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A company that has repeatedly violated sanctions against Iran and North Korea. A company that all of the three letter agencies are sure is using it's phones to perform state sponsored surveillance.

I don't think we should be engaging in a trade war with China, but of all of the companies we should be offering concessions to, ZTE is not anywhere near the top of that list. Call the whole thing off, but don't single out ZTE as someone to alleviate the pains for.

Hostile behavior is hostile behavior, regardless of how many people they employee.
That's like saying Pablo Escobar was good at business because he amassed billions of dollars.
If you don't have the patience for doing random math problems and just want to understand things abstractly, try this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g
Interesting to see this back on the front page after three years. Still remember us sitting in our living room drawing this on paper and arguing about the right approaches.

Maybe one day vicapow and I will make a triumphant return to the explorables space, but life has a way of getting in the way as you get older.
I do find that generally USB headphones do better and minimizing interference/noise. Which makes sense, having a sound card on your motherboard is pretty much a worst case scenario. With USB it's not till outside the case that you are susceptible to RF.
Yours is an interesting opinion - what makes you 'believe a strong US military helps make the world a better and safer place'? Did you think about the probabilities that this strong military will be misused to do the opposite?
All of my raspberry pi's are completely silent.

On a more serious note, would it be possible to achieve said silence without too much compromise by some variant of water cooling, with a good sized reservoir? And use the heat to drive circulation rather than a pump?
We have a lot of that in finance, like when you get a mortgage -- you have to sign a bunch of separate documents, one for each major concession. Informed consent may help, but it won't solve the root problem of "selling your fundamental rights", which some consider "unconscionable" (legal term for an agreement that is barred by law even if both parties claim they agree to it)
That is an awful lot of words to say "Hey anybody got any ideas how to make 'blockchain' useful to people not interested in bilking cryptocurrency speculators? Sure, we've got homeless on the streets but ALSO $200 million burning a hole in our city's pockets, and saying 'blockchain' is much cooler than 'hunger' or 'poverty' or 'infrastructure.' Ooh look, blockchain!"

Please somebody suggest an even remotely plausible way that "blockchain" could possibly improve "turn-around times for government services."
> I'd rather put two people in a run-down $1.5k apartment each than flip a coin, put one of them in a $3k apartment, and leave the other on the street.

Do you want to get USSR? Because one committee plays God and regulates who lives where. Then some other committee, no doubt well-intentioned, will apply the same logic to groceries. And cars. And salaries. And this is how you become USSR.
IMO, the SEC accredited investor rules are in place to make it a federal crime to scam non-accredited investors. Though I tend to be anti-regulation in general, I think these are good laws as I can only imagine how many investment scams would be running otherwise.
"Hooking Up"[1], an easy to digest collection of his essays, many of which are mentioned in the article or somewhere in this thread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking_Up
> Forever?

You can have support forever.

You just can't have it __for free__ forever.

There are companies out there that will happily sell you the service.

You already get an amazing tech for free, and support of 2 decades in you take all the 2.X branch in consideration (e.g: 4 times the ubuntu LTS). You complaining at this point is just insulting the community.

I find it infuriating. When the JS or Ruby community breaks stuff, they give a few weeks notice, and a few months to migrate. Nobody complains. Python give 10 years, a lot of tooling and tutorials, and some people keep complaining. This is where being too nice is a problem.

In 2020, I'll triple my price for any work on 2.7. I'm done being fair to people with such ingratitude.
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hundreds of bytes is a lot on AVRs. 1 millisecond is a lot on AVRs.

I'd have to go look at their data myself, because AES is slow even compared to ChaCha20, and these algorithms are significantly more lightweight than that.
Same system on silent laptop :)
I think the effect tends to be exaggerated in most of these implementations my points are just 1. visible scanlines were totally a thing. 2. it's really hard to take a representative photo of a CRT.
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We hold everyone as accountable as we can. Not sure why you think differently.
Interest rates. The unprecedented, ~10 year sugar high of near-zero (or in some cases, below zero) interest rates is finally ending, and there's a massive deflation of non-monetary assets underway, across the global economy.

If you only follow the bay area tech industry, you'd be excused for believing that this bubble isn't structural -- that it's just the inevitable consequence of the maturing role of the internet and technology in our daily lives. But assets everywhere are inflated in value. From Tesla shares to vacation homes to startup stock to blockchain tulips, the global pool of money has been desperately chasing speculative returns for years, and that process is finally beginning to unwind.
I wrote a short and incomplete guide to market analysis from the quant/programming side. https://tradedefender.com/news/10
I'm not sure. Is it wise to be putting heat pipes that close to an electrolytic capacitor?
I’m a blockchain bear, but I think this is a sensible move. Once the whole thing crashes we’ll have entrepreneurial engineers who have relocated to New York City.
You're absolutely right! It is beyond any doubt that it is Uber's responsibility to alleviate the problem as best they are able.

