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Development release? Currently I'm on 16.04, and I've never been on a development release of anything on Ubuntu. I'm just describing the behavior I usually see in practice (which it seems someone attributed to "D-BUS" [1]). Obviously the logon session doesn't get messed up if all I'm updating is something irrelevant like Firefox, but if I update stuff that would actually affect system components then there's a good chance I'll have to reboot after the update or I'll start seeing weird behavior. This has generally been my experience ever since... any Ubuntu version, really. It's almost ironic that the most robust thing to update in practice is the OS kernel.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257060
> The other real question with MWI is why you still experience one universe and not a superposition of universes?

You experience a superposition of universes. Why do you think you aren't? What would you expect to be different?

> How exactly, in moment-to-moment physical detail, do these splits happen?

The wavefunction is what's physically real. When you can express the wavefunction as a linear combination of two other wavefunctions, then it makes sense to model this as a split, and think of it as the universe dividing in some process like cell division (a wavefunction that's almost a linear combination of two other wavefunctions, but has a small interaction term, is like a universe that has almost split into two, but the two parts are still slightly attached). Sometimes a split happens at a discrete point corresponding to a discrete physical event - e.g. if a proton and an antiproton in known spin states that sum to 0 collide to generate two gamma rays, then that's a distinct, discontinuous event (and you'll see that in the wavefunction) and after it the wavefunction is expressible a linear combination of two wavefunctions. So we interpret this as "when the particles collided, the universe branched", and like most models that's a simplification of reality, but it's a good one that generally gives correct intuitions. But if you ever want the exact physical detail, just look at the wavefunction.

> Well - fine. So why can’t the collapse experience be inherently random too

It can, but the collapse is a much bigger assumption than subjective probability. It violates unitarity, it's unclear when it happens, it introduces a notion of observer and a direction to time and all of that - and for what? It doesn't let you get rid of the superpositions (you still have to assume that the superpositions exist before the "collapse", so you still need all the machinery that you would need to implement many-worlds). Occam's razor says we can and should do without it.

> without demanding squillions of Occam-busting unobservable universes?

By that logic the assumption that the universe is billions of light years across should require a huge pile of evidence, much more than we have. Occam doesn't say we should be parsimonious about the size of the universe we assume, it says we should be parsimonious about how many physical rules we assume.
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Similarly, Max Zorn used to ask people whether they recalled what Zorn's Lemma was introduced as a lemma to. (I haven't a clue, and I doubt most of them did either.)
I suppose you could say the same about the journals, or the academic institutions. The systems and norms are what they are, the incentives are what they are and if they don't have to do something they won't.

I'm not sure who is responsible for making a better way. Probably no one. Change is often a matter of someone taking initiative and there are a few parties that could, if they consider it important.

IMO, the "replication crisis" should be having a more far-reaching effect on the institution of science. In some fields, the crisis means that the efforts of an entire generation were largely wasted. In those same fields, it is almost business as usual, with new unreplicable experiments being published. Knowledge was not actually being built. In some fields, the institutional scientific method (journals, peer review..) was not really practicing the scientific method, not practicing science.

I don't know what the solution is, but whatever it is I cannot imagine that it does not involve working scientists making choices. What is tenure for, if not allowing senior researchers the independance to do this.
Seems to me that once you've solved the problem, applying it across a variety of unrelated products is an easy thing to do, with the advantage that your solution is already proven, has gained some traction in another sector and is not something new and untried. It's one of those things where the first one to win is likely to win big (unless they fuck it up along the way somehow.)

Not sure how your comment on PoW applies, though (despite agreeing with you.) Plenty of the solutions in developments are using PoS/other/hybrid consensus mechanisms.
As mentioned in the article https://www.shodan.io/ is in my book, the go-to site for this kind of thing. Anyone aware of any similar sites?
The idea is supposedly to "get inside the heads" of the target user. This will lead presumably lead to some sort of intuition about what their needs are and how to market to them.

