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Hi, I wrote the article. As you may have noticed, I'm still learning my way around MacPorts (and writing, I guess). I haven't really gotten comfortable posting on macports-dev yet, so I hope you don't mind if I slip in a couple more questions in the development process my response ;)

> Many packages in MacPorts (including LLVM) have pre-built binaries available from https://packages.macports.org/ and its mirrors for macOS releases ranging from Mac OS X 10.5 to macOS 10.14.

Most of my packages seem to build from source. Perhaps this is because I run on the bleeding edge (macOS Developer Seeds, macports-base/macports-ports built from ToT master)? Maybe I've triggered this by virtue of some configuration option I've set?

> Yes, we need more contributors and committers to maintain the large collection of ports we have.

I've been trying my best to help by updating whatever "port livecheck installed" gives me, provided the maintainer policy allows it :) I am curious about new ports, though: what is the policy on these? Should we aim to "mirror" packages that homebrew/core adds? Does MacPorts have any equivalent for Homebrew's Caskroom?

> Development of the port command is relatively inactive (severe lack of manpower).

I "tested the waters" with a bug for a (IMO) usability improvement, https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57950, but didn't get much of response. I have ideas for ways to improve the ergonomics of the port command (and a willingness to write code to back it), but I'm not sure what the process is to get started on this.

> Its own versions of libraries, to be exact.

Yup, this is what I meant. Poor word choice here.

> It will block writing files outside of directories specified in portsandbox.tcl[2], but using (reading and executing) system tools is allowed. For example, most ports are built with the compiler from Xcode.

Again, poor word choice. As far as I understand, MacPorts uses the compiler toolchain from Xcode (or the CLT if you have it installed?) but will block access to random "things" that the user has installed to /usr/local.

> Yes, but we recommend users upgrading to a new major release of macOS reinstall MacPorts and all ports because things could still break.

I have not used MacPorts long enough to have had to do this, so I was mostly talking about MacPorts being immune to Homebrew's perennial issues with Apple changing permissions on some folder that Homebrew thought they "owned" or changing some framework/command/header that they depended on. Tangentially related, has there been any work done on making this migration between OS versions less jarring? What kinds of issues crop up?

Oh, and finally, is there any easy way to get macOS's graphical applications to find MacPorts's binaries? I've been trying a bunch of random stuff related to launchd's environment variables but they seem to be really finicky and a lot of "methods" I found online don't seem to work anymore. And official suggestions?
The main thing to blame is open plan... Read: cheaping out on walls.
This includes undamped glass walls and doors.
Fellow HNer and fellow Belgian here.
Congratulations! If you're ever around Leuven I'd love to buy you a beer and have a chat ;-)
How do you justify the price of $1k/mo? -- isn't that a bit too much?
I would be scared to trust a self driving vehicle based on high resolution map: the government can change the roads any time, and I don't trust my government to notify Google in time about it.

,,You don’t ship mvp/beta of software that can kill people so you can gather training data.''

I think you haven't looked at the presentation: the new data gathering and verifying is based on shadow mode on model mispredictions, and it's not enabled until the misprediction rate goes down to an acceptable rate.
I think I get the best of both worlds. Because my domain name is a numeronym of my name. So yes, it is my name (in a sense) and personal, but if you don't know me or care it can be anything. Also, it is really short, which I like. (j11g.com).
I don't think there's an ideal, but your tld is a big part of your brand in the long-run. I don't think it has to be based around your name, but basing it on your universal online handle is also a pretty good way to go about it.
What I'd really love is for federated project hosting. Consider: why does a GitHub pull request have to be from one GH repo to another? So long as it has read access for the source repo, it shouldn't matter where it is. Now, it also keeps track of changes in the source, so that it can update PRs etc. But surely distributed notifications are also a solved problem?

Ideally, I should be able to do PRs and link to bugs and commits in comments etc, and it's all federated and "just works".
It would be interesting to see whether - evolutionary - the (illusion? of) free will gave us any advantage. I am convinced this is not unique for humans.
It is an interesting juxtaposition -- companies worth hundreds of billions, whose workforce can't afford a place to live.

And who gets richer when those companies' profits surge? Well, the richest 10% of Americans own 84% of all stocks.
> Not to make too fine a point about it here, but file handles are perfect matches for RAII / Rust lifetimes, unlike OpenGL textures.

Agreed, something like an FD matches RAII very well, but you can open one file multiple times, dup fds and multiple processes can do all this. So the FDs end up mapping in some non-trivial, probably refcounted way to other objects in the kernel.

So it seems with OpenGL, this kind of mapping / bookkeeping layer gets hoisted up into the application framework -- which might be a reasonable choice.
It’s not much better. Still requires scrolling left and right for each line.
Kid-Friendly Grooming Tips Child Models Swear By
Depending on which country you and your employing entity are in, this could end up netting you all of the disadvantages of self-employment with none of the benefits.

