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If you are referring to my comment regarding Linux not being for desktops...

I use Linux on my desktop. The only non-Linux machines in my house are my work Windows machine and my sister in law's Windows machine. All my personal machines, my wife's laptop, and my kids' desktop are all Linux flavors. Linux is a great desktop imho. That said, Linux is not primarily a desktop machine. It gets some pro-Desktop patches but at the end of the day, Linux is designed for servers and paid for by people interested in its usage as a server.
A couple of friction points right now trying to install. One its a 3GB app package on the mac but I guess i'm not surprised based on all that is included, would be interesting to see what, if any, options there are for a modular deployment. But sadly after I signed up for a wolfram account I am unable to activate the install from the terminal :-(
Sorry to hear about the harassment, thats never fun to deal with. On the plus side, sounds like OP made the right call to disinvite the person from the conference. You can tell an awful lot about a person by how they handle rejection.
Yeah, prefers-color-scheme is a really nice thing!

I have even also made an add-on for Firefox that you can use to toggle that dark mode directly in your browser (not only at OS level): https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dark-mode-website-s...
This had already happened.

When US blocked use of Huawei network equipment they started a major PR campaign on China.

In China Huawei numbers are up, Apple is down so I guess it worked.
Facebook has also states it will not conform to the gdpr outside of Europe
Let's recontextualize that for you. Replace "this technology" with the mouse. No one needs a new way to interact with devices, information, etc indeed.

Holding such luddite views is your right, but the rest of the more transhumanist aligned population can and will leave you behind (and help less abled people along the way).
It sounds like you compromised on your principles and are now paying the price. Lesson learned?
I had no idea the above comment would be quite so divisive (noting up/down on points movement). It's simply hard to trust an insider working in the government given the revolving door that the FCC and other regulating bodies have been within their respective industries. Combined with a lot of anti-consumer efforts from the FCC specifically.

I also saw the comment regarding it looking more like a corporate press release. I'm effectively saying that any trust the FCC Chairman may have had has, in my mind, been completely eroded to the point that my own bias could not overcome it.

I'm not sure that even three national carriers is enough with a lack of collaboration between them. Given the current direction, it'll eventually become an anti-trust issue anyway.
Static typing doesn't eliminate any errors, it just exposes them earlier when you run the compiler rather than when a unit test finds them. Of course, that's if the unit test has been written.
>But that’s completely at odds with how most software engineers work these days. Most software is grounded in an open source development and deployment tool chain.

Imagine saying this with a straight face. Maybe in web development, but the vast majority of programmers are using closed source tools to produce closed source software.

You're either thinking of a tiny picture vs the whole picture (web devs vs programming in general) or you honestly have zero concept of what programming looks like outside of web apps.
Because hardware and automotive engineers make for poor software designers and developers (and vice versa).
There are americans that think the earth is flat. I doubt the median educated american would want a billion+ people to stay poor.
I (the GP) actually agree with you. The point in making my distinction wasn't that I think one is criminal and one is not. I think they're both criminal, however there's clearly a political angle being played in both.
Check out an open source browser extension called track me not that does this with search engine queries
It's written in the specification going back to HTML 2.0
Could you please review the guidelines and make an effort to post more informatively and thoughtfully? We're here to have a discussion and to learn things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With occupant weight sensors in the seats, I bet they could pretty accurately identify the driver and passengers. Maybe our car will start sending us notes when we gain weight, reminding us that we haven't been seen at the gym location lately.
Every interaction with a business that has a presence in your HCOL area caries a price premium because those businesses are getting fleeced by their landlords who are getting fleeced by their plumbers who are getting fleeced by their landlords...

The HCOL area isn't the obvious net win it should be on paper. I live in a "blighted shithole" so to speak. I paid $10 for a buffet dinner and $0 for parking. All those nickles and dimes really add up fast.
I for one feel like there’s actually limited play in this - America already is and has been the boogeyman for years.

Whipping up nationalistic sentiment and expecting consumers to fall in line is a transparent tactic and younger, affluent consumers are fairly cynical. It rarely has any long term effect either (see previous nationalistic anti-Japan and anti-Korea consumer boycotts).

Also don’t underestimate the power of Apple brand - it’s not like banning Google or Facebook which had very limited presence in Chinese minds. Moves to limit access to Apple products, tax them, ban them etc would not go down well.

The government could offer more subsidies to domestic companies, better credit terms or financial incentives, but then that’s just China paying for the cost of Trumps tariffs - Trump wins.

