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> Lastly, WFH for years can result in a serious mental health decline. If you think you're doing fine after 1 year, come see me after 5. You'll realize by the end of it just how important water cooler conversation is for your BRAIN. You'll recognize just how bad it can be to see (as a function of your time alive) MOSTLY just your home. It does a number on you.

This is just down to nothing more then poor discipline and lazily wanting an office to fill the gap for you. I have been working from home for 9 years now, 5 days a week. You know how I solve the issue, I go outside. I go and run. I take my dogs out for a walk. I also meet with friends to eat / drink coffee. I look after myself. The time I save commuting means I can do things like cook myself a proper lunch, go and have a nap if I did not sleep great the night before. I have much more freedom to balance my life. I agree though, if I sit at my desk all day inside and then stop work to go and sit on the couch and watch Netflix, sure it's going to be detrimental to my mental health.
To add to this, libraries aren't consistent about convention either. Take the common "RGBA". Is this describing the byte order? Or describing most-significant to least-significant 0xRRGGBBAA, which might be little-endian encoded into a "ABGR" byte order? If you think that's stupid idea and that I'm an idiot for suggesting it, what about 16-bit RGB formats where the G component straddles both bytes? Okay, so those aren't so common anymore - but what about DXT/BC compressed formats which encode 4x4 pixel chunks at a time, and don't cleanly decompose into "channels" in the first place?

D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8 (Direct3D 9) is equivalent to DXGI_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM (DXGI / Direct3D 10+). Note that one enumeration lists the components in reverse order of the other, and that this is correct! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d10/d3... .

Documentation often completely omits information endian or encoding - and when it doesn't, it's often hidden away where you'll never find it, and usually assumes x86/x64/little-endian processors. The behavior on big-endian machines is best found out through testing - even if the documentation is clear, the documentation stands a good chances of lying, and CI probably doesn't test on big-endian meaning bugs have likely arisen, and there's a good chance your copy of the library is old and doesn't contain any bugfixes.

In light of all of the above, RGB vs BGR confusion is one of the most natural points of confusion to run across when dealing with image formats. "Just use the type system!" ignores where these bugs crop up - (de)serialization, converting streams of bytes to types or vicea versa. Someone must write the code, declaration, whatever - and the type system has no means of ensuring that correctly matches whatever not-computer-readable spec that the (de)serialization is supposed to match - and so it will, frequently, be understandably incorrect.
I'm surprised that there isn't a mention of "HalfSafe", a WWII amphibious jeep which made it's way around the world, and is now on display in Perth, Western Australia.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=halfsafe&tbm=isch

and see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin

There's a wonderful book of halfsafe's adventure,
https://www.stellabooks.com/storage/images/stock/1317/131777...
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\tau is a common symbol for time constants which, briefly put, determines how fast something decays over time. Syn for synaptic current and mem for membrane voltage.
We've written some documentation around our neuron equations in Python that explains this: https://norse.github.io/norse/auto_api/norse.torch.functiona...

See also our tutorial on neuron parameter optimization to understand how it's useful for machine learning: https://github.com/norse/notebooks#level-intermediate

There's also a great book on the topic by Gerstner available online: https://neuronaldynamics.epfl.ch/

Disclaimer: I'm a co-author of the library Norse

Regarding the target audience, it's actually not entirely clear to me. This lies in the intersection between computational neuroscience and deep learning, which isn't a huge set of people. So, I think you're question is highly relevant and we (as researchers) have a lot of work in front of us to explain why this is interesting and important.
Do genes associated with cancer count? I can't think of anything that kicks in instantly, but there are plenty of probabilistic bugs
That's true! But I wouldn't equate eating expensive food on-campus as overeating/overindulging. The googler I knew best who did this was vegetarian/vegan and very fit. She had access to lots of high quality food that matched her diet, and part of the reason she was vegetarian/vegan was because google's cafeterias made it easy for her.
In the case of Apple, that sunk cost is rather substantial.
phones quickly become outdated before batteries die.
Is that a separate implementation?
> it's only as hard as using a (different) data structure that preserves order.

Which turns out to be pretty inconvenient in Go. So more likely you’d do something like copy the keys to a slice, sort the slice, then iterate that to get the map values.

Incidentally, that’s exactly what the json package does when encoding a map.
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Assuming they were the weakness. It might be that patching velocity was the reason the laptop became infected. Where I work that is managed via patch management software not the end-user.
And (3) external parties.

