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I don't think the purpose of the internet is set in stone. It is an ongoing experiment, we are evolving the square peg to fit in the round hole. (haha)

I like the "asking the right questions" thing a lot. I'm never quite happy with the question, the way I've put it certainly leaves a lot of room for improvement. My formula is something like: First blow up the "problem" way out of proportion (summarize all parts that are wrong with something) then remove the most unreasonable arguments.

I do lots of things for free both online and offline. Its a gift really, I put in the effort, the time and the money. (I wouldn't call it a business model tho) The problem with this is that I can only do so much. With free software for example people have a drive to make something that works. We get a huge amount of great stuff but with rare exception the end results don't get polished. There is always a lack of effort with boring shit that would add a lot to a project. (I always feel terrible when looking back at the state I abandoned a project in.)

Say you have a product to sell, you have to find ways to find customers. The same goes for gifting free things (like software) So, uhhh... where is the free marketing?

Users expect the product to find them FOR FREE! but this simply doesn't work. If we paid some incredibly small amount to be found by products that are interesting to us we would be far less reluctant to provide the necessary personal details. I own 3 guitars that I never play. There are lots of products that fit that profile. If such a product finder was tied in with say 100 other subscriptions and my ISP billed me for those services it would be something incredibly cheap and worth buying. In stead google charges stores an arm and a leg to chase me with wimmens panties because my deceased mum ordered those 15 year ago. WTF??

People wrote fantastic free software that would have been even better if enough users could find it. Meanwhile the commercial alternative is rubbed in peoples face all day long. I would like to see the "build it and they will come" model work.

Adsense makes a hundred billion in revenue because free doesn't work. This is the puzzle. If you can figure out how to do it for free ill give you 5 internet stars and a standing ovation. Ill be pondering how to do it on the cheap. Call me unambitious ;)
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You don't even need to rewrite the history. Create a separate repository with the converted SVN history, and tell everyone who needs it how to virtually combine both repositories through the .git/info/grafts mechanism.
I think you do misunderstand. They do not add “correlated variables” to a model. The idea is that if you have an overparameterised model for a specific problem, this model contains a smaller model, that has similar performance to the trained large model, without training! That means gradient descent is in fact equivalent to pruning weights in a random network. There is no algorithm for how to do this efficiently (as they show) but that does not mean that there are no (so far unknown) heuristics out there that would get you close. This is exciting as it means a potential alternative for backprop is out there. This would be cool because it might mean more efficient algorithms and something I haven’t seen mentioned in the paper, an alternative to backprop that might be easier to understand in a biologically plausible way.
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I had this when I used to be anxious . The slightest noise is amplified 100x . When I first had them I thought some one had dropped kicked my door . Didn't really mind it
It's a new term to me, but I think “selective LIFO” means switching to LIFO scheduling under overload conditions as a load-shedding measure: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/addressing-...

Presumably “queue depth determination”, another new term for me, means determining how big the queue of pending requests for a service is allowed to get before further requests are refused (another load shedding measure) rather than being enqueued.
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I see, thanks for the correction.
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Thank you. I heard Go language is a good idea for the backend.
These numbers may look insignificant but your base chance of dying in a given year is on a similar order. Have a google for life tables, the UK ones are available online.

For younger people, it's like having a fair part of a year's worth of life risk, for older people several years.

Do you want that risk for no benefit? There's also whatever problems you get that don't kill you. I suspect you waste a good few weeks of your life regardless of whether you survive.
> But I’ve also learned to love the mundane. There’s more to washing dishes than you think.

When I was looking for an entry-level New York studio apartment four years ago, one thing I absolutely insisted on having was a dishwasher. Screw the overall size of the kitchen or the square footage of the apartment, or even whether I had a stove or an oven—I needed a dishwasher god damn it!

My parents and a lot of my friends told me I was being silly. Washing dishes doesn't take that long, they said, and dishwashers take up a lot of space you'll want to have in a tiny kitchen.

Every day when I use my dishwasher, I'm glad I didn't listen to them. I do have exceedingly little space in my kitchen, but I don't mind, as long as I don't have to wash dishes.

My point here is, there's a lot of ways to cut down on mundane tasks, and it's really worth prioritizing that effort over other concerns.
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I realize now that I misused the term “hardcoded”, thanks.
Half of that is from unsold planes that they built after it got grounded. So for those, their options are retrain pilots and make 40 billion in sales vs not retraining pilots and scrapping the planes/reusing what you can. Pretty sure the 40 billion in sales will easily be greater than retraining the pilots and whatever scrap they could use.

