skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you compare Sun to their competitors at the time: IBM, DEC, SGI, HP, and even Microsoft. Sun was way ahead on distributed systems."

Careful now, you're on thin ice: Sun Microsystems might have been a pioneer in distributed cloud computing, but nobody did it better than SGI: once they had the NUMALink technology from CRAY, they invented cluster routing in hardware which would linearly scale with added router modules. I had Origin 2000's hooked up and scaled them linearly thanks to NUMALink, the hardware routing bricks and the crossbar switch on the motherboard. And IRIX 6.5 was aware of it all and used it!

I'd hit the power button on one server and the other one would come up; after the systems booted, each having 8 GB of memory and 8 processors, I logged into a single IRIX instance with 16 GB of RAM and 16 processors. The only company to come even close to that was DEC, years prior, but nobody perfected it so throughly like SGI engineers. What CRAY started, SGI engineers finished. Sun only came with hardware which had the crossbar switch after SGI, and they never had their own hardware router bricks. By router I don't mean network router, I mean cluster scalability router which had nothing to do with TCP/IP networking.
So true. The rent forces you to be on the hamster wheel.
It is not a dicothomy. While there are obviously trends at all times, they evolve over time and new ones emerge.

I do not know your positions but it could simply be that someone with the right formulation able to start a trend is yet to come.

Mob mentality is not the same as a popular idea or opinion, could be that popular assumption are indeed wrong and many people either do not care (maybe for principles or maybe because it is not really important) or just never encountered convincing arguments.
You still haven’t given a price....
AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?
We're in the UK. It's available in most towns.
Sun Microsystems literally invented geoclustering! Wow... just... wow.
Stacy Tucker? Let me look that up for you...

Here: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
It is the same claimed position maybe, but Google consider targeted ads a service to users
Not good, is gooder!
If something goes wrong with the Mac hardware, I lug it into an Apple Store and pluck it down on the Genius Bar. If something goes wrong with the FrankenPC not so much.
I am sure the engineers who designed and built this aircraft know what they are doing, but as a pilot, I would be hesitant to fly this aircraft based on the very low level of forward visibility (especially when landing).

Also, the pusher prop concept was tested extensively many years ago, but seems to have disappeared off the radar of most aero engine manufacturers. I don't know the exact reasons, but I am presuming that they had problems with efficiency, or more likely issues with the blade tips reaching sonic velocity (which will be higher risk with this aircraft if it cruises at FL065).
It's probably too late for a full-on nuclear rollout. We need to reduce global carbon emissions really quickly, at least 5% (18%) per year starting right now [1,2] if we want a chance of staying below 2° (1.5°). Building nuclear power plants takes years even at the current rate of construction, if were to replace all fossil fuel by nuclear over the next fifteen to twenty years we would definitely run into capacity constraints, for example for manufacturing pressure vessels, or just having enough qualified personnel to build and run the things.

On the other hand, with the same money we could start building ridiculous amounts of wind, solar, and an improved grid and get immediate payoff, without having to wait years of unmitigated emissions for reactors to come online.

[1] http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCB2018/PNG/s00_2018_Mitigati...
[2] http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCB2018/PNG/s00_2018_Mitigati...
Agda[0] and Coq and other languages for formalising mathematics (they are also programming languages) make a lot of use of Unicode to make the mathematical statements readable. Here is an example:

> ∑-+-distribute : ∑ (A + B) C ≃ (∑ A (C ∘ left)) + (∑ B (C ∘ right))

This is quite readable and would be understandable to someone who did not know Agda or the library in particular, but who understood the subject material. If the characters were replaced by words the overhead would be big.

The Plan9 operating system invented the compose key, which makes writing unicode characters easy enough for anyone to use them. Unfortunately, it requires a bit of setup to make the compose key work in X on Linux or *BSD (I have described th process here[1]). Agda and Coq therefore use special input modes for Emacs and other editors.