E.g. in the UK, HMRC will determine your tax status based on, amongst other things, how much control your 'not employer' has over the work you do. So if GitLab were to treat you as just another member of the team, you'd run a big risk of ending up treated as an employee for tax purposes, but without any of the rights accorded to employees.

TLDR - talk to a tax professional who understands the regulations in both your and your "not employer's" jurisdictions.
It doesn't help them in agent modelling, which is the hardest part of self driving. They are doing sophisticated agent modelling in simulation, while Tesla is mostly using shadow mode to verify the agent models.
How to check if your Reserved Instances are used
I've never understood how someone could master a subject and yet be unable to answer any questions about it.

How about spoken English? I know a great many people who are able to express themselves clearly and gramatically - surely mastery of spoken English - but ask them what the rule is for order of adjectives or some such and many of them would even need to double check what an adjective is.
Hasn't logic done that already? When not relying on a god that magically wipes clean the slate and adds free will, where would it come from?
It was fun when we added the Star Trek quotes, but boy they did not age well
Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment
I prefer to build my social life around the people I choose, not the people I am stuck with.
Patent US9646028B2 – Graph Query Logic – Facebook Inc
> making it work in 650sf apt on combined $120k.

Ten years ago I announced to my GF at dinner that I was going to write a book. Flat fucking broke in San Francisco on only $250 a day.
It is absolutely possible to misunderstand poetry. (Not saying you did that)
> For example, we now know that the Internet has a corrupting influence on civil society that's stronger than its capacity to uplift it.

I don't buy this.

The Internet is the single biggest repository and distributor of human knowledge the world has ever seen.

If you wish to find truth, you can. If you wish to find inclusion, you can.

From the US perspective, the problem is that the pile of excrement that is the Republican party in the US is the result of a concerted propaganda effort by Vietnam-era operators to pervert traditional media--radio and TV.

The lesson Democracy needs to learn from the Nixon presidency is that getting rid of the top operator isn't enough--you have to get the cockroaches (Cheney, Ashcroft, etc. for Nixon) as both a warning to the next generation as well as preventing the current generation from coming back.
How did you get along with your older peers? An age difference of two years is quite a lot in primary school.
Sorry but it just isn't diversification. If he wanted to diversify into property the reasonable course of action would be to buy properties that WeWork weren't renting in areas WeWork don't strongly impact the market. By investing into property rented by WeWork he's further concentrating his risk - not only is he invested in the company but now he's also invested in a property whose value is largely reliant on the rental income from WeWork. Technically his risk profile is slightly diversified - because part of his risk is now just in the property market it means his portfolio is more diverse than just being invested in WeWork, but it's significantly less diverse than what any reasonable person would have achieved by just investing in other properties. For that reason you can confidently say that he's not diversifying - but if his intention was diversifying this is almost THE least effective way of doing it.
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The argument is network effects, you come to WeWork for the community. It's difficult and capital intensive to attract enough people to build a community so that's their moat. I don't belive it is anywhere near as valuable as they seem to think, but that's their argument.
These are personal anecdotes, but here at GitLab we recently started recording our personal stories about how remote working changed our lives. If you're interested in remote work you may also find this interesting: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/stories/
From a fellow Belgian : congratulations!

It's very inspiring to see a self-taught programmer achieve such an impressive result.

Any chance of the capsule ceremony being live streamed? Would be cool to follow.
But usually salary negotiations happen once an offer is given, so candidate has already been picked. The company really need to explicitly act in bad faith to be choosing the cheaper candidate. Here I'm probably more mentioning a bias more than bad faith (although bad faith could also happen).

I get the point of Gitlab about having zombie employees, but at the same time other remote companies offer SF-based salary. So _as a remote worker_ you could decide to get a SF-based salary instead of locally adjusted one.

I get both sides of the argument and really don't know if a side is more right.
People outside the western world still very much use internet cafeś / game cafes to play games on decent hardware and with a good connection.
Is there perhaps another country you feel loyalty to already, however?

(Just a guess, but the only person I know in real life with sentiments almost identical to what you have posted is German and identifies strongly with his German background.)
@scottishfiction absolutely agree.
You may not be looking for discipline but persistence. One doesn't necessarily depend on the other.
Ballpark latency numbers per 2048-bit modular multiplication:

CPU—1100ns

FPGA—66ns

ASIC—1ns (expected)

If you're a hardware engineer (or mathematician) interested is building an ultra-low latency ASIC, please email justin@ethereum.org

Source: https://twitter.com/drakefjustin/status/1123143447551053824

Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqL_cMlPjOI
I think the main thing you should have in mind when you make a personal website is to not have any expectations. Nobody cares, nobody will read your words, etc - until they do, until you're suddenly discovered, and people go back through your years of posts and find a lot of gold stuff.

