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I don't think anybody suggested that we should subvert democracy in favor of ruling by decree. I also don't think that the numbers of people and amounts of money on each side of an issue are immutable or are unassailable barriers to progress toward the minority side of the issue.

I can get behind your second paragraph (though it wasn't there originally, which is probably why you got flagged).
Some car manufacturers sell ash trays as "add-on" items at the dealer since that space can be used more practically for the non-smoking majority.
>When night owls are forced to rise early, their prefrontal cortex, which controls sophisticated thought processes and logical reasoning, “remains in a disabled, or ‘offline,’ state,” Dr. Walker writes. “Like a cold engine in an early-morning start, it takes a long time before it warms up to operating temperature.”

My friends and I call this "poo brain." We all had the same rhythm back in highschool which did not give with the 7:15am first bell. By about 2pm we'd be zombies, capable of no kind of creative thought.

To this day if we're visiting each other and suffering jet lag, inevitable accusations of poo brain get thrown around. It feels like every part of the brain works except the part that thinks - that's a swamp.
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I agree with everything you said, except the conclusion. Here's how I think an alien biologist would think about human demographics:

1. Below replacement fertility rates indicate that humans are facing some novel selective pressure to which we are poorly adapted. "Modern Life" is probably a useful label for this negative selective pressure.

2. The fact that there is high variance in reproductive outcomes in the developed world—and, specifically, that some women still have many children—indicates that some humans are already adapted to this novel selective pressure.

3. Because the variance in fertility rates between women is so high (some women have 0 children, while others have 4+), the adaptations which result in high fertility should spread throughout the entire population relatively quickly.

So, yeah, we don't have an overpopulation problem now. And we probably won't have one while you and I are alive. But the future of this planet is for it to be terraformed to support as much human life as possible. If we're smart we'll start thinking about how to make that future one where a high quality of life is possible.
Not OP but I read the Slate Star Codex article, and buried about halfway down was:

"These don’t “cure” the condition permanently; you have to keep doing them every day, or your circadian rhythm will snap back to its natural pattern."

So it looks like you have to take the melatonin on a continuous basis.
Personal profiles were always a big part of the web; in the 90s, it was all those sites with URLs with a tilde (e.g. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/), and lots of pages on Geocities et all were also personal profiles.
If I had to guess I would say that the changes a while back that made submissions linger on the front page have made the site less addictive. So there are less users constantly checking to make sure they don't miss out on something.
Or try and train birds [0]. Bird feed is cheap.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/startups/news/a2...
> Google is not obligated to reply at all

They have an ethical obligation. Security disclosures have major ethical concerns. If you're acting unethically, you are a dick.

Sure, Epic doesn't have any rights here. But we don't need a law to know people [and corporations] should not be dicks.

Google could have been more ethical by replying to the vendor after making their initial communication. They chose not to.
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2018 Mercedes Sprinter, for one. There's a cup holder insert that looks pretty much like an ashtray. 2005 Scion xB has a change holder that's shaped oddly like a thing one could flick ashes into. Came with the cigarette lighter, too.

2011 Nissan Leaf, however, assumes that if you're saving polar bears, you're not a smoker. There is a 12VDC outlet buried in there, but even if you bought a lighter to fit, I wouldn't try to get to it while driving. As far as I recall, there's no place to use as an ash tray.
I don't recognise the architecture despite it saying x86, but it reminds me of ARM.

Recursive descent seems to be the go-to parsing technique for compilers both big and small now. I like how all the repetitive functions for each level have been refactored into a "general_recursion" function, but if you want to make it even simpler and yet more extendable, table-driven precedence climbing would be ideal:

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm#climbing
You seem to be quite mistaken: https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=327
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> That's because they don't have a real product, and they likely never will.

That is possible, their progress has been slow.

> For the most part, the ISA just needs to be 'good enough' to allow things like branch prediction, speculative execution, out-of-order execution, etc. You can do that with x86, ARM, POWER, whatever - the instruction set doesn't matter a whole lot, it's just how many/what type of transistors you can throw at it, and how hard you want to work on timing and power optimization.

If you watch all their videos, then this isn't really correct.

Architecture matters a lot. With modern processors, there is a vast gulf between the instruction set used (the programming model) and how the processor actually works. A lot of the die area on the chip (aside from caches) isn't devoted to actual computation (like adding numbers in an ALU) but moving data around and scheduling.

The Mill Computing approach is to move all this functionality back out of the hardware into the software compilation / loading step. Where it can be done once and more efficiently. They can then use that die area to add in more functional units (because the architecture is wide-issue) and more cache.

