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> We've got {filesystems, network filesystems, and VCS}, and each of the three has some features the others would like!

We actually have a fourth one that has nice features but missing what you exactly need: packages (and associated package managers). A package has (on top of build instructions) a list of files, and can depend on another package for working properly. At the top, you could have your own "machine.pkg" that defines all that is needed and is updated as some files are updated. A package can go from one machine to another and only the missing dependencies will be fetched.

A package manager has the pro that any part can be defined as a package and abstracted away, and the con that packages aren't expected to change much so it'd become heavy to recursively update all packages, but that could be a way to hack something.
NVidia's raytracing is hardware accelerated. There's specific cores that can ONLY traverse a BVH tree built into the NVidia hardware. Furthermore, NVidia's raytracing features leverage FP16 matrix multiplication for denoising.

The Radeon VII will certainly be slower at raytracing (if AMD ever decides to support the feature). It has FP16 support and huge RAM bandwidth (which will help traverse a BVH Tree), but I would expect it to be many times slower than dedicated hardware units. Without tensor cores (VII only supports hardware-accelerated FP16 Dot-products), there's no way it'd keep up with Nvidia on denoising or BVH traversals.
lima - great points.

Questions:

1) If you have TS on the front and back end - you already have de-facto typing. Why did you opt for gRPC over just some kind of basic serialization, even JSON? I

2) If you have TS classes, then you need to maintain a set of Protobuff service definitions as well - do you find this was a lot of duplicated overhead?

3) gRPC seems to me to be a little 'internal', not quite a web tech meant to be shared between parties. Did you have trouble with authentication, especially with 3rd parties? Or other 'cross-cutting' concerns?

I'm literally looking at doing what you're doing, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> In terms of being signed up as minors, exactly how do you draw the line?

I think minors need to be free to follow the wishes of their parents who are free to exercise authority as guardians. Interfering with that should be a human rights violation. But if the parents wish to send their kids to a boarding school, that has a long history of being a successful way of providing children with an education.

If Chan was sold into servitude by his parents, I think that's de facto slavery, you can't sell the personal autonomy of another person, not even your children.

> How about physical coercion?

Certainly. But there might be trickery involved as well, which should be considered criminal. If I offered you a well-paying job in Dubai, then when you got there told you you were only going to get paid a tenth and further charged you exorbitant rates for food and lodging, that should absolutely be considered trafficking.

I don't have all the answers. But certainly there's more to it than what we'd call kidnapping.
If the default apps are restored after a factory reset then "deleting" a built-in app in iOS isn't really any different from disabling an Android system app.
The article body shows the AMD chip slightly behind the i9. The chart just after it shows two different figures - "pre-brief" it's behind, "on stage" it's ahead. Not a huge margin in any case.
> nobody is going to say "but we've used Intel for a decade, how can we suddenly switch to AMD?!".

Actually, that is the case, it will take about 1-2 hardware generations of customers _asking_ for AMD before it's featured prominently by any vendor (except the extreme ones like SuperMicro)

If nobody is actually calling their HP/Dell reps asking for it then it will never happen.
Agree completely. The flavor of American cheese blends perfectly with pickles, onion, ketchup, and mustard. You can't get that classic cheeseburger flavor without it.
So Duo without requiring a first password? Where's the value in making something like this distributed?
It's pretty much textbook neo colonialism.
can i get a citation on that 80%? i know we're fat but..
This is... really impressive actually. Such a simple mechanic, but well executed. I like how the red block concept is introduced to you after the first few points are scored. The details of the implementation are really impressive for a first project, or even for a game project in general tbh.
I've been looking for a command line hex editor too.
Seattle has had electric buses for years with charging at the park and rides. I don't think it's inductive, it's kind of a giant slot they drive into, above the bus. It just works, but in the end it's no different than being on any other bus.
looks like they are "introducing" some internal component
https://mobile.twitter.com/automattic/status/106436688085984...
A project that I currently work on procured new hardware and one of the constraints for the selection was that pretty much exactly the same hardware must be available in three years. So this one will be buying intel for the foreseeable future.

I don’t consider that an unusual constraint.
>"And...the 2012 article doesn't actually put Facebook under a critical microscope like it is today."

Maybe reread your own comment above where you stated the concern of "increased scrutiny" and not criticality.