That said, Huawei and other phone makers have been taking chunks out of Apple by making better phones at competitive prices - that’s what actually moves consumers.
If I'm a pedestrian getting my body filmed, 3D-scanned, with potential facial recognition and internal-organs-penetrating sensors added on top, _I'm_ the one who should own that data (and the right to not consent to its collection in the first place). Why are people weirded out by some Google Glass-wearing rando filming them on the sidewalk but ok for everyone behind a wheel to be suddenly promoted to a CCTV omnisensing recorder?
Looks like a student published his code from the labs: https://github.com/erafalovsky/ECE3056-Computer-Architecture...

Course is ECE3056: https://ece3056-sy.ece.gatech.edu/
Roughly 70% of SF is rent controlled, right? It's still hard, but possible.
The Lisa? The NEXT?

Prices kept increasing, features were overhyped, and the Mac ended up being better in most ways.
They make pocket computers, actually
I had that problem. Even 9 hours wouldn't rest me, as I wasn't getting quality sleep. Went to an ENT, who scheduled a sleep study. I have sleep apnea. Got a CPAP (on my third now, 14 years later). Since then, I'm fully charged with 6.5 hours of sleep. Consider a sleep study.

Caffeine after ~3pm is a no-go for me (other friends of mine have different cutoff times)

Also don't forget that alcohol can make sleep lower quality as well.

Working out regularly also helps, as well as avoiding screens for 1 hours before bed.
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There is immense value in the amount of knowledge that they've curated and integrated into the system.
“We can also make the same chips as the US chips, but it doesn’t mean we won’t buy them.”

Does that mean they are going to steal IP and pirate it? Yes a silly question because i don't know what chips they are and who holds the IP for them, but did he just say we don't care we will just steal your stuff and make it ourselves?
Google has been anti-Web for a long time. So I couldn't care less about their "ideas" other than being informed of what populates the head of these people.

On a more objective note, if you need omit the head and body tags to get more performance, something is very wrong with your page/tech whatever.

Maybe consider removing all those Google Fonts, all that Google tracking scripts, FB too and since you are at it, consider deleted Google Adsense if you can, since those $4.84 per month are costing you and us a whole more than the Billions in revenue Google gets.

Sorry for the saltiness, but I'm really getting fed-up with the arrogance of these childish oligarchies.
The neural links are intended to be bi-directional. While they can't 'write' to the brain, they could provide sensory inputs or thoughts to the user. That seems a little more risky than read-only. (I don't know what I'm talking about though.)
Sun brand noodles are used by a lot of shops and I imagine you could find in the Bay area if you called around.
Google has small branches around the US (and around the world) hiring.
https://careers.google.com/locations/

A common joke (prank? Advertising tactic?) internally is to make links with titles about finding affordable housing refer to the Pittsburg office page, and people do make the switch. Just less than keep coming to the Bay Area I bet.

Disclaimer: Random Google grunt, my opinions are my own, I don’t know anything you don’t about google’s plans to expand offices, etc.
Not really in most places in the US with the current infrastructure there. Even in many places that have fine infrastructure for it (like Minneapolis in my experience) weather makes it a hard sell.
That's china's problem how?
There's much more to math than numeric computation. Many applied mathematicians spend their lives programming and never use a floating point number.
For me it's not a misconception. 99.99% of things delivered by USPS are spam at my house. I don't even get paper statements for any of my bills. 100% of things delivered by UPS/FedEx/etc are useful things I want to get. Every time I go to the mailbox is an encouragement to get rid of the USPS. My life would literally be better if USPS didn't exist.
Debated that a lot, but it was determined that Phone Gap had no future
>In most EU countries, any newspaper spreading the kind of garbage you see on Facebook could (and probably would) be called to a public hearing in parliament and risk being shut down, and further legal action

Can you give some evidence for this? Because I see media in the EU lying through their teeth sometimes. We all know about the daily mail and its ilk, yet they've existed for many years as news organizations. I've not heard of these kinds of limitations you're talking about.
I went back to school for CS after 6 years of professional programming. Just for being guided through logic gates, assembly, and implementing a simple CPU in an FPGA I consider it well worth the time and money.

The point when I realized I finally understood (on a surface level) everything from the electrical signals to my JavaScript reminds me of when I finished the last video of Khan Academy's series on Euler's formula and "understood" it, if only for a moment.
You need to test UX with non-users
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That's because kingnothing assumed a 40-hour week, while bluedino said "he's home every 2 weeks"

If you assume he's driving the FMCSA limit of 60 hours in 7 consecutive days, the hourly wage is lower. And if you count all the time he's away from home, it's lower still. And he's paying for truck stop food and sleeping in his cab to boot.

And a far cry from the reports of $73,000 reported in some sources [1]

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/09/news/economy/truck-driver-s...
I think for Syngman Rhee the reason he is known that way in English is because he spent a significant amount of his life living in the US and interacting with Americans; In America the convention followed by most people with Asian names is to use the English order in English.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee
Right. This entire argument is semantics on the word 'critical'. FB is a "should probably be using" for publishers or ecommerce companies, but FB is not a critical component.

