skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why eight steps? Well, to differentiate between 256 equally likely possibilities requires eight bits. Each experiment, since it differentiates between two equally likely outcomes (pass and fail), provides one bit of information. Therefore, we need eight such experiments to give us the eight bits we need to determine the faulty optimization.

Is this explanation a little odd?

Each step in a binary search halves the amount of suspects, you need 8 steps because with 8 steps you go from 256 suspects to one.

I can't see it the way the article describes it.

It's just me? Anyone else found the article reasoning for 8 steps a little odd?
It’s certainly possible, though it comes with a different set of challenges to software verification. Here’s a recent paper in this direction, proving the correctness of a RISC-V CPU: http://plv.csail.mit.edu/kami/papers/icfp17.pdf
Definitely. I hit an ECC failure once. Felt like I should have bought a lotto ticket.
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Sometimes joins (and left joins) can be much more expensive than if the foreign keys are in a single indexable column.
The photo in the article is not of a stick shifter. That's an automatic transition gear changer.
You should write an article detailing your experience with both systems.

It should make for an interesting read.
Fantastic, thanks for posting!

Pouet really doesn't make it obvious where to actually watch the demo. If anyone's confused, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1vN51o-Dg is the place to be (unless you've somehow got the hardware to run their actual code).
Data compression is another place where measuring in millibytes is feasible. For example, if a video codec took in pixels in RGB8.8.8 format (3 bytes per pixel) and has a 100:1 compression ratio, then you could say that the compressed video uses an average of 30 millibytes per pixel.
OT: I followed the link to the rules given in the article. While there I ended up on the page that gives rules for passport photos, since I need to get around to getting one to renew my passport.

One of the rules (added in late 2016) is that you cannot wear glasses in the photo. However, if "[...] you cannot remove your glasses for medical reasons, please include a signed note from your doctor with application".

I've never heard of nor can can hypothesize a medical condition that would not let you remove your glasses while sitting or standing still for a photo. Anyone have some examples?
It's time you enjoy your commute
But is it sustainable that way?
How to Create a Windows 10 Virtual Machine with VMware Player and VirtualBox
Most immigrants (legal and illegal) are not Indian software engineers working at Google. They are low skill/poorly educated and got in on refuge status or because they have a family member already in the country. They work as taxi drivers, construction workers, cashiers, etc. It's not a huge leap of imagination that a constantly increasing low skill labor supply is to the detriment of current workers in these fields (many of whom might be immigrants themselves). 29% of immigrants lack a high school degree or equivalent GED and are disproportionally represented in the service industry, construction, maintenance, and other blue collar positions.

For example: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/source_i...

So yes, it is likely that immigration rates have a negative effect on the wages of native workers in low barrier of entry positions. You'd have to suspend disbelief to accept the narrative that there is no impact.

source: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...
I'm not the OP, but I have been doing this for some years now. Here's how I went about it.

I got out of social media in early 2012. Deleted FB and Twitter. I do maintain a presence on LinkedIn, but I never post anything there, nor do I login. It's mostly there because employers expect a LI profile. It's just a bland copy of my resume.

I moved my email from Gmail to my own domain from 2013-2015. It took almost two years because I had Gmail since April 2004, a few days after launch. My whole digital life was tied into Gmail, and moving stuff over takes time. I still have that Gmail account, but again, I never log into anything Google, and it simply forwards any email to my real account. I get maybe 1 email a month from Gmail.

I host my email with Fastmail, but I've also selfhosted, and tried O365. It's easy to switch, and I keep an offline backup of everything.

Now, my hardware and software setup.

At home, I have a Synology NAS with ~12 TB of usable storage. This is my primary data store - I have software that automiatically backs up all photos from my Iphone, Time Machine, Veeam, Rysnc, and email backup.

I own my own physical server (Dell R720XD) which is colocated in a datacenter in a different country. This server has 96 GB of RAM, 16 TB of storage, and 12 Xeon cores. It usually runs between 12-25 VMs, some of which are production (personal), hosting my websites, git, various projects, and so on. It's connected to the internet through a gigabit connection with a 10 TB monthly bandwidth cap (I never come close to 1 TB!). This costs me ~$85 a month. I don't do BGP, though I could if I paid some more and put in a proper router and got my own IP range.. as it stands, the 8 public IPs I get are enough for me.

The colo server is connected via an always-on, site-to-site IPSEC VPN to my home LAN (through my EdgeRouter X). I have symmetric gigabit, so it's practically like having the machine in my house.

My NAS backs up to the colo server, and the colo server to the NAS (via rsync). The NAS also backs up to a local USB drive, for quick restores.

All my home data lives in four places

1. The local PC/laptop/phone.
2. The NAS
3. The USB Disk
4. The offsite colo server.

Likewise, all my colo data lives in the same four places.

