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> I live in Dallas now, the Tex Mex here is just horrible (comparatively). It's more of a Cali/modern inspired style.

California would like a word with you...

To call Cal/Mex cuisine 'horrible' is patently ridiculous. If you can say that, haven't had a gordita from an L.A. roach coach, or a green corn tamale from El Cholo, or a Mission style burrito, etc etc.

Oh, and lest we not forget San Diego - a legit fish taco is sublime.
The creators of the show agree: “You’re going to have to find something else to talk about why Portland’s changing. Oh, it’s still changing, but Portlandia’s over.” -Carrie Brownstein
Wow, that's interesting! Starred.
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Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
I'm a software engineer with a full-time job, but I have lots of spare time in my off hours. I'd like to monetize this time, but finding freelance work has been extremely daunting.

I don't have a ton of networking skills, so I don't have a network I can tap for opportunities. I don't really know how to find opportunities otherwise. I have the approvals I need from my full-time job to do this, but it's still not something where I want to splash my name all over the place. I also don't have a lot of public code, so no big portfolio I can point people to.

I'm not looking for massive pay, just something to occupy my time and some side money. But I want to leverage my skills, not do mechanical turk work.

How do you find freelance work?
I use the latest uBlock Origin with the latest stable Google Chrome on Linux. I have the block lists above (https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png) enabled, and I'm still getting lots of ads on YouTube. Ads started appearing in 2018, it was fine before.

Any advice how I can get rid of ads on YouTube?
I wonder what its velocity is in relation to the sun. Twenty two light years in 70,000 years seems rather fast!
> You’re looking for authenticity.

Not really. In this case, collectors are looking for scarcity (or rarity, whatever the right word is here). These chips are no less authentic than the mil-spec approved chips they sold at the same time.
>freedom protects your right to sexually exploit underage girls

That's not what he said or implied at all
Ask HN: What job applications are there for JavaFX?
For the past couple of month I have been attending a JafaFX course that it's compulsory in my computer science program. It is mainly focused in how to use FXML in combination with JavaFX to create interfaces and give them functionality. So I'm just wondering if this knowledge has any direct application out there, in the job market.
Note that the other DIMMs aren't completely arbitrary, they are buffered and require Centaur controllers to allow for much greater capacity and bandwidth (at increased latency). But for scale out workloads the on chip DDR controllers are great for both lower cost and lower latency.
2 things about this.

1) if you are a fund you just cant' sit out 3 years. Your fund will shut down as everyone will yank their money,. if its your own money then people will leave as you won't pay bonuses.

2) If you went short in 2006 then you wouldn't have survived until teh crash of late 2008.

> It's pretty easy to make way above average returns on the stock market.

This is just an absurd statement along the lines of its easy to build a billion dollar company just mimic what all the other billion dollar companies do.

Sorry for being so negative to your comment, but come on. That statement can't be seriously defended in any resonable manner.
Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away. Or did I misunderstand your comment?
Profit margin varies across industries and individual companies, so you would be collecting less tax revenue on the most profitable companies.

Essentially it’s like setting a sales tax on the products, then giving the company zero income tax. Doesn’t usually sit right with most people.
Not personally, I just don't think I would login using my real password on any website running from another student's dorm room.
But what good is tracking e.g. a tomato with a tamper proof database when the label on the tomato is easily tampered with?
I hope they start with small array counts and build up from there.. you can imagine them having a "super bright super low power small display with 200x400 pixels" actually being useful in plenty of places.. then build up from there step by step.. So if AR is that application then, great. But don't try to jump from barely manufacturable to 4k2k VR display as your first step.. sort of like Lytro -- they just were like, "yea we just need to be able to make the densest highest quality and highest lens count micro lens array in the world to be successful!" My advice to the microLED people.. start small.. no pun intended, but yea.. don't try to hit a grand slam on day 1.
> what if you're near the far left of the bell curve across all players?

I probably am - I honestly enjoy the trash-talking, even when it grossly violates cultural norms. I feel like it's a part of the "gamer culture" that I enjoy.

I also get that there are (probably a lot) of people that don't want it. I just hope that there will continue to be a place for people who don't want to be subject to the censorship.
> I don't understand why some people propose this as inherently a bad thing

I can explain this! It's actually simple.

People are afraid of unemployment and what it could mean for themselves and their families. So while there are possibly benefits, it's also possible that they will not be able to provide for their family and that's incredibly scary to people.
This has been said many times, but it feels like all the manufacturers colluded to make EV cars extremely ugly and undesirable. Prime example being the BMW i3.

Of all the nice looking cars they have in their line up, one has to wonder why they went with an i3.

Put that same capability in a 3-series and it would have been a different story.
This should be possible. Add a reference to the VueJS[1] and Vue should be registered as a global variable in your application.

