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Computers are undoubtedly more powerful now than they were in the 90s. Although computing capabilities of the 90s seem weak compared to today's standards, they were not so inadequate that we couldn't train and run a network comprising thousands of parameters. I vividly recall the early 2000s when I was in college. Neural networks were seen as a sort of "fringe" technology in a series of statistics courses. We were mostly shown examples with 6 or 12 neurons, and nobody mentioned the possibility of scaling up to hundreds of neurons. Around that time, we already had sophisticated games like The Elder Scrolls III. We could have easily scaled up the network size by at least an order of magnitude at home, not to mention the capabilities that big companies possessed at that time.
>"That's why we've been exposed to all the myriad ways the mind is genuinely hard to study. "

Guess this is what I don't get. It seems like HN accepts that studying the mind is hard. But then seems equally to not understand that hard things take time and often have false starts and difficulty dialing in measurements.

The ancient Greeks thought atoms were made of earth, wind, fire, water. We don't call them BS because it doesn't replicate. Psychology is relatively new, yet we want instant results, instant gratification.

We've had centuries to figure out how to measure temperature. But Psychology takes a few decades and still struggles to measure the mind, and that means it is BS?
This is cool and authentic content though. Got any recs for me?
You can take it a step further and have a counterweighted single blade propeller, which is the most efficient.

That being said, this is only aero efficiency. Once you start to add electric motor efficiency, things get interesting. To generate thrust with lower number of blades you need to have large torque torque to put into the prop , which means the motor has to be a low Kv (Kv = rpm/volt, and a low Kv means a high Kt where Kt = torque/amp), to keep the current lower to lessen electrical power losses. Or use a reduction gearbox. Both of the above necessitate a bigger package and more weight, which requires more thrust, and so on.

There is a place in this design space where having multiple rotors is actually more efficient for the overall flight envelope.
> There were expensive servers you could call for porn and gambling as well.

And one of those adult servers became one of the principal French ISPs and a major telecom company: Free/Iliad.
ChatGPT generates strings of numbers that are the same length as IMEI codes, but are mostly invalid.

This isn't news.
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Of course it's a right. I don't agree with the gp that owning 2 homes is fundamentally immoral, but no human deserves to be homeless.
Good post and a slightly different take on the classic “be earning or learning”.

When I saw the play+earn (an area the author says they have less examples for) I was picturing more freelance advisory consulting - dabbling in fun pieces of work with dream clients - than crypto trading but perhaps I’ve not quite got the framework on the first read.
I had heavily used excel in my previous job from project management to heavy calculations. One of the most versatile tools! I love spreadsheets.
Usually, the search results are movies with similar genre to the one I was looking for, not just simply similar spelling etc. I assume they look up stuff like what other movies people who had seen the searched-for movie have seen. So if I was looking for Movie A and Netflix knows that people who've seen Movie A tend to like Movie B, C, D, etc (and these are available in your part of the world) it'll show these movies instead. I think this is nicer and better than just failing with zero results.
The last one in the image is valid.
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That looks really good, thank you.
I think this applies to his boss more than anyone else. Zuck just did not get it done. He picked a fight with apple, spent billions acquiring occulus and none of this actually got Meta to be anywhere close to where apple is today in that space and how meta is losing ad revenue because Zuck failed to bend the knee. I just can’t believe that billionaires egos are so fragile and it has to come in the way of building profitable and successful companies.
Do you suppose there were triremes just beached out in the Egyptian desert back then, too?
Trafficking cannabis through Nebraska is almost certainly a felony, and, as for attempt liability, you could do worse than this comic explanation of how it works: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=344

So: those county sheriffs probably weren't lying that they could jam Bouldin up --- not simply because they can do that to anybody with $18k in cash in their van, but because of the totality of the evidence they collected.
This. Just wait until you meet someone familiar with everything you know much deeper and it's not even their main thing.
Persistent metabolic adaptation 6 years after The Biggest Loser competition
Makes me wonder if there may be newer shipwrecks atop older shipwrecks, and we may miss these older interesting finds because the newer ships atop them are considered not worth exploring. Extremely unlikely in the vast ocean but I imagine some very high-traffic areas like near black sea ports or common areas like rock formations this may have happened with some regularity.
>> I've made > 100 pre-seed investments and the #1 cause failure in the first 3 years is founders quitting because of unresolved cofounder conflict.

