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I didn't downvote you, but I think whoever did downvote you did it because you missed the important parts of my comment. To summarize, the thief and the person with the shotgun "practically live in different worlds" and "bridging the gap between those two worlds would be helpful for both of them"

Shooting blanks and chasing someone away doesn't bridge the gap, it widens it. I'd argue that many thieves may come away from that experience NOT thinking "wow, I did a bad thing" but rather thinking "wow, that guy was such a rich asshole who wanted to end my life over A PACKAGE"

We don't need thieves thinking that the people they're stealing from deserve it. We need to get thieves to relate and sympathize with the people who they're considering stealing from - maybe thay way, they won't actually steal in the first place! And also, as my comment harped on, we need to take away excuses for thievery. Ensure that people who might turn to theft CAN get a job, and without tooooo much difficulty. Chasing someone away with a gun does not help out with these things.
We'd have websites sponsored and run by people willing to pay to put them online to push their agenda.

Versus now, when we have websites sponsored by advertising and run by people trying to push their agenda.
On my Linux and Firefox, font looks unpleasantly blurred in small sizes on their page. Maybe our hinting settings are different than theirs but that should not be a problem in a quality font.

Kerning in digits looks off in their example: https://i.imgur.com/AURrPtn.png (this is an example where fixed-width is disabled), don't know how pervasive this odd kerning is, or if this is bad only in the browser. Another example of bad kerning: https://i.imgur.com/PIYJgIz.png One more example: https://i.imgur.com/bOM4MZB.png
I wonder if the citrus is that the land were the groves are farmed has been saturated year after year with pesticides. In addition the fruit is less dense in nutrients, less nutrients in the soil, might lead to the plants trying to use the pesticides in the place of standard nutrients? Very wild hypothesis
I'm a lefty, and with fast drying ink, a fountain pen doesn't smear. Unlike ballpoint or pencil does when your hand moves across it. The "bizarre contortion" is needed anyway to get the stroke weighting correct, unless you use one of those weird offset nibs, which aren't readily available in quality pens.

Off topic, I once got a B+ on a high school physics test, but the teacher told me he marked me down from an A for having the temerity to use an ink pen.
I always thought lawns were a old symbol of wealth, proving you don't need all your arable land to survive.
In my opinion, the article serves its purpose: It polarizes. And quite rightly so. While it is relatively easy to develop portable websites, this does not work for real Applications in most cases.

After researching how to create a GUI in Java, QT, GTK+, etc., I found out for myself that a platform-independent GUI design can be a difficult topic, especially when it comes to GREAT usability.

I don't think, that Electron Apps provide GREAT usability - they do their job and are cheap to produce. In a world where JavaScript and browser technologies are used to justify low maintenance costs, better portability and the lack of skills, it can be helpful to critically question the arguments for it, which the author does.

Especially when this attitude only shifts costs from the manufacturer to the customer, e.g. under the time-to-market aspect. While the manufacturer is saving time and money, the users and customers pay for it. And this is the real argument for me - manufacturers want to save costs. Costs for:

- qualified staff
- maintenance
- portable applications
- time to market

In my opinion the only way prevent more and more Web-Based GUIs is doing it better and being successful with it - not an easy task.

So thank you for this polarizing but interesting article.
Chickens and cats will also stop cleaning their bodies when they are depressed. Grooming is a good indication of mental health for these animals.
Siestas?
hello guys am Bob,i hired a professional hacker,when i suspect my wife was cheating on me.it all started when she changed her phone code,i tried talking to her about it this but she won’t accept the fact that she was cheating on me.
all thanks to {spylordhack at gmail dot com} who helped by hacking my wife mobile,i get to know she was cheating for so long,though i was so sad but everything because i love her so much but am also happy am over it.
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hello guys am Jeff,i hired a professional hacker,when i suspect my wife was cheating on me.it all started when she changed her phone code,i tried talking to her about it this but she won’t accept the fact that she was cheating on me.
all thanks to {spylordhack at gmail dot com} who helped by hacking my wife mobile,i get to know she was cheating for so long,though i was so sad but everything because i love her so much but am also happy am over it.
if you need help you should contact spylord OR text +1(502) 353-0457
i referred you in..
Recently VAT collection was changed for electronic services. Before you simply charged your countries applicable tax rate, unless a VAT ID was provided. Now you have to charge the VAT rate applicable to your customers country of residence, forcing every vendor to care for and implement correct VAT rates and regulations for all your products and every of the 28 countries in the EU - possibly even more due to bilateral free market agreements with Norway, Switzerland and the like.

