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You must be one of those "dropped out of college and insisted on a founding CXX position COOs then? I'm glad I've stayed away from NodeJS and NPM.
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As of this writing, aren't we still waiting to see what the problem was inside NPM that caused this user's packages to disappear?

It might well have been technical. It might well have been managerial. It very likely involved elements of both. But don't you think it's best to save the Monday morning quarterbacking for Monday morning, when all the facts are in?
I was expecting this article to provide some insight in regards to the title. It does not. The article should be titled, “Here Are Some Examples of Expensive ‘Affordable’ Housing Projects”.
This is particularly true in the many parts of the Bay Area, where a major portion of a "house price" is the price of the land it's built on rather than the actual house's (construction) price.
This falls short of the original goal: While your method shows that for every point, you can find a tiling large enough that covers it, the original question was to find a single tiling covering everything.

Finding progressively larger, finite tilings is not the same as having a single infinite tiling, just like finding larger and larger natural numbers is not the same as having a single number larger than all natural numbers (which wouldn't be a natural number).

König's lemma implies that for tilings both statements are in fact equivalent.
> that is solely stored remotely.

"blockchain"

"blockchain"

"blockchain"
Blog states that author has 20 years of development experience.

Blog post suggests he knew little of basic shell scripting until recently.

Blog also reveals he is selling a book on shell scripting with Bash, "Learn Bash the Hard Way."
You made me really happy with this comment. Tron was a big movie for me in my youth and a big reason why I was drawn to computers and ultimately programming. I also came to love synth and electronic music (Art of Noise etc.) around the same time and have always thought the Tron soundtrack to be amazing, especially the credits track. But I know nothing about music theory, I'm just glad it's good music. Thanks.

I heard as an aside that the London Philharmonic parts of the soundtrack were commissioned and recorded because Disney didn't have confidence that Carlos would finish her work on time (or at all, the relationship was a little strained), and using both was a decision made only afterwards.
There are a number of abortion deniers whoop would disagree with you on "murder" and "death."
72pin SIMMs we're plain async DRAM and later EDO. Never SDRAM.
Not sure if it is the OLED, but after switching from iPhone 7 to iPhone X I get terrible headaches when trying to watch Netflix on my phone before I go to sleep.
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> The difference is that those extra lanes take up physical space, which goes unused outside of rush hour, while increasing frequency of eg trains or trams does not.

To increase the capacity of trains and busses, you need more trains/busses, larger trains/busses, more train/bus operators, more electricity/gas usage, more storage, more maintenance, and so on. And those same huge trains and busses also become near-empty late at night.

Yes, the baseline efficiency of a train or bus is potentially better, making all the standard tradeoffs. But everyone commuting at the same time causes similar problems with both. I'm not arguing against public transit, here, I'm arguing against the claim upthread that "This is a problem of a car centric society", which is orthogonal to a staggered commute.
I think I've run into the first issue you describe, and I'm having a hell of a time trying to understand it. Would you mind taking a look at my example and helping me out?

Consider the following:

cd /tmp/
echo -e "hello world\nhello world\n:)" >> hello.txt
cat hello.txt

Outputs:

hello world
hello world
:)

Then running

bash -c 'sed s/"hello"/"hiiii"/ hello.txt | tee hello.txt'
cat hello.txt

yields

hiiii world
hiiii world
:)

Reseting to the original `hello.txt` and running

ssh localhost -t 'cd /tmp && sed s/"hello"/"hiiii"/ hello.txt | tee hello.txt'
cat hello.txt

yields an empty file.

Replacing the command with

ssh localhost -t 'cd /tmp && sed s/"hello"/"hiiii"/ hello.txt >> hello.txt'

yields

hello world
hello world
:)
hiiii world
hiiii world
:)

I'm trying to figure this out so I can publish a script to set up a test env for a package I'm trying to publish, and somewhat stuck on this step...
Then let's stop talking about finding "terrorists" and call it finding "murderers" or "criminals."

"Terrorist" is a just word governments use to scare their citizens into giving up their civil liberties in exchange for security theater and authoritarianism.
They patched a single host.

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Text of the forum post:

Attention Fortnite community,

We wanted to provide a bit more context for the most recent login issues and service instability. All of our cloud services are affected by updates required to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability. We heavily rely on cloud services to run our back-end and we may experience further service issues due to ongoing updates.

Here is a link to an article[1] which describes the issue in depth.

The following chart shows the significant impact on CPU usage of one of our back-end services after a host was patched to address the Meltdown vulnerability.

[the image]

Unexpected issues may occur with our services over the next week as the cloud services we use are updated. We are working with our cloud service providers to prevent further issues and will do everything we can to mitigate and resolve any issues that arise as quickly as possible. Thank you all for understanding. Follow our twitter @FortniteGame for any future updates regarding this issue.

