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Nah, HTML was never valid XML. It started from SGML and didn’t close (most?) tags. Plenty of years later, XHTML rebased HTML atop XML, but failed in its efforts to convince people that this was worthwhile.
I think you're probably closer to the truth there. Even if it isn't an ISA university, my first guess is that it's a way of laundering government funding to create an institution under private control. (This is how most great universities get their start anyway, it's nothing new).

I'm sure ES also has a vision for a modern university that has merit, but I'd be skeptical if it was about more free inquiry and public service - probably more alignment with industry.

Google execs often couch their plans with claims about how it's going to be good for the world, especially partnerships with the government. For instance, the takeover of Moffett field to provide a place for the founders to park their jets, as well as space for the new Google HQ.
I have been trying for ages to articulate 'what happened to Agile' and recently had what I felt was a minor breakthrough.

Part of our problem is conflating practices with processes.

Scrum is all process, but few of them. XP has fewer processes than Scrum, but way more practices. Practices, by the way, that I've heard asserted more than once are the difference between a successful or a failed Scrum team - that successful Scrum teams are using half of XP. In other words, Scrum is simply underreporting the number and variety of success factors, making it look much simpler than it really is.

Almost all of the process in Scrum is performative. It's social. It's the parts that we have always struggled with, and that's precisely why the business folks 'ruined' Scrum so easily. XP is overwhelmingly practices of craftsmanship, a concept which some of the best of us enthusiastically embrace, and which remain opaque to people focused exclusively on emotional intelligence. The worst among us don't like the focus on self improvement. They'd rather talk their way out of it, and you can do quite a bit of talking in Scrum.
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We run this at work, and I have (to put it politely) severe reservations. What does these functions for you:

- Realtime GUI which works with windows 10 (we have a web site and nagastamon)
- aggregation of alerts / alert roll up
- sharing filters
- summary + description
- temporary downtime of alerting
- message rate suppression (to stop floods)
- filtering of columns/ordering etc.
- bulk actions for closing alerts

I've come from using:
- HPOV (great but can't handle bursts of alerts)
- email (everyone has to have filters, can't handle bursts of alerts that well (runs everyone out of email space!), prone to failure/delays due to email
- home grown solution
Interestingly, pedestrian injuries went up significantly after seatbelt laws, for the reason you note/deride.
> My next hobby car is going to be something purely mechanical. [..] For example: A 1988 Honda Civic

A 1988 Honda Civic isn't purely mechanical. It still has an ECU, for example. It still relies on electrical sensors for basic operation.

> Car enthusiasts want that sweet spot of purely analog controls, but also with working factory A/C.

There's no shortage of new cars that still offer that, too, or recently used. You don't have to go back to the late-80s to get that. It seems to be mechanical steering combined with low curb weight that you're actually focusing on, which is still a market segment receiving new models. You've basically described every Porsche up until the 2012 model year, for example (when they first introduced electronic steering). Or the entire Lotus brand. Or specialty cars like the Alfa Romeo 4c, Toyota/Subaru FRS/GT86/BRZ, etc...

And, of course, you can't forget the king of sports cars - the Mazda Miata. 30 years later & it's still just as light as it's always been. And just as good.

> Something like a BMW M3 E30 would be a dream hobby car for me.

There's so much more to a car than spec sheets, and you should absolutely chase your dreams, but realize you can also basically buy a brand new M3 E30 today. The power, weight, size, etc... of the E30 is withing spitting distance of the GT86.

Both are front-engine rear-wheel drive. Both have manual transmissions (although a 6-speed in the GT86 vs. the 5-speed in the E30). Both have a ~2700lb curb weight. Both have a 101 in wheelbase. The 86 is a bit shorter length, bit shorter height, and a bit larger width, but all within a few inches. Both have a 4-cylinder engine at around 200hp, and both rev to about 7000 rpm. Both have responsive, playful suspensions, and direct steering feedback.

Regulations definitely didn't kill anything here as the same core specs still exist.
Another benefit is re-usability. If you want your program to be callable as module or script from elsewhere without going through the tedious shell functions, "def main()" is the only way to go.
Yet there are still lots of people who work for various government and quasi-judicial organizations, and the military. Two big selling points:

(1) you will likely get lots of resources to do things that your typical private sector organization doesn't prioritize, like longer term research.

