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I've written this here before but a chinese engineer stole 30,000 design docs from Denso, which supplies a lot of technology under the hood of Toyota vehicles. It made national headlines and was considered a moment of disgrace for the company.

We don't hear about it because it's a national matter and only the national news outlets cover it.
I certainly did not say that official state propaganda is better than online propaganda by other political actors (including foreign states). It's that modern society has developed institutions to deal with the innate tendency of political actors to control the public discourse. The free press, democracy and public accountability of leaders evolved in a different technological context, and the existence of those institutions was sometimes defended with blood.

When you disrupt the economic basis of free press, you create a fundamental vulnerability, at least on the short run until those institutions adapt, like an organism exposed to a new mutation of a pathogen. An it might well take blood again to recalibrate. As a technologist, you don't get to ignore the political effects of what you create, you can't say "well, people have been killing themselves on this planet for millions of years, I've merely created a device to automate killing a whole country, a neutral technology." It's not neutral, it has imediate political effects, it gives power to those who have it to the detriment of the rest.

There is no debate technology can change the world for the better, you just can't presume that any technology, introduced at any moment of time, to any audience will be by definition positive. And once you start to nuance that position of absolute amorality for technology, you are engaging in politics. Technology is always power and power is always political.
> Instead we can decisively say that there is another number after infinity, which is called “infinity plus one”.

I see a problem with saying that. One of my earliest troubles when dealing with infinity in algebra was understanding, that you cannot add or subtract real numbers from infinity to make it something else.

e.g. inifnity - infinity is not 0. Suddenly saying that infinity + 1 \neq inifinity would just make it more confusing.

The article is a nice mind exercise but IMO not really helpful in explaining infinity to a child.
That's not nice. Please don't do regional dissing here.
But then you must admit that khsgiouyáwryýzsgdfkjhnFIUyiy3čjklj. Else you are a hypocrite.
That is an awesome thought, but for the moment, China's playing an incredibly unfair game - they're stealing Western technology, while at the same time preventing Western companies from accessing the Chinese market.

I mean, looks like it worked out great for them. I'm just not sure why Western governments don't retaliate, e.g. by taxing Chinese exports and investments (i.e. similar to what Trump is trying to do now, but more targeted - e.g. specifically target companies that have stolen IP)
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Yeah, I think there's a strand of political thought which assumes that no-one can honestly come to a different political conclusion than them and it's everywhere. It even gets applied to stuff like TV programs and other works of fiction. If you don't politicize everything according to their politics, it's because you're just too clueless to understand that everything has to be political.
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Yes, and using "new" is just the tip of the iceberg. I wrote a little screed about this topic in the context of Swift, but I think the gist is applicable generally to the idea of having "constructors" be special:

http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/remove-features-for-great...
Megacompany sounds intimidating, but I perceive Apple to be quite tame. They mostly just make hardware.

It's Facebook, Google and all the others sitting on mounds of personal and extremely detailed data (including geopositioning) that scare me.

Edit, to expand on the above:

If you could copy Apple's tech, you could (theoretically) make an iPhone-clone.

Copying Facebook's or Google's technology won't get you much because to be truly effective, it needs a lot of data. Which is why you can find some of their prime technology on GitHub, I guess (eg: TensorFlow).

And they are so far ahead of the pack with regards to collected data, I don't see how they could ever be caught up with.
I think I once had a problem with R's package system that I couldn't resolve without pulling from a project repository. With python, it seems every other pip install I do causes some kind of error that regurgitates a metre of error messages and ends up asking me to compile a couple of packages myself, and whatnot.

R has a lot of antiquated, clunky syntax and libraries and mightily unhelpful package documentation, but one thing that isn't borked is the package system - and that's especially compared to python.
I didn't say anything about any yelling. I don't know about you, but I don't expect to pick up the women I talk to even if I start the conversation out of a sexual interest.
And aligning video thumbnails next to each other helps reduce the loss of human touch you think?
TensorFlow is indeed the one-eyed king here. We found that running with large SparseTensors, CPU training jobs is actually faster than on GPU nodes. An individual job is faster on GPU, but SparseMatMul just blows up GPU memory use to the point that only one train job fits in its memory. SparseMatMul is inefficient on CPU as well, but you can keep getting some decent speedup by cranking up the parallel trade jobs per node.

I did have great success using Netflix Vectorflow. I roughly gained 2x performance for my use case. It does leave some other performance on the table, no vectorized minibatches etc. If you are training on huge sparse datasets with a shallow ffw network, Vectorflow is a good alternative.
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In the real world you are forced to use "any" when the type definitions for a third-party library are not perfect.