I think that was the core of the "old" 97 websites - I mean Google didn't exist back then, so finding a page when you search for a name was neither here nor there. Instead you found a webpage through word of mouth, and unlike today, you'd sit down and spend the time to have a good browse through the site.

On that last note, personal websites are often still manageable - that is, if you sit down for a couple hours, you can consume a lot of the content that one person created in the span of an X amount of years. Not so much with a lot of the bigger websites nowadays; Medium.com is a rabbithole and you'll quickly end up going to another author's posts. News and moreso social media sites are an infinite torrent of rapid fire blurbs, all tugging you one way then the other in terms of subjects, political sides, and in ways to try and sell something to you.
I'm a GitLab employee, and before working here always struggled with remote work. There's a tipping point, though, at an all remote company where when everyone is remote, the communication structures of the company adapt to having clear communication through video, chat, and email. We do a lot of video chat here. It's hard to describe what it's like, but it certainly doesn't feel like we're all locked away in little boxes with only awkward or indirect ways to interact with each other.
Glad to hear this! I've been in the same boat and will never again join a local team as a remote member. I love to work from home and be alone, but that was too much, really.

Now, I do really like remote work because of the freedom it offers and always thought if I ever get another job, it should be remote. Glad to hear you say that fully remote works well while you had the same troubles as me on a non-fully remote team!
Developers who make games for Windows PCs tend to fill them with so many "DRM" and "anti-cheat" measures that they might as well just sell them as a prebaked rootkit.
Stealing someone identity is, by definition, a bad idea.
They are given a set of answers and are trying to find the most justifiable among them (note that the questions pretty much all have most likely or some other variant of the phrase in them). The student is tasked with evaluating these interpretations of the poem and picking the one which is most justified, which at least required some understanding of the poem and literary terms.

For example,

The poet includes these lines most likely to suggest that the speaker

—F does not wish to be pushed on a swing

-G wants to deal with the situation alone

-H does not often receive help from others

-J is not physically strong

J is the most obviously wrong, as it is at best irrelevant to the lines in question. F is reasonable if you accept the lines as literal, but it's fairly obviously metaphorical (punning off of the phrase 'mood swing'). H seems relevant in that the passage is about receiving help from others, but it's clearly commenting on how she would react to help, not about the likelyhood of receiving it. J seems the most reasonable: the passage is saying she would push back against attempt to cheer her up, and so concluding she would like to be left alone in this mood is a reasonable interpretation.

Note that the final answer doesn't have to be the one the person taking the test would, it just has to be the most justified and reasonable of the one presented. In terms of evaluating skill at interpreting writing and in terms of evaluating interpretations of this writing, this seems a reasonable approach. Essay questions may be better, and indeed the push to multiple choice is almost certainly to reduce the cost of marking as opposed to any other concerns, but these don't seem like terribly designed multiple choice questions.
"While the carrier says the issues found in 2011 and 2012 were resolved at the time, the revelation may further damage the reputation of a Chinese powerhouse."
that's the right price to set it at... just more expensive that it would cost to buy the mug from a mug store rather than a coffee store.
I'm sure that they're going to find out that some people at Huawei do not wash their hands after going to the toilet.

Do you really want your data in those hands?
Hard to know from the article, and Bloomberg does not have a good track record, if the 'backdoor' was a vulnerability , an unwanted feature or an actual backdoor.

I might imagine a Chinese headline with "US firm Intel backdoors every CPU", which may or may not be true depending on your feelings on Intel ME
US Will Rethink Cooperation with Allies Who Use Huawei
fwiw, I took a stab at replacing a bunch of => with . and ran it:
time ./crb-vec-omp
real 0m0.764s

which is more than twice as fast as the rust example,

but it didn't create the right output...

if you get bored would you mind taking a stab at adding parallel and modifying crb-vec.c https://github.com/niofis/raybench , I definitely think you might be on to something here.
>because I had a decent sense of what the test "wanted" me to put down

I think this is what they are actually looking for
or low moral because people feel like they have been screwed or it's unfair that some coworkers are paid more.
Not true. I can give the counter point. When you Google the name of my better half you get a "fact card" with reference to her website. The first "regular" search result is again her website. The second result is her Facebook page.

As the algorithm is hidden it is hard to say why. But should I guess then I think embedded microdata is an important weight (https://schema.org).

For the record: She has no Wikipedia page (as most notable people would have) which typically rank very high.
Did you try WeWork?
The evidence presented in those links is pretty poor. Especially:

https://www.theroot.com/minecraft-creator-goes-full-white-pr...

