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Thanks for your clarifications. However, if you don't want to make it a semantic debate, then try to have more grace in interpreting my semantics.

I wasn't describing the abolition of private property. The emphasis is on major capital. That I can own my own computer and chair and even car is not comparable to the idea of organized capital owning massive factories and land etc. Yes, of course there's no clear defining line. If I own a car, I can use it to run a delivery business etc etc, and other than legal distinctions, there's a continuum from that to a massive factory. I don't happen to support any extreme position on these things. Absolute free-market capitalism and Marxist socialism both are simplistic if you try to just force the real world into these models.

I'm more sympathetic to Georgism FWIW, but I'm much more agnostic than certain about any of this.

I didn't say Matt Stoller was an economist. He's a journalist. And I mention him because he's done a great job of investigating and writing about the specific topic of monopoly in today's society. I don't just mean rhetorically but in terms of discussing specific examples and evidence.

More importantly, I wasn't using the mention of Stoller to ask for deference to him as authority, I was suggesting his work as worth reading. Appeal to authority isn't the point at all. What critiques do you have of his work?
This catchy phrase is catch 22. Negative consequences of freedom mean there is no freedom.
Ah, this looks excellent! I'm a little too preoccupied by the dumpster fire that is politics in my country right now to handle reading political non-fiction, but I'll add it to my to-read list.
How much did they make from it?
If companies can get away with repeatedly breaking the rules then it is not forbidden. Just taxed in the form of fines.
B2B SaaS. Lots of SaaS is B2C nowadays as well.
I was thinking too about another poor experience from auto captions. They're one long run on sentence. They have no sense of punctuation. Sometimes it makes comprehending what's being communicated pretty scrambled at times because the borders between statements and concepts can be blurred and you have to backtrack at times to follow what was being said and what word belongs to which sentence.
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I made these for a coworker at my old company - WPEngine in ATX. He loved them, but I had to order a bunch in order to get them printed. Sharing them with the world now.
just make sure it's NVidia. whatever graphics card you want -- all their consumer cards will work great for deep learning.

make sure your motherboard and processor support whatever the newest version of PCIe is -- a major factor with deep learning is bandwidth moving data on/off the GPU.

AMD GPUs can theoretically be used for machine learning, but right now software support is lacking -- you will spent more time configuring and installing than learning. (AMD CPUs are fine though.)

it doesn't really matter that much though -- any gaming PC with a new-ish NVidia card can be used to do quite a bit of interesting ML.
The New York Times Front Page, September 29, 2020 and Artist Paul Gauguin
Amazon has offereed their Kindle devices with and without homescreen ad's at different price. I don't have the information on how many people chose the cheaper version with ads but I can say anecdotally that it what I went with.
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You bicker over the digits far to the right because there tends to be ways for those inaccuracies to propagate up into your significant figures. That doesn't happen from typing a few arithmetic operations into a handheld calculator. It does in a computational environment that might be looping over and summing a million or a billion elements and applying more operations to them. It became too easy and fast to use floats for real world calculations, overstressing and exposing their inadequacies.

Of course, the right solution is to use the right tool for the job: algorithms that either use a better structure than a 64-bit float, or are smartly designed enough to avoid their inadequacies. But how many developers have both enough insight and enough development time to do that? Everything is a compromise; fixed-point decimal representation is one that works for many applications.
"The accord would end probes by the Justice Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission into whether traders on JPMorgan’s precious metals and treasuries desks rigged markets, two of the people said."

So $1B paid will stop further investigations? Meaning it can continue to manipulate and the fee is just the cost of doing business?
You shouldn't need any convincing. The only way any trader (retail or otherwise) can consistently achieve above market risk-adjusted returns is by exploiting an information asymmetry. Essentially you would have to do your own proprietary research to find information that other traders don't have.

The vast majority of retail traders who have better returns than an index fund are just lucky, not skilled. Sometimes you can flip a coin ten times and come up heads every time.
15,000 lb is a large helicopter which can winch people down and up. It’s the single man sub 1,500 lb helicopters that would need to land.
That is my point, higher prevalence should lead to higher excess mortality, of course. Of all EU countries, only Spain comes close to the US in prevalence. Many countries have far lower prevalence but still comparable mortality.

That tells me that when controlled for prevalence, the US actually deals far better with COVID than Europe - most likely because fewer old people got infected. Also, a lot of people died early in the pandemic, when there weren't so many tests.
While I agree with you, I'm guessing that the vast majority of the users of this feature wouldn't have SSL without it, so it's better in some sense?
This reminds me of something I used to say:

"I'd rather build something with 1000 paying customers instead of 1,000,000 free users"

(... who I'd eventually have to try and monetise in uncomfortable ways)
Just have a form over HTTPS that store it somewhere in your Vault so that you can move it where appropriate later and add the instructions for power users that want to use PGP before sending it on the page.

