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This story didn’t make enough sense to really nail the issue. I’m surprised this parable is popular.

Why would you build houses out of wood if the wood is transparent?

It would make more sense if it were discovered years later that the police had special polarizing binoculars that let them see through the wood, which no one knew they had until it was too late and all the old mud huts had been phased out.

Also, describing someone as a “paint technologist” when they are anti-paint is a confusing decision for a parable: a story intended to make a complex issue easier to understand. I initially assumed they were going to have a role analogous to a cryptographer, not an anti-privacy provocateur.

Perhaps having the police attempt to foil insidious flower thieves or dastardly rebel plots to undermine the government controlled potato cartel would also be more in spirit with a parable. The use of awful real life crimes (against children, even) make this a difficult one to share.
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I don't think they can. Only Intel can license it to them.
Not a Vue example but have a look at https://github.com/drcmda/reactanoid

It's an Arkanoid clone (bat and ball game) written in React, with react-three-fibre for WebGL, zustand for state management, and use-cannon for physics. The full version is about 250 lines and there's also a simplified version that weighs in at 60 lines (not including the library code obviously). It runs at a solid 60FPS on a very basic laptop.

Doing the same thing in vanilla JS, using the same libraries (or alternatives) would be a lot more work, and would end up with the exact same result. That's the point with a well written framework-driven app - when you use something like React or Vue you should be aiming to get the same end result as a vanilla JS app, but with much less effort. The cost to the user should really only be a slightly bigger download.
On the contrary, it is not possible to foresee kind of houses and places people will want to live in 50 years in the future. So,it makes much more sense to make it easy to tear down and rebuild houses-aiming for reusable (like brick) or biodegradable (like untreated wood) building materials.
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Anyone like to refute this instead of just downvoting? I don't believe anything in this comment is incorrect, if I am false please correct whichever fact is incorrect.
> Also, the more countries that have nukes the better, since it levels the playground.

That's the American "best thing against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" attitude. Empirically this does not hold true. With the density of lethal weapons in the U.S. and the statistically lower safety from gun violence compared to other developed countries, it's safe to assume that the world would be a safer place with a reduced number of countries having nukes (or ideally none of them) rather than an increased number.
It's sad to see something like this in Nature. Science can tell us what actions will lead to what outcomes, but it can't tell us what outcomes we should aim for. Different people have different preferences, and there's certainly no objective measure of the value of preserving the environment vs people's quality of life.

Trying to push a certain set of values like this risks giving science a bad name in the public eye, and making the public less willing to accept actual scientific facts. Because many people lack the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions in scientific publishing, so they just end up distrusting all science.
Meters per second as a unit for measuring latency? Although, it does fit in with the unit mangling done by the rep...
Lucid dreams are much more akin to seeing it than whatever I “see” in my minds eye.
The argument is that every millisecond that they don't shoot matters, so training themselves to shoot instinctively and to ensure the person is dead when they do shoot is the solution. Part of the problem is that the techniques they use to train this involve dehumanisation of targets - it's really hard to get someone to kill an actual person, so they train that response on things that don't look like people, with the hope that it transfers over.
> definitely she does.

That's not scientific.

That's not a double-blind experiment. Your may be more attentive to her mentions when you've secretely switched on the wifi. You may behaving differently and she may be picking up clues from your behavior. etc.

If you really want to be scientific, you need to do at least n=100 experiments to detect a 10% bias at 95% confidence level. (Z=2 E=0.1) [0]

If you detect such bias, your wife may be able to earn $1M prize for her supernatural abilities. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is_fai...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...
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That's an old comment by the way. At that time the newruntime idea was tested (and now replaced by --gc:arc). One needs to be more careful when using others words, especially taken out of context.
I avoid simply giving money to a lot of large charities. Fancy offices with executive level pay while they largely rely on donations and volunteers to do the real work for free. Kind of a corporation version of virtue signalling.

I'd rather donate food to the local animal refuge than give to them.
Is was just wondering the other day: do we have something like the IPCC currently charged with doing exactly that?
Superinsulated houses are in practice a fad. Build as usual just with thick polystyrene insulation (afaik not recyclable) on the facade vulnerable to moisture when the surface is punctured (possible with a fingernail). It also requires air recirculation which is too prone to moisture.
It’s really hard to compare, as everything related to food is subsidized and distorted to some degree today.

HFCS is more expensive to make than sugar, but it is cheaper in the US (and through exports this bleeds to other places) due to corn subsidies.

