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> Looking stuff up for dogs, I'm finding mixed results, so I'm less confident in my assertion here

I was kind of surprised at how little information I could find a while back when I searched online for information about animal hearing and animal vision. I was playing around with making a camera to automatically take a photo whenever an animal stopped by to eat the seeds and nuts I put out for them.

I've got a sensor that measures the distance to an object by bouncing an infrared laser off it. It's a class 1 laser, which basically means that it is not possible to exceed safe exposure by looking at it, even with a microscope or telescope. But that's for humans. What if a curious bird decided to get right up to it and take a look?

I couldn't find anything on laser safety for birds or squirrels or other animals likely to visit.

I've also got a distance sensor that uses a 40 KHz ultrasonic pulse. I couldn't find anything on the safety of that, either, for animals.

I did some tests with the IR laser and found that it didn't work very well for this application. It worked great at detecting when my hand was in front of it, but was very flaky with birds and squirrels. I guess features and fur just doesn't reflect IR light well enough.

Ultrasonic worked better, and so that's still in the running if I ever get time to finish this thing. I still don't know about safety of that for the animals, but figure that if the animal can hear it they will stay away if it is loud enough to harm them.

Alternatively, I may just go with having the camera take a photo every second, and try to figure out in software which ones have an animal in them. No risk of harming the animal that way, and also the camera could then be in my house looking out a window instead of outside, which would make power a lot easier and get rid of the need for weatherproofing it.
In this case, a representative demos would need to include the people who’d like to live there as well.
She and I were somewhat standoffish people back then, not really huggy types. Meanwhile, I come into the office, 3 sheets to the wind, see her, and said something like "S., I am going to miss working with you so much!" at a fairly loud volume, and I'm a good half foot taller than her.

It's something I still have to buy her a beer for every couple of years or so.
It’s possible, but beyond a certain point it becomes difficult to extend the benefit of the doubt.
Link just renders an empty page? On firefox, at least.
I'm sure there is a lot of land under permafrost, but make sure you are not unduly impressed by how it looks like on a mercator projection.
The originals seem to be inherently low quality. Possibly an interesting tech project here: try to automatically convert the JPGs into clean SVGs? Might or might not require DL like GANs.
It's not just "western" world. UN (which consists of not just western countries) has a concept of human rights that this would clearly fall out of.

It's arguably not even Chinese values. The situation went from "ok just China" to "totalitarianism" once Xi got a life appointment. Funny that happened when Mao got long in the years too.

Something Lord Acton said comes to mind.
Why aren’t we discovered? Probably because an advanced civilization but barely reach for the first time would be wise not to fly in risk getting detected and captured. So they wait till they have overpowering cloaking ability before re attempting a sighting. Maybe by that time, we are no longer interesting because of their own advances
Fair enough. I tend to agree then. I think taxes, with tax reductions in other areas to offset the pain, are a better solution than asking for individual effort.

You hadn't mentioned this in your comment though, so I thought you were arguing something else.
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It's still a legitimate concern. If a person or entity does something that flagrantly violates Visa's terms of service, Visa can refuse to process payments to them. If that same entity gets 86'd by 2/3rds of the Libra Alliance, they could be blocked from participating in transactions, which would make their Libra balance essentially worthless.
Ultimately you’re still beholden to private corps to transact at all, and transactions will be tied to your id, so I don’t see this having any benefit over bank-sourced transactions at all.
It's because she has a condition where she has XY chromosomes (typically signifying a male)
I'd argue that places that aren't fully established that would hire engineers aren't your target market. You won't work as hard in any big company as you do in a startup. And when their fragile infrastructure inevitably dies suddenly and you're off that day, it's little consolation that they saved a few bucks on an extra few sqft of space or a laptop, as they now have angry customers and potential loss of business and brand equity. I'd more aim for bigger companies if I was in your position but even then it's tough as no one, including myself, wants to work with a part-timer in tech. There are always issues with infra or customers or people in general and having a co-worker that is not always there during the week would be a nightmare.
Are you using NoScript? You have to enable scripts.
PBS Eons recently did a good video covering this topic. Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdtcx-6OBE
A lot of what Cory Doctorow writes is accessible to a young adult audience, like Pirate Cinema and the Little Brother series. For younger kids there are probably lots of books at the library with a science fiction theme for those just getting a taste for reading. I think Choose Your Own Adventures were some of the first sci-fi books I got into when I first learned how to read.
Far far away from that point. Maybe when people start buying houses and paying their medical bills with it. Which is not going to happen if the Big Banks have anything to say about it. This is mostly going to be small change transactions for a couple years with lots of other players falling over each other with alternatives. As long as it makes global small change transactions free or dirt cheap should be a good thing.
No, but a lot of the people building tech ideas, or other big ideas, are too busy to be in the magazines.

