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This sounds very good, just what's been missing from compiler optimizations. Anyone know if this is alive, or has it been merged to LLVM? The news seem to end a year ago.

edit: found some activity at the Polly Labs website, eg http://www.pollylabs.org/2018/08/15/GSoC-2018-final-reports....
The thing about interviewing Carmack is that it doesn’t really matter what you ask him: you still typically get a really interesting answer, plus answers to four other questions you didn’t even think of.

People who interview him can only vaguely steer the ship, and in my opinion that’s not a bad thing at all.
Not an expert on underlying tech. Yet, I use multiple keyboard layouts. Key remapping is software defined.
That's exactly what the paradox states. Seeing one boy does affect the gender of the second child.
I think the problem with QM isn't the fact that the probabilities are confusingly calculated. It's that there's no underlying mechanism.

Imagine I flip a fair coin. The odds of you guessing it correctly are 50%. In your mind, you know it's probabilistic. Simultaneously, you imagine that if you had more information you could get it right more than 50% of the time. Maybe if you new the force or the initial velocity, that'd help. The thing with QM, there's no more information to get. You can't get better than 50%, ever. It's basically magic. The problem with any deterministic model is that it adds more complexity than just assuming magic and we can't test any of the predictions of current deterministic models so why bother.
A good argument to not ignoring that outlier.
In theory housing prices could still go down if the people replacing dying boomers have less money to spend on housing.
Given that it's cash payments "each month", how can that be short term? If all recipients simultaneously wanted to spend the money on burritos, by month 2 there's going to be a lot more restaurants selling burritos.

A better use of the money is infrastructure spending. It provides employment across multiple sectors and targeted correctly is one of the best investments a government can make.
Sorry, but that's not a very robust bullshit spotting algorithm (BSA). Here's a bullshit generation algorithm (BGA) that will beat your spotting algorithm every time.

1. Mostly speak truths.

2. Scatter your bullshit sparsely so it remains relatively difficult to detect.

3. Wrap your bullshit with caveats or innuendo so you can argue others misinterpreted you. When someone interprets your bullshit as bullshit, counter that they are bullshitting by intentionally misunderstanding your bullshit.

4. When you get caught in complete bullshit, double down on it with such conviction and fury that you convince people by force that it isn't bullshit.

I could try listing real life implementations of the above BGA, but it would likely surpass HN's character limit.
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> But the solutions are known -- it basically just requires money for security hardening. So have the government provide the money. Without specific byzantine standards it allows the job to be done properly, and providing the money removes the incentive to cut corners.

If you don't force the audit, why a company would want to take a risk with testing their product? I feel that at best, it'll end up like "quality seals" on food items. Yes, I can draw a quality seal in Photoshop too.

But even if companies would be somehow willing (how, without forcing them?), then you need to ensure the audits are reliable, and prevent companies from creating a fake rubber-stamping auditing entity, and going to market either way. What's the preferred way to accomplish that?

Companies are in a race to the bottom, and they'll do their best to weasel out of "unnecessary" costs.
But an histogram can be considered a generalised version of what the article propose so the OP is indeed right that histograms are already a well known solution to that boring problem.
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Doing the numbers: according to Wikipedia[1], carrots contain 173 kJ (41 kcal) of food energy per 100g, and are 88% water.

To freeze 100g of carrots requires 100g x ~80cal/g (the enthalpy of fusion of water) = 8 kcal. i.e. 16 kcal to freeze and thaw again. Given the inefficiencies of the fridge and your heating method, you are probably wasting more energy than is actually in the carrots.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot
> Blerg. I had to wade into all that, ten levels deep in some nested conversation with hard to believe one-sided support of Julia, all just to learn that one single point could be refuted!

What's exactly the problem here? You had to study a subject before discussing it? Isn't that the goal?
I think the way you stated the first problem is ambiguous; the answer could be 1/2 or 2/3. After all, maybe you only have that information because you've met just one of your neighbour's children who happens to be a boy.

The Wikipedia article does a great job of being explicit in the differences between the 1:2 and 2:3 cases.

Unfortunately articles pop up every now and then claiming 2:3 is the correct answer (since it's counterintuitive and therefore interesting), while losing the conditions necessary for 2:3 in the translation of the problem description from mathematical to plain English.
No, that is not what this says. What this says is that there is ambiguity in the description of the situation. Is the question about the probability of a second girl in the set of all families with 2 children and at least one boy, or is the question about the probability of a second girl in the set of all families with 2 children given that we know one of them is a boy.

They are different sets of families. That is the point of this paradox.

