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Upgrading Windows7 to Windows 10 usually needs a hardware upgrade. And installing windows and office and decrappifying it takes ages.

Rather replace with your favourite Linux, no hardware upgrade necessary, LibreOffice is included, Spyware, Phone-Home-Functions and other crap missing by default. Saves lots of time.
Oh no! That's a shame to hear. I did prefer using new tabs instead of new windows.
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This result isn't even peer-reviewed yet. All of this hype about the X17 particle is coming from a pre-print on the arXiv.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10459

They claim a 7.2 sigma result, but the distribution of the null-hypothesis (called PDF(exp) in the paper) was determined from simulations of one atomic transition and "external pair creation on the target backing", and the only source of systematic error they took into account was the position of the target relative to the beam-line. It seems a little paltry to me in terms of trying to take into account possible sources of error... And given that the excess appears in only a particular angular region, they seem to be ignoring the Look-elsewhere effect ("oh, no excess signal here? Let me look elsewhere...") and over-stating their significance. The paper also is riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes, and while that doesn't have anything to do with the science, it does say something about the sloppiness of the researcher, I think.

Anyway, I can't imagine this passing the muster of peer-review in its current state. But I'll be curious to see the revised paper with more details included (if they can actually get it published).

EDIT: They did explain how they determined the background distribution, I edited my comment above.
As a counter-point (I'm playing devils advocate because I actually agree with the author in general): at one time I found an old laptop that I hadn't used in quite some time. Excitedly I booted it up and dug around the file system to find ... nothing of interest. I thought there were treasure troves of stuff there but actually there was very little of interest at all.

It made me think about those hoarder reality TV shows and how there is a digital equivalent of that. In some ways I'm glad all of my digital data isn't amassing and following me around. I'm not sure I really care about what I posted to MySpace pages back in 2003 or usenet in 1998.

This is really a matter of ambivalence to me. On the one hand I would love detailed data about my history, even down to the exact GPS coordinates of my location every moment of my life. On the other, I am not sure this data would truly improve my life in any way. It may be that access to such data could make my life worse.
Why? Can nothing be done about it short of literally going back to 90s era hardware?

I see latency as a silent killer, of sorts. For instance, if you introduce a tiny bit of mouse latency, users won't notice the additional latency, but they will sense that their mouse doesn't feel quite as good. Give them a side by side comparison, and I bet most will be able to tell you the mouse with slightly less latency feels better.

This extends to everything. Video games with lower latency appear to have better, smoother controls. Calls with less latency result in smoother, more natural conversations. Touch screens with less latency feel more natural and responsive.

(I only have anecdotal evidence of this, but I am absolutely convinced of it.)
Do these lines and tangents drawn on the price graphs are actually useful?
50 days and counting.

You're a funny one to be pontificating about what is "real".
The concept has historically gets an order of magnitude more push back without the tiny amount of creds to go along with it. People really latch on to the English teacher style prescriptivist view and assume that linguistics in general takes that view too.

And for me it was eight classes, ~1 a semester.
You hand-wave the difference between collision resistance and second-preimage resistance most away...

Just a recap: generating two files who's hashes collide takes 2^80 tries if SHA-1 wasn't broken, whereas finding a file with the same hash as a specific, externally-determined file takes 2^160 tries.
> You don't have the first party vendor doing the integration work.

The only reason this should be true is if the Navy is directly providing this service instead. If nobody is coordinating integration, then that's absolute insanity. Integration is the most important job in a distributed system like this, also probably the hardest.

Knowing the military they probably thought they could avoid needing an integrator by writing out tens of thousands of pages of specs, never stopping to consider that the specs themselves may be incorrect or unworkable or that they would be so complex that no vendor could ever deliver a product that exactly meets the specs.
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But people who complain about this stuff usually don't frame it that way-- absolutist statements like from the GP: "Anything you use in a critical path you should control." are common. The message is typically "I realize something fundamental that you don't and I'm owning all my dependencies and you don't own any of yours," rarely "I made a different choice about dependency ownership and here are the reasons I think that's appropriate for you too."
Rachel Kroll (wrote The Bozo Hour making fun of incompetent sysadmins and management) created a web portal for an SDR in C. I found her blog posts in the project very interesting.

> http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/
Tried scrolling article up and down. Animated images hijacking the mouse control randomly, showing some motion then freezing. A good illustration.
An excellent example of the necessity of protectionism.
> Credit cards exist. If you're wealthy enough to have taxable investments, your credit is probably good enough for credit card rewards.

Replicating this would involve having little to no cash, spending on a card, and then liquidating investments to pay off the debt. Which is similar to how most wealthy persons manage their consumption.

