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> Well, let's back up a minute for the folks missing context. Recently there have been a spate of blog posts of folks claiming that their pet language is "faster than C" by implementing a feature-incomplete version of the wc utility and running a single benchmark to demonstrate superiority.

I believe they are well aware of the limitations that have been shown in these recent benchmarks, and that it doesn't in fact demonstrate superiority in any way.
Still quite a tease. I can’t say that I particularly like this style of reporting.
That sounds like a cool idea. Sadly, I tried it from my current (moderately rural) location and discovered the shortcomings of its knowledge of the local map. Best route is to run around the neighborhoods, but it doesn’t know that there’s a few foot paths connecting the roads making that possible. First, it suggested running along the highway (it sees the river and bike path and doesn’t realize there’s no sidewalk or walking path). Attempt 2 suggested starting out by running up the steepest hill in the area (ok, this is often unavoidable). Attempt 3 was mostly reasonable, except for the lovely jog at the end through the local manufacturer’s gated parking lot (they own both sides of aforementioned river, so the map sees water, and doesn’t realize that you’ll only see office buildings and asphalt). So the algorithm seemed to be fair, but the local map information was rather poor.
Fascinating, Lebanon isn't exactly where I would want to be spending a lot of time right now with the political upheaval but I guess if you're maybe fearing extradition and long prison sentences abroad it's a perfect place to hunker down and engage in legal battle after legal battle to stop any extradition or punishment until you die or a settlement is reached.
Thanks for pointing out, should be "over 500k annually"
This doesn't conflict with what I said. A public reference is something he can approve, and sure, he can tweet his own words.
This kind of post always makes me happy and sad.

On the one hand, devs should feel empowered to read licenses, get their hands dirty, and choose for themselves. I like seeing more of that.

On the other hand, this is way too complicated. This author's needs and goals aren't rare. They're exceedingly common.
It's really perfect given the S is silent in the name. He really is Ghon now
It doesn’t matter per se that it isn’t 7x better. What matters is that there is nothing else that would improve your experience more for extra $95 you spent on your keyboard.
> Without MCAS the MAX loses the 737 type rating and becomes a commercial failure.

Does it fail? I will grant you this: 1) A significant number of people would refuse to fly it. 2) Pilots would need to be trained to the new type. 3) There would have to be more simulators constructed to handle the training load, and the airlines would likely force Boeing to bay for that.

OTOH: All the 737 ground equipment and gates and so forth will work perfectly fine. It seems to me that with suitable discounts, it would sell through. Not an easy sale, certainly.

Does the 737MAX really become an economic loser?
How did it fail you as a queue?

Did you use it successfully as something else?
You say that like it's a bad thing!

I don't think taking the human all the way out of the loop is a great idea given the state of models we've seen to date (in medicine, anyway).

I think a better direction would be looking at how to make these systems more complementary with human operators, surfacing interesting features or distant connections humans tend to miss and guarding against the big errors anyone might make staring at grayscale images on the night shift.
I can't edit this post anymore, please remove "000" for each number you see here related to imported car stats, gasoline numbers are correct.
If you could reduce the cost by increasing the productivity of radiologists, we'll be doing lots more and be getting better outcomes. This should be a win-win.
I reliably get restless leg syndrome when there is a blue LED left on in an adjacent room with its light leaking in to my bedroom. Other triggers: too much caffeine late in the day and dehydration.

The yellow LEDs in the room don't bother me when I forget to turn the device off. And the red clock projected onto my ceiling doesn't bother me either.

I used to sleep fine with blue LEDs though, so maybe it's just different for different people, ages, environments, and/or other factors.
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It might be that we're not hearing about other cases.

I have around 20K miles on my Model 3 and so far haven't dealt with any service/maintenance. I took the car to les schwab to make sure the tires are good, and that's been it.

Shit happens to cars, they're usually the most complicated piece of technology the average person owns. It takes time to perfect a production line and service line, but Tesla really needs to have a perfect support line and it's unfortunate they don't.
I normally hate everything NNT has to say and especially the way he says it, but on this matter we are in agreement.
Liberte+seu+Android and-+FSFE
> and have a conscious or unconscious agenda to preserve or validate their life’s work

this is depressing, means I have to second-guess if I have found a cause to spend energy on
There’s been some issues related to recalls on EPS. An excerpt below is from a 2015 GM truck recall:

“Recalled products do not contain the updated software that mitigates the effect of the condition. When the system voltage drops below 8.8 volts for more than 1 second — e.g., during low-speed turns — EPS assist is disabled”

Honda has had similar recalls.

I don’t know if that can be used to claim software caused the initial hazard but does indicate software is used to mitigate safety issues with the implication that software failures can lead directly to hazards
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For another recent example, check the complaints about the latest redesign of the once-great Weather Underground app on Android:

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

If memory serves, this app used to have a 4.5+ rating, now it's down to 3.2.

