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Unleashing a lot of money is like a big dose of sugar for the economy. It causes a boom and then a bust.

A UBI is just a constant redirection of resources from investment/production/research to consumption.

There is no magic you can do with the money supply. It's like the law of conservation of energy.

Maybe in the best case you can smooth out the natural business cycle by contracting the money supply when the economy is growing and expanding it when the economy is shrinking. That is what modern central banks try to do. But good luck making it work right. At this point particular point in history there is no more room to expand the money supply, yet the economy is heading towards recession.
Their applications are tabular data (for which MLPs have never been the method of choice) and MNIST (which I could classify at 85% with a rusty nail), so it's not super impressive.

NNs and the associated toolkit shine with structured high-dimensional data where CNNs, RNNs, or modern shenanigans like Transformer networks excel. I sincerely doubt that these networks turn out to be reducible to polynomial regression in any practically useful sense of the notion. But who knows.
Basically yes. I'm opposed to vaccines being mandatory unless it's "absolutely necessary" - but it appears to be becoming necessary because the false meme "vaccines cause autism" is very infectious. But making vaccination mandatory doesn't stop the spread of the meme. So political pressure is going to build against vaccination, and that will have all sorts of weird and ugly side effects of making anti-science parties more popular.

I'm also saying we need to develop better public health methods against dangerous memes. Whether that's vaccination of the mind or breaking off a few pump handles.
> that doesn't answer the question of why didn't they go public with the information?

Because Apple wants to maintain the facade that you can trust them with your data.
Thanks for Kano recommendation. I have seen it in various videos. I think I will give it a try.
Speaking for Germany, mostly from school. Germans are terrible at English compared to many other European countries (especially the smaller ones) as they're big enough to sustain their entertainment, Internet and business in their local language.

Despite them being forced to learn English in school, very few will try to consume American media in English, and still prefer consuming the locally dubbed versions. In my opinion, it's the easiest (and most fun) way to get better in English, without doing much at all, except for the initial year or two one would need to invest to be proficient enough to consume said media.

Source: Am a German citizen, who fortunately/unfortunately has English as a native language, spent my first 16 years in Asia, and presently another 13 years in Germany.
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LWN has a very good series on namespaces and cgroups.
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Actually, in principle larger means more markets and labor supply and more clout on the world markets. Furthermore the US has more usable land, and Canada's vast distances with low populations increases their expenses vs the US.

And indeed the US does have a higher per capita GDP. But because it's concentrated in so few hands, most Canadians are better off than most Americans.
Even if it is, Qualcomm won't do anything about it. It's in their interest that FB app works well on Snapdragon.
This is a... preprint. It's clearly not ready for the prime-time yet.

The main interesting finding for me was the utility of variance inflating factors in debugging neural networks. But not only the thing lacks a lot of polish (what is their metric for "accuracy"?), but it's still quite "unscholarly", most noticeably lacking:

* serious comparisons with classic literature benchmarks (I'm not even saying state-of-the-art) of NNs rather than whatever they were able to find with R. (Who uses R in academic machine learning?)

* a better developed argument about how Taylor is good enough. I'm not saying rigorous, but an article about reinforced concrete that just said what they said wouldn't be enough. An example of a workable engineering-type Taylor argument would be something that says that all minima are locally like parabolas and h~=0.01 is a very conservative upper bound for the needed approximation because the material is almost 100 times as strong and we just need 10 times for this calculation.

* reproducibility, reproducibility, reproducibility. Don't R people have Jupyter notebooks? Does their Keras package not serialize network structure and weights? Keras for Python does.
I hate it when a song starts playing soon after starting the car. It will be great if the driver gets to choose. Maybe he wants moments of silence or listen to a lecture on another app.
I meant in this particular case. People accept that consumer products like Google and Facebook are funded by advertising.

We are talking about Free Software, libraries, and advertisements in the console. I think the collective opinion is that developers would rather not use that package than be subjected to ads in their console.
Surprising. Is it really that much more effort to make a HTTPS call instead?
The "good" expensive bread that is sold in the US at $5-6 a loaf never lasts more than a few days anyway - it's just too tasty and gets eaten quick

And the imitation "sandwich" bread that tastes like cardboard and sawdust easily lasts for 3+ weeks regardless of where and how it is stored. Which makes me marvel at what it's made of that it doesn't go bad in a month.

