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It’s not rhetoric, and stating all religions are bad isn’t even the truth.

Some of the most committed against slavery were its religious opponents, for instance: http://web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quakersandslavery/...

If you want to discuss the evils of politicized religion, or state mandated religion then I’m all ears.

But religion is a convenient scapegoat for more simple truth: Without fail every movement, party, or group that gains influence sooner or later overreaches and becomes the oppressor.

Religion is a red herring.
Very cool, shocking that this may be the only mention of it on the internet because Google shows 0 search results for it.
The New Way People Are Trying to Trick Venmo
Shameless plug. Speedscale.com (S20) let's you test with real world data, without the mocks and fakes.
That's Ian Hubert magic - he explains it in this (very entertaining) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI
University of Oxford v. Rameshwari Photocopy Service
Norway. Most of the FTTH plans seems to be symmetrical, anything from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. Some GPON based networks will hold back upstream at 500Mbps max (but they are fairly rare. Most is active ethernet anyway, not GPON)

FTTH is quickly taking over with over 70% coverage in homes passed. Pretty sure I saw less dense areas (rural?) had hit 60% last year according to some goverment report.

DSL is practically dead and "Fiber to the Cabinet" never really happened here. Coax is shrinking. Those still using these technologies are of course getting asymmetrical down/up. Some "Fiber to the Building" exists but mostly with copper ethernet to the housing unit, so its practically full FTTH.

Things that could be better is:
- pricing, it's not exactly great most places, although smart HoAs can usually get decent pricing if they actually try.
- the networks are very rarely open access, local monopolies are rife.

I've been on 1Gbps/1Gbps open access FTTH since ~2014, coming from 300/20 cable.
It’s not just hard, it’s unlikely to be successful because of how rare successful businesses happen.

Working 4 days a week at a stable successful company isn’t the same as starting a new business so that eventually you can work 4 days a week.
> high-quality 1080p h.264 movie and television releases on torrent sites are usually around 5 Mbps.

BRRips are frequently 30+GB for a 1-2 hour movie. Do the math. You’re off by like 5-8x.

> I have to ask -- where did you get the idea that "high quality 1080p is in the 200-400Mbps range"?

From actually filming and editing video.

Keep in mind that real-time encoders (such as the one in a video recorder or that zoom has to use for reasonable latency) are pretty constrained and will generally achieve worse ratios. If you need to get 3Mbps in real-time on a laptop your only option is basically to quantize the shit out of the video. Releases that can encode slower-than-real-time can use longer GOP, B-frames, etc.

> It's almost all the way to raw uncompressed 1080p, which is 1,500 Mbps.

10bit 444 1080p60 is 3.7Gbps.
The author of the comment didn’t quibble about this in their reply nor is my characterization an inordinate one. The author is making a clear comparison between the “central planning” of mega-scale retailers and Gosplan. It’s implied that the comparison is reasonable in that Amazon and WalMart are somehow equivalent to or close to the economy of the USSR or else the comparison itself was self-defeating and therefore wouldn’t have been made. It’s not a straw man at all.
BBC removes Bitesize page on climate change ‘benefits’ after backlash
The coldest is a bit after dawn. So the previous dawns should have stress tested it. It should fail when the stress is around maximum under this Hyatt peak theory.

Max rate of change of temperature is sunset and sunrise. Rate of contraction I'd expect similar?

I'm not sure AC would change the thermal mass of a building much. One cubic meter of air weights 1.2kg. Changing the concrete walls would be hard.

A drunk hitting a pole at speed in the carpark would fit perhaps. Drunkenness to an empty carpark would be high.
And people wonder why others wouldn't trust federal instances with health recommendations during the pandemic. This is exactly this kind of stories that undermine the trust in those institutions, and these effects ripple far away in the future...
Also, you might want to actually read the Wikipedia article you linked.

There have been ten total cases of structural failure in the past twenty years of aviation. Two of those involved spacecraft (Space Shuttle Columbia and VSS Enterprise). One of them was a terrorist bombing (Metrojet 9268). One was a fighter jet (F-15).

So six left. In all of those six, there were essentially 100% casualties. So how exactly would a supersonic jet be "worse"?
BrainFlow
Uniform SDK to work with biosensors
> If you leave early on the productive days, would you stay back longer on the days you aren't doing so well?

No, I do exactly the opposite. I work longer when I'm super productive, and I cut out early when I'm not having a good day. It seems obvious that you'd try to optimize for working the hours when you are most effective.

> And how do you know if you were actually very productive one day and not that the task was overestimated and actually very easy?

