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Modern design trends != usability. Calibre is in need to usability and performance improvements.
You're falling victim to the base rate fallacy here, sure the evidence isn't definitive but it is alarmingly close. The probability that his win rate is in fact ~1000bb/100 is effectively zero whereas even if there were only a single cheater on earth the base rate for that would be on the order of one in single digit billions.
Smarter bad actors could still do it without being detected. Hiding an encrypted message in unsuspicious messages isn't that difficult. I really don't see the point of having such a law.
Off-topic: it's too bad that The New Stack reproduced verbatim the term "Memory Controller" instead of "Memory Allocator" (as mm/slab.h agrees). I was really confused as to how there was going to be a Linux Memory Controller, and thought some new-fangled AMD/Intel memory controller thing had moved into software...
We use Amazon Prime Video, and plan to rotate through other services with the goal of never subbing to more than two (including Amazon).

Though lately after recently canceling Netflix we haven't subbed to another service. We are planning to do HBO next but haven't felt the need yet.
This is incorrect. They pitched this at $60b but couldn't get a bookbuild at that price which never happens.

The key distinction with pitching to lead to the IPO is they sought to find investors (as opposed to wework management) at this price too, but not enough people bit to fill the raise.
It was really weird when Windows tried to start using 'sideloading' as a term when pushing UWP. As if the standard method of installing software on Windows hadn't always been to run an installer file on it.

The term is still in use on the Developer options of Settings where you can decide if UWP apps can be installed outside of the Microsoft Store, though I believe they've backed off drastically, so the default is to 'allow sideloading'.
The problem is that some instruments have pedals too (e.g. the piano).
Regardless of your feelings on DRM or access on preferred devices, I think another issue that often gets overlooked (or people just don't know about it) is that you end up forfeiting a pretty nice consumer protection. One of the benefits of a credit card is if a charge is made in error and the company doesn't want to make good on it, you can issue a chargeback and your credit card issuer will intervene and either side with you or the seller. You might not win, but at least you get a chance to make your case. With many (all?) of these services, the moment you issue a chargeback you lose access to all your legitimately purchased (actually, licensed) content. And since what they really do is ban your account, if you have a balance from one of their gift cards, you lose all of that as well.
Having worked on an Equity Derivatives desk for a time, I can tell you much of the exchanges' trade volume--as early as 1990--was from DOT (program trading) and super-DOT executions. Monthly volume leaders included Susquehanna Partners, who did almost all of it's transactions via computer (DOT) trades. Late 90s and early 2000s saw the rise of the Swaps market where one deal could generate literally tens of thousands of transactions. It wasn't Bud Fox with a Quotron and a phone doing those executions.
> There is nothing special about training an AI; it is simply another thing to spend resources on

If the goal is actual intelligence, as the 'I' in the name appears to suggest, then making resource consumption in the form of energy/compute a central part of the equation makes a fair deal of sense. It's arguably long overdue and might actually push research towards methods that actually do increase the capacity of agents to learn rather than just praying for faster chips and more data.

The benefit here can be twofold in that more inclusivity increases the pace at which the field advances by including more researchers, but also just gives researchers an incentive to not treat compute/data as unlimited moving closer towards figuring out how the brain actually learns.
If it could go lower than n log n, that would have huge implications for signal processing. Multiplication, convolution, and FFTs are all so similar to each other.
So people are supposed to buy different earbuds so they're not signaling? Can't we then accuse them of signaling that they're not signaling? Doesn't that make your "wearing Apple earbuds = signaling" assumption completely pointless?
They don't like that you can rip it and then play it back on whatever machines you want, forever. They want to be able to sell you the same content over and over again... either via streaming subscription, or via a new format when it comes out.
Danger on approach is probably pretty unlikely. The vast majority of instrument approaches require the runway to be in sight before descending below an altitude minima. Where the approach is blind to touch down a higher level of equipment and procedures are required to verify the position and altitude. This could include checks against other data sources and monitoring.
Pretty much every library has an off campus facility for books. USC has a warehouse on grand avenue. Not sure where UCLA's book repository is, but it is definitely somewhere.

However, I wouldn't want the stacks in the main library (doheny) at usc converted to study space. I think there are better rooms to gut for study space, namely the random faculty offices they've shoved in every library. You can build an office across the street from campus if you need the space. The ceiling in the stacks is maybe 6.5' tall, it's musty and the HVAC is deafening, and extends 6 stories down into the earth. I couldn't imagine a more disheartening study environment, but there are some tables and chairs and sad graduate students down there nonetheless.
The architecture (of classic VPN) is the vulnerability. imo, we need to move towards architectures which design in:

+ Least privileged access and isolation. Worst-case, 5-tuple, session-by-session. Best-case, app level bindings, independent of addressing. Isolation to prevent lateral attacks.