The link is evidence of of increased media scrutiny. From seven years ago no less. Specifically it discusses FB's emerging place as a political channel. Scrutiny and criticality are orthogonal concepts.
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That's a myopic view of language. Changes like "better" --> "more good" don't last for long as irregularities will naturally form, making your "optimal" language yet another legacy constraint.

Besides, the vast majority of complexity of language exists because they carry semantic meaning. For example, the redundancy in the terms "Pig" and "Pork" might have initially been due to a need to signal sophistication, but they survive in modern usage because it's a concise way to differentiate the animal from the meat.

>Given that China successfully adopted simplified Chinese characters
Simplified characters are more on par with spelling changes than newspeak. It only reduces the stroke count of certain radicals, it doesn't make any changes to the underlying vocabulary or grammar, whereas both newspeak and phonetic writing would.
Not what I was saying. Eating meat is natural, it's been for cosmic ages, and to an extent I have no issue with that. The mass globalized consumption does bother me. I reduce my consumption. I might try vegan but I'll surely miss all the meat based products. Maybe I'll find a middle point by breeding, killing producing it myself so at least I did it on my own, think what you want, there's a form of respect in that. I don't think I will enjoy 100% vegan. Another option is synthetic meat, we'll see.
And why can't you wrap it in another message?
I'm happy others are thinking/saying the same thing I would. Came here to say this. ++
Amazing work. Your brother should continue pursuing this :D super impressed!
It depends on the purpose. If your goal is to communicate with people, then focusing on the spoken language makes a lot of sense, given how laborious the writing system is and how divorced from the spoken language written Chinese is.
But do you need to have the shower running the whole time. Or just wet the floor? It's hard to know what tipped the janitor off.

Would better ops be realising it's to hard to do ops in a airport so prep everything possible at home.

I wouldn't have though going into a shower, but not using it, unusual. And I wouldn't think janitors go through diaper bins.

In a would where you don't know how to cover every situation how do the professionals work?

Perhaps the same, rely on some luck and have diplomatic immunity as backup.
Are you actually arguing parents should be allowed to self their children into servitude? If so, there's no point debating with you - I find the practice morally reprehensible (and yes, the systems that make such an arrangement in any way palatable are also reprehensible).
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How does it slow down progress?
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It occurred to me reading the headline that you could simulate all of the nodes in a virtual environment.

So kind of a general question, but: could you or do you have a way to like, run a VM on your computer where you could ssh in have a big open area to turn on nodes and play around with various network topologies, or the software running in each node? Other people could ssh in and pretend to be a node too.

That way we could try running it on our computers and debug the stack in each node, and then if it works, we could download the stack into our own routers and devices and run it in the real world.
It looks like this is a boiled down subset of linear algebra sufficient for deep learning? Is that a correct assessment?
This would be a better reason to discourage the rest of the world from learning English, a language whose native speakers often use familiarity with its laughably bad orthography as a proxy for assessing intelligence, and also a language which unlike Mandarin has seen few serious attempts at reform
(not only because of lack of centralised bodies, but also because English linguistic prescriptivists have generally preferred inventing tendentious grammatical style rules to classify "good writing" over cutting the bits which might confuse people).

On the other hand, English is quite a useful language to be able to speak, much like Mandarin.
FWIW it works for me on Firefox for Android.
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Would renting a car once a year not wind up cheaper?
The point is that the US effectively provides national defense for other NATO members without receiving (direct) compensation.
What does that even mean? Are there Chinese troops in Kenya? Is the government a puppet state? Don't just string buzzwords together, make a real argument that this is harmful, or comparable.
Your “time” example is unfortunately problematic. You need to sync time with something external to the device. If not over the Internet, you’d need to sync via the cell network or GPS or something similar. No getting around it. Component manufactuters have not solved clock drift yet.

The other examples are reasonable.
I've heard people say similar things about SERE school (e.g. "they're allowed to break one of your bones"). It's not true.
We did REST but we completely skipped over "just using HTTP correctly." E.g. using media types in the Content-Type and Accept fields to specify that you're sending a "application/vnd.foo.myapp.myfooreq.v1+json" and looking for either a "application/vnd.foo.myapp.myfooresp.v1+json" or "application/vnd.foo.myapp.knownerror.v1+json" in response.

Then, HTTP itself does the RPC message type management. Request message the server didn't expect? 406 error.
Dindim is also how people call those ice-cream-like things inside a plastic bag. At least that's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article. Really don't know if it exists or has a name in other parts of the world, but in Brazil I've also heard "geladinho", "cremosinho", "sacolé" and probably many other names. But to me, it's always gonna be "dindim".
This seems completely out of touch with the reality in Norway.

