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Recently I've found out that touchpad experience is mostly determined by software. Windows drivers for common laptops are usually bad, and so are defaults on common GNU/Linux distributions (most of them use libinput now, which isn't quite ready for touchpads yet), however, playing with Synaptics X11 driver can make wonders. I have never understood why people believe Mac touchpads are so good until I've tried Wayland and Windows on my Lenovo Yoga - and wow, it sucked big time. Turns out I just happened to accidentally, cluelessly configure it just right when I was setting up my Arch on this machine.

(don't get me wrong, I like libinput's idea and I know old synaptics driver is an awful mess when it comes to its code, but there are still lots of papercuts libinput needs to handle. I believe it will get there, but it's not there yet)
> To read the environment variables used by a program

This is only the environmental variables used when the program launches. If said program changes any environmental variables during the course of it's execution then /proc/$pid/environ wouldn't be updated to reflect that.

I expect you're already aware of this but it's worth me mentioning just in case anyone reading this thread wasn't aware.
For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account
One thing that helped me with procrastination is to expose it for what it really is.

Let's say you wanted to quit smoking (I've done it cold turkey after smoking a pack a day for over 10 years btw). The only real way you'll have a fighting chance to quit without any alternative drugs is to really want to quit. Not "oh man I wish I could stop smoking", but "ok, I'm done with this, I'm ready to stop".

If you break down and smoke again, you're just creating a negative feedback loop on your self worth while taking the short term gains on how smoking makes you feel. You get some nicotine, but every time you "cheat" on yourself it's a constant reminder that you lack willpower and are worthless. Then suddenly you become that person who thinks they can't quit because it's wired in your DNA, when really, it's just poor habits.

Procrastination is the same thing. Instead of smoking, you're doing something else (reading HN, Youtube, playing games) instead of what you "should" be doing. Sometimes I still need to remind myself that what I'm working on is worth doing and nothing works better than a simple pros / cons sheet. Then you can prove to yourself how ridiculous it is to sit there and spend 6 hours watching Youtube instead of moving towards your goals which likely have very positive benefits to your life.

No apps or gimmicks needed. You'll eventually cure yourself of all procrastination (which by the way shouldn't be confused with taking breaks and giving yourself some time to slack off, because that's completely fine).
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In the late `90s someone called me and asked me to build "a site for people to upload homemade sex videos of ex-girlfriends".

They told me they'd called several others but were turned down, and they offered to pay "whatever you want".

I turned them down but it was only a few years later I first heard the term "revenge porn site".

What really struck me about that conversation was that the guy seemed like a really nice guy. He was soft spoken and very respectful and understanding, but also very determined to build that site.

Back in the `70s I built custom cars with my father. Ideal Toy company called and asked us to build a car based on their "Evel Knievel Stunt and Crash Car" toy. They asked us if we could make the doors and hood "blow off the car like it exploded" with the push of a button.

We told them we could do that but in the contract they sent us they wanted us to assume liability for anyone getting injured when they exploded the car. We declined to sign that and in the end they modified their request to just have the hood blow off and took out the liability clause. But the audacity of that liability request and their initial insistence of it just astounded me.

Anyway, not everyone "has a price". I have turned down many requests to work on projects I considered unethical or dangerous over the years and don't regret it at all.
> Running a shop to repair something that weighs north of forty tons implies you're a fairly ethical person.

Eh. I wouldn't put that into the necessary column.

Not to mention, there's also the chance that these people saw nothing morally wrong with what they did. They see all these safety features and regulations as nothing more that the government "playing nanny" or whatever.

Or maybe the truckers do and some guy decided he can make a good living off of catering to their particular whims. Also whoever did the modification believed that he knew what he was doing.

Ethics are also a very fluid thing. This guy may show up to work on time every day, great boss, great employee, faithful to his wife, great dad to his kids, pays his taxes, volunteers at the soup kitchen, etc., but thinks that as long as no one is directly hurt by his actions, taking money to perform these modifications is a-ok.
I tried doing this during breakfast. So I was honest and said that’s what I’m doing.

Made no sense :D !

I’ll try it later during a procrastination break.
Zinnser's "On Writing Well" comes up as a recommendation from time to time, especially in tech circles.

