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> and they have an astronomically high turnover rate, nobody wants to do the work unless there's huge money involved.

Maybe because Ontario has ridiculous housing costs?

Id be happy to work for $15/hr if I could get a decent 3 bedroom house for $70-80k.

I mean seriously mortgage costs + $11/hr on top and I would be happy.

Yet even somewhere like London it will cost 400k+ and just forget about Toronto.
> Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS.

Easier said than done when there's a minefield of firewall-bypasses for it.
Not really blob free then, is it? ;-) Do you get full documentation of the processor internals and board schematics with that kit? How about an owner-controlled secure boot, or is that remaining blob vendor-locked / vendor signature controlled?

The most pertinent point though is that the POWER9 will run circles around the ARM board in terms of performance, guaranteed. We're using the POWER9 as a full desktop replacement, ARM never really worked out in that role due to general performance issues / lagginess vs. the x86 boxes that were being replaced. A ~2GHz embedded ARM core isn't going to match up to a ~4GHz POWER core, at least not favorably -- you do get what you pay for!

EDIT: On further comparison the Blackbird has double the SATA ports, double the SATA speed, two PCIe Gen 4 slots (a x16 and a x8) instead of a single Gen 3 x4, and quadruple the USB 3.0 ports. Really, the Blackbird is in a different class from that ARM system; it's competing against Intel and AMD boards, not against the low end ARM offerings.
I only wish they would create a repo with all their examples like I did :-)
What? HIV has been considered very treatable for a few years now
It always reminds me of that really weird period of wikipedia in which four out of five articles you looked up had been shut down as not notable enough (fortunately they have moved past it).

It's probably not wrong of the stackoverflow users to have closed the question according to established rules, I just don't think this is necessarily the right way to run the site.
Examine the facts:

- Many research fields have anywhere between 3 and 10 groups working in them.

- A review always transpires the background of the reviewer. You just cannot "mask" the shape of your knowledge around a highly-specialized subject. This includes your approach to the problem, the issues you are most interested in (and hence know more about), the references you give, etc.

With a closed system, you only get to see:

- Reviews of your own paper, without knowing who wrote them.

- Reviews of the papers you review (there are usually 3-4 reviewers per paper, and you get to see the other reviewer's reviews and who they are).

With these pieces of information, academia is already full of grudges and strong-arming around. Here's an anecdote:

I was once in a conference, and met a colleague that made the effort to approach me and comment that he was great friends with my advisor (who didn't attend), and just wouldn't stop praising him. After a while, he switched to ranting about the review process, and how a specific reviewer was a moron that wouldn't understand anything and so on. Of course, that reviewer was my advisor and I did know but he obviously didn't.

Given the high egos involved in academia, I am pretty sure that if there was a track record of all reviews, researchers would figure out who reviewed their papers. The backlash would then be ugly, and the entire ecosystem would end up more corrupt that it already is (imho).

I've been on all sides of the fence, and I just don't see a better solution than just having secret reviews. Nice words don't matter (much, to most people) when the e-mail starts reading "We are sorry to inform you...".
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510203
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I did a research masters and got VERY frustrated by how publishing worked. But I came to your conclusion, too. I'd put it like this: an academic's career prospects are controlled entirely by the journals and the journals' impact factors, so breaking the cycle a chicken-and-egg problem. There are some great strides towards something better though; like PLOS ONE, or university-specific ventures such as https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/jan/ucl-launches-open-access....
That's basically everyone's summary of the Penrose argument about consciousness and quantum effects. I don't think you can ascribe it to any one person.

The summary his argument against hard question AI is even better.
Human consciousness is special.
Computers don't have that specialness.
AI is therfore impossible.
Yep we are on the same page. I actually really like cryptocurrencies, but I work in regular payments so Im a practical and cynical sob :)

> It's like if you invented email but nobody was using it yet. People would say email is useless, because nobody uses email.

For the layperson, bitcoin (the utility not speculative side) looks like P2P email in a world where there was already gmail. While there is fundamental and important differences underneath, it's not apparent to most. Though a basket case economy may make it more apparent..
That a trait is preferable and not developed can never be an indicator of what a gene is for. The fact that I didn't evolve to fly doesn't mean I don't have the potential genes for that. There's also far less natural selection in evolution than we think. Evolution overwhelmingly happens in relatively short time periods, after which stability seems to take over. This is at odds with the natural selection principle as the primary driver of evolution. Also, most DNA-sharing between organisms happens horizontally, not top down (think single cell organisms). There's really much more that we don't know than what we know here.
> 12 months later virtually all our traffic is from organic search