Similarly, there are a lot of meat subsidies and oil subsidies - to the point that market pricing only matter within small sectors, but not replacement sectors that aren’t the same commodity.
Multiplying 1024 bits by 1024 bits the naive way on a 32 bit processor involves 1024 multiply operations. Even in 2003, they were typically pipelined with a throughput of one multiply per cycle[1], so you should be able to do that in ~1040 clock cycles. Which is 750 nanoseconds on a 1999 era Pentium 3.

Since DH key exchange isn't done on all the data, only to exchange keys, and no machine then or now was setting up 1 million encrypted connections per second, I don't see this as a performance bottleneck at all.

What am I missing?

[1]: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V5oACAAAQBAJ&pg=PA208
You are perhaps true about me not being aware that the core CS knowledge is helping me all the time. I have always been able to explain technical issues on a whiteboard all the way to the level of protocol or internals. And they have helped me immensely in my work.

I guess since I do not spend a lot of time in CS literature, I have the feeling I do not know much. But I guess I already have an edge at work without noticing it.

Thanks and best of luck to you!
Having lived in US for 2 years and having visited Korea and Germany, people US do not even imagine how bad is QoL in US tech hubs, even wit higher wage. I mean Seoul or Berlin is SO much more interesting place than SF Bay. The only places in US I'd consider worth living is Chicago, Boston and probably Seattle.
Isn't clarity better than bytes. We can always running through a minifier at build time.
Sorry, but this is a purely political piece of garbage.

It's full of claims unsupported by their data. For example, all their data shows population growth is a central issue but they focus on "affluence" and then they cherry-pick the (already affluent, saturated in consumption) first world to attack and suggest improvements for when the elephant in the room is the third world with its not exactly "affluent" but at least no longer starving population that is beginning to do what they suggest we stop doing. Then the typical radical left / eco-socialist "solutions" appear out of nowhere. It's disappointing that such political pieces are now in mainstream science publications (presumably because it's en vogue to kneel to the radical left...).
Anyone else read this with The Wire (TV show) theme in their head? https://youtu.be/K3rZgs3dudI
I wonder if it's a preference or just that there are fewer options. By US standards, all European countries are high density, e.g. Germany with ~25% of the US population is significantly smaller than California, maybe 5% of the size of the US.
> I can’t imagine everyone not wanting to race back into the office the minute it is safe to do so

Call that lack of imagination
Note that single lost packets only cause a delay related to a retransmission, but they don't trigger congestion control.

This delay is even smaller than RTT due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control#Fast_...
If you have a philips screw, get a philips driver. If you have a tri-wing screw, get a tri-wing driver. Sure the latter aren’t as common, but they’re readily available from countless online stores. Unless your Government has outlawed certain types of driver, it’s absurd to say that one screw type locks you out more than the other.
Because:

a) Outsourcing generally produces lower quality result

b) You do not have an H1B leverage.
If your kid disassembled your hardware without your permission or your knowing, and damaged it or your data irreparably, that would be less preferable to the same outcome with your knowledge and consent, wouldn’t it?
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I went to Berkeley for undergrad.

Anyone in the EECS department who was serious about a future in programming took, at a minimum, two courses on algorithms / data structures (CS61B / CS170), one of which was required for the degree. I suspect that's partially covered by what any crack-the-coding-interview study course would try to teach you anyways (dynamic programming, tree / graph traversal; NP completeness and reductions probably less so).

In general, each CS course at Cal had ~3 hours a week of lecture, 1-3 of discussion / labs, and ~2-10+ hours of homework, varying on the individual and course (not to mention whatever auxiliary studying one might do for exams). With 15 weeks of instruction, that adds up to a minimum of 90 hours, but realistically, 200 might not even begin to describe some courses. A full courseload might look like 4 classes (potentially 3 CS classes + 1 humanities course) and is designed to be ~40 hours a week.

Agreed with the sibling comment that this list seems to have a number of notable omissions -- in particular, it looks to be very systems-oriented. But I also don't think that you _need_ all these courses to be a fully-fledged programmer. Sure, knowing how compilers / languages work might make it easier to pick up more languages, but learning languages across multiple programming paradigms (e.g. functional vs imperative vs declarative), which you'll get anyways if you follow this course list, is more valuable than implementing a recursive descent parser (which will make you really understand one language).

When I went there, Berkeley didn't have an undergrad course dedicated to distributed systems. But, to be fair, the MIT course listed is graduate-level. That seems to be the biggest outlier, as half the catalog consists of intro-level courses at Cal: Programming, Computer Arch, Math for CS, Algos / Data Structures (at least, the first half of the lectures mirrors CS61B; the latter half is closer to CS170).

