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It is a shame that many major Linux distributions are dropping 32-bit x86 support. I used to be able to say with confidence that the old laptop or PC in your garage can run any major Linux distribution, breathing new life into aging hardware. For example, I have an old ThinkPad T42, which I use to test out new Linux distros, which incidentally, is currently running Arch. Using older hardware increases the chances that stable drivers will be available. I put in the CD (or flash drive), boot up, and everything seems to just work(tm). Its no speed demon, but its usable. But now with Arch dropping support for a significant amount of commonly available and being a major, top-level distribution, I feel I now must make specific recommendations for Linux newcomers to try rather then have them waste time downloading a large ISO, transferring it to a flash drive or disc, to find they are unable to boot up with it. This may cause users to give up before even giving Linux or open source software an honest try.

Also, I wonder what this means for the Intel Quark SoC (found in Intel Edison and Intel Galileo boards). Does this mean Arch Linux wont be an option for these devices?

Despite RHEL 7/CentOS 7 not supporting 32-bit x86, there is now a community-led effort to port it to 32-bit x86. I wonder if Arch would consider doing the same (supporting 32-bit x86 as an alternative architecture).
> But your problem is that the market doesn't think it has a big safety problem, they think they can manage it.

Is that not what his original comment was addressing though? There are a number of people who feel there is no safety problem, but examples like this are good indications otherwise. Boost is a very fundamental (as in low-level, not as is essential) library in many cases and having memory safety problem at such a level should be concerning.
Thank you for providing the context that is helpful.

However a quick skim of content seems to suggest that a significant amount of people do not have confidence in the impartiality of the investigations, and that it remains a controversial issue.
Facebook Safety Check will let people offer food and shelter during crisis
Grant applications, at least in academia, I've heard take lots of time / etc away from actual work - Although if this became the norm maybe it would lower the hurdle -
Alternatively, an nomination system could be used, or something based on stars / forks / etc of a repository?
Wireless internet access is so expensive because Germany made an auction for all mobile providers to buy the 3G frequencies needed for operating a 3G network. The problem was the providers bid insanely high amounts of money for these frequencies, all together they have been sold for 50.8 billion euros (today this would be 54 billion USD).

But the huge cost for 3G did not end with this. Every provider was required to use it's frequencies and deliver 3G to a specified percent of the population. So on top of the high auction prices they had very high costs for actually putting many transceivers.

And this is, why wireless is so insanely expensive in Germany. It all started with an auction and companies paying too much...
I read Slaughterhouse Five recently and I dunno. Maybe I'm burned out on WW2 or maybe I'm lowbrow, but mostly I was bored. Guy has a bad wartime experience and then goes crazy and something about aliens, I guess. OK, on to the next book.
Most of their costs are RSU grants to employees. I'm not smart enough to price their true value.
Related paper: http://interactive.mit.edu/collaborative-planning-encoding-u...
Every company has some process for buying something and paying for it. They have to. And similarly they have to have someone who, on a regular basis, approves purchases. Most don't have a process or person for approving donations. So at a minimum somebody has to think about it. Whether that's thinking about whether they have the authority to approve a donation, or thinking about who above them would need to sign off, or thinking about whether making donations is a good corporate policy, it's thinking instead of doing. It's a surprisingly significant barrier. Like how it shouldn't matter whether the buy button is reasonably sized and gray or giant and green, but in practice it does. You want to make it as easy and thoughtless as possible for people to give you money.
I don't think external contributors are interested by a redistribution. If you make a proprietary license for work, people won't use it at work. If they won't use it at work, they won't contribute. I contribute to many open source projects because I use them at work.
It isn't clear that C is just A PDA. Without any destructive manipulation, C functions can use pointers to pass down and maintain a chain of contexts, so that each function potentially has random access to something at each stack level above it without having to pop anything.
Part of the job of being freelance is expectation management - most clients want everything on a plate but you have to make them prioritize if they're on a budget... what is necessary and what is a nice to have.
Is it possible to "restart" the company? Maybe with slightly different name :)
Exactly I'm thinking growing revenue so as to not fold. Maybe though they never should have gone public. Maybe the business model just doesn't exist for them to be profitable and maybe people have moved on from twitter to Facebook and Snapchat.
Check out the neo platform that comma.ai is building for self driving vehicles. It is meant for cars not drones but it might be a good starting point for you: https://github.com/commaai/neo
If I were building a GPU box on the cheap, I'd start with a used Dell Precision T7xxx series off of Ebay for a <$300 including RAM and a Xeon or two. They have 1100 watt power supplies and lots of slots and the RAM is usually ECC. Odds are it will come with DVD burner and possibly a hard disk and a Windows license...again all for a couple of hundred dollars.

