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How is this an improvement over other INS like LRG?

INS mechanisms suffer from the same problem: that they only detect linear or rotational acceleration. To reach position, double integration must be performed, which rapidly accumulates error (drift) because velocity and position both have to be maintained to calculate the next position.

Disclaimer: Trimble Nav alum
It does, until you cook a laptop beyond its operational thermal tolerances because you shut the lid, threw it in a bag, and it never suspended.

If that's a problem you don't have though, it's not something you need to worry about.
By Westphalion model, do you mean the sovereigty of nation states?
"CBT doesn't really stand up against severe mental illness, so why should we expect that it's good for the average person who's suffering from some mild depression and anxiety? "

Because the two are very different things!

So very different!
You're referring to PySpark, which still does all the heavy lifting in the JVM.
Here is the thing: anywhere in the world is going to be effected, and the astonishing lifestyle some people are used to depends on a functioning society providing goods and services.

History is filled with dynasties of rulers going out in a messy way. We are headed to a time of unprecedented change, and we should expect that, for the only time in history, these changes will cause no threat to wealthy people?
Christopher Wray (FBI director) needs to resign. We live in age where internet is very very critical and this could cause huge damage.
The 10kv power supply for an ion pump could be quite small, as the load current is proportional to leakage. The real innovation seems to be offering a small package without the voltage induced by the ion pump possibly effective the rest of the environment.

The actual paper itself would make it clear what the real advance is, but it's paywalled. 8(
autorandr has been great for automatically swapping between configs. I use arandr to set up config on a new machine and then autorandr to manage on common hardware setups.
Question - I don't have the new DE version. There is a sign next to the bridge in GTA:SA which has stats on the front. What is on the back of it now? Did the developers keep the back of the sign or erase it because they didn't understand its true meaning?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3ylmm4/a_staggering...
I've just started getting interested in FM and DX7. Power DX7 has some good insight. Here he is talking about algorithm choice and how it can affect sound. https://youtu.be/s4oMnCCUb8w
Does it matter if intelligence is a "single trait"? IQ, at least, is a single trait and it's empirically heritable. There has been a great deal of work to address the confounders (e.g. twin and adoption studies) and shore up the construct validity of IQ. Nobody thinks IQ = intelligence, but it's a measurable trait that says a lot about intelligence.

IQ isn't on the same level of definiteness as height, but I don't think you have a bright line of "trait validity" with height on one side and IQ on the other.
Throughout the history of Windows I've had to upgrade the whole OS in order to run some software or play some videogame, so I'm not sure what you mean.
Indeed.

I don't want to move into Ad Hominem attacks, but the article really reads like the author is setting out to mischaracterize CBT because of their own bitter experiences.

But that's just the 'feeling' I get from it and I'm biased already having had a positive CBT experience :-)
How will billions die from climate change?
What strikes me most about this piece (from one of the special periodic editions of the Whole Earth Catalog) is that it absolutely captures one of the consequences of the software / informational-based business models, and pretty much nails that trend in terms of the legal / property / ownership / business-model dynamic.

At the same time, it has a few misses.

The nascent Free Software movement is ignored. I think that’s a general failing of the WEC crowd, which focuses strongly on consumer operating systems and software (CPM, MS DOS, Apple II, and at about this point the just-released Apple Macintosh), but not Unix which was also starting to become available through SCO and a number of other vendors. Eric Raymond seems to have entered the Linux world in large part by publishing his own FAQ for a time on various PC-based Unix options, most with a pretty hefty price-tag.[1] The WEC crowd seems to have largely ignored this at least through 1988. Not that they weren’t aware of it.

Another failure was not grasping the services-based model, though to be fair, that required a vastly more effective, higher-bandwidth, more-reliable networking infrastructure which was still about 15–20 years out. Widespread broadband access only really began around 2003, and wasn’t a principle access mode until another five years later. Arguably there are large parts of the population in the US still lacking adequate high-speed Internet. And of course mobile Internet, which began really 20 years later with the release of the Apple iPhone.

That said, it’s quite prescient and an interesting bit of history. Jay Finney, the author, has a number of other pieces up as well, and I encourage browsing through those.

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Notes:

1. http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt
Ok then, what about these rights:
- Right to sick leave and annual leave (only for people on part/full-time contracts, at least in AU)
- Right to strike (only affects unionised labourers)
I was the lead engineer at a small, B2B startup. We got N millions in seed funding, but the product barely got any traction. Growth was slow. The last couple years there were definitely zombie-like, after most of the original team was laid off or left on their own.

I eventually moved on to be a cog-in-the-machine principal engineer at a larger company. To be honest, it's not very satisfying. I prefer earlier stage, even though it's generally lower pay for higher risk.

I'll probably do something else soon.
> more than 70% of the adults never did figure out the right rule.

