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> We may be pushing up against physics in that area, but that is not the same thing as processing power

I didn't say we're pushing up against the limits of processing power, I said that processing power is not growing exponentially, which is true, despite the gains that other advancements and innovation have provided.
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Fake news, fake reviews, fake users, fake user groups.. How does one have a relationship with the Internet that is not as abusive as it is today? Can this network work without any trust?
Indeed, AMDVLK was part of the AMDGPU pro driver first and was opensourced in december 2017, so it's not new.
Upgrading is super easy these days when you go with their omnibus installer. That handles all of the upgrade tasks for you, even skipping over versions which was not really possible with the source install days of old.
You’re never going to have a legacy, so give up trying
That's a really interesting aesthetic, a mix of classic and new. Kind of reminds me of the feel of old vector arcade games that were simple but crisp. A new title could be made along these lines and slightly improve some of the effects (like the explosions).
I actually responded with "Let's say 10AM then." That was "too late - we need you here sooner - how about 9AM?"
There are use cases where on prem is either very attractive or a requirement. We are currently on Github, but there part of me that would really really like to avoid spreading our code all over the Internet (we also use hosted CI) and trusting others. (Yes, Github is probably better at security than me etc ....) However others have very high security requirements where regulations are being violated by being off prem.
> It's not ok to say that Brexit will be great for all the other companies in the UK, whilst clearly demonstrating he couldn't care less. It's immoral. That's what I'm complaining about.

did he say that though?
They should stop selling advertising and charge for API access to the social graph, both users and app developers. There should be a free tier with the core functionality for users.

This will realign Facebook's interests with the interests of their userbase.
> are you referring to the code you read?

Yes, the code the developer needs to read, write and understand.

I'm not familiar of how async/await will be in Rust, but I guess some code differences/complexities can be:

1. Make sure, manually(?), that all things are async / non-blocking.

2. Implementing Future.poll / wrapping types in Future? (What is Pin? ref https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/execution/future.html)

3. Async polution, a function that uses async must be async too?

4. Setup some scheduler that maintain how many concurrent async operations one thread has?

5. More verbose error-messages / stack-traces?
Yes, the method of rollout was helpful in its adoption. The name recognition of the first institutions (first Harvard, then other Ivies and other selective schools) was helpful in hyping it. I don't think it was a household name in 2006 but the rate of adoption did help it garner attention from the press.

Not rushing into generating revenue helped. Handling scaling up well, compared to its social media competitors, helped.
Sounds like you had a bad experience with college but I think you raised a couple of good points:

- college is in every way, dumped on teenagers as THE ONLY way forward

Absolutely true in my experience. High schools are entirely structured around two things: standardized test performance, and pushing kids into college. If you are not a college-bound kid, you essentially don't exist.

- No one is there to mature. No one is there to improve their concept of individuality. No one goes to college to learn for the sake of learning.

"No one" is too strong, but I think this is true for the majority. Most people in an undergraduate program (and probably also a majority in Master's programs) are there because they think it is the path to a good job. Because that is what has been drummed into them since elementary school. Learning, expanding horizons, etc. are secondary.

If most people at college were there simply for the sake of learning, enrollment would be a small fraction of what it is.
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It isn't personal. There are situations where the manner of quitting make it unlikely that I'd want to work with you again.

If you joined, people on the team are helping get you up to speed on new tech, and you quit within two months before we even had a chance at a payoff for the work the team put in, that's off-putting because it's inconsiderate.

It's not illegal, and you have a right to it. But my team likewise has a right to work with people who are considerate of their time. And the business likewise has a right to ask me for positive value from hiring. So I'm going to pass on rehiring that guy.

Now, insta-quitting on being told that you're getting "a kick in the ass" instead of a raise is easily justified and if someone were mismanaged so egregiously previously I'd have no problem rehiring them. To be honest, no software engineer in their right mind would ever go back to a company where that was said unless it was for "fuck you money" so the situation just never arises.

