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What about assisted living type arrangements for the chronically poor or mentally ill?

I have family members who work in social welfare and housing. The most frustrating and emotionally draining cases for them are when folks don’t have the support network that they need. This was especially true for veterans (including dishonorably discharged), battered women, the mentally ill and substance abusers.

Perhaps having someone there to help who is trusted makes a difference.

Personally, I find it bizarre when in a thread or other discussion on this topic, compassion is viewed as being permissive to folks living on the streets or in public parks. The US doesn’t need to bring back tenements or have the city park be a camp for the indigent. We’re in a golden age of plenty — with a good plan and a few less aircraft carriers this problem could be a lot better.
It's a nice sentiment but somewhere around 80% if the country wants to maintain NN. And it's not as if the FCC doesn't know this -- their position has been for a while that they know better and that mass support of NN doesn't rest on technical merit but the influence of tech companies that have a financial interest in NN.

Shouting louder probably isn't good to do anything.
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The FCC was founded to ensure radio waves don't conflict.

No, that was the FRC. The FCC regulated more stuff from the start, as per the Communications Act of 1934.
I'm thinking he's just referring to the traffic relevant to the TP-Link firmware - otherwise there's no way to make any relevant comparison.
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I was thinking of ideas for a talk recently, and I thought of "Things I tried that didn't work and one that did" or something to that effect. However, when I looked through my old failed approaches, I found the amount of documentation was proportional to the level of success of the approach, making such a talk nearly impossible.
Yep it's $1 to $1000

Furthermore I highly doubt that it's mostly billionaires with >$1m USD holdings of BTC. There simply aren't enough to sustain this level of transactions.
Apologies if I was not clear. That was what I observed other people doing. Lots of talking, lots of "new best friends", nobody sitting alone pretty much anywhere.

Worldwide, as observed during 15 years of ~6months/year traveling. Most travelers during that period were, in fact, open to speaking to one another.

And again, in the last 5 years of doing trips on several continents, people you see at "the bar down at the beach" are usually looking at their phone, even when seated at the same table as other travelers.

That never used to happen. And I bet if we crossed paths back then and I asked you where you were from, you would have replied. And we may have even had a conversation.
There has been some malware that did just that - it was still possible to record the trace of instructions being executed along with the current instruction pointer to be able to reconstruct the binary quite well.
On the landing page the images within the gray circles are not loading... assuming that there were images (I only see grey big circles).

Using chromium (desktop)
If you’re googling, it’s better to use katakana, since ‘one room’ will pull lots of false hits and no one writes ‘wanrumu’. It’s easy enough to translate if you can’t read it.
> Looks like it's also relying on LLVM for disassembly?

[wild speculation here] I suspect they're using llvm to go from an ast to c(++) code since they have tooling for stuff like that.

Now I have to find me a binary-blob kernel module that manufactures like to put out and see what the C code it spits out looks like -- another wasted day methinks...
That project needed to be planned to be open sourced from the start, to avoid licensing conflicts from third party's software. This has been in the making for months, if not years.
Amongst some of the people I know, cryptos _currently_ provide much better investment returns than the stock market. These people have a bunch of extra money lying around, why settle for 3-10% returns when you hear stories of crypto graining thousands of percent. To them it’s not about the potential or the technology, it’s strictly the returns over time.
If phones are providing children with a more stimulating experience than school, the schools themselves should improve their product, rather than banning the competition.
I've been very satisfied with my MikroTik router.
National currencies are not really in risk.

Suppose that bitcoin or similar are used as currency in practice (that it's very far of happening, by the way). Even if you are able to do all your operations in a cryptocurrency, you will need to pay taxes. Governments only accept their own currency, so, you need to get it to pay taxes, so, demand of national currency is going to exist always.

>> "economic vessels like national bonds and other treasuries that nations rely on to borrow money?"

This is only an institutional arrangement. Nations with their currency don't really need markets to get money. For instance, in the case of USA, the FED can produce so much money as they think is appropriate (1).

I think that cryptocurrency fans suffer from that old illusion that economy can be separated from politics.

(1).- Video of Greenspan explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCZHAQnfGU
Probably a misclassification. It's not 100% accurate but it gives a good idea of the size and languages of the code base.
I think anarchism is more a lack of any government that prevents involuntary transactions, such as theft. If you have a government that only prevents involuntary transactions, while allowing all voluntary ones, what you actually have is minarchist libertarianism.

