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How does one work with compressed data directly? If you are dealing with the data in blocks, then your compression is only as good as the repetition in each block (perhaps the dictionary can be shared).

But even in this case, you don't deal with compressed data directly, but decompress only 1 block at a time.
Also char not specified in the language as signed or unsigned...
Why is pancreatic cancer correlated with population size but other cancers not? I would think that any disease is correlated with population size.
There's only so far you can go down - plus, modern day companies like Amazon and McD's are already competing to pay as little as possible to their employees.
I personally prefer small sized teams with lots of in depth knowledge per engineer on the team.

Does anyone prefer huge teams in which each person has only a shallow understanding?
You're just considering "involuntary" lack of sleep, when there seems to be a serious epidemic of voluntary sleeplessness as indicated by frequent boasting about how little sleep one can get by on.
...and iPad, iPod, which were achievements in themselves. I agree with you it's not luck, he simply knew how to create a product that fills the needs of the market. But I also think that his managerial style was unacceptable, and had nothing to do with Apple's success. As far as Pixar is concerned, he actually kept the distance on purpose (there's a great book "Creativity Inc" by Catmull) which shows it's not his management that is worth copying.
>The article doesn't spend 1 second explaining the answer promised

Actually it does, it's one of the first things in the article:

>Whenever a task is automated, the employee who performed it is trained for another one worth equivalent pay.

The issue is that this only covers one small way an employee could be made redundant. You could apply the idea of retraining to other companies and other layoff scenarios, but it doesn't help if your entire industry is falling part or the company simply isn't viable.
Ask HN: What are for you the most interesting applications of deep learning?
"Except that "far less serious than predicted" is not the same as non-existent"

Pure strawman. The statement was that program correctness is far less serious than predicted, not totally benign.

"and that quote in no way talks about bounds checking, which is the issue being discussed here"

Um, programs that exceed array bounds are not correct, so yes, it does talk about them.

[further strawmen not worth addressing]
> decoding J2K is slower than regular JPEG by at least an order of magnitude if not more

True, but I'm sure it doesn't even hold a candle to the challenge of real-time decoding of modern video codecs.

Is it just a chicken-and-egg problem with hardware support, that prevents formats like FLIFF [0] from seeing adoption?

[0] http://flif.info/
VLIW in its pure form is old enough that anybody should be legally able to build an ISA based on that concept.

The Mill folks are heavily into patents for their tech: https://millcomputing.com/patents/. So besides Mill's general feasibility it depends on how they work those patents.
What is the performance/memory footprint? E.g. can I run this on a Raspberry Pi connected to my TV?
Benchmark tool - https://github.com/goldfire/node-cloud-bench

The goal of these tests was to find a way to lower our costs without sacrificing too much in performance. DigitalOcean accomplished both of those and more by besting EC2 in every category but CPU (which was quite close as well). We've since moved Exocraft.io to DigitalOcean and have realized an over 80% reduction in cost, which will only grow as our bandwidth usage increases. In addition to these performance/cost gains, we found DigitalOcean's interface and support to be much more approachable than the alternatives.
"Interestingly, the idea of hashing over the bytes of a data structure would be possible in C++, but it is non-idiomatic"

Because it's not conformant. Those possible C++ programs are broken.
I wonder if it would have been possible to blast a bigger hole in the rock to get the victims out more easily?
Hmm, well, if you read Jobs responses he was exaggerating, dramatic, and manipulative:

"he looked at the demo for 5 minutes and told me I had "ruined NeXTSTEP" (the software platform)" -> overly dramatic, exaggerating.

""Unless...", he paused with a twinkle in his eye, "there is a way of making it work like the old way,"" -> of course that way exists, but it requires working on saturday. He's not asking that directly though. Manipulative.

""This is 10 times, no 100 times, no 1000 times better!!!"" -> Overly dramatic, exaggerating.
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I like how you listed the three most dysfunctional industries and trailed off with etc. Reminds me of the proof that all odd numbers are prime - 3, 5, 7 are prime, so the rest should be prime as well... 1 is the exception that proves the rule!
So ME isn't a cheap on-chip version of ipmi then?
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It's very much a thing in the traditional corporate world.
Most people in this industry are contractual employees so that's usually not a legal option. If their pay was any less, it'd be approaching minimum wage laws. But if not, it's a bad option because instead of the algorithm "filter out the least passionate ones so we can increase expectations of the remaining" as in (2), it's "filter out the employees who can't take the financial hit so... we can keep the wealthier ones who don't need their pay as much?" Doesn't make sense in this industry.
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The author states "For every watt of power the CPU consumes, it must dissipate a watt of heat." It was always my understanding that that in electrical devices, (with the exception of heaters) the amount of heat produced was inversely proportional to the efficiency of the device. So is it really true that all energy provided to the CPU or SOC is dissapated as heat?
Golden Arches theory (McDonald's and Wars)
How I got hired by Google, why I left, and why I chose to join OKCoin
Did NeXT pay well, that is, as well as Uber pays today in inflation adjusted terms?
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As soon as you write an USB controller driver, you'll stumble over that quickly. The EHCI and XHCI specs are freely available and describe this in detail. It's just that only few people need to write such drivers. :-)