Of course, this requires having access to credit, assets, and money transfer services. Broadening access to that isn't necessarily a bad idea.
An interesting aspect is how broken the Internet is (those dodgy routers and IP webcams, what other IoT devices can be exploited?), and how critical it actually is, if you can cripple a whole country's economy.
I think the size of one's house is one of the archetypal measures of "prosperity" and it's been exploding over the past 50 years. More generally, the problem with these little anecdotes is that they're not normalized to anything. Anecdotes along the lines of "you could afford X on Y hours of minimum wage work," for example, ignore the fact that almost nobody earns minimum wage today: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1M09. The percentage of workers earning minimum wage or less (some workers are exempt) dropped from 15% in 1980 to just 2% today.

These anecdotes also ignore numerous other parameters. For example, households are much smaller today than before. So looking at "median household income" understates increases in income for the middle. Without adjusting for decreased household size, inflation-adjusted household income went up 16% from 1970-2010. Adjusting for household size, it went up 34%.

Likewise, people are more likely to be single parents, etc., today, which impacts economic prosperity. From 1971 to 2011, married people with a spouse present did well: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2.... The percentage of such adults who are low income stayed flat at about 21-22%. But the percentage that qualify as upper income grew from 14% to 25%. For those who have never been married, the opposite happened. Low income rates went from 22% to 34%, and upper income rates stayed flat at 16-18%.
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Apple is developing satellites so the iPhone can skip wireless carriers
> If you're wealthy enough to have taxable investments

With the new world of zero commissions and fractional shares available (soon?), the minimum wealth required to buy stocks isn't very much. I still don't think this makes very much sense, though. If you can get credit, buying now and settling in a month would mean you have time to manage a more strategic sale. If you don't have access to credit, presumably because of lack of wealth, volatility is going to kill you --- you'd be much better served with a (low) interest checking account.
CIDER is a SLIME-like environment for Clojure and ClojureScript, with a client for Emacs, among many other editors. If there's not an equivalent for Python, I hope someone is working on it :-)

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
It's almost as if doing anything in excess isn't good for you.
The point of this proposal is clearly not to help the hoi polloi, but to add some billions to the market so investors can squeeze in a few more points from the unproductive cash sitting in checking accounts. Airbnb, except the hotel rooms are checking accounts and the tourists are billionaires.
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Yeah I’m a programmer like most of us here and I’ve seen timers abused quite a lot. They sometimes are appropriate, but more often, they are good examples of an antipattern.

The wording “it would seem” should have tipped you off that no assumptions are being made, but I guess it didn’t work.

And even if we were to make a comparison as you suggest and derive some ratio, that’s not super useful without comparing it to the ratio for some alternative approach that does not use timers.
> Portrait mode on my iPhone 7+ looks okay at a glance, but thinks like hair, wires, and twigs are TERRIBLE on closer inspection.

Portrait mode on any phone looks crap. I have not yet seen a picture where fake shallow DOF does not fail and look crap.
Right after we launched, we were pleasantly surprised that a good portion of our users started using our automated visual site-mapping platform [1] to archive their sites ( while redesigning newer versions of them ) and other public sites of interest.

[1] https://VisualSitemaps.com
Well that's rather interesting. Sounds like 2 separate detections by the same team and no other confirmations yet. And the presumptive new particle doesn't sound like it's predicted by any of the current beyond-standard-model theories. So we're gonna need a few more detections by a few more teams. Going to be very interesting results for theoretical physics if it holds up though.
Interesting, Google only gives me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Sciences_%28company%29
> But does it matter?

I think it matters that the examples are untrue. It's quite easy to craft a nice story that illustrates a point. The story is more influential than mere statements because it doubles as proof. Thus the student may come away thinking he or she not only knows a fact but now that they can prove it. This will make it much harder to correct if false.
Ugh why does open source OCR still suck so bad?!

Why isn’t there an open source OCR engine even half as powerful as the Google Cloud Platform API?!
Brilliant. Not very practical or has any real use cases as you point but still brilliant!
Unlike git commit hashes, docker image tags can be overwritten by the maintainer at any time, even if they map to a hit commit hash.
Yeah that ia definitely one no to stomp on. Vls an tacan are good ones too but they are immediately apparent if you stare at the band. Gps is so quiet you would only know by looking it up. Which you should absolutely do before TXing.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206098-who-cooked-adam...

>When Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest and the world turned because of financial gain he laid the foundations for 'economic man'. Selfish and cynical, 'economic man' has dominated our thinking ever since, the ugly rational heart of modern day capitalism. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest, but out of love.