This actually happens a lot with types from DefinitelyTyped that are not maintained by the original author of the library.
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Taiwan used to behave like China does now.

The thing that changed in Taiwan is they started building industries where they needed to produce their own intellectual property. As that became more important, they started seeing the value of respecting IP.

With software piracy, the government got so serious about it, they instituted fines for businesses set at 400x the price of any software being pirated. So a pirated copy of Windows used by a bank, say, could get very expensive very fast... perhaps still cheaper than buying Windows for every computer but presumably that purchase would be part of the corrective action mandated, with the fine being on top of that.

But... Taiwan has a democratically elected government, not whatever system China has (I truly don't know, because it's so opaque... it's certainly not communist). Results may be different.
hah, I'm all for piracy, but only for personal use - if someone steals ("copies") from me and then makes a profit, I want (and deserve) a (large) chunk of that profit.

Research isn't going to pay for itself just magically.
Oh, it's capable all right. Unless you actually try to use it anywhere that's not a perfectly spherical road in a vacuum, then it's also capable of killing you.
Ah thanks for that. I guess it makes sense for them to open it up, it never really took off as a 'directory' , which is a slight shame.
On the individual level these people are adults, they committed crimes, and they should face the consequences. On a wider level, though, society has failed them---it's failed to give them with the skills and mindset to do useful work. Some people will always turn to crime no matter their circumstances. I would guess that Radu, the ringleader, would have, but I doubt the others would have if they had better options AND the skills and knowledge to access those options.
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Related from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368168.
A simple explanation:

In China, the manager class, the bureaucrat class have an opinion of their own people as worthless.

They don't believe that a Chinese engineer can make a widget better than an American engineer, because they think there is something inherently wrong with everything Chinese.

In their disturbed minds, they think if everything Chinese is bad, this also makes them bad too. Thus, they make themselves appear as un-Chinese as possible:

See, the only place in the world where American car brands making "falling apart as you drive" cars made a dent in the market is China!

In reality though, this conduct of theirs, acquiring material attributes of "Americanness" themselves, is just a psychological compensation.

I'm not trying to insult anybody here. This is my observation from working in trade with China for 10 years, and living there for 3 years.

What needs to be fixed, is the toxic "Laoban" culture, an "old boys club" of inept, privileged, people currently running China.

A real world example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16217995
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The video depicts an example where no one needed to pull out their phone to catch the incident. That was the point.
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I think the elephant in the room here is that this behaviour is probably not coming mainly from resident French, but rather, being kind, those that France needs to work harder to introduce to common standards of behaviour in France. An extreme leftist position might argue this law is an evil right wing law that hampers different cultures that are equally as valid as mainstream French culture.
If you wanted your Wi-Fi to be for customers only then you'd use WPA2 Enterprise with unique per-user passwords, or at least change the static password every day.
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While I get that it's easy to hate on and make fun of Microsoft, why not applaud them for making stuff like this that apparently is 'a given' in the linux-world.

What's wrong with a good idea, even if, especially if, others are already doing it. It's not like stealing IP; it's about making tooling nicer.

I for one actually like this (granted, I use PowerShell regularly).
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Well, it is not theft. Theft means that what you are stealing is not there anymore afterwards. Like actually stealing (unique) plans. Not saying that copying is actually okay, but using more sensational terminology is not really helping.

Same thing is going on with "piracy", in Germany they actually coined the term "Raubkopie" (robbed copy) which implies that a copy is taken by violent force.
If you already know what's going on, then please let us know already. For reasons of my own I think the nature of super conductivity is going to be an important part of future technological developments!
Maybe there is more security that I'm not aware of...

There is.
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You're suggesting people should be robots, with the only purpose of serving their company and the capitalist system, and restrain from showing or debating any personal issues they find important.

I think this approximates dictatorship and slavery. We shouldn't be scared or uncomfortable discussing politics, we should only try to remain calm and rational about it.

I think this concept is more accepted in Europe than in the US. There seems to be less taboo subjects in Europe.
> You can't say that their system is the best if you don't actually know what it does. All you can do is guess.

But that's true for everything.

