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An analogy of filling a curved-bottom tub would be a better fit than of someone making bets optimally when the chances are non-uniform. Our cones can be stimulated only up to some certain amount. At the point of saturation, any further stimuli would have no effect, other than perhaps frying the receptors.

I would also suspect that the receptors are becoming less and less sensitive to the stimuli they accept as they get closer to saturation, making the relation non-linear, and shaped more like a saturation curve.

If that really is the case, then a LF really would be better off if it was more bell-shaped and wide as the relative human sensitivity, than being an impulsive one at the peak. It would be like that because as the LF starts doubling down on the highest bid (~550nm), the marginal response other wavelengths would start becoming more viable, eventually taking 550nm off the first place.

There also is the possibility that the author has done his research well before spending so much effort on preparing the article. Even then, this could be the reality that we are yet to discover.
The ultimate first world problem, but still a real one.

Around the time my first kid was born, I took a look at the profits from my little handful of SaaS products and decided that, even though we were happily living off it, it wasn't really "put a kid through college" money. So I picked up a remote contract.

But, SaaS being Saas, business picked up. After a few years, the product business was bringing in more than any full-time job I'd ever had before. But I had negotiated my "Bay Area Rate" for this contract, and was therefore also bringing in a significant fraction of what the OP describes each year.

House paid off, savings saved, no money troubles on the horizon, but it still took a long time and a lot of effort to convince myself to drop that contract. When the getting is good, it's really hard to deliberately stop the getting.

But I did. Took the kids out of school for half a year and hopped a flight to Southeast Asia to show them how mommy and daddy used to travel with backpacks and sleep in tin huts on the beach. Then slowly settled back in to working on the business stuff, when the weather didn't favor being outside, implementing all those things I'd had to put off for 5 years and shaping them up to be the solid revenue stream they'll need to be going forward.

But yeah, it's tough to do. Well worth it though.

To the OP, though, I'd recommend getting your spending sorted out. The math above doesn't work out for me, and it sounds like you've ramped your lifestyle up to consume most of that half million a year. Don't pull the plug until you have that comfortably down to around $50k all in. Otherwise you'll burn through your $1M savings in, well, 2 years. That would be no fun. And completely unnecessary.
Imagine a 14mm 2.8 on full frame - that's a very wide angle. Of course a 14mm 2.8 on a mobile phone size sensor will not be used a wide angle, as the senor will only cover a tiny amount of the arc behind the lens. While the two lenses theoretically "transport" the same amount of light, the sensor of the smart phone only sees a tiny amount of it in the center of the theoretical image circle. In practical terms of course the smaller-sensor lens will already be constructed to only have a very small image circle and therefore let through nowhere near as much light as the lens constructed for a larger sensor.
That's why it makes sense to consider equivalent f-stops for calculations of light amount passing to the sensor, it also has its place in calculation of DOF.
Instead they show incompetence at stuff like fragments, replacing build systems, broken Gradle builds at each update, outdated documentation, broken Android Studio and Support library releases, removing AS plugins without documenting how to work with them gone, adding PWAs and Flutter to the mix, ...

Which so much Android love I am curious to see how many apps you have released, since you seem to like the experience so much.
What a summary. Thanks for this.
Open does include modular; since user freedom is the end goal, open standards are even more important than open source.
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I think you're missing the bigger point. Most people work on problems that they've seen or experienced. For the young, it tends to be dating, social media, or some sort of e-commerce. They chase trends and hype. When you gain experience, you get exposed to an entirely different set of problems—problems with workflow, business processes, and general efficiency. Problems
where you can deliver real value.

This was brilliantly expressed in this blog post [1]. Both the young and the old, stand at a disadvantage. Experienced folks have a better idea about worthy problems, but they're shackled with liabilities and lack of time commitment. Young people have a lot more freedom, but they don't have a good idea about the problems that are worth it.

[1]: http://000fff.org/the-problem-with-problems/
If this result is surprising to HN readers, it is probably because this list of the last 100 IPOs is also surprising:

https://www.iposcoop.com/last-100-ipos/

Only 19 of the 100 most recent IPOs are classified as "technology" companies. The rest are in categories like "health care" and "oil and gas."

There are a lot of high-growth companies that are not startups in the classic sense of starting from nothing and winning by building a better mousetrap. E.g. pharmaceutical companies commercializing research, where the founder is a PI and probably a tenured professor who's at least 40.
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As a first-time founder, I would like to ask additional ideas when launching an MVP.
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For what it's worth, this is the first that I've heard of the Puerto Rico power outage.

