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I love my early-2015 MBP. Best computer I ever owned - it hits the sweet spot between processing power, screen space, weight, battery life, durability, and features. No major problems other than a slightly off-kilter hinge (coming from dropping it edge-on), and it gets a lot of (ab)use.

My next computer will likely be something Windows, though. Part of this is the horror stories I've heard about recent-model Macs, and part is because between this computer and my 2013 System76 Pangolin still working, I'll be able to cover all major OSes with it.
How much would had it achieved if it didn't had the Google logo to go along it?

Lets say developed at SV startup XYZ instead.
I do upload pdfs including bills and invoices (not paychecks since I don't have a use case for that). My wiki is private so it's only available to me. Plus I have extensions that allow me to render the pdfs nicely and index all the text in pdfs for easier searching.
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> You can get every conclusion you want out of QM without any wavefunction collapses

I don't think so.

> "piles of words"

I definitely agree about the piles. Maybe ordinary language is just to feeble for this stuff.
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To be really precise when talking to potential customers, I call it artificial classification. Even artificial learning is a hazy term that doesn't really explain much. Classification has many real world examples that customers can relate to. "Intelligence" has too many connotations and isn't really useful in getting your point through when consulting people with non-technical domain expertise.
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I always use it with

> "compilerOptions": { "strict": true }

But given the huge number of other options I worry that like GCC's '-Wall', that doesn't actually give you the strongest possible type checking. Anyone know about that? My aim with Typescript is to turn JS into OCaml.
That kind of reminds me of dumpable [1] library doing a similar thing in C++.

[1] https://github.com/ipkn/dumpable
The killer app of EVs with access to home chargers (even slow ones) is that going somewhere else to fill up the car will be a rare occurrence. UK stats show EVs only charge outside home or work ~7% of the time. For a minority of people, regular fast charging will be a must but vast majority of people will just stop going else where to fill up their cars.
I got an Air mid 2013 for $2200 NZD and that has been my main dev machine for the last 5 years.

I was going to buy a new MacBook after the latest round of updates but the price was insane.

Ended up building a Ryzen 2700+ PC with 32gb ram and running a bunch of dev vms on there. Now I just ssh into those from either the pc or my air.
This sounds great - can you wear glasses with it?
I grew up in the town called Parys on the map in the article. Besides creating some lovely hikes and river rafting there are also some very interesting rock phenomena that can only be seen in this area in the whole world.
If you take an efficient autonomous ride share, you'd gain some conveniences:

No need to get a license, no need to do car registration, no need to insure your vehicle, no need to pay attention whilst driving, no need to find parking, no need to refuel/charge, no need to have the car maintained, no such thing as owning a car that has broken down, no need to change a busted tyre, and the list goes on.

You might need to wait a minute or two for the cheaper ride to arrive, though. Time will tell whether that's a bias based on our current context or a natural preference.
Customers (mostly businesses) are pretty much queueing to use our product, Datavoyant by Amplyfi (https://www.amplyfigroup.com/). We have real paying customers.
AI and ML techniques are great for both our product, as well for our marketing.
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Lower maintenance costs, less mechanical parts, more safe because there are more crumpling zones, less noise and cleaner because there are no emissions.
Not if you’re doing it professionally. Several reasons, BTW they also apply to MS Office.

Adobe/Autodesk/Steinberg software is just better than alternatives.

You can’t use Photoshop filters / Autocad addons / VST instruments with non-native apps. At least not reliably.

You can’t reliably exchange documents unless you use original software.
Are you using earplugs then? I tried to sleep with headphones but it never worked for me and finding a comfortable but effective earplug is kinda hard.
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What percent of drivers are involved in a collision while merging? I imagine it's miniscule. Rarely deadly.
Pin 1 remains at top left, as it will be in the diagrams on the datasheet, rather than having to mentally flip everything. That's the possibility I can think of.
I get all those from the bus but people still don't take public transit. The wait is truly the killer - not cost.
I think you are over-estimating thinking process of people who buy crypto-currencies. I think vast majority buy them because of greed and ignorance about technology (they believe it's really the next big thing because that's what this or that popular blogger or video maker said). It's like buying a lottery ticket but it's easier to believe the chance to get rich is bigger.

>>It makes me wonder if all markets have a natural death. As they get more efficient, liquidity dries up

100% efficient markets is dream come true for individual investor. Stocks represent equity in something that produces value. You want to put your money there at some point in your life and you want to sell that for cash at a different point in your life. There will always be people in accumulation phase and there will always be people in cash-out phase. The more efficient market gets the less likely you are to make a bad decision. Market efficiency cause by very good fast traders is fantastic for individual investors.