Epic suggests following security best practices by always staying up to date with latest patches.
General Recommendations for Computer Security[2]

We will continue to update this thread with similar information as it comes to us.

[1]: https://spectreattack.com/

[2]: https://www.howtogeek.com/173478/10-important-computer-secur...
Well, a naïve way to "prove" it would be to flip the quadrant over the axes to tile the other quadrants. Is this legal? Or, more specifically, are there tiles that can tile something one way, but not if flipped?
I don't see that implication at all.

Nobody is claiming that the definition of "differentiable programming" should be identical to the definition of "neural net". The claim is, if you want to assign a name to the thing that TensorFlow, PyTorch, and similar frameworks do, it's "differentiable programming".

If you want to make a non-differentiable neural net, knock yourself out. The research still exists and nobody is stopping you.

But while we're talking about terminology, I'd encourage you to stop referring to the units as "neurons". The false analogy to biology just confuses people.
There is basically no independent upstream (other than a handful of people). Essentially all the kernel developers work for the companies that have distros plus organizations like Intel, Qualcomm, etc. that do a lot of device enablement.
> like finding larger and larger natural numbers is not the same as having a single number larger than all natural numbers

Very nice analogy!

> König's lemma implies that for tilings both statements are in fact equivalent.

Exactly, and instead of working by shifting the tiling (which would produce a sequence of incompatible tilings) it works by finding a sequence of finite tilings where each is a subset of the next, so it makes sense to take the union of the sequence.
Make it worth it for the client to install your app on his computer. For example, make it launch fast, work offline and if it makes sense, integrate it with the notification bar.
If you flip the quadrant you're also flipping the tiles. The flipped tiles may not be in your set.
I guess everything is relative.

So, a 500 sq. ft home at $50k to $100k is considered affordable?

If I was raising a family, 500 sq. ft. gets cramped real quick.

As long as we are housing gainfully employed single people, no problem.
I don’t think it was ever viable to begin with. Remember that this was when “Linux” was what “Bitcoin” is now: a word you stuck in your company name to boost your share price based on nothing but bubble hype. That looks to be what happened here. Also, it takes stupefying amounts of capital to be in the CPU business, especially when starting from scratch, and if that looked possible at one point, it certainly didn’t when the dotcom bubble ended.
I don't see an answer in the article, but are there any comprable unsubsidized housing projects that can be compared to? Is housing simply that expensive to build, or is this a problem of beaurocracy or other inefficiencies specific to subsidized housing?

The quote about reducing the regulatory burden for but only for affordable housing to cut down on the cost seems telling - essentially admitting that at least some portion of the regulations in place aren't necessary and are simply a waste of money.
Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row
How does software abstraction impact this? (aside from the on-chip software/"software" doing the branch prediction)
That's one way to avoid Spectre.
> The entire Archiverse archives are posted under an open source license, free for mirroring or even personal download if you want to perform a deep, offline analysis. I hope you've got a 17TB hard drive lying around...

I'm curious about the legality of offering these under an open source license, since I'd assume that the original content isn't in the public domain yet? Unless Nintendo's TOS had placed these under that license itself?
I think the guidelines still disallow JIT compilation.
I think it depends on your specific situation and your project requirements. In my project for example I had exactly the search quality I need with Django and PostgreSQL without installing another software (Elastic), using a different query syntax, synchronizing the data and installing another layer (haystack).

Maybe in other project ES will be a better solutions.
"Wait, you're telling me these people rely on their ISP and the telco infrastructure being operational to deploy? Seriously?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people need an internet-available Ubuntu mirror to install their development environments?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people need their users to have specific, updated browsers in order to run the deployed software?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people need their users to have a patched, up-to-date operating system in order to run your desktop app?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people just assume users won't switch off their computers before saving changes?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people depend on the power grid being available to deploy?"

"Wait, you're telling me these people assume their users have fast, low-latency internet connections to play their real-time multiplayer game?"

You get the idea.
Gah, the thing I truly hate about this website is that it doesn't offer me an answer to the most important question: But what does it do?

I have to scroll down to see the content in the "What is Autocrypt" section. The content was two sentences long and I still didn't understand what does it do (I wondered what's an "email program" in this context). Since there was no additional text to help me out on the homepage, I had to look further.

FAQ page was too technical for such an explanation, implementation status page gave me some genuine idea that this is something related to other OpenPGP products instead of a new OpenPGP product. The third page I tried opening was the "test it" page, which led me to basically nothing out of any use.

