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While I am a software engineer, I don't particularly identify with your self-ascribed and generalised engineers' view. Maybe I'm different because I've previously manned help desks. Maybe I'm more neurotic than you are.

I always design from a perspective of having experienced a lot of truly horrible software, from websites that require spelunking to find the nugget you came to find to HR time-tracking applications that don't even allow you to define a standard week.

While I do assume people like using software and all the cool features, that stance takes a backseat to thinking about how to:

* fit flows to what they actually want to achieve

* minimise the amount of data entry and clicks

* produce meaningful messages (errors, tooltips and descriptive text)

* not overwhelm the user with features irrelevant to the current view/flow.

I'm by no means particularly knowledgeable in "formal" UX, but I find focusing on usability does make users appreciate your software more. YMMV
How do you validate that the machine readable sqlite db has the same content as the human readable?
It's unlikely we live in a dark forest. The resources necessary to execute entire civilizations across interstellar space would be literally astronomical.
I have wondered about this too. I suppose the reasoning is that every solar system has a massive source of energy in the middle of it, and that mega civilizations would be stupid to not utilize it.

Sounds probable, but I can see many possible reasons not to bother. Not to mention it is speculating about technology so far ahead of our own that it seems silly. 50's predictions of rocket belts and nuclear powered cars come to mind.
Yes.

My Chinese friends are joking on this "California on Cloud" scenario. (GCBD is called "Guizhou on Cloud" in Chinese)
More importantly, they own Datalogix, which aggregates loyalty card details for retail.

This means that Oracle are legitimately the best people to answer the question of which half of your advertising was wasted for offline sales.

Weird, right?
The issue is that you don't really need a study to open up a table of statistics in demographics department.

Your post just did a study on that topic. Should you get funded for that?
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter
Frankly, good riddance.
Stitchfix blog posts are always very smart with a lot of equations but last time there was a article about the company on HN and the comments were saying things like 'I have explicitly told them not to send me white shirts and they keep doing it'.

I find it a bit paradoxical.
This is classic jugaad. Well done, and to great effect!
So the answer is this will never be fixed? Just a big RegExp essentially, is the path to avoid $250k per fines? A Persian friend was craving his mother’s cooking, so we went to a restaurant which he Venmo’d me for and we got a stupid flag because his note said “Iranian”. That’s borderline culturally inappropriate considering these companies have a long history of all our other good-standing transactions, they already have massive data from third-parties they purchase from about our offline identities, they have our geolocations whether we like it or not. There is a vast asymmetry of information between these companies and the public they service. They have the advantage, so why not apply that advantage to not flag a small-charge restaurant outing in one of the country’s most well educated neighborhoods, and use something more sophisticated than a silly-string dictionary lookup to determine when to flag.
I can't support a community full of apologists for these awful pyramid schemes
This would come across as extremely tone deaf from teachers that are on low salaries, paying out of pocket already for student tools and consumables.

There are quite a few posts in this thread where 'check your privilege' applies.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMath#Software_packages_con... for an overview of what Sage contains. Sage is like a colonial organism rather than an individual, and maxima is one of the packages that provides CAS features in Sage. Some other packages like SymPy, do too :)

The integration between the various packages in sage it exists, but it's a bit clunky.
I dont disagree with the premise that credential based tertiary education credits for jobs are pointless and a genius can come out of any university. You can do well despite of where you studied. There are people who succeed in life due to no talent and just connections.

However, this analysis is just based on outright flawed data. The author has no idea about how education system works in India, or deliberately chose to ignore it because this is what could be done on the data they had accumulated. And I am not talking about the disclaimer about data sample being small, the entire model is wrong for majority of Indian students.

Couple of things I want to comment on when you look at the article and the original paper :

1. The study treats few public institutions as "elite" and private institution as for non-elite people. That is wrong. There are private institutions which are elite too. My alma-mater is one of the elite ones and it was not a public university. This is the least problematic error in analysis.

2. The assumption is a common academic score being used to score university students. For college entrants in early 2000s (the time period when the survey respondents applied to colleges), people had to literally give 50 different entrance exams to get into universities. The score which is used to evaluate who was marginally better to get into elite university and who was rejected (the entire premise of the article), IS NOT what is used to decide entrance into universities in India. Its getting slightly standardized now, but was really chaotic 15-20 years back. There is a common exam that people give at secondary / senior secondary level but very few universities entertain them at entrance. Actually there are many "boards" to give Senior Secondary exams as well. Net net, there is very large variety of ways by which universities in India take entrance. Even the elite ones. I think, given the author is from the field of economics, they are overgeneralizing. A few (not all) economics elite universities do treat senior secondary tests as entrance criterion.

