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Came here to say this, which is the first thing I thought of after reading the title of this article.

Incidentally, I first read the Chinese version of "A Study in Scarlet". And I remember vividly (because I read it many times) what Sherlock said was translated as "Even if I had known it I would have tried to forget it". It wasn't until I read your comment did I realize it's actually "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." Funny.

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The message I referred to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589684 (and the link to the list is https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards )
> Possibly. I guess there are many different kinds of powerusers.

It's simply that "programmer who doesn't like to configure things in detail until everything they use fits them like a glove and doesn't know much about hardware" and "power user" are different and orthogonal things.
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For real, or jesting?
> Of course no one actually makes a purchasing decision based on what modem is in their smartphone.

I do. I have a phone I use primarily as a modem and I use some tools that lock bands so I can get more reliable speeds. As of this time I can only do this with Qualcomm chipsets.

Not that I'm a Qualcomm fanboy (being the first to comment in that this was basically their advertising) but I'm extremely wary of using Intel modems due to previous experience with their other modem chipsets sucking ass. [1]

[1] https://www.badmodems.com/index2.htm
I'll never respect a CPU that needs 4 clock cycles to do a NOP. ;-)
For about 20 years I worked four days a week for 80% pay. It worked for me, but I could never afford a family. On reflection, that was too high a price to pay.
It's funny, that they mention PoS as a solution, when in PoS there's no incentive whatsoever for participants to not mine whatever forks they are offered to.
NERSC's Cori machine is the biggest machine of Knight's Landing (10,000 nodes), 10th on TOP500. Don't know of any planned Knight's Mill machines.

Generally, Xeon Phis get fewer FLOPs than GPUs but are better at certain tasks, e.g. graph algorithms with lots of divergent control flow. Also it's possible to run pure MPI programs on them and get decent performance, and there's a lot of pure-MPI HPC software out there.
>I've found that people are very willing to improve race relations if you present it as "here's an opportunity to help some people" and not as a "everything you have is because of your skin color so you basically should give everything you have to other people".

I'm not sure what this is referring to. I was talking simply about recognizing and acknowledging historical and socio-political patterns that led to the current situation.
File locking seems good enough to me. I wasn't consiciously aware of this short-coming but when you think about it, it makes total sense: the syscalls for file locks (at least on Linux and macOS) are related to the file descriptors. So when you close the file, the lock is gone.

Why would you in any case hold 2 file descriptors open of the same file in the same process, especially when you use locking? For a "multi-process application" (this sounds so antiquated) probably one thread should hold the fd and exclusively write on it.
It has been mentioned (but not corroborated) that the engines are prone to stalling in rough waters... something you do not want to happen, aside from capsizing.

I think after the NTSB is done, it's likely these get taken off waterways --at which point, there is no reason to keep them as land only vehicles since they get such poor mileage and offer a poor bumpy ride.
I feel that fundamentally won't work. Experts like that become experts because they are exposed to years and years of clients. One can build useful abstractions without giving away secrets.
How did YETI Coolers become so successful and popular?
I don't care about that. For me this is incomprehensible:

Why the eff does Google have billions of lines of code in their repo?

I hope they are not counting revisions (e.g., if a single 1 million project has 100 revisions, that's 1 million, not 100 million).

I have heard that they do count generated code (so it's not all handwritten code). In that case again, I have two things to say:

- that's a bad metric. I could overnight generate a billion lines of code with each line a printf of number_to_word of numbers from 1 to a billion. They want to measure the size of the repo? They should tell us the gigabytes, terabytes etc. But when it's lines of code, it's cheezy and childish to blow up the measure by including lines of generated code.

