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> Not to mention, any snow on the road is going to make it supremely hard for a computer to determine where their lane is, or even the road is.

HD mapping allows cars to know precisely where they are on the road even if they cannot see the lane markings below. In fact, georeferenced HD maps can pinpoint the car's location in the world down to less than 10cm of absolute precision (as opposed to relative precision)
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> Corporations take advantage of this to lower their payroll costs.

... which is a very good thing for low-wage workers. Because if corporations would not benefit from these "no benefits" savings, then these corporations will be more likely to fire these low-wage workers.
I would argue that it's only a "feature" because JS has this needless dichotomy between null and undefined so it's basically two issues cancelling each-other, but that sounds a lot like moving the goalpost so I'll concede the point.
Imagine you worked only two days a week, but 18 hours a day. Assume you're young and flexible enough to survive that, and you have a cot in the office. Would you want to do that? How much dread would you feel the day before your shift started?

I think the point of the linked article is that the same reason that makes you recoil at that, and the same reasons that would make these coming hell-days so dread-inducing- those same reasons apply to an 8-hour day, just to a lesser degree.

It's not about extending the weekend as much as possible, it's about shortening the part of each workday that you're "working", and reducing the mental burden of each individual workday.
I had a recent flare up of my condition and sauna helps to alleviate the symptoms and shorten the duration. Water fasting also helps and this is the first time I have tried sauna before fasting. Perhaps coincidentally, this is the water-fast I've felt the best on. I don't fully understand the underlying mechanisms but there's some amazing research on how hyperthermic conditioning initiates a whole cascade of physiological adaptations which are partially mediated by heat-shock proteins, increase of growth hormone, and improving insulin sensitivity. For more information on benefits of hyperthermic conditioning, see:

1. https://tim.blog/2014/04/10/saunas-hyperthermic-conditioning...

From the article above:

Just a few of the physiological adaptations that occur are:

Improved cardiovascular mechanisms and lower heart rate.

Lower core body temperature during workload (surprise!)

Higher sweat rate and sweat sensitivity as a function of increased thermoregulatory control.

Increased blood flow to skeletal muscle (known as muscle perfusion) and other tissues.

Reduced rate of glycogen depletion due to improved muscle perfusion.

Increased red blood cell count (likely via erythropoietin).

Increased efficiency of oxygen transport to muscles.

Here are some related videos:

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWKBsh7YTXQ

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOlM-wlNjM

As for duration, 3 to 5 days, though from now on I'm likely to do minimum 5 days fasts as after reviewing Dr Longo's research the immune benefits and increased autophagy appear to really kick in on the 4th and 5th days. Frequency, I would say I average 3 to 4 times a year. This frequency just happens to coincide with Dr Longo's recommendation as I only more recently came across his research.

Thanks for sharing that you also noticed that the hunger doesn't go away on Prolon.

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My point is that with a white person vs. a black person, you can assume that they are in all ways equal and interchangeable. A white person with 5 years of Java experience == a black person with 5 years of Java experience.

Young vs. old is different. A young person with 5 years of Java << an old person with 5 years of Java. Hence you must pay the old person 3x more because of all of their non-Java experience.
Can someone help me figure out the set of privacy features that I miss out by using Chrome even with all the appropriate extensions/settings enabled (e.g. uBlock Origin etc) when compared to using FF?
At 1st of July sun sets in Amsterdam at 22.04 and rises at 5.22. Summertime doesn't make much of a difference. It's basically light all day. In winter it's the opposite. Just live with it and try not to be depressed. :-)
Can you?

You will still need to run a node to host your own content on IPFS. Unless you just simply plan on using data that already exists in the wild
You can be sure that it is. The difference is that they aren’t making arguments based on their age based biases.
And we all know that germanium is waaaaay better than silicon in your diodes and transistors.
Well start by making features and software run on less capable hardware, hardware becomes obsolete because of the software it runs.

I'm waiting for companies to just stop following wirth's law.
Given that the individual take from this would be miniscule, what’s the advantage over an ad blocker? This sounds like a lot of faux-currency nonsense for little reward (client side at least) to fix a problem that already has a working solution. Plus, the existing solution blocks all ads, and tracking scripts, which is a huge win.
Changing the habits of ~4% of Earth's population would be a tough sell. No wonder the other efforts haven't worked out.
the usual argument is that typical citizens have more to fear from their own intelligence agencies than from foreign ones outside their country's sphere of influence.

then again, it is probably futile for a normal person to even include TLAs in their threat model.
Here's the problem I have with this argument. If you are bored and disengaged at your job for 8 hours, you are likely to be just as bored and disengaged for 6 hours if all you change is the amount of time you spend there. The better approach would be to get your organization to sit down and diligently work out why so many of their jobs are so boring and disengaging and go after that. If, in the process, we determine that those jobs can be done in fewer hours, then great. Sure, maybe there are some jobs that are inherently boring, but maybe through diligent analysis, we could find ways to minimize the need for that type of work, and maybe create more compelling jobs in the process. But just shortening the work week doesn't seem to address the problems most people have with their jobs.

