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This is very neat stuff and I'd actually be interested in talking to you more about where you see it going in the future, because it's extremely closely related to some stuff I've worked on. One clarification:

Am I understanding it correctly that step-ca can be configured to either 1) hand out certs for any CN or 2) only hand out certs for the machine's FQDN according to the instance metadata? In essence, the "any CN" mode is only useful for knowing that this instance is one of your own (but exactly which one is totally on the honor system), and the "FQDN only" mode is useful if you use your cloud provider's FQDNs for your hosts. Do I have that correct?
> Mathematics is used as a tool to explain the world and to create the least-complex model which predicts the data.

that's maybe a description of how mathematics is used, but that isn't a description of mathematics.
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Witter Bynner’s translation is my favorite. My grandpa gave me a copy when I was starting high school and I read it probably 5 or 6 times a year since then.
CCP is seen as a stabilizer. "Politics" means disrupters.
Does the New Safe Confinement also extend into the ground?
You are a wasting a lot of random bits this way, don't you?
The flaxseed thing comes from a 2010 blog article [1], which purports to be a scientific approach to seasoning pans. As people have found out, it's unfortunately not a good idea.

Aside from the fact that flaxseed is ridiculously expensive compared to the traditional alternatives, it creates a brittle surface and flakes off after a while. It also requires a ridiculous number of coatings to get to the right level of smoothness. It's just not worth it compared to something cheap like canola or soy.

A lot of people have looked into it. Here [2] is a good Reddit post from /r/castiron.

But among all of the technical discussions about seasoning it's easy to forget that a pan generally only needs to be seasoned once, and most pans you can buy are well pre-seasoned, and using the pan for cooking is also a form of seasoning.

[1] http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-te...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/5owtnm/why_i_dont...
I don't see a future with Kotlin either.

Android has turned into Kotlin's platform.

Outside Android I predict Kotlin will be feeling like Scala is nowadays.

Too much dependent on JetBrains tooling, leaving other Java tools as 2nd class, trying to spread too wide with Kotlin/Native having specific memory semantics, sequences and co-routines are their own thing, distinct from JVM ones.
Looks like that's just a generic solidified corium flow. Elephant's Foot just happens to be a famous solidified corium flow.
Thank you for the link, that is a great comment. I thought I knew a bit about Burning Man from talking with some friends and neighbors who are Burners, but I learned a lot in the last five minutes.
The Popcount instruction seems to be a meme on hacker news. You're cool if know about it and cooler if you've used it. That aside, this article is a good one for applications of it.
That's a surprise for me, in Germany you can do whatever you want color wise without having to update the car license. If a car comes with multiple colors from the factory the documentation says "multi-colored"
“Literally billions” is a severe understatement, it’s $245 billion.
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The major question in the philosophy of computer science, according to Smith, is: What is computation?
But they need the 245 billion, imagine if the paid half of it to workers instead.. 1.3 million Foxxcon employees would get $75,000 a piece. Meanwhile China dreams of world domination on the back of American capitalism. Best of all worlds.
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The interviewer felt smug, so their mission was accomplished.
Sorry, but how is this flamebait ? I've given sources, and academic citations (from publishers like OUP and SUNY press). I even mention how such false knowledge affects not just Europeans view of India, but the Indian view of India.
Btw, depending on application, sometimes you don't want early termination.

Eg for some cryptographic applications you don't want to leak information about what data you are working on in the runtime of your algorithm.

Another (more far-fetched?) scenario might come up with either branch prediction and CPU pipelining, or your compiler's optimizer recognising the simple loop but not the one that has early abort.
With Unicode being a moving target I'm not sure any language will truly "fix it all the way": building in things like grapheme-cluster breaking/counting to the language just means the language drifts in and out of "correctness" as the rules or just definitions of new or existing characters change. Of course, this is covered in the article, but when you "clean up" everything such that the language hides the complexity away you can still have people bitten (say, by not realizing a system/library/language update might suddenly change the "length" of a stored string somewhere). Or you could simply have issues because developers aren't totally familiar with what the language considers a "character," as there's essentially no agreement whatsoever across languages on that front (Perl 6 itself listing the grapheme-cluster-based counting as a potential "trap" and noting that the behavior differs if running on the JVM.) I don't think a "get out of jail free card" for Unicode handling is really possible.

