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> Well, guess what? LibreOffice has a complex web of dependencies, and getting all those couple dozen dependencies patched, built, and then properly installed so the build system & compiler can find and use them is not trivial. If you've got a Haiku install, try installing LibreOffice; you'll see it brings about 20-30 packages with it!

Kind of my point really. Why does how LibreOffice is compiled matter to the end user who is installing LibreOffice?

Most of what you're saying is agreeing that all the reasons I personally don't like package managers are indeed true, we just disagree about whether or not those are good things. I don't think they are.

> AppImages are just 'packages' with all the dependencies in the package.

If that's true, then what isn't a package in your world? A single statically compiled executable could be called a package by this logic.

> You could make those for Haiku, too, if you wanted. The system package manager isn't stopping you. You could also install software the "old way" of unzipping archives and then copying them somewhere, we also aren't stopping that. This is a new paradigm that hopefully will replace the old ones, but it doesn't necessarily, not if people continue to use the old ways.

And that's the problem: The system is pushing the new paradigm. Package management will be the rule and simple application directories will be the outlier. That's not a convincing argument for me to use the system.

I get that you disagree with my conception of how things should be done. That's fine, do whatever you want. But for me, personally, I don't see any reason to subject myself to an application management paradigm that I disagree with to use Haiku. If I were going to do that, I'd just use Linux because it has much better hardware and software support.
> A more practical reason to care is that if a user-generated expression is proven to be pure and to terminate, then we can evaluate it without fear of getting hacked, denial of service, etc. Imagine a new type of iphone, IDE or web browser where a shitty app/plugin can't lag up your experience.

Nontermination alone isn't enough, since in some provably-terminating languages it's still very possible to write expressions that will take a very long time to evaluate in some implementations. Concretely, "catastrophic backtracking" regular expressions can be true regular expressions (and therefore provably terminating), but in naive implementations their runtime will be exponential in the input length.

But it's a start, and the same techniques could hopefully lead to languages in which expressions naturally come with upper bounds on their evaluation time.
When you read through the announcement and you realize that this is a company that even if it doubled it's current production rate it would still have orders for the close to a year's production, then you have got to pause and be amazed.

How many Model 3s could Tesla produce at its current facilities? 7,000? 10,000? 15,000? It wouldn't be enough to remotely satisfy the demand.

Truth is that once delivery picks up, more people will start to order since currently people like me think it's pointless to order a car that you would have to wait a year to get and that - in most parts of the world - you can actually not order yet. The orders are likely to increase proportionate to the production capacity as Model 3 will be made available around the world.

This company could build 3 Giga Factories around the world that each produce 10,000 Model 3s per week and demand would still not be met. Heck, they could have 10 Giga Factories and they might still not satisfy demand for Model 3.

And then there is the future demand for Model Y and - once they get economy of scale and battery prices go down a bit - demand for cheaper, smaller cars.

All this demand could be met by other car manufacturers if they too produced long range EVs of similar or better quality than combustion engine cars. But no-one does and no-one will for an other year. Don't say Nissan Leaf; it's not long range. And when they finally do, in 2-3 years or so, are you going to take a chance on one of the first competitive EVs from VW, Mercedes, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Fiat, Toyota or Mazda or are you just gonna stick with Tesla, which by then comes with even better specs than today?

Tesla is the Apple of the car world. There is still room for other producers to make the Android cars that spend 3-4 year playing the catch up game of being one-two models behind in specs, and then maybe finally catch up in 5-10 years. But Tesla will get the better customers and the fat margins if the traditionalists don't hurry. And hurry a lot.
Oh yeah, no argument there. Even now with the fantastic nuitka that compiles Python seamlessly to a stand alone executable, you still don't have the cross compilation story go has. And you have to be careful with libc.

But the thread is about highly scalable things, isn't it ?
Yep, and they've taken plenty of knocks for failing to meet that stated goal and having to re-adjust and set new forward goals.
The author is female, so “she” not “he” :)
> If the FED is a USA government institution and new money was created by that institution

The Federal Reserve is a quasi public-private institution. It has a separate balance sheet from the U.S. government. Central bank liabilities are money--a dollar bill is a Federal Reserve Note and a dollar in a bank's reserve account is wirable cash.

National debt is debt accrued by politicians to pay for goods and services. Adding the money supply to the national debt would produce a meaningless number, so we don't do it.
I rewrote a network TCP scanner in Go (about a year ago) and it performed much better. It scans a /12 for 50 common server ports in roughly 40 minutes. https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan
I haven't read the whole article (paywalled), but I wonder if the honors losing their luster is more about a low correlation between high GPA and professional success (at least in STEM careers). I've been involved in hiring and for recent grads we will look at transcripts, but GPA as a factor isn't weighted very highly. I'm much more interested in hearing a candidate talk about their senior project or personal projects and other areas of interest.

