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This is mind numbingly beautiful. The fractals with lighting and shadows is some of the best digital art I've ever seen.

I would pay proper money for a game that is basically a 6DOF spaceship game like Descent/Overload but in this fractal realm.
yes, there are some things that you can convey more accurately or precisely in lojban but... i think this is a poor example. Also, I think you're forgetting that translation is about intent not literal word / phrase conversion. The intent of "i'm talking with you." followed by something that indicates that the prior sentence takes place in the future translates very clearly into "i will be talking with you in the future" You can get all picky about verb tenses and say "oh english doesn't have that tense" but a) it's not true ("I am talking with you in the future.") and b) it ignores the point of communication. To communicate concepts between entities. The concept as that in the future communication will happen between you and I. "In the future we are talking." or "We are talking in the future." "talking" isn't temporal it's active. It can be future "we will be talking" or past "we were talking" or present "we are talking".

I'm sure there are some things which can't be translated nearly as clearly into English, but i don't think this is one of those things.
I don't think so. Amazon is huge corporation and most often corporations do not follow 'The Secret Plan', but move chaotically.
How is this related to your recent comment, "My opinion about Apple has changed recently. They're now actively promoting privacy and I am OK with trading repairability with privacy."
More directly relevant, why doesn't bloomberg show one of them in practice? That would really help in confirming the story. (Not that I doubt bloomberg here)
Not much information in the article. Interpol has issued a Red Corner notice, but ultimately it's the French and Chinese governments that have to find what happened.

Now let me get this straight. He was traveling from France to China, somewhere in the middle he disappeared.

What do the flight manifests say?

How about the security cameras at Airports, especially in China, where we have often heard what they allegedly doing with real time facial recognition and stuff.

For someone this high profile, there must have been security, staff etc. What do they have to say?

It's been two weeks since he disappeared. No alarm bells till now, at least the media.

I find this article to be very slim on details. There are some very simple questions not covered in the article. I guess they were in a hurry to publish this.
I’m really excited about language servers. I finally installed ALE in Vim and it works great. It can use language servers and all kinds of external tools like linters, but those are a bit slow because they have to spawn a new process just to perform a check. Looking forward to trying out the Flow language server sometime.
I think respect for the feelings of the MAGA crowd is not high in the PLA's list of concerns.

The Trump doctrine is largely built on fictions anyways, and the international community seems to have settled on "distraction" as the only worthwhile strategy for dealing with him.
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Give it a few decades.
I highly recommend this article that explains some of Amazon's strategies related to your question: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-w...

Basically, the services they offer (AWS, handling of storage and shipment of goods for third-party retailers) are using the systems and workflows they build for themselves. If it is something others use, then it is the best system that can be built and is most profitable.
If you look at Apple denial (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...) they make a curious statement:

"Our best guess is that they are confusing their story with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of our labs. That one-time event was determined to be accidental and not a targeted attack against Apple."

Compare this to statement issued by Apple in 2017 when queried about the 2016 story:

"Apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and the data we store. We are constantly monitoring for any attacks on our systems, working closely with vendors and regularly checking equipment for malware. We’re not aware of any data being transmitted to an unauthorized party nor was any infected firmware found on the servers purchased from this vendor."

(taken from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...)

While their 2017 denial was technically correct (it was an infected driver and not infected firmware) it's still a serious red flag on their credibility on these matters.
Man do I get nostalgic for Alternate Reality: The Dungeon and Zork (not exclusive to C64 owners I know). And making Basic sprites flutter across the screen... copying programs out of the thick user manual that came with it.
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Fork needs to evolve a bit for capability-based security, but other than that fork is ok. The problem is in concurrent shared memory access, which is extremely hard to get right. And the fix is to deprecate shared memory multithreading altogether. It's too hard to use, too slow, too broken and has no future either way.
yeah, here's the vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprrQ1OLW6g
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The Thomson version of Logo was developed by ACT Informatique in Paris by Sylvain Angéli.
Don't work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book.

The games industry preys on young ppl who don't know what a healthy work/life balance looks like. The pay is lower because employees are passionate. Passion doesn't pay rent. It doesn't provide stability for your partner and children who all will suffer because you chose to work in games.

Your passion will be compromised endlessly by marketing and management who can air drop in and change a game's entire direction in one meeting. Because they saw a Minecraft commercial and their kid responded to it. They'll make you work weekend after weekend to fit their pivot into the original schedule and stop in for an hour to drop off donuts. Oh good, eight hours of work for a donut. Donuts also don't pay rent. They don't fix your marital problems.