There are still WhatsApps, quietly building a huge customer base with nobody paying attention except the actual users. A bunch of interesting semiconductor work going on (various "AI" chips, too many to succeed; SiFive grinding away slowly but surely, invisible to all but us nerds, etc); I think what my company is working on (barely an SV company with only two in northern CA) could change the global economy, yet we barely had time to put up a static website.

But since "tech" has replaced car magazines, computer magazines, and some sports writing, people show up to write about whatever looks interesting, and what looks interesting is 1> understandable to someone not steeped in it (TBF that's true of the readers as well) and 2> has people who will seek you out to tell you how amazing they are. I'm fascinated that that article mentioned more than once that their B round was a steep percentage! Oh, it didn't; it only quoted some large-sounding numbers and let the reader do the math themselves. Probably the reporter has no idea how it works either.

Most of the action is in the Valley, where there are fewer deals, though more money being spent. There's much more deal flow in SF, typically for plans like this one that need less capital in the earlier stages -- giving more to write about in a nicer place to be walking around than down here in SV.

So don't worry, big things are happening, but the revolutions always start out under ground.
Afaik there was a winter service which was billed and nobody ever saw that winterservice happening.
Or there were addons built to the house that where not necessary and would force the people out.
DPDK does poll but you can have it sleep in low traffic situations. At the expense of a little extra latency.
It's a crisis of handing too much money to people that have no chance of repaying it. We have people that took at $100k in loans for a music education degree. A very noble cause, but you're unlikely to pay that back within 15 years given the salary prospects.

The root of the problem like many other macro problems [housing crisis, income disparity, etc] is well-intentioned but misplaced government subsidies.
And it screws over anyone who wasn’t lucky enough to win that lottery.
As someone who rides the S-Bahn for 30 minutes, having an express S-Bahn that takes me straight to the center would be really nice. But there are only 2 S-Bahn tracks most of the time :/
Looks like a graphql endpoint fails. 500 "invalid hook" ? After 10ish refreshes it worked... Qutebrowser here.
Also, unless you can prove that your software is EXACTLY the same after the ground-up rewrite, it will require changes to the voluminous and very detailed training materials, necessary to turn a 19 year old with slightly above average AFOQT scores into someone who can fix a complicated airplane on 4 hours sleep a night.
See also: the time ripple froze a founder's XRP so they wouldn't sell (and presumably cause a price crash)

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/not-so-decentralized-ripple-...
> distanced themselves from AWS on more critical stuff?

Can someone familiar with Netflix speak to this?

It makes sense that they'll continue to run stuff in AWS due to their existing footprint, but are they mandated to build new stuff outside the cloud? And if so, why?
It's already happened, methane has been bubbling from the arctic seabed since 2012.

Noone that can do anything cares.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20120422.htm...
Also there is probably a super small probability where both civilizations are in similar advances that they can brave a encounter without worrying. If one is way more advanced, either one may not be interested, or the less advanced one chickens out/ gets destroyed because they want to hide their location.
A statewide referendum (Prop 13) underlies the housing problems and is a huge enabler of Bay Area NIMBYism. Multi-decade homeowners can bask in a $5M house values and agitate for inefficient land use while paying taxes off a $30K purchase price.
> Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut of every single consumer payment made in much of the world. That ends up being a very, very big number.

I think you’re overestimating that rate, and by quite a bit. Mastercard’s fees seem to be between 0.2%-1.65%[0] depending on the card and transaction type.

I didn’t bother to look for Visa’s rate, but I’d imagine it’d be similar.

[0]https://www.mastercard.co.uk/en-gb/about-mastercard/what-we-...
>>It's one thing for anti-vaxxers to be clueless about this, but doctors?

I'm in Canada; My best friend was a Microbiology/Pharmacology scholarship PhD and then researcher; After a decade working for universities, she went back to medical school and is just finishing her Anesthesiology residency.

I am struggling to reconcile the difficulty, and scientific orientation of that program; with my friend's stories of fellow students (universally a decade younger) and their various predispositions. From students who for religious reasons cannot attend certain classes (as it clashes with their beliefs), cannot be alone with or treat a person of opposite gender etc; to those who have casual dismissal of scientific method; to those who seamlessly mix the scientific/medical practices taught, with naturopathy, homeopathy, various ilks of "alternative medicine", as well as further fringes.

