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Many folks don’t realize everything required just to build one house on one buildable lot. There’s setbacks to consider, engineering the septic system, getting a curb cut, utilities (which have their own building constraints), not blocking easements in doing all this, and actually putting a liveable house in all that.

Putting in a street is that magnified multiple times over plus dealing with additional demands from the town, making sure lots adhere to minimal zoning acreage, drainage, street lights, sidewalks, fire hydrants, on and on. Plus political maneuvering with the planning board to make all that happen. There’s also the financial part of being on the hook for the land and the construction loans while you deal with schedules for everything.

Putting in streets is an intensely multi-discipline skill.
Of course, and the cleaning interval depends on conditions, sometimes years. Similarly, windows and buildings are also periodically cleaned.

I'm not seeing a problem here that supports GP's implication that the new 98% reflective paint is somehow rendered useless vs existing extra-bright ~85% white paint, which already demonstrably works. It seems that the new paint would work better on any cleaning schedule, up to the point where the pollutants fully covered both surfaces. Am I missing something?
I think it's probably naive to assume that, if FLoC was implemented, advertisers would just stop using their existing tracking technologies, which allow for better tracking than FLoC offers. I imagine most would continue to use these, plus FLoC.
Yes. So much money going into this crap, while actually making real stuff is in decline in the US.

Someone mentioned "The Days of Perky Pat", by Phillip K. Dick, mostly known for "Blade Runner". I found and read that. It's relevant.
Maybe they could use a Starship as an additional module for Gateway or the ISS? Just dock it to one of the ports and leave it there permanently. Maybe even send up a special one with some extra docking ports on it. You could even convert the fuel tanks into extra cabin space (the classic "wet workshop" space station design).
You can bind unused parameters to RuntimeException! I'm not telling you you should enjoy doing this, mind, just that it's possible.
No need to get personal. All I’m saying is that research success is not well measured by the amount of money it reels in. That doesn’t mean scientists should not make money.

It just means the one has little to do with the other. Orthogonal.

I know excellent scientists who are rich and equally excellent ones who are poor. I also know some intellectually less well endowed folks who are crazy rich.

Money and research success have little to do with each other. All I’m saying.
Yes. You use std::function when you don't want every function/structure, that accepts a function as an argument, to be infected with templates, and instead be a plain function/structure. Thanks to that:

* there will be only one instance of it;

* you'll be able to export such a function in public interface of a dynamic library without exposing its source code in a header file;

* compilation will be faster, because the compiler won't have to instantiate N different versions of a template;

* you'll see fewer scary template errors.

Your life as a human being will be happier.

Of course there are better alternatives to std::function in the wild, but the general idea remains.

std::invokable will just make working with templates nicer. But not working with templates is nicer still.

EDIT: You can think of std::function as the LSP inside C++. There is a famous matrix where rows are for editors, and columns are for languages. In case of std::function rows are functions accepting functions as arguments, and columns are functions passed as function arguments. The matrix represents template instantiations, when you use templates. By using std::function you avoid the matrix and instead have just two vectors of length N and M, if the matrix was NxM (N functions accepting functions as arguments, M functions passed as arguments).
Thanks, now someone is going to take this and start scientology 2.0.
"Might" means the exact same thing as "Might Not"
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Facebook, like all corporations, play every politician.

What do you think Trump and Zuckerberg talked about when they would have dinner at the White House?
Python and Ruby both would fit the bill perfectly for all those use cases for me.

The cryptography module in Python is awesome. lxml and sud deals with XML and Soap in a blink.

Modeling large business concept is a joy with dataclasses, and the language will never be the perf bottleneck.

Now I understand that if you are experienced with Java, it would solve all those problems perfectly.

But again, I would not, personally, gain anything by using it for this.
Synapses are formed outside the neuron in the extracellular space (ECS), at the end of axon terminals called "boutons" which are essentially storehouses for vesciles which are tiny packages containing neurotransmitters. The internal mechanisms of the neurons as well as ongoing biochemistry at the location of a synapses "guides" the transfer of proteins necessary for strenghening of removal of these synapses.

So its possible that both mechanisms occur simultaneously, there's just not enough evidence to clearly understand these (yet).
I don't know if I agree. I recently tried Webflow and was not so impressed. It's basically a UI on top of CSS. Which is OK for developers, but there is still too much complexity and too many footguns for non-technical users.

For example, take position: sticky. This CSS property is basically one-to-one mapped to a dropdown in Webflow. So I thought it would just work. But alas, just like the CSS pendant, it only works if the parent element has the correct properties. Also it only works in browsers that support it, and isn't polyfilled automatically.

Maybe what I'm asking for is technically not feasible, but then the UI should disable the option in such cases and not hide this in a support page imho.