Games is an industry stuck in a groundhog day loop of misery. This is my warning to anyone who thinks they like games enough to make them. You won't like them after making them. It isn't worth it.
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It’s not like this is some random citizen. He’s a CCP member and the head of Interpol. I would be surprised if China were the only country tracking his whereabouts 24/7.
Maybe, if you mean as original as they can be within the restrictions of the franchise.

Personally, I played Borderlands but I never stopped and thought "oh gee, it would be nice to find out more about their background story". I just looked for the next thing to shoot. As for Batman... saturation anyone?
So your argument is that JIRA is too good and gives the user too much freedom to do what they want? Software is a tool, it is there to do what the user wants, a good tool does not limit the user. Organizational processes are just that, those selected by the org.

JIRA is successful because it is a good tool that gives power to the users. Anyone is free to build a competitor to JIRA, but I would argue that if the developer limits it and forces the client to use their preferred process methodology that they will likely fail.

Just my opinion. I have only been using JIRA for a few weeks now, have had no issues. Nothing amazing about it and nothing terrible. It does the job. Its just a tool. How its used is up to the user.
And they were working on a sequel... :(
Ask HN: The difference between “overvalued” and “that's how much it is now”?
I'm particularly interested in housing prices, but if it's different for other industries I'd love to understand that as well.

It's strangely hard to find a good answer. Googling yields "housing is overvalued (2011)", ... "housing is overvalued (2014)", ... "housing is overvalued (2018)" but with no particularly rigorous explanation on why, nor the difference between "overvalued" and "yep, that's normal now".
That comment is hard to understand, please explain, it seems irrational. Why would Google hiring 69,300 useless engineers increase their market cap?
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Let's rephrase it. China and the US probably have very good guesses almost all of the time. So the Chinese government can probably provide a very small area to search for him, if they didn't apprehend him themselves.
> So in the end we only need to teach XKcd password strength vignette

I hate seeing XKCD style passwords being advocated like this all the time. If I know your password is “four English words”, it’s pretty much game over. While there are well over 100,000+ English words, the average English speaking person would draw from a list of about 5,000. 5,000^4 is only 625 trillion combinations. With GPU based password cracking easily topping 150B/sec these days (depending on algo), you can see how this isn’t as secure as you’d otherwise think.
I think its pretty clear from context that "they" refers to the intelligence agencies of the US government.
> best achievable with technology that today's eyes would confuse for magic

That's a pretty low bar, isn't it? Show an iPhone's capabilities to, say, a WWII soldier or industrial revolution textile worker, and they'll deem it pretty magical.
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If it helps add another data point to the mix, I can confirm parent's comment on these personalities and their influence within the gaming community. A number of them often provide in-depth critiques and unexpected insights on game design that take the form of comedic video quasi-essays, and they rack up huge subscriber counts.
The Guardian is an established newspaper with a firm commitment to (what it sees as) the truth, and has a top-flight internal technical team which gives them credibility on this kind of topic. (Interestingly we did see an internet split after the Guardian reported vulnerabilities in WhatsApp's security, but at least in that case there was no dispute on the facts, only their interpretation).

Bloomberg is an upstart with an awkward funding model which has already faced serious, credible allegations of political interference and a lack of journalistic integrity (a major investigative story about corruption in China was allegedly spiked at a late stage by management for business reasons).
A way to get people to click on the article based solely on the title. Like a kind of bait to drive clicks. Weird.
Typically most states will let you file for unemployment benefits if you are laid off, these vary from state to state.
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AC is almost always more efficient than heating because AC systems use heat pumps.
Ask HN: Why Does Hacker News pay for Google Ads?
When I Google "Hacker News" the first result is sometimes a Google Ad for Hacker News. Why does Ycombinator take out ads for Hacker News if they are first in natural results already?
>Ford's testimony appeared credible

Did you even watch it?
It's a remake, not a remaster in the definition that you are thinking of. Vicarious Visions did not use any of the code, likely to the fact that either it was unusable or they did not ever have the source code.

N. Sane was done in Alchemy Engine, not Unreal Engine 4 (unlike Reignited), although VV is likely following suit with their upcoming project.
> For communicating gigabytes of data back and forth you want shared memory anyway.

Not really. You are better off communicating what to do with the data, rather than sharing the data.
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Now they do, more than a decade after they started hosting videos.
Menards does this too with Midwest Manufacturing.
> These sources [...] paint a consistent picture of a company desperately struggling to keep its head above water.

No? Manager start doing this when their profits dwindle, not when the company has no cash left. The basic idea is to get one or two more bonus checks while the others lose their homes. You can be sure that some people still made a profit.

