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> t turns out that it wasn't Wahoo's engineers at all that were responsible for the firmware update service, but instead, it belonged to MediaTek.

Most people don't realize that Mediatek (and allwinner and all of those little Chinese SoC/chip vendors) aren't really in the merchant chip business. Remember getting data sheets, perhaps spec'ing chips with second sources (Intel had to get AMD to second source their early x86 parts or nobody would risk buying them).

Well when you can't get a data sheet from Mediatek or their ilk it's not because they are holding out on you per se -- they probably don't have one. They would prefer to sell a chip (perhaps a customer-specific one) with a blob of proprietary code and a custom kernel etc and just hand the whole lot over to the customer for a single application. Sadly, a lot of customers go for this.
My hobby is sim racing, because I don't have the time or money to devote to real world racing at the moment. The sim I've put the most time into is iRacing and I'm just wondering if you've ever given it a shot and if so how'd you'd rate the iRacing simulation of the MX5?
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That’s how consulting usually works. You scope out stories and commit to the number of stories in a sprint. Even if you wanted to add more to the sprint you’d just mess up the allocated time of QA and add more stuff for the dev ops team. That’s why more than one person (and people who know the system) should be giving estimates.

Otherwise, if it takes half the time use the other half to test, or train yourself to be better at your job. IMO
When someone's walking towards me head-on, I don't do an awkward side-step in sync with them. That usually ensures a collision. I stop still, and close my eyes. They then avoid me.

Taking a bus in a foreign country (e.g. China) without reading the timetable is challenging. So I would get on the first bus going the right direction, and stay on until it deviated from my desired path. Then I'd get off, walk to the next stop, and repeat.
Hehe, an underwater tunnel huh?

How about to build an underwater tunnel between the mainland and Hainan[0]?

Oh wait somebody mentioned it[1] at 2010, and someone else did it[2] again at 2018.

Well, then good luck to that tunnel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiongzhou_Strait

[1] (Reference) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiongzhou_Strait#cite_note-Soh... (2010)

[2] (Reference) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiongzhou_Strait#cite_note-4 (2018)
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This, but in reverse. My soundcard was on a Linux host and I used scream from a Windows VM. Worked beautifully.
>Just let the network train itself without having a human laboriously determine the topology of the neural network

I hope this little koan illustrates that this sentence is impossible to execute. The human always has to specify something.

--

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.

"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.

"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.

"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.

"So that the room will be empty."

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
Maybe she had travelled to north Korea as part of a low-key religious delegation, hence the reluctance to discuss. Or maybe she hadn't been there at all and was just trying to make interesting conversation.

Seriously though - this article is not newsworthy. I mean, at the very least do some basic research. FB profile, interview friends. Take a bunch of different Ubers and fish for trends in questioning.
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Because Walmart shows how much retail dominance is possible. It's easy to imagine Amazon getting bigger.
Facebook Dating comes a step closer to reality,
Perhaps the government should declare a War On Crises.
The BMX community. A lot chiller and less competitive than other cycling communities. You are always "hanging out" while riding BMX.
Whats your point though?
Wow, I used to play this all the time in Australia too.. maybe I'll try and join some games.
A torrent upload would probably be the easiest bet. That was my plan for an H.265 version, though it'll take a few days to encode it all
Poker. Although Heads Up Limit Texas Hold 'Em has been essentially solved the No Limit variant (in which you actually decide how much to bet) is very far from solved. An AI beat the best players in the world anyway. It plays crazy, but it plays crazy in a way they weren't able to exploit at all. Doug Polk (also one of the best in the world in this narrow specialty) did some funny videos but the humans got crushed.

So that's a pretty different game, it's got a big luck factor and has asymmetrical information and still the AI just kept getting better and the humans... didn't
Everyone who likes Apple is already over-exposed. There isn’t mandate to buy more. For active players, pitching a fund with “I’ll buy Apple for you” isn’t compelling. Apple is thus cursed by its size both in allocation and attention. It’s a scaling problem in our capital markets, with the only thing preventing a breakup being Apple’s impeccable management.
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I would argue that the scientific method isn't as much about using experimental results to prove theorems as much as it is building a model and repeatedly verifying/modifying it until it is consistent. In that aspect experiments are not dissimilar from tests in software and examples in mathematics. They serve as a single point that demonstrates a certain behaviour of the final model.

Sure in pure mathematics you can derive solutions using pure logic however if a model looks sound but an example shows up that disagrees with the model then there is obviously a flaw somewhere.

Similarly in physical sciences, experiments are data-points that constrain a model of the system. As physical sciences unfortunately don't have the luxury of using pure logic to derive models, they are stuck with using just these "tests".

