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Yes, exactly this.

As someone who had a prior career in VFX using mostly Autodesk and Adobe software, there are people who spend their whole career in one of these packages and have a lot of difficulty becoming fluent in a second one.

They are designed with completely different metaphors and workflows and yes, the end result is always pixels, but learning multiple high end creative software is nothing like learning different programming languages.
Yeah - careful with that generalization though... talent is more a person-to-person and organization-to-organization thing and not a specific title IMO
Germany wants access to citizens' data. That's sparked fears of a sinister past
There’s a buddy of mine who I stay in touch with by playing Chess on a mobile app. We’ve had a game going at all times for probably 4 years now with a 3 day time limit on moves.

He’s a lot better than me. Overall record is something like 200-50, but it’s a simple way to keep in touch.

Other than that, all of my friends of college stay in touch because of college football. We all follow the team, get together at different away games and bowl games. Home games are actually tougher because most people come with a family routine for those.
First thing that popped in my head when I read the headline. Really liked the episode.
Wouldn't that just create even more actors who can't make a living?
Odd comment considering Americans are literally dying due to a refusal to regulate in certain areas - employee rights, healthcare, gun laws, obesity etc.

Small price to pay for "freedom" I guess.
I wanted to try this out, but it looks like it's no longer working. How do you know when others are talking if you don't have client side scripts to load data from the server?
Slight difference is that most parents don't give children cigarettes at the age of 2...
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I'd be fine to wrap it into the existing smoking ban, hopefully resulting in not much more bureaucracy.
Part 2 of this course, which will be released later this month, is a step by step walkthrough of building the FastAI and PyTorch libraries from scratch (minus autodiff).
How about we just let people choose what to do with their body?

As a kid my parents didn't care too much about what I ate. I regularly had sweets of any kind as a kid. I certainly have no addiction to sugar because of that. I probably drink soda less than once a month and have cake/ice cream/chocolate/candy at about the same frequency. Meanwhile, people I grew up with who were never allowed sugar seem much more addicted to it, eating sweets with every meal or as a snack. Earlier this week I heard someone at work talking about how their child has never eaten any kind of sweets before and personally this just sounds like a recipe for disaster.
The problem is they cannot all be solved with just one single thing. Jeff Bonwick and his team knew that. They knew what was left on the table and they had to make that call. A completely fault tolerant, distributed system which can correctly arbitrate a write to a single shared resource (usually a file or even a block) from multiple nodes at the exact same time is a problem which has not been solved correctly yet, to the best of my knowledge and belief. I myself have spent considerable amount of time (20 years, to be precise) trying to solve that particular problem correctly for all edge cases. That problem is terra incognita in computer science and yet to be throughly researched, let alone understood. All attempts at solving that particular problem 100% correctly have not been successful, by anyone, but if you know of someone, please do tell, I'd love to be corrected on this and start using such technology immediately.

The ZFS team was well aware of this and that's why they made the trade-offs they did. They picked a subset of problems and they solved them. Even in hindsight, to me at least, it's obvious why.

But to suggest that Sun Microsystems doesn't exist because the company's engineers picked only a subset of problems they knew they could solve is... either terribly ignorant or wilfully malicious, or both, since malice often stems from ignorance. Sun Microsystems lost because they were too expensive, more expensive than garbage intel personal computer servers and because Solaris wasn't open source code in 1993. It's that simple.
I think Swedes just end up buying more when visiting systembolaget. And students buy van loads on road trips to Germany.
> Living in the country side is supposed to be expensive

I don't quite understand this...I have always been able to live in the country for cheap. Doesn't matter if I'm moving to a small town in Wyoming or literally being an Oregon Trail traveler. It takes very little to subsist, especially when the efforts are distributed across a family or small village.
Well, I meant similar in that logs don't need to have sensitive info in them. Or that if they do, access should be really narrow.
And Blender also does node based compositing. I think that's what Foundry Nuke is famous for.
God I hope so. I grew up obese and am now about halfway through undoing the damage using a ketogenic diet. I really do think sugar sweetened drinks should be banned for sale to children under 18, as that causes the most damage.
Not a complete answer to what you're looking for, but you might find this dive into PyTorch internals interesting: http://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05/pytorch-internals/
> Yeah, next time you exceed the speed limit, just ask the police officer for permission to double the fun...

This is a rather weak analogy - I don't know where you live, but where I live driving the speed limit is not the norm and ironically driving against the common speed of traffic is more dangerous. i.e. You are safer exceeding the speed limit if that is with the flow of traffic than you are driving the speed limit when the flow is faster.

> No seriously, what the article is missing, is why there was a limit of 350. Was it just made up at some point to correlate with the expected lifetime? What real, increased risk is involved when operating up to 700 cracks?