[1] https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html#Direct-lt-scrip...
Why do you believe that you have the "freedom" to shove toxicity into other people's games? Why do you believe you have more "freedom" to be toxic to other players than they have "freedom" to enjoy the game they paid for?

This has nothing to do with freedom and you know it.
Is there a cloud provider that allows a EU-based natural-person customer buy a little Power 9 time for testing?

Last I looked, Power cloud offerings required the customer to be a big company that buys a lot of compute.
Came here to say this. Non-descrimination rights should be inalienable.
What kinds of successes have you had using this strategy?
This bit caught my eye:

« According to Agner’s instruction_tables.pdf load instruction that I use has 2 cycles latency »

and indeed that's what Agner Fog's tables say (and they further say this figure is « the delay that the instruction generates in a dependency chain »).

But all other sources seem to agree that the L1 dcache latency on the main Intel processor family is 4 cycles (since Nehalem).

Does anyone know what the distinction is here? If I do a a simple pointer chase through L1 dcache I wouldn't make progress at 2 cycles per step, would I?
Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science
GoshawkDB: Making Time with Vector Clocks
First, thanks for writing these long and detailed comments; I find them very interesting and probably a lot of other people do too.

Second, you mention knowing the names of various comparable firms to RenTech. Can you name some of those here?
Emotion is as much a part of the human decision-making process as logic, and it's sociopathic to act as though logic is the only part that matters.

My favorite for-example: one of those old great libertarian thinkers applied libertarian principles to the parent-child relationship and decided that a law that compels a parent to feed a child is an immoral law; parents should be free to let their children starve to death.

A triumph of logic over emotion? I guess, if you're okay with a society that permits parents to let their children starve to death without consequence.
So look I’m just gonna ask you one question.

Do you do all your programming work inside a browser window?
it's just not. Evolution learns more sloly than reinforcement learning, which itself learns much more slowly than supervised deep learning.
Evolution doesn't have gradiants, and needs a huge amount of samples to learn anything.
Instagram will show more recent posts due to algorithm backlash
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Guns also equalizes the power disparity between a man and a woman. I see gun ownership as female empowerment, but the left never seems to mention that.
Why do you feel you have more of a right to use Blizzard's resources to be toxic to others, driving them from the game, than someone else has to enjoy the game they paid for?
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Thanks! I use this "disposable" web server approach a lot actually, usually by running `python -m http.server` from the directory that contains the file I want to transfer, and then `wget`'ing the file from another terminal, or opening it as a stream in VLC if the file is a media.
Egypt has banned Uber and Careem with immediate effect
Could someone better versed in math explain why this is important/useful? I skimmed the article, and while I find Ford circles and the trees/tables presented intriguing, I don't really know what to do with the information presented. Do these techniques have any uses / reveal anything interesting?
> The bigger issues I had was the need for all the extra disk space when a major compaction happens.

is leveldb compaction strategy supposed to mitigate this issue?
It doesn't even take that. It seems that you can resubmit the exact same link after a few hours. Happened to me many times.
It's an n of 1, but we're nowhere close to 'human driver' levels of safe.

Humans get 1 death per 100 million miles.

Waymo/Uber/Cruise have <10 million miles between them. So currently they're 10 times more deadly. While you obviously can't extrapolate like that, it's still damning.

If you consider just Uber, they have somewhere between 2 and 3 million miles, suggesting a 40x more deadly rate. I think it's fair to consider them separately as my intuition is that the other systems are much better, but this may be terribly misguided.

This is a huge deal.

I honestly never thought we'd see such an abject failure of such systems on such an easy task. I knew there would be edge cases and growing pains, but 'pedestrian crossing the empty road ahead' should be the very first thing these systems are capable of identifying. The bare minimum.

This crash is going to result in regulation, and that's going to slow development, but it's still going to be justified.
Do you have actual benchmarks of x86 vs. Power 9 or are you just talking out your ass?
You're already accepting HN dictating their version of morality to you.
The i8 was released the same year as the i3. Is that ugly or undesirable?
Looking at the link, what else are people going to buy? I'm confused as to what you're clarifying.
Both of the Android (WearOS I guess now) smart watches that I've personally used have had always on displays and 2-3 day battery life. Maybe this is just an iWatch or whatever it's called problem? It does seem like whenever I see one of those mini iPhones strapped to someone's wrist it's blank.
Initially, Russian used the same convention for 40 as it does for other multiples of 10. Other Slavic languages still do. However, 4 (четыре) is the longest word by syllable count in the 1..10 range, so over time a shorter word that used to mean "a bag with 40 skins" (apparently a standard count to make some article of garment) came to replace it. The original meaning is all but forgotten now, and сорок means only 40 now.