- But more importantly, I hope the generated code is 90% or more of that repository. Because any less than that would mean that Google engineers have handwritten 100 million or more lines of code through out the lifetime of the company, in which case I have to ask: what bloated mess do you have on your hands? I thought you guys were the top engineers of the world.
That's awesome to hear. I'm curious how you were able to find this setup? Did you apply for full time jobs and ask for part time? Or did you start out full time and then make the change after demonstrating value?
I think you're right. I hope the citizenry prove her right and re-elect her in 18 months. But I can already Imagine Peskin and Kim conspiring against her. Those two are not there to serve "the people" they only serve very narrow interests and derail the city from consistent policies to better it for everyone.
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I'd rather take more leave days that I can utilise in consolidated manner.
Isn't the Coast Guard also involved, it being a water craft used for hire?
Reminds me of Zebra Imaging. Does anyone know what happened to it?
Like most lakes in Missouri, it's impossible to get very far from shore on Table Rock Lake. Our lakes are built by flooding the narrow valleys that streams cut into the limestone and dolomite of the Ozark Plateau. This really just compounds the tragedy, as a boat driver with an ounce of common sense would have just driven up on any available shore when the storm got bad, rather than trying to make it back to the home ramp. I thought that public tour boat operators had to be Coast Guard-approved, but this guy failed pretty hard.
Yes it is exactly the same people that said "you can't trust it because it is 'from the internet'" who still now cling hardest to their trusted source of media.
I kinda disagree, we’re a dev team of 30, 3.5 years in, 150k lines of code and we’ve always had a monorepo. We had to switch from maven to bazel after about 2 years because test times got out of control; bazel has been about 50% more annoying than maven but the incremental builds work perfectly.
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This doesn't have the appreciation of nearly enough people in this world.
Growing up in a family of commercial fishermen/sailors I have often heard complaints that the drivers of these things possess limited boating experience and routinely cause interruptions or annoyance for other waterborne vessels. I've never ridden one, though, or captained a boat in my life, so feel free to file this wherever you keep your unsourced anecdotes.
You seem to have conflated a bunch of different things and confused them with a monolithic repository. There's no reason why a monorepo requires you to have a gigantic development box ... you identify and compile only the transitive dependencies of your target, not every line of code in the repo.
This is an asinine concept much in the same way that people being opposed to electric vehicles is an asinine concept.

If the government didn't have a monopoly on law enforcement, what you'd end up with are rival gangs each enforcing the law in their own biased way, propogating the amount of injustice we're already dealing with, and decentralizing it, making it harder to fight.

When you have a centralized source of law enforcement, you have a "single point of failure" that you can apply pressure to if it becomes corrupt, much in the same way that electric vehicles centralize the source of emissions making it easier to sequester.

Decentralization is not a panacea.

EDIT: That's not even considering the fact that without the government providing law enforcement, among other things, that many would be guaranteed to go without those things. Right now that may be the case for many with the current system, but at least that is fixable by, again, applying pressure to the single source to adequately provide those things. In a system where the free market is supposed to take care of this, many poor folks would go without. That used to be the case with fire fighters, but we soon learned that it was a bad idea for nobody to show up to fight the fires of the poor folk, because those fires would spread. Same goes for crime, disease, etc.
Is this the equivalent of Terraform +Boto3 in the python world ?
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This is an application where ray tracing for primary rays should shine. Instead of having to project thw scene 45 times you only need 45 sets of ray bundles, which is really efficient. The acceleration stuctures are shared between views. With a few pixel reordering hacks you can essentially generate all viewpoints as a single high resolution frame.
Agreed that it's not supposed to work like that :)
It didn't when I worked with much less prestigious HW companies than Apple, even.
Yes, they are hard to drive in urban areas, which is a shocker considering they were designed to drive on the ocean/beach. In Seattle we have them and they have a pretty bad record about hitting people in crosswalks, even running over a guy on a harly. They are so far above traffic that you just can't see that shit. Not to mention a couple of years ago when the axil popped off and ripped a tour bus in half killing a few kids and sending a good number to the hospital.

Amphibious tours in amphibious cities would be great, but I doubt you could even get those things approved now, and no one actually has the money to make a new fleet and profit.

It is also probably note worthy that the original design was made for a situation where loss of human life was already expected.
Knights Mill has only half the double precision performance of KNL. So not really a successor, more heading off in a different direction.
Haven't used Manjaro personally; from what I've read, Antergos is closer to actual Arch, where Manjaro is just based on Arch. This is a good summary article: https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/manjaro-vs-anter...
I recently saw a question on quora asking whether the free food at Google boosted productivity. The reply that seemed strange at thwt time was being able to focus on their job and not having to do a bunch of stuff is what boosted productivity at Google.

I get some perspective from the comments above. There is seemingly an army of engineers at Google that keeps the monorepo functioning. I was at a meeting about bazel and angular. I thought I'd ask how they do things at Google. To my surprise, the presenter said he is not at liberty to discuss how things work at Google. I guess it wasn't so surprising in hindsight. I mean what would I do with that information, right? It would be way too overkill for my tiny crud application.
Maybe. These are a big tourist attraction in a lot of places. The NTSB made a number of recommendations in the past (which were mostly not followed). And I don't see a lot of appetite for the feds coming in and shutting down a popular tourist attraction in many cities around the country once the current news cycle ends.

