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I don't care about the upvotes either. I care about why somebody thinks one way or the other.

Maybe I will agree, or disagree. Maybe I will learn something. But simply downvoting because you don't agree leaves no new information for me or anybody else reading to learn something.

I could be horribly wrong. And the process of being told why somebody thinks I am wrong might inlighten somebody else even if I hold to my initial view.

That being said, the voting system AFAIK on HN is more about being relevant to the topic, and less about agreeing. Although in practice upvotes tend to be more about agreeing and down votes more about being off topic or illrevent.

Not everybody can downvote, so when somebody does it means they have been around long enough to gain enough magical internet points to do so. So they might have some real insight that could help a OP or inlighten others. Along with making a good conversation even if no agreement is made at the end.

> I look forward to the national election where a politician stops what they're doing to complain every single time someone doesn't vote for them, and interrupt what's happening to demand an explanation.

Nobody is a politician here, what does that have to do with anything? This entire site was designed to talk about things, so I am hardly interrupting "what's happening"

> "cost a ton more than you realize" - unless you look at the prices for the contract you're agreeing to? Y'know, like you do?

AWS has public pricing, I can compare them to other publicly priced places. I don't need a contract that simply don't exist in most cases.

> "Should have" - telling someone what their company should have done, without even knowing what their company /is/, let alone what they were trying to achieve and what constraints they had on their available options. Assuming or implying that the cheaper thing is always the more correct thing and no other factors can change that.

I can compare server for server , compute for compute, and all the above. I don't really need to know what our anybody else is doing with a system to understand the raw resources you can get from the services offered and compare them based off that.
Can we really honestly say that it did pay off?
I don't know. I use the same technique at home. I keep the clocks a few minutes fast, and even though I know that they are fast I find that it does help getting out of the house on time for the morning school run, etc.
Here's a great video on this food culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25iRW_-4vI&t=2s
I'm up for a good Google hate as much as anyone (man alive, I could give a good rant on how they seem to be trying to screw up in the chat space), but is there any evidence that Inbox users are more passionate than the top N Gmail users when sorting on the passion index, where N = the number of Inbox users (and a likely small fraction of total Gmail users)? I highly doubt it.
> maybe the feeling that he was wrong has chastened him.

Actually, it looks like he was in fact correct.
>tools such as martingales, stochastic calculus, Black-Scholes (and vast generalizations), Brownian motion, Stochastic differential Equations

These are all practically the same thing, i.e. the single field of stochastic processes. The "meat" of stochastic processes is the underlying topology, measure theory and probability upon which it's built, all of which an undergrad learns (e.g. I'd expect a good undergrad to be able to follow and understand the proof of Ito's lemma, and the proof of Ito's lemma is way more mathematically interesting and involved than that of Black-Scholes).

It also probably depends on whether the firm in question is HFT or not, and whether it trades options. It'd be perfectly possible to be a quant pricing futures at a HFT without even understanding stochastic calculus, as most of the logic ends up boiling down to just some variant of "oh shit, would you look at the size of that trade tick, better giddy up and follow it!".
>The economies of scale in agriculture have become so strong that there's no way to compete on price any other way. And people understandably don't want to double their grocery bills just to buy local.

Isnt this the reason for barter communities; bater some of your meat for some other veggies... or farm products.?
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Except they didn't delete the movie, the guy did. He assumed he'd be able to re-download it, and he can't after moving.

That's messed up, but Apple did not delete the movie from any of his devices.

This guy forgot that the cloud is "someone's else's computers."
He argued against women having the right to be addressed by a gender inclusive pronoun in the 80s fell off the map and is now doing the same thing with minority and trans-people. Currently he is touted as a champion of freespeech while he is actively sueing a public university for defamation (millions).
I'll never forget the phone call after the truck crash. It was about noon, and I was scheduled to start a support shift at 2pm. My team lead called and not long after, I was in Datapoint along with every other available racker, ansewering the phones.

The way Rackspace respondrd to that incident has forever shaped my perspective on what makes up an acceptable level of customer service.

Fanatical Fuckin Support.
Using nvidia card on Linux is a pain.
I think you will be surprised how decisions are made in Big Tech, especially Google. If they are truly metric driven, it will be really hard to explain why they would end up with so many different messengers, and continuously discontinue some and churn out new ones and repeat. Even if they claimed to be, I am afraid they way they read the data is very different than we understand the data, after all, data is just a way to win the argument, the decision need to be made by human.
I think free software really matters here. I really do not want companies storing the information from a BMI on their servers and I would actually take the time to audit any software to be certain of this.

Free software is a good enough requirement for read-only devices, but I would never use a read-write device that was not also formally verified. This is one of those things where "move fast and break things" means that your customers will break you.
> A radically analytical approach is powerful, but it can blind you to the factors that cannot be measured. Factors such as user passion.