Bread machines are tricky and very messy. They don't produce enough heat to fully cook bread through like it would in a proper commercial oven. At least that was my experience with all the consumer-grade bread machines. YMMV
I started learning a bit of Common Lisp a few weeks ago. It seems quite nice in many areas, but for rapid prototyping I feel like it cannot compete with Python.
Maybe it's just because I'm more used to Python and imperative code in general, but so far I used no other language where I managed to get something working just as quickly and painlessly.
That she convinced monica to do what she did, yes. That monica didn't realize the stain was there, no rather than having kept it purposefully.... no.
Please stop promoting brave either you do it in good faith or paid or you are a shill. everything with "Acceptable ads program" is a cancer
I played around with it for a bit. It's frustrating to me as there is alot of really cool stuff in the platform, but it is such an opinionated interface that it distracts from the overall mission. Some of the apps are too complex for very young children, but the interface feels too primitive for 6-9 year olds who aren't living in a cave. 5 year olds are adept on awful UI like YouTube, this is too simple.

There are some really cool apps that would be better served in a more traditional Android/iOS style tablet interface. OLPC is/was very pushy about their point of view.
The market doesn't care about fairness, though, and we do.

We want everyone to be able to afford enough gas to get around, but if we price it cheaply enough to do that, large consumers are going to use too much and damage the environment.

If we place larger taxes on the fuel to price in the externality of environmental damage, we price poorer people out of the market for gas.
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If this were the case, Switzerland should be tremendously bad off. They have a ton of bureaucracy and are even more federalist than the U.S.
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> ICE is one of the biggest crimes against humanity that is still ongoing.

It's hard to take you seriously when you say stuff like this. Kids in cages is bad but pick up a history book and you will find much much much worse. I can point to number events going on right now or recent memory that are worse.

> I hear horror stories every other day.

No, you don't. Stop being Miss Hyperbole and people will take you seriously.

Also, Health Care is NEVER free since you pay for it one way or another.
The OP added more context to their comment. Maybe go re-read? This has nothing to do with clinical depression.
I think the standard explanation is that a huge country like the US lacks the social cohesion necessary to pay higher tax rates in exchange for social programs that benefit everyone. Like, I believe Sweden's population is about 10 million- much easier to have the social 'glue' for 'let's all agree to pay very high tax rates, and we'll all get collective social programs with it!' Versus the US at over 300 million people, you don't feel as connected to the other folks who would presumably be benefiting, and it's tougher to get a 'we're all in this together' mentality. Think of the difference in social cohesion between a small town and a huge city.

Like, I'm an American and I've literally never even been to most red states, never been to Texas, don't really know anyone from any of those areas of the country, etc. I don't feel a lot of connection with them.

Then there's, frankly, the racial angle. Most of the Nordic countries have traditionally been pretty ethnically homogeneous, which helps the social cohesion/let's all chip in for government programs together mentality. The US is of course not, and racial fears about 'those people' getting unearned benefits is a HUGE part of the American story.

Basically, the US is the most right-wing of the developed countries, and we tend to have bell-shaped unequal systems where a small % live very well and a larger % are below European standards. Healthcare is like the best example of this.

I've also heard a little talk that our political system is more amenable to lobbying by corporations than a parliamentary system, but I don't know enough about that argument to really advance it
> Do you have numbers to back that up?

Hm hard to come up with a number that shows JS optimizations are hard, but you can peruse a collection of Javascript engine CVEs: https://github.com/tunz/js-vuln-db

Notice how many are JIT or optimization issues, or are in esoteric features like async generators or the spread operator.
I...I can't believe people are downvoting stuff like this.

We're virtually in the same position - I am also transgender, and would have to pay hundreds of dollars for HRT if I was down there, alone.

There are unfortunately a lot more biased, seemingly pious individuals here, who are just downvoting these kinds of comments without even providing proper criticism.

That's what 'patriotism' gives you. Amurrrica!

I've even had folks directly misquote me and put words in my mouth to argue with me. I've never even seen that on HN.
> Still waiting on Firefox to support hardware-accelerated decoding of videos though.

Wait, Firefox doesn't do this already? Didn't know.
Hah, I've used the forking server approach very successfully before.

Plus, threads and processes are essentially the same on unix land – kernel flags will control behavior like shared memory. Which you can still setup manually. Or just use whatever IPC fancies you.
Yes, but much of Canada's immigration is points based - i.e. you get well educated, employable people. The vast majority of US immigration is family based where your elderly grandmother from back home can come and live in the US.
That ignores the fact that the government regulates what kind of loans banks can make to individuals.
I'm not sure a solution that solves 100% of the problems, with minimal to no side effects, is a poor solution.
Ok thanks a lot for your suggestion. Ill add this feature to my site.
Canada is known for being very accepting of middle class and educated or skilled immigrants. Poor immigrants (which is what the original comment was specifying) not so much, and Canada's border enforcement is more effective than that of the US.
Why would you compare a public Canadian university to a private US college?