There is only so much that clever architecture can accomplish, but that is still an order of magnitude more than what is being done now with existing architectures, so this seems a worthy pursuit.
Author: Here is a simple example of how to draw a path based on mouse events - you are probably familiar with the observer pattern, making the example easy to understand. Now read the following 17 pages to see why it's wrong.
The redis case is interesting. If the 1 minute interval was somewhat arbitrary you could almost double the life of the drive by just bumping it to 2 minutes.
>I had a neighbor who boasted of how she woke up at 4:45a to work out. Of course, she fell asleep in front of the TV at 8p...

Being sanctimonious is annoying, but that sounds like she's getting the right amount of sleep
Abstraction is often defined similar to "hiding irrelevant details" so that one can focus on the forest instead of the trees. However, sometimes tree-level issues affect the forest view also. An unexpectedly slow sort operation may be such a case. Normally you cay "ORDER BY x" in SQL and not worry about HOW the RDBMS sorts on "x": "How" is a "grunt-level detail" to you. But if the sort is slow or "wrong" (such as a collating sequence not expected by the customer), THEN you have to dig into the details, stepping out of the abstraction forest to visit and study individual trees.
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You're correct -- I'm talking about how many variables control the behavior of the black box.
> 3. Not speaking Swahili. If your boss is from Swaziland, then you need to know everything there is about Tanzania or Kenya.

Ha ha, pretty good. They snuck a serious-sounding joke item into an otherwise good list.

> 14. Writing an open letter to your boss.

Needs to go on a separate list, titled something like "Fun Ways to Quit Your Job"

> BONUS: Being a jackass outside of the work place.

Needs to go on a separate list, titled "The author of a list tells you how he vindictively sabotaged someone's career for expressing mild annoyance in a way the author did not care for."

Replace it, on this list, with "having a social media account".

Just don't.
I really wish I could sleep by 2am. It would make life possible.
My natural sleep pattern is 5am-12. I've literally spent the last decade trying to solve it. Until, I gave up.
The cigarette is made of (chemically treated) plant matter and paper, but the filter is not. Its main purpose is to turn brown when heated so the smoker thinks the filter has trapped something bad for them. A "marketing function" as the article says.
Really glad to see the two "tour stops" in Japan, but no love for Kansai?
What really happens when the level is low ? Less capacity ? Data loss ? Performance decreases ?
> experts also participated in an online “prediction market,” trading shares that corresponded to studies, which paid out only if the given study was replicated.

> Both approaches did well at predicting the outcome for individual studies, and they predicted an overall replication rate very close to the actual figure of 62%.

I think the real headline here is that we should supplement peer review with replication prediction markets.
> If an initial replication attempt failed, the researchers added even more participants.

This is an obvious way to tamper with the results; it's just more of the same kind of p-hacking that bad researchers are so often doing. They are using "we re-do the study with a larger population" as a way to re-roll the dice if the first die roll doesn't come up the way they want. (Note that if the die roll did come up the way they want, they don't re-do the study with a larger population in order to see if the replication fails).

Nobody should be taking this seriously.
https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/46507.pdf
related "Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News Equivalent for Politics?" from 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17825121
What will prevent businesses from increasing the price? Competition

Price control? Is this some sort of a joke?
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I'm not a low level developer (whatever that means today). I've written a very minimal amount of production C. Everything else has been higher level languages. So I apologize in advance for my ignorance.

Isn't the problem really memory bandwidth? Aren't most CPU cycles "wasted" on speculative execution while waiting on fetches from memory slower than CPU caches?

Wouldn't a hardware model where all of the RAM (SRAM?) was on the CPU die (fabrication and DRAM clock speed aside) solve this problem and make everything an order of magnitude faster? What am I missing? Is this really the programmers fault?

The CPU literally spends most of its time waiting on my instructions, not choking on them, so why is this my fault for being lazy?
Your link deals with cigarette butts igniting brush on the roadside and hay in a lab simulating roadside conditions, not lumber. Nobody here is claiming that cigarette butts can't light dry brush on fire. I am claiming that in less than "freak accident" or laboratory conditions it is basically impossible to ignite lumber with a cigarette butt unless there is something (like dry brush) in between.

Edit: Based on the down votes I'm illiterate, I'm wrong or this is Reddit.
But that's wrong, and has been widely debunked.

If you're a woman over the age of 50 and you drink maybe two to four glasses of red wine per week you'll get some heart health benefits, but no-one else does.
There are known methods to account for this, and if you adjust the statistics properly to account for the repeat, it isn't p-hacking.
To be fair, I find the linked writeup (the original one that talks about the app launch) to be a pretty poor 'advertisement' or 'announcement' of the app. You have to scroll all the way to the near-bottom before the app is even mentioned, and even then it is hidden behind a very non-obvious link. And even after reading the entire post, I'm still not even sure what exactly this app does differently than the other HN apps out there, and thus I'm pretty unconvinced that it's worth trying it out.

