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Thing is, it doesn't seem to pay, at least in the employment market.

Employers want specialists, and pay for them. If your CV is two or three distinct things (I don't mean a selection of languages, or front and back end dev here, I mean distinct skills like say programming and accountancy) it's very unlikely to get you a better salary.

In fact if you've diverged from a straight specialism throughout your career it's probable you'll be punished with a lower salary, and problems getting hired in the first place. Expect a lot of challenging interview questions as to why you haven't followed a straight line from junior, through senior into project management (which of course is a different skill, making this even more inconsistent).

I'm sure those same disparate skills could be hugely useful if you're starting a business or startup, but for employment it's likely to make life harder, even though many employers would benefit just as much from your increased breadth of perspective.

So outside a few rare employers, and a few lucky applicants, I don't think there's much out there for generalists, sadly.
To really start a war you need to persuade the people with the missiles they should launch them. Or maybe that voters should elect someone who is more likely to launch them.

That's a whole lot easier than hacking into the launch systems.
How important is this issue to HN readers? 41 points and 94 comments in 6 hours on a Sunday afternoon shows a powerful gut reaction.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll express a counterpoint - viewing the same situation through a different lens.

Put simply, the Chinese understand why American companies outsource their labor to China. Chinese labor is cheaper, and they are under no illusions - this outsourcing means that their own country experiences many of the negative externalities of Western consumption, including pollution.

It's fair for American businesses to distrust Chinese companies and distrust the Chinese government, but can't we all agree that they brought it on themselves?

Which multinational corporation reasonably expects that the Chinese government cares about their bottom line at all? And why do many ordinary Americans experience such outrage on behalf of these multinationals? Of course, I understand why their shareholders (and thus, many Americans) may be upset.

If anything, I'm angry they jumped at the opportunity to eradicate their domestic workforce to a point where China has the opportunity to steal in the first place.
That's my point (and the opposite of the author's point)
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woooooa this is so cool!!!
What are they stealing? Ideas? Thoughts?
It is just insane that 1.8B should be spent on just Johns Hopkins. This doesn't sound like anywhere near the most efficient way to help the most students who are missing out on places because the institution looks at their ability to pay. Does Bloomberg have an alterior motive to limit his donations to just his Alma Mater? Does he just want a wing of the library named after him or something? I'm frustrated reading this article, it compares poorly to the Gates foundation model of trying to help the maximum number of people per dollar.
Google could buy $110M worth of land, without subsidies, for San Jose megacampus
I speak Greek.

Ανάγκη = need/necessity.
Φιλοξενία = hospitality.
Πνεύμα = spirit. Ok, it may mean breath, too, but only in songs or poems. If might raise some eyebrows in everyday speech. Usual word for breath = ανάσα or more uncommonly, πνοή.
Σωφροσύνη = prudence? That's the only one that doesn't translate perfectly.

For words that really don't translate (to English at least) look up καημός, παλικάρι, μεράκι .
Remember the computer shopper publication from ziff davis? it was a monthly 3 inches thick magazine full of vendors selling beige box computers that have now all been long forgotten.
There is no merit. It's for capital only. Almost everything should be public domain.

What real negative effect does the OP article have on society? None, it's actually likely beneficial, just again not for the already super wealthy.
Pay phones don’t let you play clash of clans or browse Facebook
Purchasing departments still use fax also. Where I work, most purchase orders with established vendors are sent by fax.
I remember this as an incident that was shushed down so much afterwards. Pretty crazy explosion indeed
I gave up on btrfs a long time ago. People were considering it 'production ready' when I experienced an issue that rendered a volume unusable, in the form of kernel panics on boot. This rubbed me the wrong way and I just moved back to ZFS-on-Linux which I've never had as much as a single issue with - not even once!

Today I'm running ext4 because maintaining ZFS setups is exhausting since it is not upstreamed.

Still... I hope there's a future in one of these volume-manager-meets-filesystem filesystems. Maybe bcachefs will end up being the answer some day?
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Both grades I don't even aspire to!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(bouldering)#Comparisons...
Sadly enough, the current answers are to either do what you did, or replace disks one by one.

RAIDZ expansion is coming though[0]. This is the right answer to your problem, but an answer at some point in the future doesn't help you with your problem today.

[0] https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/960.en.html
Unlikely. The US competitive edge is its human capital, its talent. As long as the US remains a welcoming and attractive place for people to work from all over the world, we aren't giving away anything.
I noticed real estate also heavily relies on it. Everything still seems to be done with paper and fax.
To be fair, prices dropping that low is a relatively recent phenomenon. A fully working and useful general purpose computer (including display) was never less than like 5-700 for most of the 90s and 00s in my experience.
Dry, moisture-free wood is about 50% carbon by weight.

