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Fifteen or so years ago, it was recommended that I remove two items from my CV, my age and my marital status. It was suggested to me that both of those items would, in quite a few circumstances, put me on the automatic reject list, irrespective of what I had achieved in the past.
The so-called prescription confirmation they do is incredibly bizarre.

https://qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hubble-contacts-ro...

(From an earlier article on https://qz.com/1154306/hubble-sold-contact-lenses-with-a-fak... )
You could just as easily use the American Civil War as a example of armed resistance being ineffective. One of the largest armed resistances in history (the CSA) and it ended up achieving the exact opposite of its aims.
Damn I guess this is true about a lot of other very specific questions but are not too niche stuff as well (i.e. programming questions). An example is I was searching if a game had local multiplayer, and what would you know the result was exactly what you described - a paragraph long description of the game and the advantages of multiplayer and the answer hidden in it.
Hacker Laws Update: Murphy's Law / Sod's Law
I can get a seat on a flight that will take me to the opposite side of the world in less than a day for ~$600. That’s not unacceptable, that’s amazing. Cheap and fast international travel has to be somewhere on the list of most revolutionary post-industrialisation innovations.
I would argue that it _is_ a checklist.

The difference is that it's a more gradual entry to automate the task.

One could, for example, replace any item with a script/program invocation, while leaving the others untouched. It's an intelligent, piecemeal step towards automation.

I would also add that in really critical tasks, one could automate _either_ the item, or it's verification. Sometimes it's easier to check that something is correct than to do it-- or vice-versa.
I think remote roles are becoming a lot more accepted in tech. No time wasted on the commute, and companies can save costs of office spaces, etc.

I'm so optimistic about remote working for developers, it's even been a key feature in a job matching platform I've been working on: https://www.rocketship.dev/
Your analogy would be accurate if people had spent the last century claiming that artificial transport was impossible, and then continually redefining what counted as transport until the concept was incoherent.
This is a checklist. Checklists are incredible, and I quite like this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1RxpJkvqpY
but this is alchemy isn't it? there isn't even a theoretical framework from which we can even begin to suggest how to keep any "general intelligence" benign. good old fashioned research notwithstanding, a billion dollars is not about to change this. it reads to more to me like this is an investment in azure (ie microsoft picking up some machine learning expertise to leverage in its future cloud services). that's not a judgement, and i'm sure lots of cool work will still come from this, given the strength of the team and massive backing they have. it just smells funny.
>The Hong Kong police is made out of people.

Or simply because protesters have made their lives very difficult for the past couple months and they're running out of patience and sympathy. Simple ingroup / outgroup dynamics.
Varig was an airline in Brazil that was amazingly nice. Even economy seats got real blankets and actual silverware for dinner.

You'd love it, if it were not for the fact that they went bankrupt in the 90s when the first low-cost carrier entered the Brazilian market.
Fighting a war on foreign soil is much different from a conflict on home turf.
I think the standard argument is not that they're paying according to need, they're paying according to market norms.

Thing is, in high cost of living areas the living cost is extremely pegged to job opportunities, it's almost tautological. Where there are more job opportunities, you have to pay people more to stop them working for competitors. A confounding factor is a hypothesised (not sure if backed by data) trend of talent concentration - that is, areas with lots of job opportunities attract most of the most talented people, driving salaries up further.

All that's to say, if Gitlab want to hire someone living in such an area, the market dictates they must pay more in order to attract that person over a local competitor (for jobs). It's not due to the person needing the money more for a higher cost of living, at all.
Yes, often. I can't count the number of times KWin has crashed on me. You might not notice, because it automatically restarts -- usually.
Using the term "climate chaos" in a discussion about changing climate is indeed pushing a narrative.
Airplane Contrails Are Changing the Climate
"It should be noted that the overall yield of grain crops in Russia is expected to drop by as much as 17 per cent by 2050. At the same time, in the Central, Volga, and Ural Federal districts the plunge in crop yield is described as ‘catastrophic’ at 14, 30, and 38 per cent by 2050, respectively."

