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It doesn't have to be. It just usually ends up working out that way.

I don't always lose in Vegas either, but I don't go there looking to drum up money for my my mortgage payment.

I think the right way to look at regulation is that is very likely to fail, or arrive with enough unintended consequences that it probably makes things worse but everything else was sure to fail so even though its a long shot, its the best chance we've got so...

It's like jumping from the 3rd story of a burning building. It might be our only chance, but we should be damn sure the stairs aren't an option before we take the leap.
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Did you not understand it? Your brain creates the simulation.
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Same applies to programming IMO.
>merely that a different set or a few additional rules would permit you to generate better games more efficiently.

It seems suspicious that this is classified as philosophy - it has an empirical foundation! You can even design experiments to test these "theories of metascience:" just check to see how fast the scientists that work according to them produce successful theories. So it sounds like what you're advocating for is a human science (i.e. very difficult to design experiments, but fundamentally based on empiricism), as opposed to a branch of philosophy.

Roughly speaking, the division I am making here goes: experiments plus arguments makes science, arguments without experiments makes philosophy. In this context, I can say, "scientists are only (professionally) interested in experiments and therefore uninterested in philosophy." However if something involves empiricism but is also labeled philosophy, that's just language and I gladly concede that scientists might be professionally interested in it.
I hear only slight distortion (higher frequency) in the Twitter. I assumed distortion/mishearing came from people using crappy speakers.

Anyway, I'm far more interested in how this Cloe person ran their ad-buying/"influencing" campaign to draw attention to this nothingburger that she/they are now trying to sell merchandise from.
> This is an extremely good point and one that people very often overlook.

A good point to clarify to people who think science is like religion, that it states assertions about the world and those assertions are somehow binding to reality. But that's a complete misunderstanding of what science is.

The ultimate result of all of science is a bunch of heavily abstracted "we've observed that if you do this this, then that happens" statements. Newton's mechanics are a bunch of observations generalized into clean mathematical form, that turned out to be useful at predicting results of further observations. Not all observations fit it, so we added a bit more of maths and came up with Relativity. Etc. There's nothing more to that, and physics isn't first "wrong" and then "right"; it's always striving towards more accurate, more predictive models.
So I'm a medical student, as you can probably tell from my comment history. I once helped write a proposal for the American Medical Association related to medical scribes - individuals that record all the data from physicians into the EHR. The idea for these scribes were to allow physicians to focus on the patient care aspect rather than the documentation and billing.

Our proposal was approved almost unanimously by the student section of the meeting, but was argued extensively by the physician section, not on the proposals actual merit, but on the usefulness or lack thereof of scribes. Some delegates thought that they led to errors in documentation (our proposal was to study this), others thought they would be leapfrogged by newer technologies and thus unnecessary.

Long story short, I have two comments. The first, that having more scribes would be beneficial in letting doctors being doctors, perhaps being a simple solution to the problems demonstrated in the article.

The second is that doctors from all kinds of specialties probably agree on many issues affecting patient care and physicians at large. However, all I see are disagreements.
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After graduating as a Software Engineer, I found a job at a small start up that were doing something in the field which I was interested in (I even had an MVP of a business that I never applied myself to). At the time, the company was small (< 20). It has now grown to around 100 people and is about to be sold to a bigger company. Working at this place feels special. It feels like I have helped something grow. I'd like to continue feeling this and get a chance to be a smaller part in a happy ending. This means for me, bigger companies are out of the options.

I might have to leave depending on how the acquisition goes. However, I am having hard trouble finding any startups that triggered the same feeling as it did when I found this company. What can I do other than staying?

P.S: Some details mutated to preserve identity

Edit: Wondering if this "feeling special" is relevant.
Some additional information:
- Early 20s
- Consider myself a beginner though I have been a part of non beginner projects for my current employer.
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GDPR is more recent and supersedes this.
I've just tried to benchmark, but I'm not sure how. I tried using dd to measure sequential speed and this was giving pretty good results on Google Cloud:

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk/by-id/google-local-ssd-0 bs=8192

> 63356186624 bytes (63 GB, 59 GiB) copied, 36.6496 s, 1.7 GB/s

> dd of=/dev/zero if=/dev/disk/by-id/google-local-ssd-0 bs=8192

> 63356186624 bytes (63 GB, 59 GiB) copied, 17.5434 s, 3.6 GB/s

...But I'm perplexed by why it cuts off at 64 GB.

