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Can't wearing "good enough" glasses and contacts cause vision quality to degrade faster?
It's impossible to know for sure if someone is trolling by the original definition of the word. Since that refers to intent, you'd have to be a mind reader to decide it. In practice, it doesn't matter, because the effects of doing it accidentally are the same as doing it on purpose.

We mostly use the word 'flamebait' instead, which means approximately the same thing with the intent component taken out.
From a fire prevention point of view, negligence isn't different from arson, and it's a lot more common.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you run parallel across many machines you will reduce the time, but the cost stays the same (roughly anyway).

The initial cost is what makes this insane, not the time, and the end result (GPUs) is undebatable the most cost efficient method (in this case very likely by a factor of 50-100x).

A situation like this is not premature optimization. Developers sometimes need to understand that in the scheme of things, their time is not worth very much compared to the cost of the infrastructure required to run their code. Throwing the corporate credit card at optimization issues is far too common today in tech.
> But it's really exciting to be able to `ls` and `cd` and `ssh` on a phone, and know that the software updates are coming.

It's strange that SailfishOS has not caught more marketshare on the hacker/tech enthusiast community, because it's (almost) everything people wants about Purism : you lose a bit in the free software and open hardware side, but you win in terms of price (used phone + 50$ license), availability and usability (Right now, it's the only alternative to Android and iOS I can safely recommend).

If only Jolla devs had kept their promises of open-sourcing more of their code.
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Run a modern mainline kernel (and future mainline kernels) without losing compatibility with the drivers for most of the hardware.
“that awakening can lead to interest in the other aspects of yoga.”

The problem is that the number of teachers who have knowledge of these aspects is very small. Close to zero from my observations.
Yeah I’d completely missed this part. Makes it even worse
Also you could harden the ETFE with a specialized lead or other metallic layer, or perhaps incorporate it into polymer matrix.

Such a material would have other interesting uses, including spacesuits and spaceships.
Maybe. But if you have a canyon, you can use three natural sides, cover the top and one side. The side you can expand as needed.

Cities on Earth don't need to be protected from toxic soil and hard UV radiation. Instead, most cities on earth have been built near rivers for cheap transportation. Castles and fortifications are built on hills for defensive value.
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Note that the article is not arguing that yoga isn't ancient at all, but that yoga in the form "exported" to the west refers to a practice that is a distinct form of physical exercise that really is separate from traditional yoga, and that the new form borrows a lot from Scandinavian gymnastics.

It's not saying there aren't physical aspects to traditional yoga either, just that the physical practices of traditional yoga didn't fit the needs of the people who pushed the "new" poses.
Bad move: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2016/09/29/...
What? How did you get it to work on mobile? I just see a black rectangle. This has been my only experience with shadertoy links on iOS for years, across various different iOS devices.
That is not what Simons did to make Renaissance Technologies successful. Simons cultivated domain knowledge long before he started a hedge fund, because he had an interest in trading and gambling even as a professor. He also hired people with financial experience.

The historical record overlooks the people he hired who knew a thing or two about trading, while fixating on the team of NLP scientists he hired from IBM. Likewise Simons wasn't initially successful in the very, very early years. It wasn't until the late 80s that the Medallion firm really came into its own.
You're talking about a $40 tool just to flash the storage vs a part (micro SD adapter) that they give you with the SD card for free because it's so cheap.

Also doing a quick survey for the rated cycle counts on M.2 vs SD card slots:

M.2: I found this one [1] which is $0.768 for only 60 cycles

SD: This one [2] is $0.6256 for 5,000 cycles

I'm not sure why you'd say M.2 is more reliable, considering users often cycle storage dozens if not hundreds of times.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/jae-electronics/SM...

[2] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/gct/MEM2051-00-195...
> I mean, if you're going all-in on the future where is the biotech, pharmacology and the robots?

The Vision Fund has invested billions into robotics companies. Cruise is making self-driving cars. Nuro is making autonomous delivery bots. Zume is supposedly automating pizza (I say supposedly because they do have a robot for making pizza, but their valuation is almost entirely "justified" by a patent to cook food in a moving vehicle - yes really).

Granted, I think the way they invested in these companies still has all of the financial shenanigans of their investments and they really aren't long-term plays - but they are putting more money into robotics than just about anyone. That said, I don't think it's going to bear fruit.
Giving a monopoly to a private company that is only interested in maximizing profit will end badly. This is obvious. The author is deluding himself to think any other outcome will happen.
I wonder how this is positioned compared to Bird Eats Bug and LogRocket/FullStory
> Sadly, judging by emails I get, there are a lot such teams operating in small towns.