Leaving for more money or a different kind of job is not a big deal. That's life and I'd expect a decent transition with work hand-offs and whatnot. No one will be upset about that.
Same. I worked at a small (at the time) consultancy and I will stop by just to visit on occasion. And I'll be invited to several events. It might be a little different because as someone who worked for them, I am inclined to recommend them to where I work. And to recommend other people who used to work for them who have also gone on to other things.
Didn't LinkedIn just lose a court case over very similar anti-scraping terms? Offering something publicly on the internet, then attempting to block certain uses using your ToS seems like Glassdoor being an Indian giver...
It's pretty short sighted to think you can trust your "debit" card number with any online merchant nowadays. I wouldn't shop online, or even at physical stores for that matter without the safety net a credit card provides. I don't mind paying the extra bit on top for this protection (which is negligible due to rewards).
I think Tumblr lost most of its mojo and following in the exactly inverse scenario: when they (recently) said "no more porn". The backslash was big...
a decentralized education system
You mean places like Silucon Valley where people walk to work? A huge number of the good professional urban area jobs are not actually in the cities. And for those which are many mid-career and older workers live in suburbs or even further out.
I honestly think this is one of the main barriers to smalltalk being more widely adopted; the meta is almost completely impenetrable to outsiders.
Firmware isn't opensource. Kernel and userland drivers are. There's RADV as an alternative to AMDVLK which was created while AMDVLK was closed source. Both are maintained.
Googled "brexit dyson quotes":

http://www.cityam.com/265756/james-dyson-car-makers-complain...
Well it seems like a very different model to Github.

I don't know the figures, but the teams I encounter using Gitlab are self-hosting, you aren't going to be able to browse their (private) repos.
I guess it's in the context of the Proton/Linux gaming discussions earlier.
And overcoming both is much harder than overcoming either on their own.
FB is a partner who snoops on all your apps without permission.

Facebook is a partner who snoops on your Facebook without permission!
https://www.absint.com/ is the company that sells licenses/support and they advertise:

> For two decades now, Airbus France has been using our tools in the develop­ment of safety-critical avionics software for sever­al air­plane types, including the flight control soft­ware of the A380, the world’s largest passenger air­craft.

https://www.absint.com/success.htm
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This is nothing more than my own opinion, formed over 25 years in software: look forward, not back. If you find yourself venting on a site like glassdoor stop and think it through. Yes ostensibly the point is to help others avoid a similar experience, but the reality is that relationships between employer and employee are so fraught with subjective qualities that it's very hard to say how generally applicable your personal experience is. If you can confine yourself to statements of fact - they have this policy or don't have that one - then that may be actually helpful. Having a bad experience with an employer, especially one that results in involuntary separation, can leave a lot of emotional baggage for you to deal with it. I'd say the last place you should deal with it is in public on a review site.
Not sure if it's related but I had this monitor problem that involved wire that would wear with each laptop opening. It was with the old plastic MacBook though, which was made while Steve was still alive. Eventually the screen would stop working as well. The only good part was that the multiple Apple Store repair sessions were all free.
While I think it's great Musk puts his money towards such things. My main worry is that he'll be bored with it, sell off all the tech secrets and patents to patent trolls, and set us back more years than before SpaceX came about.
That's true, I guess that ties back into a counterargument to the parent's point, that the connectedness issue with transit would be mitigated had the city been planned differently.
I like to read the negative reviews. You can usually get a sense if the person is just disgruntled or has a legitimate gripe.
Wow. A great research into this manuscript. I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks.
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where did he specifically say exactly what you've accused him of saying?

because it's not on that page
Cash and Mastercard are competing products, and Mastercard requiring the merchant to sell payment with cash at the same price as payment with Mastercard is obviously anti-competetive. Whether the merchant has the choice to not offer a particular product is irrelevant.
Still MSFT, in a way!
On-premise runs pretty much maintenance free. I've be running GitLab for ~5 years on-premise with ~200 developers. The issues have all been minimal, and few, over those years.
I think open source GPU firmware will be very unlikely to happen for any high-performance part in the near-medium term future.
My parents let me log into their AIM accounts, before I was old enough to get my own, and then we kept in touch. We moved to Yahoo messenger, and my Dad still keeps in touch with me via Hangouts. We migrate; instant messaging is an easy tech, and there's always something available to use, so we just grab whatever's convenient and go.
The whole purpose of a business is to capture the wealth they create. Business will create less wealth if they can capture more. Housing market being a prime example.
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> I'm not overreading, you said you prefer shipping sub optimal solutions. Sounds like to me.

I was talking about prioritisation. I am very wary (or perhaps jaded) with people who want to fix everything all at once with no regard to the wider effects on the business of doing so.

I didn't mention anything about quality with respect to what we do choose to deliver, although I can assure you that user experience - of which quality is a key facet - is our utmost concern.

I thought my intent was clear, but sorry if not, and hence my comment about overreading. I wrote very little from which you (and you're not the only one) appear to have extrapolated quite a long way.
I totally disagree. When I read reviews (on Glassdoor or anywhere, really) I try to discount any emotionally charged content and focus on the factual elements of the reviews.

