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Are you asking because you're curious/looking to do the same or because you think that it will help find answers?
I suspect most supporters of that idea live near Greenwich latitude but I might be wrong...
Aye, I know - but I have noticed a massive difference in drive by noise whenever a Tesla S drives past, versus much smaller cars like Renaults and such. It's enough to make a difference individually, I'm curious to hear what it's like cumulatively.

I suppose the big one I'm waiting for is electric motorbikes - I've whinged them on HN beforehand, but those buggers can be heard from blocks away, waking or annoying thousands - tens of thousands! - of people in built-up urban areas.

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Perhaps so, but on the South Coast of the UK it would be rather nice to have that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day to have the chance of emerging from work into something other than the perpetual dark.
I spent two years[0] designing, building and maintaining a system which used contextual multi-armed bandits at large scale. A couple pieces of advice relating to this post and this subject:

1. Thompson sampling is great. It's intuitive and computationally tractable. The literature is full of other strategies, specifically semi-uniform strategies, but I strongly recommend using Thompson sampling if it works for your problem.

2. This is broadly true about ML, but for contextual bandits, most of the engineering work will probably be the feature engineering, not algorithm implementation. Plan accordingly. Choosing the right inputs in the first place makes a big difference. The hashing trick (a la sklearn's dictvectorizer) can make a huge difference.

3. It can be difficult to obtain organizational alignment on the intention of using reinforcement learning. Tell stakeholders early and often that you're using bandit algos to produce some kind of outcome — say, clicks or conversions — and not to do science which will uncover deep truths.

[0] along with an excellent data scientist and a team of excellent engineers, of course :)
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I expect it is also at least four times easier to raise capital in the Bay Area as it would in most other cities in America. These things have a way of evening out.
The same way I know someone who says "Them immigrants just steals our jobs" is ignorant and racist. Put it this way: there is a slim chance he's paying Bay Area wages and treating his employees well, but odds are he's just paying a bit more than the regional median or average and treats his workers like disposable tissues besides.
I am from a country in the bottom left 1/16th of the graph and can confirm. The whole economy is about subcontracting and sucking in money from various EU grants, any offices of global businesses are sad outsourcing and offshoring centers.
It's the other way round. Implementing daylight savings time ("summer time") moves the effective timezone 1 hour to the East. It's worse for Western European countries. Even CET normal time is already very lopsided. France and Spain should really be part of GMT.
It's the time matching how most of western society (if not humanity) works.

Most people don't center their night around 00:00, it's usually centered around 03:00~04:00
It's called the Flettner rotor, it uses the Magnus Effect. Cool stuff but not exactly new tech. It gives a nice read, here's some links to wikipedia on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship

I'm curious of what will be the results.
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That's it, they've finally found it: the worlds worst form factor.
But BST (British Summer Time) is GMT + 1 hour.

So e.g. London and Berlin always has a constant 1 hour difference (they both switch to summer time and back at the same moment). I used to live at GMT+7, I just realize now that this doesn't mean I was always 7 hours away from London, in summer I would've been 6 hours away.

Edit: I just realized you're replying to a comment about GMT, not about BST.

GMT is theoretically the old name anyway, it's UTC nowadays.
It's worth remembering that Uber learned the lesson of Night School - a startup that insisted on playing by the rules and for its honesty was shut down. https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-f...

Combined, the lesson here seems to be this:

* Asking permission for something new will tend to get you squashed.

* If you're big enough, popular enough, and rich enough, you can work around this.

* If someone else fails at that approach, you might get in in an arbitrarily regulated way some time later.

I can see where some might like this lesson! Though personally, I think there might be some opportunity for improvement.
From what I can find, only two at the moment: Arizona and Hawaii (and most of the overseas territories).

Florida is on its way to abolish switching, but it's not there yet.
Australia was so annoying on that front. On the whole amazing coffee, but no one served filter or french press coffee, After two weeks I was dying for a nice large cup of black coffee.
Daylight time or standard time -- I don't care. Just pick one and stop changing it twice a year. There's plenty of evidence that messing with the clock doesn't do any good.
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There's nothing that makes summer time more natural than winter time other than that winter time precedes summer time. Both essentially are societal constructs, though.
As an Australian who lives in Berlin, I find this hilarious, remembering the (cretinous) debates about daylight saving back in Australia, particularly Queensland where I was born.

