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I often have it the other way around with a friend.

Somehow only in the things he cares about. He has a car and a much better PC, still he envies my money.
Curious how California would fare as well. Seems like it would be pretty similar.

I'm curious to see if this does pass, if it will have any more effect on 1) people's preferred city's to "base themselves and 2) state legislature changing their tax code to be more reasonable or driving revenue from other places. Paying 50% income tax has got to be a tough pill to swallow.
Haha.

You question that you said „It’s not that “no one else” could do their job, but there’s not an unlimited supply of people who can meet the hiring bar“ Or what?

I didn’t propose a concrete strategy.
I just doubt the things have to be as they are and pose a lot of questions why they are as they are.

Then you build exactly one fictional scenario that would make things maybe(not necessarily - there are options... maybe there is a number of smart people who don’t want to learn for artificial interview scenarios, maybe they don’t have some university degree) go bad for one employer and imply the conclusion everything has to be and stay as it is.

Do you see the problem here?
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Anyone else spending around this much?
> The faster the market makers trade, the tighter the feedback loop

That's a great analogy to control systems.
Parity CEO is confident that $150M in frozen Ethereum isn’t lost forever
I'd say don't. Easy to get used to the lifestyle and money and never get back into academia. Then find working for companies soul crushing.
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Oh boy, this is a #1 on my 'underrated movies' list.
It's good the the AMT is still alive. This is the last remaining provision of the tax code that keeps it relatively fair and partially limits the 'deduct everything' and structuring powers of the rich.

The same outcome can probably be achieved by another system / other changes, but the AMT was added back in to keep the revenue raised the same (with the pass-through company tax cutes), so it clearly would still pull some people.
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Being self employed working from home (coding), I recently started to do some timetracking to see how I spend my work. I used pomodoro technique with 25 minute slots and 5 min breaks in between. I set up an initial goal of doind 10 per day or about 5 hours, sounds very modest to me! Also, I set a rule that I have to stop working when I felt mentally drained, you know when you just feel sluggish at the end of a normal working day.

The thing was I struggled very hard to reach 10 and found a nice balance at around 8 slots of focused work per day (4 hours, ncluding coding and administrative tasks). So a 25 hour work week suggested in the article sounds reasonable to me.
This study confirms empirical observation all around. Insects are disappearing. Birds are disappearing (populations are down 50 to 60% for many species). Large animals are disappearing. Soils are disappearing. Fish are disappearing. The situation is quite obviously of imminent global catastrophe, but you can harp until the end about "alarmist predictions".
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I get your point - if the swastika is used in a western country, its almost certainly a Neo-Nazi using it, not a middle-aged Indian woman, even though millions of Indians use the swastika in a religious context every day. However, by the same token, if someone says Deus Vult, its statistically far more likely to be a Neo-Nazi/far right nut rather than a fan of Crusader Kings.
> China is a well run country, but most countries seem that way with 5%+ economic growth YoY.

What most people don't seem to understand is that China's growth is largely based on the fact that it started off, very recently, from such a low baseline.

Big percentage increases are a lot easier when you go from nothing, that doesn't mean you'd want to be a country that recently started from nothing.
Tech giants are fighting to hire the best AI talent at the NIPS
Where's "here"? I'd guess USA?

People often say the government pay for something without breaking that down and realising it's tax-payers/society who pay. That's always worth remembering IMO.
Oh, huh my mistake. I was thinking about how PNG compression is entirely based around using the previous pixels to predict the next one. But as far as I know, apng doesn't update the filters to use information from the previous frame. I guess you can use transparent pixels to compress pixels that don't change though.
I have atleast 3 Pentium machines still lying around, plus one netbook which is 32bit only. These machines are still widely used especially were replacement is expensive or even impossible
"Brute forcing it by stitching together different proofs"? Seems a bit of a harsh assessment! My (limited) understanding is that Wiles' proof introduced some hugely powerful new techniques related to modular forms and opened up a lot of new areas of study.
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Ask HN: When will style transfer be available for music?
For instance, I want to hear Billy Joel's "She's always a woman" covered by Australian band Crowded House. This cover does not actually exist, but if AI style transfer could do for music what it does for art, or for voice / face mimicry, then this cover could exist, albeit a synthetic cover rather than an original.