(2) Nobody thinks a job != your career anymore; you could start out with a few years in government service and get education & experience on their dime, then move into the private sector. As more opportunities to get started get harder to find or aquire, this will be a huge motivator.
A big part of that was that there were simply far less universities in the mid-late 1800s than there are now, so there was a demand - this is particularly true for the West Coast. Likewise, both Cornell and MIT, though private and philanthropist-funded, were also land grant universities, and part of a deliberate policy (starting with Lincoln) to increase the number of US universities, along with providing a more "practical" baccalaureate. In general the post-Civil War era in the US was a period of significant educational reform and expansion at all levels.
The Scholarship for Service program already exists in the US.

https://www.sfs.opm.gov/
I mean...if you're already at the point where you are willing to barter your equity with a bunch of dark matter...isn't the gig up? At what point does this level of "inside baseball" even put money in your pocket? Seems to only benefit the weaker by design, or drive mediocre pool members to sink lower as they believe that once in the pool, they at least get some scraps. Seems like the last gasp of the startup era - UBI for startups
I have zero idea what the point of your post is except calling my reply "Marxist" then linking to right-wing blog posts to prove something?

It's still controversial even if you label the other side as Marxist.
In other words, he's not spending his money, he's spending our money.

(Although that might make sense given the mission.)
> I agree with your post in general but consider that accuracy and being correct is hard and takes time and consideration

This seems like an even stronger argument for Facebook to defer to the independent fact checking rather than overruling it
In that world, since you don’t have bad actors, you would likely be ruled by a benevolent king or queen.

A large part of why have democracy and separation of powers is to protect from bad actors.

But yeah, not having to deal with bad actors can enable massive achievements. The pyramids were built when Egypt was more or less safe from any external invasion and ruled by god-kings who could coordinate massive building projects.
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What do you mean by backlinks are not possible? Do you mean in DokuWiki? Each page has a "What links here" button that shows backlinks - that feature is builtin.
Or a judge, or a politician, or a ceo, etc
I'm a fan of http://www.lisperati.com/

And

Land of Lisp: also by Conrad Barski

Even though, I bet like others, I have yet to finish it :(
The physics of the space elevator [pdf]
We’re talking about a difference in thickness of millimeters though. Was my 2014 Macbook Pro really that bulky? The prevailing sentiment over the last several Apple announcements seems to have been “fewer gimmicks, more power”. Maybe software engineers aren’t the target market for these computers anymore though, or perhaps my bubble is too small.
Porsche tests 3D-printed pistons for 911 GT2 RS
Shouldn't be a big deal if it's properly split into subcomponents and their props don't change with every rerender as well.
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The price in bitcoin of a basket of actual consumable goods went up significantly (ie, BTC's dollar value tanked). How is that not inflation?

Or are you claiming that was not "unpredictable"?
Vancouver real estates begs to disagree!
The new HHS website replacing the previous CDC data is displaying per-state hospital capacity data based on a statistical method outlined near the bottom of the page. Can anyone here speak to the effectiveness of the statistical method they chose?

Looking at AZ, their numbers are a good 8 - 10% lower than the AZ Department of Health Services numbers. And a quick glance at other hotspots like Florida, it seems their capacity numbers may be under-represented in the HHS data.

I don't know enough about statistical analysis to know if their method improves what may be imperfect data, or if it may be politically motivated to purposefully show lower numbers.

EDIT: Here is the method as outlined on their website:

Statistical Method: For hospitals that report both the total number of beds and the total number of occupied beds, calculate the percentage % of beds that are occupied. Next, weights are calculated for reporting facilities by taking the % of total beds associated to hospitals that report their numbers. Then, a total estimated number of inpatient beds is derived by dividing the total number of beds by the weight. Next, the number of unreported beds is derived by subtracting the number of reported beds from the total estimated beds to get the estimated number of unreported beds. Lastly, the total estimated number of occupied beds is calculated by adding the number of reported occupied beds to the expected number of unreported occupied beds (based on the binomial distribution). The above calculation is done by state and nationwide for all three of the metrics of interest.
Thin and sleek are "nice to haves".
Reduced environmental impact should be "musts".
Seems similar in concept to composite tank armor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobham_armour
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With 10s of thousands of miles of lines, it would be pretty monumental to electrify the entire US train system. Considering how efficient modern diesel trains are, That should be pretty low on our list of things to convert.

Nuclear trains might make sense with some of the newer reactors... but we know that'll never happen.
It's hard to interpret destroying the F-22 tooling as anything but malicious rent seeking imo.
Since the release of the paper, it has been noted that the paper contains some important calculation errors, e.g. Steel's tensile strength is much less than what appears on the paper.

Still, the conclusion should be that space elevators are essentially only possible with a material that has enormous amounts of tensile strength; the only candidate right now would be carbon nanotubes, assuming there will be a way to manufacture them in large quantities.
I really need to read more on antifragility. I feel like this comment deserves an intelligent reply and it's already out there.
What did they use to cut it for the cross-section picture?
Let’s see it resist oxy acetylene torches and plasma cutters.
Regular C will start someplace in the runtime library, which will do things like global initialization. Once that's complete the library will call main().

