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What a bizarre reply. This kind of evasion is reminiscent of the neoconservative responses to people dubious about the Iraq war back in 2003.

Not only did the poster point to source material for his claims, he constructed a sound argument based upon the age-old wisdom of asking the question, "Who benefits?"

I didn't even see one value judgment about the US in the comment.
It always makes me sad that Thompson Sampling isn't (or at least doesn't appear to be) mentioned alongside things like UCB1. Its theoretically optimal, and relatively easy to grok, and not significantly more difficult to implement.
*VirtualBox considered harmful

Oracle recently started hunting our company for licenses due to the fact that the VB guest additions software phones home. Fail on us for not considering the license on the guest additions outside of the VirtualBox software.

Bye bye Vagrant! Time for a new workflow!
You can bring it to the trivial case where you compare reading one children's book with reading a single volume of the art of computer programming.
> 1. Look at how many flights work out well https://flightaware.com/live/ there's something like a million people in the air at any given time. It's extremely unlikely that your plane will be the unlucky one. Take a screenshot and keep it on your phone.

Can that work against a fearful mind though? Look at all of these planes flying safely! Statistically, in a strange way, the chances of a crash are only increasing in light of all of those safe flights I'm watching on Flight Aware.
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FBA is a few different things. You pay for the on site storage, boxing and 2day prime(if they have it) shipping from that fee. Selling it for 10-12 bucks + shipping and handling would be more accurate comparison and more work for you.
To others' point it could be in Amazons interest to have completely fake but real-looking reviews to promote their preferred products so this would then feed into that dark pattern.
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> we should definitely go back to the days where there was only one stylesheet per page and the web wasn't accessible to those with visual impairments. Being blind is clearly just a lifestyle choice, and we shouldn't be catering to the blind agenda.

How does bogging down pages with ads and tracking scripts and other bloat help the visually impaired? If anything, it should make things even worse for them than for sighted users, since it's easier (not easy, but easier) to navigate by eye to the part of the page you actually want to read than it is to skip over all the cruft using an accessibility add-on.
Do the authors own the IP for their journals? I was under the impression that in most instances the IP was either public or owned by the university/instition.
yea, heroku was kinda a joke as i haven't really heard anything about it since salesforce. it just seems like heroku was a bit ahead of its time - people were really wary about not owning their servers when it came out
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I wonder if/when Citus will have a GCP option?
I had a similar experience with booking.com reviews. My less than 3 star reviews somehow don't make it, while 4-star reviews go straight to the list. Coincidence?
I'm pretty sure Netflix can give him another million.
Bin the complaints about shady then?

It’s just how society will always function, right?

How can it be shady if it’s normal?

There are no ideas out there for evolving social norms. None. Zero. We’re stuck like this forever.
> In the legacy renderer, everything happened on the main thread so the most power it could draw was one core at 100%.

We’re not talking about wattage, but energy consumption. I.e. a single core working at its max for 5 seconds uses more power than three cores working for one second. It’s a question of efficiency, not how many cores are working at once.
Given that this seems to be a transpiler, why go to C++ instead of C?

What feature of C++ does this need that is so compelling as to cut it off from use on straight C?
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1 MB RAM was enough to run the Space Shuttle.
Huh you're right; I stand corrected then.

(Btw did you see the addition at the beginning of the article? Funky stuff going on...)
I had a similar experience and delivered a similar fear. I wasn't afraid of being dead, I was afraid of dying and the emotional pain that would occur as the plane falls from the sky (or whatever). Like you, I knew rationally how unfounded this is. I've been getting more comfortable with flying by accident since my bad flight experience.

Two things, the first being rationalization, the second being more immediate:

1. I read that a plane has never crashed from turbulence. If somehow this is not true HN audience, please don't inform me otherwise. A crash every X million miles or flights isn't that concrete for some reason, but "never" makes me less scared some turbulence is going to knock the wings off. Along the same vein, I think the last US commercial passenger crash was in 2009. That's more concrete than the statistics. Nine years since the last crash. Pretty good.

2. I got a prescription for some benzodiazapenes for flying. I was stuck in some kind of feedback loop, where I was initially kind of scared of flying, there'd be some minor turbulence, which would make me freak out, which would be unpleasant and give me additional anxiety about flying. White-knuckling a flight for however many hours is unpleasant enough to fear itself. Also, my primary fear was the same of yours, I was afraid of feeling afraid as I was dying. Taking the benzo made me think, "if I'm drugged maybe the descent won't be so bad," which helped acutely, and over time it made me have more tolerable flight experiences. After flying three or four times without a fear in the world I forgot my benzos and found that my fear of flying now still exists, but can be rationalized away much better than before. Unless you fly multiple times a week, drugging yourself through the experience isn't generally a bad idea. Flying sucks so much even without fear that it's kind of a preferable way to go anyway.
Radon gas leeches into homes with and without basements. Radon is heavy, so you can easily evac the gases with a proper air filtration and circulation system.