Why not compare public to public?
Agreed. This is about how the phone number thing went "for security". I think a lot of people believed FB was using it just for security but in reality they were trying to find more connections, possible friends, tie you to an identity. A real citizen of a country - which is one of their products. I would suspect this is like browser fingerprinting.
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On one hand, I agree with you. I remember having to argue whether I showed my work or not by using imaginary numbers instead of standard formulas in high school physics.

But even with these examples, the path of appeal and rectification of mistakes is much easier with all humans involved. I fear soon people will side with the machine out of ignorance or to be justified in an incorrect stance.

The idea that we could be so poorly taught by broken automated systems, that we become incapable of detecting the system is broken seems like a possibility with AI that is much less likely in pure human systems of education (though not impossible).
They revised the paper in response to earlier, uh, response.

https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/update-on-polynomia...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06850
I agree with the parent post, and the sibling. MIT doesn't make much sense in your scenario. Dual-licensing is usually a copy left license, and some sort of private/commercial license agreement to protect against the case the parent comment mentions.

The people who want to support you are not the problem. They'd probably donate too if they would buy a license in this thought experiment. The people who don't want to support you are. One of them could buy a license, relicense as MIT. And either they'd get updates with their paid license, in which case they'd just release those as MIT too, or wait for your next stable version and buy again and so on. Or they would just fork the project, and start their own business around it, without having had any more cost than a single license....
How is it a poor solution? It is extremely simple, pragmatic and effective.
Cigarettes are technology. They are referred to as "nicotine delivery devices" in the tobacco industry. Magazines are technology. Billboards are technology.

If google is part of the "technology industry" then you could say there is no real delineation between the two industries. It seems like we're either making technology for advertisements or we're using technology to advertise.
This is an essentially meaningless finding. Neural networks had the dark days they did in the late 90's/early 2000's because computational power didn't allow for the depth they needed to be applicable to most problems. Once GPUs caught up to the method, deep neural nets have thrived on some problems.

Those problems are precisely the ones that this paper doesn't evaluate (image recognition, text processing, etc.). In most other domains, tree-based models crush neural nets and statistical regression methods, and so this whole thing just ends up being an academic exercise.
The one built into Android is basic but functional. It's a bit hidden in the user interface but here's how to configure it: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811843

It's not useful over the open Internet but on a local WLAN or over a VPN call should work fine. Unless you use a damaged phone book storing SIP URLs for your regular contacts should work too. No messaging or fancy codecs though.
How does the internal culture at FB come to grips with the world's vision of them as creepy and amoral and still do stuff like this anyway?
Have you given Clojure a try?
Yes, mostly. The government regulates what kind of loans banks can make to individuals.
Three failed states with endemic poverty problems, and the Czech Republic.
No one is nitpicking, you are just seriously incorrect. Free means to not pay for something. Saying that Health Care is free is to say that the user of Health Care does not have to pay for its cost. Health Care is never free, no matter the system in which it is provided.
In my opinion, macOS is definitely FF's weakest desktop platform. I've personally experienced terrible performance, out-of-place UI for the platform (e.g. default dropdowns), and just a generally less polished experience compared to Safari, Chrome, and Chromium derivatives.

I still use it as my default browser on macOS though because it does excel in other areas.
For me, it was the more modern tab completion. Traditionally, you'd start typing something, then TAB to complete if there was a file starting with something. With oh-my-zsh, you can use a later part of a file. So if you had a file called foo-bar-file.txt you could type `ls bar` then tab and it would autocomplete foo-bar-file.txt. It's much more clever like that. It's really helpful when I'm going through strange directories and vaguely remember what I'm looking for.

oh-my-zsh also has many other well-made tab completions for other programs, so you can TAB complete for things like docker, git, brew, various OSX commands, pip, python, and TONS of other stuff.

For zsh, the fish-like autosuggestions has saved me a lot of time as well: https://asciinema.org/a/37390

The powerline font git integration (like here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Falkor/dotfiles/master/scr... ) also is a large improvement over what bash can do. There's also a lot of visual enhancements if you use pyenv or various other language equivalents (eg ruby).
I was born and raised in Canada. I, like many of my peers at the "top" Canadian universities, focused solely on recruiting to the "top" American companies that came to campus to recruit[1].