Wish they said how many children figured out the rule.
Has anyone found any similar information on Apple's codes used for App Clips? They are round, with five concentric circles formed of dashes.

I've been googling, but can't find any analysis of their structure.
A valuable perspective that alludes to a troubling phenomenon: discourses around disability often cater to the comfort of the abled.

Abled people don't want to accept that disabled people might require care beyond exercise and a change of mindset. It's disturbing to them that somebody (potentially them one day) could be in such a vulnerable position, and it potentially calls for costly support beyond these minimalist interventions.
Exactly. People focused too much on my Linux example (in hindsight, I should have foreseen this), when it's a problem of all software.

Not just OSes, everything. You want a feature or bug fix that doesn't exist in the old stable version, you need the next one, so you upgrade.
I know another government contractor whose idea of client responsiveness is to download the entire server database to the client browser on initial load
Jam: Open-source alternative to Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and other audio spaces
Low Framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
I've got a Thinkpad T470 running Ubuntu 18. I use two external monitors - one over USB3.0, the other over HDMI. When I wake the computer from sleep mode, 50% of the time it wakes up with the HDMI screen disconnected. If I now go enable that screen in display settings, my 3-screen layout resets. I have to resort to unplugging both, waiting for it to figure out how to display things on just one screen again, then plug each screen in separately, HDMI first, taking a moment to let it get its sh*t together each time. It drives me crazy. I've learned to interrupt cooking dinner and pop into my office room to jiggle the mouse just so I don't have to go through this procedure again because I hate it.
I think I've made some progress... When one line is added to the problem, it allows us to put 1 or 2 vertices there, so...

Consider U(m, n) as the number of new unique forms possible for Q(m, n). I'm not sure, but it looks like:

U(1, 1) = 1

U(m + 1, n) = U(m, n) * (n + (n+1)*n/2) - X

U(m, n + 1) = U(m, n) * (m + (m+1)*m/2) - X

Where X is the number of invalid forms generated adding one or two vertices in the new line because of straight angles in diagonals. I'm considering only diagonals, because adding only one or two vertices in the new line will not align 3 vertices horizontally or vertically if all "previous forms" were valid.

If we can find X, then, I think Q is given by:

Q(m, n) = m*n*U(1, 1) + (m-1)*(n-1)*U(2, 2) + (m-2)*(n-2)*U(3, 3) +...+ 1*1*U(m, n)
I run 3 displays across 2 video adapters. Getting them all to work as I want (one of them is generally powered down, but not disconnected) was a struggle, but now works flawlessly and I tend to forget about the work involved.

The key things I needed to find out:

1. figuring out how to run a script when a display was connected or disconnected. This needed to be in a udev .rules file somewhere

ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", ENV{HOTPLUG}=="1", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/monitor-hotplug.sh"

2. how to enumerate all possible video display names:

DEVICES=$(find /sys/class/drm/*/status)

3. Writing the rest of the script.

The last step is mostly left as an exercise for the reader. There are some good examples online; I'll put my current version here https://pastebin.com/V5yGgCbh for a couple of weeks.
There must be a site with all of these stories but could not find it right now. The story about the car that would break down if you buy vanilla Ice Cream is one of my favorites. There’s also the story about the switch that is not connected anywhere but crashes the server every single time.
you really can't, if you want to live in western europe and don't want to do shady stuff, you have to accept the social solidarity system we live in here.

I'm not a lawyer or accountant, and I cant give business or legal advice and the following is "sarcasm" etc etc...

in theory, slovakia, dividend tax for residents is 7%, you don't have to pay social or health deductions when taking out dividends from the company you own. you can employ yourself in said company with base salary and pay minimal deductions from that, the rest you can take out as dividend. your home residence still matters, this means you would also have to live there for majority of the year. otherwise you would have to pay additional deductions and tax in country of your residence austria. this is still somehow considered legal and "perfectly ok" thing to do, i bet they will change that in couple of years due to pressure from the EU. you might be able to effectively pay only up to 20% of your gross this way + you get to business expense.

really, just move to switzerland, at least that's my plan a few years down the road.
>They were able to obtain brain tissue from 10 mammalian species: Etruscan shrews (one of the smallest known mammals), gerbils, mice, rats, Guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, marmosets, and macaques, as well as human tissue removed from patients with epilepsy during brain surgery.

Offbeat question: Could it be that epilepsy is a disorder caused by this missing ion channel, and this isn't true for all humans?
> Distributed actors don’t actually have compiler support.

I said from the compiler and OS teams -- there are at least two compiler engineers listed on the proposal.

But this is insupportable nonsense anyways: `distributed` is a brand new keyword, there are new rules about how inits work, magic property behavior... I haven't followed the proposal carefully, but there are also new toolchains being generated to enable the feature.
The problem is that the only reason that something requires the service to function is so that the company can control how you use it. So, they are effectively stopping you from using a product you bought, because they can't keep tabs on you at that particular time. Some people consider that abusive.
Flatpak didn't always exist.

