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It's not that TV is dying, it's that monocultures are contracting. They will grow again, but won't reach the same heights.

The haircuts need to be one way, because the anchors are trying to reach as large an audience as possible. If they were speaking only to, say, soccer fans, they would have other choices. Same is true for many other audiences. But if you want to go for a "universal" audience, you have to go to the lowest common denominator.

The internet has turned that on its head. You actually can sustainably run a news show for soccer fans only, and be financially successful. Whereas before the distribution costs were too high to allow anything other than mass market news brands.

However, we shant over-extrapolate here. It turns out that many people actually identify more with the "big middle" than with any little subcultures. They enjoy standard, "basic" stuff. They want no fuss, and they like universal appeal. They don't like balkanization. Perhaps they were part of a tight knit tribe, and they don't want to go back to that.

For this reason, I would call this moment a "contract" of mass media, not a death of it. I think these generic brands will contract, but in doing so will find their core audience. People who are not alienated by the "anchor bob" but comforted by it.
I cannot think of any way this could be implemented 'neutrally'. Who decides whether consumers or company pays for accessing a given site? The ISP or (lol) FCC? Neither one have proven themselves competent enough to make such important decisions.

If Frontier decided to make a youtube alternative, they could decide that now consumers have to pay for the cost of youtube data while their own service cost is covered by them with no cost to the consumer. And now we've come full circle to a non-neutral net.
Plus it essentially replaced the previous low cost option, the SE, which also didn't have the feature.
What kind of stuff do you listen to at the moment? Where do you go to find these kind of talks?
Import TextExpander Snippets on Linux Texpander
If you loved that video, try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQcWra6sbU

And it's follow-up cousin "The Camel Strikes Back" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYl3-c2JSL8

(He says wat alot and it's hilarious)
> nuclear pasta could support mountains tens of centimeters tall

I’m curious how much potential energy is stored in such a “mountain”. Tens of centimeters is massive; I’m sure the amount of energy must be enormous.
That’s old news mostly. Intel has been making iPhone basebands for several generations, the new news is its exclusively Intel. Given Qualcomm and Apple’s very public fights, not surprising, but I’m curious how Intel overcame Qualcomm‘s patents on CDMA. Did they expire? Did Intel somehow get a license? I’m definitely curious and will post back with what I find assuming someone else doesn’t first.

Edit:

Guess Intel got the CDMA assets via its purchase of VIA Telecom assets in 2015. Wonder why it’s taken this long to come to market?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12380671

There were some high profile sites affected by this by the way, I think it was Instagram where it actually went wrong.
> The symptoms are changed, but no less dangerous.

The symptoms of a use-after-free-style logic error are less dangerous in Rust, because it's much harder to get RCE.
Capybaras are the largest rodent but not the largest mammal. Elephants birds were the largest bird but not the largest dinosaur.
It's not that simple. I cannot explain the physics/physiology of it with any authority, but as someone who suffers from severe strain and headaches with LED (and some CCFL) backlighting I can you it's feeling like something to do with direct vs reflected lighting vs some brightness or contrast metric. Looking at E-Ink or print on paper in a variety if lighting is generally fine (as long as it's bright enough for a normal person to read..obv too dark and different strain occurs)...but an LED backlit LCD even on low settings (so maybe 10% of those 500 nits) results in problems. Stare at a lightbulb vs staring at a white wall that bulb is shining on for a simple illustration. I don't believe it's polarisation either since wearing polarized sunglasses doesn't result in strain and just like an LCD polarizes the light that reaches your eyes, so do the glasses.
> So anectodally, you have problems but there hasn’t been any wide spread report of Exchange issues on iOS for almost a decade. It couldn’t possible be an issue with your server could it?

"Anecdotally" Everyone I know and works with me as well as several google results point to the same issue. Anecdotally using the same server with a Windows Phone and Android Phone causes no issues at all. Sooo maaaybe it's not the server?

> years stapeling

Am I supposed to know how many updates there were between those years automatically or how is that related to what I wrote?

> If you want an Android phone that gets regularly updates after two to three years, there are no choices...

Sure there are. You can take the google brands, motorola or I don't know, just put your own OS on it. Or if you are the usual consumer who just wants to have a new phone every x-years you can just buy two for the price of one IPhone. So many possibilities....
Put another way, you'll learn much more about how to identify and work with talented people on difficult projects at Google than at a startup. At a startup you're worried about how you'll pack a bologna sandwich for lunch tomorrow, at Google you're a sous chef for a 5 star banquet hall in NYC.
Is there really nothing about, say, a novel that is worth applying your mind to? If "accepting materialism" means quitting whatever it is that English professors do then maybe they should just switch to doing something that doesn't require belief in an invisible metaphysical ideal. There's obviously a difference between a good book and a bad one so perhaps they should just study that if the metaphysical ideals aren't holding up.
Binance Bots – A Roadmap for the Future
It means they get far enough to have those whiteboard riddler interviews.
There's a reason why some historians call chocolate "liquid gold". It was perhaps the most groundbreaking and cultural game changing discovery that came from the America colonization.
I literally don't know what to make of this disingenuous argument.