To me that's a lot of studying and a lot of effort for something you don't buy into, but at the end of the day universities are not thought police: if you passed the exams, there isn't a final test that you believe in what they taught you... :-/

(in US, I think Dr Oz is a prime, successful if unfortunate example - by all accounts a skilled cardio surgeon; and by all accounts there is _no_ end to the Woo he'll promote on his show :\ )

Edit to add another example:"Nurses against mandatory vaccinations" was a significant group/movement in North America as well :-/. They claim that patients actually specifically ask for an unvaccinated nurse - I cannot imagine logic for that even from an anti-vaccination person, but there you have it:
https://nursesagainstmandatoryvaccines.wordpress.com/2015/11...
When I first heard about FB's crypto plans, I got excited and concluded that it will be a success because of FB's user base. Now that I know better. Libra is set for failure. People will reject it indeed
this is already happening and a big part of the problem.

when you separate work location from living location, that opens up people to live farther away from work. so you end up with more people living in places with less housing because its "cooler". like san francisco. even though tons of people work at businesses outside the city.
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Or simply stop allowing people to over-consume real estate in the bay area, what with 10x as many vacant apartments as there are for sale, to the tune of roughly 100,000 homes that could have families in them.
It seems disingenuous to call it the first. AWS has it's own time series db. In terms of open source Apache druid had a managed cloud variant that imply.io runs.
I was going to say that. The main reason is tax. If you can't tax it, it's illegal.
And why should we trust random Internet commenters to know anything about the beliefs of Facebook managers?
I have a hard time being sympathetic to people wishing to displace.
This is something taught about in most introductory earth science classes in college and is pretty interesting. Recently, I've seen it referenced as a means to debunk global warming as the historical evidence of the fluctuation of temperature throughout history and natural global warming. However, it doesn't account for anthropogenic changes in CO2 output, albedo changes as ice masses melt, and of course cow farts.
It probably doesn't matter long term. Any growing city serious about affordable housing long term need to figure out how to develop new areas essentially indefinitely. Whether you look like Boston, Vancouver or Hong Kong is in reality less of an issue.
People also just lose interest in things. And they'll find just about any excuse--"The doorknobs really needed polishing!" "There's a mistake on the Internet!"--to justify pushing off working on some project today. Days turn into months and years.
Are there publishers who are more accommodating of inputs like LaTeX/pandoc/markdown/etc? It'd be great to know that kind of thing when considering publishers.
If building codes were increased to force these nicer buildings how much of an increase of rent tenets would see.

My understanding is most of the price of housing in West coast cities comes from the value of land, the building permits, and the low supply. How much does construction cost really factor into rent?
Hey, argue with TFA, not me:

> The character and distribution of Appalachian balds remained stable from the time the first naturalists explored the region, until forestry regulations no longer permitted annual pasturing of local cattle. How and why a summit develops into a grassy bald is unknown; they represent "an ecological enigma and a conservation dilemma".[4] Weigl and Knowles note that "the presence of both rare, endemic plants and northern relicts requiring open habitat suggests a long evolutionary history" and offer a scenario in which grazing pressure of the giant herbivores of the Pleistocene retained the open tundra habitat as the Wisconsin glaciation retreated far to the north. With the arrival of the paleoindians and the disappearance of the megaherbivores, grazing pressure was maintained by deer and elk, and then by the grazing animals of European settlers.

I do agree that cattle seem unlikely. Maybe "grazing animals of European settlers" points to sheep? Maybe even goats?
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Nationalistic flamewar is not ok here.

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Some of the qualities of life is that it needs to: (1) be able to grow, (2) be able to reproduce (3) have hereditary traits.

I'll grant that there are probably galactic-scale patterns of light and gravity. My guess is that the amount of noise would make it impossible for any "life" to form. The unspecified type of wave would have to have an ability to store information in such a way that it would change the behavior of the waves.

As a tangent, these requirements of life is what makes the RNA world hypothesis so compelling. RNA is able to both store information _and_ act as an enzyme. 2-fer!
It does the same in chromium, so at least it's not a 'there's only one browser I develop for' situation...
Wait is subletting an actual problem in itself? Am I missing something?

I know if done in excess it could lead to fire code violations, landlords dislike not getting an increased share/concerns about increased maintenance, and would turn controlled rent holders into beneficiaries of a free cash stream over others not privledged but those are either technically separate issues or already in place really for the last one without subletting.
You can't fit enough waste material in a tumbler for it to get hot enough to really break stuff down. You need about 4 cubic feet of material.
Often speedups of that magnitude involve "cheating" by somehow rethinking the problem space. An example of this applied to compilers is the venerable ccache, which absolutely does provide a 10x improvement or more compared to naive use of the compiler (in this case the "cheating" is caching build artifacts so that most things don't need to be re-built at all; this is often devastatingly effective). I also suspect that the reason we don't see compiler developers regularly advertising order-of-magnitude improvements is that these improvements often span a decade or more of work. Clang 2019 may not be 10x faster than Clang 2018, but it very well might be compared to Clang 2004.