I can believe that, even if I don't understand the mindset. Unless they're ready to retire, you'd think they'd want to keep their toolboxes current.
Issuance, not holdings? What fraction of outstanding debt in Japan?

If Uber and WeWork both go to zero, how big a hit is that?
Thanks for the feedback!

Replay is in the user-research and validation phase and still quite experimental.

firefox-replay.com is a work in progress. We're still sorting out the best way to communicate record and replay debugging and the new use cases.

We'll share more on @firefoxDevTools when we have something to report.
AFAIK, DDG uses Yandex engine for searches in Russian.
And is it likely to be a condition that a plane would experience during conditions like the test? Seems like it should nullify the entire test.
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You even kinda get the best of both worlds, a cash infusion and more money in the long run.

The org TLD has 14 million registrations in it right now. If Ethos announces a 50% price hike (increasing the base charge from $9 to $13.50), my guess is 2% of the domains would be immediately renewed for the 10-year max at the old price.

So right off the bat, Ethos have 280,000 domains * ($9 * 10 years) = $25,200,000 in new cash. Now that means they've lost out on $37,800,000 from the price hikes but that was collected over the next ten years and assumes that all of those domains would have continued for ten years. They've no choice now; the money is paid.

If Ethos lose another 10% of org registrations because people don't want to pay the increased cost, that leaves 12,348,000 domains left. Assume another 10% of those either don't renew for some other reason or renewed for more than one year but less than ten. Now you're at 11,113,200 remaining domains that, in the year after the announcement, bring in an additional $50,009,400.

So just by announcing a price hike and not-so-subtly encouraging domain owners to "take advantage to lock in today's price for years to come," Ethos bring in $75,209,400 with two-thirds of that being new recurring revenue and the remaining third suitable for distribution as bonuses to all of the executives who made such a clever scheme what it is.
Offtopic: Are we going to get these cookie warnings until the end of time?
What? How did you get it to work on mobile? I just see a black rectangle. This has been my only experience with shadertoy links on iOS for years across various different iOS devices.
Now that is interesting.

I heard that quote from a respected Zen master!

This is why I love HN. Thanks for the correction.
I don't get how anyone actually cares about a top level domain

Do you even email, bro?
It's sad to see the submission being used as another reason to remind people of the role of luck in human affairs. That take on things involving noted individual success is a little too trendy now.

Aside from being overdone, the reason it bothers me is because it distracts from so many other points. In this case, it distracts from the main point of the article which is that not having a fallback position leads to higher commitment. It's a lesson larger than just the warfare and politics examples given. It has very broad applicability in life.
I wonder why they didn't use `==>`, which PHP alternatives like Hack[1] already use.

[1] https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/functions/anonymous-functions
People outside the westernized population don't know what "Vedism" and "Brahmanism" and all these other "deconstructed" monstrosities are, so the question itself is a bit loaded. In anycase, to answer your real question - no, its not a point of contention that Yoga (and Vipassana etc.) are the accumulation of the work of many gurus from radically different traditions of India.

Since you're hopelessly caught within the webs of orientalist spiders, suffice it here to say - what you see of India is not India; it is but a description of what you see in terms of what you already know. Your description is neither India, and nor is it a reasonably accurate model of it.
> "we don't have the people to maintain PIR and decided that rather than hire people for it, we should sell it"

Except, unless I am misunderstanding something there, they had outsourced running the registry to Afilias anyway? So it's not even that ...
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You didn't bother to read the article.

> Rather than assembling large, complicated, curved heliostats (mirrors) on site, eSolar used small, flat, prefabricated heliostats of only about a square meter. They were cheaper, faster and easier to set up, more modular, and easier to replace.

> Gross’s key insight was that he could replace a lot of the material and labor involved in CSP with computing power. (Or, he could replace stuff with intelligence.) Rather than make bigger, more complicated mirrors, he made small, simple ones and controlled them with software, so they stayed aligned more precisely and produced more power.
Great idea and appreciate your efforts to action.

Q1: using sketch filesto convert it to code is a good idea. How scalable is your project at its current status to scale it to work for mock up images. In other words- how easy is for your software to convert an UX image to code. We would like to see some POCs.
The discussion was about the behavior of PAT, and PAT has no influence on whether or not an attacker has a route to you.
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Doesn't the incidental damage like blowing out a cargo door suggest that, while they expected to push the plane to close to it's limit, that prior to the test they assigned very low probability to this kind of failure? Even if this barely-a-failure isn't on its own evidence of a practical safety risk, anytime you're surprised by new data, it does suggest something about your model needs to be updated.
Great video, listening to it now. His accent is fun. He sounds like he could play Caesar in Life Of Brian.
If it was ported, could this run decently on a Raspberry Pi?
Building the form widget is the easy part, "connecting the dots" as you say is what takes 80% of the time and produces 99% of the bugs.
I would also check productivity stats. :)
If it's sandboxed then it can track the user less, they claim it's anti-spam but anti-spam can be done without such extreme measures. Same problem with spyware Snapchat.
Millenial farmers make more money from their YouTube channels than their crops
https://twitter.com/assortedhackery/status/12000566338980290...

