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Apple to Release Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR on December 10
The PSP as well had essentially a second CPU with some kind of programmable DSP for handling media like MP3 & MP4 playback. Some enterprising individuals figured out how to use it for general computation in the PSP homebrew heydays. I think there was a Nintendo DS emulator that used it for some kind of speed up.
It's the fabric of spacetime that's expanding. Nothing physical is moving and thus no energy is necessary.
Firing is too hard for humans, and too easy for bureaucracies.
I'm in the same camp, I feel neutral about CRA - it's great for getting set up quick, but comes with a whole jungle of complexity, even if it's under a simpler abstraction most of the time.

I just bit the bullet a few years ago and invested time into learning all the moving parts of a full-stack React app, and created generic build scripts with common libraries - it has everything I need and nothing more. I've continued using it to this day, keeping it up to date has been painless mostly, and have built a number of business applications with it.

A big advantage of CRA I see is that it provides a standard, well-developed and documented. It's suited for onboarding junior team members, as well as allowing people to jump into new codebases.
> Without educational system most people would be mired in ignorance and believing in myths.

Most people are mired in ignorance and believing in myths, despite having educational systems.
Money in your account does not in any way inconvenience you in the way that a car parked in your driveway does.
This isn't "brute force." It's solving the specific problem posed rather than a generalization, which in this case is both easier and more efficient (since there are cases in which you could terminate the loop early).
This reminds me so much of the discussions around the Amiga back in the 80s.

Powerful custom hardware can be great for the developers that invest in it, until it isn't anymore and now you've got a bunch of sunk R&D. And then there's the need to ship on more than one platform...
In my experience, #1 is relatively the (very) hard part. #2 is relatively easy as it's finite in scope and push come to shove you pay a bounty (to a one-off consultant) to architect the direction of a solution.

Put another way, you can get #1 wrong and even if #2 hits that target, you're still wrong. But get #1 right and over a couple iterations you can get the means to support the desired ends.
To illustrate just how hard: much of my work in academia was assisting in designing experiments or analyzing data for other people working on PhDs in "how to design decent tests" (i.e., Instructional Psychology). There was an entire department of the university dedicated to studying just that problem.
California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries
Locking sessions to countries doesn't offer any security benefit - an attacker can quite trivially connect from an IP in any target country.
They are not against education, but against the educational system.

> Also the K-12 educational systems across the world have lifted several billions out of poverty.

No, that was education. Also, yes, maybe at some point school was useful, however a lot has changed since then however school really hasn't kept up.
I just found that this OP and the other two HN articles I've stumbled on today are somehow related at a deeper level - they're all talking about the creativity and intelligence in general.

The Lesson to Unlearn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619

Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729211

I don't think all individuals should become a 100% creative/original person. That would make the society very unstable. So we need some (actually, a lot of) obedient people that makes the society keep going, in this regard that I think the current education is useful. On the other hand, there's always a rebel no matter how hard we try to cast people into a form. The question is that the society needs a good mixture of creative and boring people and I don't know how we can achieve that. My theory right now is the society is somehow auto-adjusting itself - like the brain auto-adjusting itself in the above article - to have its "critical" state, i.e. having the right mixture of people: not too boring but not too revolutionary. Of course, the society is much bigger and more complex than a single brain, so its adjustment is slow and inefficient. But it's interesting how it's still functioning while its education system is so broken.
Amen, we're human developers, not compilers. A long time ago a colleague was reviewing some code I wrote and he noticed I was uncomfortable with all the stuff he was finding and he said "listen, we all miss stuff"

He's still right all these years of experience later.
It's also about reflecting your own values, such as remembering when you lived in less abundant times, not consuming more environmental or financial resources than you really need to, and demonstrating those values to other family members in the hope they are remembered.

Personally I stopped working 10 years ago and have plenty of financial resources, but I still take the train or bus as much as possible, or if I must drive, walk a block to avoid paying for parking. It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with living the values that I care about and trying to communicate those to our kids.
Flipping it reverses the situation from reflecting reality to reflecting a hypothetical: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disa...
I have asked the same question Multiple times, and as far as I can tell. There is nothing that stop me from forking TruffleRuby.
Lets not forget Rubins own mini me Magic Leap by taking over control of CastAR https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/andy-rubin-backed-ar-hardw...

and burning it to the ground with brilliant 'lets drop $100K for cardboard box design' and buy a gaming studio management https://theamphour.com/394-jeri-ellsworth-and-the-demise-of-...
It'd be less magical if you could manipulate the AST instead of the code as a string.
Even granting that not everything can be measured quantitatively, how would I identify these talented non-quantitative investors?
Hammer-Timeless.
Really cool idea. Does it matter whether the project is intended to ever make money?
Because then the article would be about poor Jane Slopkins, the single mother of three who struggles to make ends meet.

