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I have worked in software for 20 years with numerous being very early stage ventures. I would say that most of the problems I’ve faced in software venture is with non-technical founders who, generally speaking, provide minimal value until product-market fit is achieved. This sounds like the kind of question I might have faced in those ventures. If it’s a software venture and the founder is not either a skilled designer, talented product manager, or a developer working very closely together, it’s very unlikely to succeed. Perhaps a better question is “Developers, what is the worst experience you have had with a non-technical founder?”
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I actually set this up just the other day for my Windows 10 VM. To be clear, the idea here is to run a Windows VM (with near native performance by passing it a hardward graphicical device), then take the output directly from the VM graphics card's memory and feed that to a Linux host where it can display that output natively.

The primary demographic seems to be gamers that want to ditch Windows for Linux, but don't want compromise on performance. I can attest to the performance angle, but it has a number of rough edges.

This project seeks to solve input and output management. For example, I've been used a second monitor and a hardware USB switch, which is attached to my keyboard and mouse, for interacting with my VM. Looking glass actually performs excellently for input capturing for me, but I'm finding the video output just a touch too slow and find myself just switching my monitor input instead. I'm thinking that might have more to do with my using Intel integrated graphics on my host though, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty excited to see where this goes nonetheless.
It was much simpler - the device simply didn't work.

Certainly nowhere near what has been advertised. We have two at work and after testing them when they arrived they remained in the box ever since. It is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't even work properly most of the time.
Anyone here have industry applications of graph networks that they can talk about?
Isn't that just feudalism? Or the idea of benevolent dictator? I feel it would be best to avoid such extreme wealth, and downplay the advantages of shady practices, to enable legitimate competition in all areas. To be honest, I feel this is actually the idea behind capitalism, it created the middle class, and that's its biggest strength. The truth is, under capitalism, for a while, the gap between poor and rich was at its lowest ever, and the middle class was at its strongest ever. That was its best attribute, and why it is lauded.

But, in recent years, we're seeing a shift, and that's why people talk about late stage capitalism, because it seems that it no longer creates the reduction in the extremes it did in tbe beginning. The question is, what can be done about this?

And I say that assuming that we learned many times already that a few ultra rich with concentrated power and wealth do not become generous and efficient leaders, solving world hunger, ending poverty, etc.
Ok yeah then we agree. You definitely shouldn’t feed “irrelevant” features to the AI (i.e. those you don’t want it to discriminate/regress upon) otherwise it will overfit, in the best case to the noise, in the worst to the bias.
PushFish, a self-hosted PushBullet alternative – looking for maintainers
PushFish is a self-hosted FOSS alternative to PushBullet using PushJet (abadoned) code. We are already done with porting the code and adding MQTT support instead of GCM. Things we will work on: End-to-End encryption; Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS apps; fully replacing GCM with MQTT. We really need maintainers for the project, so if you could join our Slack(will try to get the project owner to move to a FOSS alternative), link will be at the bottom of the post.

Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/fosspush/shared_invite/enQtNDU3MzAzNTEwMTEzLWFhNzVjYWUxNTE5MjZkYzYzZWNjYzdmZDM4ZTc5ZGJjYjYyYTVmYmZkYzgwNTA4NmE4YzMwNjNlNjFjMzY0ZjI

GitLab: https://www.gitlab.com/FOSSPush
Well, the argument would be that Starbucks got it's national market share when that was not true in the U.S., but does not have that opportunity now in Australia. shrug.
Women love bad boys e.g. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179107/James-Holme...
My main issue was with the ecosystem, which seemed too green and volatile/experimental. IIRC I used Actix and Diesel, for a toy web app.
Really, what a joke this part was:

>This is the insular world in which tens of thousands of Americans who use conservative political apps are experiencing the midterm election season.

Because being on Facebook on Twitter is not experiencing an insular world, right? I mean, conservatives would not have to create their own apps to communicate if they would be left to express their views on the mainstream ones.
First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmarketers.
Well, they are still peanuts compared to Magic Leap, stuff like Leap Motion and other high profile busts ...

And yes, I am worried about this too - VC cash gets burned and nothing of consequence will be delivered, all the while projects with real applications but less quick talking/hype and buzzword spewing CEOs are struggling to find funding.
I enjoyed this bio post by the site maintainer because it's demonstrative how a person with seemingly few resources can take a meandering path to significant accomplishment and status (PhD). Larrin's education arc mirrors much of the HN crowd mantra of late wrt the value of experience, degrees, elite schools, etc. It's just a nice case study on all those fronts (and a nifty website, to boot).

