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> You mean the DNC blatantly cheating at the primaries.. again?

The DNC didn't cheat in any primaries. DNC leadership has had an outsized influence in the overall candidate selection process in which primaries and caucuses are embedded (less so in 2020 as a direct result of changes after 2016)—as does RNC leadership on the other side (though the mechanisms in place for that in the RNC are different), despite failure of the elite to coalesce around one candidate leading an outsider to benefit from the system engineered to provide that influence in 2016—though it's less in both cases than the ironfisted control they had before putting much of the process in the hands of primaries and general-membership caucuses, nor is it cheating.
Yes, right. It is parents' responsibility to ensure their kids don't smoke cigrettes and take opioid tablets. It's also their responsibility to ensure they themselves don't smoke or take opioid tablets. I suppose my "hot take" is that adults are responsible for their actions, including how they parent their children.

We should also prevent the supply of these things and regulate harmful corporate behavior, but that doesn't absolve parents of their responsibility.
It’s much easier on the humans and bees if you put them in boxes and farm them.
I have it seen time and again. Organizations and leadership being faced with a problem and jumping directly to tool / software selection and implementation before really having understood the problem itself, the processes and requirements. After selection, directly to implementation. Because, you know, we a re agile and working in sprints. So we can sort out architecture and interfaces as we go. End result, tools force you into the use not understood processes that have nothing to do with your business requirements whatsoever, an architecture that is cobbled together and users that don't understand neither.

Even better if the tools are selected based on previous experience alone.
Here's the question:

Would you __________ someone who voted for the opposing presidential candidate?

Where the blank is "go on a date with", "be friends with", "work for", "shop at or support the business of"...

Important to point out that stated preferences are not actual preferences. There's a pretty good change a lot of them who say they wouldn't be friends with a Republican actually would be friends with a Republican if they found themselves in that situation.
i like the idea of balsamiq.

then invision.

then get 10 people to actually pay you $50. if you get payments from 10 customers within the next month, they get 6 months use of the product when it is released in 3 months. everyone else will have to pay $50/mo or whatever it is. if you don't get those 10 customers within a month (or whatever timeline you set), everyone gets their money back, project canceled, thank you for supporting my idea.

it'd be cool if there was a kickstarter-like escrow service that handled this threshold funding idea for you. like a private kickstarter. maybe that already exists. patreon or something.
The majority of people, at least in the UK, have far more money than required for basic needs.

Particularly if they live with parents, share with friends, or move to a cheaper area, or just go to 3/4 days a week.

Minimum wage zero savings workers aren't doing this for the most part.
> I think a lot of this is perhaps a function of the fact that the US electoral system is really only built to support 2 parties.

As far as I know, the electoral system wasn't built to support two parties. George Washington famously was against having any party system at all. The two party system is - to my understanding - the undesirable consequence of the first-past-the-post voting system.

Nowadays of course the political parties are well entrenched and pretend that everything is working the way "The Founders" intended it. In that they are supported by pretty everyone in the political establishment.
I love GCP so much because of their ssh login infrastructure. It’s just beautiful.

The cli is gorgeous, the web gui is terrible.
You often don't need anywhere near the amount of compute in these papers to get similar performance.

Suppose you're a business that needs to play games. Most people seem to think that it's a matter of plugging in the settings from the paper, buying the same hardware, then clicking a button and waiting.

It's not. The specific settings matter a lot.

But my main point is that you'll get most of your performance pretty rapidly. The only reason to leave it running for so long is to get that last N%, which is nice for benchmarks but not for business.

DeepMind overspends. Actually, they don't; they're not paying anywhere close to the price of a 256 core TPU. (Many external companies aren't, either, and you can get a good deal by negotiating with the Cloud TPU team.)

But you don't need a 256 core TPU. Lots of times, these algorithms simply do not require the amount of compute that people throw at the problem.

On the other hand, you can also usually get access to that kind of compute. A 256 core TPU isn't beyond reach. I'm pretty sure I could create one right now. It's free, thanks to TFRC, and you yourself can apply (and be approved). I was. https://sites.research.google/trc/

It kills me that it's so hard to replicate these papers, which is most of the motivation for my comment here. Ultimately, you're right: "How much compute?" is a big unknown. But the lower bound is much lower than most people realize (and most researchers).
This is slightly old news:

TLDR: F-35 is too expensive to maintain and operate, therefore the USAF wants a 4.5Gen Fighter (non stealth, but with updated electronics) to replace the older F-16 that will be retired soon.

This is similar to the strategy that the russians did with the unveiling of their 'Checkmate' light weight fighter last month.