As you said computer science is more or less a subset of mathematics. Because of this I would say that they are both true sciences, they just have a few extra tools at their disposal compared to the rest of the sciences.
I thought of that too. But just keybase.io wouldn't be acceptable, because it's centralized. However, I vaguely remember language about Keybase being a protocol, and not just a site. But I've never used anything but keybase.io and indeed haven't heard about federation.

But then there's https://keybase.io/kbpgp/ so ???
I'm pretty sure that a macbook pro could run the 5 agents using minimal GPU acceleration (eg WebGL)

A 1024 unit LSTM only takes up a few megabytes of memory, and the multiplications at runtime are O(N^2) and not O(N^2 M), because you don't have a minibatch of updates to run.
I often feel the same way, although I’ve learnt to react quickly with an answer slightly better than ‘I don’t know’. Answering with related principles that you believe in and commenting on what you can, followed by ‘I need to think about this some more’ comes across better than ‘I don’t know’.

I wonder if this could be related somehow to the Dunning-Kruger effect? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
I have used DbSchema and it's worked great for me. Highly recommend.
I might be very ignorant here, but I would think that anything that goes down the drain is very biodegradable (it's food). Sure, it's better for the environment if we didn't contaminate the water with food, but I don't think it can compare to the time it takes for plastic or paper to break down.
usually we'd do a yeah nah, as an optimized "I hear what you are saying, but that's not true... < inform the person of the truth >"

as in "You're looking well", "yeah, nah, been a bit crook lately"
libtls looks awesome, going to do the exercises to learn more. thanks for the posting.
> A P/E of 17 is appropriate for a healthy business

I hate the P/E multiple. More robust is its inverse, the earnings yield. 17x is 5.9%; that’s relatively high, in this market.
Why are they wrong, and which one has a cure?
The existentialist in me finds that intriguing; the introvert in me finds that terrifying.
During the Ashley Madison incident, a partner and I put up what was either the first or one of the first online tools for checking to see if a particular email address or phone number had been exposed.

I'm still not sure whether or not that was net good/bad. I'm sure that the tool has caused some real familial stress. We could fall back on the "well if not us someone else would have" but that's a cop-out.

Our site was checkashleymadison.com. Later on we got rid of the domain. We had a ton of interest from advertisers, but we thought it best not to try and make money off of the exposition of others. Overall we took in something like 1.2mm uniques over 24 hours. It was a pretty crazy day, and my first time speaking with the media. Looking back, I'm glad that I didn't say anything too dumb.

Originally we intended to stay anonymous, but I forgot to tell a The Hill reporter of that wish and my name was published. After that I spoke on the record to whatever journalists were still interested.
Yes. This is me too. And I've seldom been bothered about it. I have many times been called slow, but never stupid, and that's fine with me.

I consider myself quite articulate, but I'm much more comfortable expressing myself in written than in spoken form, mainly because I need and I cherish the extra time that the former medium gives me, to more eloquently structure and refine what's being communicated.

Just because the accelerator pedal is there, doesn't mean you have to floor it all the time.
It’d be a stretch if they were talking about ancient aliens. Saying the color they’re painting isn’t a change of context.
Same here. It's frustrating being this way because you basically lose in most decision making forums by saying "I need to think about it". People who respond fast sound smart and knowledgeable. People who respond slowly don't necessarily sound stupid (I've found it's amazing how often saying nothing makes people think you are smart), but their input still gets overlooked because you end up in the position where if you can't present an argument against a decision being made a certain way on the spot then people don't see why it should wait.
Spam is an issue, though not (yet) a huge one.

Mastodon has a couple of key advantages, though.

* First, if the spammer is coming from a "good" instance, the admin of that instance can ban them—and the number of instances means that there are more mods to go around.
* Second, if the spammer is coming from a pure spam instance, other instances can ban/unfederate with the whole instance.

That said, it's an area that the community is focused on. Here's an issue discussing spam and additional tools that could help: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8122
Captured in the classic Budweiser ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUDDYYIX04
In the south of England we have "alright?". The only valid answer is "alright?.
It doesn't look like Wall Street will change its mind on Apple drastically after all these years. Apple giving back to shareholders from its humongous cash pile could lift the stock price quite a bit, albeit only temporarily, if targets are increased. But there's a good safety net in that cash pile that could prove to be valuable during tough times.
I wrote a companion piece that explains what makes Mastodon better than Twitter. It starts like this:

> Mastodon is a newcomer social media platform that is a lot like Twitter—short messages, followers, hashtags, all that. But Mastodon is much better than Twitter, and not just because being totally ad-free and keeping chronological timelines make it far more enjoyable to use (though that certainly helps!).

All that is nice, but the real advantage Mastodon has over Twitter is that Mastodon is not an outrage machine that's corroding our ability to view our politic opponents as real humans, deserving of sympathy and understanding.