That is a very dangerous position to be in. If all your traffic comes from a single source you are essentially one algorithm change or a penalty away from non-existence.
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The problem isn’t technical. The current flaws in the publishing system are not due to lack of indexing, data distribution, provenance, or filtering. And please, please, please, don’t turn reviews into some user driven drivel like amazon product reviews or other systems that are easily gamed or prone to the whims of the masses. We already have problems with gaming and personal agendas making reviews less than impartial: don’t make something that makes it 10x worse. (CS academic publishing and refereeing for 20+ years here).
The EU proposed limiting transaction fees to 0.2%. I don't know whether that is law already or not.
I guess you don't write flutter plugins in Dart or are you?
Reviewing isn't a full-time job (or any sort of job really). So the hourly rate doesn't make sense. If anything, you'd have to put reviewing in the consulting category since the hour that you spend reviewing something isn't a literal hour of labor. It's the years of experience that you enabled you to do a review in an hour.
"Having started to cross they have priority over traffic"
- Not true and potentially dangerous misinformation.

Jaywalking controls are stupid because:
1. They restrict the freedom of pedestrians.
2. They encourage extra pedestrian crossings, which increases the number of hazards to drivers.
3. They move responsibility for pedestrian safety from pedestrians to drivers.

As a Briton, it always feels like living in some authoritarian, ultra-controlled future to be at a roadside in another country, with no cars within range, and not to be allowed to walk across to the other side.
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When I've had these I've always called the number on my card instead.
How does the old saw go again? "Academic knowledge moves forward one funeral at a time". People have vested interests and if your research contradicts much of theirs, then they are going to be inclined to reject yours. You'd think that this would be all ivory towers / pursuit of knowledge, but in reality it's dirty and messy and grimy; just like everything else in the world.
Airwanderer would be something I have been looking for a long time but it does not seem to work so well. Also, is it just my browser or why is it so difficult to see the layovers? I have to click on "fight details" to see this. Why?

http://www.cleverlayover.com also never worked for me. Good idea, bad executed.

Regarding travel websites, you may want to check out:

https://www.kiwi.com Sometimes finds insane travel routes.

http://www.vayama.com Lets me sometimes stay in Ethiopia for free a day when I fly from Asia to Europe. Does not show up on any other website I consult.

I have also had luck at times with

http://www.opodo.com

http://www.expedia.com (yes, sometimes an old dog still does the trick)
Miners are your 3rd party.
Love this library so much that I include it in my news letter[0] for code to read sections for JavaScript category

Some thing about this project:

- It has all kind of npm shortcut
- Minimal dependencies: only 2, other are for build time, not run time. It's too good that he opt to use `lodash.debounce` instead of whole `lodash`
- Pure JavaScript. TypeScript is nice but its generated code is such a beast
- Files are small(Many files are < 100 lines)
- Method are short

Very easy to read and follow.

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[0]: https://betterdev.link/issues/77
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Nope. Nobody in the review or author role gets paid. And personally, that doesn’t bother me. I put in time to review papers with the understanding that someone else will put in time to review mine. My employer (I’m in industry) understands that this is a reasonable use of my time given that they see value in me being engaged in the academic world. Prior to industry when I was an academic, it was also part of my paid job. It’s usually called service. The trope that it’s all unpaid labor is a bit deceiving and not entirely accurate.
>> since it ships with all of the necessary drivers.

> No it doesn't, last time I checked to even get the recommended usb wifi module to work on Arch required downloading additional packages and compiling a kernel module.

Compiling things yourself is the entire point of Arch. If you don't want to mess with things like these just use Ubuntu.
> I guess you are referencing Nazi?

Nope. Not everything totalitarian that happened in Europe in the past century was about nazism. Far from that.
This is really remarkable "you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Blackbird™ mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode."
On the other hand they are mostly related to the limitation of cards: you give the merchant a number with which he can draw an arbitrary amount, any time, and pass it on (or leak) to someone else. An authorization token for a single transaction to a specific party for a specific amount could probably work without chargebacks.
This specific configuration is for a commuter train, but similar trains (which can be coupled to other sets) are used on long distance routes in the UK.

As I said, the UK isn't really high speed compared to Europe. Other than the Eurostar line/HS1, all other lines throughout the UK are limited to 140mph (225km/h) or less.
I stumbled upon this when researching wether it was something to set up with my pi as DSN resolver but it was kinda a pita, does implementing DoT would be faster?
Agreed 100%. All these giants only die when someone with a revolutionary idea comes along. IBM was about do die when other with a new way of making PC came along.
This is wrong, you'd still have a operating system: BIOS
"the gender they’ve been socially assigned" - you mean biologically?
There is the arguably* more local LINE Pay as well.