This has nothing to do with quantum mechanics.
Yup. Take GDPR. It doesn't try to price user data. If you screw up real bad, it just says, "up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior financial year, whichever is higher".
What a strange article - a discussion of Walmart's ecommerce technology without a single mention of its jet.com acquisition, which had over 1,000 employees in 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet.com)?

The article is not praiseworthy enough to be a PR plant, and it lacks any substance from insiders. Seems to be tea leaf reading more than anything.

I'd also add that the acquisition cost of Flipkart was largely driven by direct competition with Amazon during the bidding process.
> We need a way to pay a few cents to read an article, ad and tracker free.

Blendle[1] is exactly that. They are in semi-private beta, but if you follow a link from their twitter[2] you can sign up right away.

Their model is put a few dollars in your account and pay $0.10-$1.00 per article. You can also get an instant refund after you've read, which is supposed to solve clickbait type articles.

They have a lot of major publishers including WaPo, NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc.

Not affiliated, just a satisfied user.

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The case is about who would be getting the blame. If manufacturer's mechanics mess up it would be definetly manufacturer's fault.
I'm a bit confused by this. It seems to be a database as service, but when I register, it asks if I want to use aws or azure. Is this self-hosted then?
Thanks.. This is really helpful.
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That's not how things happened.

First they came with the blink tag. Then they added animated GIFs everywhere.
They came with the pop-up. Then they put the pop-up under the main window.

Ad-blockers' first usage was to make the Web readable. Then years later privacy concerns took over.
He clearly calculated for 625 BTC (it divides evenly to the precise multi-million dollar amount) but had either a typo in his post or in the calculating.
I believe it technically is, in a sense that Sharia (which is the supreme law) is supposed to be applicable even to the royal family. But I doubt that's how it works in practice.
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> If the data you are gathering is a legitimate interest (for marketing, or whatever)

Calling marketing a legitimate interest is a bit of a grey area. The ICO says that by relying on legitimate interests (i.e. not gaining consent) they need to be weighed against the impact they have on the user's privacy and own interests.[0]

So if you are showing first party ads and you aren't collecting more data than is necessary (e.g. anonymised IP address, browser, a list of articles/products the user has viewed) you are probably fine. But if you start linking this with any personal data (e.g. full IP address, email address, date of birth) or intend on sharing it with a third-party you need consent.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
Aside: Swedish does have the word 'kvarg', which is a product made out of sour milk. Some people eat it for breakfast but personally I can't stand it.
Walmart couldn't use Jet's technology in the US. What they want to do with FK is two-pronged:

1. Not lose, arguably, the second most important market in the world

2. Bring some of that web/app first executives in the fold and apply it in other markets like US or Europe. India is one of the few markets where a tiny company is still head-to-head with Amazon

Walmart has money. They just don't want their old execs to run the e-commerce show.
My friends at Walmart says this is a BS article and asked me to call this out.
MSRP may be $999, but you won’t find them for much below $1,200 for the time being.

GPU modules are manufactured in China. Their harmonized codes are covered in recently established tariffs. 10% tariffs are already hitting cards arriving at US ports. This tariff will increase to 25% on Jan 1.

Prices will stay well above MSRP.
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Having and understanding goals are not synonymouss.

Does this date to TheFacebook (Harvard)?
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It's hard to explain, not because of NDA but because of context specific things. Almost everything I do is open source, but can't fit into a comment.

My only advice to people at BigCo is to make sure you have a good reason for doing whatever it is you're doing. Your boss telling you to do something is not always a good reason to do it.

And make sure you have some kind of metrics that show your work is important. If you're told to do something that you don't think is important, make sure you have metrics showing that your work is more important and do that.
Walmart did buy Flipkart though...
Ah the old act-like-it-never-happened routine, a very common tactic used by Machiavelli types.
It's not the hardware per see, ALSA could certainly be improved by vendors, it's the intermediate layers that cause the problem. Android needs to enforce low latency upon vendors, and not continue to give them the easy option of avoiding it.
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Should newspapers cater to people who want to read a single article for pennies and walk away forever? I think not.

There is a much stronger interest to build a lasting relationship over time with their readership, so the reader becomes familiar with the paper's voice, credibility, and focus. This leads to more revenue: readers will pay more for content they respect). It also leads to better news: a stable revenue source allows papers to plan and better invest in their reporting.
It always bugged me how Google Authenticator doesn't back up accounts "by design." I know its more secure, but damn its a major hassle if you use it for a lot of things and you need to get a new phone.
Definitely not for tech.
I already pay for my news in annual subscriptions.