I also use Unicode in my Latex documents to make them more readable. [2]

[0]: https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/quick-...

[1]: https://hakon.gylterud.net/tutorials/unicode.html

[2]: https://hakon.gylterud.net/tutorials/latex-maths-unicode.htm...
Yes. And that’s why I use the word “also..”.
I don't get from the article that marketing will report directly to the CEO.

It says "Jill" will take on all the marketing and will have 2 others under her to divy up some of her other responsibilities.
No it's not,
> Especially when there are linter rules requiring comments you'll have something like def open_thing(x, y): and a comment, "defines a function that opens thing."

I actually think those comments are useful in two ways:

1. The process of writing a comment will help often help me rename the function/variables so e.g. “defines a function that opens thing” becomes something like “opens can_of_worms with the given instrument and restraints” for the method definition open_can_of_worms(instrument, restraints)

2. You can use variable/return value comments to further restrict the domain of values, e.g. non-null, positive or in the range 1-42 (arguably it would be better to express some of these in the type system, but that is a different discussion). These comments show up in my IDE when I try to call the code in a remote location, so I don’t have to guess or remember the constraints.

(edit formatting)
Incidentally, in case the creator sees this, this site is borderline unusable for me on mobile Firefox. Text gets cut off in strange places, I can't zoom out properly to see all of the animations. "Request desktop site" seems to fix some things but break others - at least I can zoom all the way out but the text becomes hard to read.

Situation might be the same on Chrome (didn't check), but regardless it could use some work since it's pretty broken as is.
The more we harp on license, the less we can actually save. The problem isn't that it's GPL. The p problem is that GPL is as much a part of the copywrong system as any other license. Three years is inordinately long to support an offline game like that, especially a licensed one. And frankly, I think in the license wars, I have to back Nickelodeon over GNU-GPL folks.
Relatively easy in Vim with digraphs (:h digraph)

Ctrl-K l* produces λ

Ctrl-K L* produces Λ

Unsurprisingly, Emacs also supports this when programming in Agda (\lambda) i'm not sure if it's a builtin feature or part of the Agda plugin.

In Agda using Unicode identifiers is widely accepted, even in the standard library: https://github.com/agda/agda-stdlib/blob/master/src/Relation...
I think ideas come along all the time, which have merit, but ultimately fail in their current for for various reasons. One reason could be that the idea is just too early, or ... well, you can insert any number of reasons here. "Taking VC money" could even be one of them, as taking VC money forces you into an artificial timeline that may not match what the market will work with.

Given that, yeah, I think "failed" ideas are a gold-mine of potential. The big question, of course, is "can you identify the ones that are fundamentally good, and just need a little polish or maybe a tweak to the business model, from the ones that are just plain wrong?" And if so, can you come up with the little extra mojo that would allow that idea to be brought back, and become successful? If so, then you are probably onto something.

FWIW, I spend a fair amount of time looking at old ideas (not specifically ones involving failed VC backed companies though), always thinking in terms of "is there something here that can be re-invented, re-mixed, re-purposed, etc?" I can't claim any major successes yet, but I have a few things "in my hip pocket" that I hope to get too eventually.

Anyway, I say "go for it."
The bit-by-bit migration of control panel to settings is iterative if not anything else. Else you'd need to wait years for them to migrate all things.

Still, I don't believe everything is eligible for migration. Take the network adapter TCP/IP settings, I don't a migration happening for that. I don't think UWP is suitable for such information density. And in my opinion the UWP panel is less discoverable.
The wallet software or exchange you're using should be able to provide it for you; the details will depend exactly what software you're using. A good, somewhat detailed, but fairly short description of addresses is here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address .

Free piece of advice: You might want to consider deleting this thread. It's not really the kind of question that HN is geared to (a quick web search would probably have worked better for you), and you're at risk of being down-voted :)
It’s not at all, that’s how you can be pretty sure it’s being done basically as soon as the tech gets invented.
Duude... :)

(In case it's not clear, Stacy, that's an address he controls.)
You’re comparing a Neilson box with installing spyware on your phone that can intercept every piece of information you send across the internet?

