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>but the question is: if they have it in them, why aren’t they a wizard already?

Not everyone started in college, or started college at eighteen.
It depends on how you measure that ROI, so to speak. In the web development industry, yes probably you could spend even more h/w on learning but would that benefit you in any way?

If you have just graduated yes you probably need to catch up especially if you are after a highly paid job, but for the more experienced one, no you don't have to be that anxious about it.

At some point I found my self spending more time on readying newsletters that were landing on my mail daily or weekly. Besides knowing what was that weeks' famous frontend library, it was adding zero to my foundational knowledge. I did felt that way. I just learned to let it go.

Now I am gradually trying to find my pace. The state were I can be aware of what's happening in the industry but also spend enough time on things that matter.
Thanks, that's very interesting!

We did think a lot about the syntax, but we wanted to choose something that'd be familiar to existing systems programmers. It's largely based on C++ and Java, with a little bit of ML thrown in. This is because the language is, in many senses, C++ with some ML thrown in.

> We need a few dozen Chris Grangers.

Agreed :)
K17264695: BIG-IP ARM BGP Vulnerability CVE-2018-17539 BGP Daemon
As well as accessibility for the vision-impaired, I favor GraphViz and PlantUML for all these reasons
I hope that Amazon, in case of repeated violations, will take down the sellers, giving the information to right enforcement organizations. If changing the ASIN is enough to continue, no surprise if it becomes the counterfeiter heaven. This is a serious matter, counterfeit electronics can damage things and peoples, even kill them creating fire or discharging lethal electric power.
For anyone interested in looking at this story in depth, here are some of the times it or similar stories have been submitted to HN. Some of these submissions have comments and discussions, and those might be interesting to read too. Note that these are not all the same story, but they are all talking about "solving" things like TSP using slime-moulds or other organisms.

My take is this: No, they're not really doing anything interesting other than search, and no, they're not "solving" the TSP. Not least, given larger instances, they don't always find the minimum path, and they don't even find necessarily good paths. So while they do find a path, it really doesn't have any impact at all on the question of solving NP problems.

None.

If someone disagrees with that then I'd love to have a decent discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18784956 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18775638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18774656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18771244

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745530

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735903 (76 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729284

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970427 (20 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3853748

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3757527

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3728933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477746

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072876 (21 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071568

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071093
Chevrolet Bolt EV Sales Tank 41 Percent in Q3 2018
Radical Digital Painting [video]
I think people are overly keen to imbue AlphaZero with characteristics they associate with human play. Stockfish plays lots of alien lines, often relying on perfect defense, that no human would probably attempt in a real game. It's painful and jarring to admit that perfect chess might make no sense to humans, even after the fact. So I think people have emotional reasons to want to call AZ's play more human-like and natural, because it redeems human chess intuition. And to an extent it's valid, AZ is strategically much more sound as you'd expect from it's brilliant evaluation of positions, but it is still powerful enough to play completely inscrutable lines and to accept positions that look plain ugly. And besides, Stockfish also plays some beautiful stuff and newer versions play many of the nice moves we're seeing praised in YouTube videos. Just my cod psychology take, not really a deep point, and not something I'd really argue strongly about.

The second point, I'm saying it's likely some teams, possibly Caruana's have had access to AlphaZero already, and if the public had better access to its analysis we might be able to look at more games from 2018 and see its insights pop up. Certainly some of the lines Caruana played at the World Championship match were strongly backed by AlphaZero in the videos released, but weren't Stockfish's choice, for example.
Chinese schools now use ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations
....you can very easily change how you dress. I wore ill fitting pants for years. Now my pants fit.

I'm not high fashion or anything; I wear jeans and T shirts. But they fit. This is pretty simple to fix.

It's not a huge deal for making friends, but it isn't zero.

This may not be OP's problem, and it may not have been your problem, but a lot of introverted men are awful dressers and it adds friction to hanging around with them.
Came here looking to post the exact same thing. The channel (Polyphonic) is excellent - I'd highly recommend his other videos.
Gel pens are even nicer IMO. Pilot do very nice ones but the 0.38mm Muji ones are also great and a bit cheaper
You also only need to bump the counts on Rc<T>/Arc<T> for each owner, not for every reference, which reduces refcount traffic.
>Everything else is less user friendly.

Not really.

By using a font like Inter UI you create the same experience for everybody, regardless of the platform.

Segoe UI, Ubuntu, Cantarell (Windows, Ubuntu, Gnome/Fedora) are within a different typographic category than San Francisco or Roboto, they're not even similar enough to each other. By using the system font stack you're basically fragmenting the user experience and look and feel.

