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Linear functions/transforms have two important properties

f(x) + f(y) = f(x+y)
k*f(x) = f(x*k)

(hence derivatives and Fourier transforms are linear transforms)

But yeah, in NN nonlinearities are very important, otherwise they would be simplifiable to a single transformation
9 years of user history and banned for an analogy that goes against hn group think.

Lol
I take care of sleep, exercise, and diet. Then weekly sessions in therapy. I honestly don't believe you can be well adjusted without sleeping 8 hours, exercising 3-5 times per week, and trying your best to eat right.

If you think you're going to have a perspective shift without taking care of the basics...I doubt it. Take care of these fundamentals first. Then circle back in a month if you're still having issues.
Improved education and quality of living tends to have an inverse proportion with birth rates.

With that in mind, maybe the way to win the "war" could be killing poverty: No more poor people, and the population is going to decrease. Looking at Japan, according to the estimates and trends, they would no longer be around anymore in roughly 100 years.

So, we still would go extinct (eventually, in a long time from now), but the planet will keep on living, so there's that.
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Why does it remove all of the platform’s credibility in your eyes?
As a Boston resident, but former midwesterner, I wish the story was "Midwest competitive with East and West Coast for venture totals". I think it's a real problem that venture capital is highly concentrated in just a few places.
> ... but what was going to turn their beliefs around?

Educating people about morally correct beliefs is a separate undertaking that is typically what members of the clergy undertake with worshipers. I don't think there is any need for such a role in secular society. If you disagree, don't just downvote this, explain what level of moral education and policing is appropriate in a free society.

> ...this move may cauterize a growing infection.

I understand the point you are making, but I would like to add that I think it's a bit dangerous to use nazi-style rhetoric like "infection" or "infestation" to describe people we oppose politically.
Yeah I've thought about this - the best carbon capture system would take CO2 and turn it into pure carbon - or something like coal. So it does seem simpler not to burn coal in the first place. Alternatively if we can grow forests then bury them that could work too.

I don't think we can ever have such an efficient carbon capture system in the forseeable future, but we should really be researching this much more than we are.
Adding a bit of iron to the ocean -- the same as is released by a large volcanic eruption -- could do the trick.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/07/r...
The most meaningful day of my college career was a guest lecture by a Hiroshima survivor. Just that phrase "Hiroshima survivor" was impactful. It hadn't occurred to me that anyone survived.

The professor translated as this woman, now old, described a week of her life when she was a very small child. She saw some absolute horrors. Not all of them were unique to nuclear weapons. Traditional aerial bombing has some awful outcomes.

Trying to understand the trauma experienced in those days and weeks and months afterwards will always be very difficult. The smells described won't be present in VR. A 90-minute lecture by a soft-spoken septuagenarian was hard to bear.

The Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta has a great exhibit to simulate the abuse lunch counter sit-in protesters had to endure. The museum is all-around excellent and that exhibit in particular is a highlight.
It's shitty, I tried to add some post, I got error! Feeling that the project is unfinished!
17/20 But I'm in AWS all day every day. I also question a one or two that I missed :)

People suggesting that they follow Adobe's lead. That's all well and good, until you release like 1000 products a year. You tend to run out of two letter combos for your icons.
Yes. The SPLC put reform Muslim Maajid Nawaz and anti-FGM campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali on their list of hate speech advocates until threatened with legal action by Nawaz.

Right leaning source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/19/splc-maajid-nawaz-muslim-e...

Left leaning source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-...
As everyone here, I too consider myself as a slow thinker. Some of the reasons for the same, I believe, are
(i) Always trying to get the bigger/entire picture of the problem
(ii) Trying to increase the precision of the answer for the problem under question
(iii) awareness that there will always be unknown unknowns
(iv) trying to cater to exact needs of others
(iv) Not giving importance to memory
(v) a wandering mind, which wants to catch hold of too many things at the same time.
The war is perfectly winnable, but not within the context of a democracy. Here you would need the equivalent of a state of emergency, lasting for perhaps a century, to force the necessary changes upon an unwilling public, who are quite happy to sort trash into three piles, stop using straws, or engage in other such cargo-cult behaviours, but not to give up their iPhones, 2nd cars or annual vacations.

Ironically, a country such as China is much better equipped than the US or Europe to handle this kind of emergency. Once the leading figures become convinced of what needs to be done, they can implement the necessary measures in full and overnight, and ensure the necessary public support via the state-controlled educational system and media.

In the West, we are reduced to endless haggling, as lobbies strive to convert the emergency into additional demand for new "green" product lines or for bogus geoengineering solutions, and political representatives end up implementing toothless half-measures that achieve nothing.
I suspect you are being sarcastic.