So the USAF wants more funds to build yet another fighter. (it has already a 6gen fighter in development).

I feel it is going to be another waste of money. It wont be much better than an updated FA-18 or an F-15EX with more advanced electronics.

The best thing it can do is to accelerate the development of the 6gen fighter, and mass produce a cheaper 'non-stealth' version of it as the cheaper version, but with the same electronics.
The best way to do cost saving by scaling up production of the same internal components/avionics.
Please do open source it!
This is just a list of packages the author uses and isn't even specific to Arch. I am not sure it is actually useful to anyone.
Or even actively by the charged device reporting the voltage on its end. Too much current, high voltage drop, better decrease the current.
Using https://simpleanalytics.com/, i guess its has most of the functionalities plausible has, but I know they don't track IP-addresses at all and I don't know about plausible.
Good. Eliminate this useless and elitist "sport".
There's not a single problem it solves. A technical solution in search of a problem is a hilariously poor investment, esp when any distributed system will do the same work - but better. And all the "value" stuff on it like NFTs is just a giant ponzi scheme from any way you look at it.
For one a key is not transmitted over the network but the bigger reason is that most people don't use sufficiently long, random and unique passwords. If you are running a server where only you SSH in and you use a long random and unique password you are probably fine but for most people it's just easier to use keys at that point since it is not a lot easier to use long random and unique passwords than it is to use keys.

One upside to keys is also that since the server does not have your private key you don't need to rotate it if that server is hacked so you can reuse the same key for multiple servers and services. If you reuse the same long random password it only takes one of those servers/services to be hacked for you to be compromised on all of them.
If you think the magnitude of the response by the Trump campaign to categorically undermine faith in our elections (think 60+ lawsuits, a literal insurrection in the US capitol) is at all equivalent to Democrats being miffed about losing Florida by 537 votes and pointing out Republican voter suppression (which ABSOLUTELY has supporting evidence if you consider that Trump won two swing-states prone to voter suppression by 3% [0][1]), then I don't even know what to tell you.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-republican-push...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
At least that is what the ship (SC) wants him to think.
It communicates the same idea within the character limit of hn titles. Just a smidge harsher than the original, lol.

Craig Wright is a scuzzy human being though, I don't think anyone is going to complain.
But homes today are much better, they have inside toilets, central heating, etc.

The cost of rent and a mortgage seem similar, is the problem a deposit, or the cost per month?
Non-stealth fighters seem kind of pointless in this era. In any real mission won't a beyond-visual-range missile just shoot you out of the sky?
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Never worry, if the F-35 remains the mess that people expect, Russia is happy to sell its aptly named Checkmate in answer..to everyone except the USA.

https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/334416-russian-checkma...
Minimizing your engagement. They might still have a job, but it might not be the usual 9-5 grind people are accustomed to.

But not really involving themselves is the largest problem probably.
Whoa there quickdraw, when somebody suspects "pretty much" - they can't be challenged. Everybody who matters knows that. Also, it was obviously Neil deGrasse Tyson being alluded to, the scientist that would want to dress you down... so have some respect.
Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?
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Absolutely agree on Hetzner. For raw compute Hetzner managed to create a fairly compelling offering. The pricing is very affordable and the performance seems as expected, not as unpredictable as with lots of small hosters
The US electorate is pretty substandard.

I blame the horrifyingly bad educational system for that; it's hard to have any functional democracy when most of your voting population is under-educated and has an active disdain for scientific consensus.
He can afford to pay attack dogs to complain for him.
Do you have an URL or reference for this film?

Thanks.
Recruiters for one of the FAANG companies that nobody likes has reached out to me several times in the past. I just don’t respond.

Now my criteria for employment is:

* remote work

* Discover how junior the work feels after speaking with the company. In my line of work everybody claims to want senior experts with 100 years of experience doing extremely beginner things in giant over-engineered tools for extremely insecure people.

That’s it. I used to have incredible reservations about working for an ethically compromised employer but now that I am old I would rather have high quality work as my primary consideration.
Same could be said for C++, and yet while C++20 also doesn't have an official runtime on std (C++23 will fix that assuming executors land), the vocabulary types required for interoperability across runtimes are part of the co-routines design.
If he was doing what you're saying that would do him credit. But I see it more as indulging in wishful thinking and gaming the funding system by promising vaguely plausible nonsense and avoiding the tough questions that would come with seriously engaging with the physics community.

A lot of the writing falls woefully short of being a serious effort at science. It's more "wouldn't it be cool if" science fiction.