In this case police suspect that he was targeted due to a public news story about him making a lot of money on something or other a while back.

The public tax record don’t really play much into this. There are plenty of other sources of information about who is wealthy or not. Usually for burglary, you’re target based on the area you live in.

And all in all Norway is extremely safe.
You can make the argument against private ownership of certain types of land for the purposes of public benefit, but I don't see the environmental point in this case. Privately owned areas, particularly beaches, usually fare better environmentally than high-traffic public access beaches.

In the Philippines and Hawaii, beaches that are restricted due to indigenous sovereignty or private ownership don't have the litter and degraded reefs of their public beaches. Unfortunately there has been a tragedy of the commons with public access.
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Slight tangent: at one company, years after Yegge’s blog post, a senior manager presented those principles as his own cunningly developed strategy. The ridicule was palpable.
We are looking at this as well.

Can I ask a question?

Seems GraphQL and gRPC are to some extent complementary: one is graph/data oriented, the other more functional/service oriented.

I know GQL has it's own ideas about transport, but would it make any sense at all to actually put GQP over gRPC? And by that I mean to have some gRPC services pass GQL requests as parameters? Or have I misunderstood entirely?
They're throwing AWS under the bus, but AWS has yet to acknowledge any outage, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6488845...
We had grilled cheese for dinner last night - just doing our part to use up the surplus.
Why would they chlorinate the water before desalination? And where does the copper come from?
Countered question of my own: Do you understand the plight of being an exploited child?
It likely won’t without ray tracing specific hardware. Theoretically, they don’t need the hardware and can use the directx ray tracing api and do software acceleration. It will just run very very slowly.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12547/expanding-directx-12-mi...
Why road trip with a borderline new tech anyway?

I'm all for EVs but this just feels like opting to play life on hard mode.

Roadtrips are about exploring the unknown, not the moment to try new transportation too
Except all Chinese speakers in the current generation are taught Pinyin in school.
I've just seen it's back up again https://status.zoom.us/

This is the report they published for the incident: https://status.zoom.us/incidents/7mcj28xfdhh1
Wow... Thought I was going to play for 10 maybe 15 seconds... I've never played a game for that long... This is seriously good. If you released this game without "little brother" I would think this was one of those amazing minimalist games. Thank you so much for making this!!
Cheddar's better.

YMMV.
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Unless they are adding chemicals to the water before desalination (which I don't see mentioned anywhere), that sounds like the 'brine' is just ~1.5x concentrated seawater, which will get diluted back again? What am I missing?
It would be a statistical estimate. Some foreign buyers may have trusted go-to realtors who specialize in these kinds of transactions. IIRC, home owners have to indicate whether a home is a primary residence or being used for rental (for tax purposes). All these factors may make the statistical estimate more accurate with reality.
Only if you want to argue about the person rather than about the points they are making.
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As a supporter of multilingual education in general I'm all for this in principle.

That said, language learning really needs a media ecosystem to sustain it outside the classroom. (Most Americans take token Spanish or French but would be hard pressed to go beyond 'hola' or 'bonjour' in real life.)

Beijing projects its power through economic and political means. But that's not enough. Unlike e.g. Japan (anime, video games) or South Korea (K-drama, K-pop), China still doesn't have pop-cultural "soft power" to help fuel said ecosystem -- I'd argue this is the main problem China needs to overcome for the language to really take off in non-Chinese communities.
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Imagine what the extraterrestrial anthropologists will say about humans someday...
Some do, but I don't think it's available to the FA etc.(It's just for the club to track the players for their own analysis)
So when you said "even if you store zero data about users" you meant "except for when you store data about users.

Okay then...
The article said the brine has chlorine and copper (added, and remaining).
And that's fine. You should use the tools you prefer.

But it doesn't really make a LaTeX user more qualified to criticize Word any more than OP is for criticizing LaTeX, does it? Is "I just don't like chasing down the various toggles for it all" really a better argument than "I find reading all those codes aversely difficult"?
Ask HN: Would you be interested in Screenshot scrapping SaaS?
Let's say you have a desktop application form which you want leads.

I have this idea to build screenshot processing service that will extract data using OCR and presented it in tabular format that can be exported as excel.