I don't want to gainsay those who have benefited from it. It does contain a few good tips. For me though, it was a bit of a slog and the payoff wasn't great

It could just be a characteristic of the genre. My creative writing teacher tells me that most general interest books about the process of writing aren't worth reading, and having purchased a few of them, I would tend to agree. There are a few exceptions, but these tend to address specific topics within writing like memoir writing.
It's not just that. There's also the problems with 10nm. The prevaricating about the problems with 10nm. Meltdown. The 28 core 5 GHz demonstration where they misled people about overclocking. A whole bunch of stuff makes me feel like Intel just hasn't been a company I can trust while Krzanich has been at the helm.
Payment processing services will most likely provide a solution to do this automatically. Charging credit cards is already pretty complicated, and they abstract it away already, so it would make sense for them to provide this as an additional service.
That seems to only address calculating the tax however. Presumably the business is still expected to remit the tax collected to each tax jurisdiction as required plus whatever necessary paperwork.
Oh come off it. If he's indeed a saboteur he will garner very little pity from losing a lawsuit. Since when do we support people who allegedly use industrial sabotage against the very companies pushing the boundaries of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions? Your overblown imagery is ridiculous.
From your source machine:

< /path/to/source ncat remote-host 8001

On your destination machine:

ncat -l 8001 > /path/to/dest

Though in most situations with files of reasonable size, you're probably going to be better off running through `gzip -c`.
Seriously. And all the emotional security arguments that cannot be verified by hard evidence.

The probability of being a victim of terror against getting in a traffic accident? No, please don't start warterboarding all bus-drivers...
This is great news for Amazon. They already collect sales tax on everything they sell in most states (47 I think?). Now that smaller sellers (marketplace sellers, eBay, etc.) also have to collect tax, that hurts the ~8% discount built in, so why even shop around?
If you're going to take the onus away from the _purchaser_ to file correctly for his state and put it on the retailer, then there should be a uniform, very simplified way to correctly do that in place first.
I'm pretty sure that product exists. I've heard of AvaTax; there may be others.

I typed "avatax vs" in Google and it autocompleted "taxjar", so there's another I guess.

Yes it would be nice if the states made it easier.
I don't think it is different.

Companies that are large/sophisticated enough to have formal policies of employee conduct generally ban a wide range of behaviors that prioritizes the employee's personal gain over the company's.
> This subtly changes how browsers handle cookie storage.

Good article, although would have been nice to have an explanation on this final point.
So how exactly is this a constitutional question where a new court can have a different opinion?

Quill now harms states to a degree far greater than could have been anticipated earlier. That hardly seems like it changes the Constitution.
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They aren't public, but so many places use it as an identifier. It's kind of dumb for something so sensitive.
The day before, NPR was reporting on the exact same data in a positive light, about how the housing crash of 2008 is now 10 years in the past, and prices have fully recovered, and are as "strong" as they've ever been. Same facts, two different sides of the coin.

Sales of previously-owned homes have been falling [1], and declined again. Limited supply causes more and more purchases to resemble an auction, which pushes closing prices higher.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-existing-home-sales-fell-in...
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Men compete in dominance hierarchies. Women depend on these hierarchies to choose mates. Throughout human history, men and women did not compete in the same dominance hierarchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eATDp2e-3k
When you mean "offline first", it's actually "no online storage at all", right ?
This is an interesting take, since it's so difference from my experience. There's definitely some difference in use cases that had a large impact - whether that's device memory, open tabs, or even choice of websites.

I didn't switch to Chrome when it first came out, but over the next couple of years I found Firefox frustratingly slow and crash-prone. When I cut over, everything was drastically faster and more reliable, plus the feature set (extensions, url completion, incognito for parallel sign-ins, and so on) was noticeably better. High memory usage was the only price, and Chrome surrenders that somewhat gracefully when it's needed.

I'm hoping to make the switch back. Chrome has become more frustrating as Google adds brand alignment, and moreover I simply don't like being siloed by a brand. But the usability gain was massive when I first switched, and I'm only making the move now because there's been a lot of good news out of Mozilla.
From the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I would echo the OP's concern that most foreign coverage of China and Russia on hacker news seems to be:

1. Entirely off-topic.

2. Negatively biased in some way.

This tends to be true of more internet forums than hackernews. Having been "around for a while", my experience is that the wave of negatively flavored articles about US competitors follows the tide of geopolitical competition.

I believe these general trends are a result of our nation's propaganda program, where internet discussions and homeland conversations are considered legal operating ground. I believe much of the source material is posted by ordinary people, who have had their perceptions managed and influenced by these propaganda programs.