It will be convenient and secure for everybody, and users wanting an extra level of security can use PGP.
Isn't sorting by class effectively that?
> Cash handouts do not cause the behavioral changes necessary for individuals to develop sustainable habits.

That's because cash handouts given are usually not even close to being enough to develop sustainable habits.

#1 help in developing a sustainable habit is receiving an education that allows an individual to pursue a better job. Education is very expensive in the US.

It is doubly expensive if the adult in question has to take care of dependents. AFAIK, there's not a single program that would come close to let an adult improve their education, while also helping them take care of kids.
The basic problem with electric aircraft vs. electric cars is that aircraft spend a much larger proportion of their journeys operating at high power levels.

A slow, economy cruise setting in a Cessna 172 is a 45% power setting - ~80 hp, and climbs will be at full power (180 hp).

On the other hand, you might only need ~20 hp to maintain 65mph on a level road in a sedan; and most people never use anything like the full power of their cars for more than seconds at a time.
Surgical masks aren't good enough in this situation. Around Covid you need N95.
Disclaimer: Not an expert and haven't run mailing lists before.

I wouldn't necessarily be worried about having the mailing list be open for discussion, irc/gitlab/fediverse covers that pretty well.

That being the case, all the mailing list would need to do would be send the content/links of/to the fediverse posts whenever there's a large enough update to be newsworthy. I just brought it up because that's a way to make sure people can get notifications without having to sign up to new services.
The app stores for PSP, Vita and Switch happen to disagree.
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Actually not exactly rootfs on ipfs, but with NixOS is fairly easy to make it wipe data on reboot, here's an example article[1]. The idea is to only keep state we care about and rebuild the system on every boot.

[1] https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
Looks like the mountain equivalent of fast-response motorbike EMTs - https://www.jems.com/2018/02/19/motorcycle-response-units-in...

Even helicopters can take a while to get on station, and typically come from much further away.

While I agree this looks gimmicky, I wonder if they can station many more jetpacks (much cheaper than a helicopter) much closer (ie. every mountain rescue station has one) than a helicopter.

The survival likelihood for EMT callouts drops really quickly as time progresses, so getting there quickly for initial triage and stabilization is more important than getting complex equipment there. They could stabilize and then radio for either a 4x4 or helicopter, using resources appropriate to the situation.

The UK is tiny compared to the US, and 'mountain rescue' is very different compared to the US as well.
Here's hoping for an A100 titan with un-nerfed FP64. The 3090 is twice as nerfed as previous generations, which were also bad at 1:32. Now it's 1:64 :(
I spend a lot of time in meetings, as both host/facilitator and guest, and work remotely 99% of the time. We spend so much time in meetings without giving them much thought to designing them.

I highly recommend the book "The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance" [1] ("One of the top business books everybody will be reading in 2019" — Business Insider) or, for a quick summary, the author's webinar "The Surprising Science of Meetings: Evidence-Based Insights Leaders Need to Gain a Competitive Advantage" [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190689218

[2] https://youtu.be/8rDuumUtfAM
Hey, I just wanted to point out that I've said this to another commenter in this thread but it also seems to apply to you as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629640. I am not a moderator but I've seen enough moderation to guess that you would also be breaking the guidelines.
>At the level of state schools, it's a zero sum game that people feel forced to enter because their ability to make a living is otherwise severely impaired.

What you're missing here is that colleges... teach stuff. You are more skilled after you get a good STEM degree than you were before you got that degree. Medical schools aren't a "zero sum game" or way to protect the oligarchy, they teach you how to practice medicine. This tangible, practical value of education is missing from the humanities.
That's nice... Might as well let private companies operate land cruises the way they do in other countries, and to own and operate their own rolling stock in cooperation with the host railroads.

NOrtheast Corridor, and some of the west coast trains as well as some routes around chicago serve a real transportation need, but long-distance cross-country travel is best handled by the private sector.
> FP16 is faster (units are images per second)

But does model get quality hit: need to train for more steps before converging to the similar performance and have more parameters?

FM16 obviously contains less information than FP32.
I wanted the technical meeting because that was actually the weak spot for the org. Each team was isolated from each other to a greater than necessary degree. And no team was really "world class". But several had a phenomenal grasp of some aspect of development that the others lacked. I wanted to breakdown the, largely, artificial barrier between teams and better spread this knowledge and capability.