Does anybody even look at transcripts or care about GPA beyond your first job?
"...According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity."
A sobering reality...especially when you consider the ultra rich design and run the political systems that define the tax bases and laws the rest of the world are organized under...
People remain naive about online propaganda and the extent which "shill mills" influence social media. This industry has done a remarkable job keeping itself out of the limelight.

There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of Tesla, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a tidal wave of sudden strong anti-Tesla (and anti-Musk in general) stuff that started hitting social media. For me the "tell" is that a lot of it repeats the same talking points or variations of them or even the same phrases and slogans. You also had obvious astroturf sites like "stop Elon Musk from failing again" popping up around the same time. Shortly after I saw that appear I heard people online (and off!) using that exact phrase and other exact talking points. That is a propaganda campaign. You don't get that organically.

There are companies that will do this for any cause you'd like as long as the payment clears. For a few million you could probably increase belief in the flat Earth by a factor of 10-100. It's a fairly large industry. The human mind is for sale.
Users of home DNA tests 'cherry pick' results based on race biases, study says
Thanks, that seems to apply to older phones.

I would hope that the FBI would not override airplane mode on a smart phone... what if they did so while a suspect was actually on a plane?

A warrant doesn't give police the right to endanger others IIRC...
All he's doing here is obviating braking. In theory it could make for slightly reduced trip time as some stop-and-go's have more inefficiency than just moving slowly. He's reducing the pressure of the flow. But he's doing nothing about the actual causes of the slowdowns, which is on-ramps, off-ramps and rubbernecking. So while you reduce stop-and-go, you're still traveling at maximum capacity, just like in stop-and-go's. A kink in a hose doesn't go away if you reduce the water pressure.
Meteor burst communications
Well... about 3 months ago my Windows 10 machine got stuck updating. Basically it just kept endlessly updating the same update consuming huge amount of resources;

At first I figured i just let it do it's thing so i waited and waited and just kept it running over night. After a few days i noticed it was the exact identical update it kept installing over and over.

I searched online, and many people were having exactly the same problem. At that time there wasn't a solution yet. So in the end, i just gave up...

- i'm a developer btw so i have at least some technical knowledge :)

(can't remember the exact KBxxxxx number unfortunately.)
Presumably the people stationed in that part of the ship don't often get up to fight. Some may be at weapon stations in that control room, so they fight best right there. Other crew would be fighting with small arms if necessary.
It was probably the expansion of financial instruments like Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) [0] along with shadow banking mortgage companies (like Country Wide [1]) that simply sell mortgages to banks that in turn securitize the mortgage into CDOs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Home_Loans
Sub-saharan Africa already has some of the fastest growing economies on the planet. Ethiopia, for example, is growing at 8% GDP.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/ethiopia-africa-faste...
Here are the almost daily reports based on the NHTSA data

https://twitter.com/Model3VINs
YTBmp3 https://www.ytbmp3.com is built completely with Go. Autoscaling cloud instances based on load with a custom scaling solution is also written in Go. It handles very long running requests on streaming transcoding and compressing. Go's net/http is exposed to the internet with great results which adds to infrastructure simplifications, graceful reloading (important for long running requests). Go allows so much infrastructure simplifications that there is not even a single container involved. :)
I think Typed Racket has more buzz than contracts... maybe even seen as a replacement/evolution by many.
How does one pronounce it anyway? Is it lib-rey or liber (like liver)
Predicting a Better Future with Swarm Intelligence
Clickbait title.

Not surprising given the source, but I like to think Hacker News expects better than an "I Was Devastated" headline.
I tend to find it very easy to debug CL code. In fact, CL is designed to be introspective: "inspect", "trace", "break", "disassemble" and "step" are part of the language.

Also, Common Lisp is case sensitive.
>Otherwise gas stations have been automated for decades.

Except in New Jersey and Oregon.
Industrial scaling is hard but it's also exponential. The gap between 5000 cars and 10000 cars is exponentially smaller than the gap between 1000 cars and 5000 cars. The gap between 10000 cars and 100000 cars is smaller still.
I believe Apple was more or less profitable from day 1. How do you compare Apple to Tesla?
Google Becomes Platinum Member of Linux Foundation
I spent several years out of the school system after finishing high school, and while I had a lot of great offers from schools, I wanted to go into a trade.

Several years later I began work as a developer because I had always programmed, and had come to the conclusion that it was something I really loved and wanted to spend my life doing.

Fast-forward, I'm a mid-20's senior in Computer Science, and you're absolutely correct about the VAST amount of information that is required to learn to be successful.

So here is my take:

1) There is a lot of sink or swim, at least in the program I'm in. And if you learn to swim, then your GPA balloons because you learn how to handle this vast amount of information thrown on you -- useful or not, it is the professors discretion -- which I think is one of the points of school to begin with.