To explain how much better Mastodon is, I'm going to give you three examples of how Mastodon is better, and then I'll step back and talk about why Mastodon is better.

https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/
This sounds like a moot point.

The subject of the essay is correlation of stately statistical categories. The entire discussion remains purely in the abstract, and by this I mean the categories in question are abstract and the correlated heirarchies are abstract on every level. To take any issue with this in utility or morality would be to take issue with theoretical analysis itself. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you are not intending to do that.
That may be complicated from old glass never fully hardening. But it sounds plausible enough.

Possibly mortar in walls could record the workers taking. All sorts of pottery start out malleable, so they might be candidates. Cave paintings might be an option - wonder whether being finger painted would leave biological fingerprints behind - heart rate, for instance.

Pretty wild idea. Here’s hoping it has some legs.

Maybe someday we’ll learn about places like Stonehenge this way.
I've wondered why Apple has been perpetually undervalued for many years and my theory is basically that the market has always viewed Apple against comps like Dell, HP, Nokia, Blackberry, etc. That is, a hardware company that is always at risk of being passed over by something that was cheaper (because hardware is allegedly a commodity).

Of course the reality is that Apple has a durable moat in being a platform company with differentiated products. I think what's changing now is that the growth of Services is basically forcing the market to realize this and the multiple is getting re-rated upward.

The book The Outsiders profiled a number of CEOs and companies where good capital allocation enhanced total returns over time [1]. I'm pretty sure if it were revised there'd be a chapter about Tim Cook and Apple. Being able to buy back stock in size for 5 years now, without the market figuring Apple out, is kind of absurd. It might be the biggest transfer of wealth from sellers to shareholders of all time.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Outsiders-Unconventional-Radically-Ra...
People of that calibre are quite rare but they do exist. I've seen final year undergraduate courses pulled off without the lecturer once having to refer to notes. All proofs were completed in exacting detail on the whiteboard.
How is it an innocent victim? Every company that I’ve worked for that sold B2B software had salespeople that had “regions” they sold into to get contracts. How are they anything but glorified telemarketers? I doubt any of our customers were “scammed” into buying services that cost tens of thousands a year.

While I’ve never bought anything from a telemarketer, it doesn’t mean that thier product is not legit.
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It depends, as a conversation starter it is probably okay. As an entire conversation it is almost entirely pointless, basically 2 people acknowledging that the other still exists.
if you're easily upset by things you disagree with then it probably isn't for you, but anonymous discussions (especially on the less popular, more niche boards) have their own dynamics and strengths. it allows more room for experimenting and trying out arguments, because it's not attached to your identity or post history. the kind of asabiyah[1] that arises on them is fairly unique as well imo, because without persistent individual identity people can't focus on building reputation or status. instead, you collaboratively develop the 'anon' archetype and hash out hivemind consensus.

in many ways they feel like the freest place on the internet to me. there's hardly any moderation, and it feels like a frontier. none of this is to say they're for everyone or even preferable for most people, because frontiers aren't. it wasn't so long ago that much more of the internet was like this, and hopefully someday soon there will be a new frontier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asabiyyah
> This is where we get into some intriguing comparisons. Microsoft’s P/E is a solid 48 and Alphabet’s hovers around 50…but Apple’s is a meager 17.

>There's a legitimate point there, clouded by the exaggeration. Apple is indeed fetching a lower multiple, because it has had very low growth for years.

If you go back to 2009, Apple's PE was quite low and has stayed low ever since, despite Apple being in one of the largest revenue growth periods in it's history.

With net income going from 8.24 Billion Dollars in 2009 to 41.73 Billion Dollars in 2012, you would think a growth spike in a companies bottom line of that magnitude would result in a stock that trades at a pretty high PE ratio.

Oddly, it didn't, with Apple's PE ratio fluctuating in the teens and low 20's during that period.
I'm definitely getting the impression that you're just asserting that outbound sales is "bad" in some general sense rather than specifically that its use means the business is a scam.

Microsoft has one of the highest quality sales teams there is. Many of which are outbound focused. Do you consider Microsoft products to be scams?

Most (all?) silicon Valley b2b startups utilise outbound sales heavily. /r/sales is full of people either in or looking to get in to saas. It's basically only behind medical devices in preferred products to sell as a salesperson right now. Do you believe the majority of b2b software companies are scams?

If so, what is a scam to you?

Sorry for the clarification request, and I will assume good faith if you get back with a reasonable answer, but I just can't see how the lines of argument you're putting forward pertain to your original assertion.
They run all the attachments and downloadable files in an email in a virtual machine and see where the malware connects to.

