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> Back when I got my first SSD I ran Linux without a swap file/partition

You can turn off swap if you don't need hibernate, and from memory even turning off overcommit used to be OK-ish (of course most software written for linux doesn't try to deal with failing malloc requests gracefully, because there's no point since it never happens in the default configuration). You end up with a noticeably snappier system. However, this no longer seems to work in practice. Try turning off overcommit completely and see how long it takes Chrome to crash even if you have a lot of available memory.

> A far better approach is to have your indexer run as a separate process that monitors file writes (you can still have a kernel hook for that if you wish)

This is how spotlight works though, no? It's a separate process gets notified by the kernel on file system changes and then indexes them (that's what I meant with FS integration). I agree that you don't want to synchronously update all indexing meta info on FS operations because everything will grind to a halt if you do that. But you still want OS support such as reliable notification and extended FS attributes to store things like "this was downloaded from here" or tagging. I don't think there is anything particularly magical about this (spotlight is 15 years old tech and linux has had xattr support in all major file systems for ages) but in practice xattrs end up pretty much useless in linux because next to nothing uses them (baloo probably does) and as far as I'm aware there is no robust file system change notification API (you can use inotify for some stuff, but it's limited in various ways). I'd love to be wrong about this though.

I think the situation is better on macOS, but it might just be that spotlight is more polished and there is no fundamental difficulty in writing the same for linux these days.
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It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to notice them looking down and slightly to the right, or very hard down.

Humans are good at noticing what other people are looking at, so it doesn't take more than a moment to figure out if someone's looking at something either than the road. From there, it's a relatively safe bet if they're not looking at the road, they're looking at this phone.

I see this all the time in a car, but maybe Ive trained myself to pay attention to this considering how many drivers use their phones while driving.
+1 to this.

I've been working as a remote contractor while whole team was on site (to make things more difficult, on different continent and different timezone - Europe vs US). I think I'll never do it again (working remotely while the rest of the team is onsite).

Now I work with a fully remote team, and it's great ;)
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By out of date, I meant lacking any recent content.
I haven't tried this myself but I think ConTeXt can output PDFs with embedded XML markup and even epub files. You need to use \startsection and \stopsection instead of just \section, and maybe there are other limitations, but it's a small price to pay, isn't it?

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Epub

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Export
I fail to see any fundamental incompatibility. Every text renderer of any kind is about putting glyphs in positions. The layout would declare few things not moveable and algorithms needs to decide how to fit text around those constraints. The algorithms for TeX are computationally expensive but I don't see why with faster computers, you can't reflow the text. About 15 years ago it used to take dozen second to compile my typical PDF, now overleaf.com does that in just a second in browser.
Just want to add that GMP is not "C". The critical parts are written in assembly. It's not really possible to do fast multiple-precision arithmetic in C. You need direct access to add with carry instructions and the like.
There's another characteristic that's apparent to only some of us who live here, but many of those who don't...

How out of touch many here are with the rest of the nation's and world's concerns, aspirations, feelings, values, and needs.

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’m also fairly sure that Jetbrains would take kindly to license requests from open-source projects and academia.

They do: https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/
The question i'd like to have answered:
How long the sattelites actually last, considered the amount of space junk in orbit and amount of sattelites?
Do they intend to launch several sats/day?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/9ud7s7/starlink_s...
Isn't this a bit ironical coming from the creator of Ubuntu that provided a foundation dueling Debian?

As a user I see myself as a gainer from the Debian/Ubuntu or GCC/Clang duels.
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It is understandable and doesn't "effect" my comprehension, but that doesn't mean that the net "affect" is equivalent or desirable. :)
Work is also great opportunity to get in love, or to party/dine with coworkers regullary (aka social life!).
The European immigrants likely had dual citizenship, so why not the Native Americans? It was extremely unfair and served no purpose.

And regarding your point under two laws. Any American citizen living overseas has to follow both US law and local law. Its not difficult. You don't even need dual citizenship to be in this situation.

If the constitution said nobody could have dual citizenship, like Japan as one of many examples, then that would be something else altogether.
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In terms of driving behavior? I should hope not.

If I'm driving down the road with a phone held to my ear, a giant soda in the other hand, and steering with my knees, and I happen to pass a police officer, I hope they'd be allowed to stop me. I shouldn't be able to hide behind "I was in my private car, you had no right to look in on me and observe my behavior there."
I've found that on the highway that someone in an adjacent lane is most likely to make a sudden lane change at very high or very low speeds. So at 5mph, from my experience, you're far more likely to encounter situations where you need to be paying attention than not when you're driving at low speeds on a highway.