> “[Hawley] came into a situation where the staff needed a strong leader with a clear vision,” says a former employee.

Does anybody remember how Dunder Miflin tried to pursuade the stockholders by presenting Michael Scott as the hero who would turn things around?

And one thing I don't really get is why one brings oneself in a situation where one works ones ass off in exchange for living paycheck-to-paycheck. You should have a decent amount of spare time (or time for personal projects at least) and turn a profit, otherwise why work this job at all? I mean gaming industry is not a career you work in because you need to feed 3 children and don't have another choice.
Incredibly interesting story and discussion, this is why i come to this site.

Isn't this practice known, if not common, in the infosec/intelligence communities at the nation level? There's lots of stories of hardware exploits in copy machines, faxes, etc that took place during the Cold War.
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Everything you said could also be said about the Democrats, except the safe to come out as a Democrat because they control all of the media, tech companies, and generally hold power in the West.
There's a whole discussion of that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145815 .
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Doesn't appear to work for amazon.de, but amazon.co.uk has most of these under the same product IDs.

Here are the grades according to that website:

Gritin - A (90%)
KLIM - F (62%)
Panasonic - A (90%)
Beats by Dr. Dre - Not available on .co.uk
qubbi - Not enough reviews on .co.uk
Anker - A (90%)
Mpow - Not enough reviews on .co.uk
Enough people have also said things that fully contradict her account.

There’s absolutely no proof or witnesses here and moving the goalposts to the guy drinking or getting upset at a public and televised accusation is disingenuous.

You’re just partisan like most people on this issue.
All you need to do is buy cheap leap puts on whichever stocks you feel have a PE ratio that is unsustainable, and wait.

I don't know if Sears received a lot of index funding but I'm sure TGT did. It's day of judgment came last summer. AAPL is next. It will take years, but you can only screw customers secretly for so long.
Neither a laptop, the data is in the harddrive, you can protect the drive encryption without putting software checks so if I put a "unauthorized" component the thing won't work anymore.
Buy highly concentrated antiperspirant. The stuff you are supposed to apply once a week to your underarms. Use it on your hands nightly until you stop sweating.
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Why would anyone enter the market knowing that Amazon could put them out of business again quickly?
And that works in language -- its terrible when you are trying to make computers do very specific things in specific scenarios. It leads to hiring nightmares as well. "Oh I write language X in this style, not familiar with your style"
That said, I'd be happy if the NHS (National Health Service in the UK) can just point to my POD instead of asking for paper forms to be filled in each and every time you change your GP.
The Supermicro ad in the middle of the post is delicious irony.

> Supermicro wraps crypto-blanket around server firmware to hide it from malware injectors
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> it's hard to argue that you thought the quality was going to be higher.

Oh, but argue people will!

Some people have a fairly un-nuanced view and assume that instead of the cheaper option being a cheap knockoff the more expensive ones are attempting to rip them off (because if one company can offer X for Y, anyone asking more is creaming extra profit). And some pretend to be that naive when it comes to refund/replacement/negative-review-designed-to-encourage-an-out-of-warranty-replacement/refund time.
... as much as there are issues w/oil & gas heat, reverting with wood would for the current population would quite quickly deforest the planet, not to mention be more polluting (especially particulates). Design for efficiency, solar collection into a thermal mass, etc...
Somewhere along this thread it became an indictment of Jira. I've spent a tonne of time over the years at multiple orgs both using Jira and trying to move away from it. 10 years later.. I'm back on Jira and won't move.

The issues I find (including speed) are really due to the incredibly flexibility of Jira, and things not being thought out by users. Ultimately, I feel like it's akin to the old adage about perl - it does everything including giving you the rope to hang yourself.. it's up to you if you hang yourself. That plus all my friends who insist one needs a PhD in Jira, to Jira... but I digress.

We're set up appropriately with issue types, differentiation between issues, bugs, tasks, (and our version of etc). We can plan sprints locally and remotely, and have all our dashboards and friends immediately update. Integrated (sanely) with confluence we get retrospectives, historic reports. We create bugs, move their states, deal with Agile and Kanban, have histories... the whole deal. To reduce the inherent pain in dealing with bug creation because it generally sucks, we have a slack integration I wrote to:
a. Create a bug
b. When you type ISSUE-ISSUE# into a channel, the robot picks up and gives us all the subject.

