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Should society and trusted authority figures not be held responsible, on any level, for bombarding people with false or harmful messages? When a religious fanatic does something unpleasant, we don't hesitate to hold their religious community partially responsible.
The focus is on usage as opposed to scripting, and it was written in a few days as a somewhat visceral reaction to seeing a single-page introduction to the shell in a coding academy. It may be that the term "booklet" is more appropriate than "book", and it is certainly the case that "wrote" in the context above should not imply "edited" or "published". However, at the moment I am between projects, and I am very happy to take your interest as a spur to complete this work. However, if you had some time to indulge, I might be able to repay your interest somewhat sooner; having other people review one's final copy is probably the next thing to a necessity.
The IP of the source torrent is published.
Thanks. The fonts are noticeably blurrier/less defined in the Mojave capture.
So are you saying the High Sierra PDF rendering catastrophy is not a bug but a precursor of this „feature“?

If that is true and the blurred text is going to be the new normal, I do not see how any professional user looking at type all day long can stay on their platform.
Downloading the beta now, but have seen screenshots of both (here and elsewhere).
South Park made the Nosulus Rift as a promotion for one of their games that let you smell the farts in the game.
You aren't going to capture the details of subpixel AA in a screenshot.
I would fix the sad state of non-profit/charity management; which is currently inefficient and expensive.
Dual-Sim on Android?
Hello HN,

I‘m thinking of getting a second mobile number to seperate between work and private.

I don‘t want to handle two different devices so I‘m looking for a device with dual-sim functionality. I‘ve read some stuff about different modes like DSFA (dual sim full active) and DSDS (dual sim dual standby) but I‘ve not found any useful real-life experience reports on a day-to-day basis.

I would like to know if both sim cards can be used completely on it’s own. Some devices like Samsung Galaxy S9 do support 4G/LTE only for one sim card (can be configured which one).

Is it possible to schedule the connectivity of both numbers (work number not reachable before 8 am and after 6 pm)?

Is it possible two have contacts, calendar events, browser favourits, etc. be separated (switch between work and private profile)?
Unfortunately on my high-dpi monitor I can't get that page to display the screenshots at 1:1, so I can't see the difference due to filtering :/
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>Saving is always a good idea.

Not really.

Bitcoin has lost over -50% of its value in the last 6 months.
UWP for the most part doesn't seem to use subpixel AA, though (Edge only does so in the content, but not the window chrome).
In the US buildings are covered under freedom of panorama and photographs of buildings taken from public areas are not copyright infringement. Sculptures are not covered under freedom of panorama in the US, and generally photographs of sculptures or other works of art are derivative works.

Second there is a major distinction between commercial use and fine art. Selling an image on a stock photo site to be used in an advertisement requires a release from any models, or from the sculptures copyright owner in this case. If they were selling a limited number of fine art prints they would not need a release.
Seems the court accepted the fair use argument for the stamps that were sold and used, but the "pure profit" stamps that weren't didn't pass the muster.
> You seem to have a poor understanding of both entropy and markets.

You're hilarious. On an annual basis I end up being the deciding factor in the allocation of a fairly large sum of VC money and tech quality is a big deciding factor in that.

Fortunately there are plenty of successful companies that do a much better job than what you are describing you are doing.
> College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school.

Then colleges need to stop pitching themselves as the gateway to a career.

People don't believe these things because they're stupid. They believe these things because colleges systematically lie to them.
GDPR applies if you are a European citizen visiting a website while on holiday in USA, for example. It doesn’t seem to me that GDPR stops when crossing a border. Which is why it has so much worldwide reach.
You most certainly can. The effect is applied when shading the text, so it does appear in screenshots, as would any other in-software AA technique (AFAIK).

You can test this yourself in the browser. For instance, toggle subpixel AA using the CSS -webkit-font-smoothing property in Safari. There is a clear visible difference that you can screenshot. On some websites with a light-on-dark theme, disabling subpixel AA with CSS was an important part of improving visual consistency between browsers. It’s also important to explicitly control when working with animations that changes text scale or rotation.

It’s easier to see with an enlarged screenshot, but you can totally see the difference at 1x.
I don't doubt there's people like you who can make it happen and have it better off but there's no way your results are typical. I don't know of a single fortune 10 company that even has a hiring pipeline that could be gotten through in 4 days unless you know someone with some pull, and the entire industry can't be friends with that small group of people.