"Without adequate measures to adapt agriculture to climate change, the annual economic loss from a decrease in climate-determined crop yield in Russia is estimated at RUB 108bn
(approximately $3.5bn) by 2020 and over RUB 120bn (approximately $3.9bn) by 2050."
404 BOOYAH

This is also the 3rd time it's been submitted to HackerNews since 2016
Interesting, do you have the link?
I'd love to see your clinical research cited sources.

Meanwhile meat has not changed much at the cellular level in tens of millions of years. The only fundamental difference between modern meat and ancient meat is that our ancestors ate the whole animal, organs and all, and that's relatively rare in modern American diet.
Kroger Goes Full Robot to Take on Amazon
Of course they were legal immigrants.
Also invision.
> Is Tesla now suddenly even-more-undervalued compared to Ford? Nope.

Who said Tesla was undervalued?
Good read! 14 years later, and 'The Suit' is still 'back'!

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22The+su...
Maybe LBO? IBM still has some assets specialty assets like CPLEX for optimization where I believe they are the go to solution. I’m guessing if there was a buyout, some of the assets that could be adopted to a SaaS/cloud product could be sold off to the big players.
Given the market segment, theoretical longevity and lifespan are not a concern - both on the producer side, who has to put more expensive chips, and on the consumer side, who has to pay for the chips and the media (SD cards are extremely cheap).

Moving up in the market segnment there are in fact higher-end solutions:

- the Odroid XU4 has an eMMC port (for those who want a compact solution but don't care
about long-term durability)
- again, the XU4 supports a SATA bridge
- the Odroid has both eMMC and SATA ports

(I mention Odroid purely because I'm familiar with the products)
Yes. Although this can be countered by other factors (e.g. less water, excessive heat, etc).
Checklists as Code
The markets need to undercut the indian space program?
> On the other hand, if you are refactoring the code, or changing the behaviour across the system, then it is very difficult to change because you have to search for all of those decision points

The very best programmers optimize their code for readability. Most of our day is spent reading code.
The CTRL-U was one I just recently learned and it has been surprisingly helpful.
No I am not qualified, neither I am scientist. And probably, that's why I am curious
The communist thugs are working hard on making Chinese dream come true for Hong Kong...
I welcome this post, also check out https://switching.social/ which has more ethical alternatives to proprietary surveillance capitalist software.
So? I'd probably be the founder and CEO of my own company if an immigrant didn't agree to do the same work for less pay. /s
Show HN: Rapid SSH Proxy
CBS Blackout Hits DirecTV, DirecTV Now, and AT&T U-Verse
Ubisoft joins blender development fund
Show HN: Street Lanes Finding – Computer Vision for Self-Driving Cars
Creative writing has an oversupply and underdemand problem.

Most novels are self published. Most don't even sell three figures. For short fiction, there are hundreds of literary magazines, and more appearing every day, but only a minority pay anything at all. In a niche such as poetry, the minority becomes vanishingly small.

MFAs churn out tens of thousands of credible writers every year, plus all the retirees (hai), midlife crises, career breakers, redundancy moneys, job hunters, stay-at-home parents, etc.

So by and large the industry doesn't deal with it. To a first order approximation, creative writing is a leisure pursuit.
The correct number is actually 100% (or close to it). It just depends how many generations back the family immigrated.
A good demonstration of one of the major hazards of reinventing basic functionality like this: it’s really easy to end up with something that behaves differently on different browsers or just for different people.
Why I Left San Francisco and Moved to New York
Its just like the bag of sugar I have in my cabinet that claims to be low calorie. It says "ONLY 16 CALORIES (per 4 grams in tiny letters)".

