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Ask HN: Can't seem to remember basic things, should I give up on computing?
I'm really frustrated and it's getting the better of me. I just spent 3 hours getting a basic varint encoding and decoding set of functions right because I had forgotten how it's done, then I forgot how negative numbers are done, and when I did implement it, I forgot how two's complement is represented, looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing.

This is one example of where I forget basic things that lead me to take much longer than most people to do basic things. Other examples in the last three months include:

- Working out how to do huffman codes
- A wrong implementation of basic UTF-8 encoding that meant the program used it was segfaulting

Everything is slow, cumbersome and I need to keep on relearning basic concepts I should have at the top of my head. How do you guys deal with this frustration? When I compare myself to my colleagues they seem to be much quicker and able to understand/comprehend faster, so I just am the slowest and worst coder at my firm.
Yup. I got Misha even in a small town in Karnataka. I remember writing to Russian pen pals via Misha.
And lower pay overall
Agree with comments below. Don't do it, unless you are native Chinese and earned a high degree and would join a key high-tech company working on research topics, and have high lever relationships with the company.
When I did scouts many years ago, there was definitely a lot of variation by troop. Some, like the one I was in, had a lot of weekend camping/hiking, extended trips, summer camp, etc. and the weekly/biweekly meetings were mostly just organizing for those activities. Other troops, scouts was mostly just those meetings with games/arts/crafts/etc.
> It is, unless one of you has a Nobel Prize, unsolvable without one person making a change of career.

This is not really true, I know a few people who managed.
The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy
How much do you trust k-anonymity?
> And, if the best minds are employed in large corporations to work out how to persuade people to click on online advertisements instead of cracking hard-core science problems, not much can be expected to change in the years to come.

This is so sad
Wondering if they'll have deals such as "buy one get one free" for them. Wouldn't be shocked if they've planned it already.
So the answer is rewrite your code to work around tooling deficiencies?

I'd prefer this be fixed in the JVM, so you can decide to write your code in the way that's most readable, and not be forced to write it a certain way because the tools suck.
Donald Trump is committed to taking away your health insurance
I don't know that differential geometry ever made anything simple, so I don't know if there is any obvious fruit to be had. But there might be some, weird, unexpected fruit in the back; for instance, there exists a formulation of thermodynamics in terms of differential geometry: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/arXiv:physics%2F0604164
But we'll never know if those companies will be better off if they hadn't. You're just making a bandwagon argument

(Disclaimer: I hate MongoDb)
1. Does the company have contingency plans for down markets?

2. How do you encourage innovation at [place]?

3. How has your role from (research the person) changed going to CEO?
What would be the distance range of such tiny transmitter?
Every countries have stupid laws by the way

https://www.stupidlaws.com/
Fulcro, Pathom, EQL and Datomic

Is full stack datalog as far as I'm aware

Not tried any of them yet but actively trying these are some tough things to learn
Why 19th-Century Paris Had a Museum Full of Copies
I probably wasn't clear on this, but I'm referring more towards the broader neighborhood a person lives in. At least currently, rent control and land ownership is the only clear way to prevent outsiders from coming in and disrupting the community.
Well of course. But that's just how the economy works.

Workers whose skills are no longer needed get let go and have to retrain to more productive skills. People who live in a neighborhood that gets too nice for them to afford wind up moving to a neighborhood they can afford.

If you argue that neighborhoods shouldn't improve because rents will go up, you're basically arguing against economic progress in general.

It's the same as saying a longer-lasting higher-quality product shouldn't be released because it will cost more than the lower-quality one.
I did undergrad at UW, several of my classmates did grad work on LIGO and were on the gravity wave teams when they had their first detection. Amazing what timing can do for a career. I visited Hanford LIGO in 2012 before the detection, really interesting back then to hear their frustrations and steady commitment.

I graduated and did a few strtuos, now working on autonomous self-delivering ebikes in SODO.
San Francisco sounds like such a hellscape. Apparently, most of the city is zoned with a 40-foot height limit: https://qpho.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5843aebefa7517e39d3b4.... That's about the same as the height limit in our neighborhood in exurban Maryland.
RiseSmart costs $1,900 for three months for a single employee (their most popular "Ignite" plan). https://www.risesmart.com/talent-mobility-solutions/smb

The question may become whether how the company is seen behaving toward its workers vs. how it actually behaves is more important. If layoffs are occurring due to financial struggles, it is very possible that purchasing such a service could force them to lay off more employees due to the unforeseen cost. $1,900 x 50 employees = $95,000, which is the salary of between one and three employees, depending on the industry and level. Should they lose their jobs to fund such a program?