In the end, I quit before I could realize that, and what did happen (after I left) was more like you describe. Several teams basically did what you describe and set up their own internal learning and instruction approaches. But that doesn't help across the org, the bad teams are still bad. And the problem, mostly, wasn't the people but the time. They needed an opportunity to step back and think, and the firefighting they'd gotten stuck in was neverending. An hour every couple of weeks to hear and learn from others would've benefited them greatly.
There's a huge difference between mathematical calculations having round-off error and computations that are not mathematical calculations exhibiting something akin to round-off error anyway.

It's like giving someone a $10k check and seeing them get $9,999.99, and then getting irritated when people try to investigate what happened because it's only a penny to you. It's kind of missing the point that the error logically shouldn't be there in this situation.
And yet he attended Harvard, until acting picked up. You also kind of reinforced the actual point he was making - the preppy douchebag didn’t actually understand the material he was quoting. Rather, he had just memorized a bunch of stuff, which without comprehension, provides little value.
Up to a max altitude of 7 meters (at best), sure, an Ekranoplan has got all the degrees of freedom that other aircraft have, Which as was pointed out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629545 , is not 6

Imho no, an Ekranoplan does not fly freely. Nothing to do with a bogus DOF count though
Ugly Email extension[1] can inform and block email tracking pixels on Gmail.

[1]https://uglyemail.com/
I don't see azure anywhere in the list.

https://github.com/explore
The pedigree of that image is that it started as a list created in a facilitated focus group on race and race relations. It assigns no positive or negative connotations to those items; they're things people said off the top of their head when they were asked "What does 'white culture' mean to you?"

Later, it was shared with the inaccurate description of being a list of negative aspects of white culture.

It's kind of funny really; the pedigree of that list being considered a list of negative things is white people making assumptions about the intent of a list assembled of things white people self-attributed to white culture.

Regarding the previous "iceberg" image---that's a lot of words to go looking through to try and pick out the items you're describing as 'perfectly normal and valuable things.' Can you highlight which ones you were referring to? Assuming good intent, I assume you didn't mean "Racial profiling" or "Fearing people of color."
Is the algorithm that manages the ranking here well known? I'd suspect that it isn't just based on stars.
> if you can't do it on paper first, you're not ready to computerize the problem

One of the first things I do when on-boarding engineers to our business is to walk through the entire flow on paper, in terms of assets, people, and handshakes (as if there were no computers involved).

The industry my company's in is old enough that our competitors actually used to process everything with pen, paper, and stamps. technology made everything faster, but the water flows through the same pipes, so to speak.

Our programs are an incomplete and evolving map of a real-world transaction-territory, and it sometimes takes people a while to grok that. Once engineers do, they gain the ability to predict behavior in un-mapped territory. Having this ability saves everyone an immeasurable quantity of time.

I guess the most important takeaway, is that one must have distinct mental maps of the business process and of the program implementing the business process.

This obviously varies a lot depending on the technology you're building. Although, I guess even something as abstract as `malloc` can be analyzed in this way (a map for the program, and a map for the idea of the program: allocating memory).
It's still possible, but it'll take you 6 hours of research, wading through garbage links on Google Search and instead of twice as expensive, it'll be 5x as expensive.
Did Shakespeare have a four year humanities degree?
In Europe far fewer people go to college vs the US (apart from Norway, UK, NL). Moreover, they have significantly more rigorous secondary educations, especially on the technical track.
> facebook.com: why!? Blocked.

I'm shocked that you don't want facebook to know your viewing habits to show you more relevant ads. Its a feature to improve the ad experience for the users.
Interesting, so you want to restrict people from saying things because you think they're saying things you don't like.

And you use this stance to claim you're advocating for freedom without seeing the inherent contradiction.
OP mentions the trending repos so I believe they are looking here: https://github.com/trending
And yet the only way it was successful on the mainstream was via ChromeOS and Android, which hide from userspace that they are even using the Linux kernel.
Thanks for this. I thought about adding some examples but really the goal of the article is more for readers to apply a lesson I’ve learned the hard way to their own ideas, so instead I went for a more general set of ways to think about if their idea might require scale to work, rather than demonstrating via concrete examples.
For big chains I agree, but if they can make this palm reader cheap enough and include a normal card reader (why not?) it could easily be a Square/Stripe POS competitor.
AFAIK VoxelJS is dead. I started out trying to build a game on it, but nobody seemed to be working on it and it seemed to be more of a wiki than a engine, so that's how I wound up rolling my own project.
Dare I say it, this same thing likely happens on this very website. People seek jobs directly off hacker news, so those people are likely to avoid saying anything that might alienate a potential employer.
Let's define innovation here, for iOS it would be the A13 and widgets, while for Android it would be folding screens and a modular Android that's easier to update. But you know, this thread is about Fortnite not being on iOS, and Apple weaponizing technologies like Metal and Safari. Apple innovation is lock-in, while Android is not.
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>Again, I'm fine with being bigoted against peoples choices.

