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> No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with.

This has not been my experience. Part of it may be that I don't really do the whole "self-promotion" thing so well.

I'm pretty good at what I do. I have worked with many, many people that are much better than I am, so I don't let it get to my head.

But whenever I mention what I'm good at, it's met with snorts of disbelief. That's crazy. I am not claiming to be Superman.

I have a massive portfolio that proves what I claim. It has 30 or more (complete, documented, tested, and supported) repos, with over a decade of checkin history, and full source for a whole boatload of [mostly deprecated] shipping applications. Don't believe me? Clone the repo, and hit "Build." I have dozens of blog entries, articles, teaching series, etc.; all linked from my SO story. I even have the PDF manual for my very first engineering project, in 1987.

What I can (and can't) do is not a matter for debate. Like I said, I have worked with many folks that make me look like a piker.

Here's an example:

About a month and a half ago, I responded to an article, where the author claimed we "never finished" anything. This was what I posted:

>> I dare you to list three finished software projects.

> I can probably list 30, and point to the repos.

It's 100% true. You don't need to take my word for it. Simply look at my SO story. I link to it in my HN handle.

Someone that obviously did not bother to do exactly that, posted a challenge, basically calling me a liar. I responded by throwing the seed into the nest, and posting a link to my SO story[0]. They never responded, after that.

Like I said, I know that I'm pretty good at what I do, but I spent my entire career around folks that made me look like a beginner.

It's really, really sad that people seem to consider that kind of stuff to be a lie.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
I was doing some contract work on the side while building the MVP, but switched to full-time right after launching it. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that though.. basically burnt through all my savings over 4 months. Right as I was starting too look for more contract work I ended up winning a $15k grant from YC [0] which bridged the gap until I got to profitability. Now at around $6k - $10k/m (not recurring, so it varies).

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-startup-school-2...
Article mention there would be an algebraic approach post to follow. I couldn't find it :(
I found these really useful at first, but have come to depend more on TypeScript project references for this now.
But reduce and reuse are bad for bottom lines!!
I got a complete newbie comfortable with git in 4 hours session. It's not that difficult. That person is now using git on daily basis. Also is using github and is quite successful.

Where the challenge lays in my opinion is how to pass on the knowledge required to start coding. I feel Selenium is quite nice start because by writing simple few lines of code the newbie can see the actual action on the screen. I also feel the attitude is important too - I still remember 20 years ago when I was at the beginning of my journey I was thinking about a programming like about solving puzzles, and after watching tron I always wanted to build a perfect system whatever that means :) I feel it's quite difficult to pass on this kind of weird motivation.
Also, blowing up the fertilizer (and the port) to hide the fact that you were stealing fertilizer isn’t exactly a plausible story.

People can be dumb, but come on.
I don't know how much of the movie is relatable to her story, I guess I'll have to watch it... For what I know the tweet and most of all the article (which has spread at the speed of light from major online tabloids to every local news site) could even be a publicity stunt to generate hype around the movie itself. Who knows? Given the recent state of the media, everything is possible. And I'm very skeptic by nature.

But let's get back to why for me is a lost battle. Look at the replies under her tweet, most people outside the US have made up in their minds a clear idea of what she is, she's guilty, they condemn her, no matter what the final sentence stated. I respect the sentence and consider her a victim too. But life is too short to try to change people's minds, or to fight against a movie "loosely based" on your tragic past. Maybe people wouldn't even noticed the correlation with her case (but again, I haven't seen the movie, I don't know how much evident is). I'm sure it's hard to live with those memories, but she has the means for a complete exit from the scene, people will forget, and a movie based on your life won't be profitable anymore.
If our brains are receivers to a field of consciousness, why would it be impossible to replicate one of those receivers with a machine?

You also seem to have just kicked the can down the road. "Consciousness arises from a field somehow, and the brain acts as a receiver somehow. The somehow is not explained."
What post are you even replying to? Is your mic getting cut off an example of rampant corruption in the EU?
I know of one very expensive CAD tool that phones home. They know exactly how many people are using pirated copies, but they say it’s better than using pirated copies of their competitors product.

I’ll wager fines and restitution were still less than the licensing fees, so it may still be a net money saver.
The difference between a conspiracy theorist and a healthy sceptic is that the more implausible the theory the more convinced the conspiracy theorist will be and the less convinced the sceptic will be. Since real conspiracies and cover ups do happen, it should be possible to speculate about conspiracy theories without falling into the trap of conspiracy theorist thinking by applying a healthy dose of Occam's razor.
Yeah they were pretty great but DeCONZ didn't support them. Which just happened to be the stack I chose.

Apparently they were supported through the HA integration but not in the GUI. They also work with ZHA as far as I know.