This is way more complicated than you might think, as improper tax collection may constitute felony charges and fines, leaving small businesses and startups in an awkward spot where not selling to other eu countries is easier than selling to them in a compliant way, putting the idea of a single market ad absurdum. The last thing you would want is pointless market entry barriers affecting every entity offering cross border sales.
You are just reading blocks of 2448 bytes and writing blocks of 2352 bytes. Does this just remove some kind of "footer"/crc/whatever?
> just like you can choose which consensus rules to follow, other people can choose which chain to follow.

the two are not the same. consensus rules dictate how to validate the chain. following the chain without knowing the rules and validating it is meaningless. might as well trust any existing fiat system.

> There are no first principles where you derive everything from.

no, but there is an objective measure of security contributed to every chain - proof of work. by validating competing chains and measuring how much work they contain you can make informed decision. PoS has none of that, trusting chainstate from third party has none of that, only validating for yourself.
Your columns headers are wrong because the companies have different fiscal years. The $265b Apple figure is actually for Apple's 2018 year; it's currently Apple's 2019 year.
Hence the 'MacTilt' [1]:

The lateral movement of the head to an angle of 45° to the vertical by a palliative care nurse specialist. It is intended to convey sympathy and understanding. (Mac from Macmillan nurse — a specialist palliative care nurse — and tilt.)

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1295#sec-12
I would prefer Mozilla finishing the Rust + GPU rewrite that is so promising, especially on mobile.

But of course it's not my decision.
It also doesn’t help that to break into this market you have to overcome years of customization and millions upon millions of dollars in sunk costs that management isn’t likely to throw out for something that “works better for clinicians.” Not to mention the cost of retraining entire hospitals worth of staff to use the new system.
It’s the New York Times. Everything is always about race.
Deep!
Shorting has a specific delivery date, which is different from holding stock because you can choose when to sell it.
I got a Galago Pro recently, because my previous netbook fell apart. The construction on the Galago Pro is quite solid, I believe; getting it apart was a bit more challenging than I am used to. However, the laptop is still being manufactured by CLEVO, and as one consequence of this, the battery life is pretty limited (I was aware of this drawback before purchase). I believe that, as the sibling poster mentions, they are bringing their design and manufacture in-house, and that subsequent revisions will be an improvement. I don't find the issue to be hugely limiting, and I am personally willing to forgive quite a lot to have (1) no Windows key, and (2) non-soldered RAM.
You can get a Pilot Metropolitan from Amazon for about $14, and there are other fountain pens that are a little cheaper. It’s not like you need to spend $120 to start trying.

I started maybe two years ago with a set of Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens that I bought from Amazon for $9 or so. I liked the feeling so when one of them started to run low on ink I decided to buy a ‘real’ (non-disposable) fountain pen.

That was when I found the Metropolitan. If I’d known I could’ve bought a pen for so little I would’ve bought that instead of the disposable ones to start.

They’re so much smoother to write with and don’t require anywhere near as much pressure as a ball point pen. I’ve started thinking about improving my cursive because of playing with fountain pens.

If you do any writing at all, give it a try. I use mine at work for taking notes in meetings.
Cofounder Here: Happy to see this on hnews again.

