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Twitter uses GraalVM in production, you can find several talks from them.

Beyond that, enterprises using PTC, Aicas, IBM, ExcelsiorJET JDKs have had the option to deploy AOT native code in production for the last 20 years or so.
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> ...rise of deconstructionist thought, which eventually led to a deconstructionist critique of science.[citation needed]

Just perfect.
Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude streaming movies
Here’s another popular (and thorough!) answer about a paper that claims gender bias causes more deaths from female-named hurricanes than male ones: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-worst-academic-pa...
> Could you elaborate on the kinds of abuse you saw?

In a very broad sense, sure. I don't want this account to be traceable to where I work now, so some details will be changed or omitted while keeping the kind of abuse the same.

We make a website where our clients can make timeslots available to the general public. The length of a timeslot is dependent on how many people the person booking slot intends to bring, as well as some other factors. Whether a person can book at a certain time therefore (partially) depends on how many people they tell our clients they'll bring.

We also made it so that the booker can change how many people will be coming along (for example because of sickness), or, if they are delayed, by how much, so our clients can more fully use all of their available resources.

However, how bookers were often using it, is by saying they'd come alone (if you have a very short timeslot, there's a better chance it's still available), and then change the number of people to how many were actually coming along. Or they'd just book a slot at the start of the day, and then delay it until they were placed on the time they actually intended to come. In both of these cases, they were abusing features which were genuinely needed for the product to work to their own advantage. It was slightly naive of us as developers not to take this sort of behaviour into account.
The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language (1932)
An entire OS, which can still perform most of the tasks we ask of computers today, runs fast in a virtual machine on a device designed with a power budget in mind. Yet many apps that do basically just one of those tasks, and run natively, run slower and take up more disk space and memory. That's progress.
Monitoring ClickHouse with Sematext
ShareThis Data Breach
I still think it's a real shame this all went closed-source :(
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NSA spying on US soil was long known[1] (and of course "clear authorization" was never granted if you interpret that phrase to mean "public" and "accountable")

I'm not sure where you got the notion that they need physical access to anything either. Apart from intercepting comms on the wire, they deliberately subvert crypto standards in such a way that only they have access [2]. That is as close to a "magical backdoor" as it's possible to get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encry...
Conditions, yes.

If you have multiple dispatch, then building/supporting a numeric tower is natural.

In your other reply you pointed out macros. They are a mixed blessing, easily misused. Other languages have them but use them more sparingly and making it harder to overlook their special status, which leads to better "code smell" in my opinion.

Do take a look at Julia. It has learned deeply from CL and innovated further.
There are many things I like about this essay. But it contains too many over-generalisation on things such as what it means to deal with ourselves or "face" ourselves and it over-simplifies the notion of connecting with oneself and how one can go about acheiving it, etc. Overall, nothing concrete and particularly meaningful has been discussed. The author had certainly brought up many interesting points throughout the essay but the whole piece felt like a long rambling about a problem that many people are aware without going in depth to the root of it and what practical steps one can take to solve it.

As someone who meditates frequently and has spent most of his time in solitude in the past 6 years, I would say I still don't quite know myself very well and I would be lying if I say I have managed to connect with myself in a meaningful way. Only very recently I begin to see the importance in socialising and I think I would have been a happier person if I had made an effort to be a part of a community and make more friends and spend more time with people that I cared about.
This reminds me of those ghost cities in China -- they built it, but nobody came.
I love QNX and deeply wish it were open-source (and that it had been open-sourced decades ago).

Great to see it's still alive / getting updates. I was confused why this was posted on a wordpress. From the About page:

> My name is Elad Lahav. I am a kernel developer at QNX Software Systems. This is my personal developer’s blog. All views expressed here are my own.
Support engineer here. For anyone considering a career in support:

- It's harder than development. Green fields are easier.

- It's pretty much a thankless job.

- You are sort of the janitors of the IT world. Not much respect.

+ The money can be pretty good. Because of the above, management usually rewards good support engineers.

+ You are welcomed by those who don't want to do support.

+ You stay fresh, learning other people's ideas all the time. This contributes to longevity.

All things considered, it's been a good career move for me. YMMV.
Not just data science jobs: I think most ‘knowledge worker’ type jobs are going to go through large changes: AI assistants that will make people very much more productive in their jobs, and fewer jobs available because company’s will get more work per employee. I expect salaries to soften, with the exception of people who are at the very top of their fields.
Only a few days from most signed petition in human history? If true, very impressive.
The main thing I miss with the physical books, as opposed to e-books, is the ease of giving them as presents. Right now, when I want to give a book I just buy a physical copy; but it's been a long time since I bought one for personal consumption.

