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Sirum (YC Nonprofit) needs engineers to automate medicine delivery
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We're currently hiring for both our Palo Alto and Atlanta Offices, as well as some fully remote roles. We have opportunities for lead software developers (and other roles like operations, sales, communication) and are especially interested in anyone with fast-growth startup experience.
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Beside shipping less javascript to the client side, another benefit to run most logics on the server is cross-browser-update becomes as simple as cross-component-update.
No, it's never going to be the year of the Linux desktop.

Right now all the distros together can't crack 2.5% of the desktop market.
If you show the police officer a live location of your stolen property moving on a map, that's usually enough to motivate them into action. I've seen two stolen phones recovered this way. If you tell them your bike is stolen and that's all the information you have, they rightly deduce that there's almost no chance of you getting it back.
Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
Why would foreign coverage be better? I understand that they have generally less bias. However, usually any international coverage will will only cover the biggest items and miss a lot of smaller stories that may still be relevant to people living in the subject country. They may also be covering it from the perspective of how it impacts the reporting country, which can gloss over or miss details pertainate to the subject country, or introduce bias.
TL;DR: C-States improve performance.

I'm not sure calling C-States throttling is completely accurate, at least not in the way that you imply.

Modern CPUs have multiple mechanisms that can be called throttling in some way, but C-States are the least offensive and in modern CPUs actually increase performance.

There's a good basic explanation here [1] but in short :

- C-States is about idle cores, and powering them down. You can actually configure how deep you can power them down. Waking up does have a tiny cost in latency, yes, but it's mostly irrelevant (your core spends most of it's time waiting for data).

- P-States are what I would call "ok" throttling, those happen when non-idle, modern cores can scale their frequency up and down based on how much workload they have. Again, in theory purely about power saving and close to 0 impact on performance.

This was simple, and used to be just about power saving, disabling was ok. But things changed massively about 10+ years ago with the introductions of various Turbo mechanisms.

Turbo is about looking at your CPU as a whole (and not per core), and maximising performance of the loaded cores by pushing their frequency, using the power budget that used to be allocated to the idle cores (that are now powered off).

The way its done is by adding a few extra P-states that push the frequency a few hundred MHz. The more "C-State-down" cores you have, the higher the frequency of the working cores is pushed.

Extreme example : you have a 28 cores CPUs running a single thread workload on one core only, with 27 idle cores. With C-States disabled, you lose Turbo and are stuck with the single core running at the "non-Turbo" frequency. With C-States enabled, because you idled the non used cores, your working core gets higher clock speeds and higher performances.

(Things get more complex with AVX2 because those units have a large power consumption, and this is where you get into the very bad throttling)

[1] : https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/blogs/c...
A word of caution - using functional programming principles in a language that is not optimized for it can result in awful performance. In JavaScript, whenever you create a closure it’s a heap allocation. If you’re doing that in a tight loop, it’ll completely dominate the time it takes to run your program.
As far as I know, there are no steps you can take if you're running your instance in a virtual machine. Only the hypervisor host and/or the firmware can control the processor power and sleep states.
I've felt this same sort of pain but I don't blame currying. It's when currying and partial application is used for deep dependency injection with no easy route to finding the original function. I dabbled in writing an extension for F# that would trace back function calls to give you all of the possible original sources for a value. I think that would solve that particular problem.

Currying and partial application are really nice when you have a pipeline operator, which is why the partial application and pipeline operator proposals are so intertwined.

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|> List.map (fn user -> user.Email)
|> sendEmail
|> Result.mapError (fn _ -> "Error sending emails")
Your first point doesn't follow from the second one.
Process Intensity (1987)
I mostly agree but every tool has its purpose. Currying is indispensable in some composability workflows.

Consider advanced component creation in virtual dom frameworks. Components may want to yield some render responsibilities to the end-user while not exposing their inner api. They can use currying here to hide details from the end-user while providing their own public api.

I've also seen it be useful when you have sub components editing different parts of a model. You write one generic prop-assigner setModelProp(prop, val) alongside the model in the scope that owns the model. Then you give each subcomponent a curried setter with the prop locked in. Those sub-components don't have the ability to edit the model any other way now, and you haven't written a ton of boilerplate setters.
If someone makes a claim that many credible scientists are making publicly, the burden to present your evidence on a cable news segment is lessened. Regardless, the fact is she published a book and I assume it's got citations. The commenter merely asserted their claim as true and I wondered if they had good reasons to believe it.
I find some comments in this section quite funny.

Russia was blamed with USA elections rigging because someone payed for facebook ads to promote one of the candidates.