So yeah, using your phone on the highway, in really any situation unless its park-and-sleep traffic, is kind of a dick move.
My experience of programming is making a turtle move around on a screen, so programming is dumb. My experience of math is working out how fast trains traveling towards each other are going, so math is dumb. My experience of chemistry is making a bit of paper change color when dipped in vinegar, so chemistry is dumb. And so on ad nauseam.
A really interesting side-effect of the mass production of thousands of satellites for this constellation will be to make spacex a player in the satellite building business, bringing satellite production costs down significantly, and thus boost demand for their launch business, it will also demonstrate a high rate of launches. The two businesses can feed off each other, along with the revenue from starlink. Interesting strategy.
Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no corporate tax
Yeah, seems like the app is prefetching links.
I run a single 4k monitor, ~40" and I haven't felt a need for any additional monitors. I use i3 as my window manager, really like it with this setup.
All the more reason that you would be a ghost, since you are now competing with all of them for search result ranking.
I was awkward, and it was about the only place I could focus entirely on academics and be among peers that valued that.

My identity is complicated (and queer) and while my adolescence would have been a mess no matter what, having something that I could work hard on and had meaning - grades - made a ton of difference. At a school where everyone was an awkward geek, I didn't stand out.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Cheery optimism and pride in a place are all well and good. This article feels like it's from a different time, perhaps a decade before. Certainly, there has been a lot of negative press of Silicon Valley in recent years. Much of that has been well-deserved. For years, engineers have pretended to be above the petty tribalism of politics (even as we bikeshedded and fought our editor holy wars), only for the revelations of the last few years of SV lobbying and collusion with the surveillance state to come out.

Of course, this article is more about SV as a cultural place and ideal, and not a political force, more about Manhattan than Wall Street. But it still brushes off high rents as normal, something ever-present. Meanwhile, a San Jose city councilman and his family are evicted because of high rents:

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-housing-crisis-council...

I grew up in San Jose. (I remember when we were the capital of Silicon Valley, not San Francisco.) We now live in a very different Bay Area from that of the irrationally exuberant '90s. I think positive profiles of SV have to be tempered by realistic coverage of the many, many problems this place is experiencing. At the very least, acknowledgement of these problems- and not breezy dismissal- can spur change to make things better. So we can build a Silicon Valley worthy of these utopian fantasies.
Phones are very easy to spot, because it's a tiny glowing screen in an otherwise dark car.
PhD's who do silly things deserve more criticism because they are supposed to know better, and its funny watching their reaction that you dare.
Basically all of Java is as dense as a mid-sized American city. Java (2903 / mi^2), Atlanta (3547 / mi^2). Here, Java's population density includes its 12000-foot peaks. Or, to give an alternate picture, it's a third of the size of California, with four times as many people.
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The biggest challenge is implementation of Remote at scale. It is fine if you're running a remote company of 10, but with a remote company of 50 it becomes a very detailed and documented process. You're pretty much spending "overhead" on supporting the remote working norms, documentation and principles, and all of that is a similar effort to running an office, but with completely different skills and people required.

So maintaining both an office and proper remote working norms is expensive.

I think this is the biggest challenge, which companies have uncovered after trying to accommodate remote working employees in regular centralised or distributed companies, and seeing whether it is efficient or not.
> Absolute monopsony might be a very threatening thing to absolutely profit orientated business, but in practice here nationalised public services like Health need have no interest in forcing their commercial suppliers slowly out of business with unsustainable deals.

They actually do, for two reasons.

The first is that it's an international market, so any given country is better off to underpay and free ride on the R&D paid for by other countries. (And the consequences of this are subtle; it isn't that all R&D stops or companies lose money, it's that they shrink their R&D expenditure by not investing in high risk high reward treatments because they're no longer high reward, and you get correspondingly fewer high patient value treatments.)

The second reason is that there is a conflict of interest. The person receiving treatment is not the person paying, so the people receiving treatment want to maximize effectiveness while the people paying want to minimize costs. The government is then put in the position of choosing who to make unhappy. Then each person gets one vote but there are more taxpayers than patients with severe illnesses, so the result is for governments to generally under-invest in treatment compared to the value the patient themselves would place on their own life.