When will this sort of music style transfer be possible by AI, in the same manner that artistic style transfer allows one artist's "style" to "cover" the work of another artist?
In the "Beautiful Code" book there is a chapter, I think from Rob Pike, which presents a bare-bones regex implementation in C. It doesn't implement alternatives or grouping if I remember correctly, but the implementation is breathtakingly beautiful and not any longer than this one.

I think it's the same implementation described here: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea... (not 100% sure as I lost my copy of Beautiful Code :()

EDIT: I see the author links to the article at the beginning of the post. Still, I missed this on my first reading, so I think posting the link here is still worthwhile. Especially because the translation to JS kind of misses the point - the beauty of the Rob's implementation comes from recursion and pointers and JS lacks the latter.
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I feel that Key to the new Altus DB is that with the database already in the cloud, enterprises don’t have to move the data from the cloud and into an on-premises database, saving time and costs.
Okay, I can see that. That's what I try to do too. Altough I see these thinking habits as more of a short-term happiness boost than a tool for feeling satisfied with my life (which I would categorize as a more longer-lasting feeling, independent of my normal up/down mood-cycles).
I agree that certain toys can be age-appropriate while others are not. But a blanket ban on all electronic toys seems unjustified by this reasoning. (Parent said they have 6 children, it's likely that at least one or two of them would be able to appreciate battery operated toys.
What are some good examples of “augmented reality”?
Of course it is. I think we all know how brains work physiologically (at least basically).

But use it, and it will tire. Forget to pause and it will tire faster. And neurotransmitters are not an endless resource.
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In the article there is a list of counties affected (measured by highest average deduction for state and local deductions). Top of the list is New York, rank 2-4 are Californian counties. So your hunch is right.
A surprisingly large number of the commandments apply more generally to science as well.
Your last paragraph doesn’t quite capture the whole picture. Germany didn’t rebuild into an economic powerhouse on its own. I’m no expert but even with a little search it’s clear that there were many macro economic actions taken by the allies to rebuild the entire continent. Now, you can say that Germany people maximized that assistance. But their actions alone didn’t create the outcome. And is it true that they were the first to recover?
Just to clear things up here: Ireland does not want the money, they much rather have this special deal with Apple, it's EU who is forcing Apple to pay and forcing Ireland to stop having special deals with companies.
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If you want to fill a limit order similar to a market order but with limits you should cross the market, not rest near it.

The reason professionals might use a market order even knowing about flash crashes is that there are certain positions where not filling has virtually unlimited risk regardless of fill price. Hedging option positions for instance.
I imagine they wanted to say that they apologize to their frogs for waking them up :)
Details on this would be great. We do a lot of serverless for content publishing and 3rd party api integration work... I’d love to hear more of how others use it at scale.

I can confirm a couple things. It seems like we spend a bit more time getting things to work as expected.

Troubleshooting can get expensive given the system disappears.

Telemetry on the lambdas needs to improve. Finding what’s eating time gets tough when you are looking to optimize. (A lot baked in to this statement but getting 800ms of compute to 400ms is sometimes important whilst staying on lambda)
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#2) I'd say it's the combo: the interaction of unregulated capitalism and specific types of business that can centralize, or "scale", nicely. Most of the trades are doing quite nicely right now because geography, licensing, and the bespoke nature of their work have somewhat protected them from the tech onslaught. Taxi drivers, not so much. Of course, more/less regulation would raise/lower the bar for what would be scalable.

#3) Unregulated monopolies, certainly bad, not as much from a consumer perspective as from one of raw power. I don't really care if I don't have the latest shiniest gadget for the best price. I do care that Bill Gates probably has more say on how my kids are educated than I do.

Regulated monopolies are another story. Like the power company, they're subject to far more rules and due process than the tech giants. Google can shut down a paying customer with impunity. Power company has to honor a process even for customers that are late on their bill. I like that aspect, but then there's the regulatory capture, so... Even under Obama, who is supposed to be the "liberal" guy, we had the "Holder Doctrine" of let's not enforce the law too hard if it costs US megacorps any money. This will probably have to get worse before it gets better.

#4) I have no silver bullets. I was just disappointed that the top comment dismissed an entire region as a victim of its own foolishness, making little mention of all the other externalities, of which there are many.