An example is a SME which wants to download the billing information of 100 employee from ATNT’s customer port
A refreshingly honest and inquisitive summary of the topic. I have hardly followed the debackle, only heard some arguments for and against through others. This look like journalism to me, reporting with a great deal of uncertainty and not faling for the temptation to write as if you have all the answers:

«To my mind, staking out the proper boundary between science and politics has been the defining journalistic challenge of the pandemic; it might well be impossible to pinpoint, though we could, collectively, have been more thoughtful about looking, and the errors around the lab-leak reflect that failure. The path forward on that story is the same as it always should have been: cover the context, respect the uncertainty, and report out the underpinning truth; China’s lack of transparency may make this impossible, too, but it remains the goal. »
You work at offie A, your spouse works at office B. There’s 20 miles between them. How do you avoid the commute?
Another problem is that the code changes from version to version, so a big chance that example you found no longer works. While annoying it’s not insurmountable, but a good doc would help a lot indeed! Perhaps with the LTS release that’s a thing to solve.
More interesting is that whilst the original PS3 controllers had a full Bluetooth stack (meaning you can connect them to an Android device or Linux and they work perfectly fine), the bootleg clones only implemented the spec enough to get them working with the PS3. I didn't even know this until I tried to connect my old PS3 controller to my Pi running retro emulators, and all the controller would do is input to bottom right on the right analog stick. Same on Android.
It went naturally, we never were a remote first company before pandemic but working from home for personal reasons never felt like an issue.

Nothing changed officially except that if WFH was socially an exception before, a lot of employees liked it to become their default, others don’t.

So since nobody cares where others works, this new organization came organically.

Our CEO is personally against remote as a standard, but there was never an official communication and since management is decently decentralized and managers just don’t care where you are, they know our job is to be done.
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But in the same way that there are evolutionary tracks that lead to the same end result. The eye has evolved up to 40 times independently (see: https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226 ), which is all 'accidental' but for very good reasons: the advantages of having eyes are very large.

Ditto for something like the actor model.
I am now seeing a grandma style light timer device used to turn off and on a cheep switch.
In my experience it is a horseshoe, people that eat out for every meal tend to be either on the high end of the income spectrum and thin or the very low end and obese.

These are broad strokes, but my experience in rural America and in SF bears this out, rich people eat out very often and tend to be fit and the very poor also eat out more than average but tend to be obese. Everyone else is in the middle.
Seems like both of you essentially apply the implicit function theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_function_theorem

I always found that theorem very useful, not only for computing implicit derivatives, but also for understanding if such things actually exist.

Another way to see it is to use the total derivative and then (somewhat heuristically) solve it for dy/dx. Mathematicians may yell at you, tho
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I, too, buy good quality takeout food about $30-60/daily. Please stop shaming. Not everyone likes to cook food.
I think some folks with crippling social anxiety might have a bone to pick with this assertion.
It looks like there is some confusion of what it is. The content you see in linked page is the the software not a demonstration of how the library output looks. If it was a library taking in bytes and outputting bytes I would agree that it shouldn't depend on any analytics, but if it's a website that's more of authors choice.
“Known” probably not because nobody cares but if you can edit the generic code of all cells (not just one) you just need to do a function-affecting substitution of a protein-coding segment for a vital protein.

Doesn’t matter which one as long as it’s not solely developmental.

It would not quite be instant though, the body would first have to run out of the existing supply then break down as operations stop. If you pick the right protein (e.g. something affecting the muscles or brain) I’d think the timescale would be minutes if not seconds.

If you can only edit one cell or a small number if them then probably not, you can definitely cause long-term issues (e.g. cancers) but I would not think instant death an option.

I think the GP was talking more about existing genetic defects leading to sudden issues down the line though.
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yes ! named parameters are an option.

it would be quite cool if c++ did have c99's equivalent of designated initializers, and without the restrictions of

1. following decl-order while doing the initializations and
2. omitting unwanted or unneeded parameter values

probably, to some extent, 1 follows from 2 ?
But that goes back to the original point they made, everything outside of the actual text editing and you're in EMACS land with all of it's controls. Even with something as complete as spacemacs, the default landing page when you open it has different key bindings.
HN discussion (307 points, 5 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317946
I researched it a while back. That's how I reached this conclusion - in particular, the idea that one hacker used broadly similar techniques to another ("shared TTPs" as you so obliquely put it) being used as evidence stood out precisely because of how flimsy it was. Likewise when IP addresses from specific countries are cited it's like waving a red flag saying "we actually don't know" to anybody with a rudimentary understanding of networking.

