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Lack of accuracy on AKs is fudd lore at this point. All my AKs are under 2 MOA, shooting old yugo M67. The SAM7 is just beyond anything else, losing only to the Vz58, which is a different thing altogether.

I think it is a mixture of prejudice against "the enemy rifle", "usa made" and other xenophobic feelings, as well as ignorance towards the manual of arms, how to use the sights, etc.
> Giving up before you start doesn’t help because it’s a shut down. You don’t even get to the part of assessing viability and weighing risk.

Now you're adding "before you start", who said that until you did? Ok, what if instead you've gotten to the part of assessing viability and weighing risk and then decided not to go down that path, of, say, founding a startup.

> What that something is depends on the cards you have. How far it can take you again depends on circumstances.

Right, perhaps depending on circumstances that something is not founding a startup.

I don't totally understand what we're disagreeing about. Or what you mean when you say "it doesn't help" -- help who do what?

I would say deciding your circumstances make it harder for you than others to found a startup, thus it would make more sense to join someone else's startup or look for a job at a FAANG or something instead -- could at least conceivably "help". Help you find a path that works better for you to find success. I'm not sure what you mean by your repetition that it "doesn't help", as, like, a logical a priori.
> The advice, or rather the plea, from both Hacker News and Reddit is not to abandon Firefox - but on the other hand there is also mounting evidence that MBNA isn't the only company writing Firefox off.

I don't know about this. Almost every thread about Firefox has someone recommending Brave. Firefox is solving a problem users don't know they will miss until it's gone: browser consolidation. The problems that needs solving now are privacy related and Mozilla's absolutely poor management of Firefox on this front causes others to look for other solutions.

Firefox should be the most privacy centric browser available. However it doesn't seem like management gets the memo. For example, not too far in the past, they made news for putting ads in the search bar and providing a config option (in about:config) to even allow personalization. This kind of thing just destroys the brand and trust with users. If someone asked me to rank browsers based on privacy, I don't think I could give you a rank order, other than the fact that Chrome (and I'm assuming IE) would be near the bottom.
The industry doesn't care about anything except for executive personnel profit.

If you want caring, you need to get it outside of the industry.
The only person who is promising self driving cars next year (and has done so every year for the past 5 years) is Elon Musk. Most respectable self-driving car companies are both further along than Tesla and more realistic about their timelines.
so, is it free or a charge of $7?
This 'proof' seems a little suspect. It assumes that the rules they have discovered hold for all situations. Even if they have tested a large number of facts to remember, there is no reason to believe their isn't some threshold where it doesn't hold anymore.

Also, they seem to be holding this learning technique like it is a mathematical fact of the universe. I am not an expert, but nothing in the human brain works that consistently. I can't imagine every single person in the world can learn equally well with this technique.

Although this is likely some form of satire, because there is no way anyone could seriously think the brain works like this.
Thanks! We are hoping to support iOS within a couple of months.
We want to have the same level of performance as what we achieve today with Android. I am curious what didn't work great when you tried iOS in the cloud options in the past? Just performance or something else as well?
Adversary keeps camera off (bad hair day, broken web cam, low bandwidth, etc). Now how do you verify their identity? (Hint, the same way you would when the camera is on.)
>there are many ways to build this 'luck surface', and the expected values of each are probably very different, and likely situational.

I agree. Something as straightforward as being known as someone who does good work, putting yourself out there somewhat (writing, speaking, etc.), basically developing a network of people who you know at least professionally is certainly a way a lot of people develop at least something of a "luck surface." It may well not produce the big win but it can certainly lead to "lucky" opportunities.

Of course, there are other options that are more like gambles that may have negative EV but if you don't play big you probably won't win big.
I’ve always used gon ( https://github.com/mitchellh/gon ) for this, which is open source golang, but I don’t think it supports mach-o embedding. I’ll have to try this tool out.
According to CNBC, for Vision Fund 1:
"More than half of the money comes from contributors like Apple, Qualcomm, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."

So I guess I don't feel too bad about the money party not working out.
I recently went through this and conda handled the python deps pretty well, but the nvidia cuda stuff was a massive pain to get the right things installed. I think it’s safe to blame nvidia.
The irony is that Starling is consistently the better bank, from my perspective.