/Acey
Just replace 'Republicans' and 'Facebook' with X and Y. Then, everything goes away: X finds a Y-workaround. This is an issue of problem solving in any domain.
> I think the point of the article is that there was no fraud against the government

Mejia violated the agency’s rules, which prohibit retailers from establishing informal credit systems with their customers.

The agency wanted itemized receipts for the purchases that had been flagged, but Mejia’s cash registers at the time printed only total sales figures; he couldn’t provide an accounting of the individual products that his clients had bought on credit.

He admitted to breaking a rule of the program, so all his transactions were now fraudulent. Then he couldn't prove that those transactions weren't fraudulent because he had no itemized records of each purchase. He is quite lucky all they did was kick him out of the program.

Frankly, anyone who enters one of these programs and doesn't keep records of what was purchased is foolish. This is a program that will come down like a hammer if you let someone microwave a legally bought burrito while still in the store since it then becomes illegal.
It does allow you to remove them; the problem is that the removal will be pending until the last open handle to that file is closed. The file itself is in a weird suspended state whereby anyone who had an open handle is not disrupted, but attempts to create another handle to that file will fail.

However, Windows does allow you to rename such files. So you can rename an existing file to some random name somewhere in %TEMP%, and then put a new file with the same name in its place.
Martin Jonasson also switched to Unity from Haxe for his latest game (Holedown), in part due to broader libraries being available and more actively maintained, and a bigger dev community.

http://grapefrukt.com/
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>I mean, conservatives would not have to create their own apps to communicate if they would be left to express their views on the mainstream ones.

But I see conservative views on social media all the time, they're doing just fine on mainstream platforms.

The vast leftist purge of conservatives from social media is mostly propaganda and myth.
There is a lot more than just law enforcement to worry about. Deepfake videos can and will be a tool for political propaganda.
This is ironic given how adroit the current Republican president has been at harnessing twitter. Are they sure they want to leave?
Unitary in what sense? Clearly multiplication by a unit quaternion preserves the quaternion norm.
I think you're taking the argument to a moral extreme which really does not help much. You could say that reading, or thinking critically, are excruciatingly hard for some ... would you say that they should just give up on it, despite the benefits that it provides to a person?

The argument for exercising seems to be similar.

To be completely fair, I have a more visceral reason to agree with the OP in that I too have been quite alarmed by how obese some of my older coworkers are, and that has contributed pretty strongly to my desire to not be that way.
Grover is sqrt(n) versus n, this paper says for their problem is 1 (constant depth) versus log n:

> In contrast, we show that this problem can be solved with certainty by a constant-depth quantum circuit
I think many of these issues are caused by a "silo" mentality. Decisions often flow from the business end through product before finally ending up as a story in the developers backlog.

How can the devs understand the business decisions and learn to make less academic slides if they are not exposed to the business?

I worked at a medium sized business where devs had lunch with sales/product/marketing and was treated as more than just coders. That has helped me a lot when it comes to the business side of work.

If you have problems with the developers in your company, it may be that the real problem is with the company culture.
In the film it's translated like they say in English, if I recall it right. But if it were from real life from after 1950-1960s (when people used the third person as a polite form, still happens but rare) the dialogue would be like this:

Darth Vader enters.
Moff stops what he is doing, turns toward Vader and looks at him. Nothing is said, it is obvious to both that this is a surprise for Moff. There is a pause. Moff is waiting for Vader to indicate the purpose of this visit. It goes without saying that there is some purpose or Vader would not be here as he does not make courtesy calls; if he did, he would probably have brought a bouquet of flowers or a bottle of wine or such. If Vader would not say anything for a longer time, Moff would ask. But here Vader says: "I am here to put you back on schedule".
Moff nods. Or at most says "Understood/OK". If Moff does not agree with the assessment that he is late, then he could start negotiating the issue, but as I recall from the film, he was aware of being late, so what is the point of arguing a fact.

In an older time, I think Moff would have said "Lord Vader" to acknowledge him. Otherwise the dialogue would have gone more or less as above.

That's my take of it, at least.
What I am missing here is what they call "performing badly on treadmill"

I run a mile or two each day, but I am still obese and frankly old and unfit. What is the criteria they are using here? Five minute mile pace? Ten minutes? Can't actually walk a mile?
What Republicans are being deplatformed? The only one I could find was a fringe challenger named Paul Nehlen who acts like a Democratic characticure of a “racist Republican”
> I'm ~40 and don't exercise at all, yet I'm still perfectly fit.