Making profit is fine, doing everything possible to maximize profit by defeating the purpose of its very existence is where things get in the wrong zone.
In this regard it's absolutely true - the vast majority of people clearly are not willing to undertake meaningful lifestyle sacrifices to fight against climate change.
In Firefox I had to go to readability mode for it to see, but the idea and execution is great!

Reminds me of the company that creates dolls how you design them: https://www.childsown.com/
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I'll be curious to see how Boston-area software-developer compensation changes over time.

My impression is that dev compensation in SF is higher than in Boston, but SF also has higher property prices AFAICT.
Why shouldnt fire fighting be for-profit

Why do you believe non-profit means it has to be provided by government?

Why do you believe profit is bad?
You might be interested in The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy: https://queenscommonwealthcanopy.org/
I do have a fairly strongly held belief that speech is not “dangerous” unless it is a direct incitement to violence. I believe it’s much more likely (and has happened consistently throughout history) that “subversive” speech is labeled as dangerous in an attempt to silence the message or messenger. Very often the benefit of time shows that the particular censorship was actually about oppression and not security.

I actually have learned a lot over the last few years on HN in discussions on all sorts of thorny topics with people holding diverse viewpoints.

Throughout those discussion I try very hard to avoid ad hominem attacks, or personally disparaging remarks. We’re not obligated to engage or reply to comments espousing different viewpoints, but if we do, we’re obligated to keep it civil please!
Is carbon offset by afforestation effective though? I had read that we can't counter the emissions by planting trees alone. I'm definitely interested in doing this and covering more than double of my footprint
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don't know about you but air is essential for my wellbeing and I live entirely on land
I can only speak to some of your questions.

2. Well the current temperature is somewhat sustainable because we haven't yet destroyed the Earth.. but that's not really what it's about. The condition of the Earth is not the present temperature, but the present condition of the atmosphere which is becoming increasingly filled with these gases; higher temperatures are merely the consequence. The higher temperatures themselves don't contribute much to a snowballing effect, except in the case of wildfires. If tomorrow, we magically stopped emitting a net positive amount of greenhouse gases, the Earth would stabilize and return to a previous cooler state because of carbon absorption from forests and so on, but this is impossible because it would require a commitment from 7 billion people.

3. The are plenty of ways to extract gases directly but many are fairly costly and only a few hold promise of being economically profitable. Extraction of the CO2 (and other gases like methane) would certainly lower temperatures, as they trap the heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise radiate back into space. The most clear empirical evidence we have of this on a planetary scale is Venus, which has a truly hellish climate because of it's C02 atmosphere.

5. This can't be a serious question. But, actually, there is the idea of iron fertilization of the ocean where dumping granulated iron into presently lifeless tracts of would cause massive blooms in ocean life and would have a substantial carbon capturing effect. It's likely to be a very cheap solution, relative to the outsize effect it would have.

6. Biggest benefit to warming is an increase in arable land as the climate is warmer towards the poles, which should more than make up for some losses to desertification. The other benefit is increased crop yields due to more CO2 in the air. Not much of a consolation tbh.
Those who haven't experienced it directly might underestimate how effective the right has been at tying anti-environment beliefs to political identity, even among people who are highly educated in the sciences and should know better.
If watching Schindler's List is traumatizing, then what is going to happen to your kid when they actually meet someone trying to take advantage of them in one way or another?
To avoid a flamewar about the parent of your comment, I think it's appropriate to interpret it as a broad observation about the decline in journalistic standards and the shift in focus of news organizations into content farms for like-minded people.
Hum...

Solar prices are comparable to coal nowadays, and getting lower by the month. Besides, where is that investment in solar or wind stalled? I haven't seen any place like that. Instead, I only see people talking more and more about solar, even to the point that some want to get off-grid for economical reasons (I don't agree with their calculations).

I would really like to see some study about how long will solar power need to ramp-up until coal becomes uneconomical. I would also like to see some study about how much oil, gas and coal we can actually use, with what levels of energy returns.

Instead, here it is that sensationalist piece based on basically no data at all, claiming the end of the world... At the economist.com. Journalism used to be better.
Whether something is the catercorner of a business model has no bearing on if it is ethical or not.
I guess you were missing an index, as data order should only matter when doing full scans.
Maybe it is the only thing keeping the wheels on.

Principles are timeless.

Like the Golden rule.
Author has a thing for manually bouncing whole /8s. When asked claims to be "fighting spam", by blocking biggest European ISPs like Liberty Global cable ......
Do you know why OpenBazaar chose to support cryptocurrency?
I haven't seen any projected warming scenario where it'd be 31C everywhere. There's a gradual change in habitability as the habitable zone becomes smaller and smaller.

