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I suffer from tinnitus and hyperacusis. Part of all that is that I frequently hear phantom echos of certain sorts of sounds... most notably the test of the district emergency siren that's done every saturday, which I "hear" replayed in my head off and on for the rest of the afternoon. I even "hear" things which I know I can't hear without my hearing aids.

Another example is when I watch a lot of professional sports, like rugby. I've had the experience where I've watched a few games and then that evening I "heard" crowd noises and the indistinct chatter of the commentators (even to the point where I "could tell" that they were South African). This experience is so convincing I'm compelled to get up and check to make sure the telly is off, even though it's been off for hours.

Anyway my point is that it's entirely possible that people who experience actual full on auditory hallucinations "hear" voices that "sound" different than their voice and which "obviously" are coming from some external source... and that absolutely not making any sense but being nonetheless credible is part of the experience.

I gotta say as disturbing and embarrassing as I find my own experiences they're nothing to what is being described in the article, so I really feel for them because there's no way that is pleasant experience.
Yes, I meant after the dollar was disconnected to gold.
Well, I mean that's true of almost every authentication method. If I have 2FA set up and someone knows my password and has access to my phone, of course they get into my account. I have a pentester friend who told me once: "Nothing is unbreakable or un-exploitable." I tend to believe that. Things like social engineering can always be applied to get the information you need to spoof credentials or gain access to critical systems. If someone is motivated and has enough resources, there's no amount of security methods that can stop them.
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wait, so the unedited video has the star wars theme? that's even more silly
It's not clear from the demo video, but will this help with labeling data? In my experience, that is the most time consuming part of creating models.
I'm not sure why the application page rather than the grant page is the one turning up in Google's results, but the patent was granted. It is US Patent number 7,126.691, issued October 24, 2006.
You can already do this with existing tech. When a DHCP lease is acquired, you also get DNS server information. If you are concerned about the DNS packets being encrypted on your local network, then you can do that already as well by intercepting them with a local firewall and sending them across a tunnel.

IMO, the purpose of DOH is to address semi hostile environments like the free Wifi at the Airport. It is kind of like a VPN for just your DNS traffic.
You can get Kirkland brand men’s khakis at Costco for $20. Decent polos can be had for < $10 from JC Penny. Anyway, that’s what I wear, and they are good until the wife complains about the holes, and then some.

I keep telling her I’ll someday fit into that favorite heavy metal T-shirt from high school; don’t throw it out.
I dunno. Back in the day farmers used a system called crop rotation to maintain the soil.

One year they planted crop A, the next they planted crop B, and the next they left it fallow.

This was before industrial fertilizes mind you, but leaving part of the land fallow is not a bad thing.
This isn't a bad point. If you purchased a house in SF for $1m in 2009, there's a good chance it would sell for $1.8 mil today[1].

Rents have varied over time. I'd say the rent on a place like this would be $3k a month in 2009, and maybe $4k now. This is harder to estimate. Also, rent control is different for SFH than for apartments - in this case, I'll assume rent control is in place [1].

So, lost rent is 3k a month for 8 years, $288,000. Ok, that's some serious lost money.

Gain in equity is $800,000. If your tenant make is hard to see and realize that gain, it really might make sense to leave it vacant.

I have seen houses in SF sell for vastly below market due to existing tenants, with powerful rights (there are certain protected classes of tenant). There's a lot of room between 300k and 800k.

It's not so simple, of course. It's expensive to be a landlord, and time consuming, and that income is taxed. So the loss of renting actually isn't $288,000, it's lower. Also, the house may be enjoyable as a pied a Terre. Think of it as any investment - you park your money somewhere, hope it will grown. Owning this house is no different from owning gold, or stock. You buy it, you hope it will appreciate. Buying and not renting could make sense as a mildly risk-averse approach - you give up some yields in exchange for the lower risk of not having a tenant. .

At the same time, cash flow is tough. Many people simply can't afford to pay the mortgage for 8 years without that rental income. And they figure, eh, eventually the tenant will leave, and then they can sell.

But overall? Yeah, I can see how it's economically rational to buy a place to speculate and simply leave it vacant[2]. Or, alternatively, rent only to extremely trusted people (family members or others treated as such).

[1] I'm cherry picking dates and rent control policy to show the best case scenario for not renting a place out.

[2] I believe this is harmful. Pointing out that something is economically rational (and in this case, perfectly legal) does not mean I endorse it!
IIRC, soy has nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
It would be done through a public investment bank, so you would be paid for the shares. That, or you pay equity in lieu of taxes.
Saw a fellow somewhat recently with a bunch of patches on his jacket. "Which one is your favorite?"