The OS determines the exact place in the code where execution starts. In DOS I think it was address 0x100. A more modern OS probably uses an executable file format that allows you to specify the starting address.
Reliance isn't an innovator. It's more like a contractor with deep pockets and political contacts. Gets laws and permits easily and deploys bought technology.
LV2 plugins aren't supported in Reaper but are in Ardour, this makes quite a difference in Linux. In my opinion the anywhere to anywhere routing is better in Ardour. That said, I moved from Ardour to Reaper and prefer Reaper.
If bike thieves have plasma cutters, we’re definitely in trouble.
The only Founderpool team members commenting are myself, csentropy, and manojdv
Yes, the descriptions are generic book descriptions and not specific to this list, but the list itself is curated. I see your point tho, you'd like to see context on why we selected these specific books.
I feel like this article wasted an opportunity to discuss the seemingly larger trend - the splintering of the Internet - and focused too much on the (current) landscape for India (in contrast with US/CN/EU)

I'm not an economist or specialist, but if I were to guess where the tech[1] world is moving towards, I'd look at established and mature industries like automobile manufacturing and trading. Or, to stay in the trade of intangibles (that is, services), Finance. I don't think there will be 3 or 4 internets, I believe that little by little each country will have its own internet and barriers to connection similar to how goods/services flow today: sometimes freely, sometimes not. This brings huge implications to current assumptions of growth for tech companies.

At the same time I believe certain standards will be built, and agreements made, that will allow what we understand as the Internet today to exist between some or many jurisdictions, just like there are places where you can easily import cars or consume international financial services. In other words, I don't see Americans being blocked from reading Euro blogs or something like that.

In the non tech world, roughly speaking, we went from protectionism to (varying degrees of) free trade, while in the tech world we will go from free trade to (varying degrees of) free trade. A leveling of expectations, if you will.

[1] When I say tech I mean mostly sv-like internet-based companies. Hardware always followed the same pattern as everything else, with some changes in the near future due to concerns about backdoors and privacy.
Pebble raised $10.3M in Kickstarter. I didn't find how many units that was, but with retail price of $99 that should fit your criteria. Also, was using eink.
True. But yes, it’s not an university. I also doesn’t deliver any kind of state recognized degree (IIRC), which can be a problem for visa applications.
Some of these countries has so much time to prepare for the future, while others were busy being railed by theocracies propped up by foreign influences in order to keep exploiting them for their oil. The later are being dropped like hot potatoes by their foreign influences and the former have taken action way, way, waaay too late.
Wikis also don't need (or indeed, even permit) cumbersome Git and PR-based workflows just to get changes into the "wiki". Better for it to be a single-page app that actually implements a wiki, than to provide a service that doesn't actually support wikis but has no qualms about throwing the word around anyway.
Forks are so easy in practice though that it seems magic/wishful thinking to assume there's anything particularly special about one branch's artificial scarcity. It seems axiomatic that in using a tree-based structure branches should be the natural and expected state and pretending the other branches don't exist is a fascinating strategy that I just have a rough time thinking holds over the long term, especially when trying to maintain something like artificial scarcity.
GE under his successor Jeff Immelt was definitely a mess. Under Jack Welch the situation was much more subtle. Source -- a book "Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success" that was published a few days ago. I coincidentally read the chapters on GE yesterday, which was written by somebody with extensive personal experience with the CEO's of GE. https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Titans-Companies-Industrial-S...
Thanks for noting your affiliation. The YC question came up because of the OP's comment "This is one of the most founder requested features in YC", which makes it sound like the company is well-connected to the accelerator.

How did you decide to do this as a regular post instead of a "Show HN"? Did you already do one, or make a strategic decision? Who else among the commenters is affiliated with the company?
If looking for some isolation entertainment there was what I thought an excellent series "The Tudors" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors) which is a fictionalised, but still fairly accurate in the big picture, retelling of Henry VIII's life, probably available on streaming services (Stan in Australia). I watched it in parallel with looking up most people who appeared on my phone to get more, and more accurate, details and found it all fascinating.

Hans Holbein plays a part as Henry's favourite painter and this is how I learnt about him.
That shift usually happens around year 1-2 for every software developer.
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Just for those that don't know, pitstops these days are under a few seconds. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAd_t4wibM0
Maybe because Stanford, Duke, Cornell, etc... still serve them well. It's not that they don't have huge influences into how those institutions work.
> For this they use so called neural graph networks (GNN). These neural networks rely on graphs instead of layers arranged one after the other.