Additionally look at all the work you've put in. "Networking like crazy" as you say. This obviously had benefits for you and is probably worth it for the vast majority of engineers. However, why is this amount of work necessary to find a job in an industry that constantly complains about a shortage of engineers? It seems like they're crying wolf when they say there's a shortage but the hiring process gets more insane every year
The stamps that were used were used as payment for mail transport and delivery. There was presumably no profit there (it's not a company trying to make money), so no net benefit to the USPS from the use of the photo.
Or slide 125 from this PDF: https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2018/209pydir...

Which isn't a perfect comparison because of image compression, but at least on my retina MB they look identical to me.

EDIT: You can also see the side-by-side at 28:03 in this video https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/209
Is that so bad? Globally I don't think it's such a great idea to have the US draining most tech businesses as it currently is.
And that was the exact reason why I left windows as workstation to Ubuntu. It did torture my eye every time I was looking at UWP app.
The blog also did something else.. give non technical users a voice. Do we celebrate that or mourn for a web full of people just like us?

In the same way that Facebook killed blogging- once a better mousetrap for publishing comes along it finds an audience albeit the great technically unwashed.
At least he helped finance a comfortable lifestyle for the NYU admin staff.
This guy is a chief architect of both the EU and Chinese plans for the coming years. His words weigh more than the average speakers.
I don't know what you can toggle with CSS but I'm pretty sure you can't replicate 'thing rendering a font with knowledge of your physical display' with 'bitmap made of pixels and some CSS'.
One guys dell monitor doesn't - subjectively - render input from a beta OS as pretty as it did the non-beta, and suddenly everybody is bringing out the pitchforks.

If you read through the comments, you'll find this link buried, which shows a developer showcasing the difference in the new AA. Basically font-smoothing is grayscale-only in Mojave.

* https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/209/?time=1...

If I take a screenshot of some text and zoom in, I can see the colours, just like in the video. If I zoom back to normal size and change the saturation to zero (only greyscale) I cannot see a change in sharpness of the text on my 2009 macbook pro.
I experienced something similar ~15 years ago, some friends and I got between Phoenix and Vegas (via darksky.org's map) to watch the Leonids. As we were setting up in the late afternoon, two big fireballs crossed right over us - horizon to horizon - one slightly trailing the other, they had blue ion tails right behind them which were visible in the daylight, and everything around us made a buzzing sound, it's desert, so it's dry leaves etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/23/research.h...
“Risk use growth”? Like user growth isn’t threatened by the sheer number of abusive spammy asshole eggbots?
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I released a build of iTerm2 last year that accidentally disabled subpixel AA and everyone flipped out. People definitely notice.

But the reason I’m sad is that this wonderful hack was short lived: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vfBq6vg409Zky-IQ7ne-Yy7o...

My pet theory is that macOS is going to pull in a bunch of iOS code and iOS has never had subpixel AA.
I think his point is also that to even use the font on the beta OS you had to go out of your way.
To a point. I think, however, as the technology increases and gets better, the trend towards realism will overpower. Consider: as assets get more and more complex, the uniqueness of an individual asset will actually decrease. I can easily point out the difference between a tree in the witness and mario 64, because they're both low poly games that do their own thing _instead_ of emulating the real world. If, instead, you ask me to differentiate between a tree in skyrim and one in the last of us, well, they both just look like trees. At this stage, what matters is the visual aesthetic that you're able to create with lighting, with combination of different assets. Whether you happened to make an individual asset yourself will matter increasingly less as time goes on.
I can see niche applications for this type of technology - consider people consigned to a clean room in a hospital, or a Mars habitat, or any other situation with severely limited olfactory experiences.

When it comes to the average consumer, however, I can't see this ever taking off for a couple reasons:

1. Smell is one of our least important senses - while it might help immersion, very little of our information about our world comes through our noses, comparatively speaking. There are many, many subjects that might be improved to provide better immersion than scents, which are, ultimately, optional.

2. On a related note, smell is a less developed sense. The amount of bandwidth our noses provide is massively limited, unlike audio or visual effects. Additionally, multiple smells in a short timeframe will interfere with each other, preventing more complex arrangements. This means there is less design space for creators to use and consumers to experience.

3. Because of this, most people's olfactory needs can be satisfied with less difficulty at a lower cost. Rather than purchasing an expensive device that requires power and refills, you can just get an air freshener. Novelty and variety in smells is much less of a priority than simple maintenance of a pleasant base standard.

In the long term, I'm sure smell simulation will be achieved for VR-style experiences - but almost certainly not through these devices. As long as there's no simulation of motion, or, less importantly, touch, immersion will not be complete enough for lack of smell to be a notable factor. I expect that all three of these senses will become available when we're able to manipulate them more directly - attaching to the nerves, or perhaps via neural implants, as any physical measures for motion or touch are crude and generally ineffective - and that olfactory devices will see negligible success in the meantime, until they're obsoleted.
Well you got me! Yeah, I guess they do just tax the hell out of people in Europe and then provide basic healthcare, and call it an easy success!
You don't need to farm the inner city but it certainly helps to do it nearby. You can definitely benefit from doing it on the rural outskirts of cities
Normally Getty and other stock image sites require a photo release or other relevant releases before selling images for commercial use. Other images will be for editorial use only, or more commonly they will not accept them on the site at all.

