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I have enjoyed the benefits of information theory, fiber optics, lasers, UNIX, the transistor, and many other things which came out at Bell Labs.

Industrial research which operates on the 5-10 year needs stable recurring revenue and reassurances that the company will still be around to reap the benefits of said research. Monopolies provide the environment for this research to take place. I think the proper way to mitigate the harm done to the consumer by the monopoly is to closely regulate the monopoly. For example, the fee structure for AT&T’s long distance rates was regulated to not exceed certain levels which were deemed to be acceptable. Customers payed a reasonable price for long distance rates, AT&T had a stable income, and there was no threat of their business being upended so they were willing to take on long term research to improve their margins on the fixed long distance prices.

Yes, consumers could have been paying less for long distance rates, but where would society be today without Bell Labs? I think the harm AT&T inflicted upon their customers is heavily outweighed by the engineering and scientific progress they achieved.
> since a "voice" for a speech synthesis engine still requires hiring an actor

That's what I'm talking about. Surely we can do away with that if we try, just as we don't need real people to build 3D models -from- if we don't want them.
I remember measuring the angle from a stick in the schoolyard (which wasn't far from home). A science teacher helped me.

I also remember looking up a method involving looking at the moon at the right phase to calculate the distance to the sun but I do remember I never got that to work.
Expanding our global footprint with new cloud regions
For some strange reason, I can't hit "Reply" on your other comment, so I replied here:

> In my view, there is scope for innovation here by making it easier over how most software applications do this.

Agreed!

> Here's an example of a very different workflow: https://www.descript.com/video-editing

Yeah, that is kinda' very very cool :D

I know they used to be audio only a few months back. Apparently they moved into video as well. Interesting, I will certainly take another look at them.
I've seen CIELab used to do color transformations, and it has a problem. This color space looks like it will suffer from the same problem.

If you try to shift hues, keeping a constant luminance causes a problem. You can't transform a bright blue to a bright yellow, because the luminance of blue is considered much lower than yellow. The best you'll get is a very dark brown.
The good old ways: can we still farm like our grandparents?
Could you clarify your main point? Are you saying Triplebyte promised to change the interview game, but in reality, interviewing with them is the same as going through a regular interview process?

It seems quite different though: you interview once with them, and then go directly to off-sites at multiple companies. Even if the interview is the same, the process is still quite different as you no longer have to send out numerous resumes and go through HR screening and first-round interviews.

Or maybe I misunderstood your point?
Disease Mitigation Efforts in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)
Same in the Uk really.
A fairer world entails jailing politicians for going to the people for a vote and then enacting that vote?
There are a two different CIE LCh color spaces: they are cylindrical samplings of CIELAB and CIELUV, similar to how Oklab can also be sampled with cylindrical coordinates

The comparisons with CIELAB and CIELUV are using LCh coordinates. That’s how hue and chroma predictions are made using those spaces.
There are air scrubbers and ionizers, but I wonder if those damage N95, which have charged fibers.
If they were something people used then editors would support them
Brexit is part of Cameron’s personal tragedy but they are two different arcs that converged only for a moment in time.
I found setting up a situation that enables the "friend" in question to profit from your supposed bad luck or better yet, their "informational advantage" over your bumbling sorry ass a very reliable friend-o-Meter.

Several times now, I have invested (and lost) a mere 200 bucks in exchange for certainty about someone I might have otherwise considered a true friend and lost much higher, had I relied on this belief.

If you can convince someone that they're in a position to rip you off for handsome gain without you ever getting wise to it, you won't be left with any doubts about who's a friend. If only everything in life were this simple…
So at 35, I’m statistically above middle age.

Whoa.
This is borderline mean and not really constructive. He clearly cares enough to respond to people in this thread, being rude like this is uncalled for.
I love Matt‘s work so much. His channel has grown well beyond „one of them Numberphiler’s personal channel”. Great to see!
Apple logins are great, but they don’t save you from spam nor guarantee that they don’t also ask for more personal info right after.
When I was a kid the only way I could play video games was in 1 week bursts in the form of hollywood video rentals. When we picked up animal crossing for GameCube and I heard animalese, I thought my disc was messed up and went back to swap it out. I was too young to really know how to google something like that.
Exactly. Just for clarity, arranged doesn't mean forced. The woman in almost all cases gives a consent. And if she later regrets, this is the path she chooses instead of just leaving, and her parents usually support her. There are various reasons for choosing this path:

1. Free money.
2. Free sympathy from the society.
3. Feeling of revenge.
Shows how out of touch I am with what people want!
Wow. Cleaning greasy chicken fat out of that computer looks like it'd be less than idea.

