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Out of all the CS majors, what percentage do you really think are going to be in an ivory tower doing “research” and not working for for profit businesses?

Have you never been on discussion boards where brand new CS majors ask for advice on how they can convince their boss to move from their $x million dollar oracle implementation and Java stack to some open source NoSQL database and Node?

I don’t see too many people posting on HN - a site sponsored by VC company that funds for profit businesses - talk about their “research”.
And you don’t necessarily want a global minimum of an universal approximator...
Having seen amazing bamboo scaffoldings in HK. I have no doubt about building material (minus how do they treat it against insects health-safely).
The rPi chip itself is not rad-hardened, so it'd require a bulky shielding, that'd increase the launch mass, which is a lot more expensive than a more space suited chip. Also, launching into space requires a lot better electronics. Sure, it'd work likely, but .. when a launch is that expensive, you wouldn't accept these risks.
A few months ago I pulled out a machine with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor that had lain unused for four or five years. It had difficulty booting, failing to POST a couple of times, and BSODing early in the Windows 2000 boot process several times, even once almost finishing booting. But the fascinating thing about it was that the clock frequency the BIOS was reporting was 532MHz, which is only double the FSB (266MHz), rather than the intended 13.5× (1800MHz).

After about ten attempts, I was no longer able to get it to POST at all. So I pulled it apart and scavenged its disk’s magnets, which was what I had been planning on doing anyway.
To make liquid nitrogen, you need an special equipment. Imagine that it's like a refrigerator, but more complex. So to run the equipment you will need a lot of electricity.

You have to do the calculation of how much will it cost in electricity to produce the liquid nitrogen necessary to have the same impulse of the usual fuel.

Also, liquid nitrogen is very cold, mixing it with water will make a lot of ice [1]. The ice is not good for the nozzles or whatever is in the "engine" of the jet.

[1] Liquid nitrogen is quite cheap, something like $3 per gallon. You can get some for free in the laboratory during a major degree in Physics. It's nice to play with it, but be careful and follow the safety instruction. :)
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This is very helpful! If I may make a shameless self-plug, this would be even better as something that is dynamic and can be interactively played with. A few years ago I made this iPython notebook for similar didactic purposes: https://github.com/turingbirds/gradient_descent/blob/master/...
I tried to register for an account with N26 early this year. After uploading all my personal information and passport scans, I received a generic rejection notice almost immediately. Extensively talked to the customer service, but they couldn't possibly figure out the rejection reason and eventually just stopped replying.

N26 appears to be one of those modern companies built on automation and algorithms where human customer service is an afterthought. It'll work until it doesn't - and then you're on your own. Wouldn't recommend using them to handle significant amounts of money.
Ethiopia to launch its first-ever satellite with China’s help
Not only ancient people. The concept of a “foreign” inner voice exists in islam and is called vesvese in Turkish. It is commonly attributed to being deceit from satan and as a child you get taught to actively repress it.
What basics would you include in the JS language?

I'd rather a small, extensible language with a huge library ecosystem...
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This reminds me of "rod logic" computers: https://hackaday.com/2015/10/19/rod-logic-and-graphene-elusi...
Yeah.
If you are being threatened with legal process in a foreign country, step #1 is always "contact your embassy". This is actually one of the main reasons they exist.

If they let you, your embassy should be helping (at the very least, understand your rights/options, etc. They generally will not provide legal advice but can give you an overview)

If they don't let you, then either:
1. What is happening is very very illegal (IE they are not supposed to be detaining you)

or

2. You are about to be accused of something so serious they think it's worth creating an incident over.

or

3. You are in a banana republic :)

Outside of #3, it's valuable to understand where you stand anyway.
Haunted by His Brother, John Wheeler Revolutionized Physics
Taming the Rate of Change
This is really awesome.. I too love the book Code by Petzold. I was wondering if I could help translate this into German? I have some work colleagues that could really benefit, but I think it would be easier if the explanatory text was German.
Korean e-commerce firm Coupang raises $2B from SoftBank’s Vision Fund
Does that list only include binary-to-llvm lifters, since it is missing at least valgrind (vex) and BAP (bapil) otherwise?
Zeit 2.0, and building smaller Python Docker images
I don't think this numbering system is specific to Germany, it is also used in Poland so it must be European thing.
What's more even in smaller stores you can get at least two varieties.

