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> This reads like blame shifting, not accountability.

I don't think I was clear enough here, sorry. Yes, Raptor Computing Systems is accountable for its poor support experience. Their management is trying, unsuccessfully, to manage the support load. I am actually on the engineering and technology side moreso than the support and business side, and I have no direct ability to change how support is handled beyond making (strong) recommendations.

Fundamentally, however, the blame does lie primarily with consumers that are unwilling to pay for owner controlled computing. Raptor took a risk with the Blackbird, attempting to broaden the reach of owner controlled compute beyond business and high end workstation users, and fundamentally underestimated > 20x additional support load that new market would end up causing. Raptor does not have the resources to handle that kind of support load, and the increases in product pricing required to do so would put Blackbird back out of reach of everyone except business users.

Raptor was working on fixing these issues regardless, but AMD Rome has made that nearly impossible due to the (predictable, but unfortunate) customer reaction that I detailed earlier. We have had to pivot to a different mechanism to try to resolve the problems, and I am not allowed to say more publicly as to what that will be at this time, other than it is coming for October.
I think that knowing how to graph y = x^2 + x is a far more important skill than knowing how to punch it into a graphing calculator.

"Oh, it's a parabola... Plus a slanted line. It's going to look like a parabola for large, and small values of x, but it's going to have an odd behaviour around the origin, where x^2 ~=~ |x|. If I compute the approximate values of y, when x = -3, -2, -1, -0.75, -0.5, -0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 2 and 3, it's going to give me a great approximation of what the graph looks like."

Those values are, to a rough approximation, 6, 2, 0, -0.2, -0.25, -0.2, 0, 0.3, 0.75, 1.3, 2, 6, and 12.

Given that 'connect the dots' is part of the kindergarten curriculum, I don't think that connecting those data points should be that much of a challenge for the average grade 8 student.

Now, compare that to the 'skillset' of plugging the formula into a TI-83...
I don't on my personal laptop, but my workplace's wacky automation does on my work laptop, and school and library automation definitely does on shared workstations, including laptops.

I get that that's the problem of the automation, not the daemon, but I'm curious about who exactly is representing users when the people running a project state things like that so unequivocally, and if those users are just excluded from any benefits from a system like this because fuck 'em.
Let me catch up with the double-think. They commit more crime on average but they are not more criminal? What kind of olympics-grade mental gymnastics are these?
This shouldn't matter. What matters is the overall output. Even if the US had 0 output tomorrow, we would still have 80% carbon emissions from the rest of the world (India and China combined make up a big portion).

Everyone wants to solve climate change, but look the other way at the biggest contributors that also pollute the earth with all sorts of other toxic materials.

The sad part is if we did everything the politicians are proposing in the 'green new deal', China and India would use that as an opportunity as a power grab because they aren't adhering to the same rules.
There is an eternal balance between freedom and privacy for the sake of security. The US has usually remained on the freedom side but rights are being eroded constantly.

There are better ways to increase driver and road safety than setting up an ever-present surveillance network in every city. I'm surprised by how many HN users argue against surveillance (for example some fuzzy ad tracking) and yet are fine with having recordings of every physical movement.
Shipbuilding? Not sure what you mean but these places are known for making floating oil rigs, supertankers and cruise ships. It's fairly more involved than making a tshirt. No developed countries should have troubles making clothes, or even small boats.
Not necessarily, presumably students would own the same version and use it during the year, but would have to use the school-owned ones for exams.
logging is covered here:

https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rc+8+NetBSD-current
https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rc.subr+8+NetBSD-curre...

and dependency ordering here:

https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rcorder+8+NetBSD-curre...

design rationale & further discussion here:

Luke Mewburn, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system",
Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference, USENIX Association,
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix01/freenix01/full_papers/mewburn/mewburn.pdf,
June 25-30, 2001.
You want to get out to see the rest of that side-boob.
Vai from Doqume. Thanks, lettergram!
Sure, I'd love to connect. Which parts look similar to you, technology or use cases? Cheers.
It's better than having your furry friend attempt to eat you after you commit suicide - the terrifying part is this is exceedingly common, even among smaller breeds.
I created a CSS Grid course on Udemy at https://www.udemy.com/css-grid-with-react/. My goal was to use it to build an Instagram web app clone. What I learned was that a lot of the features are really cool to play with but many lack practical use cases, its strong suit being its ability to go in both row and column directions. However despite trying I couldn't think of any use-case for configuring rows (going vertically). I found the grid-template-columns to be most useful, but the grid-area feels fairly gimmicky, as if you were building a quilt. Perhaps for a dashboard application. Overall, I just use flexbox now, even though CSS Grid has a cleaner API.
yeah, the model works. Its individual identification task there are many individuals, and we have lots of labeled data that we held out from the competition.
We did try that, only to find that in the majority of the cases the customer was doing something quite unexpected that allowed the fault to manifest. When that results in multiple shipments back and forth, no one is happy in the end -- the techs get frustrated with yet another seemingly functional board returned under RMA, and the end user wastes time with their product in shipping.
Hey zapstar.