I started off getting Monzo when it advertised itself as a pre-paid debit card and it's big selling point was free foreign ATM transactions. I never actually used it all that much (I've been with them about 5-6 years, and maybe done about £1000 total foreign withdrawals).

At some point when they introduced limits, there was a post on their forum comparing them to Starling, Revolut and N26 and others. N26 was a bit of a hassle, but I got the other two just in case I needed more than the £200 a month you were now allowed.

Since then, the service at Monzo has steadily declined, as they decide to start charging fees for this that or the other than used to be free, adding more and more junk dressed up to look pretty, but every month or so the service gets degraded a little more somehow. An extra charge here. A restriction there. More in-app advertising for services I don't want, etc.

And yet throughout that, Starling has continued to do everything you'd expect from a bank, and with the convenience of an online bank. Their app hasn't really changed at all in that time, and yet somehow it's still better than Monzo's. Simpler, sure, but certainly less annoying.

It's telling that I've never felt comfortable trusting Monzo with my salary, because it always feels like it'll fold any moment, so I've always had my salary paid into a "real bank" and just have a standing order each month to transfer £500 a month for monthly expenditure, but pay most bills directly from the old brick and mortar bank. I needed to keep that old account around anyway, because Monzo makes life impossible if you need occasionally to use cheques.

And so, when I started a company and needed to choose a bank for my business account, it was a no brainer - Starling.
What's the point of tapering it down in stages like this? Between the October 19th quotas and the October 20th quotas, if you wait until the last minute, you have 24 hours to move 37.5TB of data. Then 4 more days to move another 7TB; does that actually help anyone? The proposition of getting that much data out of it at that speed seems a bit unrealistic. Why not just say "the quota will be 5GB on November 9th" and be done with it?
Note though that a game can have emerged complexity arising from simple rules. Classic examples will be chess and go.
Stg 44 from what I can see can clearly be called German. That is rather complicated in engineering.

Unlike AK which is exceedingly simple.

I think only thing is the inspiration for class of weapon which time had clearly come. Something beyond sub-machine gun. With decent single shot accuracy.
It's not about fake images trying to show reality but it's about images crafting something from reality and showing something unreal. The brain want to interpret it and fail.
This fail drives me nuts.
I only replied to the parent because they said that it was 'literally the definition of labor', which is absurd.
> All transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons are prohibited unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt. These prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person and the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

So, it seems that it is prohibited for US persons to send tokens to these smart contracts, or to withdraw tokens from these smart contracts.

What about miners running in the United States? Are US-based miners also prohibited from producing blocks that include transactions that interact with these smart contracts?

And what about blocks that are produced by non-US miners, and which contain transactions that interact with these smart contracts? Might US-based miners be prohibited from validating and building upon such blocks?

Does US law effectively now mandate a fork of Ethereum so that US persons can safely interact with a blockchain that excludes all interactions with Tornado smart contracts? It seems like an extreme implication, but can the possibility be excluded?
You have a space next to your couch that could be occupied by a side table. Here's a few suggestions:
On Being a Staff Engineer
Once you can complete a feedback loop, things will get very strange very fast.

You will be able to visualize your own nightmares when you are awake.
What's the "proof" here and what is "this" referring to?
> Who knows if this optimism will prove to be wise. All we can say for sure right now is that the companies in the best position to understand the risks and opportunities of investing in the credit card business are investing heavily.

This is kind of a non-statement because every market collapse ever was preceded by "people who appear to understand the market making heavy investments" right up until the crash when it becomes obvious they didn't understand anything.

Basically it's saying "following the herd is smart, unless the herd turns out to have been wrong"
The broad money supply increased 2x since he bought it in 2013. That could explain a lot of it. Today it would take $500M to have the same purchasing power as $250M did then?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
> Cox Enterprises is not buying out HQ, which Axios is spinning out into a separate company. Mr. Schwartz will be chief executive of that company and Cox will take a minority stake, with Mr. VandeHei serving as chairman, one of the people with knowledge of the deal said.

Interesting. HQ probably has more upside than the media business long-term. Think Grammarly crossed with Mailchimp.
YouTuber Mark Rober Talks Working at Apple on VR Headsets in Self-Driving Cars
I'm sure this will continue to happen. Perhaps we can look forward to a movement for open source DIY kits for gadgets like this in the future?
And success is being lucky repeatedly, so you can't really plan for it; only be disqualified if you're below the minimum entry point of preparedness.

