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Many people do not regard the time, energy, and resources that go into the logistics of managing many vendors to be good investments for them

I don't disagree with this at all. I was one of those people for many years. But more and more I'm not that person anymore.

I don't think it's a good thing that one method (the all-centralized Amazon/Wal-Mart/Costco/Meijer hypermarket) be elevated to the status that it has, where it's seen as the epitome of retail evolution. It has been allowed to destroy other forms of retail because it uses euphemisms like "disrupt" instead of "destroy" and "value added" instead of "predatory." It pretends to be a tech company and not a retailer that's really really good and developing and implementing technology.

Just because the Amazon monster is wanted by a certain group of people doesn't mean that the other methods don't have value. That's why there's such a movement among hipsters (are they still a thing?) and others to shun the mass market in favor of more thoughtful methonds, online or otherwise.

I think Amazon is great, and I still use it on occasion, but we shouldn't deify a business model. As you noted, department stores were once the fashionable thing. One day Amazon's methods will also seem passé.
Fantastic. For this reason alone, I would endorse them over 23andme “We own your data forever and can do whatever we want with it”.
Even though mammals are a subset of the descendants of things that are unquestionably fish, we don't call mammals fish, and we do call things fish that are of separate ancestry, so I feel there is kind of an arbitrary double standard here if we get pedantic about dinosaurs. There's no question that in general, categories of living creatures don't have to be monophyletic.
I made a long post, whined a bunch and deleted it. But I do agree with you sentiment about equity.

I do believe if VC's really believed that they were making the world a better place, they would insist that employees shared in the wealth that was being created.

On one hand, the Valley is an amazing economic engine, on the other, it's an amazing place of inequality where people making $70k can't afford to live there. If that's the future, the Valley needs to do better, rather than insisting that people need to live in houses smaller than shipping containers.
Actually even if the system is kept up to date it's going to be vulnerable to something. That's the fun thing about it.
Some of us don't want to. Why should we have to carry around an extra piece of hardware to support something that's worked fine since probably before you were born?
Note I said “more sustainable” :)

They’ve been pivoting around in search of something that can make them profitable eventually.
AvE (arduinoversusevil). He's a Canadian engineer of some kind that mostly does tear downs of various equipment, commenting on their construction. He's also a foul mouthed master of malapropism, but those things just add spice. The engineering content and commentary are really fascinating and keep me coming back. He has the great teacher's ability to convey joy and astonishment at things I didn't even know were things and make me want to learn more. He's also taught me a lot of things that turned out to be of great practical use, like how to drill through steel, which brands of tools to avoid and which to pay through the nose for.

Keep your dick in a vice! (I don't know why. Maybe if I keep watching I'll find out.)

https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil/about
I'm really curious about where you learned that.
On the other hand, everyone but Apple seems to have this obsession with having their earbuds plug my ear canals (even if they're not "noise isolating" earbuds), in a way I find deeply uncomfortable.

The AirPods (and Apple's regular earbuds) might not fit every ear, but at least, for the ears they do fit, they fit without a sensation of having something jammed in your ear.

Ideally, Apple (or someone) would just make such non-intrusive earbuds in a few different form-factors, for the three or four most common ear shapes, rather than one-size-fits-all. As it is, though, Apple seems to be the only company making non-intrusive earbuds at all.
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While you want something "spur of the moment on a Sunday" others are happy to have a day off where almost all their friends and family do, too.

You are thinking very egoistically. Maybe try working shifts for half a year with only getting to know the schedule 2 weeks before, before you demand that everybody should jump to serve you. Or try to raise a child that has school Mon-Fri while you have to work Sat and Sun from 1pm to 10pm.

Berlin has supermarkets open sometimes even beginning from 6am, and a lot of "Kiosks". It also has a huge demand for programmers and other IT specialists. There is little reason not to move there if being able to buy whatever you like on a Sunday is so important for you. The rent is a lot cheaper, too. If Berlin is not enough, there is also Hamburg with offices from Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc.
A problem is many reviews are for a lack of a better term, unrigorous. Some are outright wrong (unrelated to item), vengeful (maybe comes up short, competitor), and of course astroturfing.

So basically they are a signal, and bad actors act in bad faith, but there are also just people who don’t review properly or who don’t add context to their reviews.

A more thorough system would be a bit more expensive. Gor example allowing either subject or reviewer a right to appeal to an arbiter, etc.,
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Also any base64 encoded data.
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Perpetual motion machines. We heard it before. Controlled fusion, free energy, bla bla bla, bullshit, more bullshit, and a bit mor bullshit. Ohh look! The Santa Claus !
Ground loops have never been a problem for headphones. And SPDIF over optical (presumably you mean ADAT) is considered vintage now.

