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This post is sort of timely for me to rant and share with the HN community. I'm a hobbyist with FPGAs .. been fooling around with Altera parts for over a year. I finally got my first Xilinx part and wow .. at least a part of the company doesn't seem to give a shit. The part I got was a spartan 6 on a Papilio Pro board. The Papilio community are awesome but shame on Xilinx. They provide the Win 10 version of ISE Design Studio inside a freakin VM!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Whoever green lit this has just stopped caring IMHO. I wasted 3 hours of my life getting a hello world style program to run. Imagine running a linux vm inside a Windows 10 box to work with an embedded device :( :( If this is how Xilinx treats old parts, I'm staying with Altera parts in the future. Personal opinions yada yada.
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There is a documentary on netflix called rotten which I think you will find to be very interesting. It talks about corruption in the food industry. It is very easy to integrate unverified sourced food into the global food chain.
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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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I can't imagine that to be one of the more significant factors in this case. It's much more likely that the ubuntu version includes a lot more functionality. Just looking at the configure flags:
Alpine: --with-ldap --with-libedit-preferred --with-libxml--with-openssl --with-perl --with-python --with-tcl --with-uuid=e2fs
Debian:
--with-icu --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python --with-pam --with-openssl --with-libxml --with-libxslt --enable-nls --enable-integer-datetimes --enable-thread-safety --enable-tap-tests --enable-debug --disable-rpath --with-uuid=e2fs --with-gssapi --with-ldap --with-selinux

Specifically the differences in enabling ICU (portable collations) and nls (i.e. translations) alone are probably going to be the majority of difference in installed size.
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What is missing in the article is the word "freelance".

Most of the time within a startup you can see developers stay in the company for ~1 year. Usually they are more willing to find another job than negotiating a salary bump ( which happens to be also mentally easier, since the first action is passive - just reply to a recruiter ).

When I completely switched to freelance gigs, I discovered that I stay in a company for far longer time. It is easier for me to index my price per hour with the market, since I have less bureaucracy with my client ( removes FOMO ). I had the best offers ( company shares + bonuses ) to join various companies than being an employee ( because of the FOMO of the employer that you might leave soon ). And finally I improved my code quality, since you always write your code with having your mind that sooner or later you will be not the code-owner.

Of course having 3 months off to enjoy the summer also makes it more appealing than the 22 vacation days you usually receive ( in Europe ).

Disclaimer - all of this won't work if you are a junior developer. Usually the stronger hands are in your employer then, since your contract can be terminated any day, without any notice.

But hiring a senior developer as a freelancer in your team ( IMHO ) will definitely mean that you will work with a highly motivated person, being there to do the job.
From the Wikipedia link, description of the "Alchemists" chapter:

> The section on alchemysts focuses primarily on efforts to turn base metals into gold. Mackay notes that many of these practitioners were themselves deluded, convinced that these feats could be performed if they discovered the correct old recipe or stumbled upon the right combination of ingredients. Although alchemists gained money from their sponsors, mainly noblemen, he notes that the belief in alchemy by sponsors could be hazardous to its practitioners, as it wasn't rare for an unscrupulous noble to imprison a supposed alchemist until he could produce gold.

It totally doesn't sound like the startup ecosystem. ;).
Most companies don't provide a work environment even half as good as an average home office.

I think remote working may be the first killer app for VR but it would probably require a $3k HMD today to be viable. Most tech companies could easily afford one per worker.
The problem is if they give you your special deal, they have to give everyone their own special deal which becomes an absolute nightmare to manage.
That’s exactly what I just said... the Spaniards burned all of the books except for a small handful which were sent back to Europe as curios.

> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction. – Bishop De Landa
I don't think put a fake progress bar in shareware I wrote 25 years ago. And even then it was as a joke about other software's obviously fake progress bars.
>when the progress bar is still getting asymptotically closer to the end

That, my friend, is an impressive command of the English language.

Thank you for teaching me the word asymptotically! [0]

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/asymptotically
But an ATPL (airline transport pilot license) is hard and much more rare, unlike CPL it requires significant experience and training. Those are what you want for an airline. "Commercial pilot license" (CPL) is something that even I as a private pilot can rather easily add to my repertoire, it does not require much experience.

Some answers to the question "Difference between CPL and ATPL":

- https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-CPL-and...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/18vzuj/can_someone_...