I can VPN in to the colo server and get connected to my home lan from anywhere in the world. Any sensitive data is encrypted - and anything really sensitive is not stored on a computer.

This setup works very well for me and my family, and I control all my data and am not dependent on a cloud provider. I also have a bunch of other servers running in my home, but they aren't part of my core infrastructure.

The cost?

~$1200 for the R720. ~$1000 for the NAS. and ~$85 a month for colocation costs.
I love the term "Fermi problem", because the origin is, of course, the Fermi paradox. The idea that multiplying a series of uncertainties together does something other than blow your error range out is such a weird idea.
The IMF report... does not take into account the benefits that the Marshall islands could obtain... For example, having a crypto official currency would eliminate currency controls and could encourage new economic activity on the island.

Right now the official currency is the US dollar so there are no currency controls. Any what activity would be encouraged by not using the dollar, especially in an area with so little population?
You're ignoring the demand side. Immigrants also increase demand. For everything.
I like this.

One question though: the "difference" tab on Encyk.com says Researching topics on Wikipedia gives only a summary of the topic rather than in-depth varied research.

I don't understand why it says that. Wikipedia articles can be quite detailed and lengthy and include references to sources. Encyk.com is neat, but I don't understand how the underlying goal or mission of Encyk.com differs from that of Wikipedia.
JS is still required. Sending plain HTML is not the best path forward.
An abstract is to summarize the results of research not to tease the reader. That's why I flagged it.
The suppression of dialogue surrounding immigration far exceeds downvotes in scope and severity.

In fact, the suggestion that tosser00001's main point had anything to do with silly internet points is a minimization/redirection tactic that is itself a more important instance of the very thing being complained about.
"I didn't smash this F^O9dA66@wUPpK5$lTXBbrQ#yLP1EGl$"
February 1928 political speech by Herbert Hoover:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rugged%20indiv...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rugged_individualism

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/rugged-i...
Aren't a lot of these immigrants doing highly skilled and highly paid labor? They don't depress wage growth for low paying jobs. And they actually increase demand for their products.
If someone can't do sport, get some cannabinoids to recover and then switch to sports back. Most efficient medicine.
Russia's Wooden Airports
"Write your code here, here and here, sacrifice 4 goats under a full moon, run your through 3 (no more, no less) seperate tools (each with their own config files), send that to an intermediate compiler to generate a dozen more files, don robes and perform ceremony to Elder God(s) of your choice, to send to another sort-of-compiler, sacrifice your intern for good measure, run everything through a packaging tool (chosen using a carnival spin wheel, different for each run).

Discover your code has errors that get silently ignored, repeat the whole again, any remaining errors are clearly blessed by said Elder Gods, deploy it, ignore warnings and go onto the next project. :P
>Do people actually see images of things in their head?

Yes, and Forbidden Planet "plastic educator" comes to mind :)
How Labor Regulation Harms Unskilled Workers [pdf]
There was no poverty before America?
> SaaS-ifying your docs seems risky to me.

It strikes me as a really, really bad idea. Besides the obvious lock-in issues, I've found the only hope of keeping documentation uptodate is to either generate it from the code or keep it checked it in git besides the code.

What's really needed are (1) authoring tools that can produce decent documentation (ideally as docbook XML or maybe asciidoc) for checkin and (2) product guys who are willing to write docs for features before or during feature development and (3) translation services that can actually do a decent job between the big three business languages (English, Mandarin, Spanish).

It's frustrating that 1, 2, and 3 are so very hard to find. Many products live or die by their lack of documentation, but there don't be seem any simple solutions here.
Facebook is banned behind the Great Firewall.

Regardless, what does this have to do with the discussion?
i would definitely contribute.

BTW - elastic.co is just going for an IPO. There's a lot of money in search!
Are Digital Devices Altering Our Brains?
Counterexamples do not imply the inverse of the original claim is true, just that the original claim may not be a universal truth. (And of course, the OP never claimed it was, your claim of "literally nothing" is more akin to making a universal claim.)
What mental issue specifically? Example, Childhood mental trauma caused psychological issues that made the convict a violent criminal,would that be better dealt with by a psychiatrist than prison? Probably,but the purpose of prison isn't correction. Correction is a desired end goal,but regardless of correction,prison is punishment for a person that broke the rules defined by society. The line is drawn somewhat clearly: if you are able to understand the ruled and apply reason to your decisions,you are held responsible for the consequence.

IMO, free psychotherapy in prisons and getting rid of private prisons is a good idea. There is too much of "this is how we've always done it".

