service cost too much for you to effectively arbitrage their labor.
Yet it depends. Theres a lot out there on google one could learn. http://fitnessjab.com/
Interesting. Link?

They’ve already bought it so...

Know there are a number of state/fed discounts on it that bring the price down. It also seems like there’s some kind of power shifting thing in 2018 with more rebates and a potential to save money by paying for low usage rates only (by presumably using the battery during the day).
> Also... video chat? What's it for?

Being able to have a quick discussion, and being able to rely on audio and visual queues to carry on a conversation - as opposed to typing something out and waiting for to other part(y|ies) to respond.
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Huh. Well, my company performs cancer diagnostics using blood samples and we use a Medonic to get a WBC count prior to processing and image analysis.
I'm a senior level systems engineer and architect at an F500. I'm happy. We're not a pure software company, but make equipment that's supported by software. We're in the midwest, so the pace of life isn't quite as hectic -- I'm not getting rich, but I have great work-life balance and live in a town with good schools, etc.

I love programming, and do quite a lot of it. But watching what the software devs do all day, I'm not sure I'd enjoy the drudgery.

What keeps me out of the drudge zone is the fact that my work is not predictable -- I get the weird problems that are not fully within any particular skill set. So it can't be planned or managed.
Sadly, there is no difference between the 'clever' person who thinks they're exempt, and the masses of programmed people who (thinks the clever person) passively accept what they're being fed. It's just all people, full stop, so yes they do exist in these vast herd-like numbers, and yes they're vulnerable to being programmed, and yes this is happening and always has.

If there's a difference it's akin to the change from animal power to internal combustion: a difference of degree and mechanic, not the fundamental operation being carried out. But like the change to internal combustion, this change can be pretty revolutionary all the same.
I have been inspired by some of your past posts suggesting a path for studying mathematics and doing graduate level work, and have changed my direction to try and follow what you suggest. Is there any way I can get in touch with you privately? (I'm not looking for help with specific technical questions if you're concerned about that.)
Besides, trains run on tracks, each of which accomodates one train at any given time and rarely intersect; additionally, there's all sorts of signalling and safety infrastructure embedded with the track...

In stark contrast with lane-swerving cars, intersections everywhere, temporary rerouting because of roadworks &c.

Running trains must be orders of magnitude simpler than fully autonomous vehicles.

As for planes, they have a massive benefit in being engineered and maintained for levels of reliability no car can ever hope to achieve, having an awful lot of empty air around them (not to mention being able to move in the Z plane, too, to avoid collisions.

I don't doubt there are many lessons to be learned by designers of autonomous vehicles from work already put down in the fields of trains and planes - however, I'd argue they are very different problems.
My country. It was from the US State Dept. They wanted me to come in and talk to them, after I'd asserted that I was still going. I didn't. The guy on the phone got unreasonably angry with me. I'd no intentions to ask for government help, regardless of outcome. I was quite willing to accept any/all risks.
I work at Amino. Here's a blog post from our hiring team that expounds on this a bit: https://amino.com/blog/a-letter-to-amino-candidates/
Seriously. I sit in a cubicle all week and think about this. I just lost a friend, a skilled diver, while she was snorkeling for scallops. Nobody knows how she drowned, but she did. I am a rafter and climber and backcountry guy, and given the preference I would rather die at the ripe old age of 120 surrounded by friends and family, but as a second choice I'd sure rather fall out of the raft than croak at my keyboard or sitting in traffic. One is living, the other is simply being alive.
It's funny, the closest I ever came to a quiet mind was barreling down the back straight of Road Atlanta at 135mph in an open wheel racer. When more things can go wrong than are possible to comprehend, the mind appears to delete-all and focus on the task at hand. I'd call it psychological minimalism.
And/or maybe Navy higher-ups, having resolutely learned nothing from the airline industry and crew resource management, pretend that there is no such thing as sleep deprivation.
I've seen that pointer sharing thing in other languages in the past. Back in the 80's we did that in an app in MacOS when the memory pointers didn't require all the bits.
I think it'll take a long time to use up the crust.
I agree with you, We all hope we'll have amazing self-driving cars real soon, it's just funny watching the responses here. If you try to say autonomous cars may not be a perfect solution and available in 6 months, or SpaceX may not have a thriving colony on Mars in 6 years, then you will ruffle some feathers. I think guys that have lived through disappointing hype before have some perspective to share.
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is this like static analysis?
It was an interesting article, but I think we must be very careful if we are to make the strong claim that the entirety of western literature follows a single plot structure. Maybe all Disney movies, but not the great abundance that constitutes western literature.
Well it sounds like they were also jetting money out of every artery.
Your comment provoked the intriguing thought that a visually impaired, hacker marine-biologist might be the demographics thats better prepared to understand orcas
"Sell more skating stuff to skateboard buyers" isn't the point of targeted advertising. A common misconception is that the targeting is related to what the customer wants, when it's really about creating ways sellers can target specific demographics. The goal isn't about selling some specific product; it's about hitting people at the specific times/situations they are likely to change their buying preferences.