I think that comes with experience - sometimes you just know when the ideas are flowing and the code seems to write itself, and then other times you recognize that you've spent hours banging your head against something only to realise you overlooked something trivial.
Top players plateau in strength because human memory and processing power is limited, so they are limited in how much additional knowledge can improve their actual playing strength. For Stockfish, OTOH, algorithmic improvements (especially NNs) have steadily increased its strength.
Whelp that settles it - absolutely nothing you can do in life but be miserable until you die.
We do business with countries where we disagree with their government all the time. The difference with China is that they have so much market power they can alter norms of free expression in our country with that power, and they're very proactive about doing so. If we want to preserve our way of life yeah absolutely we can boycott, sanction, apply tariffs or whatever until they stop doing this. There is already a gradual migration away from Chinese suppliers because of it.
Then maybe the bosses & investors for those few successful companies deserve their profits after all.
With the meeting issue a good mid-way a company I worked for had in the contract hours were flexible but we expect you to be available 10-2. This mean late risers and early leavers were both covered + in a way limits the day of meetings larger companies tend to progress to.

Also we need to recognise flexibility relies on good work ethics. Its great when your in a well hired and motivated company, but you know some companies it going to be a tool to slack off. I've seen both sides on that one where it was a great vs if someone was marked 'remote' you knew everything was going to take significantly longer.

I think a good middle ground might be recognising most white collar work more than contracted office hours, so going back to 4 days might actually take us back to a 40 hour week. I think an alternate is govt to set rules and enforce the 40hr week. Make the 40hr week responsibility of the business and overtime much be paid or they need to get you about the door or return time in lieu. Maybe an exception for salary over $400k type thing or whatever fairly high amount as you want senior managers getting out the door too for the example it sets.

My concern about the 4 day week is many people are financially struggling so does this just encourage 2 jobs to be more common and the 4 day week ends up leading many people to 7 day work weeks? So in a way I wonder if better enforcement on the 40hr week is the better option in practicality as much as I like the idea of a 4 day work week for society.
> But when AlphaZero plays, and you watch Stockfish's score, the reason it wins is that it makes moves Stockfish thinks is poor, so it rates AlphaZero's moves poorly, and then all of a sudden it has an oh shit! moment when it realises that AlphaZero is actually ahead, and its score jumps. It's really a look inside the computer's head while it's being beaten by a better player.

That's more or less a description of what happens when two humans are playing over the board.
Yeah I’ve told employers who’ve asked about 4-10s that I’d just phone it in (at best) the last 2 hours of the day. My thing is that I’m an early riser and have a chronic illness that means my most productive hours are 6AM to 2PM. Works great at my current job — about one week a month I shift things a bit for more meetings between 2 and 4, but I don’t know how easy it’d be to find another similar situation.
Yes, the falling sand roots of Noita make it a little tricky, because it's a really good Roguelike platformer/shooter, that has a lot of interesting systems and mechanics, but the sand mechanics and physics are kind of a "value add" rather than core gameplay. I haven't played much Noita, but from what I know the wand system is more important for success than taking advantage of the environment. It somewhat misleading because the game was introduced with "ever pixel is simulated", but that doesn't actually matter as much as advertised in most runs.

For years (I even pitched it to Dennis Gustafson, the creator of Teardown) I've wanted to do a 3D falling sand game that could naively be described as Noita x Teardown, but outside of the technical challenges I haven't thought of a concept that truly takes advantage of falling sand automata and isn't just a sandbox.
"Good money and easy opportunity"
Wouldn’t the coldest part of the night typically be immediately before sunrise?
Agree with your point well enough. I think a 4 day work week where bosses get the same amount of profit is the dream conclusion to this experiment.
Users can already choose chrome on iOS and most of them have no idea what a browser engine is so why should we suppose allowing another browser engine would make them any more likely to stop using safari?
Lichess is much better in most ways.
I’m not the parent commenter, but I use Lichess. It’s free, supported by donations (so their incentives align with mine more than a business’), open source (which I like ideologically), and in my opinion just has a nicer user interface.
Maybe lichess.org?
I would really like each FDA approval to come with a piece of text to be printed on the bottle along the lines of:

"The FDA found this drug to improve quality of life Vs a placebo, p<0.005".

And if, during use of the drug, that statement becomes no longer true, withdraw use for all new patients.
I had some success running this model[0] but I think the training data doesn't sufficiently capture the variety of inputs my customers give me. I don't currently have nearly enough training data to retrain the model.

[0]: https://towardsdatascience.com/fingerprint-denoising-and-inp...

To see the python commands add a Scripting > Info window to your workspace. I like to change the animation timeline in the "Layout" tab to a Scripting Info section.

To do this hover over the Editor Type tab in the top left of the timeline area (should be a clock icon). Select the Info type under Scripting.

You can also turn on python commands in tooltips in the blender settings.
Only the existing bits. New publications wouldn't be included, so eventually the archive would become less relevant and stop being shared. There's significant cost for the required storage (currently 77TB according to andyxor's comment).
So two large clinical studies concluded that this antibody drug does not work. Nevertheless, FDA approved drug and Biogen stock went up.