And I'm willing to let the vast majority of it burn down. I refuse to accept that something so critical to a democratic society as the press can only exist by removing from us any semblance of privacy.
I'm not blocking ads, I'm blocking crap that sucks my battery dry and hinders me in reading the content that I came to read.
Ask HN: Founders/Employees of companies that got Saudi money directly/indirectly
How do founders and employees of startups that have received investment from Saudi Arabia wealth fund,directly or indirectly ie Soft bank, feel about the source of their investment? Especially after the current events that happened in Turkey, where it appears Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the embassy.

I personally would not be able to reconcile my moral compass with working on projects that were potentially enriching the regime.
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Could you please elaborate about google thing you mentioned? I am interested in making my ATT sim morr secure..
I would say especially for subscribers. For an advertiser it’s those who can pay that are the most interesting.
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The market won't solve it. Regulations won't solve it. Why can't we just have meaningful legal frameworks where impacted parties can sue these negligent corporations?
Animations like the one on the front page of
https://www.charts.com/muze
can be created using adobe aftereffects and exported using the bodymovi plugin as a JSON file along with keyframe images.
The exported animation can be loaded using the lottie framework.
https://airbnb.io/lottie/
What do you mean by "resize any column"?
So, what do your "friends" do at Walmart
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CSV is hell, glad to see improvements. Some idiot somewhere decided that Comma Separated Values in certain locales should be based on semicolons (who would have thought files would be shared across country borders!?), so when we open CSV files that are actually comma separated all the information is in the first cell (until a semicolon appears).

To get comma separated CSVs to show properly in Excel we have to mess around with OS language settings. CSV as a format should have died years ago, it's a shame so many apps/services only export CSV files. Many developers (mainly US/UK based) are probably not aware of how much of a headache they inflict on people in other countries by using CSV files.
> The same reason some orgs started blocking the entire EU rather than respect GDPR.

Fixed
You don't have to have inside friends at Walmart to know this article is BS. I wouldn't be surprised if this was some paid placement by a PR firm hired by Flipkart to convince Flipkart engineers that their jobs were still safe.
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And you habe not been killed by frozen poop falling from an airplane in the sky. Which would have been as likely as Bitcoin becoming a speculative hype. Celebrate that!
But that's not a problem with YouTube.

YouTube is not forcing your friends to use YouTube, and neither is the government. Your friends can easily view your video stream on any other service.

So "but my friends won't use Twitch instead", is not really a legitimate reason for us to abandon our belief in private property. Sorry.
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The problem is that the management at traditional media outlets have been conned into believing that they need tracking in order to serve their advertisers.

Advertising worked fine before internet tracking was a thing. Everything from Coca-Cola and the New York Times down to Fred's Corner Dry Cleaner and The Podunk Tribune survived and thrived on the old, low-tracking model.

It's companies like Google and the other internet ad-serving companies that turned the ad industry into a data arms race, and the media outlets got caught up in it.

There's a cliché about "the internet killed newspapers." No, internet ad companies killed newspapers by falsely convincing them that an ad view on a screen is worth 1,000 times less than an ad view on printed paper, so they have to make up the difference by harvesting everyone's data.
Marc Lore, the founder of jet.com, is currently the CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S.

Are you an insider? Where have you heard that Walmart was unable to use any of the jet.com technology?
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Hmm. The argument for using a microcontroller to replace a 555 is the increase complexity, and risk. There is code to be written, programming process install at manufacture etc. So it is not necessary cheaper if you at a level higher than the BOM cost.
It's not a paradox if you put it in less confusing language.

There are 4 possibilities:
GG
GB
BG
BB

GG is impossible so you have GB, BG, & BB. One of them is a B, what's the other. Well that's clearly 2 / 3 G.

The other one situation is completely. It's basically just the chance of a child being a girl.
The jobs are still being outsourced to Infosys, so the title is misnamed.
> Maybe letting lenders fail, arresting bankers for not pricing risks in loans and setting an example is a better way to set up the money supply?

I'm not in favor of arresting people who did not break any laws, and it's not illegal to misjudge risk when making loans.
The utter political impossibility of what you just described (despite it making total sense) makes be believe that, if the founding fathers could do it over again, the constitution would probably include a provision prohibiting government borrowing except in the case of defensive wars.
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No problem. He's more of a tech guy, acc to me. His twitch slams(available on Youtube@ comma archive channel are somewhat entertaining).
Say my wife tells me that the neighbor has 2 kids and one of them is a boy what is the likelihood that their other child is a girl?

Given what I know about the current situation, the probability that their other child is a girl is 66.666%

If I look out the window to that neighbor's yard and see a boy playing outside, the probability that their other child is a girl drops to 50%.