"The voices may not be real, but they do have some good ideas" - https://imgur.com/8KjfH56

I've "heard voices" two, maybe three times, spread out over maybe 7 years. Both times they were very helpful. The second time was while walking through my apartment. A very distinct voice said, "You're doing well, now go back to [website] and read about [subject]".

I did as I was told and was amazed - I'd been studying the reports on [website] for years, and just hadn't noticed that [subject] was extensively covered, and was of much importance for getting the author's various ideas to fit together.

One of my passengers has had a complex relationship with her voices. Her psychiatrists tried to snuff them out, but I don't think their efforts were very helpful.
My dad is 66 and can easily walk for hours. I think the problem here is strictly health issues, not age. (Obviously, health issues often come with age... but age itself is not the limiting factor at all!)
It's not so much what comes out chemically but what comes out physically. And happens to be particulate matter meaning partly combusted hydrocarbons in the form of soot. The soot is an inhalation hazard and has been linked to asthma and lung cancer.
If an emergency created a huge shortage in global food supply, the policy's assumption is that the market competition for nutritional vs. transportation crops would shift (food would be more expensive and valuable to sell) so that the new nutritional needs were satisfied.

You are correct that in the current equilibrium state it is sub-optimal. Prices are settled right now where a small number of hungry poor people are out-competed by the transportation market because they can't pay more than it can.

That is bad, I completely agree. But fixing that isn't what the policy is for, the policy is for preventing starvation during World War 3.

So you have to compare the suffering of people here and now against the potential suffering expected without the policy in place multiplied by the probability that WW3 occurs.
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Yes, since you can't trust the JS, doing this would be an attempt at security through obfuscation. I mostly just think it's strange that these keys aren't accessible. If there were ever a mismatch detected, the server could at least know with certainty that there's a bad actor on the connection.

Thanks for Zooko's Traingle wiki. Hadn't seen that one before.
I don't agree with your implication that shadowy intelligence agencies killed Jack Parsons, but the story of Jack Parsons is fascinating! I think he just mixed too many random rocket fuel precursors. Or maybe L Ron Hubbard really did successfully curse him. There are a few fun books written about this.
Depends how the subsidy is set up. If it creates a price floor just above the production cost then it just reduces risk for the farmers without incentivizeing them to devote extra field space to soy. Basically the food market gets serviced until the price almost drops below the point where it would be sustainable and the excess is bought up by the Diesel producers (who receive the government subsidy).
I find a lot of misplaced amazement here at numbers in general. He started by reading the manual, which was ONE THOUSAND PAGES!!! And found a vulnerability that affects a BEEELLION COMPUTERS!! And he's only TWENTY TWO YEARS OLD!!!

Reminds me of the TV news, where any time a number is mentioned, they emphasize the hell out of it like I'm supposed to be amazed!!!!! Do they train 'em in journalism school to do that?

Here I see a story of how someone with at least the minimum level of interest and thinking skills goes and RTFM, then thinks about how to exploit this one design feature (a decision essentially made once per chip design, not a beeeellion times), and finally through experimentation and persistence figures out how to do it.
This reads as an amazing journey. Kudos for your pursuit of a better process.

It seems to me that so many (online) courses jump to applying tf/pytorch to a predefined dataset, whereas most of the work is in preparing the data. I have a personal project I'd like to try out classifying images, and haven't had much luck finding resources on building my own training dataset.

Can you recommend any resources on assembling and collating your own dataset?
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From the end of the article:

In fact, China wants so much soy meal that it's boosted global supplies of soy oil, because soybeans, when they're crushed, yield both meal and oil. By satisfying China's demand for meal, soy processors inevitably end up with plenty of oil to sell, too.

So if soy meal is what's driving the Soy market, doesn't that limit the environmental cost for soy used for oil, since the oil is effectively a waste product from the soy meal production?
> I personally don't feel that it's okay to use starvation to incent work

I think most people would agree with you on that one. And the fact that people in "rich" countries are still food-insecure is horrible.

One problem is that there isn't a clear bright line between "starvation" (in the sense of malnutrition) and "nutritious but not very tasty food" and "nutritious and tasty but not very pretty food". And you can keep going in that vein to things like "not having a flat-screen tv", say, which I think most people would classify as quite different from "starvation". But there isn't an obvious cutoff point on the way.

Oh, and what we consider sufficiently nutritious today may not be so considered tomorrow. Both literally (at some point nutrition science discovered vitamins and then trace minerals, etc), but people nowadays also get into arguments about whether internet access is a fundamental right like food or a luxury. And whether personal transportation (e.g. cars) is a fundamental right. What will people think about access to a self-driving car 50 years from now: luxury or fundamental right?