This is why it's much better for the government to set the price they're willing to pay rather than the price the supplier is required to charge, and let the patient make up the difference if it's more and it's worth it to them. Otherwise the government underbids on the value of your life but you can't use your own money because most of what you would have used already went to paying the premiums/taxes that were supposed to pay for your healthcare until they decided you weren't worth the cost.
Compilation seems to take place on the server.
You make it sound like a big audience is the only thing that matters. The linked post talks about a personal website as a digital identity. Giving people a link so they can find you online is a good reason to have a website, even today.

Besides that, making your own website is rewarding in many other ways - Being creative, getting thoughts out of your head, pinning down certain arguments you tend to repeat, etc.
> I'm convinced that almost nobody is good at the whole cycle of creating/maintaining something.

Part of it is your character and personality. But your environment and your experience have a major weight.

Same applies for being a finisher.

In reality, it is not just being a starter and a finisher. A lot of other variables are involved. all sort of soft and hard skills will define your success and quality of your work. And you can arguably say almost nobody has all of them.
drone is like google cloud build and probably and whatever amazon has
Thanks for sharing this. Impressed by the details shared, nice mix of pics, data, and small vid clips. Wish some pricing info was there. I'd love to know what something like this cost to make and what parts could be much cheaper if scaled up just a little bit, like a short run of 100 units.
Marketplace doesn't make money for FB yet.

Also, in US at least, people go directly to search for restaurants vs. Facebook. Even Google is more popular for restaurant search than FB.
Who's the "we" that is throwing money at this? Starlink is privately funded.
There are plenty of existing jobs where people have to spend many hours by themselves. Think about truck drivers, they may spend weeks alone with nothing more than a few minutes chat to a fellow trucker they see at a truck stop.
Did you ever try to bullshit your way into one of these positions? Obviously it's a bad idea, but I'm only half joking since it might be an interesting experiment to see how people rate and value you if their mind may have already been made up.
possibly privately funded research is not as cost effective as government funded
They can submit to independent audit. ExpressVPN and IVPN have been audited by Cure53.[0,1]

0) https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/browser-extension-audit-and-...

1) https://www.ivpn.net/blog/ivpn-no-logging-claim-verified-by-...
You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear reasonable.
That is an impressive list
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Yes, access to hardware intrinsics is what can really accelerate arithmetic - C makes this pretty easy though.

As an aside, .NET Core 3.0 will deliver access to intrinsics - not sure if Java or any other managed platform already has this?
I can't really remember my state of mind clearly, I was a 6 year old when I started partial acceleration in reading and maths in Kindergarten, and a 9 year old when I was generally accelerated from Year 3 to Year 5. My family tells me that I made it very clear that I was unhappy at the time though - mostly the boredom.

Conversely, I know people who were recognised as gifted students but who weren't generally accelerated out of concern for their social skills or whatever, some of them ended up having problems later on and should probably have just been accelerated and pushed out to higher education faster. And I also know people who are pretty clearly gifted, but went through school in the normal fashion and were entirely happy with that, good for them.

I think the key thing is it has to be about the needs of the child, not the egos of the parents.

Anyway, point is - gifted programs are useful for the kids who need them. And as a rural kid with a limited selection of schools and little by way of gifted program resourcing, I'm glad for the handful of teachers who made my individualised educational plan happen regardless - their special ed programs need more support, not less.
@Darkphibre, wonderful background! Yes, and optical flow + recent advancements in deep learning is also certainly something exciting to see flourish! Action recognition seems like a promising research area (https://research.google.com/ava/ CVPR '18).
I've been working remotely on and off for the past 6 years, and I agree that having a peer group where you can casually chat about "tech stuff" is one thing you definitely miss out on by isolating yourself at home.

A couple of my remote-peers work from co-working spaces which seems like a good way to avoid home distractions (my first-born is on the way shortly) and still have this connection to like minded people, so I plan to start doing that too.
GoCD?
You need to also include the 7% after market drop which Google shares saw after declaring the results.
I'd like to point out that all said is not true for small languages. I got a website in Hebrew, and due to the lack of competition I'm #1 on my name, and #1 in many keywords.
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Thanks @chuanenlin, I found the article very informative at easy to digest :)

