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You ever see that meme of a dad walking in on his son playing video games, just as it cutscenes to something embarrassing (particularly when seen out of context)? I assume the show is basically that — its difficult to interpret well when glimpsed out of context (like when you’re caught at work), even if, in-context, its clearly not that bad.
Halfway there in fact.
Latinx, Latin@, Latinex :(

I just posted about this in another thread and don't feel like reliving it (it's seriously depressing):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464652

Can people please stop using these terms? It's really, really offensive to just rename entire cultures to suit your whims. Really offensive.
Clojure lets you leverage the entire Java library ecosystem, which is flippin' huge -- bigger, even, than Python's.
That link didn't work for me. It said no records found, but I’ve left the USA several times in the past 12 months. Weird.
Driver gets in wearing wrap around sun glasses...
The Alcubierre drive is a fantasy. It's the equivalent of saying "I can start a business selling unicorn rides if I have a unicorn." The unicorn in this case being "negative mass", there being no way to synthesize such a thing nor even a plausible path by which it might be possible.
Check out the Red programming language.
Took ~2 minutes to fall from place 30 to 61. I suppose, unlike the story of the refugee chess champion, this one doesn't spark intellectual curiosity.

Edit: And back to 34, and again sliding rapidly. Why not just flag/kill it outright?
Congrats on shipping! It looks amazing, do you plan to support Material Design 2.0 too? Also performance-wise, how does this compare to Flutter (which uses Skia underneath)?
The 6502 can only do small +128/-127 bytes relative jumps so that would be pretty complex indeed.
Maybe relevant to your nutty idea: Heat is just motion on a small scale. In solid state materials, just like there are quantized configurations of electrons, there are also quantized modes of motion. These are called "phonons". (Analagous to electron / hole model of solid state electronic structure). (It's also true for single molecules, and this is what low energy IR spectroscopy probes. But less relevant for bulk behavior in a liquid or gas state). If the material is anisotropic, probably there will be anisotropic phonons too. The existence / density of thermal modes at IR energies can also determine how much heat a material radiates into the environment versus conducts through its bulk.

SO, just like materials can have an electronic bandgap, materials can have a thermal bandgap too!!! But I can no longer envision what a thermal transistor would behave like. And I'm not sure how this relates to the electronically tuned thermal materials which show you when you google "theal transistor"
Appel and Haken were pioneers in the field of computer proofs. They didn't do it to modern (or contemporary) standards, and it did leave a bad taste for those who seek "elegance" in proof. Since then, theory and practice have advanced in strides; but we may have to agree to disagree on the thrust of your post.

I'd strongly recommend Gonthier's treatment of that particular theorem. In my opinon, [1] is beautifully written and illustrated; a shining example of how computer proofs should be written... and [2] is the actual proof.

> What we lose when we turn everything over to ML is the ability to understand anything.

Yuck, we agree here.

[1] https://www.ams.org/notices/200811/tx081101382p.pdf
[2] https://github.com/math-comp/fourcolor
Thanks for this, shadow-cljs looks very promising.

In terms of stack traces, it's not just the location in your code that you care about, it's the nature of the error. In lieu of spec being ubiquitous or anybody really checking their arguments ever, you're still left looking at 20 lines of stack beyond your own code to realise you've passed the incorrect type or structure somewhere. And even with spec you need additional libraries to actually yield human error messages in a lot of cases.
This has been pretty widely discussed elsewhere, including Twitter, and in part was the reason SmugMug changed that policy at the last minute to include preservation of freely licensed photos, and deceased users' accounts: https://petapixel.com/2019/03/09/flickr-will-save-all-creati...

Likely the best way to "save" free accounts with more than 1000 photos that haven't yet been deleted is to use the new option to gift them a Pro membership, which apparently doesn't require the account's consent.
It's funny how they went from renaming completely unrelated projects to "XenSomething" (like XenApp) to removing "Xen" from "XenServer".
Software projects got their name
Show HN: (For YC) Improvised Quora to Solve “First Impression Influence” Problem
Website: https://vaadit.com

Problem: General world population is innocent enough to get influenced by first-impression it sees and the situation is worse on internet. User gets influenced by first answer it sees on Quora(or any other Q/A forum). It is impacting mass results too lately (Brexit, US elections, Indian Hindu-Muslim communal uprising etc.).

Solution: Some web-platform, which shows not just one answer but multiple-perspective-based-answers right on first-impression. Then users can compare and reason better seeing different viewpoints right in front of them.
While it may not be as extreme as athletes or entertainers, you already see tons of evidence of the huge discrepancy in programmer salaries right here on HN.

