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The value of my post is that a charlatan with very damaging views has somehow been promoted as great thinker when I find his entire engineering philosophy not only incorrect but totally moronic and damaging. I’m calling it out because it’s really stupid and we need more people to feel OK calling bullshit when some idiot carts out the “we need 50 services to power the authentication pipeline!” which I have seen multiple times during my career, as other enthusiastic engineers cheer them on. It’s a dead idea and it is pointless, at least at when operating at the scale of 99% of tech companies. I’m not going to keep pretending this is a good idea when it’s not.
> For example, some students wrote queries containing ,≠, instead of != or <>.

Was this done on paper? Typing ≠ takes some doing.
> I was taught that dropping the axiom of choice was enough to make Banach-Tarski go away. That seems considerably short of "there is no such thing as an infinite number".

The Banach-Tarski theorem is not the only theorem out there that bothers some people. Anything to do with infinities gets a large number of outraged rejections.
I've been calling this "The Sunk Cost Fallacy Fallacy", people don't understand it but still quote it liberally.
How Do Floating Nuclear Power Plants Work?
Nope. Look here (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/comp...) and search for Cosmos and you'll see this service is only approved for DoD Impact Level II systems. That is the lowest impact level the DoD offers and includes only systems exposed to the public, like the websites for recruiting and career descriptions. Any system handling controlled unclassified information or PII would not have been allowed to use this service.

And when you're talking about "most secret" contracts, those are all classified systems, which are on totally separate networks in totally separate private data centers located on military installations. Unless you've figured out how to break strong symmetric encryption using hardware-generated, hardware-loaded, pre-shared keys controlled in military arms rooms, that means you need physical access. It doesn't necessarily mean you need to break into a military installation. You can always try to break into a contractor SCIF instead, but that still isn't all that easy. My wife once saw some AT&T contractors digging too close to the wrong fiber line at her facility when she was working for the Navy at a contractor site and unmarked black SUVs were there to take those guys away to God knows where within two minutes.

That said, I don't doubt people try. When I was at Raytheon working at a secure facility, a Chinese company bought the property across the street, built a hotel at exactly the same height with windows facing us, and it was conspicuously almost always empty. I don't think demand for hotel rooms was financing that place.
Indeed. It seems that it's useful to have descriptive patterns to understand what people are already doing. But then the hype cycle kicks in, and people treat them as prescriptive patterns. MVC, Agile, Design Patterns, monoliths, microservices, trunk-based, spaces vs tabs, Emacs vs Vim...
Maybe there are more egalitarian ways to use green spaces than some particular golf courses.

On the other hand, municipal golf courses open to everyone seem to be a thing? I don't know firsthand, I'm not a golfer.

In any case, I don't think the merits of parks vs. golf courses are relevant to people dying of thirst.
Off topic thought: "Esperanto Technologies" is apparently the name of the company, in case you're confused with the headline like I was. I was amused to discover their offices are literally 3 blocks away from where I live. (So is YCombinator and a thousand other tech companies, so not that surprising, really, but amusing.)

At this point I think we need to go back to descriptive old-school 70s company names like, "West Coast Microprocessor Solutions", "Digital Logic, Inc.", "Mountain View Artificial Intelligence Laboratories", etc.

You know, something that would blend into this map: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rumsey5/silicon/11492000.jpg

Edit: Looking at that map, some of the company names are fantastically generic! "Electronics Corporation", "California Devices", "General Technology", "Test International".
Reddit shadowbans in private chat too. Gmail does shadowban equivalent. HN doesn’t have private chat, but I imagine they’d use the tool if they could.

If you’ve never moderated anything halfway popular you have no idea what “uncensored” means in 2021.

It isn’t early 90s usenet. It’s endless spam, porn, etc
You were talking about exactitude in space, rather than charge.

>Studying something that doesn't exist is unscientific

What about things that could exist, might exist, or even aren't expressly forbidden from existing? These have all been used as perfectly valid reasons for scientific inquiry, historically.

Asking "did some god create the universe" is unscientific by your reasoning so long as it is known that there is no in-universe trace or evidence that it was indeed created by a god. Proving that is proving a negative. I think it is not impossible for us to prove that the universe was created by a god, if we found some hidden message in subatomic particles or cosmic dust or something. It does certainly feel impossible that we will prove that the universe wasn't created by a god, though. The inquiry is deemed unscientific because we have no reason to go down that pathway, not because the question is fundamentally intractable.

Multiverse theory, on the other hand, would qualify as unscientific by your reasoning. If it were true, the different universes would be fundamentally inaccessible, according to our understanding. The model does not suggest that evidence could even possibly exist, as far as I understand.

