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> My (limited) experience with US banks is that they have huge hidden fees and you get really bad currency exchange rates. I'm talking about 8% of funds miraculously disappearing during currency exchange. I don't understand why anybody would bother going via USD.

You need to shop around for a better US bank account. This is not a common thing for us to do so if you pick up a random bank then you’ll be paying close to 10% in various conversion and fx fees. There are definitely US banks that charge 1%, some even 0%.
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I print a lot of 3d gears too, but the one I couldn't manage was a fine pitch worm gear (I purchased the worm, and tried to print the gear) to drive a heliostat. Technically, I was able to print it and mount it, but tiny imperfections led to accuracy problems. I've had excellent results with larger herringbone gears.
Sure, B+ trees are cool. I was just wondering about the use case for element insertion (except maybe for the construction of the matrix). Most of my time is spent in algebraic operations with immutable matrices.

Regarding the construction of the matrix, instead of insertions very often you can do it with tricks using kronecker products and the like.
I don’t buy it. Dreaming is computationally/metabolically expensive. If the sole purpose was to prevent plasticity then there would be far cheaper ways to accomplish the same result.
How, specifically, does this protect GrubHub/DoorDash/etc?
This is such an underrated comment. I find so much of this “right way” thing to just be cliquish gate keeping.
Lol. Please quote where I’m saying this. I never wrote that phrase you quoted in your comment. Are you trying to lie? :)

Better read my words one more time:

“People see dreams not every time they sleep, not every night, sometimes we can have multiple nights without dreams. By this moronic theory our “visual cortex” should be modified to “blind mode” just in the first night of sleep without dreams.”

Clearly “your reading comprehension wasn't up to par to tackle it in one pass” ;)
Aliasing only appears when you try to make an analog signal. A digital signal is not beholden to channels. It is a pure mathematical entity.
“Staff with indigenous forces with US NCO/O’s from conventional (not SOF) forces...” is a great idea on paper.

When was this last tried? The SFAB.

As someone who helped train the SFAB, which is basically what the author is cribbing the idea from, it was a joke in application and reeked of the hot idea from whatever O6 was gunning for O7.

Of 8-9 SFAB companies supposed to do this out in the bush in AFG with local forces, only 1 ended up doing it. This was an Army-wide initiative mind you that dragged in multiple other units to help train, changed deployment schedules, changed funding, and so on.

The institutional willpower to put the 5-10 years of culture change behind conventional army who just wants to shoot artillery just isn’t there at the moment.

And perhaps the regular army should do just that and stay good at it. Past efforts at conventional -> SFAB transition efforts, i.e. “everyone deploys as the infantry” rotted the skill sets of the NCO corps in high skill branches like artillery.

Military thinkers keep advocating for conventional army to be anything and everything, and end up just reinventing SF units and jobs the state department needs to be doing. Then, those same thinkers get confused why gunnery certifications get failed en masse by line units who have to train back and forth across these conflicting priorities.
> no local delivery service can compete with a few million in VC funding

A simple ordering form on the restaurant's own website always gets preference from me and seems to usually end up being the first result on Google/Google Maps.
>The most recent reality check I've had is this year when I finally started using Twitter. I loaded up on folks in my industry only to be blindsided with a barrage of insanity.

They created a platform that optimizes for trolling, insanity and outrage porn because it's the cheapest way of inducing engagement. It's hardly a reality check.

A reality check would be going to a conference and realizing that twitter isn't a representation of the general public.
Isn't Vista and 7 almost completely identical visually?
At a quick glance, this looks way more complex than anything I've done with CloudFormation or AWS CDK or AWS SAM.

Not saying it's bad, it just looks very different to those tools I mentioned.
I don't really view this as anti-tech or anti-startup at all. These kind of laws make sense regardless of whether a small or large company is committing the offense.
The seemingly archaic quality of modern Icelandic is largely a myth. Over the centuries Icelandic absorbed a huge amount of Danish loanwords. That modern Icelandic has similar vocabulary to the sagas, is because the 19th-century language reformers called for restoring old words. It wasn't because Icelandic had kept them the whole time.

Modern Icelandic pronunciation, too, is vastly different from Old Norse, in spite of the similar orthography.

The one place where Icelandic has a legitimate claim to being archaic, is in the morphology.
The fun thing is that much of the administrative overhead is built into the system. My county has less than 40,000 people (not students, people) and 5 school districts (and private schools).

2 of them do share an administrator, but in general, there's lots of places where a single district has ~8,000 students. There's not any thought of combining them (I guess largely because funding is so local…).
I get that, I’ve been shooting for twenty years.