The entire "attempt" to link the EMDrive to Bohmian quantum mechanics is just a grand amalgamation of conceptual confusion.
Brilliant. "Absolutely No You-No-What" is fantastic.
That’s what happens when your change your hardware architecture but don’t want to change your ABI; you get crazy stuff like that.
Things are pretty different from what I was taught in high school now, or perhaps just more detailed. Some examples:

Protein and ligand are like a lock and a key >>> Some proteins have no intrinsic shape and wrap around ligands or other proteins. Maybe there is RNA involved as well.

The cell membrane is like a soap bubble >>> Different lipids cluster together to form raft like structures with different content based on lipid composition.

DNA -> RNA -> Protein >>> DNA <-> RNA -> Protein.

We have a lot of Junk DNA >>> We shouldn't call it junk DNA, it plays a role in regulation of the exome, wrapping DNA around chromatin and probably plays a lot more roles on a larger scale, equally or more important than the exome even.

Optical microscopes have resolution a limit of about lambda[the wavelength of the used light]/2 >>> We have super-resolution optical microscopy now (ie STED, STORM/PALM, SMM probably more and better, I left the field 10 years ago).

The immune system plays no role in cancer >>> We're completely removing metastatic cancers by boosting the immune system regularly now.

Just to make you think, when I was 19 I did Sanger sequencing, about a day or 2 of hands-on work for 200 base pairs. Now I'm 39, we have an Illumina Nextseq 500 in our lab, we're sequencing 1200 billion (1.2e11) base pairs in one experiment (assuming 2x150 bp reads, 400 million reads). A Novaseq can do a lot more... Crazy.
Can you point to some solid resources so I can get on your level? You sound like you know what goes on behind closed doors in the business world. Do you blog about these topics anywhere? Thanks.
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I'm sorry but none of that is remotely equivalent to the deliberate and overt attempts to undermine democracy that the republican party have been involved in over the last 12 months.

You don't have to commit to the other side, nobody says you have to love the democrats and all they stand for, I surely don't. But you can't look at the actions of the republican party over the last year and see them as anything other than anti-democratic and dangerous?
Not at all. Radars are advancing too and what today is a stealth fighter might not be in 10 years. If the fighter has poor handling characteristics it could be useless in much less time than predicted.
how is an American in a well paying industry better off then in any other first world country?.
I tried my hand once or twice at (re-)implementing board games [0], so that I could run some common "AI" algorithms on the game trees.

What tripped me up every time is that most board games have a lot of "if this happens, there is this specific rule that applies". Even relatively simple games (like Homeworlds) are pretty hard to nail down perfectly due to all the special cases.

Do you, or somebody else, have any recommendations on how to handle this?

[0] Dominion, Homeworlds and the battle part of Eclipse iirc.
I don't know how valuable they are in the marketplace, but the two certifications I've done -- Java and AWS -- both taught me a lot, and I was glad to have done them, I listed them in places, I felt more confident in interviews and on the job, and I was better in interviews and on the job.

I passed both on the first attempt, barely, and I would have been _pissed_ if I failed either, and that might have made me feel very differently about them, and certifications in general.

So, don't know about the particular certs you mention, but I do think certs are generally valuable, possibly very valuable.

That said, my recent interviewing experience (still ongoing!) suggests that papers -- whether from degrees or certs -- are nearly worthless. You have to be good enough to pass the human interviews, and if you're willing, the homework assignments and/or online coding tests/leetcodes/hackerranks/etc.
In my case, probably, yeah. The market can be irrational for longer than you can stay solvent, they say. But it has to give eventually, and I’d rather have no stake in either its long term success or its demise.

It’s hard to know what happens when the hype dies. I don’t suspect cryptocurrency will cease to exist, but for the good of cryptocurrency’s long term future, you might hope for such a bubble burst, too.
> Generally, at least according to all commentary on HN and developers I have spoken with online, a computer science bachelors degree is super extremely important, serves as both a certification and license to operate, and nothing else matters as far as credentials.

This is a much more contested topic than you're suggesting.
> It’s easy to over-index on reuse as a primary goal of APIs (I believe taming complexity is a more important goal)

So true !
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> As has been mentioned in other comments already, Linux has a stable ABI so you don't need a libc at all.

Unless you want to use graphics acceleration, which is implemented in userspace as harware-specific dynamic libraries. Audio also typically goes through user-space implementations - not sure if the interprocess protocols there are stable enough to statically the client libraries.
The value of bitcoin has only been high for about 4 years, it isn't that long.
I would also throw this blog post series into the ring: https://www.schutzwerk.com/en/43/posts/linux_container_intro.... It can be quite terse at times, but seeing as it's not overly long it can still serve as good supplemental material.
I’ll happily write working computer programs for free and do it in my spare time and with my kids.