I asked in case I missed or misinterpreted some specific piece of evidence that was particularly compelling.
That's sick, thanks. Somebody also posted this a while back:

https://warp.net/editorial/richard-d-james-speaks-to-tatsuya...

I think RDJ was involved with other instruments' designs too.
Plenty of early vehicles DID use alumininium, for example the Landrover. The story goes that after WWII there was no shortage of aluminium sheets or the tooling to work with it.
I'm interested to see how this compares to other examples of profiling, such as carding. The government, police, advertisers, etc. are all already doing it to varying degrees.

Pupil size is yet another metric by which to classify individuals in the masses. "Bright eyes to the front of the bus!"
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> * Having a workforce socially close improves productivity because everyone wants to step up for each other.

I can agree with all your other points, but this one simply stuck out to me. Haven't nearly all companies realized more productivity with WFH?
That 1x1 pixel space.gif was sure used a lot back in the days.
At the end of the day its not that important anymore, people somehow still have this illusion we really have online privacy here in the west or still free speech.

I have seen more then enough censoring especially from the anti imperialist social media posters.
Kinda funny moment was when twitter blocked Iranian officials from posting so the US and Iran had beef on Weibo.
Bingo. People who lead companies are not wired like the rest of us. It's not some bullshit about mission or impact. Executives are there for power. Power is the sweat under a subordinate's arms when you address them. Power is having control over the bodies of others when you tell them where to be, how long to be there, where to sit and how to dress. Power is having roomfuls of people in rapt attention to you. Power is giving orders and making decisions, then watching them be physically carried out. Power is getting sex from your subordinates. Power is seeing the people who have subordinated themselves to you and their daily performance of that subordination.

Even if moon robots could do all our work for us, some people would find a way to make the rest of us submit. Nothing can replace physical proximity. Without it, you feel like a loser in your bathrobe instead of master of your universe.

Don't believe the bullshit about WFH and automation fueled idle. It's counter to human nature. We organize our workplaces, education system and society not for maximum efficiency but to satisfy the primate hierarchical social instinct.
With these new delivery technologies and 95% effective vaccines, we can go for total elimination.

"When you get to hell, tell smallpox we said hello" - XKCD
Yes, a lot of modern television shows have been serial works rather than episodic ones. Babylon 5 comes to mind as one of the earliest serialized television shows, if not the earliest.

Well, I suppose soap operas existed before that, but as far as I can tell they rarely had proper narrative endings; they were designed to last as many years as possible.
> > I had a stronger work/life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.

> To be fair, that's a personal disciple issue.

That's true, and in my case I have absolutely no issue with not working at random hours, even though I use the same exact computer for both work and personal projects. I work from 8 AM to 6 PM, with a break from 12 to 2. Absent an emergency, at 6:01 I'm done for the day and unreachable.

But in other domains, I've found that having to enforce this discipline can take an emotional / energy toll. In my case, I have this issue with food. I've found that if I have snacks and / or other easy to eat, calorie-laden food around the house I will absolutely have a terrible time trying to control myself and not eat them all. Even though I'm not actually hungry, I keep thinking about them and keep feeling like I need to eat them. This absolutely has an effect on my ability to focus, and the only way to have that go away is to eat. I'm not a smoker, but I suppose it's a similar kind of itch.

But by not buying them at all and not having them in the house, it's much, much easier for me. I don't actually miss them when I don't have them and never think about them. Every once in a while I may think about having an ice-cream or something, but I don't crave it to the point of going to the store and buying it (even though the round trip is like 10 minutes, and I'm a fairly active person). Just eating an apple or whatever makes the craving go away. But if the ice cream was there, 9/10 times I would have eaten that instead of the apple. And "just a scoop" is never just a scoop.

So I completely sympathize with people who've found that having this clear separation between work and home makes a difference for them. Having to catch a train / avoid sitting in a car during a commute / picking up the kids from school / whatever can really put an end to the possible tendency of "just five more minutes, and I'm done".

But there's also the fact, as others have said, that there are other ways to not work from home than going to an office. While I love working from my own house, what I hate the most with the office is the commute, and it's not even that bad by local standards. But advocating for a remote culture would allow people to combine these advantages (having both a separation and no / short commute). Of course, the social aspect of the office some people talk about wouldn't be completely solved.
Well, I’ve been shouting this from the rooftops for a while now, and finally they got my lifeline.

Ransomware in cryptocurrency could be easy to stop naturally. Miners just need to know that there is a nonzero chance of their blocks being forked off if they help them. It’s a technical problem of out-of-band governance protocols among miners, not unlike what is already being done for positive gain (MEV) by FlashBots. That’s the incredible possibility of cryptocurrency. It’s designed to turn selfishness into a public good, with no coercion, recognition, or good will. And sure, they could include a massive reward to convince miners to include the block, but then that also goes for every coinbase and transaction afterward, until there is nothing left, and no incentive at all for ransomware.