Aren't we just a bunch of greedy monkeys?

PS: Therapy costs $56,000/year. My question stands.

PPS: Seems like Medicare will pay for it, so burden is on taxpayers.
SF14's net was actually trained on lc0 data. Human data is way too weak for SF to learn from.
I think reaching 1400 elo after a year of decent study after learning the rules is not too unreasonable. To reach 1400 in a year you would need to be either talented or hard-working. Climbing the elo ladder does get much harder though, as you mentioned. To reach 2000 in two years you would need to be both hard-working and talented. To reach 2850 in a lifetime you have to be hard-working, talented, and a particular Norwegian GM.
Haha you reminded me of AOP nightmares. It's great used for instrumentation. A big part of why Java has great monitoring tools is runtime code modification with AOP.

But as you said, devs find all kinds of mind melting creative ways of using it.
The search engine under the hood was built in Rust, for a search as a service that we plan to launch soon.
I think the disconnect here between those who advocate hard work and those who are opposed to it, is really about who the beneficiaries of that hard work are. If you are a founder or a sole-proprietor like myself, the economic surplus of all that hard work accrues to you. You still need to pace yourself to avoid burnout (there is a danger of working too hard -- even for yourself), but for the most part, the output of your work belongs to you.

The situation is much more complicated when you are working for someone else. Then you'll need to make a careful assessment of whether working harder is a net economic benefit for your (vs. doing other things in the time that would be freed up and the cost of any long term damage you might do to your health if you worked too hard.) For example it would entirely consistent for you to put in a 40 hr week for your employer, and spend all other discretionary time on your own project. It is also okay if you make the finding that your employer sponsored work is your primary long term goal and work on that even during weekends. E.g. this how many academics see their work. For most startups, as an employee, you need to be very careful with your calculation. Much of the value you create in a startup or a large tech company will not be captured by you! You need to make the calculation as to whether or working harder has a strategic benefit for you. It might or it might not. So the real issue is not 'working hard' but working hard on what?
I am involved in lc0 development and fairly aware of SF dev. NNUE is a very small (3 layer dense) cpu only net.
Your comment seems oddly dismissive (IMO). Ivermectin is widely available and yes granted more research is likely needed however early indicators show it be an effective treatment.

Not a facebook paranoid conspiracy miracle cure.

Perhaps a practical widely available affordable treatment that when combined with vaccination efforts can help to contain covid.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150
Also on HN top page:

"Bullshit ability as an honest signal of intelligence."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14747049211000...

/lol
> "It's not a video games major."

If it was true in the 80s, it was certainly true in the early 2000s when I was getting my CprE degree. I met quite a few people who were studying ComS or CprE for reasons that can be summed up as, "I built my own computer, I like video games, people said I'm good with computers, so I should be a Computer Science/Computer Engineering major!" They rarely lasted more than a semester or two, though I think the most epic flameout I knew managed a whopping 0.34 GPA his first semester...

And if the goal is "Get a degree, coast on through life with the easy money from computers," well... good luck. There are some very wide open pathways where if you're good, you can make lots of coin, but they're rare, and most tend to involve an awful lot of years of hard learning before you're competent (embedded dev and firmware/OS dev are some fields desperate for competent hires).

If you can write solid C, ring 0/EL3 doesn't scare you off, or you can figure out how to cram 10 pounds of hard realtime code into a 5 pound microcontroller... yeah, you'll go far. Come out having done the minimum, knowing Python and Javascript, well... there's an awful lot of competition for most of those positions if you're just a basic coder, not skilled at using those to accomplish interesting real world tasks ("make those images slide across the webpage" is not particularly novel or interesting anymore).

I'm struggling a bit to find ComS majors as a percent of degrees, but some stuff I've found indicates it's only in the 3-4% range or so today, so while it's double the percentage referenced in the article, it's not an order of magnitude higher by ratio (though in terms of degrees issued, probably, with college being more popular).
finally someone asks for a proper ransom
Are you suggesting it’s ok for the contractor to not follow the plans?
NNUE is a 4 layer (1 input + 3 dense) integer only neural network.

It's just over 82,000 parameters.[1]
That's a very shallow, small NN - by comparison something like EfficientNet-B1[2] is 7.8M parameters, and that's considered a small network.

[1] https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish_NNUE#NNUE_Structu...

[2] https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/tan19a/tan19a.pdf
You aren't unhappy that someone else doesn't like working, you hate your job and have been trained to think that someone "wants it easier" and thus are a threat

Punch UP, not DOWN
Apparently even questioning institutions like this makes people Nazis, so I think it is a combination of being harassed for questioning and the government running lotteries and making deals with companies to offer free donuts and alcohol.
I saw a kernel panic because of this _yesterday_. (Crash where the failing instruction in memory was 1 bit different from on disk.)
I think the question is about automatically reporting bugs versus giving the user tools to report bugs in a consistent manner if they choose to.