Update: Matthew (the other cofounder) and I got Guesstimate to a stage we were happy with. After a good amount of work it seemed like several customers were pretty happy with it, but there weren't many obvious ways of making a ton more money on it, and we ran out of many of the most requested/obvious improvements. We're keeping it running, but it's not getting much more active development at this time.

Note that it's all open source, so if you want to host it in-house you're encouraged to do so. I'm also happy to answer questions about it or help with specific modeling concerns.

Right now I'm working at the Future of Humanity Insitute on some other tools I think will compliment Guesstimate well. There was a certain point where it seemed like many of the next main features would make more sense in separate apps. Hopefully, I'll be able to announce one of these soon.
I primarily ran it on my Windows desktop where it worked better (except for being tiny because they hadn’t implemented any sort of UI scaling for high DPI displays, making the 10pt-ish UI font nearly unreadable), so it wasn’t a huge deal, but still was disappointing. Faster CPU and much faster GPU on my desktop, but I’m not always at that computer.

The bigger bummer is that “cross platform” for this sort of thing is only talking about Windows, Linux, and maybe Mac. Substance Designer and Painter would both be outstanding to use on an iPad Pro as long as you had someone on desktop platform feeding you the 3D models.
The issue is not whether Linux can be made to run, the issue is whether you are subsidizing Microsoft for that privilege.
Of course, anything was good when compared with vista. Win 3 and Win 95 are not directly comparable, as they were running on severely underpowered hardware (and they could not pursue the sort of simplification that made OSs on other low-end, "home computer" machines of the day more workable overall); Vista does not have that excuse given the growth in system requirements wrt. its predecessor.

(Even Microsoft had to give up not only on Vista but on Windows 7 itself for "low-end platforms" - they ultimately promoted a "Starter" version of the latter that was specifically built to never even try to launch more than three apps at the same time! I won't bother to attempt even the most cursory comparison with what a proper, FLOSS alternative can still achieve on the same hardware, even today...that would be tedious and ultimately beside the point.)
#dontbetheenemy
Through a US company, I employed a US citizen residing in Germany, as a contractor. It was terrible! Every German accountant we talked to acted like he was a unicorn and wanted to charge us tens of thousands of dollars to figure it out. We muddled through, no doubt doing it wrong... but it didn’t seem like there’d be any way that’d be right.
I managing projects that specifically integrating Epic data with dozens of clinical healthcare applications, HR data, medications access data as well as provider behavior data to offer security, privacy and unified monitoring capabilities for privacy and compliance officers in healthcare.

It really does helps to “eat our own dog food” and spend time in hospitals.

For example I spent few days in large New York hospital studying operations of secure drug dispensing cabinets before building solution for medications security analytics.

Tons of interesting data with valuable insights on how narcotics are secured and accessed.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE EMAIL UNDER SIEGE, UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FEARED LEAKED
We initially had a lot of uncertainty on how to price it but wanted to experiment with more users rather than fewer, with the premise that if it were very successful we could scale up.

I think if I were to start again or spend much time restructuring it, I'd probably focus a lot more on enterprise customers. That would be quite a bit of work though, so I don't have intentions of doing that soon.
> This is fundamentally not any different between the systems, race conditions can happen either way. The user could write data to file right before the deletion recurses to the same directory and the handle-based deletion happens.

When you hold a handle to a file or directory, you get to decide on the degree of shared access with any other users for the duration that handle is held (FILE_SHARE_*). So this does solve the concurrency problem, by allowing you to, effectively hold a lock on the file until you're done.
I don't doubt that. But that's not the point - I'm sure plenty of people get by with Paint or Paint.NET, but noone sane would call them a replacement for Photoshop and its workflows.

