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Holding people accountable for personal actions taken 10+ years ago is one thing. Holding them accountable for public statements made on behalf of a hugely influential company is different altogether.
The folks paying these peak prices do not seem to match the historic demographics of their new neighborhoods. While I agree we’re near the peak, I’m not sure that Alameda is the proverbial canary in the coal mine here.
The normality of it is why it's so awful.

Maybe it's true people matching some of my info watch are likely to watch Shapiro videos, but by optimizing for engagement they basically are trying to herd similar people towards whatever version of that person watches the most YouTube videos.

Indirectly YouTube wants everyone to be a right-wing fanatic, because the algorithm has determined that that sort of person watches a lot of videos.

YouTube shows videos that are likely to get clicks, but fanatics are more likely to click and watch videos. So things fanatics care about are promoted. YouTube seems to take this stance that it's just natural social dynamics at play, excusing themselves from addressing what they're enabling.
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If there weren't pathways for the application of scientific knowledge to people's needs, there wouldn't be as much funding for it. Science thrives today because people have used it to solve many problems, which generates massive wealth.
In the present/short term, having a few spots in your home and office you can slap down whatever it is (phone+battery case, headphones, watch) whenever you don’t actively need to use it and just quickly pick them up when you need them. Even a few minutes charge can be handy.

In the medium term, the fact that it is portless and at this point, standardized, are features. Even a modicum of wear and tear can eat through ports (in both the phone and the power brick, but usually the phone) and cables (which is the common failure case if you travel with cables because you otherwise wouldn’t have one every place you need them). Anything that eliminates even a bit of wear and tear necessitating fewer repairs and replacements is a plus. Well the caveat here is I don’t know the failure states of Qi wireless charging pads yet, so there is possibly something I haven’t considered here.

In the long term: I would like a desk, where recessed into this desk is a a pad where I can place my phone, desktop, laptops on top of and have both power and a high speed LAN confined to that desk without the access point in the other room acting as the medium of exchange, and without having to plug every powered device individually into an outlet or cable to charge. This would massively cut down on RF interference, reduce the total number of cables I need to be concerned about, and make keeping the area around my desk clean a bit easier. I manage now, and it is fine, but I really dislike having to replace any cables in my current setup with another cable unless I’m reducing the number of cables, and I strongly dislike having to add to the number of cables in any space I maintain.

Might be a dream, but it is my dream. If all I cared about was keeping my phone charged, proximity charging wouldn’t be a selling point. When I factor in all the other infrastructure in my life I have to keep powered and charged and cabled, it is a much stronger sell.
A good engineer hits the "physics limit" brick wall pretty early in the design process...

I would think it more likely that they thought they could change FCC regulation via lobbying efforts in time for release.
To ML/DL engineers out there: do I have to know the math to get a job as a ML/DL engineer?

I ask because all these tutorials (including Fast.ai) focus on eliminating the need to know the math. So I'm wondering, is the day-to-day work consist of utilizing the necessary libraries and letting them worry about the math?
Define and implement a compiler for your own language. Or implement a standard language or a subset of a standard language. Write the compiler in its own language or a subset that you can hand compile to, say, python. Nothing will give you a better appreciation of the nature of programming languages and their design. Not having to deal with types and storage management is cheating.

If you are simply cutting notches on your bedpost, write a utility or application in Haskell or Erlang. Even more instructive is to write a program in macro assembler.
So Rust is a little bit more efficient then C++. That's kind of surprising. And I knew Lisp was fast but I am still surprised it scored so high.
as not all languages get the same attention.

...which also seems to be reflective of how much programmers using language X care about (execution) efficiency, so I'd say these results are not far off from reality.

C and C++ are another interesting pair --- proponents of the latter always love to claim "zero cost abstractions" that allow you to write very abstract code which they say the compiler can then optimise (or clean up the mess, depending on your viewpoint...) to the same output as if you did it manually in C, but the results show a very different picture.
Nah, everybody loves Warren Buffett.

The annoying thing with most billionaires is not that they have and spend a lot of money, but that they try to force their values onto the rest of us via lobbying, "charity" and other actions designed to leave a legacy. Newsflash: if you don't try to subversively manipulate the world with your gazillions of money as enabling tool, you don't need to redeem yourself by giving 99% of it away.

Not that giving it away is a bad idea, because dynasties suck.
Remember when trees didn't rot when they died, the wood just piled up?