I would hope that some (known) relatively simple and inexpensive quick fixes would at least be made though.
The Scientific American article states that 25% of the plastic pours into the Ocean from 10 rivers. 8 of them in Asia.
Oh man they didn't just head to shore? :( ... even a sand bar or something would have helped, getting stuck even fine!
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It's exactly the same thing, which is why it's bad. When I log into e.g. CoolQuiz[0] on quizzes.cambridgeanalytica.com with Facebook using OAuth 2, it requests a limited list of permissions from Facebook, which are shown to a user, and which don't include things like like resetting the user's password or changing the user's email address. It gets back an access token which can only be used for doing those things, and Facebook can track what's done with that access token, in the case that e.g. CoolQuiz uses it to read personal information from all a user's friends and microtarget advertising during a US election. Headless chrome is indistinguishable from a normal user, which means it can do absolutely anything a user can do and can't be tracked.

[0] probably doesn't exist, just a hypothetical example
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I'm going to go against the grain here regarding The Three Body Problem, not because it's a bad book, but because it fails to live up to its billing in a subtle but disappointing way. The book is often touted as a "hard sci fi" masterpiece, and to me (and wikipedia and most definitions I've seen), "hard" means remaining faithful to the boundaries of plausible physics. T3BP almost entirely respects these limits, even while exploring daring and fascinating ideas, but (without spoiling anything) the author does make one very common concession. It's disappointing because he does so well otherwise that it feels very authentic and convincing. Then when the violation is revealed, it totally spoils the illusion and feels like such a let down.
There was an attempt to re-architect sqlite. Try searching for sqlite4.
> What gives one company, or a set of arbitrary companies, the right to hold wages down?

The lack of someone to stop them.

Unions have been demonized so long that they're assumed to be universally bad, but a corporation is a collection of people and resources organized to pursue a goal their members couldn't pursue individually. One of the advantages they have is superior bargaining power. Corporations often take advantage of this power, corrupting the market.

A union is another organization of people and resources attempting to get more for its members through increased bargaining power. Sometimes they do this in a way that corrupts the market. But unions are inherently bad and are being driven to extinction, while corporations are inherently good and ever more powerful.
You're probably thinking of boats like Boston Whalers that have flotation foam built into the hull and will float when cut in half. But there are many other types of modern factory-built boats which will sink immediately if they take on enough water.
It does come into play in weak signal situations. Consider support for more spatial streams (4x4 mimo) helps with reception in cell edge areas and when noise levels are high or multipath interference is a factor. Also every modem/antenna pairing has limits programmed in where they'll drop a cell or switch to a different layer (band) with less bandwidth.

No iphone uses 4x4 mimo. Maybe for battery, or maybe Jony couldn't make it pleasing looking enough in the X, but its lack is very much is a factor affecting quality of service including speed in non-ideal environments.
Then you don't use multithreading at all rather than conclude it's broken?
>Do they have NO claim to that, even if you decide to use it to compete against them?

Of course! The whole notion of a company owning every and all, things and thoughts, has to just die off. Everything outside the scope of the specific project is off-limits.

Ideas that occur as a result of the work I've done and things I've learned are mine! Ideas that are a part of the work I do are theirs.

A Square wheel, inc. tasks me with improvement on their design of Square wheel tech. I do that during my working hours, and I happily work on reducing the friction of the wheel. However, why would Square wheel, inc. have any claim to my novel idea of a vastly superior Round wheel tech that I thought up as I kicked a rock on a road? They didn't pay me to invent a new type of wheel, they asked me to improve their current one. I can choose to tell them the new idea, based on their sense of ethics and morals, i.e. whether I would receive a significant percentage of the proceeds, but the corporation has absolutely no entitlement to anything outside the scope.

Well, should not have, since apparently the greedy crooks actually feel that they control everything and everyone and have to have everything.
Yea, isn't it about time someone spent some money on AI?
This looks promising.... but you really should explain the tech stack behind it so that people have confidence in your system ....

Also, an explainer and demo video would be very useful to understand the product.
You can make about $10 per month via Microsoft rewards with a limit of one account per person, five accounts per household. So unless you can survive on $50/month,this would violate the terms of service.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/bing_other-bi...
No exactly answering your requirement (not using 3rd party) but i use crashplan for multiple reasons:

- they support all platforms (mac, linux, windows) - agent running on your system, detects changes, encrypts data and transparently send stuff to the cloud.

- They support client-side encryption (key or password). If you lose password or key - you screwed.

- they support unlimited versioning of back up files. If you screw your PPT or DOC - you can restore previous version(s).

