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advertisers already do target based on race and sex, genetic data will simply increase the accuracy of making those classifications

While it's also possible that advertisers could use more sensitive information, such as a predisposition to gambling/obesity/alcoholism, the signal from DNA that an advertisement is likely to be effective is still probably weaker than a person's actual habits. A very unethical company could use DNA to know how to target to make "the first hit free", but I'd like to think that such egregious behavior would result in significant public backlash and possibly the introduction of regulations
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> Better than now.

Aha, so you weren't comparing different futures, you were comparing now to a type of future that you weren't committing to (and certainly weren't suggesting a future with Musk running a cancer-curing-firm would be better than a future with Musk not curing cancer for profit).

Perhaps you can understand why I was confused.
> I'm objecting to the idea of calling it "ready to standardize".

Oh, indeed, that's a distinctly different topic than has been focused on in the rest of the thread. The upthread indictment of the process is quite on point.

It's also a wide topic with a wide variety of involved parties, worthy of its own thread, off of a blog post.
They were talking about the rise of western culture, for which Christianity is the major religion.
I understand your point, but I think your choice of words underestimates the global consequences of war.
I'm glad someone with those biases is here; obviously '1996 is far outnumbered on HN by those with other biases.
Given that Ada core is the only Ada vendor that cares about community, people should actually be grateful GNAT exists at all.

Ask GreenHills, PTC, OC Systems about similar contributions.
Perhaps you're right, but at the time, most mainstream media was simply reporting on what the executive branch had already claimed was proven: Saddam had WMDs. At the time, there were no government/intelligence officials saying otherwise. The media had no strong reason to doubt the government's claims before the war started, as well as no way to validate or disprove the claims. And it's not like it would've been the most shocking revelation in the world if it were true; Saddam was a despot who had undoubtedly heavily researched, developed, and used WMDs in the past and had motive to continue stockpiling WMDs.

The media certainly should have been more skeptical and critical of the government, but I'd say at that early stage, the blame mostly falls on Bush and his advisors. If you were working at one of these news outlets at that time, I bet you would have reported it similar to the rest of the mainstream media, too.
As per stack overflow servery React and .Net Core also important to many developers.
I mean it was going to be NeXT or BeOS right? Seems like they couldn't have gone wrong with either.
It was heavily based on 4.3BSD, so it needed an AT&T 32v license at the time....

https://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/mach...
Others have already pointed out that these systems are also susceptible to the same types of jamming/interference.

Two other issues - the biggest one is mentioned in the article - global coverage. GLONASS is the only one to claim global coverage.

The other issue is that there's still a huge number of devices that don't support those systems. Most of the time if something says it uses/depends upon GPS, it means literally just that one system, not the others.
I think the answer is that the concept of "before the Big Bang" doesn't make sense. Time is a part of the universe, and so there is no "missing" time or space before it. I think Steven Hawking said that it's like asking what is north of the north pole.
Thanks circuit lab username:asusta
Costs of those wars are going to be, at the final tally, around $6 billion. Most of it will be through deserved veterans benefits, as was/is the case with Vietnam. Trump has recently been claiming $7 billion, although I haven’t seen evidence for that.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-iraq-war-cost-2-tril...
Thanks for the compliment on my macabre take.

Parse was very very good for making it easy to prototype apps. However, once apps began to scale, Parse fell apart and was not a suitable technology. They would not have been able to make money because all the big money comes when people have full scale deployments on a platform, and that simply would not have been possible with Parse's shitty-for-scale technology. Again, very awesome tech for rapid prototyping mobile app development ca. 2012 2013..

It wasn't my decision to bet on the technology; it was in place when I was called in to put out the fires. I have a hard-won personal rule not to bet my organization's technical architecture on any tech that hasn't been around for at least 5 years UNLESS it solves a mission-critical pain point / workflow / etc.

I was on the engineering team for another mobile app that did $20M a year in revenue, mostly from in-app subscriptions.. was extremely costly to manage, so seems like you may have a pain point here and a new tech that may be worth betting on. Good luck!
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Thanks so much, Mike, so generous of you!
I've read the book and it is full of fascinating examples of how urban environment are driving evolutionary changes in various animals.

I live in Singapore (one of the places he talks about in the book) and I can see anecdotal examples of the kind of things he talks about in the book, like urban birds being less anxious around humans compared to forest birds.
Or we can look at thousands of years of human history, where we stripmined and trashed where we ate and slept, and then moved on to the next place just to do the same to it.