I highly recommend reading this[1] article for a very good explanation about how this works.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
You could read a conflict into almost any story if you want to, the difference being that it'd be more of a stretch in some cases. At a 7th grade level the goal of the class was probably to teach you to find a conflict-being able to say "there isn't one!" would be an easy out that would let you get away with not writing an essay. Similarly, early math classes won't have questions for which "no solution" is a valid answer, but later ones will.
Is it complex? I don't think so at all.

Facebook can easily just tag stories they think are false, and give people a button to hide or show such stories (or even show ONLY such stories to make it easier for people to build trust in the system). It would be a kind of spam filter for news stories.

Facebook could then stay neutral, could avoid claims of censorship, people who want to only see "true" news could be happy, people who don't trust Facebook's friends to filter their news feed could also be happy, and everyone wins.

They aren't doing that because their goal is not to help people detect fake/false news. Their goal is to suppress it entirely. They do this because like quoquoquo above, they believe their userbase contains vast numbers of sheep who are incapable of rational thought. Just tagging things won't be the "solution" to the existence of such people, which is why their tactics are controversial.

Are they right about their users? It's a big world. But rather than try to help people spot BS and learn from it, their view appears to be that such people are irredeemable.
Tangential to the current discussion but you didn't have to cash out, you just had to transfer the coins to your own wallet. I think that was the only reasonable choice -- IMO it really seemed at the time that storing coins with mtgox was not a trustworthy option.
Hmmm...

When I pull up a random television network schedule from the 1970s -- let's pull up 1976-1977. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_United_States_...) I see some shows generally recognized as quality television.

And, er, some television that isn't. No surprise.

At least, I certainly don't think the variety shows count as "great" by most people's scope, of which 1970s television had a lot of. At least, I'm not aware of modern demand for the Tony and Dawn Rainbow Hour, Donny & Marie, the Shields and Yarnell show, or the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. Maybe I'm wrong.

In the scripted department, there's several single-season or less programs. I presume weren't that great. Shows like Holmes and Yo-Yo, Nashville 99, Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected, and Gemini Man, were they that great? (A "TV movie" -- Riding With Death -- from the last one was used as fodder for MST3K. So, probably not.)

The one thing I think is notable in older TV listings is just how strongly several formats dominate. Namely, in addition to the variety shows, sitcoms and crime / medical dramas seem to dominate. (If you are looking for fantasy / horror / sci-fi, to give a few other genre examples, your pickings are slim.)

"Good" is by nature subjective. But one thing I can say is that none of these genres are typically noted for multilayered messaging. To give two examples from the sitcom side, here are two 1976 shows that are generally reviewed as "good": "Three's Company" and "Good Times". One is basically a farce often criticized as "jiggle television". One basically became a platform for the wacky antics of JJ. Not sure I'd describe either of these shows as very "deep". :)

Today, in the era of DVRs and on-demand streaming, I do think it's easier for writers to "risk" multi-episode plotlines.
Changes in speech drives changes in writing — every linguist will tell you that (I should know, I am one). Writing is — and always has been — way behind speech in terms of innovation.

