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It's not even like sorting by size would be difficult. All you need is a sieve-like machine with different size holes & hoppers for each. Or a sluice-box, or one of many other ways to accomplish this. If it made a huge difference in quality, and it was not hard to do- everyone would be doing it. And indeed, they are.

WRT junk info, coffee is not that different from audiophiles or wine. Luxury product, real differences exist, but they are subtle & hard to measure. Most of the experience is subjective.
I’m not sure how, but people do (this was my response in a thread from a while back): https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1056645172283420672?...
Its not meaningful to distinguish Thumb and Thumb2 - Thumb2 was just a bunch of new instructions added to Thumb.

A typical ARMv8-A processor needs to decode the A64, A32 and T32 instruction sets, but that doesn't strike me as a significant burden. A32 and T32 are essentially just different encodings of the same instruction set - there are very few A32 or T32 instructions that don't have an equal in the other instruction set. A64 has more and wider registers, but is otherwise broadly similar in capabilities. I would expect that most ARMv8-A implementations unify the three instruction sets very early in the decoding process.

Retaining the system level aspects of AArch32 strikes me as more expensive, especially support for short page tables, the subtly different system register layout, the more complex relationship between PSTATE.M and the security state, and the banked system registers between the secure and non-secure states. I'm surprised ARM-designed cores haven't pushed harder to eliminate AArch32 at the higher exception levels (although I'm aware of some cores designed by ARM Architecture licensees that do so). Perhaps that ARM has retained AArch32 all the way up to EL3 is evidence that they believe doing so isn't very expensive.
I strongly agree. We tried really, really hard to not invent a new standard. We proposed Obsidian API based on Vulkan, and we invested into Vulkan Portability initiative...

But at the end of the day it became clear that Vulkan is simply not fit for many things, including the Web. It can't be the new lingua franca simply because it's too complex for users to pick up.
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I'd say being an "influencer" and socializing with interesting people are very similar and hard to tease apart as separate concepts.
>Boeing is a lot more high tech than people give them credit for

I'm sitting in a Boeing lab right now as a contractor, and I would disagree with this statement
Ask HN: Would you pay for instant devops help?
Would you pay for instant devops help?

I'm good at developing apps and writing code. But when it comes to deployment and devops, I find myself wading through documentation, lost in sheer volume, infuriated by UIs. I understand the concepts, but actually configuring and running servers, containers, cloud compute, aws, docker, kubernetes, etc: it's often just a big tedious pain. I can do it, but it isn't pleasant.

And whenever I do it, I always think: if I could just 'talk to a guy', who already knows it, for an hour or two, it would save multiples of those hours for me.

If there were a service in which I could, in a short time, talk to a human expert in these things for an hour or two, without signing any sort of services agreement or going through much of a signup process, I think that'd be useful.

Agree? Disagree? I know there are similar marketplaces, but many seem to be oriented to projects, bids, longer-term things. Anybody use something similar? Did it help?
That's not what that definition means in this content.

Think about it - you can express any change from A to B as a positive constant raised to a power. So if that's what you think it means then you're saying any change from A to B is rising 'exponentially'.
I still see two things missing from currently available APL dialects: being able to compile programs, and being able to create a control loop (which is required for continuous access to data input).

I wonder how much effort would be required to use, say, GNU APL for compiling the language?
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Journalists going to almost every country as a journalist need a “special visa.” There is nothing new or unique about that.
There's a lot that's not right here. It's obviously corruption.

I sincerely wish that the author had written a clear, concise article about what happened. I'm not certain the article as written has a point except that she's sad.

Your paragraph here tells me more about what matters in this piece than the piece does, though I remember each of those details from my initial reading. They don't come together in the piece.

If you want to actually signal-boost this you might suggest to her that improving the signal-to-noise ratio would do a lot of good. Too much Wired magazine styling, too little exposition.
For anyone interested I did a fair bit of research into how I could step into the passable home espresso / coffee game as I WFH a lot.

Given that :

- I make at most 3 coffees a day, usually 1.

- I prefer espresso

I found the traditional options lacking.
I'd need:

- a machine costing about £600

- a solid quality grinder.

- machine needs 20 minutes warmup minimum before you can pour a consistent shot (or you need to leave it on).

Instead I thought I'd go a different way and build an all manual espresso setup, using getting past the largest price tag using one of these :

https://www.flairespresso.com/. Takes some getting used to but I've been very satisfied with the quality. You NEED to pair it with a high quality grinder to get solid results (I'm using https://coffeehit.co.uk/products/lido-e-travel-hand-grinder).

Downside is I can't steam milk unless I break out my stovetop milk steamer thing ( https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/bellman/50ss ) but that's fine as I prefer black coffee, the steamer gets more use by partner for her hot chocolates.

My setup : https://i.imgur.com/6M9AT4O.jpg
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Do you mean pandas? numpy isn’t very similar to APL like functionality at all. On the otherhand, pandas is very similar though much much less elegant.
Back then, high school graduation had an exam and a higher standard that most folks could do now. Can you amortize a loan? Close a ledger? Calculate return on an investment from a series of data points? Most can't today, regardless of college education.