The second way physical books are still superior is that the non-text-based ones (i.e. anything with plenty of illustrations, especially in colour) still look much better than their electronic counterparts (and with that type of books, the appearance matters at least as much as the content).
I think you will find that they actualy don't do much with helicopters at all. Helicopters are extremely expensive to operate and using them for fishing expeditions probably isn't done. Oh, THEY SAY it is done, but that is a lie. What they are really doing is monitoring all communications and when someone pops on their radar, if they wish to proceed with the case, they concoct what is known as a "parallel construction" and then at that point, yes, they might do a flyover with an infra-red camera to obtain evidence. But in court it's all wink-wink "routine flyover" because they don't want everyone to know that the West is now an Orwellian Police State (TM) with all the bells and whistles.

You simply have no idea how far gone we are.
It would be interesting to hear why he paid royalties to get a license for the songs but not for the cover art.

Hiring artists to create retro versions of the music and hiring an artist to create a retro version of the album cover seem like pretty analogous situations.
That depends; some actually do use natural nicotine (especially those made by tobacco companies, for obvious reasons).
Discussed in HN a couple months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870796 .

IBM App with Elm for most of the front-end: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ibm-releases-elm-powered-ap...

[Disclosure: I'm an IBMer - but not involved on this project]
90 days policy is fine. If you can fix the problem, this time will be enough to hire an entire team.
That's normal for a full-featured OS, not for a single-tasking OS like MS-DOS. Additionally, x86 HLT instruction was quite obscure before the 80486 (IIRC).
You'll have to be a bit more precise because right now it's hard to tell if you're trolling or trying to make a point.
In any case, the pay gap isn't a thing that can be addressed with a single sentence such as yours.

It's a really simplistic point of view to say social jobs are valued other than with a salary. And I'm fairly certain that social workers, teachers and nurses get their share of stress.

If anything the "men do manly jobs and women do social jobs" is another symptom of the underlying causes. Sure you can say "that's the way it is" and move on, but if you want to take part in the debate you have to show a minimum of intellectual honesty.

Plus it doesn't work for people having the same position in the same company.
> The most dialogs which are being monitored are typical teenager conversations.

In the picture "你还用说我大", "那是衣服紧" (Translate: "You don't need to tell me that mines was big", "That's because the cloth is tight").

I don't know about the "typical" thing due to lack of context. But my sense tells me, that "teenager" is doing some sex talk.

Another one: "说:!收【【【46--48道士号】】】卖的微信XXXXXXXXXXX" ("Buying 46~48 level Taoist account, contact me using WeChat XXXXXXXXXXX"). I guess this person is trying to buy a in-game character. Taoist is a type of character similar to magician.

I think the message is captured by some type of Internet Cafe managing software, which can be installed on the machine so the admin could remotely control and "auditing" it. Typical feature includes shutdown, force logout, timer etc. I don't know it can also record chat messages, but the fact it can does not surprise me that much to be honest.
Show HN: One-on-one meeting software for attentive leaders
Notably not seated at the table: users.
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Since gender only seems to play a very minor role in wage differences between men and women, as opposed to say, willingness to work full-time/overtime, personality, and job choice, it is not at all clear that the 'gender' pay gap is a problem that needs tackling.

I believe systems that strive for equality of outcome and put group identity above individual qualities will only create more injustices, not fewer. If the current situation we have is mostly the result of men and women using their freedom to make different choices in life (on average), then forcing different outcomes with these systems seems like an even worse idea.

The assumption that equal work deserves equal pay is fine. But who decides what equal work is? There are a lot of factors that can make one employee more valuable than another employee in the same role, and therefore it only seems reasonable that companies get the freedom to reward those employees differently. All these subtle factors will not show up in the data, and so I do not believe it will help with anything, except for making people see problems where none exist.
This is mandated in Article 8 of this ILO convention: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO...
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300...
Sounds fair and logic to me. Why should Nextflix be considered Cinema and not TV? Clearly it is watched on TV and belongs with Emmys.

