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A Geometric Intuition for Linear Discriminant Analysis
Does AirPlay not require software updates or certificates? There are a lot of things which are fairly robust but still fail when things like certificates or NTP servers disappear.
How do you deal with newer members of the team? Are you worried that his lack of skill will "rub off" in any way with talented but less experienced people who may look to him for guidance?
It’s the dirtiest city in Japan that I’ve been too, purely down to the light coating of volcanic ash every building, road and public bench seems to have. Very friendly though and the best butasando.
I'm a British expat and for example:

- Some of my forms for UK electoral registration.

- For 30% ruling the firm doing my application sent a form to print band return

- I set up a sole trader company and had to print and bring form to my setup meeting.

There were a few others too. The NL itself is generally good for digital services though. I only need to print a few things a year. Nothing frequent.
Cant forget the arab springs , twitter activism etc. I believe they capitalised on it
I have always dreamed of someone providing me all the essentials I need on a vacation - toothpaste brush comb etc and having it ready at airport or hotel. At a reasonable price.

Seems I always forget something or forget to bring it home. Would be nice just to not stress about them during packing and just focus on clothes laptop etc
It's an argument against the "naturalness" or inevitability of the discovery.

It may be wrong, but "aliens" is not a response to it.
Yeah but that's rather because the socket api is older than Linux. Underneath there is the sockfs implementation.
Would not Alpha Go Zero and related algorithms give us a good insight into the question about what openings alien's might play? Isn't it really tackling the game from first (or zeroth if you will) principles, just simulated games without the historical baggage coming from human study. It has also considerably changed our own knowledge of the opening.
I remember a few times in school when we took turns grading each other's work. That scenario raises all sorts of other potential for problems, but it's an interesting thought experiment: what if Boeing were responsible for certifying Aribus' planes and visa-versa?
Get a copy of Racket, take notes, type in the programs for yourself, experiment. This video is the best most direct introduction I have yet found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5p8DPbaokE

Learning Lisp, Scheme or Clojure is more about learning ideas than anything else.

Later you might want to learn Alonzo Church's Lambda calculus after learning some set theory and mathematical logic.
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> For that matter, how did humans discover go?

I like how he used the word "discovered" and not "invented".
It's just not that simple. A kernel syscall just isn't an abstraction on windows, so if you want to compare the two, you need to include other OS APIs. Whether something is a syscall or not is a technical detail in the sense that it simply doesn't matter for it's actual function, but does matter for lots of non-functional concerns; possibly including api usability, performance, etc.

I don't know anything about the USB issue here, so I can't comment on that. But, typically, if you're looking for the closest equivalent to linux syscalls on windows, you're unavoidably going to be looking at non-kernelmode dll calls (which internally may or may not involve a kernel-mode syscall - that's a private implementation detail).

It's not a question choice of abstraction, simply of how the OS exposes low-level functionality (at least - it's the OS's choice, not yours).

The point being that if you reject any comparison of linux syscalls vs. window api calls then you effectively reject all comparisons between linux and windows apis. Fair enough; if you want - but it's not very helpful.
The discrete approximation to the integral involves sampling the function at a finite number of points and then computing a weighted sum of the sampled function values. In the case where N = 2, θ only takes the values 0 and π and the approximation is f'(x₀) ≈ 1/2 * (f(x₀+1) - f(x₀-1)), i.e. approximating the derivative with a simple difference.

So I don't think this is more biologically plausible than neurons using finite differences to do gradient descent.
Imagine you have two random variables A and B, which are 0 with prob 0.5 and 1 with prob 0.5. They just have the property that when A=1 then B is always 0 and vice versa. Thus, when you have seen the value of B, that clearly has changed the distribution of A. You should read P(A) as: the distribution of A when I know nothing about the world. And P(A|B=0) as: the distribution of A when I know that B took on value 0.
Are they pretty specific? It seems to me the concept is pretty general (and yes I'm familiar with the game): two players alternate placing stones on a square-tesselated board, with surrounded stones being removed from the board, and when the board is full the player with more stones wins. The no board state repetitions rules are just a natural evolution of the basic rules in order to prevent stalemates so that games actually end (and plenty of other human games have similar rules to prevent stalemates; it seems to be a generic, widely-applicable solution). Yes, there's some nuance in how scoring works (and we have multiple different scoring rules just here on Earth right now, more if you include the historical ones), and we don't actually play to the end but instead stop early once the result is clear and then calculate what the end score would've been, but those don't change the game that much and all would be considered Go.
> The manufacturer should never be able to either deactivate or otherwise disable the functionality of a device they sold in a form that requires a service to function.

