skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if it wasn't it still isn't

[citation needed]

A 10% change is not a 10% increase in profits, it's a 10% increase in margins. I could be going from 20% to 30%. I'd be making 50% more by porting my code to iOS than we previously forecast. Which also means I might invest more resources in doing it well which will also increase my profits. Because there is less risk involved with starting the project.

When you're trying to get a company to change directions, you need one really great reason or a lot of pretty good reasons. Sometimes one more reason is all you need.
> You can now spend 100k to get a car that never emits a single toxic chemical while being used.

Yes, but if the EV part is most important to me, why would I spend $100k on a Model S, when I can spend way less on a Model 3?

And if the luxury is most important to me, why would I spend $100k on a Model S, when I can spend the same amount of money on a Porsche Taycan, get a similarly performing EV, but with a luxury interior that blows Tesla completely out of the water?

The Model S has very little going for it right now, which is why the price has dropped considerably in the last year. It finally has competition, and it's simply not holding up very well.
> The title either refers to the art practised by the Magi (the Zoroastrian priests from Persia), or it refers to the fact that the discussion is a discussion about the Magi

In Aristotle's time, Magic / Magi refers mostly to priests and/or healers, not the "sorcerers" that we might have in mind today.
Do you use pfSense as a router, or something else?

I am on the fence of not buying Mikrotik or Ubiquiti and just get one of these boxes you mentioned. But I am not a network admin and have no clue about network protocols (yet).

My main idea is to return to Android but have very strict blacklists on my router machine so as to preserve privacy the best I can. And while Mikrotik routers can import various blacklists -- and even auto-update them! -- I am still not 100% sure about it and I wonder if I should take the leap to a small pfSense box that I control completely.

Do you have any opinion on this?
I Use Film: a history and hobby
They are betting on market growth driven by climate change as well as technology advancements that will drive battery prices down. Both are coming, imho.
The quarterly rebalancing of the S&P 500 is only relevant when companies already in the index change their free float (usually by issuing / buying back shares). New companies can be added at any time (with a few days advance notice).
It isn't clear these accounts are all being used in any high profile manner. For example the @L account mentioned in the article has 0 followers, follows 1 account, and has their tweets protected. I just started plugging letters in and saw that accounts @B, @C, @D, and @E are all suspended. And considering these accounts were seemingly hijacked by exploiting Twitter's inability to identify the original account holder, I'm not sure Twitter actually has a way to determine who that should be conclusively.
> few pounds

> 350 tons

what is the significance of this?
He was doxxed, not beheaded. It is a blog, not a courthouse.
Vox, LOL...
These 2 don't relate at all. By your definition, the service might as well be a platform for disc jockeys because computers and speakers both use electricity.
I'm not even really worried about cheating in this context (although that matters when you get to certification--a lot). I'm thinking more of: It gets the right result but it does so in a really crappy way. (And, yes, in some circumstances you can measure CPU time but you still mostly in RIGHT/WRONG grading.)
You are correct because they have now added a bullet point:

> Vulnerabilities found with an SRD are automatically considered for reward through the Apple Security Bounty.
I remember using XML-RPC back in the day to communicate between a desktop client and a web service. It was fantastic. And then designer went off with a committee somewhere and produced SOAP. The regret with XML is that it continued to evolve into a monstrosity.

Thankfully JSON came along and got back to the simplicity of early XML and XML-RPC and stayed there.
But they don't seem to offer boards based on AMD's R1606G which is super power-efficient. Nor do they offer dual 10GbE NIC boards. And they don't have good ready-made cases with good cooling. :(
Tech career tips for the 21st Century:

* Skip the degree. It's expensive and you'll never recoup the cost.

* Choose a sub-field carefully.

1. Avoid dead-end niches. An expert in the Linux kernel or Rust compiler is just that; there's nowhere to go from there.

2. The same goes for embedded systems and the like. Nobody cares if someone knows everything there is to know about car engine management systems.

3. Check the job openings. Some things are hotter than others.

4. But don't count them too much. Five or ten years ago, being able to spell "Hadoop" or "TensorFlow" meant that everything that came out of your pie-hole was gospel. Now, not so much. Look for things that are hot, but relatively unknown.

5. Bonus: UI/UX is a dandy choice; everyone needs them and the framework developers have gotten the formula down: change things often and deprecate fast.

* Remember, it's a career, not a job.

1. Always be hunting the next job.

2. Never stay at one place too long. If you can't change projects every 6-8 months, make sure you change jobs every 12-18 months.