Imagine you hold for example AMD stock before recent earnings. You want to sell because you need cash. If the market weren't fast to react you (unaware of the results) might have sold for much less than the stock was worth. Those fast reacting traders just saved you whole bunch of money and you got a better price.

Sure, it's more difficult to buy something dirty cheap but remember that only happens if the other side is uninformed. The more efficient the market the less losses caused by information asymmetry and the more time saved which would otherwise be needed for research.

That being said I think the markets are far away from being efficient today.
Well first of all get a little software named evrything
> More than half of new cars in Beijing are electric.

Do you have a link for that?
Sometimes on the github activity feed I see a "friend" staring a project and I just want to say "No, don't use that. It is obsolete. Use this other-thing instead".

But giving feedback like that isn't possible, unless you do it via email/chat.
Appsee actually does give you insights on users' emotions - frustration from usability issues, for example. You can see this with session recordings and touch heatmaps.
Huh, yeah, this is surprisingly similar, even down to needing a custom pointer type to do the offset<->pointer conversion - https://github.com/ipkn/dumpable/blob/master/dptr.h#L64-L69
I was quoting the article, but I think LIDAR is a bit more like having a 3D model of the world around the vehicle. The processing of a 1D array into a usable point cloud is not of concern at the frontier of autonomous vehicle research.

My understanding is that the main reason Tesla would choose video instead is that cameras are super-cheap in comparison to LIDAR, and theoretically good enough if you have AI that can understand what the cameras are seeing. I have a feeling that Musk is pushing OpenAI toward researching the technology that Tesla will need to make their approach work. I hope they are successful; it is probably the fastest path toward ubiquitous autonomous vehicles. It's likely that Waymo can get theirs working faster, but they can't scale the distribution side as fast as Tesla could.
ikr? even at 1.5x speed his dithering was rather lengthy. I have newfound respect for interviewers where their flow with the interviewee seems natural.
Would the leak be enough to significantly change the trajectory of the station such that it needs correction?

Surely the force of the leak is very small compared to the size of the station, but if it had been leaking for a while the change could add up.
You're right that people don't own cars because they are cheaper. But they will, in time, give up on car ownership because autonomous vehicles will be cheaper and better on other dimensions, too. Buses aren't a dedicated, direct ride to anywhere you want to go, so despite being cheaper, they don't stand in for car ownership.

Besides, with enough volume, an autonomous vehicle might pick you up faster from a store's exit faster than you can walk through a parking lot to your car.
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I have a vivid memory of having to carry one of these up a flight of stairs.

I used the machine as an undergrad, doing some coding as part of the university's driving simulator project.
I also got all except Mattel, despite not really using either typeface all that much. Lowercase 't' was also a dead giveaway in a lot of cases. I also noticed that the Helvetica answers seemed to have a slightly heavier weight, which really helped for the all-caps examples.

Ultimately, the Helvetica versions "felt right", and that probably contributed to my lucky guesses. A more challenging test would be to compare samples not associated with well-known brands.
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Also could be done by the car's software thermostat determining how much resistance it is up against in keeping the car to a particular temperature and adjusting that way.

Lots of resistance => Lots of sun hitting the vehicle => Set the temperature a bit lower.
Some of us not only have real customers, but are profitable also...
Samsung bid, Tesla underbid them, and yes Samsung has utility level energy storage solutions:

http://www.samsungsdi.com/ess/energy-storage-system-applicat...
.. because you buy at the price, and sell at the price (spread and fees ignored for now).

Which means, regardless of your philosophy, you are predicting a price change - a long signal is a prediction for positive price change; a short signal is a prediction for a negative price change. If that wasn’t true, your system would not be able to profit.

Predicting price change and predicting price are semantically equivalent, although a specific algorithm might be better at one than the other.
The metal detectors and bag inspections are everywhere; supermarkets, malls, hotels and every time you enter even if it is the hotel you stay in all the time for months. Most businesses have guards with guns (rifles often) outside the entrance as well as bag scanners and bag checkers/friskers.

Small and big airports where you can be checked and scanned 3-4 times from entrance to flight. And flying into an airport they check again. And not by friendly people either (contrary to China strangely where border patrol often have a little friendly chat to practice their english; had my bag checked 0 times coming in). Cannot enter an airport before a few hours before your flight even if you have lounge access. Guard said ‘terrorism’ when I asked why (for the umpteenth time as they usually do not answer).

And yes, my friends with businesses who live there complain about the corruption restrictions. But I think that part goes for China as well.

Edit; as I hear from my friends, it all got really bad only like 5 years ago. I did not go then; I have been going for 3.
This company sells new S-100 boards!

http://www.s100computers.com/Cards%20For%20Sale.htm

They have a Z-80 board. Lots of information about it here:

http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Z80%20Board...

