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I'm the person who created that Gist for sharing it publicly and I do agree that GraphQL makes pagination confusing. Just yesterday I was searching for a link to share with someone and came across that official page which uses Relay-style connections without naming OR even linking to it which I found very weird.

> I realize that this is an internal doc from Shopify, so if their statement "will be taken care of at implementation time" was meant to just hand-wave for an audience of front-end engineers, that is a reasonable thing to say.

Thank you for pointing this out. I did edit the document to remove Shopify specific mentions and sentences like this, but this one is subtle. I'll likely edit it to be a little clearer and even link to the Relay spec.

edit: I've updated that section. Hopefully it's clearer now :)
The major thing with a clock-based design is that you have to dedicate a huge amount of silicon and power just towards getting a clock signal all over the whole chip.

A group at Cambridge University also designed and fabricated an asynchronous CPU based on an early ARM a long time ago now. Like the ones mentioned in this article, it behaved very well. It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it.
> X-ray microtomagraphy

Neat! But, can it work in principle to pick out the structure and arrangement and composition of molecules? (I'd guess yes, but am not sure).

> We're talking about interstellar commerce here

Interstellar distances are ~ pc distances; the GWs we are looking for with LIGO are >> Mpc or << pc with GRAIL/GOCE/GRACE and their follow-ons. These observatories are sensitive to sources at radically different distances, but since such sources are not what's under study (and in particular it is hard to correlate their GW signals with other observables), their signals are excluded.

One could build a GW observatory to study an exoplanet in pretty fine detail (down to whatever the appropriate word for its seismology would be); there are a lot of unknowns about exoplanets, but their mass quadrupoles are determinable independently, and GW observatories essentially just look for changes in mass quadrupoles. What's responsible for any given change is the hard part, after one has built the (distributed) observatory.

GRAIL II would have done exactly that for the moon and (it was hoped) for a couple of other objects in the solar system. GRAIL itself was an approximation of this broad technique for the moon.

> Seismic events are many, many orders of magnitude more energetic than a painting being moved around

Sure, amplitude-wise. They have very distinct frequencies though. The argument you want to advance is that there are lots of similar objects (8kg rectangles, roughly) that generate a lot of noise, and worse, some of them are in the same art gallery (and with similar orientation) as the subject of observation. Worst of all, picking it out if it never leaves the Louvre wall is implausibly difficult; but if it's moved around the gallery, and in particular, it's back does not always face the gallery wall it normally hangs on, that opens a lot of "technology will improve" arguments, such as you use with the "perfect copier".

> all it would take to foil it would be for the copy to move close to the original at any point in time

The emissions from a bump on a rotating sphere is strongly determined by the bump's position. I happily admit that you can contrive ever-greater screening, though, but the cat would be out of the bag that you were deliberately trying to frustrate distinguishing between the original and the copy.

Which rather raises the question, why? Why not just hang the copy and ship the original to the aliens as agreed?

> no sensible being could possibly care ... if they have to resort to such extreme measures

I think you have the ordering wrong; they might resort to such extreme measures because they care. Their valuation function might not be identical to yours (why the Mona Lisa rather than any other Earth painting? or any painting they could make locally, in the style of an arbitrary Earthling?).

Or, more pointedly, maybe when 'all you have to do is to try to define what "the same thing" actually means', you, other people, and aliens' efforts might lead to different definitions.
I feel your pain.

Ubuntu Desktop was my preferred go to distro not too long ago. Using 16.10 was nice and I managed to get the touchpad working in a reasonable way with xinput.

Then 18 came along and everything went to hell. All the properties changed and some even disappeared. And of course the ones missing were the ones I actually needed to make my touchpad work in a way that it was comfortable to use.

After that I just jumped ship. I didn't wanted to spend another week to figure out everything again.

I happily choose Linux when it comes to servers and other non-desktop related work, but I am very disappointed how it lacks user friendliness and ease of use. 10-20 years back I would have said, that laptops are a niche platform and that's why it has a hard time supporting hardware. But it's 2018 and laptops are becoming mainstream in everyday use. Not being able to support the primary pointing hardware on a platform so popular is a death sentence.

And don't get me started on discrete GPUs...
I'd rather have a functioning, 'dull' project than an edgy 2kool4skool meme disappearing in a couple of months because the hipster userbase moved to the next cool socnet.
There are more than 2 desktop environments for Linux you've tried if my guess is right (since you've tried Ubuntu). Imo KDE is light years ahead than Windows but requires to set it up for your taste.
Except smart sync only works on mac and windows. Linux is a second class citizen.

I’d sign up for Dropbox if they had feature parity on Linux.