Perhaps our descendants will be farming Antarctica.
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> A private think tank says the total cost of the Fukushima disaster could reach ¥70 trillion ($626 billion), or more than three times the government’s latest estimate.

But I guess you'll say that $626 bil is just 15% of Japan's GDP, totally manageable over the long term.

I'm sure the communities where future nuclear plants are to be build will love this argument: "if disaster strikes, remember, it's for the greater good"
Heh, when I was a kid I used to draw a lot, and I remember being bothered that I didn't know how to draw a bike, so back then I explicitly memorized the shapes (parallelogram in the back, and another line for the front wheels). Wonder if that's common for doodlers.
That seems only partially correct. They avoid certain types of taxes while still paying the other ones.
> Our root is now trusted by all major root programs, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry.

What about Linux and the BSD's?

Tangential questions: OS's usually are the system's primary stores of root certs, if I understand correctly[0], but browsers and other applications store them too. How are conflicts resolved? If Mozilla untrusts Fubar CA's root cert and the OS still trusts it, what happens? And why have redundant stores? I suspect the answer is that the browser vendor wants to ensure the user has a happy TLS experience despite OS problems, but that's just a reasonable guess.

[0] A reference right in front of my nose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17699037
When we accept the change instead of fight to prevent/reverse it.
> You are confusing the type of the variable with the type of the object/value contained in the variable.

I’m not “confusing” them; I’m prioritizing the former over the latter, whereas you are prioritizing the latter over the former. This is the classic strong/weak typing debate.

If you want a language in which the dynamic type overrides the static type, there are several (including Swift if you are explicit about the override, and sometimes even if you are not explicit).

> A static type system is there to ensure that the type of the variable matches the type in its contents

A strong type system is there to apply strict type rules. one of Swift’s type rules is that Greeter.greet() calls that function or an override, not an unrelated function that could only be inferred at runtime.
Yes, but age is part of the utility. If we can save someone that would be expected to live another 50 years, it's more valuable than saving someone who will live another six months.

That doesn't mean they won't get any care, but it would mean that the maximum that would be spent to save them would be less than someone who was expected to live much longer because of the care.
I hate how decent people in this society just keep playing by the rules even when those rules are obviously not working for them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_aircraft
Just a quick warning — I've had a business that had the name "gram" in its title, and while it was sort of related to Instagram, Facebook has been going after domains (and 100% of all trademark registration attempts) that contain the word "gram". I had a trademark application in the final phase, with only a few days left until it became registered, when Facebook called up and basically said: shut down, or we'll sue you this afternoon and you'll have to fight this out in California. Even though they did not own the right to the word "gram" at the time, I basically caved as my financial options were limited.

For reference, they're not just going after Instagram-related businesses: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/instagram...

If you think this could become a big thing, either be ready for the battle and have lots of money, or rebrand now while you still can.

I know this is a hard pill to swallow, especially after you've registered the domain and everything — and it likely won't be a problem for you for a good while, but in the rare case of this hitting product hunt, or techcrunch, you may run into issues later down the road.
What ever you save with your blood sweat and tears will be burned on medical expenses. Your best bet (after being diagnosed with something severe) is to convert all your last savings to cash, give it to a loved one, explain to the government you are broke, and die on the street. [1][2]

Nursing homes and hospices are designed to suck out your funds until you are dry, then dump you on state aid.

1. https://www.senioradvisor.com/san-jose-ca/how-much-do-san-jo...

"The average annual cost to seniors nationally is $80,300 for a semi-private and $91,250 for a private room in 2015"

2. I originally had "in a state funded hospice", but opo pointed out that medicare will strip you of your benefits due to their claw back system. You may want to look into committing a felony, for state funded care.
>"Various campaigns have been trying to downrank, delist, or demonetize sites like InfoWars or Breitbart."

Good, because those sites are absolutely notorious for spreading lies and false rumors that have caused documented harm to innocent people, under the guise of "asking questions".

It is way too easy to spread lies in simple black/white slogan form. They embed themselves and influence opinion. It takes much more effort to disprove them, because reality is complicated and nuanced.

There's your asymmetric information warfare. The virulent hatemongers know that people want simple scapegoats, and they play to that, with anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-tolerance retoric.
At the moment, no. VR is still in its infancy, and the experiences are distinguishable from reality in a way that they are closer to video games than real life.

However if VR and haptics are able to perfectly recreate war in the next few decades, let's hope that psychology develops in pace. A generation of teenagers who have been exposed to perfect recreations of trench warfare and 9/11 is a generation that will have more PTSD than any other generation before it.
If you want to use Cycles for animations, you'll probably need the full Threadripper.