So, real education still has value.
This is terrible, but the headline is exaggerating: this only affects 50 people relating to a specific issue, not all journalists in the US.
> AFAIK there's no way of objectively determining the value of anything.

You can objectively determine how people subjectively value something, but value is always subjective.
Interesting that they will check the hashes of dependencies at runtime. But then I start to wonder - why dynamic linking if the library can't be replaced?
To attempt an answer of your question "why not", I would say perhaps it's not worth $70 a month for the UAC popup to be blue instead of orange
I think treating the internet connection as a casual "product" is irresponsible and outright wrong. It provides access to education, news, communication, and entertainment. I mean when Russia blocked LinkedIn the response was that authoritarian government is limiting its citizens freedom but when American businesses are throttling firefighters connection it's a healthy competition... "Verizon admitted that the throttling of first responders was in violation of Verizon’s own policies, but in a statement to Motherboard denied that the fracas had anything to do with net neutrality. " Yes it does.
> I realize that code signing certificate is just an overpriced masturbating toy of FOSS authors.

I'm not sure what the author means by this.
This is where containers can help. Ubuntu ships with LXC and its relatively simple to download an Alpine Linux container and then install Nginx and you are set. Alternatively Flockport [self plug] provides an open source app store [1] for LXC and you can download a prebuilt Nginx114 container all set to go.

But containers are some work with both upsides and downsides and upsides compared to having it out of the box in the distribution.

[1] https://www.flockport.com/apps
> At its best, I guess you could say Facebook helps you kinda-sorta keep in touch with old friends you don't see that often.

It's more than that. At its best (your phrase) FB helps marginalized people or those in rare circumstances (e.g. health-related) find others with similar experiences who can offer advice and support. It has helped people reach out to one another during emergencies. Yes, those are extreme cases, but you used the phrase "at its best" so let's not understate what the best is.

> somehow suspect that's not what the majority of FB engineers are actually working on.

Of course it isn't. Like at every other tech company, the engineers are mostly working on their own piece of technical infrastructure. They're not directly out there saving lives. Nor are they directly out there ruining any. Is it fair or useful to blame individuals at Facebook for the worst of what their company does, and simultaneously deny them any credit for the best, with no idea what role they actually play or what direction they're trying to push the company in?

Does anyone here suppose that oppressive governments around the world aren't also using RHEL and Hadoop to target their victims? Dell servers? Cisco switches? Who provides their cars, their guns, their bone saws? There are many companies at least as complicit in all of these awful acts, so why is the tsunami of self-righteousness only directed at one? Are people motivated by a desire for justice, or a desire for the approbation of others? Dopamine addiction isn't limited to Facebook users.
for me, I personally check it less and less due to political posts.

I do have a few really great closed groups on there. Groups filled with people helping each other out. These are where I still find value on the platform.
Yeah, you don't tear down his overall point with your anecdotal, n=1 case. It's the population average not N=1 average, that we care about in public health.
I quit twice. Both times it took me about two weeks. Splitting headaches and very foggy brain the first week, and less pronounced symptoms afterwards. The coolest part about weaning myself off caffeine was waking up feeling genuinely rested. But both times social pressure drove me back to the nasty habit...
"It's $828 per year" for ... a cert? What makes code signing this expensive?
Switch to decaf. Then you'll know you're doing it because you like to, not because you have to.
"opportunity to explore the accumulated knowledge of the humanities and sciences". What does this mean? We should be spending vast sums or human time and capital to make sure a sufficiently high percentage of the population needs knows how to shotgun beer and argue about Descartes?
Here you are: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-make-a-hacker-news-clone-in-un...

When you make a million dollars, you can thank me :)
Right. In that case I'm not and never have been using Inbox, but I still got the separated lowercase-i-inbox from https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
Feels like there's an opportunity for some kind organization to help open-source developers out with this. It shouldn't be this hard for someone trying to give away good work to the world. I used Notepad++ for a long time, and still might if I spent any time in Windows.
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I think that in reviewing code this is definitely something where languages with type inference lose clarity; Rust is even worse because of the Deref/Into idioms.

I think the solution is for diff viewers incl. those on the web to support something like intellisense, but obviously we are a very long way away from that.
Do you trust any documentation at all? A test's just documentation a machine can read and, to some extent, validate. Other docs are necessarily even less trustworthy, if they can't be automatically checked for accuracy.
At my house everyone always drank coffee that wasn't going through any machine whatsoever. You just put a teaspoon of ground coffee in a cup and poured water over it, drinking it after the grounds settled down.

I don't know, I feel like $37 for a glass container that still needs filters is asking for quite a lot. A nice french press is like $10.
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Online code review puts pressure on the reviewer to find the problems quickly so as not to take the other engineer's time. Usually I want to take my sweet time, look at the surrounding code, figure out things for myself. Sometimes I just want to stare at the screen for five minutes to think about it. That's really uncomfortable when there is another person on the other end of the line.