They also sell S-100 backplanes, serial boards, display boards, memory boards, and so on.

They have a Z80 single board computer too:

http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Z80%20Board...

I have no connection to the company; I just think it's neat.
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I had this project bookmarked for a while, perhaps not quite suitable but a step up from wire-wrapping:

https://www.tindie.com/products/Semachthemonkey/rc2014-class...

I'm a big fan of Z80-based projects, mostly because they're how I started coding. (48k Spectrum - https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html )

These days I have a hand-hand console with a spectrum emulator, which also plays gamegear/NES roms, but there's nothing quite like playing Manic Miner to make me feel nostalgic.

I dabble in ESP8266/Arduino projects for fun, but I'll never ignore z80 projects, and I'll always upvote them!
This guy uses rather confusing descriptions of his theories and ideas. I respect his approach but other are much better in explaining these topics.
> Why supress them?

Because they don't answer to the country's government.

US-based internet companies answer to the US government only. This is an implication of nearly every site's terms of service. For example, Y Combinator's says you can't post illegal stuff and even mentions the US directly. The implication is "don't get us in trouble here in the US -- we couldn't care less what's legal or illegal in your country." Not very respectful of their sovereignty.

Obviously, indian authorities hold nearly zero power over these companies. They can't enforce indian laws on US citizens. It's not like they can show up at their doorstep and arrest people for failing to comply with a court order or something. Their only law enforcement weapon is to block the site, preventing them from reaching indians at all. That's why having local alternatives is extremely valuable.
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duplicate of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17890264
I was lucky, in the sense that I jumped from Z80 to 386/486/etc. Because Zilog was basically founded by ex-Intel staff the instruction-sets weren't too dissimilar.

I could never get my head round 6502-instructions (as a teenager). These days I guess my knowledge is largely obsolete as I stopped writing Intel assembly language around the time SSE came out. Still there are times when I decompile & patch binaries for fun, so it wasn't entirely wasted.
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There is no other platform that comes close in terms of variety or critical mass for this.
I really violently oppose this characterization of ML as "just" curve fitting, as if curve fitting is some simple solved problem. It seems like there is a ignorance about issues relating to model selection, which is an essential part of curve fitting. What complexity of model does the data support? Can you keep a distribution over structures that allows uncertain parts of the model to be interrogated? These are the parts of the fitting equation that allow something like "experiments" to be automatically generated as part of the curve fitting.
2 billion years old? I wonder if it had any impact on the Huronian glaciation which occured roughly at the same time...
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The video is remarkable, and is the main reason I submitted this article.
I spent a week at SGI UK in 1994. Everyone had at least an Indy workstation as their machine, even for secretarial purposes. But still there were a couple of 486 PCs acting as print servers.
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What I think is quite interesting about these era of machines is where the power goes. First off, there aren't actually many heatsinks in the machine, and those few that are used, are really tiny. This means that the power used must be distributed rather evenly among all components, even on the CPU boards. The CPUs can at most pull 10-15 W with those heatsinks, meanwhile the big ASICs spread around everywhere can probably sink perhaps 3-5 W with no extra heatsink. Compare this to modern systems, where the (single chip) chipset has a TDP of ~5 W, while the CPU(s) run anywhere from 50 to 100+ W.

So the gap between high-power and low-power components was way, way smaller back then, and I'd wager that a huge chunk of power in these SGI machines went into their high-speed bus systems.

Another big difference is how the power system was laid out. Here are the specs of a SGI Onyx 2 PSU [1]:

1750 W @ 230 V
3.45 V, 375 A
5 V, 85 A
12 V, 22 A
5 V, 1 A (probably standby power?)

In that day and age, most of everything in there would've run off 3.3 V. So the PSU directly, centrally provides that voltage and due to the large currents droop and such will have to be considered carefully in the entire system design (and it almost certainly uses remote sensing at the backplane, perhaps even sampling various points in the system). This makes sense, because there are many components and the difference in power between them is kinda small.

Nowadays, a computer PSU provides essentially two voltages: 12 V and 5 V standby. It still provides "legacy" power, like 5 V and 3.3 V rails, but these are derived with simple buck-converters from the 12 V rail(s) in modern designs. Because a modern computer has few components requiring a lot of power, each of them has their own local converter sourced by 12 V to reduce losses.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170314114558/http://sgistuff.n... https://web.archive.org/web/20170314160011/http://sgistuff.n...
In the UK, every new street light will double as an EV charger.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/08/every-new-ho...
Sure, and these are good points, but they solve a problem far less interesting than the real problem.