Managing heat in underground homes is a known and solved problem. Managing heat and cold above ground is the real problem, that people have accepted as normal.
I must say, despite what I imagine is a good bit of traffic the instant load times on your site were a joy to behold. I never get to experience that kind of speed on the "modern" web. Even HN loads orders of magnitude slower than that.
I worked at PayPal on the China team. There were a lot of internal politics at the time and I know people on both sides of that internal fight. Needless to say, it was a battle that eBayPal wasn't going to win.

From slow servers hosted in the US data centers having to traverse the GFW to the massive payment friction compared to Taobao's checkout flow.

As for the politics, there were partially policy decisions and partially just a lot of internal infighting. Not to mention the time wasted making PPTs instead of fighting on the ground.
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People do still write books targeted at a general audience, though. This generic shared context (what distant strangers can reasonably be expected to know) can plausibly be inferred from training data.

So it's not going to get people's in-jokes or local slang, but it still seems like the ceiling could be pretty darn high?
That does sound dubious. The specific graphics created by Strategyzer can be copyrighted with a Creative Commons license of course, but I can't see how the concept of the business model canvas can be protected.

The name may be trademarked of course.
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I can put raw text on a kindle and read it. In fact, I frequently do. Comparing digital text to digital text is not apples-and-hammers.
There's better advice here than thinking about the odds of a crash, but if that helps, you could also factor in the odds of actually dying in a crash - not just being in one - because that's even rarer.

I was on a plane that experienced an "uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure" (Delta 1288) that killed two people a few rows behind me. It was traumatic, and I rented a car and drove home instead of flying, but it wasn't long before I was regularly flying again. Physically, I was completely unharmed, and I got to experience safely leaving a plane through an over-the-wing exit. I learned that even in a worst-case scenario, people can and do survive.
It's easy to blame Chinese government as it's political correct. But don't forget, Chinese market is also a fully competitive market.
> To a certain degree. There really should be two ratings. Shipment rating and product rating.

Amazon does actually have a system for that, but it's only applicable to third party ("Marketplace" in Amazon lingo) sellers. For third party sellers, you can review products with the usual Product Reviews, and then for things like shipping issues (and customer service issues, and anything else that isn't the product itself) you'd mention that in your Seller Feedback. When you buy from a third party seller, there'll be a "leave seller feedback" button when you view your order. You can view a seller's feedback by clicking on their name when you see it in the product listing.

There's no "leave seller feedback" button when you place an order from Amazon though.
>It doesn't matter whether they're stack allocated or statically allocated

It does. Any language could do static allocation, go is not different from java here, the problem is that in any real code nearly all your strings and arrays would be dynamic, thus heap allocated, as well as interfaces. Consider also that allocations in Go are much more expensive than in java or haskell.
In a world where video over IP exists, market rate traffic expenses have got to be among the least of the concerns of print journalism.
I've noticed that trend also. Those are websites I keep a mental note to not visit. They usually have bottom of the barrel ads anyways and shitty content.
I was referencing the politics between the two companies at the time they were fighting Alibaba/Taobao/Alipay. I have some firsthand experience on the eBay/PayPal side of things.
I've been thinking about building either a local proxy or firefox addon that puts everything into "first-party only" mode unless whitelisted.

It would probably break the web (at least the genuine parts) less than disabling javascript wholesale which is just too awkward, but it would vastly cut down on the "bullshit" as this article calls it.

It would need some care, for example it would probably have to work from root domains rather than subdomains for matching origin to prevent too much breakage but the improvement in download times would be astronomical, it's almost always the case that "bloat" is third-party bloat.

Obviously it would need to support a whitelist too so payment processors for example could continue to work, but in general the blacklist approach of ad-blockers just isn't working for me.

I think some kind of "auto-whitelist" so I'd need to actively request a domain before requests could be made to them would be the sweet spot for user experience but that itself would require substantial browser integration which I don't think could work through a plugin.

