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- Node.js development. 10 years of experience.

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- Python development. 10 years of experience.

- Devops with ansible. 5 years of experience, including plugin development and AWS provisioning and management.

- Since a couple of years I have been working more and more with Common Lisp, Haskell and F# on some projects.

Based on my current workload, I am available for 10 hours per week for the next couple of months and then more later.

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But under the tree? That was the assertion...
We're not talking about Boeing, we're talking about economic systems, with Boeing being an example. @jp555's comment addressed economic systems that "force no profits." @spamizbad then states "forcing profits is bad too," using Boeing as an example. My comment clarified that our system (in which Boeing exists) does not "force profits" (as distinguished from @jp555's example of a system that "forces no profits"). Our system allows profit-seeking companies as well as non-profit-seeking companies. The fact that Boeing feels compelled to earn a profit is a by-product of the financing arrangement by which Boeing was created. Nothing about our system would have prevented Boeing from having been founded as a non-profit.
What is your role in the company?

Can you "stop them"?
I think you've just been talking past me then, and not really responding.
> I doubt anyone would buy a 12k mobo from someone off the street. In fact, I doubt anyone would accept a _free_ 12k mobo from someone off the street - if you need that kind of hardware, the risk of questionable sourcing is probably higher than the cost the board.

Well someone just tried to sell one on Amazon... no idea if it stayed there for long, but it was there. Same goes on Ebay. I don't think he could sell it for 12k, but he can certainly sell it for quite a bit.
I use beets (https://beets.io/) for managing my mp3 library. If you can think of something it it can probably do it, and if not you're just a couple lines of python away.
That could create a conflict of interest though. Imagine I'm an engineer that can profit by adding some malware on a (e.g.) printer. Ka-ching! I add the malware, count til 10 (weeks), report to regulator, cash out, adios amigos!!! And then HP (for example) is left with the penalty. Not fair for the company. This is one of the reasons we need independent reviews & assessment.

Conflict of interest, maker-checker matter in this line of work. A whistleblower is always a whistleblower, but one can open the gates and then cry wolf.
I developed Android/iOS apps also, and now I'm full stack .Net/C# dev. The amount of jobs out there is insane, many enterprise jobs, where you build apps to support the business. Super laid back, good work/life balance and decent pay. I can't imagine myself going back to mobile dev.
A new model and dataset for long-range memory
What?

PCs means personal computers, they can run all sorts of OSes. In some cases I would even consider a device running macOS a PC. To jump to him promoting Windows is a bit of a stretch.
You really want to launch a military attack on China?

Are you seven?
Yes, but with the rise of streaming, artists have changed where they get their revenue from. Gig tickets feel far more expensive now, but this way people are able to legally listen to and discover SO much more music.
Like most things, it depends... If you don't hate React, you may want to look into React Native, or Flutter so that you have a decent path to cross platform support. There's also Cordova/PhoneGap if you wanted to dip your toes more slowly.

If you're going all in, you'll probably be okay, but I'm nut sure how broad the audience will be longer term. It feels like the focus is going towards cross-platform (at least iOS + Android) as much as possible. There will always be a need for some custom glue to each respective platform even then though.

iOS isn't going anywhere, but Android is also here to stay, and a huge market share to ignore. Few businesses will fund two separate applications with distinct code bases if they can target both relatively well with a single code base. That's just my $.02
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens
Haruki Murakami: "How memory can trigger a story"
Who would you expect to join in on the side of the CCP?
Microsoft's marketing teams have been crap, well, forever. They somehow always fail to make the public aware of their coolest features, while at the same time doing slimy stuff like this. I do sometimes wonder if they intentionally try to sabotage the company.
IG-11 : You have suffered damage to your central processing unit.

The Mandalorian : You mean my brain.

IG-11 : That was a joke. It is meant to put you at ease.
I tend to not agree with this line of thinking. This may be the case when you subject a company to financial market pressures by listing it on the stock exchange, but I don't think it's a natural imperative.

Many companies do just fine without growing to enormous proportions, being acquired, acquiring others etc.
That's curious... ocean shipping is so massive and scaled so large, I'd guess its cheaper per item than, for instance, your drive to the grocery store to pick up that item.
The tree itself is part of the "biomass per cross-sectional area" of the land underneath the tree.

Although I wonder how cross-sectional area applies to oceans, as they are more of a 3d phenomenon. Is it the entire column of water?
As others have mentioned, Python does have JIT compilers. The problem is that havign a JIT doesn't solve the problem.

PyPy is often a factor of 10 behind julia performance and projects like Numba, PyTorch (the PyTorch people had to build their own Python JIT compiler yikes!), etc. will always have a more restricted scope than a project like Julia because Python's very semantics make many optimizations impossible.

