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Where I work I've had to hire people who can write well about complex computer science topics. The nice thing about PhDs is that they typically know how to write well. Most software engineers are terrible writers. In general, most engineers are terrible writers.

When I look at a resume and I see that someone has a PhD and has published a few papers I am much more comfortable hiring them. They almost definitely know how to approach a large writing project and break it up into smaller pieces. They've had training in how to work on large writing projects and they have atleast 1 experience of doing so and finishing it. Of course I've encountered PhDs that are terrible writers, but they're an anomaly.

I doubt this transfers well into other fields or positions where writing matters less. Most programming positions don't require strong writing skills, for example. All other things being equal, when I am hiring I prefer PhDs over non-PhDs, because in my experience they're better writers.
Ah, so you are making a formal argument? In that case you should stick to formal language. And probably publish it in a different venue :)
Wouldn't this apply to just about any PC producer? Including Apple ...
Anticipating a ‘Second Wave’
Try Davinci Resolve

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And hitting higher clocks, for longer, as a result.
They built it, but people did not come: the cautionary tale of Quibi
Well, when windows NT was getting implemented UTF-8 hadn't been invented yet. Also as Windows NT was a new OS, there wasn't a big need for backward compatibility.
What is surprising is the WFH is sort of the default, people have always worked where they live. Whether you are farmer in 1500 Congo or a chinese blacksmith in the Qin dynasty. Life is work.
Rust is not "trying" to replace anything. Rust can and is used plenty for embedded programming where only C was ever used previously. People have commented they prefer writing simple command line applications in it more than they do python.
I have to agree that writing is thinking. In fact, in my opinion it gets to the root of why humanity is what it is.

This lady is writing about writing. This is recursive. Humanity has the ability to think conceptually and recursively about things - this is thinking about thinking. This act opens the world to creativity in a way that is not possible for other creatures.

Eg we can think about a table as a concept - it brings to mind something like "Four legs, a flat solid top". As a concept though, we can take those bits out it and ask things like 'What would a table be with no legs?' or 'what would a table be without a solid top'.

This is how easy it is for us to play with concepts - thinking about thinking. And then write about it.
Please add `return false` or `event.preventDefault()` to your keyboard handlers!

Otherwise the browser assumes the page didn't do anything with the events and uses its default keyboard handlers. I have find-as-you-type enabled, and pressing keys launches search for me. Handlers need to "eat" the keyboard events to prevent default browser behavior.
> It's funny because Apple's vision of the "computer" isn't really a tool for the kid but a means to control them and use them for value extraction, as we know.

Really? My kid uses their iPad for content creation and whatnot and as far as I can tell they aren't controlled in particular. The only value that is extracted is that from my wallet for additional apps.
I can wholeheartedly recommend his channel.

In particular his recent "Lockdown Math" series taught me a lot.

I knew and used trigonometric functions and exponentials before but they never really "clicked".

Grant is a tremendous educator.
This sounds scary. AFAIK wake word activates the advanced speech recognition. Wake word speech recognizer is a more "primitive" speech recognition model, which can't understand anything other than the words it was trained for (like "Hey Google" or "Alexa").

So, now, removing it means the advanced speech recognition runs all the time? Which is always 'on' and can understand everything spoken? Sounds like potential privacy invasion.
What's the point of these posts? It's an opinion based on nothing else than a hypothetical anecdote. Is it motivational posts for HN readers--is this what "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" these days?
I couldn’t build that for $30 even if I had the tools already.
Might be that your computer is infected. I would try to use a complete "blank" PC for log in. If this does not work: Out of ideas. Is there a YouTube contact (I bet even if, its going to be difficult to resolve this issues due to the high automatisation of YouTube)?

Might be a nice blog article if you write down your steps how to resolve such problems.

Also: good luck!
Don't drivers decide when to work, just open the app and login or whatever and start driving?

IANAL and have UK perspective (and AFAIK they remain independent contractors here, but I'm not sure if it's settled) but to me, (IANAJudge though..) that's a sufficient test for the difference between zero hours contract employee and independent.

They're not getting given their hours for the week (right?) they're just showing up and working.
Open camera...but the interface is well not anywhere close to this.
http://john.ankarstrom.se/html2/

>Sustainability is also the one of the many reasons why my web site is served over HTTP and not HTTPS. The problem with HTTPS is that you need to get a certificate from a trusted authority, which either costs money or is free but needs to be updated every month, and even if you pay for it, you need to renew the certificate every year or so. If the operation of your blog depends on a monthly certificate renewal from Let's Encrypt – even if the renewal is set up to be automatic – it is less sustainable than serving your site over HTTP. HTTP will always be around, will always be supported and will never require a certificate.