Personally I just wanted a simple site where I could record my reads and make curated lists of books. Goodreads offers some version of both but in my opinion the site has waaay too many features/buttons/sections and is too complicated/too much.

I guess that's why I see it as an anti-goodreads
Well, it's not really that sad that there was no one actually having affairs on Ashley Madison.
If we think it's an existential crisis, there are things that we could that would cost almost nothing:

* abandon any claim on patents related to nuclear power
* open source all software related to civilian nuclear power
* offer to train nuclear engineers and build, on a pure cost basis, nuclear reactors in every stable country that asks

France could do that because its nuclear technology is entirely government-owned or controlled, the President has a lot of discretionary power, and he's been bombastic and defiant about global warming. Just do it. Just transfer all the nuclear technology to countries like India, Brazil, etc. They already have a nuclear industry, but through this technology transfer they'd be able to boost it, and build more efficient and safer reactors.

Yet he's not doing that. And he's probably going to buy a house 50 meters from sea shore once he retires. So pardon me for thinking that this entire thing is just "foutage de gueule".

edit: actually you can generalize my argument for technology transfer to renewable technology too.
Your comment makes me feel old. I travelled in my early 20s ('90s-early 2000s) with no phone or internet available anywhere. There was a lot more mystery and discovery involved. You didn't know everything ahead of time. There were also a lot fewer tourists around - like, a LOT fewer. Social media and online-everything has really lowered the barrier to entry. I know this is pure r/gatekeeping but I kind of feel nostalgic for those times.
Packaged meals on the Beijing to GZ HSR were pretty bad. The trip was only 8 hours (BJ to ChenZhou Hunan), but you do get hungry between there and then. Having said that, I didn’t feel like checking out the dining car (if there was one). Having been on longer trips on normal fast trains with hard sleepers, the dining car was definitely useful.
Who even asked these questions?

I question this. All of this.
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That means HN is doing things the right way :)
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Of course, there are a lot of smart people here.
> They did the second.

No, I disagree. What they have done is literally the minimum amount of effort.

The right thing to do is not to "continue to do what we're doing, offering a passive promise to not get more money."
right..so saving the climate in 12 years doesn't matter to you? It only has to do with fairness?

If people were really serious about Climate Change, India and China would be held accountable. The fact that they aren't and have never been really put the whole motivation into question.
Correct! Audible clocked in at 14 hrs and 26 mins
I have a friend that is a death investigator. She's an extraordinary person, kind, humble, and reliable. I try not to pry but what she does tell ranges between truly sad and humorous beyond belief. It's a career that is totally necessary but few can handle.
In this case it might be a 'documentation as code'thing, being able to see at a glance if something is a language primitive or a potentially very different implementation could have value.

However I'm not super familiar with Rust, so I couldn't speak to that why.
There were several top contenders that did ensemble. We went with a single model (also in top few) for reasons of integration cost. I Don't actually remember which placed first for the competition.
Hi lettergram, thanks! Congrats on your bootstrapped project! Sure, I'm going to follow up by email. Curious to hear more...
Do you sponsor visas like H-1B?
I'm not sure if this a part of the mobile issues others have addressed but the review preview for the first book I clicked on (give the anarchist a cigarette) there wasn't enough copy for me to have a full understanding of what it was. Good luck on your next iteration!
Thanks.

What's the WiFi transfer mechanism? Push or pull?
Because these algorithms don't know that they are classifying cancer. The label it sees is just 1 or 0. For all it knows, based on its inputs, you may want to classify ruler/non-ruler images.

To achieve what you want, semantic structure must be used as labels instead of just categorical labels.

Assuming we have a sane AI that now knows its looking for cancer, it knows what that means (from digesting medical textbooks, papers and generic text corpora) and it can detect rulers and knows the two are not casually linked from ruler to cancer, we could make the model output "dataset diagnostics", like a "Warning! The cancer label in this dataset is implausibly correlated with the visual presence of a ruler". Or "Warning: 99% of your hotdog images show a human hand. Evaluation on this dataset will ignore errors on hotdog images without hands!"

Context does matter though. If there's an orange fluff on a tree trunk, the AI is right to look at the environment and infer it's a squirrel.
I'm staring at an Orange Line train outside my window that crosses the Tilikum but doesn't cross the Steel, but yeah, Red/Blue/Green are bottlenecked there. The contrast between the lines that go over the Steel bridge and the lines that don't are kind of my point, though.
Thanks for the feedback!

- They are very pronounced, I might tone them down, yeah.