I mean, sugar is pretty much the definition of a high calorie food. Its like, pure calories. And can affect insulin regulation, etc. That's why they need to put some marketing on it.
> ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Sounds about right.
This idea is a major component in stoic philosophy, and it's something I learned from growing up with my dad. He frequently would sleep on the floor with only a blanket, or even sleep outside in the yard sometimes. He would not wear a coat to work one day in the winter. I was working with him in the mountains of Colorado one winter, and about 15 minutes before we got to work (we had about an hour commute to get to the job site in the mountains), he would roll the windows all the way down. He said, "It makes it much easier to get out of the truck when you get to work."

When he got out to fuel up his truck, he would not wear a coat, nor would he get back in the truck while it was fueling.

He had a truck that had a removable top for awhile. He took the top off and left it that way for a whole year. He parked it under an awning at night, so the snow wouldn't be covering his seats, but otherwise he was open to the weather, whatever it brought.

He always took cold showers, and we always parked at the end of the parking lot farthest away from the doors, because "You can always find a parking spot there, and you always remember where you parked."

I could go on with a lot more examples from his (and my) life, but the important insight that I gained from this kind of effort was that by choosing to add discomfort to your life, and learning to be at ease while being uncomfortable, makes it much easier to stay level-headed and relaxed when things happen in your life that are uncomfortable that you didn't choose. You become much more capable of absorbing adversity when you practice absorbing adversity.
The same seat gets used on most days, by many different passengers (and many of them are used by multiple passengers per day).

By a conservative estimate, profit per seat per year would be large hundreds to small thousands of euros.
Self-replicating Asian longhorned ticks have arrived
Rapid SSH Proxy. Like ssh -ND, but much faster.

rsp is a SSH client which implements SOCKS5 proxy feature of SSH protocol. Key feature of this implementation is use of multiple connections to overcome downsides of multiplexing many tunneled TCP connections in single SSH session. Multiple sessions are not limited with TCP window size of single connection and packet loss does not affect all tunneled connections at once. In order to cut latency of connection establishment rsp maintains pool of steady connections, which replenished with configurable rate.

Features:

- High speed as compared to conventional OpenSSH client.

- Cross-platrorm (Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like systems).

- Zero-setup required for server. rsp can be used right away with any SSH server.

- Self-sufficient: doesn't require OpenSSH on client side to operate.

- SOCKS5 remote DNS support.

- Connection establishment latency hidden from user with asynchronous connection pool.

- Connection establishment rate limit guards user from being threated as SSH flood.
It is still not enabled by default, though. I would suspect that you need to audit your code for pointers stored in integers amd other shenanigans before enabling it in production.
He explained in the article why he did this: to check if the manufacturers claims are incorrect, or if its a RPi hardware issue.
Are we talking about Immigrants that went through the legal process?
Well it's a "sob story" until it's your airco shutting down. Does "less developed nation" mean you won't starve? Does your statement make it more or less likely for someone born less lucky than you to consider it legitimate to get your survival and make it his (mine) ?
This was years ago, so my recollection is a bit fuzzy on the details. But pair programming was mentioned, and they also thought about what kinds of tasks to assign and how to provide scaffolding.

So for instance, instead of giving a really broad assignment and then going through six rounds of code review because everything is wrong, sit down with them in the beginning and make an outline (while explaining the rationale) of classes, methods, and responsibilities. Then have them fill in the implementations. That way you can use code reviews to focus on a lot of the smaller issues that are more concrete and less hand-wavy, while giving them practice working within sane high level designs. As time goes on, move on to more abstract concepts and give them more design latitude until they're capable of making a module like that by themselves.

There was a bit about walking the fine line in how much direction to give -- too little and they're lost at sea and spending forever to merge changes, too much and you stunt their growth.

I think there was also a book recommendation, but I have completely forgotten what it was.

Anyhow, they said it all a lot better than this, and I really wish they had accepted our offer. :-P
Yes and no. I remember as a child, I simply clicked the little "built with Geocities" or "built with [Free Blog provider]" badge at the bottom of the sites I went to and then read what those services were.