I think a truly powerful website builder would have to leave the CSS paradigms behind and invent something new.
Tech Companies Try to Increase Diversity by Fixing People Instead of the System
It's almost as if there's a pattern in the way that social networks grow, attract users (perhaps identifying people who are likely to draw other users on-board), and then atrophy after being seen as 'outdated' -- usually around the same time that a new platform happens to be appearing.
The JFK quote still gives me (good) chills!
Unfortunately "user customisation" should not be an answer to a poor design decision that affects all users, including the vast majority who don't have the skill, time, or knowledge available to customise such things.
I'm getting very nervous about manned propulsive landings. I know it's been done before, e.g. the LEM, but that at least had an abort option available and the flip manoeuvre seems to introduce a lot of unpredictability into the process. I wouldn't be surprised if they take up a Crew Dragon with them in a cargo bay to bring the crew back down separately for the first manned flights, until they've demonstrated a strong track record of successful propulsive landings.

As for Lunar Starship, it's massively overengineered for the Artemis requirements, capable of taking 100 tons to the Lunar surface. That's great for later missions to set up a base, but even then you'd likely need a crew version just for shuttling people back and forth. So I wouldn't be surprised to see the first version of that to be somewhat scaled down from the concept art. That should massively reduce the number of refuelling missions needed for the early Artemis flights.
I wonder how many non-South Africans get this :)
I'm running Let's Encrypt certificates on services that are only accessible in my home network. And I live alone.

I mean, why not?

(Granted my certs actually failed earlier this week since my automation had broken)
Not into the card world at all, but I recently watched a baseball card investor / dealer’s explanation on YouTube... pretty interesting: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLroSNu2WrMA9eUAXrbWIhyAQ7...
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Next week he will probably announce that he’s already funded it via Dogecoin speculation.
A Lunar Gateway still sort-of-makes-sense, as an outpost near the moon, using ISS-derived hardware, makes it hard for Congress to argue cancelling something that is (a) new and (b) we know will work.

That being said, a few small LEO orbital depots makes more sense than Gateway. Or perhaps small LEO and Lunar gateways might make the safety-officer at NASA happier.
Do you have any insights you can offer on how best to do this? I have to deal with drift issues on signal processing of .wav files, and I have always used a marker pulse every so often.

Is there a better way?
No thank you. An artificial delay of 10 seconds is already broken. And adding an additional second a day doesn't improve anything, nor does it help.

If you plan to implement something like this, then do it right and have the service catch the exception and notify an administrator.
A tomu (https://tomu.im/tomu.html) can be used as a U2F device. Since it’s hackable and the code for U2F is available maybe it can be adapted as the author was asking (do you know of a device...?)
Tyler Rogoway and To The Stars Academy are not happy if this information spreads.
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TCP is far from optimal for tunneling multiple flows, but you can still tweak it a lot by using a recent(ish) linux kernel which will allow you to use FQ_CODEL + BBR + NOTSENT_LOWAT to reduce loss sensitivity and minimize the excess buffering in the presence of bulk flows over the tunnel.
Well, and by not using SSH for tunneling, since that brings yet another layer of flow control. If you're on a fixed-bandwidth connection disabling SSR might help too. These are all sender-side changes, so you need to control the remote end of the VPN too.
Of course you are in direct competition.

Look at the village boss net worth vs Bezos.

We all measure our success with net worth in dollars. That plus the internet changed the game. Now we approximately know each person net worth and especially the net worth of the leaders in the standings.

Also just because Bezos is not around the village to steal your girl doesn't mean you don't think and predict what would happen if he were to come to the village and hit on your girl.
Interesting find about the indexing. I just had the opposite experience, swapped from numpy to torch in a project and got 2000x speedup on some indexing and basic maths wrapped in autodiff. And I haven't moved it onto cuda yet.
People occasionally get away with jokes here if they are exceptionally clever – something which the grandparent comment was most definitely not.
You wouldn't unless you could vary your exposure to such a sequential bet.

Suppose you can though. For simplicity, suppose you can expose yourself to 0.4U(-1, 1.1), 40U(-1, 1.1), or any other fractional amount F U(-1, 1.1) you might like. Kelly is a technique for choosing F (maybe you had some other idea in mind like that you have to buy into a bet on U(0, 2.1) -- if so, that's nearly equivalent other than putting bounds on F -- the idea of maximizing expected logarithm will carry through to other bet structures).

Going through the motions, suppose you're starting with a bankroll B then you want to choose some ratio F=rB maximizing the expected logarithm of the bet. The distribution of your outcome is another uniform distribution U(B-rB, B+1.1rB), and you want to choose r maximizing the expected logarithm of that distribution. The details of that are probably beyond the scope of a HN comment, but you wind up with r approximately equal to 0.13624.