Need feedback on this idea? Do you have a real world use case which image scrapping is the only option?
To some extent. Gilbert Strang is kind of a linear algebra education celebrity.
In July 2015 AMD released a 28nm chip with more GCN compute units than this card at a lower price - the Radeon R9 Fury X had the full 64 CUs / 4096 shaders enabled for $649. And it was considered a bit of a dud as a product. This Radeon VII is 2.5 process nodes better, but launches with 60 CUs / 3840 shaders enabled. All still on essentially the GCN architecture. And it launches at $699, more than three and a half years after the former.

Yet due to sheer clock speed increases and HBM improvements (16GB, 1 TB/s, wow) they actually seem surpisingly competitive. I'm both incredibly impressed and incredibly underwhelmed.
One thing that I think is a strategic mistake, they should've used UBports for the OS, instead of also developing their custom OS for the device.

This market is too small and fragmented to have the wasted effort. Its difficult enough to build the open hardware device, no need to split energy / IQ by also worrying about the OS.
I find cheddar and pepper jack work as well or better on a homemade burger, but Kraft "cheese" slices are still irreplaceable on one thing, which is the grilled cheese sandwich. The ideal grilled cheese is made with American cheese, mass-produced white bread, and lots of butter.
You can use better ingredients to try to make it fancier, but hit diminishing returns pretty much immediately.
2019, the year of an open source phone. I almost can't believe it. I'm super happy they're not reinventing the entire wheel and are using an ecosystem that already exists (GNOME). Much of the non librem specific work is being done upstream which is great.
I'm not stringing buzzwords together, it's a concept that's more than fifty years old talking about colonialist effects via economic power instead of direct military or political power.

> Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism, postmodern imperialism, or neo-imperialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony). It was coined by Kwame Nkrumah in the context of African countries undergoing decolonization in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
Would have loved being able to run it on windows. I use hex viewers for embedded work and have been looking for a decent one for Win.
Standardizing or simplifying the language adopted as lingua franca is a common practice. English is actually an exception in this respect. For example, see Bahasa Indonesia, which can be considered Malay newspeak, and very successful.
What universe are you living (Or perhaps leaving...) in?

Suggesting brexit has no effect or isn't worth considering in a business decision is absolute lunacy
> You also have the added difficulty that prop taxes are capped. But land taxes aren't.

I don't think California allows local governments to raise land taxes (it allows parcel taxes, that are apportioned on a flat per-parcel basis, but that's obviously not the same as a land tax.)

> In any case, shifting the burden from consumers, workers and businesses to landlords

...won't happen. The consumers and businesses that rent property (and the workers employed by businesses and whose sustainable potential pay is limited by other costs the employer has to pay to operate) will still bear the burden of the taxes, even if they are directly levied on property owners.
The Zeppelin (Ryzen 1xxx) die is 212 mm2 and its CCXs are 88 mm2 leaving 124 mm2 for the uncore. Now we see that the Matisse (Ryzen 3xxx) IO die is 122 mm2 — virtually the same size on the same process for the same functionality. (I don't see how L4 cache would fit in there BTW.)

As to why it's so large, I guess connecting cores, memory, and PCIe at extremely high speed just requires a lot of transistors. Intel's uncore seems to be far smaller; I'm not sure how or why.
The reasoning is steeped in connotation that you may have missed. Might I suggest an alternate reasoning: From the view of an oppressor, oppression is necessary to protect the oppressed from being able to choose socially harmful behavior. In this view, oppressing someone is actually saving them.
Holy shit!
Did this have consequences?
> "Dindim" is a slang for money in Brazil, but in a very cute way.

Just curious, the way it is pronounced in the video it sounds similar to "Ching ching", which is also slang for money in English (sounds like a cash register opening). Is that the same idea in Portuguese?
I think your assuming the city provides 26k+ of value on those taxes to residents. That's a dubious assumption in SF.
They're not building their own OS, they're building a few apps and dealing with hardware specific driver issues - but otherwise a lot of stuff is projects that already existed and needed improvements (which they have done upstream) or working directly with those upstream projects.
Last summer I took a road trip from Oregon to Texas and back in a Tesla Model 3. I covered about 600 miles a day over the course of 8 days, for a total of nearly 5,000 miles. I never had a problem finding a supercharger along my route, never had to wait to charge, and rarely had to spend more than 30 minutes charging before continuing.

I stuck to major highways and interstates for most of the route, though there were a few long legs in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas that were on minor highways off the beaten trail.

It was a really fun trip and I'm dying to take more long road trips in the car. My experience definitely wasn't anything like the one the author of this article had.