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Have you seen the latest "NEWSWEEK" they have gone all out with this Godwin's Law hysteria. They put Hitler on the front cover, a flag of the fringe American Nazi Party on the back, and the entire issue is devoted to Trump-Hitler comparisons.

You are gravely insulting all the Americans around you who voted for him.
As grandson of European Jews who were gassed, I find these comparisons incredibly disturbing.

The sensationalist media ought to be ashamed of themselves. www.paloaltoonline.com has lost all credibility.

EDITORS: Please drop your severely biased aenda and cover the news NEUTRALLY
What an awkward post. Reads like a network outages post mortem
All cars are a stupid choice compared to a motorcycle, subway or taking a bus...

The average car sold in the USA is about $35,000. You can buy an EV for that and less.

But to your point, there are companies in China making electric cars for like $15,000. One day in the US we will get a sub $20,000 EV.
Religious flamewar is not welcome on HN and will get you banned. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do not post like this again.
There is unlimited meaningful work available that doesn't generate much real profit. You can easily perform music on the street which others enjoy but you won't make a lot of money. You can easily learn crafts to create things for your friends and family that they will appreciate but not pay for. You can easily get in to competitive sport without having to be part of the very top % who get paid for it.

We just need to realise that life happyness and meaningful work doesn't mean generating profits for some ceo.
It does seem to me that there could be some bias in this award's history.

The Turing Award has been awarded every year (usually to multiple people) since 1966.

Look it up on Wikipedia. How many laureates of the 70 can you find who performed their research outside of the Angloshpere?
I didn't look in detail, but after a quick glance it seems about 5 out of the 70 (Daal, Nygaard, Shamir, Naur, Sifakis)? (Or how many who grew up outside the Anglosphere?)

Maybe that reflects the true state of things and almost all of CS was developed in the Angloshpere. Even if that's so historically, I think it may induce some bias when evaluating people's contribution from outside the Anglo community and network.
You kind of described the entire education system that generation-y was raised with. They think an "education" is enough to make you an expert in all things without needing experience.

Hell, you get that here in HN. While being smart in programming or IT infrastructure is a feat, that doesn't mean you instantly/magically understand dick all in infrastructure, geopolitics, transportation logistics and so on. I really picked up on that a year or two ago when an article talking about why there aren't that many women in the trucking industry because "it's such a great job".

Everyone was "Yea, trucking sounds great. We need to increase women in it, blah blah".

I did OTR trucking (over the road, meaning you do the long distance truck driving). It's a terrible, low paying job, low respect, zero life fulfillment job. You are only home 3-4 days every MONTH. You don't go home everyday. You live in that truck and it's not fun. I went from a relatively healthy and active person to gaining 25 pounds and I have chronic back problems after 7 months of doing it. It's been 8 years now. Still have those back problems. And I'm a lucky one. There are many other people who got it worse. There's a good reason why you won't be seeing a shirtless trucker calendar.

But holy shit, lots of silicon valley folks tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. Even though I actually did the job. One idiot who never did the job either writes an article and is suddenly an expert because they interviewed one person who "tried" to get a job as a truck driver... New York Times is an accurate and reliable news source... sure.

Why are you lot making me defend MBAs? It's pissing me off. The problems y'all are describing are not just "this one group is the cause of all our problems. We need to blame them and them alone instead of looking in a mirror and figuring out if I, myself, can improve myself and my situation." It's like with the bankers... which... fucking hell... I'm about to defend them... if people knew how to actually save and capitalize on money and that shit was taught properly in this country, there wouldn't have been fertile soil for all those financial instruments and shitty lending standards that crashed the market. Same goes with Apple. Can't blame them for making over priced, anti-consumer products. People buy it. It's their fault because there are options that people don't buy. They buy the overpriced trash and pay an arm and a leg for bs repair work. If I was in Apple's position, I'd crank that practice up to 11, all day long... damn it, I just defended Apple too... I need a drink.
Why would someone, care at that others refer to them (sorry I’m talking about a hypothetical person so I don’t know preferred pronoun) by name or gender neutral? If you know that I prefer to be addresses “their royal highness”(I do btw), does that make it rude of you to refer to me by name or as OP? I get calling someone who prefers he, she is insulting. But that’s not what the supposed crime was here. It was a moderator preferring gender neutral, which seems completely reasonably.