A result being untestable doesn't, in my opinion, lead to it being unscientific. We cannot test whether black holes exist, except by looking for them. We cannot test whether wormholes exist, except by looking for them. These are predictions that we cannot "test" except by looking at the universe and seeing what we find, and even then we are not guaranteed a positive result, just because maybe it is the case that our model is correct but there was never the appropriate state of the universe to prove our prediction.

Of course if something was actually infinite, you wouldn't be able to measure it to be so, but if the model (that you have shown to be correct in other case) predicts an actual infinity and you keep counting more and more orders of magnitude, does it not make sense to assume your model is correct? Is that unscientific? Just like we assume that the charge on electrons is constant despite not actually measuring it always everywhere.
Yes, but it’s meant to do ML inference, which can be parallelized decently. On those workloads, you can use GPUs, which are also composed of thousands of “wimpy” cores.
This article is from 8/20, it was given full approval 8/23.
Ask HN: Can people who flagged this to death explain why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348693

It's copyright-free educational content of a non-pornographic but sexual nature. I was sexually abused for years as a child. I don't harp a whole lot on things like "rape culture" but I'm baffled and disturbed that this was flagged to death.

Why is a copyright-free educational resource of this sort "not HN worthy" in your eyes?

HN is okay with talking about OnlyFans content policy re actual porn but has some issue with letting people know there is a site like this out there? This doesn't add up for me. I don't see where that line is being drawn.

Perhaps someone could help me understand this.

Thank you.
Quicksort is a specific algorithm involving two array pointers and swapping values. The haskell implementation in question is not it. It’s not a “claim”, it is what it is.
I'm sure it will communicate with law enforcement quite a bit, yes, if Apple's recent announcements are anything to go by. Though likely not through a satellite. /s
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Yeah, as far as I know, the real problem is that Microsoft would either develop the 16 but compatibility layer all over again, or run NTVDM on top of the 32 bit compatibility mode (WOW64) which would also be a tonne of work.

I wonder if you could write something like a program loader that uses a hypervisor to execute 16 bit programs natively (as opposed to using dosbox with its inefficient emulation) with some kind of disk level compatibility layer.
Soon we'll just have a Dyson sphere around the earth.
Koyaanisqatsi requires watching the film at some point as well. Just listening is good to get a first experience. Then the film can give a more complete artistic picture/experience.
Definitely some clustering method based on similarity of the vectors (there are many, pick a simple one to start)
Frontpage?
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348693
This should not be concerning.

Covid is endemic. Pretty much all of us are going to get it sooner or later.

If you are vaccinated, you will likely fight it off, and likely not even know it. Or, you may have mild symptoms. Only in rare cases will you get serious illness.

Ditto if you are a child, as covid goes after the ACE2 receptor that is activated at puberty, so children are at very slight risk.

As of today, there have been 385 covid "involved" (not same as caused) deaths in the US since the start of the pandemic that are for ages 0 - 17.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

Thats compared to 54,062 deaths during the same timeframe from all causes in that age group.
The iPhone 13 Could Have Satellite Connectivity
In addition to the sibling comment, it worked for me inside my tent - so it can work inside some containers provided the signal can make it through.
AWS Service Terms: zumbi exception?
> some idiot carts out the “we need 50 services to power the authentication pipeline!”

That's not Fowler's fault. It's the fault of your solution architects who don't know how and when to use the right amount of seasoning in the sauce.
This comment and the parent sheds some light on what makes this interesting. It didn't occur to me that we were allowing rotations and translations and that scaling is excluded. The paradox isn't about getting more from less as they're all comparably infinite, but rather being able to arrange them to be so.
I cannot say the percentages, but my wife has been shocked to hear from business owners who ran their store for over a decade, that they never made a dime. This kind of confession usually only happens after they have given up and closed. I don't know of any trustworthy numbers on it; I would not be surprised if it was far larger than most people believe, but the difference between businesses that "fail" after two years and ones that last for five years or more, is often how stubborn they are or how much money they have from other sources to keep trying. I would not be surprised if it were over 50%, but I know of no source for strong numbers on it.
I agree but the thing is that not every day in the week will be like that. So if you have this "hyperfocus" for two days a weeks and on the other days you don't do that much work it might average out to pretty much what he's describing.
> Why is it different in 3 dimensions? That is a property of the transformation group (rotation and translation) rather than 3-space itself.

Can you be more specific? Rotations and translations also exist in 2-space. It seems difficult to argue that this difference between 2-space and 3-space is "not a property of 3-space".
Data Storytelling with ComicStrips by ComicGen Using Google Sheets
I love programming. Always have. Been doing it since I was 10 years old. It was my dream to do it for a living, even before I realized that it pays well too!

But sadly, you're right. My 40 hr/week engineering job in big tech is miserable.

