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Think about all the innovation coming out of military research. Like the internet - arguably more useful to humanity than the space blanket!

So should we spend trillions more on military? Well maybe it is just that spending trillions on research towards anything tend to lead to some useful inventions on the side. But what if we spent the same amount of resources on researching something actually useful for humanity? We might still get the side inventions.

Building a colony on Mars is a useless waste of money.
If you want to play politics, covertly talk to the founders, as only they are decision makers, find a common language with them, but keep in mind that your team lead is already doing so and is trying hard to present your achievements as his, and find a way to convince the founders that it's better for the company to put you in charge. Once this is done, put yourself between the founders and the team lead to intercept all communications, leave him only secondary projects, convince the decision makers to shutdown those projects and kick the former lead out of the door. Now you're that team lead who plays politics and pretends that achievements of your team are yours.

The bigger problem is that the founders are not your friends. If you follow the team lead path, you'll be seen as a useful idiot and you'll get all the awards and recognition, but none of the preferred shares or liquidation preferences. You'll be just wasting your most valuable years to make their dream come true.

The safest choice is to go to the big tech, spend there 5-10 years, learn 10x more than what you'd learn in a startup (while collecting really nice paychecks), make connections, then start your own company. Then you'll find a really smart college grad who'd do most of the work and then you'll realize that you don't really want to give him 1/3 of your company. Now you're a greedy founder :)

Edit. Questions I'd ask any startup these days: preferred shares and liquidation preferences, i.e. if someone buys the startup for 15M, can I choose to get 3M instead of cashing out my shares? Most founders would roll their eyes because such conditions are only for investors, as they bring real money, unlike your questionable "contributions". Don't work for those people. However if the founders start talking about cap tables and discuss nuances of such contracts, I'd consider them, as they seem to be honest and willing to recognize that your time also has value.
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yeh, but why are there not tons of bugs in your code?
Google, IBM, and the Quantum Supremacy Affair Explained
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Currently working for a multinational insurer, seeking to build a globally scalable saas platform with a lean internal team experienced in all things business planning and go-to-market...but not development. Trying to find strong dev partners, not interested in full service agencies, independent contractors, bargain offers or outsourcing models.
Is the safety and honesty embedded in the culture now? That's how Nordic countries keep things straight -- not by police force, and they're indeed some of the leanest police forces in the world. I'm basically wondering if you could change Singapore to a Nordic style democracy and keep the upsides you speak of just by the force of culture?
I'm thankful for my wife. I fell in love with her when I was 17. I'm 32 now and I haven't stayed more than a week away from her. It's the single greatest source of happiness in my life.

I'm thankful for stumbling into a career that has allowed me to make a comfortable living without dealing with the BS of bosses and commuting and wearing stuffy suits.

I'm thankful for the internet, for I owe my career to it. If it wasn't for the wonderful people and communities and blogs online, I wouldn't know the things I do, and I would have never made a living.
To be fair, even before the deep learning revolution, routing software had to use advanced algorithms to produce solutions.

IIRC routing from a schematics has been proven to be a NP-hard problem.
> Clinical psychologist who teaches and practices mindfulness here.

The author has been practicing Buddhism for 4 decades.

> the assertion that mindfulness training doesn’t belong in the boardroom seems silly to me

But the author never makes this assertion. His point is that mindfulness training is hypocritical and inauthentic when used in a corporate environment.
The main limitation office workers face when working in sunlit environments is the reflective glare on most, if not all, computer displays.

I conjecture if/when e-ink displays match conventional LCDs in response time and resolution there will be a movement towards “outdoor offices”.

Imagine being able to work productively in a garden, atrium, sun room, or any other natural outdoor environment. Many of the pitfalls of indoor, fluorescent lighting would be diminished. The Bay Area and its relatively fantastic weather would be fully realized as a perk to tech workers.
If you are not restricted to C++98 or older, you could pass a lambda to getDimensionSum() and spare you having to use method pointers.
The Remarkable 2 will be out soon
For Safari users, try enabling Develop->Experimental Features->WebGL2
Whether a system would stay benevolent (say, to a particular class of people, etc) depends a lot on what's good for the economy. And people under the system have a general grasp of that too. This is why you have things like countercultures.

I would say the contemporary West's emphasis on authoritarianism is probably doing more harm than good. First of all the emphasis doesn't make things better - authoritarian would continue to be authoritarian whether you put the emphasis on their authoritarian nature or not. Secondly, it's pretty much a heresy suppression situation [1] here, or a (conscious or subconscious) distraction strategy embedded in the mode of thinking if you will, both of which are ironically what authoritarianism is best at i.e. suppression and distraction. Ultimately there is some form of authoritarianism existing in every system. You just have to look deep enough. Of course, some systems enjoy more democracy and a higher degree of freedom than the others, while some enjoy more achievements in KPI. But by emphasising on a system's authoritarian nature you are painting yourself a much simpler picture about the world here as if it is authoritarian v.s. the people, when things are so much more complicated than that.

