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I think I see your point - that despite the way C++ libraries can and do expose UB if not used as intended, it doesn't mean that Windows does the same.

For what it's worth, I read that POSIX does have UB in the spec (as in, distinct from how the compiler is allowed to break things in terms of language-level UB), at least in some ghastly signal handling situations. I wasn't able to find at a glance whether Windows does too, or if it categorically doesn't.

> According to POSIX, the behavior of a process is undefined after it ignores a SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV signal that was not generated by kill(2) or raise(3).
Drop me an email, you can find it in my profile.
That’s an odd assertion to make when the full pharmacodynamics and mechanism of action are unknown. Modafinil doesn’t increase your cognitive performance in the way that a substituted phenethylamine would. Focus and attention are certainly related to wakefulness, but wakefulness in and of itself doesn’t increase cognitive performance.
If you like this one, you'll probably also enjoy the "DOOM E1M1" shader, which not only reproduces the DOOM graphics, but also the level audio in a separate shader (note: sound autoplays):

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsSXzD
One day we can all look back and say, I remember the day the first protocol droid was born.
>However, I've talked to other older students who have different experiences, such as difficulty integrating into student culture or getting help from professors/advisors.

I used to teach at a university and I'll tell you a personality trait that older folks had that either a) made them really valuable in class or b) made everybody dislike them. That trait was a willingness to talk and participate in the class.

Some were able to take their life/work experience and really help the other people in the class see how the theory learned in class could be used in a real job. Their class participation was useful and certainly other students wanted to talk with them and the professor would engage with them.

Other people used their "life experience" to talk about themselves, their dog, the kids, some tangentially related aspect of their job, etc. They perceived themselves as contributing, but really they were just talking for the sake of talking. Nobody wanted to engage with them. Certainly younger students don't care about any of those things, just like older students don't care about where the younger students hung out over the weekend. And as a professor maybe one of those older students could become a friend, but mostly they're just that extra-irritating person who takes up valuable time (both inside and outside class) and seems to have no reservations about doing do.
This is an absurd strawman. Th emphasis is rightly placed on “modulo”.

You’re saying that because catastrophes happen there’s no point in saving? Yes health insurance was problematic before the ACA, but it definitely served its purpose for simple things like appendectomies. Not every single instance of needing savings is one that is financially ruinous, aka pre-ACA healthcare issue that involved preexisting conditions etc.
I don't currently use it or other stimulants because I'm recently graduated, currently unemployed, and looking for work. Well I suppose I take caffeine, but I've mostly cycled off that too, and only take a single 200mg pill per day. If I get a job that requires a steady flow state or a high amount of productivity, I very likely will begin using it again.

I use it because I am not naturally suited for the work. I have a genetic variation(gs224) that makes me tired all of the time and stimulation-deprived. However in our current economy, it seems like the only career path I can take that will work with my abrasive, likely autistic personality while still providing long-term career growth opportunities.
Consistently amazed at how many words he can write without saying much of anything.
No, you just want to punish them for doing so.
As someone who has been on stimulants since they were thirteen, you still only have 6 hours of productive time. You just also have 6 hours of flailing about like a headless chicken. Sure it'll help you with mundane and routine tasks, but not with stuff that requires a ton of brain power.

Edit: What I see a lot of is people who think they are super productive while churning out lines and lines of garbage.
In no particular order: the use of caffeine, alcohol, cannabis, adderall, and modafinil are absolutely rife in the academic research world.

Postdocs and young faculty, in particular.
I have no doubt the operators of those networks do - on average - a far better job operating the systems. My concern is that FaaS developers would therefore consider FaaS naturally secure, and forget there are still quite a few security risks they have to tackle themselves.
Software that needs to display Japanese names (particularly if it may also need to display Chinese names) tends to use traditional encodings to avoid Unicode's Han unification.

(Some characters are considered by Unicode to be the same character despite the Japanese and Chinese ways of writing that character being visually distinguishable; Unicode regards this as the same character being written in different fonts (just as in our Latin alphabet there are multiple visually distinct ways to write the lower-case "a" or the number 4, one can choose to cross "7"s or not, etc.) but customers sometimes don't find that acceptable; in particular many Japanese people are very unhappy to see their names written with the Chinese versions of those characters, which tend to be how international fonts render them)
I've seen a few cheaper brands add a great deal of flex to their jeans and it's done wonders for my locomotion. I can 100% agree they're great for rock climbing too, while not looking terrible day to day.
Emphasis on the real-estate.

It makes sense for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to build out datacenters because they're both using them for their core business and selling compute and storage resources to third-parties.