3. Exit exams used to compare academic credentials of students to see if they are academically better than the other DO NOT EXIST ! They dont even exist now and there is no point of them existing. Every public/private university in India (at least the elite ones), have their own grading/curriculum. So the academic credentials cannot be compared directly. With different universities having different grading method, people having somewhat similar academic distribution is a known thing (I dont recollect the name of the phenomenon exactly, but its studied and published). That said, it doesn't go with how the data has been modeled here.

Overall, the author's model is wrong for many (50%+) of Indian students. They might be referring to economics colleges (given they come from field of economics) Delhi University, Mumbai University and Kolkata University type of institutions where their model of tertiary education fits correctly, but in that case her analysis doesn't work well for most of "India". Totally wrong messaging.
Its slow, large, and statistically worse than modern PRNGs- and jumping ahead takes longer and a more complicated algorithm.

Even a truncated 128-bit LCG has far better properties.

See https://www.pcg-random.org/index.html

The homepage might come across as a a little overzealous (for example ChaCha quality listed as good rather than excellent), but generally has good points.
For one thing it would not work if the attacker has physical access to your machine.
In the last century, people were all worried about nuclear armageddon. This was not an idle fear, see the Cuban Missile Crisis. And, of course, there were all the global wars.

I find it strange that people think this century is uniquely stressful.

My theory, unencumbered by evidence, is parents have successfully removed all chance of failure, injury, risk and need for effort from children, and so children never learn to deal with adversity. Eventually, the kids are old enough to face problems their parents can't insulate them from, and they have no coping skills.
Shale oil/tar sands really are a truly disgusting and ongoing environmental catastrophe for which there can be no reasonable explanation in 2020, and about which Canadians should be ashamed. If there were any justice in the world Canada would have sanctions applied to it over this years ago.
Many people stick to the standard speed of 130km/h.
> I went to an "elite" Indian college. Anecdotally, I can say the quality of education was quite a bit higher than what could be had at non-elite colleges. I can also say with reasonable certainty that the large salary difference is mostly due to signalling.

The same is very much true for "elite" universities in the UK. The education is genuinely better, but the amount of extra weight given by employers is disproportionate.
Just a question:

Is i really a good idea to download voting data over a unencrypted ftp?
I wonder if that is only the case for the 21st century.

Buddhists have been looking at how to live an awesome life for thousands of years now.

And the main theme they have been tackling right from the start was how to not worry and reach calmness of the mind.
It's more interesting to say "does the Chinese government have control over this company?"

Does the ceo/founder have family in china that can be held hostage?
The last time I tried rg with pcre2 disabled (OpenBSD 6.4?), it SEGFAULT even with wxallowed :(
Got me.
Chromium's URL Experiment
It seems the PDF standard is ahead of you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467959 :-)
Nonsense, there is no magic in whether it's free enterprise or government led.

At this stage I'm amazed that anyone still believes that national control means universally better outcomes, considering the historical record of such government led activity.

What we have here is Goodhart's law in full effect, and it'll happen irrespective of who leds it.
RISC-V is only a tiiny player in the low end embedded space (there are only a few parts actually available with that instruction set) and no competition at all at the high end.

Maybe in a decade or so it may be more relevant but not today.
Calling this a "fundamental threat" is a tad exaggerated.
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At least a couple of non-technical reasons: I believe Maxima was open sourced a few years earlier (1998 vs 2001) which helped it get established. Maxima was also supported by a rather prolific open source developer which probably helped a community coalesce around it. Axiom, on the other hand, looks like it was more of a 'throw it over the wall' open source project which only happened after it failed commercially.
One of your links is broken
LaTeX does not support PDF/A btw.
man-pulled sledges

TBF, that wasn't really part of the plan. They had tractors that failed, and ponies that ended up as emergency food. The failure was really to identify when they should quit. By then, the British public were demanding a "Race to the Pole" with the Norwegian group, equipped with "battle-tested production-ready" dogs (there's a software planning lesson).
Still, your own carbon emissions are reduced significantly if you never fly or drive or eat meat.

Individually we can only be examples for people to copy.
Yes. Fusion is not short game and should not be treated as one. Not funded like it either.

It will be very useful when we get to space, for example, unless we figure out something better.
Much fewer problems with it than with nuclear up there. (Especially with getting fuel.)
It’s quite rooted in game theory:

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Basic_AI_drives

The above link is about AI, but it could apply to any alien species just as well.