Interestingly, though, as an Israeli I already know that the "news" is designed to capture eyeballs and not designed to convey information. I know Africans who work online, this is potentially going to ruin them financially. However, having no power for months in a modern nation could potentially cost lives. Yet, no mention.
I had an electric bike for a while. It worked well but it couldn't last my daily trip of 70KM so for a decent chunk of the time I was dragging along all the extra weight so I sold it and got a nice light road bike. If you are only going about 40km between charges it's perfect.
> The fact that it's open and you can submit contributions, even if they aren't accepted, is proof that it's not a closed system. Make your own fork and use that.

Open alternatives already exist, I use them. But people build other systems that integrate only with docker, and since docker deliberately refuses to follow any fixed standard, other systems can't be compatible with the docker ecosystem. Am I supposed to fork every codebase in the world?
Ah, I interpreted the "if" (missing in your quote) as a true conditional (not implying that he actually did have 4.6). Thanks for clarifying. In my experience, anything below 5 is potentially a red flag on Uber/Lyft.
1985 called, they want their composable networking abstraction back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS
That's incorrect unless you're a company contracting to an organisation, in which case you signed a contract saying you're going to stay and do X for period of time, and if they have to stop and scramble because you left without the contracting being breached - you're liable. Which is fair and universal.

Employees on the other hand have NEVER been docked pay in New Zealand and you are in NO way legally obligated to turn up for work. The only case you'd experience penalties is if you're a doctor, nurse, teacher and the like where you're likely to receive license/registration repercussions from a governmental board.
This is great news. I'm especially happy to see fossil fuel subsidies disappear as well. Energy sources should compete based on efficiency, and efficiency gets mangled by interference on cost of goods. Renewables will dominate soon as cost of production beats out fossils, and this is a great thing for our wallets and our planet.
Property value is reassessed on change-of-ownership.

Lower housing stock leads to inflated home prices, causing higher taxes paid by more-recently-purchased homes.
i'd argue youtube kids is already an example of 2)...
Without more people society has no future, eventually everyone will die

The population of the world has doubled in just my lifetime. The risk of the species dying out is negligible.
When multiple people have reviewed and approved, all of those people are jointly and equally responsible for any fallout. A reviewer needs to take their responsibility as seriously as the coder. If they don’t, it diminishes the value of having the code review.

The coder, the reviewers, the approvers, they’re all in this together. It’s unfortunate that this happened, but no single person should be held accountable when there’s a process in place designed to protect against individual mistakes.

It’s a shame that this skipped through still anyway, but that’s part of the nature of the resource limitation, especially with F/LOSS. There’s always a risk of this happening. The only way to reduce the risk is to contribute more resources. Blaming the coder is more likely to result in a reduction of resources, as less code gets done.
They did the same thing for trump. And for every other thing he ever did. I'm not sure how you could imagine otherwise; anything that could potentially be construed as offensive in some fashion, was reported as such. Most channels absolutely hated him.

But he became president anyways. maybe as a result of it.
correction, I hadn't updated my server in a while, stretch itself is on 0.6.5.9 also, but stretch-backports is on 0.7.6 (not sure when that happened exactly)
> (b) we both claim we run on green power

That's the difference. You CAN'T claim it's green power after you sold the certificate. Even if it's literally directly connected to your house.

Imagine it like a portal in your electric cable.
> C#. Ever hear of it?

Yes, apparently it is part of .NET, go figure.

> At least they're still employed. Windows support team - not so much.

Well last time I checked my Windows Phones were still getting more updates than my Android phones.

Quite ironic for a platform that is supposed to be dead with unemployed team

> Compared to the Windows store, which is a cesspool of garbage, for both Windows apps and Windows phone apps I would say quality was the furthest thing from their minds.

Not far off from the daily garbage I see on Play Store as well.
I occurs to me that being unfulfilled with what you are currently doing is what leads to mind wandering and unhappiness, rather than mind wandering itself being the cause of unhappiness. Mind wandering is a signal that you aren't having fun.
That isn't a loophole, that is how the system is supposed to work. The right to claim you run on green energy is something you can sell. This means that:

1. Actually running on green energy is a competitive advantage.

2. The cost is borne by companies who want to be able to claim they are running on green energy.

This allows companies that want to be ethical to subsidize the cost of green energy even if they can't literally run on green energy due to logistic issues.
My whole media library of ripped DVDs and Blurays (that I legally own) is in MKV format. You get video, chapter marks, multiple audio streams, and subtitles all in one file. Plus almost every modern device plays them. I love it as a container format.

