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Not sure why you're being downvoted; it's not exactly the best time to be an immigrant in America.

Maybe if you're not a visible minority and never leave the valley you could stick your thumbs in your ears and just cash the cheques.
there is no evidence of this profile being a person.

Sure there is, it’s in TFA and it was doxxed elsewhere. You’re welcome to believe otherwise of course, especially if that makes you feel better, but understand the difference between “no evidence of,” and “choosing not to believe.”
The biggest problems are always cultural. Most monorepo workflows really reinforce constant integration, and once you have separate teams with separate managers, I've always witnessed constant conflict that ended up trying to establish spheres of control. It's bizarre - but it's something I've seen at pretty much every place I've worked at.

With all that integration, your single CI toolchain is front and center since everyone's success or failure is tied to it. While projects like bazel exist, how many developers do you know work with bazel every day? I no nobody who does. And most want documented IDE support and ease of use, not some optimal CI workflow. I've found gradle to be OK, but even that kind of pushes everyone toward using Jetbrains tooling. In the end, almost real monorepos have significant custom CI tooling that wires together different toolchains, and, they may have to maintain custom tooling for use in developer machines. And that custom tooling can get expensive to maintain as the project scales up.
lol. I'll assume that you've never run a bigger company before. It's literally everything, there is a story for everything. If you want to cut the leadership as being absentee, it's easy to track a thread back to absentee'ism leading to success, same for slave driving, got one for that. That problem once you get past a few 100 employees is that you'll find the narrative you want to craft.

The interesting take away here at least in my eyes is that incredibly seemingly irrelevant plot points become climaxes. The fact that they invested a bit into the Intel chip for reasons unrelate may have been the fulcrum for the most valuable company in the history of the world.
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Eat right, exercise and do not live in a environment plenty of carcinogenic substances like a cit... oh, wait.
Dependency hell in Python ?
The only annoying part would be missing some library to build certain packages, like lxml, etc.

That's all.

We Python developers are fortunate to have amazing tools such as pip, virtualenv, etc.
You can't just point to a list of inventions that came from research in space exploration - you also have to make a case that these inventions would have otherwise not come about, or at least would have come about much later.
I can't see any technical reason not to classify gene editing as GM, and I find it infuriating that there are scientists who oppose this on the grounds that they think it will make it harder to do research (they're assuming that once people hear "GMO" they won't buy it.)
Oh wow, it must be insane to be co-author to the emperor!

From the outside it's a weird juxtaposion of a traditional, old (from a European point of view) system of state and an everyday modern way of conducting scientific research. You'd just not expect this kind of contact, somehow.
> ...these behaviors are actually signs of poor leadership. If you work for someone like this, don't! You're better than that.

Yeah, work for that other asshole right out of McKinsey who perfectly matches the leadership templates in the management handbook written by another asshole out of HBS or McKinsey and have moved up the ladder in a hierarchical organization by perfectly playing politics and being diplomatic.

That's considered good leadership, by the management books, sure.
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How hot is it in your part of the world? Where I live (Stockholm) it is very hot. Temperatures have been at 30 degrees or higher since late May and it has hardly rained. It is definitely the hottest summer by a big margin I have experienced/suffered through.

What are your coping strategies? Doing productive work in this heat is almost impossible.
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And it's true. For every option, there are people who, when they voted Leave, weren't voting for that.

So you have a slight majority who voted Leave. But they were (in their own minds) voting for different flavors of Leave. You don't have a majority behind any particular kind of Leave.

Therefore there is no possible way to do this that will satisfy the majority of people. That's going to be problematic.
Canada is not exactly perfect either.
I can't parse what you are saying, sorry. The point author is making is, if bitcoin mining asics were available to rent or buy at some cost X, if the mining fees are too low, it may be more profitable to attack than to mine
I only skimmed the article, so maybe they said this, but for choosing from a small range, for example 0..51, you can get several of these from a 32 bit random number with this algorithm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6046918/how-to-generate-...

You should be able to run a 64 bit PRNG once and pick at least 8 random cards from a deck.
Reason you need an education in this theory is twofold.
How to fix something that is broken in limited time?
How to assure this model is reliable?
To confidently answer this from a place of reason derived from theory is going to be the real value.
FWIW, far more productive time is lost to cancer, and there is also great suffering (which is important; life != yearslived). There are sick patients, their families, plus all the resources consumed for treatment.
I think you may not realize how much your education has shaped the way you think and tackle problems. Understanding goes far deeper than the direct application of knowledge.
> But if we hit a new resistant superbug... That will decimate everywhere, everyone. Think plague combined with malaria. Talking about multidrug resistant strains of bacteria. If just one becomes reasonably virulent we are really out of luck.

