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> As someone who watches the financial news, it almost feels more like baseball statistics...

If you hear a loud banging noise, don’t buy?
Beaked whales may evade killer whales by silently diving in sync
I'm pretty sure Clear only has a single build target. For example, their RPM repository[1], only has a single arch (x86_64) and a single RPM for each package. I think it is mostly that they (1) invested effort in maxing out the optimization flags for all the libraries (2) have a higher minimum CPU requirements (must support SSE 4.2, which was first released ~10 years ago).

But yes, I agree it would be nice if other distros had two amd64 releases; one that targeted newer hardware, and another for lowest-common denominator.

[1] https://cdn.download.clearlinux.org/releases/32250/clear/x86...
It would at least deter most people from acting on anger over feedback. Those who aren't dissuaded by the contract would have acted in anger even if they didn't receive feedback.
Yeah, it’s just more contagious than the flu, possibly has a mortality rate of 1-3% (20x - 50x higher than the flu), lands another 10-20% in the ICU, has infected tens of thousands of people already (likely many more), has overwhelmed medical infrastructure, and has prompted China to place 100 million people on lockdown and force their economy to grind to a halt to try and stop a global pandemic.

Yeah, it’s clearly nothing. What’s the big deal?
> 4) There is Sonos in both open-office areas and people are pretty good about not hogging it or playing obnoxious/too-loud music

Yikes. that sounds awful for focus-time.
How is the thermal expansion coefficient of steel relevant? Wouldn't you use quartz for the mirror, which has an expansion coefficient more than two orders of magnitude smaller?[1] The James Webb telescope has a 6.6m wide primary mirror, but it's actually composed of 18 1.3m hexagonal segments.[2] (Unfortunately, I can't find any sources for the material used.)

The Hubble telescope was launched in 1990. It was, presumably, at the bleeding edge of modern engineering. 30 years later it shouldn't be unthinkable that commercial engineering could achieve something comparable at a fraction of the cost, not to mention all the improved methods for compensating for defects and utilizing smaller, more easily manufactured components. Similar advancements are what have made cheap launches possible.

Yes, the engineering required for these things is still amazing. But that doesn't imply it's still as expensive. Plus, there's more private wealth. Maybe crowd sourcing isn't practical, but I'd think universities could easily achieve this if the motivation was there. Nobody thought launch costs could be reduced as much as SpaceX has achieved. All it took was a highly motivated person. Musk didn't invent any new technology; like many industrialists he simply recognized the technology was already there or at least on the cusp, and assembled the assets to make it happen.

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/thexp.html

[2] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqScientists.ht...
We all agree that climate changes. What we are trying to find out is how much humans impact that. You have to show that humans are impacting the trend and causing it to deviate from its baseline for a long enough duration. We are in one of the coolest periods in the last 65m years. [1] The curve-fitting is misleading because too many scientists are attempting to make projections using truncated data.

The earth had ice caps about half the time over the last 500m years. Melting and re-glaciation are normal processes. [2]

Let's talk about sea level. Since emerging from the last glacial period, sea levels have been rising for the past 8k-10k years, steadily. There has been no deviation during human industrialization from this trend. When we're shown graphs going back 50-100 years, the fact that this is within trend is conveniently omitted. [3]

The data showing that the climate is behaving abnormally or out of trend is sparse at best. At worst, we don't really have it. What we're working off of is the hypothesis that co2 affects the climate in a meaningful and measureable way--this is what climate models are trying to show. However, thus far the models have struggled to make accurate predictions. [4]

We can go back to ice core samples. We see that current co2 levels are measuring much higher than previously in the ice cores. It seems like this would be a major clue but the methods of measurement are different. The data obtained is not fully reliable. However, let's assume they're reliable. Then it does not explain why temperates are failing to deviate from historical trends in a way related to these samples with regard to the measurements made today. [5]

In the last 65m years, solar luminence increases brought about by the constant increases of heavier elements in the sun notwithstanding, we find ourselves in one of the coldest periods. Current temps are measuring lower than in previous 100k year cycles which means we will either warm further or that this is an extra-cold period out-of-trend.

Most importantly, as mentioned before, the models built off of co2 levels are doing a poor job with their predictive power. For a final thing to think about, consider some of the best data we have about historical temperates (bucketed logarithmic scale) and realize that we are nowhere near out of trend [6] and that the two rightmost data points are not actual, yet rather predictions made by models we've already established to be incomplete.