The confusion is that the true focal length and the full frame 35mm focal length are used interchangeably. The Canon link doesn’t make it clear other than to suggest it doesn’t really matter once you use 35 mm as your reference point.
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Look at it and ponder how amazing it is that we've built this with our monkey brains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBdMRUG69uc

So many disciplines of engineering going into this machine!
It’s getting downvoted because it seems to be phrased in a deliberately inflammatory way. You can (and others downthread have) express the same idea that many restaurants can’t afford the expense in a manner more likely to lead to productive discussion.
> * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge

Happy New Year 2021!

AnimationCPU is probably an alternative to Flash. Here is the project site https://animationcpu.com/ and Twitter with demos https://twitter.com/acpustudio

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>They showed receipts for thousands of people who ate there that day and that there weren't any other cases reported.

It makes you wonder: did the lawyer call each one of those thousands of people, did anyone get sick but didn't realize it was the burger, time could be an issue too maybe a few lettuce leaves had listeria on them but it only grew to levels after a certain time and temperature.
I dont think I signalled my (gentle) sarcasm clearly.

I wish you and your wife all the best.
My benchmark for the cheap single-board has been the $9 CHIP [1]. As far as I can tell nothing since was able to match that kind of value - 512MB RAM / 4GB MMC / wifi+BT. Hell, it even had a power management IC and a battery connector. I regret I didn't grab more of them before the company went defunct. If anyone knows of a spiritual successor please share.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...
I had similar thoughts when reading the article. It's written in a quite an unusual storytelling style without clearly summarizing the key points.
As this is a throwaway, I will not disclose the field I am working in, but I can say that anything out there on the web is 99-100% wrong, and the things that are shared in dearly expensive seminars are truthful, albeit a bit outdated and they like to omit 50% of the story.
You truly learn when you are out there working on projects in a somewhat transparent company.
There is a reason why experts in a field exist. Once companies desperately pay you to share your skills, you are building up a track record. Anything less is nothing.

A good and worrying example are the many nodeJS tutorials on the matter of authentication or log in/session protocols. Good forbid if you implement that stuff in your own product. The devs posting these articles should and do know better but it seems like they are more after subscribers and revenue than anything else.
Is gold an asset or a currency? Now it is definitely the former, but throughout history it was mostly an asset and a currency, with rather vague lines between them.

Bitcoin is not a USD replacement. It's more of a gold replacement: finite supply, great malleability, but with modern benefits regarding storage and transfer.
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I have had the exact same experience with my most recent employer. They certainly didn't do everything right, but, generally, it seems they are quick to acknowledge and fix their mistakes, and, certainly they try to be as ethical as possible internally. This company is pretty universally hated across the internet, yet, in the 2 years I was there, I didn't see even a tenth as much unethical or otherwise bad behavior there as I did from Facebook, for instance. Surprisingly, relatively few people outside of a techie / HN-type bubble seem to hate Facebook.
I question whether a Kula Shaker song can make a road iconic... :-D
They're frustrated by free advertising and new customers?

The smart thing to do is krep taking the business and just put a leaflet in the pizza box/whatever saying ordering directly is cheaper/faster, if that's the case.
People sick of all the terrible, exploitative, world-worsening things that modern tech companies seems to be all about?
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I guess one can assume Zynga didn't make enough money from FarmVille to justify porting it to a modern platform.

I wonder if they considered a kickstarter or similar, to gauge the interest of their users to finance the porting.
> Though viper venoms, like those of other snakes, vary between species, they have a common theme.

So, would this be effective against the neurotoxin from Mojave Green Rattlesnakes? They're Viperidae, but I thought their venom was significantly different from the other rattlesnakes (I could be wrong here).
Sorry for the cynicism, but I really don't understand why is it ok to ask small restaurants to spend $200-300 bucks and send a cease and desist letter, but it's not ok for the law to ask investor-backed startups to make a friendly contact to those same restaurants before using their brand.

In the end it's less work for the investor-backed business, since with the C&D route they would need to register domains or create pages for restaurants that don't want the service only for their (very expensive!) legal department to receive a letter so they can delete everything.

I mean just send an email to the restaurant so they can submit an authorization beforehand... tell them the advantages, let them make the decision...
So what about during war when the enemy may have shot down your sats? Your soldiers are still going to want to buy goods on base during their down time and morale will suffer if you just tell them the internet is down.
There’s no argument here. Domingos stated that there are algorithms that cannot have bias, and Gelman is claiming that there are algorithms that can have bias. These are both objectively true, but Gelman’s twists it into an ad-hominem. This reads like mendacious virtue signaling. Ironic too that he would be the one to levy accusations of unprofessorial behavior.

It would be very hard to convince me that this was not motivated by cheap point-scoring for political reasons, perhaps as defense in anticipation of an attack upon himself.