You should really get a CPX test to verify this.
Only if you assume that the classical counterparts of it are optimal. There's no proof of that.
not in an attempt to defraud the system but by helping out the neighbors by giving them credit on purchases

At this point, he cannot prove that was the case since he doesn't have records of the items purchased. He might be on the side of angels, but he sure is doing everything a scammer would do. Plus, the whole pay next month thing is just fundamentally a problem (what happens if eligibility is lost?) in addition to the treadmill you pointed out.
"Someone creates a virus to delete or encode all your data that's stored in DNA secure storage. This then spreads and starts to encrypt the DNA sequence in a humans body. A new step in computer malware happens where malware writers start modifying people and unless you pay the 100 bitcoin to unlock your DNA in 24 hours you are dead."

Its an interesting time to live in. On the one hand i love the push for all the new tech we are creating. However, at the same time, the old problems dont go away because we create new tools.
If you believe in the Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by the Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft (which is somewhat controversial among physicists), building a sufficiently large quantum computer will probably be impossible. His book is available for free:

> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-41285-6

Simply read section 5.8.
Everyone talks about qubit quantum computers but I'm really souped for continuous variable quantum computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-variable_quantum_in...
Probably a CPX test.
Wow, this seems to be a critical step towards the truly modern, networked, multimedia terminal(not an emulator?!) I’ve been fantasizing about since 1995.

I completely respect the project owners desire to fly under the radar, but man it sure seems like more contributors would be a good thing to help us finally move past the monstrous x11/xorg legacy.
For Groover algorithm, which is applied to the problem of search you can prove that there is no classical algorithm faster than O(N) - looking at each item in the worst case scenario.
Argentina.

Tuition is absolutely free (regardless of immigration status, you don't even need to prove you are a resident), there are scholarships to cover transport, study materials, and so on and so forth.

The only thing you'd have to pay is for your own living costs. Work is unrestricted, so you could work to earn whatever money you need and, in fact, it is customary for students to work through college.

The down side is that the career is harsh: 5 hours of class (usually 5pm to 10pm) every day + homework + school projects + exams is the norm, for at least 6 years (which is how long it takes to earn the degree), most people actually finish in 7 or 8. And classes are only in Spanish.
What exactly is your point? I said "somebody" for effect, not because I don't know who Hamilton was.
I'm pretty sure this post is sarcastic.
> The main issue with RDTSC is that task-switches may cause your thread of execution to change cores or mess up your timing

Task switches messing with timing, yes. Changing cores, on the other hand, is not so much of a problem by itself anymore. I'm pretty sure recent Intel CPUs guarantee that rdtsc is synchronized across cores.
There is a lot of automated welding, sure. But, in every small to midsize fabrication shop in America, men and woman are welding, right now.
You can do it with video too, even:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXOucXB4a8

Also, this is only tangentially related, but you can also see through walls using WiFi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFMsY5ZP0o
> "If you're mentally and physically fit, you can do as much with 65 as you do with 20 today."

Can you, though? You're definitely long past your peak physically and in terms of testosterone. I don't know if intellectual decline is a factor at that age.

You can definitely still do a lot, but I don't think you can come close to your abilities at age 20.
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Assuming, of course, that currently video is an equally occurring factor in both values and invalid convictions
I agree with your points about exposure - however - these problems generally do not exist in other parts of organizations.

Devs are unique in their peculiar aspect disdain for 'management and business'.

And unfortunately it's very rare that devs get such exposure but we agree it'd be great if they could.
However, comma placement can usually change the semantics of a sentence. Thus you can find yourself guessing the wrong meaning.
In the sense of preserving the dot product, x.y = (ux).(uy).
I believe this feature was first implemented on the Solaris OS.
I am a random guy in a garage, and I made a functional laser microphone using random bits of electronics I had in my spare-bits box ($1 laser pointer, old pair of earphones, snip off the earphone and wire in a light dependent resistor) -- admittedly the quality was awful (you could only just make out voices if people in the room talked abnormally loud), but it was great for a fun weekend science project :D
Not the same project, but here's one from Oxford + Deepmind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa5QGremQf8
I thought about this argument some more. Instead of spending ten times longer awake, you could say the same for living ten times longer. It's also just a linear increase your reasoning would apply.

But I feel that if all geniuses of history had lived 800 years they could have achieve more and we would be further along.

It changes the model because along the way we make meta discoveries about learning and methodology and science itself, and even just discoveries that we build upon. That feeds back into our progress.
I guess instead of overriding methods like “windowDidLoad”, you would set a function (I mean block) as “window.loadHandler” or something like that.

I don’t really see why this would be better, to me the two approaches seem isomorphic...
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For Groover algorithm, which is applied to the problem of search you can prove that there is no classical algorithm faster than O(N) - looking at each item in the worst case scenario.

Assuming that you cannot "look into the black box of the oracle" (i.e. we are only allowed to use a given oracle to evaluate an item at an index).
It's not just the MSM, it's the CMHC and Stats Canada. https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/data-and-research/publication...