On Amazon I couldn't figure out how to get decent speeds at all. Comparable to my Google Cloud box, I set up an i3.xlarge, which had 4 CPUs and 1 SSD. While the dd operation was working fine, it slowed down to a paltry 430 MB/s quickly and never recovered. I doubt this is the true sequential performance of the drive, so I gave up.

I would've attempted to do multiple SSD configurations, but those seemed even harder. mdadm-based RAIDs were clearly bottlenecking somewhere other than hardware, because they were slower than writing or reading directly.

tl;dr: It turns out these new-fangled NVMe instance store setups are too complicated for me to understand.
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> Great write-up! Your speedups look like they line up as expected. Would you happen to know why Aras's look a bit weird, is it the devices he's using? I'm referring to his Metal timings being more than 10x slower than D3D, and being almost comparable to C++.

Thanks for reading! Since Aras is using a GTX 1080 TI on Windows, and an Intel Iris Pro on Mac, I think the numbers make sense. In my case, my GTX 770 is pretty old, and my 2017 MacBook is pretty new, so the numbers line up better.

> It's a fun exercise in ShaderToy to write a recursive ray tracer. Here's mine: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XllBRf

> And here's a much better one: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4scfz4

Nice! I should add accumulation to mine -- it'd look much better for barely any effort.
Datalog is a declarative database query language with roots in logic programming.

Even more holds: Datalog is a syntactic subset of the logic programming language Prolog!

However, this page does not use Datalog syntax, but "edn" (extensible data notation), which is a subset of Clojure data.

If you want to learn Datalog, you can do that with a Prolog system that supports SLG resolution: This form of resolution, often called tabling, prevents positive and negative loops and always terminates for programs with the bounded term-size property, which is a feature of Datalog programs.

For example, in SWI-Prolog, you can enable tabling with the table/1 directive. Other Prolog systems, such as XSB, have similar facilities.
I’m asking generically, but currently I’m working with an ADI Blackfin 537 tightly coupled with components on custom hardware. It used ADI’s VDK “operating system” with mostly C but with a little C++ and ASM.

I can easily understand platform independant testing for calculation type tests. But how to handle hardware timing type tests?
I got these same benefits from a Computer Science degree.
It's quite normal for there to be two sets of rules. Or maybe it's about the image of not being a "weaboo shit store" (as many people consider anything in anime style).

Even YouTube that's famous for being trigger happy with demonetization and bans has stuff like "Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (Unrated Version)" which has 3 topless girls walk around in it without covering themselves at all.
> watched it on a home "theatre" and not an imax blow-your-mind "experience"

Whenever I hear that a movie needs a theatre with a screen larger than the Arecibo telescope for the public to enjoy it, I already know that's a bad movie.

All the other things you mention are spot on, too. Simply many science fiction movies lately have stopped making any sense, as if (as if?) the public was completely unable to tell the difference.
>The band and the venue don't get any more money with resellers in play.

That's true, but the existence of resellers signals that the band and the venue could have made more money by structuring their prices differently
> "oh well, she just smacked the waiter on his ass. What is the big deal? man up!"

I don't even know how to reply to this straw man. Have you ever had that happen to you or any of your friends? I know a lot of my female friends, sisters and girlfriends have been assaulted or harassed. My female friends? Can't think of a single one.

> And how many time have you seen men describe as sick or under the weather as being "weak" or "faking" with women under similar situation getting support and sympathy?

That's kind of the point, isn't it? This expectation that everyone needs to act like the idealized "man" makes people judge harshly people who aren't. That's pretty much the definition of toxic masculinity.

> What term should we use when the simple fact of owning the right set of genitals dictate if someone is a risk or an asset?

Sexism.