The codepoint-based string representation used by Python 3 may be "the worst" (I'm not totally sure I agree) but it's fine. The article's main beef is about the somewhat complex nature of the internal storage and the obfuscation of the underlying lengths.
Funniest read all year.
Wait, why "don't do this" ? I have done that many times, though I have never had anything burst into flames.
HN bans most emoji. That's pretty annoying on a post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508962

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991
Imagine you had a titanic dice you rolled every day and if the 1 comes up we are all dead. Now imagine rolling two dices, each roll Independent. Extinction events are real and recent on a cosmic scale.
Even pcc (on version 7 pdp-11 unix) knew that one.
Hey, technically, a stock PS2 can run Linux, and that’s still MIPS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2
Fortran compilers recognise naive three-loop matrix multiplication.
> It suffers from the same fate as all MS-built iOS apps: random logouts. I can't convince anyone to use MS apps because the first time they get logged out after an update they just stop using the app.

If you had read the rest of the paragraph you would see a legit complaint.

Another legit complaint is that you can't see who marked a task as complete in ToDo, while you can in Wunderlist.

But the reason it's a joke compared to Wunderlist is the logout thing, there is no legitimate reason to not have persistent login across updates (at least on iOS) and the fact that MS hasn't figured this out yet is just embarrassing. It's a todo app, I shouldn't need to login in the first place, but if you're gonna make me login, don't log me out.
I wonder how rich people even come up with the idea that they are above normal human beings. The idea feels completely unnatural to me, and I strongly believe that one would have to be educated into the idea. Something like school for racists or upbringing for racists. Racist is not the right word but it is the closest matching the description I can think of.
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Stop pretending to care about Chinese worker's well-being, which is totally hypocritical. It's just that US is not willing to share the global resource with billions of Chinese, which is understandable.

The hard-working of these Chinese workers is their biggest advantage. Everyone knows that. These bullshit stories will not bring jobs back to US.
Could you expand on this? we have a similar set up for our domain admin accounts and I heard it was the safest way to do things. What do you mean by PAW?
A needle would easily push tiny dust particles away while lasers have a problem with that. Also, a scratch might be a much bigger problem.

Now, if instead of a relatively simple one scanning laser beam you would make an image of the record with a moving scanner head, exactly like paper scanners and then used what's today is commonly called "AI" ... that could work.
16 bits per sample can provide 96dB dynamic range [0].

If you were listening to music at that volume, it would generally be considered unsafe, and you would potentially have hearing loss beyond 37 minutes [1]

16 bits is plenty.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/default.html
How can people in Europe and US help?
8ch had a lot of very interesting and non-violent stuff. Have you been reading it regularly? I did.

I lived in a socialist country and you did not. Perhaps consider that you might not know where these current trends are pointing to.
replacing sum 1..n with n\*(n-1): https://godbolt.org/z/nLV1vb
You are completely wrong about transit shutting down between 9 and midnight. The 101 route definitely has north bound buses runnjng every hour at that time (my wife and i took them regularly). This is really low effort critique on your part: http://goldengatetransit.org/schedules/updates/route_101.php

I was referencing the entire system, the 101 is a minuscule fraction of the overall service. But if you'd like to look at the timetables, the last southbound 101 leaves Santa Rosa at 9:55 PM, arriving in SF at 12:17 AM. The last northbound 101 leaves SF at 12:08 AM and arrives in Santa Rosa at 2:30 AM. So, sure, some parts of the route get service past midnight. But if you're counting on taking the 101 home from SF past midnight, good luck.

Meanwhile SamTrans, for instance, runs hourly service to San Francisco between 1–5 AM.

The livability claim is based on how east I found it to live in marin compared to mountain view, Palo Alto, and sunnyvale. It is a personal claim.

Personal claim, perhaps, but it's objectively false. During the day you've got a few different rail options to get from SF to SJ as well as regular bus service.

Meanwhile Marin sees a few routes to SF maybe twice an hour during peak hours, and a handful of ferry trips. During the weekend you're typically down to hourly service and maybe three ferry trips a day.

And yes, you can go from east marin to west marin via bus and you can go to mt tam via bus and you can go all the way to inverness via bus, passing through a good portion of marins natural areas.

Sure, if you time it right. The timetable for the 68 may as well be swiss cheese though.

Point being that there's nothing stopping Marin County from doing a good job with transit. Nothing, that is, except for a populace that would rather sit in traffic.
Firefox containers is the solution, especially with this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

What it does is create a new container every time you visit the specified site.

*Edit: Spelling.
I’m in favor of pilots, and flight personnel in general, being paid handsomely. The last thing the public needs is flight personnel being disgruntled about not being paid enough.

