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Cameron made a great 3D movie that spawned a generation of shitty counterfeit imitations.
That article is about how Cameron feels 3D cinema was poisoned by a glut of cheap fake 3D, and he wants real 3D tech to develop so people stop faking it, and he wants a no glasses solution. Is he wrong?

People always had TV. Obviously home viewing is winning because it's getting better and it's much cheaper and more convenient.
There's less need to compete - the ECB and State are taking care of the people while liberating them from the need to perform.
> "Make people want something that is actually junk." doesn't have quite the same ring to it, nor does it sound remotely more plausible.

It certainly doesn't have the same ring to it, but it's an extremely successful business model.
> (5) Robocopy.

Ha! We use robocopy at work because IT refuses to fix our internal network. We can reliably reproduce an NFS mount dropping off the network around the 12th GB of a large file and the only answer is "stop bugging us and use robocopy". All it does is turn a 30-40 minute process into a 3-4 hour process.
Keep in mind that Pokemon Go (AR) has generated over $700M in revenue for iOS App Store & Google Play. [1] That’s 7x the $100M in revenue Facebook generated from the entire Oculus Store (VR). [2]

[1]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/pokemon-go-statistics/, Pokémon Go Statistics

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/oculus-eclipses-100-millio..., Oculus eclipses $100 million in VR content sales.
Everything that moves is bound by the speed of light.

But when you create space between 2 points they can appear to move faster than the speed of light, despite not actually moving - it's just that there's new space created between them, so the distance between them grows faster than the speed of light.
Could you also add "Deploy Your Own Firebase"?

Our project ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) gets 1M+ downloads a month and can be self-hosted easily with a 1-click deploy into production.

Will try to make a PR when I get to my laptop. :)
Interesting, but that article -- Ma et al. (2019) "Cortical Circuit Dynamics Are Homeostatically Tuned to Criticality In Vivo" [https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30737-8)] -- makes no mention of Karl Friston and his work (who is also mentioned elsewhere in this thread: @Agebor, re: 'Bayesian brain'), which seems highly relevant.

E.g.

* Friston, K. (2009). The Free-Energy Principle: A Rough Guide to the Brain? Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(7), 293-301.

https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20prin...

* Friston, K. (2010) The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 11(2): 127.

https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20prin...

* Solms M (2018) "The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle." Front. Psychol. 9: 2714. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02714 | PMCID: PMC6363942 | PMID: 30761057

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363942/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0271...
Everything that moves through space is bound by the speed of light. But space itself is expanding at a rate such that two distant points can move away from each other faster than the speed of light. Think of it like two ants on opposite sides of a balloon, one ant starts moving toward the other as fast as it can go, but then you start to inflate the balloon. The distance between the two ants expands faster than an ant can move and they'll never meet.
I'm not trying to troll here but if I replace 'systemd' with 'linux' there are over 5k.

The truth about computer security is that it is abismal. Somethings are better than others but complex software written in unsafe languages...unsafe is gonna unsafe.
(Co-founder here)

https://motion-project.github.io/ made it really easy for me to setup a webcam on my Raspberry Pi. Accessing that using HTTP over WireGuard (via Tailscale) from my iPhone when out of the house was one of those "delight and amaze" moments.
That's right, but parsing JSON into a JavaScript object will not give you a date object, which is what OP was referring to.
It took me several years to learn how to get good grades. I was not that great a student in the beginning, and was motivated by things that were interesting to me. The two eventually converged, and I ended up with good grades by the end.

One test I had was a counterexample to the hackable tests that Paul talked about. And it was the only one of that kind that was of that nature. It was in the EE Static Fields course. The final exam was one question, and you could hear the groans as the test was passed out:

Derive Maxwell's Equations

This test was a great indicator of how well you got the basic facts of the course.
Yes, I did a sloppy editing pass over the first sentence. Fixed.
> The point is, the client wants a car

Except most clients don't know what they want in such clearcut way before the project begins.
Not an expert but the speed of light limitation seems to be derived from special relativity considerations the constancy of that speed and the use of light to carry information about events. So a train cannot accelerate to beyond c because of this. But not every phenomenon is limited by this.

As an example if you shine a torch at a really far away rock the dot can move faster than c transversally when you wiggle the torch. But the actual light is going at c to the rock and back to you.
Unnecessary for my use case. I batch my news consumption in a single session.
It seems likely enough that they have something like stories about us.
Not eating inflammatory foods. Severely limit sugar, carbohydrates. Not eating as much. Enough sleep.
> There's evidence to suggest that orcas use tonic immobility to prey on sharks.

