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So, this apparently generated no interest on HN? :)

I respect the company's drive to adapt to new trends with it's portfolio but... the chip market?

To quote Bloomberg from here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-11/cisco-ent...

"The new initiative has the potential to attract business from customers who want to build their own machines instead of buying whole packages"

So, Cisco is doing the complete opposite of Apple?

(disclosure - Cisco engineer, purely personal opinions and no insight into company's strategy)
Oh, these sweet monopolistic practices...
The point of this story is not the ice cream, it's to take user reports of bugs seriously even if they make no sense or you can't reproduce them.
Why do sites use this crappy scrolling override. I's infuriating and makes navigating the article a pain.
> when the shuttle refused to take the faster hov lane

Any guesses as to why?
It's an interesting approach.

More "debunking the debunking" studies like this are needed.

It seems there is a bias and "debunking with a weak method" is much more likely to be accepted than "proving with a moderate method". Ok, the null hypothesis might be more likely, but some methods are just inappropriate.
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In an ideal world, 32bit would continue to be supported for as long as people use 32bit applications. If there is no good reason to port an application to 64 bit (other than the OS developers forcing it), why do it? Windows supported 16bit up until windows 10,and there were absolutely no mainstream desktop applications or even games on 16bit for over a decade at that time. That seems like a good standard.

The move to 64bit on the other hand is not all upside. There is overhead for pointer-heavy data structures, which has kept some applications from preferring it for a long time, mainly in the gaming arena. I also remember that browsers were very reticent in moving to 64 bit, until the security benefits from ASLR were overwhelming (and web apps started being so memory hungry that 2-4GB started looking small).

Also, the clear technical deficiency that you cite with ObjectiveC on 32 bits (the breaking ABI from adding private fields) is an oft defended feature in the most used native programming language in the world, C++. There, it is done because of performance optimization reasons - to avoid indirection for each structure allocated on the stack.

Overall, my point is that the technical case for 64 bit is not nearly as clear-cut as you make it out to be for many applications. I do agree that the ecosystem case for moving to 64 bit is pretty strong, but I don't think it is enough to say that developers who don't do it are idiots and dragging everyone back.

And just to be clear, I'm not being defensive or bitter, the applications I work on moved to 64 bit as soon as we could, probably 7 years ago, with very good technical reasons to do so - they were very memory hungry and benefitted greatly from having access to more than 2 GB RAM (Windows).
Maybe not important, but I would have put (2010) in the title.

The article was posted on May 10, 2015 but the story is from 2010.
Nah mate.

I’m also terrible at parties.
I consider true AI is possible only when it is able to read through an entire novel or book and then provide an accurate summary of its story or plots that not only makes sense, but correctly conveys the emotional aspect of those books. Remember a lot of meanings or sentiments from the stories in those books are implicit, and so they do require a certain level of emotional processing to interpret it correctly.
> the only solution is to enforce bans against illegal transactions

And that has happened (for a very very long time now). The key problem being "enforce". Enforcing works up to a point and there is always the need for a cooperative public. The moment the public is distrustful of this institution (or any institution for that matter), everything goes down the drain. Look at https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/index.cfm... for the level of trust in the government greece has.
Now that was a great example of an accessible, technically and culturally accurate article. For stuff like this, Quanta magazine is generally the world leader.
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Pretty sure Google is already attacking Firefox in the same way. I remember having to change my User-Agent to Chrome on Firefox mobil because a bunch of Google sites where broken otherwise (but worked perfectly fine when thinking that I was using Chrome).

If your only goal is compatibility and thats the only thing you care about, using Chrome is the choice.
I'm not sure if MAC addresses are used in cell network negotiation, and they are easily spoofed, but the cellular network provider could certainly link an IP address to a device id. then again, most criminal "burner" phones are not internet enabled anyway
I think the OP is pretty chill and doesn't mean that having a PhD is equivalent to being technically superior (see the following quote).

> ... Meaning, it is entirely possible to get expert levels on a topic without getting the PhD certificate.

If I'm not mistaken, for the part that you quoted, the OP is pointing out that there are many people who assess whether or not you are an expert they are looking for base on just a piece of paper, regardless of whether or not your skills in that area is that expected of an expert.

When you are looking for a job, whether you give a damn or not doesn't matter, it's whether or not the interviewer gives a damn that matters—and I feel that most of them don't.
I think we're talking past each other about very different things here.