I did find the old 5.10.1 version of the app with a search for "download wunderground android", so I installed that and have a usable app again. Until they make some server change that breaks it.
Not being able to overcome the fact that a lot of people are technically better than me, after 10 years in the field.

You know how bad people feel after they go on Facebook and look at how beautiful their friends' lifestyle is, without realizing it's all fake? Well, that's how I routinely feel when I browse HN, except that the work on HN is not fake, is way too real.

I see people posting brilliant work, work that is very much related to my field and that I should be able to come up with myself, and instead I barely comprehend.

It then gets worse: I navigate to their personal blog, and find hundreds of incredibly well-crafted articles about a wide range of topics. For example, just today from a front HN link I jumped to a personal blog of an engineer who was writing impressively deep thoughts about unit testing, dependency injection, Go, Java, hardware, architecture, backend, frontend, performance, ... Very, very thoughtful posts. I would not be able to reflect so deeply on those topics, even if I am relatively familiar with them. I have no other choice than believing I am stupid, at least in comparison to such person.

It then gets worse one more time: I look them up on LinkedIn, infer their age and see that they are younger than me, and that they were holding a demanding full time job all along, while writing those incredible articles and producing that amazing work on the side.

And it's not even that I could work harder. I literally cut 90% of my recreational activities: I don't have a TV, I don't watch Netflix, Youtube, games, I completely ignore news, I don't read novels, I don't have kids to take care of, ...

Every day after work I read technical books/articles until I go to bed. The only things I do non-related to my professional development are going to the gym regularly, and spending quality time with my girlfriend a few hours on weekends. But, I would say that on a given week I routinely put 70-80 hours on my professional development (including my full time job), so I couldn't do more than this without it affecting my mental and physical health.
At some point, for people optimizing things at large scale, it's possible they will want to look at these round reductions, and the type of education needed to make this kind of judgement call goes way beyond "nobody got fired for choosing IBM"...
Things are a little weird for sure:

"It is unclear whether the carmaker’s former chairman has jumped bail in Japan ... he was not allowed to see his Lebanese wife without being granted special permission...

The terms of Mr Ghosn’s detention meant he could leave his flat while on bail, but he was followed by three agencies — the police, prosecutors and a private detective."[1]

Hopefully the picture will become clearer in the days to come.

[1]https://www.ft.com/content/e0330dbe-2b45-11ea-a126-99756bd8f...
Old Nero-ophthalmologist diagnosed me with Sjogrens because I mentioned my symptoms always improved for several weeks following a round of antibiotics. He has noticed that’s a common trend in Sjogrens patients.
He’s never heard of the marshal protocol, just something He had noticed.

Can’t find a single doctor that will take the infection theory seriously.
a Year later I can’t get a prescription to even try it.

My vit D is very low. Modern med just say take supplement.
Mars shall protocol says that’s just feeding the infection. Supposedly bacteria loves vit D.

Love to find a doctor that doesn’t automatically dismiss me for bringing it up.
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As in my last sentence, even just mostly automating the cases with negative results for low-risk patients would improve throughout and efficiency quite a bit.

Yes, I agree it should be another, yet increasingly important tool for a while. Perhaps not until a near-AGI is invented that machines can completely automate away doctor jobs.
What do you think Syd would think of the future we are currently receiving?
Not sure, but it's not like he's claiming academic privilege.

I see more EO Wilson in what follows than Dawkin's anyway... We're all in a big ant colony, even if we don't realize it day to day, etc.
Lebanon is a country of multiple realities. What is reported on in the media and most people's perception is that it's a dangerous country in the middle East and everything is falling apart.

The truth always lies somewhere in the middle.

The country is, as nassim taleb would say, anti fragile. It survives and pockets of people thrive despite...

Also, don't be surprised if ghosn becomes the next president. Who knows if his sudden appearance in the country may be because of this. His name has been shortlisted in the past.
52% of their business in 2018 came directly from China. I suspect China also supported them with additional spending in 2019 (for this headline).

11% of their business came from other south pacific countries (which they have a large stake in)

6% from the Americas.

30% of their revenue came from Europe-Africa-Middle East, which is the real "battle ground" for them.

https://www.huawei.com/us/press-events/annual-report/2018
Just look at the 1st world trending hashtag on Twitter right now: #ItsOkayToBeWhite

This is what I am talking about.
The author works for an IoT company (Teserakt AG) that is probably working on doing crypto on very processor constrained embedded/battery powered hardware.

Crypto that is cheaper to run or weaker algorithms being more widely accepted would help them sell their solution.