For 30 years, Queensland has been in a different time zone to NSW and Victoria during summer, because it has never adopted daylight savings. For this, such wonderful arguments were advanced such as "It will fade the curtains" (Wait, wat) and it will upset the cows to be milked at a different time.

And across the other side of Australia, Western Australia (always a, er, special place) has had FOUR referendums in the last 50 years on whether to adopt daylight savings. All were rejected.

So watching Europe deal with this pragmatically and quickly is quite pleasing to watch.
^ Same (Black Friday discount)

At this price, I think I will continue it indefinitely. Even at full price, the sheer amount of content I think would be well worth it. Not to mention the app features like notes and highlighting.

They also do a beta of the iOS Safari Books app at least via TestFlight which is helpful. I've submitted bugs that have been fixed quickly.
Up here in the Baltic states it gets dark at 4pm in winter. Sticking to summer time would make it slightly more bearable. It's dark to wake up and head to wherever one has to be one way or another.

"Outdoors" season pretty much starts at ends with DST switching.
While it's dangerous to make predictions about the future of technology, I don't foresee any mobile product coming out that isn't "flat." How is anyone supposed to fit that into a pocket? Even in a purse or messenger bag it would be unwieldy.
Urgh, it's really bullshit.

A minority of Japanese workers are Kaishain (Salarypeople), and there's nothing you really really /need/ from a corporation. Corporate socialising is a thing, as is finding a partner at work. But given the low marriage rates in Japan, not really that big a deal. I guess there are people who are about the reputation of working at a well known company.
Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce.

It is the peak, the absolute peak of humanity's IT pursuits.

I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/for Silicon Valley and yet this is how I feel about it. Sure, there are good times and bad times but just like wallstreet has remained global champion of the commercial world, so will SV. I have zero doubts about it.
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Isn’t there a patent / copyright or something for taking all the algorithms / structures in the tech stack that this relies on? (GAN , densePOSE , etc)

Is any tech that is published in arxiv just free game immediately? Seems unfair to the researchers
It's easy for talented people in the US to move to SV and NYC.
It's a lot harder for the same kind of people abroad to move to SV and NYC.
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The article's proposed implementation uses a template to guarantee that egregious mistakes will fail to compile. This is clever, but it's C++. The kernel's version isn't quite as safe because it can overrun the destination. In principle it's impossible for it to be safe, because this is C, and neither the compiler nor the programmer can tell how big the destination is. We have to rely, as the article complains, on the programmer calling the function to know how big the buffer is.
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It definitely does bring him down, as he could've pursued more opportunities/experiences/etc, but didn't. Something like "lost profits".
This isn’t true for most any location in the EU, except maybe southern Italy.
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Wanna thread other known attempts at this? Maybe someone will jump in with extra detail about how these approaches are different, or what extra value we'd expect.

- OpenCyc http://www.cyc.com/opencyc/
- DBPedia https://wiki.dbpedia.org/
Maybe Uber will be interested!! They could embed it in their drivers cars
We have the best McDonald's in the world. I'm universally disappointed whenever I visit it in other countries.
Yes, I think a lot of thier curreny success comes from "exchange" with larger countries and a natural incentive to develop e.g. military technology. I guess it is similar to places like Taiwan.

If you removed all the US companies, restricted immigration and didn't allow people to go abroad to study it isn't clear how well they would do. From what I hear it is no dream to be young in Israel today. Also there seems to be a surprising amount of shady things coming out of Israel. Anything from spam and exploits to binary options and outright fraud. Which would suggest that people don't have better opportunities.
It's been offered at half price on Black Friday the past couple years.
The haptic feedback on the trackpad is amazing. I totally forget that it's not mechanical. I really dislike how big it is though. I know Apple tries to prevent false signals (e.g. palm touches when typing) with software but I just don't think it will ever work well enough to not be annoying.

It would take me a while to get used to having to press a button to show the trackpad like on the Yoga Book. I like that it automatically hides when typing, but constantly having to bring it back up, to scroll in a small textarea for example, would be annoying.