Not to mention that Google knew that the certificates were meant for internal use only and agreed to the terms.
China Summons Tech Giants to Warn Against Cooperating with Trump Ban
They do not oppose Google. They oppose Google privacy practices,
Google is not at all a Go shop. Google is a C++ shop, especially when it comes to servers.
Ask HN: Tips for applying as a system administrator?
Moin,

I am a student of computer science in my 4th semester and apply for jobs as a working student as a system administrator.

Can you give me some tips?

1. what should not be missing in my application?

2. where can I get good latex templates for applications?

3. which topics should I look at again before a trial working day?
anybody that likes even moderately good headphones requires a headphone jack. my lg phone is thinner than the new iphones and still has an audio jack plus an audio dac and still has the same ip rating. apple’s marketing that they are moving forward is a bit off when it is objectively wrong.
I’m saying if you refuse to support Apple’s sign in because you want more user info, your company is not that special that users are going to hate quit Apple in outrage.

If your business is dependent on giving away user privacy to Facebook or Google unless you are doing something that integrates with them - it deserves to fail.
> It's understood that if someone holds the title 'Engineer', they went through a certification process from a regulated body, traditionally. You can see this for example in countries and per state. [0] [1] [2]

I think you're misinterpreting the intention of the title of "Professional Engineer". As far as I can tell, it's for accountability for public projects (buildings, power, etc.). It's not strictly limiting what job titles can have the word "engineer" in it.

Most engineers in the aerospace industry don't even take the FE exam. Would you refuse to call most aerospace engineers "engineers" then?
According to this, diesel is 45.6MJ/kg

Jet fuel is 43MJ/kg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

A big part of it has to be how much is lost to heat, an internal combustion engine is far from efficient... But then again neither is a turbine.
Take a look at Hackspace magazine if you're feeling the loss.

https://hackspace.raspberrypi.org
Sounds like your company wasn't familiar with how to handle a works council and treated it as an annoying necessary evil. AFAIU works councils are not supposed to be handled like that. They are supposed to be an integrated part of management, so them blocking something after a decision has been made just won't happen. If you do it that way, they won't like you.

The usually decent working relationship between management and works council is part of unions not being seen as petty (e.g. "employee X is strictly forbidden to do work Y even for a second, consequences be damned") and greedy here in Germany. Wal-Mart tried union busting here and it didn't go well at all.

All that being said, a well handled works council is probably going to slow down a company, but not after decisions have been made as you described. It is also going to help make better decisions sometimes.
Not true.

It _is_ a joke address - of course. (It's the genesis block address, to be specific...)

(Unless I'm Satoshi, i which case you might be correct.)

(Or maybe Stacy is Satoshi, and I am correct???)
Discussion 2 years ago at time of publication:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518039
I mean, if you got "the source code" for a project at my work, you might get the raw source for Project A and then a bunch of already compiled libraries we put together for use, some of which could do similar things to existing code.

But yah it's probably from Linux, I just don't think the constants alone are a smoking gun.
Really tiny 4k 60Hz cameras with surprisingly good quality are available now, I don't think it would be rocket science to integrate one into the nose and feed a low-latency view to flight deck monitors. Possibly intefrated with an overlay image for short range time of flight lidar to gauge distance to runway during landing.
Not sure why this comment is controversial? Let's be clear here, you can agree with the broader goals of a CoC while still thinking that the language being used in many such "codes" is highly problematic, unprofessional and prone to equivocation and abuse.
I think hackerspaces are a good fit for public libraries. There’s a need for productive space since books don’t need as much space as they once did, nor do computer workstations. It would be cool to set up some of the space for making stuff.
227 lines, 4.62 kB. https://github.com/zavg/linux-0.01/blob/5839d67d5825265fc665...
I don't know any good resources/books on the topic, I've learned most of it via the education system with some additional background in internet.