Anyone telling you that they worked hard to achieve their current success is falling to the survivor bias fallacy.
I have a bad habit of thinking it's bad when I just don't understand it yet. Acknowledging that bias makes it easier to spot and avoid.
"Gaming" is one of the least pejorative words they could use to describe cryptocurrency mining, and since these people buy video gaming boards in fierce competition with the gamers Nvida would really like to be selling them to....
Isn’t this sort of what we accuse the Chinese of doing? The US designs the technology and then the Chinese manufacturers steal that design to make their own?

Except now, the EU is more or less forcing American companies to sell unaffiliated spin-offs to the EU to continue doing business there. Seems a bit underhanded to change the rules now after so long, especially considering the fact that the EU can’t make these companies for themselves or they would have already.
Why do you think that is "your" data? There is no expectation of privacy in public places, therefore the location of your car is rarely if ever private.
Does anyone have any data on if Amazon robotics devs are treated any better than Amazon's reputation would imply?

I would fit squarely into this profile, but I didn't even bother applying. For context, I talked to over 20 bay area robotics companies, have upcoming on-sites at some of the self drivings and have passed technical interviews at other FAANGS. I've done everything from embedded computer vision / SLAM to drivers to kinematics.
GitLab team member here. Thanks for the comment.

We understand people don’t want their quotas being filled by something outside of their control. For Open Source projects, we have GitLab for Open Source which contains higher limits from the Ultimate tier (250GB Storage, 500GB transfer/month). In addition, we intend to look into other ways to address your concern such as counting only your own traffic or allowing you to limit external traffic.
True, no one can predict the future.

So far the price did go down and quality did improve but obviously it might hit a wall. I do feel that these are the type of processes that can be made more efficient at scale but that's a feeling from an external observer. Not an expert in the field.

OTOH the quality of meat is deteriorating due to industrial farming. Antibiotics, bad feed, etc. The quality vs. price problem goes both ways.
You could layer on IR depth mapping, available in many Windows Hello providing camera systems.

I happen to agree with the other voices here saying this is a folly game of cat and mouse, but there are near-time methods of making this harder to fool. And that might be enough for now.
Yes it works on mobile but is a bit slower, we want to continue to improve performance there. It's reasonable on a Pixel 6 pro, I'm curious which phone are you using? We'll look into the ping time.
Reason #1 - I agree

Reason #2 - Nobody disagrees with this. The robots would probably clean better

Non-Reason #1 - There's a lot more information than the layout of the home which can be gathered by these robots. The layout of the home argument is a strawman. Of course the government knows how your rooms are partitioned. But the layout of your furniture, kids toys on the floor, water bowls for pets are just some of the things which can be detected just via blind exploration. The new models have cameras, I mean. And if you're saying 'but then all this data can already be inferred from your shopping history'. Yes, yes it can, but also another data point confirming speculative data can be valuable. Also, they can expose this data without your consent to the police and the data can be used against you in court. Think drug paraphernalia left of the floor or a stash of cash under your bed. Amazon's privacy policy states that they will share information with law enforcement in case of 'emergency'. A roomba with a camera turned on remotely is a wet dream for cops.

Non-Reason #2 - Yeah, for now.

Non-Reason #3 - `They already know this information` - they will know that information better. Whenever I hear this argument 'Oh, they already know'. No, they don't already 'know'. They have indicators about a particular piece of intelligence and now they'll have more. And the information you're talking about is the information which can be collected with the current sensors on the robot on the market. Who's to say what the future brings?

Reason #0 - That's incredibly reductionist about what a company the size of Amazon does. But sure, have it your way. They sell things. This will enable them to sell things better. But that doesn't dismiss the fact that Amazon did and does share your personal information with law enforcement without customer consent and without a warrant. And let's not forget, Amazon received the largest GDPR fine in history. I would not trust any of my data to Amazon, let alone invite them into my house.

Comments like yours, on a forum filled with people actually working on data collection related features makes me lose all hope that we'll actually reach a point in which the industry will side with the consumer.