In every thread about programmer salaries, invariably you'll have a comment about "Senior/Staff developers making $300/$400k+", then some comments from folks saying "I've never heard/seen anything close to those numbers", then other comments about "Those numbers are totally doable at FAANG companies." Valued programmers at the best companies already make several multiples of income over 90%+ of the rest.
Creativity in arts and creativity in engineering and other skilled labour are vastly different.

You don't need to be a Botticelli programmer to provide value to your employer because being famous or unique is not how programmers provide value. Programmers are paid for solving business problems. The variability of that is not going to dramatically increase due to automation.

Even today you can tell that mediocre programmers are earning good wages while mediocre painters / sculptors / actors are starving. It is not because they have been automated.
What bar..? It gives freedom to kernel developers to update their apis more freely and maintain effective backwards compatibility, at the cost of extra work managing/updating the drivers themselves instead of relying on vendors to do it. The only bar then is that the driver needs to be in a sane state before being accepted into the kernel tree, so that it remains easy to maintain sanity. Which seems to me a very fair, if not necessary, ask.

It’s a pretty clearcut tradeoff, and they apparently have managed the manpower for it thus far... I don’t know why you need “elitist, ideological hackers” to support this strategy
Here's how I got my feet wet with RISC-V, for next to nothing:

- I bought a cheap FPGA board. Pretty much anything is large enough for a low performance RISC-V CPU.

- I added a small design with a picorv32 CPU and experimented with that first.

- I designed my own little RISC-V CPU. I've designed digital hardware for decades, and I've learned all about CPUs in college etc, it was still eye opening to actually design one myself.

- I write blog posts about all the hobby stuff that I do now. I never did that before, and I'm not looking for a large audience or anything. But what I discovered is that I learn way more about a subject when I write about it: a major part of it is that I want to avoid public embarrassment about writing something wrong. :-) By writing about it, I have to understand things better than when I don't.

This may not be the best route for those who don't already have a hardware background, but there are various open source tools now with make it accessible to hobbyists as well.

It's been a very fun journey.
I think everyone here has read these points in favor of notes many times. It's the counter arguments that never get written down.

Note that access isn't very useful if the returns aren't there (see the capped return point).
The data science story in Clojure is good and improving fast. Neanderthal is the fastest matrix library available on the JVM. Bayadera is ridiculously fast probabilistic programming (not to mention Anglican, which has a slightly easier API in exchange for perf). There's a lot of activity around Clojure bindings for MXNet, if you want deep learning. It's not mainstream Python, but it's far from limited by community or libraries.
Yes, I am aware of the very small number of significant disasters that have occurred. I also contend, however, that as bad as those disasters are they are still nowhere near as bad as 35 billion metric tons of CO2 that's being vented into the atmosphere every year.
Does anyone actually use Xen as a VM host anymore? I thought it was pretty much dead?
Except for numerics, which is my whole world, where Java is horrific roadkill. FWIIW back 8 years ago I was ---><--- this close to trying to build out an important system with wrapped Fortran in Clojure. People (who even then looked like they didn't know what they were talking about) assured me the JVM would eventually surpass lapack, because MUH JVM, and that has failed to come to pass.
> "relating to the company's business"

The company I work for also has this. The company is a big entertainment conglomerate. I'm unclear what businesses the company is not in; but most of the things I do in my spare time include--songwriting, book publishing, blog writing--could classify as things the company also does.

My `exclusion` clause was over 1 page long and I spent quite a bit of money on a lawyer to put it together.
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Sort of, yes.

It's hard to put reasons and interpretations behind all this, because in the end we just use formulas and numbers and check them in experiments. It's usually simpler that way.

Be aware that a longer wavelength means a lower energy. Frequency is proportional to energy, which is inversely proportional to wavelength.
The Glomar Explorer, of CIA/K129 fame was anchored there for years. When driving by there, I’d always look for the drilling tower. I’m not sure what happened to it but it was probably chopped up as well. The thing was massive.
Is OP saying that today sucks? I don't think so. I think what they are saying is that the direction society seems to be heading doesn't seem to be one that will sustain the common man. What are your thoughts when you hear about "vanishing middle class"?
Just how I think about music-- seeing a chromatic representation alongside the hex lattice would help me get the note I want faster; I often think in terms of intervals.
People for some reason always think just because things are flat in material design they shouldn't have shadows. Or maybe it's just people calling lots of things material design that really aren't.
It's not hard to avoid nightly at all. I've been targeting stable Rust in all my applications and libraries since Rust 1.0 was released. The only exception is adding a new nightly-only feature, but always gated behind an Cargo feature.

