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> Automatic updates are a good thing.

Not in Windows. It would be one thing if it was security updates only, but they are constantly pushing out new features, with new bugs, that need updates to fix, which also introduce new features, with new bugs, that need updates to fix. It's a never-ending treadmill, and the result is not increased security or privacy.
I feel like the title of this article is way, WAY overblown.
I moved from Belgium to Berlin 2 months ago. To me Berlin looks really spread out compared to Belgian cities and a lot of other big cities.
To test my feeling I just checked this map [1].
It's clear that the population density in Berlin is lower than in other European cities like London or Paris. Even smaller cities like Brussels, Copenhagen and Stockholm are denser.

So I think there is still is a lot of potential to relax zoning laws and let more homes be built. This is the best way to lower rents imo.

[1] https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/
I don't know if they are platitudes but they just sound like some generic PR drivel. Take from that what you will.
That’s an interesting duality between the coefficient and pointwise representation. I wonder whether this connects to the discrete Fourier transform, which can be viewed as the evaluation of a polynomial at the complex n-th roots of unity. (and the inverse DFT must be equivalent to Lagrange interpolation I guess - insert some handwaving here)

Also, the BCH encoder multiplies the input sequence with the generator polynomial, which is a convolution of their coefficients. Fourier-type transforms (i.e. number theoretic transform) relate convolution and pointwise multiplication, so I feel there’s an underlying connection here, but I don’t have enough experience with finite fields to connect the dots...
Thanks for the link and reaching out with the suggestion.

I've been rotating between water fasting (with Himalayan salt for electrolytes) and carnivore diet since beginning of January. I started off doing a 6.5 day water fast (I had done a 10 day one in the past), and was planning to go longer, however the inflammation goes down and makes the pain more sharp - and at 6.5 days became too much and so started to eat again. Recently I finished an 8 day water fast - ended a week ago. I'm down a stable 30+ Lbs in the nearly 2 months, and losing 2-5 Lbs depending on how active I am, even when not fasting. I also generally eat only one meal a day, which ends up being intermittent fasting of 1:23; occasionally I'll have a second smaller meal later in day.

I've also been doing ozone therapy with amino acid IV drip afterward for a month now, and a few weeks ago started LDN - low-dose Naltrexone - which has had a significant impact as well, in part it acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory; https://www.ldnresearchtrust.org/ for more information on that + a short documentary on LDN: https://vimeo.com/295993909

P.S. Just thought I'd point out you have "karma: 1337" right now. :P
The Ukrainian г is pronounced as something intermediate between English hard "g" and "h" (ɦ in IPA)[0][1], so it's often transliterated as h.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet#Letter_name...

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ɦ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian#Tabl...
Because micro solutions to macro problems never work.

Gates could pay his entire net worth into the treasury and it does not fix a fundamentally broken system.

Gates is commenting on how the ultra rich like him make most of their money from capital gains, which are not taxed at normal income tax rates. If capital gains were simply taxed like income taxes, it would be a huge blow against income inequality this country is facing.

Because capital gains are taxed differently, the ultra rich will continue to have their compensation geared towards stock, and away from income.

Gates is looking to change an unfair system. He alone can't do that.

It is not hypocritical for Gates to ask for macro solutions to macro problems.
"Self hosting is doable up to 2 or 3 servers with a very few services. Beyond that it's really suffering from the lack of tooling, the lack of isolation and the lead time of weeks to get anything more in place."

There are plenty of companies with their own datacenters of hundreds or even thousands of machines. Yes, these companies usually have deep pockets and their own dedicated staff to take care of these servers. This is how it was done before AWS existed, and is likely to continue long after AWS ceases to exist.
While I think that they're overdramatizing the problem, perhaps Amazon should worry about this since I feel like the search is the only way to actually interact with Amazon. The quality of the metadata they use for browsing by category and filtering on features is so poor that any way of finding things on amazon besides search seems just unusable. I regularly "showroom" on other websites with better product browsing before searching for a specific product on Amazon to check their pricing.
Stephen Hawking posited that the first and only thing a time machine would do is detonate as a direct consequence of virtual particles reaching arbitrarily high energy density through repeated loops. If you don’t like various chronology protection conjecture, fair enough, but building a time machine means something unless you’re inserting magic into it.

Our universe appears to lack the necessary extreme curvature or negative mass to sustain CTC’s. In the absence of such natural curvature or means to create it artificially and stabilize it, the whole question is a non-starter.
Tax is not policy and not punishment. Get over that.
For me, bureaucracy and TypeScript go hand in hand. There are benefits to using TypeScript, but they're not worth the problems.

TypeScript gives an illusion of added productivity and safety but when you actually look at results, bug density is exactly the same as JavaScript.

As a TS developer, most of your time is spent on catering to the compiler's complaints, but doing so doesn't actually yield any benefits in terms of producing high quality software.

