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> The apparent distinction arises from our separation of physical and mental processes.

I'm not sure I understand this either. I think our ordinary intuitions would say that both invention and discovery are mental processes. They're just different kinds of mental processes: invention has an element of arbitrariness or choice in it that discovery does not.

I have no problem with saying that mental processes are physical processes; I just don't think that means invention is a kind of discovery.
Also Line, which is also used in many parts of East Asia.
Friday fun: color CPU, ROM and RAM in computer maze
I don't recommend these ones :)

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALeKk01RY08kocv...
There's a difference between applying known priors, and making things up based on statistics. Conflating the two isn't helping anyone.
Probably because it was already installed on their machines. Also what benefit would this project get by using a newer version?
I had the same idea. I was looking at some spectrograms of a podcast in Audacity and I began to recognize different people's voices and frequently used words. So I realized that with enough effort it would be possible to learn to read in this way.

I also like looking at spectrograms of birdsong. I had a setup where I would see the spectrogram of sound coming through my microphone in realtime. I would place it on the windowsill and a few times I would see very faint birdsong I hadn't noticed with my ears, and then I would "tune in" my ears to that frequency range and I would hear it.

Thinking about it the ideal form factor for a realtime spectrogram for the hard of hearing (or the curious) would be something like Google Glass. (Originally thought of a smartwatch but that doesn't make much sense for an additional sense).

There's a project that's the opposite of this where a colorblind man attached a sensor to his head that converts color into sine waves he can hear. Adam Montandon. Eventually this electronic sense became a natural part of his experience and he began to dream in "color".
> People still use hardware RAID?

Last I checked... VMWare VXSI does not support a software RAID at all anywhere. I think that’s still fairly common in server environments.
raises hand I interpreted it as the news company, looked at Github and came back going "what does CNN have to do with this, it looks like they're uni students." Thank you for the actual acronym expansion, it's obtuse if you don't know anything about this stuff. Terrible title.
Sorry about that, I'll make it so you don't have to be logged in to create a demo app.
The same thing that's going wrong with IPv6 adoption.

Edit: It's true. RPKI works, it's just harder to use than not using it, and network engineers have been doing bgp without rpki since forever. Managing PKI is outside the scope of a Cisco flat file and so it's not getting done. Route maps are easier to write than managing PKI. In the same vein IPv4 networks work and have been done since forever and as long as it's easier to shim over your v4 core and do carrier NAT and memorize dotted quads v6 will not get done with haste.
eh, arbitrary protocols, sure.

But the web has always been human-readable and I don't want to change that. Therefore, you're gunna get serialized strings.
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The excuse used to be there wasn’t adequate tooling. That’s changed over the last 18 months. See, for example, the open source GoRTR tool our team released:

https://github.com/cloudflare/gortr

And the fact that major ISPs with complex networks like AT&T, NTT, and Telia have implemented it proves it’s possible.
Wasn't XMPP supposed to do something like that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...
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Thanks for the feedback! Working on a way to make demo apps without needing to signup.
I believe it's the range from hottest to coolest, over 100KY. Which of course is exactly like a 2-3C change over a couple of hundred years, so no big deal... right? /s
Caveat from the paper:

"This study had several limitations. First, our sampling strategy selected for members of Santa Clara County with access to Facebook and a car to attend drive-through testing sites. This resulted in an over-representation of white women between the ages of 19 and 64, and an under-representation of Hispanic and Asian populations, relative to our community. Those imbalances were partly addressed by weighting our sample population by zip code, race, and sex to match the county. We did not account for age imbalance in our sample, and could not ascertain representativeness of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in homeless populations. Other biases, such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending our testing sites, or bias favoring those with prior COVID-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are also possible. The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain."
The only way I read Hacker News... Except when I link back in via the newsletter.
Working on a way to create a demo app without needing to sign up, thanks!
This is clever, but can someone who knows more about Ethereum internals comment on whether waiting for nonce order is a real problem in the network?

This only allows a modest amount of reordering (~dozens of tx for reasonably sized nonces?) before progress is still blocked totally on a delayed transaction
Also true in decentralized entities.
If it's ineffective in practice, I consider it to be ineffective.