I still see some on Ebay, not sure if they can be shipped to Europe though: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133779313546?hash=item1f25de538a:g:... . This tends to be an issue.
everyone == bitcoin nodes that each keep a copy of blockchain locally.

once a block is mined it is propagated through the network and it’s verified by all the nodes that see it. In effect, when you get the block and you append it to your local blockchain after verification you agree that the transaction that happened in that block happened.
They are there a very high income company that can or cannot afford that protection for them or their neighbor communities, but what about everywhere else, where there are no tech giant with that possibility?

They are making the wrong question. Or some of the companies/entities behind (either causing, financing disinformation campaings, or getting "donations" from them) have to support that cost, or should be done by the government (they didn't take any compromise regarding climate for almost 30 years) or the people will have to deal with that in their own way.

And in the last case, the companies are in the same situation.

And the worst part is that the problem won't be a couple of feet of sea level rise, in the last month we've seen plenty of floods by extreme weather alone. And not sure how will end the sea level at the end of the decade with the positive feedback on climate, and high temperatures around Greenland.
Regarding availabiltiy: It only handles a single connection, and has no timeouts. If someone just connects, and does nothing else, the server will be unavailable.
I think your opinion is unpopular for a reason.

You haven't given any reason why an app developer would want to rule out a subset of their potential audience. You seem to feel that users either a) have money to spend on redundant devices or b) fall neatly into groups.

In my case, I do music apps. They are educational, fun, and inspire creativity. They run best on a computer (screen size, speed being the main reasons) but work on mobile. There is zero reason I can think of that I should pick Mac vs. Windows. If they are running on a phone or tablet, there is zero reason I should pick iOS or Android.

So why should I have to pick just one? How is it better that, for technical reasons, I should be subdividing users like this? Your unpopular opinion doesn't really cover this.
There is a huge supply of people who want to be CEOS so much in fact most places will not hire you unless you have been a CEO before or have risen through external ranks.

If you take what unemployment defines are qualification.. many able body people could perform those tasks if all CEOs decided to move to other careers.

Salaries increase because qualifications increase creating scarcity which benefit the people who create scarcity. If the hiring guidelines say only CEOs can be CEO prices goes up for CEOs, VPs and anyone in charge of making the rules.
Are you basically saying the large media companies are kept alive to keep people on cable?
Why is this necessarily so? If something is self-evident, does that prevent one from commenting on how we arrived at that state? The author is not trying to convince the reader that it is axiomatic that the world has become like sf. The author is telling a story about how the world has become like sf and how the world has the potential to become like climate change sf (or already has).
And the 2001 blast in Oslo.
As usual in fascist California, socialize the risk, privatize the profits.
Three quarters of infected in Massachusetts outbreak were vaccinated, CDC says
Since explosions work on cubic law probably not much worse. And ammonia has pretty low detonation speed.

It would have been worse, but probably 10-20% more destruction.
Computer Vision for Fire Detection on UAVs–From Software to Hardware
"Einstein said this once in a lecture and then never again" is not a persuasive argument, as most every reply to that Quora post points out.

"Weber electrodynamics" is strongly counter-indicated by multiple experiments; there's no "matter that needs to be resolved".

as GR's field equations tend to fry my brain somewhat

You cannot have a meaningful discussion about these topics without UNDERSTANDING the theory you're criticizing.
> ammonium nitrate is an incredibly common farming input

True, but this stuff was intended for use as a mining blasting agent in Africa so lacked most of the stabilisers added to the agricultural stuff specifically to make it less suitable for deliberate or accidental use as an explosive.

In the context of this theory at least, this makes the material more valuable/suitable for ‘military’ use.
Aviation gasoline is much higher octane than the "premium" (or however it's branded) high octane gasoline at your local gas station. Typically premium gasoline is about 98 RON / 88 MON, whereas 100LL aviation gasoline is 100 MON. The big news here is that GAMI has come up with a formula that provides the required octane without lead, and also otherwise fulfills the various requirements for aviation gasoline.
What psychology says about Covid non-compliers
> Money is not the same thing as economic output; it just divides that economic output. The explanation here about "new energy" is quasi intellectual gibberish.

Money stores the value of that economic output. We used to use gold as money because it was hard to inflate. No one can create gold without doing work, therefore it evolved over time to be valuable because of its rarity. That makes it a strong store of value over time, unlike say apples or oil, which would be poor money. Fiat currency can be created without work; it is not rare, you are at the whims of whoever has the power to create it. If you had to store value over 100 years, you would not keep it in cash or bonds. You'd buy land, gold, or possibly stocks, because those things are much harder to create.