"That money was such a godsend for me and my family. I didn't want to touch it at first, but my son lost 5000 pounds betting on horses, and the bookies were threatening to break his legs. My daughter was failing her classes while working two jobs, with the money she could stop working and focus on her studies. She's always dreamed of becoming a reporter", etc.

Jane received this money through no fault of her own, and now that she's had to give it back, her life has been thrown into turmoil once more. And that's not all, she is now facing prison for a non-violent crime she had no idea she was committing.

Etc. etc., the article basically writes itself.
Where is AWS logs for all service outages, partial or not?

Can't seem to find them, only "selected" outages. The recent, several hours long, service degradation in Frankfurt EC2 isn't in the historical list, seems like it is only in the rolling status history?

AWS and GCloud seem to also be reporting disruptions completely differently, AWS reports on tons of smaller pieces which makes any "aggregate" uptime become something completely different than if you report on larger aggregates as GCloud seems to do.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how one could compare comparing service availability reasonably without running large numbers of "canary" instances on both providers to actually measure aggregate availability?
I'm pretty skeptical of this methodology for determining the "ideal" story length. In particular, note that none of the stories examined hits this supposed sweet spot. This is kind of like surveying people's personal transportation preferences and landing on "three wheels" as the ideal.

A much more valuable tactic is to look at what various markets are accepting. For flash fiction, that's typically under 1,000 words (though for some, it extends to 1,200 or 1,500). For short stories, the sweet spot seems to be between 3,000 and 4,000 words with a hard cutoff in most markets at 6,000. Anything longer and you might as well push through into novella length.
As a citizen, I have a civic obligation to hold the government accountable for the use of my tax dollars.
Well, even better, you don’t even need to purchase them—most public libraries have SAT prep books available for borrowing.

When I was in high school, I would check out whichever ones were available at the time and would photocopy the whole book. I drilled myself on the tests until I scored 1600s every time. Shows how flawed they are as a testing vehicle.
Lot of closed caption is not even close to what Chomsky is saying.
In theory, tests are merely what their name implies:
tests of what you've learned in the class. In theory
you shouldn't have to prepare for a test in a class any
more than you have to prepare for a blood test. In
theory you learn from taking the class, from going to
the lectures and doing the reading and/or assignments,
and the test that comes afterward merely measures how
well you learned.

That was always how I approached tests in college. While everyone around me was stressing out, not once did I actively study for finals. Finals week is for relaxing, sleeping, watching movies, reading books, and having parties in between tests. Because, y'know, learning the stuff on the test was what the whole frickin' semester was for, and if you weren't paying attention up to now, what makes you think you can learn it all over a weekend?

I was constantly amazed at how many of my peers, who were paying good money to learn stuff at school, were utterly shocked by that philosophy. I really wish more students understood it.
Maximizing shareholder value would be a fine goal for a corporate entity that had received no special deals from government. Like limited liability. Like corporate personhood. Like infrastructure and other subsidies. Like tax preference. Like exemption from paying for broadly dispersed externalities via regulatory capture. Like government help to quash freedom of association - oops, I mean collective bargaining.

Oh, but wait, that's not the kind of deal that's on offer, is it? IS IT? No, once you've formed a corporation you've made a contract with the government. I mean "contract" in the philosophical sense, not the legal one which has been quite deliberately defined to suit the very entities we're discussing. The contract is that you will receive these favors, in return for some social good or at least for not undermining the social good that already exists. Go read your history, on the early corporations chartered to build canals and such. Corporations should be held to that deal, or the contract should be considered broken and all the favors withdrawn. Why? Because honoring contracts is the most fundamental pillars of a real functioning market - the very market that laissez-fairists who push the "maximizing shareholder value" fallacy claim to revere. To say it's OK to break contracts is to say you don't believe in markets. If you don't have real markets and you don't have socialism all that's left is oligarchy.