Each day, we're given the choice to change the way we relate to the resources at our disposal. I haven't seen any evidence that the incentives which drive us to cause great harm have gone away. On the contrary, the evidence I have seen points to those destructive incentives as being the driving force behind space colonization.
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Fascinating. I've always had an amateur historian bent when it comes to drug history, especially that of Papaver somniferum. From writing about laudanum label designs in my design history class to reading Steven Martin's Opium Fiend novel detailing his addiction to smoking opium like they did in the 19th century, I've had a peculiar fascination with this substance's history despite my only actual experience being with morphine before an appendectomy surgery.

You seem knowledgeable about the history in this case. Any suggestions for further reading?
FOAM [1] is trying to solve this. They're using a distributed network of radio beacons which offer location services using time synchronization.

https://foam.space
You aren't kidding. Users are shitty and capricious in the mobile space (sometimes everywhere, but very frequently the mobile space). I've had users leave one-star reviews for my mobile app--which controls OBS, a video mixer--with the reason "it works for 20 minutes [ed.: there is a very visible timer the entire time] and then stops [ed.: it goes readonly, it doesn't kill a stream or recording] and asks you to pay [ed.: five whole dollars]."
That is a goldmine, thanks!!
> Personally, I'm of the opinion that educated, competent workers in useful fields are exactly the kind of people you would want to have immigrate and become permanent citizens. So the whole H1-B charade is rather stupid from that perspective- if they are really effective workers that cannot be found domestically, why put them into a shitty indentured servitude?

I don't disagree with you on these points.

My disagreement was to the unsubstantiated assertion by User23 that the number of engineers who qualify for H-1B in spirit and letter would be a handful.
I think you're conflating two points. I know many, capitalistic, people believe that IP should not exist.

However it does currently exist as property of people. If property rights are not respected then capitalism falls apart as you'd have land and capital stolen and kept by whoever could bring the most force
Flash and ie6 need to be completely left unsupported. I'd go so far as Adobe and Microsoft should put a Killswitch that removes them or simply makes them unusable.
Let me repeat the question I asked above - why is a good developer not considered to posses "specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor"?.
555 internals looks beautiful. I wish I had this when studying 555 for the first time.
Maybe Google’s choice for monorepo was pure chance. However, on many occasions the choice was challenged and these kinds of arguments were (successfully) made in order for it to stay.
> Anyone remember the lightbulb moment of grokking pointers?

Strangely enough, I don't think I do. There was a spectrum where I didn't get pointers, I thought I sorta got pointers, I thought I got pointers, I thought I get nothing, and over time I got a bit better at understanding pointers thanks to C++ and Rust. Definitely more of a continuum.

I did have a lightbulb moment for understanding recursion, though, thanks to an assembly course.
You’re assuming each MAU is a unique person, which is obviously incorrect.

MAU is a bad stat anyway. DAU broken down into precise categories, with compensation for duplicate accounts, would be a great stat.

I don’t use Facebook for any serious time but there will probably be at least one time per month when I log in to look something up. I’m on the site for a few minutes at most.

If I did one google search per month would you care about it as a google investor?

The day my Mum told me that she had “decided to use Facebook less” due to their shitty behaviour was the day I decided Facebook were screwed.

What I’m fascinated by is what the endgame is for Facebook. It’s still useful in some sense, the world probably needs a Facebook. If it died it would be replaced by something else. So I think the most likely outcome is it will sit at some level where it’s hard for a competitor to dislodge it, but it doesn’t get used much and it doesn’t make much money.
This source [1] says:

Core i9-9900K with 8 cores and 16 threads

Core i7-9700K with 6 cores and 12 threads

Core i5-9600K with 6 cores and 6 threads

[1] https://hothardware.com/news/core-i9-9900k-coffee-lake-cpu-i...
SAP, Oracle or IBM software is hardly give away. They will cost you an arm and a leg to get and then the rest of your body for maintaining them.

I thought gaius may be referring to free or open source software?
A few good possibilities:

1. Cell sites have their own high precision clock, so they can go at least 10-20 minutes and probably longer without any difficulty.

2. The site really only needs to see a single satellite to get time synchronization if it has the almanac and ephemeris because it knows exactly where it is and how far away the satellite is. In fact, in the presence of noise, it can integrate over a long period to pull a jammed signal out from under the noise floor.

3. There are already a number of other terrestrial sources of time. TV stations have precise timing, and a defined offset to GPS time. They also have huge output power that is more difficult to jam.