Domingos’s research is specific to naive algorithms learning from data in experimental realms. Gelman’s work often relates to expert-designed simulations which are actively used in economic policy, banking, insurance, and legal systems. From this perspective, it’s somewhat clear that Domingos’s approach has far less capacity for bias, and thus invites criticism of the older method. Learning from data versus designed simulation. This reads somewhat like a reply suggesting we should trust hand-engineered bias from the right hands rather than seek to eliminate it.

But in this case, the hand’s argument is an ad-hominem, so we see that it’s a religious argument about social values rather than a theoretical argument about statistical bias. Maybe we should have that conversation. Yes, we can use algorithms that have no statistical bias. Yes, we can insert any bias we want into an algorithm. Now that that’s established, what should we do?
Great. Sounds very different from the very corrupt SBIR grants.
> growth hacks

Tech speak for: breaking the law.

But hey, money, so who cares if we ruin a bunch of lives and make the world a worse place? Isn't that what technology is all about?
I don't think so? Its that you cant claim to be an agent of a company if you have no financial/contractual connection with the company. Image some sleazy guy went around town pretending to work for you. Its illegal.
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The United States will enter a new foreign conflict with biden as president.

Edit: thanks for the downvoted guys... You're right, it'll likely be kamala as president by the time we're at war again
This is such a great law, I wish my State would enact something similar. The real link to my local chinese restaurant is the 3rd link down. The apps links are always first. The only way I know it's the real site is if "pick-up" is offered as an option. I'd much prefer the restaurant got the full margin, than some app.
Hey, here is a dev from LibrePhotos.
The original project is abandoned and pull request do not get merge anymore. That's why we started with a new fork.
The same brain that simulates your entire perception of reality from external inputs is using all of its resources to simulate its own, with itself as an input.

What's really weird is how dream-reality always makes sense to you in context, regardless of how absurd or random it is, because your self awareness and identity are being simulated the same way, both in dreams and in reality. It's like a virtual machine inside a virtual machine.
The wine press using a screw instead of a heavy weight. The press was used to for printing press with movable type. Image how tedious it would be if printing presses needed heavy stones instead of a screw.

Books pretty much just the bible at this point were cheaper due to mass production. People wanted them in their own language. Reading more meant as people got older they couldn't see the small words. Glasses were invented then later the lenses used for making telescopes and then microscopes.
It apparently supports SDIO 2.0[1] and with that apparently WiFi/Ethernet. I assume one would have to add SPI Flash and boot off that.

Though yeah, I doubt it would be very fast regardless, but it's something.

edit: I assume you're aware of the OTG port.

[1]: https://linux-sunxi.org/F1C100s (datasheet)
Even if there's no real impersonation involved, the reality is that a lot of consumers, understandably, are going to sort of lump the food as delivered as something the restaurant has responsibility for. After all, none of us have a lot of patience for companies that take the attitude of "Not our problem. This other company was responsible for that. Take it up with them."

This is especially true here as, historically, restaurants were responsible for their own delivery. To most people, these services are just something that the restaurant contracted out for and is still basically on the hook for.
I'd rather write python than matlab any day (I made this choice, literally in '98): it's a statement about reading. Matlab is closer to a a math notation and python is a clunky programming language. I'd never in a million years write new code in Matlab, but I prefer it for didactics.
As if the corrupt SBIR Grants are any better. Do you homework dude!
How is trading under the cover of someone else’s mark not a trademark issue? If I’m representing myself as selling “TeMPOral Pizza” for delivery, the fact that I’m actually delivering pizza made at the TeMPOral Pizza Shop isn’t entire cover.

If I opened up a shop in the mall with giant lit white Apple logos, the fact that I sold genuine Apple product inside would not absolve me of trademark infringement.

(Trademark violations are more than just counterfeit items.)
That’s not what the law does. It addresses the problem GP pointed out, and it bans the service you’ve described as well. It also doesn’t forbid you from paying someone to pick your food up for you.

Here’s the relevant text:

> 22599. A food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver meals prepared by the food facility.
Being in the EEA is somewhat worse than being in the EU; in particular, it's not in the customs union, so a lot of small businesses will not sell direct to Norway, and Norwegian SMEs are less likely to be direct exporters or to directly import their inputs. Being outside the customs union creates opportunities for middlemen, but otherwise isn't great for most people.

Norway's arrangement is much more comprehensive than the UK's, though.
If that’s the case and they did not consistently fail at food safety practices, just a one-off, then we can consider it an accident like any other and the restaurant is not culpable.
Maybe there's more involved than getting "free advertising and new customers". As in, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
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> ASML is #2 company in EURO STOXX 50 index with 5.69% weight.

And not a small part to gigantic speculative expectations around tech sector in general, which seem to have crossed the Atlantic this year.