The build up of "dust bunnies" in servers over years will have nothing on what horrors this could create. ;)
The interface reminds me of Andy Matuschak's notes
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
It's not all possible because we have more compute. Algorithms have also gotten better and more efficient, on a range of 10-50x.

https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-efficiency/
I've noticed for a long time that in a color wheel, Cyan Magenta and Yellow are much brighter than Blue Red and Green. A couple of years ago it finally dawned on me why that was - the way our monitors are designed, Cyan Magenta and Yellow are producing twice as many photons! They each produce full intensity on two primary colors instead of just one. They don't look fully twice as bright because of the eye's non-linear response, but it's definitely a noticeable effect.
You have no faint idea what you are talking about. I don't have any "theory".

Why do you reply to things that you cannot even bring yourself to take the time to read and comprehend? Who do you imagine you are fooling?
I have been building JAMstack apps since 2016 using exactly the stack you are asking about. Using something like the Serverless Framework to help you build and deploy your collection of microservice backends into AWS as well as your static frontend into S3 is just awesome to behold. I have had an app running for 3 years with spikes of traffic and have never had to worry about maintenance or downtime.
Let’s assume someone is naive. Doesn’t that just make them feel bad? Is that helpful to them?
My rough map of the article: The Taino (native Caribbean tribe) was thought to have been wiped out completely. Today’s Caribbean residents were of slave decent and Spanish conquerors. They discovered the Taino instead bred with the new settlers. The Taino likely migrated from South American tribes called Arawak. The Taino’s network was active across far distances. From Puerto Rico to the Bahamas. And About 14% of Puerto Ricans today have Taino DNA.
What did you ask?
Totally speculating, but I think cultural loneliness may be rooted in individualism. Which isn't to say individualism is intrinsically bad, but one of its trade-offs is the devaluation of relationships, especially ones you haven't gone out of your way to initiate and maintain.

Which is to say: the problem was never a lack of communication channels.
I recently took my amateur ham exam— fun fact: broadcasting music on ham radio is forbidden unless it's incidental to some broadcast from a space station.

http://www.arrl.org/part-97-text
It's plug + play with Windows as well, at least with Steam. Like in the article, the adaptive triggers don't work, but the rest of the functionality does. I'm curious if it worked on Linux on steam before this driver.
That's awesome. How long did it take you?
You can notice it at the screen where you enter your name at the start of the game

As you move the cursor over each letter, the character speaks out a phonetic sound similar to the letter you're on
Wireguard Bounce Server setup: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25447805>
Neural nets don't generalize much, they interpolate between training examples. But if you couple them with search (MCTS) then you can do logic and reasoning with them, like AlphaGo.

You can also put any algorithm you want inside a neural net as long as you have a mechanism to pass gradients back - for example in the final layer you could have a complex graph-matching algorithm to map the predictions to the target, or you could put an ODE solver as a layer, or a logic engine, or a database.
And where in the world do they have a surplus of skilled medical staff that can fill the gap of failing to train sufficient people here?

What you have there is a fallacy of composition. We can exchange medical staff with the rest of the world but we cannot take them without replacement without reducing medical capacity in the source nation.

And that’s called a brain drain.

Are you happy doing that to the people of Romania and Pakistan?
So you moved to the UK, which has a long history of euroscepticism going right back to when it joined in the 70s, and now feel 'betrayed' when the population majority voted to leave the EU, after receiving a referendum that had been campaigned for for decades.

Certainly comes across to me as a very strong sense of personal entitlement, and also disrespect towards the democratic decisions of your adopted country.

Fine for you to feel disappointed. But 'betrayed' is really too much.
You can change hues in RGB without having to use HSV. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/8510751/5987
Are we sure they didn’t?!?
I got my current job through TripleByte three and a half years ago. The candidate experience is (was?) top-notch.

The opt-out public profile thing was a bad idea, but I think they handled it as well as they could have after the fact.

My company did stop using TripleByte after a period of success, not because they're expensive, but because we found that the candidates we were seeing straight-up couldn't program. I can't see how that happened, given the rigor involved in the process, but it's what we experienced. That was a disappointment to me because I'm a huge fan of the concept and I had such a positive experience as a candidate.
What's cynical about it? People got to vote on him and enough approved.

If you hold something against people named 'alex' then let's hear it.

Prime ministers are a part of a larger story. The practice of aligning with the larger story won't change, people will just work harder to make it happen. I don't want to play the game of guessing who legally changed their birth name to match what the people wanted instead of just running on a pen name and accepting the world as it is.
Interesting ideas. I wonder how much of this translates to product development. From the perspective of the person assembling the product the work is all additive.
Fitting the product to meet customer requirements is more of a subtractive effort. Like popping items off a list.
This is is a popular thing to say on the internet, and surely there's a kernel of truth, but it lacks nuance.