(But a minarchist also includes fraud in prohibited transactions, which does take out some of these ICOs.)
Because in mathematics, unlike programming, you won't get anywhere without actually understanding the topic at hand.
> proof of concept

They've been working on this for 7 years they said so I don't think it counts as just a PoC.
Its says balloons<1BTC and blimps>1BTC....however that appears wrong, looks like it should be 100BTC as conditional.
Analogies are always leaky abstractions and it's easy to cement an incorrect notion of the subject matter that doesn't account for subtle behavior and edge cases. I do think explaining by analogy is useful as long as it comes with clear caveats, but as an example, if there were good analogies for quantum uncertainty and wave particle duality, or general relativity, people wouldn't find those things eternally perplexing. YouTube has thousands of hours of videos trying to explain GR with elevators in space and trains moving at the speed of light, but if you can't do the math you'll never really understand it. Some things just can't be broken down into concepts that a three dimensional monkey brain can easily understand.
If the issue at hand is the denial of physicality, then the issue of emergence is significant, because arguments that claim qualia cannot be physically localized can quickly be dismissed as naive. Much more significantly, if you are actually attempting to understand consciousness, then you are ill-equipped to do that if you are unaware of the nature of emergence.

If you insist that there is no difference, then it goes both ways. I think you are actually right in a way you did not intend: more sophisticated versions of the qualia argument are ultimately no better, as at some point, it always comes down to what you are prepared to believe - that there is a fundamental difference that cannot be bridged.

There was a time when humanity found it impossible to believe that life could arise from matter alone, yet dualism in this regard has effectively been abandoned, at least scientifically and philosophically. While this does not, of course, prove anything about the mind, it does show how arguments from the fundamental difference between matter and information-like things are really appeals to plausibility. As an observation that there is a gap in our understanding, that is fine; as a claim that the difference can never be resolved, they are just opinions.

And as I briefly speculated in my last paragraph, the physical basis for color as a quale might be surprisingly localized...
> full of chalk and blackboard

Thanks for the link to Mr. Alexandre's talk; very informative. He's a little heavy on the hyperbole but many of his warnings ring true, esp. the fact that Europe is squashed between the American GAFA and the Asian BATX, with no response of her own.

That said, French schools are not esp. technology-adverse; most (all?) classrooms are equipped with a "TNI" (tableau noir interactif) which is in fact a great improvement versus traditional blackboard and chalk.

Banning smartphones in schools is a very good thing IMHO; teaching technology is a distinct issue; kids don't use smartphones to learn technology but, most of the time, to consume content or exchange messages.

Just because you have a car doesn't make you a mechanic, but it makes you walk less.
This is great! I wished something like this existed for Indian classical music, since in it also a composition can be performed by multiple artists differently and multiple performances can be created with with different permutations of the rhythm and melody. This player, as is, doesn't account for compositional units of Indian classical music (obviously because it's designed for Western Classical music).

Language is also something that is missed in mainstream music players.
With !$ you can use Alt+. to write the arguments from the last command.
I feel the same way about Missouri. They’ve constantly voted to not modernize their electrical grid to the point an internal commission says its driving away state tax revenue.

They also are a net drain on the treasury. They get more federal dollars out than they put in.

Let them pay their own way.
> I count single digit mentions in 1669 days that procotor is registered on HN. That would be lousy self promotion.

Lousy of not, it’s still self-promotion. This is true whether it occurs once or many times.

> I believe that proctor genuinely believes he built something useful and wants to share it.

I agree.

> The snark in jlgaddis post rubs me the wrong way.

Clearly. However, you aren’t defending your accusation of jealousy. Jealousy was the key word that I was addressing.
Any ambitious project is sooner or later going to have to delve into their tooling, and not depend on examples they found of things that work. I admit it's nice you found something that worked exactly as you wanted, and my experience is I can often find what I want exactly when I start but sooner or later you need to add to it. And then things start to get less pleasant.
I’m quoting the original comment I replied to.
Sad that this didn't garner discussion; I know I missed it. Hope you're still paying attention...

· Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437242 (lots of links)

>Robot Turtles (http://www.robotturtles.com/) makes a good jumping-off point for further research as it is [often recommended] in this category: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=robot%20turtles&sort=byDate&ty...

· Ask HN: Looking for robot toys/kits for young ones | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352106

· Ask HN Parents: Cool Tech-Related Stuff You've Done with Your Kids? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1795923

My advice would be to get involved with similarly-minded groups in your area. In-person interaction with experts is invaluable; even better if they are purposely attempting to encourage kids to participate.

Not sure where you're located so I can't give specifics; here is one example organization, the FIRST Tech Challenge: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc
> Have you actually read any of the [emphasis mine] papers?