I work in the field. The fact that I have to make a throwaway account and toe the line in my profession should say enough about how hard it is to have this conversation without regurgitating dogma.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/wwaOQz0.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/KYw9DCK.png
[3] https://i.imgur.com/UTaqhXl.png
[4] https://i.imgur.com/nizfzQS.png
[5] https://i.imgur.com/7nZ50Gb.png
[6] https://i.imgur.com/b9DBMr1.png
According to EMH, all information is subsumed into the price. As such, how could the huge 2018 Christmas drop affect future returns?
And providing feedback is very likely to hurt your reputation. One major company did give me feedback, and I've made fun of them endlessly for it - they explained that the manager loved me, I did great on systems design and architecture, but I couldn't pass the hiring committee because I didn't do well enough on tree traversal tricks.
Metasurface performs the mathematical operations necessary for edge detection
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259563, which has the source this article points to.
> its infectious rate

Do you have numbers or a source for that?
There are good companies, but perhaps not good large companies (i.e. "no one got rich by being the good guy").
Also, perhaps more importantly, there are better companies (i.e. even if no one were to be perfect, you can still aim for the best).
The upcoming, ubiquitous next gen codec, JPEG XR is heavily influenced by FLIF and is co-created by it's founder.
Using the commonly understood definition of a word is not nitpicking.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not snarky ones. Maybe you don't owe $BIGCO better but you owe this community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Neither of those links are working for me right now... first one is “not found” and second one is “doesn’t exist”
Your definition is so simple. So clear. So absolute.

Nearly everyone is capable of self reflection. To think that an individual is categorically incapable of it is to deny them their humanity.
I'm hopeful that adaptive optics and computational imaging techniques can help here
The old chestnut goes: People that give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Which secure elements are you concerned about, and please be specific? Is replacing the screen putting you at risk? How about the charging chip?

This is really infuriating, but maybe we get what we deserve - you can literally take away people's essentials rights to do with their property as they see fit, and they will cheer for it!
This, I find, is a good overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cRU3_XaM0
I've definitely interviewed green candidates and would be very happy to interview them again in a few years. (This is going to be more true in companies with more selective hiring bars)

Regardless, brand matters as well. You want candidates to have good experiences even if they are rejected as they will talk to peers about company x
While weight is a factor in professional car racing, and while I've built a go-kart that is significantly lighter in weight than a professional racing car, it is not a particularly impressive achievement that I have managed to do so, and I wouldn't think to criticize a race team for the weight of their vehicle.
Actions needed to address cybersecurity risks facing the electric grid (2019) [pdf]
If they blab their mouth on social media and it goes viral they've already done the damage before you could serve court papers. Why even bother with the risk?
> In a product liability lawsuit, everyone gets sued all the way up and down the supply chain.

Everyone gets named initially, yes -- I've been named as a defendant in a lawsuit myself because I was in the supply chain involved with a product liability suit.

But very early on, the defendants make the case to the judge about why they shouldn't be part of the lawsuit. That's what happened with me. It took about a month and cost me a couple of grand in attorney's fees.

In a case such as what is being posited here, that's precisely what Apple would do, too.
Lots of overhead to set up but minimal marginal cost to deploy for multiple use cases and audiences.

It wouldn't surprise me if scammers package their strategy/toolsuite and resell the mechanism to other scammers. Ticket brokers bot networks do this.
Thank you for sharing these stories of your travels. I enjoyed the rich details of your personal experience in that part of the world, things I would have never heard or read about otherwise.
Ouch. Talk about adding insult to injury (or, at least, mild inconvenience). At least in my case, they scheduled the call, which avoids being woken up or otherwise interrupted, but prolongs the agony a little.
I use this to store archives of scanned documents. The last thing I want is to scan something only to later find some subtle image artifact corruption (remember that case of copy machines modifying numbers by swapping glyphs?). I store checksums and a static flif binary along with the archive. It's definitely overkill, but a huge win compared to stacks of paper sitting around.

My intuition was informed by choosing FLAC for my music collection ~15 years ago, and that working out fantastically. If a better format does come along, or if I change my mind, I can always transcode.
That happens often in the current leetcode climate though. Forgetting a trick could be all to takes to cause a rejection
I believe that the allure of being in an Internet mob is that it inverts the traditional monarch-subject power structure. Normally the crowd must cower before the individual King... in an Internet mob you can take even the highest status individual and make him cower before your crowd.
> Not sure what world you live in. I went to a state school where a number of people worked on instruments for Cassini.

Good for you. I went to a small private school where such things were a pipedream, and I expect in poorer countries than the USA the outlook is even bleaker for universities sending hardware to space.

> Not sure what politicians get elected over NASA projects in the last 40 years. Maybe for cutting their budget.

Are you seriously claiming that space pork doesn't exist?