Even at 6 hours a day, we spend enough time at our jobs that job satisfaction is a significant portion of your overall life satisfaction. I'm all for 6 hour work days, but the more important point by far is making the content of our jobs engaging and enjoyable.
Is there some kind of skew here?

Like 1 million malnourished people in Africa dying fast vs 1 million somewhat overweight software engineers with healthcare benefits?

So what happens when you factor in fit people (which the US is probably short of anyway)?
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Thanks for the transcripts! I'm extending my fasts to a minimum of 5 days from now on as, from what I've understood, the immune cell turnover appears to really start kicking in on day 4 and 5.
I think this is very true, but it's worth pointing out to people. A lot of people don't think it through. You get technical people who are really passionate about their work. Additionally, they want to get rich. They think SV is the perfect marriage -- do amazing technical work and get rewarded with riches. The reality is that the money attracts a lot of people who are completely uninterested in anything but money. It's obvious if you think about it, but many people don't think about it.
I’d actually say they should reread the codes of conduct and consider if they are commenting in good faith in accordance with those codes.
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Sorry, I need to learn to be more clear. I was not suggesting a gradual shifting of clocks each day. I was pointing out the silliness of shifting by an hour twice a year. My desired alternative is to not shift at all.
>But it is a little silly that we have a quantum IDE before a usable quantum computer has been built.

Nonsense! With a quantum debugger, we'll finally be able to find out if Schrodinger's cat is alive or dead!
It wont be from direct experience at other large companies the sort of people you are talking about are clued up enough to tick the right boxes.

It will be disabled, BAME etc that will get targeted / put on pip's etc.
Russia said "sure" years ago.
The media has defended the EU lately at the expense of coverage of flaws or critiques. Compare the volume of coverage for the positively received GDPR regulation compared to the coverage of negatively received Article 11 & 13. Both in the lead-up and post-passage there is a pattern of bias by omission.
Close, socket.io’s first release was on January 3rd 2010. There were a few other experiments before that in late 2009.
That's one of my favorites. He's not just informative, but inspirational. I even enjoy watching the videos where he covers something I'm already familiar with.
You should read "Disrupted" by Dan Lyons, a middle aged tech reporter from Newsweek who went to work for a Boston company called HubSpot.

He has some pretty good insight and stories about this.
"That's what abolishing the DST gets us closer to"

Which is the point I was trying to make. Thank you.
Rust has alignment annotations.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1358-repr...
The Federal Reserve didn't seem very comfortable using QE, but felt it was needed due to the depth of the crash. We were lucky we didn't have a repeat of the 25% unemployment of the 1930's. There's no law of nature that says all slumps are repairable. When things get bad enough, the masses rise up and demand socialism, because "average" socialism is usually better than crashed capitalism. Eating bland food and standing in line is better than death.
I don't think what you're suggesting in line with OP. If that is not the case, your comment is worded much more effectively.

> . . . in my subjective opinion it does it the wrong way around, I want more daylight in the winter evenings . . .

I believe this is because DST originated as an energy saving measure to maximize usage of morning light. [1] I tend to agree with you as well. If we're not trying to conserve energy in the evenings, DST doesn't make much sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#History
Better FPGA could bridge the gap between ASIC and software. FPGA chips are still almost exclusively niche products, but if they became mainstream like GPUs the economy of scale kicks in and it's a whole different game.
Do you think a city should have the power to ignore daylight savings time entirely, or should the state have the power to regulate all its cities? Where do you draw the line?

In practice, I imagine if California passed a state amendment fixing themselves to PST, the federal government would either change the law or refuse to enforce it. Opposing such an amendment would be pretty unpopular.

But in theory, the federal government does have power to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" nationwide. I see no reason for a court to rule this as being outside federal jurisdiction.
It's funny - we have time, which is this uniform stream of numbers that is ever changing. Then we have the time of day, which is a function that takes the current "time" and formats it for different areas in the world. And instead of placing laws around how the flow of time works, we place laws on how people are allowed to render it and display it.
Though for just about every other protected class category it is the result (disproportionate effects) that matter.
In gamedev, Nvidia's Turing enabled real time rendering at 4k 60fps could be "future-proof" well into the next decade. I'm just not sure end users are clamoring for more photo-realism.