I still code for fun/passion in my free time. But I cry on the inside every time I think about how much of my time and mental energy gets wasted at my day job.

I hope that either (A) I am able to retire young, or (B) I find the mythical coding job that I can actually enjoy.

Sadly, neither (A) nor (B) seems likely to happen.
You’re right to question that. From my understanding, she was masked except for the story reading. Teachers need to use facial expression to convey what they’re reading, not just for those with disabilities, hearing problems, etc… but for all children. People who take this as a fable about mask wearing know nothing about pedagogy. It’s a cautionary tale about the need for testing. It also serves to contextualize the precarious trade offs facing our educators and educational system. There are no easy answers; though more testing and vaccinations for the more at risk are obvious takeaways.
The most important use cases for the InReach are pretty specific though. I'm not likely to be strolling down the frozen food aisle in the local grocery store and suddenly wish I had my InReach on me. Sure, backup iMessage capability when I'm out of cell phone service range would be nice. But I'm not going to pay the amount that Garmin charges for that capability. (Though some people perhaps would if they routinely go places with no service.)
You can in fact. Michael Steil talks about his adventures using hypervisor.framework to run DOS applications here: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=764
They may well be cheating on their taxes, but they may also in many cases be wealthy in spite of, rather than because of, their small business.
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This is more akin to leaving the door unlocked than to having a break in.
This. Keep a clear list of tasks to do, when you wake up earlier in zombie mode you will just see the tree in front of you and won't get lost in the unsolvable forest of the day before.
Do you mean 4x10h or something like 4x8h with a full salary?
The story is in the page linked above. ctrl+f temperature
Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator (2015)
"The median household income in the United States is $79.9K. Assuming that a family of four can live on $50K (including taxes) in - most - locations, ... "

I think the main problem here lies in assumption of the distribution over the various locations. $50k+ in Appalachia is good money and you might be able to save $30k out of $80k. One would not be saving and investing in many of the large cities and their suburbs (where more people live).

One thing to note is that the $1.5M-3M is not inflation adjusted and would be worth much less than it is today. It will result in better outcomes, but it won't make people rich, like many claim. $1.5M is just enough to keep a couple out of poverty who will be retiring at 65 years old, 35 years from now. This is especially true if people live longer and the cost of healthcare continues to increase much faster than inflation.

"(which is lower than what the S&P has historically returned by a fair amount)"

The next decade is supposed to be much lower. (Past performance is not an indicator of future returns).
From the study:

> Participants wrote their notes
and answers on paper, which they showed in front of the webcam.

Yes it seems they did
Right. My point was that, if I'm going to pay a monthly satellite subscription fee one way or the other, I'm probably going to go with the separate device that is designed with wilderness situations in mind.
I'm not talking about proving that there exist infinite things.

I'm talking about using the abstract concepts of infinity as a useful mathematical tool to produce predictions. Notable example: calculus
It's a great idea that works in a limited way. Getting that next 30% is going to take awhile nevermind natural language queries.
The trick of becoming really good at SQL (applies to all areas of IT) is having a certain ambition to produce high performance beautiful (readable) code.

This requires experience which can only be gained by rolling up your sleves and working on stuff until the high ambition has been satisfied. Sometimes when I see old code from myself, and I can follow what I have been doing I get really proud of myself. Many times I end up slightly improving it based on new knowledge I have acquired since I initially wrote it.
I want none of those features.

I want automatic backup, easy sharing, and accessibility from all devices.
> It's a redundant renewal of the existing Pfizer under the exact same EUA

No, its a full approval of the existing Pfizer vaccine for those 16+. The EUA remains in place for younger people 12+.

> It "pre-approves" a new future Pfizer vaccine

It doesn't, I guess this is a misreading of the fact that the approval of the existing Pfizer vaccine includes, as such approvals do, the marketing name of the vaccine (“Comirnaty”), but this isn't a new vaccine, just the brand name for marketing the existing one.
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-bes...
In a similar boat, but just like any industry, abusers are everywhere...

Look into the bdsm culture and pedo culture at MIT... they will try to hide it... it's out there. Marvin minsky, dershowitz, and more...

I personally believe that this is what Aaron was going after,not technical docs... thus he was suicided.

But these are just my observations, and dont reflect the views of the people that murdered him.
>lets me search my library using text search for anything

This is untrue, and actually one of the reasons I hope a strong competitor to Google Photos comes along soon. The search function is, for whatever reason, heavily censored and perhaps even biased in some circumstances. Worse, it is completely useless. For example, the query "fat" returns nothing, despite the fact that my gallery is filled with drawing reference photos that includes plus-sized people. "Black people" returns photos of non-black people, and (infamously, and perhaps for related reasons re: the shortcomings of Google's image recognition and tagging algorithm) "gorilla" returns 0 results. "Red shirt" returns an image of a blue decorative screen; "comic" returns anime and webpage screenshots; "woman" returns multiple photos consisting entirely of groups of men.