> In 1997, an Orca in the Farallon Islands was seen holding a White Shark upside down for 15 minutes. Whether intentional or not, the Orca likely caused the shark to enter tonic immobility. Defenceless, the shark, suffocated. This also happened again in 2000.

> In New Zealand, Orcas also seem to use tonic immobility to hunt stingrays. Before attacking the orcas will turn themselves upside down. Then, holding the stingray in their mouth, they'll quickly right themselves. Flipping their prey upside down.

https://www.sharktrust.org/tonic-immobility
It seems like you're ignoring a lot of facts and making rash generalizations to justify your political position. In particular, this is stood out to me as blatantly wrong:

>You can pay for your own insurance, which includes doctor prescription, checkups, and you won't go bankrupt in an emergency (or paying for the insurance).

I know somebody who got in a car accident out in the hilly area of town, had to be airlifted to a hospital, and have his skull and spine reconstructed. The guy's a doctor who runs a private practice and he was buying his own insurance, the insurer decided what they were going to cover and what they weren't going to cover, and now he is literally 2 million dollars in debt (2 occupants in the car). And that's somebody who makes a hell of a lot of money compared to fast food workers, who are equally likely to get in car accidents!

You are either naive or fooling yourself if you don't see that this system is broken and exploitive.
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How about Charlie Stross' "Laundry Files" novels, in which magic is mathematics and software is a way of executing your magic quickly (and automating it). You can also do it inside your own head, but since it attracts the attention of Cthuluesque beings, there's a risk attached.
As topkai22 said, it's to make the author's comparison easy to understand. But this is a chance to mention that ~50 years ago the UK abandoned its old "billion" terminology, which used to be equivalent to a trillion elsewhere (10^12), and adopted the global definition of "billion" as 10^9. I think they called 10^9 a milliard, but I've never seen it in use. For a long time after the change, you'd see English written for an international audience using a more drawn-out version of large numbers (a "million million" for example) sort of the same way we have metric next to imperial these days.

That's not what's happening here, but it's interesting.
Here is my experience/opinion.

People don't have good chef knives and don't know how to sharpen them, they also tend to overspend grossly on them and still not get something with good performance. A good knife is thinly ground, with slight convex, tapers towards the tip, have a nice usable flat part and very nice curve towards the tip, made of easy to sharpen stainless steel. Don't obsess over HRC - 59-60 is enough.

If you don't have the budget - victorinox and mora have very nice cheap chef knives that can take a great edge but need some elbow grease to grind them a bit. And they cost like 30 euro.

Also get a beater knife - something cheap that you can use for rougher tasks that won't cry if it chips or breaks.

Consumer grade burners - both gas and electric are underpowered. A pro grade 3.5 Kw induction hob is a beast - I will take one of these vs a whole 60x60 cm with 4 burners the most powerful of which tops at 2kw. For gas - where I live there are some 7kw single burners. Once again beasts. Never used gas, so not sure how low their simmer is, but there should be something decent.

Also consumer grade mixers are rarely good enough, but their top models are probably more expensive than what you can get for commercial use. A professional electrolux be5 planetary is 350 w and still it can outmix something consumer that is 1250 w (it is expensive though, but build like a tank, just example of the wattage wars)

For ovens the only thing you need is raw power and thermal stability - ignore all bells and whistles (except properly executed steam, but those tend to cost as much as a combi oven). There are some self cleaning ovens that can be hacked to bake pizza in them, but it is dangerous and voids the warranty.

In germany there are very popular right now gas infrared top mini broilers 800C that can put insane crust on a steak. And cost 100 eur. This combined with sous vide is amazing meat all the time.

A good thing is that in the last years we actually start to see some good stuff being sized down to consumers, without sacrificing performance.

And so on ...
I wouldn't describe anything with a JSON kitchen sink field as "normalized".
Found an interesting article that suggests surfboards and wetsuits with the black and white orca belly pattern might deter sharks. https://www.nature.com/news/south-african-scientists-trial-h...
I think this kind exposure is inevitable with something as big as systemd. If you look at the old scripts-and-daemons hairball that systemd replaces, it has a lot of security warts too. (Albeit with 20 years of wart removal as well.)

What worries me is that systemd is not engineered and managed as a project with this kind of risk. Instead it feels like a lot of cowboy coding.
I wonder if it's a matter of looking at humans and going, "Wow, that weird little critter has such a hard time moving around." and some protective instinct for injured or sick pod members kicking in.