4. The cell networks can synchronize with each other. If the network simply adjusts the time to be an average of neighboring cells and its own clock, they will stay in sync. It's not required for the mobile phone network to have correct absolute time, only correct time relative to other nearby network elements.
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Yahoo News doesn't cover cases of lazy private sector employees.
The US certainly isn't perfect, but many other global powers throughout history have made their fair share of catastrophic mistakes that changed history.
Google launches “Shielded VMs” to protect cloud VMs from rootkits, data theft
DAU != people.
>something I've noticed about Americans is that they are a very scared people and are very quick at painting things black or white

This can be seen a lot and it seems quite like the Christian narrative has deep roots in some parts of the world even among non-believers. The idea that everybody is looking at the world through a good-vs-evil lens explains a lot. Mythology is a powerful force, it can't just be dumped, it needs updating.
Yes. Look at the ham hobby, hardly any of them can pick up GPS signals, despite the technology being literally everywhere
Planes don’t usually reach the limits, but they exist. The limits seem to be 1200mph or 59000ft altitude.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom
LEO?
Deep learning! It does everything really well, especially reducing complex problems to a single number. It's well known that anything which doesn't fit in the reals isn't really real, if you know what I mean.
Well, the aviation world still has VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) navigation [1], where you can determine what direction you are to a VHF radio transmitter based on phase difference. Unfortunately, the FAA seems hell-bent on phasing them out in the USA, likely because money.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range

2: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/november/2...
> What we need, and will probably get soon, is inertial guidance based on laser ring or fibre optic gyros in mobiles. You get a location fix every week or so and it starts out much more accurate than gps.

Corrections every week? This isn't possible given the drift rates of high end FOG or Lazer ring IMUs. A high-end marine-grade INS can cost over 1 million dollars. These systems will typically provide un-aided navigation solution drifts that are less than 1.8 km per day. This means that if the device were left stationary for one day, due to slight errors in the sensors and imperfect sensor calibrations, after integrating the position solution, the calculated position after one day would be 1800 meters away from the sensors actual position.

With ones that you can affordably put in a phone within minutes the drift will be huge. You need something to regularly correct for the drift and currently this is GPS.
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I know a lot of Americans think that most H-1B are cheap labor or incompetent engineers. There is some truth to it but hear the other side out.

The way H-1B is implemented, it does not distinguish a person with PhDin Computer Science from Stanford from someone who did bachelors in Computer Science from Univ of Timbuktoo. This is the only visa for a top student can get to continue to work in the United States.

Over many years, this caused a lot of grief with body shops abusing these visas. The new administration came in and appointed a bunch of racists to head USCIS, who started denying H-1B indiscriminately. Guess who are the guys getting kicked out now?

Yes, the same Stanford graduates (or other top university graduates) that America taught for many years.

The process also discounts non-linearity of life. A student produced by top American universities is likely a good engineer. If they've worked in top Silicon valley companies for many years, they've gained practical knowledge that many other countries would kill to have. These 28-45 year old people are typically startup founders, top engineers, execs and folks willing to take chances. The US unceremoniously chooses to kick them out brashly? Guess which jobs are going with them?

Also, the real mess of H-1B is the green card process of USA. There are so so so many people on periodic H-1B extensions for 10 years, 15 years etc. These guys have been in the US for the best periods of their lives and should be naturalized. But because of the patchwork laws of US immigration, don't have green cards. With the over zealous deportation machine (aka USCIS) in operation now, these folks are being kicked out with their spouses and kids.

The US under current administration has the world completely backward. If they ever genuinely had the intent to fix the immigration process (which I suspect they don't), they've chosen the worst possible way.
The limits are higher altitude and faster speed then you've ever been. If the Concorde was around you would see it firsthand. Weapons would be worthless against first world defences at airliner height and speed. Gps receivers shut down on weather balloons regularly, it's a known issue

The limits are real, encoded in public law. I don't understand how you could possibly disagree with me on this point
> Obsession is the name of the game. Balance is for chumps. Nobody ever got great at anything by spending a reasonable and well adjusted amount of time working on it.

You had a good point but this seems completely unnecessary. You're not making it into the NBA here, so "great" seems like a very strong word. For most people, basketball and such is not the main purpose, but a side event, a hobby, etc., so it's pretty strange for them to choose to obsess over it.

Of course focusing on one thing and only just that one thing will make you relatively good at it. Everyone already knew that. The issue is just that people have jobs, relatives, other hobbies, etc., so balance becomes more relevant. It's more interesting when someone gets good at something without being able to allot huge amounts of time to it.
One thing to note, Haml-rs is going to be different than maud in the sense that, at least currently, there is no support for any sort of variables or expressions. You cannot use Rust (or Ruby) in this Haml-rs templates and expect them to render correctly.