> toxic masculinity" and "toxic feminist" belong in the same bucket of political slurs

If you take it as a slur, that might tell you more about you than about the term. Personally, I'm a heterosexual male and I don't take either term as a slur. Maybe it's because I've been affected by it (e.g: not playing soccer while growing up in Argentina made me a "pansy" or "effeminate") so I'm aware of the nuance.
>The crux of the problem is that the field of artificial intelligence has not come to grips with the infinite complexity of language

Or, put another way, the problem space reality presents is unimaginably large. So large that it took 4 billion years to achieve human level intelligence. That said humans have been working on the AI problem a pretty short period of time and we have made some pretty good strides at reproducing intelligence.
Four of the top 25 GitHub projects are written in Chinese, six contain no code
Yes, libui is starting to look quite interesting.
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Seems like it's a fallacy of limiting oneself to stationary reasoning. Differential equations and difference equations that capture temporal and causual behaviors are a thing. A large part of control theory is model identification, which tries to fit a temporal model to data.

In a difference equation x(t+1) = f(x(t),u(t)), u causes changes to x and not the other way around
The core issue is trust, explanation is one part of trust, but there are deeper issues. After all, if I explain that I have made this clinical decision because it results in lower mortality and you point out that the mortality statistic is to shit, and then I point out that we can't do the experiment required to work out the mortality statistic properly because that would mean potentially killing children... we have an issue.

We trust doctors and pilots, they offer partial explanations that we can somewhat understand, but they are backed by experience and qualification. Their perspective is informed by science - some good, some bad. Most of us don't think about that.

We have a perspective based on our cultural and social background, the machine must understand this and provide alternative explanations to suit us.

I have written a long article on this all, but I can't finish the game theory off!
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When arguing about digital vs analog, people miss the elephant in the room:

Why does listening to an actual violin being played a few feet away sound so much better than any digital or analog recording? It's not a little bit better. It's a LOT better. Same with a piano or a trumpet.
Can't this be modeled with baysian math? The chance that the storm causes the pressure to drop is .99. there could be some slight uncertainty included.
IP addresses are also considered PHI under HIPAA. This is new to the GDPR.
Numerous important biomedical findings have resulted from GWAS. Most GWAS today are inherently reproducible since their hits usually come from multi-stage designs with independent samples. Sample sizes are no longer "incredibly small" either; large GWAS often have in the order of 100s of 1000s of patients. Some have over a million.

I suppose the most important idea is that GWAS aren't really supposed to show causality. "Association" is in the name. GWAS are usually hypothesis generating (e.g., identification of associated variants) and then identified variants can be probed experimentally with all of the tools of molecular biology.

In summary, GWAS have their problems, but I think your statement is a bit too strong.
Repo: https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor

Do you have an explanation of the source[1] somewhere?
I don't really understand why you'd need window.performance or why this requires PubNub (Which also doesn't seem to be loaded as a dependency).

[1]: https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor/blob/master/assets/j...
I think the Human mind has the ability to control genes. So, if you focus much on a single gene, you can unlock its ability.

Some people have gained "superhuman" abilities with meditation-like practises in past.
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On the other hand, this not being able to "actually tell what was going on" is a desirable feature for most films. Because what was actually going on was a bunch of actors feigning fist fights, etc. I think if 60fps is to catch on, the state of the art in film production is first going to have to improve so that it looks "realistic" even in live action. Otherwise it looks like a stage play; we accept the obvious artifice when watching stage productions, but we're used to far more realism in our films.
Late reply and IANAL but I don't believe you can actually do a token model where the people buying tokens early on pay less for them than they will be priced at later. Pretty sure that doesn't pass the Howey Test[1] because there is an expectation of profit. And if there isn't an expectation of profit there is little to no incentive to have a token, kickstarter would work.

1. https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe...
You can not really delete this info: there are multiple "whois history" sites out there, and if you manage to persuade each one to remove old info, it would still be stored in numerous dumps one can find on closed forums or torrents.

Source: I myself have my (now outdated) phone number and home address attached to several domains...
Slack is essentially fancy IRC, so we can take any IRC client as a baseline for how much RAM it should really use.

Let’s take HexChat (https://hexchat.github.io/) for example - it does most of what Slack does, plus has advanced features not available on Slack like a Lua, Python & Perl plug-in API. It used less than 100MB or RAM after running for days on a Linux machine.