Inter is a substitute for well crafted neo grotesque fonts loved by designers, like San Francisco (which itself is a better fitting alternative to Helvetica), it's of a similar quality.
More things matter than one might initially expect.

We all have a causal wake behind us.
Because like with almost anything else this is a question trade-offs? Yes, by your measures it is less secure but it is also more convenient. People are ok with trading (the risk of losing) security, and, privacy for convenience.
It is probably regulated in a far more complicated manner.

Singapore has forced savings accounts for basic care (out of pocket spending drives costs down), less barriers to entry into the medical profession (thus more doctors at lower wages than the US), less regulation that results in non-competitive hospital and medical practice like in the US.

It's far more effective at delivering high quality at low cost due to more market forces. They spend 3% GDP for excellent results vs 16-20 in the US which is a regulatory death by a thousand cuts.

Catastrophic care is covered by the government but this is far more efficient than universal systems elsewhere.

If you think US Healthcare is a problem of a lack of regulation you don't understand US Healthcare…

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Singapore%20Healthcare...
Blessed (A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js)
I admit I haven't read the article yet, but I have read an incredible amount on the wall of sound and I find it hard to believe there's anything remaining that qualifies as a fully untold story. I will report back after reading TFA.
I am the opposite. I love to cruise, my wife and I have been on 23, many for long duration.

I like to write and getting coffee at 5am, taking a walk around the ship (outside weather permitting), and then a couple of hours working on a book project in the ship library is a great way to start the day and sets me up for exploring a new port later in the day or reading a good book and enjoying the ocean if it is a sea day. Then at night a fine dinner and a good show. A nice life, and it doesn’t have to be all idle time.
> There is no reasonable alternative method for distributing commercial apps on android.

How about your company's website?
One that I haven't seen mentioned on this list is Plectica - great for explaining complex / in-depth concepts in a clean and easy to update / present / view fashion. Really robust forever-free option too.

https://www.plectica.com
Please cite your sources.
That sounds quite unfortunate for your stock options. But why don't you sell your options, pocket it, and set up an investment portfolio to reduce risk after the first crash?
> I'm kind of curious about those models. Are there any major differences aside from the assumption of incompresssibility? I suppose they probably don't do equation splitting either?

Other folks have already discussed differences in numerical methods, so I'll discuss the other major difference: turbulence modeling.

I don't think that turbulence modeling is addressed in computer graphics, as physical accuracy does not seem to be a major priority. The word "turbulence" or variants of it does not seem to be in the linked notes.

From an equations perspective, the "raw" Navier-Stokes equations are used for "direct numerical simulation" (DNS). The resolution requirements (e.g., grid size and time step) to accurately simulate turbulent flows makes the computational cost very high for all but the most trivial flows. Using a larger grids and time steps reduces the accuracy far too much. So instead of solving the Navier-Stokes equations, typically one of two different sets of equations that are derived from the Navier-Stokes equations are solved. These are the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS equations; a statistical approach) dating back to the 19th century and the Large eddy simulation (LES; applying spatial filters instead of averages) equations, dating back to the 1960s. The RANS equations compute time or "ensemble" averaged quantities typically. The LES equations compute a filtered version of the fields, including only the large scales on the grid. These equations have lower computational requirements, but include new "unclosed" terms that require modeling. LES is typically viewed as more credible, though in my experience RANS computes the quantities you typically want. Well designed LES schemes will converge to DNS as the grid is refined; this is not true for RANS.

Turbulence modeling unfortunately has not proved to be as successful as it needs to be. Turbulence modeling might be impossible in some sense, as there's no reason to believe that the information one has available can be used to estimate the information one needs to accurately model turbulence. I view these models as requiring empirical data and not generalizing well.
So, after the first match in which they played against an obviously crippled version of Stockfish, and published games that involved blundering full queens worth of material, I too was skeptical of the second paper. However the setup was entirely reasonable (they basically copied what had recently been used in a computer chess championship and it was plenty beefy) and no weird time controls were used.

You can still run the PGN of the published games back and find some places where Stockfish 8 will analyse its own moves and find them blunders, so it _would_ be good for all this to happen out in the open, but I don't think there's any large scale deception going on here. I think it's beyond reasonable doubt now that AlphaZero is easily as strong as they are claiming.
Further, does this mean once banned, I could maliciously join organisations to get them shut down?

Perhaps Pablo should get a job with a high profile but small on tech company (maybe a bank?) and watch Google change their policies immediately.
Many people (possibly most) don't see the similarities between ostensibly different things. They just don't make the connection.