Of course delivering traffic to the end customer is expensive. That's why customers are paying for that.

ISPs just want to get paid on both sides, and extract a new rent out of their (government created and paid for) monopolies.
> Is is really so different for the programmer who wrote the bug?

Yes, absolutely. The symptoms may be similar (though the logic error will still never lead to memory corruption or segfaults), but debugging is much easier when you can still rely on the language's invariants, if not your own.
Choose Google. I made the other choice and I ended up regretting it.
Statistically there's a good chance you'll end up owning 6% of $0.
When you say the startup in promising, do it have any momentum or traction at all? Are they making money, scaling like crazy, anything like that? Any upward tick in momentum can turn into a big pile of money super fast. And if you like the people with whom you interviewed, you could have a lot of fun working with them in close quarters. You'll (maybe? I don't really know) never have an experience like growing a startup at Google, and working at a big company can be the opposite of exciting. Google's probably a great employer. So you wanna be fat & happy or sit on a rocket & aim for space?
google the constituents of the phrase and build it up from there

birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs aren't birds

you've reversed the vectored direction of time in your claim
multimedia? or confessional.. let the captive and passive observer of the museum exhibit here decide, since they cant use the data, rebuild the components, see and understand how the exhibit was built, or legally share it with modifications elsewhere.. might as well muse on the basis of this long-past social sideshow .. good to look at..
Really depends how complicated the app is and how close it is to their actual business. There are some startups out there that see this as a “hack” to get their mvp built. If it’s just a toy app that’s ok although it sounds excessive for an intern.
> Haddouche has told BleepingComputer that he has created an additional attack using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that will totally freeze macOS computers, but has not released it as it persists after reboot and essentially bricks the computer.

That sounds like a far cry from "bricking" the computer. Deleting the offending files (or just clearing the browser cache altogether) can be accomplished in a number of fairly trivial ways: booting into Recovery Mode or single user mode, booting from an external drive, booting into Target Disk Mode and connecting to a second Mac, etc.

On a related note, iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro users should be aware of:

Things that may "brick" your 2018 MacBook Pro
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/things-that-may-brick-y...
>so this is not well defined as with Earthquakes?

I'm not sure what you mean by this. There are a lot of different seismic magnitude scales and seismic intensity scales, and they measure different things. Earthquakes are a fundamentally different kind of natural effect too, and in turn the goal and messaging involved with scales is different. Amongst other things, the temporal scale and foreknowledge is quite different and in turn what preparatory actions can be taken vary.

Saffir–Simpson is more of an intensity scale, and is well defined for its original design purpose. Whether that circumstances have evolved sufficiently that it needs to be updated or is simply irrelevant now is a different question.
Naw, dawg, this is what you replied to me originally:

> Bad analogy, since the ISP lays a (figurative and real) pipe between Netflix and the user; this isn't correct for electricity.

Most readers can just glance out the window and see various manholes stamped with the name of a power company. These are the very real pipes you claim do not exist.

Your argument is blatantly false.

Now you came up with a new argument: that Netflix "pushes" bytes. I have news for you: Netflix is already paying for internet connectivity to "push" these bytes. Anyone renting even a single internet server does.

Are you just throwing stuff out there, hoping something sticks?

Together with the suspicious timing of your account creation, you don't seem very objective or genuine.
That is not true. No matter the shit Google gets on HN it's a tremendous place to learn and grow. All the large scale systems you see now were first invented at Google and now are replicated at Facebook etc.. The code reviews alone will make you a better programmer and working with senior people will give you an appreciation for designing complex systems. It's a great place to work IMO.
No way! I was so sure those were a Kojima-ism
Well, alright. I don’t use the word “embrace” with him in any case.
Well, considering you’re a new account calling people on the forums “cuckolds”, I don’t see why you thought you would be upvoted.
This is a really tough decision and there are lots of things to weigh.

1. The equity sounds all good and well, but you need to know the intentions of the founder — would they every consider selling or doing an IPO. If not, your shares will have zero value.

2. What space is the startup in? Do they have a technology where they are both building a moat and growing at a rate where they will be around in 5-10 years?