Oops. That's the part we're not supposed to figure out, isn't it? I see the downvote brigade has already shown up.
Several articles in the news including the one in Quanta [1,2,3] appear to have caused some misunderstanding. What is clear so far is that “circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) can emerge in settings with low population immunity...,” therefore, “all countries must maintain high population immunity.” [4] It was found that “compared with January 2017–June 2018, the number of reported cVDPV outbreaks more than tripled, from nine to 29,” in the most recent survey. [4] As a result, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative” is planning future use of a novel type 2 OPV, stabilized to decrease the likelihood of reversion to neurovirulence.” One of the most significant barriers to polio eradication is “reaching every child – including inconsistent campaign quality, insecurity, conflict, massive mobile populations, and, in some instances, parental refusal to the vaccine.”[5]

It is false to say that somehow cVDPVs had been kept a secret or their importance downplayed. [6] There are critical reasons to remain vigilant of any adverse consequences but keep in mind that every year “hundreds of thousands of cases due to wild polio virus are prevented. Well over 10 million cases have been averted since large-scale administration of OPV began 20 years ago.” [7]

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-smallpox-is-no-more-but-p...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/11/25/health/ap-af-med...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/more-polio-cases...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6845a4.htm

[5] http://polioeradication.org/news-post/global-leaders-pledge-...

[6] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236293/

[7] https://www.who.int/features/qa/64/en/
An algorithm for "do these strings differ by an edit distance of at most 1?" is much simpler, and should be easy to figure out. No dynamic programming required.
Why isn’t there a movie about killer Orcas?
Ask HN: Are Startups similar to college admissions?
I've just been rejected for undergrad at Stanford, the campus I hoped to accelerate my technopreneurship journey. I have been dealing with the rejection as an exercise of persistence because I recognise that I will have to face similar circumstances in startups with applying to incubators, pitching to investors, etc. Yet, I really hope startups aren't as much of a lottery game as admitting into top colleges are.

For those who have been through both the college and startup journey, could you share if you see any parallels between the two experiences. Does luck play an equally large factor?
“Angered by the bank’s reply, Teich contacted the Guardian for help. We asked it to reconsider his case, and in an almost immediate U-turn, it has now agreed to pay all his legal fees, and has offered him £750 in compensation.”

If your business can immediately do the right thing when contacted by a newspaper in a no-brainer case like this, but not a second sooner, then you’ve got problems. That said why in the world did the individual who forced this to court not get slapped with covering his court fees?
How many Android users buy Apple watches and airpods? They are primarily accessories to the iPhone, not standalone products.

What limits Apple to the electronics market? It's been clear for a long time that they need to grow outside of electronics. Apple's value is in its design and brand. They could be so much more than an electronics company, under different leadership.
You start with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and IP reputation.

But then I'd use the moat GMail enjoys as a primary mail destination by statistically looking at the frequency an incoming email's metadata and content similarity has recently arrived at GMail as a whole, then moving suspicious arrivals into a progressive exposure pathway that tentatively delivers a small percent to known currently-active users (eg mobile GMail app open on screen and unlocked) and see what percentage are flagged as spam, archived or deleted. Then use that real time feedback to vary the delivery flow of remaining messages to inbox vs spam.
The weird PS1/PS2/PS3 were because of Japan's heavy arcade culture, where quirky hardware/software designs were the standard. Xbox was approached from the "let's make a DirectX Box" angle, from commodity PC hardware, and it wasn't until the PS3's initial huge cost blunder that Sony realized they needed to go the commodity angle.

> There's a persistent rumor that the Cell was so powerful that Sony had intended for the Playstation 3 to be equipped with two Cell chips, and no true GPU at all. But it seems Sony realized during development that their philosophy had no future.

The original plan was for no GPU at all, relying on the SPUs as pixel processor units. When they realized that that wasn't feasible for a few reasons, they quickly partnered with Toshiba to make a custom GPU, and that ended poorly too, so Toshiba scrambled and licensed an NVIDIA core. The final "RSX" chip was still a Toshiba design, but with NVIDIA at the center.

As games got more and more complicated, the amount of developer support & tooling did as well. The Xbox 360 had incredibly strong tooling (ask someone who worked on the device about 360's PIX, and they'll gush for days), and the PS3 had very little. The PS3 shader compiler infamously had a random search for an optimizer, and Sony's recommendation was to just run it continually with different random seed inputs in hopes it found a better optimization for your shader.
The rest of the SMPY papers can be found at https://www.gwern.net/SMPY btw.
Isn't garbage collection the problem for being in the system programming?
> 15mg of DXM (which you can buy at any drug store) combined with 150mg Wellbutrin (which you can get your dr. to prescribe to you.) Could be worth a try...

Out of curiosity, where did you get these dosage numbers from?

The linked wiki page doesn't mention dosage and the source on wikipedia is paywalled.
> Then it truly is irrelevant! You're not even talking about CPUs vs CPUs.

Why does that matter? The bulk of the issues come from implementation defined behavior, of which there is plenty within x86 itself to cause issues.