I would go further: IMO, the manufacturer should never be able to sell the device that requires a service to function, period. They should only be able to either a) sell the device that can be optionally tied to a service - not necessarily manufacturer's - but otherwise works fine without it, or b) rent a device as a part of a service, remaining responsible for its maintenance.

Model a) is how cell phones work - you buy a cell phone, a cellular connection is a separate service provided by multiple competing parties that are not the manufacturer. Model b) is how ISPs tend to work - they lend you hardware to connect to their network infrastructure, they replace it if it breaks, they take it away at the end of the contract, and they absolutely refuse to let you use their hardware with a different ISP.
"as long as consumers want their devices to work and are willing to pay the cost"
This is what is upsetting the current customers. All they have to do is buy a Ring device and they essentially get their service to continue. Or you propose they continue to pay IotZombieCo and they get to have their software run on their device. So either they pay for the device or software in order to keep a service that worked perfectly fine before, and really does not need some other person's servers controlling it when a person could set that up on their own network (not against cloud services as they can provide added value but the ability to run on your own network should be an option too).
You just clearly demonstrated that you did NOT watch the entire talk through to the end. What OP stated is in fact present in the talk itself.
Thanks! As long as maven works for you, just stick to it.

I'm also happy that it is plain Java as it means I can contribute without learning IntelliJ or anything special.
OpenGL is probably going to be around forever, there's just too much stuff written around it that has 0 benefit from being completely rewritten in Vulkan. What is going to probably happen is that native OpenGL drivers will stop being developed as soon as implementations on top of Vulkan such as Zink become stable and competitive. After all, the fact that modern APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan are so low level has made reimplementing older, clunky APIs such as OpenGL and DX11 on top of them not only possible, but pretty much doable (see DXVK for instance).
hey @leshokunin, I'm reachable at jon.ma@stackkup.com! Glad to discuss how to provide help for your task :D
A general-purpose computer with a general-purpose operating system and a general-purpose network adapter tied to it absolutely does not require Norton Antivirus or its virus definitions to function. Correspondingly, Norton is not involved in manufacturing any of these components.
> The linked article specifically mentions that a specific soundness issue had been found and a fix had been submitted as well.

True, but I (and I think the other comments) referred to the top level comment here, which is a guy who just felt the code was smelly and avoided it, without having discovered anything specific.

> Your tone suggests that you don't want any part of this, so you continue along that path.

Been there, done that. The amount of excuses and other bullshit is not worth my time and effort. If the project is on github I still do open issues providing repro or at least a stack trace if possible. But if you have your own bug tracker where I'd need to sign up first (most likely going through email verification) you've lost me. Same for when you start requesting I do a git bisect even though I provided steps to reproduce or start giving excuses for why this isn't an actual bug and I'm holding it wrong. I'll just stop replying immediately.
No, I meant both the controller and drones radio use the CDMA modulation technique to transmit at power levels imperceptibly above the background noise levels. A listener would only hear white noise and would not even know the drone/controller are transmitting.

(This is after all what CDMA spread spectrum modulation was invented by Hedy Lamar for)

Absolutely nothing to do with the W-CDMA telephone system.
20,000 seems a little low. I imagine this needs at least 10 more zeroes
That depends heavily on where you live. If the most common type of power outage is one that affects a small region, it's quite likely internet connectivity could remain unaffected. I had this experience in northern Sweden, where I had a couple of power interruptions but zero network interruption.
I have the Bose QC II I haven't updated to the latest firmware because apparently it nerfs the ANC and increases the sensation you're speaking of.

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/c4tvkw/psa_do_n...

Compared with a coworker who updated his. This issues appears to be valid. Even bose has been sending engineers to peoples homes to test in their environment. Just an FYI
Those videos include an excellent reminder that statistically, you are very, very likely to survive the initial quake, therefore it's smart to stock up on 2 weeks of food and water, and to take a first aid training class.
What exactly is the difference between a luxury and non-luxury condo/apartment? I think it’s mainly a few cheap cosmetic features like countertops and stainless steel refrigerators. Of course developers label everything new luxury because why wouldn’t you spend an additional 1% of your investment on these types of things?

The cost of building a “non-luxury” building is almost identical. In either case, you need investors to put up the money to pay for construction and maintenance of the building until enough units have sold/rent to be self sustaining. So even if you build a slightly less cosmetically appealing building, you still need investor capital / “the rich” to do so.
But why should this right be absolute? Surely if there ever was a case for subtitles not being essential this is it. So if we accept it we have de facto risk for damages for all non-accessible commercial videos everywhere. This should have a considerable chilling effect.

