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> Azure and AWS have shitty support too for small customers but they are expensive

oh yeah, AWS is terrible with support!
I have to rely on their support forum for any support as 20% of our spend for crappy support is just not feasible. I.e. I get no support whatsoever. You can trick them a bit by wrapping it up in a sales inquiry though.
> we rejected it as too under-constrained and difficult to work with in practice

I’m imagining a conversation as a space containing multiple regular UNLWS planes, intersecting at certain [binding?] points.

Such an approach would ideally leave dimensionality to the medium, language itself could remain under same constraints as before.

A conversation plane would be viewed in 2D, but certain points could indicate connections outside of current plane. For such a point, viewer can pull up a projection that shows connecting conversation planes in some way (possibly 3D or pseudo-3D).

Of course, there are some technical challenges in implementing a medium that works this way, and it’s unclear how groundbreaking or useful it would be in practice (after all, all conversation planes should be possible to represent as areas on one larger plane, just with longer connecting lines).
FWIW, many of my friends actually could say this, for I am a programmer who's not on Facebook/WhatsApp and recommends Signal.

It definitely needs to be more reliable, though. The last time I tried to call someone with Signal instead of just using it for messaging, I got a ringing indication but they heard nothing and then after a few seconds the call showed up as missed, and the same happened the other way around with them calling me. There seem to have been about 500 updates to the iOS app in the past 5 minutes via the app store, though, so many whatever caused that was a short-lived glitch.
There was a festival of jugglers in my city and they taught me to juggle in like 15 minutes, I was amazed it's so easy (the basic 3-ball juggling, and just for a monute or two, the more difficult juggling is HARD and I had to train later to be able to keep juggling forever).

There is a very easy trick - you look forward in the distance keeping the balls in peripheral vision and there's 2 automatic reactions you have to develop:

1. when the ball going up is at the top of the curve - throw another ball up

2. when a falling ball goes out of your peripheral vision - do the "oh shit something's falling let's catch it" routine with the hand that has less balls in it.

Hands learn very quickly how to move to catch the balls that leave the peripheral vision "by itself" basing on the trajectory you've seen.

It's actually harder to juggle when you look at the balls directly, and it's impossible when you think about it and try to do the moves consciously because you're too slow.

It was mindblowing to me that it's easier to catch a ball when you don't look at it.
> Nushell seems to take a different approach: add structure to command output. By doing that, it seems that a bunch of stuff that is super finicky in the more traditional shells ends up being simple and easy commands with one clear job in nushell. I have never tried it, but it does seem to be movement in the correct direction.

I tried nushell a few times and the commands really compose better due to the structured approach. How would one sort the output of ls by size in bash without letting ls do the sorting? In nushell it is as simple as "ls | sort-by size".
I came across this:

>According to the ICMR study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR), consumption of four or more maintenance doses was associated with a significant decline (>80%) in the risk of Covid-19 infection among the ‘participants’. The study also found that there was no significant association between HCQ and adverse drug reactions.

https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/pharma/why-...

Link to the preliminary paper http://www.ijmr.org.in/preprintarticle.asp?id=285520
Is it though?

I think having a good metric is really hard.

For example i can have a neural net running on my smartphone doing recognition tasks.

A task the brain is typically good at due to its neural net structure while the computer basically has to simulate the net.

But still my smartphone can mark all the faces in a crowd multiple times over in a time i can not recognize even a single person.

And that with a camera way beyond the capabilities of the human eye.

Modern smartphone processors draw around 1 or 2 watt max. So is my phone more efficient at doing this?

One could argue that my brain does other stuff at the same time like controlling heartbeat and what not but my phone has to keep the wifi, clock and so on too.

The truly impressive part is the ability of the brain to do completely generic problem solving for basically everything; while running on 10 watt. With the added ability to learn a few activities to a really high level.

Its is not efficient at doing a singular thing it is efficient doing everything at once.
These people do not live where I live. Of course, my observation is a singular data point, but speaking with colleagues through the years, it seems everyone in this area is of the "I will help you, but what is in it for me" philosophy. I wonder where they picked these participants from.
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Am I the only one in awe for those beautiful posters?
> Gnus has K H, which opens it right away in a browser window.

When doing this mind that HTML engines in many mail clients are limited. However when using the default browser the mail can run JavaScript and can remote load images, which allows tracking when you read the message.
This thread was a joy to read because you guys didn't come into fight :)
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I once had to ask a friend whose first language is English, if there is one word to convey 'feeding someone a liquid'. Because one of my friends asked me and I didn't know.