Any organism living in a thermodynamic universe and subject to competition and evolutionary pressures will develop instinctual drives that align with resource acquisition, replication, and survival. As the above link details this surprisingly holds true even when you remove evolution and consider designed minds.

Even if a hypothetical civilization didn’t care about resource acquisition, replication and survival, they’d be out-competed by one which did. So where is that civilization’s ever expanding sphere of Dyson clouds?
> Public schools are generally very good about providing a variety of extra-curricular activities to keep students focused upon athletic and scholarly activities outside the classroom if the student is willing to participate.

I think you’re greatly underestimating how much the college admissions game has changed in recent years. For top universities (like the better UCs, Ivies, etc.), being, for example, president of a club in one’s high school is essentially irrelevant. The paths to admission consist of: (1) being a top athlete, (2) significant extracurricular achievement (meaning state/national accolades, founding a non-profit, etc.), or (3) extreme adversity.

You’re absolutely correct that the SAT rewards those with wealth and resources the most. But the absurd time and resource investment required of modern high-schoolers and their families to participate in extracurriculars in the way top colleges now demand is far greater a burden than SAT prep.
Whoops. Its Ferran not Ferren.
Too many people say stuff on subjects they're not qualified to speak about. Occasionally you get someone who knows his stuff, and I've no reason to disbelieve his PhD claim. A sarcastic response doesn't seem appropriate here.
On the other hand the tech war is a warning signal for us to decrease our dependency on US technology and going back to building our own stacks.

Ironically these kind of decisions might just give enough boost to Tizen and Harmony to hit hard Android's hegemony.
Just to be pedantic, because look where we are, the bag of water is called "head".
Yep. And that's why these massive engineering companies that now are forced to find ARM-alternatives are going to go for something else.
But you don't know what privacy you have or don't have.

And they can install an update to covertly 'track and trace' you. How do you even know that this is what is being done?

Frankly, I think this was already possible to do. If anything I'm slightly mystified as to why this was announced as if they didn't already have the capability.
I wonder how much wave it is going to be if we start getting RISC-V ISA "distributions".
“the trees have absorbed CO2, so burning them is CO2 neutral” is correct as far as it goes, but it completely ignores externalities and second-order effects.

If you burn biofuels you encourage people to clear-fell forests to grow biofuels, as happens in Indonesia and Brazil.

If you promote burning biofuels, you divert attention from cleaner alternatives (Solar PV, wind).

If you make a big deal about biofuels, you create the impression that nothing really has to change.
Right, but that's a different model. The 2GB CE's are otherwise identical to each other aside from bug fixes.
Yeah the biomass thing in the UK is an absolute joke - cynical greenwashing. So much of what I hear makes me question whether Oxbridge humanities graduates should be kept far, far away from any decision making involving science:

'James Woodley, an Environmental Biologist and resident of Northampton County, North Carolina, an area severely affected by wood pellet production for Drax’s biomass burning, said: ‘Now that the forests are gone, so is the sense of community. Dust is everywhere, even people are breathing in dust and becoming sick from it. When Enviva [a Drax pellet supplier] moved to our community, and to other poor communities in the Southeastern US, the company promised to bring hope to the hopeless, to reduce poverty, but what they ended up bringing was truckloads of logs, daily, constantly barrelling through.’'

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2019/drax-protest-pr-2/
With Nvidia buying ARM, RISC-V might get a big push and investments from parties who preferred the independence of the former ARM Ltd.
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They're not related, but the common name for Aronia is chokeberry, which should give you some idea of the unprocessed taste.
Yeah, no. While it's true that modern upper middle class anglosphere urbanites torture themselves with completely optional neurotic bullshit, most of the rest of the world is pretty relaxed and may even experience a higher standard of living.
I'm no chemist and my interpretation is dodgy but purification will (I guess) be to get 'clean' phosphine. But it's not needed pure in venus' atmosphere, it just has to exist. IOW you don't have to purify phosphine to bring it into existence.
#2 reminds me of Benford's Law, which I recently learned about and find truly fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Big server rooms and fabrication labs in the middle, and some support staff in cubicles.
RePet!

https://youtu.be/CtoLvF_TlSA
This is a personal obsession of mine. I don’t subscribe at all to the philosophy of “just build and ship it and let the users give feedback on any bugs.” I think that’s totally a misunderstanding of agile - agile assumes that your code was working before shipping. This idea that code can never actually fully work and bugs are fine is frustratingly cavalier. How can we sell products that don’t do what they claim to?