Created an account, put text and images in the WYSIWYG and saved. There you go, the site was online.
Hmmm.... it reads to me that someone has co-opted an open standard. How much of this is really an investment and how much is an in-kind contribution of Azure resources?

Also this sounds dangerous: "exclusive cloud provider".

When an OpenAI group starts to make exclusively partnerships with one vendor, I wonder how "Open" it is.

I can not imagine Khronos Group, which runs similarly named OpenGL, etc having a "exclusive" graphics card supported for their open standards. Cloud computing is to OpenAI as graphics cards are to OpenGL/Vulkan.
Then you got outcompeted, and an immigrant was able to offer better value.
Is it a joke like nobody pays writers, or is the site actually down?
Unamazing People
> Other POST failures, like a missing keyboard, lead to halts with an error message on the screen.

Keyboard not detected. Press any key to continue booting.
You imply that without Stuxnet, Iran would not have developed these capabilities. That seems improbable. At some point every "bad actor" is going to realize the possibilities of cyber warfare - even if just for ransomware revenue - and want in on the gold rush.
Here's some relevant piece by m0xie, a maintainer of Signal : https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...

He and his colleagues are hostile towards federated protocols. This culminated in an article called "The ecosystem is moving" to which Daniel Gultsch (maintainer of conversations.im) answered here: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
None of those car examples are necessarily race conditions. Most of those are likely deterministic and merely the result of wrong assumptions due to poor understanding of the system about what happens on which event, i.e. your usual software development. Don't mistake that for race conditions!

Just the other day I was working on a browser extension and saw some things not getting triggered sometimes, but since it's a single threaded event driven code in a single content script it can't really have race conditions, everything is deterministic, and it took only five minutes and couple of console.log()s to figure out what the problem was.
I'm not a genius. But, it was 2015 when Microsoft announced that, MS <3 Linux !!!
And said, it's own Linux distribution is on the way.

I never heard about it's release.

In that time I said, MS will move towards open source, because he realized that it's a winning and correct strategy for software distribution.

It didn't take long that MS aquired GitHub with 8M$.

His team foundation was a failure, he tried to get a good one.

But He also took control over all the source codes, and their histories.
It wasn't dangerous in my opinion, before I realized that due to one-sided US sanctions, repos of some nationalities (like Iranians) got dissactivated !!!

It's not the defenition of open source, as far as I know...

MS is a corporation, hence, it has to obey the government.

But open source belongs to no one.
These kind of investment might intended to bound the potential open source communities!!!

It is obvious that accepting these sort of money, without open access agreement is a horrible mistake that one can do. (We should learn from the story of GitHub)

In my opinion, when it's not clear what kind of right these investments brings for enterprises, ppl should stop contributing to them.

Maybe it's good idea to ask what Linus and Richard see in these movements!
Forbes is a horrible site/company in general, awful laggy experience, back button hijacking, etc.
The study's talking specifically about first and second generation immigrants.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify & correct my statements!
anybody knows what happened to Elon Musk's pledge of $1B to OpenAI?
Not quite true, azure is now the only channel by which open ai innovation can be commercialise. This is the key control point.

For example, if there is an hardware innovation which make DNN training 1000x faster (e.g. optical DNN), but it does not exist on azure, than by definition it cannot be offered on another cloud.

To sum up, this deal assure the choking point of azure/MS on any innovation that would come up from open ai.
Definitely some selection bias. Many wealthy people in the US are immigrants. Also, many wealthy people probably choose to immigrate to the US to start their business because of lower barriers to entry.

EDIT: Also, if this [1] is correct, 13.7% of people in the US are immigrants. So how many people are immigrants OR first-gen? And since ANY of the founders can be immigrants/first-gen, more founders means higher likelihood that it fits this criteria.

[1]https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...
Oh I totally agree with every point you make. I'm incredibly cynical and pessimistic about the potential for these seats to improve any passenger's experience.