Turns out many governments do attacks on a lot of people semi-automatically, and use a handful of command and control servers, so their attacks are fairly easy to identify.
You're not a current or former Google employee, are you? There's the legend of the engineer who was a Grindr user and helped them to scale their code (it ran on App Engine, at least at the time).
The paper is behind a paywall, but perhaps it was done as a test and not on an actual artifact. Seems doubtful though.

Article is behind a paywall:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1449244/?arnumber=14492...
> I realize that it costs money to publish journals and papers, ....

Does it?

The authors are not paid. The referees (who do peer review) are not paid. The editors are not paid. The authors submit LaTeX, so no professional typesetters are needed. Eliminate the hard-copy printed journal, which no one reads these days, and all you are left with are the costs of hosting and maintaining a website -- which doesn't need to be at all fancy. That's dirt cheap.
Came here to say this. My system is basically an LRU cache also. Also I have a storage system that I can lookup anything I need to use (that I don't use often) that is just labelled boxes and database I can string search. This is really related to a kaizen approach to things that I've read about in various books, things that don't get used get sold off.
I hope the sarcasm is flying over my head here...
And the soap/detergent and food remnants being processed at the sewage plant, or the septic pumping truck that cleans out your tank and transports the waste.
For the record, I’m leaning towards yes. And I don’t much fear response, the code is actually quite decent in my own opinion. I just want to experiment a bit more, see if there’s anything else I want to accomplish, before throwing it out there.
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No actual narcissist is going to “observe themselves having narcissistic traits”.
So for the ones that don't matter, why not just use a cloud-based password manager rather than the same password over and over? That's how I use it.
> Apple is a better business in every dimension

Depends on how you qualify 'better'. Amazon certainly has more room to expand.
You forgot to add “confiding for a friend”
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So, no toilet paper and paper towels then?

Just a washcloth and bidet?
"First Example
This consisted of a pdifine clay. hand thrown on a potter’s wheel.
The wheel in this example was an old. student-made wheel, constructed
of an automobile crankshaft and flywheel mounted in a (too) light wooden
frame. Persistently out of alignment, the wheel had a noisy vibration
almost amounting to.a chatter. The pot produced on this wheel was fired
at low temperatures.
When the pot was suitably mounted on thephono turntable and against
the side of the revolving pot was held the phono cartridge (fitted. in this
instance. with a “needle” consisting of a flat-ended sliver of wood threequarters
of an inch long) the low-frequency chatter sound could be heard
in the earphones. "
there's also work being done on a golang implementation, as well as integration with tails (tor-over-tor is unideal so this requires some effort)
What is it mean if your natural reaction is to just say "Yeah" with no thought and then continue
I'm wondering if what Sivers feels about himself is true for everyone. Maybe those sharp people who give an insightful reply right off the bat would give an even better reply if they had more time.

This is why I prefer email over instant messaging, phone calls, or collaborative online chat when asking questions (except trivial questions). I want a considered reply, not something off the cuff.
Glad you like it! The goal was definitely to be minimal, even more so than previous projects and sites of my own.

That may have really helped with HN load too? That and caching. Pretty much everything is served from nginx cache.

But I was tailing the access log at several points, and HN hugs actually didn’t look that bad in terms of request rate. I can imagine a heavier dynamic site having trouble, though.
Sheesh, you are being way too harsh.

But I too was confused by what this PJON thing was supposed to do, until I looked up i2c, because of this line early in the README: "It was originally developed as an open-source alternative to i2c and 1-Wire"

"The Inter-integrated Circuit (I2C) Protocol is a protocol intended to allow multiple “slave” digital integrated circuits (“chips”) to communicate with one or more “master” chips. Like the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), it is only intended for short distance communications within a single device. Like Asynchronous Serial Interfaces (such as RS-232 or UARTs), it only requires two signal wires to exchange information."

So it's a very low level, _literal_ wire protocol, I guess. I don't know much about hardware.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c#protocol
Huh. I have one of these but obviously didn't do this level of analysis on it. It's a great little bike computer, IMO. I wouldn't try to use it for hikes. Shame about the license violations.
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Same - except I refer to it as "recreational paranoia"...
NASA has truly achieved some ridiculous feats. I hope that we see more of this in the future.
I would prefer to ask than be asked.
Kill files were great! I re-used the idea when I created my app AuctionSieve to filter out the junk on eBay.
Hah, could be a strength thing but most of the guys/gals Ive spoken with about it seem to join choose bjj over another martial art for the brain safety. Way less chance of a concussion in grappling than boxing, kickboxing or muay thai!

I prefer the Gi too, work on your monkey grip in no-gi if thats giving you problems though!
Disagree. Take a look at CockroachDB, mostly based on Spanner.

Google open sourcing spanner would have helped tremendously.