Can you comment on the most common cause of conflict? You mention something trivial to make the point that they can be over trivial things, but what is the most common cause of conflict?
> As a side note, confirming no connections with cell towers is not “fairly easy to verify”

It's fairly easy by comparison with more detailed questions about cellular traffic like "is this bit of specific data being sent to a cell tower". It does require some RF test equipment and the know-how to use it, but no specialized knowledge beyond that -- in other words, the sort of thing a company selling a RF-blocking device should have access to.
But he didn’t traffic anything though Nebraska. Did they have evidence that he intended to? Seems unlikely.
I hadn't really thought about it before, but it makes sense, upon reflection, that the temptation to appropriate mostly idle consumer computing resources for something is too great to ignore.
The 9th International Workshop on Plan 9 (http://iwp9.org/) took place in Ontario a few months back. It was free to attend, I believe the venue (a lecture hall at Waterloo) was free, and the t-shirts were donated. Now, it was a very small conference, and it was organized by the Plan 9 Foundation, but to the best of my knowledge (as a member of the Program Committee) it didn't really cost anything.
Instruction cache usage is still important, especially with memory latencies being what they are today.
Okay. Well look at the current case law.

The courts are not in a place to invalidate existing laws, so the legislatures are required to change those laws.

Or a clarifying constitutional amendment is required.

If you can think of a shortcut nobody else thought of then go for it.
I’ve seen apps do that too.

I may make a difference with laser scanners or other more commodity hardware than smartphone cameras which are pretty amazingly good these days.
Or parsing. One of the most intuitive and elegant real-world uses of recursion. I've been writing an XML parser and everything is recursive. Of course, because XML is fundamentally a recursive data structure, a tree.

Who in their right mind would sincerely reach for a recursion to solve factorials or Fibonacci first?

Even the maths-minded people would write the sequence bottom-up, and stop when it reached their desired T(n); when programming it, they'd ask for a loop-esque construct that they could stop when a condition was reached.
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> Modern processors can retire multiple additions per cycle.

Then add multiple overflow checking units.

> one of them has a throughput of 4/cycle and the other one will be 3/cycle and compiler authors will pick the former every time.

Currently on RISC-V checked addition requires 4 dependent instructions, so its throughput is about 1 addition/cycle.
That's pretty much the story. It came in as a high priority issue with no context. I asked for clarification, he asked if we wanted to fail the the audit. I changed them to red and he wrote a thing about we were more secure now.
That's a good enough reason. Since he had to move in with you this means he lives alone though? do you consider it safe for him to live alone in the old age? (For his own sake not just for the sake of healthy housing market)
Arcnet was something I read about back in the 1980s but never encountered. Worked at places that strung good old coax for Ethernet or Token Ring before LattisNet boxes turned the industry upside-down. For about 12 months there the LattisNet products were the hottest thing in networking and the rest of the industry seemed to be in catch-up mode.

From that video Arcnet seems self limiting in a way that Ethernet never was - only using a byte for the workstation address seems...shortsighted.
Why LLM-assisted table transformation is a big deal
It's actually an easy problem to avoid Buy a Knuth book or other core science/math text and read that instead.
Yeah, I definitely know conferences that have sponsorships but there are no sponsor talks or anything along those lines. Some free passes, shoutouts, logos on signage, maybe the right to have logo giveaways etc. Even when a company is providing a venue there are pretty much always other sponsors in my experience.

And, yes, companies will pretty much always want more for their sponsorship dollars and it's one of the jobs of organizers to push back which given a good professional relationship tends to work.
You can download and read the declassified official history of the program, called Project Oxcart: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/project-oxcart...

I read the 2013 release a few years ago and recall that I found it quite entertaining, but I don't remember any specific quotes or factoids about the consideration of alternative sources.
I was only ever involved in the PC demoscene back in the day, and on that platform chiptunes generally referred to mods that were tiny, using very small samples or even not many samples e.g. playing the same samples at different pitches for different instruments.
> another asked him to create a project that they then used on their website but didn’t pay him for his work

this is over the line if true. Without pay that work isnt theirs, and shouldnt be allowed to display it without his permission
> not like the west can complain after what we did in the opium wars?

the west isn't one entity.

Plus two wrongs don't make a right. Just because in the past, there has been atrocities committed, doesn't mean there's justification to do so now.
Scarcity of beds in mental institutions.
> Even PG does not post on this forum

According to recent analysis, he does under pseudonyms.

Also PG Twitter is probably 90% marketing his investments, so he is complicit in this way
The problem is when this was first rolled out no content was designed for it.

So if they they just mapped the new brightness everything, everywhere, would look wrong. And people would complain that the iPhone is broken. And they have to redo all their websites/apps. And when they do, they look wrong on every other device.

This is the only sane way. It has to be something people opt-in to. That’s what Apple did.
The US did not fuel the opium wars
Ok you didn’t mention it unless I’m misreading things. What evidence did they find as to his future travel plans?