> Moreover, most monetary expansion is caused by private banks through lending; they don't need a central bank to do this. The central bank uses tools like reserve requirements and bond purchases/sales to raise and lower the money supply in response to macroeconomic trends. Without a central bank, the money supply can still be expanded.

Private banks implement whatever the central bank tells them. Who sets the interest rate? Does a lower interest rate increase private lending or decrease it? Why can't private banks hold 0% in fractional reserve?
AGI is that capability to orchestrate layering of topical filters and feature detections in order to create an actionable perception. Note that it isn't anything to do with the implementations of said filters and detectors, but with the ability to artistically arrange them to satisfy a goal, and very possibly, must be coupled with the capacity to synthesize new ones.

That executive and arranging function is the unknown. From whence cometh that characteristic of Dasein? That preponderance of concern with the act of being as Being?

It's a tough nut to crack, even in philosophical circles. To think that we're going to articially create it by any means other than accident or luck is hubris of the highest order.
> A bit of plastic — to a fish gut - is no different than a pebble, chunk of coral, bit of bone, etc.

There's reasonable empirical evidence that plastic accumulation in fish causes them to reproduce less than they otherwise would[1]. The prevailing theory is that most plastics leach at least some of their chemicals in seawater.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-huma...
I try to do the same, for me WSL has been a godsend, because at work I’m forced to work on windows (a lot of engineering tools are windows only, and some of them don’t work nicely even with fully virtualized environments).

Having the scripts I use on my linux machine close has made my life easier.

To my surprise, even very technical and knowledgeable people don’t do this. For example, at work we log our time of entry and exit (in Spain this is required by government). I built a simple workflow that uses my phone location and automatically fills the log for me. Coders in my team, which I have shared the script with, are still logging each day by hand.

I think it’s more of a mindset than something that requires any particular skill.
You really need to provide sources for claims like that. Here's the EPA saying that land use and forestry is a net carbon sink in the US [1]. If you're talking about international then that's a completely different conversation entirely, especially since the US exports about as much paper product as it imports, and unlike plastic, paper is actually recycled really well [2]. If you want to talk about countries that don't give a shit about the environment... not giving a shit about the environment, then there's really no conversation to be had here.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
Implementing a Linear-Chain Conditional Random Field (CRF) in PyTorch
> especially after an opener of "have you been to any beaches recently"

I didn't write that, please check the thread. That was someone else.

> > don't make the person the subject of discussion

Each time I replied I brought the discussion back on topic and strengthened my arguments but your entire reply is about me again, and there is precious little that steer it back to a good resolution.

> you always have the option of removing yourself from the discussion first. Asking others to stop talking is a bit censor-y.

There is a different, meta-level dialog embedded in our dialog, but this terribly ironic juxtaposition is exactly the kind of distracting, subtractive, thing I meant. I regret this exchange terribly at this point. I'll go back to picking up garbage, since in my experience, that is the only activity that reliably has impact.
Yes!!! So great. I want to incorporate this into a paid project on top of matrix. Reach out if you think you’d like to work on a sellable product that would build open source
Usually, (at least in my specific niche of the computer science field,) if the code is published it's only published after the paper has been reviewed. This is partly to preserve anonymity during the review process, and also because usually the code isn't seen as "part of the paper" (i.e. "the paper should stand on its own"). Although I agree that you could argue that for papers about benchmarks, the code should definitely be considered an essential part of the paper.
Anyone knows a PDF OCR tool? I am using a free online one.
I take pictures with opennotescanner which spits out a PDF which I want searchable.

Tesseracts expects PNG and outputs to text. I want the same PDF to be hidden overlaid with OCR text.

This free PDF online service does a decent job but offline would be better.
Not sure I would be able to cope with 3 hr meetings on a regular basis. I try to keep meetings as short as possible (15-30 min), and to have an e-mail thread already having taken place in anticipation of the call.
WASM JIT implementations tend to be quite a bit different from JavaScript JIT, so that's not really where the perf difference comes from.

First, WASM gets all the heavy AOT optimizations from the middle end of the compiler producing it. At runtime, WASM JIT doesn't start from program source, but from something that's already been through inlining, constant propagation, common subexpression elimination, loop optimizations, dead code elimination, etc. And WASM is already typed, so the JIT doesn't have to bother with inline caching, collecting type feedback, or supporting deoptimization.

Because of that, the only really beneficial work left to do is from the back end (i.e. arch-specific) part of the compiler- basically, register allocation and instruction selection. WASM JIT compilers don't bother trying to find hot loops or functions before optimizing. Instead, they do a fast "streaming" or "baseline" codegen pass for fast startup, and then eagerly run a smarter tier over the whole module and hot-swap it in as soon as possible. (See e.g. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...)