I happen to feel this keenly since I'm in the process of dropping a client who insists of putting damage transfer in our consulting colaboration, in an industry vulnerable to GDPR fines. There is no hourly rate that can make me risk bankrupcy for a bug.
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I'm not following how this logically follows at all. It was invented here, so if anything, its invention here is a great data point that it could easily be invented elsewhere too (take a Bayesian approach to it). I don't see how its invention here somehow counts as evidence against it being invented elsewhere! There are an infinite number of games that haven't been invented here; all of those would seem to be much less likely to exist elsewhere than ones that actually were invented here.

Also, it's kind of silly to count something not have being reinvented against it, because things almost by definition cannot be reinvented. Look at how popular board games are right now; if Go hadn't yet been invented, it's quite possible that it would be invented now. But instead it has already been invented, so people already know about it, and any would-be inventors end up not being inventors; they either already know about it or are told that what they've come up with already exists.
Correction: It wasn't Gopnik I was paraphrasing but Binyamin Appelbaum, The Economists' Hour [3]: "[Milton] Friedman chose to see the role of individual initiative rather than the context of public support. He celebrated drivers and took roads for granted."

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Hour-Prophets-Markets-Frac...
You just took Socrates out of the conversation, though. I think the point is that you can only call Socrates a nihilist by refusing to treat him seriously. From the article:

> Thrasymachus’s cynicism is so compelling that Socrates spends the rest of the “Republic” trying to prove that justice is better than injustice by trying to refute the apparent success of unjust people by making metaphysical claims about the effects of injustice on the soul. Socrates is thus only able to counter cynicism in the visible world through faith in the existence of an invisible world, an invisible world that he argues is more real than the visible world. In other words, it is Thrasymachus’s cynicism that forces Socrates to reveal his nihilism.

The logic seems to be that such an invisible world is obviously false - so obviously false that not even Socrates himself could believe it. But the absurdity of calling Socrates a nihilist is easy to see as soon as you give that invisible world a little credibility, even if only to say that Socrates could have found the idea plausible.
Looks more like a job board, does not resemble HN
I always likened it to nature -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wl8ZxAaB2E

Some of the rules neatly map onto it.
Wouldn't porting Wayland be easier and more future proof than porting X11?
Amazing when a competitive market leads companies to offer a diverse set of products under various theories of finding product-market fit by prioritizing either end-user convenience vs. price & economy!

Also amazing that people will get angry that a company would dare offer a product that doesn’t exactly conform to their own ideological bent.
Some parts of the talk did not really stitch together; if we consider the main arguments against Unix (and the funny dab at Plan9) I felt them a bit lacking in the sense that they do not propose alternative philosophies, but only a liberating "mixing things together is cool".

I can totally understand that as a form of catharsis, and a mindset totally apt for hobby projects, but if we are playing in the realm of OS design...I would think we can do better in terms of architecture and philosophy? "anything else is better" does not really convince me, some structure is usually better than none at all.
It’s all some degree of trade-offs.

Extreme winters in the north and north east, hurricanes along the East and Caribbean coasts, tornadoes in the middle of the US, extreme heat in the south west.

The fires have always been seasonal, but combine that with old infrastructure and poor maintenance, some of it is man made so can be corrected.

The earthquake potential, while could be hugely devastating, happens once every 30 years for medium ones and once every 100 or so years for the big ones. That’s very different from the risks the rest of the country deals with every year.
Oh for sure. But if you’re worried about a random object falling on your head, it’s still a concern.

But of course, practically (/statistically) speaking, you should be much more worried about rapidly-moving objects rolling over the ground.
>That said, if you still want to chance it I researched and it is possible to commute into Seattle from east of I5, just not fun.

I wouldn't have thought that would even help much. Even if your house survives, its value will tank and your job will be "toast".
A large storage closet in my apartment building (nice one, Houston) is $20/mo. Can fit grill+bicycle+boxes+more.

I probably wouldn't pay more than that to permanently store a suitcase somewhere. That would be the ceiling for me.

Some frequent business travelers may be willing to pay more.

I'd see it as a $x/mo + $y per bring it to me at the airport (or maybe hotel, depending on the situation)
Selling data is a problem, I'm with you so far.

Having the government (that also controls the police, the military etc) collect & analyze large amounts of data on citizens is a recipe for disaster even if they never sell that data to a third party. I hear people say "but we can write laws that they cannot use that data for anything nefarious" and I'm amazed that there are still people alive that believe that laws have ever stopped a government.