Evidence :P
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Websockets are nice, but don't really fit into PHP's architecture around short lived requests.

Sure, for most parts PHP can handle that, but for long running things some I/O event based context switching typically is more efficient and in a few error cases PHP deferrs cleanup to "request shutdown" which might be a while out with websockets.

In the end PHP is focussed on one role (serving "normal" HTTP requests in isolated contexts quickly) and other technologies do other things better. And I think focus is a good thing.

Then again: PHP is open and does whatever the contributors want it to do and I myself am not actively contributing much anymore :)
The common conceit I see in these designs is trying to use a single pressure vessel instead of nested ones. Humans only need a couple PSI to avoid physical damage to skin and eyes, and if you just leave most of the nitrogen out if the air you can drop the pressure significantly, still breathe, and not set things on fire (flammability is tied to oxygen partial pressure). But even then, a single fault in the system leaks all your air out and everyone dies.

Space habitats so far look more like submarines. It’s a bunch of tubes with bulkheads. But they don’t scale, and some of the biggest ones so far are in fact inflatables.

If you nested inflatable structures, the forces on them are due to the pressures between the layers. You could run an outer chamber that requires a respirator, an inner one for living space, and a third for medical. An alarm system in each layer could begin capturing atmosphere in the event of a breach, with emergency venting for over pressure. You would only risk half of your air to a single failure.

The Eden project uses hexagons panels that resemble a blister on bubble wrap. No accuse angles there. And why can’t you cable a dome down the same as this design?

The idea of a dome is volume. If you aren’t going to build upward in the dome, why bother? Building upward avoids interfacing with the envelope.

If you could work out how to construct a dome over the top of an existing dome, you wouldn’t even have to move. Just deconstruct the inner dome and begin expanding outward.
That's exactly the intent of this change.

"Future Scope: We could make the ternary right-associative in a later release, after it has been an error for a while."

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity
This is partially due to (current) landing site requirements. Up till now landers targeting mars could not really handle any bigger terrain obstacles (big rocks, steep slopes, etc.) so the landing sites have been meticulously selected to be as flat and rock free as possible.

That's why photos from different Mars landers look often very similar - the regions they have landed in have been effectively selected to be similar. :) And of course these pictures shape how Martian surface looks like the public consciousness.

Things may be changing though, with the technology being developed for active obstacle avoidance, that might enable martian landers to land in a more complex terrain safely by analyzing the actual landing site and landing on a safe spot.

Still, you might still want some flat area near an early martian base/city, even just to make trucking stuff from/to landers that strayed of course during landing easier. Eq. not having one in the middle of a rock field and another on crater bottom. :)
but it will improve the ability to obfuscate webpages
I just want a phone that functions without me thinking about it. I don't care about much else, I don't want to care. Yes I know security or freedom or whatever but I have a higher risk of dying in an airplane to be honest.

What does the Purism give me? None of my existing apps work with it.

Spending zero brain cells on which computer junk to buy and getting on with my life is the most rational choice imo.
I wonder about Improbable?
Blogger.com?

Techies can use Keybase or GitHub pages with something like Pelican for Python.
Hi Steven, great idea, just signed up (I’m one of those too busy to read, so no excuse now).

Feel free to include my published book as well; it’s copyrighted in the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://www.unitism.com/
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“Rewards should never be the deciding factor”

Nail on the head. Can’t emphasize this point enough. They are perks. They cannot be the product in most cases, because the product may fail and the entire dynamic is “I didn’t get what I bought.” The dynamic should be “I donated and it didn’t pan out unfortunately” in the case of a failed project.
i second that, gwern is amazing :)
Our NN actually learn from images. However the Sketch file is essential to get texts and specific element styles. It's a good idea to explore though. Thanks!
Have you actually lived in an area with underprivileged families? They truly don't care about their children. Sure, some do, the idealized version everyone thinks about do. The reality is a bunch of entitled adults or single parents who send their kid to school without jackets in the winter but come into PTA meetings (if they show up at all) are wearing $250 shoes and driving a Mercedes.
It's bizarre to me how many people idealize slave-owning founding fathers. But it might just be a case of lack of education. I have no idea how American history books generally describe that period in their history.
> You didn't bother to read the article.

I did, their entire premise is invalid. They are either very bad at math, or engineering, or both.