If you'd like you could plot the result of many instances of 100 such sequential bets with r varying. You'll find that those with r around 0.13624 will usually be much larger than for other choices of r.
and so i type me home postcode every time i do a route - and it reminds me its' my data and not google'$.
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While not usual for places like coffee shops, i've seen cruises and hotels do DPI since probably a sizable amount of revenue can be generated from fast wifi access or by unblocking all sites.
Have you seen this? https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries
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So you are in the very niche use case where:

- you need a GUI

- you need perf beyond what Python is capable and you identified it clearly in advance

- you can't use numpy / multiprocessing / cython, pypy or they won't give you the perf you need

- you can't find a main hotpath you can optimize with a 5 lines c or rust extension and write 99.99% of your app in python. Or you don't want to bother.

If you ever find yourself in this very use case, then yes, use Java.

But I never found myself in this very precise use case.
I don't know but sounds likr assassin's creed.
I feel like it would cause some strange local weather patterns too if you localized all of the high albedo paint in one area. Would be a funny consequence, but I'm sure they've considered it!
You spend too much time on the internet.
I just use FTP.
Yes, exactly. That's why I said "sans the restrictions the article talks about."

He didn't seem to think about the issues of access that have arisen since then. He might have primarily meant these materials to be available to scholars. You are right. We're now in a pickle. No one is saying he shouldn't have done the work. But getting the material to a place where it helps the language thrive is hard and will take resources. No easy answer here.
> So NPR is artificially (with a high-pass filter) removing a natural side-effect (of directional mics) to avoid getting artificial-sounding boomy bass.

He says later on in the article that they try and get people in the studio to not talk directly into the mic but across it. So in some ways they are trying to correct for the issues caused by strong directionality before they get to artificial things like signal filters.
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Been doing wireguard over udp 443 for a long time. Works pretty consistently.

Probably take a few years for the low-effort network blocks to figure out how to deal with that.
This post also doesn't really seem worthwhile, but you're entitled to your opinion.

LinkedIn is basically facebook. I would argue that anything Facebook-esque is a fundamental waste of time. Misinformation spewing influencer spam.
I want to paint my roof in this ultrawhite paint and then put a water tank on the roof and paint it with Vantablack.
CPM price for targeted ads is lot more than untargeted ads. So likely the publishers will increase the number of ads per page to maintain the same eCPM yield. Also the ads will optimize for top of the funnel (clicks) than bottom (conversion). So we will start to see aggressive & intrusive ads. (remember the "punch the monkey" ads from the early 2000s?)
We've looked at QUIC transport for ZeroTier for this reason.
I didn't say anything about your rights? You are free to continue to use python while criticizing it.

p.s. Python is not a "product". Treating it like one is guaranteed to result in disappointment.
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Think of it this way: the boiling water and spinning turbine part is the easy bit.

All the hard engineering and tradeoffs in thermal/mechanical power generation, be it coal, natural gas, biofuels, hydro, or nuclear, are in dealing with the fuel/moving mass. Enormous amounts of engineering go into finding coal, digging it out of the ground, and dealing with the resulting combustion gasses and ash. The boilers and turbines - while impressive - are just one small part of that effort. Natural gas is no different: the turbines are pretty simple compared to the huge effort that goes into getting it out of the ground. Hydroelectricity again uses turbines. And again, they're relatively trivial devices compared to the huge engineering challenges of building and maintaining the dams themselves. Not to mention the complex tradeoffs around when and where to use them.

If reliable high-energy motion really was everywhere, yes, this would be easy. But that simply isn't the case. The closest we have to that is hydroelectricity, and in most countries dams have already been built on most of the available sites.
Wix typosquatting Shopify with my-shopify.com
This seems to be in particular poor taste, since the original url (myshopify.com) is for paying customers to manage their store who would likely be confused by this, and not top of funnel siphoning of searching prospects.

Example:
kujo-yardwear.myshopify.com (Shopify)
kujo-yardwear.my-shopify.com (Wix)
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the other "cost" is also figuring all that out. doing research, knowing your options, etc.

I was looking a lot at all this, as I was pretty keen on Zwift, and then i finally just threw my hands up, realised i couldn't be bothered, and just bought a peloton.
Ask HN: ML PhD at top-10 ranked school vs. RE at FAANG (Applied teams)
I'm trying to decide between ML PhD at 5-10 CS school (in USA) and RE at FAANG (It is one of the applied teams and not pure research teams like FAIR/Google Brain)

If going to industry is eventual goal, which of these two options is preferable?