But even if you could design an experiment perfectly and come up with some strong statistical evidence and then had other means to tease out what is actually causal and what is only correlational, you'd only know what influences what and not necessarily why. But yes, I did say that statistics/probability is some rare exception.

You can study group theory and understand the way physical forces work better, or hilbert spaces to understand quantum mechanics, but I haven't yet heard of anyone who has studied topology or galois theory and found that incredibly useful for understanding social phenomena better.
I always wondered if you can "trust" an image that has been basically recreated. Could that kind of image be used as an evidence in court?
> It's a discovery of visual features that the human brain and unaided eye can easily discern, and the discovery of a correspondence of those visual features to concepts that the human brain can easily remember.

Hm. Yes, I suppose you could look at it this way. However, there is still an element of arbitrariness or choice involved that is not present in the discovery of mathematical structures themselves. All humans discover the same mathematical structures, but different humans invent different mathematical notations to describe those same mathematical structures.

So I guess it's a matter of whether you want to focus on the similarities or the differences between those two cases.
Title is confusing (?intentionally).

Would make sense to add Tensorflow to make it more specific.
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really interesting repo
Why is this something that everyone on HN needs to be aware of?

Did you (attempt to) report this to the site?
I am not sure it would be possible to visually recognise speech, but might help people with hearing difficulties to perceive a concert better or something.

Funny think about birds! Yesterday, as I was preparing to release the app, birds were singing outside of my window (coronavirus lockdown, so quiet), and I noticed how fun to look at their songs on my app! I've spent literally 30 minutes looking at that :) I've posted a link to birdwatchers reddit :)
Interestingly, this effect is notably visible in their example image [0]. Notice the distinctly "plasticized" appearance of the book cover, and how the text is not intelligible in the low-contrast areas of the reflection.

[0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-i...
We aren’t on pace for 4. 3 at worst, but 2.5 seems within reach. Books like this are great doomer porn in the late chapters but based on very little. The models have a ton of uncertainty out that far.
There's nothing more tedious than someone who cites an argument fallacy incorrectly.
The State of Illinois is out of money again.
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i always have this complaint too. its fundamentally a lossy process, in the hand wavy sense. its more "impressive" looking, but actually conveying less real detail.
Just a quick note: Morgan Funtowicz from HuggingFace did an awesome webinar overview of the transformers library here for anyone who is interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=SUqi_E_Lyjs
That's actually a very cool fact:
https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-...
Yeah, this is basically why you shouldn't try to convince Google you're a real site. You're not. Handy tho :)
http://emacsrocks.com/ is a series of videos demonstrating various emacs modes and extensions.

The multiple cursors episode is really cool: http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
I don't understand what you are saying, it is very "HN" to comment on the title and not on the article.

And it is even more "HN" to comment on details of the title or the article because you don't really know what to say about the article.

Look at my comment.
My question is about how much r matters.

For influenza, each infected cell apparently infects ~22 other cells:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1563736/

So in 2 generations you have 500x the virus.

If it were 'less' exponential, and each cell only infected, say, 5 others, then you get to 500x late in the 4th generation.

In a cartoon example where a low exposure leads to 1 infected cell and a high exposure leads to 500 infected cells, the low exposure matters more if the reproductive factor is lower.
But does it? This is merely one entry in a long line of evidence consistent with the prediction. Wouldn't it be better to say it did not falsify the prediction?

If this had not been consistent with the prediction, the precession of Mercury still was, so then one needs to sort out what that means. Was one of the experiments flawed? What's the statistical certainty of each, etc.

I don't see how a prediction can be proven true anymore than a theory can.
YNAB does that. It's one of the things that keeps me on it. My wife is going home to Argentina in October for a month, we've started setting aside an amount of money each month to cover her costs while there (she'll be staying with family so this is money to cover meals/drinks out and things she wants to buy there that aren't easy to get here). The amount builds up to our target for this trip.

The same thing for groceries or any other category. If I budget $300/month normally for groceries, but only spend $200 this month, I have $100 leftover for next month. I can choose to budget the full $300 like normal (have a balance of $400 available) or just $200 to bring it up to my target balance.
There have been some encouraging results recently. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269115

In any case, the time frame we're talking about is 10-20 years from now. Lots of time for even more breakthroughs.
> the model actually had [...] information

Wait, did it? Isn't the middle photo being shown for comparison only, rather than as an input?
interviewers want an example of a problem you've identified and are actively mitigating. they want to hear what solution you've created to deal with your own weakness. if you're giving the same answer you would've given a year ago, i have doubts that you're providing a compelling answer to the question.
1) "You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you." Make sure you're continuing to finish your deliverables on time and visibly so. Make sure that you're helpful and useful in a way that your managers can see.