As for it working so well, that's mostly on the EE side: they were _very_ careful to provide this hardware based routing with defaults that make sure that old OSes continue to work while new OSes (or new drivers for old OSes) can make use of the new controllers.
Who were the losers working at NeXT?
The term refers to people who don't try to get into the art world in-group but still create interesting things, so "outsider" is an accurate and literal description of their status. However the in-group is uncomfortable with consciously engaging with this dynamic and the dysfunction it points to, so engages in a little double-think and invents more palatable justifications for using the term "outsider".

The idea of ignoring in-group games of meaning and status, instead creating works entirely from playful self-expression, is so alien it is best left outside.
Also:

- An opportunity to contribute to computing history.

- To work on something new and novel.

- Not having to worry about politics because there's only one diva allowed.

Not for everyone I'd agree, but there is certainly enough unhealthy appeal, kind of like hard liquor or bungee jumping ..
>> If an effect is strong, it will show up earlier.

But if an effect shows up earlier, it is not necessarily strong. I think that's the point with running an experiment for a predeterimned length- so you know you didn't get un/lucky and hit a clump of results at the start of the experiments that will sort of average out later on.

Obviously, if a trial drug is killing your patients at a surprising rate, you need to stop the experiment. In fact, I believe experiments are sometimes stopped on ethical grounds when a drugs is found to heal the experiment group at a high rate, also, either so that the control group can also benefit, or just because it is hard to justify giving only half of your patients a life-saving drug and a placebo to the rest.

But those are ethical considerations - not practical ones. Such experiments are cut short without complete confidence to the results, when there is the merest hint of ethical issues down the line. At least that's my understanding.
Mankind has been given a vibrant and beautiful world, full of life and resources. Should we collapse the biosphere, and turn the planet into a dead world from war, pollution, and genetic targeted destruction of life, turning the whole thing into a desert, why should we be welcome anywhere? Right now if we wanted to colonize mars, for example, we would need to further carve up the Earth's resources. We need a supplyline from Earth to Mars to live there. Mars is incredibly inhospitable to life. The soil has perchlorates in it. There is no crop you can grow on it. There is little water. By any measure it is a sterile and dead planet. You could have green houses on it. But you can do that on earth and save the rockets and the heroic missions to move a handful of people there.

Torching the planet and sending a seed to the universe to torch the rest of it wrong.

I am not against space exploration. But sending swashbuckling space saliors to other planets to seek out new life and new civilizations is just a fantasy. On the other channels on the TV we see what is really going on. And I got to say, I don't like it one bit.

Maybe thousands of years of progress with a sustainable civilization in the vein of the Romans but with high technology would make us worthy to pack our bags and visit other star systems. Right now everyone lives like there is no tomorrow anyway. Our species isn't mature enough yet to handle this world, let alone the rest of the universe.

Lets master this planet first before we move on.
This whole thread is fascinating to me because I seem to respond the opposite: every word, facial change, and body adjustment is densely packed with emotional weight. Sometimes simple conversations feel like a dramatic opera. Sometimes I'll pull out a massively wrong signal from a simple one sentence exchange.

Obviously, this can be exhausting, so tech is great for me! Many coworkers appear to have the opposite: an emotional intensity as muted as mine is strong. We get along great, like zebras and giraffes. They often apply logic to social interactions, and I often apply emotional intuition. As long as we both learn to respect and trust the other's reality, together we can be better than separate.
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> You tell facts minus the details that would balance a story, so instead it’s weighted to the direction you want it to go.

No, that's how it used to be. It's no longer newsworthy to see, ahem, certain figureheads, tell outright lie after outright lie.