- About the amazon links: basically the idea is simply to have a quick way to find/buy the book if you're interested in it. I might add other bookstores in the future but amazon seemed like the easiest/most efficient way for now. Also, I was thinking the affiliated links could help run the site.

- Glad to hear that! That's what they are.

- I agree. Not sure how to implement something like that but I'll think about it.
Because you don't breathe playing cards into your lungs?
Philip Morris. IQOS is about to hit US markets
A week or two before the AP calculus exam, my calculus teacher had us all line up to install special software for solving exam problems, and then taught us how to use it.

This wasn't really necessary, as I had enough time remaining to redo the whole test without the programs, and then a third run without the calculator.
It's possible that median is a better measure of central tendency for those things. It also sounds like you're interpreting their use of 'average' as meaning median when you think that would make more sense, rather than asking them (and in fairness, I don't usually grill people on which measure they're thinking of when they say 'average' either). In my experience, people who actually understand the different measures of central tendency usually (on average, heheh) specify one explicitly. The rest of the population is probably only aware of arithmetic mean.
Was hoping for a way more interesting interview. This guy is the most singularly responsible person for being XML HTTP Request (AJAX) to web browsers. There could be such an interesting conversation how he came up with that approach and what he thinks of where it’s come.
Technology is created to solve a problem.

Technology has unintended consequences.

Technology owners have feduciary responsibility to continue producing technology.

Negatively affected citizens make a fuss, claim they deserve more rights than other citizens.

Media creates hit pieces, painting the most negative possible picture in an attempt to look like investigative journalism.

Government either ignores the problem, or grossly overreaches, leading to further unintended consequences.
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Tangently related, this reminds me of the women who had her picture photoshopped by people from different countries to make her look beautiful in their eyes:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/global-beauty-standards
Thank you for clarifying more.

Not sure if you're following IRC, but just in case I'll mention it here as well: Raptor products are already outpricing most consumers. Even in casual conversations with hacker friends, most of them balk at the price. Point being: if you increased your prices most of your buyers wouldn't blink. At present your buyers are blinking at the poor support experience. I would have paid a 50% premium for a product with actual support.

A compromise would be to offer ala-carte support packages, perhaps billed yearly. I would also have paid for that.

I know these decisions aren't in your court, but I don't have anyone else to share my opinion with, so there you have it. I hope that I will publish a more positive review of Raptor with these problems addressed soon. Thanks for coming by the thread to share your thoughts.
There was some talk a while back about using a modified form of HIV to suppress immune response for transplant recipients. Any update on that?
For other planets/moons, there's also [1].

[1] Planetary Icosahedrons http://solarviews.com/eng/ico.htm
> If anything, it shows you're not really a genius after all.

Plenty of geniuses have not treated people well. Newton was a complete asshole. Even Einstein, who was a staunch defender of civil liberties at a time when most of his peers weren't, wrote some rather unpleasant things about the Chinese in his personal journal.

I agree completely that being a genius is no excuse for treating people poorly. But unfortunately history is littered with such people.
What is the value prop for extracting and storing stem cells now vs. extracting them later? Is it just that you’ll have to extract less bone marrow now vs later? Isn’t there a decline in quality and quantity of viable stem cells when they’re stored?
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To start with, 'more likely to have a criminal record' and 'more likely to have committed a crime' are not actually the same thing.
The new Mac Pro was ready to be made in China. Then the Commander in Chief ordered American companies to move. Thank you President Trump.
this pleases me in so many ways.

as a former public radio listener, who grew increasingly tired of finding something else to listen to during the all-too-regular fund drives, i very much appreciate the ability to skip forward on podcasts.

i'm also happier paying for good audio content than i am willing to pay for a dozen different news site subscriptions. my regular day is full of visual-attention-required tasks, and having an audio-only source of information and entertainment is worth paying for.

it's nice to know that it appears to be a successful business model for NPR.
Why "even among the smaller breeds."
codefreq,

The title of the book will take you to the book's page.

Maybe I should add a label on hover to indicate that the book cover goes to Amazon, the idea was just to have quick access if you were interested in the book.

And yes it's not mobile friendly yet. I figured the HN crowd mostly browsed on desktop so it would be fine for now (maybe I was wrong)
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Can Google help me root my Android device or do I have to through the mfg?
The brand is LG but either way, I could not find an exploit for the unpopular phone that I own "100%"
Not really.

I try to journal every day and have been since around 2014. The main "benefit" is the ability to look at a random date (say, Jan 19th 2015) and know what I was up to that day/period.

I started journaling hoping it would help clarify my thoughts/reveal something dormant in my mind. It did neither.

One odd quirk: If I'm really deep in a depressive hole, I can identify that by writing a journal entry. If I start freewriting and the content is getting progressively worse (usually devolving into sentence after sentence telling myself to grow up and kill myself), I can sometimes "trick" my brain into realizing I'm in a depressive hole and the world isn't actually an awful place.