2) If you're on a project that isn't delivering a profit or isn't viewed as important by your leadership, heaven help you. Try to move to another team that is profitable/important, if you can.

3) Brace yourself for a layoff anyway. Look at your finances now, while you still have a steady income, and see what you'd have to do to survive if you were unexpectedly laid off, then start making any appropriate preparations or adjustments.
> that simple replication can replace the need for parity arrays entirely.

Not if you need speed it doesn’t.
I wonder if the size / formality of the company / likelihood of someone being in the meeting that you don't see often has an influence.
I'm not sure I would classify a sql client library that doesn't support arrays as "sane". This may have been annoying in the past, I would expect modern libraries to handle basic features like 'IN" automagically.

list = ['bar', 'baz', "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--"]
Foo.where(name: list)
# Foo Load (0.3ms)
# SELECT "foo".* FROM "foo"
# WHERE "foo"."name" IN (?, ?, ?)
# [["name", "bar"],
# ["name", "baz"],
# ["name", "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--"]]
I filled this out weeks ago... never got any response.
After seeing all this corruption, I started putting a lot more trust in ccTLDs. Hopefully OpenNIC and Tor will become more popular in the future.
On the topic of recognition though, I think it would be much easier to implement speech recognition using the core algorithm used here, rather than from FFT for example. I'm only at the beginning of trying to use the frequency detection algo for something else apart from visualisation... The difficulty is that the dat it generates is much more detailed for higher frequencies, so it's hard to adapt modern ML algorithm inputs to it, I need to think more...
This is the future... "no code"
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Seems something government agencies around the world would like to have (for both. offense and defense)
I totally agree with you. I think that most corporations are in a state of suspended myopia.

We’d rather direct engineers to improve the effectiveness of a single system by 200% (even though it impacts 1% of revenue), than to impact all (or many) systems by 5%.

Yet, most of the impressive software we admire today was built in the environment you prescribe. C and UNIX, famously, but also git, Go, Rust. I imagine many others.

How much has C improved productivity, over Assembly and COBOL? How much has Borg or BigTable?

The issue, IMO, is that no ambitious manager wants to invest the social capital in defending and advocating for these teams, because they don’t look good until they look exceptionally good.
10 is one set of drives striped in 0 for for speed, and another identical set mirroring them as 1.

10 is 1+0
Bear in mind that the ratio of the exterior surface to the volume of the controlled space gets worse and worse as you make it smaller. And that this ratio is what helps make it cost effective not just in material costs but in operating costs, since heat transfer is across that surface...
I have no comment re: the actual campaign but I find the site wonderfully clean.
Confused about 4K, HiDPI and Retina display
In case anyone hasn't seen it here is the time lapse of stars orbiting Sagittarius A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo
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isn't this just some tweaked raw processing algorithm?
Rolling daily budgets for incidental expenses. Any budgeting tool I've used has focused on Monthly budgets. I don't find this helpful for small things like lunches out, drinks with friends, etc. If I get a notice that I've hit my budget on the 20th of the month. I'm not going to just stop doing anything social for 10 days which makes the budget kind of useless. However, if I allocate $20 each day I'm much more likely to look at the app and decide what I'm going to spend based what I've accumulated and as long as I don't end the month negative I'll be on budget.
> invention has an element of arbitrariness or choice in it that discovery does not

Yes, I can understand how someone could reach this conclusion. I used to believe it myself. But if you think about it you will realize that this appearance of "arbitrariness or choice" is an illusion. Take the airplane for example. Was it invented or discovered? Is there a relevant distinction between the "invention" of the airplane and the "discovery" of the principles of aerodynamics? What is it?

Even the arts can be seen as a process of discovery, specifically, the discovery of what processes and artifacts produce favorable reactions in human brains.