Also a plan in the $5 range would be greatly preferred. My threshold for moderately helpful services is usually $5/Mo.
You can achieve similarly striking paintings by projecting a very cool photograph into paper and then painting it over the projection. I remember as a kid when my father brought a projector for the weekend, and my sister and me spend the time copying photographs this way. It helps to project the image upside down, so you can focus better in the colors than in the 3d structures.
not on an infinitely small scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

on a macro scale, with a reasonable margin of error, sure. The problem comes when small scale effects begin to have large scale consequences: human thought might be chaotic enough (in the physical, not colloquial sense) to be like this. In fact there is a whole branch of physics/math that deals with this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
> There is no alternative. I feel trapped.

This is ironic, considering that you live out of a backpack! Honestly though, there are alternatives, but that's the problem with luxuries: once we have been spoiled, human pyschology makes it difficult to accept "less." We tend to describe things we want as things we "need." It seems that many Apple power users, myself included, tend to be perfectionists when it comes to computers. Unlike the rest of the population — the majority of whom don't live out of a backpack and can not justify the cost of Apple products (with the possible exception of an iPhone) — "good enough" just doesn't cut it.

Depending upon what you're using your computer for, you could have a "good enough" setup with just about anything, though it would probably be less comfortable to you than what you have now. For light use, a Chromebook can be instantly set up, and they can be found all over the world. For heavier use, any Windows 10 laptop can sync settings to the cloud and, coupled with Chocolatey and WSL, it's possible to emulate your current workflow. MacBooks are fantastic machines and I believe they offer immense value but, if you feel trapped, it's because the adventurous spirit that has carried you across the world has yet to extend itself to your computing environment!
I'm pretty sure you could replace a paper map in a car with a fake paper map. Analog spoofing.
Yes! There was a strong anti-war movement in the US before Pearl Harbor. Americans did not want to incur debt to fight for Europe because of the Great Depression, and because Americans believed that Europe needed to solve its own problems, remembering World War I and the huge human toll of that war only one generation ago.

I'm sure the British policy of appeasement was partially due to budgetary concerns. They walked the fine line until it was obvious the Germans were not going to let them be. And then, you know, Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain and the die was cast.
Have you used an Apple trackpad though? Because they genuinely are light years ahead of the competition. Why wouldn't they patent everything around that?
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Most habitats indeed are full of living organisms compatible with human dietary needs. The problem is, sometimes you're so good at killing that you just kill all the food before the food has time to reproduce itself. Or maybe it just doesn't rain for two months. Or myriad other contingencies that make nomadic life precarious.

edit: and as bad_user pointed out, thats a huuuge reason itself to even be nomadic
I quite like trams (especially those from my home town[1]), but there's nothing simple about installing a continuous metal strip on every road. They were replacing an intersection of tram lines near where I lived in Brussels, and it took them over six months for the whole process, with tremendous disruption for the whole area.

[1] https://www.lisbonlux.com/images/transportation/rua-augusto-... https://st.depositphotos.com/1000848/4380/i/950/depositphoto...
hoping for some advances in this field personally, although not sure how to feel given the other crispr related headline today. I became totally deaf in one ear two weeks ago, presumably from a viral infection.

PSA: if you have sudden hearing loss, go to the ER immediately. I'm told the ideal window for treatment is only 48 hours.
Hmm I don't see whatever you are seeing. It's running on a server socket. That's normal for an extreme workstation, which is what Intel publicly suggested it was for because they said it was for a very select market.
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ON Gomera they also have experimental mist nests which aim to emulate the trees by causing moisture in the air to condensate which is then collected into gutter at the base of the nets.
I think I solved the problem backwards but I ended up with the same answer.

I made a table of what I know vs what my friend knows. I know they have 6 or 8. If they have 6, then I have 12 or 14. If they have 8, then I have 10 or 12.

| Me Them || Them Me | Them Me |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have | 12 6 .. 8 || 6 12 .. 14 | 8 10 .. 12 |
They have | 6, 8 12 14..10 12 || 12,14 6 8 .. 4 6 | 10,12 8 10 .. 6 8 |

The first column is what I see and what I know about my friend. The 2nd and 3rd columns are what this table looks like to my friend.

-----------

My friend has 6 or 8.

4 is the first number to appear on the table so start on day 4.

