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*>on the internet everyone is a dog and has read all of the volumes and TAOCP and all of the volumes of landau lifshitz (and also peskin and shroeder and read baby rudin at 5). no one cares about /you/ man - it's a public forum so the point is to give advice that is generally relatable.

I am again very sorry to disappoint I've not read TAOCP or Landau or even Peskin from cover to cover. I'm however curious if you can let me know where you got that idea from, cause I scoured my comments and can't for the life of me find anywhere I indicated so.

Seriously though, I have no idea what your point is supposed to be. I shouldn't give my opinion because... it might not be relevant to someone else, is that it? Someone might not agree? If it interests you I've met many people in the past few years who share my view (and also many personalities, again, Lamport, Dijkstra, Knuth, in the field of computer science). I've also met many who don't agree! And that's fine, what works for some might not work for others. Clearly this concept does not sit well with you.

This is being an uninteresting conversation which is only serving to irritate me (and you, it seems). I will stop replying now.
As a movie nerd I was interested by the bit about the broadcast being in 120hz. This is... unusual for most visual content.

Where video games strictly benefit from a higher framerate, adding more frames does weird things to movies and television. As you may know, most movies are shot at 24 frames per second, which is low considering humans can see far more fps than that.

This lower FPS means movies are actually impressionist paintings of reality. The framerate blurs what is being filmed so it looks less like a set and more like what we've been trained to think of as a movie.

Movies that experiment with high framerate like Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (120 fps) find it makes selling the fiction harder. Viewers can see the cracks in everything a lot easier. This is one reason people disliked Peter Jackson's 48 FPS version of The Hobbit. Instead of seeing a group of dwarves, high frame rates made them look like a bunch of guys in funny costumes.

All this is to say it's interesting they are making high frame rate a part of their video future when its future within movies and TV is undecided.
Because qt UI is in all ways worse than what browsers can already do. All qt does for displaying web pages is it embeds chromium, same as electron does. Trying to tie c++ to that is shooting yourself in the foot if you can just use node, which electron does.
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Forgetting ads, are you not worried about Elsagate-style content when showing nursery rhymes to your kids?
One of the most magical experiences I've had in my life was a morning out surfing alone in Huntington Beach years ago. It was a weekday in... I don't remember the time of year. October? May? When do they usually end up in Southern California?[0] The details are in a journal or lost text file somewhere.

It was a beautiful Southern California morning. Clear skies, a breath of offshores, clean inconsistent chest-high waves. I was sitting outside waiting for the next wave. And all of the sudden a few Monarch butterflies flew past me. And they were followed by a few more. And more after that.

A steady stream of orange and black butterflies fluttering past me. Coming in OFF the ocean towards shore. Was it 5 minutes? 15 minutes? An hour? The procession ended. I remember spotting the butterflies here and there the rest of the day, even many miles inland.

C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Moments that will be lost to those who follow us.

[0] https://www.tripsavvy.com/monarch-butterflies-in-california-...
The comment of yours that I responded to only has an allusion to a quotation and nothing else substantiating any of your points. Yes if you're going to proclaim and critize on something material (like the best way to teach someone something) I expect you to have scientific trials.
South of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz is Natural Bridges State Beach, through which monarchs allegedly migrate. I was around that area for around two years and I can't remember ever seeing one.
20 lines of reasoning and one quote that I think conveys what I mean. I think if you can't honestly engage with that besides accusing me of "appeal to authority" there is nothing to be gained from continuing a discussion.

Btw it's actually Lamport quoting Spivak.
The other key part of that idea is the “lead shield” from the dinosaur parent company, and we know from many accounts that being integrated into the Yahoo culture is what killed their acquisitions.
Good point. OTOH, perhaps the most fruitful sites were already monitored in 1997 and the new sites were peripheral and not expected to see as many butterflies.

Also, the graph doesn't define "Total Monarch Abundance". That number might be an extrapolation of butterflies scaled by the number of sites, not the literal number of butterflies counted.
I find windows firewall is very good at blocking programs/processes from accessing the network.

By configure it to block svchost.exe from access network except 192.168.0.0/16, the windows 10 system service can have very light load on my laptop.

Combine with ProcessExplorer to monitor various processes's network traffic, I can make my laptop where the only two programs can access the internet are Firefox and Chrome.

Once every 6-9 months, when I feel like it, I do release the svchost.exe from the jail for a day to free win10 to get the latest security update.

With this setup, I can make the Win10 home edition laptop to have system uptime of 6 months or more.
You're totally right. Apologies for my part. I should know better than to engage with

"next time think twice before posting this kind of lowbrow mean shit".

It was meant to attack and irritate and I fell for it.
In this case, and the case with Andy Rubin, I immediately thought "these people are guilty" - without evidence, without even knowing them or having spoken to them or otherwise having any sort of real judgement about their character.