To keep with the same analogy - what you are missing is that speed limits tend to be set assuming the _worst case_ driver, someone that really should not be on the road in the first place. i.e. the limit is not designed for the average driver/car but for the worst. i.e. they are _extremely_ conservative.

> Just telling they would have to get the power elsewhere and jobs would be at risk, is obvious and just one side of the medal. If there is no additional risk involved, there is no reason to condemn asking to raise the limit.

I think the challenge here is to quantify the 'risk' in full, which has to include where the power would come from as an alternative. The present situation is that the capacity is mostly replaced with natural gas, a net CO2 emission loss.
oh man, I've come here to complain about unbelievably small radiuses. But they bent the damn train car!
A good sugar and salt dry rub is excellent on a rack of ribs.
Cannabis is not healthy.
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Yeast are fungi.
I'm writing this from Firefox to test if it's still unusable on Mac. It's not that bad as before, to be honest. But for some reason now I can't synchronize it on Android... hopefully after another few years I will be finally able to switch over to it.
I'm not sure there is much that can be directly upstreamed, since the main outcomes were more high level design ideas than localized improvements.

One of the take-aways from the project was that for a subset of workloads and environments it would be very nice if the underlying system supported large coarse grained resource allocations that could be managed independently. This isn't a new observation by any means, but its benefits are clear in a virtualized environment.

For instance with memory, one of the advantages Palacios had was that it preallocated a VM's memory at initialization using a set of large contiguous physical memory regions. This allowed it to represent the majority of the underlying memory map in a static and compact form that could be queried in constant time without locking. Nested page tables were managed independently and lock free on each core using local memory which, among other things, avoided NUMA crossings during page table walks.

Large physically contiguous memory allocations in Linux have never been well supported, and Palacios relied on memory hotplug to achieve it. This is certainly not a great way to do it, but there really wasn't another way to dynamically allocate large contiguous memory regions (hundreds of megabytes) at runtime.

Carrying that through to the hardware side, it would be nice to have an alternative to nested page tables that resembled something more like segmentation.
Moderation and diversification seems to be a good hedge for a healthy portfolio.

That and also cooking more at home, be in contact with your food is a way to eat simpler and for me that is key.
This is a really good write up.

It is curious the performance differences found between ZFS and Btrfs, as I've always had the reverse experience, with ZFS being slower by maybe 15%. The scrubbing on md raid does take a while, every block must be checked as it has no idea what blocks are in use or not; although a write-intent bitmap would avoid a complete resync after an unclean shutdown.
Unlike Germans, the French (thanks to their increased distance) don't have to check their wild mushrooms or boar for radioactive residues to this day due to Chernobyl: https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w...
If as a society we stop thinking about electricity reliability as a binary issue, we'd save a lot of money. We can achieve 99.999% availability with extraordinary safety in fire-risk areas, but it's very expensive. Would some consumers accept 50% off if if they had (only) 99% reliability?

As a regulated (natural) monopoly, price is supposed to be determined by the cost. Fixed-costs are a factor of geography (including density), reliability, and safety. While marginal costs are driven primarily by when the electricity is used. Electricity use coincident with system peak is very expensive, driving marginal generation, transmission, and distribution capex. While marginal costs of electricity use coincident with system trough is very inexpensive, and perhaps negative.
Is legacy code hard to read or do you just not get it yet?
MongoDB uses Scons to build their product, or did when I was there. MongoDB is coded in respectable modern C++, with an admixture of Java bad habits and a history of Google Style pessimization.

Among the most used articles on MDB's internal wiki is "Scons: It's Not That Slow!"

In fact it is really quite, quite slow, but a universally popular add-on (not officially "supported" when I was there), is a Ninja build scheduler that is blindingly quick.

So, the slowness only manifests when you need to recalculate the dependencies, which doesn't appear in the typical edit-build-test cycle. With Ninja, combined with Ccache and a distributed build tool (whose name escapes me ATM), coding at Mongo was not bad.
No idea why you're getting downvoted...

It's not like modern nuclear reactors can only fail catastrophically, much less a predictable failure case that engineers are actively monitoring to ensure the safe operation of said reactor.

What's terrifying are the failure cases that the engineers aren't aware of -- the unknown unknowns -- which are probably significantly fewer than the cases they are aware of and are monitoring.
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You probably still want tags to break down costs by dev/test/prod, subsystem, etc. Or tags to aggregate them by department, customer, etc.
The number of "Obese People" far outweighs the number of chronic alcoholics... we are talking about almost 1/3rd of the population being obese (i.e. not just a bit fat, or chubby, just straight out obese).
> I used to try to mostly eat "healthy", so I'd tend to buy the "low calorie" options.