* Network, network, network. No, not that HTTPS/BGP/OSPF crap. See point A1. Remember, who you know trumps what you know every time.
I have no doubts it’s possible to replicate the functionality in Rust. Most languages are Turing-complete, after all. What I have doubts about is performance parts, i.e. replicating the functionality without moving data from a single std::vector into randomly-allocated heap objects, or using synchronization primitives.

Another thing is usability, and especially readability. OpenMP C++ code is very readable, it’s just a for loop. The example on the page you have linked, on the other hand…

And by the way, when I want memory safety, I don’t code C++, I use C# instead. Much easier to use than Rust, IDE and libraries are awesome, C interop is same as in Rust, and last but not least even very complex software compiles in a few seconds. Despite what most people think it’s very suitable for lower-level system software, including latency sensitive stuff working on slow ARM CPUs, see this for an example: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo
Yeah, I also am guilty of liking to write static site generators more than liking to actually write something!
Hello! I'm slightly confused here, but I do agree with your statements.

Are you implying that Reploy should also support production Deployments? If that's the case, then yes! We're also thinking in that vain more long term. I personally feel like existing solutions have their downsides, and there's a lot of room for innovation in this space :).

Regarding the tradeoff, I'm mostly referring to existing large companies that have lengthy deployment pipelines. For them, Reploy is a good solution to "preview" changes before they go into production.

> It's just hard to justify the validity of a preview env if the deployment is different to that of prod

For the "preview" use case, it often makes sense. i.e. I just wanna make sure that a button works or something. But I do agree that the production/integration-testing similarity is missing here. This is where the Reploy for production idea is strengthened.

Last point: For really big companies, there's no way that their prod infrastructure would fit into a Preview environment. This is where Reploy (only staging) proves itself being a valid product on its own.

Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled, but really appreciate the interest/questions.
untrue for client libraries, they would care.

https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/
Here you go: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents
I’m a co-founder of Release. We can create/manage all envs from static builds with a single backend to production of very complicated apps.

But, we started with the idea of Review apps for more complicated apps than heroku can do.

There are many companies trying to solve this problem in various ways, or smaller parts of it, which is good, validated the space.
> visible effects of global warming won't manifest themselves until a century later: enough time for them and their kids

This is true for you as well. So why would they care less than you do?
The problem with education ‘pandemic pods’ suddenly popping up
Is Facebook purely harmful though, or is there also progress made in connecting people together?

And in any case Thiel doesn’t need to have a 100% perfectly “focused-on-your-definition-of-progress-only” track record to be worth listening to. Just apply that standard consistently and see how many people can fulfill it.

OTOH, building something like PayPal alone will make a lot of other people interested in what you’ve got to say. You cannot deny that someone who achieves such a feat when no one else does (besides Elon Musk) has some special insight. But the fact that you do deny that seems like it’s rooted in some form of subjective dislike.

Edit: just read your reply to sibling comment, confirmed my suspicion here.
Douglas Engelbart at Google (2007)
Published Docker ports bypass input filter rules
Very cool! Too bad we only have one cursor...it'd be cool to have friends join in as extra "fingers" and play melodies in a QWOP-like fashion :P
Definitely understand where tommy is coming from. From a timeline perspective, we are "copying release", but better put: we're working on the same thing :).
How does this compare to protobuf, thrift, msgpack etc?

It’s roughly the same vintage as protobuf and thrift, from google and Facebook respectively, so perhaps it’s just Amazon’s equivalent, which they just never released as quick as the others did?

Obvious pros and cons, or yet another serialization format with no obvious benefits over anything else?
https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-and-quantum-com...

What better than learn from Shor and Chuang?
Yea, I agree on all those points and that is what the company pushed back with. They compared the requested stake with what YC got (and it was 3 founders). I was (and still am) at the point where the salary was less important and if I was going to play that game it would be for a big win.

I am not chasing starting or being part of an early stage company so hard now though. After being miserable in my last role (Google) I stepped back and looked at the problems that keep me engaged (R&D). Found a company in that space and am very happy with what I do now (DARPA contracts!). If I ever have a side project that lands then I'd pursue it, but I'm not hunting for ideas like I used to. Just trying to find that happy life groove.
I have searched high and low everywhere on the most popular outlets that I could and I never found one of these with the dual 10GbE NICs. If you go to AMD's website that advertises machines made with these boards, _all_ vendors backtracked on dual 10GbE and reverted to dual 1GbE for reasons that none of them explain.