>Another problem with HTTPS is that it is very difficult to revert back to HTTP once you have started using HTTPS. Every outside link to your web site will be incorrect, and you can't redirect HTTPS traffic to HTTP without a valid certificate. In other words, once you start using HTTPS, you will be forever dependent on the certificate renewal process.
I don't really understand why in 2020 there's still this kind of blind hatred against this language. It often comes from horrible bad memories from previous versions or old frameworks.

Objectively, compared to other languages i've been working with it is more than OK. Despite it's lack of "style" it is easy to understand, host, tests, diagnose and it is powerfull for web applications.

I've been working on a SaaS API with Symfony now for 2 years, our metrics are good...

It is a good tool, it builds good softwares

It's essentially sinking in popularity because of bad faith and lack of hype, really sad !
Most of those things are stuff you'll encounter if you read up on Hamiltonian MC and information field theory, but it might take some additional reading to get all the required background knowledge.

The first two are just tricks really. For the weighted estimates you just go from:

log(P) = \sum log(P_i)

to

log(P) = \sum w_i log(P_i)

and for the sufficient statistics you get derivations like:

log(P) = \sum_i (1/2) (x_i - m)^2
= \sum_i (1/2) x_i^2 - x_i m - (1/2)m^2
= (\sum_i (1/2) x_i^2) - (\sum_i x_i) m - (1/2)m^2

to show that (\sum_i (1/2) x_i^2) and (\sum_i x_i) fully determine the posterior distribution.
not mud slinging. i should have put a "/s" at the end if you didn't get it in the first instance. sigh
I totally agree. What I'd actually welcome these days is a web "glue language" which adheres to what PHP wanted to be in the beginning (easy HTML output, one file per page, easy database querying, easy CGI interfacing), but without any OOP bolted on (C-style procedural would be fine), without any of the horrible security decisions, and with strong typing.

It would make a nice counterpoint to all OOP-style web dev languages (Django, RoR, PHP8+framework + routing logic) and all frontend-focused frameworks (React, Vue). Super-simple, super old-fashioned, but rock-stable and easy to kickstart a small website or prototype, and great for teaching (nothing is easier than "drop a index.lang" file in this directory and you have a website).
Smaller "Class B" Ekranoplans (like the Orlyonok [1]) could also fly like an airplane, I wonder if "hopping over" ships would be an option also for the bigger ones if avoiding traffic is a design goal (I guess since the Lun was a cold-war weapon system, avoiding civilian traffic wasn't all that important).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok
Memes aside: thanks, you really did save me a click.
The fact that this is at the top of HN at 3am gives me hope.
I mean, obviously it would be the case for NVENC. Old(er) versions don't even support B frames.

But I guess you can call it "firmware" or "software" dependant too, because they don't really use/support the same version of NVENC to begin with.

And I doubt the result is significantly different, if any, for software encoders like x264 - of course assuming you use the exactly same version and parameter.
That’s a big driver for process maturity. Mature organizations are constantly iterating their process, not just their product.

The obvious issue here, is that the process becomes so important, that people forget about the output; which is really the only thing that customers care about.

So balance, is, indeed, critical.
Good Law Project Forces HMRC to Collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber
its like saying most of the seg fault caused is not due to use of C. Common langauge pattern / design choices made php to have bugs/ spaghetti code. At the end developer control many thing but that doesn't mean language don't have any fault.
You could also throw a java back end while you are at it.
Is it just me or is the page layout horribly broken?
I see the video on the left, and the actual constrained to a box on the right, and this is without script- or adblockers...
Reminds me of a line attributed to Bruce Lee:
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Costs are low but not zero. If they were zero then all exploitable ransomware opportunities would already have been exploited. When vulnerabilities are discovered the researchers have the option to publish for reputation, disclose for bounty, or market the vulnerability to criminals or intelligence organizations. If vulnerabilities are sufficiently hard to monetize for criminals then they'll be more likely to get routed somewhere else.
This is really inspirational, according to the instructions it would also take only a day to make with a friend. A day well spent I would say.

Does anyone know what kind of generator setup you should get for charging a car battery? A link would be helpful. If used car generator is ok, how to get one from aftermarket?

The video is awesome, how it is made?
What+Does+it+Mean,+When+We+Say,+“God+Is+Good”?
... or what's left of it in a few weeks. It might actually be the last time they ever get to vote.
> This is free market for you.

Where you can choose between Windows's EULA and MacOS's EULA and declining is not an option.
Hardly a free market and "consent" is hardly valid if "no" is not an option.
Accusing people of being shills is against the HackerNews guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
So just wrap up the day? What about if something happens when you "wrapped" your day up? Or someone got a question?