I mean, "Political, negative work environment"? Every single group of humans since the beginning of time has a level of political interaction, so when I see comments about things being political I pretty much discount them unless there are some level of specifics. I've also seen folks make the "political" charge when what was really at issue is the person didn't communicate or work well with others, and it takes a level of emotional maturity to realize why this is important.
The American term "middle-class" means something far less specific than the original British meaning of "well to do, town dwelling, non-aristocratic business owner". In that definition, a "middle-class" person is never an employee (which would make someone "working-class").

The American use of the term reflects (whether or not it is borne out in reality) the achievement of a comfortable and secure lifestyle (relative to the current time period) by an employee. In a way, it's a more flexible definition than the British one. The post WWII economic boom was the first time that, en-masse, people who were not inheritors of significant educational or monetary capital or status could achieve that lifestyle.

However, the problem with the American definition is that it chooses to ignore how much that achievement actually has to do with class and other inertial societal constructs, perhaps because frank discussion of class effects is still considered taboo in American society, whereas older societies with openly acknowledged class structures can actually have that discussion.
You probably should specify the city you're talking about. Those seem like pretty specific complaints. I think the main thing that can be generalized across most of the US that you mentioned is the grid system, with parking lot islands in second place, but they're not common in the center of many cities. They are quite common on the edges.

For example, many readers here may be familiar with San Jose, and itis not a good walking city, but it is not true that it has no yards or parks, and I think the residential architecture is lovely. In portions it suffers very much from parking lot islands, and the businesses are very centralized, not much mix of housing and business.

But if you want to stroll nowhere in particular it ain't bad. On the near north side you can look at the foothills from that park by the elementary school on 22nd ish, then walk down Empire, stop at 13th street, grab a donut and watch people play tennis, handball or volleyball in the park. Then you couldstay there or head south to Naglee Park Garage for dinner (well, maybe that place closed), southwest to downtown for a drink, or just over to 6th street and get groceries or walk around in the little japantown.
It's not exception, I've been trying to ask some questions about Coinbase (YC company) in "Who Is Hiring" post, they all got removed. I reworded these comments multiple times, after ~10 attempts I gave up.
There’s more usage to the touchbar than replicating the media controls of the fn keys. For example if you wanted to smoothly scrub through a video, a continuous Touch Bar would make more sense than two discrete keys.
Yeah, it seems like this ruling is wanting Google to become the police of the internet: burrying things the government doesn't like and only showing what they do like. I don't think that's a good thing.
> The encoder is five-layer bidirectional LSTM (long short-term memory) network. In contrast with neural machine translation, we do not use an attention mechanism but instead have a 1,024-dimension fixed-size vector to represent the input sentence.

5 layers of 1024-cell bidirectional LSTMs (edit: actually 512-cells x2?)? Can consumer GPUs even fit that (+ the decoder) into RAM?
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Not the parent, but probably because

1. It's notorious that hard drives have a higher failure rate at the beginning of their lives than in the middle (see bathtub curve [0]). So it's not absurd to test them hard early on before writing any useful data and to do an early RMA.

2. The failure rate on drives is low enough that his methodology may be right but he still never has any failure in his life. Doesn't it make insane.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
I think for a field like philosophy, which is composed of a bunch of relative silos (some within broader silos like the divide between analytic and continental philosophy as well as others like pragmatism and many sets of non-Euro/Anglo regional philosophy traditions), snowball-sampling isn't really appropriate to gather the "structure of recent philosophy". However, it is a cool look at _parts_ of the current analytic philosophy landscape, and I'm with the other commenters that the aesthetics are on point.
> I noticed the new Samsung A8s has copied Apple's decision to remove headphone jack.

Sure, and there are perennial rumors that real soon now that will be reflected on flagships (first the S10, but then that faded, now the rumor is either the Note 10 or S11.)

> There seems to be an unavoidable engineering+cost motivation that multiple companies (including Sony) to remove that jack.

Well, yeah, of course, if nothing else, it takes space that could be used for something else. The Samsung Note 10 rumor centers around trading it for a bigger battery, for instance. Obviously, it's not a trade-off free choice, and what it's traded for may not be the same between different manufacturers that decide to axe it. (The same with SD card slots, which lots of manufacturers have done—even Samsung several flagship generations back, though they reversed.)
This, a hundred times.

To a native English speaker, "I turned the light off" is a perfectly straightforward sentence. To a foreign learner... can you imagine how many different meanings "turn off" can have? (Not to mention "turn" and "light" can both have a gazillion meanings.)
I have been pleasantly surprised by FB's suggested translation even when the messages are written in seemingly (to me) complicated transliteration of Bengali.
http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ have a couple more:

* pee: tee standard input to pipes (`pee "some-command" "another-command"`)

* sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file

Though in zsh and bash you can create pee using tee: `tee >(some-command) >(another-command) >/dev/(null`
Basically looks like a population density map with NYC being the exception.

