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We've heard the warnings about the rise of "proprietary computing", where all experiences in computers need to be approved by the policies of hardware and software manufacturers.

I feel it's getting worse as we get pushed more and more to vertically integrated platforms (Pixel, iPhone, Surface, game consoles, Kindle+Fire etc). We still have Linux, thankfully - at least as long as hardware manufacturers let it run on their computers.

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...
Have you taken an IQ test? They only test a few classes of problem. Performance on these for a human is deemed a workable poxy for intelligence but, for something that approaches the problems very differently, it may not be at all indicative of general intelligence. I think we probably already have reached or are near the point where we could train systems to achieve human-level performance on each of those basic tasks. We are, however, not seemingly near a humanlike AGI.
Some people like making production product or like having the higher development standards of production systems.
Of course the issue for many companies is that they hit a size and usage of Oracle that moving off becomes a herculean effort. There's no direct replacement for the way people use RAC for example, which means changing the way you approach certain HA requirements. Add to that Oracle PLSQL is not fully portable to Postgres PGSQL. They're close enough that you think it's a simple task, but it's still significant.

Since many people have many things built on top of a single DB, it also generally means a single massive switch that will take a long time and is difficult to test piecemeal.

I'm only saying this so that people go into a switch with their eyes wide open (though, I'm sure you would anyway).
This is a bit apples to oranges. I wouldn't want to start dictating this comment to my computer in the middle of the office, for many reasons, one being that typing is the better input choice for short-form text, as it is for server/console commands. But voice input is exactly what I want when I'm tugging on pants wondering if I need a jacket for today while I'm running late.
Maybe this is part of why adventure races became popular. It's part of why I'm drawn to trail running, where big elevation changes & rough footing seem like they would favor a balanced physique.
To be frank, running this sham for 30 years sounds less plausible to me than beating the market the boring way.

How would you stop investors in your two public funds (and their accountants) from asking pointed questions about disbursements from one fund to the others? Do you plan to fool them for this amount of time, or bring them into the conspiracy?

And how will you sustain the conspiracy when your other two funds trail the market index by a lower combined differential than your other, internal fund is beating the index? Will you initiate a Ponzi, or something else?

There is a more realistic angle to attribute RenTech's returns to fraud. I don't personally believe it as I have friends there, but I believe it would technically work:

A nontrivial number of RenTech's employees have come from the intelligence apparatus of the United States; namely the NSA. Simons was particularly affiliated with them early on in his math career. It strikes me as plausible (but again, highly unlikely) that if RenTech is is a conspiracy, it is a conspiracy sponsored by US intelligence. They would have the capability to run a 30 year secretive conspiracy, and they would have they desire to attract top talent in math, physics and computer science.

But I'm just speculating for fun year. I really don't think there's any conspiracy :)
Ask HN: How can I enjoy a regular job after running a startup?
I helped found and ran a startup for over four years and left when it was no longer possible to sustain it. Afterwards I got a really nice job at a big company where many people would love to work. But not me, I hated it. It was very hard for me fit in that corporate life and ended up leaving after a year.

One month ago, I started another job at a FAANG style company which is much smaller and much more "startup like" but even that seems unappealing and not very engaging to me. I'm already thinking about quitting.

I know that all of this may sound entitled,self-centered etc. but I hate myself, I've been depressed for over a year and just want to stop feeling this way and be happy and proud about my job. How can I achieve it?
I'm primarily an early-stage full stack dev; I do and learn whatever is necessary to ship. But I also have extensive experience in customer-facing, sales-y roles in companies above 200 employees.

Most recently, I went fully serverless on a Node-based hardware IOT personal project. Before that, I was a post-sales, professional services, API integration engineer at a mid-sized startup. Before that, I built one of Ethereum's first working dApps and presented it at Devcon 1. Before that, a pre-sales consultant at a networking-oriented BigCo.

So yeah. I'm hard to describe, but open to everything!

Location: Any large tech hub, including those outside the US
Remote: No, I want to relocate. Have done so 3x before.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Javascript, everything AWS, Ethereum/Solidity
Resume: https://bit.ly/36T5rsi (github profile, email for resume pdf)
Email: hnjobs2019@mailcyr.us
So much negativity in this thread. We fear or doubt what we do not understand I guess.
Firefox Sync would probably be suitable.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/sync
I use to service pools back in high school on the north shore of long island. And I remember doing Simons house, unbelievable property. The house keepers house was 5x bigger then mine..and the pool was massive, right on the edge of a cliff overlooking the long island sound. Sry if its offtopic but this read made me think of it!
France embraces facial recognition tech
I must be the odd man out. I don't want something that I have to wear. I wear glasses and contacts and I don't want to wear those either. I see AR as being great as, say, a HUD in a car. But I just don't want wearables.
I think wrestling is great, but rates of injury are pretty high. Cauliflower ear is kind of a badge of pride in those circles, but it definitely qualifies as damage.