AFAIR this is a bit of a dramatization. The primary threat of superbugs isn't a new super plague (which is unlikely). The danger is that a big part of our medicine will suddenly revert to preindustrial mortality rates - surgeries that are routine today will become life-threatening, including probably anything you do at the dentist's. Imagine getting a cut in the kitchen, going to hospital for stitches, and ending up in a body bag. This alone will be both seriously deadly and disruptive to the economy. It is a serious issue indeed.
Beer and cider is sold in pubs in imperial pints (bigger than US pints), but wines and spirits are sold in milliliters.

See https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law
It's a good general-history book on GPS, he does go back to the theme of it's changing our minds (mentions the impressive sea navigation abilities of cultures that have traditionally lived on the water spread out over hundreds of small islands for example) and IIRC he touches on some of the people that have died, or nearly died, trusting GPS instead of common sense, but that's by no means the majority of the book.

It's been probably close to 2 years since I read it but I enjoyed the history aspects of it.
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I use triple quotes when quoting, because many things I copy-paste have subquotes (either "..." or '...') or contractions (don't).
As I said in another post here, since people who voted Leave had different ideas of what they meant by Leave, there is no possible way to do this that will satisfy even the majority of people. A compromise that leaves most people feeling not too dis-satisfied may be the best possible outcome.
So long as you define 'mature' to mean 'in line with the average HN reader's ego and self-image', you're pretty much on point.
And rockets too, while firing 30 at the same time for redundancy?

This is not a valid argument at all. You need different designs that will not fall in the same way. We could e.g. send Lockheed, United Space, SpaceX, Russian, ESA and CSA designs for all of the components at the same time, then it is perhaps possible that at least one week make it. The cost will be huge though.
I tried to find an example that contradicts what you said, but I can't find any. Here's an online example which can be compiled as both C and C++ and I obtain exactly the same assembly using both clang and gcc. Maybe somebody can tweak this example to force the C compiler not to perform the optimization.

https://godbolt.org/g/7Ewun7
Power9 is cool, but its really not comparable. Power9 has a huge L3 cache, 10MB every 2 cores. So a 22-core machine would have 110 MB of L3 cache.

In contrast, Xeon Phi is connected to HBM2 / Stacked Memory. So while it doesn't have as large of an L3 cache, its main-memory is significantly faster.

Finally, you can stick a Xeon Phi into each PCIe x16 slot of your servers. Really, Xeon Phi is a competitor to NVidia's Tesla V100, if anything.
A supervolcano eruption, nuclear winter, or large asteroid impact would still leave the earth more habitable than Mars.

We're a long way from being Venus
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At most gas stations in rural midwest (at least Wisconsin & Minnesota, can't speak as well for other areas) you can pay after pumping.
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He has to believe that because he is financially vested on the outcome.
Huh, that's a good point - a large enough RTG on a data uplink cable would make its own way down through the ice, given time. There would be a lot of crosscontamination between the various ice layers and the lake though, so that's unlikely to fly (or sink, as the case may be).
Virta Health has been doing that controlled trial, although it's not randomized.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02519309?term=virta&r...
> I don't want to say it's trivial, but it's not that hard once both you and your code base internalize "convert everything to internal UTC representation as quickly as possible, convert to local time as late as possible on the way out".

It's really not that easy. Recurrences and durations are the killers.

When you schedule that meeting for 4:00PM every Tuesday, what happens when daylight savings time kicks in?
>Parents who look on video feeds from the day care centres.

I've never done this but I imagine the reason would be to spot times when the teachers are abusive towards the children, not to ensure everything is perfect.
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Thomas Sowell is, on at least this issue, completely detached from reality.

“If we attempt to define the political left by its proclaimed goals, it is clear that very similar goals have been proclaimed by people whom the left repudiates and anathematizes, such as Fascists in general and Nazis in particular.”

The central unifying, defining goal proclaimed by leftists since the origin of the left is the achievement of a radical egalitarianism in the distribution of power in society.

To say that fascists in general and Nazis in particular did not proclaim such goals is, well, a massive understatement.
HPCG seems more realistic than Linpack.

Based on the Phoronix tests I've seen, AMD EPYC or AMD Threadripper is better for cost / performance.