Just to remind everyone about the 'this is fine..' comments. Amazon bought Ring: 'this is fine..' - shared footage with LEO agencies without a warrant and without consent. Amazon releases Alexa 'this is fine..' - 'Amazon and third parties are collecting and sharing Alexa voice interactions from Echo speakers with up to 41 different advertising partners'.
Nope. I had a "burner" voip used for providing to retailers/etc who wanted a phone number for no reason. I would migrate the number yearly. Unfortunately those are now rejected.
On a side note I applied to many positions at YC companies through YC's job portal. Wrote cover letters, reached out to people on linkedIn, did my research through Angel to show my genuine interest..did not get a single response. And I have a decent resume in terms of experience. I got better feedback from almost any other place besides YC's portal. Not good
It depends.

My car had no sentry mode aka security cam feature (it blinks lights and records a few mins of video locally to my external ssd if something is happening near it) when it came out, but thanks to the update it now does. Same for being able to access live camera feed from my car remotely on my phone, if i want to check on it. Oh, and another update later made it so that I can review the recorded security footage on the car screen directly (only when the car is parked), without having to unplug the SSD and reviewing videos on my laptop/phone.

Those features above was never mentioned or promised when I was buying the car, because they simply didn't exist or weren't even planned at the time. Other updates improved the UI/UX in some major ways. All in all, I have no complaints about that experience at all.

Also, none of those are auto-updates. Tesla will notify you if the update is available, but it won't be downloading them usung the built-in cell connection, only using wifi connection.
Rather not associate pii with my hn account. Anything urgent?
This is clever. Don't mind if I borrow your idea. I wonder if I can automate the setup...
Ha! Certainly none of us will get anywhere close to this bound, no matter how much time we log in Anki. But the OP asked "Would an infinitely-long-lived, but forgetful person be able to recall an infinite number of facts using this method?", and the answer is a surprising "no, you turn into a black hole".
How about "You're the byproduct."?
I think it’s simply that the Post was saddled with high legacy overhead costs and slow digital growth at that time. Whereas Axios today is basically the opposite: strong digital growth with zero legacy overhead.
I do kind of need to see them, otherwise I’m going to slam my hands into the desk or knock the mouse off the table. You are effectively blindfolded with the headset on.
>Termux is stuck on Android 9 compatibility, until they are no longer allowed to publish such old API level on the store.

I think they've already discontinued support for Google play and ask users to install Termux from F-Droid.
> I tend to write resilient code, since I work in embedded systems and what you never want is the system to crash.

That might be okay too depending on what your system is. I've had a cell phone (the monochrome dumb kind) display an assertion error at me, that was kind of cool. A screw was coming loose, so there were hardware issues. Worst case, I'd have to bring it to the store and get it repaired or replaced; there was no threat of injury or large monetary damage.
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This is germany still, not the whole of the EU.

But it does show how an all-reaching law like gdpr can have stramge consequences…
From Paul Saffo "It's the Context" (Wired 1994) http://www.saffo.com/essays/its-the-context-stupid/

"The seductive chaos of the Internet today offers hints at why these agents to come will be so important. Like Alice’s Restaurant, you can get anything you want — but unless you have software help, you might never find what you are looking for."

"It is this avalanche of content that will make context the scarce resource. Consumers will pay serious money for anything that helps them sift and sort and gather the pearls that satisfy their fickle media hungers. The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the banal expanses of cyberspace."
The Worse, The Better (c) Lenin
> conda
Those staff numbers look good, until you realize how many more people will be required to grow their revenue to where WP is.
That's not needed to answer my question. Regardless of FSD, are Teslas more lethal per mile than other cars?
Thanks for your comment and advice. That makes sense and I think I understand - if I want to achieve something then it takes discipline and motivation will not always exist for me to rely on. But the part I’m struggling with is why try to achieve it / do good work to begin with.

I think I’m overcomplicating things. If I want to do good work and clearly not doing good work doesn’t make me feel good, maybe it’s enough to understand that doing better work will make me feel better and that’s enough motivation in itself. Kind of like how the amateur runner doesn’t run to win a medal but because they see it’s good for them and that makes them happy.
Because the people that do that the most need tend to need something urgently that will make me stop what I'm doing and handle their problem anyway. I'd rather just be interrupted all at once than in dribs and drabs.
I and many others agree. But the pesky problem of needing to pay the people who want to make a difference sadly still persists.

I'd work on idealistic causes starting tomorrow if I didn't live in a world that mandates me to spend most of my energy on commercial work just so I can eat and have where to sleep.
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