Reading this thread makes me think that some want FB to be a critical component simply because it makes a good premise for the argument of shutting FB down.
Ironically, large-cardinals and related devices give set theory a rather type-theoretic "flavor". One can definitely explore the very same questions of 'consistency/existence, size or "order" of objects, and raw mathematical explanatory power of theories' with type-theoretic tools, and arguably do it quite more elegantly, because the related formal devices (e.g. "universes") arise more naturally in a type-theoretic context.
Neither of us is wrong :), but neither of us is probably right. Your full stop refusal to see the other side is worrisome to me. There are other viewpoints out there, I'd appreciate if you try to understand them. I understand yours but if you react with stubborn hostility, I will mirror it :)
Nowadays many applications, and especially most big-name business application suites (G Suite, Microsoft Office online, etc), are converting all their web applications to Progressive Web Apps, adding Service Workers and such so that they work just fine when you're offline and sync to backup document changes and such whenever you reconnect later. Give it a couple years and it won't be a problem anymore.
Waterfall vs. Agile vs. Data-Driven
"A racer" undersells it a bit. He was a multiple-time world champion in what is arguably the "premier" motorsport, including twice _after_ suffering massive burns in a crash that should have killed him. If you made a list of the best race car drivers in history, there's no doubt he'd be on it.

How many airlines have you founded...?
Actually there were several cases of Huawei backdoors, more recently found by Vodafone in Italy. I am a big fan of China but I think the problem is two fold regarding Huawei. China makes it very hard for foreign companies to enter the Chinese market and they often ignore IP. Having backdoors in networking equipment is a issue and you rightfully point out that the Chinese are not the only ones implementing such things.
You should check out what happened less than a century ago. Among other things, it started this whole digital conundrum.

It's naive to think that concentrating so much power over so many people in the hands of so few people can go any sort of well. What happens when the regulators, or the ones charged of overseeing them, want in on the fun? What if they're coerced, which suddenly is trivial to do?

Progress comes from individuals, as such, individuals should be empowered by great tools to make the most of their data. Wanting corporations to solve all the problems is another case of pushing off personal responsibility.
I'm pretty sure they did in the past. Not as sure now.
> To all those that say "build more housing" will solve all our problems, I don't think they've actually been looking at the housing markets.

Nobody thinks building more will solve all the problems. But it's a necessary part of the solution. Economists have in fact looked at housing markets and come to this conclusion. Here's an example recently: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sHh6BJ8dPoN9VQj-PXTPK5ATa8m...

> Force Facebook, Google and Amazon to build outside of the Bay Area. I guarantee that will be the quickest way to curb demand and to throttle house prices. Have Google build in Kansas City instead of San Jose. Have Facebook build in Detroit.

Nobody, and certainly not random suburban municipalities, can force large multinational companies to do that sort of thing. And, as I've explained before, it's a failed strategy in the first place. If the market was going to solve the problem that way, it would have by now.

The problem is simply that the FAANG companies all think the best engineers live here in the Bay Area. The best engineers in SFBA have a choice of where they work. So if Google were to decide to leave the Bay Area, a lot of Google employees will go work for competitors instead. This dynamic is why so many tech companies locate, or have a significant presence, here.

> it will help increase house prices in other areas

In other words, it gentrifies those communities and drives residents out, all because wealthy Bay Area suburbs don't want to build housing. That's unfair.
https://www.wolfram.com/notebooks/
I can understand why the US wouldn't want them to build out the 5G network in the US, but it's kinda overstepping to push other countries to deny them that access. That's for other countries to decide on their own. In addition, deeming the company a national security risk is kinda ridiculous. and blocking companies in the US from selling to them or doing business with them is simply anti-competitive obviously. I feel like the result will be huawei developing their own homegrown technology and bringing even more competition to US companies. It's obviou s they're capable of developing advanced tech w/o simply copying (I mean they're ahead in 5G). And once they go down that route there's no coming back because they wouldn't wanna make the same mistake twice. can't understand the strategy by this admin., seems kinda dumb to me
In applied math, data science, statistics, the OP is right: free software is the norm.
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> There's been a ton of expensive development all over Portland. Condos and apartments in desirable areas, none of it affordable except for rich folks. However, housing prices have stabilized here somewhat. Having more options for rich folks in highly desirable areas means less pressure on housing away from those areas.