I had to step back and realize that I was jumping to a conclusion prematurely.

In case you are not familiar with how the law works (outside of the court of social media), an accusation, no matter how believable, is not damning evidence - even when multiple accusations come to light. Objectivity is extremely important in these situations because it has already been demonstrated that our instincts are not impartial.

I'm not saying that any given person is or is not guilty, just that they deserve a fair trial.
So he worked there, and commuted to work there, because of how he worked there.

And you brought this up in a thread about something not even close to the same situation, yet presented it as relevant. And doubled down despite being contradicted by your own sources. He worked there. He knew he worked there. He was not just popping in for half an hour that one time to have lunch with them. He worked there and they trained him on their techniques while he worked there. The fact that the word "visitor" was in there is not relevant and does not make it be the same situation that this thread was about. It is not the same situation. It is not a similar situation. It is not the same situation because -- have I mentioned this? -- he worked there.
>>> So, how does a single, or even a 2 driver truck prevent this TODAY

>> See my last paragraph.

> The risk to stealing is directly proportional to the chance of getting caught, which broadly correlates into something unexpected happening, which is drastically diminished by not having a human driver.

You're missing the forest for the trees. A human witness is a deterrent because our court system says they are.

"Sir / Madame, could you pick the person you believe robbed your vehicle out of this lineup?"

Shooting out the engine of a vehicle traveling at a constant 55-85 mph down a straight interstate is a turkey shoot if you have the proper caliber.

I thought this was HN? The technical and creative requirements for this theft barely rise to "a bored Tuesday at the dorms."
Aaaaa I loved as_oilrig! Could never remember the name of it!
Fun fact, after the grand master of the Order of St. John surrendered to Napoleon at the french invasion of Malta, the order moved to Russia and named Paul I as its sovereign protector. The Russian tradition of the Order of St. John exists today in Hawai'i (and around the world). They have a meeting in Honolulu on the first friday of every month. Sen. Daniel Akaka and Gov. George Ariyoshi were both invested into the order. Today they do charity work, funding various humanitarian projects around the world.

The Kingdom of Hawaii actually had a very friendly relationship with Russia. King Kalakaua was a member of the Order and was even gifted a portrait of Czar Alexander II, which is still hanging in Iolani Palace to this day.
I had the same experience. I was scanning the Amazon wish list page knowing what I was looking for and finally found it with CTRL+F. This is unethical design. :\
Crisis is the time when people are most willing to accept changes, and Microsoft was indeed in crisis. Still is in some ways, but their turnaround has been impressive.
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No, actually, it's just creepy.
Maybe he doesn't like hugging and the comment was his way of deflecting.
No it's not, just use Firefox and use any adblock plugin just like you would on desktop.
The concept of paying for ad free, but getting ads anyways because they REALLY want you to see them is hopelessly myopic. It was the original concept behind google contributor, but it has since changed.
There is nothing wrong with suspecting that they are guilty when there are multiple accusers, because you are a person in the court of social media, and not a judge.

It's okay to form an opinion without believing that your opinion should be adopted as a legal conclusion!
That's a pretty broad brush to paint with. The Old Testament is a collection of books of different genres. Some parts are a legal framework for governing. Others are moral instructions. Most are historical record.

The commandment against murder clearly doesn't have the same context as the instructions for how to dress temple priests. It's not selective reading to consider the text in context. It doesn't require a deist belief either.
you miss my point. the strength of a novel main finding must be sufficient to warrant the opportunity cost of trying to get it published. a weak but real effect will be more or less strongly indicated in an experiment, just by the vagaries of the sample, but weak results typically will not get published. it is thus not surprising to me that findings might frequently be replicable but weaker than initially was found.
>The rest of the world may be radicalizing and polarizing, but HN's mandate hasn't changed and isn't going to

Lol, thank god we have Mr. Enlightened Centrist Gackle here to let us all know the truth is somewhere in the middle. It warms my heart to know in 20 years when the country HN is based in has devolved into a genocidal (well, moreso than usual) hellscape, you'll be right there with all the other luminaries of our age admonishing the masses of the dangers of associating with the far-left Strasserites.
Please stop now. Regardless of who's right, and you probably both are, this is the kind of tedious spat we don't need.
Please stop now. Regardless of who's right (which you probably both are) this is the kind of tedious spat we don't need.
Makes sense. Logstics is fundamentally a network problem optimizing for latency and throughput.

Jitter is toxic to both, and road had a huge amount.

Rail networks are at least in control of most of their own variables!
It must be really hard to be in the public eye like this. He probably meets, what? 10,000 people a year? Maybe more? Everyone wants a photo, a snippet of conversation. The chances of saying or doing something stupid go up astronomically.