Fedora's tool does not automatically report the bugs - it just automates the process of allowing the users to do so if they choose, and handles generating stack traces locally or remotely (configurable) and dealing with core dumps and submitting them if so chosen (again configurable), and tries to tie crashes to existing bug reports if you choose to submit the data to prevent devs from being flooded.

It even has some pretty great functionality to help make sure no private/sensitive data leaks in the report, and lets you go through things line-by-line that based on a default or custom list of keywords that may indicate sensitive data (such as passwd, key, etc.) before you finally choose to submit it.

And it's all done on a case-by-case basis, so for each crash you can choose whether to submit any data or not, in case you're running one app that you'd be concerned about leaking sensitive data versus another.
I think this author is probably unaware, but in the case of the recent pacific northwest heat wave, it was due to something called an omega disruption of the northern jet stream, a phenomenon which IPCC models predict will occur less frequently with climate change. A shame he wrote an entire article based on not knowing this and did no research on it.

> Climate change is almost certainly involved

No, it's not. Please, stop doing this. stop presuming that every weather phenomenon is in some way causally related to climate change. There are things that are. But know which things are before you write about them and blame climate change. You make "trust the science" look like a joke and it's no wonder so many people are beginning to think it is. Do your job. Do some research. Know what you're talking about before you talk about it.
They are so unlikely, everyone else that didn't make it feels entitled to tell them how to be successful.
I did initially try to tackle this problem by constructing procedural solid models, but that solution wasn't sufficiently general.

I ultimately went with blender's displacement modifier, which works by using a UV mapped bitmap image that displaces the model's vertices as a function of the pixel intensity. This workflow adapts well to arbitrary geometry and customer images.
by claiming when something stops being a unit test, you have to define what a unit test is. Now, I do think there is a good, reasonable definition of a unit test and it's looser than yours. A single function that reaches out for an API call via another function and does N other steps of compute that has the API call mocked is still a unit test.

can it be a smell? maybe, that depends. Does it break your idea of single responsibility? maybe. Is it an integration test? not ... really because the test is primarily designed to verify the behavior of the rules of the function and not its interaction with a third party system.

so while you can argue that mocking is a smell in that context, that doesn't change the fact that it's still a unit test!

all that said, one can still make a case that the fundamental unit of work for a given context is not really a function, and so testing functions are actually integration tests! so I'll also grant that these definitions can be very context sensitive..
The line you describe is quite blurred. A person without the "causes and conditions" for addictive behaviors can take a substance that is highly physically addictive, like nicotine, and still never have an urge to use it again. Most people know quite a few folks who have tried cigarettes once and only once.

An addictive pattern originates as a survival resource - it starts out as a helpful coping mechanism: "X makes me feel better, helps me to get through life". It doesn't matter what it is - heroin, shopping, gambling, nicotine, etc.

When someone starts taking the steps in their lives to learn new behaviors and break this cycle, the physically addictive properties of a substance are definitely relevant and need to be taken into consideration (consider things like alcohol or benzodiazepines which can have lethal withdrawal symptoms, depending on intensity / history of use, and will thus require medical support).

Otherwise, the underlying treatment model will be identical.

Also, consider that psychological symptoms can and will manifest as physical symptoms, and vice versa. I've witnessed incredible physical withdrawal symptoms as a result of unwinding "psychologically" addictive patterns like gambling or sex (night sweating, panic attacks, insomnia, GI issues, to name a few).
Thanks I like STAT news but I just can't justify paying $300/year - And I know I'm not special enough to get my company to pay for it :)
I've done light-to-moderate physical work and would prefer 4 10-hour days for that. Office work in front of a computer, including programming, I can't realistically manage 5 five-hour days of actual, productive work. Not week after week, consistently. With more rest and an interesting task, yeah, I can do 8-10 hours in a day, for-real. Every now and then if I just happen to have a great day, yeah, maybe. Otherwise, god, it's draining as hell, in a way "boring" or repetitive non-back-breaking physical work just isn't (for me, anyway).

Story may be different for the really body-destroying physical labor, but the lighter stuff is less tiring than office work, to this particular worker, and cutting it from five days a week to four with the same number of hours would be my preference if I were back in jobs like that. Meanwhile I'd love a 4-day 6-hour schedule for programming. Maybe I'd actually manage to do focused work all the scheduled hours, that way.
Related Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27732487
I'm confused, did you maybe not list one of the ones you were thinking of? In your original post you just list Convex Optimization and then two books on discrete optimization. I'd be very curious to know what the other one you're referring to alongside Convex Optimization.
Watch Adam Watham’s videos on YouTube. And buy TailwindUI.