- they support unlimited destination size (i'm already at 0.5TB and counting)

- they keep deleted files.

- they support removable media attached to your system (which helps me greatly as I do lots of hi-res photography where each image is 50MB. I already got 5TB external drive ready to be sync-ed)

- everything is $120/yr

Disadvantage:

- above price is per device. So if you need to backup 2 separated computers - you'll need to pay twice, etc...

Conclusion: I been enough through semi-shitty geeky solutions and love crashplan because it's a no brainer to setup and forget.
Of course - if they suddenly get out of business or cloud will explode or whatever - then you're screwed. But IMHO chances are - this backup will work for me better than anything i tried before.
Better than what he was sentenced to, but a year in prison is a long, long time.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see Robert Caro on this list. I have read all of his books, and they are some of the most profound expositions into the nature of power I have ever seen.
my understanding, if you branch, you branch the entire repo, (not sure about some special case extensions ) if you have two projects stored in a single repo, you are forced to use whatever rev at for each project at a point of branch rev 5543 for example
In 40 years since Apple II, technology has doubled roughly 26 Moore's, or moresies.

The same shift now-a-days should take only a year and half (40 / 26), which is about how long it would take if you bought 64 Looking Glasses and built a DIY array, and used ML to construct a 3D video from a 2D one, a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_reconstruction_from_multipl...
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Thanks for good reply,

Currently, I'm preparing the webcam with WDR algorithm builtin for demo.
Honestly phones supporting LAA[1] for places like penn station goes a long way toward having usable service during rush hour in a sea of people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_in_unlicensed_spectrum#Lic...
I can swim, so I'm not overly concerned. I've floated on some questionable conveyances that needed quite a lot of duck tape to make them hold water chasing trout.

Then again, I usually don't bother fishing when there are near hurricane winds forecast. Although I have gone trawling across a pond with two anchors down on multiple occasions...
Don't be too discouraged by the negative comments. Half of ML, optimization algorithms is pulling in valuable data. Companies with data monopolies could help innovation by sharing it with others more creative than them.

Stick diverse data feeds in a neural network and try to predict earnings for companies, energy demand or something else valuable to know in advance? Build off some of the ideas that Google trends/insights offer?

Always thought someone should put together a 'bittorrent client for scraping' where you can make large distributed queries as long as you service others.
Reminds me of the recent story [1] about that kid who was killed on an amusement park ride designed by some guy with zero credentials. You'd think at some point, someone would have signed off on the engineering design and then on the actual workmanship of the final product, but where do you draw the line?

Too much regulation and certification, and you have the aviation industry, where you can't so much as run a USB charger out to the front panel of your Cessna without the FAA coming down on you like a ton of bricks. Too little and you have people drowning and kids getting their heads accidentally ripped off. Maybe the line should be drawn at the point where you hang your shingle out there and try to make a business out of your invention?

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/0...
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I think it 'ended' before that and that's just the rot starting to set in to provide actual proof.
That link seems broken but there's also this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syst...

For OP: jrayn49 is right. Just pick a car with both adaptive cruise control plus lane keep assist. Quality of both features vary by model.
Why it's not a good idea to handle evdev directly
ZFS.

ZFS snapshots and clones are like git for your entire filesystem. ZFS replication over ssh is like rsync but more efficient. ZFS supports multiple compression methods so you can optimize for latency or compression ratio. Zpools let you add new disks and grow your filesystem without having to mess around reformatting. Zpools support various redundancy configurations so you can survive disk failures. It also supports checksumming so you can monitor and prevent data corruption.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-zfs.html
I've done similar things when I was in a position to, and held my nose and signed when I wasn't. It sucks that bargaining position has become a substitute for legal rights.

I have to regularly remind myself that there was plenty of bad in the 'old days' because trends today, especially to boundless corporate power, are so deeply depressing.
You might like some of the papers about random traversals of this graph, e.g. http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0302.5257 and http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1601.06391
sigh, HN in a nutshell.
Hey, I just graduated with a Ph.D. degree and I feel the same way you do. The process did leave a lot of scars in my mind. I just can't imagine how hard it is for you to not have received a degree.
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If the attackers had gotten the money out via wire transfers, then that would presumably be covered.

The attackers likely avoided that route because it would be easy to trace.

That’s likely the same reason that the insurance policy has special treatment for debit card/ATM incidents, because those sorts of transactions are more difficult to trace and therefore have a higher risk classification.
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When your rights are dependent on being in a strong bargaining position, you're already screwed. No one is always in a strong bargaining position.