Did anyone expect anything different?
No. Not sure how it is in the US though.
I will never understand why people are so proud to have gotten rid of "needless" security. It always ends the same way...
You are claiming a lot of absolutes in this. I attended college to expand my mind, learn new things, and mature into an adult. I went to a large but reasonably prices state school and did everything you said no one does. I don't even use my degree but going through thought me a lot of lessons I still use (working well with people I don't know, learning things quickly and applying them, making new friends). I, and I bet a lot of others, learned and grew a lot during University with out the notion of finding a career.
>The fact that organizations outperform individuals at many tasks shows that superintelligence is possible.

That's a little hand wavy example.

Besides, organizations lose out to individuals all the time where intelligence matters -- e.g. that's why the stupidity of bureaucracy, or the army, and "design by committee" is a thing.

Also teams of 5-10 do often do better than teams of 100 or 200 (even in programming), except of course in labor intensive tasks (of course an army of 1000 will defeat 10 people, except if among the ten is Chuck Norris).
They actually do build a thick computer with lots of ports: The 2018 Mac mini. It's awesome. Thunderbolt, USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet, Headphone .... it really has everything you need.

It's not really portable, but if you're a Pro, and need all those ports, chances are that you work at a desk and don't actually need a portable Mac.
GitLab is indeed used much more for private repositories than for open source. These are both on self-managed instances and GitLab.com

We used to have a Explore link on our homepage to https://gitlab.com/explore because HN asked for it but it got dropped.

I've asked to reinstate it in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/3713
> nQUIC is maybe an interesting approach for some specialist applications but more likely a dead end.

Adding on to this, nQUIC (and Noise specifically) is significantly better for use-cases where CAs and traditional PKI don't make sense, e.g., p2p, VPN, TOR, IPFS, etc...

I agree that APT is not one of these cases. Currently APT has a root trust set that is disjoint from the OS's root CA set, but they could easily do HTTPS and just explicitly change the root CA set for those connections.

EDIT: from the nQUIC paper:

> In particular nQUIC is not intended for the traditional Web setting where interoperability and cryptographic agility is essential.

On another note, I think it would be helpful to expand some points for other readers:

> nQUIC also doesn't have a 0-RTT mode. Noise proponents can say "That's a good thing, 0-RTT is a terrible idea".

0-RTT is dangerous because of replay attacks. It pushes low-level implementation details up the stack and requires users to be aware of and actively avoid sending non-idempotent messages in the first packet.

> Maybe so, but you don't have one and TLS does. If society decides it hates 0-RTT modes because they're a terrible idea, we just don't use the TLS 0-RTT mode and nothing is lost.

One major point of using Noise protocol is to _simplify_ the encryption and auth layers, remove everything that's not absolutely necessary, and make it hard to fuck up in general. Things like ciphersuite negotiation, x509 certificate parsing and validation, and cryptographic agility have been the source of many many security critical bugs.

From an auditability perspective, Noise wins easily. You can write a compliant Noise implementation in <10k loc, vs. OpenSSL ~400k loc.

> But if as seems far more likely we end up liking how fast it is, Noise can't match that. Doesn't want to.

HTTP is insecure, but faster than HTTPS. Most sites now use HTTPS regardless. 0-RTT is insecure and while it might be OK for browsing HN, removing 0-RTT makes it much harder to fuck up.
Twitter is the comments section most media outlets have removed. Media likes it because it's usually all about them, and screencapping it often makes their jobs easier (aka "look at this twitter thread" between X and Y). Otherwise, it's disqus with a different distribution model.

Blogs are doing just fine. LJ simply became a Russian blog platform rather than and English language one. It did have some social media aspects back in the day, but it assumed a couple of standard deviation higher IQ (or at least attention span) in its users, favoring long form posts with lots of imagery. It didn't become a disgusting FB megacorp because it didn't cater to the lowest common denominator, or hire people to make it addictive. FWIIW Brad did fine.

Tools like this should be the goal, not evil garbage like FB.
It's remarkable how often it works.
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These reports were super helpful when we were choosing how to kit out our servers (we went all HGST as a result). It's pretty hard to find good reliability data otherwise. So, a really big thanks from us.
Impressive demo, unfortunate that the 2070 gain in performance over the 1070 line isn't greater then ~5%