Of the (let's guess) 60 people telling Wil to go do one, up to about half[1] might be the shitposting crew taking advantage to troll a not well-liked celebrity, but the rest were people and their friends who were genuinely incensed at his appearance in their graph.

For the latter, you might argue they should block him, but if he's on the same instance then effectively he's come in and sat down in their home. If he's on a remote instance, then there still exists the desire for retributive justice for past wrongs (yes, including perceived).

In this specific case, there was no-one (except the moderator!) sticking up for Wil. The groups that dislike him are small, but genuinely plural. (e.g. 4chan doesn't like him, a number of trans* artists don't like him, some Star Trek geeks...)

Given that he came to the fediverse to escape harassment and trolling on _mainstream_ platforms, I don't think there is a great solution.

So here's two options, instead:

One: Don't join the platform as "Wil Wheaton". If you want to join a community as another face in the crowd, then use an internet handle. Then you can interact as equals.

Pseudonymity is one of the great gifts of the internet.

If you come as a celebrity to link your blog posts and try and talk to fans, then I don't think the fediverse makes any sense. It's too small and people are territorial of the instances they adopt.

Secondly - a more social solution - find some way to calm the people involved. This may involve temporarily suspending instance links, or saying that (as moderator) you need time to discuss this and are working towards an acceptable solution, etc. Don't know what you do next.

Finally - and the point of my rant: Dismiss those you don't understand / greatly simplify social problems at your peril. (Sure is great reading a bunch of trans artists arguing in earnest turned into "abusers" - nice!)

As humans, we make great changes and build general solutions based on one-off undesirable acts, and if you don't even make an effort to completely understand the problem then you WILL build the wrong solution.

[1] Possibly more than 50%? There were people involved who kept saying they had just joined Mastodon and didn't know how to use it, which is weird.
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Oh, who could forget the "not PS/2 connectors". I also vividly remember the sysadmin telling me to never ever disconnect they keyboard while the machine is running, or something inside might blow. Not sure if he was just paranoid, but I also never tried... I also remember one German shop buying a slightly used Onyx for half a million Deutsche Mark, and realizing they did not have the key for turning it on, so they had to short the thing. And it was so loud you had to wear earplugs...
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We're sort of focusing on digital here, but some of the IP rights stuff in the agreement would make certain generic drugs available in Canada illegal... so the prices of medication would go up since you could no long buy the generic brand. I would not say that's a win for Canadians.
I think the point wasn't to specifically lament the lack of thin clients, but the lack of knowledge about how the systems are really designed be multi-user, and actually multi-concurrent-user, as opposed to systems like windows which eventually gained multi-user capabilities, and even then concurrent use isn't exactly the common case (and I'm not sure how well it works in practice, but I imagine with RDP it works well enough on the server products).
The quotes you’ve copy-pasted are about statistically significant gender difference in interests and preferences.

The conclusion you’ve made in this and previous comments is about abilities.

Huge difference between the two.
I hear ya, but the author of the article needed something that could be adopted _incrementally_. JS is a subset of TS. Throwing some typing onto a JS file is often trivial. Reason would be a whole different story. Learning curve alone...
> I'd love to see Facebook, Google, and Microsoft team up in this space, instead of creating 3 separate but very highly similar tools.

It'll probably happen anyway, but the current competition will determine which tool that will be. So far TS looks like it's winning it, but, clearly, not by a large enough margin that the industry coalesces around it - yet.
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I read it and thought you were referring to something related to some proptype based code completion. The use of 'hinting' threw me off completely, especially when you're talking about checking & validating.
Yup, thats the appeal of china.

Its quite possible, that the China model is a better looking model for most countries - once you get over the lack of freedoms part.

Also china has way more money than India and time investment in its structures.

If it turns out that China has actual deep self correcting ability, even with a centralized command structure, I expect most countries to follow suit in some way or form.

But I must ask, where is freedom of movement restricted in India, unless you are in states where effectively martial law has been imposed?
What'll really kill gas cars is when gas stations start becoming scarce. It'll be a vicious (virtuous?) cycle as that'll cause more gas stations to shut down.
I'm a member of TNMOC and go maybe 2-3 times a year. The Acorn machines RISC OS always fascinates me.
> it's to have someone to identify what is essential.

You don't need "a good teacher and a structured education system" to identify that, because what's essential in a domain is not a function of you. It's a function on the domain itself. Or, in other words, it's enough for a good teacher somewhere to identify important areas and create some structure, and everyone can benefit. You don't need that teacher for yourself (but you might want to read his book).
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> Want a number? Then call your argument numWhatever and check your input. It’s really as easy as that.

It sounds like you have reinvented the Hungarian notation - 15 years after it was phased out?