It may be possible that there could be some reasonable questions around if a publicity blowup is a helpful part of addressing the problem.
Many countries allow binding pre-dispute arbitration agreements if two businesses negotiate a contract with each other and agree to that.

Countries get more skeptical when it's in standard seemingly non-negotiable language from one of the businesses.

Most countries get very skeptical and often ban pre-dispute binding arbitration when one party is an employee or a consumer, especially if the other party drafted the language.

In the last few decades, the US has become the exception to that.

All countries I'm aware of (probably not including your country) will allow consumers and businesses to agree to arbitrate a dispute that has already arisen, with binding effect.
I didn't mean to be sexualizing the example. Notes are taken.
I have one gripe about Rust:

The Rust people appear to be actively proud of their documentation, and they appear to be proud of their memory model.

But the documentation of the memory model in the reference manual is seven short paragraphs of waffle, mostly defining various words in terms of other undefined words.

I was mildly surprised at the state of the reference manual when they declared 1.0, and I'm distinctly disappointed that it's still so bad.
Python 2 will not stop running in 2020. No bomb is gonna explode. The dozen of volunteers will just stop providing free work for bug fix and security update.
A couple weeks ago I saw an RFP (request for proposal) from a small midwestern town looking for blockchain solutions:

> The purpose of this process is to solicit proposals from qualified vendors to provide a technology solution leveraging blockchain technology to overcome information sharing barriers, facilitate continuity of care, flag at-risk individuals, and serve as a communication and referral mechanism to appropriate services

I wonder how widespread this is?
ZTE should be near the bottom of the list, right there with various Russian money-laundering real estate shell corporations.
Well.. It's like 25% accurate, and you hit the part you were most worried about. But you have been seriously misled about monads in the past.

There is no magic in monads. At the level of runtime operations, they're just a couple of functions.

The magic taking place in the compiler is type inference guiding the selection of the right pair of functions during compilation. Without that, you have to explicitly use the correct functions. It's much easier to offload that bookkeeping to a computer than it is to do it yourself.
That's one thing that makes me wonder about viability w/o violence. The athletic ability of the player to take a hit and keep going, or break/slip out of a tackle, or make a perfect throw/catch etc is quite astounding.

More interesting is the subtle strategic parts that are easy to overlook: how you line up a offence/defense (coach), play calling (coach), decision making (players/coach), reading offensive/defensive schemes and adjusting (players), etc. etc.

One thing I think is really unique (maybe I'm wrong about this) is that it's a team sport, half of the game is played by the other half of the team, each depending on the other to put them in a good position.
What if the numbers are not bad -- what if riding an Uber is safer than cab/bus/walking, but there's no way to know because the stats on cab/bus/walking are not known, so people wrongly assume they are lower than Uber's?
Replace blockchain with "mathy database" is the use case still cool? No? Ok then.
A long time ago I was dreaming of a completely silent computer and bought the Antec 350 for my birthday. https://www.bjorn3d.com/2004/11/antec-phantom-350w-psu/

It cannot power a single mid-range video card today or pretty much any modern equipment. I would have loved to be able to use it.

Anybody making fanless PSU's today?
I remember some monochrome monitors having visible scanlines like this. I think that the shadow mask on color monitors caused this to be blurred out.
> Right, and if the two parties, of their own volition, decide to use arbitration instead of courts, that's a good thing. But it should never, ever be required to sign away your rights for redress in the courts as part of any agreement.

Or it should always be a separate agreement from any other, that can be signed or not depending on if both parties have the same view of the court system, without affecting other business between them.
The state supreme court in the 1930s heard a court case on a then newly enacted income tax and said it was unconstitutional. So it's still presumed to be the same. Seattle has created a kind of test income tax separately that they are trying to use to overturn that court case.
I played Crystal Caves when I was (very) young and wasn't actively aware of the overscan border being relevant—what was it used for?
Any proof of that 4 billion dollar figure?
You can fanless video cards of the same spec as in the article (1050ti) e.g at https://www.quietpc.com/palit-ne5105t018g1-1070h

(I can personally recommend both the vendor and the card!)
This is a very dismissive comment. Many of my peers in grad school were developing finite element techniques - it's a huge area of active ongoing research. Getting realistic results is very tough in an application with non-linear materials (probably looking at anisotropic composites) and possibly fractures like this.
>>HN must be full of middle class individuals with $1M+ USD networth.