We can both be right/wrong independent of each other.
It's tough, but the industrial laundry business more or less has this working. Not much AI, lots of compressed air.
I think this will vary greatly by region. In places where lumber is cheap and plentiful we have the typical American stick built house.

But it would be difficult to find a house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan that isn't composed from some combination of locally made small bricks, concrete blocks, concrete and cement.

I know a number of people that had never seen drywall, the building material, before immigrating to north america.
I know the author is well intended and in the end it's her opinion after all. But many of the points she raises are naive when viewed from the point of view of someone who is inside academia. Someone going through a PhD could write a wildly different opinion. In the end it's opinions all the way down, but if you want to "re-imagine" this whole thing you need to start with a much broader vision.
I have a load of 32bit laptops, "I'll put ChromiumOS on them", nope, that's not a thing any more. OK, err Linux? Apparently not. Could put Windows 10 on them I guess.
> I've lost count of the number of times I've misjudged a situation because kids were screaming in the back of the car,

If you can't concentrate due to screaming kids at the back of a car then you need to pull over until they stop. You have no right to endanger other people's lives just to get somewhere a bit faster.
That's a different scroll.
The problem is multifacted, but it's not the case that PhD students are trained to become professors. They are trained to become researchers. The problem is also not generally that PhD grads believe they will become professors and are completely lost when that does not happen - in many fields, a PhD gives you perfectly good job opportunities outside academia, in some it is almost mandatory.

The problems are:

* People who do become professors have spent years training to become good researchers, and very little (if any) time training to become good teachers. They're kind of expected to be pick it up along the way, which may or may not work well.

* Some people in academia still insist on the traditional idea that university should teach academic research and nothing else, and resist including anything that aims to better prepare students (and especially PhD students) for working in industry jobs, even though the vast majority of them will.

* There are some fields where there really are few job prospects outside academia, and logically those fields should have very few PhD students, or at least make it very clear to students that they need to have a Plan B that is really more Plan A. But Professors need PhD and postdoc students as cheap, qualified labor. Some unscrupulous professors try to attract students by giving them an unrealistic view of their prospects in academia. They probably don't even think they're lying: see the previous point. This kind of thing is probably most common in fields like literature which combine bad job prospects with being very popular.
A lot of industries are like that though, "up or out" being the usual description - not everyone in law becomes a partner at a decent firm but there is no shortage of lawyers.
The book "King Solomon's Ring" is by an Austrian naturalist with a few chapters on crows: quite amazing observations.
The view from within an insurance company: insurance fraud occurs across the spectra of socioeconomic statuses. Whether people file a small claim or make a fraudulent claim is driven mostly by their personality. Often those with more feel entitled to get more back from a claim.

The difference a claimant's personal situation & qualities makes to the claim is often via prejudices of the claims adjuster. Which is why we implement automated fraud detection to help identify those who otherwise appear "honest".
The way I remember early selfie culture is that it actually started in places like bathrooms and only spread to include location later. But those details do not matter, the real story is how bathrooms apparently became places of public representation.
I don't believe Harvard is choosing the wealthy kids and the legacies because they are most likely to succeed, I believe Harvard is choosing those people because they are most likely to have the highest ROI for the Harvard endowment & future donations. Someone from a low socio-economic status or otherwise marginalized background that has worked hard enough and smart enough by 17 or 18 to be a good candidate for admission at Harvard is an outstanding bet to have the determination to succeed later on in life.
Aren't you then acknowledging that as a result, tech now is more sexist than law and medicine?

If so, I can't see where we substantially disagree. As I've repeatedly said, I make no claims about why the gender balance shifted in law and medicine in the 60s. You appeared to suggest that this had nothing to do with levels of sexism. I'm skeptical of that claim (broader societal attitudes are important too, not just the sexism level of lawyers and doctors vs. the sexism level of scientists and engineers), but it's not as if either of us has actually researched this in detail.

The key point is that tech now is disproportionately sexist, as you appear to acknowledge.
To be clear, it's not a cookie problem. The web link "works" in that I can see more of the article but it still cuts off partway through. I assumed that they are providing a partial article for Google to index.
It's because LAX is too small to fit all the traffic. It's gridlocked in the entire airport at peak times. You can literally walk the entire terminal loop in 20 mins, it's like 4 lanes, and it gets the most traffic in America IIRC. It's the biggest airport clusterfuck in america.
How to Set Up a Firewall Using Iptables on Ubuntu 14.04
I am.
About 70% are technical books related to my job (SWE) and the rest are combination of textbooks and popular science in fields that I find very interesting.