I want the peace of mind that the people making my flight happen are incredibly happy.
A lot of research seems to indicate that this is a curious facet of biology: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-c...

Anecdotally people with power have been doing terrible things for probably most of human history.
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It's kind of pathetic that the RISC-V core instruction set lacks popcount.

Besides all its immediate uses, it is essential to a fast integer logarithm.
Ethics seems arbitrarily

It's a liberal arts thing.. opinionated ideas on how to behave well suited for a thick book with lots of prose. Very hand wavy and requires cultural context.

Science and mathematics on the other hand is more of a description of reality as we know it. It is a logical and cold description that is devoid of bias and the focuses on reality as it is not reality from the human perspective.

The two fields don't really fit together, but both are important. When you drop an atom bomb, science says "E=mc^2" while the liberal arts on ethics says "genocide."

Philosophy feels like a relic of the past. A lot of mathematics and modern science comes from it but it unfortunately includes a lot of more artsy human centric branches of study like religion and morality. Philosophy comes from a time when people thought humans were the heart of the universe and that deep thought on the nature of reality needed to include things humans felt were personally important.

We now know that we humans are a byproduct of natural selection and we're nothing special living on a tiny speck of dust at the edge of the galaxy. Our existence has little effect on the ultimate fate of the universe, the galaxy or let alone the solar system and as such the deep musings on the nature of reality must not include our own experiences in ethics or religion as part of the discussion.
Why do you think they're called elites?
I don’t see how that’s some kind of horrific simplification...
Where was the quarterly/annual filing, I couldn't find while skimming.

Incidentally, it seems someone at the company is gonna have a stern talking to: https://i.imgur.com/FcsmqtU.png

Found the most recent: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live....

Seems they paid 2.5 bil in salaries to all employees
Something more direct.
The work that gets done in a strictly theoretical area ripples out onto practical areas and thus society.

Cryptography is a rather "pure" form of math, yet it has major implications on society.
I think it's the leaving it unattended part that's ill advised.

If you're there, you can put a lid on the pan to smother the fire and it's not a big deal. And yeah, that means you need to have the lid ready.
I IF but I can workout before my 11 to 5 eat window. It eliminates hunger. I time it when I am done exercising i drink a 64 ounce smoothie that i concoct with targeted nutrients.

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The "high" in high bar is not a particular useful measurement. What is high? Unless you've defined what that means, and everyone involved understands and agrees what that means, it's just a word. What you can say is "we need someone who knows the internals of tool X, and we measure it via Y". Basically, avoid using adjectives to measure things (e.g. say 1 liter glass, don't say big glass).
The labor law in question is having more temporary workers than the law allows. I don't see much issue with this because the article highlights the cause - seasonal fluctuations.

If they overhire, the excess staff would be stuck with nothing to do. And consider the negative press any time companies announce layoffs.

Excess staff aren't like machines you can just turn off and turn back on during peak seasons. Can't just create an API and invent AWS with them.

There are some companies that don't fire excess staff during slow periods. Staff come in half the month for half pay. And then when things pick up, back to normal. I don't know how they'll handle health benefits though.
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A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple's internal standards in order to meet deadlines.

Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?

> While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.
I wonder if the additional cost would even be significant to pay workers better and provide reasonable work hours. How much total, time is spent by actual people working on each iPhone in these factories? Is that even a full hour? I understand the hourly rate is less than $10. So how much difference could paying them well possibly make?

The issue on the article seems to be about too many contact workers during rush time which honestly seems reasonable if not inevitable.
That’s a low level mechanism that is used to implement consistent backups, (comparable to e.g. LVM snapshots for any file system or ZFS/Btrfs snapshots) but it does not offer anything directly to end users. The venerable built in NTBackup (afaik the only built in user backup system included in Windows) is better than nothing but is a far cry from Borg/Bup - it is practically infeasible to snapshot e.g. every hour.
Sure. But workspaces are a way for the user to refocus the UI on particular family of features. But all other features are not gone; they're still there in the program. Depending on the feature type, some may be accessible through menus and could be included into workspace on demand by changing some options.
Not if you already have 2^n bits at hand. In fact, if you have 2^n bits of entropy, popcount is probably more efficient than generating n more bits randomly.
What you are saying doesn't even make sense. The original comment was that a battery that lasts 5x as long costs 1/5th the price over time, and your hypothetical is buying a much cheaper battery for some reason. There is no reason to play semantic games with the time value of money, it is clear what the original person was saying.
I've thought about the router suggestion! The PlayStation idea is a great one I didn't think of! It looks like there's a great variety of devices running with MIPS CPUs. I was more specifically looking for a system capable of more traditional computing, but I definitely plan to take a look at smaller scale MIPS devices.
How do you find embedded development for MIPS compared to ARM and RISC-V? I'm interested after hearing from people that it's a much better architecture, though I can't validate that for myself yet.
I will have to look at the implementation some day, but I think I am starting to see what you mean with the API.

