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When Bankers Play ‘The Great British Bake Off,’ It Gets Cutthroat
> Then they take a strong stance with company and are shocked to loose the virtual badges and titles

What are you describing here? There is exactly one moderator who was let go involuntarily, and she did not take any stance against the company whatsoever. I do not get the impression that you have a clear picture of what's going on.

> spending their free time working for a company in exchange for some virtual badge

Most of the activities you perform as a moderator do not grant badges (even if they would for "normal" users). In fact, said dismissed moderator only noticed her dismissal when she suddenly received badges for her everyday moderation work.

> thinking they are responsible for a community and feel ownership

There is no ownership over any community. That's just the wrong word. But the moderators are the part of the community that is closest to the company. If the company ignores the moderators, it ignores the community at large.
It's not extremely common, but it does happen occasionally. It is a very thoroughly discussed topic though.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-major-companies-have-2-c...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/oracle-gr...

>Hurd, one of the company’s two CEOs, is struggling with an illness that has occasionally taken him in and out of the public eye for more than a year, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. Management’s rationale for staying silent until now centered at least in part on the depth of Oracle’s leadership bench, said the people, who requested anonymity discussing an issue the company considers private.Hurd, 62, shares the CEO title with Safra Catz, 57, a well-regarded 20-year company veteran, who previously served as finance chief and still oversees Oracle’s accounting, operations, legal and corporate development.
When I die I hope I achieve such fame as to be immortalized in a pedantic hacker news arguement.
One heartbeat? That's nothing. I can detect heart failure from zero heartbeats (but only zero heartbeats)
The Glass Room San Francisco
http://archive.is/rJnbu
You can use Vulkan as a pretty much direct replacement for OpenCL
Anything that impedes NVIDIA is good news for open source.
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Congrats on becoming a dad!

S P A C E maybe the solution you're looking for to store all your photos and videos.

- End-to-End Encrypted - your private key stays on your device(s) so only you can read your files.

- Blockchain-Backed - your files are immutable and indelible.

- Open Sourced - all source code is available from Github under Apache 2.0.

- Decentralized - you choose which providers store your files, and can setup your own computers as providers.

- Shareable - you can share a file with any other S P A C E user.

- Currently in Open Beta with an Android app and command line clients for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Your private key can be shared with your other devices so you can access your files from any of your (supported) devices.

There is still some manual work as you need to add the files to S P A C E, but I will look into supporting automatically adding files.

Aletheia Ware currently has two providers, one in San Francisco and the other in New York, but unfortunately neither offer offline tape backups. However, if someone else wants to setup this type of provider I would be happy to help.

The other comments had an interesting point;

- mceachen "Use something that's been designed to continue even if the company doesn't."

- devm0de "I wouldn’t trust any single cloud storage provider from screwing you at some point."

I designed S P A C E to continue even if my company, Aletheia Ware LLC, doesn't by open sourcing all the code, and enabling anyone to be their own providers. By having multiple parties able to provide these services independently you avoid the risk of having all your eggs in one basket - just like you shouldn't store all your data on one harddrive, you shouldn't store all your data with one cloud storage provider.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback you, or other HNers, have.

https://space.aletheiaware.com

https://github.com/AletheiaWareLLC
Unlike Python 2 not everyone among the Xorg developers want to drop it (e.g. Keith Packard doesn't seem very interested in Wayland). Also Xorg isn't really one thing, it is a bunch of different subprojects with the server being the one that is mostly referred to. Even if everything else stays exactly the same, the X server will still need to be updated since it also works as XWayland.

Finally unlike Python 2 vs 3 the difference between Xorg and Wayland is tremendous, so i can easily see people who will be willing to fork it to continue development.
I actually can't tell who's being sarcastic here. I think that in general, if an executive has an afair with a model, that speaks to their personality or character, as choosing to date another engineer speaks to mine. If it appears mercenary, well, that seems like an expected quality in the CEO of Oracle.

I aspire to conduct myself so that whenever I die I will be remembered as something more altruistic, or at least ethical than a corporate raider, or a politician who tried to sleep with his interns, etc.
This is better than the title?

Why?
As a startup guy myself, this is relatable
Every time I've tried any kind of baked goods that didn't use actual butter or lard are just not as good in my opinion. Of course I've gone near zero carb as I just don't seem to respond well with most foods anymore (especially wheat and other grains) and I'm allergic to legumes.

Sometimes the stuff made with almond or coconut flour is okay, but I find the closer I stick to mostly eggs and meat, the better I feel.
It actually sounds like something North Korea would say.

“The hostages ‘succumb to an accident’”
From public intellectual to public influencer
Your source [3] is not from the UN, and it's not about any UN body or program. It's written by an obscure outside group that wants to create a world parliament within the UN. It doesn't reflect on the UN in any way.
This is just a feel-good PR piece unfortunately.