Rotator cuff injuries are quite common, and I suspect that cases of disordered eating are higher than you might think.
Except that's "currently". NNs can and were trained on CPUs originally.
Building Modern Cloud Applications Using Pulumi and .NET Core
I mean if you want to not go to jail all you really need to do is beat the market by N% and take that as your fee. If N is sufficiently low you can probably do it by aggressively balancing the portfolio every 2-3 years, such that it functions like an index fund but with adjustment to cut out losers.

There are plenty of folks out there that will do this for you. Just don't get greedy.
The truth is probably in the middle...this is the Intercept after all. They've defended Assad, Maduro, Putin, etc somehow saying their internal corruption/slaughters were because of the US.
When you get to the very pinnacle of athletic performance, freak genetics plays an outsized role. Michael Phelps is one obvious example to point at, or Usain Bolt, but another is Eero Mantryranta[1], who had a natural gene variant that was equivalent in effect on red blood cell effectiveness to massive EPO doping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_M%C3%A4ntyranta#Genetics_...
Heh. Sounds like race conditions. That or your code is possessed, which I've had happen too.

My personal favorite is programs that seem non-deterministic. Different errors/results for different executions.
Volkswagen begins pre-production of its ID.3 EV in China
I had a conversation with a CPU designer by chance at a fast food restaurant. He described exactly this, except that everyone he hired was brilliant but didn't fit in with education or other jobs because they thought in more dimensions than just "pass this class", and that's exactly what he needed for silicon design. I can only assume it's a team consistency issue in that if not everyone is on the same page then it's possible the outlier will move on.
This can be difficult to do in certain contexts. This approach could easily cause them to be perceived as arrogant, "not a team player", or some other cliche. If their calendar is open to others (so it shows event details more than just free/busy), it's hard to portray those blocks of time as equivalent to "real" meetings.

Involving your manager is potentially a great step—though you have the best gauge as to whether it's the right move. If you've discussed your approach with them, they can provide some much-needed cover if colleagues complain that you're not available enough.
can this be redirected to the article instead of the video or at least marked as a video?

Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary...
This, exactly. we try too hard to make one rule to fit everyone but not everyone fits every rule. It's ok to use judgment and say "this person gets this other treatment for these valid reason."
mobile != all computing; agree about many founders in the mobile space. Just met yesterday with a colleague who is a tech manager now for outsourcing facial recognition systems, unsure if he is allowed to know who the clients are during a build. He kept trying to take pictures of me with his phone and laughing at my disdain.. he said "you are too shy" several times.. ugly
There would be no disbursements from one fund to the other. Fund A would purchase an asset slowly over time. When it has finished purchasing the asset, fund B would purchase that asset quickly at a scale large enough to increase the market price of it. As the price rose, fund A would sell its position.

The net effect is that fund A sees increased returns and fund B sees decreased returns.
India is going ahead with facial recognition program despite privacy concerns
Generally, the purposes of the exercises in a class is to reinforce the material that has been taught up to that point and to demonstrate that the student can use it.

For example, if early in an elementary number theory class the student is asked to prove that there are in infinite number of primes of the form 4n+3, a solution that just invokes Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions would probably not be acceptable. That approach does work to show that there are an infinite number of 4n+3 primes, but completely fails to show that that the student understood the material actually taught in class.

It's the exact same thing with the digit counting problem. Solving it by just invoking the built in string length function does little to demonstrate that the student understands the material taught so far.
Just to make sure I understand you: the idea is that the excess returns of fund A above the index would be no larger than the under returns of fund B below the index?
*Markiplier
I don’t sign in to any of their web properties ever. I do have a Google account for Gmail, but I only use it from my various mail clients.

They probably know who I am though when I browse “anonymously”. Am I at risk?
You surely can’t be oblivious to how this has been a process of boiling the frog slowly — almost certainly they will eventually be permanent-blocked like on iOS.
Thank you for the comment, and both pieces are great. You even answered my question directly - way back in 2011!

"If I hadn’t worked on my consulting projects last year, Parse.ly would have died. PERIOD. PG is often right, but he’s wrong on this one. I agree that startups require your undivided attention. But surviving isn’t a compromise — it’s a necessity. Do it however you possibly can."
True enough, but modern software stacks also have a lot of wasteful memory use.
Can users install apps on their iPhones, unless they were approved by Apple? That's the future of software freedom and user liberties on macOS.
YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
>really only for people above a certain intelligence level

What are you basing the claim that System 2 is only open to people above a certain intelligence threshold level on? That is certainly not one of the takeaways I had from Kahnemans work

> Some people manage to deal in system 2 much more. Generally, the smarter, the more they deal with that.