Day 4: If my friend has 6, he thinks I have 12 or 14. If I have 14, then I would have notified the caretaker today because now 14 + 6 = 20. Now he knows I don't have 14. As a result, if he has 6 then he knows I have 12 and should tell the caretaker that the total number is 18.

| Me Them || Them Me | Them Me |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have | 12 6 .. 8 || 6 12 .. | 8 10 .. 12 |
They have | 6, 8 12 ..10 12 || 12 6 8 .. | 10,12 8 10 .. 6 8 |

Day 5: I don't have 14, and now my friend knows that. If he has 6, he should now have alerted the caretaker the number is 18. He did not. This means he does not 6.

| Me Them || Them Me | Them Me |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have | 12 .. 8 || | 8 10 .. 12 |
They have | 8 ..10 12 || | 10,12 8 10 .. 6 8 |

So Day 5 I know I have 12 and he has 8.
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Nice post! Is there a way to directly use uniform variables in e.g. OpenCL, or is it up to the kernel compiler to determine that some variable is wavefront- or group-invariant?
‘Hi-tech’ F150? A cheap truck that doesn’t have to comply with the same safety or emissions standards as cars? It’s a very different beast to a BMW, let alone a Tesla..
Parsers are one of those fields I wish I had the time to really study deeply. I'm especially impressed with LALRPOP.

Cribbed from a previous comment of mine:

From time to time I find myself revisiting this thread: "Writing parsers like it is 2017"[0].

In particular I love a Rust parser generator called LALRPOP and it's emphasis on diagnosing ambiguous grammars [1].

> What I’ve tried to do now in LALRPOP is to do that clever thinking for you, and instead present the error message in terms of your grammar. Perhaps even more importantly, I’ve also tried to identify common beginner problems and suggest solutions.

They work out a fairly deep example with error guidance in ambiguous grammars in that post.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15016061

[1]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/03/02/nice...
erm... IDK... AFAIK, YBP is used commonly in articles talking about this period. I guess having a 0 point 2018 years in the past is clunkier, and we're used to marking years with an acronym.

We use a lot more acronyms these days, generally. The better ones can be guessed from context. I personally don't mind the BC/AD, for iron age and later. It's actually convenient that year 0 corresponds roughly to the beginning of Rome's height.
I wonder if the USPS would or has considered running an FBA competitor (ship your items in bulk to a USPS facility, pay for the space, and then to have them packed and shipped via an API). Even operating at a loss, it might make sense from a tax receipt perspective if it spurs economic activity far enough above the subsidy.
I agree, big fan of Creatives finding their niche. People in general have a tendency to half-ass everything. Find a niche, find the dedicated userbase that is so starving for content that they consume the aforementioned half-assed work happily. Then serve them up a Filet Mignon and blow their minds.
In one of P.G. Wodehouse's stories, a man explains his hangover as charcoal poisoning, from the powdered charcoal used to color inferior caviar. I had never heard of such an explanation outside his fiction before.
Gestures on Macs are not flaky. That's kind of the whole point of this discussion.
Rocket league was meh for me, but then I tried Oculus’s Echo VR zero-gravity soccer - and it’s unbelievably good. Having real physical competitive sport in your room anytime, instantly - it’s like a dream came true.

Not quite watchable on streams and videos currently because first person view on 2d screen is erratic and horribly flat - but I hope games like this is the future.
Definitely just throwing RFIDs into the asphalt would be inefficient.

They could instead be mounted on the lane-separation poles / walls, on the cat-eye embedded marks, and other things that are installed on the road anyway, and have a good protection and line-of-sight.
Employment in Japan is extremely low at 2%. It's really hard to find workers. Also being a Ninja would mean to live and work remotely.
I wonder if Amazon's dogs are as underpayed and overworked as the humans...
Note: this is not related to the phony GWAN project, except maybe to poke fun at it.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373719
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Stoners.
Marie Sharp's is the best all around hot sauce I've ever tried, absolutely love this.
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They did pull some troupes, but they still had a huge number of troupes in the East. Given the limits of the Imperial Japanese Army in that theater (logistics, modern mobile army) it is hard to image how they could have made significant progress.

Specifically after they had totally lost in 1939.
There's nothing wrong with having a geographic bias in skepticism, Nigeria is not a historical source of innovation.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, if anything it elevates this boy's achievements even more and puts his talents in the realm of once-in-a-thousand-generations.
A mouse is fine in an environment where you also have an external monitor and maybe an external keyboard too.
OpSec protip: properly destroy burner phones - don't just toss them under the car seat.
Uhm... how exactly is this thread a display of "negativity"? Most of the comments are pretty supportive and the critique was mostly placed on project's communication and not yet well-defined business model, which actually made a lot of sense.

Even the famous "you can already build such a system yourself (...) by FTP, curlftpfs, SVN, CVS" comment, which was often cited later as ridiculous, actually ends with a supportive reply and overall makes sense in the context of the whole thread. Heck, even comments like "seen it before in Coda" are in fact supportive and thankful. It's all very sensible, positive and IMO only worth any particular note here if you are (quite paradoxically) blinded with hindsight ;P
Clever idea of using struct tags for grammar rules.
Seems not everyone is aware so I'll just point it out:

The bio can be found by clicking peoples username.

From the bio you can also navigate to their comment history and also see what stories they have submitted.
So if you don't want your neighbour flying his drone over your property can you shoot it with ultrasound? What would the legalities of that I wonder?
>YBP is used commonly in articles talking about this period.