There isn't much of a good analog from daily life, but essentially as you said, the null/void itself is becoming more. Two objects with a certain distance between eachother will find this distance growing even if they are not in relative motion in reality, though from either's perspective, the other is moving away at increasing speeds (due to more space inbetween expanding). Eventually the distance will be large enough that the space created between the two objects will exceed the distance that light could have travelled; the object becomes superluminal, or faster-than-light. This is allowed because it's not actually the object moving but the coordinate system they are in moving. With some luck you can still observe these objects.
The Mac has been able to do this since what, System 7.5 in 1995? Yeah it can take a while to calculate but on a modern SSD it's not a problem. If you don't like the performance hit it's an option that defaults to off.
This is incorrect; swift is open source and has linux deployments : https://swift.org/download/
It would be really neat if they found traces of "Atlantis", assuming some of it survived underwater erosion. They already found a few sites off the coasts of India and Indonesia. And We know an ancient civilization existed that got wiped out at the end of the last ice age - for those interested in a virtually unending rabbit hole, look up Gobekli Tepe and Graham Hancock on YT.
Well yeah, because you aren't the subject of the video and you have no reputation.

You wouldn't think a letter from your mom is from your mom unless your mom signed it.
Were they upfront with Apple about their use of the enterprise certificate?

Were they clear in telling people “we can record all of your internet activities including messages, banking information”, etc.?

Yes Apple stored data on Chinese servers, but your private keys never leave your device. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
Doesn't appear to be a turboprop, the engine is a multi stage supercharged v12 diesel. There's a Wikipedia article about it if you Google the engine manufacturer name.
TL;DR; If we overcome massive engineering challenges (such as capturing CO2, crafting materials that handle nuclear reaction at very hight temperature and manage to successfully confine all irradiated byproducts) we could theoretically decompose CO2 using nuclear reactors to overcome global warming.

My comment: Or maybe, just maybe we could plant a shitload of well chosen/engineered trees and algae that do the whole processes autonomously with less risks. And of course reduce current consumption is needed in every scenario.
There is a difference between not “needing” expensive hardware and saying the hardware is overpriced compared to the competition.

If you haven’t noticed, Apple doesn’t sell low end products. You’re not going to find a Mac with an “Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor G5400” with 4GB OF RAM for $349.
Especially when they're heavily encumbered assets, e.g. when they're part of a licensed game whose license expired long ago. (Like this one!)
From the article it seems like he is trying to keep the print magazine going as opposed to organizing maker faires.

“We’re trying to keep the servers running” Dougherty tells me. “I hope to be able to get control of the assets of the company and restart it. We’re not necessarily going to do everything we did in the past but I’m committed to keeping the print magazine going and the Maker Faire licensing program.”
>Thankfully Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently named with their actual names!

I have some ideas for them:

"Twitter - Whining & Doxxing"

"Facebook - Data mining & Old People"

"YouTube - Clickbait & Drama"
The model needs to be retrained from sctratch for different types of texts. One can release a model trained to generate Trump tweets, but it's of not much use for generating fake news on a specific topic.
This might sound cheeky, but it's a serious question: Where do you get this idea from?

There seems to be a lot of people who are strongly pro-nuclear primarily because they're pessimistic about renewables.

Whereas from my perspective, renewable tech is doing well enough that I consider climate change to be purely a political problem now.

Unfortunately that same politics has generated an absurd amount of informational chaff. There's multiple layers: climate change is a hoax, it's just cycles, it's actually beneficial, it won't be that bad, solar is a net waste of energy, you can't run a grid on more than 30% renewable and so on and so on.

It seems to me that the people that are enthusiastic about nuclear are coming from that same information bubble, possibly via American libertarianism, where they've been exposed to anti-renewable propaganda for years. They probably have internalized lots of misconceptions as a result. It's just that being vocally pro nuclear is a bit more of a rational and socially acceptable position to take than most of the other propaganda so as long as they stick to that it's hard to tell.