Slack is usually well into the GB of RAM after running for a few days.
I assume you're talking about "God does not play dice". Einstein's famous quote may yet be proven correct. Everettian theory (many-worlds interpretation), Bohmian Mechanics, and Exotic Probability theory are all deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. My money is on Exotic Probability theory winning out, with a lower level physical theory (perhaps causal networks?), providing the exotic probabilities.

Einstein was fully capable of discovering exotic probability theory, having contributed greatly to the development of bosonic statistics. Unfortunately, he did not, and we've been floundering about with string theory and the like ever since his famous quote.
I’m getting a lot of pushback in this thread so I’ll put this in the “maybe I’m wrong bucket”.

I’ll wait to talk about it again until after I have experience doing browser compatiblility testing with a WASM toolchain.
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How was this question not flagged as unrelated to information security? The main problem with stackexchange (aside from closing your questions) is not knowing how they will interpret their own rules.
Batteries are one of the most expensive parts of an offgrid PV system once you start looking at prices over decades.

My 1.5kw solar panels and electronics cost $2k (self-installed) and will last 20+ years.

To run the fridge on demand from batteries during the night and rainy days, I'd need something approaching the capacity of a powerwall, $6.6k every 10 years.
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I first misread it as

> Music Monetization Act
"System A must do more work than system B" seems a pretty theoretical reason why, in the limit (after sinking an arbitrary number of engineer hours in each), system A must be slower than system B. But your interpretations of the word "theoretical" may differ.
It still happens a lot: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1003201...

Old school mafia are using check cashing places to launder money.
Or I accept/I have no interest in this great, terrific offer.
And what about all the physicists who disagree with a probabalistic theory of subatomic particle interactions? What if QM is not capable of progressing because it's not correct, only convenient? You can't ding Einstein for failing to progress QM and at the same time also reject any need to provide anything more than empirical results. That's infinitely hypocritical--but I don't really blame you since all you know is how to calculate.

This is the crux of the problem. In your eyes (and those of anyone who rejects philosophy) a scientist literally just collects data and issues a yes or no analysis of whether it fits a model. But they have no agency to progress their field beyond confirming the theories that have already been established.

What if every time we fired a single photon through a pair of slits an undetectable leprechaun appeared and deflected the photon giving rise to the beloved interference pattern we observe? You'll say that's preposterous and, since the leprechaun is undetectable, resort to Occam's Razor to explain why my theory is not to be taken seriously. But you just did philosophy.

Go read Thomas Kuhn. Science does not replace philosophy. They work together in a cyclic tension to progress our understanding of the universe we inhabit. Philosophy asks the questions that science attempts to answer. Science usually does a pretty good job but always gets stuck until someone turns around and says, "wait, we were thinking about this part wrong", and asks a new set of questions.
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Dang, Its going to be really tough to ignore China. Especially on Hacker news.

I've recently read a book The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era by the Chinese general Liu Mingfu and the country is by admission not a proponent of Human rights (but rather "Peace" and "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics")

Last year China VC funding grew tremendously [1]. China will surpass the US GDP in 15-20 years [2] or so (if not less), and dealing with China is difficult in the technology industry. Google, Facebook, the YC backed Airbnb [3], Uber and many more US companies have tried to enter the market with difficulty.

I understand nationalism is a problem especially in the Trump era but this issue will be with us for the foreseeable future and the tech community has a special responsibility to ensure the universal values of Human Rights are defended.

[1] https://www.eastwestbank.com/ReachFurther/News/Article/China...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/china-to-...
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/three-challenges-facing-airbn...
As someone who just went through graduate school in mathematics, I can say this:

This person has not been doing math. What he was doing - that's not what mathematics is.

To understand why I say this, read Lockhart's Lament[1].

In short: the true joy of doing mathematics is asking interesting questions and exploring. It's telling a good story. It's being the only person in the entire world who knows a spoiler or two for the upcoming series (even if it's anticipated by only a handful). It's about noticing something simple which makes a hard thing easy. It's about that a-ha moment, and about being surprised - sometimes by what you say.

All the tedium, frustration, being stuck, etc are not the end goal, they just sometimes happen on the way there.

The poor sap never got to do math. He's got to eat the crust off a pizza - and never got to the delicious part.

And he never got to learn how social math is - because, as an advisor of mine once said: mathematics, like food, is beat shared.

[1]https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....