If they're actually just doing it for restructuring (not just as a euphemism for financial struggles), you're right that it could be worth doing.
13 MEPs accidently woted wrongly. Well, how often such accidents happen in the parliament? Was it actually an accident or it's just a way to recover their faces in front of their voters?
Newton would not be taken down by this experiment because Newton's laws have a known precision bound. If we did not include the precision bound in our holistic idea of "Newton's laws," they would already have been falsified by relativity and quantum mechanics. Every physical theory has a precision bound that is determined by the most precise experiment that has ever tested it.
If you want to sell software, it's good to be situated physically next to the biggest software companies in the world. I work in the Valley (but live on the East Coast), and having your company immersed in that culture can have benefits. There is a certain perception that persists, a certain level of legitimacy you are granted just for living alongside the Big Boys. Along with the accompanying downsides, of course. The answer to why VCs stay in the Valley is because it's been working for them.
What value does the product drive for the target stakeholder?

At what frequency is this value delivered to the stakeholder?

How does the stakeholder know they are receiving value?

How does the value compare with the price paid?

What is the product’s TAM?

What things are out of the company’s control?

If the company doesn’t have a self-serve product ask why?

What is the company’s short-term, long-term distribution strategy

Explanations here:

https://medium.com/@therealpankaj/interview-questions-to-ask...
It should be possible to nudge it to an unstable orbit without smearing it, but it would require a lot of fuel for maneuvers.
This makes sense to me. We did something similar, just not in docker, but docker is just packaging/deployment.
The man said nothing, absolutely nothing during the Balakot event. Which is fine, because the whole thing was a cockup anyway. That didn't stop his base from celebrating the event. (Disclaimer: I don't support Pakistan, but you have to add this disclaimer lest you're called "anti-national" by his base)

Anyway, you have to agree the mans a propoganda machine. Just like at the release timeline for the movie Uri...
Depends on the quality and style of the PM, but a good one is worth their wait in gold. By coordinating the meetings, managing the dates, and keeping everyone accountable, it takes those burdens off other team members, letting them focus on the work.
Facebook brought these posts a stamp of legitimacy and concentrated all the idiocy under one URL. Pre facebook, no one trusted flatearth.com or vaccinesarebadmkay.net, because we still believed the old addage "never trust anything you read on the internet." It was a lot easier to ignore faceless people with random usernames spamming on random websites than a post from uncle Kevin, on a platform all your friends and family are using religiously.
This type of behavior is exactly why I block all online ads, always. The fact that large companies like Google and Facebook (and many others) not only go out of their way to deceive their users about what they actually do with their data, but actually actively lobby relevant governments to prevent any kind of privacy protections from being enacted, is all the evidence I need to understand that their operations are fundamentally at odds with the concept of personal privacy and freedom.

There is an argument that is often made when I (or others) advocate for ad blocking, and it always involves the evocation of "the little guy" content creator / website owner who gets shafted when adblockers are used. The problem with this argument, and the reason that I feel fully justified - even obligated - to blanket block all ads, is that it is essential to exert SOME kind of pressure against the large surveillance companies. They clearly don't care about their user's preferences, so the next way to fight this trend is to erode, to the greatest extent possible, the economics of their operations.

Facebook and the rest of the surveillance corporations can create shadow profiles on me from my digital crumbs if they want. At the end of the day I cannot stop them from doing that - and that's why I will never view, click on, or interact with any online ad under any circumstances, to ensure that they don't reap any significant economic reward from stalking me. When / if a semblance of sanity returns to online advertising and the personal privacy rights of users are respected by default, I will change my behavior accordingly so that content creators are supported. In the mean time I directly donate where possible.

On a side note, I notice an obliquely similar situation with Comcast and other big, anti-consumer tech companies that cannot avoid having large customer-facing communications divisions. The people they have manning their phone systems are inevitably exhausted, desperate-sounding, and clearly under some sort of sales quota. Sometimes I almost think that Comcast intentionally makes the lives of their call center employees as miserable as possible so that customers feel guilty dealing with them on the phone and have a lower probability of complaining about the company - after all, why beat up the peon in the cubicle farm about working for a company they already hate? It's almost as if these big companies have decided to use regular people's lives as human shields to hide their inhumanity behind.
Hacking the Motorola MBP88Connect WiFi Camera
I almost never have a pocket knife with me these days because wherever I put it, it's just a matter of time before I leave it in some bag that I throw into carry-on for a plane trip.
Oh I should mention http://www.hyperfiddle.net is a realisation of this kind of stack
it's possible, but there are votes in different directions.

It's also possible some just understood the question incorrectly or confused it with something else, not just "misclicked".