Edit: the systems seem to differ modulo specific numbers, but principle is the same
>The vast majority of essential code is not operating on just one object – it is actually implementing cross-cutting concerns. Example: when class Player hits() a class Monster, where exactly do we modify data? Monster's hp has to decrease by Player's attackPower, Player's xps increase by Monster's level if Monster got killed. Does it happen in Player.hits(Monster m) or Monster.isHitBy(Player p). What if there's a class Weapon involved? Do we pass it as an argument to isHitBy or does Player has a currentWeapon() getter?

As an indie dev this is something that I struggled with early on and my solution so far has been to choose the most obvious place where all those things should happen and just do it there (in this case it would be on the Player, in other less obvious cases it gets more fuzzy). What does the non-OOP solution for this problem look like?
I find the imperial system totally confusing - I'd actually prefer if we moved to metric for driving - we've used metric for petrol/diesel volumes for ages.
I think you and the GP are using "lower level" in different ways. GP means with a lower barrier to entry, you mean "closer to the electrons" if I understand both of you correctly.
Not outside the US. E.g., in our apartment, we can subscribe to fiber, cable, and DSL. On fiber and DSL, there are many ISPs to pick from. However, the prices are still similar to the US (you just get a lot more bandwidth for the same price).

I think it is more that the costs of running an ISP are much higher, you do not only need peering, but the networks including the last mile need to be put in the ground and maintained. Plus, in to some extend, people in areas with high-density populations subsidize expansion into lower-density areas.

The VPN market is really different. In principle anyone could start a VPN using just a VPS (it wouldn't be the best, but many VPNs are terrible anyway).
either that, or the copyright enforcement regime has lifted human creativity to unprecedented heights because of the financial protection it afforded, while simultaneously encouraging people to create original work rather than clinging to derivative trend-chasing.
Europe could have that tomorrow, if it would really put its act together and regulate its train system more tightly. I did both a super-long distance commute (900km) bi-monthly and a regular daily commute (100km) using German trains for two years each. It was horrible. But with some proper coordination the network could become viable overnight: For example: Deutsche Bahn knows it unreliable even using their own weird definition of delays, but still they do noting to work with this information. Every time you book a train they will offer a journey with a time to switch trains below 5 or 10 Minutes, although the probability of reaching that is below two thirds.
On Serverless and Data Rigidity
InsurTech hiring in London VC funded, first hires
How Teflon Went from Wartime to Dinner Time
There is (at least) one company providing this kind of services. They tag in the movie all the content with timestamps, and can provide it to a player to skip or not depending on the tag (nudity, violence, etc.).

As far as I know, it was manual, but that was already a few years ago.

I don't remember the name of the company, but surely it can be found and there are probably multiple such providers. The service was provided to TV operators (satellite, cable or pay-TV) to include in their set-top boxes.

PS: of course, as sjcsjc mentioned in a sibling comment, it immediately gives the idea to many people to only show those parts :)
Even pretty small grocery stores will have unbleached flour and the confusingly named "bread flour".
And add to the confusion Scone is also a place in Scotland of some historical significance (not for baking though).
It's normal for everyone to use their own language. We refer to the Chinese government, not the Chinese zhengfu. And the same criteria that let us know that the Chinese "全国人大" is part of a "government", despite the Chinese preferring not to use that word, also let us know that the British "Parliament" is part of a "government", despite the British preferring not to use that word.
Most imaginative people can imagine voices and often discuss things with themselves.

The acceptable version of Janes' hypothesis is that ancients attributed much of their imagination and interior life to objective reality.

A stronger version of Jayne's bicameral mind only requires that the ancient doubted ownership of certain of their emotions and trains of thought and discussed and wrote of them as real - the internal narrative, the train of thought, the stream of consciousness did not exist as a literary device and consequently the ancients did not possess it as a tool of thought.

As Gods and supernatural events were generally accepted in ancient times, the idea that internal dialogue was the voice of 'Gods' or deceased relatives was entirely reasonable as far as they knew back then.

The ancient might say the sea calls me home and the modern would understand the same emotion as guilt at not seeing ones parents.

Dreams are unbidden, uncontrolled internal imaginings we all have and anyone who stays awake long enough will start to hallucinate while awake.

Likewise stress and PTSD can induce unbidden thought, and uncontrolled imaginings and terrors.

We then attribute this to the unconscious mind, so we entertain a certain bicamerality.

Even so many of us moderns still entertain superstitions and use ritual to absolve ourselves from 'bad luck'. The Jungian hypothesis is that the unconscious responds to symbol and ritual and we require understanding our life course in heroic and mythic terms to properly become our own selves apart from our parents' views and social programming.