For the HN demographic that doesn't own a house and "only" pays rent, I'd agree with you. But another portion of the HN demographic that does own a flat or property may not qualify, as the definition of an accredited investor (at least in the US[1]) is $1M+ USD of investible assets excluding their primary residence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Sta...
> civilian victims (and overall casualties) of US military operations has done nothing but drop as technology improves

If you can definitively tell me how many civilian casualties there were in the Iraq war, we could discuss whether this were true.

"Credible estimates of Iraq War casualties range from 150,000 to 460,000. Other disputed estimates, such as the 2006 Lancet study, and the 2007 Opinion Research Business survey, put the numbers as high as 650,000 and 1.2 million respectively, while body counts, which likely underestimate mortality put the numbers as low as 110,000." [1]

Having a range from 150,000 to 1.2 million makes it kind of hard to discuss, don't you think?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
But you can. You will be able to run Python 2 in 5 years if you want. Nobody prevents you too. The official community will just stop working on it. Just like for DOS, which an alternative community picked up.
sounds like an income tax - not legal in this state. but sure, taxing the rich corps makes sense.
Most newspapers are filled with regurgitated press releases. When I noticed this, I stopped my subs. I grew up reading newspapers that had investigative journalists out in the field. Gov't was much more accountable.
It is important to really pause the videos at some points and do the "exercises". Doing the exercises is always a very important part of learning (I believe this holds in any field). Do them with pen and paper, not just in your head.
'you make money and then the company takes away your income' is not a 'best case scenario'. You can trivially come up with real scenarios that are much better than that.
These phenomena are more typically caused by ground loops and shield currents in the computer itself. Reordering plug-in cards (e.g. moving a sound card to a different slot) or isolating/removing the slot bracket can help.
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There isn't actually any evidence he is worth 4 billion dollars. (And even Forbes, which barely does any work to verify this sort of stuff, has revised it down to 3 billion)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-abou...

His actual personal net worth is likely closer to a few hundred million, and almost all of that is from his inheritance. He would be worth more if he had just put all of the money his father had given him into an index fund tracking the S&P 500.

Basically all of his net worth beyond that is in how he values the Trump name as a brand. This doesn't make much particular sense, as the Trump name has not helped Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Entertainment Resorts, etc. etc. etc.

He's a con man and you've been conned.
>Curious why they wouldn't just drop their funding on a grant for research in any top10 mechanical engineering department
That's wishful thinking for the most part.

I spent a fair bit of time as a student employee a ME department. Students who have little real world experience, assignments with specific criteria they need to fill and a handful of other classes and activities competing for their time are not the kind of people you want designing things. You can make them design things but you'll probably toss basically all of it out and start from near scratch if you want to make it suitable for production. ME degrees are about teaching students the process of engineering not about teaching students to produce results and predictably students suck at producing results but do fine with the process. Even the students who are good at delivery results make rookie mistakes and go down time consuming dead ends left and right. Sure you can get some real engineers to hold their hands and help produce results but you'd need to have them so involved that you're better off just having an program to help place students in internships.

>Tesla has improved crash safety over what decades of safety engineers could do

How so? By building an incrementally stiffer (with regard to passenger cabin) box on wheels enabled by better packaging requirements of an electric drive-train?
GVisor, with Nicolas Lacasse and Yoshi Tamura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AfFaGwFNIg

Seems to be one guy that takes CRT emulation seriously...
Oh, in the UK. Thanks, that helps me find more information.

I'm not too familiar with taxation matters, but again, afaik, at the end of the day, it comes down to whether the IRS/HMRC/other countries tax depts are pursuing tax evasion charges, right? Is this actually the case?
As someone who doesn't watch much football because the game doesn't seem to have any flow, it's interesting to hear that it is actually a concern.

https://www.sportsgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/i3OtXs...

https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-comm...
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It is caused by the increase/decrease in power consuption, as in general the audio chip isn't properly isolated from the power source of your computer. So, as more power is used (by slightly increasing the CPU speed, for example, to render the page as you scrooled it), the audio chip amplifies it.

It is a problem of some motherboards, and one way to get ride of it is to use another audio chip (for example, a small USB device that acts like a sound card).
Like usual with these hyped technologies people use them and search for a problem.

That said I take issue with "pseudo currency". In many ways it's a better currency.

An ever increasing ledger isn't that big of a deal either as technology improves and not everyone needs to store the whole ledger.
Another problem is that some people don't introspect whether our allies should be fighting the people they are fighting.

Other people don't ask if the ends justify the means.