- https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-168050.html
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The length of the race is important too, even against a standard Porsche GT3 the Porsche is ahead by 125mph or so which is fast 1/4 mile trap speed.
Can you imagine how interesting the results would've been if they HAD known the letter? A lot of scientific studies seem stupid, sometimes they have unexpected results.
You may say this in jest, but RyanAir actually applied for permission to do flights with unseated passengers. Fortunately, we still have an aviation authority (in Norway) wise enough to throw it out, sneering.
China history is a warning sign against centralism and the ability of humanity to get stuck in loops, economic and culturally - where it from a ruling partys point of view doesn't make sense to do anything to escape the loop.

Impressive is that china at least kept- enforced by the layout of the country, a centralized state. At least it did not decay as much as the middle east or africa - after reaching peak people.
Do you consider the Chinese cultural revolution to be the product of monotheistic delusion? What about the more recent Chinese occupation of Tibet?

What about the Nazi party? The Japanese occupiers of Korea and China during WWII?

The British burning the Burmese royal library in the late 19th century? Or the current massacres of Muslims in Myanmar by Buddhists?

The US Army in its genocide of indigenous North American tribes?

My impression is that there are at least some anti-intellectual authoritarians in every country, religion, and political movement.
I would add OSX Automator to your list. Is there anything similar fir Windows, btw?
It’s a start. Find someone who’s doing the kind of job you want, and ask them their advice.
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Just saw this, and took a random stab at my number and password and to my massive surprise I got in! 50530999

My username still reflects when I played starsiege as a kid at some silly time over a dial up modem.. Wow!
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The article mentions the Velvet Underground early and often. Beyond that any arguments about music "genres" are silly. They're largely created by music critics to easily organize things, and critics as a rule disagree with each other.
I have been using WeChat on daily basis for 5-6 years now, this is the first time I've ever heard the voiceprint feature. Checked my wechat client and the feature is like 4 clicks away from the main UI, and you get choose to activate it if you want.
When faced with a problem, we use the tools we already have and know to deal with it, this is Bricolage. Engineering then (when seen as anything not-bricolage) is the creation (or modification) of new tools to solve a problem.

Bricoler is improvisation, adaptation, and creativity with a constricted set of materials and methods. Engineering is changing the set itself.

When you're on your back in the data-center in a tight spot trying to unscrew something but you don't happen to have a screwdriver, bricolage would be to use a knife-tip instead because that's just what you happen to have and can make do with. Engineering would be to crawl back out, head out to the store, find the proper screwdriver, buy it, come back, and crawl back down to unscrew it.

In a software sense: most people solve their problem of the moment (extracting data from a bunch of files) using bash, cat, grep, sed, and some quick regex editing in their favorite editor, copy-pasting as they go, etc. They're going to write a specific program for just this one particular problem. (This is related to whether it's worth the time [https://xkcd.com/1205/ ]). Or the stereotypical Grandma who sends a favorite picture by downloading it, inserting it into a Word document, printing that, scanning it, and then clicking on the "send via e-mail" button in the program, and looking up your e-mail address in her (physical) notebook.
Maybe cultural related, but I don't really know.

In China, we have a some sort of social phenomenon called "Herd behavior"[0], simply put: If something is popular in crowd, then it tend to be more popular.

Also, I found that most Chinese people are lack of motion of trying something new: If something works, then we'll keep using it and stop worrying about it until it breaks.

> I've forced the people I talk to the most to get signal.

In China, this hardly works, because people you try to convincing may also binded to WeChat by their contacts. So a easier choice for them is just to silently ditch you.

(Of course, dad and mom are more likely to stick with whatever chat service you're using, so :DDDD)

BTW: There are no encrypted chat service in China, and Chinese people don't care too much of their privacy (By western standard).

So if you tell them: We should not let government listening our conversations, let's use Signal! You will usually get replies like: Yes, just let them listen, I have nothing to hide. And keep using WeChat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behavior#Everyday_decisio...
Aside from what others have mentioned, yes just the fact that you're getting paid makes a difference to the safety of the passengers.

If you and your three friends have agreed to split the cost of a joyride on the weekend in your Cessna and there's an unexpected storm, you're much more likely to just cancel. You're all going for fun, nobody wants to fly in bad weather, and you can just go on some other weekend.

Consider the same example where you have three paying customers who've you've agreed to fly around on the weekend. Now you'll be in a situation of having to refund tickets to disappointed customers. You might decide to go ahead with it anyway. Now you're putting members of the public at more risk for your own monetary interest.
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Not sure why you were downvoted, I'm assuming this was a good faith question. I'm going to try to answer your question, but I'm still learning, so take this with a grain of salt.