And the language is perfectly fitting. Someone used preferred pronouns to get a moderator canned for just discussing the merits of the rules, not even breaking the yet un-published rules. That is a weapon.
In that case, though, your fax had indeed been received; it was just thown out after receipt. With an email, there was a good chance it might have never hit the inbox of the receiving party.
Far too verbose to take seriously. Small devices don't have enough memory to store all those strings, or do complex parsing. Then again we are discussing 'IoT' which is sort of like the tooth fairy... so basis in reality is optional.
I thought everybody knew that the book the movie was based on was based on the story in the OP. We had to read the book in school (in Europe). I feel old now.
Saying that most people don't agree with extreme positions is a bit of a tautology, since positions are defined as "extreme" if few people agree with them. There is therefore nothing universal or fundamentally meaningful about this label, and the same position (e.g. support of interracial marriage) may be considered a perfectly normal or a radically extremist position depending on the time and place.
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There was an earlier, but seemingly less popular American TV movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
What are the disadvantages of lead-free solder vs. lead solder?
Justifiably, Schmidhuber is "schmidhubering" almost every significant trend in deep learning over the past quarter century, although that doesn't take away merit from many other AI researchers. Someone should add the OP as a permanent link to the tweets here:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/schmidhubered

See also:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmidhubere...
The liveness is a separate issue which is open-and-shut. There are no real benefits to being physically present aside from the "theatricality" (in which case the topic has to be really nontechnical), and the benefits of pause/rewind are obvious.

The lecture format is just plain wrong. I can only assume it gained popularity in european academia because printed publication was too costly, and because the royal society liked to dress up and feel self-important?
In my experience it is not super hard to find remote software jobs if you are willing or able to do things like the following:

- have a very strong social network with lots of industry connections or opportunities. This is not something I can pull off.

- actually build some kind of demo specific to most jobs that you apply for. Basically try to figure out what they would be hiring you to work on and then start trying to make that and show them.

- be willing to work for low rates that make you competitive with people in countries with a low cost of living.

Remote work is extremely competitive actually. And onsite jobs with large investments in the hire are also even more competitive because there are only so many jobs like that available. And with the greater investment they can be pickier.

If you want a actual high paying job, developing your social network might actually be the most effective way. Then you basically apply through your friends and avoid the normal application process.
I went to public school in the US. We read the book _The Wave_ in 9th grade (possibly 8th, I don't really remember. It was early high school.) I don't remember ever discussing that it was based on a true event. I didn't learn that until much later. I feel like it would have had a much bugger impact if that fact had been included in the lesson.
The vast majority of real world programming isn't math or algorithms. It's knowing that your framework has all of these algorithms built in already and knowing how to utilise them instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.
>"While at the lowest level the Windows kernel is basically a black box over a Unix kernel,"

Can you elaborate on this? I've never heard this before.
This is a very new class of device so there are essentially no (relevant) competitors.
This whole experience has reinforced my appreciation for Japanese produced products though.
Not battle damage, mistakes in production (an extraneous hole drilled in wromg location etc).
I think you'll have a much harder time convincing women to not base sexual selection, at least in part, on resource gathering. That's pretty ingrained, and not just culture.
The point of the issue was that it was stated that to use gender neutral pronouns was deemed to misgendering in itself. One couldn't just be neutral. By not using any pronouns at all would be the same thing ( I guess? ).

Consider the hypothetical case of a user using @usernames for some users and the preferred pronouns for selected others.
Let's not hang them out to dry. But let's make the changes needed so we aren't hiring more 20 year olds into that skillset and perpetuating this endlessly.
Testing only tells you whether a certain drug is in something. It doesn’t tell you if it contains something else as well.
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It's been used in computer graphics to speed up rendering. One technique which was quite popular IIRC back in the days was to use clustered PCA for precomputed radiance transfer[1]. It even made its way into DirectX 9[2].

Can't comment on longevity, I went for realism over real-time not long after.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/clustered-pri...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d9/pre...
The usage of the word “supremacy” is probably the primary thing that rubs people the wrong way. When I first heard of it myself, it did feel a little strange.

Doing some research into it though, it seems like the phrase and usage of quantum supremacy is pretty well defined and accepted by and large within the physics community. Supposedly the coiner of the term believed “quantum advantage” wouldn’t emphasize the point enough.