This is a classic case of our standards of success continually moving, and that some domains are better suited to stable Rust than others. For example, if you want ergonomic async/await, then you need to use nightly. But otherwise, the number of crates needing nightly has shrunk enormously over the last few years.

> it's not uncommon for library authors to start using these features before they're in Stable

I would say this is actually pretty uncommon.
In software, while everything seems massive and endlessly complex, the moment you spot your first little bug or fix it, all that complexity and mystery goes into the background. It's like a little door opens, showing you where you can go next.

The same story applies with everything from oncology to astrophysics to music to cooking to anything you can think off.
To me, merely encrypting the transport layer via SSH is far from secure, especially when the network is used by "hackers" and "freedom fighters". Today, if a network wants to be immune from tracking by design, it should officially support to be accessed from anonymous networks. The UUCP protocol is perfect for relatively high-latency, low-bandwidth anonymous network, like Tor or i2p (Particularly, i2p by itself is a great project, the only issue is the latency of the network is too high for HTTP), it would be great if some Tier 1 hosts can be accessed from Tor/i2p via a raw TCP socket (without SSH, since it's unnecessary and increases overhead in these networks). Illegal content and spam can be a problem, only peering to reputation hosts can solve the problem at large.
You can run Servo standalone: https://download.servo.org/
other countries, where kids are not legally allowed weapons as well

Kids are not "legally allowed weapons" in the US, either.
Having seen an Iowa class ship (New Jersey) this made my jaw drop. You don't realize the scale of these things until you're next to one.
The space can be bent. I am firmly in the camp that everything is possible. Reason we aren’t in contact with other intelligent life forms is that we are too primitive. But things change a lot with every next leap
Sometimes I read these pieces and I wonder how much of the joy of the new language is just having become a better programmer in the meantime.
Pycharm is built on top of IDEA.
And before anyone mentions Casimir cavities, I did a blog post in the style of a paper about that: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/can-a-casim...
Tasteful macros can alleviate this, and Clojure's std lib has a few which are just delightful.

The following does exactly what you'd expect, and there are even cooler ones like `some->` or `as->`.

(->> some-nums
(map square-root)
(filter even?)
set
count)

This is what lisp buys you, dead simple rules for syntax, with the option to add syntax with macros. If you made a mistake in syntax design, deprecate the lib and make a new macro, it need not be a feature of core language for all eternity.
Contactless makes more sense in the restaurant scenario, you're right. I was thinking in restaurants a QR code attached to each table could be scanned during payment and that would be quicker but it doesn't seem that much faster than contactless payment at the checkout counter
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Getting proper right click support (context specific and beyond copy/paste) in anything HTML is pretty hard, even in Electron.
Pop!_OS is what I use, and I am part of the team working on it.
The Iowa class was designed to be able to transit the Panama canal, but then only just barely, with its 108 feet and 2 inch beam just fitting inside the 110 feet canal.

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/iowa-class-battleships-are...
These specific tilde servers are summarized by https://tildeverse.org as well
You've broken more than one of the site guidelines in this thread, particularly the ones that ask you not to insinuate astroturfing and not to go further into flamewar. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abstain from doing these things here, hard though that can be.

The internet reflex where people assume that only trolls, bots, or shills can explain something they dislike online, is off topic here. It has also become so self-parodically common that one can only hope it will jump the shark soon.
Isn’t most of the legacy AWS EC2 stuff Xen?
>He contends that there likely isn't a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable.

How do we know an advanced technology would absolutely use Dyson spheres?

I'm not asking to challenge but in serious inquiry. Off the top of my head it just seems a highly advanced civilization might be able to come up with something completely different to meet their energy needs.
You're referring to their "$2000-to-save-a-life" claim? It isn't "advice", it's a statement. There's a spreadsheet linked to from the above page, which shows the calculations they used to derive that statement.
Big and little providers are still using it. AWS and Prgmr.com, for example.
I'd agree. But I include most hn posters in the "most people" category. Everyone on this site overestimates tracking.
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It's cool, and I wouldn't be sad to work with Haskell by any means, but I still think there's an elegance to lisp syntax that can't be beat. There are very few language level rules, everything is composable building blocks.
> Each team can then prove it is backdoored by providing (a significant part of) the plaintext.

Some backdoors are asymmetric backdoor, so the original designers can decrypt anything at will.

But some others only hide a trick that reduces the computation complexity to, say, 2^80. Unless you are a nation-state, you cannot use the backdoor. And the other type of backdoor only increases the susceptibility to implementation vulnerabilities (cache-timing attacks, invalid curve attacks), mathematically speaking they're still secure, but too difficult for most people to implement it perfectly.