It's very unfortunate that comment like this one is getting downvotes on HN.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/nov.html
The fact that someone has claimed quantum supremacy already, yet can't do anything practical with it demonstrates why this title absolutely so.
I've met quite a few libertarians in Singapore but i continue to be puzzled by why someone with libertarian leanings would choose to live here.

Can you explain why it appeals to you? Do the low taxes make up for the limitations on personal liberty?
My option is that it was extreme belief in the superiority of humans.

The rise of the environmental movement made people feel like they are harmful just by existing, so people should "duck their head" as it were.

i.e if you want to do something better make sure it has no impact on anything.
>He can bike, take the bus or ride a cab.

Not in rural parts of the country. Before driving existed the US had much better public transport. I think your argument holds water in Europe, but not the US, where driving is essential for most people to survive.

I think this should be an argument for building public transport though, since many people are excluded societally when they don't have a means of transport.
Sometimes SNG expat here. Why exactly do you think that is?

Surely there is enough highly talented, smart people to have a crack at a political office that's been held for decades and of course an enthusiastic young generation who have lived under this system perhaps interested in a change? It's a country with one of the highest average IQ's on Earth and I'm always intrigued by the statement "no viable opposition". There's definitely a viable everything else in the nation, wondering why politics is so different. It's an amazing place to live from my Australian perspective.

I'd argue that everyone couldn't care less given the history and are fine with the system as exists. Which seems to backed up by a lot of elections.
Can you expand, or give some numbers?
In Africa, OPay and WeChat have more in common than just being super apps
I think that depends on the installation. My gf had one for a year and there were very few issues with it.

The most regular issue was nicotine spray setting it off.

It had to be serviced once in a year and this service was included in the price.

Personally I think a lifetime sentence is a bit harsh but I definitely agree that drunk drivers should have an ignition lock for a long time, perhaps 5-10 years.
How can you know when you're about to send a bounce to a backscatter? I'd love to know this!
Gets disabled by me immediately. I use a well-configured Logitech Harmony remote to orchestrate the various devices, hence no need for HDMI-CEC, which it's implemented differently by anyone anyway (and they mostly don't even consider that "bugs").
DNA kits for Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are half price. MyHeritage also has genetic risk/carrier status report + DNA matching kit that's also 50 percent off.
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I am thankful to people who share their insightful viewpoints which in many cases have been significantly different than mine and led to me changing my opinion on issues.
I think it is probably appropriate. Chess and go are just "straight up optimization problems", but they're too difficult for traditional optimisation algorithms to work. You need something to do some fast pattern recognition to cut down on the search space. This is similar.

I expect if you search the literature you'll find a ton of work on this.
Except, if I’m reading correctly, the restriction is on the offenders license and they are prohibited from driving any vehicle that does not have the lockout device.
The fastest submarine of all time only went 75 km/h...
> I imagine this is for your personal car

The article states that you're not allowed to operate a car without one installed.
From the tutorial:

class Index(Assembly):
index(self):
return

How is this valid Python?
Isn't there an ancient joke about an aircraft manufacturer having problems with the wings breaking off, and some engineer suggesting performating the wing roots, because have you ever seen toilet paper actually tear at the performation?
MOND is epistemologically far stronger.
I didn't consider ti flamebait, I considered it ridiculous. Not just one Twitter comment.
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Or it could be solved at the git tooling side by introducing Jupyter specific merge and diff tools.
Voice App Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Out of curiosity, what makes lighting such a hard business?

I have given the issue some thought as well. f.lux integration with Hue is great, but unfortunately not a solution for me, as I'd have to keep my windows pc running all day.
People high up in companies think this way. People on the bottom never think things are intentionally nefarious
Pfft. Everyone knows that.

Actually, the only reason I know what that means is a course I took at https://www.complexityexplorer.org which was presented by Santa Fe Institute. Anyone interested in the origins of life should check it out. The courses are free, btw.

The final exam for the Origins course could be pretty much summarized by what you said. Hopefully they'll re-run it.
Every write up I've seen indicates the amount of stuff being put into /var is inappropriate for flash, beyond that, those logs should be kept in RAM until shutdown then you commit them to disk.

I'd have no issue with this stuff bricking if Tesla replaced it free (even more galling that they won't on a 50k+ vehicle), you'll have a hard time convincing anyone that a ECU should last less than a decade under normal operation, Nor should you need to replace the ECU before you replace the battery pack on an electric car.