+ Zero trust. Yes the ZT term seems to have been taken over by marketing, but the architecture itself is sound.

+ Telemetry data for proper visibility.

+ Programmable-by-Design. Integrate into overall app and security constructs and tooling; no (mainly) separate VPN islands.
If you want to save energy, do everything you can to kill cryptocurrency. Now THAT is some obscene waste of energy.
Could this work as a website? Seems like the easiest way to avoid depending on App Store
> WireGuard .. is practically bulletproof in terms of keeping connections alive

Try switching between IPv4 and IPv6 networks, or reaching a peer on non-default/primary network on Windows.

Not denying it would usually have better connectivity than TCP based ssh.
And in particular the recent near-failure of the dam in Oroville. That could've significantly impacted hundreds of thousands of people.
Maybe a Live Oak? Although, it takes forever for a Live Oak's leaf to turn brown even after falling to the ground (usually around late Jan/early Feb in my area). They are evergreen, so they never do a color change during the fall. Red Oak's leaves turn a brilliant shade of red (unless in a drought). I actually grew up in a town named after the red oak, so they were quite abundant. Not far from a town named after all of the cedars growing on the hills.
I wish this place was a little bit more constructive. As engineers we should try to solve a problem or invent something useful.
It's a good feeling to find good in things, anything.
A C++ parser needs a semantic analyzer. The grammar is context sensitive. Eyeball a full year for an engineer to get one that's actually standards compliant. I've written a Java parser in two weeks in grad school while taking classes. You can easily use a parser generator (like ANTLR) because you have a context-free grammar.
There are subtleties that make this more difficult than it sounds. For small N digits, you don't have to worry about rounding error on your FFTs, but as N gets large, you need to be careful.
The valuation doesn't add up. At 38B revenue we can assume 12B operating income so 20x profit. But your telling us today it is worth 225B not in 2025?
wait, TSA boots your laptop now? I don't even understand what they'd expect to find?
Why does some people assume the technology will start standing still when it has advanced so far in just the last 5 years? None of those problems are insurmountable, when the tech stops getting better, maybe you’ll have a point.

20 years is incredibly pessimistic to me. Heck, we might even have GAI by then.
So just because one cannot reach 100% certainty one should withhold judgement? Bullshit. The ref's job is to make the call. The only difference that replay makes is that now the ref, instead of having a tiny fraction of a second once to get all the information, he can review the replay, in slow motion (in some sports), from different angles before doing his job of making his call. It might not be 100% accurate, but it is likely to be a lot more accurate than before and this proves out in real life. Also, sometimes there are clear, non-debatable errors that need to be fixed. In both football and soccer video review has been a god-send to the games. This article is just bullshit and as a philosophy major underscores the giant problem with a lot of philosophy: it's completely useless and impractical. That isn't to say that there isn't very useful philosophy, but idiotic ideas like this give a bad name to philosophy that tries to deal with real important questions in practical terms.
I presume the PD doesn't change after you are an adult so you could reuse it in the future.

My real concern is if I encounter some problems, if I got the exam and glasses from one place, I can insist they fix it for me instead of arguing who is at fault.
It is, https://hkmap.live, and the app is probably boilerplate with the PWA embedded inside.
The grammar is still context free.
"As an example, think of what it would take to add a third leg to a human being"

Apparently the way radial symmetry actually develops is that one side of the body grows and the other withers away, and the remaining side produces the radial parts.
> I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.

Great. Maybe get yourself a developer license and do as you please. I applaud the fact that whatever I install comes with some sort of safety constraint.
Calling an all in with 54, what are the stack sizes? How many players? 54 has better hand equity 3 or 4 ways than heads up.

As for KK, what's the hand history like? Again, heads up or multiway? Might have a read? What are the bet sizes and stack sizes?
We use basic cable for that -- it is thrown in for free with our the internet package. Otherwise, it seems like most local news have free roku channels.
Please don't post flamewar rants here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like destroying startups.
Intel claims to implement 15H CPUID but usually leaves the ART crystal HZ in ECX blank, which makes the other fields useless. Invariant timestamps are available on all x86_64 CPUs except K8, but trying to convert them to nanoseconds is an even bigger shit show than clock_gettime.
With the landscape of streaming-only future, I am more and more interested in collect and watch good old movies from around the world. I like cinema, but I don't want to subscribe for every service out there.
Actually, the problem is not of the human masters' understanding, it's the ignorance of the human master. Some models are so involved, no one knows how they'll behave under certain market conditions, as we saw in the perfect storm of 2008 with credit default swaps, CMOs and CBOs. That's the danger, no matter how smart and clever the creator believes they are.
Recently put two kids through college, and there were almost no physical books. Not for student centric needs though.