It is something that I'm looking into and trying to think of the best way to handle it. Do I cripple variables and get rid of expressions? Do I allow Rust to be used instead of Ruby in the template? It is something I need to think about before working on.
I didn't say I expected anything else. The point is it's not secret information that Jim Keller's Zen was going to change the landscape, people were shouting it from the rooftops. It was all just a matter of whether you believed them or not.
While losing China would certain set off shockwaves, I'd say you are in fact on a limb and have it backwards. Manufacturing can be moved and trivially ramped over a few years, perhaps at great cost, but still, only cost. Advanced technology, culture, and other elite exports are not so easily moved to Bangladesh or Vietnam. I'll go out on a limb and say losing Japan would be a bigger loss for the world than losing China due to this. Things I own that are made in China, or have parts made in China, are mostly owned for the cheaper price, not for any uniqueness. Japan and the USA export unique things which cannot be replaced by merely paying a higher price. Losing Google alone would set the world years back. Losing America would scramble world culture entirely (maybe for the better, you say, but that's a value judgement). Whereas China is so insular, the world would move on quickly.

It depends on what you value, I guess.
The main problem I have with H1-B visa use cases (or at least my perception and understanding, based on the fact that I regularly see 8x2 grids of H1-B visa application stacks that go as deep as 2 novels posted as required by law at my work) is that they're mostly a vehicle to reduce wages or arbitrarily discriminate against otherwise qualified native applicants.

In the former case, H1-B visa holders are basically 100% dependent on their employers for continued employment - if they lose it for whatever reason, they get deported. This leads to flagrant abuses on behalf of the employers - demanding overtime & lower wages that they couldn't demand from those employees' domestic counterparts.

In the latter case, I work at one of the various companies that prides themselves on having an extremely high hiring bar. Of course, this doesn't really mean we hire the absolute best, it just means that we toss a lot of applicants in the bin because they weren't able to put on as good of a dog and pony show as expected - our interview process does not even kind of resemble what people at my company do on a day to day basis, or even measure the skills it takes to really succeed. So, of course, when we exhaust the local talent pool through arbitrary pickiness, we just add in the labor pool from abroad, rather than just... you know, reconsider our hiring standards and maybe give people who are already here, qualified, and looking for a good job one of those good jobs. This in turn dilutes the labor market - people who would have gotten that cushy job through merit are pushed down into positions that don't require as much luck to get, and the people who would have gotten those jobs are pushed into the jobs where you pretty much just have to chat up the interviewer, and so on.

This whole inane process is pretty much the cause of the absurdity of the American tech industry, where you either get super lucky and wind up in a lower-mid 6 figure job with crazy benefits, or you wind up in a mid- to low- 5 figure job where your boss both shits on you constantly and simultaneously doesn't really understand what you're doing day to day anyway. There's a middle ground, but like barely if my last job search is anything to go off of.
Chrome is now using more processes to leverage OS-level spectre protections. I think they will re-enable high precision timers.

Source: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w...
Treffert has come up before, and he is bogus. He’s the only one who acknowledges “sudden savant syndrome”, which he made up. I know someone on his list, and I know how that person got on his list. By emailing him, and claiming that after he hit his head, he was a savant. That’s it.
HT also doesn't help as much on FP workloads simply because there are less FP execution units to share, e.g. Skylake: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
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>"The MTV Generation," Lazin said, directly addresses the pros and cons of MTV, which has been criticized for everything from placing too much emphasis on image to promoting short attention spans and the need for constant entertainment in its audience.

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-10/news/tv-1845_1_mtv-ge...

That sounds EXACTLY like a criticism you'd hear about facebook. s/MTV/Facebook/ and you couldn't tell if that was written in 1991 or 2018.
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>If we don't get people living and populating on other planets, the human species is doomed.

It's probably significantly cheaper to transition to fully carbon-neutral, non-polluting energy sources and infrastructure than it is to create a self-sustaining colony on the moon or mars. Space isn't going anywhere, and even if this delayed space exploration by a few decades, the odds of an event out of human control destroying us in that time are extremely slim.

And yes, many people would rather money be spent on cancer research, or better yet, alleviating poverty. Plus, it is certainly possible for general cancer therapies to exist and work, such as gene therapy or drugs that prevent metastasis. But this is a false dichotomy anyway - money could just as easily come from government debt, higher taxes, a shift away from luxury spending/goods, etc.
The need for original copies does depend a lot on country.
The author is also one of the paper's author, maybe he intentionally wanted to avoid link to its own publication?
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