Same with VS vs. VSCode - I'm happy that it works great for you, but I'm not sure why you'd think they're comparable tools.
I knew a girl in college who interviewed with the CIA but didn't get the job. I was so happy then and even happier now, though I haven't seen her for over 30 years. She was very pretty, Irish, Catholic, so fit the mold for the CIA. They are vile people though. The paratrooper was right.
See also: Black Mirror S04E05 “Metalhead” which coincidentally aired exactly one year ago today.

https://youtu.be/xpbRBTVVAwc (Featurette)
This situation will not last forever because new chemical plants and pipelines will be built. Typically the natural gas is processed into things like plastic pellets that are then shipped to China for assembly into goods to be shipped back. It is easy to see why reducing fossil fuel use is so hard when it acts like the juice of life for economies near the places that have it.
Windows can update many drivers without rebooting - even graphics drivers (try that with Linux and X!).
Letter from the publisher: Delivery of Union-Tribune affected by computer virus
Most scripts are run, not sourced. Some tools support fish. bass[1] aims to handle the rest.

[1] https://github.com/edc/bass
Yes, in the .mdf format there is usually subchannel information after every sector. In Red Book (CDDA) Mode 2, this is 2352 bytes of audio data followed by 96 bytes of subchannel data, so this is just skipping the subchannel data.
What science won't say because of the subjectivity, which works for both human and animal is that a tilt of the head is an open emotional signal for contemplation, and can mean the subject is comfortable and even enjoying what they're looking at. It's seen as cute because often the subject itself is finding something to be cute, adorable. It can really send a strong but sophisticated sexual or affectual signal to look at someone like that, while the eyes will be the distinguishing factor between those two meanings.
Things have changed for drivers. Not for firmware though, and DRM it the reason.
Thanks for the article! While I studied set theory, I’d never had a run through of any of the history before. Like a fine constructive proof, your article makes it much clearer how all the parts fit together into a logical whole :-)

It’s depressing to hear how it ended for Cantor. Especially given how modest he comes across in his letters.

One thing I’m confused about with the plane to line bijection - how can you be sure you’ll eventually hit another 0? What about .11111...? There you can never switch over to the other dimension and the whole of the .11111 line on the plane will have the same representation, no?
Thanks for the feedback.

We have some documentation [here](https://docs.getguesstimate.com/), and some in the sidebar entree.

Generally, we recommend lognormal distributions for estimated parameters that can't be negative. This works when you span multiple orders of magnitude, though it's possible you may want an even more skewed distribution (which is unsupported).

I may be able to make a much longer video introduction some-time soon.
Would it cost more than a billion dollars to assemble an elite team of a few hundred people to build a new OS? Would Apple, Microsoft, or Google notice the billion dollar cost? Or even two billion?

This gives some idea of what is required to keep Linux moving forward. It would be nice if we could see similar stats for MS and Apple.

https://lwn.net/Articles/767635/
Live below your means.
Buy things that return income and increase in value.
This book gets people interested but there is lots more online about how best to live your financial life.
In isolation, sure. How many of these little doses of toxins from hundreds of food additives does it take before the diet as a whole is toxic enough to have an adverse effect? Is anyone even watching the combinations found in typical diets?
Bitpay uses Bitcoin Cash
We're keeping it running but aren't actively improving it.
If he is so threatened, his business decision should be to do something about it. Valve did, and push Linux gaming quit a lot. Epic do it very lazily. Good thing their Unreal engine works on Linux, but they didn't put a lot of effort in it. Lot's was done by third party and community developers to make it work.
As the co-author of that blog post a more accurate tl;dr would be the variance comes from shared hot counters that collide based on the address of objects.
Windows expects different things from an FS, so it makes sense for a native userspace FS API to be different from FUSE.

But once you have it, it shouldn't be difficult to write a FUSE adapter on top, mapping across those differences as best as possible.
List of Rotorcraft Used in World War II
The result is you can buy these pens for about £2-4 (depending on the "back to school" offer) from WH Smith.

They're OK for the money.
Software developers are incredibly poor at gathering requirements.