In general, the IEEE-compliant parts of x86 are also IEEE-compliant on other processors, at least the ones I've dealt with. It's the operations that aren't specified by IEEE that cause problems.
> Ok so I see no controls for income/family wealth, etc

There is no reason to control for those, and doing so would be an 'Everest regression': "controlling for altitude, Mount Everest is actually warm today". What you are asking for is like reading about IQ and income and saying "ah, but did they control for education?" Controlling is not magic pixie dust.
Population is 5 million...that seems to be the magic number.

Finland is also more homogeneous and less diverse than the USA.

I don’t think the comparisons are fair unless we divide USA into 80-100 Finland sized chunks and deposit 5 million people there.

And yet: When people want to migrate, no one has Finland on top of their wish list. It’s America. Always America. Why is this?
Exactly this.

It is the Low and Middle Income that gets squeezed if they are not already squeezed enough. And you will be surprised how many of them wont be able to adopt.

And I am not surprised it would be hard for anyone working in Tech to understand, because I have come to the conclusion most of the so called Middle Class Income group around the world mostly shrank to Technology Sector.
That's not evidence the tests are flawed. I was just having a very similar conversation with a friend who aced the physics olympiad. She said, "it's too easy to game, all I had to do was try old tests on my own". Well, hundreds to thousands of others were putting in more hours doing the same thing, in addition to enrolling in expensive prep programs, and they didn't do as well as her.

That is evidence in favor of the test's quality, not against it. There's no paying to win.
A price hike is now considered to be "arbitrary censorship"? Very snowflakey!

.org users can use another domain. Case closed.

Honestly, by jousting with whatever windmill is currently most hated on Twitter, the EFF has completely lost my respect.

I don't remember when was the last time they campaigned for something that mattered.
Yeah, I'd say Pokémon Go only barely counts as AR, although it's improved since launch. Basically I agree with everything in [1].

But honestly, I wasn't even thinking about phone AR when I made my comment. Phone AR feels like almost a completely separate category from headset AR. On one hand, it doesn't face nearly as many technical barriers. No complicated optics leading to low resolution and low FOV. No problem drawing black. No need to convince people to buy an expensive bulky object and wear it on their face all the time. On the other hand... the use cases are obviously far less futuristic.

Still, there's significant promise. I'm looking forward to the first phone AR experience to solidly implement a shared virtual environment, where users can place 3D objects anywhere in the real world and have them appear at the same location for all other users. I think phone hardware isn't quite good enough yet to make this work well, but it can already approximate it (see Minecraft Earth), and the barriers aren't nearly as fundamental.

[1] https://arinsider.co/2019/04/10/the-age-old-question-is-poke...
What you should actually do is use short lived authorization tokens (maybe 30s, clamped by the user agent) derived from a longer lived session secret. You can even bind the short lived request tokens individually to an IP since the client is doing it for each request. Macaroons make this rather simple. That way there’s no risk in sharing request logs.
I might be misunderstanding, but doesn't that treat 'abc' and 'cba' as distance 0?

Regardless, I was also thinking Levenshtein is sub-optimal, and that you can probably solve it in O(n+m).

Even if you go for Levenshtein first, you should identify a simple modification to stop calculating the matrix early if the distance is necessarily greater than 1. Get a bit fancier and you can just 'go down the diagonal' and greatly optimize the algorithm.
You kinda have to work with the people existing, while there were other CPUs available at the time.

And even if everyone were a super smart 10x-developer like you surely are, their time would still be better spent on a platform that is more productive. The idea that some technology is difficult but rewards proficiency with incredible productivity is almost entirely wrong, which is why nobody does web development in Assembly. LaTeX vs Word would be the only example I would have agreed with in the past, but if you search you'll find a study showing even the most proficient practitioners are slower and make more typesetting mistakes using the former.
where is this automation and robotization? because I see it only in the news and from Elon Musk who was saying 5 years ago than in 2 years self driving cars will be everywhere.

we don't even have robots that can clean a carpet properly in my house. each one of them sucks.
The justification for using the SAT-M in underage testing is in fact that: because the material would not have yet been covered in any classes, it tests ability to come up with a correct answer to a novel problem rather than skill. (Remember, educators have long been convinced that any kind of acceleration of gifted kids is poison, and SMPY's results have been a major reason that gifted kids can do any acceleration these days, so they're not just covering it in some accelerated math class.)
Maybe some details are missing but for such a sum, maybe Barclays should have had someone in legal helpfully call the problem customer and explain that they were never going to get away with it, it would cost them more in the long run, and oh yeah, that they weren’t going to be a Barclays customer if they didn’t return the cash?