This is not true. You can still align KPIs to stuff like that... The problem is looking at 'vanity metrics' or one-size-fits-all metrics like pure user growth, without proper segmentation of high-value and high-engagement users.

Or worse marketing/positioning failing to pull its weight and blaming the product. Or giving it a half-hearted attempt, limited resource/talent-wise, and then comparing the results 1-to-1 with other successful products which were heavily prioritized.

There's plenty of opportunity to miss the boat. Aligning metrics with business goals is a dynamic process, not one-size-fits-all, which is lost on many business in the big data world.
Why would existing CAs leave the market if they didn't before?
For App Engine at least, they've offered this [1] for a year now; since 2017-09-14.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-man...
You have to press an extra modification key for that? It's a trade-off that doesn't sound comfortable to me.
The Computer Chronicles – Windows NT (1993)
It's also seamless if you happen to use webmin, the open source "cpanel".
Happened for me on desktop too probably because the link is a comments link. Mods, can you change the link?
I feel like this is a problem rooted in Ruby’s mettaprogramming system. Class state (new methods, changed methods, inheritance hierarchies, etc.) and unexpected control flow materialize out of seemingly nowhere at runtime because you happened to load some library. There’s lots of power here but it would be incredibly dishonest to call it simple. (As you say, hard to track and explain.)
Without the service provided by my ISP, I would have to pay ~$240/mo to get a 10 gbit port at the nearest exchange/peering point (seattleix), then rent part of some dark fiber that goes out to near where I am ($2-10k/mo depending on details), then sell internet to 199 of my neighbors (using standard 20x oversubscription rate) at $80/gbit.

Even if getting the fiber to near me cost $10k/mo and ~$1k/mo to attach my cables to all of the telephone poles in the neighborhood, it leaves me ~$5k in 'profit' (would come out as a wash after all of the other business expenses, drawing a salary and paying back initial capitial). I would make more money if I offered 100mbit plans for $60/mo and/or increased the contention ratio.

For the second case, the streaming service buys transit from a Tier 1 backbone provider[0]. In order to be Tier 1 you have to have connectivity to all of the major peering points on the internet. If I wanted really nice internet (eg: for gaming), I would buy transit from one or more Tier 1 providers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network
Except that the application in the article contains the following statement:

> Customers of the Google PKI are the general public. We will not
require that customers have a domain registration with Google, use domain
suffixes where Google is the registrant, or have other services from Google.

This is not currently true of the existing Google root, and "Google CA" seems like an accurate-enough way of describing this change.
That's a really nasty policy. If you openly said at account creation "Privileged users are free to downvote your comments and gray them out if they disagree with them, and you will not get this privilege for months or years, because there's a high karma threshold which we don't reveal" -- I don't know why I would bother signing up. I assumed it would be a reasonably attainable privilege for defensible uses, like it is at Stack Overflow or Slashdot.
Last I heard, 23andme was using microarrays. The transition to massively parallel sequencing didn’t go well and they rolled back.

The DNA placed on the chip will be a heterogeneous mixture of whatever kind of cells provided. How they’d handle mosaicism, whether somatic or otherwise, I don’t know.
The problem is that the death of Reader also inflicted a death blow to blogs in general. Aggregation was entirely forfeited to Facebook, and clickbait became the norm for driving eyeballs, not fascinating writing that Readers shared and loved.

Also, "sort by magic" provided an excellent feed of articles to me in Reader, and all of the alternatives I tried either didn't have a comparable algorithm or their userbase was too small to train it.
> I ask myself time and again why voting systems aren’t federally regulated “critical infrastructure,” with source code available for public review.

IANAL but the Constitution. States run their own elections.
Thank you Tenken! I appreciate your input. I'm not sure if beta-blockers would help. What I experienced was closer to an "autistic meltdown", so I'm not sure if beta-blockers would help. I appreciate knowing another option to evaluate however!
Yes. But if you're going to do whatever one else is doing, that's not a plan to prosper. It's suicidal.

For example, I didn't see a single mention of "...so we're going to go organic..."

Again. Don't get me wrong. Food supply is important. One article does not a trend make. That said, sharing a bad idea with 100 or 1000 other people (farmers) still makes it a bad idea.