Living without a family or community is like running a marathon.

There's something virtuous about learning to say "fuck you" to your brain's self-protection circuitry, experiencing the hell it raises, and staying the course. Any healthy person could manage it. Many would be better off for the conditioning and the experience.

But pushing on the edges of your design parameters is not going to be sunshine and rainbows. It's supposed to hurt. You should be "OK" in the sense of "stronger than the pain and will make it" not "feeling good."

And it's probably going to hurt a lot more if it's pushed on you from outside vs. a decision to challenge yourself.
We had mandatory typing classes when I was in the equivalent of middle school. Not every day, something like 3x/week for a few months. It was all 100% manual typewriters that were built for practice, and had pull-out plastic sheets built in that would hide your hands from view for test time.

I actually genuinely enjoyed it. The force of the long-throw of the manual keys was fun to feel, and the different heights of the rows made it pretty easy to learn where your fingers should be. It did always annoy me a little to use the lower-case l as the number one, though.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I went through something similar. Parents considered most people I would have called as friends not "good enough" and forbid being around them for better part of my childhood. Now, in my 30s I have a few people from work I occasionally hang out with but no one I consider a friend. Haven't much dated either since seems like a chore.

I do wish sometimes that I was normal and had an active social life. Being single/alone at my age is beginning to look weird.
this is awesome. as a long time Ruby used I appreciate the effort that continues to be put into making Ruby better.
I've had good luck with a handheld D74A and a handheld arrow yagi. I don't make it in every time but I've hit it successfully a few times.
When I was a kid, we had Mavis Beacon both at home and at school, along with other interactive programs and games for learning to type. In school we also had those silicon mask things to hide which keys were which in order to learn "home row" and all that.

These days though, I've memorized the positions of all of the keys, so while I _mostly_ use my index fingers to type, I also will switch to thumbs or other fingers on occasion depending on the keyboard. I rarely if ever look at the keyboard.

So it's almost like I use a combination of touch typing with pecking. Works well enough for me and my WPM isn't bad, either.
To me, The Beatles are truly the Mozarts of pop music. At once accessible (remember that Mozart was a 'pop' artist of his day) and yet brilliant and layered and effortless in a way that will be remembered just as long as Mozart.
Those protests were mostly stupid. I agree there was anger and rage, but as you mentioned the arrests were swift. The protestors were basically demanding that the suspects be hanged immediately, without due process. Which is why I called it stupid.
To add another truism in support of your argument: as a man, do you dare chat up a woman physically taller than you? If not, why not?

In my experience, it's only the unusually tall chicks who aren't dead-set on a partner taller than themselves…
I'm familiar with both of those. In fact, I even own two 80186 PCs! Siemens PC-Ds, not IBM but DOS compatible. Marvelous machines. They even have MMUs made of custom logic chips, so they could not only run DOS, but also SINIX with full address space separation and supervisor mode (though no paging)...

The non-compatible goodies of the 80186 play a big role in making it not IBM compatible, but other things as well. In many ways it was a bit better, e.g. high resolution (but monochrome) text and graphics, and no 640k barrier.

The 80376 is an interesting beast because it got rid of 16bit support entirely--any 16bit segment descriptors were invalid.
I think to understand its success you have to compare it not to Java, but to Bash. Or maybe C.
Matz has a long history of releasing major Ruby updates on Christmas Day.

He is a nice guy and enjoys giving the world a good Christmas present.
> They don't care.

There are two possible reasons for people not caring:

1. Their childhoods were fucked up to the point that they never had the time to think about math.

2. They're stupid

So, maybe the initial reaction from the responders ("that they are stupid, ignorant, or even worse") wasn't all that wrong.

Aaron Swartz put it in more positive words: "What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."
I'm happy to see some of your TW work in the open. `/salute`.
There is a strong moral argument behind your idea. In practice the commitment of the EU to The Union precluded any countenance of a member leaving. The punitive nature of current negotiations shows that much is true and, to be fair, it’s not as if the other parties involved are any less entrenched, ideologically.