EDIT:
HN has turned into Reddit. Don't agree with someone? DOWNVOTE!
We need to talk about Productivity debt
Totally agreed - the problem is when integration tests are used in lieu of what unit tests are for, which has been an increasing trend in the frontend web world I’ve seen, in large part because of UI frameworks not providing the tools to do testing well.
(key redacted as I realized they are still selling SC4 Deluxe on Steam. It was your standard 5 groups of 4 alphanumeric key)

When I was a kid I didn't understand why Sim City 4 Deluxe played after install but didn't play when I stuck disk 2 back in and clicked the game. It was my favorite game for a number of years and it wasn't until at least 2 or 3 years in I realized it wanted me to stick disk 1 in for the copyright protection and that disk 2 just worked during install for convenience reasons. I had been uninstalling the game every night before I went to bed (preserving saves!) and reinstalling it every day after school. One day I couldn't find the case with the key (probably got thrown away) and I thought I was going to have to buy it again but when I went to the computer I was able to get it first guess.

Been 15 years now. I suppose I'm never going to forget that key.
> so here in the UK I couldn't do this even if I wanted to

Mmm, I think the originating country of the traveller has a lot to do with it. From the US, I wouldn't guess it's particularly common, but it's not unheard of [1].

Can certainly understand your hesitancy. I hope to return with them unopened and unused. Resistance aside, the risk of C. difficile among others is a serious trade off.

In my case, I have enough known antibiotic allergies that a remote Dr might have problems prescribing around them.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/pack-smart
They own WhatsApp, which is integral to having a social life in Germany. So they already have my phone number.
In my experience, such time pressure comes from management, not the developers themselves. This is evidenced by the painstaking effort a dev will go to to make their ultimate experience on a side project.

In other words, users are often sidelined by new feature requests (for other users) rather than a selfish conservation of time by developers.

The priority game is as yet unsolved, unless you can point me to contrary evidence (which I would be eternally grateful for).
Indeed, safety also has different aspects. You might be safer from getting mugged, but less safe from getting arrested and tortured, run over by a car, or from breathing polluted air and getting cancer. The same apparatus that makes people afraid to be muggers, will also make them afraid to point out abuses.
I'm a Linux user who much prefers Linux to Mac and I agree with the comment you're replying to.
Put another way: why pay the same price in Australia?

Most companies want to have folks in the same timezone, preferably in the same office. There's really no substitute for being onsite with your peers.
Much like the poachers then, the value of the animal is based solely on its utility to you personally.
No, the European model (ECMWF IFS) is not open source, and they don't even release most of the operational forecast data that they produce to the general public. As far as I know the UK and others don't either.
At CurrySoftware we use Elm for all of our frontend needs.

Most recent example: https://www.pavoq.com a SPA built with Elm and Rust
I read the first and while the ideas explored were interesting, I found the writing itself to be completely off-putting:

- first of all, Three Body seems like the most boring videogame ever developed, not sure how people could actually be believably playing that.

- the characters are pretty much caricatures of stereotypes (the cop), or just plain uninteresting.

- the massive exposure/infodump chapters killed the immersion from me, especially the ones written from the point of view of the other side of the conflict: it really felt like the author was getting towards the end and wanted to Explain All The Things, but couldn't find a subtle way to do so within the narrative, therefore decided to just vomit it all in a single spurt.

I was really looking forward to it but found it disappointing, won't read any more from this author.
Even if they do not reply, they should read every support email that comes in for the product/feature they worked/are working on. It is the best way to put themselves in the shoes of the user, and make better software.

I know someone will respond that they don't have time read all of the support emails, but my response would be that getting so many support emails is itself a data point.
Even insects sleep in general. A recent finding of mutant fruit flies that don't seem to sleep (and appear fine) is actually a big deal.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/scientists-say-every...
The Launch of SingularityNet Beta and the Day Decentralized AI Became Real
"On the eigth day, God created Turok" without vowels :)
I am surprised about you saying it would be 20% for small business. What (optimized) market requires for a raw source to change hands 13 times before it is a final product (mind that we are talking small business here). The revenue tax would force the market to optimize and become more competitive.

And even if megacorps would grow vertically - that's OK, since this would force them to grow locally, take parts of the market and optimize it. It's a win-win.

I also don't think DBCFT would work in an OPEN market like EU. Your opinion seems very US-oriented, while this thread is about EU. The EU rules and tax system is completely different to US and it cannot be compared.

DBCFT could work if the issue would be EU vs World, not EU within.
Can you think of a better way to arm guards?
I know that Typescript has a type system :)

My point was that the current config file formats are not good enough - I agree with that - but if we want to switch away from them, we need even better formats. They need to be at least good as the previous generation (XML), which had schemas. JSON and YAML are a regression which became popular because of their simplicity.