Thanks for hearing me out. Do you have any silver bullets?
Apple Pay Cash rolls out to iOS 11.2 users in the US
I was one of the spectators on the Prometheus thread. It took him 2 days. It was insane.
Ninja level debugging and diagnostic skills. A fascinating read from start to finish. Bonus points for the GRUB 2 feature for masking out bad RAM blocks – still dreaming of owning a laptop with ECC memory :/
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> Prolog has a straightforward syntax. You will pick up the few rules very quickly. Let us transform the Socrates example from earlier into an actual Prolog program and analyse what is happing inside the compiler.

Yeah, and no. This skips over the fact that this will not work in swipl, and you need to write those rules in a separate file, and compile/load them.

This is mentioned way after the entire introduction, after the reader has already given up on trying anything with prolog
name 1 reason why they would want to lol... bet u cant think of any...
The same people said Pink Floyd (and other early electronic music artists) aren't musicians because they use synthesizers. It's fundamentally misunderstanding what AI is (and what art is too, for that matter).
For a similar tale of vDSO getting someone in trouble, check out this fun talk "Really crazy container troubleshooting stories": https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-115-really_crazy_container_tr...
Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.

"I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them."

Isn't that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it's not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.

The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.

When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output "art".

What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.

For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it's because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it's pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.

To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more "alive" or "interesting" than just by applying a "trivial" domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.

Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?

Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.
Erlang is a high-level language ideally suited to concurrent (not parallel) computing on multiple cores.

Is there any kind of cross-over here, with GreenArrays processors? Is it feasible to have an Erlang VM running on a GA chip, and would it have any advantages over the current (typically x86) hardware?

(From the Erlang website (http://erlang.org/faq/implementations.html): "Getting Erlang to run on, say, an 8 bit CPU with 32kByte of RAM is not feasible. People successfully run the Ericsson implementation of Erlang on systems with as little as 16MByte of RAM. It is reasonably straightforward to fit Erlang itself into 2MByte of persistant storage (e.g. a flash disk).")

Another question: the computing demands of self-driving cars are somewhat self-defeating (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-11/driverles...). Isn't low-power computer vision a perfect match for GA chips...?
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The value is that when you don't spend your life being angry at Mondays or the weather or the fortunes of your favourite sportsteam (never main all the things people are casually angry at their bosses for, but doesn't actually warrant anger), you have a lot more energy to identify and engage with the things that actually make a lasting difference in your life.
Light atoms are used to slow down fast neutrons. Thermal neutron absorbers (large neutron capture cross section) like boron, lithium or cadmium is used for shielding.

Li6H is perfect for shielding warhead. Li6H (Lithium-6 hydride) contains hydrogen to slow down neutrons and lithium to absorb them. It has hightest hydrogen content of any hydride, high melting point and can be casted.

The shielding takes some space and the warhead yield is smaller than without shielding. The goal is not to completely block neutron flux but to reduce it to the level where exploding countermeasure must be very close.
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This is a very useful product.
Presumably "banking".

Note that neither Cointed nor license is mentioned in the article, which is titled "James Altucher's bitcoin predictions" or "James Altucher's 10 predictions about where bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are headed".
Who were the most successful entrepreneurs before 2000?
Hey,

I'm curious about who were the successful entrepreneurs before the year 2000? Any industry.
And less-known in today's time.
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The directed acyclic graph is fine.

But that is not really the structure once we start having more than one git repository interacting with remotes. And then there is the staging area and the stash. Tracked untracked and ignored files. There's just a lot of state, and a lot of duplication, where the same result can be achieved in various ways.

Git is a disaster for version control. It excels for one particular use case, and user type. Because of this it has become ubiquitous, and now we need to teach it to everyone.

Part of my work is getting scientists to use version control. I kid you not, there are many here who follow the advice: Before you try to put it into git, make a backup.

And that's sane. Because who the hell knows what will happen once you push the commit and then some changes are merged in, or even worse, the merge fails, etc...

The unwillingness of a large number of HN commentators to see the weaknesses of git is astonishing to me.
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Netherlands, I'd guess from the context.

I agree it's worth remembering that "the government doesn't have its own money", but it's as much - if not more, these days - important to remember that paying taxes and every citizen having their tax money in their pocket are not equivalent scenarios. At the very least, governments use tax money to smooth things out on the wealth spectrum. Whether you're rich or poor, you get the same baseline of education, health, security and convenience.
A quick note on exactly what God willed, according to the Crusaders. A scene from the Siege of Antioch in 1098

> The calm night air was shattered as the Franks screamed out their battle cry "God wills it! God wills it!" With resistance crumbling, the Crusaders poured into Antioch. Amid the gloom of the approaching dawn the chaotic slaughter began. One Latin contemporary noted that 'they were sparing no Muslim on the grounds on the age or sex, the ground was covered with blood and corpses and some of these were Christians Greeks, Syrians and Armenians...'. Afterwards one Crusader described how 'all the streets of the city on every side were full of corpses, so that no one could endure to be there because of the stench, nor could anyone walk along the narrow paths of the city, except over the corpses of the dead'.