If I had to suggest a sequencing based on the course parallels, I'd go with:

Core: Programming -> Computer Arch, (Math for CS -> Algorithms / Data Structures)

Intermediate: OS / Networking / DBs / Compilers

Advanced: Distributed Systems (probably want OS / Networking as prereqs, at a minimum)

But, I'd expect a small portion of undergrads took all of the intermediate topics, much less distributed systems.

Regularly-offered upper div courses that evidently didn't make the cut, off the top of my head: Security (this is a big one, IMO), AI, Graphics, Software Engineering, HCI, Computability / Complexity (automata theory among other things), Computer Architecture (beyond the intro-level treatment). Supposedly ML also started being regularly offered for undergrads (CS189).
2 decades old now. Wiley and Dizzee Rascal have tracks dating back to the year 2000.
So you’re using hardware offload of the crypto now? And that wouldn’t be available if you switch to QUIC?

It seems a bad reason to knock the protocol cos people haven’t implemented something unrelated (hardware acceleration) for it.

I appreciate it obviously would be stupid for you to switch given those stats. But it’s not related to the protocol design or some fundamental shortcoming with QUIC.
My 2013 had to get the case, touchpad, fans, and keyboard replaced do to a swelling battery. Also needed a second charger as apple cords break so easily. Outside of that, it still works great.

Kind of funny though that we are amazed that our stuff is running for 7 years considering my old Toyota lasted 20.
The political hacks have made their way to HN. Downvoting facts they disagree with.
Yeah, right, you apparently do not remember Quebec unrests, when they wanted to secede.
My thoughts on Raku in 2020 as compared to Ruby
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America is a collection of thousands of jurisdictions that all have authority based on who is paying for the road.

Interstates are controlled by the Federal Highway Commission and must meet Federal Highway standards as the federal government generally pays for them

State Routes are controlled by State Regulations

County Routes are controlled by County Regulations

City Routes are controlled by City Regulations

There is zero standard that is applied universally. This is is viewed by some as a negative personally I prefer the federalist system over a central authority

Most State and Federal routes do have Minimum Heights, though exceptions can be made, one thing we often see in the US not remeasuring the surface, there have been more than a few time where the height is reported as X but that measurement was decades old and several resurfacing layers had been added to the real height is lower. Or the road pitches to one side and someone measured the highest side not the low side
Montreal is super cheap though, but has the language issue.
I am Romanian, so I can speak it pretty well, and I am trilingual myself (though my French is pretty weak). The colleagues I was speaking of do not live in Romania though, and the Romanian company is just a subsidiary of a US company. All of the people I was speaking of live in their respective countries (the US, Germany, India, China, Italy). This is what I was getting at - if we have international trade and cooperation, we need a language to communicate across borders. Whether that is English or French or Mandarin is not the point, but that there must be 1 language that all of the people who want to participate in the conversation understand.

And while in work conditions some amount of multilingualism could be required, there are other venues like trade conferences where trying to handle people speaking tens or hundreds of languages would quickly become untenable for all but the greatest polyglot.

And Linus Torvalds is a great example. In a world without a lingua franca for IT, how could a Finnish student learn from and debate an American professor? Papers could be translated, but how would interactive discussion happen? Would Tannenbaum have learned Finnish or payed a Finnish translator if Torvalds hadn't known English?
That’s why I said essentially. They could do better, as could most in the industry. Competition is usually good in this regard for most laptops. The thinner they are, the less easy the repair can be.
I for one am very glad that my father-in-law doesn’t have the screwdriver that would open his MacBook. Otherwise it would already be broken.

One person’s “ploy” is another person’s “essential feature”.
Thus recommendation #1 - Use 5GHz only.

5GHz propagation across walls is much worse than 2.4GHz propagation, therefore only nearby neighbors may interfere with your access point, and on 5GHz there are enough non-overlapping channels to choose an alternate channel avoiding this interference completely.
I think it is not intentionally set up as negative. I think it is our perception since learning is hard. I have failed a lot in the last many years to learn (relearn) deeper concepts even though I wanted to.

So when I see "type 1/2" I automatically feel pressured. But that is my own incapability to stick to the subject, the books. My own procrastination. Learning is hard, escaping with an excuse about ego is way easier. Rust is already teaching me this.
New day, new chance to read the article.
"Intelligence research" is, like most of psychology, an elaborate grift designed to give a handful of people cushy tenured jobs. Actual geneticists, that is, people who study how genes actually work, wouldn't touch the standards of rigor of "intelligence research" with a ten foot pole. Note how people supporting Hsu tend to be psychologists while people dismissing his research tend to be geneticists. It's also worth nothing that Hsu is also out-of-field himself (he used to be a physicist) and only got recently into genomics. That he got stuff wrong that's basically understoood by the whole genetics community isn't that surprising.
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Agree. I have a lot of cables around my desk.