But Xeon Phi is an accelerator over PCIe. Its more comparable to a NVidia Tesla V100. You write specialized software to run on the Xeon Phi (even though it shares the x86 instruction set, its architecture is alien so it requires the programmer to specifically optimize for the Phi platform).
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Indeed. Through development of space colonization technologies also gives us an on-Earth backup. Whatever habitats we could put on Mars, it will be much easier to put them here, and isolate ourselves from the effects of environmental devastation we caused.
Second this. Also helps you reverse-engineer an Elon Musk somewhat.
Can you give recent examples of prior administrations doing this in the executive branch?
Our team switched from a custom solution to Mendeley last year instead of Zotero because Mendeley lets you highlight and add notes in the PDF, which gets shared among the whole team with those markups. Zotero didn't have that. Otherwise we would have went with Zotero.
Doesn't help developers not get different versions of packages. Lockfiles are necessary regardless of Docker.
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Use a digging rig combined with multiple explosive charges perhaps. Essentially a small shape charge version of solid boosters will work.

It would be similar to preparing a shallow mine.

After the hole is made you get to clean it up to obtain decent samples though.

Whether this would save size or mass is to be seen, a digging drone would preferably be small though very sturdy and dense to survive landslides.
> he had a knack for hiring and inspiring world class talent

Never said the guy didn't have any good traits. Obviously, Apple and NeXT had lots of great people work there.

> I'd work for anyone with that ability.

Yeah you lost me. I won't work for someone who can't admit fault and treats their employees like dirt. I don't care how good they are at convincing people to work for them.

You should have priorities in your life. "Not being abused" should be higher than "being able to say you've worked with the greatest talent."
The rates of $2000+ quoted above are for newly built condos with lots of amenities and are walking distance to lots of places filled with 20-30 year olds

You are comparing apples to oranges

Even in port credit you cannot rent a brand new bachelor in a new building that’s not in a basement, which has new stainless steel appliances, dishwasher, air conditioning and at least a gym or pool.

I’m not knocking the idea of paying low rent to save money to get ahead in life, I think that’s something all young people should do.

But comparing port credit bachelor unit life to a new build 1 bedroom in the core is just a bad comparison
> But you take them for granted and so it is easy for you to make value judgments regarding how money is spent.

It's rude to make such assumptions about me. I do not take the positive side effects from research for granted.

You simply haven't made a case showing why $400B in space research will generate more or better positive side effects than $400B in cancer research.

All research will have side effects that can't be anticipated. It's stupid to perform research with "random, unknowable" side positive side effects as a primary justification.
Melissa O'Neill's response back: http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html
I moved from Toronto to SF last year, I think the CoL-adjusted salary is pretty close, or actually better in Toronto. This is comparing good mid-sized company in both cities.

One misconception I think, is that many people moved to SV for big-N companies and comparing that with average Toronto salaries.
It's a nice way for users to help keep offtopic stuff from clogging up the front page, yes.
> For example doing very heavy computation on 8 threads of a 4-core CPU with 8 hardware threads, can actually reduce performance, because all threads will be contending for the same functional blocks of the CPU.

We have exactly this scenario on a server we're running (non-virtualised) and, if it didn't involve rebooting the machine, I'd already have run a test to benchmark whether we get better performance with or without hyperthreading. Unfortunately our test environments aren't similar enough to be representative in terms of testing yet, but this is going to change in the next few weeks so I'll finally be able to run my test without needing to take down the production box.
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I wish I had thought of that when I had a dog who liked to run away! Mine really like car rides, and we didn't live in the city so I would just get in my car and slowly ride up behind him with the door open and he would jump in.
My opinion after working for him (and writing this story) is he couldn't see obvious things everyone else could see, but he could see things no one else could. I fought with him over stores as did virtually everyone on the board of Apple, and it turned out he was right. Thank God he was stubborn enough to go forward with them. We all said it drove Gateway out of business, yada.
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Hehe, intergalactic Blockchain voting for side of the Force. May the force be with you!
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I've read glassdoor reviews for companies that could "hire and inspire world class talent" and then fail to actually retain them due to terrible culture, so I'd think twice. Stability and balance are crucial, as well as growth potential.
Well, the Kaiser is out and the War is over! If it weren't for the flu in Spain (although I've heard it showed up in other places...) then it would be a good end to the year.

Regardless, I thank God we'll never see such senseless bloodshed again.
It's a private repo; I will probably open parts of it in the future.
The threads look exactly like real processors to the kernel. The only difference as far as the kernel is concerned is that they share the L1 cache.
The comment there is not about [-3, 17] being an obscure output range from a distribution. It is that the distribution must be able to handle a random generator that outputs numbers in that range.

I think there's a small error there in that the output type of UniformRandomBitGenerator must be actually be unsigned. The larger point still stands though. It is possible to write a conforming UniformRandomBitGenerator that has an output range of [3, 17] and it falls on the distribution to handle this.
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Fall in general is great. My perception (which I’ve not validated) is October is generally wetter. That may just be from anomolies the last yew years than the actual climate, though.