Maybe with 18k he was planning on taking a longer route home or retiring in Colorado or something.
> the new people aren't getting paid either

This changes nothing about what I just stated. Why is the general tone of your comment written as if it does?
Nope. Just a note from my own research. I’m heavily relying on HN comments to weight in alternatives.
...I guess that's a kind of DoS? Almost but I guess not completely joking.
You really think cheap housing is a big factor? You're looking to attract investors, entrepreneurs, and highly skilled engineers. You might stand to be a little cheaper than the bay area, but Detroit cheap isn't necessary surely. You actually want "nice" areas, and you'd want to have rapidly rising property values to encourage people to buy in and stay in the community.

Silicon valley isn't silicon valley because it had cheap property or cafes or internet cables -- lots of places had cheap housing, and the internet didn't exist when SV was kicking off. The reasons are (among other things) that it is close to some of the best technology universities in the world, had significant defense and government technology opportunities and investment over a hundred years or so. You can't just spend a few billion and pop up a new one of those somewhere.

And I'm speculating here, but the hip vibe of California and San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, and the relatively large proportion of Asian immigrants at the time quite possibly helped to draw in young, creative, talented people. Also something that's difficult to conjure up out of nowhere. It's actually a confluence of things that won't be possible to reproduce again because hundreds of cities are trying to do it so there will be no such singular center of gravity.
Activities can be very useful and not psychologically satisfying.
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> Some have more money than they can spend in a lifetime while others are homeless.
> This is the society we live in, created by capitalism that demands unsustainable growth.

Who are you blaming? If you're so virtuous, why don't you give away half of your money to a homeless person?
It's not increasing policing, just increasing prosections and penalties.

But yes it would also be good to also strip money and welfare from offenders and force them to pay restitution to their victims, thereby reducing the hurt from their crimes.
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This is an interesting article on the history of Minitel [1].

Fun facts, the original lead designer of Cyclades Network (Minitel's competitor) is Louis Pouzin using packet switching technology, instead of circuit switching of Minitel, from which TCP/IP was derived [2]. He's widely considered the 4th Internet guy after Cerf, Kahn and Berners-Lee.

He originally coined the popular keyword "datagram" that described the very nature of the stateless packet switching based network layer packet structure that is known as IP today. The cue of the word "gram" took the name from telegram that embodied the close resemblance of Internet to the messaging architecture of the postal system than the telephone system.

[1]Minitel: The Online World France Built Before The Web:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-bu...

[2]Internet Hall of Fame: 2012 Inductee Louis Pouzin:

https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/louis-pouzin/
Slack just lets everyone do it.
> What if I leave for work for a year? Or 4? What is a "good" reason?

Where do you live during that time?

> why should that mean I don't keep my paid for property?

Because someone may want to live somewhere but land is too expensive because everyone is hoarding it?

> At what threshold do you tell someone: fuck you and your property, we are taking it because we want it.

"residential housing not being used as a residence for more than N years"?
One other thing worth mentioning that the article also does not: Austin has many more times illegal properties than they do STR permits: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2022/09/majority-of-au...

I do wonder if they went through the process to get a proper permit to operate.
I (unfortunately) worked for a Big4 and the hiring process took 4 months, 7 interviews in total (3 with 3 different partners) and completing a case study.

And in the end all I did was make slide decks. And then I progressed onto how to tell people how to make slide decks. Not a thing mentioned in the interviews was necessary in my day to day work. It was one of the worst working experiences in my life.
The way you explain it makes it sound like explicit fraud which is completely actionable....

Or were all communications referenced verbal rather than written?
Thanks for this perspective - "request scoped" seems like a really good guideline for context data
Sure but the interface is typesafe and usually that’s good enough. The two methods of the API (NewContext and FromContext) are typesafe from the perspective of the user.
If I recall it correctly, when Spectre/Meltdown mitigations were released, they were applied (to Intel CPU's at the very least) as microcode updates.

What exactly comprises the Intel CPU microcode is somewhat of a mystery, but I also remember somebody tearing apart the blob with the Spectre or Meltdown mitigation and posting the findings (a guesswork, in fact) of what was in there. The microcode was very low level, and it was not very comprehensible to me.
8 legs are also well representated and going strong for millions of years, not to mention carcinisation being a meme at this point.

When it comes to robotics, my best guess would be cost and complexity. We also either need a better control interface or better self driving software to take advantage of the legs moving independently (I assume optimizing how the 8 legs should move to climb a rocky path for instance is just a computational nightmare to do realtime)
If the company culture is bad enough that you get pushed out like this, almost certainly your good co-workers are or will also be pushed out the same way. Those are the people I'm referring to when I say others will see what you do. They're the ones that make up the network that gets you a better position out from such a dysfunctional organization.