My MKVs typically have H264 video + AC3/DTS audio.
Have been approved for a BlueCard (but ultimately didn't take it) without a degree. Quite a few hoops, but it's possible.
Isn't saving for kids' college an American tradition?

Also, it seems that in the US, student loans are a pretty heavy burden to take on.
> How does prop 13 cause a housing crisis?

Because it discourages owners of existing residential real estate from upgrading it to higher density to meet new demand, since doing do would trigger full-value assessment and decrease the returns; this means even discounting NIMBYism and zoning issues, market response to demand is slower and involves more rent increase to source the same level of redevelopment as would be the case without Prop 13.

Also, it subsidized people mstsying in their currently-owned single family homes, which makes the unwilling to (and thus demanding a higher premium to) move out of a place in-demand for working people when they retire, even if they are over housed. (This is, in fact, just a slightly different view of the retirees-being-forced-out-by-property-tax image that was used to sell Prop 13.)
Does this include their part at foxconn?
I think that "speculation" is the word you are looking for.
They are usually capped to 250W and 25KM/h. Anyone half fit could blast past 4x as fast on a regular bike than on an ebike. The benifit of an ebike is you get to your destination with minimal sweat and get about as much exercise as walking.
>dire state of hate speech and vitriol

Yes, things are now so good for the average person that you can create mass hysteria over mean words. Not a satanic child murdering panic, not teenage violence, sex and substance abuse... just words.

Once you stop consuming the outrage crack pipe, it all goes away. It's all a big game of signaling and sophistry. Ask yourself why the average journalist is qualified to whip you into a frenzy on topics that should rightly require years of study to become authoritative on.

You can be trusted, you just gotta turn your brain back on. When there is a breakdown in the accepted mechanisms for spreading social consensus, you go back to primary sources. It shouldn't be a surprise: nature has told us that monocultures are eminently vulnerable. The solution is always diversity, the actual kind, not the ideological puritanism that has appropriated that concept for themselves.
Also, nowhere near 500K.
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Prop 13 limits increases while a property remains within the ownership of the same immediate family.

It is reassessed at market value after a non-family sale.
It's a long timeline, but I'd say things started getting specific late 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_crisis_impact_timelin...
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Also, you're in a tax bracket where you're basically a golden egg-laying goose for the government.
Yup; if there ever is another major war, a lot of infrastructure that was built in the past 30 years will be destroyed - internet, internet companies/datacenters, sattelite networks, mobile phone networks, etc.
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Why does logan have to hide it I don't understand man. LoganTape99 is what made it possible now why don't I understand it huh because of LoganTape99. I had attempted TypeScript and server-rendered react here:
https://inner-fox-media.firebaseapp.com
One interesting facet of all this is that afaik most of our hyper-realistic "physically based rendering" 3D renderers are still based on these color models instead of modeling the light spectrally. I imagine that somewhere in near future that will change as we start reaching the limits of the color models.

It is actually interesting how well simple RGB has served in practice when it is fairly simple to imagine scenes where it really shouldn't (and wouldn't) work at all.
"... just one weird trick. Maybe I can do that too! I should read this article - maybe some parts of the secret are revealed in it."
no, this is wrong. secure enclave or not. radio chips have direct memory access. phones are only as secure as providers want them to be. Computers actually do what I tell them to --I don't need hacks to "root" them or inspect their behavior.
I would also point here that not everything which is publicly available is sensitive data. I've tried one of the tools posted on HN a while back to find read-access to random S3 buckets, I only found HTML files used for static websites. You can just get these files with curl on the website as well.
Hi, 30y/o here from germany. My advice would be to take a bachelor/master in computer science. During the bachelor degree you learn basic mathematical principles like linear algebra or discrete maths. This is not only important for implementing ML/DL/AI algorithms, it also helps you to read and understand research papers. Also, most universities in germany offer deep learning courses in their master degrees. So, take the bachelor for basic stuff and specialize in the master.

You could also try to learn more about ML/DL and AI by taking the various online courses out there on the internet, like Andrew Ng Coursera machine learning course. You can also take a look at kaggle.com, there are some ml challenges and code examples.
I think the person above you gets what OOP is and quite frankly, you’re being a condescending prick.
In my experience the DNC has been a failure. I get 10+ calls a day. All are obvious scams. The most recent iterations are student loan related (I don't have any) and an urgent warning about my car warranty expiring (I don't have one)
I'm going to be honest: I have no clue about social. I operate in socio-medical domain, we don't share by default.