Just don’t come the weekend of the Georgia-Florida football game in late October. 10,000 (newspaper’s estimate, not mine) Georgia fans flock to the island and get drunk. We’re not at all equipped to handle that many college kids all at once.
Typically if you don't get as much fuel as you paid for you go back in for change.
If that was always an option, salaries would be infinite ;)
Yeah every leader has flaws. But not every leader is an asshole on the level of Steve Jobs.
> the author is trying to reconcile two fundamentally irreconcilable ways of looking at memory: on the one hand, the machine view of a single address space, and on the other, the program view of distinct variables

That's not incorrect. However, the reason I am doing that is because this is what C is all about (nowadays, at least): Compilers doing high-level optimizations based on alias analysis and other sources, and programmers expecting to have a low-level picture of memory.

Our choice is to either give up and declare C broken beyond repair, or try to find some way to reconcile these two worlds as best as possible.
If you're a Canadian its a choice between not being an immigrant and being an immigrant.
Have you inquired into why they became unprofitable? Have you considered the massive government investments into and subsidies for the two other modes of transportation following WW II?
Makes sense. I guess I was hung up on the flaw being some personal issue but I guess killing a million people counts as one too.

And thanks for the link.
But because the terms of an exit, under the laws of the EU, are not up to the departing nation, voting Leave meant accepting a hard Brexit —which could result no matter what the British government negotiating position was—was, even if not th best result, both acceptable and preferable to the status quo ante. There's no other reasonable interpretation of a vote for Leave.
I think i'm personally willing to make some concessions on personality in exchange for doing something like building the future. Does the end justify the means, sometimes?

Kind of like the instructors at my workout classes, I don't always like them, they're not always that nice but they definitely make me better.
Chrome IS the new IE6. Just consider the number of times that Chrome breaks features because Google thinks webdevs can't think. And Websites breaking because I'm not using Chrome is exactly why IE6 was shit. Websites worked in IE6 but not anything else. THAT was the true tragedy.
Best practices in portability have evolved since the 90s. I understand that portable C from that time was a nightmare, but things have changed a lot.

As long as you have a well defined portability layer, it doesn't really matter if it uses #ifdef or separate files (actually SQLite can be embedded as a single file, so it matters, but still). The important point of Spencer's paper was that portability shouldn't be a second thought. In fact it also mentions how to use #ifdef, not just when not to use it.
Here's my LinkedIn. I dunno why Bloomberg has me as Chairman of bn.com. Fatbrain.com was bought by them but I was never chairman. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-macaskill-970ab1/
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Only because people are flawed. It’s hard to find leaders who metabolize cellulose too. We can still try to figure out which parts helped and which parts hurt.
Another reason is abundance of IT talent in and around Toronto with top-class educational institutions (both Universities and Community Colleges) churning out armies of great IT workers.

That and combined with relatively lower salaries...
Interesting. I really like that they're displaying the things they found in the stations rather than just carting them away to the basement of some museum.
> ran some super scientific Occam's Razor recursion algos
There's probably some bias trying to justify your previous 3 points.

You can host your own Gitea but now you have the operational burden of maintaining your own Git server. For most businesses it makes more sense to go with a hosted solution and dedicate resources to creating business value.

There are a lot of things I wish GitHub did differently but nothing really has changed since the announcement that MSFT was buying GitHub. If the announcement had never been made, no one would have thought anything had changed. Until recently (2 years or so) they were pretty slow to roll features but this changed once GitLab started seriously competing with them.
return min + (max - min) / 2

Oh, you want a random number?
Or to send more people to the Moon, push the research on in-space manufacturing and bootstrap some semblance of economy in cislunar space. This seems like the most reasonable way to escape the trap of expensive space missions you mention.

The trap goes like this: launches are expensive, so let's get more bang for the buck by putting more stuff in a single mission; this makes mission both more expensive (insurance) and preparations take much longer; this decreases the frequency of launches, which increases their costs.

Getting some production upwell (fuel, vehicle hulls) would decrease cost of launches, allowing for more frequent and simpler missions, and hopefully break us out of this trap.
Tech developed for off-world colonies can be used on earth...
There's almost nothing we could do to this planet which would make Mars a more attractive option. I guess there's always a meteor/comet risk, but practically anything else still leaves Earth as a better option.

Even if we all had to live in bio-domes because the planet was so polluted, it would _still_ be a better option than Mars, just by virtue of the fact that we have gravity and an atmosphere. On Mars, a cracked bio-dome means everybody dies. On Earth, you could probably just go fix it.

Earth has:

- Gravity
- Much better temperatures compared to Mars
- A moderately-pressurized atmosphere
- Water (even if it's salty/polluted)
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