If you can point me at a store that actually sells a mini PC, say based on R1606G, _and_ it having dual 10GbE NICs then I'd be ecstatic. :)
A DaaS founder's monthly curated readings for June 2020
They can go on energy market where you can create local decentralized energy hubs running as franchise where they rent the infrastructure and you can throw internet package to the offer.
Yes, not only would it allow support for other programming languages but it would be orders of magnitude faster than JavaScript. I agree with pretty much everything you said.
Keeping one's name secret is not the same as restricting login access; it's more akin to restricting knowledge of your password. If you know a way to keep a password secret while also publishing it, let me know.

Yes, it's fragile, and most people doing this don't have great opsec. But in general it works fine, as the threat model of someone looking you up on Facebook doesn't require a great deal to defeat. It's really rather unhelpful, however, when someone with high Google karma decides to publish that information you want kept secret.
> Can you explain how their capex is decreasing

Capital efficiency. It should not be surprising that a greenfield factory built in China based on a spec you iterated on in Fremont, CA results in a much higher $/Cars/Day, a.k.a capital efficiency. Iterating on a live line in Fremont, CA is significantly more costly. It's like $/sq ft. for renovating your house versus buying new.

Also, look at the flow diagrams they've published on the floor layout and the path through a factory a car takes to go from start to finish in Fremont vs. GF3. This is also why they're moving to Austin.

> By the way, what's a "delivery"? I don't think I've ever seen them define it.

Of course they define it. In their Annual Report, under a section titled "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates", under a sub-section titled "Automotive Segment - Automotive Sales Revenue";

We recognize revenue on automotive sales upon delivery to the customer, which is when the control of a vehicle transfers. Payments are typically received at the point control transfers or in accordance with payment terms customary to the business.

> and yet they build inventory. Very opaque.

I'm not sure what you're asking here.
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So the general impression on Reddit is: Zara, the most fashion forward, quality so-so. H&M, moderately fashion-forward, quality hit-or-miss. Uniqlo, moderately fashion-forward, quality above average.

My Uniqlo pieces generally last at least 3 years with weekly wear. That's not bad at all. In the past decade, I've thrown out maybe 2 Uniqlo shirts due to fraying. Fast-fashion produces a lot of environmental waste, so quality matters.

They're the IKEA of clothing.
Stupid slack, I wish they fail. Teams is great and for free for many companies if they just subscribe to office 365.
Every house/business with solar roof and battery wall, with the elimination of energy utility monopoly across most of the world. Same thing spacex is doing for broadband and their are other companies pushing for self-contained residential water systems as well (although this one is harder for the public to swallow than the others).
Same reason I don't work at Google anymore. Picking up money off the ground all day is incredibly dull.
> Seem ridiculous, given that CSU has a budget 1/6th the size to manage. If anything, one would think the difference in salaries ought to be far larger given the vastly different scope and complexity of the two entities.

Why? I can't imagine the UC executive needs to, as an individual, do anywhere near six times the work just because they're managing a budget that's six times larger. I want both executives to do their jobs as well as they can, and that means they should be working about as hard as each other.
I wonder if showing a video/gif from reddit.com/r/eyebleach between viewings of disturbing content could reduce the toll it takes.

It sounds too simple to work, but worth a shot.
> "they could be worth trillions"

Trillions? 50x the size of Ford? Bigger than, essentially, the current combined value of every car company in the world at the moment?

How?
If you study and make 1 project for each subject of https://teachyourselfcs.com/ you can go toe to toe with any Stanford or MIT computer science undergraduate. You will have spent an order of magnitude less and will have an order of magnitude more experience. But you won't be able to slack or coast through, and you will mostly still be excluded from elite institutions just as you were before you began.

If your only interest is studying computer science, even at the expense of all the privileges university education incidentally provides, then I don't see any downsides.
I thought you were trolling with the colors, but there is actually content below the fold, which I completely missed.
VW has over $200 Billion in debt, and are spending $100B on the transition to electric. Buying VW at this point is crazy risky.

There are currently ~10 major automakers outside of China and India. In a decade, there will be less than 10. The only one I am confident that will be sticking around is Tesla. The others have a difficult transition to electric ahead of them and possibly a difficult transition to self-driving and will possibly have to deal with strong Chinese competition. Not everyone will successfully transition. Perhaps spending heavy on the electric transition like VW is the right approach. Perhaps letting everybody else take all the risks and swooping in late like Toyota is the right approach. I don't know.

The only manufacturer that I'm confident of being around in 10 years is Tesla. Some of them will transition well and will likely sell more cars than Tesla and have an enterprise value larger than Tesla in 10 years. And some of them will go bankrupt or be swallowed cheap like FCA-PSA.