In this case we have every evidence, that a group of people, financed by foreign organizations, created multiple apps, websites and other sources to manipulate people voices.

Wake up guys, such activity should and will be banned in every country.
They could never put adds into a broken OS and sell it at full price. At some consumers will switch. . Any second now
The original article is:

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/2021-is-the-year-of-linux-on-...

The basic thesis of the author was:

1. In 2021, Chromebooks are everywhere.

2. Chrome OS is Linux.

3. Therefore, 2021 is the year of Linux Desktop.

Honestly, I'm not sure this is such a great argument. Isn't it rather like "2021 is the year of Chrome dominance"?
Hrmm this article here makes it sound like you can also do this with a mirror, but it implies that not any mirror would suffice, and that they had to design a special mirror surface to get one that also radiates heat at a wavelength that will let it escape the atmosphere:

http://theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/26/mirrors-air-condi...

> The first layer is reflective silver. On top of this are alternating layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide. These layers improve the reflectivity, but also turn the mirror into a thermal radiator. When silicon dioxide heats up, it radiates the heat as infrared light at a wavelength of around 10 micrometres. Since there is very little in the atmosphere that absorbs at that wavelength, the heat passes straight out to space. The total thickness of the mirror is around two micrometres, or two thousandths of a millimetre.

> Fan puts the installed cost of mirrors at between $20 and $70 per square metre and calculates an annual electricity saving of 100MWh per year on a three storey building

HN discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583676
Goes into detail about all of the Soviet bioweapons programmes, from someone who was quite near the top (I think he was deputy director). It's scary as hell.
What a fun rabbit hole to tumble down!

Whenever the Itanium vs. AMD64 history comes up, I wonder what Intel’s roadmap for “consumer” IA64 looked like before AMD’s success made it obsolete.

Retellings like this imply Intel fully intended to replace x86 with Itanium, but I’ve never seen a hint as to how they saw that playing out.
FDA Fetal Organ Purchases Violated Federal Law
I think we need to go beyond fixing whatever lab leak may have allowed this virus out this time. We shouldn't have humans working in proximity to experimental viruses at all. Virus research should be done entirely by robots inside sealed containers that are never opened. The bits of technology for this all exist, though it'll take some integration to make it all work. Anything less risks billions of life-years.
Mirrors could replace A/C, and cool earth, by beaming heat into space (2014)
Not sure why the author targets Apple as his primary planned obsolescence criticism subject. They've actually made the whole product life-cycle as eco-friendly as possible, from working with zero-emission partners only to launching a proper device recycling program. Other e-waste producing companies could learn from them.
This is part of a body of research pointing to the same things in different areas. Scientific and industrial progress is heterogeneous, incremental, and relentless. It's more like hordes of searchers noticing the same things simultaneously than lone geniuses in solitary labs.

One thing I wonder is how this might have changed or not over time. It seems important to know not just for historical understanding, but also to anticipate possible changes in the current regime.
samsung will probably have an arrangement with comcast to connect to any xfinity hotspot for ads and telemetry or something like twilio’s super sim
University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits
I'm posting this article from 2014 as a follow up to this very related discussion from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28579840#28583634
I haven't played with the service like the other user, so I'm not sure whether this idea is viable.

You could send some sort of initial opt-in email to the recipient that would let them verify their desire to use your service. This combined with usual email validation should be good to keep spammers out.
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In wireguard case it uses Chacha20 with vector instructions, which is almost as performant as AES-NI (and in rare cases even faster).
Or just read the original article at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...
What do you mean with "access to information" in regards to FOSS? That you can examine the algorithm to see how it's done or somethng else?
> What is the purpose of "society with refined members" when majority of these members need to do thinking-free, menial jobs?

Enough culture to recognise a demagogue when they see one? Enough basic scientific knowledge to avoid falling into wellness scams and understand how climate change works? In a democracy, a well-educated people is absolutely required. You don’t need to apply all of your knowledge in your daily work; it does not mean acquiring it was a waste of time.

> This is how Soviet Union ended. "Workers and peasants" were 100% OK with Communism. It's the educated masses who were too educated and did jobs that did not justify their qualification, and lived in deep poverty, ended it.

The problem with the Soviet Union was not too much education. It is also a strange example to pick when arguing about democracies.
They just need to have not-exactly-zero ms pauses to violate the requirement above - which they have.
There is no paradox.

The copies are independent persons.

Not only do you not get into the same river twice, it's also always a different person from one moment to the next.
A concept, that of granular time, by the way, which also is just a tool for the brain to make the outside world easier to navigate.

The sense of temporally overlapping unity of consciousness is a useful trick of the body to think of itself as an acting subject in its model of the world.
The agent of the body's interests in it.