Merging the touchbar and trackpad, kind of like that Asus laptop that came out recently would be interesting. I thought it would be awkward at first but a lot of reviewers seem to think it's useful.
> Imagine the innovation at Spotify if there were no copyright!

None, because Spotify would go out of business overnight as people stole their source code.
Not a single word about flettner in that article. Do they hate Germans or does it not fit the ____GROUNDBREAKING____NEVER_DONE_BEFORE____ narrative of today's newspaper articles?
You could always have a thin removable plastic pad on the top of the keyboard that would fake the buttons and provide the tactile feedback, while still allowing for small factor, easy cleanup and longevity of the touchscreen interface.
All these schemes are to stifle and own
> However, I intended to release all of my videos under a free license, so that they could be used in the future for others to educate and inform students about these beautiful works. Even in cases where my defense to the ContentID claims were successful, the videos were not reverted to this free license, making it much more difficult for others to use and share these digitized works in the way I originally had intended.

If you don't own the copyright of the thing or have a license to it, how can you "release it under a license" any license at all?

Is the OP just not saying it clearly, and what they really wanted to do was to mark it as in the public domain?

Or does Youtube actually have no way to do this?

Our entire cultural practices, corporate policies, and software feature lists, are set up ignoring public domain use cases. People don't even realize how this stuff works legally, which doesn't help. But you can't release something under a license if you don't own it (or have a license to re/sub-license it).
No, it just shifts the problem to needing to know which are the working hours at each location you want to interact with. Timezones and Daylight Saving are completely different issues that appear related. Both have flaws, but at least local timezones are a sensible abstraction for general societal behaviour in a given location.

If you want a fixed standard time, we already have UTC, - get used to it and the offset of the _local_ times you need to know.

https://qntm.org/abolish
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I'd guess that if permanent summer time were instituted, France and Spain would drop back an hour (to permanent GMT+1 instead of permanent GMT+2).
I'm not sure. I thought companies uploaded their work and then the claims were basically automated. But admittedly I don't have experience in this area.

Regardless, we need to start seeing punishment for false claims. Under DMCA, wrongful claims could result in the claimants being charged with perjury, but obviously nobody is enforcing this part of it.
CD sales have fallen since 2000. Spotify, in your example, came out 8 years later.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/

Conversely, Napster was released in 1999.
> than having to figure out how to read online content page by page

On the web app, Safari Books gives you a page that's one full chapter instead of page by page.
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Or the future of fake news.
Change-from-within is a lovely fairy tale.

There are maybe a few dozen engineers with enough outsized talent to get away with challenging the status quo. Anyone else will be fired and replaced by a ready and willing throng of recent grads eager to put a dent in their student loans.
If we want to argue about intrinsic rights, though, you could also argue that there is no intrinsic right for an author of an intellectual work to have any ownership over it whatsoever once they share that idea with another person.

The fact that they have legal ownership of a work is a societal construct, enforced by government, to incentivise the creations of said works for the sake of the public good.

The notion of intellectual property, of ideas "belonging" to the first person who had them publicly, are a fairly recent invention in human history; and the notion of practically eternal copyrights held by immortal entities spanning multiple human lifetimes is an extremely recent invention.

As much as the capital-L Librarians like to jump up and down yelling "Property rights! Property rights!", those rights are only exist because there are folks with guns willing to use them to enforce those rights;

So with that in mind, the only thing I think worth arguing is what the terms of that deal should be. I am of the opinion that that the term of a copyright should be as short as possible, while still being long enough to incentivise creation. I think this was the original idea of the 20ish year copyright term. Personally, I think that the sooner a society can claim a work, and continue building off of it, the better.
If you want a quick primer on buoyancy physics and ship design, Marine Insight has a good writeup:

https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/intact-stab...

As the article mentioned, wave action will cause the center of gravity (CG) of the liquid to shift, and with it the overall ship's CG. This puts the ship in a new stable equilibrium heeled over to that side. If the compartment isn't dewatered, this process can repeat until the 'stable' equilibrium includes upper decks taking on sea water. CG shifts up, righting arm becomes flipping arm, hull experiences stress beyond tolerances, breaches kill remaining buoyancy, and down she goes.