90 also used to use the more common form of "nine tens", but for some reason came to be replaced by something that looks like it means "nine out of hundred" but the etymological explanations for it seem to be rather inconsistent. One explanation is that Russians used to count by 9 -- remnants of that can be seen in fairy tale expressions for "very far" -- "beyond three times nine lands".
> to make some code into a library

I have never had any problem with putting some code into a library after the software is done. It is almost always a 1-4 hours exercise, and when it's not, it's a 2 days task at most.

Async code is also something that I have never seen it being a huge problem. Mostly because only a small part of your code needs to be async, most of it can stay synchronous, scheduled by the small async part.

Thread safety is a real problem. One can indeed trade some of it for some development speed, and this can become a huge bottleneck later/soon.
Just run a local caching resolver, on Linux that is super easy and uses little resources.
That’s actually an important and counterintuitive point that many newbies don’t understand. Eg, someone wants to learn to play guitar, so they go to the store and buy the cheapest, shittiest guitar available. Then they fight with it for a year and give up. It is true that a genius like Jimi Hendrix could, if he were still alive, take the exact same shitty guitar and make a 50k audience scream, but, crucially, you’re not Jimi, and as you learn, you’d very much benefit from having a good instrument. It doesn’t have to be a $10k custom or anything, but it has to be solid and enjoyable to use, because learning to play is frustrating enough as it is, and you don’t need to make it even more so.
It should be tolerable for someone to do something stupid "over there" to sell their hipster beer if you're not involved. There are few issues where we have to actually force a nation-wide conflict to decide on a particular outcome.

Whoever is doing it, convincing YouTube and Reddit to force internet-wide struggles over these issues isn't choosing the right battles.
Data on 1.2M Facebook users from 2005 (2011) [use archive.org url in thread]
randomly selected how? By the order a $9 an hour secretary enters stuff into an excel spreadsheet? In some places yes. Even if it is random(normal case)...random selection of which old rich jaded PHD holding white guy you get? In many places yes.
Not OP but Tesla's stock is certainly overvalued(Musk said so himself). Their future depends on if they can scale without QA issues - so far even producing a few hundred model 3s a week they seem to be struggling with defects and problems in the delivered cars.

The one distinguishing factor is that they have terrific brand value because of Musk, and this could mean that consumers would want their cars despite all the troubles they have. I think this unusual level of brand value is the confounding factor that muddies predictions and is unquantifiable. Brand value makes consumers make non-rational decisions. If it was any other car company with Tesla's numbers you'd be crazy to bet on them succeeding.

People who hear that say, Lexus are doing badly and have severe problems with their cars are going to go buy an Audi. People who want a Tesla so far are just waiting for a Tesla.
If you are Berkshire or Amazon, you can sit on cash or potential earnings for years, and investors can trust you with it. The keys are finding the right investors and demonstrably earning their trust.
Personally I like used lenses and cameras more, especially with strong signs of use at specific locations.
It somethings also indicate that the lens got lucky in production and is sharper or without flaws.
And you just know someone will find a workaround because annoying site visitors is SO in right now.
can't tell if satirical
Which GC exactly you used in your experiments?
JVM has plenty of them with different properties regarding latency/throughput balance.
I'm not sure if you consider this "mission critical" but US military drones use GPS for navigation. There have been several cases of them being captured via GPS jamming.
As I still want to use FB (I use it for following bands I like to know when they make new music or where they play their next show), but am concerned by all those privacy issues, I use a Firefox extension by Mozilla :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

You can then use a container system. I've got one for all the google stuff (might be worse than FB on the privacy concern in my opinion), one for Facebook, one for some online site I don't want to cross data with anything else.

That plus uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc...
We sure need to study the ability to affect the ionosphere. And then people will build weapons capable of doing it in suitable ways. Unless they already have those.
People can’t afford to delete their Facebook accounts
Number of repositories/files/lines is a poor indication of complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code#Disadvant...
I'd be interested in looking at the generated IL, especially for nullability info and default interface methods.
RRP: From £112,000

That's pretty undesirable.
Undesirable because of the price.
I don't know. Firefox 59 needs about a second to load a small local html file with 3 small pictures (100x100 pixel) from SSD. How is this possible? Most windows games load instantly. UI in most games works instantly. Why is it so hard to make the same possible in a browser?
I don't think the i3 is ugly and I wouldn't mind having one if I could aford it.
the 15% turned out to be a lowball, it's more like 17% if you use the 2015 numbers from wikipedia[0]. I got the %GDP numbers from wikipedia as well[1].