In practice, what we consider below-acceptable standards of living (which we as a society need to subsidize until they reach acceptable levels) are a good bit higher than what was considered totally acceptable 50 years ago. That's a natural consequence of society growing richer, of course and I would say it's a _good_ thing.

But here's the question that bothers me: Had we frozen per-capita production at 50 years ago levels, while subsidizing living standards to a level above the 50-years-ago acceptable minimum but below the today acceptable minimum, such that vast numbers of people today would be forced to live below what we consider an acceptable living standard today, would that be a net gain? In the short term, clearly yes (we subsidized people at a higher level). In the medium term (to today), it seems clear to me the answer is no. In the longer term (200 years from now, say), I have no idea.

It's hard to tell even post facto, much less a priori, whether we're over-subsidizing or under-subsidizing to achieve maximal happiness. And that's even if we can all agree on a timeframe. Combine that with the fact that different people already have different definitions of what constitutes minimum acceptable living standards, and it becomes very hard to apply ethical considerations to this problem in a principled way. :(
It was always like that on the mainframe world.

Assembly was actually bytecode, with a micro-coded CPU doing the actual execution.

All Xerox computers were like that. The first boot step was to load the right kind of micro-code for the environment being started.

The AS/400 native environment (nowadays known as IBM i), is based on bytecode TIMI, which gets AOT compiled via a kernel level JIT.
> because streaming video, of which these companies own the largest providers of streaming video, would be the primary thing limited plans would all definitely restrict.

No, the primary thing limited plans would all definitely restrict would be the quantity of data transferred. That's what all the cellular providers already have the infrastructure to monitor and control. And once you've created an IoT-oriented tier of service that is limited to eg. 100MB/month, there's no reason to expend further effort trying to identify and block video streaming services.
Never mind that biodiesel can be made from something other than soy. Perhaps a weed plant that can grow on lands unsuitable for food crops?
Anything where you want low latency interactivity. For example, a graph where you are applying various filters. The more traditional “SPA” would fetch only the data and do local re-rendering on a canvas, SVG, etc.
In fact this is the case even if you are not a sophisticated investor, since the profits are not yours and are really just stolen property.
Is it actually a JIT? It's just compiling everything unconditionally. I guess the fact that the second tier replaces previously compiled functions with more optimized versions makes it a JIT? Or does the definition of JIT require recompiling in response to information about which code would benefit most?
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No one is saying you should do your whole application in WASM though, it's really just like native extensions in any dynamic language: of course, you're not going to get GC or interaction with dynamic parts of the language in your extension, but the reason might be:

- libraries written in another language, such as SQL.js

- hot spots of an application that can benefit from fast number crunching (e.g., gaming, visualization)

- truly cross-platform at native performance

etc.

I don't think anyone serious enough to use WASM in their application is making the assumption of using wasm will make all your stuff faster. It won't. It's just another performance tool, with its benefits subject to performance methodologies.

Sidebar: Google Doc is an interesting application in this perspective, given they render the entire application in a canvas, and the application itself is probably not written in JS. I'm excited what the future holds for tools like Google Doc.
Unsurprising, considering that browsers load code on demand and despite the original vision for Java, the JVM and CRL tend to be used for apps for which it's acceptable to have slow startup time.
SpaceX is planning on launching there satellite internet service in the next 5 years, and it could potentially have lower latency than traditional fiber networks due to the satellites being able to communicate more directly.

I don't disagree with you though, we need solid fiber internet options available at reasonable prices.
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How many sovereign individuals are there in the world though? Surely less than 200.
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The assumption is that or brains are trained to deal with anything our eyes send them. The observation is that blurred images are a common thing our eyes send, while images with random frequencies deleted are not. This model would explain why the blurred images in the paper look relatively normal to us, while the images put through the random filter don't. (Note that this is the inverse of the CNNs response that was better able to classify the random filter images than the blurred ones.)
Cracking DHCE (Diffie-Hellman color exchange)
Are you some kind of Shokan, but with a birth defect of having five fingers a hand instead of the normal 3?
"Hey Doug, Got a minute? So the university where you learned Computer Science, well we just found out they recently closed their doors. Since they are no longer an accredited institution, nor do they even exist, we're going to have to let you go."
Not at all.

The re-written XAML is only for UWP apps.
Your thoughts on webpack/babel/grunt/gulp well echo my sentiment towards seasoned programmers.

I've only been at this for around 15+ years right now. I agree I am starting to see repeated problems solved in new JS languages that I've seen solved in the past.