Then I'm sorry but that makes you a bigot, please don't spread your bigotry to others by making broad generalizations about entire groups or unilaterally deciding and trying to build consensus that their decisions are "bad".
Library support for Zendesk and mailgun. I never feel safe with the default package
Just wait 'til they get a blanket connection to Amazon Sidewalk for their nefarious deeds, and the only way to disable it will involve a soldering iron.
There's also the open-source RNNoise -- I know Mumble added support for it recently, and it's _amazing_ -- if we were allowed to use it for work, I'd prefer it for voice-only stuff over Zoom.
way more people finish college than publish a book though. It's a higher-level signal IMO, even a self-published book is a massive accomplishment that shows huge dedication.
If you have an nvidia graphics card you can use their RTXVoice app. It says RTX on the tin but you can use it with older cards (I'm not sure how far down they go but I can say it works with 10xx series cards).

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...

Nvidia used to restrict installs to RTX cards but people worked out how to remove the restriction. Recent RTXVoice versions removed this restriction so now you don't need to modify ini files to install it.
Is good competition in this space ever a _bad thing_? inb4 capitalism bad arguments. I think that if ${BAD_POLICY} happens, a competitive market will produce a new "cloudflare"-like company that eats their lunch. There's a reason why GA has so many privacy focused competing apps, e.g. Fathom or Matomo.
Yeah and by handcrafting those subsets you'd give LOTS of valuable info to their algorithms.
Do freelancers magically become 100% reliable and trustworthy when they work with certain organizations? No, they behave virtually the same regardless of who they're working for.
Looks like you're right. In my defense the page I linked states that The / operator is defined only for the Decimal, Single, and Double data types. I suppose it accepts integer types by means of 'widening'?

> Did you read it?

The HN guidelines ask that you don't do that.
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I have recently bought my first ever TV. A samsung The Serif 2019. Last years model because cheap. Amazing picture. Nice design. Absolutely shitty software

- This thing has an anti virus scanner installed

- There is a task manager that shows you the current cpu and memory consumption

- Disabling automatic brightness adaption requires you to enter the debug menu which you can only enter via a normal remote and not the included smart remote (which costs 50 to replace and does not have any number keys!). So I had to buy one off amazon. If you don’t do that you _will_ notice annoying brightness changes.

- Oh and also disable everything with auto or smart in the picture settings

I bought an AppleTV even before the Samsung arrived. Worth it.

And friends don’t let friends connect their TVs to WiFi

Pro tip: if your work uses TVs in meeting rooms and the font looks weird, adjust the sharpness.

After I found that out everything in previous meeting rooms made sense. When you unbox a normal TV for computer use you gotta turn down the sharpness and nobody does
Yeah I was referring to a time shift (and caching). Good point about the ip
https://github.com/trending

Currently #1 is Azure / azure-sdk-for-js and on the right side it says " 2 stars today"

Why that is currently trending is anyone's guess, but I would expect that the recent outage led to an influx of traffic compared to what it would normally see. The star count wouldn't necessarily reflect that
If you're a freelancer who doesn't charge by the hour, more power to you. But most people prefer the stability of a fixed monthly paycheck, regardless of how productive/unproductive they may be

Most employees might prefer that. It seems likely that a disproportionate amount of freelancers (and other entrepreneurial types) do not, presumably because they trust that the results they can offer will justify higher compensation than they would expect to receive as an employee and they know how to manage their risk. It's a totally different kind of relationship when you're working business-to-business instead of employer-employee.
"They still have the best performing and most feature-ful CDN available."

I don't think thats true. Do you have an actual reference for this? I've used CLoudFlare heavily, along with Akamai, Fastly, Verizon, Bunny, etc.

I would say CloudFlare is the most approachable CDN with a wide set of easily accessible features. Its free tier is terrific too. I would argue that feature for feature, CDN's like Akamai have a much larger feature set, and are also far more complex to deploy.
"Politically durable coalition" is an excellent point. Morever it's got additional aspects, including commodity excise tax (fuel) which clearly benefits the taxed sector (petroleum companies) by funding a key element of demand creation (highways), and is largely passed on to purchasers (inelastic demand).

I'd noted a few years back that a chief problem in governance, or management, isn't simply creating necessary and effective regulatory institutions, but resiliant ones, most especially to subversion attempts from within the organisation or government itself.

Politically durable coalitions are certainly one such mechanism.
That's a good point. I'll clarify this in the post.
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