That's where we are with data. In the early days data was scarce and valuable. Then it was ubiquitous. Now it's a fire risk. One day it will be not just default, but good, that data rots.
My problem is it's really easy to get just barely on the edge of the charge zone, and then at some point in the night you bump it ever so slightly and it leaves the zone and stops charging.
You can play around with different setting here http://trillionthtonne.org/ The model they're based on is a few years out of date though. The trajectory our politicians put us on right now seems to suggest that they subscribe to extremely optimistic settings or are okay with absurd warming.
They're just going to remove local syncing and stick with cloud based solutions.
Check out gl-matrix.js, that’s one designed for being fast. It’s a simple math library, but the main way it achieves fast is by not allocating memory.

After having worked on JS for some large web apps that need good graphics performance, the two rules of thumb in my head for making JS fast are: 1- avoid dynamic memory allocation, and 2- avoid using the functional primitives like map.

The first one is more or less true in all languages, memory allocation always costs a lot, and if you can pre-allocate memory and/or re-use memory along the way, the code will run faster. This means paying attention to what things in JavaScript will allocate memory under the hood, use of dicts, use of 3rd party library and framework functions, etc.

The second one is a bummer; I love using the functional primitives. But map is slower than a for loop, all else being equal. It has gotten relatively faster over time. I mostly use functional everywhere, and only resort to for loops in performance critical code.
It really depends on whether you are having an actual realtime conversation with a person; that comes with expectations of full attention, immediate responses and usually has good-byes too.

On the other hand, email or forum threads don't have good-byes either, and neither did many IRC chatrooms.

IM used to be akin to a telephone conversation, now it's more like email chain. This is necessary, because we don't have short windows that we dedicate to being online anymore (during which the expectations are higher). If we treated all incoming messages as telephone calls, that'd take all our time. The result is that IM has a priority just above an email, but below everything else (phones calls, offline things happening, etc).
not knowing the math behind ML is like not knowing a language and using google translate. most of the time you'll be fine but you won't be able to tell when something goes wrong and you won't be able to figure out why, and then you'll get things like

http://www.itltranslations.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/5_...
On an average tech salary, it's relatively easy to save enough to buy a 1 bedroom condo after a few years. The homes that are the highest in demand, at least in SF, are single family homes, which average at least $2m.
I've tried to pay with points before and it never seems to work out advantageously. A $200 bargain basement Southwest flight will cost like 60000 points. Is Southwest, or international for that matter, an anomaly?
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Typical HN/reddit post.. hung up on the name of something rather than what it is/trying to do.
It's an educated guess with evidence presented.
You might be misunderstanding. AWS and Google and a few others are hosting everyone’s code, all the big shops and all the small shops and everyone in between. They do things to optimize everybody’s code, because it saves literally millions on their power bills.
The top 3% aren't buying homes every year.
I thought it would be a nice improvement, just laying my phone down in a few common places I charged it, so I bought a charging pad to try it out. Physics got in the way, even with a simple "high speed" charger from Samsung, with a Samsung phone. It was the case on the phone. Probably no more than 2mm thick, but it made finding the right position to charge very difficult. If it wasn't just right, it wouldn't charge, and even when it did it was much slower than the normal high speed charging.

I think there's potential in this arena, but it's not quite there yet, not for a lot of people and every day situations.
TL;DR:

- Every single home in San Francisco listed for sale on Thursday

- Nearly 1/3rd of all affordable homes in the Bay Area

- About 1/2 of the least expensive houses in San Francisco and the East Bay.
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But how can you not have a realtime conversation if every online medium is realtime and the only thing making it not realtime is maybe your self-control, or that your battery died? In this sense, I'm not aware of any non-realtime media (which is why I created one).
Their famous interview process picks only the best and the brightest in the cosmos, but these geniuses cannot perform proper backups of data in a company whose bread and butter is data?

What a load of bullshit.
After 3 years of the Rift and Vive. Oculus made a dumb move of releasing a cheaper headset. Valve on the other hand is set to release the real upgrade everyone has been waiting for. Check out the comments in the Oculus reddit. People are going crazy, me included. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/b747i4/valve_teases...
meantime i bought in December a pair of phone charging pads at Costco for $35 and still feel like it is the best thing since sliced bread :) Works like a charm for both our phones - wife's iPhone in the case and my S9. If only all these wireless earbuds that we also have to charge had the wireless charging antenna inside - the life would be grand. It is very strange that Apple couldn't pull it off.
Now, seriously: C and the boogieman of managing your own memory is a myth. Anything you want from another language can be built up from C, and be in your direct source code control working in C. Far too much propaganda is written telling programmers perfectly capable of the gains from working in C that they should be afraid of working with their own memory allocations. As if being organized is impossible.
But at the same time, when manipulating strings with regular expression, three of the five most energy-efficient languages turn out to be interpreted languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, and PHP), “although they tend to be not very energy efficient in other scenarios.”