Leaving $700 for GPU's while providing reliable high end hardware pretty much designed to run GPU's for the base platform.
If it takes an entire 3-5 years before devs are moaning about your short-sighted decisions, you did an incredible job.
I agree. I'm not sure if the system would show a 10x improvement, but every time I've done a rewrite-- usually in the same language as the original-- almost everything improved dramatically (UX, performance, maintainability, etc). I now think that V1 should be considered throwaway, or at best research intended for exploring and understanding the problem space.
> People in India and the rest of the third world all want to go to Europe or the U.S. It is the rest of us you have to worry about.

I would challenge that notion. The Indian community is now in a reverse immigration, that the population is reaching an equilibrium (~3 million). While the students continue to flock to US univs, many are choosing to return. And this was before Trump. I suspect this would be even more now given the h1b visas and other challenges.
Would be awesome if one day one could use GPU and USB with Windows Subsystem for Linux
I've had to work on making these voice recognition systems before. We originally allowed for people to just say operator pretty much anywhere in the app, and the client got upset that so many people asked for an operator and got sent to their agents that they had us restructure it so the person had to try pretty darn hard and be overly persistent before it decided to transfer to a person.

I felt a little bad doing it, especially after listening to the actual calls where people would just sound so annoyed and frustrated as they continuously asked for an operator, but the client insisted that less people actually reached their call centers.
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Did you try freelancing?
I questioned their engineering competence during their last outage and the general responses I got were very dismissive. Gitlabs were able to spin the last disaster into a publicity stun with the live streaming but I feel like that was a fluke. Bro coding and "openness" will only garner you so much good will with paying customers who are more concerned with availability.

The unavailability of a code repository might be more of an inconvenience for a single developer but in an enterprise environment with teams of coders being able to quickly disseminate code changes can be critical. The unavailability of a source repository becomes a huge liability and a waste of man hours.
What It’s Like to Be a Non-Technical Co-Founder… Before You Launch
I have the Kindle app on my phone and it sends a notification just about every day. I didn't mind because often their recommendations were interesting to me and I would occasionally buy the book they were pushing.

Then they started pushing magazines. I wish there was some way to tell Amazon that I'm not going to subscribe to a magazine. I ended up turning off notifications.
UK Government trying to kill solar industry
Can confirm that this is how it was, at least for the ~6 months I worked there in the early 2000s. I'd recently been laid off and saw RS was hiring. Being somewhat technically inclined and having fond memories of the place in my youth I figured it was as good as any other low-end retail gig while I looked for something better. This was not the case.

I'm not going to get into any long RS stories but in terms of sales averages, it went roughly like this as far as I can recall: Actual hourly wage was around the state minimum but you could make commissions and "SPIFF" bonuses for selling things like cell phone contracts (since they got a cut of those). The cell phone thing was straightforward - sell a phone contract, get a flat amount added to your paycheck.

But the commission thing was awful and things were set up so that it was incredibly difficult to get commission. You had to sell not only a certain amount, but rather your average for each day of a pay period had to be at a certain level in order to even qualify for commission. If you were unable to hit those goals every day, you got no commission, even if one of those days you sold thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.

So they would make sure to give everyone at least one or two short shifts a week or shifts during crappy hours so that it was nearly impossible to make commission. Combine this with the sales meetings you had to attend out of town every (month? can't remember) it was almost like you were losing money by working there.

Thankfully I found some other crap job that at least paid better and in time, I moved on to better things but man...that place was awful.
It was said already in the past, and I agree.

Naming.

Too many letters in a *BSD, too scary. Linux is more toy-ish and thus more appealing as a name.

Plus the UCL vs BSD legal war, which shifted much of the community towards Linux.
What's the bar for ecological spending? They should use more expensive energy solutions than say America? Why? I'd criticize each American coal plant in turn, before turning to blame 3rd-world development.
There are other distributions better suited (even specialized) to be run on old hardware.
Well, that is certainly a valid personal taste!

But, I think the term "manipulative" suggests Curtis is somehow being "dishonest" in his filmmaking. I find that instead he's trying to craft an intellectual argument which may lead you to rethink things. In this film, the suggestion is that eroding at the nature of truth can lead to many in society feeling numb to current events, because they cannot trust what is "real" and what is "theater". The result might be fatalism/apathy. This is an interesting thought and, in my view, very relevant to our world.
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I really want to like web assembly, but every time I read about it I SMH. We already have a bunch of great runtimes, compilers, and opcodes. I hate to see the effort duplicated yet again. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
This is really cool and looks like it will have many resources for me thanks !
If you're on a budget it makes little sense if any to buy things like a motherboard, CPU or memory new.
Even if you layoff the right people, morale of the others is going to suffer and you're likely to lose 10%+ of them too.
2 billion on Google cloud and another billion at AWS, how did Azure miss out? also in the investment note they said they might look at building their own infrastructure-- that's a lot of spend I wonder what they're planning.
Last year I looked at various services for email and finally switched to posteo.de. It's cheaper than Fastmail and Protonmail listed in this article, promises privacy and the company has a lot of good ideals and actions that I like.