Perhaps a proxy approach would be the best from a UX perspective then. It could inspect headers to figure out if they're primary requests (using similar heuristics to CORS). Primary requests would (or could) be added to an auto-whitelist for future requests.
why is this a surprise for anyone? of course you don't get paid for publishing in a scientific journal.
Apparently they track it by downloads. My previous employer (a 25k employee healthcare system) had IP addresses in their logs a dozen times. Rather than telling Oracle to go f&*$ themselves (or at least pointing out that the organization has guest networks used by thousands of people), they rolled over and paid the $40,000 invoice—and threatened to take away the ability for their in-house software developers to download their own software.
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How much of the average compute work load for companies and startups is machine learning?
Is this L.B. Stanza or something else?

Also: this is awesome! I'm a software engineer now working with hardware and built a straw man of this for myself a little while back (a sequence of python functions that generate eaglescript commands to make a PCB), but obviously it didn't even do 0.001% as much.

I checked out your site, but didn't see a way to launch the tool. How can I get access? (I'm working on a side project involving a BLE watch based around the nRF52840).
I have a similar flying anxiety. I beat it by getting a prescription for Xanax. I take one in the cab on the way to the airport, and enjoy a relatively calm flying experience.
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It's still bullshit, because it doesn't help the visitor, and it only helps the company to the extent that they're in a Red Queen's Race—if no one else did it, they wouldn't have to either.
I ask this in sincerity; in Linux land, what is a good alternative to VirtualBox? Are there any that can do proper 3D acceleration to play games at a reasonable speed?
The gains to the working class is seen in the lowest unemployment numbers ever, a rising workforce participation rate, and starting to see the first wage growth for the working class in decades.

That’s because that extra 33% in our bank balance means more marketing spending, more inventory, more open reqs for hiring sale, marketing, support, and engineering, etc. etc.

E.g. This WSJ post which is also on the front page: “U.S. Workers Get Biggest Pay Increase in Nearly a Decade”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-employment-costs-rose-in-th...
I know I'm an idealist too, and my comment will be a display of hypocrisy: it seems that one of the rules for using the Internet is that you should completely forget about the is-ought problem.

People will dole out all kinds of advice about technology, business, politics, society, relationships etc. by way of discussing something that only partially resembles reality (and assuming everyone or most people perceive things in the same way as themselves)

(I'm guilty of that too.)
At the absolute least you might identify those who are sociopaths and those who haven't been completely corrupted by wealth.
These logos looks really fresh right now, but I doubt they'll age gracefully. The viridis/magma tones with gradients are a dead giveaway that a logo was designed between 2015-present, and I suspect they'll look old-timey in a few years. The current moz://a branding will likely age better.
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Can you take like a one off intro to flying and fly a plane? Or is it more involved then that?
When I used to play MotherLoad, the world was still a bright place, full of possibility. I was on track to finish from a prestigious high school, accepted into a prestigious university, and obviously going to end up pretty comfortable in life.

Little did I know, that within me I had the seeds of mental illness growing. Perhaps, one of the signs, if I only knew to pay attention to it, was how "addicting" games were to me. I think the world back then just thought a lot less about those things, if you could still manage to be outwardly successful.

No one worried about what it meant that some kids finding a vibrant, "safer" environment in video games, than in the real world.

Ahhhh, MotherLoad.
> these bad actors are clearly non-partisan

No, it's not at all clear.

The 2016 disinformation campaign clearly favored one candidate, while simultaneously attempting to radicalize his opposition.

Maybe stirring up anti-fascist counter-protests actually helps the right wing by proving that they're fighting evil scary masked guys wearing black.

Maybe the adversaries understand very well the countermeasures Facebook has taken, knew these accounts would be discovered, and the discovery itself is intentionally part of their campaign.

Or maybe they're just indiscriminately pouring gasoline into the fire.

It's not at all clear that all interests are equally compromised.
I think your expectations are overly optimistic. Perhaps it wouldn't be 99.9999%, but in the event of global nuclear war, supply chains for virtually everything (including food) will come to a complete halt. People in cities will be utterly screwed when fuel and food run out.

People in farmland might not be that much better off. Masses of starving, potentially-armed people searching for food will not necessarily be the most respectful of people's property rights. We can expect animal wildlife populations to plummet as they're killed for food, and agricultural output to drop precipitously as supply chains for fuel, fertilizer, and non-terminator-gene seeds go to zero, not to mention as it becomes exceedingly difficult to protect large patches of farmland from raids.
> This is an obvious contradiction and clearly you meant it that way but what do you imply exactly?

If you take "not matter" literally, you could derive that the more a language "matters" (has real-world applications), the worse it would fit. It could be argued that Scheme does not matter for the real world, and as such should be the perfect fit.

More seriously, Scheme is very small. Everything is done by what technically could be described as implementing a Domain Specific Language (DSL). It could be argued that any program in any language is just a DSL for solving a particular problem. If the language doesn't matter, then any language will do, and Scheme with its natural DSL-like approach is very close to the ideal "any language".