It's really a matter of perspective, of what dramatic narrative you choose to apply. Any story of invention can be re-cast as a story of discovery.
I'd be surprised if they didn't know about Graphite and went along and kept the same name anyway...
What do you think of optimizers such as XLA, TVM or Glow that try to smooth out underlying hardware differences?
The problem with every one of these studies I've seen is that they come up with around 3% of the population having antibodies, while a typical false-positive rate for these tests is also around 3%. In this case they claim they adjust for the specificity (basically false-positive rate), but I didn't see that they reported what the specificity was.

If the mortality really is very low, then it should be easy to prove. Just go to NYC, do some random testing, and show us an infection rate that far exceeds the false-positive rate.
Interesting idea about transforming colour to sound! P.S. I am red-green colourblind too :) Although, I don't find it a problem.
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Depends on what you’re comparing to what. Big spinning lidars on cars are still expensive (few thousand dollars) but are coming down on price. Handheld 3D scanners on the other hand might start to become obseleted by a combination of cheap phone camera + lidar (really tof) sensors that are evidently cheap enough to put on phones. They can actually produce really high quality (SLAM) maps - Apple has figured out that they can have a much faster initial mapping phase by not having to do monocular mapping for their AR. So I guess I’m saying it’s cheaper and a bit worse, but it’s rapidly getting better.
Thank you for pointing this out, we will fix it ASAP!
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You show them that they can make more money by using technology. Out of several thousand trucking companies, a few will try it. If it pays off for them, then some more will try it.

And, really, if it doesn't pay off for the few that try it, why should the rest use it?
Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch your search engine?
Search engines have very little user lock-in. For the most part, users just have to visit a different website or change their default search settings to switch.

But it is incredible difficult to get people to switch to a different search engine (just ask Bing).

The HN community is different than the average web browsing population, but what would it take for you to switch your search engine?

(To be fully transparent, I am building an alternative web search tool, so I have additional interest in the answers to this question in addition to it being a good conversation).
I only recently got mine last week and I love it. The CPU is a bit underpowered but the GPU is so much better than what I have in my PC and I’ve been able to play a bunch of more recent games that I wasn’t able to before. Also much prefer the freedom to install what I want over services like GFN or Stadia.
At 3-4%? Herd immunity needs 70% in US. COVID-19 can not have spread freely if only 3% people are infected.

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(20)301...
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> Disclaimer: This website is maintained by SourceHut.

Note that I'm not insinuating that the data is incorrect ... sometimes comparisons like this omit unflattering data though. It's open source so if anyone sees KPIs that should be added they can submit patches.
[0] Proposal for an experimental test of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

I can't judge whether this proposal makes sense, but there's that.

0: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9510007.pdf
It seems to me that trust is not a global thing. If A trusts B then that does not mean that C would also trust B. Does the protocol capture that principle?
Does https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering qualify?
That was back when China was claiming it didn’t transmit between humans, and ordering labs to destroy their samples.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...
I think you'd probably want to use SAN (or perhaps a high-end NAS) with your ESXi deployments.

See for example https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/e...
No option for people outside those regions?
>The apparent distinction arises from our separation of physical and mental processes.

You make the distinction based on (physical or mental) processes involved in the discovery/invention. I wouldn't care so much about how the discovery/invention came to be and look more into what the discovery/invention is about.

Usually, you can discover things which are present in the real world.
Mathematicians are rarely interested in the real world. They invent things which are true (or false) regardless of the physical world.
It frosted only one or two days this winter in Odessa. So maybe in a few years, you will be able to grow mandarins above ground without protection.
> there is still an element of arbitrariness or choice involved that is not present in the discovery of mathematical structures themselves

That's not true. There is this thing in math called the "axiom of choice" which you can, quite literally, choose to accept or not. And math is chock-full of this kind of thing. Even geometry comes in different flavors: Euclidean and non-Euclidean. And we don't even know which of them corresponds to physical reality on cosmological scales!
Some people have asked for failed speculative execution to be truly side-effect free. Like a transaction buffer that speculative execution can manipulate without evicting or impacting L1/L2 until the speculation is committed.

I don't really think this is a great use of transistors, and is why CPUs will probably never do it, but theoretically possible maybe.
You would have seen more reports in hospitals of interstitial pneumonia, as well as a higher YoY death rate during January.