What companies are paying me for is to focus on and solve the company’s specific problems.
It's using upconversion so it's 'powered' by the shorter wavelength light shining onto it
Not at all. Almost all of the bombs being dropped are against people armed with whatever rocks are laying around on the ground.

Until a beyond-visual-range rock throwning champion emerges there is little risk to conventional, non-stealth, airframes.
AFAICT, the contents is still up to date and solid advice (except IP locks, but YMMV)
I don't know anything about the details here, but with usual linear algebra stuff, bandwidth depends on the size of the kernel that fits into the local memory inside whatever IC you use for your floating-point computation.

E.g. matrix multiplication of n×n square matrices has computational cost of n³ but bandwidth cost of n². Usuall a big m x m matrix is split into many blocks of n×n matrices (with m = k×n). If a n×n matrix fits into the local store of your CPU (cache or registers), then bandwidth cost for the m x m matrix product is k³×n×n = m×m×m/n, so the bigger the block-size 'n' that you can process inside the CPU, the less bandwidth you need.

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It is about framing the issue. A lot of people perceived the event as a bunch of hillbillies dressed up like Indians that illegally stormed a building, rather than an actually believable threat to the democratic process. They don't see anything that is even look like the end of the democratic process.

It is one of the many political topics that has a strong polarizing effect, which in turn results in hate and anger.
While this also seems to use surface attributes of the palm, here’s an interesting talk about bypassing vein detection: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9545-venenerkennung_hacken#l=eng...
A huge thanks to those who don’t hesitate and post archive.org or outline.com links to the partially readable articles.

My typical workflow on HN when I see the paid content block/popup on a destination website:
1) Go back
2) Open HN comments
3) Find archive.org or outline.com link
4) Read the content
I am not certain, I just expect the worst. If it does not happen, I will be happy. If it does happen, I will be ready. Win-win.
Depends a lot on who you are fighting.
You mentioned «Italy» and being «sanguine»: I consequently interpreted "sanguine" as "warmer", "brilliant", "extrovert", "emotionally available".

You are now presenting instances in which it seems that for "sanguine" you mean: "a beast".

Do not use the concept of "Italians" for that, because it would be improper factually. Italy (land of Pareto) is extremely composite, first of all, and in general you can easily find the most controlled people even among the most ignorant (probably owing to a very "integrated" societal configuration of the past). This in fact is a characteristic that is noted by visiting foreigners, in general noticing an extremely less violent environment (up to the label of "effeminate"). Note, numerically, that it is a country of moderate wine drinkers, among countries with much more marked habits towards consumption and substance type.

When I used 'sanguine' or 'warm blooded' I - of course - always assumed, "mentally lucid, reflective and controlled" at the same time. Because normal people are lively and with a functioning prefrontal all the times - the two things are not conflictual, they go together.

You have confirmed my statement «there is an issue on measurements and it is difficult to get a "complete" idea of a population on quantitative data only, because many fundamental qualities are not measured» - or, moreover, even when measurable and measured, it seems they are not easily apparent.

The topic though was "democracy deserving populations". Again: if the population is ignorant, they will be poor to disastrous in judgement: they will be unable to distinguish mice from eagles, they will take the first dog and call that dog "a leader that will lead us to years of cheers", they will believe things like "politicians should not receive a salary", they will believe that they have judgement where they do not have it. If the population is highly skilled - on average, median and typical -, democracy has more reasons to be a good idea. If the population is not, there surely is a problem to be fixed.

Hong Kong (e.g. top average IQ worldwide to some informal data, in absence of a "civilization index") projected an image of competence: if the image corresponds to facts, it would be a pity if representation is not extended. If a strong component of the population is competent, they should be empowered. And those who are "beasts", whatever the percentile they are in, majority or minority, and whatever the role they are in, appointed or marginalized, must be a social concern (of everyone, they themselves first) even outside the context of some "right for representation".
Then don't, there are plenty of humans available to play chess (or first person shooters) with.
> As far as I know, the electoral system wasn't built to support two parties

It was built in a way which structurally encourages duopoly, and largely modeled on a preexisting system in which such duopoly was observed.

Yes, Washington in particular railed against partisanship, but the framers as a whole knew what they were building; they weren't idiots.

> Nowadays of course the political parties are well entrenched and pretend that everything is working the way "The Founders" intended it.

Washington aside, the Founders (well, the Framers more accuratt, but there is significant overlap though the latter acted a decade and half later) not only built the system which structurally drives toward and preserves duopoly, they almost immediately created the first two parties while the ink was still wet on the Constitution.