The problem of lies is absolutely a problem of, well, lies.
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Looks like this was eaten by link rot. You can find it here: https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/fabrice-bellard-...
I don't see why anyone should doubt your observations about the quality of your sleep over time. You've surely paid closer attention than they have, what with it being your sleep. Causality is harder to prove though. Was it really long-term conditioning through melatonin and Coq10? I moved to a new apartment recently and my sleep improved. I thought it might be because of a brand new, very clean aircon. Then my sleep got worse again with nothing else obvious changing. Who knows what confounding variables may exist. Stress, diet, season, etc.

As for the theory of placebo effect (where a placebo actually has some type of therapeutic impact), I don't think we've really concluded whether it exists or not -- I'm not a doctor but my understanding is that there is evidence in both directions and the debate is ongoing.
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They not only pay you scraps, but keep you hostage by employing blacklists shared by multiple companies (so that if you leave, you don't get another job at a high level company) and conspire with other companies to keep your wages low.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

"The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay"
It's on the roadmap for VLC 4.0, the new medialibrary (C++11) is in the process of being added as a module. The interface is also being reworked in QML.

This medialibrary is already used in VLC for Android for music album classification in an SQLite database.
Both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher boasted of how little they needed to sleep. But two data points but highly salient ones.
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I wonder if there is a word for people who have that sort of consistent luck...

That word is Woz. If Jobs had not met him, he (Jobs) would have died penniless and alone.
See a therapist if you can.
Here is an approach, advocated by Zapier folks -
https://zapier.com/blog/organize-files-folders/
GitLab is pretty impressive with the rate of features that gets shipped, but it does come at the cost of things not always been stable even though I think it's pretty impressive how stable it is considering the volume of changes being shipped.
That said I found a way to have it stable is to run GitLab on your own systems using their omnibus installer, and then upgrade around the 20th of each month before the next big release so you upgrade to a version with most of the patch versions instead of the latest bigger version.
iOS input for non-latin or less used languages is clearly lacking. There are third party keyboards which do better predictions, at least for Chinese there is Sogou which apparently also completes things like popular (trending) names and expressions.

But one does not even have to go that far, autocorrect for Slovak is quite a disaster to the point where I'd like to be able to disable it on per-keyboard basis.
> If at the end of the day you have some objective function

That "If" often evaluates to false.

There are tough judgement calls involved in selecting what is that metric that the org wants to optimize. It is very rare that business management commits to a clear quantitative goal. Reasons are many -- weasel room is important politically, selecting a metric that captures short term and long term goals is difficult, there is a lot of uncertainty in the costs due to uncertainty on how overhead should be billed etc etc.

This is fairly common. Typically, in these situations its the PMs who make the final call. There the goal of the experiment is to glean as much knowledge as possible, and present it to the PM. If that comes at the cost of exposing some customers to bad choices, so be it -- in other words, explore at the cost of losses in the opportunity to exploit.
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The general warranty is always 2 years in the Czech Republic.
Because he was also difficult to work for and had no problem doing "whatever it takes" to win. See Microsoft antitrust lawsuit.
File Handling in Python
> If the copyright holder makes a copy and sends it to me I do not need any license to hold onto it or execute it.

Only for the purposes of execution can this copy be retained (as it's impossible to not make a copy while in memory).

However, I cannot keep the executable in memory, and use it for any other purpose (including letting someone else also execute it) unless authorised by the copyright holder.

In AGPL, the js/css etc are copyrighted. But the transmission isn't from the copyright holder to end user, but from an licensee to an end user. There's no relationship between the end user and the copyright holder. But the licensee is bound (by their very license) to allow the end user access any sources, despite them not having any relationship with the copyright holder. This licence doesn't contain any illegal clauses, and is voluntarily entered into by both parties, with consideration exchanged (it being the promise to make source available). Therefore, it's a legal contract.

Now, as for whether it's enforceable is hard to say, but I do believe it is sound...but IANAL of course.
> And it may sound old fashioned, but making things too easy for kids makes them less independent and less willing to put in the effort required for learning.

Yes, agreed. We're building a generation where even pulling your parking brake when you park is seen as "hard", not having a discoverable, hand-hold, guided experience is "inconvenient". Netflix even have a hard time making people update their cards when they expire or are cancelled.

Life is not a Steve Jobs utopia. Some things require work and persistence.
I haven't looked at the KDD paper, but in general it is the other way round. With sequential hypothesis testing expect to need less data on average.
the whole “dance like a monkey in a high pressure
environment while we watch” whiteboard/coding test
feels like cruel and unusual punishment to me

When I was a teenager I attended a group interview for a retail job, and we were put into groups and told to design a TV advert for the retailer then act it out in front of the other interviewees. Of course my group decided to do a song.