I am also more concerned about the 90something% of cases that end up in a conviction due to plea bargaining. No due process. Tons of possibly innocent people admit guilt to avoid having their day in court. Risk getting a false conviction and serve 10yrs or plea bargain and get just a year,what poor person would take that risk if you can't afford a good lawyer?
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer, and spend a lot of time answering questions about React too.

Any specific concerns I can help with?
When the software doesn't exist on Linux?
If you live in an urban area, most of the time you will be going from zero to zero every 10 seconds.
Not long ago i ran into conferences about thc and schizophrenia. Then someone said that if it was really a trigger, we'd see an epidemic.

I'm not pro~ cannabis, but it seems some researchers have an agenda.

Médical research is weird.
1) I can do that easily, and even can imagine the paint texture for the walls.

2) Hair for all of them, but I can only picture the eyes of the people who had unusual colors (blue, gray, green). Maybe I never paid much attention if they had normal brown eyes.

3) Row yes, but I wasn't sure about the column (4 or 5).

4) Yes.

5) easiest task on the list.
That's pretty crazy, how do these people exist and get jobs? What kind of development were they supposed to be doing?
IMO the article falls far short of telling 'The Real Cost' for the people of the US. It's pretty damned superficial, and far from packed with observations (let alone empirical ones). A look at Cassidy's CV tells me why.
Strongest possible agree. My wife and I were together for 3 weeks before we eloped in Reno (we both broke up with previous partners to be together). We're celebrating our 20th in a couple weeks. And for about half that time we've also worked together.

There's a dude on this thread who has apparently been married longer than I've been alive and my 20 years makes me a marriage piker, but I suspect the real secret is that a marriage is something you build, not something you discover in some godawful dating treasure hunt.
The days we needed to buy hardware every three years are gone.
> Always hated the name of that store. It sounds like a euphemism for Planned Parenthood.

Back in 1994, Bezos wanted to call his new company "Cadabra," as in the magic incantation "abracadabra," but he quickly had a fresh brainstorm when his lawyer misheard the name as "Cadaver."

https://mashable.com/2011/07/22/facts-amazon-com/#QQ1l8PmD7q...
Do you never merge or change lanes in heavy traffic? Because if you’ve ever done any of those things, you rely on people leaving space and letting you in. Why deny others the same opportunities?

Driving in traffic is a cooperative activity. The only times you don’t need to accommodate and be accommodated by other drivers are when there are hardly any around.
Aphantasia is definitely real. My inner visual world has always consisted of the view of the inside of my eyelids. Thinking for me is an almost purely verbal process, in an inner voice that I don’t percieve as sound in any way. I can navigate in my mind, and describe accurately places I’ve been, but there’s never an image, only a kind of spatial perception, combined with knowledge (of materials, colors etc.)

I thought this was how everyone’s mind worked, until I met my ex, who is on the opposite end of the scale. She described her inner world as sometimes more vivid and detailed than the real world. I thought she was almost unique in this, until I started asking other people and realised that most people see images in their mind, of varying detail and vividness. Some can easily project onto their visual input and, for example, put a moustache or wings on someone. I’ve also come to learn that many people hear their own voice when they think (and many, non-schizophrenic, people hear other voices too), and can also imagine smells and tastes.

My episodic memory is affected by my aphantasia, as well as my people recognition skills. I can find it hard to recognise someone if they’ve changed their hair, grown a beard or changed their appearance in some other way.

I do dream though, vivid dreams, and am quite good at recalling them. But again the memory of the dreams, like other memories, is not visual.

I’m quite fascinated with this subject, and have some thoughts of picking up where I left off on my psychology master to be able to study it more. It’d be interesting to see if there are correlates in big-5 personality, iq, mental health etc.)
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If you needed them {temporarily,permanently} for some medical condition that rendered your eyes extremely sensitive to certain kinds of light, including, say, a flashbulb.

I was trying to think of any other reason than photosensitivity, but that's all that comes to mind.
Being a developer doesn't mean programming UNIX software.
A Fermi problem is not a brain teaser in the colloquial sense, it's more of an approximation game. If you looked up an answer a week ago and memorized it, then regurgitated it, you'd still get the question "wrong". No one expects you to come up with the right number of windows, they expect you to get somewhere plausible from scratch.

Asking someone how many windows are in NYC is not fundamentally different than asking someone how many blades of grass are on a soccer field. You can know almost nothing and still arrive at the correct order of magnitude -- all it tests is someone's ability to do napkin math and break open-ended problems into manageable parts.

Is this the right thing to test? That depends on what you're hiring someone for.
The article doesn't say anything about providing the existing passport for renewal?
Yeah, I noticed that too. Treating a byte as eight tally marks misses the point about the combinatorialnature of place settings.

It's not 100% wrong, because bit shifting and bit packing are real-world applications used in memory all the time.