The combination above removed all friction. The one thing I wish would happen from a workload perspective is that when a PR is pushed upstream to bitbucket, for a branch matching an issue - the issue would move to the Code Review state. But that is our only point of friction, and one day I'll get off my rear and make our robot do it.
I've driven through wind farms in middle America and for the most part, each tower has a small gravel pad around it with a gravel access road to the nearest public road. Everything in between is farmed as normal. While the overall footprint is large, the majority of the land continues to be used in the way it has always been used. If all the farmland in America became one gigantic wind farm, I don't think you would see a noticeable difference in agricultural production, especially as the farmers collecting lease payments are going to be able to invest in newer equipment.

So when they say that a downside to wind power is the much larger amount of space required compared to previous expectations, is it in the NIMBY "I don't want to see a turbine when I look out the window", or something else? I'd like to give the authors the benefit of the doubt; I wish they'd spent a little more space explaining the downside of the land requirements.
Just curious, why else would it be specifically for newlyweds? What's the big deal?
> total time spent observing dogs was 1000 hours

10,000 dogs / 1000 hours = 6 minutes per dog.

Ok, so it's somewhat implausible for one person to look at this many dog-genitals, but it's certainly physically possible. How many animals does a veterinary see in a year?
> That is a truly extraordinary claim. The idea that "law enforcement gets away with everything" is a true meme

Really ? And not in the EU ? Because there recently was a reality series about the Dutch police on TV. Which included one particularly bad scene in Rotterdam. It looked like some obviously North Africans saw the police and turned around (but was it actually that they saw the police ? And was it really that they were criminals because ... read on). The police pursued them, tackled them and, frankly, violently forced them to confess to possession of stolen goods. They had zero proof, or even justification beyond that some goods were stolen (in a neighbourhood of tens of thousands of people).

Are you going to claim that wasn't just outright racism ? And whilst on some level I might agree with the assessment that odds were perhaps good those youth did steal (in general I mean, they're not known for respect of property law is what I mean. Nothing whatsoever against those individuals), but I find the odds of them having stolen specific the goods the police accused them off ... generously (for the police) ASSUMING these kids were indeed thieves, it seems to me that those odds could not possibly have been more than 5%. Not that the police clarify what specific goods they were looking for/accusing them of, nor where they were stolen from, and they were asking people they had just tackled and left tied up on the pavement for several minutes and beat several times. Hell, I doubt the police even knew for sure something had been stolen in the first place (because reporting stolen goods in the center of Rotterdam ... why would you bother ?)

Next time you hear about youth riots in Western European cities you might want to remember that this sort of thing is what the police constantly subjects these kids to.

This was put, with their full permission, on TV, as an example of what they do, intermingled with a sort of recruiting effort. And I'm just sitting there ... FUCK YOU RACIST ASSHOLES. But seriously, this behavior is what they're proud off, or at least what they want to show off.

And let's not kid ourselves here: police in Rotterdam are better behaved than, for example, police in Paris suburbs, if even 5% of the stories are true. So it gets worse, much worse than this in the EU.
Yes, Boston Dynamics. Why the downvote? Why this belligerency?
Agreed. It's most likely a sin of omission, creating a broken system because it's not in their interests to fix the general counterfeiting problem.

There may be ancillary benefits, like increased seller competition into their monopsony, but it's not a priority for them to fix, because apparently it doesn't affect their bottom line enough.

It's not like it's hard to come up with a solution to the problem - they have lots of ways of surfacing prime-eligible items, you could have a similar way of surfacing manufacturer-approved resellers for some items. And as others have mentioned, there are no counterfeit kindles on amazon.com
The Xeon-W 2175 has avx-512.
Threadrippers cannot compete in numbering work relative to price point on well optimized code.

sgemm on 5000x5000 matrices takes about 600ms on a Threadrippers 1950x, but only around 150ms on the comparatively priced i9 7900x.
Vector libraries for special functions, eg Intel VML or SLEEF also provide a similar performance advantage there.

If you're mostly crunching numbers, and either compiling the code you run with avx512 enabled (eg, -mprefer-vector-width=512 on gcc, otherwise it's disabled) or using explicitly vectorized libraries, you will see dramatically better performance from avx512, regardless of any thermal throttling. Number crunching is what it's made for.

Granted, you should be offloading most of those computations to the GPU, which will be many times faster.
But I'd you're in the business of ML or statistics, I'd still way that more heavily than the difference in how long it takes them to compile code.
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Are we meaning the same Bloomberg News? Hasn’t it been around, at least for business news, since about 1990? If so, that seems to me to be well past the upstart stage. But maybe they rebranded or reformed and have no relation to the other name?
A car also starts at $15k, so a windshield being half the cost of a car is not reasonable, whereas a new screen plus labor being 1/5th the cost of a phone is.