If for some reason I lose interest in a book then I just stop reading it and don't mind if I don't remember anything from it.
Vapor lock was a thing in the time of carburetors.

This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
When is a browser going to just ditch the cruft and present something sensible?

Better still, ditch the UA string entirely. The only thing that will force website developers to write cross-browser compatible progressively enhanced websites and apps is being forced to detect features and test in all browsers instead of just whitelisting Chrome based on the User Agent.

User Agent strings are bad for the web.
https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...
The thing that killed the appeal of academic research for me was that I found I was playing the "publish or perish" game too well an it was actually making me (as someone observed at the time) "hyper cynical".

I like building stuff that people use, not writing papers about about how to build things that people will almost certainly never use.
The article is about OS ABI for applications (which Linux has), not internal OS ABI for drivers (which Linux hasn't).
LAX is a nightmare to drive to for dropping off passengers, though, so I'm actually fine with the policy here. It's the busiest origin and destination airport in the US so it has the most people entering and leaving landside.

If and only if there's a decent public transit alternative (train, metro, etc.) from the original terminal to the city then I really like cities that do this. That's rarely the case in the US and isn't at all at LAX, for now, but hopefully that will change within the decade.
I think a lot of the confusion comes from the fact that everybody defines "AI" differently.

To me, AI = self consciousness, anything less is just fancy ML.

If you ask the question "are we going to have self-conscious machines in 30 years" I would bet against it. If anyone has any reason to bet _for_ it, I'd like to hear those reasons :)
more like ~1978
They are referring to conda, which is a generic package manager, dependency resolution and build tool.
I imagine there's a big price difference between buying one mattress and buying a hundred of them.
> If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections.

There's a number of assumptions in that sentence that I 'd like to challenge:

a) That people act as rational beings and will at the next elections vote to their best interest.
b) That people have the information to gauge whether taxes/resources are spent wisely
c) That the main contributing factor to people's voting preferences is taxation or spending of resources
d) That there is a lack of disinformation campaigns that will actively try to sabotage both a) and b)
Indeed! From the article:

> In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received...

> This was a cool act by General Motors especially in this world of Internet when news can go viral in matter of seconds

From Snopes:

> This legend surfaced in print in 1978, but an anecdotal sighting places it even earlier than that, in 1971.
Interestingly, I used to be irreligious, but about a year and a half ago fell on the path of druidry (druidry.org for reference) through a series of realisations. I've never looked back. I guess I'm a minority of my generation.
> I decided it was illegal.

how did you somehow decide (unilaterally) it is illegal?
So you want to define your dependencies loosely or lock them?
It took me a while to be convinced to switch to in-folder venv but the benefits are

* VS Code configuration so much easier as you can point to the correct env using a relative path in settings.json and check that in

* Predictable paths to execute tasks / build

* No outside of development tree vens that you forget to clean up or forget to deactivate

* No different to node_modules, .git or similar when it comes to "polluting" the local project tree as you can .gitignore it
'I woke up with a black eye': readers on their mobile phone injuries
Maybe somebody does it like Rich Hickey, coming from C++, checking out CL for some time and then moving on. But it transformed him. The next generation may look at Clojure, check it out some time and then move on to design the next thing... it might then be helpful to understand where SOME (by far not all) of the ideas originally were coming from...
In theory you could automate generating the tiles, but you can't really automate downloading the dataset; it's enormous (hundreds of Go IIRC) and most of the time has to be checked by hand.
Actually when you drive a car, you have a lot more responsibility. It is easier to cause serious harm to someone while driving a multi-ton vehicle, than when riding a bike.
No windows support. No macos support. No "not-debian-based system" support.
Full article: https://outline.com/csC35C

I'm not sure if anyone is using PayPal for working with large amount of money, but their hidden fees, UI dark patterns and other gray stuff are making them suitable only for small shopping endeavors. For example, good luck figuring out exchange rate they are using for a given day.

If this regulation makes them to disclose all fees, I believe this will be good for us: users, developers and shop owners.