TFA sheds no light on the unique advantages offered by detailed personas.
I can't understand why someone over 25 that has a decent career (assuming you are a programmer since it's HN) would still care about what some chad from high school is doing. Worrying about how "unfair" life is is an energy and time black hole.
Same in Poland - bread and salt.
The pilot wave does all the work of physical reality in that interpretation. Imagining there is this extra downstream classical reality is just a bunch of extra work for no benefit, and should be discarded per Occam.
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I already have an ASUS ROG laptop so this sounds like I'm sticking to them! Thank you, was hoping they'd add in AMD.
I think it's safe to assume that pratical mitigations will eventually surface, the biggest issue is probably around the cost in performance. Shaving 30% (or whatever) of the worlds computing power in one fell swoop is kind of a big deal.
It's also more of a hardware design language than a programming language, so the paradigms of classical programming languages might simply not apply all that well.
That posits that you can have a legitimate vote on something as complex as an EU treaty. Voting on a one off decision in any sensible way requires that people understand what they are voting about really well which is essentially impossible.

Voting for a government doesn't require that level of in depth knowledge because you are voting on wether you feel the direction of the country is right and you can then change that decision in a few years time.
"Decoherence" does nothing to explain it.
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He never really wanted his books to be under copyright in any case, so I'm OK with that. I think it was the OTO who last had the copyright, sadly (as those people seem pretty wack).
In my opinion, personas fail because it's literally profiling, which has limited use in identifying real world behavior.

Who you "are" doesn't define what you do, so I think the activity model works better for UX work.

Instead of maximizing a product for "Jim" from Marketing, optimize for what Jim needs to do and get done. Everything else is some sort of weird bias.
You realize that a lot of people don't live in hyper-expensive cities and purchasing a house even in your early 20s is not a huge deal? Here in North East of UK you only need about 10k for a deposit for a new house, it's hardly impossible to save that much if you have a job. London, sure - it's almost impossible. But not everyone lives in London.
Exactly. How does knowing that someone's favorite color is purple add to that? I can certainly see trying to understand these peoples' lives and what their needs are, but not having a team spend two weeks in Imaginationland to come up with it.
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Have you not tried searching yourself? There are quite a few.

Bitmessage, Tox, Wire, Matrix. Even Signal offers a desktop app, but it needs a phone number to register.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messagin...

Perhaps you're referring to the fact that there's no 'standard' solution. This is the way of things, it seems - network effects weaken as choice increases.
I tried to hint at this point, but let me say it explicitly: devices from the same category, like mobile phones of given "class" and year, tend to have more-less the same power consumption. This "tend to" and "more-less" are good enough for rough estimates and comparison. Of course, I would also include other knowledge like common sense (a phone that holds less than 1 day on average is considered broken; no smartphone will hold for more than 2 days in actual constant use).

Also, knowing battery capacity in mAh gives you another funny side effects:

1/ I can ballpark how long it will take to charge it.

2/ I can ballpark how many times I can recharge it with my powerbank (or conversely, what powerbank to buy to have at least two recharges of my phone).

That's the nice thing about such "natural" metrics - they allow for further comparison for different use cases.
Simple trick: you are a manager and probably spend > 50% of your time in meetings. Schedule yourself some meetings to spend time keeping up with tech.

I also found when I was a manager that there are some natural downtimes that occur when a lot of PM's or your peers are out, take advantage of those intervals since you'll have less meetings.

Also also, tech doesn't change that quickly. You can probably get to a level of understanding of some new tech by just reading up on it. This is just to understand if it is applicable to your area w/o having to go through the download/config/install/frustration loop.
At the same time I don't want such a project anywhere near shady investors and founders seeking bro get rich and destroy the company like most start ups
Describe an experiment that differentiates between decoherence and wave function collapse.
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Manual simulators don't give much benefit, manual testing in simulation is only marginally better than manual test on hardware.

Need automated tests in simulation, preferably based on data collected in real systems. Ideally also hardware in the loop testing.
> whether they even had an internal conversation about managing sensitive material

Probably not, because that's not their job. A service like Strava should not have confidential or sensitive material uploaded to it (obviously), but it's not on Strava to make sure the data it has is not confidential or sensitive.
Note that the article is on teens, an age group where as a general rule everyone is super hormonal and therefore emotionally changable and hyper aware of social status.

You're trying to look at this through the eyes of an adult, presumably one with a reasonably good career judging by other comments you've made.
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Actually, it is quite the opposite. Once an enterprise software company has crossed the $40m revenue threshold, has low churn, and growth is >2x, you got yourselves a winner.

Now Snowflake has grown 3x over consecutive years, and with all these big enterprises coming in, there has gotta be a true advantage.