Instead, future of computing turns toward optimizing for the experience. With 3D printed form factors and smart haptics. European startup Canatu provides a glimpse of what carbon nano tube (CNT) sheets make possible:

https://canatu.com/
"it was just fine the way it was."

I agree. Before the nonsense about turning the clock twice a year was "invented".

"During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel, Germany began observing DST on May 1, 1916." [0]

See, there was shortage of fuel, and they thought DST would save energy. I don't think anyone has any credible data to support that it does. This has been an ongoing experiment for a century. Maybe we all can declare the experiment over.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_Un...
No, sorry, you're missing my point. I have no inside information, other than Gell-Mann effect. My friend, who told me a zillions times about how Hillary is going to win big, how the Republican party was on it's death-bed, and all the big news organizations are projecting a Hillary win, and my response to hearing of the fire-works cancelling was, "She thinks she's going to lose." Because the media was getting it wrong, like they always seem to.
Java is encumbered and rotten. Nobody should be using it by choice.
Really bizarre, I don't have that problem at all. It doesn't even make a dent in my battery charts (when compared to things like Phone).
Raising minimum wages could just raise the ROI of investing in fully automated warehouses... law of unintended consequences.

JD already has these in China - see Youtube
I'd rather keep it as an expulsion port.
I can believe that it does seem like that to you, but if you're going to post on Hacker News please say something substantive and please avoid pure inflammation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you might be confused. The repeal will switch us to DST year-round, which seems to be what you'd prefer.
>Or consider the "burrito index" You cant get a decent burrito <$10 anymore.

Seriously? What is considered a decent burrito in this context? I guess I'm eating at all the undecent burrito places then because I've gotten huge burritos for <$10, and I thought they were good.
And yet, "does violence to the rule of law" seems quite dubious in both the case referred to in the original article, and in the above-cited context.
I didn't even try to predict anything. I just responded to the cancellation of the fire-works in relationship to the media's sureness of a Hillary win. I suspected she knew she was going the lose when the press did not.
It's not, but it exists in 11 as well.
i love linus he is an asshole but he is out assshole and he earned it :/
Can I ask, what are you using to play with these GANs? An online playground like colab from Google? Or, your own hardware? Are you using a shared notebook, or building them up yourself? I glanced at your blog/site so sorry if I missed a description of your research playground already. Thank you for the rich comment.
Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump? The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered. You can 1. Block people you don't want to see 2. Ignore it. Twitter is not forcing you to view pages you don't like. There are entire other extremely large groups of people that enjoy this stuff and are completely harmless.
For a bad language it sure is taking a long time to die
In which case the same employees could turn around and point out that CEO pay, which is ostensibly tied to performance, is only getting higher despite any real provable impact on company performance for most of them. The problem for any company comes when it is driven more by the economics of the company than the mission of the company to product something good.
Obviously! But that doesn't help users of legacy systems!
It's nice to see Crypto referring to cryptography again. And I really do like what cloudflare are doing for the internet.
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"Aside from drinking the kool-aid on the other side of the aisle..."

Sorry, I missed that. I'm most certainly not political or a side of an aisle. I generally abhor politics and drink very little Kool-Aid.
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It's like being involved in a real life hobby. Sure, one club or organisation can be jerks and kick you out for minor disagreements, but nothing stops you from joining another one or setting up your own.
> Run custom scripts in Safari with the new Run JavaScript on Web Page action

Does this mean it's possible to have a javascript run after page load every time? This would effectively make it possible to have a browser extension. Previously it was limited to "action extensions" — which had to be manually activated on every single page. This could take 2-3 taps, and obviously they were hardly ever used.
"there will always be people who care about the best performance, but we shouldn't expect them to be in the majority."

Given how machine learning is going to kick in in lots of fields quite soon there will be a lot of real world applications that are not ambivalent about performance (if not else then from energy use point of view).

We're going to get Clippy the Clipper 2.0 who can actually do something usefull, and how long he spends figuring out his suggestions and how good they are are likely to be dependent on the available CPU resources and how fast Clippy can think.
What kind of devs do you expect to attract with a minimum wage? Some can create negative value.
I feel similarly, aside from hands free music in the kitchen and the occasional sports update I don't use any other functionality.
> In a positive sign for Amazon, 87 percent of Echo owners said they were satisfied with the device. About 85 percent have tried setting an alarm with Echo, and 82 percent have played a song. Two-thirds of responders have also asked Echo for news updates.

https://www.recode.net/2016/9/21/12997080/amazon-echo-survey...
Tell HN: I will build your MVP/project in 2 weeks for $5k
There's lots of chatter on HN about startup ideas or side project ideas.

I am curious if the HN audience can funnel better ideas than the general public. I will maintain a statusboard of the outcomes at https://www.raindeer.io/ and publish a writeup of the experience.