You still need to be at the computer, same as in the office.
To play Beethoven, press keys

0 9 0 9 0 5 - 8 6 3
I'm a retired programmer working in Silicon Valley. I'm like a kid in a candy store in some regards, such as I picked up one of the top VR developers in the world at the San Jose Convention Center and gave him a long ride. He was excited to talk about VR and convinced me to buy what he was working on. I did! I wouldn't be a shill if Uber/Lyft paid me. There's no fun in that. As I mentioned elsewhere, I really like messing around with their algorithms to see how they work. You can't subvert real enthusiasm, but nice try!
High quantity being "better" than low quantity is a wrong way of framing the problem. A more practical framing would be – avoid boredom, stay in flow and be fascinated with the work you do, review your work constantly and look for improvements.
And who pays for that?

For many remote work involves less take home pay.
Now I just wonder if it is technically possible to save a playing session in a MIDI file.

(I'm musically illiterate but I assume that, except for the meow, all instruments from this site follows the usual music rules. Sorry if what I just written is nonsense)
I really like the idea of different types of comments for usage with external tools.
The corollary is this: "There's no way to predict the long future on an individual level."

There's a hidden trap in thinking about "I have X days/weeks left" and that's the assumption that you realistically grow that old. The reality, though, is that plenty of people suffer cancer, cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure or strokes. Or they end up caught in traffic or work-related accidents.

You could derive probabilities from population statistics and agree that, depending on your specific situation and with the information you have today, the probability of dying from any of those might be quite low. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. My personal - quite sobering - experience is having attended a fair share of funerals of people who passed away before they even hit 35.

That doesn't mean that one should live life as if every day might be your last. That's not maxim I like to live by. It's important to keep perspective that you might live for many decades to come; but by the same token, one should remind themselves regularly that the opposite scenario exists too.

In culture, this reminder is called "memento mori" (Latin: Don't forget to die) and it has been expressed through music, architecture, literature, poetry and so on many times. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
But why ?
It is highly important for medical workers to know this (because wards contain far more virus than any other place). For the rest, we have to bear in mind a few limitations outlined there, most importantly:

> To allow quantification, we conducted our studies by using a relatively high dose of virus, and under these conditions, it is possible that the protective capacity of the masks was exceeded.

And this:

> In our experiments, the virus was suspended in culture supernatant without fetal calf serum or was diluted with phosphate-buffered saline. Further detailed analysis will be required to reveal the precise relationship between the protective efficiency of masks and the components of viral droplets/aerosols.

I wonder if they are planning experiments with artificial saliva, like those people which tested the stability of the virus under sunlight did.
Rust is still being used throughout Mozilla.
Absolutely this! Another way I express this to my colleagues is to consider that Einstein (and others) took fifteen years to develop the relativity theories that did not require any new theoretical or experimental input. All of that is typically taught in a semester's graduate level course today.

The "genius" perception hides all the hard work, false turns, recoveries, retries, .. busy work as you put it .. that's behind the core insights and discoveries.
It's great, but is that really $30 worth of materials? Maybe for a company doing this on some small scale, but an individual sourcing these parts? Especially building a tower!

It feels like the flaps exist to reduce the need for welding or rivets, but then the thing has so many ?bolts? and drilled holes. Also the precision needed is quite high to get it to fit together like that.

Personally I would look to remove the curved structures and use straight edges instead. I like the idea of using a bike - I think you could go further and use more bike parts. In the bike you may have useful parts such as:

1. 2 wheels - an extra wheel could give your wind socks more structure.

2. Bike frame - use as the structure to hold it upright. (Not as tall as those towers, but perhaps something that could be mounted on a roof.)

3. Brake cables - use to stabilize the structure.

4. Chain and gears - drive the DC motor.

The other thing to really consider is taking that varying DC voltage and doing something with it. I think generally 13V or so would be sensible - you could use it to trickle charge lead batteries and 12V step down circuits are relatively easy to come by.

I can't really think of something that could be sourced from other parts though... Technically I think the 12V ash-tray electrical output (between the driver and passenger) is directly connected to the battery - if so they should technically be able to handle automotive voltages which could be as high as 40+V (a battery lead bouncing on top of a battery terminal in conjunction with the battery charger can pulse high voltages throughout the car). Somehow though I doubt some cheap Chinese charger could be relied upon to have such electrical robustness.
The service you link to doesn't seem to offer a translation from and to Greek. It's also missing many other EU languages, e.g. Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Zcech, etc.

Edit: to clarify, other translation servies I've used, notably Google, do translate from and to Greek but make a meal out of it.
Keeping customers satisfied leads to a good name. A good name leads to more customers, and both that and satisfied customers leads to long term profit. It appears some companies focus too much on short term profit.
Even ignoring Eich's very public political views, Firefox's technical decline/stagnation took place whilst he was CTO. Firefox and gecko are much better products since he left, so I'm not sure why anyone thinks he would have been a good CEO.
then why did Muhammad have sex with a 9 year old when he was over 50?
Problem is that we Finns can use a word (a known base word and adding the inflection to get the wanted meaning) in a sentence that has never been said or written before and the native speakers will still understand it.