We are mostly fine with the spirit of the GDPR, it's the work we have to do to follow it to the letter which is a problem (and the lack of process internally).
AC3 mostly.
According to this article, without export controls, X would have had strong crypto baked in. So the 'flaw' is that it was designed, well, without crypto.
AlphaZero is existing general AI that learns boardgames on its own and reaches superhuman levels in less than a day. It seems to me quite plausible something like that could be generalised to understanding the physical world rather than that of chess or go. Admittedly we can't do that today but am not sure it's far off.

Musk gives it five years in the recent movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqlwUAxoxa8&feature=youtu.be...
A couple of years ago, I built an app that would generate websites from photographs. The idea was if you liked a particular scenery/color combination from the real world, then you'd have a website built from it. All you had to do was a take a photo and it'd generate a color palette from which the website would be built on the fly.

However, I faced with the same challenge as the author has pointed out - what our eyes see and perceive as "bright" are very totally different from what computers perceive. So, I designed an algorithm from scratch using ML and the HSV color model. The tests I ran showed me the real difference between what I saw and what the computers saw.

Here's some samples:

1. https://i.imgur.com/jhWR3pq.jpg

2. https://i.imgur.com/M6Oo6dp.jpg

I think I'll probably open source it soon.
Too bad all these efforts are ruined by a dozen BTC mining farms.
Innovation doesn’t have to happen at the product level; it can also apply to manufacturing. For example, Dell innovated the supply chain of desktop computers.

For Apple, there’s lots of innovation in the way they create hardware at scale with previously unheard of tolerances. For example, when they thought “let’s make a laptop chassis from milled aliminium” they couldn’t just send the design out to a company used to making millions of milled aluminum bodies of that size.

Apple also innovated by bringing 64-bit CPUs to mobile phones (not a surprising innovation, but they managed to do it earlier than many people suspected were possible)
Using some hints from the blog, the company is likely Sagem or one his subsidiary, well known for mismanaging armies of consultants.

I am not sure they actually worked on Louvois, so this is possibly another unrelated epic failure.
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Good day everyone!
The last few weeks I was working on a small color community.

As a designer you can share your favorite color palettes and as a developer you can grab some for your next project.

On most sites I was missing a feature to easy grab them. I always have to manually copy and paste hex values or even make a screenshot and grab the colors out of sketch.

Thats why I wanted something more smooth and build Colour Hunt. With CSS + Preprocessor export and soon with Sketch export.
I think this is actually a natural part of a regular joe's working day. It's said in software development that you can only spend about four days on focused work - the creative part you mentioned. The rest is then spent on lower energy tasks, like communications, code cleanup, etc.
It's also possible that you can move faster with a dynamically type checked language.

I would be of the opinion that it is faster because if static compilation was a free lunch there would be no question
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> Property value is reassessed on change-of-ownership.

Actually, it's reassessed annually, there is just a limit to annual assessment increases except with qualifying events.

Which doesn't change the fact that Prop 13 limited nominal rates to lower values than many jurisdictions (including core Bay Area ones) were before Prop 13; jurisdictions aren't making up with artificially low assessments on long-held properties with higher taxes on other properties. Yes, those other properties are assessed closer to full value, but it's not offsetting anything. If you cut the food you eat on weekdays by 50% and that on weekends by 66%, you aren't making up for the reduced weekend calories by eating more during the week.
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Monomers like ethylene are a by-product of splitting oil; you still need polymerization and processing of the polymers (e.g. extruding, moulding, etc).

It's non-sequitur to say that the process is not wasteful because part of the initial work is done to obtain gasoline. Oil itself is a limited resource.
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I am not going to say it never happens but purposely induced delays are very rare. You have to remember that Twitch is a community and the people watching communicate with the streamer through chat. Getting a response to something you say in chat 5 minutes later is not a workable solution.

Now, this works fine for large broadcasts where there is no two way communication between a streamer and their followers or in some type of competitive situations, but that is not the norm.
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I think it comes down to giving them credit for funding the construction of massive clean energy projects, even if they don't exclusively use the electricity from that project themselves.

Look at Microsoft. They just funded a deal to build out an absolutely massive solar farm in Virginia.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/03/21/new-sol...

They do have facilities in state that will only need a fraction of that power to be 100% green, and the excess will be pumped into the local Virginia power grid and used by consumers there.

Basically, Microsoft is saying that they funded the project to generate excess green energy in one place to offset the dirty energy they consume in areas where there is no local green power option available.
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