It's simply impossible to have a computing device where you can be sure of every part being safe without trusting other people's judgement. You'd have to start by studying the VHDL of every chip in your computer, that's going to take you a while. Then check the software and hardware that turns that into a photomask and verify that the actual silicon produced doesn't have any hidden backdoors (that's difficult enough). You'd have to own your own equipment for producing the chips (can't trust the manufacturers)

Once you'd have the hardware completed, you'd have to check every single line of code, not just the OS kernel, but every compiler used (you've got a bootstrapping problem here, do you trust the compiler that compiled the compiler ?), every bit of userland software. Hundreds of millions of lines of code.

And even after you've done all of this, all you've proven is that you didn't find a backdoor, not that there isn't one. If you want to be really sure, you'd need formal proof of everything, which is going to add at least a couple of thousand additional years to the whole exercise.

Basically, what you want is a pipe dream. You can't do this alone, you have to trust other people at some point. So then the question becomes: who do you trust ?
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Global allocators is the first step to instance-wise allocator selection.
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I hate when interesting stuff like this is stuck in a video. Fortunately it's only 3 minutes long, and by judicious skipping I found his github: https://github.com/cnlohr/channel3

Short answer: the internal I2S peripheral will let you output at 80MHz (!), which can be used to generate by PWM the NTSC 315.0/88.0 MHz chroma frequency.

"This is basically a 1-bit dithering DAC, operating at a frequency below the nyquist, trying to encode luma and color at the same time. Don't be surprised that the quality's terrible."
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China skipped straight ahead to post-cyberpunk dystopia
You made the point once, and it was marginal to begin with. Now by repeating it several times, you're derailing this thread. Please stop.

It was marginal to begin with because of the following site guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." That applies to stories as well as comments.

Since there's no reason to assume that the colloquial use of the English word "offensive" is the same as whatever legal term the French law invokes, the point is vapid and basically concern trolling. I think we can expect better from an HN discussion. Applying the site guideline I just quoted, one can foster a higher-quality discussion by assuming that the law writers are not completely stupid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Surface Go is here, and people just don't know what to make of it
Some standups the boss gives off an unpleasant vibe than nothing should ever take more than a day.

Get stuck on something for a few days, and it feels like it's time for a new job.
Sadly one thing most art thieves don't understand is that even if a painting is worth millions to a gallery or collector on the legitimate market, it's black-market resale value is basically zero. (Turns out, not many people want to buy famous paintings for enormous sums of money that they'll never be able to show off.)

And even if there were some Bond villain waiting to get his hands on a Picasso for his mountain lair, the smash-and-grab art thieves suddenly realize they don't have the connections to find such people.

It would probably help if there were less insane hype about art prices in the culture generally, but at this point the ever-increasing valuations of these works is what keeps certain segments of the secondary market alive (and on significantly thinner margins than most people imagine).
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Anything audio/visual takes the cake for me. I observed as I get older I find it harder just reading books but video courses/trainings are easier and my attention tends to stray less.
That's me though
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Leftpad isn't complex. It just adds spaces.

Datetime libraries are complex because they need to do things like deal with the fact that North Korea switched Timezones last year, that Fiji is changing their DST dates this year and other crap. We get about 3 to 10 releases of the TZ database every year and you'll probably want the updates as quickly as possible in your Datetime library to deal with timezoned data correctly, otherwise your Customer from Fiji will find that you aren't turning up for the meeting because you left an hour earlier believing the customer wasn't turning up at all. And then you have to deal with dates in the past where there might be possible changes to the entire calendar! Or different calendars such as the Japenese, Chinese or Jewish years.

I don't think it's valid to suggest that leftpad and datetime libraries are even on the same order of magnitude of engineering complexity.
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It's not precisely broadcast, it's in the "baseband" region and would require modulation up to RF frequency to actually transmit over a distance.

See earlier work by Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/dvbt/ (arguably more impressive signal processing, but requires a graphics card's high-speed DAC)
> Has the smith made a political move by making the hammer available to everyone?

It depends. Is the "hammer" a set of instructions to build an airborne pathogen starting from the HIV genome?

Technology is power and power is always political.
Maybe same reason people going to a restaurant are more likely to write a review if they are disappointed? For every "this is lame" there are probably 50 "oh, neat" opinions but fewer of those bother to write comments.

(The above is just a guess. I have zero scientific backing.)
Inflation is always a factor, however Apple's performance is legitimately extraordinary in size for any age.

In 1980 GM was considered a monster with $2.8 billion in profit, number two on the Fortune 500 list that year (behind Exxon Mobil).

Apple's profit today rolled back to 1980 would be about $16.x billion. Roughly six times that of GM then, and roughly four times that of Exxon, the high mark.

