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Most recently, I'd also include the "iPad Pro Shipping Without A Headphone Jack". It's different than ditching the headphone jack on the iPhone, which is mostly just an inconvenience and wireless headphones are becoming more popular anyway. Music production is literally one of their big advertising markets for the iPad, with a vast array of applications available. Wireless headphones are unusable for music production (not just quality, but also latency) (not Apple's fault, its just bluetooth). So if I want to mess around and make some sounds, I need a dongle for my headphones; and most often, I need a full expensive USB-C hub because I need a second USB-C port for charging.

So now, you've got a hub to get two USB-C ports, then you've got a USB-C -> 3.5 dongle on one of them (some USB-C hubs have built-in 3.5 ports, but these don't generally support audio passthrough, and the DACs inside the hub are shit compared to Apple's official ones). If you've ever owned a big USB-C hub like this, you'll know that they get Hot. Like, "that's uncomfortable to touch" Hot.

All they had to do is put two USB-C ports on it. That's fine; I get that headphone jacks are thick and "last gen". But they couldn't even do that.
So the answer is “no” then ...
You joke but I would be thrilled if it had a LAN room you could pop into to game with strangers.
It's a convoluted piece of software, which does a lot of things, but with ~160MB of RAM usage, I wouldn't call it a heavyweight.

Its RAM requirement is more than the capacity of my first hard drive, but it's not in the league of Chrome, Slack or Atom. There are many wasteful applications out there doing much much less with much more resources.
Unless you post pro-Trump memes critical of CNN to Reddit, in which case CNN knows where you live, and whether or not CNN decides to publish that information depends very much on whether you apologize for your hateful stunt like a good boy.
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I can guarantee that Amazon has the brainpower to solve this problem. They just don't have any real incentive to.
Look, it was an informative piece and I'm glad I read it. I even book-marked it for future reference.

But let's be candid, It was a promotional piece as well and if I "owned" this forum I would certainly have something to gain by charging a modest fee for such placements. It may sound like I'm angry about this or have a negative feeling, but I don't; not at all.
I read that first sentence, saw how long the scroll bar was, and clicked back. I like long form but not with this junk wasting space.
You can't seriously compare a tiny phone camera with a full frame DSLR. You simply cannot take certain types of photos with your phone due to optics and the size of the sensor.
If you have an effective cure for Crohn's then take your Nobel prize and billion dollar drug patent otherwise perhaps think before you open your mouth and make a colossal prat of yourself.

> I meant that it is a shame medical professionals tell folks that their issues are going to be with them for perpetuity, as in a lot of cases the medical professional is reinforcing a narrative of helplessness.

Or they are telling the truth as medical science understands it at present, some conditions are simply incurable.

I'd sooner my doctor be honest about it than offer false hope he can cure me and so far he had been.
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> When I have $100 in my wallet, I actually have $100

yeah, tell that to Venezuelans.

> You completely fail to address the point - when making a transaction, removing the bank from the picture actually hurts purchasers and demands far more trust.

that wasn't actually the point, or at least was completely off target, but sure, i can address it - banks are providing some useful services, banks won't stop providing those services on top of cryptocurrencies, they will just have to face the reality that nobody is going to inflate them out of their financial screw ups.

and finally, if you're fine trusting politicians to run your financial system and regularly screw you up with inflation, financial meltdowns, bankruptcies, etc - i'm ok with your choice. just get off your high horse and don't claim nothing should be attempted to fix that by and for people who are fed up.
Ok. Right now we are in tunnel vision mode to get our distributed version out by GTC in mid march. We will benchmark against clickhouse sometime in March. Do you know of any benchmark tests that are a bit more involved in terms of query complexity? We are most interested in queries where you can't be clever and use things like indexing and precomputed materializations.

The more complex the query the less you can rely on being clever and the more the guts need to be performant and that is more important to us right now.
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The recent uproar about the NEJM issue containing only marketing is the counterpoint. Dr Fung pointed out that there's no wonder people turn to GOOP when the system is so broken.

So while I understand and appreciate your point, I don't think you understand how corrupted medicine has become. It's now a necessity to do your own research.

Dr Wahls curing of her own MS would be another example.

Edit: here's the goop tweet: https://twitter.com/drjasonfung/status/1095550994430058496?s...
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Plus you are perfectly at liberty to lie or not sign the hotel logbook. If you pay cash you cannot easily be traced.
I was addressing (one factor in) why programmers might fantasize about trucking when they are feeling fed up. Presumably, if they are fantasizing about getting a commercial driver's license and driving a truck, they already drive a car. So some part of their brain likely recognizes that driving is a passive means to meet visual-spatial needs that are likely being met with more effort in some sense currently.