Correct. This is the economic consensus view, and a lot of data has borne it out.
I agree with most of that. I think we are closer than you think on this. I do recognize the power of data, but I am tired of this communities inability to conceive that this data is and can be used for good.
I did this too, when I was in college. I implemented a gameboy CPU emulator. Then I wanted to know how FPGAs work so I implemented a Chip-8 CPU on an FPGA. Once I clean it up, I'll throw it up on my GitHub and maybe write up a quick medium post. This is exactly how I learn: I don't know how something works, so I make one.
Q & A

“But how does it have value, except for everyone involved believing it has value?”

The US dollar has value because we believe it has value. We believe this because we have confidence in the US government. The currency itself is just bits of paper and metal.

Bitcoin has value among users because they value what is behind the cryptocurrency -some measure of privacy and freedom from most government controls.

“Is the value pegged in any way to dollars or any other currency of any country?”

Not pegged. The US dollar is not pegged to most currencies in the world. They float moment by moment.

“And who decided that Bitcoin miners would get rewarded for doing complex computerized calculations with more Bitcoin in their accounts; who exactly is paying the miners for their time and effort?”

Miners validate the block-chain technology by performing those calculations. This unlocks bitcoins to them. It was set up by the founder to limit the amount of bitcoin available.

The bitcoin tokens are provided to give incentive to continually validate the block-chain itself.
I think lots of people understand rates without doing calculus. For instance distance vs velocity vs acceleration is a pretty simple and intuitive idea to understand.

There is an enormous amount of evidence that weight lifting transfers to sports. But I don't think there is much if any evidence that calculus transfers to general problem solving.
Yelp uses openapi-generator to create REST clients for the Java services within our microservice architecture. Defining the API's in Swagger and auto-generating the client code is a big improvement in understandability and maintainability over what we used to do, which was to write bespoke clients for each microservice.

Openapi-generator is opinionated when it comes to how the data model classes are defined, and the feature set depends on which underlying HTTP library you choose (Jersey, Feign, Retrofit, OkHttp, etc), so we needed to invest some time when getting started to make necessary adjustments. But overall it has proven to be robust and meet our needs.
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Which principles do you think they compromised on?
To be fair, it's historically not a great circuit for them (they were scary fast in sector 3 at Barcelona though... so that doesn't bode well for Ferrari/RB)
I had a very similar experience, including a very late night trying to fix a weird integration problem along with my project team. We had spent hours trying to find the issue, but nobody was thinking effectively and we were making stupid decisions. Everyone wanted to keep going, but I insisted that we were not thinking clearly and that sleep would help us better solve the problem. I even promised I would come back first thing in the morning to start debugging again on my own. The team begrudgingly agreed and we walked away for the night.

I slept, came back in the morning, and had the problem fixed in like 15 minutes. I learned so much about CPU design from that class, but I also learned how important sleep is to thinking clearly.
Ask HN: What should I do with my life?
Dear HN,

This is not meant to be a criticism of our society. Not a “Wake up, sheeple!” rant. Everybody has their reasons, who am I to judge? It is more about finding a direction which is consistent with my beliefs and since I feel mostly compatible with this community, I thought I might ask here.

I am a male in my early 20s and have been struggling with this question now for years. In my current life situation, I’m able to enter into almost any field. No responsibilities. All doors are open.

I am not interested in maximizing my happiness. I do not care about having a great amount of money or social status. My goal is to have a net positive impact. But I’m not even capable to define what could be “positive”. Should I be the one who defines it?

Looking at the job board and ideas of “80,000 Hours” left me unsatisfied (Again, this is about my personal beliefs, not an attack on anyone. If you want to work on AI or become a billionaire or just live in peace with your loved ones, please go ahead). Entering academia and spending 10+ years to establish yourself in an inadequate equilibrium in order to have a small chance of success (my parents work both in this category)? Going into politics? Trading in hedge funds to be able to earn to give... Really? In my opinion it’s not effective to work in those categories because a) it is extremely hard to reach the “meritocratic” top and b) if I manage to fight my way up through a flawed system, I will most certainly be corrupted.

Others argue that we should focus on small positive impacts because “when compounded across millions of people, they are powerful”. Sure, but just because I don’t fly on vacation won’t change the fact that billions do. Even mobilizing whole continents to fight against our current climate crisis might not change a thing.

I just don’t know what to do with my life. Everything feels like a distraction. My mindset paralyzes and isolates me. Does anyone of you have similar thoughts?
>Most software is grounded in an open source

That depends on the software development segment. If you are creating 3D games you would expect to build on top of Unity or Unreal because unless you are a major studio building the infrastructure yourself is expensive, slow and not as good. The question is "is computation" such a segment?
>Offers to do her job free of charge

>Consistently refers to her as "Admin Lady"

Dude what the actual fuck
And it will be a shame that mankind loses this immense value once the company inevitably disappears.
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