If my Linux example misled you, let me rephrase: can you run modern AAA Windows games using good old Windows XP? If you can't, you've hit exactly the problem I describe.

It's a problem of software in general, and flatpak doesn't solve it. Flatpak itself may be subject to it!
Many of the game's textures were seemingly upscaled with machine learning (or very poor human work) because a lot of the assets now have details removed. A lot of text is even misspelled in the "definitive" release.
And what might that be? I've seen a lot of comments from you in this thread with similarly vague references, but you seem averse to saying exactly what ideology you expect this university to espouse.
Can't you explore the depths of FM synthesis just as easily if not more with a good VST plugin?
The max headroom TV signal hijack guy was never found... and THAT was a high profile prank.
Rust Adventures: Abusing Serde
$ units
586 units, 56 prefixes
...

Can someone share/point to a larger units file I could load. The one in the post has 1311 units, 63 prefixes. Notably, I do not have millilightseconds
He’s cybersecurity expert/researcher, and has been trying to identify TDO for a long time now.
I would suspect what you said is true, but that wasn't my point.

My point was simply that the CCP != China.

They've put a huge amount of propaganda work into trying to conflate criticism of the party with hatred of the country (and by extension, the people in it), to the point where even foreigners start to drink the Kool-Aid.

It's simply untrue, however.
Right, right.

Also, the next zero day in Windows means Nadella should be tossed out of Redmond. It is very critical, no?
That's completely the right strategy for the scale most web apps operate at.
Advice definitely depends on more factors that you’ve shared. (I’m not asking you to share more, just stating the situation.) It depends on how your co-founders feel, it depends on your collective financial situation, on your equity agreements, outstanding contracts, it depends on what will happen to your customers, etc.

I started a company with a friend and when we ran out of money, energy to continue started petering out, even though our metrics were trending the right direction - surely, but slowly, too slowly. We were very lucky to get a buyer right before we were about to close the doors, someone who we knew, who cared, and who was able to get some funding and carry the torch and keep it growing. That took a lot of the worry out of having to stop working on it.

As for the next step - I think I found the best of both of your options in a small team inside a large company. It has helped refill the coffers a little after spending more than I should have trying to get a startup off the ground, and it has been exciting and fast paced in a startup kind of way.

It depends on your appetite for startup environments, but a couple of things I like about bigco right now are that I don’t have to do payroll or taxes or advertising or worry at all about where money is coming from. I get to go deep on technical subjects and spend time inventing rather than productizing.

After having done a startup, I would like to do another some day, but I have learned many lessons, and personally I want to wait for the right idea, the right funding, the right team, and not just jump into any ol’ startup at all.
I can totally see how some nodes could block content, and refuse to propagate information on certain content addresses, but as far as I know, this would only slow down reaching the desired content, not completely block it—every node on the network would need to blacklist the banned address, which is pretty infeasible.

Also, as far as I know, the official daemon doesn't really have any functionality to block certain addresses like this.
I think that depends a lot on what your basis for comparison is. It's sort of like asking what California or New York culture is: what people notice is the differences to what they're used to.
"CBT is freaking awful"

For me, that is too broad a statement!

Having had CBT therapy here in Australia from experienced qualified Doctors, I can say it's been excellent.

But I was being treated for a "Nervous Breakdown", and CBT helped me get my life back on track and functioning again before I burnt my life down!

However, I can't see how it would work for everything and chronic pain seems like a bad fit. ANAD.
> There are some really good reasons why COBOL programmers still get paid a lot of money to this day, even though I am not one mind you.

I haven't found this to be true. It's one of those things that gets repeated, but as a former COBOL programmer, let me tell you that's not where the money is.

I agree with the rest of your comment.
Ask HN: HN-like sites for other disciplines?
Hacker News isn't like any other tech news aggregators or forums. The comment sections are filled with a high standard of often very specific domain knowledge, and it's a common occurrence to see 'high profile' (to us) names. You might ask about an esoteric piece of software from decades past and have a response from its creator, or someone who knew them, who worked alongside them.

What are similar niche high-quality online spaces for other fields?
Since you’re preventing the computer from sleeping anyway, why not just disable sleep instead of regularly interrupting your daily activities?
>It seems strange to use it for something like chronic pain

There is extensive evidence that pain is significantly modulated by psychological factors. If that wasn't the case then opioids wouldn't work, as they rely on the descending pain pathway.
What baffles me is that nobody seems to have called out the fact that the story is utter nonsense.

I posted a longer explanation in a lower level comment, but the biggest problem is that the author has a fundamental misunderstanding of both the speed of propagation, and how TCP works.