Yes, there are genuine creeps out there. But no, I don’t think you can judge a person by a few “puts foot in mouth” moments. We all do that sometimes, but when you are a celebrity the stakes are so much higher.
I grew up in the mountains near there (near Big Bear). I used to love the monarchs flying through our canyon every year. I've not seen them in what feels like a decade.
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Sounds like you've done some pretty horrible things in your life, would you like to talk about it?
So ... SIGINTaaS ?
I totally agree with you, I've never skipped an ad read on CT, but when have they done one live?
While I'd agree with you 'in the wild' on a random person, if you watch Neil for a length of time on stage,.... he has an energy about him. It almost exudes as a hyperactive type of quality. Not many people are excited about space "stuff" - so I can see him just becoming overly excited when people ARE interested.
It is totally fair to form an opinion, I just hope that people weigh all the evidence first. In many cases, I see people forming verdicts as soon as someone is accused. The other problem is that the details of these cases are often largely obscured for the public, other than what they are willing to publicly state (and often lawyers discourage this).
I'm a little skeptical of CreateSpace.

Why did you decide to self-publish?
If I were in a position to comply I think I would be very happy about that.
Great explanation, now all this action seems to be targeted at young people between twenty and thirty (the older ones are watching TV)

Fascinating, correct me if I am wrong: so young people these days are no longer glued to the tube, so they do 'grassroot media' to attract them, but by doing so they now openly make propaganda for the state.

Or maybe it is because young people are no longer tied into the consensus (as memories of the new deal/welfare state are all gone by now), so they have to spend more effort to integrate them. Go figure.

(and i saw the movie 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' with my kids the other day, nice movie if you read between the lines)
> Version control was absolutely mainstream back then.

I’m not arguing with that, only pointing out that it wasn’t ubiquitous.
Thanks so much for publicly sharing this.
The counterparts of these books in the mathematical domain may be self-contained with respect to the subject matter, but you fail to consider the fact that most of them require a high degree of mathematical sophistication and are really targeted at people who have already acquired the required level of intuition. The "self-contained" nature of these books is deceptive - they might start with some innocent looking stuff about counting, integers etc and very soon drill deep into abstract stuff through complex chains of reasoning which a beginner will find extremely dry, bewildering and unfathomable. When you are a total beginner and trying to learn a subject through self-study, you are more likely to appreciate a book in which the author tries to recreate the experience of sitting in a classroom and listening to a professor holding your hand and showing you stuff from various angles.
The problem is that it doesn't take a legal conclusion to ruin someone's life. If enough people form a bad opinion of you, even if those opinions are based off incorrect evidence, then your life is ruined, regardless of what the legal conclusions say.
Then why not TypeScript, which is a more powerful language than Dart and has a much better ecosystem?
It depends on how "deep learning" is defined. If it's neural networks, the answer is likely no. but a broader definition of feature learning or "end-to-end" learning makes sense. It's likely for AGI what we need is a good, shared representation across multiple tasks, and continual learning paradigm that keeps building up new skills.
That's just choosing a different casing (or using what's readily available), the urge to find a casing is what's innate. You don't see all octopuses finding objects to carry and use as protection - like tools, it's something this one figured out.
Yea it's called "The Iron Law of Prohibition", which mostly has to do with the fact that more potent drugs take up less space per eventual dollar paid by the end user, and shipping lower volume means dealing with less risk (and thus cost) during transport (risk, of course, being one of the main things that make drugs expensive).
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Doesn't seem particularly different from the competition:

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/156/Apple-Mac-Os-X.html?v...
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It also coincides with them raising a crapload of money (hundreds of millions iirc) at a significantly higher valuation than they had a couple of years ago.
>the thing about math books I have read is that they overemphasize rigor at the expense of intuition

I think these are not contradictory notions! Bad maths books lack rigour. Many books are like you say: rigorous but difficult to make sense of. But truly great books both explain the concepts in the simplest, most lucid and succinct way possible AND maintain the rigour necessary to do mathematics.

I like this quote from Michael Spivak: "In addition to developing the students’ intuition [...], it is surely equally important to persuade them that precision and rigor are neither deterrents to intuition, nor ends in themselves, but the natural medium in which to formulate and think about mathematical questions."