Without knowing how often this happens in other votings it's hard to tell if this is unusual.
The achievement is mainly about the fundamental techniques they developed, not the application domain. The techniques have been applied to many things since, hence the large impact.
There's the question to ask! ;-)
Putting aside the whole Schmidhuber debate - where are people getting this idea that causal convolutions are anywhere near the prominence of RNNS/LSTMs?

As far as I'm aware, causal convolutions were used in WaveNet (and subsequent models) and a small number of NLP applications. Meanwhile, LSTM-based models are used in just about every NLP paper, and at least a baseline in the newer ones more dominated by Transformers.
"passable clustering" you talk about PG which has nothing, so when you start to re-implement sharding yourself you're in trouble.

Fortnite uses MongoDB for everything, they have a huge load ( 7.5M CCU is insane ) and don't have more problems than if they choose something else.

MongoDB gets bad press on Reddit / HN probably because of past marketing campaigns, but nowdays it's a very solid solution.
…I don't think that answers the question.

Monoids don't come from Haskell. You'll see monoids discussed in Haskell plenty, sure, but the math precedes the programming language by at least a few decades.
Its not that you want no time zone, you want to mark the appointment as "local" time. That could be useful, though I expect it would create as many problems as it solves.

The explicit timezone is crucial for conference calls that cross timezones. That is at least half of the appointments on my calendar (I coordinate projects between the US, Europe and Asia).
There is already a WASI and its a standardized IQ test. I did a double take.
There are and some of them are an abuse of the system. However, most drugs pretty quietly go generic.

A good example is Lipitor. For Pfizer it brought in over $11B per year in revenue. Cost was around $150 per month. You can now get a month’s supply for $5.94 according to GoodRx. That’s a 96% reduction in the cost.
I bet you already know this but for the reader: the solution is to not think of times occurring with an offset but to rely on the IANA timezone database to figure out what a timezone means at a particular UTC time: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
Or if you live in a country that grants permanent positions early and easily.
Terraform vs. Ansible
I'm still trying to get my head around whether I should use Ansible or Terraform for provisioning some (network) infrastructure. I know the default answer is to use TF for provisioning and to use Ansible for configuration. I also understand that most things that can be done with TF can be done with Ansible. Both tools are platform agnostic (through providers...) So I see a lot of similarities but would like to understand more the differences between both.

My use case is to create network resources (day 1 operation) and to continue to update them later on (in day 2) or to add resources later on (in day 2).

For this use case, I see one of the main advantages for TF that it keeps track of state where Ansible does not seem to do that. I see TF also more as a lifecycle management tool.

What could be other arguments to favor TF above Ansible for this use case?
Everywhere I look I see the same story unfolding and hurting the productive parts of the economy (productive as opposed to rentier ones). Jobs move in a place. Cost of living (largely dominated by rent) is reasonable. Workers move in. Cost of living starts to rise and rises till the point where a lot of the workers actually pay most of their income just to get by. Pockets of them (e.g. married high earning couples and singles that are lucky to have a place) still save a lot but the proportion of people that actually makes no sense to live and work there any more is getting too high.

In my eyes this is a highjacking of the productive capitalism by the rentier parts of it and it is demoralizing, unproductive (by definition) and destructive. An apartment does not produce value. It is a mere necessity. The people living there may produce value if they are allowed to. But sinking all their energy and finance in just securing a roof over their head leaves less and less for any productive risk taking.

Disclaimer: Living the renting/housing drama in Ireland.
> Code of conduct doesn't apply to national security issues

You realize that nobody is fooled right? Everyone except for Modi's supporters sees through this
Combating critical thinking is as old as critical thinking. Let them fight.
Correct me if I'm wrong but tkinter is only for Desktop GUI I think. I am talking about the new search engine we are creating at coinquanta.com. That's indeed in Python - it's a bold experiment for us but drastically cuts down our development time. We'll write a blog post about our experience and tech stack soon enough.
(small note, a would be an i32 here, not a u8. your point stands though)
Mason Japanese bees (Osmia cornifrons) are used to pollinate apple orchards. Non native.

Osmia lignaria is US native and used to pollinate almonds and orchards, but is not so common.

There are other mason bees native from USA like Osmia ribifloris but they pollinate manzanitas (a relative to Rhododendron), not manzanas (apples). They can pollinate blueberries also (that are in the same family as Manzanitas and share similarly shaped flowers).
On my Palm Pilot there was a “floating” time zone that behaved like this. But I can’t find this feature in any modern app. Outlook doesn’t have it either.
Unless they accept you working less hours there's not that much joy to be derived from more money for boring tasks.
Define high (at least the ballpark). I had a much different experience in the same city.