There is no way any of what he wrote actually happened, including "sendmail defaults to a few ms timeout."
Hicetnunc and the Merits of Web3
I don't think that brain plasticity can affect a persons tendency to jump to conclusions. You just choose an answer rather than look for more answers, there isn't enough time to grow or remove connections.
Advocates for unfettered "free speech" always seem to gloss over the fact that a lot of that shit is not healthy. I'm not trying to argue that such speech should be censored, but it's certainly nothing to be celebrated.
It's indisputable that the two are happening -- the labor pool has shrunk, and real wages have shrunk too. And it is consistent with economic logic that greater business expenses will lead to inflation. But economic models also predict that scarce labor should lead labor to command higher wages. How those two effects net out is an empirical question -- no model can yet answer it definitively. (The models and the data are, however, both clear that freer immigration leads to greater total world output.)

Also inflation is driven by labor squeezes outside of the United States. (Freer immigration into the US would actually worsen that problem, but negligibly, since US immigration is on the order of 100K people annually out of a world total around 8B.)
QR codes are big ugly squares, so I can understand why some popular apps decide to roll their own.

But it certainly makes them way less convenient and universal. Can’t just open your camera app.

It took me maybe 45 seconds just now to find the scanning feature in Spotify, in a real world situation I probably would have given up and just used search after about 10 seconds.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying. The core of it is what I was trying to say; you said it more eloquently/precisely than I did.
I mean, yes, but also any therapeutic modality that works with these populations is tapping into some consistent realities about human nature that can be applied generally. The reality CBT is tapping into is that gaslighting someone into toxic positivity (or gaslighting someone at all) will show effects for a few weeks, but it's not long term.

Our society doesn't value teaching children soft skills like healthy communication, or understanding what emotions are and distress tolerance around them. These are very basic things that a lot of people only learn after they get into therapy. And they help everyone if applied correctly. The skills you learn in DBT are skills that can help EVERYONE. When you learn how to communicate better at a gold standard you help yourself and the people around you.

If we have a gold standard that can be applied to the most severe cases and help, and this isn't based on anything specific to those disorders but rather taps into some very core "how to be human and deal with weird lizard brain hurty emotions" stuff we need to start using that. Using our brains to rationalize our way out of emotions got us to where we are as a society now and it's pretty unhealthy.
I took this news a little harder than I should have. It was like the kids from It found out Pennywise was dead except Pennywise wasn't real and was actually your cousin from another state. His death seems like a time to reflect on the internet of old and maybe even reconnect with old friends you pissed off in a flame war. So many mixed emotions and I'm still thinking about his death two days later.
If you build IM yourself, then you are no longer using the old, stable IM version and you've hit the problem: you're on the cutting edge, and also running nonstandard software!
The DX7 has 6 oscillators per note, and up to 5 of them can be used to modulate each other (without cycles) or the remaining carrier waveform(s). It's referred to as a 6-op synth, not a 5-op synth, and the YM2612 is a 4-op synth (not 3-op synth), and the OPL2 and FDS are 2-op synths (not 1-op synths).
I have never seen a tutorial. I've scoured a lot of forums, and read about how the team at Yamaha made the original presets. Most people never bother to design sounds. It's more tedious and frustrating than subtractive synth sounds.

First step is finding a capable FM synth you like with a decent user interface. Dexed, NI FM8, Arturia DX7 V, or maybe even Reaktor. (Edit: It’s obvious to me that you shouldn’t buy a Yamaha DX-something to do sound design, but just to make it clear, don’t do that. The user interface is abominable. Just get Dexed if you don’t know what you want.)

Build your sound up by adding "partials" or "tones", or whatever you want to call them. Start with two operators, with one chained to the next. Explore the space of ratios (start with 1:1) and modulation levels. Once you get a handle on some part of the sonic space, consider adding a third operator at the back, i.e. if your operators are A -> B -> C, and C is the output, then A is the one you're adding. Experiment with ratios and modulation levels, and consider this a way to expand the space you've already explored.

You'll find that most of the modulation values are either too subtle to notice or noise that you just can't stand. If you're at a point where the middle ground between subtlety and noise doesn't have the sound you want, that's when you might add the third operator.

With these partials, you can build up the sustain and attack of your sound separately. Experiment with using different timing for all of the envelopes.

You can tell that a lot of sounds are made from a smaller set of partials that have been recombined. For example, the classic DX7 rhodes sound is made up of an attack and sustain partial, and these partials have been reused and recombined with tons of other partials to make sound variations.

This is why I'm not fond of the DX-11, Ad Lib, or other 4-operator systems. They have the "FM sound" but you're really quite limited building your sounds. If you have a partial made with three operators, and you want to add something to it, you have to share operators or use a pure sine wave.
Titanium Backup alongside versioned backups to my computer via Syncthing has worked well for me.