A escrow process would be better.
The problem is that it's not easy to spool out the wires. Just disconnect the laser for a moment to simplify the discussion.

If the ship is traveling at speed V and the wires are at speed 0 in the usual reference frame [1]. If you imagine that you are over the ship, you will see that the wires are initially at rest and you have to accelerate them so they go away from the ship at speed V. So you will have to use a lot of energy to accelerate the wires [2]. And also the wires going away will act like the exhaust of a rocket. If you push the wires backwards, the wires will push you forwards. Now you have a very strange rocket that uses wires instead of some propellent.

[1] whatever it means, perhaps the initial reference frame of the space station that launched the ship, or the average of the local stars.

[2] Assuming that the wires are not so thin, because they have to pull a space station. Also, we are comparing them to a laser beam, so they are in comparison much heavier.
So are we going to be able to use any of this for a new deeper deep learning framework?
Maybe taking cues from the official docs. My picture is from the Material Design website. https://material.io/design/components/buttons.html# (scroll down to types)
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Isaac Arthur did and episode on this topic specifically [1]. It's one of his early ones. There are a whole lot of "ifs" here, just one of which is negative mass.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCCsmxGjEV0
I geuss tilde servers means tilde.club style? 'nixes and tilde servers' was a bit opaque to me.

But I may show up on IRC because I'm the reason perl5's network transparent method call model Object::Remote sends 'Ssyshere' when it finishes bootstrapping.
Exactly. Together, this pair of languages will appeal to a broader range of developers - those preferring dynamic typing, those preferring static typic, and pragmatists who start the quick prototype in JS and move to TS for better maintainability.
> "So life isn't really precious. It is only precious in terms of its relationship to me"

I'm curious as to which moral framework or philosophy you subscribe to? Or more concretely, how do you go about deciding when it is permissible to engage in self-serving actions at the expense of others?
I recommend everyone using XenServer to move to XCP-ng [0]. They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions and add some great new features etc (like nfs4.1, ZFS etc.). They're from the same people behind Xen Orchestra (web-based console for XenServer) [1], and offer pro support like Citrix [2].

I was about to move off XenServer with the recent changes to licensing [3] (tl;dr they removed a bunch of features from the free edition), but XCP-ng has allowed me to continue with XenServer whilst make few changes to my already-working setup.

[0] https://xcp-ng.org/

[1] https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xo-home

[2] https://xcp-ng.com/

[3] https://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-7-3-changes-to-th...
>His employment agreement states that any and all intellectual property he generates while employed with us, even during weekends/free-time, is the property of the company.

Seriously. That cannot be worked in my country. This line alone indicates that this employer is evil.
It would have to violate the laws of thermodynamics to not be visible. I’m not saying “no” (my brother has wondered if dark energy could be waste output of such civilisations, for example), but we have zero reason to treat the idea as anything more than the softest of science fiction.
Is the Xen VM host distinct from Xen the hypervisor? I'm pretty sure QubesOS still uses Xen for that.
In the United States ferry flights are allowed (and you can watch as Southwest moves their planes to the desert). In other countries it'll vary. There are definitely some MAX8s stranded in out of the way places in Europe.
Everyone not using KVM is using Xen, for local installs that is. There are other products but none of them are open enough to be considered in those cases.
It's somewhat demeaning and antagonistic to accuse downvoters of being offended without some line of reasoning given. My guess is that the implication of your parent post is that the article is wrong to compare those numbers. Since there's nothing else in the curt reply, it seems to ignore the disturbing facts of the matter - a wrongness perhaps greater, in some readers' opinions, than the clickbaity headline, which is at least defensible in that it illustrates that child gun deaths have surpassed some arbitrary value, i.e. the numbers are large and rising (supposedly - I'm comparing the implied message of the headline to the implied message of your parent post, not commenting on the actual numbers on child gun deaths).
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Sure I see that. What I don't see is how automation will make this variation larger for skilled workers like programmers.
Well, a neutral network is a neutral network of neutral networks.
No, Xen and XenServer are distinct because of that. The host OS can in theory be any OS (but almost always GNU/Linux). Xen is a type 1 hypervisor running before the OS kernel is even loaded.
Oh please, they're not being scrapped.

Which is what I said.

But a working airport is not a proper place to store large jets.

Short-term it's fine. If the expectation is that the MAX will be allowed to fly in a few weeks it makes sense to keep the airplanes at strategically chosen airports. This'll make it easier to bring them back into service. If the assumption is that the MAX will be grounded for a long period of time it makes more sense to stash them at a graveyard like Victorville.