Unless Apple intends to get into the cloud computing business, eating the cost of tooling up a datacenter puts a big construction and maintenance cost on the "Liabilities" side of the T-sheet that they can avoid via a smaller rental cost.
Your speech is free in the US, but you can still be fired for it.
I'm imagining a tool that you run against a ToS or a EULA or whatever and it spits out bullet point plain-English results.

It would make actually reading the damn things plausible.
The article says claims were made in 2016. The news here is that Apple is officially confirming it.
My take:

Generic stock photo dude draws the eye -- enough to distract from reading the copy as he stands out, but doesn't add anything. Why is he there? No idea, but he's not helping me figure out your service.

Having a vague, unreadable, screenshot with some colours carelessly slapped over his image appears very amateurish to my eye. Thus I am actually put off a bug finding application.

No point scrolling on, you're not telling me anything, it's just yet another generic page with generic empty sales words "enterprise grade encryption" - yawn (close page here).

So I wouldn't get below the first fold before leaving.

The non-smiling page immediately presents me a screen and use-case that looks like it might be useful to me. I'll spend a few seconds more and scroll down to look around a little.
IIRC this isn't a bug but a compatibility hack. The pages really are unmapped in your process but if you try to access them the kernel will remap them for you and lie when you try to remap that file (as it already had the handle open and assigned to your process). This was done because a few well known pieces of software did this back before protected mode. So MS pretends the hack to keep them working. I'm pretty sure this goes away if you list the latest OS in your manifest and have DEP and NX turned on for your app.
Debunked by economists who are the joke of the Nobel laureates. Even the Peace prize is more respectable. 100 years in human history? Nothing. The Roman Empire took half a millennium to decay.

The Malthusian argument is a thermodynamic argument. If we grow without bound (either by number or per capita consumption) we will run out of resources like any other biological system.

The only thing that allows us to escape this is human's unique ability to transcend our biological nature - i.e. breed responsibly (Gd I hate that) and consume less.

Mainstream economics is enamored with boundless growth, therefore, we're on a crash course.
I see green blobs. As I fall asleep they become pictures, and I know I’m about to fall asleep for real when they become photorealistic.
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And sticking with their Fisher-Price style UI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_parameters
Given how well trial lawyers and lobbyists do, I wouldn’t read too much into what politicians say, when it doesn’t lead to commensurate action.
How to Root Chinese Android Tablets and Phones
Wait there's a UTF-8 with BOM? Why do you need a byte order mark for utf-8? The stream "unit" is a byte. I thought only utf-16 and above had an optional BOM?
Is this manager still going this route? And do you think any of the microdosing (or other drug use) goes beyond the 10x productivity stuff? Could it be some of the tedium of programming work? Does it relieve any of that? I'm trying to determine too if all of the drug use in tech is really aimed at enhancing performance/productivity or if it's also used to stave off depression, anxiety or just that feeling so many of us have and have had that we're not doing anything particularly meaningful in our professional work. Peter was very depressed, so I understand why he did opioids, for sure. And he had an immense workload, so the amphetamines also make sense.
I am a tech worker raising my family in Brooklyn and it's quite lovely. Expensive, yes, but lovely. Whether you find it a "rat race" of a lifestyle or not is much more dependent on your internal psychology than the city itself.
> using Haskell
> too cool to waste a single second

Why are you so quick to extrapolate an entirely new character based on this person not wanting to use HackerRank?
I really want to move to NYC. As a full stack developer in SF I only get interest from companies in the Bay Area. All my NYC applications get no response even if it's the same resume with locations removed. Am I missing something? Can someone who has mde a similar move cue me in?

I have 4 years of full stack experience. Do people tailor their resume for NYC companies?
I'm assuming that you don't expect companies to hire everyone who applies and therefore some candidates are going to have time wasted. What do you think is a fair amount of time to expect someone to give for an initial screening?
- A sys admin will not be rolling out OS patches. The platform does itself.
- Attackers typically use DoS to make a system unavailable, not just make it expensive to operate. I do note the cost concern, but if attackers are unsuccessful taking a system down, they are less likely to attack it.
- I indeed meant "attacking through the OS is unreachable", referring to the portion explaining the OS patches are better managed. It's indeed not perfectly accurate phrasing, but allow a guy some literal freedom in the summary - the details came before.
so I just double checked my memory, and yup, dupont fabros was eaten by Digital Realty Trust.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-09/digital-r...
> In particular, their proposal does not satisfy their implicit criteria that the interview should mirror real-world conditions,

Real world conditions like these?

>> (1) time limits, (2) forbidding research on Wikipedia or StackOverflow, (3) forbidding collaboration, and (4) forbidding the use of libraries
Very tangentially related, but curious if anything thinks it would be worth reading through Abrash's Zen Of Graphics Programming at this point. Is the info in there still useful (even as a foundation) or is it totally outdated?
Do you ever feel like everyone around you is doing some substance to make them work faster or better, and that you'll somehow fall behind or be at a professional disadvantage if yo don't?
> Also, if you're good, then why does a low bar for entry scare or offend you?