TS and TSLint are bandaid solutions which don't address the root problems behind what makes code bad (which 99% of the time comes down to bad design/architecture). TS simply cannot prevent bad design/architecture - It can only formalize it.

It's nice to have linted code with everything typed and statically locked into place but that means very little in terms of actual code quality.
A Reminder of the Past, When the Rule of Law Applied to Corporate CEOs
This is the strangest get off my lawn comment I’ve read on HN. The internet doesn’t belong to you, and what spreads around generally operates around a free market of ideas and opinions.

It turns out a lot of people are interested in the thoughts of a prolific philanthropist and founding father of the modern software industry. He’s not “deserving” of anything, there’s just an n >> 0 market demand for, well, his ideas and opinions.
Your sentence rendering is very impressive and lifelike. Great job!

One suggestion: pause a bit more after the end of paragraphs, particularly after long paragraphs. It can help comprehension.
> you have a single authoritative view of the world, plus a secondary cached view of the world in a different language

Yes. OTOH, with NoSQL you have no authoritative schema; your code may allow for multiple different schemas, and your records may have multiple different schemas, and they could agree or disagree to any extent.
But once the child is born, their is little reason the parent who gave birth to be the one to provide care. It should be the family's decision who gets the post-birth exemption.
I'm reminded of this article - http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/4/the-eternal-cost-s...

Netflix run a spot market for instances to drive down costs for exactly the reasons mentioned here
While that's true, other quality providers still smash AWS on that issue.

Let's say you spread that across 10 dedicated instances ("optimized droplets") on DigitalOcean, at a cost of $800. They account pool the droplet transfer, so that's 50tb with the instances. The remaining 550tb would cost you $5500.

$6,300 vs $37,300 and you get ten servers with DO.

And if you really wanted to be creative, spin up 100 $20 instances, which would cost you $2,000 and give you 400tb of pooled transfer. Then spin up the 10 $80 optimized droplets to use for actual work (maybe there would also be some use case for the 100 standard droplets with 2vCPUs and 4gb ram; otherwise idle them). That gets you down to $4,300, almost a tenth of what AWS is charging just for the transfer.

When it comes to transfer, AWS is a minimum of 5x more expensive than it should be even if you assume a premium for the service. It's a big fat money maker for them.
Besides web browsing I could potentially do a lot of my work on an early 80s machine. Even a non connected one would mostly do fine. I would need two of them at least for coding (I had 2 of them in the 80s as well for coding; crashing is normal as there is no protection when you mess up, and booting is fast but still a hassle, so two or more machines with a monitor switch was the faster solution) but I would get quite far given a bit of patience. It is insane how slow these machines were compared to what we have now, but with some effort, people get to run stuff like Symbos[1] on them and for some jobs that works. Web browsing is just quite impossible: many html pages do not even fit in memory, let alone allowing rendering. Solutions are sticking a Pi in the cartridge port that sends lynx rendered pages for instance, but that is cheating. So then a modem to a linux machine would be the better option.

[1] http://www.symbos.de/
> Each microservice maintains its own database, with a model that is tailored to its own domain. This is called a projection

In DDD land this is referred to as bounded context.
There is roughly 2k hours of lecture in a 4 year degree (15 credit hours * 11 weeks * 3 quarters * 4 years) ~> 1980 hrs. At high quality 500MB/hr this is 990GB. This is worst case, so a 1TB memory card has more than enough space to store the lecture portion and possibly extra tutorials for a 4 year degree.

These cards will be less than $50 in 3 years.
There's a fine line between genius and madness.
Isn't it better to let the computer handle things humans are bad at unless you have a real good reason to muck around in the lower level?
It's at least as any as the number of people who ignore the way George W. Bush is hailed as a hero for his work stemming the tide of AIDS in Africa.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/george-w-bushs...
You sure about that? Sylvan Clebsch [1] -- Pony's creator -- is now part of Microsoft Research [2], has been working on a distributed actor model, and is presenting on Pony at QCon London next week [3].

[1] https://github.com/sylvanc

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/syclebsc/

[3] https://qconlondon.com/speakers/sylvan-clebsch

Pony: Co-Designing a Type System and a Runtime [video] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/pony-co-desig...
All true and consistent. "All matter can run Windows" is indeed the simplest explanation. It's wrong, but still the simplest, per Occam's Razor, as CuriouslyC pointed out.
Unfortunately, being a very good moderator vs just good enough doesn't make a big difference for the employer. That's a very big difference with doctors, programmers or actors.