I believe that's because they're all using a regular expression library which is probably written in C/C++, maybe even with some pieces in optimised Asm, so none of the actual RE-work is being done in the interpreted language itself. If you wrote actual RE processing in the interpreted language and let the interpreter interpret/JIT it, I bet they would be as (in)efficient as the "other scenarios" where the "heavy lifting" is running through the interpreter.
A lot of people aren't aware of their options. That starting a business is super simple is something that I had no idea about, and even the prospect of dealing with bureaucracy and paperwork can make the whole endeavour feel daunting and off putting. There's also financial safety / lack of a safety net - ideally you could fall back to family, but no one really wants to fall back to friends, or worse, no one. This means a lot of people choose shitty jobs over rewarding but risky jobs or endeavor.

And for the stock market, working an average job means you should really be investing into a Roth 401k, though I know some people who invest into realty.

It's kinda like telling a depressed person "just smile and don't let the small things bother you!" Progress can be hard for people for various reasons.

That said, I agree with what some one else said else where, that I mostly actually care about is to make sure every one can afford what they NEED to without going to extremes - I know a person in the military who had to eat of dumpsters to survive as a kid, and someone who was living on the doorstep of their recruiter until they got in. There are places in the US that have third world living conditions: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-pov...

As a side, I had brought this up with someone before, and they told me that maybe it's a good thing for children to be hungry and eat from dumpsters because then they'll be motivated and work hard as adults.

Ah, thanks the comment back, I enjoy discussing things with purple who have a different opinion.
"but the metallurgy of the contacts is an unsolved problem"

Solved for decades. Gold-plated stops corrosion and resists contamination of most any sort.
In many countries you have to show your ID before buying alcohol, entering a gambling establishment, or using a tobacco vending machine. I don't think this is so much different in spirit.

I agree that the implementation is a bit weird. (A fee for every device? Vouchers?)
Thank you, thank you :) I have been enjoying it.
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The seconds it takes to plugging in and unplugging your phone add up and it takes mental effort. I’d rather just set the phone down on the nightstand or on the desk while drinking coffee and have it charge without whipping out the cable each time.
Wouldn't it be better these days to use Keras and just run under tf? Serious question.
That just may be worth it :).
I don't even have much of a "social presence" but Ive definitely had certain specific affairs of my day to day life affected for the negative (applying for credit to buy a house) just because I have a very boring, mundane and incredibly common (American) name that shows up in all sorts of databases even though I'm not the exact and specific person with my name convicted of, among other things: grand larceny.

For this reasons and others I've given real thought to pursuing a legal name change.
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The phenomenon is weird, from a historical lens, but I don’t think it’s strange to hold one of the people most responsible for (and most profiting from) the phenomenon to be bound by it as strongly as the rest of us.
I agree with your points, but there is no way to win these arguments :-(.
You talk too much with a lot of confidence without knowing quite enough. You also claim Rust isn't free of race conditions when the Rust type system (claims) that it is. (using Sync types).

Please stop commenting in negative way specially since you're not very knowledgeable.
I think it's more than vocabulary and grammar that shapes reality, it is the metaphors that extend the language, allow analogies to be drawn, and provide handles for semantic analysis.
> I played the crap out of that game to the point I’d dream about it or see the tiles when I closed my eyes.

I'm sure you already know this, but for anyone who doesn't, this phenomenon is actually common enough to have a name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Lobbying > engineering.
Public utterances from the CEO's of billion dollar companies historically landed in newspapers or archives so I don't see how it is accurate to say that this sort of speech was somehow ephemeral in the past.
It's hard (very lossy) to try to couple the B fields when the rings are different sizes.
Another long-lasting cool experiment:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

"The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. 'Pitch' is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appear solid; most commonly bitumen. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very low rate, taking several years to form a single drop."
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Just an FYI, the author is more than likely scamming for donations, or at the very least drumming up donations for vaporware/misleading software. He has as of yet refused to publish any source code for his language, despite having close to 2k stars. If you read my comments, you'll see that he claims to have detailed information on his website, but all he has listed is compilation targets, claimed benchmarks (or just benchmarks taken out of context), and unimplemented features.