It’s not just video calls. My backup is done to a Synology NAS, upstairs. That’s all wired.
A minifier is better, but I find that snippet of code clear enough for personal use (el is element, t is tag, p is props, and c is children).

The small bytes also mean that for simple sites I can just copy paste it before transitioning to a real setup.
I'm from the UK, and have been to Houston several times for work. I can't think of Houston as a "city" - it has a small "downtown" area with some high-rise buildings, and a huge sprawl of strip malls, clusters of houses and disconnected gaited communities. As a European, it's very odd.
Not remotely comparable. Ford may not facilitate creating such a radio, but prevent it either. A company could figure out everything and sell a radio to a client without paying Ford or being sold to the customer by Ford or going via Ford at all or even losing warranty.

Ultimately, being a marketmaker comes with responsibilities. If Apple wants to close iPhones and support only Apple software they could do that. But as long as Apple operates an App Store and does not allow other methods of install, this comes with the legal obligation to play fair.
Hollywood and most industries don't set the standards, they use them to attract more people. Not everything we do/like/want comes from Hollywood, that's a stupid over simplification that some people use for their own peace of mind. The world is a very complex place where people prefer simple explanations to complex problems rather than admin they don't know.

How does the media suggest that women will automatically find men attractive? My experience says otherwise. You have to be fit, have success in life, have money, have a beautiful smile, which is NOT what incels are. All these "requisites" for a woman to find you attractive can be explained also from a biological point of view.
Private schools are a bane to society.
They mainly provide the well endowed separation from the less endowed, forming they're own clique which eventually creates a class system.
Not to mention that they deplete the public system from talent, exasperating the class issues.
Notice how none of them are actual geneticists. Prominent figures in the actual genetics community (e.g. Graham Coop or Ewan Birney) have dismissed most of his stuff.
Seconded. It's definitely worth spending some extra money on a reputable brand, rather than a generic low quality product with a meaningless name stamped on the box. For screwdrivers I stick with PB Swiss.
I was that kid. That sort of unauthorized disassembly is what powered (and probably still powers) my career. I suspect that holds true for a relatively large percentage of the HN crowd.

That's a clear strawman though, unauthorized in this context clearly meant 'not authorized by the manufacturer', it's not the parents that install safety screws to keep the kids out, it's the manufacturers that do it to keep the owners out.
Fair call. I love technology, but the way some parents use it as a babysitter really does astound me.
That will just cause people to pay less attention when they know they will get warned before driving in too small a tunnel.

I personally think things like red light with height detector or metal bars that bump into your truck and make massive amount of noise should be enough.

Water curtains with lasers projecting stop sign? That's just crazy. And we all pay for the infrastructure to save people who can't be bothered to stop before red light.

In my opinion if things like that start getting implemented this is just going to cause people to pay even less attention. Everybody should know to stop before red light.
No need to wait for apple. Low latency was a thing many years ago... Where we are talking about ~40ms over bluetooth.
>It is clear that prevailing capitalist, growth-driven economic systems have not only increased affluence since World War II, but have led to enormous increases in inequality, financial instability...

Globally it's not at all clear there have been increases in inequality. When I was a kid in the 60s '3rd world nations' were impoverished going on starving, now they are mostly prosperous, have 4G, plenty of food etc. China especially was getting by on maybe $300/yr GDP and now has western style prosperity. The US may be more unequal but there is 90%+ of the world that is not the US.

It may seem nitpicking but it's basically an essay on economics and it makes me disregard the rest a bit when they get basic facts wrong. Also in terms of stability things have been fairly stable given the pandemic, fingers crossed.

Re affluence and the environment probably what we need is pricing for externalities in things like fossil fuels - people can be rich in non damaging ways - make artworks and sell them to each other for $1m+, build eco buildings, gardens etc - it doesn't have to be SUVs.
I want to add something to this, something that I am understanding now perhaps because I have slowed down as a person. Learning is HARD, really really hard. More so when there are tons of social, professional and personal distractions.

On top of this I am chased by procrastination. I have gotten a much better grip at this. But just as an example - I have tried learning Rust at least 4 times before since Rust got highlight on HN I guess. I failed each each one. This time, I have at least gotten to the point where I opened the documentation on Vectors! My goodness, who am I? Complete lack of patience.

This directly causes me to sense pressure when I see statements like "type 1/2" engineer. It is not the material that is attacking me. It is my own failure hiding under the shelter of ego.
I simply can't imagine people playing serious games on mobile devices period.