I think if you re-read Kahneman, you'll see he is actually in disagreement with this. He even states that he is unable to effectively guard against his System 1 biases. This is coming from a Nobel laureate at the forefront of the field. He certainly qualifies to be in the "smarter" category of humans and if anyone should be able to thwart System 1, I'd think it would be him.

> I'm taking issue with saying 'we all' do it this way.

The fact that we all do this is precisely the point of Kahneman's work that I relied on to make the claim. I wouldn't be surprised if there's degrees to the extent that it happens, but it's interesting to me that you think that degree hinges on someone's IQ. Is there any data to back up this hypothesis? It seems like there's a conflation of ideas here. I don't disagree that people have differing abilities of analytical ability. But this does not necessarily mean that higher levels of analytical ability negate the claim from Kahneman that our decisions are rooted in our emotional centers. This two points are not mutually exclusive. There appears to be at least some study into this:

"One psychologist, Keith Stanovich, draws a distinction between two parts of System 2. One deals with slow and effortful thinking and demanding computation. Some people are better than others in this task, they are the individuals work cell [sic] in intelligence tests and are able to switch quickly and efficiently from one task to another. Yet such high intelligence does not make people immune to biases. Another ability is involved, what that psychologist labelled rationality and what Kahneman terms being engaged, which is distinct from intelligence as such."

The argument you're making comes across as, "Yeah, of course those people are irrational and biased. But smart people are different." In my opinion, this is exactly the wrong take-away from Kahneman's work and it potentially opens one up to being even more biased. It reminds me of a conversation with magicians where they felt like scientists and PhDs are actually easier to fool because they were smart enough to rationalize any justification for an illusion (and believe it wholeheartedly) simply because they weren't as self-aware of their own fallibility. So if you were willing to modify the stance that "smart people are above these biases" to "smart are more likely to erroneously think they are above these biases" that might be closer to the mark although I have no idea if studies have confirmed that.
I've always wondered, what exactly is the overhead on running 32-bit code on a 64-bit machine? Why is support eventually dropped? I'm sure there are good reasons but I've no idea what they are.
This is a bad faith read. He was specifically talking about startup founders. The cliche idea is that one of startup startup founders’ main motives is getting rich. PG said this wasn’t the case in practice, and that fear of failure was more important.

This has no bearing on what motivates people to do things generally in their spare time.
>A variant is to stay in touch with other YC-funded startups. There is now a whole neighborhood of them in San Francisco. If you move there, the peer pressure that made you work harder all summer will continue to operate.

Funny how much that single sentence changed what life was like on the West Coast. Now we are witnessing mini-Valleys springing up in other cities desperate to replicate what San Francisco did for startups.
Both Oracle and Postgres have a way of creating an inline table from a list of constants. I wonder if doing that in the query and joining to it would be more efficient.
Greater issues with possible persistence, control over daemons and sockets, access to lots of files I don't let regular users have access to, etc.

Plus the other half which is the whole proprietary binary side of things. IMO, lack of transparency invites more bad behavior.
"I don't like it, and therefore others should not like it either"
"Although this approach is incredibly promising, an important caveat is that the editing worked in less than half the mice."

i don't know what i was hoping '...,DNA and all' would mean. i suppose all 50% of these mice.
I just discovered this (while looking for ways to do some local integration, and wishing for the 10e9999th time I could use extensions). Was very surprised to find it.

It seems quite new (the website's about page is broken, for example). I'm dumping it here to see what HN thinks of it.

Potentially interesting/relevant links:

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...

- https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android

The main (current?) caveat with the extension support is that you have to manually download and poke .crx files (or unpacked extensions) in manually. Haven't verified, but I fully expect you could probably cp -rv extension directories from your desktop Chrome profile directly to your device. You'd need to sort out some kind of manual sync process though, since this of course wouldn't autoupdate.

No idea about future directions. As with all new things I'd say I'm fairly curious what sort of longevity/stamina this puts out long term.
Yes, it is about should, and saying "it's a bit old" doesn't justify it.

Why is 8 years self-evidently "long enough"? Banks have code from the 1960s still running, and plenty of people have industrial hardware much older than that. Many of my household appliances are older.

It's only "obsolete" code because Apple has decided it is, it didn't rot.
Keeping in Shape as a Dev
hey Fellow Devs! Please share your biggest 2 challenges when it comes to keeping unwanted weight off and being in shape
Seems I didn't catch the sarcasm, sorry. :D
Jim Simons and David E. Shaw are legends who should have some HBO series about them. Both were researchers who left academia to beat the scumbags of wall streets in their own game with no finance background and they made unbelievably so much money in a very short of time that they would have been jailed or killed if they weren't in the US.
Every single story about it features a comment saying "I thought you only needed a free developer account to notarize apps?" with no replies.