> You claim that using an other language for SICP is "[missing] out on value" and "largely counter-productive" but you don't produce any evidence or argument to support that.

Every language, including all Lisps, at some level reflect the machine or model it runs on. This creates a bias of "how things are/work".

SICP goes through great lengths to undo that: "This is how you think X works. That's not how it works. It also doesn't matter how it works, because the concept we're discussing is valid either way. So stop thinking about these details."

The fewer preconceptions you have about what you think is "programming," the better it is for understanding what the lectures are about. If you go in knowing a Lisp, it's easy to miss what they're talking about because it invites you to , being already familiar with the syntax, assume it's about the language when it's not.

This contradicts a "SICP for Python programmers."

So "SICP for Python programmers" is really the normal "SICP", which in turn should be called "SICP for all programmers except Lispers" with them losing out because there's really no better language to express the ideas behind SICP in so they might as well use SICP and try to hold their bias in check.
It should work in nearly all countries -- anywhere that Twilio can send SMS messages. The app's number is based in North America so there might be international texting charges depending on your provider, but I'm planning to set up more numbers based in different regions.
That would be even more vulnerable to abuse than the current state of affairs. State-sponsored attackers have access to essentially unlimited numbers of fake Facebook accounts -- why would you give them the ability to silence other accounts by flagging their posts?
Seems like a brilliant marketing strategy from UBS. And it's a great way for wealthy youths to make friends and learn about responsibly managing and preserving wealth.
But you’re still the oldest male! And what a great older sister you gained. :)
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Strongly agree with all of these, especially no caffeine before or during a flight.

In addition a couple strong cocktails right before the flight goes a long way to help me relax during take off. That's when I tend to be the most anxious.

Also getting a couple big bottles of water at the airport and bringing them on the plane helps me stay hydrated/comfortable and forces me to stand up and stretch in order to get to the restroom a few times during the flight.
The more appropriate question is "Is Magic Leap's Virtual Retinal Display just vaporware?"

The Magic Leap One does not fulfill the brand promise that garnered the company all the VC it has. That would make it vaporware.
Step 1: visit the closest bar to your gate before flight

Step 2: Drink a large beer or whiskey on-the-rocks. Repeat until well-buzzed.

Step 3: Enter the plane and get yourself doing something to take your mind off of it, like music, movie, or book.

Cheaper alternative would be to get little sample shots from your local liquor store before you fly - those are allowed past security, and you can toss it in your orange juice while in-flight. Its a standard part of my carry-on now.

Benadryl will also work if booze isn't your thing.

The thing is, fear of flying is not a rational fear, which you already know. In my experience, irrational fears are best conquered by either chemical means, or embracing the fact that we can't always pick when we die, and for that reason you should always live life to the fullest. The chemicals also help with that idea.
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Motherload? That game was terrific. You can still play it, though you do need Flash.

https://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/
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I had trouble with flying, especially taking off, and my strategy for dealing with it was to buy a thriller of some sort at the airport, and start reading it prior to getting on the plane. Books by people like Tom Clancy, John Grisham, or Daniel Silva, are cunningly designed to be hard to stop reading, so as long as I have ten minutes or so before takeoff, I could usually get to a place where I was thoroughly absorbed in the book. One side effect is that I have read an embarrassing number of really cheesy books, but hey, it worked.
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it seems like it speaks more to the disinterest in providing an actual solution. The article is providing a possible route to finding a solution; not giving it. I mean he literally only optimizes on three parameters: windows, escape routes, and traffic usage.

He even clearly states his goals: The creative goal is to approach floor plan design solely from the perspective of optimization and without regard for convention, constructability, etc. The research goal is to see how a combination of explicit, implicit and emergent methods allow floor plans of high complexity to evolve.

Nowhere does he claim this is an implementable solution, or meant to be one... just an interesting one, given a set of priorities.
Just a note for those unfamiliar with this hardware, the VaxStation 3100 38 (the model I own) was produced in 1989. My configuration has 24MB of memory (Max was 32MB). The 32-bit CISC processor runs at 16Mhz. I don't know how it compares to contemporary workstations, like those from Sun or SGI, but compared to PCs at the time it was much more powerful. These workstations must have cost tens of thousands when new. I bought mine for $10 each at least 15 years ago, sans hard drive.
Why do you feel anxious? What's the root cause of the anxiety?
That's neighbourhood watch volunteer who owns a police scanner and jots down the occasional license plate number. Commendable but it's not like launching the eponymous jet from the Citationcave to patrol the forumskies.