Some models have attention, but it is not a requirement.

In models that do have attention, it may or may not be simple. In image captioning for example, you can do just that. See [1] for some pictures of this happening. But in this example, they are stepping through a caption, and seeing where the attention is focused for each word. Works fine for a short caption. Videos are just many images and sound, but already this is going to be more difficult. For natural language processing, you will be stepping through very many words. Some models use characters instead of words. Not sure how you could even make sense of that. I have seen people look at the attention in machine translation. Not sure how it would work for sentiment analysis.

So you aren't exactly wrong, but you are greatly over simplifying this for the models where it is possible(based on my understanding). Overall, machine learning is very much a black box, despite efforts to the contrary. It also doesn't solve some of the other problems. For example, knowing the model is focusing on zip code doesn't help you remove bias that comes from the data.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03044.pdf
Wouldn't an actual timeout timer be more useful, like when Ubuntu is booting/shutdowning it gives a "job is trying to complete" message and a 90s (say) timer before it ignores it and carries on.

Windows updates could use this, when it randomly decides to wait 30 minutes on startup despite not warning you and not giving a skip option.
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For a good example, see sketch mode in Autodesk Inventor. Not just boxes - curves.
It is not true. It's just that politicians need official reasons to do what they do. And it's a great thing to use historical reasons because nobody can really counter them. Not a single Chinese person I know thinks about Westerners as sources of the Opium Wars and therefore as enemies. The opinions move between "West is so rich, let's be more like them" and "We are nearly back to our old glory, now also learn some of our culture!"
I am certainly trying to do that, and trying to set a good example.

Unfortunately, "not buying new stuff all the time" isn't really something that resonates with most people.
Seems to be down right now, so not sure what services are implemented, but... someone should port this stuff to upspin. :)
This is so western propaganda boilerplate. What is the warning sign? China lifted more people out of poverty than all other countries combined. Actually the whole world is recognizing how centralism seems stronger than western federalism, and many western populations complain about their governments moving their power into a more and more centralized system.

Have you for instance seen how Philipines and Turkey have moved away from a pro-western position?
Also the energy spent on gold mining is dissipated into the universe.

If the spot price of a Bitcoin fall's bellow the production price in electricity, the logic thing for the miners to do is to stop mining, if they do this, the blocks will start to take more than 10 minutes and supply will decrease, moving the market price until it reaches equilibrium.
That’s true, but I can mention several online stores that do this. Even on a good network the site remains blank for seconds at times. If they at least served me a logo I’d know the site wasn’t dead!
Does that work for code reviews too?
The meaning of words is what people understand them to mean. Policing language so people use it as you think they should has never worked very well.
Which is a relatively arbitrary criteria to be so categorical about.

No, I don't like it either to have eastereggs in my software that wasn't just put there for the fun of it, and rather was also motivated to some degree by a continued commercial relationship. But if this commercially motivated easter egg helps to gather more money to improve the software, which itself is non-commercial, and is as harmless as Looking Glass, then I do not see a problem with that.

And let me repeat that, if it is as harmless as Looking Glass.
I do not see a reason to categorically exclude any sort of commercially motivated thing from the browser. Even including some actual ads would in my opinion not be unthinkable, given that they get enough money for it and have effective ways to do good with that money, while especially also taking into account that users will get pissed off by it and leave the browser, effectively slimming the ability of Mozilla to do good.

If you take everything into account, you can be morally on the good side without having to resort to never doing things from certain categories.
> However, I'm suspicious that they implemented an entirely different algorithm on the FPGA, and didn't measure the performance of that algorithm on GPUs.

I agree this was a bit suspicious. It may be the case that the different algorithm they used for the FPGA would have done well on a GPU -- or perhaps more likely, that if they spent a similar amount of effort in rethinking the algorithm just for the GPU, ending up with a third GPU-specialised approach, perhaps that would have done dramatically better.

Pragmatically, it seems like they chose the GPU for their application anyway - so they had already decided the GPU was the overall winner without needing to improve it.
Remote work is the only way I'd go now. Having had twins in the last year it's been vital.

It doesn't work for everyone, but a way I've seen remote-first companies get around that is to offer to rent a desk in somewhere like WeWork, so you can choose to be around other working people, away from home and then look to hire others in the same city who might opt for a desk there too, at least some of the time.

If the article is right that remote working works for, say 50% of people, a company able to attract remote workers is going to have a vastly bigger talent pool to fish in.
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The counter argument is that post-1949 communist rule has been an aberration in the amount of central control that the Communist Party has been able to exert. In Chinese, there is a saying, “the mountains are high, and the emperor is far away”.