I'm not a programmer. I also no longer drive. I gave up my car more than a decade ago and my driver's license more than five years ago.

I'm just someone who has thought a lot about how brain wiring impacts personal preferences and life choices. I enjoy discussing that when opportunity arises.
Small companies are already regulated. If a mom and pop store got caught selling counterfeit goods, they would end up in court or shutdown.
I don't see anything that implies extending the Great Firewall to cover the SARs, so fingers crossed on that one.

FWIW I already have 1Gbps FTTH dual-stack Internet at home here in HK.
You're not wrong, most autoimmune diseases are shown to have increased prevalence in women > men.

However, we (maybe just me, I havent looked at recent literature) don't yet know if that is due to selection bias. Women are simply more likely to see a doctor for their health concerns.
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Going to call shenanigans on your claims. Vegetables and fruits in California are quite cheap, especially the organic and heritage types because they're grown locally here.

And having eaten European food, I would say the quality of most of it is trash. The French drown their dishes in butter because that's the only thing that makes their food palatable. British, Irish, and Scottish food simply isn't unless you're drunk, which explains their proclivity for drinking at every meal. And Italian food? It's best ingredient comes from America...
Outsourced is another word for "hiring external people to do this stuff in my service"

The government is still the employer, the person doing the changes and responsible.

And yes, the solution is mostly NOT DOING THIS AT ALL. Or at least, doing significantly less.
First they came for conspiracy nuts, and I did not speak up because I was not a conspiracy nut. There are several issues with this approach. You have YouTube influencing content. So, can they do that for a political candidate? Other policy debates? They have basic immunity from regulation for being content-neutral. Do they want to give this up and invite regulation like the telcos? As a private company, they are free to change their product as they see fit. But YouTube and other social media have become mass communication devices, so the issue is bigger than that now.
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My blog platform under development.
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You'll be happy to know that it's supposed to come in the April firmware update, though.
I continue to be curious although happy that libraries are such a topic of interest on HN. (Also sometimes wonder if the interest is based on a romantic fantasy not too related to contemporary reality of libraries). What do people think make libraries so interesting or pleasing to the HN audience?

--a librarian software engineer
> This is like saying a Raspberry Pi hooked up to your home router is cheaper, why bother buying Gmail for your company.

Where do I get GMAIL for my Raspberry Pi? If you order that Lambda server, you get the same good Linux interface you'll get over AWS. In fact they actually seems to offer some kind of software package that you wouldn't get over AWS.

Sure AWS has value-added, but in this case, it's mostly being able to not being billed for unused hours (what we call scalability), which for many is certainly worthwhile, but that's all. Is there anything I'm missing that AWS offer?

> if you spend 20 hours every day in an Uber buying a car would be cheaper over 3 year term.

Isn't that the case? I failed to see what's wrong in that sentence. I don't own a car, I subscribe to a service similar to Car2Go, I'm at about 150$ a month right now. Sure there's value added there, but owning one also has value added, just different ones and at one point it will be more worthwhile to own one.
>When I worked a Geckoboard they had a great system where you had unlimited paid time off, but you had to take at least 25 days off each year.

Thats doing it right. Or pay people for the vacation time they don't use.
This is partly why business is done on the golf course. Plausible deniability is quite lucrative.
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I just wish they hadn't removed integration with other music players which aren't Apple Music.
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Well duh. Any platform that allows people who hold fringe beliefs to connect and form community will do that. I'm not sure why thats either surprising or bad
Not sure about 2016 but I paid $139 for my iPhone SE in 2017, from a prepaid carrier (Straight Talk).
Where did Steve Pavlina go to school? Not sure if some of those triaging strategies would have worked at U Chicago...
> BTW, I don't understand the use case of reading ebooks on a desktop or laptop instead of on a phone or tablet (or eink reader).

Unfortunately, not everyone has all the screens, and not all phone screens are big enough to read novels and such. I'd rather read a book in my bed on my laptop screen and take notes quickly rather than an older phone and try to write on its keyboard.

Also, e-ink readers' screen refresh rate prevents taking extensive notes on the books. You can underline just fine, but longer notes are a bit hard.

Last but not the least, comic books in CBZ/CBR format really begs for a quality color display, since colored comics is half the fun in the comics. :D
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I write about explorable explanations from a software engineering perspective, going after a particular problem and explaining it using either data or a solution.

For example, my recent article was about solving Google AI's game Semantris using Computer Vision.
https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv-word2vec...