If storage space was alone an issue, then they shouldn't have extended the features of those firmware loads so much - as far as I know the owner has no choice on if you update or not.
Singapore has lot more underlying tensions than a Nordic country: massive wealth inequality, different races with different languages and religions, a huge barely-human migrant worker underclass, etc. The ruling party uses this as an convenient excuse to justify everything they do, but there's a grain of truth to it as well.

That said, yes, I think safety and honesty are fairly embedded. Yesterday, the case of somebody trying to bribe a condo rentacop to overlook their (illegal) AirBnB guest made the news: the guard refused the $50, reported the bribery attempt to the police, and the offender was sent to jail for a week:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/pacific-mansi...

In most neighboring countries, if this kind of thing made headlines, the news would have nothing else.
I have this disorder as well, it started when I was 11 or 12. I've tried every trick that sleep doctors recommend (literally, everything) but nothing works. The only way I was able to maintain a 24-hour sleep cycle though school was to drink coffee every morning and take sleep medication regularly (from the age of 12). That was enough to make my sleep cycle 24 hours, but it didn't improve my sleep quality, so I spent most of school in a significantly sleep deprived state (only getting 3-5 hours of sleep a night). That's a pretty miserable state to live in for an extended period of time.

When I started living on my own and I was free to choose my own schedule, I decided to stop "forcing" myself onto a schedule that my body didn't agree with and instead let my sleep schedule naturally align with my circadian rhythms. It took about a month to get adjusted, but I remember waking up one morning and feeling like I had got my first full night's sleep in my entire life - it was an amazing feeling!

Since then I've been living on a ~ 24h 50m sleep cycle and I sleep like a baby (8 - 9 hrs) every night. Interestingly enough, I've discovered that I'm actually a morning person, when I used to think I was a night owl. I'm very grateful that I have the freedom to choose my own schedule (I'm a remote-only contractor), I dread ever having to go back to a 24h sleep cycle.

I haven't noticed much change in how I feel with seasons (I live in southern Ontario, Canada), but there's a big difference in my energy level depending on how much light I get in the morning (my mornings, not Earth mornings). If I don't get a good amount of bright light in the morning I feel sluggish and tired all day, regardless of how much sleep I got. If the sun's up when I wake up, I go for a run or walk every morning; otherwise I have about five 10,000 lux LED lights around my apartment that I turn on all morning (I have two right next to my desk in my peripheral vision, just like the person in the article). The LEDs are pretty weak, but they're enough if they're a few feet away from me. I start turning off all the lights and closing all the blinds in my apartment about 4 hours before bed or else it'll keep me up.

I would be very interested in reading more research about the cause of Non-24 Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder in sighted people; as far as I'm aware there's very little research on the matter. I didn't even know it existed until last year, I expect some more research and awareness could be very helpful to people in the same boat.
It's a toxic place. Try getting the team lead fired, gotta play fire with fire, but then you will have to assume more responsibility. If you don't want that leave immediately.
Fleck: A Lisp that runs wherever Bash is
> A volunteer organization in US (or wherever OSM is)

The OpenStreetMap Foundation, which supports the OpenStreetMap project, and owns the domain name, trademarks & hardware, is registered in England & Wales
I suggest looking at what is expected on the AP Computer Science test. I personally feel that something like programming python in a jupyter notebook is a good free open source place to start for programming. Teach students how to properly use search in google and duckduckgo. Introduce them to linux on a virtual machine. Have a section on how important security and privacy are to get them thinking about it. You also didn't mention how many credits this would be 1 class or 3 classes makes a big difference.
Honestly at this point it is not programmers we need but more people with a solid general culture about computing:

What's the internet? where is the cloud? Where are data stored? How do they pass around?

What's a computer? A smartphone? Where is data stored? Where is computing happening?

Most of them will never be coders, and whichever platform you use to teach basic programming would probably be obsolete by the time they are out.

If you really want to do programming, I'd be doing some Arduino Through Blockly (https://ardublockly.embeddedlog.com/index.html) and hit two birds with one stone: it will give them basics of programming and also demystify some things about electronics.

Kids fascinated about blinking LEDs or running motors can then dig into electronics, students wondering what that weird C program on the right is when a blockly program is assemblend can join us in the Dark Side.
Mitsubishi's synthetic-light "windows" announced last year appear to be pretty spectacular. I want one.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-45827812/mitsubishi-w...

https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/news/2018/0927.html
I was looking for a curated list of the biggest co2 emitters.

The usual shows top 10 including china coal, Gazprom and india coal. But i'd like to know how things are evolving.
Of course there is. All the building blocks that people are mix and matching in networks nowadays were introduced at some point.