Also, "Typically, once an airline takes the aircraft, Boeing makes some guarantees in terms of the performance of that aircraft, and one of them is that the aircraft should be airworthy," says Chris Higgins, an analyst at Morningstar [0]. So even the other half that is already sold isn't necessarily sunk for them as they have contractual obligations that will cost them if the planes have to get scrapped.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/13/703189895/for-boeing-costs-of...
Thanks! I try to work every day to develop a habit of coding.
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Couldn't you just use a whitelist for the features?

If the reader can open a PDF/A-1 file and ignore the bad parts, can't it open a PDF file as PDF/A-1 and remove the bad parts, before saving it again?

Then you could use the "re-rendering" technique to extract images:

1. Create a stripped PDF/A-1 file from the original PDF.

2. In a VM, render the two PDF files to two high-resolution image sets.

3. Use some CV algorithm to find the differences. For example, gaussian blur, subtract, threshold, find islands.

4. Use this to come up with areas which use complicated PDF features and/or images. Say this returns that there is an image on page 9 in the rectangle ((17, 338), (400, 300)).

5. Crop out page 9 in rectangle ((17, 338), (400, 300)) from the original PDF. Use some CV algorithm to detect the DPI and whether it's best to encode as JPEG or PNG. Encode it and add to list of images.

6. Add sanitized images back from list, mark PDF/A-1 file with images as PDF/A-2.

Of course, you could do this for links or whatever as well. Spit out a list of rectangles and link targets in the PDF, and then put them back in.
Battery life on those phones is going to be /terrible/. Max TX power all the time?
I used to constantly read articles like this about how to get motivated to do all sorts of things I thought I needed to do. Then I was diagnosed with ADHD and found a suitable medication.
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How about learn to manage your mind so that your life is enriched from within.
When I learned to program (before 9/11) there was a big emphasis on assembly language and using low level interfaces to communicate with other hardware. The idea was that everyone studying computer science should understand every aspect of the CPU down to the register and operation level, and then be able to design logic gates to replicate that functionality if needed.

Now we have CPUs that are fundamentally undocumented, unknowable, and untranslatable. The entire infrastructure of the network, the telecoms, and the cpu design itself has all been subverted to the needs of the national security complex or corporate advertising.

I'm not sure what computer science even means anymore. Everything I learned is completely useless.
Understanding? Maybe. Intimate connections? Who knows. Also, it seems very effective[0] for PTSD. Sure, it can't give you amazing friends to go through life with, or experiences of fantastic sensations as the sun comes up while you are having a blast.

But the basics are important too. Knowing yourself, talking about your problems, analyzing them, your life, etc.

[0] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/584a381a8419c2... - just a random image to illustrate the effectiveness.
Something needs to explain the difference though between 939:0 in Germany and, e.g., 949:11 in France. Maybe the diagnoses in Germany are closer in time to infections? That would still point to a higher reporting rate in Germany vs. other countries.
Does Schuyler Towne read hacker news?

He made the point in one amazing talk (that included references to centaurs and American exceptionalism and possibly ancient sumerian) that we've long used locks not for security, but as a social symbol of security.

Anyone can just put a cinder block through your window and steal your car. The barrier isn't technological, it's social. Locks are a great defense against the kid or confused person who is wandering around and forgets that we have social mores against making off with thousands of dollars of other people's property on a whim. They are not designed to defend against dedicated thieves.

We defend against dedicated theives by hiring detectives and prosecutors and making it in general more hazardous as a profession than other professions that one might take up. We defend against theft by just generally making it more lucrative to apply the same amount of ingenuity and dedication to other endeavors, like giving amazing talks about perfect security and American centaurs.

I'm probably butchering or overextending his point though, would love for the man himself to weigh in.
I'm Norwegian, and the Norwegian system is similar to the Swedish. I live in the UK, though, and so I've seen how expensive and inflexible UK policy, which is much closer to US is Vs. for my brother in Norway.

I don't understand how people on more normal incomes do it in places like the UK and US.
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So to visualize this I'm thinking of a rectangle 2.5 feet long, 8 inches wide, and a half-inch thick times 4. That is what comes off my tires every 5 years so that I have to replace them. Every set of tires sold is to replace that.
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Your example code uses HTTP but not REST. This explains most of our apparent disagreement; what you are talking about when you say “REST” has very little to do with REST itself. REST is not conceptually easy; it's just that people frequently confuse it with HTTP.
Ok, but there is a lot of power to be saved. If you can prevent the beam from going in the "opposite" general direction, you can already save 50%. I'm not convinced there is nothing to be gained by using a small array.
> Displaying a JPEG in multiple passes uses significantly more CPU

No, it's not. It has become a meme mainly because libjpeg-turbo v1 didn't have optimizations for progressive coding. It's been fixed in v2. Progressive rendering keeps state and incrementally updates it. Browsers throttle refresh speed to avoid expensive edge cases. There has been a lot of investment in browsers to make compositing dirt cheap.