I once had 2 different classes about stereo-vision (3D reconstruction with different view points). On the same year. One class was ostensibly about ecology. The other was ostensibly about computer vision. Only I noticed they taught the same thing, and everyone looked at me dumbstruck when I pointed this out. They didn't make the connection even when I made it for them.

Learning ability does slow down with age. If you compensate with making connections with past experience, it doesn't translate to less ability to learn new tech. On the contrary, as you pointed out you learn them faster, because you already most of it. If however you fail to make the connection, you will feel that slow down.
I was hoping to find someone else mention Whimsical too. It's so fast to use. I've been recommending it to coworkers and its allowed them to be much more productive.
I'm sorry but have you considered that there are people who don't actually own a Mac?

As I see it, this is very centric to a specific system and therefore does not offer the best user experience for everyone.
Yes-ish. I don't want personalized news, but I'd like to subscribe to certain topics. As the (current) #1 comment says though, my main concern is accurate and unbiased.

As an aside, short form news might be handy too. Briefs. But I'd really have to trust that the news is unbiased, and it would have to be backed up by unbiased more in-depth content.
Algorithmic Relative Complexity (2011)
> Also, if they end up being highly reliably reusable, wouldn't that slow down the production of new boosters, thereby making them much more expensive to produce?

They still have to build expendable second stages for the falcon 9 and that uses practically the same engine (it's optimized for vacuums). Also, I doubt rocket companies gain much from economies of scale considering how low launch rates are so scaling back production probably doesn't increase costs much.
Because the author related 2 anecdotes din't mean they're the only ones they witnessed. They may have seen a pattern over time.
The official App Store rule is that you can’t have a link from your app to your website that would allow them to purchase digital goods that can be used within your app and you can’t mention how to subscribe outside of the app.
It was discussed for Meson when they included the "subproject" support as major issue for all the GNOME components for most linux distributions.

There is some note here

https://mesonbuild.com/Subprojects.html

or here

https://blogs.gnome.org/ignatenko/2015/05/21/meson-and-3rd-p...

Or more recently with Bazel that do the same but arrives to do it much worst:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6210

or

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/how_to_make_p...

Same with Hunter and CMake External:

https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/issues/296

I have managed an ecosystem of ~250 software for a team in the past.

Software bundling their dependencies are the worst and any package manager will tell you that.

Due to diamond dependency problem, they explode as soon as you try to integrate them into a bigger picture... It is a pure waste of time for every packager.

And I am not even speaking of bug fixes update on dependencies, security update, environment without Internet access or anything like that.... because dependency bundling prevent or make hard all of that.
No they are not.
Jesus enough with Orwellian clickbait.
You shouldn’t list your entire career on your resume, just the past 10-15 years. Also, assuming “18 + length of schooling” is bad too. You’d be way off on my age then too (I graduated HS several years early).
Someone was displeased - https://fuckingcenturylink.com/

I'd love to see an in-depth technical analysis of the outage.
Don't beat yourself up, hindsight is 20/20.
Yeah, somehow the Android version of my tablet is not supported. But I've installed a sketching app, pretty nice.
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The thing is, "somewhere in the backend" is generally accessible from the internet, and vulnerable to attackers (so you need only a maliciously crafted packet, or something similar); whereas for 7-zip vulnerability, there must be: a) a maliciously crafted zip file, b) a user who wilfully opens it.

What's more, getting into one's backend servers/gaining some kind of access to DB, config files of the machine, etc. is, in my mind, just infinitely worse than gaining access to a computer of a person/uploading some ransomware/something similar.

We're just probably working with different SW, so we both see the thing that touches us the most as the problem... :))
vcpkg as another alternative package manager
Yea, I'm not sure what point was being made there. Rust isn't about being faster than C, it's about not letting you make mistakes you can make in C/etc.

If you could somehow write perfect code in a timely manner, you'd have no need for Rust. You'd likely also be a unicorn.
It seems interesting. How does your script to do that?
My team has five middle-aged guys[1] on it, myself included, out of a total of 9. Three of the other four were hired by me. I can only live in hope that next time I need a job I'll be able to find somewhere that values experience as much as we do[2].

[1] It's changing slowly but female software engineers are very much in the minority in Cambridge. I suspect, although cannot prove, that the skew is even more pronounced amongst those of us in our 40s and beyond.

[2] Also, we're still hiring.
> The college hire might grow to be a grand wizard in 10 years, and become a massive asset to the company.