In the brain, there is no distinction between software and hardware.
If you build a machine whose software rewires the hardware and the hardware rewrites its software in real time under the influence of the outside world and some, over thousands of generations more or less hardwired structures, you get closer to what the brain and mind do and are.

So, sorry no uploading of a somehow separate consciousness into a machine.
Even if possible, you would have two beings.
One still pure social/wetware. One, the 'copy' of the former, ended up in an artificial hell.
Avengers, Infinity War (2018)
That's literally the opposite of the scientific method. A healthy scientific community rejects "scientific consensus" because the scientific method is about testing hypothesis including previous work (see the replication crisis).

As an example, the study proving that hydrocholoroquinine was useless for treating COVID was retracted by The Lancet. Turns out that the data was faked, and yet the paper still gets cited.

A good scientist doesn't hold any "scientific facts" as sacrosanct. Only hypothesis, theories, and evidence.
How the human brain processes color
Which basically means being able to have a GNU userspace, which neither Android nor ChromeOS do.

On Android, Linux kernel is an implementation detail not exposed to userspace APIs as official stable APIs, even for basic stuff like bluetooth or accessing files outside the sandbox, Java APIs have to be used.

Then on the ChromeOS side, not all Chromebooks support Linux based applications, and even that is actually a design similar to WSL 2, by running it into another VM on top of the Linux kernel used by ChromeOS.
This same quality may be part of why it has never gained significant traction though, the proliferation of components and resulting fragmentation have made it a difficult target for application developers. Oh, sure, FOSS applications work fine... because they're open source and rely on unpaid third parties to integrate them into whatever absurdly interdependent ecosystem (a.k.a "distro") you happen to be using. Well, for some definitions of "fine", since they're often out of date, sometimes altered, or otherwise not packaged at all.

It also makes troubleshooting a lot more difficult, since any efforts to find solutions will invariably land me in posts primarily about some other combination of components and it's up to me to sort out their relevance to my issue.
Wikipedia says it made $657.9m against a budget of £300m. I think the rule of thumb is movies need to make double their production budget to be profitable. So it seems like it did at least OK, financially
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmar...

Just fyi. This project may have even gotten canceled. But it shows the future and china is very afraid of it. I also know German companies trying to bring asian footwear production back right now.
You're not wrong that much prestige drama has become just as tired and formulaic as the average procedural. The point was ably made in this profile of Jane the Virgin's showrunner: https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/jane-the-virgin-jennie-snyde...
Sometimes I have done back end coding w/ the JVM in those jobs, sometimes I haven’t.
The Marxist downvoters are out in force today. Well done, comrades!
One of the worries is that as the technology becomes cheaper easier and more widespread, more scientists in less good labs will think I'll have a go at that.

Another worrying thing is the incentives for the individual scientists are different for those to the world. If they discover something interesting about the 1918 virus, maybe a paper in nature, tenure. If there's a 1/100000 of screwing up and killing millions then 99,999 times out of 100,000 they are on to a winner. But for humanity as a whole it's an iffy bet. (Article on that stuff https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/562003-an-economists-...)
> What is the purpose of "society with refined members"

To enable democracy, which depends on a population endowed with well developed judgement to work properly.

And to enable society, which depends on counting a large amount of members the individual will trust, professionally and personally, to be hold as a value triggering synergy.

So, to enable widespread civilization, which is required to achieve the basicmost goal of a liveable environment.

Cultivation is one of the tentative ways to increase civilization. Education shapes the person; the impacts from the environment may be random in gain or loss, while education comes out of a positively progressive effort. It shapes your neighbours and the professionals you rely on.
That's even worse. I can't imagine what you're able to do at 10 has that high of an impact on your abilities the rest of your life.
I’ve had only very very few bad experiences and I’ve been an active customer since the beginning. I wonder if their system is setup so the whale customers are treated better.
Correct link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/26/mirrors-air-...
You should read the book "How Asia Works" which makes the persuasive argument that's the case with every single rising industrial power. They are always considered "cheap knock offs" until they start producing stuff that's higher quality. Happened with Japan too.
How to Make Non-Code Contributions to Open-Source Projects
> Thus, users of modern non-GC languages do not experience the pauses seen in GC languages

/doubt

Once you're facing, for example, the deallocation of an entire tree that you own and that's going out of scope, your pause is unbounded. Compared to that, a GC'd language could delay the deallocation, or even in case of stuff like C4 have a dedicated thread deal with it.