IMHO, construing that this happens because of a conspiracy between the employers isn't going to help.
The problem with ending polio is primarily with religious fundamentalists in Pakistan, who spread rumors that all western-funded vaccination programs are a secret plot by the CIA to sterilize people, or some similar nonsense.

https://ourworldindata.org/polio
Yeah I don't disagree, ultimately though, it's a scaling problem. It's unrealistic to hire thousands of people in a high churn context. Cognizant, Accenture, et al are companies designed to do that and they do it well.
The space for remote work in VR is going to be HUUUUUUUGE. You're off to a great start! My advice is not only copy/paste what we have today, but think about how you can use VR's unique advantage to make remote collaboration even better than in-person collaboration.

The best of luck!
Well it’s a wrong solution since glass already filters it. Seems a bit premature to salivate over regulation for something that isn’t a problem.
You seem outraged at the suggestion that this could happen. Post-traumatic growth is an actual phenomena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_growth

Of course that's no excuse to downplay the occupational hazard of PTSD. But it's a real thing; facebook didn't make it up.
You might be surprised at what offering them (the “hands”) a packet of well-written runbooks and a bottle of scotch for the holidays will get you.
if you want to learn finite fields somewhat more formally, but not so formally, this is a pretty good introduction (yes, it's for AES, but the principles are the same): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1v2tX4_dkQ
You know what? Not just Reed-Solomon codes, but Information Theory is cool.

People don't realise how ubiquitous different forms of encoding schemes are (I am leaving out compression/decompression schemes altogether here, but it has always amazed me as to what profound impact Information Theory has, and yet it is so out of the way):

Forward error-correction codes (FEC) at L2: IBM's elegant 8b/10b encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding used in pre-10g era Ethernet, and its successor 64b/66b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding used in post-10g era Ethernet / Infiniband / RoCE, and the sister 128b/132b encoding used by PCI-e 3 and USB 3 standards.

Linear error-correcting codes (LEC) for Volatile Memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code

FEC for HD Voice Transmission over Cellular Networks: AMR used in 3G and VoIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_code... and AMR WB for VoLTE aka HD Voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_Wideband

Fountain Codes for Digital TV on Mobile (DVB-H): Qualcomm's Raptors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_code

Turbo Codes for 3G/4G Connectivity (OFDM), Satellite communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code

Optimal Erasure Coding (for data at rest, and for Mobile TV, and for 3G/4G): Reed-Solomon and its variants are a clear winner here (used by dropbox https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/pocket-watch/ and rumored to have been used by S3 https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/06/erasure-coding-and... )

Upcoming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density_parity-check_code LDPC codes are recommended for use by data-channel in 5G replacing Reed-Solomon whilst Polar Codes are adopted for the control-channel in 5G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_code_(coding_theory)

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Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code
As a complete novice on the subject all I know (and have heard) was the Gates Foundation was involved in ending Polio and it was Bill’s pet project.

I’m sure other people were involved but I have no clue who because the media loves focusing on one face for an effort because it’s easier than representing the diverse group required to tackle such an issue.
The Last POWER1 CPU on Mars Is Dead
Thanks for the links. I decided to respond to a comment in one of those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19248599

I'm writing a book that will be comprehensive with all of this, there's too much misinformation/outdated information and misunderstanding out there to do combat one-on-one.. Shoot me an email matt@engn.com or follow me on Twitter @mattamyers if you want to keep in touch, probably will be a few years before I publish the book.
It's about time the smartphone market had some shake-up. Phones haven't seen major form factor changes in several years now, yet their prices keep ticking up.

Neither Apple, nor Samsung can justify prices of $1000+ for flagship models when the benefits are so marginal compared to flagships of even 2 years ago. I paid $900 for a Galaxy S7 in 2016 and decided to import a Nokia X6 from HK for $300 instead of getting a new Galaxy.

Of course, I'm not going to pay $1500-$2000 to be a guinea pig for this new form factor, but it's good to see that in a couple of years, smartphones might not become yet another boring shopping list item.
You might think he's being disingenuous, but that's still not a platitude.

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=platitude
My New Life Without Likes
Not before you vote me to reputation that will prevent me from posting. Before that, I have the same rights and privileges as you, with regards of posting.
Furthermore, from my perspective I think that it is one's duty to have as many children as they think they can have within as long they it does not negatively effect the raising of their other children to a large degree, and it does not put one below the poverty line.

Raising children who are moral/ upright, and positively add to the economy adds to the world by an exponential factor.
Yeah, me too actually. Especially when searching for things like PC parts, Newegg does way better (though PC Part Picker is even better). I feel bad not buying from the interface that worked best... but Newegg's order process is pretty evil, so I don't feel that bad. ("Pay $9 to have your order shipped possibly today, instead of waiting an unspecified amount of time." Do they still do that? I saw that once and never shopped there again.)
I'd recommend using plug + cowboy for your web layer and if you prefer to do away with some of the more prescriptive parts of phoenix.
> Confusion has been caused by some mobile carriers who have launched products advertised as 4G but which according to some sources are pre-4G versions, commonly referred to as '3.9G', which do not follow the ITU-R defined principles for 4G standards, but today can be called 4G according to ITU-R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#IMT-Advanced_requirements

4G is defined in an ITU paper basically. And telcos started to use it for networks that were pretty far from 4G. Then ITU simply said, that okay, sure, use that, because they don't care.
7 years french => I keep screwing up "Peugeot" (cars)
He seems to have answered this one - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aunv58/im_bill_gates_...