As for Rust specifically, a benchmark I saw a while back estimated that modern rustc compilation is about 3x faster than it was as of the 1.0 release in 2015. Other "cheating" approaches to reducing build times for Rust are incremental recompilation (which is kind of like built-in ccache), parallel codegen units (the original rustc, ironically, was single-threaded), a compilation mode that stops after typechecking (thereby avoiding codegen and LLVM entirely; this is invoked via `cargo check` and suffices for much of one's interactive development), and an alternative debug-build backend (Cranelift, still very WIP) which is optimized for extreme compilation speed (like a browser JS engine) rather than compilation quality (LLVM being largely designed for the inverse).

Indeed, the first step to making a fast compiler is "design your language from the start such that it can be compiled quickly" (which can be seen in the design of Go). I can think of a few things in Rust that might have been designed slightly differently (in the name of compilation speed) if the authors had the compiler-building wisdom they do today. But there are still plenty of opportunities to improve here.
There are different values and styles in reporting and each serves a different purpose. When they are conflated they cause confusion.

- Interviewing one person with the necessary data and analysis to backup a certain conclusion. This would be a consultation with the Subject Matter Expert. Opinions backed by data. E.g interview with climate scientist on the impact of global warming

- Interviewing one or more people to put a face to a story. It has the effect of humanising an issue. To be viewed critically and with the realisation that it’s an emotional appeal. To be used to inform yourself only if it’s backed by data in another way/form

These two are not the same when it comes to making informed opinions.
When I said "weighted & tested", I meant it as some magical way that would ensure that individuals of similar body type and physical characteristics are grouped together independently of gender.

Taking boxing as an example again, sure if you put a female heavyweight (179 pounds / 81 kg) against a male heavyweight (201 pounds / 91 kg) the male will dominate. But if you standardize the divisions and have her compete against an equal the situation might be different.

The again, you would have to take into account things like bone density, etc. In a sport like boxing, that's not very straightforward to do because of the fact that individuals with testosterone usually have greater upper body strength and that's a big advantage.

In a team sport, this might be different since they allow for the team to be balanced depending on their members. For example, some individuals might have greater endurance but lower strength, etc. I'm sure that we would also see a more diverse cast of males as opposed to only "peak athletes" (7 ft+ basketball players, super heavyweight hockey players, etc.) and that would be great.

I do agree that's it's a complicated question that should be deeply analysed and that we won't come to a solution in this comment section.

However, a statement such at that one from the article is simply anachronistic and wrong in 2019. This isn't the right way to tackle the problem.

"mandating that healthy athletes undergo medically unnecessary interventions in order to compete [...] These changes—including reduced muscle and increased fat—are supposed to produce the kind of body that Stéphane Bermon, Director of the IAAF Health and Science Department, has presented as the “ideal female phenotype” at scientific conferences."
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Open source call flooder using Twilio's API
I literally have nightmares about shibboleth and InCommon. My university system has at least 11 IdPs (I think some of the medical centers have their own, but my apps aren't used by medical centers generally). Even with InCommon, I had to negotiate attribute release with every IdP to get email and eppn. Even after filling out the forms that went through a systemwide identity committee, I had to cold call half the campus identity management groups to get the attributes. To even get my metadata into InCommon, I had practically camp out in front of some dudes office because I could not get email or phone calls returned. But, I was getting it set up before the Research and Scholarship category came out. If you can get your app/SP approved, and your target IdPs support it, the attributes are pre-negotiated.

Plus the software was a PITA too.

I'm trying to get a "bridge" set up so I can have one SP in R&S that supports OIDC, that way when I do a new app I can just have the app use open id connect and not have to deal with shibboleth.

Research and Scholarship Category https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Resear...
For those that wants to live on another planet, you will unlikely like how things look under another suns sunlight. It is hard to have a planet that will have day light like our sun and be habitable. Think of a yellow-reddish, or a light that is cold blue when you walk out. Human eyes evolved with earths lighting conditions.
I don't think governments 'dont care' but rather they are powerless to act effectively against Bitcoin. A ban would legitimize its utility to people skeptical of central banking. Because Satoshi is anonymous, there is no person or team to attack with legal or extralegal coercion. Only way to effectively take down bitcoin is to spend ~$1B building a huge mining operation with the purpose of launching a 51% attack, but even that could be mitigated.