Beyond the philosophical, software correctness is a deeply interesting problem with many different angles of attack. The most recent ray of hope for me has been learning TLA+. It answers so many questions about the complexity of software, and has such a relentlessly elegant design that simplifies so many aspects of understanding software. Software behavior is a sequence of states - nothing more.

When we write code, we’re attempting to encode all possible state sequences, the number of which can be astronomical, as this article references. But it’s quantifiably large - we can know the exact size of the state space. Software is not some metaphysical phenomenon that is beyond mastery.

It can be built to work correctly, it just requires a desire to move beyond the current tools that we have which are focused on easy construction. We’ve focused all of our energy on just enabling the construction of any software in the past 60 years - we need to now move on to enabling correct software.
Bucketing Your Time
You cannot simply absorb all the energy of the star and never emit it. The waste heat has to go somewhere. An efficient Dyson sphere would still emit lower energy infrared radiation in a way that would be detectable from out space-based observatories.
You have a cool story and thanks for sharing it but how much of that is survivorship bias? Also, out of professional curiosity, how many clients did you get in Austria.
See my blog article over Oberon, you will find screenshots for AOS.

Also have a look at Mesa/Cedar, as it was the inspiration for Oberon ideas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450970

Comments include a link to one hour demo on YouTube with members of the team.

As idea, many of these concepts can be done on modern OSes, on top of something like COM/D-BUS/gRPC/XPC, but none of them go as far as they did.
Im pretty sure the Chinese would rather just use ARM and keep on moving along their current trajectory and existing long term plans.
That seems highly inaccurate.
You can't presumably, you have to take it on trust. It's a neat idea. Getting structure from text dumps of PDFs is no fun.
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The problems with that approach come from trying to de-skew the data, and then from sampling the data into whatever port you're using.

Here's a document from 1997 that looks at some hardware RNGs and how they fail: http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html
It needs to be said that US admin interfering/forcing this deal citing "national security" concerns in a situation where US companies already dominate social platforms sends a very, very strong signal for other countries to demand social data to be stored on their respective soil as well. It's the end of the illusion of a competitive market in the "internet" and will have far-reaching consequences. In which world would EU, India, South/Mid America give a free pass to US oligopolies capturing almost all advertising revenue?
> The glass broke on the Cybertruck.

First of all, even if the glass broke. The window still worked. If it was a normal truck, the ball would have gone straight inside and killed the driver.

Its called a prototype for a reason and they have demonstrated the technology and multiple experts confirmed that this is in fact a viable technology.

> The battery swap demo has never materialized and there’s doubt it is feasible.

No there isn't. They had a working system, they demonstrated it and it was in open beta. And again, NIO has this working in China. Its literally just undoing 4 screws and let the battery fall out. I really don't understand why you feel the need to come of with a conspiracy theory on this.

The fact of the matter is that its a system that is simply not needed for 99.9% of situations and makes no operational sense for Tesla.

It is technologically clearly feasible but it operational impractical.

> They continue to show photos of a sleek, modern giga-factory with solar panel roofs. Meanwhile their factories look like any other car factory.

They are car factories? And they are modern looking. I don't understand what your problem is. They are very modern factories if you actually study what goes on in them. You just want them to put more solar cells on them? Is that your issue?

I really don't get what you complain about. The factories they build are being built very fast, and the have very good ROI if you look at their operational leverage. So they do exactly what Tesla says they do.

> Their self driving tech has some cool demos of what the computer “sees” but there’s no evidence it’s close to being available or that it’s any better than where other companies like GM are with the tech.

If you actually believe GM is just as far as Tesla then you haven't use those systems. They are clearly not.

> I’m not trying to dump on Tesla - they’ve done a lot to push the industry forward. I’m just saying I think they generate a lot of hype but don’t deliver and they may have people confused on where they really are.

It seem like you are nip-picking everything Tesla ever did wrong or not perfect and add some conspiracy stuff on top and ignoring everything they have delivered on.

That they delivered the Model Y early with excellent margin and low additional CapX. That they build up Giga Shanghai as fast as they did within a month are gone deliver Model Y from there. That they have managed to be profitable while they are still scaling and building factories like crazy. That they survived Covid with flying colors.
there's a good overview of what it is about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH92s7iom0
Though the foundation did move to Switzerland for sort of this reason:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-...

U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed with Pentagon support will soon move to Switzerland after several of the group’s foreign members raised concerns about potential U.S. trade curbs.
If I were Facebook I'd offer to pay for Oracle to buy it. What better way to kill off an upstart social media app popular with young people than to have Oracle run it! Zuck must be thrilled.
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