Sure, you can always write code in a way that avoids this, but non-consing is also an option for many of the GC'd languages (at least the more advanced ones, like Common Lisp).
Olive oil is definitely something where you can go quite a bit higher than the cheapest brands (even the cheapest "Extra virgin" olive oil) and really taste the difference. Say, up to £10/£20 for a 1/2 litre bottle. Possibly higher, but I've not tested more expensive brands than that. Cheaper olive does have some flavour, but is mainly a carrier for other foods and tastes. Really good olive oil tastes absolutely amazing just dipping bread (or even a finger) into it.

I certainly don't buy such olive oil regularly, but I can easily tell the difference if I do.
Right. The cost of textbooks is outrageous and any scheme that can reduce their cost should be tried.

The most objectionable and outrageous trick major publishers do is to regularly bring out new editions wherein they deliberately change the the chapter and exercise numbers, this then almost renders older editions useless for any student who has one cannot easily follow what's going on. When the teacher says go to exercise number '123' and their book says '89' an inordinate amount of time is wasted chasing up fellow students with newer books to help identity it.

This not only seriously disadvantages poorer less well off students but also it's wasteful on resources as older books are just dumped as the consequence and become landfill.

In my opinion, publishers who are caught doing this ought to be blackballed by universities, educational institutions, etc. in
that they not recommend those textbooks for their courses.
This video isn't a rehashing of that article, it's the "real" story behind why it was removed. Read the video description at least if you're not willing to sit through the 30 minute video.
The majority of smartphones, I believe, can have other software loaded on to them, if the user so desires.
Always buy government or state certified olive oil if you want the best. These types of oils certify the origin of olives For example, the Italian Agriculture certifies the origin of Italian olive oil with a DOP or IGP on the bottle.
Aside for YouTube "tut tut" what has Markson said that disqualifies her? I ask in full faith, as I don't know who she is.

But why does YT get to tut tut anyone? The only basic reason for it is that you fundamentally agree with YT's worldview and are OK with their dominance.

I'd ask for you to turn the tables around, YT censoring PoV you agree with. But we both know that is a ridiculous question; introspection by the hegemon usually is.
You can find great storytellers, they'll just take way too long to write the script and there's no certainty that having a great story will make bank anyway. In fact the only correlation the industry knows about films to box office is how much you spend in marketing. The more you spend in marketing, the more box office you tend to have.

Unfortunately I am not kidding. So as long as you have a "passable" story you win.
The interests in favor of zoning are almost all homeowners actually. Not sure if that is what you mean by "real estate interests."
In the USA, an approximate equivalent is the USGS topographic map quads.
I too felt that the uncanny valley would never be closed. That said superhero movies don't need to close the gap, just to provide the amplified organic real life movements that we expected from comics and animation shows.

Also practical effects often have something else. Probably the fact that they live on atomic scale of complexity. Colors have more depth and diversity, particles too. Also it impacts actors around them a bit more than green screen studios which may influence the final result too.

A slight anecdote, the first time I lit an LED (noob electronics kit) it felt so utterly magical to me. I was 30, did advanced studies, interacted with LEDs all my life, but "creating" light was so soul sucking. Same goes for other experiences. The brain sense when something lies on the plane of "it affect your life, body" rather than "it's only advanced sensory input fooling you". Your gut gets involved I guess.

And I agree that modern tools push movie maker to explain too much, logify too much, show too much. A few 80s reboots were mostly trying to add a logical layer onto what was self sufficient already.
Yes, but most of the time you're bound to proprietary blobs or some things won't work.
As centuries of history have shown, humans can come up with very creative disincentives for mass-destructive behavior.
Mods, can the URL please be corrected to https://issues.edpnet.be/?p=3507 ? The current link to https://issues.edpnet.be/ is likely to rot badly over the years.
Project Deluge: Xbox and Dreamcast
Zero trust transparency by design, for example.
True, but consider that the vast majority of Android users have no clue how to do that.
That's amazing. I would love to see a photo.
SmackTLS: State Machine Attacks (2015)
> You won't get the best TV, or air purifier, or cheese, or pants, etc at Costco.

And I'd argue it's the exact opposite. If you want a mid-range product and not top of the line you'll never find it at Costco. High end stuff they're great at, and that's pretty much always what I want. But you want a $15 pair of shoes because you're painting in them and know they'll get ruined? Look elsewhere.
I don't see how your response addresses the article's issues where workers don't have enough memory, space, or runtime to perform number crunching, meaning that for people with those use cases it's not a full "alternative to other cloud providers".
This is what happens to all the rats when cities flood
I’m a bit surprised by the telegram one - I thought they were uncooperative enough with law enforcement to blow this off. Guess not?
Psychological vs. Sociological Narratives