The situation is dire.
Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources
Those are my personal bookmarks to programming, math, and science resources most of which I found via Hacker News. I decided to make it available on GitHub. Contributions are welcomed.
I'm talking about the sort of type errors you get when you try to implement a doubly linked list in safe Rust.

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
I was thinking the same. I hear this company name all the time at my work, so when I saw the title, I did a double-take and thought there was a typo. They even have AI voice command, so I briefly thought it was the same company.
This is a bit of an aside but when using dd, larger block sizes aren't always faster.

On modern systems 512k tends to be optimal, smaller sizes around 128k may be better on older/slower systems.

The 8M block size used here is certainly excessive.
If the general computing community can agree on anything over the last 20 years, it’s that Python 2->3 was a disaster. Even though Python 3 made several highly necessary (and irreversibly transformative) changes to Python 2, no one liked it because it fundamentally changed the language to something unfamiliar.

I’m guessing the SQL and C++ committees looked at that transition and decided that such transformative changes really need to be done in new languages (like the Perl -> Raku change) rather than in a new version which risks alienating your existing base.
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All they're doing is repeatedly insulting this guy with absolutely no meaningful content across multiple posts. It's garbage, it's nothing but unsubstantiated attacks. I don't see how my post was a personal attack either, I said to vent elsewhere, in an appropriate venue.
“If California were to offer that choice, it wouldn’t have its housing crisis”
What a ridiculous waste of time. "Breaking taboos" and "educating" are just the imposition of one dogma over another.
Show HN: A drone instrument made with a drone motor to make drone music
Howdy HN! I thought some folks might find this instrument kind of interesting.

Here's a demo of the instrument built using a drone motor with a 3D printed wheel that holds magnets to vibrate a pair of strings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2I0QujzO0

If you want to build your own OSC Rotary Magnetic Bow, the source code and 3D model are here: https://github.com/spDuchamp/OSCRMB

You can listen the album "Autonomous Drone Lullabies" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuSljzgWFc

Happy to answer any questions.
> least-overhead

> well-defined APIs

That's where most shifts to microservices fail, right? Sometimes because they don't define their APIs well, sometimes because the breakdown into packages/services is broken (for example: defined by company structure instead of sane software architecture), sometimes because the evolution of each package's features and functionality is at odds with the stability of their API's semantics and guarantees (and documentation), sometimes because the development overhead of communicating between APIs is too high (debugging for example)...
I think putting the calculation, even if not an exact representation, is much more valuable than someone blindly stating "this is dumb because it's not exact". The precision is not the point, but to make it consumable for a broader audience and to educate how you can potentially better your long term life.

Also, a vegetarian diet does not guarantee any level of health. This is just the same as saying cutting carbs is healthful. Both state nothing because a vegetarian diet can very easily be high in sugar just the same as cutting carbs is not representative of eating diets high in whole foods.

Conflation and ignorance aren't productive.
Probably not necessarily on topic - but I really want to give a shout out to Mr. Fowler. It’s really hard to find anyone in contemporary and practical software engineering who has been as impactful as he has been. A lot of modern concepts that improve software development has a seminal article authored or made visible by him.
The article uses the word pedophile, but it's clear that it's only discussing child sexual abuse.
I can sell and have the money in my account in 2-4 days. It would off cause be a bit sad to sell at a loss right after a "crash" or correction of the market. But in an emergency, I could.
I also keep 2 years worth of spending in the bank (we spend very little, so it is not as extreme as it sounds).

It should not really be needed, as I would get money from the government (enough to live on) if lost my job, and we have universal health-care where I live. But it gives me peace of mind.
Use a Minhash-LSH ensemble with pre-processing on the words to fix typos via Levenshtein. Tune parameters to get the best distance
Yes this information is in the CDC report, take a look at the seating chart with annotated infection and symptom status [1].

> 12 became infected

Using the word became is disingenuous at best (and misinformation at worst) because it implies that causation was established, but it was not. Here is the exact language from the CDC report:

> Students were seated in five rows; the attack rate in the two rows seated closest to the teacher’s desk was 80% (eight of 10) and was 28% (four of 14) in the three back rows (Fisher’s exact test; p = 0.036)

Because the students were only tested after the teacher tested positive, there is no way to determine causation from positive test results.

Even the evidence from genome sequencing could only establish correlation, but not causation.

> Eleven sequences were genetically indistinguishable from one another [...] Among the indistinguishable specimens, six were from students of the index patient, four were from students in the separate grade, and one was from a sibling of a student in the index patient’s class, suggesting that infections occurring in the two grades likely were part of the same outbreak.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm#F1_down