It would be like asking a vegetarian to prepare you a roast turkey Christmas dinner while telling them you’ve yet to decide if you’ll be staying for lunch, or not.
Not sure about apps but for simple systems I use twilio and some scripting to make alert calls.
Related from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494789
Apple recently has gotten lots of issues with antitrust lawsuits, especially in EU. Probably this kind of public campaign will likely draw more attentions from other iOS developers who have enough complaints but scared to fight against Apple. And even for Apple, FB (+Instagram and WhatsApp) is not something trivial to crush unlike Epic or Spotify. FB alone might be negotiable, but this can grow into significant headaches for Apple if it lets other Unicorn-level companies to form a coalition with FB or other tech giants.
Wireguard can only be installed via the Mac App Store, which, upon opening, transmits your permanent/unchangeable hardware serial number and Apple ID (required to download even free apps), which is linked to your phone number, to Apple, thus deanonymizing your VPN's public IP.

I don't use the Mac App Store. I run my VPN on a second device, because I no longer find the macOS to sufficiently preserve my privacy.

It's insane to me that Apple thinks it's okay to demand hardware serial number, name, street address, email, and phone number to download free privacy apps. An organization that had privacy as a value simply would not do that.

Apple has banned apps that want to use the NetworkExtension API from being self-signed, OR by being Apple-approved-developer signed and distributed outside of the App Store. You can download the windows Wireguard client from the Wireguard website, but not the mac one.

They even recently censored the donations link in the Wireguard mac client, because App Store.
A shame that this repo doesn't take advantage of github pages. I can't see the result on my phone
> We are chasing the wrong things. Our conceptualization of the problem domain is fundamentally insufficient. What we really need is GOFAI.

Back at ya mate :D.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201225054611/https://raccoon.o...
They reached out to me about an interview that didn’t go hot for me at a startup out here. It was rather unprofessional, whether or not it was orchestrated by the startup.

If I want to talk to a recruiter I’ll talk to one, and I definitely didn’t consent to having my information shared with any third parties or “partners.”

They are sketchy.
A dead male and a dead female have roughly proportional strength. And seeing as how there's no wooly mammoths walking around anymore, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that all of them died at some point or another
I call bs as there has been no confirmed hack. Just because some reporter at the guardian and some attorney claims there was a hack does not mean there was one. Ring has consistency said these users were reusing passwords that had been compromised. Again I think the solution is to mandate 2fa. The same way laws had to be put in place to force router manufacturers to stop defaulting to open ssids with no kind of encryption.
Not really. I've worked 9 years on a 200kloc -> 300kloc code base. It's not a problem.
Is anyone at Apple naive enough to believe Wistron honestly regrets this?
I am skeptical about the idea of starting with king, bishop and knight versus king. Winning this endgame from an arbitrary start position requires something like 25 moves / 50 ply. Brute force minimax plus alpha beta will struggle to do that in a reasonable amount of time without sophisticated pruning. And you can't progress gently to the goal starting with simple 2 or 3 ply calculations because mate is the only point of the calculation here, normal material and positional factors are irrelevant. It makes more sense to first make sure your engine can win material with a simple knight fork say, and build from there to multi move material winning combinations. Followed by pursuit of positional goals when material gain is impossible (control the centre, seek scope for the pieces etc.). The elementary mates are actually a problem area for engines because they require a rather atypical strategical approach, cutting off the king, bringing your king around, shrinking the box, eventually forcing mate.
This is a meme, right now, on Twitch etc.
Surely you could provide some studies that show that in areas with breed bans the rate of gruesome violent deaths are down 90%, or you could if that were real.

Outside of fantasies pushed by a professional victim there isn't such proof and on net the number of people killed by dogs is about 1/10 of the number that drown in bathtubs and you could do more for the world by demanding grab bars be installed in every bathroom.
Nice! Definitely the the type of use case I had in mind.
From a game theoretic point of view though, charity is a system that incentivizes defecting. Let the charitable fools burn their lk resources for no gain while you reinforce your position.
Observation.

1. Basic research - China has a current moon mission in progress. The US does not.

2. Infrastructure is famously under-funded in the US (there's a lot of information on the topic). It would be hard to do worse than the US in the realm of countries that have the resources to spend and what percentage they choose to spend. China is doing quite a bit better "by default" as it were; they also make it a priority (if for no other reason than it's a well-understood way to keep people employed).

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-foreign-technology-i...
I'm not sure I would still have the will to keep coding without ruby
So apparently Ruby 3.1 is the version they expect the JIT to be actually efficient for Rails. Cool :)
If they don’t have bad code it’s because it’s a bunch of enthusiasts that are good at coding. Realistically I’m sure there’s even now examples of code that would be considered “bad” in any of those languages.
If someone wanted to start a subreddit for community support for this app are they prevented from doing so in any way?
Not paying 30% (or 15%) for credit card processing that goes for 2-3% in the industry is pretty damn convenient, if you ask me.
Yes, exactly. The results will be more accurate as in closer to perception of light (for rendering for example you would want a linear color space)