Is the typical implementation of those days structures relying on many small scale mutexes to avoid contention, or RCU techniques ?
> Yes, but that's no barrier to compression, which reduces the dynamic range. Compressed material is all at about the same level. The reason people speak of the "loudness wars" is that after compression, even the parts of the music that would have been quieter are now almost as loud as the peaks.

The point is that if you want to make a vinyl sound "as loud as possible", you're best off not compressing it, since you can have higher peak volume in one groove if the adjacent groove is quiet. Whereas when mastering a CD, the way to make it "as loud as possible" is just to crush everything up to 0dB.
I'm pretty sure they're objecting specifically to the "relatively small numbers" part; I probably wouldn't call a conflict involving only 14 humans a "war" either, culture or no culture.
.NET Core 3 (in preview, due out Sep 23) includes support for popcount as part of the BitOperations class: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics..... There's a recent post describing hardware intrinsics in .NET Core: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...

There are a lot of potential use cases, but one of the early discussions was around quickly scanning for known HTTP headers. You can see that in use here: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/blob/caa910ceeba5f2b2c0...

If you really need help falling asleep, here's the discussion going back to 2015: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/2209

Disclaimers:
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You’re absolutely right, it’s cultural. I’m a youth firearms instructor and it’s been interesting to learn the parents’ reasons for encouraging their children.
Once a cast iron pan is properly seasoned 'broken in' (this can take some weeks/months of usage) it shouldn't need to be re-seasoned after every use. My years-old skillet gets a scrub with hot water after a normal use; if I've cooked something smelly (e.g. fish) I might use some detergent (and even then it usually doesn't need re-seasoning as long as I haven't soaked it). Only if I've cooked something acidic (tomato sauce) do I need to re-season after cleaning.

I don't fry every day for breakfast, but if I did, cleaning my skillet would take about the same time as it would to stack it into the dishwasher.
> I don't know how they'll handle health benefits though.

Are health benefits in China provided by employers? I always understood that (anti) pattern to be mostly unique to the US, due to salary caps during WWII.
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For a lighter, but still interesting read, anything by Saki is good - Sredni Vashtar was the first story of his I read and I still come back to it decades later.

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I think "don't try to prove the Riemann hypothesis" is only part of the iceberg that includes "you may want to prefer theory building over problem solving" and "we're not getting any medals here". It's interesting that this was written by one of the category theoretic schools; the category theorists that I studied under are quite wary of things like the RH. After all, Saunders Mac Lane never won a Field's medal. I am not throwing shade, but it's exceedingly difficult to try to judge (any) mathematician's "worth" in the way a prize or medal does in popular media.
In my experience, you’ll eventually cook something in the cast iron that sticks really hard, and the only easy ways to get the burnt-on gunk out end up stripping the seasoning, so re-seasoning ends up being a roughly semiannual process in my house. Would love to know how to avoid this.
...and a nice size TODO section
Yeah so does mathematics itself. Right? Mathematics is applied everywhere and is even used to calculate the trajectory of nuclear bombs yet it's utterly clear to most people that ethics and mathematics have nothing to do with each other.

The thing with computer science is that people are just confused because they use it as a more lego like artistic endeavor rather than a mathematical field. The reality is... Computer science is really just mathematics with axioms rooted in two isomorphic primitives:

Lambda calculus and turing machines.
When was this moment, sometime briefly after the invention of agriculture?
> Aren't there already many ML libraries for compiled languages out there or are you referring to something else?

Something else. If your program is a well-defined set of operations (basically matrix operations for ML), you can optimize the whole specific program instead of calling bunch of individually optimized functions from the library and target a specific hardware (e.g. given GPU). Check for example Chris Lattner’s interview [1] and presentations on MLIR, or proceedings of C4ML workshop [2].

Application in distributed systems: from the top of my head - protobufs, compilation of Erlang and Elixir to BEAM, dask.

[1] https://youtu.be/yCd3CzGSte8
[2] http://c4ml.org/