Using the BLS inflation adjustment calculator, GM's profit in 1980 is about $9 billion today.

That'll get you ranked roughly #25-30 on the Fortune 500 today.

#25 in 1980 was Union Carbide at about $550m in profit, or ~$1.75b in today's dollar. That's good for about #200 today.

The corporate profit boom isn't primarily an inflation based phenomenon, it's the epic expansion of the global economy and the way the large S&P 500 type firms have benefited in an outsized manner.
The five-hour rule was coined by Michael Simmons, founder of Empact. The concept is wonderfully simple: No matter how busy successful people are, they always “set aside at least an hour a day (or five hours a week) over their entire career for activities that can be classified as deliberate practice or learning.”

Simmons traces this phenomenon back to Ben Franklin. “Throughout Ben Franklin's adult life, he consistently invested roughly an hour a day in deliberate learning. I call this Franklin's five-hour rule: one hour a day on every weekday,” Simmons wrote.
Why does it need to be hot? I eat room temperature food for lunch (not cold. I don't understand why people put their lunch in a fridge).
Teracompany, because trillion
That's navigation, and that's actually a solved problem. Actually following the roads...oh look, that's a nice set of traffic cones. What could that possibly mean? IDK, just continue through it.
This is already done here [0] and it's not limited to airports or lounges.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instabridg...
I guess its already implied, but that title should really be "theft from American companies," ie highspeed rail IP theft from German and Japanese companies would otherwise make this list.
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I've not been programming as long, but a fair chunk of years now. I feel the same way. I think being self taught makes it worse for me as I'm in a workplace where the majority of people are hugely intelligent and have university degrees, I just felt like I didn't belong. I'm just now starting to come to terms with the idea that I'm actually as good at what I do as anybody, so I no longer feel like as much of an impostor, but this has done nothing to change the fact that I still think I just don't know enough. There is so much more to learn that I haven't even touched on, it is both intimidating and inspiring. Reading similar sentiments from people who have been programming for much longer than I have is giving me the sense that this feeling might not go away, ever.
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I don't think the new one is any better.
Honestly this entire post is a really good call, I didn't even realize whether or not I need all these. Is there a simple wiki or something out there that would help decide what can be disabled?

edit: found this http://www.linux-databook.info/?page_id=3728
I argue against both of those recommendations. Braid is a strong puzzle game with finely crafted puzzles that can leave you bewildered for ages. Both Inside and Limbo are obvious on-the-rails platformers with no puzzles to speak of. I've played all three to 100% and, of them, only recommend Braid.

For good puzzles, look to Stephen's Sausage Roll, English Country Garden, HexCells. Also, many recommend The Witness, made by the creator of Braid.
Okay so Rstudio had a bug and R doesn't support realky big numbers that you will never need except with a add on package. Horrible.

Seriously though, R is lightyears ahead in things that actually matter.

There are hundreds of advanced statistical models that you can only run in R. Coded by the people who invented those models, most likely.

Python can do basic linear models via statsmodels, that's pretty much it.
Not enough to cover even the baseline of common data processes or inferential tasks of a researcher or statistician.

So either R, commercial packages or you code everything yourself, which makes so sense for hundreds of reasona, among them that you have to study the R codes of the authors anyway.

So please, be real
What about theft of revenue, profits, money spent on new R&D because there is a company or government willing to copy your idea and subsidize its development heavily as to maximise their economic growth.

It’s theft. Handbags to manufacturing techniques. Source code to schematics. Science to business models. It’s all meant to prop up local business. Pin duo duo just had their IPO. Now there’s so many fakes and copies that no one knows what’s real on their anymore.

Didi vs Uber is a great example. Didi copied the idea, took government subsidies. But then the government stole the competition completely by shutting down Uber and forcing a merger with Didi.
In Windows there's been a lot less emphasis on the terminal since most functionality has only been configurable using the UI. This is changing now.

Your post is a little like complaining over a functional programming language adding OO-features or vice versa and saying they are late to the party.
My favorite aliases (plus color to enhance presentation) thanks to Scott Chacon and Conrad Parker:

[alias]
lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all
[color]
branch = auto
diff = auto
interactive = auto
status = auto

`git lol` is a poor man’s ASCII-art graphical history display for specified refs (default: HEAD), and `git lola` does all refs.

[0]: http://blog.kfish.org/2010/04/git-lola.html
For the same reasons the european powers were unable to prevent IP theft by the US earlier in history - not enough reach and power.