It's hard to explain, but the ability to "see" my brain thinking in a downward loop sometimes helps to trigger my rational brain.

On the flip side, in some rare instances if I journal while depressed, it dramatically increases my misery. Instead of just thinking I'm hopeless, it can work as a mental reinforcement that everything I'm writing is true. Journling while depressed is like playing Russian roulette.

Overall, I don't find journaling that beneficial.
That's a great way to treat GPS apps. In CA, our law is across-the-board, and it doesn't matter if you're playing candy crush or using navigation. I wish we had a GPS carveout, though I've never heard of anyone who was legit using navigation on a mounted device getting a ticket for having done so in CA.
g-mafia

google, microsoft, apple, facebook, ibm, apple
TSMC hints on starting a next gen packaging alliance. OSATs stand divided
> Nicotine is really powerful stuff. I believe there's no free lunch with quitting.

The by far best way is to just never start. In Germany we made a lot of very good progress towards that (lowering % of young people getting hooked on smoking), which seems to have been completely upended by vaping.
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Chef suspend their contract with ICE
Also, you can get some pH paper.
Your skin has oils. It's a good thing to be on the oil side of the balance. If you're on the other side the excess lye is making more soap out of you.
That statement is uncontroversial, though keep in mind it's also not completely rejecting the importance of H-bonds. A GC basepair is still more stable than an AT basepair due to 3 H-bonds on the GC and only 2 for the AT. However, to compute DNA helix stability you must take into account the stacking of basepairs. Modern melting point calculators have correction terms that take stacking between different pairs of base pairs (AT stacking on a GC, AT stacking on a TA, etc.). They also take into account salt concentration, which is absolutely critical to maintaining helix stability. This is because the salt coordinates with the phosphate backbone, stabilizing the helix.

Key rule of thumb for pretty much any biological structure: it's the entropy not the enthalpy that dominates. Entropy in this context is the stacking of base pairs, enthalpy is formation of electrostatic or similar bonds (like an H-bond between DNA bases). Essentially every biological molecule is "greasier" than water, so it likes to hide that "grease" from the water much the same way oil likes to form droplets with itself in water because doing so reduces the "order" and therefore the boosts the total entropy of the solution.

Why you ask? It's complicated but my general understanding is that water that is interacting with "grease" has to adopt a fair amount of structure. By reducing the number of water molecules contacting your "grease" you reduce the amount of structure the water has, which means the total system is more disordered even as the grease itself adopts a higher degree of structure.

This is all a little handwavy, it's been a while since thermo, but it's a decent overall framework for general understanding.
Hah, oh yes. But most proctors also don’t know about the program that makes it just look like you cleared your programs but actually is showing an image of a cleared calculator’s program menu.
"computers which I can assembled in berry compliant countries"

???

So "can" must be an adverb, which isn't something I've seen before. To "can assemble" something could be that you assemble it while it is in a can, kind of like building a ship in a bottle. Alternately, it could be that you used a can to do the assembling, similar to "screwdriver assembled" but you used a can. Hmmm.

To be "berry compliant" means following the rules of the berry. I'll guess this relates to Berry Bitty City, where Strawberry Shortcake and her friends live. You have to follow the rules, as we learn in the episode "Too Cool for Rules".

It could have been clearer.
Thanks. I agree :) I like Bookshulf's design
> The new Mac Pro was ready to be made in China

Citation needed.

The previous Mac Pro was already being made in Texas, so Trump resulted in no change from the status quo.
The HN crowd always suggests technical aspects they want out of online communities. No one cares about that crap.

Instead, what about online communities that: don't incentivize shallow responses, don't incentivize like or karma gaming, do encourage great content, do encourage participation to a slightly greater degree than most places where 80% lurk.

I think good online communities are actually small. At a particular point in time, as population scale goes up, you don't find people familiar anymore and as a result no one has a reputation. The site has a reputation.

How do we create good online communities? Someone has done this homework, yes. At least, I believe there are studies out there somewhere which talk about the threshold of people that we can recognize with any meaningful context.
I'm worried about the article's comment:

> And the unwitting users who are part of the botnet have their resources, such as their home broadband connection, used without their consent or knowledge.

Perhaps I missed something, but doesn't this mean that a lot of homes and IoT devices that have been compromised will have increased CPU usage as a result of CF implementing the bad bot behaviour envisaged? In other words, the botnet owners won't care in the slightest about your response, but a lot of homes will suddenly get shoddy performance as their router grinds to a halt.

(Yes, of course it'd be best if every home and every IoT device were secure... but that's unrealistically optimistic)
So now Zuck's going to have a live feed to my thoughts? Sign me up!