It amazes me how many people make this mistake.
Another High Speed Rail in making. Will be opposed tooth and nail by me at least. We wont let this happen.
There are plenty of secular groups that have cohesion (either between entire family units or between people without the rest of their family): non-religious scouting organizations, hiking groups, various volunteer groups, some political groups, gaming "clans", fan clubs, neighborhood groups... All of them are easy to join and leave and have churn, just like churches do when people move in or out of their region.
Yes that's definitely true I meant they will end up as the same end result. The fast sugars will end up causing you want more of it again in a shorter amount of time so it is ofcourse better to eat veggies instead of a candy bar to get your required energy.
Not the person you’re replying to but I suggest listening through Chris Masterjohn’s “mastering nutrition” podcast. I am a huge fan of his evidence-based approach. He has a PHD in nutrition and while that in and of itself is not the reason I hold his opinion in high regard, at least he’s credentialed. Highly recommend.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "helped". I've seen a few figures, none of which indicated that it had no effect on alcohol consumption in the US, and none of which indicated that it came anywhere close to eradicating alcohol consumption, either. It's naturally hard to estimate, given that it was all done clandestinely so there aren't really any official figures to use, but I got the impression that you could say with some measure of confidence that it reduced consumption by somewhere between 30% and 70%.
Business-wise, I would love to own an app store, and exercise control, and (eventually) cut myself in as the middleperson on for-pay software sold through it, as well as paid placements and ads.
Not sure exactly what point you are trying to make.
The one thing you want to keep in mind whenever doing drugs is that its a ride, it will stop eventually and everything go mostly back to normal.

Fear and panic in combination with an unshackled but inexperienced mind has the potential to create your own personal hell in no time.

That's also a good reason to get introduced to this class of drugs by responsible, experienced users who can help guide you out of any loops you get stuck in.
And it really works. I can chat with my friends, talk during the game, but I'll never talk on the phone. Idk why, but it's nice to know that this is just not my way.
I appreciate the help, and you're not wrong about many things. However I think I'm fairly aware of my attractiveness, I'm just sad the country uses shallow metrics for attraction. This country is keen on glorifying narcissism and exclusion rather than humility and inclusion, and that's not now I grew up. I'd rather give my love away than play stupid social games.

I'm athletically fit and don't have any intentions of bulking up. I'm at the climbing gym a few times a week, and climb outdoors a few times a month. Multi-pitch, trad, free-solo, whatever.

The biggest challenge, and the entire reason I started commenting here, is that finding friends is hard. Chatting someone up is easy, but getting a new person to take time out of their schedule to hang out with you is really difficult.
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Death? If your comment was a headline, I'd call it clickbait.
Nooooooooooo, please!

Try Meson instead:

https://mesonbuild.com/
Rotenone, a naturally ocurring herbicide. Known cause of Parkinson's disease.
SCMP has been pushing CCP propaganda since Jack Ma took over, it's just more subtle than GlobalTimes/XinhuaNet or other official sources. Not covering this protest would have been immediately obvious. You have to be a very subtle troll to make propaganda work abroad.

It's similar to YC getting to open a China program in exchange for getting a few Mainland mods on HN. Any anti-China posts do come up to front page but then disappear much faster than everything else (same will happen to this one).
OP was simply adding details of the history - not sure why you are taking a defensive tone
> The point is, just because a filter allows the right people through doesn’t mean it’s necessarily any good.

I define “good” and “right people” to be that which produces efficiency, quality, innovation in the business. So a good filter to me is good wrt these outcomes.

The industry is starving for ‘good people’ and ‘good outcomes’ and we should work to optimize this imo.

Any other measure divorced from outcome to me seems... weird.
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>Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t.

Given that the life expectancy in the US is falling which is unprecedented in an industrialised society, and on average below some second world countries that post has an involuntary morbid spin.
If I eat a strawberry thats non-added sugar. If I sprinkle sugar on the strawberry, thats added sugar.

It would be pretty easy to deduce the distinction between added and not sugars - if you put a sugar in your food and list it in the ingredients it has added sugar. If the thing as its grown has sugar then its not an added sugar.

If that leads to the GMO modification of crops even further to produce more sugars thats a lot less harmful than the status quo adding of corn syrup / cane sugar / etc to everything.
It's a third option, but it doesn't seem all that likely to me. It's much easier to see how demand for laundry detergent would be inelastic than to see how demand for alcoholic beverages would be inelastic.
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Not quite a bendy train but the Toronto Rocket subway is quite a trip during sharp turns, as it has fully-open gangways, giving the appearance that the train is bending through curves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangway_connection#/media/Fi...
What makes it tough is that many more cultures have a concept of "fundamental human rights" than ones that agree with western countries on which specific rights are fundamental.
I'm not harmed if I'm sitting next to a someone who is consuming sugar.