That being said, I significantly reduced my holdings in Tesla this year. I'm pro-Tesla, but not at current prices.
In Australia, there has been an increase due to failings of the state government of Victoria in poor practices by guards of returned travellers in forced quarantine resulting in its spread, particularly to public housing apartment complexes[1]

As this jump occurred during school holidays, it looks like Melbournians have spread it to NSW as well which is why there is a jump in NSW. [2]

Australia would still be in a relatively good position if it wasn't for the incompetence of the Andrews Government.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/coronavirus-quarantin...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/national/melburnian-linked-to-sydney-...
[2]
embrace extend extinguish

also

https://xkcd.com/927/
Let's not forget about comments.

A well written piece of code will only tell you what it does, a good suite of tests will teach you how to use it, but only natural language documentation - be it in comments or separate documents - will explain to you why the code exists in the first place, and why it looks the way it does.

(As for "self-documenting code", unless a lot of your functions contain the word "because" in their name, the code isn't really self-documenting.)
The conversation was about suites not individual applications. Even though you can use some of the separate GSuite applications for personal use, you cannot get GSuite for free. There is no free tier.

Likewise, there is no free tier of Office/Microsoft 365, but there are free services that are considered part of this suite. How many of the 200 million monthly active users are customers? How many users were paid? If a person uses the free tier of OneDrive, OneNote, or Skype they are not considered a customer even though they are an active user.

When you compare, you do like for like. The comparison is GSuite to Office 365, and many independent studies have said Google has a larger market share.
Hi,

I personally have a similar background to you, with ~15 years of software engineering.

I second some of the comments: I really started understanding quantum computing much better when I sat down and worked through the problems of the Nielsen and Chuang book ("Mike & Ike") - the first 4 chapters should give you a solid start. It starts from theoretical base and does cover some of the applications of QCs as well, though from that perspective there are a bunch of newer results that are not represented in it yet (e.g. QAOA/VQE, NISQ era algorithms, etc.). Some basic linear algebra is definitely needed though, it takes effort and practice to build up familiarity there if you are rusty on it (I was).

Also, I would like to plug open source contribution as a vehicle / forcing function for learning. I started contributing to Cirq (https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq) starting last year in my free time (as well as some of my work time at Google) and I learned a ton through that. I now work on Cirq full time. OpenFermion, qsim, Tensorflow Quantum are all projects that are excited to have new contributors.

The reason I mention my journey because it shows that you don't need formal training in quantum physics to become productive in the quantum computing community (it can definitely help though). However, the field is very deep and is moving very fast, I very much consider myself a noob and rely heavily on the expertise of others for contributions, and I spend a lot of time reading and learning still every day - including other chapters of Mike & Ike, Preskill's notes (http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/), papers and online tutorials from other platforms that can help shed light on a particular topic.

Also, don't forget to check out https://algassert.com/quirk - a very useful in-browser quantum circuit simulator written by Craig Gidney, who also was one of the main creators of Cirq. Even more inspiringly, he also, with very hard work, grew from a software engineer into a quantum researcher without formal training. His words: "My learning was heavily based on explaining things to the computer and then having the computer show me the consequences of what I explained." - he also recommends this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4.

Hope this helps!
The CU site is likely tied quantum gyros and axial sensors. Think super precise positional sensors.

Quantum technology is more than just computers.

Anyone know of any good quantum tech based companies in Boulder?
I like what you've done, so don't take this the wrong way. I'm playing devils advocate here because I think it helps strengthen our understanding.

One thing I've noticed is that 1) your stock picks are almost exclusively in the tech sector and 2) your initial pick was in April in 2019 so there isn't a lot of data to drawn conclusions from.

As an example, simply buying XLK (technology ETF) on the same start date gives an absolute return of roughly 43% and gives potentially less systemic risk (I haven't calculated the exact risk numbers for your portfolio, but it's probably a safe bet given it's diversification).

Instead of measuring strictly on % return, I would suggest measuring performance in a way that factors in volatility as well.
Good stuff! I made a sudoku in CSS (https://identicalsnowflake.github.io/sudoku.html) a while back, but it looks like the variable trick mentioned in the readme is a more straightforward way to embed logic, so if I were to make something similar today, I'd probably pursue that route.
But why would they become the Apple of electric cars? Why do you think they have better chances than anyone else? The market, to me, seems to show that most people still buy non-electric cars. Once that flips, any other much bigger car manufacturer could start producing more electric cars. There doesn't seem to be any rocket science to it.

Back in the 90s I bought a Rio PMP300. Before anyone knew what MP3s were, it was the first mp3 player out there. That didn't help them when people did care about mp3 players - bigger players just came and ate the cake. I'm not sure what makes Tesla a different story. Seems like it was supposed to be "Autopilot", but we all know how good that's going.