2) Those who sink, end up going to departments with maybe less expectations, where they end up succeeding after having to deal with the previously higher expectations.

It's interesting.

With that said -- I grew up with a lot of GPA chasers, who I wouldn't trust with anything I personally needed done. But what they've done throughout their lives is signal that they can get whatever task you give them done, not necessarily come up with what task should be done, or how to interconnect subjects outside of an exam, or what was previously derived for them.

Learning how to bridge the gap between subjects is also another point of school. It's interesting because those lines everyday seem to be blurred more and more, especially with advancement of computing, so it's kind of hard I think for a lot of students to make that jump, to bridge. And also the stigma of Liberal Arts -- that many STEM kids subscribe to -- has lessened the ability of many students to be life-long students.

I have a few friends in grad school, who really, really struggle with that particular advancement. For example, one is in a neuro-lab and while they did have experience in FMRIs, they had never really invested in either math or computing. Now they're completely lost doing FICA and the like with MATLAB, and absolutely hate the work. They've called me to ask me about everything from what is an eigenvalue, to how to split a 3D Matrix into 4 based upon a fix set of indices. It's a shame because they are really smart, and passionate about the subject.

Sorry that was a bit of a ramble.
The Bull thesis is that Tesla has a lot more going for it than just being a car company like GM or Ford. A couple of things most people point to:

1.) Software Skills - Autonomous driving, over the air updates, giant screen + app, future possibility of ride sharing network. Most people see the legacy automakers as very deficient in software.

2.) Semi-Truck Project - This can go a lot of places.

3.) Supercharger network. It’s sort of like also owning the gas stations. They already have a huge lead in DC fast charging.

4.) Expertise in batteries/packs/Gigafactory. This is pretty much the entire game going forward.

5.) Ancillary battery products, Powerwall and Powerpack. Battery storage is expected to be a gigantic industry by itself.

6.) Solar Roof - Also expected to be a gigantic industry by itself.
Grade inflation refers to the phenomena of getting an "A" despite having what used to be a "B" or "C" level of knowledge.

So, it's possible there's an incidental correlation but there's no causation if the phenomena is real.

If you've seen how the average kid uses the internet, it's a rather laughable suggestion... there is little overlap between social media entertainment sites and the web of knowledge. The biggest contributor to higher grades are the book summary and answer-key sharing sites.
I can tell you straight up that in the real world that is not what happens most of the time. It's also not always Oak, many places use Beech or similar woods. It's virtually impossible to run an oven with 20 pizzas in it at that pace, and I have worked with some incredible Pizzaioli. I am also far from convinced that keeping it under 2 minutes makes the best pizza, and there were many times where we considered the oven too hot and had to damper it to cook properly. A lower temp--but very well heated for appropriate thermal mass--oven was the bee's knees.
Is it possible (wink wink) that our ability to distribute and search information has far surpassed the pace of the expanding web of knowledge?
Gene discovery unlocks mysteries to our immunity
That's a ceteris paribus line of reasoning, though.

If we assume, for the sake of argument, that red light inhibits alertness while blue light promotes it, then that might change the calculus to, "maximizing night vision preservation isn't as important as making sure that we don't end up needing it in the first place."
"In order to achieve this production rate, we plan to take additional
days of downtime during Q2, just like we did in Q1."

They definitely aren't at a smooth sustainable build rate yet. They could probably maintain 4-5k/week on the Model 3 but in the pursuit of reaching higher output and increasing efficiency there will probably be more shutdowns this quarter.

I would expect that they might lean on the tent/GA4 line to let them do some more shutdowns and reconfigurations of the main line.

I think they've still got a ways to go before they have smooth and steady production output at the efficiency that they want.
I believe OP was referring to how current gen smartphones were at least a few years “behind” (in terms of underlying tech and software) when the iPhone first came out, leaving the rest of the industry to play a catch-up game.
Out of curiosity, does anyone run Haiku full time? I remember seeing a video on it a few years ago, but wasn't sure if it would do everything I wanted.
Install Microsoft Office Lens. Works great for taking pictures of documents, white boards etc.
It's also preposterous. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Compared to our ancestors in, say, 1000 BC, the vast majority of humanity is far, far, wealthier while the few who are arguably no better off are not worse off either. That's all wealth we've created.

We can talk about whether it's a good or moral idea to transfer wealth, but let's not pretend like that's the only way to deal with poverty.
What makes Haiku better for personal computing, from the end-user perspective? Or to put it in another perspective, who is the eventual target user for Haiku? I'd like to find an excuse to test it out even knowing it's in alpha stages, but this seems to be missing from the FAQs. The only noteworthy statement is that it is fast, efficient, and easy to use. I'm not sure if those are sticking points for most users.
An Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
MIT?