There are ways to make incomplete JPEG decoding even faster, e.g. decode just DC passes (that's 1/64th of memory and no IDCT), but the feedback I've got from maintainer of libjpeg-turbo and from browser vendors is that it's at best "nice to have" territory and the progressive JPEG overhead is a non-issue in practice.
So privacy or freedom, pick one.
Seems like the author did X one time, and he felt great about it, so he decided to write an article about the life-changing experience of X. It might be true, but from only one data point, can you really say?

> I wasn’t tired, I was excited afterwards. I've neglected my other habits because of it.

Let's see how you feel after cranking out your 10th side project after working 8-hour-or-more days. Who knows, you might absolutely love it, and decide to start a second business while working.

You might also discover that your partner is starting to feel neglected, your apartment is a mess, and you have gained 10 pounds, because exercise is not what you love.

Either way, I would not recommend the approach described in the article.
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When talking about safety I rather meant in terms of stability. Some repos publish a lot of newer packages when I would only want one.
Worse for what? For the humans nearby? For climate change?

It would be nice if such articles stated their premises.
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> the study showing that it could be transmitted by asymptomatic people wasn't correct (although I guess that doesn't mean it can't be transmitted by asymptomatics, only that we are back to uncertain)

[citation needed]
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> Pollution From Tyre Wear [is] 1,000 Times Worse Than Exhaust Emissions

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> But tyre wear pollution is unregulated and can be 1,000 times worse
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Yea, like many people in this thread. I'd just like to add, you don't have to block on migrating SVN history. It's actually enough to make sure that the SVN repo remains accessible indefinitely (if there's nothing secret in it, making a tarball of the SVN repo is a fine way to avoid running a server). I don't go through historic code often enough that it would be annoying to find a different repo when I need it, and half the time people's git conversions don't let me make sense of "This fixes a regression in r1234."

Of course, there are other options too, like migrating and then using replace, migrating and then rebasing, etc. I just want to point out that even the lowest effort option is valuable enough compared to throwing away history.
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I think China is also looking at building a starlink-type network, although I don't have a link on hand.

OneWeb are partnered with Airbus although post-brexit they are no longer headquartered within EU (London and other cities around the world).

SES, an EU firm, is developing a medium earth orbit satellite network and would be well positioned to develop a LEO network.
How much do we think healthcare and hospital stability was implicitly factored into this study given that the data was focused in Hubei? Meaning, if hospitals had to turn away patients, one would think the death rate would increase. If hospitals could receive all patients, one would presume the death rate would be lower? It's clear health care systems get overloaded even with a low symptomatic case saturation per capita.[0]

Related to this, what I haven't seen mentioned or discussed extensively is not only would the fatality rate increase for Covid-19 cases if hospitals are overloaded, but I would assume the fatality rate for _all other needs_ of a hospital would also increase. Does anyone know this has been assessed? (e.g., did Hubei see a notable increase in non-Covid-19 related deaths during this period?)

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-wreaks-ha...
> Apple really needs to spend a whole release cycle just fixing existing bugs instead of making new features.

I would pay proper old-school Mac OS release prices for this upgrade.
Too many devs don't understand that dependencies add fragility to a system.

The larger and more complex a system you design, the more likely it is that you end up with something breaking because two dependencies are incompatible or even your code and a dependant break due to updating the dependant.

Further, security is rarely considered. The more code you have, the more likely you are to have a security vulnerability. You have to worry not only about code you maintain, but also the code of your dependencies.

If you can write the functionality you crave rapidly, do it. You'll save yourself (and others) headaches in the future.
Thanks for clearing that up, I found the title ambiguous
If someone had told you that this would be the case in the 1960s, they probably would have jumped for joy. It’s more a positive signal for how much emissions technology has advanced.

Obviously it’s something worth looking at and improving, still, but it’s definitely not a sign that things are getting worse, but rather the opposite.
How do you know it was tire dust and not just regular dust?
I use `git log -S` very often to read the commit message for figuring why a change happened.

A wonderful reason to create atomic commits with good commit messages.
So how would you recommend that they surface options that are both built in and where third party apps can add extensions?

Some form of the hamburger button has been a standard UI convention since real web browsers came to mobile.
I also saw this and found it odd. Assuming p=0.01, N=1000, k=0, the binomial probability is 0.00004317. At p=0.02, 0.03 it's even lower.
Italy is seeing similar numbers if not worse.
This author's style is 10x less abrasive, I was pointing out that Linus's rants are generally appreciated. Other posters did it better though.
This is similar to how QubesOS converts “untrusted PDFs” in a disposable VM. Quite nifty, particularly if you use OCR afterwards.