I've had the opposite experience. Good software developers are good at gathering and understanding requirements. The information loss from management consultants and software developers is pretty nasty. Frankly, if the the people coding the system are going off a requirements document that they didn't have a hand in then you might as well outsource the development. If the software developers don't become domain experts then you should be worried about the correctness of the software.

I often wonder if the general dislike of DSLs is caught up in this separation.
Any kind of copyright claim (and, thus, license) must require identification of the copyright holder. If one believes the TFA (and I see no reason not to), then Lenny's isn't going to come after anyone for infringement. But that's not good enough for some corporate lawyers. They need to know who owns it and under what precise terms it is licensed before they'll indemnify their clients to use the content.

I would suggest to Lenny that he get a lawyer himself to register the copyright to the law firm on his behalf, and have the firm license under CC. But that would cost money. I don't know how much. And I don't know if Lenny would think it's worth the effort.
Scroll down. There is a whole section of variations for just that purpose.
I don't do FPGA, but I thought the issue was the vendor lock in and lack of open source tooling (Synthesis?) rather than IDEs alone?
Ok, I read through the github wiki and everything I could find - pretty comprehensive stuff.

Currently chunking my way through the phd paper. I created something similar to this but wholly in-memory in JavaScript for a client project.

My idea is a policy management tool so versioning and frequent change are quite important.

One thing I don't yet have a grip on is how this performs for my use-case (which will be a multi-tenant SaaS solution). I'm going to run some tests to evaluate what's possible here.

All in all, really good effort. I think for this project to be a success it will take people who know where to apply it / what to do with it. Maybe a suggestion for you is to add a section on the gh readme to highlight potential use cases as you see them (will give people who come across it a better idea of how they can apply this type of software).

Thank you!
hmm. A starter pistol is ~145 dB, and that’s a .22 blank.

i’m guessing you’re still well into “OSHA says there’s no safe exposure duration” territory... but i have not found a source for a shotgun blank sound intensity.
I would be rather surprised if someone could tilt their head 90-degrees even briefly, let alone hold a conversation like that. I think for most people anything over 45 degrees starts to feel very uncomfortable.
Seems cool, but how is useful in practice? In 15 years I've never written a C function taking a fixed array size at all. I always write my functions with a dynamic size argument like

void foo(char *data, int len)

Perhaps cryptography functions with 256-bit outputs might be able to use this, but even when the array size is fixed, most crypto libraries (like OpenSSL) tend to have a size argument anyway, to encourage the caller to think about what they're doing, and for the library to check that 32 bytes are actually available, for example.
It’s true that Epic and Cerner are the dominant players when it comes to hospital EMRs, but they have less of an influence in outpatient settings outside of academic medical centers.

For larger outpatient practices that are participating in value based programs (ACOs, care bundles, etc.), such as the type apple amazon or google may choose to work with or, less likely, build, there’s less of a need to rely existing EHR vendors and a greater likelihood to rely on a variety of tools that are able to interact with each other.

The trend is for more and more care to move outpatient. There’s opportunity for innovation there.
I prefer the Metropolitan to the Safari. Sturdy design, and with a non-bladder cartridge, good to go for years.
Wouldnt these potential customers of D-Wave be better off just buying a HPC cluster with lots of CPU's, GPU's, and FPGA's? Probably more opportunities for hardware reuse, too.
One thing I'd guaranteed- it's not china. China is very well adept at paying newspapers and tv firms journalists as my friends from south asia tell me and that is a much cleaner approach.
Just because you start doing some new thing does not mean you can't also work on other things.

Rewriting the browser in rust is a gargantuan task. It's still ongoing.

Adding more programmers does not instantly speed things up linearly. If every person currently doing labs-work switched to trying to help with the rust effort, I don't know if it would even make a significant difference.. And a bunch of them would probably quit because that's not an area they specialize in or wish to work in.
What's it to you? I was responding to a new thread for an article I hadn't seen before. My favorite internet trolls are the ones that use throwaway addresses.
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