Cycles is easily 5+ minutes a frame, maybe 20+ minutes on a threadripper if you have an interior scene or something hard to light. Even with Cycle's denoiser, you need a lot of rays to get a decent animation.

Even a short 10-second animation through Cycles will take multiple days to render on a Threadripper.
I'm sorry, but you're being slippery, and I'm not going to pretend that's a valid argument. It is not my claim that nobody will find vulnerabilities in WireGuard. I hope they do! Generalizing and weaponizing crypto exploits is something I work on professionally and I'm a cheerleader for team breaker.

My claim is that a cross-protocol attack like DROWN will not work on WireGuard, and I explained why.

Rather than acknowledge that explanation, you either (a) rattle off irrelevant details or (b) retreat to abstractions. But there's no abstraction to retreat to. DROWN isn't an unknowable attack. You can just read the paper to see how it works. After you do that, I suggest you read the WireGuard white paper, which is short and straightforward (the cryptographic details make up only about a third of it). You've said several things on this thread that lead me to believe you haven't yet read it, and I think you'll find it enlightening.
Sure, but will humans just sit idle by and wait for extinction, or will they do whatever it is necessary to keep the ecosystem from boiling away? Of course it depends on how severe the problem is, but in general we have the means to affect climate. (Solar shade comes to mind and large scale GHG capture.)
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After looking at all of those pictures, I did a Google image search for "bicycle", and now I think I'm experiencing the visual equivalent of semantic satiation. None of these images look correct...
sure. but consider that people have to spend money on healthcare over the course of their lives, too.

having that money in the bank might help prevent future bankruptcies.
Paleomagnetism measurement of the magnetic field direction in a rock gives the latitude of a the rock when it formed. The magnetic fields are horizontal at the equator and vertical at the poles, thereby giving latitude of the rock when is cooled from volcanic hardening or the last metamorphic squeeze. And there is a magnetic imprint when sediments settle too.

Latitude when combined with geometric constraints of seafloor strips and correlated trans-ocean rock formations build the overall picture.

In addition the oldest seafloor is 220 million years old or 5% of Earths lifetime. Paleomag measurements go back ten times longer.
Simply censoring the content isn't healing anything, it's akin to putting masking tape over the injury to hide what is going on.

Note: I think it is dangerous to use nazi-style analogies for content we do not agree with. Calling it an infection, infestation, etc., does not help with the rational process of discussing the issue of content which some people find objectionable, it merely politicizes it and dehumanizes those who like the content.
This is really important if it can be scaled up. Imagine being able to replace an onsite heavy compute core pulling several hundred watts (like in the trunk of a Waymo car) with a passive unpowered optical element. Pretty amazing.
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May please try again and show me the error text? In case of to short text, for example - error messages may look very ugly(
Is there an agreed upon consensus on when SHTF?

The only consensus is that the shit will hit you in dribbles. So much so, you might not even notice until you just kind of become used to smelling a little bit like shit. As the stench becomes overwhelming, perhaps you might look back and think, "you know, I don't remember always smelling like shit."
What weird/interesting fact do you know?
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OK then consider it with 1 standard deviation of average. That was the intended meaning. The big hump of the normal distribution.
> Roughly linear pricing per core? What is this wizardry?

It's called "marketing", and it's definitely not limited by the laws of physics as we know them.

You too can learn the ways of marketing, but it comes at a very steep price: your eternal soul. (JK, that's sales.)
Pingbacks were a 0.1 implementation of a concept that never got a second chance, because then the walled gardens arrived and destroyed the ecosystem. The main problems they had were what you mention: each ping would contain only a few lines (which i think was a limit in the standard, to limit spamming) and the automation mechanism was a bit stupid (every reblogging ended up generating a superfluous ping). People who cared could fix the first issue (with a sort of "above the fold" summary), but the second was enabled by over-eager engines and ended up ruining it for everyone.
Drawing and painting is almost entirely a visual skill. The mechanical skills of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial; the hard part is being able to see what's actually there.

A bicycle is an incredibly simple visual form. You can doodle one in about five seconds. They're not rare or unusual objects and they're relatively homogenous. Nonetheless, most people have never actually seen a bicycle. They've looked, but they haven't understood its form, they haven't decomposed it into lines and shapes. They know that it has two wheels, a chain, a saddle and some handlebars, but they've never actually noticed the shapes that join them together.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...
It's not always obvious that you needed it when you don't understand it.
Archimedes would be proud.
If you chop the trees and use the wood for something durable (not paper), yes it's effective for small scale things.

Most carbon capture forests don't chop their trees. So you are just locking some land into a natural reserve. It's something good by itself, but won't help fighting Global Warming.
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