> so we kind of need to trust the hosting provider

If you're worried about someone physically attacking a server to compromise encryption keys, whether the data center operator is complicit is, sorta redundant. Moving to Iceland isn't going to solve any of the attacks mentioned.

That being said, hosting in colder climates makes a lot of sense from an energy usage perspective. I think they should have focused on that first.
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Yes, I wrote it. Thank you.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262
awesome post. agree that the photos were distracting...but mostly because i didn't get why they were there. they seemed random.

i do disagree with one thing: i've definitely turned people down due to not being technical enough ESPECIALLY when their resume suggests otherwise. tech can be learned, yes, but you've gotta be willing to learn it too
I'll definitely assert that Rust has nailed the automatic generation of documentation from comments in source code. It's a somewhat unusual language so getting used to how the docs are laid out toook a bit of time, but once I was using the language, the docs are the best I've ever used. Some examples:

https://docs.serde.rs/serde_json/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
Also lets not pretend its just RMS. ESR has been ostracized for his weird comments and behavior as well. The presentation of this as without precedent is really disingenuous.
Link to Discussion:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/deprecation-of-opensearch-xm...
Just tried Pixiv.. Hit the OAuth with Google button, and after OAuthing, it then asks for your Google password... That isn't how OAuth is supposed to work...
Link to the discussion:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/deprecation-of-opensearch-xm...
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/deprecation-of-opensearch-xm...
Why not? You just bought a car and paid by sending $XX to $COMPANY. But why are they still waiting for it to settle? OOPS! They were hacked and you actually ended up sending that to North Korea. You think they're going to still give you the car?
I had never heard of theconversation.com before. Their tag-line is 'academic rigor, journalistic flair', this article is anything but.

The author argues that the current state of intelligent evolution is convergent and thus a series of unlikely events. Supporting it with selectively picking studies that support the life only evolved once theory. Even the Wikipedia article on Convergent Evolution has multiple references to papers that state the opposite.

Even if we assume that life only evolved once, and that all organisms came from one single ancestor it does not remotely support the very weak premise that our evolution is a series of very improbable events. And the jump to state that we could be the only intelligent life in the universe is just hot garbage.
Moderators are uniquely affected by the policy (and moreso its weirdly phrased FAQ) because they have to enforce it. It's fine if you don't think you'll have to care yourself, but they inevitably have to.
I don’t think Vulkan Compute has really taken off at all. But, I suspect it still has a chance to do so if it manages to continue to gain mindshare as a graphics API. That really remains to be seen.
> If you told members of the FSF Board of Directors that FSF would destroy itself over a political dispute over a question like "was metoo a media frenzy", it would had sounded silly. If I would had said after the 2016 election that FSF would need to take a side, left or right, no one would even consider it.

I don't think this is true - my sense is that 10-20 years ago, claiming "in the future, the FSF will destroy itself because RMS waded into a controversy he didn't know how to back down from" would have gotten responses of "oh, yes, of course," and at least as far back as Gamergate, "the FSF will get caught up in the broader 'culture war'" would have sounded totally plausible too. (I'm not sure "culture war" is exactly the term I want to use, but it serves the right denotational purpose here.)

Relevantly, "is RMS subject to the LibrePlanet code of conduct" seems like a thing that also touches on the "culture war" - and that was an issue in 2017. https://announce.asheesh.org/2018/12/libreplanet-speakers-as...

Oh, and people had accused free software of being socialist/communist as far back as the '90s. The whole reason the "open source" movement got started was to rebrand free software in a corporate-friendly way.
Moreover, it is even implemented[1] by the Khronos Group itself.

[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
The Mac Pro will come in a rackable server chassis version. That's a detail from the announcement a lot of people missed. Presumably Apple intends for the new hardware to be deployable Xserve style, not just workstations.

https://i.imgur.com/D1HaH9l.png
Strangely enough, I've never had a dream about being naked. I've dreamed of flying, swimming, fighting, searching for or hunting down someone or something or some place, and working to complete some project that didn't make any sense after I woke up.
And it seems like most of the articles are just copies of the LA Tribune or AP stories.
I spent too many years programming in all kinds of dynamically typed and statically typed systems and I kept a clear head and didn't cling to a blind religious persuasion. I've also watched the performance of static type enthusiasts closely.

I thought that when I updated a type that all of my running around fixing type errors had to do with me missing something but alas that was not the case. This is how the static enthusiasts do their work, all the while claiming that they are being more productive. When I call a static typer our on this the answer is always the same: "But you'd have to go update those case statements/maybe matches/type signatures anyway!" Meanwhile I'm over in a dynamic system not having to do any of that. Refactors are minimal not cross-the-entire-codebase.