Getty made a mistake, and notified USPS a few years before the lawsuit. This was four months after the image was licensed. USPS continued to use the image from 2011 through 2014 knowing that there was no property release and that one was needed.

What is interesting about this case is the artist was not aware of the infringement, did not register the copyright and did not file suit until 2013, and the court is still considering a royalty for unused stamps from before the copyright registration. The court case is far from over though, given the size of the settlement it will be appealed.
> I'd say most developers are using a non-retina screen

I don't see this as a problem with 4K screens starting at 260 euros (~ US$ 306).
The “knowledge” is applied when the text is rendered to the bitmap, not when the bitmap is pushed to the display. You’d be right if the effect happened quite late in the rendering process. It doesn’t — it happens really early.
About 2-3 years ago. Thank you! I had not seen either of these; I'll look into them and start a deep dive trying them out this weekend!
Yeah, I was referring to academic editions, and the fact that you have to contort the analogy proves how stupid the argument you're making is.
I am not using the phrase ‘fake news’ in the way Trump uses it (to seed doubt and cast aspersions). I mean to say: “sometimes, I know the details (inside story) of a story/situation. When I read an article about it - I can always tell precisely what got misreported or misinterpreted - which causes me to wonder, what else is getting (mis-)reported like that - about things I don’t know”. Probably the choice of the phrase ‘fake news’ is too extreme. I meant to convey a more subtle point.
There is the assumption that those stamps won't be used. I have a few, I'm not collecting them, I just don't go through stamps very fast.
Surprised that redux-thunk is still alive in 2018, the cause of much of the most complicated and "ugly" code in Redux.

Time to move to custom middleware(s)
that’s exactly what assange did with his insurance file, and the guardian editor he was in contact with published the password for the archive of unredacted diplomatic cables in a book
Statistics by Freedman et al. All exercises use real data as cases, I learned a lot more from them!

https://www.amazon.com/Statistics-4th-David-Freedman/dp/0393...
How does RCN model uncertainty?
This was true in 1995, assuming you can spend unlimited time writing your code. You can almost certainly get an order of magnitude better performance with a custom backend written in a low-level language instead of a SQL database. And, I don't know if you've ever used a SQL database written in Python instead of C, but I have, and it's definitely a lot slower.

But it's not true today, because today hand-tuned assembly is slow compared to what you can do on the GPU or an FPGA or a TPU.

And, of course, it's not true that you should do this if you can't spend unlimited time writing your code. It's entirely reasonable to use slower languages like Python and JS if you can hack faster as a result. Since many of us are taking that entirely reasonable option, the number of CPU cycles needed to run basic applications is going up, which increases power consumption.
Why is it poorly named? I've always liked it.
Enlarge the page using browser zoom. Subpixel AA will make the text look red on one edge and cyan on the other. Without it, the text is perfectly greyscale. This is visible even with extensive bilinear filtering.
USB-C still hasn’t arrived as the definitive standard.

Apple isn’t quite big enough to force an industry change in personal computers.
> that is nearly all monitors that people dock into at work or at home

And 1080p projectors in conference rooms.
No, it would be only one of the aspects.
> Rust had potential for proof work, but went off in a different direction.

Which direction is that?
Don't screens tell the OS about their physical characteristics? At least the native resolution and the physical screen size (or dpi) are available to the OS somehow. I'd guess the sub-pixel arrangement might also be.
You're right about the making money part
The one on the right seems tired to hold her torch.
Yup I believe they announced this at Google I/O Keynote this year actually -- they mentioned that while it might not be enough with just the audio, looking at mouth gestures can give AI enough to know what might be said by whom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs&t=7m0s
If the ones handing out the contracts weren't corrupt, it wouldn't be this way.

NY and other big government, nanny state places are infested with government led crime.
It doesn't surprise me, since even Microsoft is slowly dropping ClearType.
Thank you for answering all of our questions, Peter!

I am currently on an L-1B and in the process of obtaining the GC (EB-2). My I-140 just got approved, and my lawyers said that my case should take 12 more months.

I have been with my employer since mid-2015 (1.5y in an European office, since beginning of 2017 in SF office).

How long would you recommend that I wait before I switch employers after I receive the GC? I hear conflicting advice, so I would really value your opinion!