This year I've decided to write about my learnings in products. I've my first topic in making, will try to publish it as soon as I get time.
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Oh lord, I really need to rework mine visually - it's just some HTML+CSS which gets mangled by my own PHP powered minimizer, and of course there's JS for the games.
All of this was written more or less to try if I could even get a page up and running, but it was fun ;)

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> None of this is rhetorical, as I'm actually genuinely curious what people think about this.

I have no background knowledge that gives my opinion any weight, but like you I generally appreciated the article for being more practical, but then was disappointed when it suddenly stopped.

Big questions for me are: how long has this looming reduction been obvious (to the people at the executive level)? Why isn't this sort of an action considered a failure of the execs?

Surely this puts a dent in your ability to hire effectively. When you hire an employee and not a contractor, you are stating (imnsho) your expectation to have available work for the foreseeable future. Have these positions been hiring until they suddenly werent? For how long has the plan been ("...and when we are in between big releases, we lay a bunch of people off")?

These disgustingly well paid executives are the ones that are supposed to he able to manage these questions. That they haven't and are considered successful feels wrong.

One thing I think the article misses - unions may not have directly helped, but what would? If companies legit dont care about their reputations add an employer for certain fields, that tells me those fields have an imbalance at the employee supply/demand level at a minimum. Let's figure out why, and see if we can improve that.
These pages provide a decent overview of access restrictions for HathiTrust materials:
https://www.hathitrust.org/features_benefits
https://www.hathitrust.org/out-of-print-brittle
And [1] actually makes a point that we don't need language support for every imaginable use case (maybe not even Generics). It's not a problem to work around a "missing" feature, sometimes.
This. My Nikon D3s is covered with physical buttons and dials. I can change shutter speed, aperture and ISO all the while looking through the viewfinder. I've also set the function button, rather than the shutter release button, to trigger autofocus - meaning that I don't lose shots when the camera forces a refocus just when I want to take the picture (e.g. pre-focused wildlife shots where I set the focus to where an animal is going to be). With practice comes muscle memory: slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.

The menu UI is somewhat clunky, but does enable function discovery. There are no Nikon-specific swipe gestures to learn, for example.
Legitimately thought this was going to be a code lib but it's a literal library.
Having recently gotten an offer after interviewing at Google, I can testify that those preparation packets are a sufficient but not necessary condition for doing well on an interview, and seem to be primarily targeted at making sure people who want to prepare don't do so badly. I spent about an hour on the plane reading through some example questions online, and did fine. I suspect that a lot of questions I "figured out" a clever solution to could actually have been solved with some obscure algorithm, but by treating them as puzzles rather than memorization tasks I was better able to demonstrate my skills as a candidate.

In short, I think the exact same question is interpreted as a cool algorithm challenge or a recall check, and the interviewer will be fine with you rederiving the answer on the spot if you are quick thinking enough to do so.
You know Kindle books have DRM too, right? So you need an app that supports that DRM in order to read them (the mobi format doesn't have to have DRM, much like epub).

So this is mostly in people's head, because when they have to get something that supports Adobe Digital Editions they're thinking that they're being put out "because DRM", whereas when they have to get something from Amazon to read a Kindle book they're thinking "because Kindle", which is just giving Amazon a pass for no good reason.

To be clear I'm against all DRM, I just want the comparison to be correct.
It's not that bad in practice. I wrote Matlab for 12-years and Python for 15-years and seamlessly switch between 0 and 1 indexing.

I know the arguments for 0 vs 1 indexing, but in practice it's not really an issue since they're both just book-keeping. The only time where things might get interesting is for certain complex recursive expressions (recursive in the mathematical sense) where you want your code to match the equations, but in those cases I just create a new offset-index and work off that. (edit: just learned from another comment that Julia supports custom indices.)

Note: caveat -- my use of indices is mathematical. I don't do any kind of low-level stuff.
I should rephrase; obviously nothing is perfect, I'll admit that a few things will slip through the cracks. I just feel that it's night and day, compared to nearly any mainstream language.
Be fair - it cost 10X at the farmers' market. My local Wal-Mart has excellent vegetables. Maybe not the variety.
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Hmm, I really like that last point you've made... both highly positive and negative takes, I'll look into that.

For the semantic analysis process, we are using Microsoft's API - scores from 0-1. And for the most part, it is pretty good based on our views on neutrality (which of course has some inherent biases).

0.5 is considered pretty indifferent, however, we allow for a threshold of 0.35 - 0.75 as neutral, but we specify it's lean on our end.