>Even today, the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking is not part of our economic models. All over the world, there are economists who believe that if women are paid less, then that's because their labour is worth less.
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That last paragraph screams of a massive failure in Crew Resource Management. There are acres of case studies about this subject throughout industry, and when people take them to heart lots of accidents are avoided.

Airline pilots are a prime example. How many airliners crash these days? CRM is one of the factors in making them so safe. Truck Drivers now have similar requirements and a much improved safety record as well. This is literally life or death, industries that ignore it are being unnecessarily reckless and unprofessional.
"Keyser Söze detected with 98% confidence"
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This is the latest innovation in "interactive story telling".

It is just the ultimate in irony: here is an article crying murder because a touch interface allowed a sailor to un-gang engine power, then slide a big fat green power slider for one engine to half of what the other big green slider for the other engine directly next to it showed.

Meanwhile here we are furiously scrolling to hit invisible "scrolled distance" breakpoints to advance a slideshow.
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Everything I've ever read about BB terminals make them sound like Dwarf Fortress for Finance.
Yep, sort of like holding the flusher on your toilet, or replacing your shower head with a real one.
My wife has iPhone 8, I can't find portrait mode on it (I'm coming from Pixel 3 so I was wondering how it looks on iPhones).

When I scroll the photo modes there is no such thing as "portrait".

Or maybe it is only for the Plus models with two cameras?
Well, I guess in the sense that the faster-than-light neutrinos turned out to be false.
Thanks for buying the book! As I said in the post, please feel free to send any feedback about things you don't think are clear, or things you'd like to see.
Tesseract simply cannot power the GCP OCR API because Tesseract sucks super bad and the GCP API is mint.
On the one hand that's correct. On the other hand you could completely avoid that if you did long exposures the way a Google Pixel (2+ I think) does it (in software):

Take lots of short exposures and fuse them. If the device is handheld you get variability in positioning for free, if it's on a tripod, it will automatically wiggle the OIS slightly to achieve the same effect.
If American Psycho were about Programmers [video]
> SQL-as-pubsub has certain well-known issues and anyone using it this way ought to be aware of them.

Such as? Other than performance.
Pretty much your hub and spoke method for maximising your content production. Go to https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.verticalmeasures.com/blog... for a more in-depth guide
Also for people who were working to be part of a knowledge economy, casual commentary from even very well-educated folks can only take you so far; you need expert guidance or peerage to get to the next level. Strangely, even YouTube or Discord can be higher signal than a random friends group.
burned out, it was super high stress. multiple nights sleeping at my desk. waking up with cold sweats having nightmares about my positions. say a "good" trader gets 52% of their trades correct. that means you're wrong 48% of the time, even on the stuff you're high conviction, done a genuine amount of work on. (tbf not all shops do this, i was just in a large multimanager hedge fund that did work like that. ofc if you're at a quant shop this does not at all apply).

as a junior-to-mid level person in finance, most of us are doing some form of coding anyway. i was forced to progress from vba to python to haskell based on the shops i was at. i realized that i was both good at this, enjoyed it, and didnt enjoy the trading part. so i decided to switch into dev despite having no qualifications for it. doing a js bootcamp helped fill in the holes.

i'd say finance careers have a much higher ceiling for comp, my boss was pulling in 2m/yr at age 33ish, but he was both lucky and exceptional. i wasn't gonna be him. at my career trajectory (the vast majority of us in finance) i'd probably be more like 200-500k/yr. just kinda not worth it if i could go to tech and make somewhat less but with far better quality of life.
This applies generally - as an optimal path to creating anything (life philosophy, advancing science, tool creation etc.)

Sketch a breadth-1st near-random (high heat/entropic) exploration map/terrain of conceptual/creation structure optima.

Over time, let the system cool.

Slowly raise the threshold of improvement-gradient acceptability (increasing negative value). This confines your exploration.

Ultimately end in a cooled state, going only directions of direct improvement.
Android's developer options let you set a GPS location.
I thought it was common knowledge that the ancestry part of the 23andMe "project" was croud sourced and not an exact science? The "you are related to XYZ person in our database" stuff was 100% accurate, as that is coded in your genetics. But their ancestry data is based on who is related to who and what they think their ancestry is.
Someone should mention the oval shaped, very cinematic, Anamorphic bokeh. Bokeh is not just the shape of blurry small light sources, but also changes the quality of any out of focus region, since the blur is doubled vertically compared to horizontally. A good read on the subject with images https://www.provideocoalition.com/three-lenses-a-look-at-bok...
Something unclear from the article, but jumped out at me.