The paper that introduced batch norm, adaptive instance norm, attention heads, or any module used in a network have an extensive discussion of the motivation for their existance, some derivation or proof that they do what you want, and an empirical test to show it helps in practice. The reason some losses allow GANs to converge in certain situations while others don't isn't a complete mystery, there is theory that supports this.

Researchers designing new models are considering weak points in old approaches, identifying why they aren't working correctly, and proposing something new that solves a part of the problem. All of this is done by looking at the math behind all the operations in the network (or at least the parts relevant to a certain question).

That nobody really knows how AI works is one of those myths told by the media. Just because the model weights aren't interprable doesn't mean we don't know why that model works well. It just takes quite a bit of maths knowledge to really understand state of the art models. All that knowledge is also easily packaged into modern frameworks that make it easy to use without a deep knowledge of why it works. All of this contributes to the feeling that nobody really knows what's going on, while in reality it's onky the majority of people that don't know what's going on ;)
Singapore's biggest challenge isn't whether its political system is "Democratic" or "Authoritarian", because such dichotomies are not terribly revealing about the peculiar situation Singapore is in geopolitically. The biggest challenge, rather, is whether it can continue to thrive in a rules based, international global trade regime.
Emissions from air travel are set to triple by 2050.

Also that 2.5% doesn't take into account the affect of NOx on climate or contrails.

The IPCC estimate the effect of air travel is 2 to 4 times as high as that expected just from CO2 emissions.
Yes, that's OSM's usual rule, but an exception was made for Crimea, and it is mapped as part of Ukraine & Russia (overlapping borders)
I worked on an app that was Angular 1. That did get widespread acceptance at the time, but still got dropped like a hot potato when React came along. Probably the backwards incompatible changes with Angular 2 were a big factor as well.
So if the universe is flat does that make the earth flat as well? :-D
I think this is the premise for the next Alien movie
Thankful to grow up in country where hospitals are free(I have never needed medical attention but close family members) and higher-education is paid for so I could study for 6 years without stressing about money.
No, it's a military dictatorship when the military controls the country, which is fairly obviously not the case in Singapore.
Sounds less like burnout and more like “toxic person at work”. Take it to the boss.
Kubethanos a tool to kill half of your pods randomly to test your system
Do you know if Solar heated balloons are good enough for small trips ?
I don’t know if I’d say the article is trying to ‘taint’ it. According to the article, even the nine patients who had their swimming ability affected all “preferred to keep their stimulators on, because they provided so much relief from symptoms”. So it’s definitely an effective intervention in this case, just one with a side effect to watch out for. A side effect which is also unusual enough that it makes for an interesting news story.

Edit: I guess you might have gotten that impression from the headline, which is a little clickbaity.
I understand why you are not happy about exchanges like this, but why do you tell that only to me, and not to pvg? Surely insulting other users is against the guidelines? I tend to shoot back in the same tone that I am addressed with.

Calling other people trolls or flamebaiting is insulting.
Auto manufacturers commonly do targeted warranty extensions and recalls for design and manufacturing defects outside of warranty.

Ford for example did, with failing intake manifolds and the issue where the engine would eject spark plugs on Modular V8 engines.

Tesla in particular is screwing over the people it needs the most, by making boneheaded component choices.
It's the second most abundant element in the universe. Maybe we'll put in a tad more effort to explore it if Helium runs out.
The definition of an increasing function is a function f such that for all x and y, x < y implies f(x) <= f(y).

For a strictly increasing function change <= to <.

Your argument fails because you drop the antecedent in: x < f(x) => f(x) < f(f(x)). If f(0) = 0, you don’t have 0 < f(0) so can’t require that f(f(0))<f(0).

Note however that it is easy to show that f must be strictly increasing if it is increasing for if x is not y and f(x) = f(y) then 3x = f(f(x)) = f(f(y)) = 3y which cannot be the case.
How do you define 'operating in' for a web service? I would suggest they are operating on the internet, out of the US, therefore bound only to US law. Having the service accessible worldwide shouldn't make you subject to everyone's laws.
It's your job, though. You can always set up 1:1s and ask from time to time "is there something you are unhappy about?" or "do you think your share of our company adequately represents your contributions?" The reality is that you're afraid to hear honest answers. "Hard to keep a tab on everyone" is a lazy excuse. You could always set up the system in which such concerns bubble up to you. Long ago I was that employee that pissed off founders by leaving without notice (some even called me a traitor). Now the very same founders actively want to reconnect and I don't mind. So we meet and see the now obvious difference in our status. We don't touch this topic, but I see how that confidence look disappears in their eyes.
Sure, but what I mean is that for all we know all the people that VLM 16 knows may well today be accessing daily Wikipedia.org by typing Wikipedia.com as an address without noticing, so, as said not a particularly good point by mod50ack.