3. Can you live on 1/3 of what Google is offering you?

If you believe your startup is the next Dropbox, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX or Pinterest I would say join that. The thing about these mega-companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon) is that they aren't going anywhere and if you made it through the interview already, I'm sure you can do it again. These mega-companies are filled with brilliant people so you will definitely learn a lot about running projects at scale. They are also filled with bureaucracy (unless you're on a skunk works team with no budget) which sucks if you're the type of person that likes to move quickly.

In my opinion, a great startup beats any mega-company any day of the week.
Not really both sides, it's balance, I would say ISP recover about 80% from the end customers (eyeballs) and 20% from the data centres, CDNs, Cloud providers. Big and popular guys like Google pretty often get settlement free peering in major metros.
The core problem is that during the last century universities changed from places where the privileged would spend some years getting "an education" to basically vocational training schools that everybody who wants a job has to attend. Since humanities don't give you much competitive advantage on the job market, funding dwindles.
It’s not a bullet train. NYC to Boston is about 220 miles. If it takes 4 hours...

Try driving from New York to Boston at a normal hour with regular traffic. We flew to Providence over Labor Dat weekend to avoid the crazy traffic.

Beijing to Shanghai is 800 miles and takes 4.5 hours. That’s a bullet train.
Do you only want to compare the money? Or are you also considering the ethical implications? Statistically, I would guess that working for the startup might have a higher chance to be the more ethical option, but since you don’t say what the startup actually does, I can’t know. Also, the one to decide the ethics should be you, not me.
Sage is something I keep meaning to learn.

Every time I've tried it though, it just didn't feel as polished and integrated as Mathematica.
Two things I believe to be true...

1) Auto-encoders are overplayed, mostly because they're a pretty easy intro ML project. There was a brief moment (before ResNets and batch normalization showed up) when they were useful for bootstrapping a representation, but they aren't serving a terribly concrete purpose now that it's so much easier to get end-to-end deeper pipelines running and learning their own representations. The common criticism is that a representation that's great for reconstruction may still not be super useful for classification (or whatever your real goal is). And, compared to 'real' engineering, autoencoders do a pretty crap job at data compression.

2) That said, /variational/ auto-encoders are doing some interesting things. There was a nice paper [pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00410.pdf ] using variational methods to try to take advantage of the (possibly chimerical!) information bottleneck of Tishby. And I think the general idea of being able to have middle-of-the-stack loss may still have some use for helping models generalize; loss based entirely on reconstruction error seems a bit too constrictive, though.
I quite like mine. I haven't used it continuously - still getting used to the no-other-keys on a minimal keyboard. I like the cursor keys being a mod, but that seems like a lot if you want to do a lot of cursoring.

I haven't delved into the software at all - i need to.

I am just happy to have a split keyboard. I've waited yeeaaars for two-halves.

It feels like a very solid product. I like the purposeful click as the two halves join together.

It did take a couple of years, but I was in no hurry. I await my addon-modules.

Oh, and I also got a Das 5Q about the same time. Looks pretty but a very different mechanical feel than the UHK, which I just love.

I have nothing but good things to say about this thing at this point. A joy to type on, with both arms wherever-the-hell i want them.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17840090.
And what if your family and friends are Jewish or of a 7th-day protestant church? Banning Sunday work causes unnessecary difficulties at the state level. It. I feel it is positive as a societal norm but I myself recognize Saturday as the Sabbath and find it bizzare that protestants maintained the Sunday practice after leaving the Catholic church.
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The boundary layer between text and object is definitely a weak spot in the abstraction for PowerShell. That's the main reason why I don't consider PowerShell strictly superior.

That said, the way the language is designed makes calling into compiled .NET code seamless, which in turn makes doing really sophisticated shell scripting a breeze. When I saw what xonsh was trying to do, I recognized a lot of "PowerShell solves this problem a bit more gracefully".
I don't think so myself because I don't have pain in full sunlight reading print or E-Ink which is much brighter "nits" than an LED backlight produces ....but even low settings on an LED backlit computer hurt. There is in my opinion a difference between looking into a light source and looking at things that are visible due to reflected light like E-Ink, paper, the objects around us even if I cannot quantify it with scientific explanation.
Do you want safe, reliable money at the cost of your conscience? Do you want to be one tiny cog in the machine that tracks and annihilates humanity? Choose Google.

Do you want adventure, high risk of failure, and being able to live with yourself, even if it means struggling sometimes? Choose the startup.
So here are your choices:

1) Work for Google

2) Work for startup for 1/3 the compensation, at least 50% more working hours, and options that have a 95% chance of being worth zero dollars at some point in the future.

It seems like the obvious choice would be Google but it also depends on what life stage you're at. If young and just starting out, there's no easier time to take a risk. If you've got a family to support, maybe the sure bet is a better way to go. Plus, if you're gonna take a risk later in life, you should take that risk on yourself not on someone else (i.e. start your own company).
What does a classification have to do with time?