What specific papers are you talking about? TFA doesn't contain a single occurrence of the word “paper”. On the other hand, it contains several occurrences of the word “book”. And, most importantly, it is obviously written for newcomers to mathematics, who for obvious reasons will spend more time reading carefully written books rather than papers written in a rush.
Thanks for the feedback! We will be breaking it down by OEM and model to add to the usefulness. I think we will leave the classifying of the SAE autonomy level to the OEM though. But by sharing real world experiences, buyers will have something else to make a decision on other than the marketing terms like you mentioned. Thanks again for taking a look!
Regulations and moral standards on AI research is PERMISSIVE. We have seen the same "advantage" in Chinese stem cell and embryonic research as well.
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If you bootstrap it isn't really part of the job at all. You can still start a company and be CEO. Not every startup needs $750M and many would be worse off to have it.
I don't think the competition is fair. The requirement to teach useful things to children makes it substantially harder to design experiences that are as stimulating as pointless distractions.
Yeah, probably the same thing as in Skoda vehicles - it's a dumb lane assist tool, it's just a single camera that is watching the line markings on the road. This is only good for highways where it helps you to steer the wheel and you can relax a little more (hands on the wheel). This is far from any autopilot. It would drive you off the road in case of a wrongly painted line :-).
I just made a quick Python implementation (3.6+ only as it uses the secrets module)

https://github.com/mcdallas/rsa
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> That would be lousy self promotion.

But still self-promotion if people want to be dogmatic about it. Some people, and some discussion forums, have an absolutely zero tolerance attitude to self-promotion.

I have no issue with it if:

* It isn't almost all that the account is for (caveat: personally I don't care enough in this case to have checked the account's comment history), i.e. the person contributes usefully to discussions noticably beyond what is needed for the self-promotion.

* The posts are at least relevant to the discussion at hand (which it appears to be here)

* The page/post/other is sufficiently honest about the affiliate links, because otherwise they could represent a conflict of interests (recommending what makes most out of affiliate relations rather than what is actually best by a good objective measure). This last part can be quite subjective, and again I've not looked at this particular case myself yet.
Yes, they solve one problem related to poverty. But because their motive is profit, they can do so only at a cost that exacerbates the underlying problem of not having enough money.
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"Loathsome", really? It may be obvious to you, but it demands a level of specificity that the interviewer is much less likely to lie about. Every company will tell you that they have a good work life balance because that's a completely nebulous claim. If you ask about after-hours communication they're more likely to give you an accurate answer.

It's like if I ask you "do you think you're a good person" where you have a financial incentive to justify why you're a good person and a disincentive to just why you aren't. You're going to emphasize the good points and neglect the bad points to make yourself look the best. Company recruiters are evaluated on equivalent metrics (at least indirectly) so of course they'll give you the sunshine-and-rainbows view of the business. The more direct your question, the more egregious any lie becomes, so the more likely you are to hear the truth.

I worked at a company known for over-working employees (mostly technical, non-devs, though) where the HR recruiters would always go on and on about only ever having to work 45 hours a week max during release pushes... then in orientation the (9-10 figures net worth) CEO told you that they "didn't believe in a work-life balance", and they favored a "work-life integration" instead. Those are obviously complete opposites, and a more direct question to the recruiters could have revealed that discrepancy. In fact that disgusting lie of omission turned me off from the company so much that I found a job elsewhere pretty soon thereafter.

The goal as an interviewer is not to trigger the "HR alarms" that require you to lie or spread the truth thin. If you ask a quantifiable question like "how often do people work over 40 hours?" you're more likely to get a truly revealing answer.
Thats because you will limited unless you use specific services.

In Germany, two operators (T-Mobile and Vodafone) offer special "passes" for different services. These do not count against your monthly quota (if you use up all your data, you will be limited to about 64 kbit/s).

So, yes, you can use a VPN, but this will count against your data cap. While, if you use the services they choose for you, you basically get "free" extra data.
Did anyone else here grow up being told that the Chinese government stole search technology from Google when they tried to do business there, and this is how Baidu got started?
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Could someone explain in laymen terms what happened and what that means?
The problem / challenge there is that school isn't very stimulating, or, not for everyone - school, especially elementary and secondary school, are based more on discipline and forcing people to learn a basic curriculum, whether they like it or not. If they get distracted by their phones or whatever they'll run behind, score low on their tests, end up in a lower secondary / tertiary education, aaaand have to settle for an okay job.