What we should have is health insurance premiums based on risk factors such as obesity, even in public systems.
Alcohol helps people socialize and is significantly harder to get addicted to – the 1st part of your sentence seems to contradict the 2nd: nowadays people can't think of getting together and not drinking and that's to me exactly because they got addicted to socializing under alcohol so much they can't socialize normally without it.
The only place I have encountered WAF was at Bloomberg, where it was used to build the C++ foundation library (BDE) that Bloomberg uses in older projects in place of Boost and Std, both of which it predates.

WAF worked, and didn't seem especially slow, unlike Scons, but I frequently needed to code Python to make it do what seemed like pretty ordinary things.
Google rewards reputable reporting, not left-wing politics
the problem with a nation-wide standardized test is that it pushes highschools to train students for that test. that causes quite some damage to the real education that they should be receiving. in china the outcome of their standardized test is that the students in the best universities tend to be excellent test takers, but not at all good students otherwise. so i am very skeptical that a standardised test will be good in the long run.

education should be available to everyone. the only requirement to enter any level of education should be to have passed the previous level.

as for grades vs test, i haven't much thought about that at all. i was merely reporting on how the german system works, without necessarily believing that it is the best system. all these systems are flawed in some way, and in the long run i believe the only system that will work is the one that allows everyone to access university level education.

with more and more university level material becoming available online for free this will eventually become reality. we just need to figure out a way to scale learning and teaching process
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> But it must be a recurring event that does not need to be planned each time, but not going is still considered something you are cancelling.

The tough part about recurring events is that they're always lower priority than anything emergent, because they're going to happen again. A mildly uncooperative two year old or middling-priority work task likely won't prevent you from attending a one-time event, but an every-other-week happy hour? Yeah, sorry, can't make it this time...

The trick is finding a large enough interval such that missing an instance feels like a real loss.
CAC imaging is expensive and exposes people to (a very small amount of) radiation. Statins are safe and well tolerated. Side effects are treated by temporarily stopping the medication. In people with an appropriately elevated risk, they are cost effective for risk reduction. I.e., they keep people alive longer. So, I don't agree that CAC screening is necessary or helpful prior to initiating therapy in most cases. CAC imaging is a good choice when there is equipoise or disagreement.
It was a moral panic though, rather than a reflection on the legitimate bodily harm of consumption. The prohibitionists were not arguing to save alcoholics livers, they were arguing to ban perceived unchristian behavior.
Very true, although not with tech.
Pro is $200, enterprise is $2000.

This is probably customized per client and could be more for big companies.
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I'm talking about typical usage in a social setting. People may drink a few beers a couple days in a week for months, or even years, and quit without any issues. Hardly the same with an equivalent "social dose" in cigarettes.
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And what about a pasta that ends up with some sugars from the process of being made? What's the difference between "natural pasta" and "sugar added pasta"?

> If that leads to the GMO modification of crops even further to produce more sugars thats a lot less harmful than the status quo adding of corn syrup / cane sugar / etc to everything.

Extremely disagree.
Do wine tasting events count as advertisements? That's how I and many people try new wines.
Data point from BigCo: almost no-one (at a US BigCo) would take reduced hours for proportionally less pay.

I work at a silicon valley BigCo, and I work half-time (20 hrs per week). I got this by just asking for it, though it did require high up approval. I didn't even hide the fact that it was for the purpose of personal projects. I get half my salary, and half my stock and bonus. It is still more than plenty to afford living here for me. I have 1 kid.

I've done this for 5 years now, during which time I've spoken to many BigCo colleagues about this, and I'd estimate about 100 of them know my "deal", and so far no-one has followed my path. Note that 80% and 60% are also options.

When asked they uniformly say that they couldn't take the reduction in pay. Median total comp for these people is easily 300k. Some don't even have kids.

So no, if you want to improve society you'd have to force a 4-day work week by law, otherwise no-one will follow-thru.
Even among the pro-Beijing businesses and the establishment, there are serious concerns about this.

Business people want to make money, foreign companies have started to divest from China, perhaps Hong Kong would be next?

Passing this law may akin to killing the goose for the golden eggs.
Don't think that's an apples-to-apples comparison.
Now, I don't know if you're implying that fast.ai specifically should include this in their course, and you're saying this as feedback, but there's tons of resources online for it. If you're looking for a guide i highly recommend this: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html.
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And all of the vehicles are not just driverless -- they're passenger-less!

I still like it. Probably means everyone is finally working from home.