* I know it's a Japanese or Korean company, but I am not sure how much the app is used there.
Have seen zstd pop up frequently in zfs and hammer2 discussions, have been running lz4 on FS (and in some cases in for RAM-compressions) for a while.

From my point of view zstd looks like a very interesting alternative to gzip since it's an order of magnitude faster in tests I've seen.

But lz4 seems to still be the champion for raw throughput speed with decent compression, this might change (have changed?) with the negative compression modes in zstd.

It would be interesting to hear from people who've got a bit more hands on experience with zstd in theses contexts.

The dictionary training, would that be applicable on a dataset/volume in a FS context? It would be awesome if for instance I have a dataset for jpg and another for raw-photos and I could get some good compressions for those.

Media usually yields quite bad compression ratios using more traditional compression formats, dedupe can improve this some but usually requires large DDTs (deduplication tables). Could the dictionary training be an alternative in these cases?
Android is absolutely dead on Tablets, Google never gave much of a damn about the form factor with utterly piss-poor UI optimization for larger displays, everything went downhill from Honeycomb.

With a software experience like that it's not surprising that OEM's never went all in on decent hardware.
Sure but selection only works on events that have happened. Loss of function isn't that common especially if the benefit of the gene is resistance to flu, which is far more important than improved memory on an evolutionary scale. Purging selection trumps almost anything more rational.
Developers love Apple because there is no piracy or competition from F-droid. Also the Apple clientele are proven to be bigger spenders.

I love the Android community because they come up with cool things like DNS66 or YouTube Vanced. Ad blocking on iOS is halfhearted.

All that said Apple can do what they want consumers have a choice: buy an Android phone.
How many threads per corse does it support? or is that a concept that doesn't apply to power9 procs?
This. I used to be an academic a few years back and most of the top academics thought everything was peachy. Also, certain subfields are much worse compared to others. I was a biology transplant from physics and I was shocked that preprints were actively looked down upon in biology and generally in biomedical sciences. The publishing fees often went into several thousand dollars per publication and mostly bothered only the junior academics. Oftentimes, grants would have a separate budget for publishing or if you were powerful you could get the university to pay your fees. The people who it impacted the most were those with the least power so it didn't matter. I knew postdocs who paid publishing fees from their meagre pockets because the PIs said they wouldn't or put onerous conditions like adding themselves or other members to the author list.
Annoyingly, doesn't mention how it counts the chickens. :)
Posting on arxiv is useful for making results available early, and to make published work available in some form that isn’t pay walled, but posting on arxiv on its own is not publishing as it isn’t peer reviewed.
With support for Windows 7 Professional ending in 2020, I'm not sure where to go from here.

Maybe you'll be able to do what some folks did with Windows XP and use a registry hack to trick Windows into receiving security patches for Windows Embedded POSready 7, which is the embedded Point-Of-Sale version of Win7. This is going to be supported until 10/12/2021. Of course, this is a very fragile and hacky solution that I would be unwilling to use on boxes running important stuff.

I'm in the same quandary and I think I'm going to just disconnect all my Windows 7 boxes from the Internet on the end date. Although a bit of a bother I will still be able to do my music production, games and graphics stuff without Internet access, and all the day-to-day Internet stuff I can migrate to Linux. Maybe use disposable Windows 7 VM's for random lightweight Windows-only stuff.
Most R&D in this field is done in or around the automotive hubs. I.e. Detroit, Munich, Ingolstadt, Stuttgard, Wolfsburg, Tokyo, Tel Aviv etc. Silly Valley companies are getting almost all of the attention, but most of them are not doing anything that is more advanced than what the car manufacturers and big automotive electronics companies are doing. The few that are genuine tech leaders are either Waymo (good luck getting into that) or have very strong ties to a car manufacturer.

The typical path into this industry is to start at a big supplier ('tier 1' in automotive parlance) like Bosch, Continental, Valeo, Delphi etc. If you are half competent, you can get yourself poached by a car manufacturer after a couple of years. You can go the HN dream path and work for a tiny Silly Valley startup in the hopes of getting equity or getting acqui-hired down the line, but that will mean far less compensation and longer hours in exchange for a tiny chance of winning the startup lottery. Though TBH at this point the handful of winners are pretty much established and the almost 100 other startups in the AD field in the Bay Area are almost definitely not going to succeed.
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Considering the Chinese morality begins with sucking the emperor's balls...

It's not surprising if we see the Chinese doing whatever, like they do.
..the individualistic core of American culture. We typically try to equalize society by raising the floor for the many, rather than lowering the ceiling for the few.

That's what they teach you anyway. The reality - e.g. ridiculously expensive medical bills, widespread poverty - is rather different, so I hear.

e.g. see The US has a lot of money, but it does not look like a developed country https://qz.com/879092/the-us-doesnt-look-like-a-developed-co...
That is a nice wish but the german government is not as concerned with it's peoples privacy as you may think when you read stuff like this.