Now the question is if this current advantage can survive an upgrade of say e.g. the capabilities of Amazon Redshift, that moves the latter to almost feature parity.
When I would visit military doctors, they would prescribe 1g pills like they were a panacea.
People got sick before the great flu pandemic of 1912, therefore the flu was not responsible for the 1912 flu pandemic.

Do you see the problem with this argument? FB was rapidly accelerated the organization of these types of extreme positions. My original comment follows from my last comment. What do you think the crazies do when they've gotten all outraged at some false proposition or other?
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Income in those professions is not bimodal; it follows a power law. The frequency distribution of income for US lawyers has two clear modes (local maxima) at around $50,000 and $160,000 [1], meaning that roughly the same number of lawyers earn each of those salaries. Put another way, a randomly-selected US lawyer is more likely to earn $160,000 than the much lower mean US lawyer salary.

[1]: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/the-toppling-o...
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Humans focus on what they look at, compounding into a perspective, belief, and actions.

You can’t work to think nothing is of any consequence and simultaneously work to build anything of value (family, friendships, business, intellect, etc). Nihilism is the abolishment of value systems. Nothing matters. Building things of value requires a system to evaluate value.
Hello HN, I'm the current lead maintainer of the ZynAddSubFX project. Some of you may have heard of the project in the past, though if you haven't been tracking it recently there have been a few major changes.

First and foremost the old fltk based GUI has been completely rewritten from scratch using a new custom toolkit (mruby-zest). This was done in order to make the interface more usable by making it easier to navigate, easier to use within plugin hosts, easier to get feedback, and easier on the eyes (the fltk UI wasn't exactly the prettiest).

Secondly the work on the GUI was made possible by some work which decopuled the sound synthesis engine from the interface. As of the 2.5.x series all parameters can be accessed out-of-process (or on a different networked computer) via open sound control. This decoupling has improved low latency processing and made it easy to map physical (midi) knobs/sliders onto the virtual ones.

Overall this work has resulted in a number of child-projects including the RtOSC OSC implementation ( https://github.com/fundamental/rtosc ), the mruby-zest GUI toolkit ( https://github.com/mruby-zest ), and the Stoat LLVM static analysis tool ( https://github.com/fundamental/stoat ).

I'm currently hoping that the large interface upgrade (which was supported with some recent crowdfunding efforts) will get more people interested in the project and help speed up the momentum of the project as a whole.
I agree with you, and you are right. However, most people aren't making decisions about what types of chips to use in a data center. It would be wonderful if the people in those positions explored non-Intel options. For the average consumer, all we can do is choose which company we buy a CPU from every few years. People buying Ryzen chips incentivizes AMD to keep making chips and stay in the market. Competition is good for consumers. I totally get that it is a lot more complex than that, but I personally feel like it's the best we can do as the average consumer.
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I might have needed to edit down my comment, but you locked on to the least important part of my argument.

If reproducibility is important, like you say, then a notebook is the last thing you want. Your code needs to be tested and designed like the software it is, instead of tossed into some notebook that does not fit into classic software practices.
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I much prefer and recommend using axios over fetch, and it has a retry plugin you can use globally or only for custom clients.

https://medium.com/@shahata/why-i-wont-be-using-fetch-api-in...

https://github.com/softonic/axios-retry
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You can definitely argue the toss about paradigms, since things tend to kind of overlap and blur into each other unless you're careful. It's true, if you want a synthesisable design you need to meet timing. However, once you meet timing you can assume your ticks are instantaneous. I would argue that for me, there is still a somewhat similar feel to the parts of HDL that don't feel like hardware design e.g. creating pipelines. This is a limitation of hardware rather than the programming language per-se.

This type of imprecision seems common when talking of programming (language) paradigms: are they based on languages in an idealised world, execution environments, language ecosystems, APIs exposed by the operating system? We can only really talk about them in an exact sense when we work in an artificial environment as in Roy and Haridi. Given the inherent imprecision, I don't see why when we deal with real systems, we shouldn't bend definitions a little bit and say a language "sort-of" or "mostly" exhibits a certain paradigm.
Six weeks isn't a long time if you've got a herniated disc.
Absolutely. There is no excuse for violence except defense. The other comment talks about "proactive defense", but that too seems dubious.
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Clickbait title. Basically, just abusing the food stamp service.