That this is not added as a disclaimer is rather dishonest.
Another data point - Ctrl was also in the same place (where caps lock is today) on the Apple ][ keyboards. There was no Caps Lock key at all.
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I would say 'plug and chug' applied problems don't work for anyone, past the first couple. At risk of anecdote: I like solving puzzles as much as anyone[1] but the purer side wasn't a puzzle to me because there is no purpose, no picture to be pieced together[2].

[1] Back to the original topic, chemistry interestingly inverts its approach with organic chem - a class in puzzle solving that often frustrated premeds trying to memorize their way through.

[2] I don't mean that the problem was open-ended, e.g. research but rather that it didn't exist. Most of my math education hasn't been trying to prove P=NP (or other easier puzzles) but demonstrating specific transformations (e.g. here are the rules for integration, after a trivial treatment of the proof). imo something like an intro to algorithms in highschool or early college would have do more for both the uninterested and the gifted than "integration, but with 1 more dimension!"
Toronto doesn’t have that many separated and the ones I’ve been on have scared me more than riding on a street without any marking. I guess experiences my vary.
The Western pronunciation of his name is completely butchered. It's really more like "rrosson" in Arabic...
Sanctions are a means to enforce either one nation's will--or the standards of the global community--without resorting to open war.

Let us hope sanctions don't fall apart as a tool, lest we end up with a much less pleasant tool: war.
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I live in a Chinese dominated country. I can tell you this is because of the absurd nationalistic view that the Chinese hold. For example, I know atleast 5 co-workers who sold their iPhones to get a Huawei when the sanction was made. Part of the reason was Huawei phones' prices (even new ones) drastically dropped when the announcement of no more Android support was made, so these guys (and girls) got it at a super good price, but most of it is due to the nationalistic view that they hold towards China. "US is evil, I should support China at such times!" this was the explanation I was given. I was blown away that people could be so nationalistic. I'm neither Chinese nor American, so it was interesting to observe from a neutral standpoint, such nationalistic attitude from people who held double degrees / PhDs who simply believed US is evil and China is the victim. This was very noticeable when Huawei's CFO was arrested. I tried to understand why, so I threw many arguments at them such as Huawei was actually caught sending data back to 3rd party servers in China and I even tried explaining maybe the sanction is on them because they broke the law/agreement w/ the US. But it didn't seem to change anything about the way they thought. They still went ahead and purchased Huawei products like crazy.
I mean, I love Matebook Pro.
How about just generate and serve static pages? Aren’t most apps on Netlify and serverless doing this now?
So what if IT folks are not the ones you would choose for “key leadership positions”? Maybe they understand something that you, and most other engineers don’t. At half the places I worked at as a sysadm or IT engineer I had access to pay bands, vendor contracts, etc. I was never impressed.

All that I saw was a lot of people fighting very hard over a very marginal and pathetic amount of money, equity, and status, while we wrote yet another multi-million dollar check to some shitty consulting firm in Eastern Europe.

You may think that we’re out of the game, but the truth is we understand it in a way you could hardly imagine.
AB5: Who is there to advocate for regular software developers?
As a software developer consultant who is being badly hit by AB5, it struck me how established entities and professions with clout were able to get exclusions for their members (dentists, ieee members etc). It struck me that absolutely no powerful entity exists for software developers - I don't necessarily mean a union, just no one , powerful, professional body to advocate in a situation like AB5. The tech companies were absolutely silent, and everyone else was looking after their own.
Nah, there is only so much $ the CPC can throw at them.
People advocating putting sensitive data on blockchains in encrypted form do not understand this.
is this satire? or are you serious because you should get some help
> That ONE Tesla failed with fewer than 6,000 miles is not surprising or remotely concerning.

Yeah, it "just happened" to be one owned by Car and Driver. If they are seeing this sort of failure with review models, you can be sure that the real failure rate is big.
Not long ago, we trusted RC4 and DES. We didn't laugh back in the 1980s and 1990s. But those would be crazy to use now.

We can cringe 20 years out about ECC, RSA and AES.
I live in India and not a big fan of China but I purchased a Huawei phone recently. I think Huwei benefited from the publicity they got through US campaign against them.
First, give yourself some credit. You have some good experience with interesting languages and 2 more years of it than I typically see. Nobody in this industry has any idea how to hire.

Second, have you asked for and/or received any feedback from these rejections? They typically tell you why they decided to pass on you.
Generally speaking, the longer the half-life, the less dangerous (in terms of radioactivity) something is. Also, pl239 primarily emits alpha particles, which are stopped by clothing and don't penetrate skin. Maybe a real physicist can chime in, but I don't think there's much risk of standing around subcritical quantities of the stuff.

The chemical toxicity is a different matter though.
I remember reading about him in Brazil while I was graduating. He is definitely born in Brazil, but I think he has another citizenship too. Wikipedia says

>is a Brazilian-born French businessman of Lebanese ancestry.