It's not a matter of fear or offense. It's a matter of judiciously investing my time on the right opportunities.

I get about 3 to 4 calls from recruiters everyday. If I agree to go through this kind of interviewing process every day (even if the bar is low), I would be spending more than 20 hours every week just doing HackerRank tests. This is not feasible for me. Therefore just like the recruiters need a way to filter candidates out, I need a way to filter recruiters out.

Requesting a HackerRank test is just one of the many filters I use.
Has anyone heard of the third world squat?

It's a joke from weightlifting forums but also has some truthful parts.

https://www.google.com/search?q=third+world+squat&oq=third+w...
Please comment - I cant understand this at all.. So Box - I thought was dead.. is better than Dropbox because it has less customers who pay more..I pay for Dropbox.. Dropbox is better than the other things like dropbox that I can remember that I have used. Onedrive which is like a guy who puts his pants on backwards. Creepy uncle Google drive - Hey look I made a neato book of your kids at the beach. Box.. Hello where are my pictures from my phone.. oh.. you dont want these. Dropbox is like that guy who means well and is very efficient. He wants nothing to do with your pictures other than that they are safely part of backed up stuff.
At the time the poster was growing up, starvation wasn't a concern. My wife grew up around the same time, she was born in 1975. There had been a famine a generation before, but that wasn't an issue she had to worry about. What happened a generation before does not invalidate that reported experience and isn't relevant to it.

Even now, people in China are not concerned with or at risk of famine. It doesn't matter how many famines there were 50+ years ago, it won't make that untrue unless you can point to a credible reason why Chinese people today should fear famine.
FWIW, I have a patent and do public speaking, recently sold a startup, and I gladly take the coding quizzes for all my interviews.

They are fun, and they give me a chance to shine. The coding quizzes actually saved me once when I did really badly in another part of the interview. That company hired me, and gave me what others there thought was the good job.

I also administer coding quizzes to people I hire, and I find them a small but useful part of the larger interview process. I'm giving an assembly language coding quiz to someone later today.

> She basically interrupted you from working on something benefiting humanity

That seems a little hyperbolic. Do you want the job? You have to spend time interviewing. Simple as that. Don't do the quizzes if you don't want the job.

> Then you see the same company awarding their good jobs to friends of higher ups

Most companies try to promote from within, and many people think that's a good thing. The alternative is you hire unknowns from outside the company over people who've been there putting in the time and know the system.

> just because she was lazy to check your CV and ignorant of the industry

It's both presumptuous and pessimistic, and also likely wrong, to assume that a coding quiz implies any laziness on anyone's part.

> Imagine the same doing in other areas of industry

Other jobs have it much worse, you have to get bureaucratic certifications for a lot of jobs that are a lot less fun than Hackerrank, and take months and months. Or you could be a lawyer or doctor, and you have to raise money and bring in clients in order to get the good jobs.

What jobs are you thinking of that have it so much better than programmers?
Virgin Unveils Hyperloop That Will Travel 760 Mph
Well the GPU is Intel who only make an open source driver.
And the Wifi driver works out of the box.

The world has changed from the times of the EeePC.
Real world conditions like the one that you edited out of the sentence you quoted. The point is that neither exercise perfectly mimics the job the OP is being considered for, and they fail to do so in different ways.
>Previously these were (and have been called) 56G, but Intel is using the term 58G because it believes that its solution will perform better than other 56G solutions on the market, enough to call it a 58G device.

G here should mean Gbps, it's a technical description not a marketing term. Either the transceivers can be configured for 29GHz PAM4, or they can't, I don't see how there's room for interpretation here.
> ...assumption that firing the wrong person is more costly than not hiring the right person.

I take it you've never had to hire or fire anyone. At mid-sized and large companies, it's a cumbersome process and, unless they're complete sociopaths, firing is also unpleasant for the firing manager and the team. It also means taking on the work and cost of doing a new candidate search and another new hire ramp-up.

If easy-hire/easy-fire worked, everybody would be doing it.
Sorry I'm the OP. I just stole the title from Reddit for some easy karma because I couldn't understand all the jargon.
PS - Admire both your work <3
Ultimately it comes down to: knowing nothing else about someone's life other than that they are poor and have children, what is your default assumption? Blame the person or blame the system they live in? This is even more acute when we're talking about people in statistical terms - the individual stories and details vanish and you're left with pure statistical artefacts.

The presumption that it's people's own fault that they are poor often comes with a presumption that they're lying or evasive when it comes to explaining why they're in that situation when really they don't want to have to justify their existence all the time.