ML PhD - Highly reputed but takes 5 years to finish. Not sure if the effort + wait is worth the reward.
RE - Might not be cutting edge work. Focus is still on the product, but get to do decent amount of engineering + research for the product.

Eventually, I'd love to work in places like DeepMind, or AI applications like AI for drug discovery, AI for Climate Change, etc.

Towards this, is it beneficial to do a 5 year PhD or start from MLE/RE and graduate my way there? Really confused as to how to make this decision.

Thanks!
I'm perfectly capable of consuming books/podcasts/news on my own and not because of a mandatory commute that is simultaneously exhausting, expensive and dangerous.
I thought that was Dart. Which is honestly a shame because it’s a genuinely great language. But it does very much fit the bill otherwise
I'm all for reducing the EEE in the Greater Boston Area, too.

There are only four species of mosquito that bite humans. They are a tiny part of the food chain, and would be completely replaced by other food sources.

It's also not the first time humans have successfully made this kind of intervention.

Here's an article from 2016 about the same thing (it even mentions Oxitec): https://slate.com/technology/2016/01/zika-carrying-mosquitoe...

(I believe it was posted to HN a while back, but the article stuck with me as we don't dare enjoy the outdoors here for fear of our child getting Eastern Equine Encephalitis: https://www.cdc.gov/easternequineencephalitis/index.html )
Wow man, this just made my day. Good on you.
Yeah I pretty much agree with what you say. Idk why you're downvoted.

Essentially we want to make energy capture and efficient, clean, and safe as possible. Nuclear is clean until it isn't, and safe until it isn't.

It makes sense though, because solar has only recently become efficient enough to become the next big move.
I find most of my work goes well but anything that requires coordination a lot of time gets wasted waiting to hear from people.
I didn't say it would be at the system level. I'd expect this to happen per app. It's similar to how photo manipulation software can detect currency. I doubt every such app complies, and certainly the system screenshot tool does not.
Name and shame: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phoenix-costs-137-mill...
folly::Function was added for exactly this reason I think https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Fun...
Doesn't Spotify do the same, except that it pays the penny to BMG and Rihanna independent of who plays?
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Obviously, it means "something newly noteworthy in them".

Not the stuff you already know they contain, like cytoplasm and a nucleus and other cell materials.
How not lolz? Motion of the photons from the sun.
CUDA Ada would be so, so nice. Especially with non-aliasing guarantees from SPARK...
> Hello, it's not like every venue will be hard pressed to accommodate QUIC quickly, right?

If browsers fall back to regular HTTPS when the QUIC connection fails there won't be much incentive in making sure QUIC works or isn't blocked.
The backend team in one of my previous jobs (around 2010) had an interesting file locking mechanism.

All the developer were sat around one table but you couldn’t see each other behind the dual screens. So every hour or so, somebody stood up to inform the team that he is going to be editing file xyz, so please don’t touch.

It wasn’t production though, everyone was just working on a shared staging system.
If nobody ever needs to be in an office it would seem like there is more temptation to hire outside the US for these jobs too.
That’s a function of unsold inventory and the usefulness of exploits and nothing to do with the number of possible exploits.
TLDR: high-pass filter and a legendary microphone.
In the meantime, consider trying udp2raw[1], which will allow you to fake UDP over TCP (by colluding on both sides of the tunnel) and works pretty well on coffee shop WiFi in my experience.

1: https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel
Does anyone else think that C++ makes more sense for ML work than Python? I'd been thinking so for years. Both for deployment/performance and data wrangling purposes.
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You have to appreciate the level of social engineering that this guy was doing. Maybe he should be working for an intelligence agency.
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I understand that there are scientific discoveries which are worth the investment money or otherwise. But I would prefer the great algo to pick these up for me rather than which star admires who.
Have you ever thought that it is not good for a big company like FB to be dependent on a single language/technology? This is the reason why these companies will invest in multiple solutions in different languages.
Nah, you just use the technique to conclude that the optimal percentage of your bankroll to bet to maximize expected logarithmic wealth is 0% ;)
Microsoft Doesn’t Commit to Blocking FLoC
If it's just about I/O, then no, threads in Python are super easy:

import random
import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed

def hello(seconds):
print(f"Starting hello in {seconds}s")
time.sleep(seconds)
print(f"End of hello in {seconds}s")
return seconds

# At the end of this blocks, it automatically join() and clean
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2) as executor: # 2 tasks in parallel max

# this send jobs to threads via safe queues
a = executor.submit(hello, random.randint(0, 5))
b = executor.submit(hello, random.randint(0, 5))

# this collect results from queues in order of completion
# sync is automatic
for future in as_completed((a, b)):
print(future.result())

And if about network I/O only, you can get even more perfs using asyncio.

Threads in Python are only inferior to Java threads when it's about using several CPU.