That's part of the fun in what we do for a living though. I consider myself at least mildly seasoned, but still a ton to learn from those fresh to the field and those who have been around the block at least twice.

I quite well understand what WebPack is doing, and find it very useful. Anytime I find myself thinking I'll make my own recipe for a build system with custom scripting, I seek a well supported framework, you know on the off chance someone else wants to understand and contribute to the build system.

I think it's a poor choice frankly to build 100% custom frameworks for building when you can use a widely adopted community choice. I was more pointing to the volatility of JS frameworks vs stable frameworks in Java like Spring.

As we age in our career though it seems we should avoid condescending tones with more junior programmers though, as they may have a unique solution to problems. I've seen some junior folks get quite offended when a non-producing "seasoned" programmer gives them the "I've been doing this for 20 years" schtick, then turn around to spend a few days on a powerpoint instead of contributing to the team.

Anyways, I don't want to rant.
Soy oil a waste product? Hardly. It can be used for all manner of food preparations.
People buy me a lot of cloth that I never wear, because I find them uncomfortable. Either they don't fit or are uncomfortable, impractical or I dislike how they look. By a lot, I mean I get them multiple times per year (birthday, christmas). People don't seem to gift as much to guys.

I had also multiple times had to buy something so that I wear something appropriate (for wedding, job interview, classical dancing or other official occasion) and when similar occasion happened again, they did not fit anymore. Guys can do with same official outfit for all these occasions.
My work flow for a new app is:

1. Use whatever back end framework I know

2. Use server side templates

3. Slap on Turbolinks (because it works super easily with any back end framework)

4. Sprinkle in JS as needed

This results in very fast development, very fast page loads and no duplication of things like validations / schemas. The best part is you can use whatever you want on the back end too. I've followed this pattern successfully with Rails, Flask and Phoenix.

Screw SPAs (for most document heavy web apps).
> but then you're also deforesting lands to grow them

Other than anecdotal evidence, do you have any source for this?

The cost to remove trees and put that land into production is quite high. Even then, most forested land is poor for growing crops. I would be very surprised to learn that in the US, farmers are removing trees and preparing the land to till on a large scale.
Shrouds should help against out-of-band radiation. I'm no expert but I assume that they do more harm in a single radio environment than without but they should help when you have multiple radios next to each other.
Could we not discontinue the legal use of food production for biofuels, pay for those crops to continue to be harvested (readiness payments), and then gave the crops away for free to those in need within the country?
I guess i don't understand the push to wasm. Why not just embed hotspot, or a branch of it. Is there any difference?

Or going the other way, could hotspot be replaced with a wasm jit by compiling java to wasm? I know they have slightly different memory models, but I don't understand why they seem to be treated so separately.
Does anyone else even have a desire to work on the apps you are contributing to with you?
A lot of people used to know this stuff, but today most developers were weaned on Macs and Windows boxen. They not only don't understand how terminals work, they frequently call for the tty interface to be put out to pasture and replaced with an Electron app that communicates with the shell via separate data and control streams MUXed over HTTP/2.

The phenomenon of once common tribal knowledge becoming forgotten lore is so extensive that ESR put together a document compiling such knowledge for future generations called Things Every Hacker Once Knew: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/
Poshmark and similar are huge in the millenial-female market.
This only works for HTTP, and all systems are not HTTP nor should they be HTTP.

We've gone far, far backward in networked system capability and efficiency by trying to shoehorn all possible uses of a network into a massively overloaded document retrieval protocol.
Even as a publicly traded company I think that making money is a necessity but not really the primary focus for them now. They’ve gotten to a point where power is the most valuable thing, even when it comes to their ability to make money. This probably has something to do with their monolithic culture and strong political orientation.
In the case of Brazilian Amazon forest, indeed there is a negative impact of soybean.

Up to 2006 was a direct impact causing deforestation. But a law passed making it hard to sell soybean cultivated in deforestated areas (specially to the USA).

But still there is an indirect impact, since then. Cattle raising is the main force behind direct forestation of the Amazon on brazilian area. But once the cattle extinguish the resources of the land and move to a new land to deforestate, the soybean farms occupy the empty land they left behind.

So soybean farmers have an interest in supporting cattle raisers deforestation of the Amazon.

source: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414...
Generally it only takes one driver wanting to stick to the limit for everyone else to do so too, because overtaking is contraindicated. Which isn't to say that it never happens :(.

I live in Edinburgh, which has been gradually introducing 20mph limits over the last couple of years, and I've actually taken to them much better than I'd expected to: they don't reduce my average speed all that much, especially as the arterial roads are still 30mph, and they're much more pleasant when I'm out of the car.
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