If the intention of the writeup was to discuss the process behind building the app, it apparently was successful in getting attention and generating discussion. If the intention was to get app installs, then this is a case that really could've benefited from a TLDR at the top, or at least a more direct, more obvious link to the app.

And I'm not convinced that it being a web app would have solved the issue, either. A writeup like this that linked to the webapp would face the same issues as described above. A direct link to the webapp would probably have me open it, spend 3-5 seconds looking at the splash page, and unless that splash page gives me a TLDR hook and a reason to actually stick around, I'd probably close it. In that case, your user engagement metric might include that as me having "tried" the app, but in reality all I did was open the splash page and then close it.
I don't know. I'm pretty skeptical about its technical capabilities myself. At the moment they only have a very small sliver of bandwidth they are capable of receiving. I'm unsure on how exactly they plan to receive all of these different bands at once when they are eventually added. Also, their chosen technique of removing RFI after taking in the data (noise) from space is questionable.
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Can someone please elaborate on how (and how much) value attending this event adds? Is it geared more for helping you apply to YC, answer generic startup related questions etc?

Specifically, I am selected in YC Startup school and will have to spend at least a day to travel to attend the session. Is it worth the extra time and money?
> but I don’t typically feel like shelling out $1000 to buy a machine specifically for an OS I don’t use

I keep seeing this argument and it honestly just sounds rather lazy when a few seconds of Googling will point you towards build services you can use without having to purchase a Macbook (for instance, TravisCI has an OS X build environment). Or if you're opposed to cloud-hosted build tools for some reason you could ask users/the user requesting a macOS binary would mind working with you to test your build script(s) for compatibility and mention that Mac users will have to build from source in your README. This whole "well I would if Macs weren't so expensive" sounds like "I just don't want to support macOS" because you have options if you actually were interested.
Oh darn you're right (to clarify, I'm pretty sure those are vizier cookies, just not the vizier cookies). I have the recipe sitting on my counter at home. I thought it was public, but it doesn't' seem to exist online anywhere.
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For many cases, one ends up writing a little kernel that manages the display.

Break the display into whatever elements make sense, and insure timing is all sorted. Run tests to get maximums.

Once it is running, the rest feeds it with pointers to objects, and lists or the objects get generated dynamically at display time.

Various schemes apply to overtime requirements. In old Williams arcade games, one method was to just move baddies to a non displayed region. Aggresive players would fire off a ton of shots to trigger this.

Another is to delay animation or movement.

The kernel can do that, but it gets more complex and slow. Dumber kernels are faster. Higher level code can manage what the kernel has to do.

One thing is smart to do though, and that is to have the display kernel fail gracefully. Use hardware timers, or loop counters to prevent overdraw and the loss of display sync normally associated with that condition.
You're not thinking of these gluten-free cardamom cookies? https://www.blog.google/technology/research/makings-smart-co...
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Except it isn't, it's fishing nets

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
This article seems to have a trove of interesting data, but struggles to generalize many conclusions out of it.
> One under-explored area I think we're going to see a lot more of is backfill of older processes.

Gimme a coprocessor that's just 1000 Pentium I's on the same die.
Thanks for mentioning this. R-Type is one of my all time favorites, can't wait to give it a read.
> The vast majority of the 5.6 trillion cigarettes manufactured worldwide each year come with filters made of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic that can take a decade or more to decompose.

Another way of saying this is: they’re moderately biodegradable. It would seem reasonable to give manufacturers a strong incentive to make them even more biodegradable.

(To be clear, I think that smoking in public commercial spaces is seriously problematic, and I think that smokers should find a way to responsibly dispos of their trash or have one forced on them. But it does seem like the degree of blame here is a bit overblown.)
Yes, depending on their use case for this frequent dump file, they may be happier using AOF or much-less-frequent saves instead. I believe a dump file is belt-and-suspenders secondary backup for almost all users.
It should be a bigger deal to late-risers because, you know, a typical schedule of work and socialising isn't compatible with rising late. This is particularly galling because it appears that late-risers are not uncommon.

Early risers speaking on the issue don't have anything interesting to say.
Did they? I can't tell from the article!
I don't think that's a fair comparison because the problem is not building the product. The problem is marketing.
QA needs much more respect. I work with some fantastic qa people and they are meticulous. And between manual and automation I wouldn't ship to production without them
1. Sweden has had one of the best performing economies in Europe over the last few years.