The recycling fee/cashback incentive is a great way to ensure people are being responsible with their waste, or paying extra if they are not. Wasting water bought with food stamps to then get a couple of beers is not really worthy of anyone's attention.
Reading over googles project0 page it reads as if they told AMD about the issues on 2017-06-01 why would they do this if it were meltdown only?

also look at the exploit numbering:

Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753)
Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715)
Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754)

according to https://cve.mitre.org/cve/identifiers/ this is sequence based so `Variant 2` was recorded to CVE before v1 and v3.

I get it may take a long time (that is fine even if the patches took a few more days), what I don't get is that they released it to production (server) envs seemingly without testing. Surely even rudimentary testing (deploying on a few 1000 different server platforms for a few hours at least should be something that Intel does for all microcode updates, after all they are rather more important than js Node packages as you point out)
Describe an experiment that differentiates between a photon that has a 1/2 probability of being vertically polarised and a 1/2 probability of being horizontally polarised, and a photon that has a 1/2 probability of being left circular polarised and a photon that has a 1/2 probability of being right circular polarised. Under "decoherence" those should be different things, and for them to be observationally indistinguishable would be nothing short of magical.
The obvious "something" in the second example being reflexive: "Tether untethers itself". Which is perfectly fine, if indirect, usage. We often use product names to refer to both the product and the producer. When we say things like, "I wish Windows implemented a Unix subsystem", we actually mean, "I wish the producers of Windows implemented a Unix subsystem."
Direct comparisons are valid enough, and are definitely more valid than whatever comparisons you can try and make with manufacturer's cooked numbers like "hours of video time". The goal isn't "perfect", it's "good enough in practice".

> Granted that means it's open to manipulation, but the continual argument here is always "give me every single piece of objective information about absolutely everything and I'll make my decision" doesn't extend too far outside of this echo chamber.

Again, the argument is that objective information, even if mostly incomprehensible to people, is still better than whatever fake-metrics vendor's marketing department spits out, by the virtue of reality not actively trying to confuse you.
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My graduate project at university was about air-gap malware, soft TEMPEST and hacking on industrial PLCs (S7-300, Stuxnet and all that :P).

What terrified me most is not only the state of ICS nowadays (it's pretty much fucked), but also the fact that cyber-security vendors try to make a profit from that by shoving their products down the throats of scared managers.

And what @donquchotte says is pretty much true - on facility there I practiced, all PLC were connected via TeamViewer to company network, passwords were written on stickers and slapped on monitors. They used Modbus over TCP, plain-text packets easily viewable with Wireshark.

On the first day I accidentally broke my S7 because of wrongly uploaded configuration, it took them 3 days to find some special Siemens laptop to connect to this PLC and reset it. Also tried to play around with Metasploit and follow the work of Beresford [1,2], but the most trivial attack of mine was just flood on PLC's IP with random junk - it stopped responding to any commands.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kouEKm0zo

[2]: https://github.com/moki-ics/s7-metasploit-modules
AMD have released patches (to reduce the near-zero risk of exploit to 0 risk) and they are not having any instability issues! so yes go with AMD

for server, Epyic is now finally available to purchase
for desktop workstation Threadripper
for desktop RyZen

for mobile... not many newer cpus out yet.. need to wait :(
For sure. Like I said, I agree with the spirit, and you can obviously only do things within your own sphere of influence. I'm also planning on doing a Ryzen build for my next PC. I'm just trying to be realistic to say that even thousands of consumers switching won't make a huge dent in their bottom line. B2B is really the only way to influence a company as large as Intel, unfortunately.
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Hmmm. My product has "this cluster of users" vs "that cluster of users". But we really don't attempt to imagine their home-life. Or race or sex or orientation. Just what they are into feature-set wise.

EDIT: I think we call them "User-Type-A" and "User-Type-B". That doesn't sound very sexy - but it helps us prioritize feature development (esp. since "User-Type-B" never pays for anything - those features come last. But the non-paying user type is the most winge-ey - I've never figured out how that could be - but they are)
AMD equipment should be fine, current-gen Ryzen/Threadripper is more than adept at workstation tasks and next-gen Ryzen (named Ryzen 2 and Threadripper 2) will edge out any advantage that Intel's CPUs have.