Once you've been inoculated by having to sing in front of a room of 30 people, whiteboard coding in front of 2 people feels downright respectful and dignified :)
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If I didn't use Evernote for storing and carrying my life around I'd use http://notion.so
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I'm glad you like it but I'm afraid I don't understand what your point is.
I know what to think, as I lived at the times before iPhone too. If nothing else, iPhone is an abolute proof of brilliancy of Jobs’ product decisions. So from the product/technical perspective, there was nothing comparable to be part of. But from a perspective of somebody not in his twenties anymore, I surely would’t continuously work under the described pressure. Everybody has to decide about his own limits and what is an acceptable amoumt of work.
Companies using any ISA can add secret or closed extensions. That is simply outside the scope of an ISA specification.

If you want to ensure there is no secret stuff in your chip you'd better be prepared to create your own designs and manufacture them in your own foundry. RISC-V would still be an excellent starting point.
Doesn't answer your question since it isn't mac OS, but it's the closest one I know of: windows media player. I used it for a bit, until I switched to using the video server-side software on my synology nas.
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How will you develop that skill again now considering you have already gone through the journey?
I don't see any technical reason why your encryption/decryption route couldn't sustain one branch. You're doing it in hardware, there's not going to be a performance decrease from it, though there would be a slight increase in chip complexity.

Apple have taken the decision here that abandoning the ability to recover data from failed machines is worth the guaranteed security floor of it not being possible to disable strong encryption, and honestly I find it hard to disagree.
This was discussed in a Joe Rogan podcast w/ a sleep expert:

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/matthew-walker

I learned a lot, and it changed my sleep behaviors.
+1 to this.

Similar story for me. Although I wont go so far as saying I am a rockstar I do have a reputation for building solid, maintainable, reliable code that works even though I have struggled in the high-pressure whiteboarding interviews (I'm currently at a company that is well-known/infamous for whiteboarding interviews too).

There are different roles other than "software engineer" that are programming based, even at FANG-style companies (in my personal experience). At my current employer although I spend my entire day designing/writing/debugging code using the same tools, infrastructure, programming languages, and expectations on code-standards/quality etc I am not a "software engineer" as far as my job role goes. My role still has "engineer" in the title, but the expectations for the purest CS knowledge were slightly lower and the interviews were basically a chat about work I had done elsewhere and a few general questions around experience and knowledge (salary/total comp is about ~85% what a software engineer gets)

tl;dr - you dont have to be a "software engineer" to program for a living
> `x.method` is much more discoverable

With an IDE, yes. With a text editor, no.

> assuming the implicit is in scope most of the time,

And that's really the rub.

I write

import com.example.MagicThings._

and one of the things imported is an implicit class or method which has the visible on that. The name I see in the code is not even one of the names I am importing, which IMO significantly hurts discoverability.
The last part sounds like a classic Henry Kissinger move[1] where he would tell people without even looking at their work "Is that the best you can do?" After which the person spent an entire night reworking the whole thing.. to which Kissinger said "ok I'll take a look now"

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-you-can-do-henry-kissing...
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There are some operations that can be efficiently done over the compressed data itself. Compressed bitmap is a good motivating example (and I really liked Roaring Bitmap [1]). But I guess that such efficiency is very specific to the exact operation and the viability of general compressed operation is unclear; as a related example, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that does the same over ciphertexts is still an active research problem.

[1] https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/RoaringBitmap
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> Vast tracts of empty land; vast, still-untapped natural resources

You say it like it's a bad thing :)
Quoting Bernie Sanders "I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger" and “I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country”. (You can verify the quotes from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/13/hillar... .)
Does anyone have a counterpoint to this? I've heard both, so I'm curious if any one is "more correct".
> Facial expressions, body language, and eye contact are the bones of communication and it’s quite difficult to build and maintain relationships without the ability to read them.

As a blind person this was quite difficult to read (emotionally). I don't have any additional mental needs, but for obvious reasons I'm unable to read other peoples' visual body language, maintain eye contact or gauge their facial expressions. And because I can't do those things, and have never been able to do those things, they don't always come naturally to me either. I have a habbit of appearing to have a very serious expression on my face when actually I feel quite light and carefree, for instance. Maybe great in a poker game, I don't know.

As an example of this, I never learned to nod or shake my head in response to questions until a recent trip to visit my partner in Mexico. Her sister is hearing-impaired, and so gestures like those were often the simplest way to communicate meaning. My partner, who is also blind, has grown up using those gestures because of her sister, but for me it was like learning something new.