2. You realize you were replying to a statement that said "In the long term"?
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From one of the interview subjects right in the article: "Area still scales in strong double digits..." That ought to disprove the headline all on its own.

The starting point in the article seems sensible, but unremarkable: 2nm is not inherently valuable. It needs to pay out in smaller chips, lower power usage, faster per-transistor speeds, or lower cost per FLOP. But the article is written like a shrink is only valuable if it does all of those things, when in reality it's still worthwhile to get any of them.

Assuming the article is accurate, per-transistor speeds may stall and cost per FLOP may even move backwards (that's not new though - just a question of how fast cost savings catch up with new processes). Power savings might slow, but look substantial at 7nm and 5nm and there's no pitch for why 2nm would differ.

Meanwhile, area scaling is still a major improvement, just as you'd expect. Perhaps that won't be reason enough for desktops and servers, but that's been an open question before now. Lowering minimum chip size creates qualitative change in smartphones, IoT hardware, sensors, etc. It's in that "world market for five computers" vein of only looking at the use of a development in already-extant devices.

As a last note, it's downright sleazy for the article to write "'...It’s not clear what will remain at 5 nm,' said Penzes, suggesting that 5-nm nodes may only be extensions of 7 nm." From the first half of his quote, Penzes is clearly saying that it's not clear which advances will persist through 5nm, not that it's unclear whether any will persist.
> Price control? Is this some sort of a joke?

No, UBI only works if you institute price controls, or if there is a mass migration to rural areas, Otherwise, it just sparks an inflationary spiral. The spiral is even quicker if UBI is 'adjusted' for regional cost of living.
The "Combat Cutlery" was absolutely worth the click.

From now on I will be a little disappointed with every spoon I use, that is not also a firearm.
So is anything between the coasts other than Chi-town.
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Do they do that?
Yea, using slices can accomplish this too. But if you're going to be using slices or a fixed number of elements on the left hand side you should also be using the third argument to split($delim, $input, $count) to tell split to only produce so many outputs. If the input string would split into more than two pieces in your original code you would end up overflowing into @arr4 and losing results from the second split.
I think it would be even simpler to mandate cigarette filters are biodegradable, made from cotton or something.
Yes, although wolves are making a comeback in some parts of the world, so there's something to be optimistic about!
I think the point is actually more the opposite. If your study failed to reproduce even with the generous "keep adding more participants until it works" method, then your first study is beyond a doubt BS.
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That sounds more like a just-so story than some fundamental similarity in overall business approach. And what would a 'heavy investment in litigation' even look like? There's a chart of (absolute) R&D numbers here.

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/1/16236506/tech-amazon-apple-g...
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I just can't trust a man who doesn't trust his suspenders
I propose the new crime of jaywording: using an easily guessed password for an important account. Also, to reuse a password from a personal account for an important work account.

This crime causes a huge amount of damage, not just to the jayworder but to innocent victims. It has led to hundreds of major breaches, including foreign hacking of a major political party.

A fine of $200 is probably enough for normal accounts.
> 0. People are primarily self serving and will likely not use the money as proponents intent

That's...actually what many proponents specifically intend, though.

> If you give everyone a basic monthly income, what’s stopping everyone else who provides services (i.e. housing) from just increasing prices by however much the income is, thus negating the free money in the first place.

Competition for market goods, the lack of incentive to do so (or for regulators to allow it) for public services including regulated public utilities.
Hardly... applied programming education has been alive and well in community colleges (and some higher ed. institutions) for decades. Not every program, everywhere, is theory-heavy!
Please share more detail. do you use it chronically? why 0.3mg?
And, for example, C++ was originally a C program that transpiled C++ -> C.
it's been a conscious effort on my part and I'm still very susceptible to falling off the wagon for a week at a time. I don't think it's very natural for people tbh. I was always a late worker and still kind of am when the shit really hits the fan, but I am a believer that when I have to put in the extra hours, I'm usually more efficient in the morning that late at night. That motivates me to keep trying.
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Hey all!
I'm one of the devs at Rave (working on the website). This is really cool to see all this interest in us!

To address a few points I've seen on here:
We do more than just beatmatching. That said, most of our recent technical advancements are done on our mix AI, as it's been our recent push.
Give mixes a try (which work better the more songs you give them)!
We'll be pivoting back to mashups soon as well to continue improvements on that AI, particularly rolling in some of the improvements we developed through the mix AI.

Our goals have really been to bring mashups and mixes to those who don't have the technical ability first and foremost, and focus on making it as accessible as possible. We want to make sure our baseline is solid before targeting customizations. I feel paraschopra's post really captured what we wanted to achieve.

Ultimately, we're still at the beginning of what we want to do, and have plenty of improvements on the way.