> Free higher education for everyone would cost $75 billion.

this I find hard to believe. the US government estimated that ~20 million students would be enrolled in college/university in fall 2017. assuming enrollment would not increase if college were free, that $75 billion works out to about $3750 per student. this substantially undercuts even in-state tuition at the average community college, which already receives significant funding from the government.

although I pushed back on that particular claim by Sanders, I still maintain that we have an allocation problem, not a money problem. according to 2012 data[2] the US government spends almost exactly the same percentage of its GDP on education as the UK, and we are in the high range of money spent per student in primary and secondary education[3].

i'm no expert, but this doesn't look like the kind of thing where you can just throw money at it and expect it to work. we should figure out how to use the money we already have to produce more similar outcomes to those in Western Europe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_...

[3] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
I wonder how much this would increase the battery life of an Apple Watch?
> A lot of times we identify with something on a different level then is logical, I believe the same is happening with a lot of these people and 'authenticity'.

I'm reading The Elephant in the Brain. Its shocking how much we do as humans that we delude ourselves into believing.
And if you keep getting that toxicity thrown in your face game after game after game?
While reviewing CVs I would love to see "Took some time to travel through Asia", followed by a few lines amongst which was written "Helped small business in <some city in China> to improve their system administration".

And that would definitely lead to a interesting conversation while interviewing :)

But ofcourse, that could just be me.
I'm working on this. The summary at Phoronix isn't really accurate. The presentation linked is about a different effort to integrate JIT into postgres.

> "JIT-compiling expressions for PostgreSQL has been found to be up to ~20%+ faster in database tests like TPC-H."

It's more for some queries (2.2X for Q01), less for others.

> Creating indexes was found to be even 5~19% faster with this JIT mode. Overall, quite promising improvements. "

There's no JITing done during CREATE INDEX atm. That'd be very worthwhile to do, but I just don't have the cycles to get it done for v11.
Facebook’s battle to kill the first transparency law for online political ads
Have you tried https://www.piskelapp.com/ ?
I quite like the i3 and apart from the backup engine it is a remarkably advanced car.
Is this tax structured in a way to prevent collection from the consumer, so it appears as a line item next to VAT? If not, the difference will be moot for most consumers.
> sells it cheaper than they can buy from the suppliers

Perhaps they miswrote, but the comment says that Amazon is cheaper than the supplier.

It's somewhat common for a large manufacturer to accidentally undercut themselves. For example, one branch selling to Walmart and another selling direct to restaurants. Sometimes the price at Walmart, even after Walmart's margin, is cheaper than the direct price. The restaurant-sales group is horrified as they lose customers to Walmart and goes running down the hall to tell the bigbox-sales group to raise prices.
i8 is a hybrid car with a very small electric range and small cargo space.
Related Jenkins announcement: https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/03/19/introducing-jenkins-x/
Dream on, they’ll make it thinner
Combine this with 10 or 20% savings in CPU energy, 10 or 20% savings in radio power, 10 or 20% in RAM energy for example, and you start getting into revolutionary use cases. We're now looking seriously at embedded small devices that can sit in one place, take up the space of a pack of cards, and transmit useful data over the course of 20 years. Now we start getting into revolutionary because this opens up applications like building moisture detectors into roof construction, embedding a screen into the back side of your front door that shows a log of when it was opened or closed, or maybe something surprising like color changing shoes.
I am not totally onboard with the idea of manslaughter charges, but in principle I'm with you. I am nervous about how the liability question gets worked out. When a human behind the wheel is directly liable for their actions we at least have some incentive for good behavior. When we detach that liability and assign it generically to a company instead, then it feels like our options for coercive behavior shaping has been significantly reduced. We can't put the corporation in jail, and history shows that we rarely punish corporations significantly, even large fines are frequently pretty small when you look at the budget of the corporation involved.
How Math and Computational Geometry Influence Digital Art
First-gen Leaf was horrid, but this newer one - I would drive one. Even the new Prius has roughly 12% more testosterone. I think they're learning.
It's open core, not open source. I'm pretty sure they would have a lot of incentives to turn it down.
DL models don't often get stuck at local optima. In theory, they could be vulnerable to that, but in practice they are not, it simply doesn't happen in most practical supervised learning applications.

I'm not up to date on theoretical research about this topic, but as far as I recall there are some interesting demonstrations on realistic problems showing that all the different "local" optima resulting from different random initializations are actually all "connected", i.e. there exists a nondecreasing route how you can get from a worse "local optimum" to the better one, so in reality it's not a local optimum, it's just that it's nontrivial to find the path to a better optimum if the space is very highdimentional.
Cannibalizing your existing products is a hard sell in an established organization. It's why businesses like Tesla are able to innovate more rapidly. They have no internal combustion product to compete with, and they don't have to save anything for the swim back (succeed or die).

EDIT: This isn't restricted to just the auto industry. Consider the need for Lockheed to create their Skunk Works team [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works