I was merely hoping to correct a possible misreading of the article's (literal) contents, which I see in retrospect makes me to inadvertently appear be the subject of xkcd 386 :)
> I would still keep in mind that the metric worth using for benchmarking is the number of effective samples per second, and this also depends on the HMC variant you use.

I was getting similar effective sample sizes/sample size in both after switching to a diagonal mass matrix, like Stan uses, from the dense mass matrix DynamicHMC.jl uses by default (the HMC backed library I'm using).

Given how common it is for folks to run Stan over night or for a week to study prior sensitivity, internal coverage, type I and II errors, etc, via Monte Carlo, I think a focus on speed is worth while.

> seems unsurprising that Julia can specialize a lot better than verbose C++ templating, no? (still, good job, very worth checking out)

The C++ library Blaze did a lot better than Eigen, but still not as well.
But yes, Julia'a meta-programming is much easier to work with. Julia expressions are Julia objects that you can manipulate like anything else, so I can write all the functions I want describing how to generate matmul kernels as a function of matrix size and CPU Info, and how to loop over them.

That approach feels much more straightforward. I haven't looked at the code bases of Eigen or Blaze, nor am I that familiar with template meta-programming. But I'd guess they define matmul recursively for arbitrary fixed sizes, and then have some templates defined for specific sizes (the kernels) -- or ideally have some clever way of generating the kernels from there.

Regardless, I agree that this is much easier in Julia. Aggressive specialization is also better aligned with Julia's compilation model in general, because methods get compiled just before they're used. Defining a million possible specializations doesn't have the cost of compiling a million specializations.

> This is all the more reason to use Julia, but my graduate student days are long past..

I'm defending this week, and next Monday will be my first day in an industry job.
They expressed openness to Julia, but my biggest fear is that they'll renege so that I'll only be able to work on or use Julia in my spare time at home.
It's a checklist
Immigrants is such a broad term its nearly meaningless.

From the article:
"The share of the most successful and globally-recognized U.S. companies that have immigrant founders is growing, according to NAE's Hanna Siegel and Andrew Lim, while the Trump administration has tried to make it more difficult for immigrants to come to the U.S., often claiming that they take American jobs and lower wages."

No mention what type of immigrant founded these companies (and by founded, it could mean they were one of a couple cofounders) Most likely they were already highly educated or pursing an advanced degree in the US.

When you go to the source material from New American Economy think tank, they don't have any links to explain how they created this report, nothing about methodology. Its just hey believe us.
LOL, I was born in '95 - Kinda seems like ground zero for what the current tech/VC atmosphere is today.

I am happy to take on whatever recommendations you have for learning more (no matter the time period) :)
This is categorically untrue.
Why delete the grayed out comments? Not trolling, am curious.

I feel like by skipping those you're just bowing to the will of the hive mind without knowing what the alternatives could be.
Well, unlike alchemy there are some pretty good examples of intelligent agents around - some even involved in this project!
These studies of immigrant company founders are always accidentally white supremacist. Don’t look too closely at where these immigrants came from or you will have to retract.
The link seems to redirect to https://news.ubisoft.com/notfound without any visible content.

Here is the press release from Blender: https://www.blender.org/press/ubisoft-joins-blender-developm...
Link seems to have broken, see also https://www.blender.org/press/ubisoft-joins-blender-developm...
Why do some people develop the lost camera films of total strangers?
SD card performance on the Pi <4 is so poor (and the bandwidth is shared with the USB controller anyway, I think) that you might as well use an attached USB hard disk; even for booting.

Jeff's benchmarks are accurate in my experience. If you try saving single images from a camera at even 5-10fps, the card quickly bottleneck and you start dropping frames. If you buffer and store (in my case 16-bit raw), you can essentially saturate USB bandwidth if you're also using a USB camera.
it really is an interesting subject to explore within the philosophy of science :)
You don't need Rust's complexity and borrow checking to protect you from data races. Actor model does that without the bad parts.