I needed IMAP and didn't want to be locked in to one provider if I ever wanted to move out (Protonmail's IMAP is just now in beta, more than two years after the request was made by people, and all users are tied to Protonmail because there is no export of all mails or non-Protonmail-app mechanisms to retrieve mail).

The lack of custom domain support in posteo (for privacy reasons - what it calls "data economy") was a concern for me on portability, but it's a compromise I decided to make.
David Nutt tried this by defining the harmfulness of various drugs. He was sacked for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
Most people don't want a giant box under their desk. If you're building a machine learning rig for under $1,000, you don't need room for expansion because additional $200, $400 or even $700 cards are a useless expense at that price range.
You are assuming that 95% of the jobs will remain the same throughout their entire lifetimes. Which is not true and I'm sure many would prefer for a database not to become a liability in case they happen to attract a lot of users, which requires more availability than a classical DBMSes can provide.

The problem is more about constrains required to scale and achieve high-availabily and low-latency, rather than a database choice. But classical DBMSes lack those constrains and you may and probably will end up with a design that just cannot be scaled without removing and redesigning a lot of things that users rely on, and also with engineers that never learned how to do that, so you may end up in an urgent need of a distributed systems specialist too. Scary. You can avoid that by using systems designed for high-availability from the very beginning, like Riak. Same goes for blobs and filesystems, using POSIX API instead of an object storage is going to haunt you later on, because in your designs you may end up relying on things that ultimately cannot scale well and guaranty latency, as gitlab learned the hard way.
I find his style a bit disturbing. It feels like being hypnotized or brainwashed. The flow of the narrative combined with he imagery, retro clips, audio, music combine to put you in a trance like state.
Google/netbsd-gce: NetBSD Support for Google Compute Engine
Renting a dedicated server requires no labor cost of your own (if a drive fails, your provider replaces it), and is almost always cheaper than the equivalent cloud resource, especially when it comes to bandwidth.
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They were taken to the Vatican and stored with all the other documents from pre 300 in a room marked, "est realis historia".
Yeah I could see getting used to that. Especially if you plan it around having dinner. Just curious, do you ever run into having to wait for a spot at the super charger? I see lots of them are 4 spots deep.

Another problem is that, depending on where you are going, it looks like you might not be able to charge anywhere on the route. I found a map of locations here:
http://www.teslarati.com/map/

Like the typical route between Denver, CO to Lake City, CO (255 miles one way) has no supercharger close. Would you modify your route to swing by the location? Or would you have a friend drive a gas car instead?
> ... a vulnerability ... of certain F5 products

I.e. this being "big" depends on whether you have "certain F5 products" in your setup.
Ask HN: Which tools or products do you wish had a good FOSS equivalent?
> It makes the affronts even more egregious when you realize EU citizens have little democratic control over the the European Commission and European Council which accounts for 2/3 of the European legislative body.

Both the European Commission and the European Council are just the democratically elected national governments. So I do not get why you want more national sovereignty, but see problems with the Commission and the Council. They are basically the organs in the EU that ensure that national sovereignty is kept. Without them the directly democratically elected European Parliament cannot do anything (which I think should be changed).
not sure why, I haven't looked into yet... probably the url needs to be fixed
Sounds like a sure way to kill it off completely. Maybe if they just stop trying to add crap to something that was pretty much perfect the day it came out, they could just coast on whatever cash they're already bringing in.
Ah yes. "What the heck is this!? Who wrote this garbage??" ... runs git blame ... "...shit."
How much is that?
Well yeah, I agree. I didn't mean to say I wouldn't ever donate or use my (imaginary) millions to save lives as well.

I was just daydreaming about something that I would like to do if I could.

In that sense I would also like to donate a few millions to Watsi for example. (I have already made a few donations there, but nothing close to millions) or to some institution in my own country.
Running a datacenter is a solved problem. Period.

What I get from this is that they want to use Google's available horsepower in machine learning and maybe, trying to build their own TensorFlow equivalent would have cost them extra and have added risk of becoming rapidly out of date, since Google is investing heavily in it.
With writing, music, and perhaps even software it is best to know and understand the rules and be able to use them before you start breaking them. When you do, you'll know why and do so for a purpose.
EV chargers are much cheaper to operate/install than gas pumps; and gas pumps should be less expensive than hydrogen filling stations, i.e. something does not add up here.