I'm fine with "let's limit the amount of data corporations can collect on citizens", but I'm really not fine with "let's allow the state to collect any data on citizens other than absolutely necessary to provide basic services, at least they don't sell it".
I don't think the storage is the problem. Everything in computing scales up with available storage - apps, documents, media, all just get larger to compensate. If we couldn't solve this with readily available 100GB drives, or 1TB drives, why would we suddenly be able to with 10TB drives?
> I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this,

All my memories point to be me being not just human, but a particular human. In every memory I have, I am male, human, on Earth, live in the United States, live between the period of my birth and now. Speak English. Have the same number of siblings. etc. There's a more or less consistent story there.

And the story is chronological. You could argue that the timeline of events is arbitrary and my brain is just remembering them in the order of that makes sense. But I also have memories of remembering things, and in each one of those, I am remembering things that happened before the time I am remembering them.

The odds against a Boltzmann Brain having even two random memories that relate at all are incredibly small. The ratio of ordered:non-ordered Boltzmann Brains would be roughly on the order of actual Brain:ordered Boltzmann Brain. That's true even if we include a little wiggle room for the way the brain deals with memory.

The likeliest scenario is then that we are not Boltzmann Brains and any explanation of the universe that includes the probability that we are Boltzmann Brains is probably wrong in some way.
However, its a model where companies use software to lock you out of being able to use your hardware.

It does no such thing. He could send the subscription ink cartridge back and buy a regular cartridge for his printer.
Why do you specify “device”. Shouldn’t the same be said for an app or service that is sold?
Sure, there will be ups and downs like any industry. But a “winter” implies a decade at least without substantial industry or research, not just a bad year.
Does it? A lot of concepts in board games are pretty natural results of universal mathematics. There's only three regular polygons that will tesselate a board (we have plenty of board games that use all three of them), and there's only three dimensions that games can work in (and we have plenty of games of all three types; Candyland, for instance, is played along a 1D path, and the first player to reach the end wins).

Even if some aliens think so differently from us that the concept of a square is unknown to them, surely there are plenty of aliens that would think similarly enough?
> While it's true that increasing supply would help relieve some of the pressure, it would have to skyrocket to keep up with the meteoric rise in income of the top 10% of the population

How many % of available units do you think the top 10% of the population reside in? I’d be surprised if the average member of the 10% had more than two or at most three homes (e.g. city home, country home, vacation home). For reference, the 95th percentile household income in the USA is $250k a year, you will struggle to afford even two homes on that type of salary.

If you had, say, 600 million homes available in a country of 300 million people, you aren’t going to run out of homes... the rich may have a lot of money but they can only be in one place at once.
> We don't know without auditing the code

or when you really audit the code, find a problem, submit a patch and then the author dismisses your patch as "boring"
Except that they usually don't own it, they rent it from the ISP.

I think the concept of home server - some box you buy separately from Internet connection - is a concept that needs more marketing, until it becomes normalized.
> We should be dramatically limiting the power of the government as it was in the past in the US.

> The government needs to be controlled to the point that it doesn't matter whether they can identify a protestor or not, because peacefully protesting should not be a crime that warrants government intervention.

Right, but that was never the case, and it probably won't be in the future.
Do people there shrug off the risk? Or does it feel like they are generally aware of and have planned for it?
> Please point out my

If you really need someone to point this stuff out then you can start by looking at your puerile jab regarding merit, but I'm not sure you're inclined to contribute constructively to conversations.
I used to dabble in model aircraft. A 'drone' is just a computerized one. I could regularly cobble one together for a few hundred, most of that being electronics. The body was balsa wood with shrink film covering, super cheap. Not everything has to be titanium and carbon fiber. Nowdays, the electronics are cheaper than ever, and can be strapped to many homebuilt craft with little issue. This all ignores vto style crafts, which I am unaware of. The hard part is training your control system, but once calibrated decently you are good to go.

The problem is the bar of effort. Bombs are even easier to build, yet few with the will to build one for nefarious purposes seems to be effective in doing so,
even with provided materials (without training, see IEDs). Same with guns, tanks and other complex items. Anyone can make a gun from hardware store items, but most criminals will steal one instead. The impulsive instinct that drives most crime seems a burden on complex tasks.
This seems pretty useful, thanks!
I don’t think so. The go that AlphaGo plays is one very specific type of ”alien go” that exploits the strengths of the computing substrate it thinks on. Alien entities that are still evolved via natural selection would probably play go differently from humans based on their own biological and cultural idiosyncracies, but I doubt it would on average be closer to how a Monte Carlo tree search running on transistors plays rather than in another direction entirely.
Now that I look at it. This is actually an excellent idea. I would go for the free plan in a heartbeat and pay $1 more for just the rare times I want to print some vacation photos.
Epic Games and the Quest to Push Boundaries