So if the panelised timber frame superstructure for an rectangular two storey house of 150m2 is approximately 14 metric tonnes, you're locking up 7 tonnes of carbon for the life of the building (minus of course the carbon emitted to plant, prune, fell, transport, mill, treat, get the wood to site, install it etc.).

If you can use more timber through the construction, all the more effect.
My company deals with medical professionals and we absolutely need to maintain a fax line. The IRS loves faxes, too.
Ideally register the company when there's something to show. Even if the company has been registered, this is where vesting kicks in. Agreed that it's probably harder to fire one, and worst case, you might have to abandon the company and start a new one.

I know that most people won't build things for "equity" but it is a form of investment for the technical co-founder. That said, a lot do take salary as well as equity, and it's a balance between which they prefer.

There are some benefits - like being easier to gain investor confidence, if you do have a technical founder. I think that makes it worth it.
If we really want China to play nice, there need to be consequences for their actions. For example, despite all of this, they're still in the WTO. Despite all of this, we will feed them trade secrets and establish Chinese offices.

Bad behavior goes unpunished, and good behavior isn't rewarded. What incentive do they have not to steal from us? Our handling of their transgressions is naive to a fault.
Many of them could just use your TV as display though, which went away pretty quick in the PC era.
DEC could have completely owned the PC market. They had the microcomputer (LSI-11), excellent software for it, an upgrade path to more powerful machines, and legions of loyal "DEC-heads" just itching to buy one.

DEC fiddly-farted around for years, and finally came up with the Rainbow PC. Not only did it have nothing to do with the 11, its compatibility with the IBM PC was deliberately crippled (you had to do things like buy floppy disks only from DEC). The DEC-heads I knew just laughed in disgust at this, and abandoned their loyalty to DEC.

The Rainbow fiasco marked the end of DEC. It's pretty sad, what might have been. The 11 was a fantastic machine.

(I owned an H-11, and thinking DEC was the obvious future of microcomputing, rewrote Empire for it:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11
)
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> There is no merit. It's for capital

Sounds like a self-contradictory position to the vast majority that consider capital as merit.
Will app developers be able to leverage this?
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Yes, I certainly think we should follow basic logic. I worked at a greenhouse. Historical data is obviously not based on current plant genetics. Do you think people use a greenhouse in midsummer? There is clearly a maximum temperature that varies for different plants. I suggest you look up the thermodynamics of CO2.
No clue but if consumer vega is competitive http://blog.gpueater.com/en/2018/04/23/00011_tech_cifar10_be... MI25 has a chance of being
Watching what's going on onscreen, for me, it appears to be Hangouts blocking functionality until it finishes loading, and Hangouts takes the longest of anything else.
I'm a fat-old-man in climbing terms. I still prefer the mental challenge of trad leading (although I haven't done much recently) to bouldering. The zen like state of staying calm while placing gear that your life depends on is quite something to me. Whereas bouldering is an art form of movement... and one I suck at...but it never appealed to me in the same way
Given that AMD has introduced their own version of Intel's IME, there's very little incentive for me to consider their CPUs. At least there are workarounds for some of Intel's CPUs.
Ask HN: Good books on computation
Hey HN,

I've been mulling the notion of computation. I'm familiar with the lambda calculus and Turing machines. For example I understand insofar that beta reduction is computation. Or the movement of tape is computation. Or the common analogy that information is steady state in the energy space and computation is the work done in changing these energy states.

However, the more I try to pin down an exact definition of a computation the more it slips away like star systems in Tarkin's grip. I seem to be missing some subtle understanding of computation.

I want recommendation on books that will help me understand computation in the way Jürgen Schmidhuber or Stephen Wolfram does. Some math is preferred, but without it being text-book dense would be nice.

I've thumbed through Sipser but it seems a bit obsessed over computational complexity. What I'm looking for is slightly more towards the pancompuationalist works.

Any recommendations is welcome
One train saves 100 trucks. Yes. For sure. Cities consume. Perhaps diffuse population would have a lower cost. I sorta think moving diverse goods to a central depot is easier and less damaging than point to point transfer.
Excellent visual explanation by Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
Is this a serious question? They are stealing results of very long and expensive R&D, commonly know as Intellectual Property, or "IP". Producing this locally would require a sufficient mass of experience talent and lots of time and money. It might not even be possible to catch up.