Or maybe we're just ugly-cute to them.
> Most of the Linux distributions we tested were vulnerable, especially
Linux distributions that use a version of systemd pulled after November
28th of last year which turned reverse path filtering off. However, we
recently discovered that the attack also works against IPv6, so turning
reverse path filtering on isn't a reasonable solution, but this was how
we discovered that the attack worked on Linux.
SystemD should not be as big as it is.
> Google will begin to rot from within

Continue, not begin.
This title is the opposite of reality. The kernel default for rp_filter is 0, which is disabled. For a long while, systemd had been closing this security hole, by setting it by default to 1 (enabled in strict mode). The recent change in systemd was to change it by default to 2 (enabled in loose mode), which is still stricter than the kernel default of "disabled". See https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... for the official documentation for this parameter.
And what if they try doing it in shallow waters or on shore?
Things can't move faster than light through space. The space itself has no such limitation. You can imagine an expanding balloon and ants walking on it that have a limit to how fast they can move relative to the surface of the balloon.
Not directly a pig, but a land-living mammal where a different evolutionary branch developed into pigs (and cows, and a bunch more)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even-toed_ungulate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans
It's worth contemplating. We homeschooled our kids and it was a good choice for our family.

I'm sympathetic to unschooling, but I've also seen it go wrong. If you decide to unschool, don't be dogmatic about it. Feel free to be more or less unschooly if that seems to be needed. Don't get sucked into a community where unschooling "purity" is highly valued.
Antioxidants aren't necessarily good. Like most anything, consuming too much can cause health problems.
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> Robocopy

I don't get ms. There's a good kind of copy and a bad kind of copy. Why is the bad kind the default?
Not every science project results in a commercially viable product. Remember Bell Labs bubble memories and round lead acid batteries?

So it is probably time to sort through the Alphabet ventures, pick the one or two that have a good chance, invest in those, kill the rest, and start some new ones.
Where does it say that in the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The most relevant guideline to this situation is this:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus
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Because HN jumped on the pro nuclear marketing train a few months ago when suddenly out of nothing the topic started to pop up everywhere.

Now arguments around:

- nuclear waste management

- nuclear accidents / underreporting

- exploding costs and time lines for construction of nuclear reactors

- and so on

are being downvoted to hell.

Meanwhile pushing the agenda that everybody who doesn't want a nuclear reactor in their backyard is a coal loving and ignorant idiot. Oh and btw. Thorium. It'll be there. Soon...
Roughly, anything that can be used as an information carrier is limited by the speed of light (a good rule of thumb is that such things have some mass or energy). Things that can not be exploited on their own for information transfer do not need to obey that limit (stretching of space, entangling of particles, maybe other things).

PS It is an open question how that does not lead to contradictions when you start considering energy density of the vacuum or the extremely small gravitational waves (which can in principle transmit information) created by the changes in the latter systems. But these effects are astronomically small and it is difficult to imagine even a thought experiment that can detect them.
Consider character sequences: [n, e, t] and [t, e, n]. If you'd want to know if the lists are equivalent (have the same characters, same number of times), then sorting them would make the comparison straight-forward since order doesn't matter.

See: https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-anagram/solution
I agree; Karl Friston's work is among the most interesting I have ever read, period. Interestingly, his 2009 paper (https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20prin...) / free-energy principle makes use of reinforcement learning, gradient descent, Markov blankets, Helmholtz machines, and other foundational tenets of modern machine learning ... In that regard, Geoff Hinton (a foundational figure in modern machine learning) overlapped with Friston while Hinton was in England at that point in his career.
Ask HN: How does Hacker News keep up with its SEO ranking?
Hacker news or news.ycombinator.com consists purely of links to other articles from the web (other than show HN and Ask HN [like this one]). It doesn't adheres to nofollow from search engine company. Then how does it still rank up first, is it just popularity or is there any secret ingredient to its secret seo sauce.

Noob question it is but still better to ask. and what better place to ask than on it.
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The reason you want to over-parameterize your model is that it protects you from "bad bounce" learning trajectories. You effectively spread out your overfitting risk until it's pretty close to 0.

Or at least that's the way I like to think of it.

The next step is to better compress the resulting model
in a simpler, less computationally costly network.
Honestly if I hadnt gotten into Python and learned some amazing ways to write code I would of never have been as productive with JavaScript as I have been all these years. It was painful at first but over time I have learned the quirks.
Hacking tests is a lesson much older than modern schools. It's a fundamental part of being human, or indeed, an animal.

When a peacock is being judged for his feathers or song or mating dance, these are all being used as proxies for the actually important thing, the quality of his genes. And it's not just a male thing; women do all kinds of work to appeal to arbitrary male preferences.