I realize change isn't something most farmers seek, none the less, they are not immune to the definition of insanity.
He might not have any classes like that. I majored in computer science and mostly took classes like crytography, compilers, operating systems, automata theory, etc. They might have had some courses like intro to web dev, I wouldn't remember; I always wanted the "hardest" courses I could get. I could program before ever staring the curriculum (at 26). They had two mandatory weed-out courses early in the curriculum to bounce anyone who just didn't have the aptitude or likely ability to complete the program where I had to write some boring Java, but that's it. In other places in the curriculum or some classes, they did have some programming, but things that wouldn't bore most anyone (For one class, we had to write Tetris, for instance. In the operating systems class, we wrote an OS.)
Google has been behind the effort to kill client certificates on the web, though, and as as someone who has run a web host for a large client-cert-using population I think this is a reasonable move: in particular, the protocol doesn't provide confidentiality for client cert data any more than it provides for server cert data, so if your name is in the subject it is sent in the clear which is a huge privacy violation, and there's no obvious way to implement a "logout" button, because auth is tied to SSL. You can work around these things, but at that point it's not obviously better than just doing some auth with WebCrypto (or your own WASM) and localStorage, and the tradeoff of using SSL client certs is that the complexity is inside your SSL layer and not sandboxed to the individual websites.
I have thoroughly consumed a lot of Peterson content. I can vouch that aside from the political controversy, that he has a powerful message for young men: to find the meaning in life through responsibility and sacrifice, to go out there and make something of themselves. I have no idea why that it is "controversial" to be told to strive for something, and I don't see much alternatives other than self-help books. There are much more troubled, aimless people out there than you think, because if you've lived a fairly decent life yourself, you almost never come into contact with the guys that aren't doing so well and are in need of such a message. He's almost filling in as a father figure for young men where self-help did not suffice. The opposing side likes to attempt to character assassinate him by labelling as a right-wing bigot, but have never bothered to really listen to his message while holding the empathy that more unfortunate people DO need a message like that.
Couple weeks ago I was part of a discussion what to use for some new project that will require a pile of GPUs like a LARGE pile of them.

There was one guy who actually seriously suggested Google offering. Idea got dropped as EVERY other person in discussion said NO. Azure it will be. Over life of that project I am guessing google lost something like 1-2mil USD minimum. Obviously chump change by their standard but still.

Main reasoning for me was always the absolutely atrocious customer support, no fucking way in hell I will ever give 1c to them if I can avoid it.
I think the argument is that existing CAs with mediocre practices are currently profitable, but in the presence of Google competition will stop being profitable and decide to exit, and may not decide to return if Google leaves.

(I don't think the scenario as a whole seems likely, but this specific argument is analogous to e.g. concerns about Uber and Lyft competing with taxies on VC-subsidized pricing that will run out one day, or the loss of SF laundromats thanks to laundry startups.)
Survivorship bias – In the Military
Do you have JavaScript disabled? Don't you know we need JS to view nearly static mailing lists with minimal user interaction in 2018? /s
I think you’ve elucidated a good middle term vision. It seems sound to me but I would not qualify as an expert on this topic.

That leaves us with this transition period before your vision’s realized. You’re realistically imagining a time when we solve this problem, relieving we human beings of the burden of consistently resisting the urge to take the phish hook.

In the scenario you mentioned above, the phisher spoofed the real domain, authenticating it or are you saying they used a similarly spelled domain they owned so implemented email authentication, enabling it to pass as technically legitimate, leaving the final defense up to the judgement of each recipient?

Sorry it’s been a long week I’m slow on the uptake now...
In 0.6, I tried Plots.jl. It seemed pretty nice, but then if I tried to do a whos() to see what variables were in the workspace, it would go out to lunch for >20s. Not just the first time, every time I simply wanted to see what I had in RAM. This didn't seem very useful to me for interactive use.

In 1.0, I tried Plots.jl again. I tried adding it using the package manager and it blew up trying to build. This is with no special state from me, I unpacked the 1.0.0 release, started it and did Pkg.add('Plots')... boom.

There's such a great story around it and I really want to like it, but this is like extremely basic suitably to task stuff... Who knows, maybe I'm using it wrong.
Am I cheating in this case to evaluate Pi?
No it isn't, and no it doesn't come close.
Easy to say until the health consequences become so massive they suck up so much money you're going to bed hungry. And that __is__ in fact happening.

I hear ya. But that does not diminish the consequences and real cost of subsidized foods.

Fact: Worldwide, more people die from the effects of too much food than not enough.
Is this all happening within the same company? If so, then its a management/communication issue.

Otherwise, either you need to think about what the common denominator is. Is it something you are not catching when interviewing at companies? Perhaps founders that don't know what they are doing, and hope that the PM will figure it out? Or a collection of engineers who aren't capable of delivering on requests. However, if there is a manager or team lead then this is the manager at fault for not catching the lack in resources or the risk of overshooting deadlines.