In Sinhala[1], my mother tongue, there's a word for that. Povanava (poh-vur-nuh-var) පොවනවා.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_language
In Berlin it varies widely, but 100€ a month is not unreasonable.
Covid has been know to cause ill health too. Rather than ban anything with any risk a calculated judgement might be better.
Why is HS2 going ahead at all now? It is not safe to travel by train anymore given covid-19. Stations are mixing grounds for infection. People are not kept apart with fresh air whilst travelling in the train. Random people constantly pass close by. Investing in shared train infrastructure is inappropriate
I agree. The file load/save dialogs of all GUI should work in such a way that spaces typed by the users in a filename field are always transparently changed to something different (for example, the unicode non-breaking space).
We could compare it with D, Ada, Object Pascal or Delphi, and it would lose on compilation speed, language features and quality of generated code.
Indeed though even there you’ll have significant selection bias for psych v.s. other majors.
Awesome!

Now i only need to find out what game i have played.

It was also a Simulation, one person in a house and you were able to buy a tv and something with insurance was also happening.
"something great"

Also: this "something great" must be something they (EU politicians deciding about funding) have heard about! And what have they heard about? Something US companies have already been commercialising, hence started a big PR offensive.

That's why the EU started big funding of research on cloud computing after Amazon made money with it, started big funding of research on search engine when Google made money with it, started big funding of research on AI/ML after Google made money with it ...

I predict that the EU will go all in on supporting research on quantum computing when Google sells it in a big way.
Ask HN: Can someone from Google explain why YouTube PS4 has been down a week?
It has not been possible to sign in to YouTube on PS4 for more than a week.

This is very hard to understand.

A serious question - does Google really just not give a hoot about it?

How can the service be this bad?
There was Cloudwatt also, that was supposed to be the "French AWS", and as you said got hundreds of millions from the government, was created with the help of big, old companies (Orange, Thales, Bull) and was an utter failure.

I hope they learned their mistakes and won't do them again but I fear they'll just do it the same way.

What the French government doesn't understand is that you don't create a tech giant the same way you create the TGV, the Ariane rocket or Airbus. That model worked for those giant industrial projects, but it doesn't work for tech.
I agree. For some reason 2) and 3) reminded me of the book "The mating mind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Miller_(psychologist)...
You should rip the CDs and upload em to archive. It’s possible that there is unique content on them that doesn’t exist anywhere else :)
Generally it’s college students who, despite having no income, are not living in poverty and have plenty of time.
You've just highlighted the key issue with studies, focus groups and marketing research. The population will always be biased - even the responses from the participants are likely to be biased because they are more likely to give a biased response. The insight that you get is marginally useful but nonetheless, it's better than no insight at all.
> If no one wants to sell to the Fed, why do they need a certification?

I don't understand your first question. The certification process covers both primary and secondary purchases. The Fed's terms for primary purchases are pretty punitive and most issuers that qualify for it would easily be able to raise in syndicated markets. Markets are open right now so this does not present an issue.

The problem is the Fed is also unable to make secondary purchases unless issuers go through the certification process. The main purpose of the SMCCF is to buy secondary corporate bonds and they're unable to move on that because of the certification process.

Issuers would love to sell to the Fed but your understanding is only a small reason why none have certified yet. A lot has changed since these facilities were announced and there was extreme backlash against larger corporations taking advantage of PPP. There's a similar fear attached to this.

> Also they're buying ETFs of bonds, are you saying this is materially different than buying the actual bonds?

Yes, there absolutely is a material difference for the purposes of this facility and in actual trading. For the purposes of this facility, there are still many sectors/subsectors trading pretty wide to pre-covid levels. If you believe that these bond purchases facilitate the Fed's mandate of maximum employment, then targeting specific sectors that are having funding pressures would be one of accomplishing that.

> If there is something preventing you from making trades it means you have lower liquidity.