We are self aware enough to correlate certain cravings for particular sugary treats to advertising influencing us - is the desire for that product truly our own thought ?

We might say that a person lacks wit, empathy or is quick to anger - the ancient talks of them as under a planetary astrological influence or a symbolic event, a raven attending their birth, the reason for their behaviour - the same things are being communicated but the cause is differently attributed.

Jaynes proposes that minds were recently completely bicameral and did not posses our modern consciousness until bicamerality broke down - which is difficult to swallow, haven't we always been this human ?
It's interesting to see these modernization attempts for ancient wellness 'technology' that dates back thousands of years. I am, of course, talking about yoga, and more specifically -- pranayama. Otherwise known as the 'science of breath'.

You don't have to believe in anything to practice different breathing techniques, and the results are absolutely there. I have met freedivers who build up their lung capacity strictly through pranayama exercises.

If you suffer from anxiety or a stress disorder, pranayama can be extremely helpful in managing both your mental state of mind and the response that your body has to uncomfortable feelings.
Entity-Component-System, amusingly explained in this great talk from RustConf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
Review of using Helm to package and host applications
It looks like a bunch of flat, 2d tables like you might find in a spreadsheet or database.
AOL already had its own built-in browser (the imaginatively titled "AOL Browser"), although it used the IE rendering engine under the hood IIRC.
When I say architecture, I mean running a full web-runtime as your core application layer. That is a fundamentally broken paradigm in my opinion. That's also the difference between RN and Flutter.
No, Really Your Startup Doesn't Have to Be in the Bay Area
That solution is more burdensome than OOP
Drop the Batteries: Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone
Pretty cool. Reminds me of MYST

http://myst5.com/images/mystgallery/channel_2.jpg
https://lparchive.org/Myst/Update%2015/3-1103_Switchflip.gif
If you want reliability, buy SLC SD cards. 'SLC' keyword is much more important than the brand. There are a few companies that make them, for example Panasonic or Swissbit.
Not entirely true either. Transistor aging is real and is becoming more relevant at the latest nodes. But what is important to remember is that a slower transistor is still being operated in a circuit switching at the original frequency, the result of that is incorrect calculations.

It won't take any longer to startup, it just won't startup in a usable state. Startup/tasks taking longer is definitely the software industry's doing.

https://semiengineering.com/transistor-aging-intensifies-10n... for more.
This is brilliant, especially the cross-categorised images.

I had thought these were talking about 'pornography', but this makes it clear that a very large amount of its training set must consist of dick pics.
> The editor picked up a newspaper and read at length from it, challenging S. to repeat everything back to him. When S. did so verbatim, the editor sent him to have his head examined.

Not sure whether intentional but this is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
If they had a plot of the function in a digital format that could be printed what stopped them from doing numerical integration?
>Such biscuits are still popular with Afrikaaners in South Africa.

Also in Greece:

https://culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/athens/2018/...
He'll be locked up in a secret prison where he wont be able to communicate with the outside world.

https://www.ted.com/talks/will_potter_the_secret_us_prisons_...
Apple Acquires AI Startup Silk Labs
Outside of London most of the country is white.[1]

If you never leave London it’s easy to forget that and how fast the ethnic make up of the capital has changed.

[1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/british-p...
Ask HN: Good ways to get started with ML/AI/DS?
Hello all, I'm interested in learning more about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. In the past, I've read that the best ways to ramp up are the ML courses on Coursera, the Fast.ai course, and Kaggle. Is that still the good ways to get started? What have other people done to ramp up in this?
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/
Whilst I recommend Revolut, be wary of the support. My card was stolen and I noticed that there had been several transactions on it, meaning somebody had been using it. Fortunately I have the push notifications turned on so I was alerted almost instantly.

When I got in touch with Revolut support, they needed a paper copy of the police report, along with several other documents from places such as ActionFraud (an organisation set up here in the UK to exclusively tackle fraud).

The police report took 2 hours to file, followed by a 2 week delay by Revolut to actually verify the claim and process the refund. Now, any other “bank” I’ve been with here will always refund you the money first and then resolve later.

This isn’t necessarily a criticism of Revolut, as I still use them very frequently but just a word of advice in case you’re used to the process, as I was.
> what percentage do you really think are going to be in an ivory tower doing “research”

Quite small, but does it matter?

> and not working for for profit businesses?

It's not as if for profit businesses do not have research departments, consider Microsoft Research for example.

> a site sponsored by VC company that funds for profit businesses

I fail to see how this is relevant.