So much speculative interest has never been a good thing as we know.
How do you know this? A Farmville player might have been proud of his/her farm? It might have given them hours of pleasure and joy. Why should you dictate what they should feel?
With guitars there's also a whole subculture of DIY modification and ecosystem of aftermarket parts to support it. It helps that Fender guitars were designed to be modular to begin with (AFAIK for easier manufacturing and repairs, the hackability was unintended), and for most components there are only a few common form factors so you don't need any woodworking skills to get started. Attempts to reproduce the exact '59 'burst sound are certainly part of the fun, but there's much more to it.
We are not sure why it needs that much RAM. We know that it has something to do, with the ML models. I am pretty sure we can optimize it in the future.
Perhaps frustrated that someone is doing business as them using their copyright and trademarks? These companies are basically commiting fraud, and any bad experience reflexts on the restaurant, not the delivery company.

Sometimes the restaurant doesn't know that something is being ordered via another channel and cannot add sufh a slip.
It's not really different here in HN.

Most comments on anything that isn't about pure technology have a strong political leaning (leftist for the most part, therefore authoritarian) and generally angry about the idea of people and businesses taking care of themselves without government intervention.
Ye, but most people are not falling for it. A very low share get bitten for real.

"Up to 50% of revenue comes from 0.15% (15 in 10,000) of players"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play

With 'feeble minded' I meant weak versus addiction. Maybe not the 100% correct term.

The thing I don't like about online gambling is that it can be hidden by the addicts. I mean sure it is their money to do whatever with, but it might still be shady immoral practice to enable that, like casinos or Farmville.
I look forward to some interesting Disney adaptations. Wonder how they will portray the Eastasia princess.
Hinckley C is being built by the same organization, EDF, that runs the French reactors. Would you like to go over there and ask them why they're taking so long?
> which has been arguably the biggest event of 2020

Who’s arguing against that?
They actually did make a mobile version, but it is not compatible with the old Flash version that was discontinued.
> FM synthesis, as such, was not new. The Buchla synthesizer featured it in the 60's.

But the critical feature of FM synthesis that made it usable as a musical element was linear FM. Early synthesizers (like, I presume Buchla's) sported "FM" but it was exponential due to volt/oct.

> John Chowning refined the concept, moved from frequency to phase modulation, and brought FM into the digital realm.

?? Chowning's paper doesn't mention phase modulation at all, does it? His equation is for frequency modulation.

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/course/100/misc/chowning...

I would presume that the relationships between phase and frequency modulation were known a half-century before Chowning.

> Given 1983 technology, it was very difficult to implement digital audio filters, which require millions of multiplication/accumulation operations a second.

This seems high? A second-order digital filter requires what, about 4 stores, recalls, and multiplies per sample? This would seem to be in the same level of complexity as six carrier/modulator interactions; you have to do a multiply to do a lookup after all. Or is the issue that the multiplies had to be 12-16 bit?

> Maybe it was an accidental choice of words in the article, but I would also say that the DX7 was, indeed, one of the most important advances in terms of musical engineering.

I think it's easy to argue that the DX7 was the most important synthesizer in history. People forget that the DX7 caused a near-death experience for the industry as a whole as analog synth makers were put out of business by the DX7 and its progeny. It also heralded the arrival of commercially viable FM, and created a revolution not just in synthesizers but in PC sound cards, (ugh) ringtones, you name it.
Makes sense... I usually only remember dreams when my sleep is disturbed so this matches up.
Have you looked at https://hotwire.dev ?
>food delivery is a pretty local business

?? Food is a pretty local business, but delivery is not. You could say that person delivery is local too, because people mostly transport locally, but e.g. Uber is still global.
Pretty much the entire origin of organic chemistyr- now a trillion dollar industyr- was artificial dyes. It's kind of amazing to realize now I can buy a dye, and put something in it and it will have a brilliant, long-lasting color- 200 years ago, that would have been magic.
How different is this from "real life"?

Books and other non-internet media are written by a subset of the population as well.
That “free” advertising is competing with your own channels (without the 30% commission).

Also there are uncountable reports of them fucking up the delivery itself by not having appropriate containers, when the restaurant they are dealing doesn’t actually do deliveries. That will lose you customers and hurt your brand.
It’s trying to avoid rolling in other small scale activity that should be allowed. If I tell my kids’ soccer team that I’ll pick up 15 McDonalds burgers for them, I’ve “arranged for the delivery of an order” under the law’s definition, so I’m in trouble unless the definition of “food delivery platform” exempts me.
Yea I’ve noticed this too. HN is starting to feel more and more like my social surroundings here in Sweden.

On the other hand my social surroundings are obviously picking up some aspects of HN. Maybe culture is converging globally in a lot of ways?
The board already has spi flash but it’s only 8 or 16mb. Enough for buildroot or maybe openwrt but Debian ain’t going to fit in there.