And this was just the capture of Antioch. The scenes at the capture of Jerusalem were far worse, with the Crusaders indulging in butchery that's nauseating to read about. In contrast, when Sultan Saladin recaptured Jerusalem 90 years later, it was done peacefully.

When we see people today brandishing swastikas, we know exactly what kind of people they are and what they aspire to be, based on our knowledge of the crimes of the Nazis. Similarly, when you see a far right nut arguing against Islam and using this catchphrase, you know what kind of cloth they're cut from.

Source

- The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
FYI, there's an updated version of the 99 Prolog problems by its original author here: https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems
Nice try to rewrite history, but the Chinese government didn't have a problem with Google doing targeted advertising, they had a problem with Google not wanting censor search results. Sergey Brin, who grew up in the Soviet Union, was adamant about not kowtowing to this. It didn't help that there were state level attempts to hack into humanitarian activist accounts.

Technically, Google didn't "leave" China either, they simply moved Google.cn to Hong Kong. The fact that mainland Chinese can't easily access Google without VPNs (now banned, helped along by Apple) is a political decision and doesn't have anything to do with Google. No one in the world has problems using Google.hk except those in the mainland.

Apple's behavior here is quite unethical no matter how you slice it. They are aiding and abetting a censorship regime that is cracking down even harder recently than it was previously. The centralized app store model makes it even worse, rather than better, as on the PC and Android, you can still side load apps or run linux, in order to avoid government mandated surveillance and censorship (In Xinjiang province, the government recently went as far as to mandate everyone install a backdoor or face jail time and fines)

Just wanting to sell things to people isn't an excuse, if in doing so, you are lending credibility and legitimacy to a unethical behavior. And frankly, the asymmetrical way many Western tech and media companies are blocked in China is frankly an unfair trade practice. Wasn't joining the WTO supposed to come with some kind of tit-for-tat agreements? That in exchange for lowering of tariffs and import regulations, there has to be some reciprocity on the other side?

Apple can still make their phones in China, but if they had a backbone, they'd say, no, "open internet" does not mean "we will help ban all VPNs from our store so Chinese consumers have NO CHOICE." and refuse the order, and let China ban the App Store. They could then allow a side-load model that decentralizes control so that the government can't even force them to censor.

In the US, they've marketed themselves as being anti-surveillance and proudly implemented cryptographic techniques in ways that even they can't break them. Allowing Chinese to sideload apps would allow them to say to the government "we can't stop people from using VPNs, we can't control what they download and install via side loading"

Sadly, that ship may have sailed, but IMHO, standing for your principles is better than selling out for money. They've already got $200 billion in cash in the bank and aren't hurting for revenue.
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> The companies apparently think that the market isn't big enough. I believe there is a demand for a machine like the above one

At what price point and volume? I feel like there would be ton of development work (custom sw stack, and just the mechanical aspects), and the manufacturing probably won't be cheap either (especially if you can't utilize the economics of scale), which makes a problematic equation for what is ultimately a niche item.
This is what I'm trying to understand. Macvlan appears to be a much better solution as it allows 1-1 mapping and piggybacking onto all the automatic/set&forget mechanisms that AWS provides.

Obviously it needs a switch at the otherside that can handle a huge and quick changing arp table. Also if you have mac address limiting typical on edge switches, its a non flyer
Exactly. Even if Cook stands up for his (or our) ideals, the pressure China is going to apply to Apple will result in Cook getting ousted by the board, replaced by a favorable "Cook".

Companies (for profit or not) answer to their major stockholders. Even politics in a (democratic) country (EU or U.S. or X, place possibly your country where X) follow a similar mechanism: politicians conform with the wishes of the major coalitions that will keep them in power. Sure one can leave footprints of their ideals, but after some threshold they are intrinsically bound by their power base (usually lobbying).
Would transfer pricing still be an issue if Apple EU was a completely separate company?