Edit: Downvoting isn't going to change that. But you're welcome to show me an example of a linguist that claims that writing is the driving force in linguistic evolution.
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> "Thousands of years? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's really only been put into a constitution a smigeon more than 200 years ago."

'Origins of freedom of speech and expression' section found here suggests otherwise (unless you want to be particular about the term 'constitution', rather than what it represents):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Do you have any good guides for the calculus required to do ML? Is it just the basic Calc AB from high school?
Do you also consider simple having about 200 cases of UB on the standard?
These guys got the foot in the door at the right time when Vlogging on YouTube really took off. Perfect example to showcase the benefits of a product in a (mostly) natural way. With a single channel making millions of views each day it seems like a (short term) good customer acquisition strategy. Wondering if sustainable growth mid/longterm though?!
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3blue1brown is great.

I also recommend Siraj Raval's Youtube course the Math of Intelligence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJCOz3AfYY&list=PL2-dafEMk2...
TL;DR it's possible to detect where you tapped on your phone screen somewhat reliably. Theoretically, someone could develop an app to associate screen location taps to keys and could pick out a password. Authors suggest phone manufacturers should limit access to accelerometers to prevent the attack.

This is extremely contrived and would take a shitload of skilled work to get right. It's way easier to make a phishing page coupled with social engineering to get what you want.
That is patently untrue. Otherwise, agencies wouldn't exist.
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Something that I think is sometimes missed is that the insurance companies along with major freight haulers may drive this more than the public at large. Self driving systems don't have to be perfect; they just have to be better than humans, and that may be attainable sooner than the naysayers imagine. We're still north of 30k auto deaths per year in the U.S. alone - I'd bet money that if you waved a magic wand and replaced every car on the road today with an autopilot Tesla, traffic deaths would fall off a cliff.
I love My Neighbor Totoro, and it's a great example of kishōtenketsu structure, but it's not devoid of conflict - it just doesn't have an antagonist. Satsuki and Mei have an argument in the third act where Satsuki stomps off and Mei disappears, setting up the ending (ketsu).
Thank you. Fetishization of free speech is a good way to put it--and it's a position that I would say comes from people who lack perspective; the people who are going to be the last ones targeted by the actual violence that's already happening.

Again I'd like to ask, what's the free speech answer to nazis and white supremacists raising their fists to my friends and loved ones? How do we free-speech our way out of the violence that's already coming?

I'd love to be a free-speech absolutist but, right now, I can't square it with the suffering and violence being brought down on the most vulnerable.
Pennies saved on education. Cutting out 6 months of basic training.

We live in a world managed by spreadsheets. Common sense is not in vogue.
The first comments are overly dramatic. 27 and 28 are getting realistic. Currently it's even less damage than Allison, even if the water flow and volume is much higher. The level is not yet as high.
These libraries leave most of the actual day to day work for ETL. ETL happens to be highly data and problem dependent, so it can't be easily automated or reused. For this reason I think the best thing to be a good applied ML person is a solid programming background. You should have a working knowledge of statistics and linear algebra, but the most useful skill really is being able to write good code. It's different for research of course.
Before my current job, I'd gone through a few 6-months or 1-year jobs (after spending 8 years at my previous place). For me, at least, it wasn't so much "we're no longer in the honeymoon phase" as "wow, this really just isn't a good fit". I see it kind of like getting out of a dead-end relationship: why drag it out if you know it's not going to work? I think it's better to recognize the disconnect and get out quickly while everyone can part as friends.
qsort(3) is quite slow because it can not inline the compare function. If you created a 'generic' bubble sort that take a compare function pointer and no LTO optimization (or use an inlined c++ sort), the quick sort algorithm might be faster even on 50 elements.
No it wasn't, because we already had Lisp and system programming languages like ESPOL, NEWP, PL/I, PL/M, PL/8,.... before C got released outside AT&T.
People in this set of threads keep jumping to the conclusion that because there are cameras on the headsets you'll be able to integrate real world visuals to create AR-style exeperiences.