Edit:
And what does "vector" add to your sentences?
No they don't. They lay a pipe between the tier one network providers and the user. It's the tier one providers (who by the way are not part of ISPs, nor have an issue with net neutrality) who lay the pipe between everyone (google cloud, netflix, ISPs, etc.) and create "the internet" as we know it. Everyone pays these tier one providers for access, Netflix pays (a quarter of a billion if I remember correctly), ISPs pay (that's part of why you give them money). The ISPs only run the last mile pipe from a tier one provider who provides access to "the internet" (which is the other reason you give them money).

So if you view "the internet" as a singular type of utility like electricity then the analogy works. It's also how most people (correctly as it happens) think about it. IF the internet didn't behave that way it would be a very different place, where things like cloud providers, emails, and link aggregates wouldn't and couldn't exist.

The real problem is you only have one choice of ISP in most areas. If the ISP markets were competitive this likely wouldn't be a problem, because all the ISPs would be offering "the internet". But now the ISPs are trying to use their market position to extract additional money. It's called economic rent, and we've basically known it's a bad idea (economically and morally) since feudal lords were doing it (cough a certain tea party).
Visual snow could also be to to flickering from PWM, or more likely temporal/spatial dithering (a leading theory in LED LCD based eyestrain but as yet unproven as the cause). Even a white background on a monitor, even a static image, isn't just static white...it's constant flickering of pixels to make a certain "white" and to smooth moving images as well. Whatever the ultimate cause it's not normal or healthy to stare at emitted light most of the day and most of us do...add flickering and other visual tricks displays use and it's no wonder eyestrain exists. Nobody would stare at a 300 nit lightbulb for hours and call that reasonable, but that's what backlit LCD displays are. I didn't have a problem for most of my life, and still don't with books under proper lighting, but now I have a severe one with LCDs that and cannot find a definitive answer or fix and frankly it's crushing a last chance I have to be somewhat independent and survive.
It's great to see lots of amazing projects and that people get to have more choice and can avoid being locked into one solution, but one thing I'd like to see more in a description of any product (open source or not) especially when there's a learning curve involved, is the use cases where it would make more sense to take on the effort involved in the learning curve for this particular product rather than others that seems similar to it (at least to the uninitiated).
Wow! Sounds great if true... Could you, please, connect me with one of those friends of yours? I'm really willing to go, meet people, make some friends, if possible at my age, maybe, even, try to launch a dev studio. I was also considering buying a degree, but, of course, I'd much prefer a legal way.

Where are you from, if you don't mind? How is it in Berlin? I stopped following any news a while ago, but the last thing I heard was that a lot of refugees were coming to Germany and not all of them were behaving. To the extent that native Germans started leaving some cities. Is that true? Is it safe in general?
We use it for nuclear plants too
Welcome to Germany... I thought for the majority of last year to try it and found my own company.

Financing was the main reason I didn't, besides the fact that I reallsy suck at sales. Banks wanted basically everything I had to cover the initial purchasing of goods with the goods itself not being sufficient. Public funding, in the scope of increasing the number of young comapnies, fell short because my idea was not inovative enougj. Never mind the a start-up selling locally sourced vegetables via app was inovative enough for them... And I didn't want CV founding to gwt the initial cash flow issues solved. So here I am, employed again.
Google will take you in the future, the startup won't.

You're (presumably) young. Take risks, you have little downside.

You'll work yourself into the ground at the startup, but you'll learn more in a year than you will being code monkey #20005 at Google.
I was faced with a similar choice two years ago and went with Google. I really didn't enjoy my time there; turns out big companies really aren't my cup of tea. I also learned much less than I would have somewhere else because Google's stack is quite proprietary and I simply wasn't motivated in that environment. I quit after only 8 months.

So it may surprise you that I'd recommend taking the Google offer! In my mind, there's no way to lose choosing Google. If it turns out that you love Google, awesome – you can have a great and well-compensated career there. And if it turns out you don't enjoy that kind of shop (like me), your career possibilities will be far wider after a tour of duty at Google than they are right now, including within startups. Google as a resume item will continue paying dividends for as long as it maintains its reputation for engineering excellence.

This advice is based on my personal experience – it's almost certain that I wouldn't be in my current role if I hadn't had Google on my resume when I applied. And my current responsibilities, experience and income far exceed what I could have expected on the alternative trajectory at an early-stage startup, unless its growth happened to have exploded while I was there.
The company works with carrier giants like T-Mobile to
alert consumers of scam calls by displaying "Scam Likely"
as caller ID on their phones.

Serious question: who is selling these callers access to the phone network and allowing them to send blatantly false metadata?

Seems like it would be easier to stop letting scammers make calls...