Here's a great talk from the author of the famous Flask library in Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g where he discusses the fundamental problems with Python's semantics.

If you fix these problems, you will end up changing Python so fundamentaly that you'll really have a new language. Generic CPython 3._ code will certainly not be compatible with it.
> multiple dispatch, which is strictly more powerful.

In a language that supports classes I can have class B inherit from class A and automatically provide all of class A's functionality without adding a single extra line of code. I can extend class B's functionality by adding only code that is specific to it.

I don't see how to do that with multiple dispatch, at least the way it's implemented in Julia.
React Native and then you don't have to :D
That happens if you work with DoD programs.

How much do you think legislative aides are scrutinized? Political party staff who aren't on the government payroll?
In the editor, I do see Shapefile in the dropdown for downloading. It's unavailable however. (Same for WKT and TopoJSON). Are these paid features?
We don't have the exact details here yet but I'm willing to bet that a rather fat contract was given to someone affiliated with a Likud center member (equivalent to a US party boss) who then sought the cheapest provider while pocketing the difference or maybe handed it to their relative.
You're thinking like someone who has knowledge of computers. That's not who this kind of astroturfing is aimed at.
The classical argument is that when trying to address externalities you can turn to either regulation or strong property rights (if your factory pollutes a lake the citizens using it for drinking water will sue). Regulation can sometimes lead to inefficiency.

Free-market evangelists tend to strongly favor the property rights solution. But one of the interesting things about the property rights case is that it seems to fall apart when both the responsibility and cost are diffuse. Probably the best example would be climate change. It's impossible to address with property rights because there would be so many plaintiffs and so many defendants that attributing who did what would be impossible. Climate change is the ultimate externality.
Depends on what you work on. When doing more computer science like stuff, such as computing memory offsets etc, then 0-based indexing is practical. But for numerical work 1-based indexing is usually easier to work with. Mathematical texts are already using 1-based indexing and hence that is what people are used to when thinking about math.

I work with both and I never found this a big problem. This is on par with complaining about whitespace in Python. I prefer languages to not be whitespace sensitive but it is not a big problem.

Although I pretty sure you will accidentally get more problem from Python whitespace usage than from Julia 1-based indexing.

And frankly since Julia can use any indexing, you can use A[begin:end] to refer to the whole range of an object. If you want the second item in any array you can just write A[begin+1].
Russia, Iran, NK, a number of countries we ignore in Africa.
US needs to fight back with the same treatment. Gloves need to come off. Very tired of hearing about these attacks with no cyber counter attack. I don't need my information used again!!
I've been using Julia for non-scientific computing programs for almost 5 years now, and (especially now that it is stable since the 1.0 release) have found it well suited for general programming as well.
Having a language that is easy to write (like Python), runs fast (like C/C++), and incredibly flexible & expressive (like Lisp) makes programming fun again!
It can’t be used for compile time correctness checking? i.e Julia isn’t a statically typed language.
Ah I see, I assumed you were already knowledgable about Swift. Cant help there, I only have a passing familiarity with it.
Hasn't this precedent already been set a long time ago? I had thought cyber warfare acts were common. I would think they would have to specifically shut down large infrastructure before a response beyond this was even considered.
Not sure how this is related
One other thing: Your onboarding flow at the paperspace blog still points to parsec.tv. It made me wonder if you went out of business until I found the new download links.

https://blog.paperspace.com/setting-up-your-cloud-gaming-rig...
If the prosecutors were to do so knowingly, the prosecutors would be breaking their oath to the Constitution (and simultaneously obliterating their case/perhaps committing crimes of their own).
"They're a combination of that pretty much everywhere"

Fair point - I would also agree that the idea of a "dominant" British accent seems a bit odd - certainly not in terms of what people actually sound like (rather than the broadcast media).
Hm. If you say so.
I'm not suggesting changing the default browser... only that given some of their past actions, simply putting the icon, or updating the version of Edge on the taskbar, and having a notification above that icon would be a better approach. Compared to the suggestion that disparages Firefox or Chrome, or the full browser window opening after the update.

-- edit

It's easier to unpin a taskbar icon, than disable suggestions.
This textbook response doesn't address what often happens in reality.

Wages don't always capture the true costs of production. The public burden of the coal miner who gets lung cancer can be viewed as a negative externality.

Indeed, many labor protections in the US seek to specifically address this type of externality.
That's my bad, I did misread the chain.
> I know people who have build hugely complex production systems in perl that are still running today 20 years later.

Sure, but there aren't many programmers who would want to maintain such a system.
Why every Julia user can't help but trash Python at every occasion?