On Reddit, we've tested our summaries in the comments for tl;dr and we actually indicate the articles lean for example "This article is neutral with a negative lean on the topic".

In Finance, top publications do a great job on maintaining neutrality. However, if we ever get into politics... we'll need to take this a little more seriously!

Thanks for the comment.
Run some savings calculations, check the kids’ savings, live debt free, top of emergency funds, should be ok. Regretting anything is a waste of time and energy because you just never know where life might have taken you had you made the other choice. Say you accepted the larger pay job but the work environment was poor and you brought work problems home, which then affects marriage and you divorce and lose your kids. Hypothetical sure, but millions of these types of scenarios could play out from a single choice. It’s best not to live in regrets and accept everything as is. Ultimately we have control momentarily and can steer our ship any which way we like but the sea is full of icebergs.
My clients, as a whole, are a bottomless well of various IT needs. This is by design.
That's one piece of evidence of many a prosecutor and/or jury would take into consideration; just like the other way around.
> The worst have been preachy, god-complex douchebags.

Is this sideways dig really necessary? I could say the same about programmers (and I am one).

I count half a dozen doctors and nurses among my inlaws. None of them will give their personal phone numbers out to patients. If a patient asks, they're politely told to call the office, who will then curate the calls.

If you've ever been around a doctor, especially a GP, you know how many calls they get. My father-in-law takes dozens of calls a day from his office, several of which come at night when he's asleep. If he were expected to take calls directly from patients, he'd be completely unable to do his job.

So, serious question for you jachee: is it possible that the doctor you're responding to has some insight into the challenges of his job that you don't?
Is a book by another spine still a book?
I mean, a "bottomless well of need" is basically exactly what a chronic illness is. Have some compassion; doctors and medical professionals deserve to clock out at some point just like the rest of us. It doesn't mean they are in the wrong profession.
We are in a dismal state of medicine on many chronic illnesses, such as the emerging study of Mast Cell disorders which could be affecting upwards of 10% of people but aren't understood by most doctors and is rarely diagnosed (in fact diagnostic criteria for Mast Cell Activation Syndrome aren't even agreed upon yet).

Even to get to the point of treatment you have to be extremely scrappy, spend endless hours on research, have a lot of money available for non-insurance-covered doctors, and still expect to be treated like you are a hypochondriac.
Agreed. This is a good mindset shift that I will definitely be using.
The actual cost of running a cloud instance is inflated. The cheapest way to run them is using spot/interruptible instances which for most deep learning jobs will suffice. If anything there will be some upfront cost to set it up in a way that it automatically manages interruptions, storage etc. Also by not limiting yourself to AWS you can have many other options.

With this setup you can get 2x4x V100 on Azure for a total of $42k/year (assuming running 24/7).

Even if one spent $40k to write code for spot instance management this is by far the cheapest solution for GPU compute both short term and long term.

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By providing a suggestion, you're implying they haven't tried.

I've spent ten years with a chronic disease with no known cause. I am currently on two trials. You are not capable of naming any suggestion that I have not heard, and that is common in the community.

You don't appreciate my point - you're insulting by making your suggestions. You're suggesting that they haven't investigated something that affects every single part of their life.
Make sure there is a sane amount of grapes inside the microwave so it's not overloaded. It has problems with too little food.

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Obviously, even if the study is to believed, this won't work for all jobs (try callcenters or POS ...).

Thorough studies would evaluate other models as well, like 6, 7 or 3-day weeks.

As a former entrepreneur I can guarantee that my output would suffer greatly in a 4 day week, since I'd rediscover hobbies and other distractions.
I have a very different experience, I have only a couple of spams that don't end up in the spam folder. I do get promotional emails but when you unsubscribe they don't come back.

I use Office 365 and Gmail. Both do a good job.
I've been working four-day workweeks for the past 4 years or so, and love it. I can't say I have the same output (nor would I want to, since I took a 20% pay cut for it). I wouldn't trade it for anything, and I don't think I'll be able to work 5-day weeks again. I tried it a few times and I found myself very unhappy, 5 days were too long and the weekend too short. The 4/3 split is ideal, four days isn't enough to get tired of work and a three-day weekend feels like ages.

I can believe that there would be no cut in output if people said "okay we're going to get the same amount of tasks done, just in four days instead of five", so everyone would work 20% more each day. I don't know what side-effects that might have, but I don't find it impossible. However, it seems very unlikely to me that you'd work at the same rate for fewer days and still get the same done. I also don't know why people who work fewer days would increase their rate of work, but it's certainly plausible.