Kids are very easily distracted, and the current school systems are designed to deal with those by removing distractions and forcing a bit of discipline.

The alternative would be more personally optimized education, but that's a lot more expensive and harder to scale - and teachers are already an underpaid and overworked demographic.

Besides, kids that age use their phone more for social contacts and distractions than learning stuff.
Crack down in India as well.
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It's pretty rough on newcomers as well as devs trying to find docs and blog posts, but in contrast to naming it something else, it was pretty effective at establishing a user base.

It would have been a lot easier on the world if 1.x was the last version of anything called Angular and Google named the new thing FooBarJS.

But Google knows how software teams work. Names and versions are easier to evaluate than trying things out or running comparative analysis.

Teams hire "Angular" developers which usually means "1 or 2" even though it very much shouldn't.

Teams will set aside time to "upgrade to Angular 2" more freely than they would set aside time to "switch to a different framework, FooBar.js", even though with Angular 2, those are the same.

Even if teams would set aside time to "Upgrade to new framework", they're much more likely to do a alternatives analysis if it's not just a version number changing.

That said, I think this hurts developers and teams, and I think it's loosely nefarious, but it was probably necessary for Angular 2 to get the adoption it has today.
The event has also been compared to a dumpster fire[0] due to "sexualized events & speeches", is this guy exaggerating or is it safe to go there for women? Pretty off-putting tbh

[0] https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/939910697911066624
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> why is your profit 0?

Because the 5k in the market is not a realized gain
An exercise that I made during my degree and phd years in maths was to always take notes in a consistent notation across the various lectures, regardless of the convention used by the teacher. It forced me to pay attention and as a bonus I have a consistent set of notes for most undergraduate mathematics :-)
So in your view a school's main product is entertainment?
I looked at the documentation the last time there was one of these complaints about webpack threads, the usage and benefits of loaders, plugins and modules seemed hard to understand as opposed to gulp where you just have a pipe.

I don't care if I can just plop a simple webpack without thinking in and it will handle everything I need, because I will always need more - and besides which I have my own gulp files I can just plop in without thinking too because I wrote them and I know exactly what will happen.
I find your argument rather lame.

First, Chinese government is not Nazi and Google is not IBM. You can't just say that a government is Nazi just because you hate that government.

Second, even if Google openly broke with Chinese government, it still has offices in China. I doubt that Google opens an AI center in China to "allow its DeepMind technology to be used to spy on Chinese citizens and dissidents", and I do think that Google has a big ambition than you can think in China. And I think that ambition is to advance AI with the help of local talents.
I put that badly. Fish certainly does support scripting, but as a relatively niche piece of software you get bad portability (everything has bash) and poor maintainability (because everyone else scripts in bash). Fish is a great shell and maybe this will change, but at the present time I'd be doing my clients a disservice if I wrote them tools in a language few others could work with.
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Thanks for that, I was searching for something like that for a while!
I like it when you talk dirty like that...
The fact that you had to add grunt, the grandfather of webpack, speaks volumes. Why didn’t you just configure wp to compile less?
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In my opinion that is correct behavior. An AP shouldn't have dhcp, it should provide access to a network.

Disclaimer: I have a unifi and edge router and it's a great combo
Spying on citizens and dissidents, even if true, is nothing close to Nazis. For the record,

- China was on the opposite side of Nazis in WW2

- China has 56 ethnic groups and has no plan to "cleanse" any of them
Lots of enterprise equipment have features where you can mirror traffic off an ethernet port and monitor it, but it is cheap and easy to do if you are poor too. Dig up a 100MB hub, not a switch, and then with another computer plugged into that hub run a program like Wireshark or tcpdump.

This is one reason why I don't run all-in-one router/wireless combos. Most integrated (especially provided by ISP units) devices have no way to tell you what is being sent over the air and then to your ISP.
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> Does it strike me odd that CEOs and founders complain about fund raising? That's one of the most important parts of their job.

> If people don't want to fundraise, the solution is simple: don't be a CEO or start a company.

That has to be heavily qualified, as it applies to a very small subset of CEOs and founders. Your last statement is radically off-base vs the reality of who starts most new companies in the US. The extreme majority, 99%, of all CEOs and founders in the US do not actively fund raise as part of their jobs. They have actual operating businesses that require their attention and pay for themselves with sales, or otherwise are bootstrapping on variations of self-funding. Few start-ups in the US are backed by venture capitalists or involve VC fund raising.

~500,000 new businesses are started every month in the US. ~400k-500k new employer businesses are started each year. Less than 1% of all of those businesses are backed by venture capitalists.