That's a really bizarre definition of liquidity for the context of this; especially when you're talking about the Fed. The discussion was on ETFs being more liquid than the underlying bonds. Something preventing me from trading does not mean that the thing being traded is illiquid. For example, there are many securities that require an ISDA to trade and offer way more liquidity than other similar options.
Yep. Worst application I've ever had to work with was a WinForms monstrosity where ~300 form elements were used to store the application state, and none of them were named (so it was all "TextBox1", "TextBox2", etc.). Most of the application logic was in a single ~8000 line method. An absolute nightmare to debug or modify.
An entry-level tenured professor or a nurse at a hospital earn less than 2000 EUR per month. This gives them barely enough to rent a small room in a shared apartment.
In terms of innovation in semiconductors, should also learn from the success of China, South Korea, Taiwan!
That's true, but there is also cloud.hetzner.com. It is rather newish and lacking most features the big 3 offer, but it might be getting there.
Just a hunch, but was it perhaps Sierra’s “Jones in the Fast Lane”?
Why not just use a credit card?
Yes, this actually happens in real life now and then too. As long as there is no special drivers license or education involved ofcourse. Nothing more mind numbing than to stand at the same machine year after year.
That is true for customer-facing softwre, but would not be relevant in e.g. semiconductors, compilers, formal verification.
that was my first thought when I read the headline, I'm surprised the guy is still alive

people get killed over much smaller things than millions of dollars
Neural networks also have no ability to create new information based on their own mistakes. What is a mistake? When does something look "off" but still very interesting?

For example, you can feed a neural net all the recipes of burgers to create a perfect burger. Great. But how does the same net invent the burger?

The burger, like many foods or accidental art, was invented as a result of scarcity, circumstance, experimentation, or just fortunate error. That sort of imperfection is very hard to achieve with AI, because it is designed to be either perfect or fail.
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HS2 isn't scheduled to open until at least 2029. The current situation has no bearing on if it should go ahead or not.
I've been to Autobahn petrol stations in Germany. They are not pleasant places. They need to work on that before they can entice people to come in and spend anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours there.
> does Google really just not give a hoot about it?

> How can the service be this bad?

I find myself wondering this about Google services all the time. Hangouts on the web often develops bugs with contact importing and then it doesn't get fixed for days or weeks.

On this topic, it's potentially more nefarious: PS4 competes against Chromecast, Android TV, TVs with Android built-in, and (more recently) Stadia. Because YouTube is a near-monopoly, Google probably benefits from making it look like a second-tier system that isn't a high priority.

No web video consumer can stop using YouTube without losing a ton of content, but it's easy to switch to a different system for watching on your TV.
Turing completeness isn’t necessarily an interesting thing to have in common. Many (very simple) models of computation are Turing complete but have vastly different properties. Take for example a cellular automata, a Turing machine, Wang tiles, (cyclic) Tag systems, Fractrans, Register machines, string rewriting systems. All of these are Turing complete. Yet they are miles apart in how they carry out computation. In order to understand and do what the brain is doing we have to figure out the brains model of computation. It will also be Turing complete but it will look very different than a Turing machine.
> A) people commit crimes in places they don’t live

No problem! Conviction/case-closure stats don't care if the person you convicted was local or not.

> B) even so dmv photos are notoriously bad

They're often unattractive but they usually identify people pretty well when they're not too old to do so.
No, not with this level of blur.
Battery swap station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaQuKk9bFg

I'm not sure why this is a not reality yet. When this happens, I will certainly not be the one refuelling my car at -30C in the winter, I will be seated in my electric car waiting for the swap to complete.
When many goverment bodies more or less have to use foreign software-infrastructure, then "maginot lines" sound reasonable.

Very reasonable indeed IMO if e.g. German police has to use AWS because of lack of alternatives, or the countless local authorities running on windows.

On the other hand, it is not the US to blame for their tech-supremacy. It is Germany and France to blame.

There might be many reasons to cite why we lack behind. But the whole spirit behind a government-google, a government-aws, government-yaddayadda comes across as being more part of the problem than part of the solution.
I have a vps at hetzner. I use it as irc bouncer and as a git remote for pass. Sell me on why I should use amazon instead.
But we are super proud of coining Industrie 4.0, so, that's something.

It would be wonderful to see more free and open innovation and investment in a couple of bleeding-edge tech centers in Germany. A lot of the big internationals are in Munich and Berlin is slowly growing steam for startups, but it's a disappointment to me that there's so many Germans with so much wealth prime for investment and creating a culture of exploration, but instead it sits in real estate or something.
You don’t need a 7805 in a switching power supply. You do need a 555. Switching power supplies are in everything.
I have been using an app provided by my company (finance) called SecurLine
It's weird how simple it is, and I don't have to provide my phone number like on Signal
You're just making things up.
Could it not be that most institutions are in London _because_ of those good connections. The idea is to improve connects between different cities which will make it viable for companies to be located there.
The first Lisp syntax idea was to use s-expressions only for data and use a kind of algebraic notation for the code part. Thus programs would use s-expressions, where such data would be written. But that was the syntax on paper. The actual Lisp implementation was interpreting and compiling s-expression code&data. Developers had to hand translate the original syntax into s-expressions. Lisp developers found that very useful and attempts to replace it never had much success for actual Lisp users. At the same time it was always a hurdle for new users or people who would learn Lisp in some university or school setting. In books from the 60s one can read the same complaints about parentheses, etc., like we still hear today.