Static type systems are training wheels. When a static type enthusiast takes his training wheels off, the bike falls over and s/he screams "See! I told you. I'm more productive with types!" And then they put the training wheels back on and think that they have proven that static verification is superior. What they don't know is that there is enormous missed opportunity once you learn how to ride a bike w/o training wheels.

The truth is you can produce much faster without a rules-based static type prover between you and your runtime environment if you know what you're doing. This should be obvious b/c in one world you have a filter/prover that you must past to ship. In the other world you do not. If the filter/prover was worth its weight then you should be able to clearly see the win. But in business systems the kinds of bugs found by filter/provers are of the "null pointer" variety -- the fastest and simplest bugs to fix when they are found; having a heavyweight filter/prover save me from these simplest of bugs to fix is simply not worth it.
1) Even with checkpoints and spot instances, the initial REPL development process needs to happen somewhere.

2) Where are you seeing 10%? More realistically spot instances are 25-30% of the cost. And if so fine, 6 weeks of machine time == dedicated workstation.
I work in a corporate and am constantly amazed how much currency buzz words seem to have. We got a new CEO who is into "tech" and different directors are fighting to deploy poorly though out AI and VR projects. It has little benefit to the business but it helps people sell themselves within the company.
it's less that startups want to milk you for their own personal gain; it's more that they can't afford the things that BigCo can, such as gold benefits and perfect 8-hour schedules (because you might not be able to afford enough people to make this happen!)

that said, there are, absolutely, startups that milk their non-founders purely for the founders' gain
I burst into tears upon reading this comment. Thank you.
What about notification of an actual account level feature like: "We now support instant transfers between you, and your family/friends!"?

Would you still consider that a marketing email or a notification?
Have absolutely been loving this show for the past few years now. I think it's far more entertaining today than when it started even.
RIM (Blackberry) was kind of infamous for it.

...the co-CEO structure is very unusual, although some high-profile technology companies, including Motorola and Wipro, in addition to RIM, have adopted it.
“Two CEOs with complementary skills and knowledge could presumably lead a firm better (compared with single CEO) and deliver better performance,” she added. “In addition, it might be helpful in retaining good CEO-material employees and avoid having them leave the firm and take their valuable knowledge with them elsewhere, especially if there was an exodus.”

However, Danielova adds, there are probably many more drawbacks to such a structure.

https://www.ibtimes.com/why-does-rim-have-two-ceos-299195
The argument is not legal, but semantic. Unless the post you are replying to is edited, you are asking for citation for a quote that was not made by the person you are replying to.
Writing comments doesn't feel like "writing" to me; It feels like talking.

I've actually written some pretty long comments on reddit. Yesterday, I talked with one of my coaches and put some thought into why:

1) I don't have any memories of feeling anxiousness from commenting on reddit. This is unsurprising since it has never been assigned to me by a teacher/parent. If I ever feel like "Its unclear why I would respond to this or what I would say to this", I just choose not to comment.

2) I have memories of writing a comment and other people upvoting it or telling me that it was helpful. I don't have this for essays. I driven by making people happy, so that is a meaningful reward.

3) Because of those positive memories, as I am writing, I can imagine that a sentence I am about to write is going to be helpful. That imagining is a bit of positive re-enforcement that I can chase, inherent to the task. It is like when I was a kid and I would do math homework and I would solve a problem and see that I'd solved it. It is one of the tricks of TDD.

So, my plan this Saturday is to seek out the things that could possibly be intrinsically rewarding about writing:

A) Look for interesting phrases that I can craft to clearly explain something.

B) When I start on a section, write a question that someone could ask on a reddit thread, which this section answers.

C) When I write a section, imagine myself saying this as an explanation in response to that question and imagine someone else expressing gratitude for that explanation.

D) To avoid procrastination, mentally rehearse the act of starting and getting into the task. Simulate the trigger-response-reward in my mind so I can build the neural pathway. The reward I imagine should not be tied to completion, but come from the "I've just gotten started" state.
The middle ground to me is something like "people should be free to interact, but if they're going to say something I think is racist they need to do it elsewhere." (Substitute "racist" with whatever you wish in this scenario).

At that point, the publisher vs. carrier crowd goes "well, that racist thing wasn't illegal, so now you have to be responsible for everything someone says." But I don't really care about what most of people say; I just don't want them to be racist.

This isn't a standard we apply to most businesses. If I run a bar, I can generally remove a patron for saying something without the conduct I choose to allow coming under scrutiny.

I agree re: carriers, for the reasons you stated. But to me that's a status mostly reserved for plumbing-type infrastructure, not a choice services have to make when they're deciding what type of content to host.
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It does what? Are you sure??

I haven’t tried OAuth on Pixiv but they have a fairly good engineering culture and would be surprised if they are asking for your Google password.