By the way, the easiest way to tell if a ship is in danger of hitting critical (aka neutral aka very very bad) stablility, watch how long it takes to rock from side to side. A ship that has an excessively long roll period and appears to be hanging to one or both sides can in serious danger.
I, for one, would say they should have no right to it.

Hell, everyone you mentioned became a millionaire during their career. If all of them stopped receiving royalties for any of their releases after one measly year, they'd have made more money than I'm ever likely to make. Superstars have most to lose in absolute terms if copyright got nerfed, but in relative terms they'd still do fine. Many of the most successful performers of the last century became multimillionaires before they even turned 20.

Monetary value and cultural value shouldn't be conflated. Folk music and Shakespeare plays are very popular and highly regarded despite being public domain. Not to mention that people actually make money with them.

Pink Floyd would make a mint by touring even if all their albums were in PD. You can start a Floyd cover band all you like but for some reason most fans would still prefer to see the genuine article.
Sledgehammer?

https://open.spotify.com/track/2aDbkEEcAwh1upaMngsvnF
That depends on what kind of person you are. I could never do it. And if a stranger would come to offer me a beer I would be surprised and annoyed, and if he wouldn't stop pestering me I would quickly leave.

It's also a cultural thing, I don't think I'm that far from the norm here. We just don't do this.
I think you bring up a good point about how people carry their culture forwards without knowing it. There are some interesting statistics that show that wherever a white American's family members came from in Europe has an impact on them even now
No, not like any other compiled language. Just like any other native compiled language, maybe, but Java and C# are also compiled yet require a large runtime in order to run any application. An 8Mb executable written in Rust is going to be 8Mb total. An 8Mb executable written in C# or Java is going to weigh much more than that when you take into account the framework. Now, one could argue that it is almost a given for the JVM to be installed on a given computer but you can't say the same for .NET when doing cross-platform development.
> strlcpy is designed to solve the null-termination problems – it always null-terminates. It’s certainly an improvement over strncpy, however it isn’t natively available in VC++.

Let's not forget that it's also not natively available in glibc. Though you'll find it in every BSD you can think of.
I found this really interesting book about Joe Martin, an old-time entrepreneur that built small machine tools under the brand Sherline since 1973.

He wrote a sub-40 page book of his experiences over the years.
It's incredibly interesting to read some of his viewpoints and perspectives during his time.

There are nuggets of golden information hidden within this book. Such as talking to customers,product development,conversion rates, and having actionable data at your fingertips.

Some of his advice and experience truly stood the test of time. At the same time some of his predictions were inaccurate (E-commerce in 2000 is a fad).

I would go as far as saying that this is the pre-internet version of the Rie's Lean Startup.

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did.
It's not even true of places like Florida, where the vast majority of us prefer daylight savings time.

>State Sen. Greg Steube, who sponsored the bill, said that the idea of year-round daylight time has enormous support among Floridians.

"I've heard from mayors across the state that it's going to save them money because they don't have to light their softball fields at night," Steube said, according to the Miami Herald. "I can't tell you how many people have come up to me who have said even my high school-age kid, it's hard to get him up in the morning when we fall back the clocks."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/08/591925587...
My absolute dream phone is something like the size of the new Samsung Note, and it would fold out to double the screen size for watching videos, and run desktop Linux/Win10. I could then use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse like I can now on Android, and it could be my only device I own.
I agree with you. I saw it for the first time last year, and went "oh wow - this is edgy by today's standards". I was surprised it was played on TV.
In many constitutional systems, rights are assumed to exist, and rights are protected by wording that prohibit the government from infringing them.

That's not how patents and copyright work. These are government granted monopolies. The wording goes the other way around: The government is authorized to grant these monopolies. That's very unlike rights to life, property, etc. Patents and copyright don't come from the same tradition as proper human rights. They're different, and there is no human rights argument against limiting them sharply, at least not in the US constitution.
My experience in my family and with my friends is that “it will fade the curtains” is said flippantly (my mother particularly likes it). Does anyone have any documentation of people that have said it seriously, or is it unsubstantiated and potentially urban myth?
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that the idea of Learning Styles, which are about how effectively an individual student learns a subject depending on presentation style, ignores personal preferences of students that don't have an impact on instructional efficacy? Or that it ignores the preferences of teachers?