And this is not an isolated case, this is more of a rule for project websites. Seriously, figure out a layman term to explain whatever you're representing and slap it on top of your homepage. Nobody cares if you're decentralized or an open standard until we know what is it. "Convenient End-to-End Encryption for E-Mail" made me believe it was a separate OpenPGP implementation, not a set of guidelines.

Just one sentence like "a set of guidelines that make email encryption easier" would make me want to find out more. This way, by the time I found that out, I have already decided to write this out of rage instead of finding out more.

So, here's a plea to the authors of this website and every other project website: Please, tell me what your project does right at the top of your homepage and do not make me chase an answer to that question.
In case anyone was considering sending him $10, no, his hypothetical code would not be running on the Google login page. Google does not pull in external dependencies willy nilly like that.
> "Blog post suggests he knew little of basic shell scripting until recently."

I don't see how you could come to this conclusion based on the title. From the article, the author elaborates:

> "Recently I wanted to deepen my understanding of bash by researching as much of it as possible."

There seems to be a lot of good commentary in this thread indicating that people are finding the post useful. There are points here that I have. Do you have specific disagreements with the post contents?
More like $300/sqft in coastal California.
why not just say "excessive dependencies" and be correct, succinct and perfectly clear?
What Is Your Favorite Coding Ground
This is a cultural thing, where developers will decide when to invest in developing their library against the old version and when for the new version. For stable languages like C, or distro supported packages it’s years - just check out Debian or Red Hat for an ecosystem that values stability.
That's a good goal to strive for, but isn't necessary or practical for everyone. Maintaining local/hosted artifact caches, verifying them, and auditing them is a big hassle, and unless you make something (e.g. fintech, healthtech) that might need such an audit or emergency release, might not be worth the trouble.

Itty bitty company making a social website on a shoestring budget/runway with very few developers? Might just be worth postponing a release a day or two if NPM or GitHub are having issues.
> The police cannot illegally search you and use that evidence as a means to find additional evidence, and then present that evidence in court as if it was untainted.

Isn't the problem that illegal (dragnet) searches still happen?

Police only need one warrant or one instance of probable cause to "deploy Stingray" in a city block, and then flag suspicious things, and then use the legal search conducted by the border patrol, to check what was suspicious.

Of course, the practicality of flagging a lot of people for minor things (that somehow are or become a crime when crossing a border) and then keeping those records somehow shared with the CBP in secret for all these years is simply not there.
A causal boundary, but not a real boundary. That is to say, events separated by that line can never meet, never interact, never observe each other, but they can still exist.

For a “real world” example see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal–Szekeres_coordinates
Lots of freebies with an Azure free account (VMs, SQL, more)
That's entirely uncalled for.
Good points, but email is so entrenched it might be easier to slowly fix the issues rather than throw it all out.
> That's false. There are mechanisms for lost keys revocation. This is already a solved problem.

This is very dangerously wrong. Revoked keys decrypt old data just fine. Revocation is advisory. Your attacker will choose to disregard that advice and decrypt anyway.

> And Email has a lot more benefits than your typical IM - it's a standard after all and can be used every everyone on Earth, you don't need to rely on any app adoption curve.

The fact that encrypted email interfaces with plaintext email has resulted in a continuous never ending series of screw ups where the secret data email gets splattered in plaintext across the network. A secure network protocol is only secure if it's incapable of being insecure.
on a vps? why? sounds like a great way to make sure at least one entity has access to your mails, encrypted or not, whether you keep your privkey on a diff machine or not
Disappearing packages due to a deleted user is not an issue of scale.
BTW I migrated the djangoproject.com from ES to PG FTS and it works great https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/commit/1be9a483f...

I'll write another article about it and, if they vote it, I'll have a talk about it in the next PyCon Nove conference
http://www.paulox.net/talks/#pycon-nove
So, let’s say we offset the gender imbalance in various affected workplaces, by converting 50% of males directly into females through gender dysphoria. Does that solve the problem?
I'm looking forward to envying the blokes who release blockchain-repo and make a gozillion bucks for solving this problem. :)
It doesn’t work like that there are more “denser” batteries than what Tesla uses, their density isn’t that impressive while they benefit from it its not something they are driving.

P.S. Drones use LiPo batteries.
Magic Leap House of Cards – FSD, Waveguides, and Focus Planes
For those that want to know more there's the unofficial Jai Primer: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md
It's a similar issue. The Samsung display in iPhone X flickers at 60/240Hz due to PWM brightness control of the OLED. This is more noticeable to the human eye at low brightness. Options are to use the device at higher brightness level or switch to iPhone 8.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/eye-strain-while-using-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16088173
Many games and engines do this. Including Roblox!
The obvious solution to this is to build taller and thus more expensive housing in major city's. Unfortunately simply building large buildings like this directly results in 'slums'.