How I know the information about on data point one affected the likelihood of an unrelated one. What seems like identical knowledge on the outside, changes outcomes based on how I accrued that knowledge. If that doesn't mimic the double-slit experiment, I don't know what does.
You're edging in on a fallacy. A person can critique something without needing to have an alternative or a solution available.

I am ready to let all news media die if it truly is unable to evolve beyond the ad/classifieds model. I don't believe the news we receive now are high quality as it is, so I don't see much loss.
To expand on "literally medieval", it's not just about their legal system and lack of proper rule of law or due process, or about being an absolute monarchy. It's also because the country is literally owned by the royal family, in the same sense as royals in Europe used to own their respective kingdoms, with everyone else getting any property grants from them. Europe still has many vestiges of that in form of "crown lands" etc - but in practice it's the government that is the actual owner there, and monarch doesn't have direct control over it. In Saudi Arabia, he does! So you could also say that, in a sense, all Saudi laws (other than Sharia) are really just rules that the owning family chooses to set for people who live on their property.
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That seems totally useless. I gotta get one. Thanks for sharing that link.
I wonder when lobotomizing "smart" hardware will become an established practice? That is, opening it up, cutting out the IoT chips, and replacing them with an off-line interface? Just like in the past, we used to convert PlayStations (to run pirate disks), remove SIM locks, and now we jailbreak our phones, I wonder when we'll start lobotomizing our fridges and desk lamps.

(Also, I consider to have just coined the term in this context, unless prior use is demonstrated.)
When I first looked at this, there was a comment stating that (from memory) despite ~10 years of research and numerous PhDs, papers and conference talks, polly just doesn't work for production code. That comment is now gone.

Was it retracted because it was inaccurate? Seems to me like an important part of the conversation, whether true or not.
I was leonhard@amazon.com for 2.5 years, mike@restbackup.com (failed startup), and then leonhard@google.com for 5 years. Now I'm bootstrapping a dating app business. I'm doing this because:

1) I want to do work that aligns with my passions: technology, making the World a better place, being respected, making money, and feeling peaceful.

2) I'm burned out and this way I can give myself time to rest and recover. Some days I don't work at all.

3) I spent 15 months using the dating apps heavily. They all provide poor experience for people looking for serious relationships. I have a lot of ideas for making the experience better and I want to test them.

If you want to try the app and have influence over its design, send me an email (see my profile) and I'll invite you to the alpha test.
Wow, this is an interesting list!

I picked one of the 3M addresses at random (the one in Medina, Ohio), and 3M has a web site listing the categories of stuff produced there: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/plant-locations-us/medina/

(It would be cool if each supplier was required to post this sort of info, to really get a feel for how much physical plant it takes to make/build/assemble certain things.)

So I'm guessing that each address on the list is an address that either ships parts to Apple (or to an Apple rep or manufacturer, like Foxconn), or is an address that receives stuff on behalf of Apple (for example, to do assembly).

That would also be an awesome visualization: A map showing things moving from supplier to sub-assembler to assembler to distributor to store to customer.
Yes. It works nicely. If you want to enable it on clang, check cmake enable flag for clang compilation.
I was looking for some news aggregator for tech industry (having RSS feed) and found this on one of the "top 10" websites.
I am poor but I am willing to pay as much as 5 dollars a month.

So subscribe to your local newspaper. One of my subscriptions is $25/6 months of Sunday delivery and you get free unlimited online access. That's $4.16/month — below your stated budget.

If more people put their money where their mouths are, then we could break the media of their third-party ad serving addiction.
The problem with these puzzles is that you never know if it's actually solvable until it's solved. The author of the puzzle could store any number of bitcoins in some wallet, publish a difficult but unrelated puzzle with the claim that the solution reveals the private keys to the wallet, then laugh while the internet goes on a wild goose chase. It's even more likely since the author is usually anonymous (obviously for good reason). They're fun to ponder over a little, but I'd never invest more time (or money) than I could afford to lose into any of these, no matter the prize.
I’ve been thinking the same recently. Regulation doesn’t keep up.

An industry standard code of conduct or framework, with certification and a seal to show your software adheres to the certification may be the best approach. perhaps source code or data handling processes could be audited in the scheme.
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I would say I'm blocking both. There's a tool in uBlock that allows blocking individual DOM elements, and I block "native" ads embedded in pages, too.
Most chain and many local bar restaurants barely have kitchens as is, they mainly just reheat Sysco or US Foods products.
Owning someone's voice mail, or even a PC, is ultimately very low impact on societal scale. But what about the increasing amount of physical systems that are on-line - factories, powerplants, hospitals, cars, pacemakers (via phone), etc.? Is this not as big of a problem as it seems to be?