Thanks for the link - can’t wait to have a play with it!
What I've wanted for a while now is to be able to run a single jupyter server but have many kernels running inside different containers. It's possible to have the kernels in different virtualenvs. I wonder if I could achieve that with this.
The people The people producing literary criticism and the people talking about what it means are so very often are mutually exclusive that it is very hard to take the people talking about it seriously.
I don't think so. I know folks in education where there is huge money and demand for such toys. You still have to prepare great program, tools and have right connection but if you can do it then you get a sell of thousands of robots in one sweep. Virtually every public school (in well off areas) is dying to introduce robotics. Almost every district has some sort of robotics competition going on. When I drive to work, I see about half dozen street signs for robotics/stem summer camps. I might be biased living in tech heavy crowd but I hear its same in districts which have decent amount of money. Besides education, robotics toys is high in demand for kids. Consistently many top 10 Christmas toys have been toys that were claimed to be robots but unfortunately they are just scams with few pre-programmed things. Cosmo is one of the best robot built for kids besides Lego Boost and Mindstorm for older kids. It was definitely bit expensive and lacking good marketing outside of tech crowd but it was a real robotic toy and deserved better outcome.
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Navajo alone is spoken by 200,000 people. I'm learning lushootseed, the Salish language of the Seattle area, to help in its revival. Beautiful phonemes and totally unlike English.. it doesn't seem to have nouns exactly, and all words are made of many particles.

They're teaching it in reservation schools right now.. hopefully in another 15 years there'll be an active speaker community!
Could you give an example or two of these distortion effects you speak of? I guess they were too subtle for me.
"Based on Moore’s law and how long it took to run the squaring operation in 1999, Rivest estimated that computing the answer to the puzzle should take approximately 35 years."

So how did Rivest create the puzzle back then in the first place, without taking 35 years to generate it?
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There are tons of those articles though. This one was refreshingly detached from all that.
At my previous job, I worked 3 days in, 2 days out, as the only remote person on the floor. I didn't have any project-related problems because of that, and while we already used in-room group chat for some percentage of conversations (both work and non-work), this was never 100%, so I felt incredibly out-of-the-loop on office banter. Not the worst thing in life, but it made me feel a bit like an outsider. Now I'm contracting and collaborating with other remote people, so things are much better.
High school literary criticism is just training for basic interpretation skills. It doesn't matter what's really "in" the poem, just that the student is capable of rudimentary analysis of meaning and symbolism and so on. If they went on to study literary criticism at a higher level with a decent teacher, they'd have to justify their interpretations with reference to the work as a whole, the writer's other work, their influences, the historical period, and other context.
> from what I know of him he would not be a fan of having untanned literary professors claiming his works were about more than literally just an old man pissing in the sea or a bull fighter fighting bulls.

... I think that's the point - even if it were more than that, he might not be a fan of admitting it.
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I played with this approach last year.[0] HMA was the worst. At most half of their servers could possibly be where claimed. So they could well be "A".

0) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/how-to-verify-physical-l...
Ask HN: How do you deal with being well paid while having nothing to do at work?
This might come as a strange question to some, but I've been recently wondering a lot about it. I've been working for the past ~5 years at a fortune 500 company, and have switched my positions a few times (generally advancing my tech skills, so think tech support -> QE -> software engineer type of a thing).

It has happened to me multiple times that I came to work and if I simply read a book the whole time, nobody would notice. So, I'd desperately try to find some work for me in each of my positions. Paradoxically, that would make me stand out, because I'd be extremely receptive to PR reviews and collaborative processes, which would be a huge factor in the promotion process. At the same time, I dislike this feeling of 'all jiras done, what now?', and so the fact that a position had prolonged periods of it was the major, deciding factor in me abandoning it.

I thought, until recently, that this was mainly a 'me' thing, i.e. I'm too green to actively look for work even when none is given. You know, these people that always have a ton of ideas, and the only thing you have to do is manage their priority. I'm not that, and so I've been kind of hard on myself for not being creative enough to see what needs to be done without being explicitly told.

That said, my wife recently joined a new company, and was complaining at home that she had 0 things to do. They hired her, and now, she's sitting there re-reading documentation, managers scrambling to give her some tasks. She's also at a fortune 500 company. She also mentioned that her fellow new hires said the same thing.

I'm now beginning to wonder, is this a common thing? How do you deal with these periods? What is the correct, productive way to deal with it?

For me, these are mostly 'time to train' and 'is there really nothing that could use my attention' kind of periods, but I can't do that for a long time and not feel down about it.
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I have been censured for proposing the 'wrong' interpretation. And it totally destroyed my respect for that teacher. My interpretation was supported strictly by the actual text. The 'correct' interpretation not just according to our teacher, but our textbooks, required a tortured reading and assuming a comma was misplaced when this author always otherwise had perfect grammar. The only defense was an appeal to authority: surely I did not expect to understand it better than some idiot who'd failed at basic reading comprehension a century ago.