It's very expensive to keep hydrogen cool enough to stay liquid, but it's not exactly cheap to keep hydrogen compressed in massive tanks that always leak either. Moving it around is another problem, I find it extremely unlikely that this costs less to operate than electric infrastructure, which is static.
No matter how good Elixir is, at some point the hype will reach a point where many people will try it having wild expectations, and will get disappointed. This is just the way hype works :)
I shop at Aldi's where the prices are low and the employees are well compensated. The owners, 2 brothers, have some unique ideas about efficiency. They haven't installed any machines because they are slow, customers are slow, and they don't handle edge cases well. Employees are few and far between. Generally 1 cashier and 2 on extra busy days.

The Target on the other hand has rows and rows of empty checkout tills. They try to get you to use the automated tills but that line is so much longer that it just boggles the mind. Any time savings is wasted on the machine having an error,
...which is not supported by Arch either.
> Cut their staff by 75%, run a lean operation,

That would still leave them with close to 1000 employees. I wouldn't call that lean. They can cut deeper than that.
Ask HN: What are some ways to watch people's behavioral patterns?
Weird question I realize.

I'm not around people enough "a good sample size" to see what they're using/doing in terms of things related to technology. My question pertains to observing people and "foreseeing the next step" so to speak.

I guess Facebook could be one source. I'm "on the other side of the fence" in the sense that I am a developer so while I can make things, I don't know what to make. What do people need? What can I solve? That sort of thing.

Where is the data... I remember there was a Google service for "most searched words" maybe it's still around.

It just seems that many successful business ventures were based around solving something or predicting the next step/evolution in something whether it's tv shows or design of mobile devices.

One place I saw some "data" was on outsourcing sites in particular Amazon Mechanical Turk where you're paid pennies to do random tasks but one in particular you were a "human OCR" equivalent, you had to run through pictures and pick out which ones matched a specific category. That was awkward job.

Anyway if you have any thoughts let me know. Gotta sign me up for a rewards card hahaha. I had to look up what those were for. THEY'RE WATCHING ME!!!
To the extent that we can automate the programming of the machine, we should (and the history of programming is full of that - e.g. on the earliest computers assembling was done by hand, but this was repetitive, mechanistic work so people wrote assembler programs instead).
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I'm not sure what this is from or if you made it up, but I read it first in the style of Monty Python and then in the Style of Blackadder... both equally humorous... [Off to look it up]
Yup! The key is to define what success is for you.

As developers we're always sharing and reading stories of young millionaires who did something that "We could do in an afternoon" and think we're failing if we just get a decent job that keeps us in comfort.

I felt a lot like OP as I was moving into my 30's. Then I realized that traveling and photography make me much happier than stressing out over being the best programmer or trying to make millions on some novel new idea.
Are ya'll going to post a SHA checksum for the downloadable dmg alongside the download?
1. 1992 in archaic.
2. Officially it was, not it's just stupid and unneccessary.
I think you're underestimating the number of long distance trips. I have a car only for long distance trips. Short trips and commutes I can do with public transit, cross country trips I do with planes, 50-500 mile trips I do with a car. I do a trip that long almost every weekend. If I had to add 30 min to a trip from Denver to Vail and back I'd be pissed.
Well, even Ansible folks started to switch to python 3 (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/python_3_support.html). Pushing people off python 2 is not "absolutely evil".
In the past this has been a sustainable theory. Growth in the physical world through railroads or petroleum were much slower and far less directly tied to a single person. So from the perspective of investors it seems like a reasonable argument. What we're seeing for the first time with Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat is the maximum size that physics allows.
This cannot be true, unless there is a new way to store hydrogen which is completely revolutionary.
In car assembly lines there are often gantries, conveyor systems (accumulating and EMS), trunnions and other high level equipment that prevents the use of track cranes. First choice would be to extract heavy equipment by manitou or fork-lift, crane is a distant second best.
It sounds as though Tesla aren't considering how to maintain or repair their model 3 line.
Putting all the success in terms of "rewriting" is as misguided as accounting it all on the technology change. I have seen rewrites using the same technology fail due to scope issues. I have seen rewrites fail because they could not master a new technology.

It is easy to paint everything with ones or zeros but it is most likely a combination of factors.

A team with more knowledge of the domain, a management willing to try new technologies and a technology that excels at concurrency, which seems to be the problem they had at hand, sounds like a good combination for success.
Yeah, the way he jumps and interconnects history to fit his narrative reminds me of Glenn Beck's delusional meandering.