However, it's still wrong. I don't consider myself anti-nuclear, but it's just not the most cost effective way to generate low carbon energy. And that rollout of cheaper options would happen slightly faster if people like yourself (and Bill Gates) stopped acting like it was some impossible pipe dream and that we need to wait for nuclear to save us.
I've noticed that it's hard to get really great returns on maker projects. Maybe it's my impatience but software provides me something immediate that's cool and useful. Besides, debugging software is worlds easier for me than debugging circuitry. Also, why are microcontrollers stuck in the C++ world? Stuff like CircuitPython is changing that, but it's not that ubiquitous. I'd love an ergonomic and mature Rust ecosystem on Arduinos, or even a gasp JavaScript runtime. Shouldn't chips be fast enough for this? I'd love to run some basic web stuff on an Arduino.

Adafruit has been driving a lot of usable, rewarding electronics. They've been pushing LEDS (mostly WS2812 and APA102) in usable, prepackaged form factors. I really love their LED strips that are already diffused. They're beautiful and immediately usable. They're a little expensive, but I use their products to try out my ideas. But besides them there's not a lot of companies who make physical hardware appealing and available.

Side-note, why aren't there LED strips with a 3.3v logic level??? Almost all microcontrollers have a 3.3v logic level but APA102/WS2812 have a 5v logic level. Very annoying to convert.
Pinker seems like a horrible example, tho:

* https://www.salon.com/2019/01/26/steven-pinkers-fake-enlight...

* https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/steven-pinke...

* https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/05/the-worlds-most-annoy...

* http://iainmcgilchrist.com/reply-to-steven-pinker/
I don't understand what imgur has to do with Twitter deciding to stop serving content to browsers with JS disabled?

I was just trying to explain why some of us were confused -- until I tweaked NoScript, the first tweet is shown by itself and is sort of perplexing without the rest of the thread as context.
Why can't we point our finger at both China and US industrial military complex?
How to Make a DIY Hovercraft Project and Control It with Smartphone
Unfortunately, that double decker highway will be replaced by both the tunnel and a six lane highway in the same location as the current Viaduct.

It won't seal off the city from the waterfront as much as the Viaduct, but that's significant barrier.
>> Today, I would rather be a poor person in a First World country, than be a rich person in Louis the XIV’s France.

This is bullshit and demonstrates a lack of empathy. A poor person today has no spare time at all to enjoy life. Also, the modern medical system in many developed countries is not much better at all than a few centuries ago if you're poor... The only difference is that now the poor person knows ahead of time that they're going to die of cancer because they can't afford treatment... I don't think that's a good thing.
>I dont know what the exact percent is, but you're paying a significant markup on hardware for Apple vs, say a Dell, for the same hardware.

Do we have to have this even on HN?

People are paying significant markup on Cars for BMW, Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Bently. You could buy a Car from Toyota or Kia with Same Horsepower.

The thing is they are NOT the same. They never was.

I find this both fascinating and annoying how people can price something to zero and immediately think it offer no value to others while simultaneously think they deserve better salary or paid. Apple's products still deliver Better Build Quality, Better finishing, Better Trackpad ( I hate the new enlarged size, but still one of the best trackpad out there ) better software integration.

And if anyone wants to ask about Mac Pro price, try spec one out with Dell or HP Workstation and see how they compare. Apple isn't too far off.

The whole Workstation market operating on this margin, I have no idea why other they charge this because they can. But Apple's Mac Pro is quite competitive in its pricing. If all you are looking for is a prosumer, upgradable, Desktop Mac, the Mac Pro isn't for you.
> Dougherty said that despite rain, Maker Faire’s big Bay Area event last week met its ticket sales target.
Its mostly used in third world countries. South Africa, Brazil, ect. Doesn't seem to have caught on that much in the first world, from what I've read.