The opposite is true. Germany sells it's people to everyone (including foreign spies who get offices directly at the backbone of the internet).

We don't have much time left to educate people what computers are and how to keep your thoughts for yourself.

All this fear and suspicion against other nations like china but when they are "1984" germany is just the "a brave new world" version of the same coin.

The laws are changing since years and after german spies and police got more slack, organizations want to connect their data und use video surveillance with face detection. That is just the beginning of something that started with the new generation of kids using "the internet" and smartphones without knowing what a computer is or why it could be bad some day if a regime knows about everything you think.

They will win because the mainstream doesn't care anymore about privacy if things are convenient enough. If tools / services just want your data as payment at least 2/3 of the people in germany are ready to sell everything so they just don't have to pay money or use open source software with crappy UIs.

Also poverty is rising and education has some blind spots (like everything that is related to computers).

If I knew that earlier I'd have become a hacker instead of doing the shit jobs I do/did. Probably then retirement with 63 like in the "good old days" would've been possible :-D
Maybe it's just my limited knowledge on the subject, but it seems to me it's a bit too much to consider the BIOS an operating system. At that point, what isn't an operating system? You're still writing code against a microcode interpreter even once you remove the BIOS. Is that an OS too?
All POWER products offer SMT. The POWER9 OpenPOWER chips are all 4 threads per core (SMT4), so a 4 core device presents 16 logical cores to the OS. POWER's hardware threading system is also unique and has high performance compared to offerings from other vendors (mainly x86) -- check out the processor user manual [1] for all the details.

[1] https://wiki.raptorcs.com/w/images/8/89/POWER9_um_OpenPOWER_...
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This remarkable article explains how it all came to be this way; https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

(The good stuff starts where Robert Maxwell appears)
It's not related to data, it's related to direct vs indirect distribution. If you buy a ticket through a travel agency, such as expedia, they take a small cut, and the global distribution system takes another cut. If you book direct, they can keep that money :)
The author does cover this: "It can be argued that firmwares are indistinguishable from OSes, and that firmware is the only "true" bare metal programming one can do."
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How does Taler (using David Chaums double-blind signatures) compare to David Chaum's current decentralized e-currency project called Elixxir ( https://elixxir.io )?
I noted that yeah. It's a shame that it takes so much time and effort to get to the information that Microsoft should just be open about. I think, with the current short release cycle, audits on Windows will always lag behind the real world a year or two. So at best you know how Microsoft was spying on you two years ago.
Lucky you can use Word in a browser these days, then.

I'm not sure which government departments are using Photoshop but the few that do could just as easily use Macs.
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Are they? I don't think that Ryanair minds anyone showing the flights. There are enough sites doing it (Kiwi, swoodoo etc.). They just don't allow you to sell tickets or collect fees which is the reason why most sites don't list them.
Am I the only one who thinks that “Local Guides” is a needlessly misleading name? Before I looked up what it meant, I assumed that reviews tagged with “Local Guide” were actually written by locals, when in fact the author may just as well live on the other side of the world.
Accessibility support: True, you're right.

> Apollo, the Reddit app, is a good example: it's has found a niche where people use it over competitors because it's more polished

I'd say this is actually a bad example. Because apparently, Apollo distinguishes itself from the official Reddit app, because it is more polished. So being polished is the sole differentiator. My point is: If your product is unique in some way that doesn't rely on polish, nobody gives a shit.

Sure, your app might be a bit better if it was native, but implementing everything natively comes with a huge cost. I, as a solo developer, can't support 3 platforms (Android, iOS, web). So Ionic or Cordova-based apps are golden.

> People will not generally voice this to you, especially since they may not know what about the app looks wrong to them. But they might be put off from using it, or at least dislike it, without telling you.

Yes, they might not tell me, they might just ditch the app. But there are thousands of reasons why people ditch apps and I'd argue that polish is the least important of them. The most important is whether people or not understand the workflow, whether or not it matches how they thing about the tasks they want to complete.

You make it sound as if native was always superior to web-based apps. Let me give you a counter example:

My app is not native, but it works completely offline and focuses on "expert" users in my niche. A competitor is truly native, but it doesn't work offline. It saves all data to the cloud and has noticeable lag when an item is saved. This app, despite being native, is "less polished" than my app, because of this noticeable lag.

What I'm saying is: If any small dev team or solo dev tries to weight the tradeoffs between native and hybrid/web-based (and I thought about these things for a long time, way too long actually, before I settled on Ionic): Just go with hybrid, because polishing an app is way more than native UI controls and native UI controls might actually be the least important one.
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