OK, I'd never it before (had to google it).
They also originally made Maui bald (for that same reason: cost), but their cultural consultants said it may be offensive to native Polynesians, as Maui was known for his long hair.
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He has videos on his Instagram that show him starting from scratch, live painting President Macron (no idea when that happened) and more.
Ahah, not good for a programmer :D

I'm joking, thanks for suggesting that book, I don't know much about this stuff but i might actually read it!
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This description made no sense to me until I read this from the same page:

> The Karman line is therefore the highest altitude at which orbital speed provides sufficient aerodynamic lift to fly in a straight line that doesn't follow the curvature of the Earth's surface.
This is part of the medium business model, if you pay a monthly fee, you can run medium in your own subdomain, as a blogging hosting platform.

This way your readers won't get the whole content blocked with a message and asking for a $5 usd a month subscription.

The content is now getting blocked via a popup not only by following links via the medium newsletter, this is happening in organic search results from google directly.
> Prodigies exist in every field
As proof you mentioned Mozart who two centuries ago in Europe. I am skeptical on a geographical and time level based on your evidence
It must be quite a sad life to have 3M USD and make sure not to forget the 40 cents when doing the budget analysis of the trip to the supermarket.
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Before electronic (or even electric) projectors were around, professional artists were using device called a camera obscura[1] with similar results (though obviously dependent on natural illumination).

There is much debate over whether great painters such as Vermeer used a camera obscura as early as the 17th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura#1650_to_1800:_I...
Same as shooting it with a gun, modulo local ordinance.
I meant tiny as in maybe not even worth pointing out since people will understand it anyway.
I think in those days you had to use a terminal emulator of some sort (maybe minicom?) to dial the ISP, then background (without hanging up), then run up pppd. I had no idea what was going on with this process.

Obviously at this stage, a working X was a fantasy. You had your 6 ttys and that was it.

My first linux was redhat 5 from the CD on the back of a book - it didn't support my SIS 6326 card -- funny how I remember what graphics card I had 20 years ago, but have no idea what's in my desktop at the moment other than "some nvidia thing".

According to a post I can still find on usenet: "I got X running in 600*480 but the mouse pointer was corrupt, so they were close, but not close enough."

I assume I was dual-booting with windows 95 or 98 for my first year or so, at least until I got a better graphics card -- a Voodoo Banshee I think. I'd moved to debian by September 2000 though when I went to uni, and a year later when I saw in the Billenium with date running in an xterm.

> Now everyone has a smartphone, so it's hard to replicate that feeling of being cut off from the net with just a printed manual and your determination to carry you through

It's amazing how we used to survive without the sum knowledge of humanity available at our fingerprints.
> Do not call it future prediction. Sometimes you will be correct about things before things happen. That's just chance. If it can happen, it can happen, it's in that space. But it's fundamentally flawed reasoning. There's still a whole open space of things yet to be experienced. That's what existence is defined as. You don't know what you know until you know what you know. It's not magic. It's called experiencing new things.

From this part, it sounds to me like you're taking the meaning of "premonition" and applying it to "prediction"...
You want to restrict information to people able to purchase electronic devices and data subscriptions?
Odd. I find the trackpoint more precise than any touchpad, Macs included. I've owned Macbooks for years yet am instantly happier, and faster, on the keyboard and trackpoint of the wife's T series.

I'd pay significantly more over already inflated Apple prices to have my MBP with a trackpoint and no touchpad.
Shame on Mangopay. This isn't how you treat a customer, especially one who does as much social good as Liberapay. I hope everyone here remembers this next time they have to select a payment processor.
What a horrible comment... I hope you're just having a bad morning and will feel guilty about it after you've had your morning coffee :-)
I am going to read that book.

Thanks for posting that excerpt. It is a near perfect, "and then ehat happened?" Hook!
I completely agree that sometimes slowing down the pace of upgrades is the responsible thing to do, especially on mission-critical systems. But Red Hat is not the most authoritative or trustworthy source of information on that topic, because 1) they don’t actually build and operate enterprise systems themselves, their customers do; 2) they have an incentive to make their slow-moving proprietary forks look more useful than they actually are, 3) they have a track record of trying to make upstream less reliable and secure than it actually is, again with the goal of making their offering seem more needed.

My comment on “cultural rut” was unrelated. I was referring to the lack of diversity in the open-source community, and the difficulty in moving past the myths and closed-club mentality of 1960s US academia. Open-source is still primarily the playground of privileged, insecure, passive-agressive white males cargo-culting the behavior of their predecessors, but it could be so much more.
I thought the real advantage of Optane was bypassing the pcie bus, with much larger bandwidth of dimm: 80GB/s instead of 12GB/s