Edit: I just tried. The password it’s asking for is the one that will be associated with the Pixiv account that is created. Whether that is how federated login should work is arguable, but it’s a fairly common pattern.
I think the rhetoric is a very sophisticated way to market the fund. (1) make highly generalized pronouncements that sound wise and get headlines because they make for good journalistic copy (2) make the business seem like it's driven by principles - eg, a system - and not just a few great PMs running it (founders).

Any developers from BW on hacker news? Curious to know what your experience is like.
Stump's static window frames is what's kept me using it for so long. I hate how i3 and other dynamic tiling WMs reshuffle and resize everything as soon as you open a new window.

However I'm currently trying w9wm again; I have a slightly-hacked version that I've used on and off for about a decade and it's always fun to return to.
Agreed, but her modeling for Playboy had no part in making the relationship consequential. It is a gratuitous detail.
IMHO the largest difference is purity.

Not being able to mix IO and non-IO functions like this

print “Enter name:”
print (“Hello “ ++ readStdinLine ++ “!”)

in Haskell means you have to learn a new way of writing IO code.
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292476.
Everybody can die out of the blue, even in a matter of days.

My dad did : he died out of the blue of acute leukemia, in a matter of days, at 63 yrs.

edit: and, he was not a CEO, far from it.
> under the illegitimate spanish occupation

My God, people can really believe
No. While MISRA C was created for cars, the ISO standard is ISO 26262. MISRA C is not required for ISO 26262, but it does satisfy some of its requirements and so most C developers will use it.
They're not getting rid of the search field. It links directly to code examples for how to add search engines using the new API!
For a concrete example, I'll nominate the very first video game I ever played: The Legend of Zelda for the NES. This is by no means an easy game, however, so I'd alter the win condition: you don't need to beat the whole game, just collect a single piece of the Triforce.

As a kid I was able to gather the first 6 pieces of the Triforce without any outside help. I think an AI should be able to get at least one, given that it's playing a video game for the first time.

As for the "embedded knowledge", I'm happy to talk about context in terms of cultural references, heroes, the monomyth, etc. The Zelda series draws heavily on these concepts, though I am not sure how much I knew of them as a 6-year-old.
Ah, something Common Lisp has had for over 30 years.
Using a string buffer wouldn't mean that the different dynamic and static parts of the template still have to be copied? Imagine this template:

foo
<%= expr_that_returns_hello() %>
bar

Imagine it builds its content like this:

output_buffer = ""
output_buffer << "foo"
output_buffer << expr_that_returns_hello()
output_buffer << "bar"

With frozen strings, it means "foo" and "bar" won't have to be instantiated on every render, but they are still copied when written to the buffer (unless the buffer uses memory references to frozen strings, akin to a rope).

Now imagine the output_buffer is an array, it means less copying, but support needs to be added upstream and other places to handle them. You would also need writev support for arrays (or at least convert them to an iovec or similar).

Does this make sense or am I missing something obvious?

Btw, sorry for all of the questions and thanks for the linked papers. Now I have something to read on the weekend. :)
Cheap food is calorie-dense but nutrient-poor. In order to avoid deficiencies, you have to eat a lot of it.
That seems like it would be confusing. Imagine trying to track down the source of behaviour that no longer exists in your code...
In what way? They were not using user level permissions.
A lot of pasture land, for example in Amazonia has actually been created by systematic deforestation, also in Europe, which was deforested a couple of centuries ago.

So a lot of that land could be used for reforesting. And if it would be so simple to use that land to raise cattle, why are there factory farms then?

It sounds cheaper to raise the cows on grass which is free food, unlike rations. Clearly the amount of meat produced that way is not sufficient for the demand.
Yeah I've uploaded stuff in the past to imgur for sharing on reddit and come back later to some very strange comments.
You can basically do what ever you want want with minimal if any repisal

It takes 7 business days to get removed. My ass. It's an instant transaction or the company is incredibly incompetent.
too soon...but I did chuckle.
I'm happy for Apple to embrace gaming, but yet another proprietary non-cross platform API is not what we need. I will not be supporting metal.
If you want to believe that you won anything, well, there is also people that believe Earth is flat
Billion-scale semi-supervised model training framework
No doubt. In fact this is still true for virtually all GPGPU compute as far as I know. It’s possible Vulkan Compute will never gain serious traction, and it will remain CUDA vs the world. I kind of hope not for sake of open standards.
Its because NVIDIA requires Teslas in the cloud, which while more powerful than 2080 ti's, cost roughly 6-8x as much.
There are tiling solutions for most OSes, but unless you can get access to an API as low level as X, they tend to not be as good. Amethyst is admirable in many ways, but it's a far cry from i3. Amethyst also has to wrangle with issues such as certain windows just flat out ignoring it, which i3 -- due to how X works -- doesn't have to worry about. i3 is a rock solid tiling solution that pretty much 100% works, and Amethyst is unfortunately a patch on top of another window manager and so can often be clunky.