WTF, you cannot say that it's OK to be white? Seems to me that there are racists on Twitter, but it's not Notch.
> It’s possible to leave traces of whatever inner conflict tortures you in your writing without even knowing.

Identifying those borders on psychoanalysis. Even trained medical professionals have problems with that.

> the disdain of the humanities in this thread (and generally on HN and the tech community) is just begging for an explanation

It's simple - humanities as most of us here were exposed to, have high propensity to bullshit. Bullshit in the On Bullshit (2005) sense - that is, not caring in the slightest whether what one says is true or false.

As for heightened emotions - well, for many of us, humanities at school were not just the first major exposure to bullshit, but also a situation in which you were graded on your ability to eat it and produce more of your own. The dislike may be particularly higher amount STEM crowd because STEM interests are much less tolerant to bullshit - there are right and wrong answers in hard sciences and engineering, and telling them apart is paramount.
Navier-Stokes Equation Solution – Solution to a Millennium Problem?
Have you started working on providing a UI for the XML test result artifacts produced in CI runs?

They are displayed in merge requests but not anywhere in the normal CI pipeline UI and I'd live to be able to see those and see what works and what doesn't.
It blows my mind to see a company of Google's size still having such huge growth. Incredible really.
This article dances back and forth between saying "vulnerability" and "backdoor", which while they may have the same end result wildly differ in intent.

I can't tell the seriousness of this except for the telnet one.
Ask HN: How to capture time-lapse of industrial smoke?
I live in an industrial city with both harbor and oil refineries, which is a source for heavy air pollution. As part of my environmental activism, I would like to create time-lapses of smoke emissions from the various chimneys in the area.

I would like to establish a setup of various remote controlled video cameras shooting in timelapse mode (any tips and suggestions for this would be appreciated).

My main concern is how to post-process the video to enhance the smoke emissions in it, since in various tests I performed, the smoke in the video does not seem so significant as it is in reality.
> at this level "literary criticism" is intended to develop...skills of textual interpretation

But it is also at this level that multiple-choice tests about which bits of a text mean what (as the original article illustrates) proliferate. It is at this level that the textbook is the One Truth about what a text means. As one other comment points out, at this level there is no recourse but "authority" which is, ironically, detached from the author.

> It doesn't matter what the poem "actually" means any more than it matters that you're ignoring friction

This is a false equivalence. When we ignore 'what the poem "actually" means' it opens up interpretation to a colossal array of extremely subjective possibilities. "The curtains are blue" could symbolize anything from the author's depression to his thoughts about the Yuan dynasty. In contrast, the effects of ignoring friction can be objectively proven (if not empirically demonstrated) and would give us a definite answer, no mental gymnastics required.

In real-life engineering, we also tolerate a certain amount of slack and simplification in our models so long as the discrepancy between computation and observation is not so drastic. In this sense, ignoring those variables is tantamount to practice in iterative refinement (you are launching a projectile in an indoors gymnasium; you wouldn't really care if your computation is off by a foot or so because you ignored air resistance and the curvature of the Earth). The simplification can still provide value (not to mention practicality). But eking out an explanation just for the sake of giving an explanation, relegating "the work as a whole, the writer's oeuvre, historical context, linguistic concerns, philosophical frameworks, and so on" to more advanced levels, is just sloppy scholarship and build poor habits.
Do the Snowden documents contain any NSA guidelines on sanitation procedures after taking a leak? If they a rigorous the NSA might be up for an unexpected boost in popularity!
Yeah. Quite telling when every quote from Vodaphone uses the word "Vulnerability", not backdoor.
Well, I could probably figure out all of the "best" answers, but at the same time, I felt only the first question had a choice that was even remotely correct. As you say, it is more of a test of test taking skills than of reading comprehension.
Most? A very large chunk use spaces or thin-spaces as thousand separators. By GDP, at least, periods are probably in the minority.
The article takes a lot of words to explain they left a telnet server open. It wasn’t some super secret hidden thing.
Elon Musk Writes about Ethereum on Twitter
Nobody has time for that. The hypocrisy rises to heaven when you decry "low level leaf nodes" even though they showed up and you didn't.
I have zero data on this, but I'll lay decent money that 90% of take-out coffee customers go to the same shop regularly.

After all, they're going somewhere, probably somewhere local, with their coffee. If they weren't, they'd stay at the coffee shop to drink their coffee. Or if they're not going somewhere local, then they're on a long journey (not that common).

I used to drink most take-out coffee when I worked just around the corner from the coffee stand, and went there every day, twice a day, for decent coffee.
Indeed. We should not make it something mandatory or a reason to deduct points from the dev if they don't have those but it would definitely be a good help if they do have it.