And

>Nationality French–Lebanese–Brazilian
Rust has a really good package manager, so it's pretty standard for projects to depend on a lot of things just from that.
I’ll never leave my kinesis keyboard. It has multiplied how useful my thumbs are by placing more useful keys near them than just space (but including space). It’s great for rsi too
Your car has a definite design flaw. Other cars. You can be killed doing everything right. And 1000s of people are every year in the us.
Well, in this case the remote server would be your phone. The switching part would be plugging it in.
I remember being surprised at how quickly the Panama papers blew over. Earlier this year I went and did some cursory reading on their contents, and it's doubly surprising. The lengths to which people will go are stunning, people who evidently have the ability to earn vast sums honestly, to keep a fraction of their earnings from the taxman.
There are reasons why this is probably not a good idea.

1. Even the best tests have a chance that the scan will produce a false positive. If we indiscriminately test everyone for every disease under the sun, most of the findings will be false positives.

2. The benefit must outweigh the cost of the test. Both in terms of expense, and intrinsic factors such as radiation exposure.

3. Certain things that show up in a scan would never cause a problem if they were just left alone. In these cases detecting it early has little benefit, and may lead to unnecessary interventions.

4. If a cure is not available, testing for the disease may not always be appropriate, from an ethics point of view.
52% domestic, the rest heavily subsidized exports (essentially CCP giving out networking infra for free around the world).

Rate of growth slower than expected, according the the article.
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As shown in my references above, Ro60, a potentially causal autoantigen for Lupus and Sjogren's has been linked to commensal bacteria. The study is published in Science Translational Medicine, which is a high end journal, and quite conservative. Plus other studies have reproduced equivalent results.

So these doctors should both update their knowledge and also give you the benefit of doubt.

There is a growing network of doctors that treat multiple sclerosis with high vitamin D doses. Look for the Coimbra Protocol. They also deal with other autoimmune patients. While their protocol is quite experimental, and it poses some safety concerns, it might be helpful to get in touch with more open minded MDs.

Vitamin D influences so many immune pathways. I tend to think most of the effect comes from altering T regulatory / effector ratios. Others argue for regulation of HLA elements. Irrespective of that, low vitamin D is a big risk factor for many autoimmune disorders so I would question that statement.
Yes, I'll be really interested to see what happens in Europe in particular as the US has longer term relationships with governments and others there and you would think this would lead to fewer contracts (at least on the govt/large company front). That said, many of my colleagues in Europe even though they know about Huawei's potential transfer of data to China and are no fans of the Chinese government still choose their phones based on price and many of the countries I visit (Kyiv, France, etc.) have nice Huawei showrooms and seem to be doing good business.

When asking colleagues about why they would choose Huawei aside from price (all of them could afford Apple if they wanted) the common response I got was that everyone is spying on everyone anyways and usually a joke about is China really any worse than the U.S.
The obsolete NSA Skipjack algorithm was the epitome of having just enough rounds. It has 32 rounds. It was declassified in 1998 and within months, attacks on 31 of 32 rounds were published. However, there are still no attacks against 32 round Skipjack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(cipher)
It would have been nice to have US manufacturer of Android phones, not only iOS devices. Sadly, no such thing existed (Google Pixel is not what I meant).
How many Google employees know Google just contributed $5000 to Devin Nunes?
Expecting something is not a promise, just an attitude they want to have towards it at the moment. I think you are also confusing who is even in a position to promise what. Kernel is not an OS people can use, but only something an OS (distro) itself can use and, given the license, in any way it wants. And so kernel cannot promise or force ABI compatibility or anything really on behalf of any OS that uses it. It's up to the OS, but OSes modify kernels, backport things, build with various ABIs and so on. Look for example at the mess around x32 ABI, some distros had it, some didn't, some had it and dropped it, some had and promised ABI compatibility for some time, but Linus wants to drop it from the kernel (don't know if he actually did it), so they are in a pickle. Read RedHat's application compatibility guide if you want an example on what the best a linux distro can promise wrt ABI compatibility.
This whole essay seems kinda rambling to me. Chemistry does have some issues today, but it's mainly due to whom the audience for the Chemistry is meant for. For example, it seems for a long time, Chemistry classes have been used to weed people out of majors who aren't really committed to the sciences/engineering. Gen Chem and O Chem both have been used for this. I think the authors issue may be that he's not a Chem major, and most of the information that is being given to him was not useful for his major or seemed to lack coherence to him. And if you aren't a Chem major, I can see this. But if you are a Chem major, then everything you learn in Gen Chem will be useful to you in all of your other Chem courses. I see it being addressed now a bit more than when I was in college. For example, you will see more O Chem courses that are being directed at Bio type majors versus an O Chem class that is directed at a Chem major. I think this is a good thing, most Bio majors probably won't need as rigorous a course in O Chem as a Chem/BioChem major would.
Interesting. Will try your challenge