It would make a lot of sense, but there is no support in the API for the low cost devices for doing any of these things. The cameras are purely used for tracking purposes at this point and none of the HoloLens-style AR experiences that would seem to make sense are possible with this generation of low cost MR headsets and APIs.
Make sure to differentiate between AI researcher and applied AI software engineer, or whatever that is called.

The former needs the mathematical background mentioned here to develop groundbreaking algorithms or improve on existing ones, while the latter merely implements them and requires a much smaller mathematical toolset.
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Having abundant first-hand experience of such events, I don't think your comment has anything to do with reality either. Poor as the quality of the coverage by the professional news media is, that by the amateur news media is just as bad or worse - framed and edited for maximum sensation with no attempt at fact-checking.

Yes, there has been some violence from the anti-fascist side, such as Eric Clanton being hit with a bicycle lock. But you are overlooking the fact that fight-wing activists have initiated more and more deadly violence in similar contexts: a stabbing at a rally in Sacramento last year; a shooting Washington state earlier this year; and of course the deliberate driving of a car into a crowd at Charlotteville a couple of weeks ago. Screenshots from Discord suggest that particular tactic was discussed in advance by RW activists.

I don't want to go on a Gish gallop or we'd be here all day, but I'd also encourage you to reflect on the fact that while Antifa supporters endorse the idea of punching nazis, popular figures with a public following on the far right have publicly and formally expressed the desire for civil war and even genocide. It's not possible to have a reasonable discussion without addressing that dichotomy.
>We will, without question, continue to innovate in the electric skateboard category, and we have a lot of exciting things in the works,” he says.

I mean, not much has changed in the "things on wheels" category in a long time. All are just modifications of things that already existed - razor scooters were just smaller form factor scooters, longboards were just longer skateboards, etc. Then we stuck electric motors on it.

I mean, what else can you do other than find new things to stick electric motors to? And I guess make things smaller/more foldable, lighter, whatever.
Uhhhh, what does this have to do with Hacker News?
7 years successfully working from home (4 for my employer, 3 years being self-employed).

I have only one advice - Be responsible for your work and for yourself.

> 1. Be as available as possible.

I would highly discourage this advice. That is you setting up yourself for abuse. This happens with office employees or clients - you have to set limits and NOT respond even if you are right there. You can add a couple of hours extra, but thats it. Exceptions to that should be rare. Unless your code bug is going to cost somebody their life - everything else can wait.

7. Go outside

> Highly recommended. Preferably spend some time under the sun (or go out during the day)

3. Go out of your way to be human

> Usually it does not work. And people at the other end start feeling awkward. Some human interactions are just hard on a phone or chat or video. I prefer staying in touch with friends/family/community around me. Any amount of remote interaction is just that "remote". Good remote teams do not force themselves to develop a human touch. On the other hand, remote teams can sometimes develop amazing work coherence
See, for instance, https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2504
I remember when asked on interview what was one of the most promising startups from previous YC batches Paul Graham saying that was Boosted, probably the early vision never materialised.
Yup, it's a "had to be there" thing. Complete eclipse, start to finish, took 3 hours. Totality was just over 2 minutes. Most of the time, lighting can only be described as "odd" - as you put it, color balance of full sunlight for brightness of sunset. Bugs & animals picked up on it, rapidly heading into night mode. Humans tended to stand around slowly realizing "huh? that's odd". Lighting starts as a sense of just wrong. Then at about 95% totality (!) you finally perceive the rate of change, as it exponentially plunges into darkness. Then you realize the darkness isn't, you're seeing with the visibility of a nightlight (but color balance still that of full sunlight), and proceed to freak over the visibility of the corona surrounding a big, well, black hole where the sun was. The horizon is also oddly bright.

And yes, there's a huge difference between any perceivable percentage away from totality, and totality itself. We're talking fractions of a second making a difference between direct viewing vs rapidly going blind.