The perf difference vs native rather comes from the sandboxing itself- memory access is bounds checked, support for threads and SIMD is limited (for now), talking to the browser has some overhead from crossing the boundary into JavaScript (though this overhead will go down over time as WASM evolves), etc.
I believe the OP is referencing the fact that over the years, the cable tv/telephone groups have been buying up production houses (i.e., Time-Warner owned by AT&T, NBCUniversal owned by Comcast, etc.) and is implying that the owner (AT&T, Comcast) owns the production house (Time-Warner, NBCUniversal) not to directly profit from the production house output per. se., but to provide content with which to use to incentivize people into paying for their other media distribution products.
I did give a reason, maybe it was too subtle: the majority of your market is on one or maybe two devices and focusing on a better experience on those devices will make your users' lives better as opposed to cobbling together some compromised jank interface in the name of capturing a few outliers.
It would probably be easier for Facebook or Google to just reboot their headquarters, in multiple offices, wherever their labor pool migrates when their homes get flooded. For the most part it's just people at desks in buildings, which can be set up anywhere there is electricity.

These companies would take a freebie if municipalities decided to mitigate flooding on their behalf, but it wouldn't end up being an existential issue for them to just move elsewhere if things became untenable.
I remember visiting the "new" Hacker Dojo in 2015, after I left the Bay Area. It definitely had the same vibe from when I left. (See my other post.)

I'd probably have rejoined if I was still in the area.

I just didn't want to have to do fundraising.
No matter what you think about climate change, that subhead is a rookie mistake and a false dichotomy: The private companies are taxpayers.
Opinion: Pandemic Memories Will Stay with Our Children
At my old shop we had a 'marketing' person for a bit. She was supposed to run the social media profiles, keep the website updated, post ads and stuff.

Pretty sure she did literally actually nothing the entire time she was there until they started having her double up on reception duties on Saturdays.

She ended up leaving because she moved away somewhere. Needless to say, they did not hire another marketing person.
Fascinating. I'm reminded of the bitter lesson* from AI, which is that the scale of computation is really the only thing that matters.

*http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
More likely, in my opinion, is the the stories can also be too long and all over the place.
it doesn't quite explain what the whale thing, I wouldn't have understood anything, without a knowledge of docker. But otherwise it's cute.
Help this poor girl and her twins
No. While it is "possible" it is certainly not "plausible." Please explain why if you were trying to divert attention away from a stolen good such as fertilizer you would engage in a criminal act on such a scale as to get the world to focus on the very thing you would like to draw attention away from?
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The same way any other infrastructure is paid for?
It's almost as if Californian casting directors have never been to any part of the country besides SF, LA, NYC, or Seattle.
X1 Carbon still has pretty terrible battery life compared to say an M-1 Mac. I used to be a thinkpad fan having had T450s personally and then a X1-Carbon/X1-Extreme for work. While the T450s experience was mostly good the latter experience convinced me to not get another thinkpad as my next laptop because:

1. The X-1 Carbon light as it was had terrible battery life of a few hours.
2. The X-1 Extreme fans are like jet engines and often on even when I'm not actively doing anything and my account is locked.

Got the cheapest base M-1 Mac and it is dead silent, has great battery life and amazing performance. Plus the price is killer too.
> it's left implicit or it's purposefully omitted from the article

It's explicitly right there in the essay...

> Machine learning has bequeathed us a wealth of automation tools that operate with high degrees of reliability to classify and act on data acquired from the real world. It’s cool!

> Brilliant people have done remarkable things with it.

You seem to be in agreement with the article but don't realize it.
I do, it's in recline mode all the time. I have a little foot stool I put my feet on while I work. Probably not the most healthy thing but it's really comfortable.
25 or 50 years from now those companies might not be anywhere close to the bay, if they still exist.
That sounds amazing! I'd happily pay more for a movie experience like that
Yeah, that’s not playing out well. Vancouver and the surrounding region experienced 800 deaths relating to June’s unprecedented one-in-a-thousand-years heat wave.
> Indeed, humans may be special in that babies are more and more just enough developed to be born, so that they just can be born through normal labour.

I think a corollary of this is maybe the simplest (while still compelling) argument for the possibility of greater than human intelligence (be it alien, modified human, AI, etc).

For it to be true that greater than human intelligence is impossible, all of the following would have to be true:

1) after some point, bigger brains have diminishing returns wrt intelligence
2) the maximum beneficial brain size just happens to fit through a primate pelvis modified for an upright walking gate
3) the maximum beneficial brain size can be competitively powered by a hunter gatherer diet

To me, that seems like a very unlikely conjunction!