Other than that, their API and user support is still top notch comparing to alternatives, and by that I not mean alternatives that works in small number of regions (Stripe), but everywhere else. Beside, PayPal is already established brand; even grandmas in US, China or Africa knows what it is used for.
And nevertheless, plenty of faculty preach the belief that if you don't stay in academia, you are a failure.

At least that's the case in mathematics. People who leave academia are spoken of as if they are dead, which might as well be the case: most stop doing mathematics, attending conferences, keep connections with peers, etc.

This attitude has only began to change in the last decade.
It's not literally a low pass filter with a sinc function of course, that was an analogy. It's more like a gaussian smoothing. You're not going to get ringing in the temperature record...

Here's the direct quote again if you missed it above:

"We showed that no temperature variability is preserved in our reconstruction at cycles shorter than 300 years"
Receiving XML that is almost valid can be a real pain - it certainly used to be that some XML parsers didn't report some weird errors in a particularly helpful way requiring manual scrutiny.

I have unpleasant memories of trying to work out why some SOAP web service was breaking and it turned out the WSDL was invalid in a subtle way.
>They did the work

No, they didn't. If you think so, then any consultant writing whitepapers for McKinsey, PWC or whatever should have a PhD as well.

I'm not diminishing their effort or implying their content is not as interesting but a (serious) PhD is about the experience of doing the PhD. I know it sounds weird, but that's the best way I could put it in words.
On a slightly related note, I have to say I love the whole folklore website. It adds a really human face to the fascinating developments in IT at that time, and a lot of that I think comes from Andy Hertzfeld who tells a story really well.
In this case, the driver is supposed to mark the other passenger as a no show after 60 or 90 seconds. There's a timer that counts down on the driver app. Many drivers will wait longer, however.
I covered this in a response to another one of your comments, so I'll cut this thread short.
Direct addressing that way seems unfeasible, it would require a extending the IP stack to support direct addressing for it to work, and it already support 128 bit addresses. A far more feasible model is direct addressing through a unique IP, and we do not need a bigger address space for that.

That said, considering the current amounts of data Google holds, I could see the theoretical point about unique addressing every single byte they have. 64bit addressing only allow for a single order of magnitude of growth in that scenario.
This is a good article because it gives insight into how the scientific process works: nobody is "for" or "against" various dark matter hypotheses, an analysis that definitively supports either direction can be very interesting, and people who think a lot about dark matter often publish papers showing that various effects can't be due to it.

Actually, this is the default situation in our field, and it's a good one. The only issue is that typically only the "hottest" stuff get popular exposure, which usually means the most blaring declarations of discovery, like the hundreds of fifth force articles we just got hit with.

(My one minor complaint is that the headline by itself is misleading. The question is whether there is dark matter at the center of the Milky Way which also decays, leading to the signals mentioned in the article.)
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> Then this past August an anonymous reader left a comment on Tao’s blog. The commenter suggested trying to solve the Collatz conjecture for “almost all” numbers, rather than trying to solve it completely.

maybe a time traveller nudging a result that will be significant for humanity's future?
> Shipping 32-bit versions of frameworks also bloats the size of the OS and forces the OS to load a duplicate dyld shared cache.

Why not make the 32-bit runtime an optional download?
you are very wrong on this. Shares still matter very much, for reasons of legal ownership (each share has a value assigned to it, and can be sold as a discrete entity, a fraction of something does not), voting and share priority rules (who gets paid first in the event of bankruptcy) and when dealing with dilution, new issue and stock splits.

The entire legal system around equity investment is built around these concepts, and while you might take a different approach to the whole thing if you could "do a full re-write of the codebase", that's not really how laws work. There's also the fact that the same or very similar rules are applied worldwide, allowing like-for-like laws to apply cross borders. A Chinese share can be described by US laws. Do you know how hard it would be to toss all that global legal framework out and replace it with something else?

And you've not really explained why you think your system is better, either. I'd say the discrete units of shares that make ownership laws simpler are worth the hassle, on their own.
I'm already rereading the most valuable books and it does help to retain their knowledge.
I guess doing spaced repetition every x time would help even more.
I feel that rereading and to a larger extent spaced repetition are very wasteful.
There are plenty of companies offering hosted OSM Tile servers, or are willing to install the software on your server
Obviously I'm not going to test this myself, but I think the consequences of saying bad things about past work environment are less if you're leaving an industry altogether for a different career anyway. Or if you're asked by someone random like a journalist, who's not considering hiring you or telling the next recruiter.