We need the simplest config format that comes with a schema. They should either come with a separate schema system or with a type system that is powerful enough to implement what I said before: regexp validation, interval validation. Without making you write more than validate="[a-z]*", not writing a whole class or such.
Ask HN: What are the advantages of AI on blockchain except safe/privacy?
https://openmined.org (This has Federated Learning i know is promising) VS

https://www.deepbrainchain.org/ VS

https://synapse.ai/ VS

https://singularitynet.io/

?
Personally i really like the original QNX Neutrino Gui:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621
Tesla will unveil the Model Y next week
what do you use now?
I don't really think people ultimately care that much about turning over information about their domestic economics, if convenience trumps cost. (Have they stopped using Facebook and Google?) It simply did not in this instance.

Buying something on Amazon is easy. If I know what I want, and all my info is stored on Amazon, it takes 30 seconds tops. Shortening it to 10 seconds isn't worth it.

Now, if Amazon offered, say, a RFID scanner that could automatically reorder toilet paper or diapers or toothpaste if the number of units within 3 feet fell below a certain threshold... I would absolutely consider getting it. Delegating that decision completely so I never have to make it again sounds great.

Yes, I know they could still screw me over on price, so I'd check periodically to make sure they weren't ramping it up on me over the normal cost of the products. But even if they didn't, they'd still make more money by ensuring they sold the next units the instant they were needed, rather than whenever I remembered to reorder. Sometimes that's too late -- say, when there's a couple sheets on the last toilet paper roll and I have a near-crisis that involves crab-walking with pants down to the paper towels. Accumulated over a lifetime, those extra early days or weeks will really add up.
Popular electronics stores would do a in-store setup of your computer before you left with it. Part of this involved entering the users name and windows key.

I probably used the same key to setup over 1000 PC's when I worked there.
The first one that make them feel good about the situation.

You can rationalise a lot of things by interpreting statistical analysis to support your point of view, you just have to cover it with a "duh that's the real _facts_" and move on.
Facebook begins rolling out dark mode in Messenger
Elm made me hate working with Javascript in my job, and the differente is brutal. I don't believe in silver bullet but this is the domain where Elm shines: frontend development. I love every aspect of it. Elm is a very simple language, generates very small assets with a really fast compiler, gives us guarantees of no runtime exceptions in production, easy refactoring (in JS it would be a nightmare), has a time travel debugger (that shows your application state in any given moment), nice compiler error messages, and an incredible architecture which inspired redux (TEA) but is much better and simpler. There are problems ofcourse, for example not every Web API is covered yet, but it's possible to use Js ports to communicate with Elm.
I had an argument with a co-worker about this. He wanted to use Kubernetes, so I asked him what problem he was trying to solve. No answer- just wanted to because he could put it on his resume.

You deploy tech to solve a problem. Don't go solving problems that you don't have yet.
I built my whole company around this idea. For years, I was the front line support - IMO, its the best thing you can do to improve not only your product but your approach to life. That and having kids.
By all means make e.g. Zendesk tickets available on a Slack channel, so people can dip their toes in and see how things are looking.

Don't spam everyone with every support email. You need a ticketing system at least to coordinate work, and prioritization and assignment to get workflow. Don't spam everyone with new tickets in the ticketing system either.

Having a rota of developers who either work directly with support, or on diagnosing and addressing issues that have come from support, is also a good idea I think. Problem areas will filter through from this.

Having all developers always interruptible by support will just slow things down. Interruptions from support often blow away half a day or more worth of development time, from context switching, checking out specific branches etc.
I think, only British can be properly obnoxious.
At the point where 51% attacks are happening, it's fair that coinholders lose value. The alternative is that they are able to offload their bags onto some other greater fool who will lose the value instead.
Pretty interesting! If it really solves client communication gaps and delays - would love it. Reminds me of Basecamp, but i guess this is more with client specific interactions like payments, NPS scores?
Some thoughts on GANs, sockpuppets and fake accounts
You might as well say the same thing about the entire car industry. It's a silly perspective.

The MEB platform can be adapted to hatchbacks, sedans, crossovers, vans, and even dune buggies. That's what will give Volkswagen economies of scale Tesla doesn't have.

It isn't just a promise. It's the mass market arm of their EV strategy.
spoken like a true project manager
Code reuse.

For example you can use the same React components for (pre-) rendering pages on the backend so the site feels quicker to load.
You don't need to choose bunch of frameworks and spend hours getting them work together. Elm basically provides the perfect language and abstractions for building UI.
Sales for a product made elsewhere.

I know where you are going with this - the issue is that they don't pay pretty much any taxes due to avoidance, yet they drain the market from the revenue thus limiting the ability for local companies who cannot avoid taxes trying to develop in this space.
Missing Out on Deep Sleep Causes Alzheimer's Plaques to Build Up