The present reality, of course, is that miners are just not that sophisticated. For the most part they’re just aping the repos that are released by the foundations. But the foundations certainly should understand that it’s in their interest to protect their currency by at least giving the miners information about transactions in the mempool or utxos, and perhaps some kind of out-of-band signaling mechanism to indicate unwillingness to accept blocks that include them. Perhaps better yet, a price for inclusion demanded in the form of an MEV burn added to the next block, which would of course fetch its own price. There is some criticism of the foundations here, as there is also some criticism of some PoS implementations that do not allow fork selection, but ultimately I think that they can solve it.

So that takes care of economic hackers. I’m far more concerned with non-economic or peri-economic agents. There is a doctrine of “unrestricted warfare” that everybody should know about. It explains many things about how and why things do not make sense. It is because we are under attack, and it’s a truly brilliant offensive, for which all of our defenses only work in their favor. I don’t have the answers for this. But it does give a warning. The effect they seek is not the damage they’ve done, but our reaction to it. Our reaction, by regulation that cripples our competitiveness, by restricting our own freedoms, could be disastrous to our country and our way of life, which is exactly what they want. And these attacks, although they may be carried out by economic agents, almost certainly find their roots in exploits created by long-standing programs of infiltration. Nature too, has learned this trick; SARS kills by turning the immune system against the host.
This review is obviously high effort. What's the incentive here? Is this what the community regularly does in Goodreads? Or are you somehow affiliated with the author and treat this as a favour?
The book does show the story from the survivor's perspective. Here's a little snippet:

"The kids agreed to work in teams of two, drawing up a strict roster for garden, kitchen and guard duty. Sometimes they quarrelled, but whenever that happened they solved it by imposing a time-out. The squabblers would go to opposite ends of the island to cool their tempers, and, ‘After four hours or so,’ Mano later remembered, ‘we’d bring them back together. Then we'd say “Okay, now apologise.” That’s how we stayed friends.’19 Their days began and ended with song and prayer. Kolo fashioned a makeshift guitar from a piece of driftwood, half a coconut shell and six steel wires salvaged from their wrecked boat – an instrument Peter has kept all these years – and played it to help lift their spirits."
Can you get a nice house in a good neighborhood near the office on $300k/year in the Bay Area these days? A lot of people in the Bay Area make a lot less.

There are just so many markets in the US where you’ll find a much nicer house in a better neighborhood for a fraction of the cost. If you already own a house in the Bay Area, you’re set. But otherwise, the paycheck begins to look a bit like an illusion.
All the free content you and I provided is our way of giving back to the community that answered our questions.

That content generates value for SO, but they do provide the infrastructure we use for free to get our problems solved and questions answered, so it seems like a fair deal to me.

If you didn't want anyone to profit from your answers, you shouldn't post them. If your answer is reasonably popular, you can bet it will be used in a product that makes money without you ever getting compensated for that.
It doesn't invalidate the rule, it just checks if you understood differentiation as an operator and not as a procedure.

The general approach is to take an equation involving a function and differentiate that equation then factor the equation to find the derivative. It usually only comes up if finding a closed form expression for the function is intractable but factoring the derivative of a known equation involving the function is tractable. If the function is vector valued or tensor valued, even that can be intractable since it might be difficult to factor the equation after differentiating to isolate the derivative you want an expression for. I also don't use it very often, but it is invaluable in differential geometry and provides (for example) an easy way to derive an expression for the derivative of a determinant or the derivative of an inverse with respect to a tensor.
I find your tone a little peculiar.

> You have a crisis of your own making and you need to "save" all the people who lost their livelihood because you are literally fighting the Black Death, which kills people in small shops but, by miracle, spares them in Costco or Best Buy

You are probably aware, but people need to eat to survive. So, when trying to limit community spread of an airborne disease, closing down everything is basically as good as you can do - everyone stays home or outdoors in limited groups, and the disease will just stop spreading. However people need to eat, and move, and the fire department, medical services, etc. are still needed, and you can't stop all of that. Is it really that difficult to comprehend why some things were allowed to stay open while others were not?

And considering the example stores you used, you're probably American. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's local government who did the closing, but the the money to indeed save everyone impacted is coming from the federal government. How does a governor or whatever the equivalent is at the county level profit from the money the feds are giving businesses?