Doesn't feel like a non-answer as well.
The stupid fight they had with ProtonVPN and NordVPN did it for me.

Reddit mods had to close some threads because the people copypasting PIAs (mostly baseless) allegations under every comment even slightly positive about either ProtonVPN or NordVPN were getting out of hand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

Here's the account that has done nothing but attack ProtonVPN https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7

Has a hint of Mafia to it.
>This is probably the biggest problem with our two-party system: Most people land similarly to you and I,

According to most opinion polls I've seen that actually cluster people along these dimensions, about 3% of Americans are "socially liberal, fiscally conservative".
> This right here, I believe, is the biggest problem facing software today. How do you pay for it?

You find the people who are making money with it, find conveniences that those people would appreciate, and put them behind a paywall.

Or, with the same group of people, offer them a support contract. Sell them the “premium” version of the software with 24-7 support and contractors who can solve any problem they might come across.

Or, host the software as a service and let people pay for that.

Or, host the software as a feee service and use your users’ data to market products at them.

Or, use the software to solve a social or governmental problem, apply for grants to do more of that, and use some of the grant money to improve the software.

Or you can always sell virtual hats.

There are lots of ways to do it.
ProtonMail SSL Certificates and DarkMatter
There's also a difference between randos talking about you on the Internets and serious people spelling your name. They probably don't get it wrong on his chair or trailer on set. It's probably spelled right on his checks and other documents and in most all correspondence of any value. I cannot spell half my teammates last names from memory, but I don't rely on that because it's important communication.
A majority of the bottle necks I've encountered have been ram. Maybe battery life secondarily. This is from a performance perspective. For software development work flow. Not trying to run the entire environment on my laptop. Barring of course something like constant video encoding or high cpu usage. Past that we're seeing improvements in weight, and display.

I've used thinkpads for a while. Starting off with a T430. With a quad core, and 16gb of ram and three SSDs. The two pain points were the display and weight.

I upgraded to a T440s, which fixed the screen and weight. But the ram became a deficit (12GB max). I worked around this by RDPing into a dedicated server I colocated. This offered a beefier desktop on demand (32GB ram + hexa core). But this also faltered because of poor internet connection outside of my home generally. The thin client works very well, as long as you have good internet. But good internet is very difficult to find.

I upgraded to an A485, most recent ryzen. It clocked in around 1200 after upgrades. All my older thinkpads were around 200 total. It's not worth it.

It's not just the core components. The dock was an extra 200. I picked up older thinkpad docks and carried the same model for several generations. I got them used I think for under 50. I had one at every junction of my house. Dock to the media center, desk, bedroom, etc.

From what I've seen the next thinkpad line is going to be even less upgradeble. Which is a real shame. That feature really extended the life of any business model.
Sorry, no, I just meant that the maximum human lifespan recorded so far is 12.2 decades, and the vast majority of people reading this will die in even less, 2–5 decades, regardless of what happens with climate change. Given that, it's silly to treat your body as if you could make it last forever.

I've edited my comment above to clarify.
The 5D uses an old battery format that is increasingly difficult to source. It also is becoming difficult to service. So that $300 bargain might have to be disposable.

I usually recommend the previous generation old for DSLR. At phase-out Canon manufactures enough spares for an anticpiated five to seven years of servicing.
is this hacker news or sjw news? oh sjwism is infecting tech.
I agree. Memory biases may either enhance or impair the recall of memory, or they may alter the content of what we report remembering.

There are many memory biases including the humor effect, positivity effect and the generation effect.

The humor effect states that humorous items are more easily remembered than non-humorous ones.

Positivity effects states that older adults favor positive over negative information in their memories.

Generation effect states that self-generated information is remembered best.
I’m an AI researcher, and here is what scares me about AI
>operates around a free market of ideas and opinions.

this is not really much of a market, free or otherwise. Public philanthropy, which is highly managed and personalised has more to do with gilded age ventures than with markets.

And you are starting to see this lack of distribution and local management when you look at some of the larger missteps in philanthropy, for example Zuckerbergs 100 million Newark school project.

Right from the start experts and local leaders were arguing that it wasn't going to be effective, but billionaire philanthropy crowds out local decision-making in favour of often emotional decisions of single individuals.

If you want a market don't have celebrities distribute money in activist fashion, but redistribute it and move it to more institutions and individuals.Billionaires with committees and boards and agendas resemble the proverbial soviet planner with a clipoard more than they do ... actual markets.
Customers, too.