Why the use of the term "ivory tower" and the quotes around the word research? Are you implying that CS research is not real research or something?
Critics accuse government of burying climate report with black friday release
Facebook has offices in London
It has NextCloud support built in and I think they offer a NextCloud account to users (fee?) but hopefully a person could self host.
Why not tor? Because it's slow and many website are block when i use tor.
I'm using Firefox.

ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration `NEWS_ITEM_TEMPLATE' before initialization init-templates.js:15:32
I read this quickly to see if this was the piece that should convince me.

It was not. It is, IMO, a collection of strawmen.

People have abused OOP? Yes.

But

- citing FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition (which is really funny even for us Java/.Net developers because it is so horribly wrong)

or writing this

- Because OOP requires scattering everything across many, many tiny encapsulated objects, the number of references to these objects explodes as well. OOP requires passing long lists of arguments everywhere or holding references to related objects directly to shortcut it.

again IMO, demonstrate that the author never really understood OOP.

What probably is true however is that a lot of people should unlearn the OOP they learned in school.
n=24 in this study. I'm not disputing the benefits (there appears to be historical evidence), but is that enough to make a claim like this?
Some things never die. comp.object on usenet (15+ years ago) had a regular 'guest' explaining why table-oriented programming is better than OOP:

http://www.oocities.org/tablizer/top.htm
haha you are right
I can't comment on the worldwide aspect, but plenty of challenger banks allow you to add your card to your Apple Pay/Google Pay wallets immediately after account opening; without having to wait for the physical card.
And where do you think oil coconuts are grown?
How many people do you know who are happy to have 5 different chatting apps on their phone and remember which one to use to talk to which person?

Consider that you're a distant outlier.
You are now breathing manually.
Yeah, good point. I get paid into Revolut and transfer most of it to another, physical bank.
We primarily used class 10 consumer cards including Kingston, Sandisk, Samsung etc. We also tried ATP which is sold as an industrial SD card. More info: https://www.atpinc.com/products/industrial-sd-cards
Revolut seems to make the most sense in this case. You could consider Curve Card as well. In terms of traditional banks, Charles Schwab welcomes international clients who are ready to invest $25K upfront.
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Have you read it? It’s not based solely on that. It’s also filled with brain research.
Right there with you. I had assumed it would just look for folks on the network and give me the option at that point on who to add. Nope. I had folks replying back to me declining invite. I had people in my address book I never wanted to contact again. I finally got LinkedIn to stop retrying people from my list, but I failed to get them to forget my list apparently because, like you, some of these people/addresses are on my recommendation list.
ESA lends a hand at Mars (ExoMars)
Have you looked into https://www.alleaktien.de ? One of the hottest startups in Germany right now.
> What probably is true however is that a lot of people should unlearn the OOP they learned in school.

Can you provide references for proper OOP?
This has been shared on HN many years ago, but I'm linking again in case there are younger engineers who might be unaware of this classic rant: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns : https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
Just to quip on your first point, we did a decent job (especially during the first and second world wars) of aligning ourselves, though the purchase of bonds and the like, on spending money on "guns".
It was not invented yet, the "Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves" paper came out in 1994...
https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...
Would TinyCore be a good option for us? We just need to run RPi's and Chromium to display a web page.
Excellent point, thanks for the reply, I'll give it a spin on WSL.
I think it also useful to semantically separate cognitive consciousness (i.e. Knowing and expressing the existence of your thought processes through arguably higher, more abstract thought processes - which might even go on recursively - knowing that I know that i am conscious, etc) from the externally unmeasurable 'conscious experience', (i.e qualia, the awareness of sensory or thoughts at the most essential level, 'seeing' what one sees, etc).

One could imagine a living being with one but not the other, for example qualia without cognitive consciousness (if I had to guess, I would imagine this experience to be similar to being drugged to the point of having no internal monologue, no complex thought process, but keeping your sensations and vision, etc, or being a barely-sentient animal in purely instictual mode of thought and action)

The opposite, cognitive consciousness without qualia - a.k.a the philosophical zombie - or a computer which can argue the existence of it's thoughts without feeling them is, I gather, a more controversial state of being.

What I find interesting is that in separating the two 'consciousness's, the former ends up taking almost all of the importance and the latter none - anything which can be externally measured ends up in the first category (which is a computable logic process), which leaves very little of utilitarian/evolutionary/algorithmic importance in the second. However, in much discourse about consciousness the latter takes a disproportionate role (i.e fear of losing your unmeasurable consciousness when teleporting, etc, though the cognitive consciousness, being by definition a logical and measurable process is theoretically preserved)
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