I doubled my pay by coming back home.
See my reply below :)
Even a master bedroom that could fit a king bed without crowding out other furniture as opulence at one point. My wife and I just finished an open house blitz of 30s vintage colonials in New Jersey, and the vast majority could barely fit a queen in the master.
To be entirely fair, people not educated in physics would likely have a very hard time at your job because we don't know the terminology or what makes sense for your field. If I tried to do what you do, I'd likely have no clue what half of the pigeon-scratch is because I flat out do not even know what the words or concepts are.
Oh, the announcement almost certainly was.
You could buy it at a local comic book store in the 90s in Erie, PA.

(Ps, my local pizza shop, just down the road from the comic shop, was the feature of the Netflix doc Evil Genius. The Pizza Bomber was the dude who brought us our pizza and my best friends managed the shop when it all went down.)
> She makes the point that legalization usually means regulation and it winds up being just as bad as or worse than being pimped. ...

I'm pretty sure that "keep people who are in duress from entering this particular line of business" would be part of any meaningful regulation of sex work. If there's no feasible regulation that can achieve this (something I'm not sure about one way or the other) then we should avoid de-regulation and just keep the status quo. I agree that the broader issue of "what to do about people who are shut out of the labor market or stuck in dead-end, low-paying jobs" is quite relevant. UBI might be an important piece of the puzzle.
The mandate the post you are replying to speaks of wouldn't be to create housing but tie it to the rate at which other types of buildings are created. I believe the poster is referencing the situation in California where a town will let office space be built for 10k workers but then not allow any housing to be built for those workers.

My belief for that issue is that zoning powers need to be removed from towns and done at a state level as travel technology has made it too easy for towns to push off their negative externalities to other towns. Towns have no incentive to add new housing stock as that leads to more people needing to be serviced and new voters who might push to change the way of life that the current citizens enjoy. Businesses on the other hand, don't get to vote and usually pay much more in taxes than they cost in services. Every city appears to have towns that have realized this an effectively become polluters by letting new business come in but making it other towns problems to pay for. If the state controls zoning, and likely the burden of providing services, then that kind of fucking over of your neighbor won't occur at the level of cities other than ones on interstate borders like NYC and the two Kansas Cities.
Might annoy or alienate a CEO (maybe that’s a warning sign?). But, these are the right questions to ask.
So you've chosen the right place to live. As an engineer who changed the country and got salary adjusted, it's just bad economical life choice. It's better to earn more, your options are just so much wider. You can save money, invest etc.

Before I could buy iPhone for less than 10% of monthly salary, now it would be more like one monthly salary.

I use iPhone as the example, but the life for me is not 10x cheaper, maybe 2-3x.

Therefore, unless you have some other reasons, choose place with highest salaries or companies which don't adjust or work remotely.
I left academia in 2003, after 3 postdocs in Theoretical Physics (Quantum Field Theory, Thermal Field Theory, some Cosmology). The reason was certainly not the money, rather job security, it is kind of stressful to change continent every two years and not being sure of where you will be next year. All that with the very probable outcome of being left without a position. Also, I found I girl that later on I married.

So I started studying Python and since them I got various jobs as a developer, including 7 years working in Finance, where I did a lot of Postgres and also some web programming. In the last 6 years I have been doing numerical simulations for Earthquakes, helping the geologist on the IT side of things (like parallelization and performance). The funny thing is that all work in Physics I did had nothing to do with computers, except for writing papers in Latex. I was doing analytical calculations with paper and pencil, since Mathematical was not good enough (found a lot of bugs in it when computing integrals).
Didn't know that. TIL. Thank you!
Is that the one where the protagonists were called Turnip and Turnip?
Most of the obscenely wealthy people I have met were simply born into that position. But for the few that earned it, I would say that's accurate.
A Decade After the Housing Bust, the Exurbs Are Back
Ask HN: How would you build a Phone app (iOS,Android) in 2019?
I work with web apps for a living but never really got into the whole app thing yet. Recently, a few clients have come up and asking about apps. What technology would you use today to build it as I know that there are things like react native etc. Also, for phone apps, is there a specific server side language that is preferred for any specific reason or any good server side API based would do ? Lets say that the app would be used by about 5000 users in a month (nothing big scale wise).
You change frameworks and tools pretty frequently but they are still all built around the same building blocks: html, css, javascript etc.

It's pretty much the same in ML. These people built the building blocks that we still use in ML everyday (e.g. backpropagation, ConvNets etc). But the fine-tuning, packaging and tooling of these techniques also changes all the time and it can be hard to keep up.
Having moved from full-stack web to ML I have a similar feeling about the pace of things.