Basically a full training set with all the words does not exist. Even less a set with actual translations for them.

This also means that autocomplete etc is pretty much useless for us. I just disable it on iPhone as it actively makes typing out a sentence harder.

(also to make things harder as others have pointed out the base word and inflections get changed to make the word easier to pronounce so there is no static form for them when you stack them)
Many of them don't have a crud toolkit even after 100s of pages done, at least that's what I see.
I really wish Taleb would employ a different editor. His insights – the ones relayed to me by other people – are brilliant, but I honestly have not been able to get through his writing to them.
I needed this, thank you.
How to be prolific: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/01/23/how-to-be-prolif...
Fairly slight article is a hook to advertise the business (not that there's anything wrong with that), what is notable is that pretty much the whole site works with JS disabled, I wish more places did this.

One exception, the portfolio page has

Warning:
Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/../wp-content/../portfolio-isotope-3.php
Chromium's Multi-Process Architecture
That is actually Beethoven's Für Elise, not Mozart.
C did it first:

static a(int a[static 1]);
Agreed. Nothing says “interchangeable drone” more than not having your own space at work.
This does not match my experience at all.
Your under estimating the political incentives.

New manager comes in. Hires team in India. He designs his metrics in a way to be greatly improved. Higher ups impressed...guy now in charge of department does the same. Org is now mostly outsourced.

5 years later, oh shit this was a horrible idea the company is dying.

However to that manager and his bosses, they just didn’t care. These ppl all saw their stock appreciate and left before it got bad.

Wall Street and public companies are often rewarded for short term gain at cost of long term future. It’s why startups are able to disrupt an established market.
This is a pretty printing article that completely misses one of the main reasons to use VPN: browsing resources blocked in your country. I use VPN to open LinkedIn and watch West wing on Netflix, and I couldn't care less about who gets to know about it.
Udemy courses to fast forward from a beginner to lead react developer
I believe the ceramics bit is fabricated, and it was actually a photography class. But it hardly matters. It's an interesting perspective, details aside.
You realise that parent actually stated she was the architect and you disagreed about her being a teamster?
I have a relative at West Virginia University who is paid $32k while doing a bio PhD. Not a top school, not terrible money given the low cost of living.
This is really cool, especially for my 8yo
On that front, after I retired, I applied at Waymo as a safety driver but didn't get hired because some idiot almost hit me during the test drive while blasting his way onto the hwy 101 while merging. I did learn some interesting things though. I'd been watching Waymo cars in Mountain View for awhile. They were hiring new drivers because they needed a second driver to keep the first one awake! Apparently having the driver on camera all the time was not enough. Let's just say I'm highly skeptical that the recent opening of Waymo to the public in Arizona is not some Potemkin Village operation.
If you're an analyst, I second the recommendation for dbt. Here's a podcast interview with the CEO of the company behind dbt that explains a lot of the philosophy, and I think will help you even if you don't end up using dbt: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/03/09/dbt-data-bui...
> The author is obviously in the top ~1% or something of programmers

Appeal to authority much?
> The Laptev Sea is known as the birthplace of ice, which forms along the coast there in early winter, then drifts westward carrying nutrients across the Arctic, before breaking up in the spring in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. If ice forms late in the Laptev, it will be thinner and thus more likely to melt before it reaches the Fram Strait. This could mean fewer nutrients for Arctic plankton, which will then have a reduced capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Never heard about this before. It always amazes me how intricate and interconnected the global ecosystem is.
I had bought the hardcover when it first came out, but always wanted the CDROM version when I had heard of it. It is a shame it hasn't made it online somewhere convenient.

I believe it remains one of the seminal works in SF, and holds up pretty well today.

At the time of publishing, Vinge was one of the very few people who had a good grasp of the limits of computation and molecular nanotechnology were. Up until that point in mainstream SF writing, highly advanced technology was more akin to magic, even in "hard" SF. Aside from FTL tech (necessary for a novel with galactic scope), and the Zones of Thought (an artifice to help tell stories centering on people), Vinge sticks close to what is physically possible.

The prologue alone is packed with realistic details that was exceptional for its time.
Nothing is stopping you of writing PHP the "old" way, all new stuff is optional.
Several defence-in-depth checks including DNS and protocol legitimacy are carried out in v1, so no it wouldn't just allow ESNI through.

Happy to invite you to the v2 preview if you drop us an email (from your work email) or follow our LinkedIn page.