It seems that the Achilles heel of the IBNS system was that too much information tended to bork it, but what’s unclear to me (as implied by the article) is if dropping incoming data was actually the sensible thing to do (as is often the case) and if incoming data was prioritized over existing data and that was dropped instead.

The other thing I would point out is that the technical failure is not that a system is complex, but that a complex system has a user interface that allows a sequence of actions to leave it in an invalid or unpredictable state. The transfer of throttle control being incomplete while other actions were taken, for example.

I think the thing lacking here was consistent and sound changes to the state, lack of fuzzing user input to observe this possibility, and the reliance on training to avoid the issues at all. These are problems that can be solved with design.
That’s not true, if you’re in Ukraine it is not marked as Ukrainian territory, while in Russia it is now marked as Russian.
Catholic.
only very occasionally, specifically because other people use them as support and resistance levels. that sht is real.

but otherwise.. yeah most of the time technical analysis is extreme backfit tea leaf reading mixed up with poor understanding of value vs momentum factors.
0.055A * 3.3V ~ 0.180w. That is way louder than your key fob.
All indentation does is tell you that there is a hierarchy of some sort. The fact something is one level deeper than another still doesn't tell me generally what it does, because that depends on what the parent(s) does. And it's not a difference maker because "regular" language can also use indents.

Further, the coder decides the indentation, and I'm not convinced it's consistent enough. In my example, a curly brace is a curly brace regardless of a coder's preference. It's enforced by the rules the language, not the coder.

Another thing I'd like to point out is that languages like JavaScript provide two levels of common abstraction. Using curly braces, parenthesis, and square brackets as an example, you spot them and immediately know the forest-level category something is: code block, function call, or array/structure index.

With Lisp, all you are guaranteed have is the function name (first parameter), which you have to do a mental name-to-purpose lookup, which could involve thousands of names. Splitting the lookup into levels improves the mental lookup performance, at least in my head.

It also helps one quickly know to ignore something. For example, if I'm looking for a code block, I know I can probably ignore array indexes, and vice versa. It's forest-level exclusion, which is hard to do with single-level lookups because the list is too long: it has to contain the general category of each name. It's extra mental accounting.

Hard-wiring in big-picture categories into the syntax allows quickly making forest-level reading decisions, and which individual coders generally can't change.

When it comes to team-level read-ability, consistency usually trumps abstraction and many other things.

Maybe Lisp can do something similar with "let", bindings, and body, but then it starts to resemble "regular" languages, along with their drawbacks, which is typically less abstraction ability. Consistency "spanks the cowboys", both the good cowboys and the bad cowboys. But at least you know what you have, and can estimate and plan accordingly.
GPS is so quiet it is actually below the noise floor and needs all kinds of black magic to be recovered.
I have a Nokia 6.1 and my wife has a Nokia 7.?, and this has not been my experience. We've had no bloat, it's been great.
Totally agreed. However, when do we stop making this mistake? I think it's worth a callout when a large organization designs a dependency management system with such an obvious flaw on the "happy path".
Thanks, this does really look interesting. I'd like to find something generic, lightweight to replace Kafka or Pulsar. Not sure this could be it, but it looks like it'd be worth having a look at...
> ...Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest and the world turned because of financial gain

Funny that someone should write that, because Smith wrote a book called Theory of the Moral Sentiments in which he argued the exact opposite.
I sort of agree, but the problem is algebra is fundamentally taught terribly in America, a lot of people get confused on simple operations. Here's the goldstandard essay exploring the failures of math education https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
I made a gist [0] that demonstrates the issue. Line 5 does not make a node in the timeline.

I look forward to seeing what bugjail becomes in the future.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/TheThirdOne/7af9356dfb89d21816250017...
That is a better comparison, but not a great one. A new boson (and associated force) would be exciting but completely in line with known physics. Speed-of-light violations would be absolutely revolutionary, threatening almost everything we know about fundamental physics.
You are free to lose money by keeping the prices competitive, or lose money by raising your prices and losing business. Either way, it's the same result.
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TVM and Deep Learning Compilation Conference 2019 Videos and Slides
Apache (incubating) TVM is an open-source deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency-oriented hardware backends.

The conference discussed recent advances in frameworks, compilers, systems and architecture support, security, training and hardware acceleration.

Videos and slides are available at
https://sampl.cs.washington.edu/tvmconf/
That you think China achieving a standard of living like current developed countries wouldn't be sustainable doesn't change anything about the fact that they're still developing.

FWIW, polluting water ecosystems is more common in developing countries (because they don't have the money to care about luxuries like environmental protection) and they've been slowly regenerating in developed countries, so from that perspective you should hope for China to become developed faster rather than slower.