I've left such dysfunctional situations before, and the network of co-workers and other managers I built up in those situations by being reliable and communicating were key in finding multiple subsequent positions. In another case, a skip level manager who I'd probably met in person 2 or 3 times tapped me for transfer to another team out from under a lousy manager in part because of an earned reputation for being honest about what was feasible and then getting that done.

Like I said, bad managers are a temporary problem. Either they're gone or you're gone. But your reputation is what you trade on when you call on your network to help make that problem as temporary as possible.
Being autistic is not the worlds most celebrated popular group. Saying you are autistic isn't popular and can actaully have detrimental effects.

People who are autistic are more likely to be turned down for jobs or relationships. They have poorer health outcomes. They don't get treated well by authorities such as police or the legal system. Autistic people are more likely to commit suicide than the general population. Education systems are designed for non autistic people. Even something as simple as going to the shops can be far more difficult if you are autistic.
The text messages. Remember: even in Colorado, random people can't sell weed --- if the person he was texting wasn't a licensed dealer, he's got problems, and: casual buyers just rolling through Colorado don't generally text licensed dealers; you just show up and buy. If he was planning on retiring in Colorado, he could have told that to the sheriffs --- he did not, but rather told a story that fenced him off from alibis like that (see: "don't talk to the police").

Nebraska is a "substantial step" attempt liability state (he's lucky he didn't get pulled over in Kansas, which is an "any overt act" state!). Maybe he'd have had a good case; maybe the evidence wouldn't be compelling enough for a Nebraska jury. But maybe that case survives long enough for $18k to be a bargain, compared to the legal fees to beat the trafficking rap.

I don't know. But these details weren't in the article --- the summary that was presented was deliberately sanded down to make Bouldin more sympathetic. By the logic on this thread --- logic I largely agree with --- it shouldn't matter how sympathetic Bouldin is. The author of the article should have trusted us with the whole story.
3. You get less than 5 sseconds to attract them and keep them on teh page.

4. Have a good CTAB, usuaully up top, with the reason they are on the page

5. Use images or infographics where possible

6. Branding is important.

7. Familitarity when branding works best.

Been designing landing pages for a decade... picked up a thing or two.
Same observation. Hope Zitadel can do it right with zitadel/typescript repo. Huge respect to Ory for showing how it can be done.
Also very relevant is Brent's comment on that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366883
Pretty incredible. We really take for granted the modern connectivity and access of goods and people compared to what human beings had to do for most of history.

Tangentially related: Clive Cussler[0] books are good fun if you're looking for a fiction series about shipwrecks and other nautical adventures.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/stores/Clive-Cussler/author/B000APJ4L...
Oh. I stand corrected then. That’s terrible.
Choosing to name variables with a single character has nothing to do with syntax. At most it could be considered idiomatic, but there's no reason to slavishly follow every idiomatic choice, just as there isn't in natural language.
Cynicism is cheap and boring. It’s also vacuous of insight or contents. Anybody can say “everything sucks” and we‘ve all heard it before.

There’s a happy medium between toxic positivity/ignorance and dismissive cynicism.

>modern tech ecosystem

The tech ecosystem is extremely vast. I hate npm and server side js, I think the entire paradigm is pants-on-head, so I ignore that kind of content. I like the “blogs” from people like Aphyr, Google project zero and also random hackers, technical SaaS companies like cloudflare and the myriad databases like cockroach.

Start by ignoring medium and sub stack for technical blogs, they’re filled with novices using it as a resume builder to get their first software job by regurgitating other tutorials they read.
“zombies who say “sir” and “ma’am” but then try to eat your brain”

Awesome read! Thanks for sharing.
The algorithms pick them, to be a thought leader in modern society is to have your words echo throughout social and other forms of digital media. Do you think he has accumulated influence for any personal gain? I think I heard him promoting his upcoming book on his interview tonight with MSNBC.
That's the point.

Adverse Possession rule is designed for properties that the owner is unknown or unavailable (due to death or war) for extended period of time.
Very cool stuff, thank you for your hard work on Emmy!
I wouldn't call it tanking, but I bought my house here in 2017 and it was worth double what I paid circa late 2021 to 2022. Now it's 'only' worth 60% more. I can imagine if you were unlucky buying a house in 2021-2022 you would be a bit underwater, but it's more like the hype cycle finally diminished when interest rates cooled late last year.
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Welcome to the Answer Overflow community! I agree it'd be good to have a quicker way to setup multiple channels - to be honest it's kind of far in the backlog as it's pretty rare a server has many, but the UX could be improved there

If you have any other feedback, please send it to me on Discord so I make sure I see it - thanks!