The basic components of achieving what the term defines though is relatively straightforward. It’s basically just about definitively showcasing a problem where using a classical computer would take super polynomial time, but with a quantum computer ends up taking some significantly lesser time complexity.
Google’s Quantum AI Lab achieved exactly that based on the results provided in the paper released by NASA. Granted, the problem in question is extremely specific, but that doesn’t invalidate it as being an admissible problem. The author raises points in contention, but they largely just seem like nitpicks to me.
This is often also the case in Switzerland.
Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals in Medieval Europe (2004)
I thought it was common in the auto industry to have profit sharing as part of compensation. Not exactly stock, but similar.
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It's already being backed up: https://archive.org/download/stackexchange
I'm not sure about this. It might be best for some but not for others. The most I ever learned was on a train wreck of a project where management decided to do a large rewrite compounded with redesigns and growing scope. I was the sole Android dev replacing a team of contractors. The only good thing about the turmoil was how many chances I had to iterate on things and redo them from scratch trying new patterns. I was the only dev but the product, design and QA teams reviewed the results of my work. It meant I could be courageous in my engineering changes but still grounded by product reality.

I wouldn't recommend this as a way to do business but being paid to crank out feature verticals only to throw them away and start over was a big learning experience.

I've also had experiences more inline with the article as well but it's not the only way to learn and might not be the best even if it's a common, low risk way to learn.
Lol, most LEDs in China are in fact from Taiwanese wafers, and some are from direct competitors.
Being optimistic, EVs will never have more than a 30% market share because they're incompatible with a large portion of people's lifestyles. They will find an audience with people exclusively commute and have the facilities to charge at home. At the moment, there's some cachet to having a Tesla but the reality of owning one is represented in the deprecation rate.

The energy density of battery technology will never reach that of petroleum. Just bolting on bigger and bigger batteries to try to overcome that has its own engineering, safety and environmental problems.
Salesforce is not a tech company a competent developer would want to work for, which is what FAANG companies have in common. Microsoft may be becoming one but my assessment of the current perception is that it's not quite there yet. At this point it doesn't matter if all the companies change, the idea of FAANG still applies like a stock market index or Ship of Theseus.

I'd be interested in all the smaller, good tech, companies to work for list. Needs a catchy name.
It's not specifically the relationship, it is a cultural difference that goes deep into society, not something you can change, certainly not quick. People are different and cultures are different, but these days you can't say it loud because it is considered to be racism
The Quantum Atlas
No kidding. I went to high school in the next town over and have never heard about this.
This is also a great listen on the subject:

NUMMI (2015)

A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved. Frank Langfitt explains why GM didn't learn the lessons—until it was too late.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
Not anymore. I believe XMPP support was finally removed from Messages in macOS 10.14. (Almost nobody noticed.)
Some of those traditions are previous to Christianism and most likely had a strong influence on it. So maybe for context.
> The nice thing about a check is that you can give it to anyone.

I live in Europe. I haven’t seen a single place accept checks for at least 3 decades.

But hey, we have working banking systems. Maybe that helps explain it?
Jens is way oversimplifying the developer story around Carbon, FWIW. It existed because Adobe and Microsoft wouldn’t port their apps without it, and that wasn’t going to change in the foreseeable future. It wasn’t deprecated in the technical sense until 2007.

Yeah, the arc was that Cocoa was the future, but as late as 2007, Carbon was still widely considered a viable target for new apps.
Notch (creator of Minecraft) used to blog about really liking Ludum Dare as well.
I don't know, I actually do find learning fun. Even when it gets hard and frustrating. Almost especially when it gets hard and frustrating. It feels good when something finally clicks. Though I find it's not until some time later i realize this 'thing' I used to struggle with is now easy to understand.

For me it's the same reason I like video games. It gives me the same feeling learning something new, especially when I can connect it somehow to previous knowledge, that completing an especially frustrating section of a game I have to do over and over before I get it does.
We don't work alone. We use tools for collaboration as we're generally part of a team. Whether that team is remote, geo-located or all in the same open office, they all have their pros and cons. Design always requires a whiteboard so on-prem is best. Writing the raw code is best done heads down.
The death toll stayed for a year at 64, making it look like there was no real human suffering. The US President used that as political cover for denying the funds for disaster relief.

You can say "See, Chernobyl wasn't so bad. Nuclear power accidents aren't as bad as they say."
Meanwhile the mismanagement of Chernobyl is still regarded as one of the greatest atrocities that came from the Soviets.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18285367/c...

In the immediate aftermath, Trump repeatedly complained about how expensive it was to help the island, and said the hurricane wasn’t a “real catastrophe.”

“If you look at the — every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally overbearing. No one has ever seen anything like that. What is your death count?” he said during his visit after the hurricane.
As a bit of a corollary, there are things that blue-collar workers take as absolutely basic "common knowledge" that would not be at all intuitive to people in the tech scene.