See: https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2013/02/converting-u...
Challenge is, can we make tired that don’t wear or are made of friendly materials.
Dillinger and Robin Hood were celebrities before the internet and before the Green Revolution.
> Education, combined with testing

I'm okay with this, to an extent.

> and in many case, restrictions on which kind of "tools" are deemed an acceptable "tool" for one of the tasks it can achieve, outside of death and injury to other humans.

I'm not okay with this. Who are you to declare from on high which tools are acceptable for a given task?

> No one needs an AR-15/etc for hunting deer or bears or whatever other lesser animal needs to die

No one needs an AR-15 to kill people, either. Indeed, the vast majority of gun violence (among civilians at least) is with guns that are very much not "an AR-15/etc". If you actually care about reducing death by guns, you'd be going after the Glocks, not the ArmaLites.

Bringing up the AR-15 betrays an opinion driven mostly by emotion and irrationality. It's a gun that "looks scary" despite being no more lethal than any other semiautomatic .223 rifle (among which there are a lot, and despite your implied belief to the contrary, the .223 is a very common caliber for hunting/varmint rifles, and semiautomatics - while not as common as bolt-actions - are still pretty mainstream for hunting).

Again: who are you to declare from on high which tools are acceptable for a given task?

> It'd be like if you decided to buy a 400ton mining truck, and drive it on the road.

No, it'd be like if you decided to buy a Tundra instead of a Tacoma (the Tacoma here being, say, a Ruger Mini-14). A "400ton mining truck" in this context would be something more like the GAU8/A.

> Gun control laws does not equal a ban on guns.

Not yet, but anyone with a basic understanding of what the Overton Window is can see the writing on the wall.

> Those that do impose an age limit

I can't think of a single place where there's not an age limit to buy either the firearm itself or the ammunition thereof. I don't require a permit to purchase here in Nevada, for example, but I still had to present ID and go through a background check. And Nevada's among the most gun-friendly states in the US, even after the Las Vegas shooting.

> so you can buy a tool to murder your neighbours but you can't buy a bud light.

You can do a lot of things before you can buy a Bud Light that you can't do before you're an adult. Quite a few over-the-counter drugs, for example, fall into that category. I fail to see how that's relevant (unless you're arguing to lower the drinking age, in which case I'd have no real objection).
I like what Uncle Bob said about "the flow" (or "the zone"):

> Here’s a little hint from someone whose been there and back: Avoid the Zone. This state of consciousness is not really hyper-productive and is certainly not infallible. It’s really just a mild meditative state in which certain rational faculties are diminished in favor of a sense of speed.
If you are featured in the media for being a member of a political party or union, for example, people could recognize you. The cashier could be given directions by the management not to serve Mr. So-and-so from the TV.

They could just look at the credit card number, and observe that 7305 matches a blacklist.

They could use facial recognition in the checkout to check against a database and deny you service that way.

And so on, and so forth. There is no need to be hated by ordinary folks, just that the upper management/media doesn't like you.

What is the solution to this? Never adopting any objectionable views?
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Its just physically not feasible. For an antenna array with 2 dimensional beamforming you need an array of NxN antennas, which all have the dimension of a fraction of a wavelength, so we are talking about a not insignificant size. Additionally, to limit mutual coupling via substrate and stray radiation, you need certain distances. Third, you need to be careful to prevent grating lobes (side emissions of unwanted radiation).

And even then, you will need individually controlled phase shifters for each array element, adding cost, complexity and mostly negating energy savings.

Edit: All of that in addition to the problem that you need to know the location of the base station and have you array antenna roughly oriented towards it.
I understand your point, but it's not necessarily a better way to say it. The full term is "generation loss", and it applies regardless of destructive edit operations.
I can see a satellite transmitting powerfully to reach a phone on the ground.

But how are they going to pick up the transmission from a phone, which is incredibly low power and designed to be picked up from a maximum range of 70km.

The Wikipedia article also says that timing considerations give a maximum range of 35km. Which is a lot lower than the 2,000km of Low Earth Orbit.
You don't need whole image. If you stop at DC passes (~12-15% of the file) you get exactly 1/8th resolution of the image, although scaled without gamma correction.

With HTTP/2 you can micromanage delivery of JPEG scans to deliver placeholders quickly, and delay delivery of unnecessary levels of detail:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/parallel-streaming-of-progressiv...
This caused me a brief moment of reflection. I realised I can't stop thinking about riding my motorbike and trying to have sex with someone.