Regarding your point about China being the second largest economy and also a leader in technology - I would expect a significantly different mix of positively biased stories focused on China's leading edge, new innovations, top scientists and mathematicians, etc.
First, random trade wars, raising prices for all those clueless, provincial consumers whom don’t realize what made Walmart prices cheap. Next, cuts to MedicAid for tax breaks for the very rich that are literally blood money by killing people, throwing them off health insurance and sentencing them to bankruptcy. Then their genius band of self-destructive nincompoops hurls some more arbitrary taxes onto the people whom can least afford it, i.e., anyone not rich. Is this the same, worn political cycle of “sabotage the country while blaming the other side for doing” it gambit as usual? smh
Using custom fonts in images is no longer a problem, especially SVG
This was also common in Slave America, too.
For you specifically, I have no idea. I suspect we're at least a decade out from these technologies being reified enough to make decent forecasts as to where they'll actually lead. Undoubtedly there will be those who benefit and suffer disproportionally as has been the case with all technology. It should be noted that I'm not specifically speaking to Bitcoin here, although the Bitcoin protocol/network opened up the space for everything that will follow.

I see a lot of potential for decentralized tokens/governance-models to alter the way humans organize themselves. The closest historical parallel I see to this technology is the corporate charter. Where the corporate charter allowed for the decentralization of the power of kings & military decentralized token systems act on the power of the Nation State & Corporations. I don't know if you should care about it, but the technology is here it will be used and abused whether you care or not.

I think the broadest possible beneficial effect to the average person of this technology is the potential to reinvigorate what historically might be referred to as cooperatives or unions. To be able to self-select into pooling and multiplying your efforts with like-minded people on a global basis is a huge change from being the previous geo-spatial-political limitations to organization and cooperation.

Of course, there's nothing to prevent people from organizing around values like racialNationEugenicsCoin so there's plenty of potential for harm too.

Then there's the potential multiplier effect that you get out of this technology. It's not inconceivable that people on this forum could create a game or service that leverages decentralized tokens to accomplish what in the old paradigm would require lots of human and financial capital to achieve (think online game's, Uber, E-Bay, AirBnB). This efficiency of effort could potentially be used to further concentrate value than under old models or to require less value extraction from users. This particular effect is, I suspect, why in it's nascent state the technology is so pregnant with potential for scams.

Anyways I've gone on for too long, but that reflects some of my thinking. I'm not invested in crypto outside of, an admittedly limited, knowledge investment. I'd really love to have my mind changed but haven't come across a solid argument for how this tech isn't going to effect our human society as much as any of the related tech that's come before it.
The quote from Saint-Exupery also applies to good code I think :D
He's talking about cassia, and the specific substance is coumarin which has a fairly high fatal dosage for humans. Note that cinnamaldehyde tastes really good and has nothing to do with coumarin if the chemical processing is done correctly.

Anyway in rodents at very low doses their liver converts it to some nasty epoxide which slowly gives rodents liver cancer; not an issue for primates who an only die from acute liver toxicity.

This was a "thing" generations ago, leading to endless old wives tale type advice about cinnamon "repelling and killing mice" which actually doesn't work because its too bitter if dusted around in pure form.

If you're bored its interesting to research cinnamon-flavored liquors, the more "natural and organic", at least if it uses cassia for flavor, the higher the poisonous coumarin content and in contrast the more processed refined pure cinnamaldehyde is essentially non-poisonous (lethal dose for a human would be about half a liter of the concentrated oil, extrapolating from animal studies, figure a percent or two of total body mass). From memory the LD50 of common table salt is about 10% lower than the LD50 of cinnamaldehyde, of course in a cinnamon flavored liquor the ethanol would kill a consumer long before the cinnamaldehyde would be an issue.
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Doesn’t even need to be a full essay. Just write down every thought about the topic in an unstructured list. The key is to just start getting stuff down and out of your head, and it doesn’t need to come out of your head as fully structured perfect paragraphs, and it doesn’t even need to start from the beginning. Get the ideas out so you don’t forget the points you want to make, then you can wordsmith them later.
Did you report the Safari bug to Apple or to WebKit.org? I've had good luck getting responses and fixes from the webkit guys
'Sunsetting' means they won't use it anymore?
I've never seen that expression before. Does it carry any more meaning?
In fact they do already.
That depends on whether this decision gets extended to the municipal-level taxes. That's where things get really complex. The geo-boundaries on the areas where taxes are enforced aren't limited to simple city boundaries. Street number or side of the street (odd/even addresses) can matter. And taxes can vary depending not just on location, but also the items purchased. It's a nightmare scenario for internet businesses. Brick-and-mortar stores deal with this by just supporting taxation for a one specific location. If internet stores are required to support all locations, it will be a huge disadvantage.
is k = i+j valid C? Can it be translated sensibly to add i,j; jump on overflow to random; store k; ?
How about sometimes omitting the jump to random and sometimes not?
I live in an Illinois border community, and work in Iowa. I wonder what tax would be collected if I close an Ebay transaction in Iowa, but have the products shipped to my address in Illinois.
have been using taxjar.com with... ok results so far - they seem to only provide a sandbox/playground for 'pro' accounts ("call for pricing" - ugh).
I have been switching back and forth between Chrome/Chrome Canary and Firefox/Firefox Dev Edition, and I think I've finally come to the conclusion that Firefox is my preferred source, especially as a web developer. There's small things the dev tools does that I really appreciate, like showing variable types by default.