The fact that this is being stolen from Micron who presumably weren't blind to the value of their IP make it all the more frighting. None of the companies I have worked for in the past few decades would have had any chance of resisting a motivated thief as locking down knowledge runs counter to fostering innovation.
Maybe this attacker gets into a few generic companies like accountants, builders, marketers. Nothing really valuable beyond the scope of the particular company and their customers. Maybe they find their way into a oil/gas/mining operation, specialised software development company or everyone's favourite example, the electrical grid/water systems.

Without data to back it up, I think that most attackers don't want to cause nation-wide problems and are motivated by money or revenge against a specific target. The biggest risk for them is if they did nation-wide damage whether deliberately or accidentally they might be on the receiving end of a response similar to OBL. Whether or not that would happen I don't know but it's the perception that matters.

My biggest reason for hope is that the people I've seen working in government and large corp security have been skilled, aware of the risks and are ready to put in the work keeping systems safe.
Or this? https://innovgoods.com/products/snow-plow-robot
Why not scan the paper to email?
So I can tab-complete files inside a tarball without getting pwned by a malicious filename. So my prompt can show when I'm in a git directory without giving RCE to every script kiddie on the internet. So I can actually read scripts before running them instead of giving up because even the cleanest, best-written sh is by necessity full of underhanded hacks.

Shells are combination development environments, programming languages with primitives and standard libraries, and UIs, and as such need to be exactly as security-minded as any other standard library, IDE, or file explorer.
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>They are stealing results of very long and expensive R&D, commonly know as Intellectual Property, or "IP". Producing this locally would require a sufficient mass of experience talent and lots of time and money. It might not even be possible to catch up.

Can you tell me how stealing these results is actually a negative to society? Is it just a negative to already extremely wealthy individuals? I'm finding no negative here and nobody is really giving me anything other than capital.
I mean... good luck finding a system of self organization for seven billion people which doesn't involve people trying to better their situation in some way?

I mean I appreciate the sentiment, but 'the economy' might also be what's needed to tip us towards renewables (as people will want cheaper energy, and jobs making it possible).

And can it really be neurotic when it's the culmination of seven billion individuals actions? Doesn't neurotic imply an inherit interest in self?

And can you blame the poor for wishing for a better life?

I'm just not sure there's much to this comment besides a "holier than thou" vibe.
The “ideas and thoughts” that you mention are not one-off ideas that somebody came up with in 10 minutes. The big concern is that what is stolen is ideas that are the result of decades of investment in R&D with significant monetary value. Just because manufacturing can be done on the cheap doesn’t mean that coming up with the invention didn’t take a 100x investment.
> doesn't run well with 1-2GB regardless of how many disks you have

By default, sure. There is a FreeBSD (I think) guide to tuning ZFS that lets you tune it for low memory. It's a long time since I've done this so I can't remember which settings, but I ran an old machine tuned for its low max memory, with 4 drives in RaidZ, and it was just fine.

The FreeNAS forum doesn't help much with this as the default opinion there seems to be 16GB ECC. :)
> It is more secure as long as you regard PSTN as more secure than internet. Which is a view that has some merit.

Not as long as you can send faxes from the Internet.

https://faxzero.com/

FaxZero even allows you to put in the phone number the fax comes from. It's $1.99/fax to remove the FaxZero cover letter, and they accept PayPal.

(Also, someone with the username iptel might know a bit about this.)
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Some might think becoming belligerent in the face of criticism would be a poor strategy, but it worked for Brett Kavanaugh...
Sean Platt is one of those indie writers doing very well. He has a great book on self-publishing - https://amzn.to/2Bg2B2H
If capital is required for innovation, and capital won't invest when that innovation can't provide a return, it is a negative to society.
I developed a trading model on https://www.portfolio123.com for my own personal use but that I later decided to open to subscribers. P123 calls them Designer Models and they're offered under a publishing model were subscribers assume responsibility for whether or not actual trades are made.

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Coal is certainly a big factor in China and India's air pollution. But that does not discount that they are both going after other sources of pollution, particularly vehicles, which is the subject of this discussion. China is being particularly aggressive, as the article points out the biggest chunk of displaced oil consumption is electric buses of which China has 90+% of the world's total.
Thanks for sharing, your posts are very well written.

I really like the idea of syntax highlighting before the user presses enter.

Any reason you are writing your own posix parser and readline implementation, rather than using existing Rust crates?
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...and something of a change in policy. They seem to keep making choices and decisions that are asking for criticism.
Stealing these results is a negative to society because it prevents the inventor from making profit on their inventions and from recovering their R&D costs. It is bad because it discourages companies from investing in R&D and from making advances in science and technology.
Flippant or not, it's a good demonstration of how a prerequisite of participating in a Twitter-and-Facebook-driven modern society is using a computer that's powerful enough to handle all the garbage those two companies insist upon running on said computer whenever you so much as think of participating in said society.