It's getting really tiring
Google's ads on Google.com do not reach directly onto my OS (which I've already paid for, and should not have ads) GUI.
> Except for P&H. As mentioned in comment he now recommends CS:APP

P&H is “Patterson & Hennesy” (Computer Organization and Design), right? I gotta say, having read both, I think they cover different ground and I wouldn’t say that once replaces the other. P&H is more hardware with a nod to software and CS:APP is more software with a nod to hardware; you won’t get a really deep understanding of instruction pipelining from CS:APP, nor will you really get great coverage of linking and loading from P&H. If you’re going to do it, read both.
Because an exhortation to stay calm and carry on, would likely work on a British population.
The merge request for this feature is here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4119d1e60a111bacca... -- more than 21K new lines of code.

I'm not too worried about this being a "predictable interface names" type of solution to a problem I'm not having. What I'm really worried about is that of those 21K lines of code, only about 100 lines deal with testing, in the form of two bash scripts performing end-to-end tests against the main executable `homectl`.

At $DAYJOB, we find that to achieve any sort of acceptable coverage (which we've arbitrarily defined as 80% or better) -- you'd expect the ratio of production code to unit test code to be close to 1:1, and not anywhere near the 200:1 like this code here.

I mean, either those are some _very_ efficient E2E tests, or we have a small number of happy paths being covered here, and we the users will have to weed out all the corner cases that weren't tested.

Moreover, since these are E2E tests and not unit tests, that makes me immediately worry about the quality of the code. I know that unit testing is not very common on C-land, but is it really that unheard of in C-land in 2020?
Thats what I have and a 1070 is still find for most games.
Amazon deforestation for January hits record
They should switch to Firefox or, if they are pig-headed, Un-Googled Chromium.
> So... I don't know how you're doing this, and admittedly I was away from frontend dev for a few years so I'm sure I missed some pain in the meantime, but I recently started a project with Next.js, and... this is the exact opposite of my experience. SSR is super fast, it only happens once, you get static HTML output and your site is basically as fast as your web server/CDN. All of this without any config.

This is only partly true if you use a big framrework like Next or Nuxt but it also means you will heavily buy into whatever these frameworks choose for you. For example, a node backend.

The pages are not faster, especially after adding some complexity like most websites require. The time to render is higher, input lag is commonplace. You're sending the html for that site + all the javascript that needs to be parsed to get that SPA-app that everyone wants.

And as soon as you step outside what the framework requires you too, for example using another backend. Then you're back to a classical SPA-application.

I like SPA-applications that are done well or when they are required, but the complexity to create one is a lot higher because the developers needs to reimplement what the browser originally did for you.
> And then your cron job fails, but you don't know when, nor how. So you need to log it.

Which it already does. Success on Unix/Linux is silent and any output from a cron job gets emailed by default.

> And then your cron job runs again, because the first instance didn't finish in time. So you need to protect agains parallel execution.

So you use flock(1) with --timeout equal to the launch interval. Assuming parallel execution is actually undesired; maybe you want it. Suppose you have a job to gzip the day's data, and if it takes 30 hours to do it, you still want to run tomorrow's job on time because tomorrow's job is running on a different day's data.

> And then your cron job doesn't run, because your machine was off when it was supposed to. So you need to track when it was supposed to run, and run it.

What do you propose to do instead if the machine is powered off? If it's supposed to run once a day and the machine is unplugged for three days, should it immediately run three times as soon as you turn it back on? Should it run once, but then run again only an hour later at the time scheduled for today, thereby still running twice in the same day? If the launch arguments take today's date, which day do you pass?

You still have to specify what you want one way or another. It's not clear how specifying it in a shell script is any worse than specifying it in a unit file, and it can certainly be better, because arbitrary code can solve arbitrary problems. Unit files are limited to specific directives unless you want to rely on unit files calling shell scripts, and in that case why do I want to write a unit file and a shell script instead of only writing a shell script?
Hi from a Lagun Aro contractor! Were you as surprised as I was to see this in top of HN?
There are more recent ones, and they explicitly exempt privacy violations for political canvassing purposes.
I do wonder sometimes how different Chomsky's career and his academic work would have been if he'd been required to take a course in game theory while he was an undergraduate.
it is certainly the right move to charge individuals rather then directly escalating military tensions with China.