That said, Apple's membership-levels page features "software distribution outside the Mac App Store" as a benefit of the paid level: https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
The biggest issue with the article is clearly correlation vs. causation. He admits to it. I think this advice can be dangerous for someone sacrificing a great deal for a startup that has a extremely low probability of success because “PG says I’ll be a millionaire as long as I just don’t let my startup die”
> Maybe they’d be put in zoos?

I googled "How many zoos in the world", and got an estimate of about 1500. If every single zoo had 10 chickens, that would make about 15,000 chickens in the entire world. I think going from however many millions of chickens there are worldwide down to 15k would count as "basically exctinct".
For one GPU speedup over CPU isn’t that dramatic for small to medium sized problems, e.g. MNIST or CIFAR that one would try algorithm ideas on. So I think it’s a stretch to see GPU as essential to the new algorithms. On the other hand for large problems like the original Alpha Go you need to figure out the distributed computing to really scale.

This isn’t to say that GPUs aren’t nice. They do save time or for the same amount of time let you produce more polished results, which means in a competitive environment everyone would use them.
We Now Live in a Driverless World
You can still do that, you just have to find users dumb enough to authorize the running of an application downloaded randomly from the internet.

Oh, and they need to authorize it from an admin account. So, yeah. Not sure there are a lot of people out there that dumb. Unless you're some well known downloaded product like Blender or something, I would think you would have a hard time getting people to run your software.

At the same time, to be completely fair, you probably should have a hard time getting people to run your software. That's pretty much exactly how a lot of malware is distributed.
Sorry still don’t agree that I “treated you like shit” by arguing that the facts don’t agree with your dismissal of the original story as an “sjw” overreaction.
LIDL is a discount from Germany, it is spread over northern continental Europe and especially the eastern block.

If you compare it to other western supermarket chains like Carrefour, or Auchan, their food is of a lower quality, despite being not much cheaper.

LIDL is convenient for packaged or canned food or "everything not related to food", but it's a discount, not exactly popular for quality.

Even Simply, the discount branch of Auchan, sells better food than LIDL.
At least in this part of Europe.

And they are all of lower quality than Esselunga or Coop or Conad (but that could just be the Italian in me talking).

But honestly I've never been at LIDL in Poland, maybe it's better over there.

On a side note: many Polish people have a real money problem.

The average Polish salary is below 1k euros, while in Germany is over 2.5k euros.
The Ocean Cleanup Interceptor
iOS 13 can at least be partially explained by the difficulty of tying OS releases together with hardware when both require lengthy pre-planning.
> I know a few only compensate IF you’re paged off-hours

Yeah, that seems like it would lead to misaligned incentives (as well as under-price the opportunity costs of being on-call).
Is climate change to blame for Australia's bushfires?
Yeah, and they found evidence of cannibalism on the ant corpses examined

> Of the corpses collected from ‘cemeteries’, a vast majority (93%) bore traces of bites, and also fret holes were seen on their abdomens – typical signs left when the contents have been consumed.

This species is also known to eat their dead in other circumstances:

> It is known that wood ants consume dead bodies of their conspecifics left in masses on the ground during spectacular ‘ant wars’ early in the season.
You must have some nice ruby-tinted glasses to be able to put a positive spin on "secretive hedge fund with black-box trading algorithm hires scientists to makes rich people lots of money"
Banks are a great use case for TOTP or other 2FA auth methods that aren't SMS, as if you need to verify identity in person, you can require the user come to a physical branch (in the US, you can get something called a "medallion signature guarantee" [1], which is typically required to verify your identity if you're moving more than $250k in assets between financial service firms). Services that can't provide identity verification services in meatspace are at a disadvantage, which is why they fall back to SMS as identity verification and management.

ID cards that support cryptographic functions (such as Estonia's National ID [2], or in the US, DoD CACs [3]) would go a long way to fixing these problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallion_signature_guarantee

[2] https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/

[3] https://www.cac.mil/
And, importantly, the proportional impact in fund A is much larger than the one in fund B
Perhaps checkout Nats, I'm very satisfied with it ( did pretty extensive research on finding a good message system)

It's similar to Apache Kafka but very light on resources and easy to selfhost.

Ow yeah, the throughput is around 150 k msg/s. Without much configuration.
Ask HN: How do you train your developers?
How do you ensure that your development team's tech skills stay up-to-date? Do you use videos, live training, internal resources, or something else?