It was so they could DRM and/or change the content every semester to earn the school more money.

The worst is when the Prof makes their own online book required. $90+ a pop, and you can't resell at the end of the semester.

Grr.
That's a great idea, like 50 hours of one-on-one tutoring available this month, and get private bids for that! Thanks! Let's keep brainstorming ^_^
The ends don’t justify the means.
When you have a prescription that strong the lenses get expensive quick. Even from Coastal.com I end up paying $200+ for high-index photochromatic lenses, because my left eye is -4.75.

The article mentions a +7 in one eye, we’re in the 1.67 index range (mine are 1.6) with a script like that. €208 is a deal.
Since no other comments or the Twitter thread have any context, here's a Boing Boing article on what the heck HKMap.live is: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/04/hkmap-live-hong-kong.html
97% slide means there is a lot of blame to go around.
Maybe I'm just clueless to poker, but I find this video impossible to follow.
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I wonder how bad it was during the transition though. Many people who urbanize in the US are still paying the full cost of a car while using transit when they can.
For CS, no. I’ve never had the urge to go through a springer conference proceedings rather than just download the papers I needed directly. Checking out the old outdated books at the engineering library was nostalgic, however.
But I think a fair question is: why are these performers even using sheet music? Imagine going to a pop concert and [insert favorite artist] was reading sheet music while dancing on stage. Shouldn't the music be in "muscle memory", even for classical performers? Wouldn't that open up more opportunities for contact between the performer and audience?
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And the quality/efficiency of the analysis will depend on how the city allocates services to fill this need.

And it will depend on the bandwidth for the city/county/state attorneys to take this to plea/trail.

I think the pure probability based on the size of the sample pool makes a false positive an inevitability at scale.
The jumping up and down in a trash can is the part I won't forget. WTF.
Wow. You just found a reason for you not to get into science.

Now most of the rest of us are still curious to find out how stuff works around here.
Could you please not be a jerk on HN? It's against both the letter and the spirit of the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Maybe you know a lot, that's great—but being an asshole more than cancels it out.

If you know more, try sharing some of what you know, so we can all learn. If you don't want to do that or don't have time, it's fine to not post anything. If you think an article is bad, move on to something that you like better. Tearing other people and their work to shreds just poisons the commons.
> It's not wealth and population, it's the use of fossil fuels

It's all three. Our formula was emissions = (GDP/capita)(emissions/GDP)(pop). Reduce any of the three factors and emissions drop.

Your phrasing is off. You can't say "it's not factors 1 and 3, it's factor 2" as that implies factors 1 and 3 don't affect emissions. We could choose to focus our efforts on (emissions/GDP). That doesn't mean the other two factors don't affect it. Reducing human population 10x would have the same effect on emissions as improving our (emissions/GDP) 10x. Spending $10k/year instead of $100k/year will almost certainly reduce your carbon footprint.

France and China are a good example of why the other two factors might be important. Looking at their wealth (GDP/capita (PPP)) and emissions, we find that France is about 4x more efficient in emissions/GDP. But France is one of the top countries in emissions/GDP and China is one of the worst. If we assume the whole world becomes as efficient as France in emissions/GDP and the population increases to 10 billion and the world average GDP/capita increases to match the US (~3.6x increase), we end up with about 1.2x our current emissions.

So you could focus all your efforts on trying to make the whole world much more efficient than France in emissions/GDP, or you could look at the trade offs between all 3 factors and try to reason about how we'd like to balance those factors.
It’s complicated? I don’t think it’d be fair to call it virtue-signaling in a blanket fashion, no. Despite the overwhelming decline of 2nd Klan membership across the country, racism was still deeply entrenched in American society. Most Americans in heavily racist areas saw this as normal. A minority disagreed, and some were in positions of power to act on those convictions.

I believe it’s more than fair to interpret the mask laws as being fueled by recognition (by some) that times were changing, and a desire to avoid returning to the hooded times of the 2nd Klan. They were likely interested in preventing hooded Klan marches and intimidation acts—for example, Georgia’s 1951 mask law came a couple years after a group of hooded Klansmen stood outside a polling place to deter black citizens from voting, iirc.

I also think it’s wise to keep that interpretation balanced by recognizing that while perhaps not quite virtue-signaling, the mask laws—when viewed alongside the horrible racist violence allowed in the states that had mask laws—were passed by some people who wanted to unmask the Klan, and others who realized it was politically expedient to be seen doing so. In some cases—notably those states who allowed post-1954 Civil Rights-era violence and allied with local Klans—it provided an appearance of doing something, while then turning a blind eye toward the mask-free violence occurring in their states, and forging alliances with local Klan members.