I won't be applying for citizenship later but don't want to risk losing the GC.
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You can simulate this by adding the `-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased` CSS rule to any website when using Safari or Chrome. Lots of websites already do this though, so you can use the value `subpixel-antialiased` to revert the text to that mode instead.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth

To really appreciate the difference, I recommend turning on screen zoom with ctrl-scroll in the accessibility system prefs. You’ll see the effect of SPAA as colouring on the left and right edges of text.
As long as it's not a monitor.
> This assumption that as soon as somebody learns how to code, they pack up and move to the Bay Area... In reality, the USAF here is competing against the cost of defence contractors.

Exactly. The airmen that can leave, will leave to defense contractors, not silicon valley.
The comment you link to [1] is not written by a "lawful permanent resident." They were on an H1-B visa. That's lawful, but not lawfully permanent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679062
Why in the world would I want to use a 4K screen when I can get a 2560x1440 screen?
The reason being that it tends to want to push pre-rendered bitmaps around, and sub-pixel anti-aliased pre-rendered bitmaps don't work well under rotation...
Sure, but it really sounds like we agree on the substance here - "they certainly aren't making the profit based on the image on the stamp", as also pointed out by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477124.

I agree, which is why I wrote that I think it's besides the point to discuss USPS overall profits in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477257. This concerns a particular stamp, and we all pretty much agree that the image is irrelevant to USPS profits. Considering that, the interesting aspect is probably more related to the USPS' decision to use an image that didn't actually depict the Statue of Liberty, as well as knowingly and intentionally continue that after being made aware of it.

I guess it's somewhat like a postal service equivalent of turning a bug into a feature, but they have to consider what the bug was in the first place as well as what it signals when they make it a feature.

I've updated my comment in an attempt to make that a bit clearer, but realize it's not perfectly worded -- it's getting late around here, approximately 4 miles from the real Statue of Liberty :)
> then when Vista(?) happened they suddenly decided screw everything

What? ClearType was basically introduced in Vista and refined in Win 7.

Win 8 is when they start to remove it for various applications (UWP, and some others) due to its poor performance on retatable devices (tablets mainly).
nice, this is very handy!
A few years back I spent some time reading and following the equations in Friston's papers, maybe understanding like 90% of it. you have to know dynamical systems, differential equations, multivariate matrix stuff, etc. Basically stuff physicists are good at.
Seemed that the theory wasn't detailed enough to inspire the next deep NN revoluation, basically the form of the generative model Friston used is very general. My impression was that the coded matlab examples reqired you specify known quantities, like velocity or position. But that requires a human to input, not like a NN where you can just point it at some data and it learns. Would love to be shown otherwise...
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Recently switched to Manjaro Deepin operating system. Everything looks nice and quite polished once inside the OS. I have a great pull down terminal. I can snap windows side by side. Almost everything is configurable without digging into configuration files. It's a rolling release so you don't get stuck on a particular version of a package until the next major release. You get the latest stable release of all software monthly or sooner using the built in package manager.
Most of my development tools I install using the package manager. Git, docker, docker-compose, vitualbox, openjdk, node, go, python, (dont use pip use pacman to install python packages), (sdkman for kotlin, gradle and maven), visual studio code, postman,(dbeaver as gui for SQL, Cassandra, mongo, big table, redis, neo4j). Download and install intellij and sublime. WPS office is better than Microsoft Office in my opinion. There's also the AUR repository which are community built packages that can also be enabled in the package manager settings. Everything is really stable. Built in screen recorder and screenshots with annotations. You can map your keys to work like a Mac or a Windows computer even on a Mac. The latest Gimp is actually really good (not yet available on macos). There's also Krita for image editing but doesn't handle large PSD files well. Overall the development experience is much less frustrating and docker runs natively which means everything is much faster. I've had a lot of luck running music production DAW and VSTs and games under Wine. There's a great guide on the techonia website about how to dual boot Manjaro Deepin safely on a MacBook Pro. The best part is I can have this environment on any computer so I can have the latest intel processor if I want and the OS won't make my company issued external monitor look like crap. Unfortunately Apple runs more like a fashion company than a technology company. Making people feel compelled to buy the latest product.
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That would be a dream. So many are still on 720p or lower, especially in schools etc.
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Well the two are not mutually exclusive. I worked there for close to 5 years on a few different silicon-related projects that I characterize as unique in the market and not a single one has even made it into an announced product. These were not small endeavors, so either the development times for silicon are extremely long or Intel cannot execute on its ideas. Regarding the former possibility, I heard from people who were around since the beginning that 3D XPoint was in development for a decade before it was announced in 2015.