I am willing to develop your idea for $5k (usd) in 2 weeks or less if you agree to a few rules.

1. I can freely discuss the project in blogs and on the statusboard.
2. I get to pick the stack (most likely a combination of Vue,
TypeScript/Express, Flutter, heroku, netlify)
3. You must be willing to cut enough functionality/features to be doable
in 2 weeks. You might even make it in time for YC winter batch
4. You will make the appropriate Show HNs or similar after 2 weeks

About me: I currently lead development at a startup nonprofit. The biggest mistake we've made was launching too late with too many features. I've also been consulting on the side for a few years.

Comment or email hn@raindeer.io to be considered.
At my latitude (26°N) the zenith for noon changes about every 5 miles (8k) east or west of where I'm located, and the distance grows shorter the more north you go (at 45°N it's 3.8m/6.1k east/west). That's why time zones exist, to make this a tractable problem (although we somehow have managed to make a mess of time zones but that's another rant).

EDIT: my latitude was too precise for the distance mentioned. Simplified it.
I didn't realize they were doing an end to end or zero knowledge system.

okay, then I'll do that in whonix.

regarding the payment I couldn't see how to pay in crypto and also get a simple captcha instead of SMS verification
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Agree. These isolated communities just serve to divide the world more. Mastodon is treating a symptom not a root cause. It’s one solution to the problem of humans being bad to each other: avoidance rather than fighting it head on.

Combine that with the product issues it has in regards to walling off people and ideas, the need to self host (so many wasted resources, not to mention the bar to running one is high), and the extremist admin issues.

ActivityPub is cool. Mastodon is gonna be a flash in the pan methinks. If the protocol catches on and services like Wordpress, Twitter, FB et all begin to adopt it then the individual instances are going to be less attractive.
Every language that catches on in the market builds up "cruft" over time. Popularity has a down-side as features are tacked on to keep up with the e-joneses.

But a bigger problem is that Oracle is hell-bent on finding ways to sue profits out of ANY Java user, per (ongoing) API fiasco. Who wants to risk being a target of lawsuit greed? True, Microsoft could start doing the same with Dot-Net languages and API's, but so far they are (mostly) behaved. I'll side with the sleeping sharks over the circling sharks.
Ada Lovelace is said to have written the first computer algorithm for the Analytical Engine even though it wasn't built, though I did some googling and wasn't able to find the text itself.
great, but do they have actual lineage to GA144 chips ? or just another matrix of cores ? did xilinx buy GA ?

ps: funny reading 'post-moore' in the linked article :)
Even though I am in favor of social justice and equal rights and opportunity for all no matter what race, sexuality, gender you are, these social justice people that take things over the top are just as toxic as the other side. They poison communities just as much.
It doesn't matter if a hurricane causes death or merely correlates with it, you have a responsibility to do the right thing. Failing to do so because you want an impractical distinction between causation and correlation is about as much an irrelevant moral platitude as any.

In any case, causation can look an awful lot like correlation when you've got many layers of indirection and noise to account for. So for practical purposes, they very well could be the same thing. You can shout "correlation is not causation" as loud as you like, but reality doesn't work on the basis of popular slogans.

And causation is pretty much completely irrelevant to law.
Starting bid, 99 cents! In reality, why are you soliciting the sale of your domain name that doesn't seem entirely relevant to the project this person was doing?
I agree with you. I grew up in South Africa with no daylight savings time. In the summertime the sun would be up and shining by 5am and would set by 7:30pm.

Now that I've experienced daylight savings time in both the UK and NZ, I would much rather have a minor inconvenience twice a year to make the most of the sunny days.
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>The idea that you should be able to shield or blind yourself to content is a flat out stupid one.

Honest question:

Do you feel private organisations and communities shouldn't be able to kick out people they dislike? Because that's how almost all organisations and groups work, real life, internet or otherwise. Doesn't seem very unreasonable to say someone running a hobbyist club or sports team or business should be able to kick out someone they/the people involved can't get along with.
Why is it bad to judge an individual by the statistics of the group they belong to? I assume that drunk drivers are dangerous because many are, even though I know that some people can safely drive drunk. I assume that tigers are dangerous even though I know some are very tame — I wouldn’t hop into a tiger cage hoping for the best.
> In theory, a quantum machine with just a few hundred qubits should be able to run calculations that would be inconceivable using traditional hardware.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing Google has a 72-qubit system which I would expect to already be game changer if the above quote is true, but have heard about the applications of quantum computing only in the future tense. Does the power of a quantum computer scale linearly with number of qubits? Does the difficulty in manufacturing scale linearly with number of qubits?
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you'd fire 5 older engineers, and 10 young ones.