Based on what he's saying, he has essentially sold snake oil based on PL buzzwords via blog posts and HN, and has little more than the type of front end you can build going through an LLVM IR guide.

This man might be telling the truth, but based on his behavior so far I would be exceedingly suspicious of anything he says until he has actually released source code or a full compiler.
USB-C is rated for at least 10,000 disconnects. That's four connects/disconnects a day for more than six and a half years.
Good question. I know folks who are perpetually chasing their PhD, going on over a decade now.

The supervisors always have another idea to chase, another task upon which to assign their hardworking protege...
Everyone should take his lead and delete old posts on fb.
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Which I read, one part says it compiles to native machine code, another says it emits C for optimization, so which is it?

And if it does compile to machine code, is it really running as fast as C as you claim? Or did you just say that because it trans-compiles to C.
There is a book called Personality Plus[1] that you should definitely read because you're most likely a very detailed oriented person. I have friends that are not as diligent as you are with plugging their phones in and their battery is almost dead all of the time. Them having a Qi charging mat is the one saving grace that no finally keeps their phones above the 5% - 20% low power mode battery area that they usually hover in. The cognitive load is just low enough to get them to charge their phones more often if they can just place it on a mat. I'm like you when it comes to charging my phone, but I know quite a few people that are not.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Plus-Understand-Understan...
Does that have an effect on battery life though? Constant micro charges?
Could you put a pressure sensor on the pad and only power on the coils directly underneath the object? I assume with software you could selectively turn on/off areas of the mat to manage the heat problems that come with multiple coils being on at once. I could see it being a problem if they were charging all at the same time but you should be able to fake it and call that good enough. All the devices have to charge, but they don't have to all charge at once. I think you could get tunnel vision and forget that.

Could someone who is better qualified tell me why that wouldn't work?
The United Nations has something like 30 different climate models. Also no one can forecast next month’s weather accurately, much less the weather from 12 years from now. Or do you know of a more accurate forecasting model? Such a model would be extraordinarily useful in agriculture and emergency management, for example.
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I am trying to be hired for an early stage tech startup and cutting my salary by 50%. I would be the third employee apart from the founders in US. How much equity should i expect. Is there a formula ?
Also the April 12th deadline gives some time for EU elections to be arranged in the UK, which will be a necessity of any delay now.
ahh if we only had a copy of dob's efnet irc history from 1990's... glad no one keeps logs of that
You would risk even one pacemaker failing in light of 'technical progress'?
Oh wow. That sucks. Maybe you could just add your grandfather's name as a middle name, or something like that.
This article is written by Douglas Preston - a co-author of the bestseller Pendergast series and several other fiction and non-fiction novels. Took me by surprise when I saw the name.
Totally agree with the rest of your answer but rent is definitely not extremely cheap, at least in Taipei (wich is where most of the jobs are).
It can actually be argued that the property market in Taipei is a bubble.
A larger (diameter) coil would require much more power to create a magnetic field capable of inducing a (useful) current in the device's battery charger. Also remember that induction requires AC. A high-power AC circuit creates a lot of RF noise.
They always threatened in school 'this will go down on your permanent record', and then we went ahead and built one.
Unfortunately there are no APL/array languages there, they are notorious for being succinct! It's not a stretch to say "lines of code" in most other languages would be close to "characters of code" in APL. It'd be interesting to compare it using the other metrics too.
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Well, yeah --- just like I'd risk one person getting hit by a train in order to achieve the "technological progress" of rail transport. Every new technology comes with risks. If we focus on the risks and ignore the benefits, we can't make progress, and it's progress that ultimately benefits more people than any amount of harm avoidance.
“The child’s doctor became concerned that he could have meningitis, after learning that he was lethargic and had not been vaccinated.“

Sounds like a rigorous examination. /s Regardless of your strong feelings about vaccinations, I would sue that doctor into poverty.
I can tell you exactly what happened-my shares in SuperMicro have gone up 40% since the publishing of that story. I'm going to guess that the whole thing was dropped because it was mostly, or even possibly totally, untrue.
I wish that were the case here, as I've "fixed" other ports by lintectomy (and it has been long enough I had to go check it again!) but this is physical damage to the port.
I appreciate the asynchronous mode of comunication that text messages afford. Conversations there do come to an end sometimes -- but usually that means a big change or end of the real-world connection between the two people messaging.
This actually isn't that unlikely