Ultimately, to understand the period, its actors, and their motivations, we’re left digging through whatever records exist of public arguments made at the time for the mask laws, and looking carefully at who made the arguments, and how those arguments square with their actions in their states. Sadly, I’m not sure if there are many publicly available records online of that sort for someone to dig through.
If you're genuinely spending that much on snacks, vending machines to limit spend might help. A number of companies have set up IT equipment vending machines that limit spend per employee.

I admit the downside is that you harm the kitchen appearance, which some companies seem to put huge efforts into.
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I think I misunderstood your issue here - I misread 'scheme' as an algorithm for picking splitting numbers.

> Using a random number generator on any given machine will not work as player A can always pick two numbers that are close enough to each other that there is no number on the machine in between them.

On reflection, I am not sure that the method presented in this article can guarantee > 50% in any case where the domain is discretized. Note that the original article does not say what to do if the first number revealed is equal to B's splitting number. If A always chooses adjacent numbers, there are never any 'tiebreaker' splitting numbers - i.e. those that are strictly between A's numbers, and will elicit the correct response regardless of whether B has seen the larger or the smaller of the pair.
I don't think anyone wins 100BB/100 long-term. I'd say those are players who have won large pots and haven't had time for the law of large numbers to catch up. Back in the 2000s when I played online, four or five BB/100 was considered crushing it at anything above a penny table.
i don’t think like that. I am saying that pragmatically if you want to live longer you should not ride a bike.

we are all make mistakes on the road. small or big, the consequence of that mistakes are far greater when you are on 2 wheels. It’s not even about size or mass, it’s about the fact that your body is going to be projected into a tree/a car/sidewalk etc.
Ask HN: The simplest way to startup any fullstack application for near 0 cost?
Hey people,

the last few weeks I tried getting a small boilerplate going for running fullstack applications for almost free using free tiers of several services (CircleCI, AWS Lambda, etc) and to enable development focused only on the code. Honestly it should have just been inserting a few secrets into the build tool (or commit it, private repos are free and who cares) and being up to speed but that didn't really work out.

I realized that running non-lambda languages is a problem where I usually would have went with Zeit Now's Serverless Docker, but that seems a non option and the best way I'd do it if I was willing to spend money was a AWS Fargate Terraform file but, not everyone can (and wants) to use that for simple prototyping.

So my question to you all is: How would you architect an infrastructure to enable quick prototyping for nearly no cost?
The nearly no cost is important for me as I know a lot of developers who can't even afford the 5$ it costs f.e. to run a AWS EC2 instance and aren't even versed with it.

Working locally is always nice obviously but there are waaaaay too many tutorials that speak of "production ready" and are "ssh into vps, git pull and docker run" at best.
Mostly: because billions of years have passed. Even if it turns out there we millions of different self-replication mechanisms that were complex enough to give rise to (an abstract form of) competition, early Earth has a period of hundreds of millions of years in which each and everyone one of those had plenty of time to run their course to extinction.

Remember that that single common ancestor was _not_ alone on the planet. They might have been millions or even hundreds of millions of other potential ancestors, but if there were, all of them died out before the start of the fossil record.
> They HAVE to have validated the autoplay approach with some data that proves it achieves some goal of theirs.

I don't necessarily agree that they're "circling the drain" as GP put it, but hitting a goal can definitely be a sign that a company is in trouble. Autoplay videos might net them some short-term viewership at the expense of long-term goodwill and engagement.
> but its arguing using "shoulds and coulds" against empirical reality

Not every city sees it this way. Maintaining the existing infrastructure is very expensive (and even disruptive), not to mention building more. Many cities use it as a backbone to connect several main nodes which makes sense. But they are not very suited to having short stops, can't take you everywhere, and it's hard to re-plan. So in the end they still have to maintain some pretty massive bus fleets that can use already existing road infrastructure.

Vehicle features like accessibility depend on the model of bus or tram, modern ones all have them. And many cities find it a bad idea to mix any kind of traffic with pedestrian zones. The explanation of "travel direction and momentum" doesn't really make sense to me. Buses have a very obvious "front" while trams are usually perfectly symmetrical. And trams are far more dangerous in any accident (weight, stopping distance, metal wheels). If you ever saw a tram breaking down, an accident on the track, or works on the road you know how much more disruptive this can be compared to regular traffic (with trolleybuses coming in a close second). I lived in places where this happened every few days in the morning rush hour.

For cities with deep pockets and which can interleave tram and subway lines to have as much coverage as possible it may be easier. But most cities don't really have deep pockets. Which is why the are many bus-only cities, probably none or very few tram-only cities (none that I've heard of anyway).

If the goal is to replace personal cars a city has to offer something "close" in comfort. Electric buses are a good clean alternative and they're as close to personal car comfort as public transport will ever be.