If you took a hard look at Chinese history, I think you’d find that there has never really been central control. Governors and bureaucrats of the various provinces and regions have long been able to defy directives from Beijing, Nanjing, or wherever else the dynastic capital happened to be at the time. The sheer size of China, and the dizzying differences in language and culture, made true central control a fantasy until 1949.

In a sense, maybe the greatest gift to the Communist Party was the outbreak of WW2 that set the stage for the subsequent civil war. Instead of dozens of regional warlords, you had a “clean” battle between two sides. When the Communists won, they finally assumed more or less total control of the country.

Contrary to there being some kind of group think that dooms China every century or so, the more proximate causes of political turmoil have been intense, irresolvable infighting that occurs contemporaneously with a natural disaster or foreign invasion.
Met a Cal archeology ass’t prof doing this, quadcopter-mounted lidar.
Make a wooden disc and a stick whose length is 108 times the diameter of the disc. Attach the disc to one end of the stick and hold the other end near your eye. Observe that the disc has the same apparent diameter as the moon, eclipsing it. You could do the same with the sun through light clouds or mist, but be careful, obviously. There are indications that some ancient peoples, such as the builders of Stonehenge, were sufficiently interested in astronomical observation that they might have done a measurement like that and noted the result.
I've posted a link earlier about 'Scuttlebutt' (and the actual client on top of it, Patchwork), which is kind of a decentralized Facebook.

It's main innovation, as far as I can tell, is that it uses the real world as a model for its approach. Your content spreads as 'gossip', peer to peer (over LAN/wifi), but also propagates through 'pubs' that are internet-accessible.

What first made me interested is that the Patchwork client is quite user-friendly and I've noticed that the relatively small group of current users are not all tech-savvy. That's something of an achievement. Furthermore, some other options I've looked into strike me as either unrealistically decentralized, or too (pragmatically?) centralized.

Anyways, even as just as a look into how thing could work different I can highly recommend checking out these types of alternatives!
But, the problem with messaging apps is that no one has really worked out how to monetise them yet

Not sure this is true; back in the day BlackBerry used to be the combo of the handset + backend services provided by RIM, including BBM, which they charged a fiver a month for and people didn’t mind paying it. If RIM had been willing to take the risk of extending BBM to other devices (sooner and better) perhaps the whole world would be paying them a vig now.

Apple’s iMessage is arguably monetised in advance by hardware sales, and I’ve only recently learned does group chat too.
This is brilliant. You'd need to basically define every single compile-time param and then have your build process emit a customized binary (and retinue of supporting stuffs) that does just that and nothing else.

Probably makes your total build time significantly longer; you'd need aggressive caching based on the feature flag set.
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It takes many fewer plant resources to produce the same calories or protein than it does for the equivalent in meat. The ratio can be as bad as 20 to 1.

http://www.wri.org/blog/2016/04/sustainable-diets-what-you-n...
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Ha ha, take this vegetarians of all colors- we may have to eat your potato-stuffing due to overpopulation and water economics for the rest of our lives, but at least, you dont get to feel smug and moral superior- you are just a monstrous as the rest of us.
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Total, sure. But not for each individual procedure, which effectively takes money out of the equation for care. When this happens, care changes as does follow through - or at least it has with me moving from the US to Norway.
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There's no reason to believe that single cells can't be conscious too.

You'd have to eat organic molecule synthesized through a non-biological, industrial process that feeds on energy harvested in space, so that all solar energy on earth can be given back to the wilderness.

Yes, using terrestrial solar and wind energy deprives geologic, atmospheric, marine and wild biological processes from the energy they're naturally due, and it is not ethical to use it anymore than it is to eat animal flesh.

More seriously, we're dissipative structures, and we can't survive (i.e. keep our inner entropy low) without raising the entropy in our surrounding. So there's gonna be some environmental disruption if we want to survive, and it's going to be at the expense of other organisms, be they cute, plain or disgusting.

Edit: with all that said, I think our current meat consumption rate is suicidal for environmental reasons. I do think we should limit the amount of meat we eat, but not out of compassion for non-human animals. I may have another opinion if I didn't have kids, but since they're there I'd rather limit as much as possible the cataclysm that's unfolding before our very eyes.
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How idiotic can a headline get?

What those results really suggest is that consciousness is nothing more than chemical reactions.

Leave it to a garbage rag like the NY Times to bring down the collective IQ.