I suspect the way around this is to require the first X floors to be affordable housing without subsidy, and then let people build as many expensive floors above this as they want. This attacks the problem from both ends by reducing the impact of land prices, avoiding blighted areas, etc. But, avoids directly handing money to developers which is a clear avenue for corruption.
I wonder when people will stop quoting this 4+ year old article. Most of what are actually issues are long fixed. https://php.vrana.cz/php-a-fractal-of-not-so-bad-design.php
Incomplete fixes only prolong the agony.
> Hard to believe less than a hundred packages cause so many issues. NPM's dependency hierarchy is pretty insane.

Ever heard of glibc?
From your comment, it is clear you can see the risk. Creating entire ghetto cities full of poor people who have no way of lifting their community out of poverty? Maybe we could find some menial work for them and pay them a pitance. It would be a great source of human assets for the wealthy. And absolutely self-perpetuating through the generations. Also forced displacement is considered a crime against humanity. Which is what that amounts to (Aristotle's famous problem of whether the man who tosses his belongings off a sinking ship is making a free choice).

So until there are systems in place that are stronger and longer lasting than the economic, educational, and cultural problems which that would create, I think it remains an immoral choice.

True equal access to top tier education (and not watered down education for all), a true living wage and/or guaranteed income, and some way to break through the cultural issues, including prevalent violence and drug use* that such a solution would perpetuate need to come first to all cities. Only then would that become a practical solution. So yes, in theory. But it is at best decades away as a solution, and realistically probably closer to a century away.

* since among the poor, there would be a higher concentration of drug addicts than elsewhere, and they would then have a greater influence on others.
But these people are still alive. It's not a historical dig, it's a creepy collection of one-off thoughts and conversations from living persons.
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Except political motives exist to preserve the powers that be, and their culture.

There’s less skin in the game, when the preserved items are thousand year old buildings in ruins, of intrinsic interest to tourists from all walks of life.

Compare examples of physical architecture to bar fliers advertising happy hour and ladies night. Video game profiles rank closer to bar fliers, even if the architecture in ruins is the bar itself.
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And where by "agony" we mean "innocent people being put at risk".

For what? So we can feel clever for someone having pulled off an elaborate retrofit we didn't expect we could accomplish? That's vanity, not engineering.
This professor gave an argument in his paper. I gave a refutation. If you agree with him that char-CNN was a sophisticated model in early 2017, then you are not well-informed about the situation in deep learning.

The MoleculeNet co-author gave another argument in the comments. My refutation is that you can't claim to lack time after 8*20 man-months have passed.
A solution to the housing a problem never mentioned is intentional communities. They seem to solve a good portion of the problems.

Here's why they make sense:

1. They can be cheap because they can be built in places with low land prices and low regulations. These are the chief factors in why housing is so expensive.

2. They can solve desirability by building together that stuff that makes a city desirable - other people, businesses, walkability, modern design.

3. They're more feasible than ever because remote work is so practical that you don't have to live in the middle of a city for a job.

4. A model for bringing people who have this goal together has been recently validated on a large scale (kickstarter type systems).

So I'm left wondering - am I just not seeing the projects or why have I not heard of them?
Hmm, how does this work? Is it a browser thing, or ISP providing this?
Housing is often not an issue so much as land is. Even billionaires have trouble finding land in the Bay Area, but there are many cities in the center of the country with lots of land where building basic housing would be cheap. The other issue is having the land and housing near enough to a supply of jobs. Look at Detroit, you can get incredible deals but the jobs are no longer there.
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This is what Perl is designed to be. Perl unlike the others is almost certain to be on any Unix or Linux installation. Several commenters leaving out Perl in discussions of the next step up from bash scripts is truly strange.

I suppose being ignored beats the typical herp-derp anti-Perl bigotry, but I’d prefer all-around civility.
These 2 things are utterly unrelated.

One is a physical principle of interaction free measurement the other is just measuring neutrinos.
As a thought experiment, what would happen if a city like San Francisco required you to own the home or condo you lived in, and provided financial guarantees. So any non-owner occupied residence was illegal.

And then the city paid a variety of contractors to build studio apartments which would rent for $500/month without any commitments, deposit or credit score. With 2-4BR for families.

The thought is the city, community & companies build up immense value for real estate owners. It's somewhat unfair to create this fantastic system we have in the Bay Area, where all these smart hardworking people gravitate to work on new, sometimes transformative ideas but then we channel lots of the profits to early real estate holders who effectively got lucky. While unnecessarily adding a ton of stress to people's lives.

Of course, it would never be implemented. But the basic idea is that all apartment rentals would be through an open system via local government and all condos & homes would require the owner to live in them.