It's all about what you've been exposed to.
Am I missing something or is equation (9) incorrect unless the mean of the random variable x is zero (which is never specified)?
I suspect Columbia’s replacing the marching band because of an absurdly rich alumnus.
For these academic journals, Wikipedia isn’t a bug–it’s a feature (2018)
Hardware graphics programmers trying to show images on screen
He has a second video showing how to adjust the toaster. There is a screw at the bottom under the crumb tray which adjusts the tension.
Allowing? Why would you not allow them in the first place? In any case, there shouldn't be any collisions if they are separate network sites except in the case of fiat decisions from the top.
There is no “US educational system.” School policy is set at the state and local level.

I remember being taught this material and the book being assigned reading.
It kind of frustrates me that I keep seeing UBI being described as a sort of unemployment assistance. Unless you drop the "U", a UBI is something EVERYONE receives- the separation between givers/takers would not be obvious, especially if the unemployment rate remains low. And I think the unemployment rate would remain low because workers would be willing to accept lower pay if it is bolstered by a UBI.
A UBI that is aggressive enough would actually create jobs by lowering the cost of labor in this manner.

The thing that prevents people from having jobs isn't a lack of demand for labor- it's the unwillingness of companies to pay for a worker's full cost of living. A UBI could correct for that.
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In 2005 I got a nokia 770, and my favorite app was maemo mapper. Nice maps, could scrape data from multiple sources, and some limited nav.

In 2018 many cars still remind me of maemo mapper. Slow clunky touch screens. Laggy, no multitouch, horrible UI, and tiny screen. Overall generally numerous generations worse than my phone.

Most car manufacturers still to really skimp in the weirdest places. Things like headlights... pay a few $k for nice lights or get crap. So much so that the IIHS started lowering the safety ratings on cars.

Should $50k cars really charge $$$ for decent headlights and LED brake lights?

The Tesla was a breath of fresh air. Nice user interface, nice design, nice big touch screen, great nav, good seats, good voice recognition, etc. Especially as most of the auto world is moving to tiny, high rpm, "wonder" 2 liter turbos. They do well on MPG... during testing, much less so in real world conditions. They also seem to have significantly less longevity than the engines they replace. Saw quite a few of the CPO warranties decreased, which I found particularly troublesome.

I don't feel nickle and dimed, there's no huge matrix of incompatible upgrades engineered to up sell you. It's a safe car, fast car, fun to drive, and likely to last longer than an ICE car.

It's also more american made than any other car.
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Indeed, the author does recognize it:

> The next major problem Carell wants to tackle is what reactions could have formed the sugar ribose, which needs to link to nucleobases before RNA can form.

Possibly something resembling the Calvin cycle could be the start you talk of. [1]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-018-9840-1
(Yes, the software relativizes the timestamps on a thread while re-upping a submission; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169818. It's confusing but keeping the original timestamps is worse and we've yet to figure out a better way to do it. I suppose this needs to go in the FAQ.)
Maybe next the brokers will stop asking almost 6% above Libor for a loan that’s better secured than most mortgages. I get offers in the mail for unsecured personal loans that are better rates than margin from any broker besides Interactive Brokers. Warning about them though: I hear they are extremely aggressive on margin calls and skip right to liquidation so be smart.
Your article is reviewing a feature that hadn't been released to the public yet (your article is also from 2018) and strikes me as a bit of a PR piece. It does mention an impressive lap time scored by the Tesla - which is great - but I don't see anything that says the Tesla can drive multiple laps in a row without overheating.

So far nobody has posted an impressive time for any Tesla on the Nurburgring - the track considered the gold standard for performance lap times for decades - and that seems to be because nobody can make it a single lap without the car overheating. I am aware that in the past month Tesla has been making a significant effort to post a good time, and they still haven't done so even with a custom vehicle.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-model-s-nrburgring-...

If you can show me a video or article of a Tesla racing 10+ laps in a row at any track without issue, or even doing 2+ fast laps in a row of the Nurburgring let me know. I just googled and couldn't find anything, other than anecdata of Teslas overheating and going into limp mode.
That's not ironic, because no one was actually confused.
> J1772 is the worldwide standard

No, it's not. It's mostly just used in North America and Japan. The IEC 62196 "Type 2" connector is the standard in Europe and most of the rest of the world. And outside of North America and Japan, Tesla use the standard Type 2 connector on their vehicles, not the proprietary Tesla connector.

North America certainly has a big problem with the lack of connector standardisation, but J1772 is a big part of that problem, not the solution.