The favoured standard for professional digital audio these days is some variant of Thunderbolt or USB, with Firewire for the old timers.

At the high end you'll see Audio-over-Ethernet (e.g. Dante), although it's not used much for low-end amateur or semi-pro production because it's not a cheap technology, and it only starts to make sense when you have tens or hundreds of channels going from one place to another - e.g. from a stage box to a front-of-house mixer.

https://www.audinate.com/node/128

Analog copper wire between microphones, guitars, synthesizers, FX pedals, and digital interfaces is still absolutely standard equipment in studios at every level.

Hum is avoided by using balanced three-wire balanced connections, which are almost as old a technology as mini-jacks.

Analog has zero latency compared to digital, it's at least as reliable, and it "just works".

Bluetooth is simply not a professional audio technology. It's not enough of a standard, and not reliable enough even when it's implemented correctly.
Where he is from (Ontario, Canada) it is in fact illegal not to use correct gender pronouns. Legal council of his own University confirmed it.
In my view, what’s futile about it is the fact that for many veganism has to do with moral choice against animal suffering but gets conflated with “living healthy”.

Skin of an apple that you buy in standard shop is anything but healthy due to the amount of chemicals applied to it. Even the home grown plants can be treated in a way that is unhealthy.

And thirdly, things like avocado plantations are anything but environment friendly.
Hi all,

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Unless you're playing FLAC files.
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I bought a decent set of Bluetooth Anker earbuds for £14. Better sound than the last set of wired earbuds that I got for £20.

I still use an iPhone 6S, but I’m not going back to wired headphones.
It's firewire all over again. They'll never learn.
It’s important to note this is causal inference from Pearl’s darling theory using do-calculus and graphical models.

I work in causal inference professionally (large scale causal impact measurement for observational studies that customers require causal interpretations of, for clinical trial data and advertising data mostly).

In practice, the stuff from Pearl is just unhelpful, and it’s very valuable to also read sources from Rubin, Imbens, Gelman and many others, because there are whole other approaches to the problem, approaches which more or less completely sidestep and have no need for do-calculus concepts, but which are extremely successful in practice, with real observational data sets.

Methods like propensity matching, propensity weighting, and hierarchical models using different treatment levels as strata, are absolutely critical for applying this stuff in the real world.

If you only ever read Pearl, you’ll mistakenly think those methods are somehow “inferior to” or “subsumed by” do-calculus when this is not at all true, certainly not in practice.
OVH support is atrocious. If you have a problem, fasten your seatbelt.
Interesting that you say this. In my experience EC2 instances have been major part of bill. Can't comment on Snapchat scaling with just 2 guys but I have seen people trip up with managed services as well for eg. DynamoDB (https://hackernoon.com/beware-of-dilution-of-dynamodb-throug...). Similarly for EMR - lot of issues where you still needed to understand how Hadoop was managed by EMR (Spark and HBase versions, jar mismatch, classpaths). So if you are getting into something complex you still need to hire people to manage infrastructure of course not at the same level as building your own DC but OP is talking about using a cheaper cloud provider.

My personal opinion is to use EC2 and then take managed services from cloud agnostic vendor (preferably Open Source at core providing services on all major clouds). Does not lock you and lets you move fast - ex. Managed Kafka/Hortonworks
You should have used OVH Public Cloud[1] (= AWS EC2), not OVH VPS (limited to 100 Mpbs).

[1] https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/instances/prices/
Why would you want free food? Can't CTOs pay for their "lunch" at a restaurant?

I often have lunch or drinks with other people in our domain, and I don't see why we would ever want a sponsor, we just go out together to eat and/or drink, talk about stuff, you know, just like that.
Another argument to rework the whole zoning thing....
Or by getting wireless ones...
Natural history museum in LA. They have a big exhibit on theropods and pterosaurs and show the birds that possibly evolved from them. Birds are dinosaurs under all the usual biological classification schemes. Similar phenotypes, similar genotypes.
Sure, it's easier to just jump on and go, but there are huge limitations compared to bicycles. In addition to what I mentioned, you just can't go very fast nor very far. When the battery runs out, it's a really crap form of locomotion. At least when an e-bike runs out, you've still got a (somewhat heavy) bike :-)
So easy relative to what, I wonder? I was slotted into a team which was neither fun nor anything I am into, and never managed to transfer. They said my manager wouldn't be able to block me from transferring, but he did so anyway, and I ended up leaving Google. There was nothing about the process which felt like it was any easier or less political than what I've seen at other megacorporations.
AWS is the new "nobody has ever been fired for buying"...