But these are not the only possible values:

00000001
00000010
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
01000000
10000000

It's not incorrect to make a decision to limit one's input to those values, but it is incorrect to presume that binary data can only be recorded that way.

Treating those 8 place settings as eight lightbulb circuits that each need an individual test isn't the right mindset for someone performing compiler optimization.
It looks like Russel is criticizing to justify his job. Alex, your article does not have an argument. It's foolish. I cannot wait until people like you get fired.
Yeah for whatever advantages Elastic Search might have, I'd rather not read a 500 page book and then have to deal with dozens of potential security issues. I'd gladly have slightly less relevant search results in exchange for getting to use the same permissions system I use for all my other queries.
Use TRUSTWORTHY or Not for SQLCLR Assemblies?
Good summary. A bit more generally, demos are often written to run under constrained conditions. They are also often written for competitions that set those conditions.

Sometimes, like in this case, the constraints are entirely dictated by the hardware, and the objective is just to make the most impressive demo given the particular device’s limitations, very often pushing the hardware way past what was commonly thought to be possible. Modifying the hardware is usually not allowed, but playing “dirty” in software by using undocumented and maybe even unintended, obscure implementation details of the platform is highly encouraged. No stone is left unturned.

8088MPH (by the same makers as 8088 Domination) is a very good example. For decades, nobody knew it would be possible to display 1024 colors, at the same time, on the original PC (which most nominally supports only 4 colors at the same time, which could be stretched to 8 with a trick). You can watch the demo here: https://youtu.be/yHXx3orN35Y
And read about the methods used and invented here:
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...

Sometimes, there are also additional constraints like size limits, which is especially popular on more advanced hardware like modern PCs. For example, the objective could be to make the most impressive demo in 1024 bytes.
Amazon didn't threaten anyone, in case you were wondering. They simple expanded their bushiness-to-business selling operation to roughly 10B$ after entering the market 3 years ago.
We discuss the use of TRUSTWORTHY and certificates in SQL Server when deploying SQLCLR assemblies.
12 reasons this is a terrible résumé for a mid-level employee
When in college and working full time, I used to start my day by driving through some of the worst of LA traffic 405/101 and then in the evening come full circle by going 101 to 23 to 118 to 405 and back to 101, essentially circling the west part of San Fernando Valley, Conejo Valley, Simi Valley and back to central San Fernando Valley. Now that was a commute! Total time on the road 4+ hours in a 6-speed manual sports car with that exact heavy clutch.

Don’t think I’d be able to keep my sanity if it was an auto - at least I could focus on something other than the miserable drive and crazy work/study hours.

Priorities change, but if I was making a choice today just for me - manual all the way!

Now if I could only find a car without electric power steering... or any power steering at all... (Those old NSXs were a blast to drive!)
Beyond the identity theft example, Ashley Madison wasn't that long ago, and explicitly without passing judgement, I'm pretty sure that was highly disruptive to a number of peoples' lives.
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From outline: https://outline.com/RP7Kaw
>American productivity has increased by 77 percent, while hourly pay has grown by only 12 percent

Yes but where has this happened. I suspect it's happened through automation. Meaning that the productivity gains might not be per employee and might not easily translate into the pockets of workers.
Do you have measures in place to give access to someone trusted in case something happens to you? With a specialized setup like this hosting, for example all family pictures, I’d always be scared of having a low bus factor.
It's in Lausanne. It's on the other end of Switzerland (French border)
Some people really like engagement and fine control in their things. There has to be something in your life, like coffee or operating systems, where you can understand this.
What do you think is happening when you change lanes in heavy traffic?
Most people on the team did not leave. A lot of the people who worked on Fire Phone went to other projects inside the company including Amazon Go.
Just Russel trying to justify his job at Google, nothing more.
Part-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/excellent-resume-for-mid-lev...
Sorry, can you connect what you’re saying for someone who hasn’t driven manual? Are you saying you only drive manual because it’s safer and more convenient? Or that there’s no difference and you happen to drive a manual out of habit?
First of all this looks pretty nice. I'm a docs nerd and as a whole I like this.

However ... It's slow. Docs should be static HTML. I should not ever wait for text content. If you want to async load some images or embeds that's fine, but I was waiting for the title to load!

As an aside I recently had a nice experience making a static docs site using Nuxt and Vue. Nice combination of dynamic development and fast performance in production.
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...which matches my experience.

Don't ever tell a patient to disregard personal experience. Someone who has suffered a chronic condition, and learned enough about it and her body to find an effective non-pharmacological treatment for it, knows more than a room full of physicians about how that condition is best treated in her body. Besides, don't we know by now that most studies (especially non-replicated ones on unpopular subjects) are worthless?

Source: personal experience.