I mean, e.g. Richard Shelby hasn't come out and said "I use my political clout to shackle science and exploration missions to the SLS because it is an economic boon to my constituency at the general expense of the American taxpayer", but if you have eyes to read between the lines it's not a difficult leap to make.
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The coronavirus quarantine was no problem for this determined Chinese runner
Chris Bosh, oft-derided for "riding the coattails" of Lebron and Dwyane Wade* funded a number of coding schools and studied CS at Georgia Tech. His parents had him coding at an early age as well.

(*Chris Bosh is a Hall of Fame player and maybe the most underrated big man of the last decade. Happy to debate. LOL)

Kevin Durant spent his time in the Bay Area investing in startups and learning how the tech world worked in SV.

More and more athletes are thinking of life-after-the-sport, but just as many are also seeing themselves as businessmen DURING their careers. The biggest names want to build iconic brands, and not just brands that focus on their personal identities. Podcasts, streaming services, energy drinks, athletic gear, music, film production, technology. Young smart men (mostly) flush with cash who have been coached on the cautionary tales of the late 90's and'00s where players received mega-contracts and were broke within 5 years (see: Vince Young, Antoine Walker, Andre Rison)

One last story: I used to work in the hosting/infrastructure world and an early colleague was a very early employee at RAX. Once told me a story that Gregg Popovich (coach) and David Robinson (HOF player) of the San Antonio Spurs each put $1M into RAX when they were still doing seed investments from friends, family and connections. He told me that if both men liquidated their shares at IPO, even with the 20% dip that happened quite quickly, their individual take would have each been more than Robinson made as an NBA player in his entire career ($112M).
I'm sorry, but how do you literally shut down a country? Hyperbole much?
Really? I've rarely not gotten feedback on rejection - some companies outright issue it, though for most I have to ask.

On accepts never because people worry about awkward future colleague relationships.
Qualcomm networking chips mostly have open-source drivers, which are mostly upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel releases. So there's nothing really holding back kernel versions on that hardware, other than the regular maintenance burden of keeping a Linux distro up to date—which few OEMs are interested in doing. Broadcom by contrast is less friendly to open-source, and their closed-source drivers can preclude kernel updates.
JPEG XL is either lossy compression for large pictures, or something named by people who suck at branding.
The challenge isn't figuring out how you or I personally would deliver feedback, given time to plan it out and a good set of feedback to deliver. The challenge is establishing a process that ensures everyone at the company will always do it, even when the real reason is something like "meh I'm not sure the candidate quite clears our bar".
"Clojure for the Brave and True" is just one of the many (matter of fact I just checked on Amazon - there are over 50 books on Clojure, I stopped counting at 50, I don't know how many more out there)

And that's probably the only book that recommends setting up Emacs. It was published in 2015. Back then maybe the argument about tooling made sense, but honestly, have you looked around lately?

Every major editor today can be set up for Clojure programming.
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Me too, except the venue your personal household and the representation in the heart of your wife, whom I consider an attractive upgrade to mine.

Or are there conditions here you're omitting that distinguish heroism from banditry? I say I am entitled to my franchise, sir!
> I'm going to order a copy of "The Mythical Man-Month" for Boeing

too late. Boeing is already deep in Agile, a methodology which promises that a child can be delivered by the way of 9 incremental monthly deliveries.

https://www.infosysconsultinginsights.com/2019/06/12/the-ris...

"Boeing was an early Agile adopter in 2008 surpassing its rival, Airbus, in 2012 by deploying a newly renovated 737 Max 8 faster to market.

[...]

The 2008 article Boeing Frontiers- Goin’ Agile by Doug Cantwell from Boeing describes how Boeing, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, created an Agile lab to move changes to the aircraft to market it faster, cutting down flight test times from months to days.
"
Generally, people don't interview for fun.
But the vast majority of our primary and secondary school funding comes from local property taxes, no? That creates situations where wealthy districts have excess resources, while poorer districts are artificially limited.

Something as simple as bundling up school funds to the state level and redistributing similar per-pupil funds back to districts might help to close the gap - with no change in total expenditure.
I'm concerned about this virus. Most people I talk to (in the UK) think it's being over-hyped but I can't help but think it's being under-played.

The virus seems, in my completely inexpert assessment, to occupy a sort of sweet spot in a terms of virulence, mortality and incubation period, for wreaking maximum damage.

Based on its current trajectory I can't see any reason to believe the whole of the world won't be affected on the same scale as Wuhan at some point this year.

Am I right to be concerned, and if so what should I be doing about it?
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A thread from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387495
Just making the point that people can't live their values through these giant corporations. This has been proven time and again. Maybe that was a better way to word it.
You have a business relationship with everyone you have a relationship with - you're a business. You're burning bridges with people in your industry - why?
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Instead of invading shops and force them, Apple could offer repair shops some opt-in certification. This would distinguish them from the competition and give its customers peace of mind that they are "certified by Apple".