Further, given that having AWS experience is valuable, both the non-technical and the technical people are incentivized to use it.
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Lab grown meat will hopefully become a thing in the next decade.
Ok. What about: sea sponges, starfish, jellyfish, and octopi? (If you’re drawing a seemingly arbitrary line at “has brain / nervous system => able to feel suffering”)

Which signalling molecules would qualify?
In the non-professional underground party scene it's still all analog quarter-inch hookups still

Do they make mixers now with channel strips of SPDIF connectors? I don't pay that much attention to audio hardware these days but I don't recall ever seeing a bank of optical connectors on the back of anything
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There isn't much need these days to plug a phone into a Mac.
If you need or want to, there are lightning to USB-C cables.

I would be surprised to see them switch anytime in the next few years. I would be less surprised if they removed lightning altogether from a new phone than if they switched from lightning to usb.
I hope for the sake of my own family and the memory of our ancestors that we haven't really found ways yet to make that technically possible. I think the use of a person's image is a bit tortured too compared to other kinds of media you might copy and employ fair-use on, but I'll admit that with "a bit tortured" maybe I'm being willfully obtuse if I ever tried to argue that no person's image is present in any entertainment forms that were recorded, like movie or song.

I can always burn some embarrassing photo if it's on film, well or say, embarassing blog post, ... there are technical means to signal to web service providers like archive.org that act as public archivers that they should forget their remembrance of your broadcast (via robots.txt or other means - it's actually very easy to automatically disappear yourself off the internet so that Archive.org won't even remember you, if you operated your own domain and knew how to make that request to cease retention well-formed.) I don't know if robots.txt has anything like force of law, but you can use it and honorable, responsive service providers may all honor it.

But I don't think that anybody has a right to be forgotten, in the mind of any public citizen, (and other than with respect to any service providers.) If you broadcast your ideas to me, and in the process of my lawful consumption a copy is made, or in the case of a piece of code that runs in my browser for example, I believe that I should absolutely be permitted to take a copy for my own remembrance, or analysis (given it is done without intent of reproduction or for immediate re-distribution), and inclusive of the idea that I may intend a lawful preservation for reproduction in the public commons when the copyright has expired. The law as I understand it agrees, these are all permitted copies. There are even more separate protections for patents and protected trade secrets.

Any technical means you can employ that prevents this lawful exchange I view as evil, and to me that's not up for debate. There are separate (legal) protections that you can enact if you are concerned about commercial uses, or wholesale ripoffs, or like, say, the disclosure of a trade secret by some trusted (contracted) party that diminishes your market value – those are all considerations that exclude a copy-ier from protections under fair use. But those are the limits of your legal protections as I understand it, and if I stand behind that line, the law should always tilt in my favor.

If I'm not diminishing the value of your work by taking a copy when you offer it, and keeping it, then I think I can tell you to pound sand. The most you can do, as a private citizen, is ask me to forget you, ... and I hope I can always say no! (Of course, if you've used DRM technology to prevent taking the copy, then the law is actually on your side today notwithstanding fair use.)
Not necessarily. It can tell you if it is triggered by your tests; but it won't tell you if it isn't. So if you run your test suite under valgrind, and you don't trigger the problem, valgrind won't tell you that there is a potential issue for certain inputs. Which, in this case, will result in silent corruption of the heap.

So, trivially adding argc to main,

if (argc > 5) {
free(a); // a is no longer a valid reference
}
// valgrind won't catch this issue
b->x = 2; // valgrind complained about us dereferencing b before intializing
a->x = 5; // valgrind won't complain about this if argc <= 5

results in a program that valgrind won't catch. Valgrind is great; but your users won't be running it when they use your program.

Now sure, you combine valgrind with other tools like afl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_fuzzy_lop_(fuzzer)) or KLEE (https://klee.github.io/), and insist that your test suites have full coverage (however, code coverage isn't the same as input space coverage), but the point is, you're stuck doing runtime analysis (and need to know that you need to do that analysis) to make sure you did this right. Baking this type of error checking into the type system itself is valuable.

Given that large projects like Google's Chrome keep hitting these issues, it seems reasonable to say that they aren't strictly trivial to solve. :)

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-5036/

https://vuldb.com/?id.100280
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OVH is massive and very popular in Europe because it's a French company with datacentres primarily in Europe. Meanwhile AWS is popular with startups from Silicon Valley who set the tone for this site and startup culture in general.

The other difference is that AWS has the first mover advantage in cloud services. OVH has always had the strongest presence in the dedicated server market and is only now catching up their OpenStack-based cloud offer.

I very much enjoy access to raw hardware and use OVH a lot.

Have you seen their new storage servers? These are basically hard drives attached to a calculator (ARM) with a NIC, amazing and I haven't seen anything like it elsewhere: https://www.soyoustart.com/en/server-storage/

They also have a top notch DDoS protection that is not based on your wallet outlasting the attackers.
I second that. The effort that goes into the visualisations are great.
On a tangential note, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the notion that a flying reptile the size of Quetzalcoatlus (believed to have wingspan on the order of 10 meters) could ever get airborne.