The World Wide Web would be a much better place if web developers/designers showed even the slightest bit of restraint when it comes to shoving arbitrary Turing-complete code down my throat. Statistically-speaking, 95+% of it doesn't benefit me in the slightest, and there's a special place in hell for those who write websites such that I have to put up with that 95% that's garbage just to use the site at all.

Loading 10 or 20 or even 1000 140-character tweets should be possible even on an old DOS PC with dialup, and yet even 10-year-old PCs with multiple orders of magnitude more processing power and network speed/bandwidth struggle with that.
I’d be interested to know more about what the Obama administration threatened in 2015 that caused such a dropoff in corporate hacking, when attacks have dramatically increased in the face of a full-on trade war.

The Micron story makes me think when the other shoe will drop for another company: AMD. They are (possibly, debatably) laundering X86 IP to China through a joint venture. I guess it’s hard to steal what’s being given away?
It takes 50,000 hours of productive practice to master a trade or study. Who has the time to accomplish three of these?
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Can you give an example (URLs) of the submissions you're talking about?
I was somewhat amazed that my bank was fine with me using my phone to take pictures of signed forms and uploading them the images for my mortgage refinance.
"more exotic" :-)

OK, hardcore studio level stuff.

Yeah, that's a bit beyond my hobby "Behringer" type stuff. Recently upgraded from 2-in/4-out to 4-in/4-out. Still plenty of bandwidth on USB 2 for that.
And now that research is available to society as a whole to benefit them in an open and likely now cheap way.

Some already super rich people and companies lost money, but so what? I'm sure they'll be able to put food on their families tables until the heat death of the universe.
You mean consequences like a trade war?
I think you're missing the point, though. This article simply couldn't be justified in a printed encyclopedia - there's a finite number of pages you can reasonably expect people to shell out for (and Britannia used to be a status symbol even at that limited number; being able to personally own it meant you were quite well off financially, as it cost well over a thousand dollars).
> You really can't blame ZFS for needing ram for dedup. The raw math around looking up checksum just demands it. There are some other systems that can achieve fast dedup, but instead of ram they would require a ton of super fast SSDs to store the tables.

This is only true for real-time, "live" dedup, which is an essential feature for almost nothing.

btrfs' offline dedup (which, despite the name, can be done on a mounted filesystem) is far more rational. You fill the disk with data, and then dedup it later, at a schedule that works for you. No extra RAM needed.
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Doesn't matter how meticulously researched it is if the conclusions are just plain bonkers.
And then came back when TVs started to ship with modern input ports.
Big whoop. Every developing country did it, including and especially the US; so getting self-righteous later about someone else also doing it is egotistical, convenient inconsistency.

MYOB and protect your own tech as you would ordinarily.

Fin.
I coasted through high school, I wouldn't do homework or study and I'd just rush through work so I could muck around. Despite this I had amazing grades, I was placed first of 350 in my year in maths and was voted most likely to succeed. I went to university and I hit a hard wall at second-year chemistry, which led to me dropping out of university rather than learn proper habits.

Years later I'm back at university and I'm studying properly and it shows. I"m halfway through my CS degree and I'm smashing it. Discipline trumps intelligence.
> In October, Facebook hired former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg as head of global policy and communications, the company’s most high-profile external hire since Ms. Sandberg joined from Google in 2008.

When Mr Clegg became deputy PM to the tory leadership he forever condemned the Lib-Dems to be classed as a poodle for the tory party. The Lib-Dems voters of 2010 deserted the party for this act of treachery which cost Clegg his constituency in 2017.

So if Facebook hope this failed politician can save them then it's going to be a tough way ahead for Zuck.
On a related note, we often hear about folks losing their jobs and having a hard time retraining.

A college degree is theoretically supposed to teach one critical thinking and self-didactic skills. I wonder if vocational education is less robust to economic shifts than a college degree?

Certain trades like cooking, plumbing and electrical work are always going to be in demand, but suppose one trained as a machinist and finds oneself unemployed as society deindustrializes. Is it harder for a machinist to retrain than for an English major to pick up basic clerical skills?
I get it during the Sun years, but why the hell does Oracle continue developing Btrfs when they can just release ZFS under a GPL-compatible license and be done with it? It reallys seems like they are working against their own interests here.
I'd recommend anyone curious about bouldering get into simply top rope climbing first. Bouldering is HARD which isn't so much the real problem, but it can also be frustrating. Some problem solving strategies like throwing yourself into the problem (metaphorically)can result in nasty injuries and a short bouldering career.

Get some easy climbing mileage!
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