I'm not sure if employers are aware of this, but people staying at companies over 10 years are getting exceedingly rare.
Show HN: Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page
My point was that it is misleading to say it was billed as a server OS when all of their messaging was that it was both — maybe not as far down as low-end desktops but they were very clear that any serious work could be done on NT, going after the higher end PC and lower end workstation business.
Good or smart? They're not entirely unrelated but there's a big difference.
>You still think in a for profit manner, where healthcare in most countries is not a for-profit endeavour.

And in the US it's not.

Assuming that you can simply remake a massive chunk of the economy (hospitals, doctors, nurses, clinics, etc, etc) to be government owned is silly. People will protest, lobbyists will be paid and it won't happen. If your only solution to the problems people point out is essentially magic then, no, it's not a valid solution.
Want to give a shout out to the tech you are using? Or brag about your awesome skillz? Or show just how many dependencies you can juggle before your project implodes? Well, your dream has come true!

VectorLogoZone is a huge collection of consistently formatted SVG logos that will look perfect on your snazzy new 5K display. And they're free! Including hotlinking! With instant search! OMG! XML! WTF! TLA!

Seriously though, I created this site because I use a ton of different open source tech, both personally and professionally. I figured that the least I can do in return is give them a little link love and pay it forward. It really is quick and painless to add a credits section to your README: the site is open source, so you can see the credits section of its README (https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/vectorlogozone#credits) as an example.

And feel free to use if for something besides credits: lists of customers or integrations or sponsors or whatever, it's all good.

One thing to note: while the site is responsive and all, it isn't really bandwidth optimized (and there are a lot of logos), so probably best to make sure your phone is on WiFi. There is no "view all" page because it will take down your browser, even fancy-pants Google Chrome.
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I would argue if you were ignorant of those items, you were not very productive. Someone eventually had to come back and fix that.

It’s like tossing code at QA that you didn’t debug first. If your initial dev time was 8 hours but you have 6 more in fixing issues you didn’t really get done in 8 hours.
https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas
One of the things that worries me about the not quite professional developing software of this nature is does it actually follow the regulations and restrictions that medical software needs to follow. HIPAA is not an easy thing to navigate and has deep implications on how data itself is stored.
They fund open source projects and now they fund bug submissions and fixes too.

I'd be surprised if this bureaucrat-driven innovation doesn't result in the same people producing shitty OSS and then claiming bug bounties through their cousins in Bulgaria.

The EU is ruled by a mix of quasi-capitalist thieves, and socialist morons who fancy central planning.

What they're doing is not only against the spirit of OSS but an abomination of "free" (the licenses may be "free" but it's all funded through state theft and involuntary taxes!)
> only without fully-automated checking

The fully-automated checking is precisely what allows one to write unmanaged code without tearing one's hair out.
Have you cleaned away the old kernel packages? Kernel package operations on Debian and Ubuntu are accidentally quadratic with a high time constant (there is a package script for each kernel that iterates over all installed kernels) so you want to make sure not to let them accumulate.
What other free image sites do you use?
I’m so grateful to have worked with older colleagues who did not care about using the framework du jour. Influenced by their experience, we made some unorthodox tech choices as a web startup, including the choice to use C++ and Lisp-like languages heavily, and it worked out beautifully. From them, I learned that it is more important to ship simple, fast code than to contort your system to use the latest tech fads when it doesn’t make sense.
Makes you wonder how secure their backhaul really is?

If the whole thing is a single flat logical network (one that could allow bad packets to propagate as we witnessed) that would suggest it is also quite vulnerable to malicious actions.

It is all well and good applying a filter, but that seems like a bandaid fix. Why is equipment even able to talk that has no reason to do so? Seems like they've put convenience over good network governance.
The only one I beat myself up over is hanging on to options too long, since that was greed. The other decisions were all reasonable given what I knew at the time.
If one thinks 35+ is to old to code, well I have news for you. At 35+ you learn how to manage time and prioritize better. Life throws another ranch in your bucket of problems, marriage and children. When you are young, you are hired as an engineer to work 40 hours, which we all know very well that working for startups that means 80 hours or you are not putting good effort. Well with a family that’s not possible, as you know that 40 hours at work means that exactly. The rest of the 40 hours are meant to be spent taking care of your family.

So if one more recruiter doesnt offer the job interview, it’s because they don’t understand what life is all about. If you have no time to socialize and network or raise a good family, soon we will be left with a society that only focuses on how to better themselves and not mentoring or preparing the next generation of smart people. Talent is not born, talent is made and it starts with a good foundation, called FAMILY.