Later several times there were large and small scale attempts to abandon the s-expression syntax or to develop new languages with all the advantages of Lisp, but not its syntax. The "Lisp 2" project was a huge effort into that direction and failed. Logo was another. ML similar (which was successful and spawned a bunch of new languages). Apple Dylan was another one. Plus many others. Racket now starts the next attempt to get rid of s-expressions. Scheme R6RS was early going into the direction, by offering a fixed syntax definitions for much of the language.

For Lisp the base idea is that programs are not text, but basic data made out of lists, symbols, and a bunch of other data types. The input to the EVALuator is such a data structure. Additionally there are procedures like READ and PRINT, which can translate data from and to textual representations.

So the idea is: code is data. Plus: code has mostly a direct textual representation in the form of nested s-expressions.

The Racket project is more concerned with reaching a larger audience for computer science education, and not so much about sticking to these basic Lisp principles. Their problem is that the s-expression syntax and the code is data idea is difficult for students and of little use, since most popular programming languages work differently (Python, Java, JavaScript, ...).

As a Lisp user I don't care about their educational problem and like the simple code as data idea and what follows from that.
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> this is a cultural problem with little hope of changing

I disagree. Most existing teams with good processes started out decades ago without them, and improved incrementally from where they started. Team culture can absolutely be changed, but it takes a lot of time (and requires cooperation from seniors and managers).
> Currently the company follows approach that feels a bit insincere or on times even totalitarian to me - managers cannot disagree with each other in front of other employees, a manager cannot criticize management actions/decisions.

The reason you can't find research about how to handle this problem is because no one would advise you to try to handle it. You should leave this toxic company.
I work with a lot of French IT people, they are all from the Grande écoles, and amazing on average. None of them work in France. What a loss!
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even after spike lower than already extremely obscure (in US) Telegram
There are plenty of shy musicians and theatre performers. When you're on stage you've been explicitly given permission to perform a role, makes it possible for people to put their shyness aside

Maybe the improv world is different, I've never done improv (yet)
Given how brittle autovectorizers can be (small changes to the code preventing the heuristic from firing), that is pretty much the only reliably fast way to write such a library currently, and perhaps indefinitely.
> - I collaborate on research projects with people all over the world, and I exchange emails with my collaborators.

As a software developer I'm of course inclined to say that a platform that inlines resources relevant to your discussion would be much better suited because of standardized layouts and workflows. But as you said: one more place to check.

> I'm aware that most people use instant messaging, but I like the slower pace and the lack of expectation to respond right away.

That seems to be a very common theme among people and I definitely appreciate this as well. Instant messaging has become so stressful but most people (me included) can't seem to quit because of the fear of missing out.

> Finally, the privacy issue -- to be honest, I don't much care. Perhaps this is the nature of my work, which I typically want to share as widely as possible.

It's a reasonable stance for sure as long as you're aware. Self-hosted emails, like most EDU emails are I assume, of course also mitigate some of the concerns. It's just creepy to think about how you're constantly being profiled my various vendors.

Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.
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Ask HN: Am I the only one feeling stupid when looking at interview questions?
I got about 8 years of professional experience in building web pages and mobile apps. I am also comfortable with databases, servers apis etc.

I wouldn’t say I am a very good developer, maybe not even good. When it comes to the job though I have successfully managed to complete various tasks and e.g fix very difficult bugs.

I started looking for a job due to covid19 and my company deciding to go very lean through this stage.

I joined some sites like codewars and have been looking some interviews from interviewing.io which was posted yesterday.

After looking at most of the problems I feel like a simpleton.
I feel like there is no way I can compete with other developers out there.
My CS background is not that strong currently, but well my question is, does anyone else feel like that when looking at those questions or am I alone?

Also is there a site, guide or anything else that would help me to improve?

I’d say my issue comes mostly by searching a solution to a problem on the internet and then finding something that most of the times I’ll change to fit my needs. I lack the power to write solutions from scratch.
But then why hasn't France been invaded by US companies to hire these great engineers for half of SV money?

I know they have some small offices on campus at top universities where they employ a hand full of PhDs for ML/AI research but that's a drop in the ocean.
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