Make life miserable for those directly involved and responsible. Next time, others will push back against an order to attack like this because consequences will be personal for them, not just another move in a war
Facial recognition will once again be at the forefront of the public conscious
Presumably HP could sue the engineer for willful sabotage? Especially if that engineer whistle-blew the problem that the bug causes (on the code s/he wrote) instead of submitting a bugfix..
Agreed, instead what needs to happen is aggressive implementation of inflicting "pain" in their systems via economic measures - however unfortunately democracies around the world aren't stable due to the gains from technology haven't been adequately redistributed to society for too long that the current cracks in foundations would turn into a complete collapse; this is something that Presidential candidate Andrew Yang seems to understand the most - and is not only ideal but likely the only candidate who is competent enough to manage China's leadership's behaviour appropriately.
This is nuts.

a) They are charged with conspiring with each other to this, but simultaneously
b) "fits a disturbing and unacceptable pattern of state-sponsored computer intrusions", and in the process they managed to commit
c) "conspiracy to commit wire fraud"

None of those 3 things make any sense in the face of the others. How is doing this kind of things even legal?
First, just to clarify, because listings are stored in a "block pool," a new data
structure that this system introduces, they disappear after they're no longer
useful (specifically when the merchant who posted them is no longer a top
merchant in terms of score or when merchants delete listings). This is in
contrast to a blockchain, which generally is required to store all data forever
even when it's no longer useful. This is covered in section 6.5 in the paper.

But of course, even with the ability to "forget" listings, you won't hit Amazon
scale if every node is storing every listing. There are multiple ways to think
about this.

The first is the argument that the Ultranet is still useful and
highly-differentiated as the only private censorship-resistant marketplace,
even at its initial scale (not unlike how Bitcoin provides a lot of value
without scaling to Visa or Mastercard levels). Section 5.6.1 from the
paper discusses this.

The second is the classic "we can always scale later" argument. For this, section
3.4 discusses how the Ultranet has much more incentive to scale than cryptocurrencies
like Bitcoin and Ethereum due to the fact that it implements hyper-deflation, and
section 7.3 discusses a more in-depth plan to scale the system by ~50x or more
using the same mechanism that powers the built-in decentralized exchange.
Really sorry to hear your stuck.

This virus is a stress test for many aspects of our globalized society. There’s a risk in both overreacting, and under-reacting. Both carry costs.

It’s also a test of how we can all align interests in an age where trust in institutions is being eroded. We’re awash in information, and disinformation — and we’re experiencing in real-time the effects of that.
Of course people who cough and sneeze are more likely to transmit it! I can’t trust the WHO when they make what to me seem to me to be intentionally misleading statements.
If you know the type of distribution but not the parameters,you can sometimes go through the data once and estimate the parameter (maybe exactly) without "storing the distribution" via histograms. Eg if you know the data is drawn from a uniform distribution U(a,b) but you don't know a or b.
do u have any images?
'Taika Waititi jokes about what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks with producers'

It is right there in the tweet.
That's a good point. So either way, we have a definite solution. Huzzah!
This is assuming that wherever you're going to be has enough bandwidth to support streaming games.

Hotel internet seems to be about 10 years behind the current technology at all times.
Force in my opinion, is the incorrect response.

The grand powers on the world stage are constantly posturing and taking actions to further their own power. The United States is no different. We, civilians don't know the majority of what is taking place.

A "hot" war between two powers would be of such a great cost in human life, you would want to avoid it at all costs. This means indicting with a grand jury instead of starting a war.
How Many Oculus Quests Sold over the Holidays?
Wasn't Equifax the one that had admin/admin as password and leaked most of its data because of complete incompetence?
I agree with the first statement, but this could be stated in a more tolerant manner. Attack the idea rather than the person.
I laughed when I saw this was the top comment on this post! My first thought reading this article was, dang, wait til he learns how Taylor Swift holds a pen. It looks weird at first but it's surprisingly comfortable and easy to write with!
This used to confuse me: don't co-op rules like this distort the value of the firm? But then I realized that I was missing the big picture: the ownership of the firm isn't valued! Worker-owners own a portion of the revenue during their time as worker-owners, and there is no need to put a price on the expected future revenue or profit of the company.

It's not co-ops that distort the value of the firm, it's that permanent ownership necessitates complicated and opinionated financial/statistical reasoning to put a number on what is fundamentally a weird social relation.
12 New Bluetooth vulnerabilities affecting a massive number of “Smart” products
Whats legitimate use?

If I owned “doctor.com” or “lawyer.com” and used that for my unrelated low effort personal website, would that be better for everyone than a domain squatter who’s willing to sell the domain to someone who’s actually going to do something useful with it? I don’t think so.
Building a BitTorrent Client
The information is out there credit model or not.
This is an example we've been working that creates an Okta-managed user who can get in to a tagged EC2 instance using Session Manager. No bastion/sshd/security group ingress rules required. https://github.com/symopsio/terraform-okta-ssm-demo
I'm not sure i would want to cause the end of human civilization in response to the breach of a credit report company.
I personally can handle putting a desktop in 1br apartment for $200 less.