My wife went there, and while most STEM grad schools understood that grades at MIT were not inflated, medical schools did not seem to care. One of her friends had to first get inflated grades doing a STEM masters degree before she could get into med school due to her uninflated MIT undergrad grades.
What’s the Difference Between Facebook and Tencent?
Looks like a beautiful app. Installed and tested... snooze is not working. See the reviews // just tested it myself on Android -- snoozing once will just disable the alarm when it should ring the next time.
A friend has pulled a couple of nice bicycles out of Copenhagen's harbour. He has a favourite spot, which is deep and silty — "easy" methods to retrieve a lost bike, like a hook on a rope, are difficult there.

None have been reported stolen (there's a website to check this). We think people fall in when cycling drunk at night.
The '7000 cars' milestone over the last week is probably a similar high intensity push. I would expect them to similarly spend some time this quarter reconfiguring and improving efficiency at the cost of not maintaining that high production rate every week.
Science fiction legend Harlan Ellison ends his short time on Earth
Forgot to mention: It is a perpetual starter--take a pizza worth of dough to start the next batch (for maybe 100 pizzas).
If something like the Flynn Effect[0] is real and persistent, it could make sense that grade inflation is natural, and that fewer truly qualified students would be able to get university placements, scholarships, and so on, just because there are far greater numbers of deserving, materially higher-achieving students now, but the number of available “prestigious” outcomes has not grown as fast.

[0]: < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect >
Ask HN: Need some help with ESRI ArcGIS
Looking for someone with a lot of experience with ArcGIS, specifically with creating map from open layer data. I just need a conceptual overview.
Anyone free for a 15 minute phone call to help? I will pay you back in kind however I can (lots of expertise on team in a variety of techs).

Thanks,
Kevin
Paging Dr. Dankenstein
Great link! Found a decent, in-depth discourse of Plato's Euthyphro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eh2b12fPcU&list=PLSvsx8116e...
How Cambridge Analytica fueled a shady global passport bonanza
For some context, here is a reply of the accused / singled out person on their Twitter account:

> Some fake news circulating around lately, to clarify: 1. I'm a shareholder of oBike, owning 23.58% stake, my title has always been Founding Investor&Chairman in that company 2. Avazu was founded by me sorely, my grandparents are 80+ and can't even handle computers

> 3. oBike Singapore has been shut down due to economics, the decision was made among all shareholders, no need to generalize/personalize 4. oBike has no intention or need to run away with deposit, instead the company is proactively looking for a solution with the related parties

> 5. I'm an investor and shareholder in 100+ startups and companies globally, I'm also the direct founder of DotC United Group, some of these ventures cooperate with other block chain companies, that doesn't mean all these companies belong to me.

https://twitter.com/yishi888/status/1013667238191067136
This was just a centralized database so it has little in common with Bitcoin.
People who really, really miss BeOS.
Coinbase Custody Is Officially Open for Business
California passes its own GDPR to stymie a data protection ballot initiative
(Paywalled so I can't read the whole article) This is mainly due to society's (I'm in the US) mentality that if a kid get's low grade, s/he are lazy and a failure. We really need a reform to gauge aptitude better and accept the fact that some people are better at blue collar jobs than white collar jobs (and vice versa). Our current standardized test system does not reflect this.
> What is the issue with self-checkout, I found it is actually faster.

Unexplained item in bagging area.

I have had so many issues with the self-checkout's sensor not working properly. If it's not telling me there's something in the bagging area that's not supposed to be there, it's telling me that it can't detect the item I just put in the bag. It's especially common if the item is lightweight. Usually the sensor fails to pick up the item I just put in the bag and won't let me scan anything else unless I either do or press "I don't want to bag this item". And then I scan the next item and then it finally picks it up and whines about an unexplained item in the bagging area.

Whenever I use the self-checkout, I usually end up having to call over the attendant multiple times to deal with these problems. And the attendant is busy with half a dozen other people, so the self-checkout ends up being slower than the regular one.
> I think there's room for other languages to occupy a similar space but they're need to focus on no-std-lib no-runtime operation (not always the sexiest target).

You're describing the Zig language!

It aims to be as fast as C, and unlike most languages that say this is a goal, it means it. There's no "almost as fast as C if you ignore the garbage-collector and the array-bounds-checking", it's actually as fast as C.

Its author values the minimalism of C, but wants to create a far better language for doing that sort of work. [0]

They're doing surprisingly well. They even managed to make a faster-than-C (faster even than hand-tuned assembly) SHA-2 [1]

[0] https://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html , https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...

[1] https://ziglang.org/download/0.2.0/release-notes.html , it's also mentioned somewhere in this talk https://youtu.be/Z4oYSByyRak