The metal part, screw drive, and simple pulleys and etc are nor hard, nor expensive. Saying it otherwise is purest bs.

The limits of precision of theodolite are more than enough position for precise initial reference.

Existing solar thermal farms were not designed for generation of process heat in mind to begin with, so them saying that they suck at that because of their "design" is a PR trick.

Existing thermochemical processes are profitable enough to burn oil for them, and if one minds anything cheaper, they will first consider CHP colocation before thinking of anything as weird as this.
In the end it's a matter of taste and preference. There are other options as well. Each contributor (and user) certainly has a favorite and in the end it is the solutions with biggest support (and least objection)

Bike shedding can certainly be done infinitely and sometimes one has to make a choice and move on.

(I have been release manager of PHP in earlier times and helped to steer through the namespace seperator debate and did the decision to not do short array syntax, yet, but wasn't involved in the short function syntax debate)
Good point about the memory leaks. Not aiming to contradict it, but I'll mention that https://www.eclipse.org/mat/ is a great help in debugging Java memory leaks. .NET probably has something similar.
Logically:

If there were no guns in the US, there would be zero gun homicides.

Therefore guns are part of the problem.

Any statement that says guns are not part of the problem must be incorrect.
From the perspective of the 98% who fail sure it’s bad. On the other hand from the perspective of the sovereign they work for risking 500 men for an empire is an excellent bet. That’s a wildly asymmetric payoff there.

People here should be familiar with this dynamic.
To me the answer is obviously that the car should prioritize its driver at all costs. If that requires flattening a crowd of baby orphans in some contrived hypothetical scenario then so be it. I refuse to ever operate a car that could make the decision to kill me.
Not sure I agree. From our own experience the boring and time consuming part is translating the specific design to front-end code. "Connecting the dots" is the essential and most important part, not necessarily what it takes more time.
Works well for me in Firefox Preview on Android (the rewrite that will eventually replace standard Firefox for Android, which I think is in maintenance-mode now).
that's not how safety margin work, is not a budget leftover set aside for known unknowns, it's there for unknown unknowns.

e: downvoters might want to read Feynman again

"If a bridge is designed to withstand a certain load … it may be designed for the materials used to actually stand up under three times the load … But if the expected load comes on to the new bridge and a crack appears in a beam, this is a failure of the design. The O-rings of the solid rocket boosters were not designed to erode. Erosion was a clue that something was wrong. Erosion was not something from which safety could be inferred"

if you fail a test before your margin you haven't established that your safe up to 90% margin, you've established that the hypothetical on which your design was based are wrong and no further inference might be warranted, regardless of whether you fail at 99% or 60% of where you expected to fail
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Are there any resources you recommend? Or do personal projects give you enough problems? And how do you map solving these problems to patterns you can use in a future problem you’ll face?
>it does work at about 90% the speed of an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti

Minor nitpick, but it looks like the Radeon vii is in the same tier as the 1080ti, and actually performs worse [1] in benchmarks.

1. https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti-vs-...
Did you count the lost revenue as revenue per minute times the number of minutes the site was unavailable?

If so, that's actually incorrect when calculating revenue loss. There will be actually be an uptick in traffic after the outage, either through people postponing their intended visit or checking if the site is down for them after it comes back.

I know that at LinkedIn we broke part of the advertisement campaign creation flow from downtime in our service for a short time, and the impact was negligible since ads were still being served, and new ad creation would be just be retried later by advertisers.

Now if you just lost the capacity to serve ads, there might be an impact, but since a lot of advertisements are display ads (to raise brand awareness over an immediate call to action), it's not clear whether or not it's a simple minutes down times impact per minute calculation.
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It is possible to design systems that fail in predictable ways (tear-strips on consumer packaging are an example of this) but airplanes aren't designed that way. It just doesn't matter how the plane fails when it reaches its structural limits, so no design effort is put into this. So no, it is not at all surprising that the energy dissipated in unexpected ways. That's one of the reasons they ran the last test past 100% so they could find out how it would fail because no one knew.
or that the reinforcement doesn't cause it to fail earlier because due to the increase rigidity in that area another nearby areas get more stressed than before
Unlikely, eventually people will stop putting them up when it’s widely believed the laws have no teeth.
All this because the phone has some extra Linux or something. Framing buying a phone with a different operating system as an irrational decision made by feeble trapped brains is what gives Linux zealots a bad name.
It has always been this way; the educated have read these works, studied these works. There is a difference between going to school and being educated; although the vast majority of people go to school and even pursue what some call "higher education", still the truly educated are the minority...and that is because it is hard and people are lazy.
No bud, you are burned out. You give too much shit about what is ultimately someone else's business and company. If you don't stop doing that, you will be burned out no matter where you go and what you do.