Same thing in the end but everyone is happier.
Because that’s allowing risk adverse mentalities to prevent companies from innovating in their hiring processes to build a more transparent and improved culture of hiring, and a chance to differentiate themselves from competitors with a reputation of good interviewing practices?
If I were an emacs user, I'd figure out how to write a plugin to display tab-indented code to my preferences.

No, I used to be a notepad user (on personal projects, not shared work) (you can kinda see it in the use of indentation to help convey information that IDEs would use font or colour to emphasize), and these days use tabs but longingly wish Eclipse, etc. had more options in their already-massive formatting configuration dialogues.
What do you recommend? Starting your own company only works for a small subset of ppl ofc so I'm assuming you mean something else
In our case, it's not an iron-clad no feedback allowed policy. We're just much more careful about giving it, approval is given on a case-by-case basis.

A good typical whiteboard interview naturally includes hints, feedback, and collaboration. After several hours of it, we have a very good idea of how well they may respond to feedback from members of our organization.

Honestly, I love giving feedback. I love helping candidates be better at interviewing. Bad interviews are painful to the interviewer too. I'm out of a small market so people and word gets around.

If it really isn't their fault they didn't get the job, we try to make that very very clear. It really sucks when we have to pass up on someone who absolutely killed the interview because someone else did better.

The harsh reality is, many people that don't pass on the interview are people we do not want in the industry. The good ones we give every hint and help we can.

There's also more tactical ways of extracting feedback from companies rather than directly asking for it. We can't tell you about how you did well after rejection, but we can talk about what our expectations are during the interview; put two and two together. I've noticed the good candidates that are serious about improving their interviewing do it, and from the company side, it's a strong signal they're not trying to contest a decision.

Food for thought, when was the last time you gave a company feedback on their interview process? I've traded feedback for feedback quite successfully many times when I was interviewing.
But you need one family member in the US for you to pull in the rest, and the first one tends to have

> unique skills, high levels of education, and a fair amount of money in their home country
Sounds fairly similar to Musk's Starship "Earth to Earth" plan [0]. Though he was actually talking about sending humans too, not just packages.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
Noticed the same thing with some finance companies too (mostly those that are known to be tech-strong, however). Got some of the most detailed and useful feedback throughout my years of interviewing from those.
That is so untrue. I personally have seen people learning Clojure. Absolute beginners with no programming experience and mature, seasoned pros. It is much simpler even than Python and Javascript and a lot more simpler than Java or C++.
I'm not familiar with Tk, and how well that works, but there are a lot of things a good GUI should do -- just think of databinding and such - it's very far from trivial to develop something that looks really good on all platforms, is easy to use, uses modern concepts (MVVM), and has decent language bindings (c#, c++, java)
I've always wondered, do you connect it to the cold water supply? How would this work in the winter where cold water can be really cold?
You should definitely look at advances in the field then. There a lot more promising work beyond grad cam. And there are a few techniques for human oriented explanations - namely TCAV (human oriented explanations) and PatternNet/PatternAttribution as well as contrastive LRP (in terms of much more informative heatmapping techniques which are dependent on intermediate layers as well.)
The cynical among us can view this as an opportunity to invest in honey.

Clearly the bigger problem is that bees are one of a kind pollinators, without them we will probably starve in large numbers. But I wish my grandchildren would have the opportunity to taste real honey - unprocessed, unfiltered, unpasteurized with the amazing texture.

Luckily for us, honey has an almost indefinite shelf life, if stored properly (basically kept in a sealed jar, in a cool dark place). I have tasted honey that was at least 70 years old and despite the weird colour (almost black), it tasted just fine.
I see a lot of similarities to the tobacco industry. The consumption of an unhealthy product is being marketed as a way to “slow down” from the stress of the day and being more mindful.
Sports Illustrated had a great article about why athletes go broke: https://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-at...

It seems that many athletes do realize their timeframe and try to invest so they have money afterward. Unfortunately, many make bad investments. Many athletes like the concreteness of investing in a business where you know the people, over the abstractness of putting money into an index fund, though the first comes with a lot higher risk than the second. Many times they are preyed upon by unscrupulous business people because of this.
Thermald is relatively new (Intel made) fan modulation system designed mostly to

(1) keep boost frequencies running as long as possible.

(2) keep your fan from constantly turning off and on.

Your system has its own fan speed curve & power envelope that works no matter what the system is doing. Not having thermald does not somehow cause your system to overheat (for example many AMD systems aren't support)

Turning thermald off is Intel signally that they have an on-silicon/in-kernel/in-EFI/partner guidance method that now does as equal or better job.