On the other hand, survival of the fittest is an honest judge, so maybe these peacock tests work better than we think?
Personally I find it hard to believe both the man calling in and the operator had such imaginations. It feels like one of them was embellishing.
It depends on what you want and what you're good at. If you have the experience and ability to efficiently define scope of work from the incoherent ramblings of a delusional client then grow that part of the business. It results in more credit to your firm instead of always doing the thankless and silent monkey work.

Just be careful to bill the client for that part also
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Robots in Military could wipe out huge swathes of the population
Musk blew up a few rockets in the process though. We can't afford to do that with nuclear reactors.
Totally agree - it still cracks me up in my particular industry. “There’s a shortage of security engineers and architects” is a common trope. No there isn’t- you just aren’t paying more than SWE and other dev salaries. People would consider switching if the money was there.
Almost certainly tongue in cheek
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You don't need robots for that. Nukes are sufficient.
>For me, as for most students, the measurement of what I was learning completely dominated actual learning in college.

Well I never had this problem in school.

I remember a high school calculus exam where I got the answer to the derivatives of the fundamental functions wrong (simple memorization - boring!) but I got the delta epsilon part of the test perfect.

I got a C- on the exam, but the teacher wrote a comment that always stuck with me: "You understood the most complicated part , as usual!"

Same thing in University, I never did homework in groups. I wasn't looking for the answer to the questions on my problem sets, I wanted a unique answer, or a more elegant answer.

I would outdo the professors sometimes. One time I saved a ton of busywork on a problem by setting up a homomorphism with another vector space, proof done in 5 steps!
The problem is the approval of drugs that don’t actually work, and so are actually harmful.

the approval then means that companies can target people who are desperate with extremely expensive snake oil. The victims of this have no recourse if/when the drug has caused problems.
Yes, I dislike the use of the term for non-physical entities.
Sorry, I missed this comment earlier.

What does it have to do with ICE detention facilities?
Well, it wouldn't have been "Space Invaders in C" if he had used Rust.
Think like it is a shadow or a light trace.

If you point a laser pointer device to moon from earth (assuming it's a really strong laser), rotating it for a few degrees on earth will result a light mark kms long on moon. The build up time for the mark will even exceed the speed of light if your hand is fast enough. This doesn't mean you broke the law. It just means multiple objects (in this case, each photon hitting the moon) created the illusion of a single object, moving really fast. Background light trying to reach us from the edge of the universe mimics a similar behavior with the added extra spacial dimension. Locations in space aren't objects. They are some points objects can leave marks on. Tracking their speed can always create faster than light situations if you pick a bunch of them conveniently.
Of course, no one can understand everything, but he said, "pick a subject". Just one, not everything. I'm reminded of this description of a PhD:

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
So, Iran, NK, and many other countries will be able to produce nuclear energy on cheap? It's good news for them.
Indeed; the issue is covered much more clearly in the article from which the most relevant illustration was taken: https://calgary.rasc.ca/redshift.htm
MSSQL does this as well, it will evict plans based on significant statistic changes and does parameter sniffing to decide on reusing a plan.
The difference is that PGo is an AR toy putting stickers on screen, not a 3D experience. And it's riding hard on Pokemon IP and Pokemon collector gimmick, not easy to replicate with other games in same or different genres.
The failing AR projects are presenting it as a virtual reality experience, as general as everything we do on monitors first.
If you want to find reasons to dislike systemd, you’ll find plenty to pick and choose from. But if you instead want to have systemd, and therefore want to find reasons that it’s worth it, you’ll likewise find lots of those. Whatever your initial opinion, you’ll find plenty of things to support your case.

Meta-reasons for wanting to like systemd in the first place include:

1a. It has plenty of nifty new features using the latest Linux features, most prominently cgroups.

2a. It makes it relatively easy to take advantage of those features for your own services, and/or to alter existing services to your liking.

3a. Probably for reasons 1a and 2a, most Linux distributions have long since changed to use systemd, and getting used to using a standard system is useful in real life.

The only meta-reasons for not liking systemd which I have seen are:

1b. It doesn’t work the way Unix always worked, and some people don’t like using it, since they don’t know all the ins and outs like they might do with the old systems.

2b. It seems to acquire, subsume and supplant lots of previously separate Unix systems like init, cron, syslog, ifconfig, etc. This, combined with 1b, only exacerbates the pain.

All other criticisms that I have seen can be adequately explained as being after-the-fact rationalizations stemming from 1b and 2b.

(Note: Anyone still using ifconfig on Linux should get with the program and start using ip(8) already: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/iproute2/ip.8.en.html)