Also, what's not mentioned in that report is the percentage of purchases by foreign-owners last year or the year before. The 4.8% number is total Vancouver residential foreign-ownership - it's just a snapshot.
There was a recent study that demonstrated that social media (Facebook) was actually pushing people to be more right leaning over time. I wonder if moving away from the platform would revert that trend.
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Damn. And I just spent 10 minutes trying to explain quantum supremacy to 6 year old.
> And yet we're told by the MSM that foreign ownership is 5%

When non-residents own 5% of a market that typically only has 1-2% listed at any time, prices quadruple like in Vancouver.
Protip: learn Geometric Algebra.
Why is it times unique page views? If I view 5 unique pages at your site, wouldn't I only have to download your JS bundle once, due to my browser cache?

Or does each page have a different bundle so that the browser cannot do any useful caching?
If you look at more recently developed GUI architectures there is this heavy influence from functional reactive programming. The UIs are modelling as reductions over event streams with no mutable state.

Most architectures around React do this, for example. The reasons why virtual DOM technology has been developed on the web, was to hide away the stateful nature of the older, OOP-influence DOM API.
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Since the quaternion norm is induced via the quaternion dot product, any transformation that preserves the norm automatically also preserves the dot product. This is a standard result for inner product spaces.
You still have the case of a list of perfect random numbers. There is nothing in the box then.
I don't know, but here are my ideas:

- quaternions maybe have a more interesting backstory than other constructs. Not everything was carved into stone.

- quaternions never really became part of mainstream mathematical education. This makes them more niche and strange, and worth telling a story about. It's not as interesting to tell a story about something commonplace.
It’s been awhile but I thought that would complicate the way they load DLLs, not to mention the potential impact on legacy code which was doing something unsafe but would no doubt be spun as Microsoft unfairly breaking someone’s security kludge or dubious extension. Not something which can’t be handled but increasing the cost/risk perception.

The big thing, though, is that they had a lost decade or so where the stack-ranking system heavily favored new features over improving existing code. Unless this was such a problem that it became a senior management priority I doubt anyone was jumping at touching it.
Some of his points I want to emphasize and ones I'd like to discuss further.

1. The method of training in current use won't lead to general systems.

It doesn't matter how large your image set is you'll never learn all of language and motor behavior from it. (In realistic terms)

Multi-modal learning where an agent is interacting with an environment will be critical for general systems due to a common expectation that general systems will be able to explore and problem solve. The requirement to explore and problem solve needs to be built into training.

I go a bit further and believe that you need a fairly high-fidelity world in which physically modeled agents are given progressively more difficult tasks if you want to achieve this generalization.

As he notes at the end of the talk some variant of reinforcement learning will be key for this.

2. Disentangling representations will be useful for both generality and preventing catastrophic forgetting.

Current algorithms update all parameters by default which means that all knowledge is vulnerable to loss. If you can disentangle representations (and I disagree that this can't be done in pixel space) then you can selectively prevent updates to some parameters and better prevent accidental forgetting.

Concretely, mimicking the sparsity of activation seen in the brain through implementing lateral inhibition (and further exploring top-down attentional sparsification mechanisms) should be useful in this area. (some good papers on this in 2018!)

3. The ability for agents to learn from teachers and the ability to teach agents interactively will improve generality and learning speed.

Agents today are largely trained from scratch. Some are fine-tuned from other agents, but relatively few are instructed in the way you would a dog or a child. Cultural transmission of information underlies a lot of what we think of as modern human intelligence so it's likely that systems that can benefit from this method of skill acquisition will have an advantage.

A point not mentioned was the crucial distinction between knowledge and abilities which are innate to biological creatures (developed over evolutionary timescales) and knowledge gained during a single lifetime.

Right now we try to teach agents everything and don't give them the benefit of starting with evolved bodies, reflexes, and adapted perceptive abilities. So even before we get to the cultural transmission of knowledge through teaching I think we need to (in parallel) be developing base agents which are "evolved" with solutions to lower level problems built in so that the networks don't have to re-learn how to catch yourself when falling every single time.
> He admitted to breaking a rule of the program, so all his transactions were now fraudulent.

I don't think that's what "fraudulent" means. The agency might assert that it's fraudulent, but that doesn't mean that it is fraudulent. That's the article's point. (And if there's a way for him to have proved it wasn't fraudulent, that necessarily means it hasn't been proven fraudulent yet.)

To your second point: sure, he probably did something strategically wrong. And yes, he broke the rules. But that's not the question the article is asking. The question the article is asking is, is an agency that brings down the hammer on illegally microwaved burritos actually doing something responsible, just, and good for society?
Can you recommend any good references?