Doubly so in areas of reproductive choice. Not only is abortion extremely controversial in America, but access to contraception is hardly guaranteed and not necessarily free.

And again, I think you're vastly overestimating how many people could realistically achieve your standards just through their own decisions. Are your standards achievable at all on minimum wage?

(edit: think about this on the larger scale - an America where everyone has 6 months savings and no personal non-mortgage debt would have a financial industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in very different places ...)
If it feels more like flailing now than super productivity, have you stopped taking stimulants (or do you have to because of an attention issue)?
The fact OS patching is done by people whose entire job and profession is to keep systems patched matters - they are patched more often and faster. In addition, the fact servers don't live long means it's easier to patch servers (since there's no need to patch a running system). So there's a very real difference here.
Of the developers/tech folks I know it's mostly a weed/booze crowd. A few people that do party drugs. And a few people who occasionally do psychedelics. No one I know seems to have any outwardly visible issues with it. I do know one person who I am sure has problem with painkillers, but it's that scary blurry ground between "addict" and "chronic pain sufferer". I don't think it effects her work, but I wonder about their personal life.

Also stimulants. I almost forgot to mention them because they are basically water in this industry. Almost everyone who isn't on some sort of health kick is using some combo of caffeine/amphetamine derivatives/coke/modalert/etc.
Now we need top AI public defenders to help give legal counsel to indigent defendants in states that refuse to properly fund their defense.
So basically zero code, more talk.

Code talks - bullsh#t walks as Linus said
Apple definitely does not use GCP for 100% of anything, but it could be done. A migration like that couldn't happen overnight anyway, as I'm sure you know.
Google hit the first 1EB of raw disk space a long time ago. Or you could look at power consumption as a proximate for capacity.
Ansible Is Much Easier When You Know These Tricks
Haven't done anything myself other than smoke weed in the evenings. However at times I've wanted to give Adderal a try to get me through challenging times. When I was in college I used relatively high doses of pseudophedrine during exam times and found it helped me focus. I used it once during finals to stay up for 3 days. I aced those exams.

Currently I am a high level IC at a major web company. The pressure and competition at this level is incredible. I only do this job and put up with the pressure because I need the money (long story) and am trying to put my family ahead. I do like what I do though but would scale myself back if I didn't need the money.

When I get stretched too thin, I have trouble focusing. Adderal would be a way for me to focus when I'm running on fumes. It's not something I'd use daily but something during crunch times for sure. I've not done it because I haven't found a non-risky way to get it. I won't buy this kind of thing on the black market because I don't trust the product or the people. I'm not going to ask my doctor for it. But if I had a reliable way to get it, I'd have it.
Deep learning has shown to have obliterated much of the computer vision area and other examples where classical approaches such as feature engineering are naturally hard. This comes at a price of a massive hunger for data of Deep Learning models to achieve an acceptable prediction accuracy. So with use cases like image recognition, etc. the relative performance of deep learning models is much better than with classical algorithms.

In general (you'll probably find specific counterexamples for this, but as I said _in general_) the relative performance of deep learning models to classical machine learning may drop below that of classical models when you start looking at medium-sized data sets. And I can assure you, there are many data sets, with many applications for machine learning. And while the world talks about deep learning, I know of many companies, where random forests, suport vector machines or bayesian models have been running for years (which means, cross-validated by data unavailable during model development) with a prediction performance that a business can depend on.

I agree with you that Reinforcement learning will as a technology become much more important in the next years. However, only if exploration is cheap enough. I expect Deep Reinforcement learning not to be the answer, at least not in its current state, but I can very well imagine that we will see more machine-learning-algorithm in the reinforcement-learning-loop experiments. I personally would hope to see more research in the bayesian reinforcement learning area.
Seems like it. Doesn't really matter though.

The most recent UNICEF data[1] puts malnutrition to the point of stunting at 8.1% in China.

In the US it was 2.1%.

1. https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
LSD, Ritalin (Daytrana is the best man), Terestrone...
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Title aside, this article is nothing short of glowing PR for Y Combinator. I’d say it’s well deserved, but in this form it reeks of an uncritical submarine style of “journalism.” It reminds me of those ‘50’s interviews with politicians on the BBC: “So minister, and please forgive me if this is too harsh, but are you going to do as marvelous a job going forward as you have in the past?”
Fair point. I see the security concern, as far as availability goes, as something FaaS improves, but it's definitely up to you to decide whether downtime is better or worse than a big bill.
This is true. Thankfully node-pre-gyp helps here because you can build the native modules once for each target arch/platform. I actually have a node app that uses several native modules, and `npm install` it for an ARM target from an x86 host. It also works cross-OS (e.g. build on MacOS for linux.) The key flags are `npm install --production --target_arch=arm --target_platform=linux`.