Another thing that may be the cause: If this is all occurring in the same country, it could be a cultural issue. It may be that the work culture within the country isn't conducive to startup success. For example, if its a work culture that has a heavily top down management culture or hierarchical respect expectations, it could be that PM's who are generally supposed to report any risk to delayed timelines or push back due to lack of resources, do not feel at liberty to do so, which then causes mismanaged expectations between PM's and upper management. A Top down culture could also result in directives coming from the top without consultation with those down the chain as to whether there are any risks.
So the new top-end Nvidia cards will have dedicated ray tracing cores. However, real-time ray tracing is still so computationally expensive that games can only implement a hybrid form of it whereby ray tracing is applied for a certain effect or single object, and plain old rasterization is used for everything else.

I applaud NV for stepping up and delivering something in a new direction. Just think- how long has it been since something truly new has been introduced in the gfx world?

Reading through the full article, it was no small feat to dream up and build these cards. A very complex project from both product and engineering perspectives. Hardware-wise, the 2080 specs are quite insane, and these babies are thirrrsty, drawing ~250 watts.

That said, the move definitely seems risky, as it increases complexity significantly for game devs to code for this hybrid approach. What if the market doesn't warm up to this, or perhaps ATI or someone else comes up with something more novel?

I also wonder if it's just a few years premature. Not feeling compelled to give up the good old 970GTX yet. Wake me up when full ray tracing is ready :)

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P.S. I couldn't help but snicker when looking at the table near the end showing which games will support what new imaging modes.

Of course, PUBG doesn't support ray tracing. Hardly a surprise, considering they can't patch without hours of downtime, and also frequently deliver patches containing "fixes" which break more than they fix.

(FWIW I've stopped PUBG and moved on to Elite:Dangerous, aka space truckers, thanks to it being recommended in an HN thread. Fun game, if you enjoy the solitude of loneliness of endless space! ;)
NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping activity
I worked with farmers for over twenty years. It is a relentless game of ever increasing efficiency. But what I observed were marked differences in ability to market the crops they grew.

One guy I was good friends with would always sell enough of his crop ahead to pay all his bills if the price was above his cost of production. Sometimes he'd sell two or three years ahead when prices were good. He said in a ten year period he had lots of neighbors who made more money than he did some years only to lose it during the bad years. He said that gambling with borrowed money didn't make any sense, only with your profits.

Knew two guys who let their wives do all the farms marketing. They went to school for it and would network online with other farm marketers. They felt that they were too emotional about it and that it helped their wives feel like true partners.
JavaScript isn't the problem. Chromium is.
I second this. Someone who is alone yet spends large chunks of their time on entertainment (facebook, instagram, snapchat, netflix, etc.) may just be deferring being "in the moment" and the positive benefits or learning, working or thinking alone are not realized in that case.
It's Google Groups, which has weird behavior if you're somehow associated with a G Suite account that doesn't have Groups enabled. (My employer has some weird G Suite integration that prevents viewing public Google Docs, which has caused me to notice a few websites that are secretly just iframed Google Docs exports....) Try incognito/private browsing mode perhaps.
Nice. Time to replace “hunter2”.
The BLS lists a typical education for a farmer as a high school diploma.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/farmers-ranchers-a...

It's not that farmers are particularly uneducated as a class of people. It's that they run complex businesses relative to their formal education. A minority of people finish college, but only a small number of high school graduates are farmers. Most who become farmers learn the job by growing up on a farm.
China’s Silicon Valley Dream Bumps Against Reality
In my experience, whomever would normally do it. Many of us would meal prep ahead of time and leave the dishes for later. I often fail at this level of preparation and just make really simple meals.
IoT development in general has bad security mindset, but it does not let JS slip away from the responsibility. Javascript's runtime interpretation + lack of strong typing is the real issue here and not just for embedded devices, but for any application.
We just published the “SSL wars” story between Symantec and Google https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/09/07/the-story-of-why-...

This adds another layer of color to that story.
This is the link you want: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13282/nvidia-turing-architect... Both the article and comments.
Except, again, there are sponsored non-profits in this space. What further distortion do you expect?
Does your username reference the incident somehow?
Cowen wouldn't be funding someone like Peterson for their academic credentials. Vitalik Buterin wasn't a heavy weight in academia when Peter Thiel took a chance on him.
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Opinion vs. Skill isn't limited to HN. It happens in the workplace, too. My opinion is that it might be impossible to avoid the echo chamber fallacy. Perhaps opinions are reinforced by social proof. My mind really starts to warp when I read back this comment. I'm calling out echo chambers by participating in my own. Trippy.
This is interesting research, but I think it's been accepted for some time already that two identical neurons with the same chemical composition and the same neural connections will behave in the same way, and that cellular function is controlled by the RNA present in it which originates from its DNA moderated by epigenetic markers.

It doesn't disprove that synapses form memories, only shows that chemical composition also plays a part in forming memories.