I couldn't agree more. Rigour is not a "masturbatory" end in itself to feel very smart, but it is not also an obstacle to understanding.
Well few decades later IBM is still generating billions in profits. So I'm not so sure what to conclude from that, other than that juggernauts, while maybe not unstoppable, do not die easily.
I've watched NDT quite a bit (being an amateur astronomer myself), but that statement is still creepy. I don't think that being 'energetic' automatically excempts any individual from criticism for their actions and words.
Let me suggest a rather weird idea (I'm not really serious, but who knows...): perhaps they have evolved to this not from more primitive species but from less primitive actually. Even humans don't really need strong hardcover bodies and strong limbs any more as now we enclose our bodies in all kinds of environment suits, structures, and vehicles, all kinds of physical work can be automated, all we really need is a brain and perhaps we can evolve into some sort of cephalopods occasionally as some hundreds millions years (I'm not really sure about the order of magnitude) pass if we don't go extinct and we can also start loosing some intelligence once too. BTW this direction (to the point of a rather-primitive amphibia) of human evolution as been suggested in the 15th episode of the second season of the StarTrek:VoyagerTV show (an episode popularly named among the worst although I find it being one of the most intriguing). The Guild navigators from the David Lynch movie are another clue, who knows what this weirdly evolved kind of human species could evolve into to adapt when there is no spice any more...
And we call chimps violent.
Unless you have a very old phone you should be able to block ads on it
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Great article. I am half Indian and this article was spot on
> but that is not how it is positioned by Tesla

I disagree, based on my Model S orientation from my delivery specialist, as well as the very clear warnings on the MCU display regarding the driver needing to maintain control at all times (which is also presented on the dashboard display above the steering wheel each and every time autosteer is enabled). It’s made abundantly clear what the limitations are.

Stupid people will do stupid things. Safeguards have diminishing returns, and does not absolve an operator of personal responsibility.
You're talking about internal politics, which group of shitty telecom execs won the arm wrestling match for control of the merged shitty telecom. And you may well be right, I don't much know or care.
Usually the truth lies between the stories expressed by the two sides. Condemning someone just because he is accused is definitely wrong. If things are the way he says then in my book I don't think he did anything wrong but that's just me and my opinion and I don't really know what happened the same way anyone who condemns him doesn't either. Bottomline he's right about one thing for sure, that everyone is a jury in the court of social media. Guilty or not won't matter cause his popularity has already been hurt by the social media backfire.
You're absolutely right. It feels frustrating for your comment to met with ill-faith attacks and insults but that's no excuse to lower the level in turn. Apologies for that.
Luckily, 120/5 = 24 so movie content can be broadcast at 120hz without any weird effects.
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This is one of the most obviously not proofread articles I've seen in a while, particularly among ones that made it to HN.

For example:

> a 2017 modeling paper in Biological Conservation (pdf) found that 30,000 butterflies adult butterflies are probably the smallest viable population.

"butterflies" is repeated.

> Its population has fallen by 97% since the 1980s, and is at just 99.5% of its original abundance.

If Monarch populations were at 99.5% of their original abundance, we'd be celebrating or heavily investigating why they haven't been more adversely affected by human activity. They almost certainly mean 0.5%.

Now the first might be a "minor" error, but it's still something obvious enough to be caught on a scan. The second? That's a massive factual error. Seriously, who publishes stuff like this?
Ha ha, "10 line error". [ Puts on Monty Python voice] "What I wouldn't give for a 10 line error..."

Incautious use of the template mechanism - or just a minor typo - has given me couple screenfuls in the past.
> My point is that we know for a fact that our brain doesn't work anything like a Turing machine.

That's of course true, but then most computers aren't that similar to a classic Turing machine either. The idea of Turing machines is that they can simulate anything else that we mean when we say "computation".

> Can a Turing machine simulate a brain - as in, create intelligence like the one our brains expose?

Yes, it can. I mean, if it can't, that means there's some notion of "computability" that a Turing machine doesn't capture - this would violate the "Church-Turing" thesis. Such a thing is possible, of course, since we have no proof that a Turing machine is the limit of what we mean by "computable" - but it would be a completely revolutionary fact in Computer Science, and one that is very unlikely, considering how many years people have been trying to come up with alternative models of "computation" that all turn out to be equivalent to Turing machines.

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The human brain isn't magic - it works according to the laws of physics like anything else. Either it is simulatable by a Turing machine, which would make the most sense, or it isn't, in which case we're missing something about how you can compute things, which would be surprising and amazing.
Man, I worked at aQuantive when it got bought for $6B by Ballmer. They took a $6B write down within a few years. They should have kept their money in the services part of that business instead of the second-rate ad tech.
I think compiling the provided code and running it against the provided data set does do something---you know the code reports on the data. If you get a different result with the provided code and data, then there's something different with your environment vs. the original researcher, perhaps the rounding mode, or some assumption [1]. Once that's straightened out, then you can use new data and see if you can replicate the result with the provided code and new data.

Think of the provided data as a sanity test.

[1] I recently fixed a bug wherein I was inadvertently relying upon Linux-specific behavior that failed when tested under Solaris.
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