This affirmation shows the author has little idea about GNNs. GNNs have layers, and each layer is a graph. In order to implement the graph GNNs use the adjacency matrix to propagate information along the edges. But there are multiple layers of GNN, without multiple layers they would not be able to do multi-hop inferences.
With all due respect, but this is overly simplistic thinking. You're implying that people in that region are somehow more predisposed to "terrorism" compared to people in other regions, and that due to instability, they will somehow turn to "terrorism" as the defacto way to support their families, putting aside their morals and ethics that prevent them from engaging in those actions to begin with. We've already seen what happened in the US at the slightest hint of instability (all the looting that took place in the past weeks, and in a bizarre manner, some by seemingly well off people as well).

Secondly, it's known that funding also comes from non-Arab countries, who have vested interest to see that region continue to be unstable, to further their own benefits.
yaaawn. this article is full of tired arguments. Bitcoin is a lot more like gold than a competitor to the US dollar or substitute for cash.
I know it is the southern end of New England but a friend of mine in Connecticut just switched to a pellet stove for heating his large home. He plans to pay for the stove in two winters worth of heating.
This thread is about infra monitoring, where any of the potential performance differences probably don't matter at all. If it does, show us.

I don't work for any time series database provider.
I will say it's a pretty awkward conversation to explain why we are again having a problem that we've already suffered through twice before.

Especially if the customer knows they are paying for our inability to figure out what the hell we are doing.
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This is great. Does anyone have an equivalent list for design and illustration software?
I'm with you. Also hopeful that the DF steam release comes with a slightly easier to use UI.

If you want similarly hilarious stories, try rimworld.
I think folks are getting hung up on "non-cuttable". That just means you can't remove material in a typical way with a cutting tool that shears off chips of material (a saw, grinder, drill bit, etc). They're not claiming it's indestructible-- just useful for certain scenarios.
This will fail not because it's a bad idea, but because the government will reject it.

Contrary to popular belief, established universities do a very effective job of preparing tech talent for government jobs. The issues, which Schmidt seems to miss, are twofold:

(1) the government, with few exceptions, is a TERRIBLE place to build effective tech skills. Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low paid, there is very little creativity and variety in which to build unique technology, and no reward for the BS.

(2) Current universities already prepare tech workers well. In some cases, there are even joint CS-Public Policy degrees (e.g., MSCAPP at UofC).

Those engineers with policy expertise just don't want to work for the government. I know; I was one of them, and I could not for the life of me find a policy tech job that paid even HALF what tech companies would pay me.

Schmidt should focus on building "the department of innovative technology" and pay engineers appropriately.
Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?
The paper describes the construction in some detail. It's an aluminum foam with ceramic spheres embedded in it. They then welded into a thin steel box to give it a uniform surface. If you watch the video, you can see that the grinder gets through the steel box very easily, but the deeper it goes into the aluminum, the faster it is worn away. The grinding wheel is destroyed in just a few seconds, which is pretty impressive. On the other hand I doubt that this will be useful for smaller objects like locks.
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> Do we want smaller, faster, more efficient computers, or do we want easily modable computers?

It's not about making them moddable, it's about making them more sustainable. Of course everyone's values differ, but wanting to repair your own stuff is something that has become more than just gimmicky, and for good reason in my opinion.
Hasso Plattner, one of the founders of SAP founded the Hasso Plattner Institut in Potsdam, Germany in 1998. It’s not a full fledged university, but a part of the university of Potsdam. A lot of the alumni work for SAP.
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And at least those can be run on prem. This thing we are talking about is already in walled gardens.
You're correct that they were already dumb, but it does actively remove knowledge from their heads and replaces it with harder-to-budge falsehoods. That sclerosis of the neurons makes them act like people even dumber than their natural state of stupefaction.
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I appreciate your inputs. But allow me clarify on a few points.

First, I'm not blaming the tech talent here. There is a difference between expressing disappointment and outright blaming. I understand that we're still in early stages of tech innovation. And there are entrepreneurs out there who are trying hard to solve fundamental issues.What I was suggesting that we can do much more if we given our talent pool. Read about the founder of ZOHO and how he has moved back in his village and trying to create job opportunities there in the tech sector. That's one way of thinking about it.

Second, I believe in the idea of building India with the power of technology not with any nationalist agenda. And being in the tech sector for a handful of years, I've plans of doing something in the mentioned areas in coming years.

Third, it's not about sacrificing one's career or life for the betterment of the country. If someone is working, paying taxes and contributing in the economy, that itself is enough. And entrepreneurship is about solving problems be it a problem in the urban economy or the rural economy. But entrepreneurship aligned more with large scale issues create large scale impact. We don't have to go back much in history to see that. :)