I would describe Canada as generally being tightly range bound. One of the most striking things about coming to the U.S. is the large class of what I would consider to be the working poor. People who are truly just doing enough to get by and are one mishap away from financial ruin. Of course, having lived in SF and NYC this is constantly juxtaposed with extreme, incomprehensible wealth that is equally striking.

In Canada, in my experience, the vast majority are still in the middle with few outliers in either direction. Earning potentials are significantly capped - even in areas like banking and tech - and social programs make it quite difficult for there to be the kind of working poor I observe daily here.

I've often thought to myself that I couldn't imagine what it would be like to make $50k in the United States (even living in a low CoL area). From health insurance, to private school costs (given the quality of many public schools), to college costs. It would seem an intense burden. Certainly if I had offers that paid between $50-100k in both the U.S. and Canada I would move back to Canada. I would feel I have no other choice.

With all that said, I make many multiples - especially after tax - of what I could ever have hoped to make in Canada. I have been inside institutions with the kind of institutional framework with no comparable in Canada (from a human capital and technological perspective). Opportunities have been afforded to me here that either do not exist or are analogous, but significantly inferior in Canada. The United States has given me a wonderful life and I'll always be grateful for the opportunity to be here.

I make no claim as to which economic system is better. I would just observe that Canada is a much easier place to live, but in my experience lacking in the kind of dynamism you see in the United States (that translates into personal opportunities, income, and fulfilment).

[1] Top is obviously somewhat subjective. McGill, U of T, UBC, and U of Waterloo would be the "top" schools. The "top" jobs are FANG or FANG-adjacent, investment banks or hedge funds (GS, JPM, Citadel, etc.), and consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain).
Is it really computer science you want to learn more of, or software development? If it's the latter, you just learn by doing. Keep coding and do research when you get stuck. Don't believe someone who says that something cannot be done.
Mortgage interest is deductible. It lets you take on more house or refinance high interest debt.
The fun stuff happens when deontologist meets conflict between their moral or other laws...

It always happens and is a fact of life. That's how you can gauge how "lawful" someone is - using simple D&D model of morality.

The other axis is altruism vs egoism.

So lawful good is deontological altruist, while chaotic evil is non-deontological egoist.
There are decent stereotypical descriptions in SRD.

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before stackoverflow there was "documentation" and "man pages"; would have worked out alright
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I am aware of that. Apparently most of the damaging effects come from the crap it is cut with when buying street heroin. (Again just stuff I have read, no first hand experience).
You do probably have a bug in your pocket that also listens to voice commands.
>As long as it stays out of their code and their PR.

That assumes that the only important thing about the ecosystem of a project is the code. The code is only going to be useful as long as there are people to continue building and maintaining it. I don't know about you, but I have a difficult time working with racists, regardless of the quality of their code. I'm not willing to overlook something like that just to get some code written.

There are more important things than code.
I would have called that a tuk-tuk.
Telling a good story. Sometimes that means oversimplifying.
Which of my statement doesn't make any sense ?

>What is different about the US?

Thats the question that I asked.
I mean both are ~general classes of functions, so not surprising they can represent each other?
I'd add "are perceived" to that statement. Agents never have actual knowledge of survival odds and we don't even have statistics like that...
> Polynomials are unbounded at the extremes, and as such should really only be trusted for interpolation, not extrapolation.

Very well noted. There's also this, which is usually taught in second year engineer "numerical calculus" and again extensively studied in graduate programs involving [something numbers inside computers something]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge's_phenomenon
I'm glad Atlassian is calling attention to this, but I'd love to see them incorporate tools and features into their products that could help identify and measure these recommendations. Most of the data is there, but we just need to expose views of worker metrics and not solely focus on projects. A teams burnout indicator would be just as important as velocity report.
Yes, but:

1. Do open source maintainers actually want to commit to that?

2. What if the response is "Yes, we don't support that and don't plan to?" and the company feels this doesn't qualify as enough support and causes a headache.

3. If the purchaser knows what they're getting into, what's to say their successor also does?
The same applies to comments on HN.
Something I'm curious about is why JS developers don't have the option to send along some of this information themselves; type information, JS bytecode, etc. Given that we often have it on hand already (TypeScript) or could integrate it into our build process (webpack). Obviously plain JS needs to still work without all that, but it could be a compelling point of optimization for large-scale apps. Perhaps the JS bytecode just isn't standardized across browsers?