Also, the constant updates to the dev tools like the Shape Path Editor is amazing!
Alibaba VS Tencent – the battle for supremacy in China
I tend to view the avoidance of paying local taxes as one of the internet's original legislation workarounds (1). The entire wholesale (you buy for resale, pay taxes when that happens) vs retail (you sell to the end user) division was abused to allow the historical "nobody pays taxes on the internet, so buy there and avoid them" logic many people used.

It would have been interesting to see how differently retail sales would have grown, especially Amazon, if they were required to wrangle with local sales tax in all the places they sold into.

Additionally, most locations have a Use Tax that's identical to local sales tax, so it's transferring the legal burden onto the buyer. Almost nobody does this.

1: It's not a new or internet-specific tactic either - many car dealerships advertise "No City Sales Tax!" and are barely on the other side of the city limits.
Implementing an intuitive versioning and release strategy
I think it's more likely that Musk wants to know who received the information and will plan accordingly from there. Additionally, it will scare others to keep them from releasing information.
Agreed. I envision "tax compliance as a service" being offered by processors or third parties.

My only question is then whether individual municipalities in states that allow them to have their own sales tax will also now be able to force compliance. If that's the case, what a nightmare for online retailers.
Side note, but this is quite similar to how Raymond Chandler taught himself to write (around age 40 IIRC). He'd take a short story he liked, make a detailed outline of the plot, then write a story from the outline and compare it to the original.
Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died
The article states that oversupply is in low-end GPUs. Did Nvidia incorrectly assume there would be a demand for low-end GPUs somewhere?

My understanding is that the demand for high-end GPUs was driven primarily by the shortage of middle-tier GPUs. High-end GPUs obviously are faster at mining but their cost and power consumption meant that they were lower profit and higher risk. Thus miners were buying up all of the middle-tier GPUs. Lower-end GPUs were largely overlooked due to RAM limitations the presented that limited their useful life as miners.

The shortage of middle-tier GPUs meant that gamers could either go for higher or lower tier GPUs or just hold out. Thus high-end GPU prices rose as some people chose to upgrade. When crypto currency prices peaked last fall this created futher demand for the high-end GPUs limiting their supply and further driving up prices. Now that crypto currencies prices are falling and demand for GPUs has waned, the artificial demand for high-end GPUs has disappeared.

But was there ever a demand for the low-end GPUs? If you absolutely needed a GPU sure, but the last 3 generations of GPUs have been all about 4k or VR gaming at 60+FPS. This isn't a market that low-end GPUs can satisfy. Most people looking to upgrade, want an upgrade. If you have a 3 year old middle-tier GPU it can hold it's own or beat most current low-end GPUs.
Intel has a lot of interesting stuff outside of CPU area, for example NVM
Congrats to Avalara on their recent IPO, pretty good timing... this is a Seattle-area firm that does local/state/etc. tax calculations. In the end, it's a huge tax on infrastructure.
"Sunsetting" is a very common term (in America, at least) for deprecating or discontinuing something.
And you do valuable things when you procrastinate?
No. The server just needs to send over an image and log the IP of the requestor for reconciliation at the end of the month.
Maybe. The question is to what extent personal experiences of this sort help anyone else understand what was really going on with Koko.

I mean, I would personally really like to know exactly how proficient she was with language and what was the extent of her ability to communicate with Patterson and others. But since I wasn't there and didn't try to communicate with her, I'll never know.

And because the only evidence that she was at all capable of communication is in Patterson's shoddy publications and personal anecdotes like the one you relay, I have to put the question in the "impossible to ever know" bin.

Edit: Look, a personal connection, with a human or an animal, is a wonderful thing to have and I don't wish to belittle it. But what good is it to you, say, to know that I had a warm friendship with my grandmother's partner and that he was the only person ever to manage to teach me how to play backgammon well? I'd guess- not much.

The problem is that Koko's linguistic abilities are a scientific question and personal relations with her don't really cut the mustard as an answer.