This has made me wonder if it's possible that juvenile Quetzalcoatlus could fly but adult Quetzalcoatlus could not. Natural selection would presumably select towards smaller and smaller wings on adults, but maybe this could be offset by a serious evolutionary advantage bestowed on juveniles from being able to fly.

I don't know of any bird existing or extinct with this kind of lifecycle, but maybe you can find something similar in insects?
I plug my iPhone into speakers every night to listen to music. I could connect over AirPlay, but that’s really unreliable everywhere else I’ve set it up.
While I agree we're all taking on a lot of debt with these low interest rates (which I believe was the idea), I have to love the twist ending with "hackers" and cybercrime causing the next financial crisis, even more than geopolitical risk.

That seems a bit insane to me. I'm trying to generate a list of things that could cause a financial crisis, like hacking the markets or maybe some trading bots, and making them do crazy things to tank the market? It doesn't seem like a big data dump/exposure would cause a financial panic to me.
The real lesson of the 2008 crash is that long periods of prosperity inevitably produce an accumulation of poor investments, parasitic false beliefs, and outright fraud. At first, the economy is strong enough to shrug off the burden of this detritus, but it eventually accumulates and overwhelms growth. We end up one day having a Minsky moment and clean up the crud accumulated during the growth phase.

The best way to minimize the pain associated with this necessary process is to commit to reason, empiricism, and truth during the growth phase, minimizing the accumulation of uselessness that the eventual economic contraction must discharge.
Ask HN: What does one need to do to get a software job out of University
It looks as if no one will hire a dev out of university except big companies. What do you do when you've tried all your social connections, contacted your previous internships, applied to all local jobs, applied to several remote jobs and jobs in other cities.

Options: hire someone to go over my resume and cover letter to help improve it, hire a company to match me with an employer, increase my applications to jobs in a city with more jobs, obtain online certificates to bolster my resume.

I'm intentionally leaving this question broad as to help future readers but I will include some vague description of my current situation.

- I have internships at 3 decent companies and 1 pseudo internship at a very notable company.

- I've been applying for 3.5 months. ~50 CL, ~50 without CL. Anythin from startups to big companies intentionally targetting jobs requiring ~1 year experience.

- I've had my resume reviewed by a couple professional friends.

- I've had 3 interviews and ~7 coding challenges. All interviews were at great companies.
Learn what? They've gone from near bankruptcy in 1997 to the the most valuable company on the planet in 2017, so it's not like firewire hurt them (or anybody cared much about it except some video and audio pros).
Interestingly, I use Bluetooth headphones with my TV and I have never noticed issues with audio/video sync. Have modern Bluetooth stacks reduced the problem or is the TV compensating for the latency by delaying the video?
What does recoverable mean though?

If the server process handles it without crashing, is that a recovery?

A more general distinction IMO is the one presented in the article: an Error is something that should not have happened. A Warning is something that maybe should not have happened.
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The top of their page: "YunoHost is a server operating system [...]"

Their source repo at https://github.com/YunoHost/yunohost shows that it's a couple scripts bundled into a Debian installer. Their news feed even talks about which Debian version is supported: https://mastodon.social/@yunohost/100220968128029115

I don't trust a software provider that is either lying on their front page, or isn't competent enough to understand what their product is.
Are those logs available anywhere? Can users see when Google employees have looked at their data? Have those systems been audited by a third party to ensure they're working properly?

I'm sure most Google employees are good people, but your basically telling everybody to trust you that Google's doing it right, but not providing any evidence to back it up.
> Economics isn’t science.

It may be instructive here to distinguish between Macro, which has had the problem of not being able to produce scientifically valid models, and Micro which has arguably made gains in predictive modeling of parts of the system. (Sort of like physics, where we have strongly predictive pieces, but no accepted TOE?)
People with that plan don't usually make that first $1M. It's the driven ambitious people who make that $1M fast and keep on going. Folks who think like you are too conservative to make sizable amount in short time, because they are too risk averse. In other words, what made him the first $1M also made him lose the last $1M.
Without trying to answer why, they appear to have discontinued 1/3 of their line if this source is accurate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/804398/us-iphone-sales-b...

The 6s and SE were their last remaining headphone jack phones. Maybe they’re trying to force the wireless headphones change as well as pave a way for new models. The SE actually sold more this year. But adding it’s 8% made it a clear 33% model replacement.
The article linked at the top of this one is quite readable, a few technical terms aside. I recommend it. The referenced part about how pterosaurs launched is very near the end.