Other people recommend first-strike nuclear attacks.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-nor...
Probably not - you need to push water over the radiator blocks at a decent clip and I'm pretty sure you need pump. You could try a heatpipe into a big radiator that sits in a big tank of water, though.
Pacifism is nice on paper, too bad not everybody adheres to it
I've heard noise (high-frequency whine, changing depending on load) from my laptop power supply at times, I think. I wonder if that's not a problem for some reason on desktop power supplies.
This is because this aspect of Rust is simply not yet defined. There are people working on it. Once it's agreed upon, it will be well-documented.

Outside of the memory model, there's been a few people putting a lot of work into the reference lately; it's been growing a lot. It's a tricky problem.
> Encrypted unsigned messages already make little sense and should be a red flag.

Confidentiality is a separate concern from authenticity of the source. There are obvious cases where the authenticity of the source is irrelevant, e.g. if a message contains anonymous feedback or a tip.
If you have that cash, you can pay Continmum for commercial support and stop asking people to give you stuff for free forever.

Or, alternatively, you can start spending your week end, for free, working on maintaining it.
> Anybody making fanless PSU's today?

There's a lot of PSUs nowadays that will work with the fans completely off up to ~75% of their rated power. Which is adequate for most situations.
That's fine; they can use someone else's code. I just want the power to license my software in line with my own values. I'd find it very hard to live with myself if some code I wrote ended up being used to fire missiles at people, even if they "deserved it".
Ah, thanks. I'll read up on that
NYC is a high-tax, high-growth region. It should use a blockchain to distribute tax credits to those people who need it most. Those people can then take the tax credits and spend them at city businesses. The great thing is that it could defer these tax credits... that is disallow them to be resolved for N years. Experience growth now and pay for it in the future. It would be an interest-free loan (though in reality, the credits would be discounted) ... in other words it would be currency. It could easily transform welfare within the city.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17041697
That was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918259.
It's not just linear algebra, 3blue1brown also has an entire series on undergraduate calculus, and series on Statistics, Linear Algebra II and Group Theory are in the works. Plus a large number of excellent videos on miscellaneous math topics.

I think I understand what you're saying -- one needs more than just cool videos and cool intuition. You need to do exercises. This is a point made multiple times in those very videos.

But, the intuition provided in those videos is absolutely excellent. As an example, look at the explanation of change-of-basis in the linear algebra I series.
Pick a related topic that makes use of what you want to learn, and learn what you want to learn as side effect from practice in the related topic. Another poster already mentioned linear algebra for simple computer graphics.

From there you could branch out into more dynamic stuff, like realtime 3D rendering or particle simulations, where you'd need calculus.
Seasonic does. They make excellent power supplies. I've used a 400w fanless in a media center PC, but they also make higher wattage units like this for example: https://seasonic.com/prime-titanium-fanless
Loading a program into memory is part of runtime(it happens before your program starts executing; so how is that useful to model that?); Why would calling a function be a side-effect?

Not sure what exactly you mean by writing a register; if you directly mutate a location, it is considered side-effect. Otherwise any register rewrites that happen are just implementation details and if you have a different architecture than von-neumann than it could also be implemented without writing to a register.
Yep. 0dB is the limit of human hearing, not absolute silence. There are anechoic chambers with noise levels below 0dB.
May I ask what your goal is? Do you want to be able to say read papers? Do research? It's easier to offer suggestions from there. Are you more interested in math or physics? I think at your stage, having a problem that interests you and then seeking out knowledge to understand that problem might be a good way to go...What is your current area of work? For example, if you are a programmer, then collaborating with a physicist or mathematician on a problem could be a worthwhile exchange.
It's not that simple, sadly.
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Agreed, but the hits my nine year old is making playing pee wee league are significantly different than those happening in college, the CFL, and NFL. In the same way that a pro skier in the backcountry uses very different safety equipment than the person on in-bounds groomed snow. This isn't to say that we shouldn't seek to keep kids as safe as possible, just that I don't see an issue in scaling the equipment (and its costs) relative to the risk.
IME components need to be selected for low coil whine (and the related brethren, namely electrostriction and piezoelectrics), because it easily dwarfs (both in loudness and annoyance) the air flow and fan noise of a well-built air-cooled machine.
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Well if they had very intelligent engineers that leveraged their positions and knowledge for work that is directly opposing their personal views, yes.
Probably safe to auto-flag any content from the Manhattan Institute.
Oh that's clever! What a cool way to do your personal site. Definitely makes it stand out
Except Pablo Escobar was actually a very good businessman.
layperson's question:

Since rna is gets information from the dna and is involved in the expression and regulating of genes, does this mean that memory somehow becomes encoded in our genes?
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