If something is so unclear that I cannot figure it out on my own, the code / commit message / cover letter likely need to be improved.

Nothing like git-blaming your way to a two-year old commit and get a commit message that actually explains the whys and trade-offs.

I agree that some things do need discussion, but code review tools typically have some sort of chat interface for that purpose. I am doing open source work and most of the time just do code review over the e-mail, which obviously works well for this purpose. [Edit: and of course the calls work as well here! In any case, the result of the discussion should make its way to the code / commit messages / cover letter.]
It's 25€ yearly. (store page states that it requires Certum smartcard, but any card supported by Windows works, including windows virtual smartcards)
One of the nice things about the bootcamp movement is that it has legitimized vocational schooling for at least part of the software development industry.

I'm actually not a big fan of bootcamps, but most of the reason is that most of them talk a big game yet don't really open job opportunities. I am not at all opposed in principle.
Oh. I see what you mean, although I’m not convinced that 12-year-olds couldn’t handle these topics, at least at a slower pace.
To me the biggest hinderance is no the small screen, but the touch UI. Think of something simple like text editing. Because the UI has to differentiate simple taps and everything else, there is an inbuilt delay between the simple tap, and the more functional tap-and-hold. But since there is only one tap and hold, then it becomes tap-and-hold-and-select-action-from-menu-then-complete-action. Thats how I think of the simple action of selecting some text. Something the keyboard or mouse both accomplish much faster.

I don't use my phone for much of anything but calling and bored web browsing anymore, but I'd genuinely love for my iPad to be more functionally useful, but the issue above is similar to a lot of other interaction limitations. I really can't imagine using any mobile app on my desktop, and I can't imagine using any of my desktop apps on mobile (admittedly the desktop apps I use are on the more complex side things.)
Right you are. As of 2014 at least. Before that they were publicly traded.
Instead we should revisit the Communications Act of 1934 and rethink the classification structure in the digital age. 1996 didn't do enough, in my opinion.
Reality is more far important than optics. Contextualizing it doesn't change the facts.
Has anyone heard anything about MS File Explorer getting open sourced?

I'm using a Lite version of Directory Opus from a Humble Bundle mostly because the MS File Explorer does some weird things with the left-side tree view. It would be awesome to fix + recompile that :)

(Side question: Is the file explorer it's own app, or part of the larger Windows GUI shell?)
Have you heard about the inverted index? It is the corner stone of all databases and information retrieval systems. Your question is quite fuzzy so it is hard to come up with a more precise answer.
Small nobodies are typically negative about those pushing the envelope.
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Not what I expected to come across this morning, but quite interesting. Thanks for an enjoyable tangent.
Ask HN: What is your favorite online course?
I am hoping to understand what makes a great teacher in the online format.

I am curious what your favorite online course is and why.
We are big pharam, give us tons of money and hope that we cure you! We don't! we just treat you.
this. straight cold-brew coffee is very 'strong'. As arya169 mentioned, at least a 1:1 coffee to water ratio.
If the answer is 'no', we have to ask why people are "4 years off work, 100k+ interested"?

There is a value to history, the arts, humanities. But that value isn't always well captured by our current society.

Optimization systems (like our economy) optimize for what I'd easy to measure, and ignore what's hard.
A lot of those fields accrue value to the commons, which is value which is hard to measure, as a result their dollar reward is often lower than the value they produce.

There isn't an easy solution - and often when faced with hard problems the answer taken is fall back to the tools were used to using to measure.
Good point. I don't know very well Stendhal, thank you.
> What's the best way to source hundreds or thousands of saplings for native irish trees on a budget?

Just pick up your own seeds, either plant it or let the nature do gladly the hard work for you.

https://www.nordgen.org/en/jay-expert-planting-oak/

There will be always much more seeds than the ones that will survive at the end. You can rescue seedlings growing in unsuitable areas (next a road for example) that would not survive the lawnmower.

> How much growth per year can I expect?

It depends a lot on the tree and the area, the water available etc. Fast growth is tender and not always desirable. Oaks and other long living trees will put their best efforts to grow under the surface. Don't expect a lot to see the first years but after this phase they will suddenly accelerate. You need first to know what trees are good for your area

If you want fast results, a common technique is to use fast growing / short lived trees and shrubs first (birch or rowan for example). Then seed or wait for other species to reach the area and slowly unfurl.

> How can I provide symbiosis with the nearby protected raised bog and its birds?

Plant fruit shrubs, let dead wood decay in place, use holly and blackthorn to encourage nests...

Avoid spreading invasive Rhododendron in any case.

If you have a bog near your home, the soil could be very poor and acid. This will determine what you can plant and what not. Not all trees can stand a high phreatic level. Willows can, and are easily grown from free cuttings. Rowan are excelent also in acid soils. Most trees will avoid the bog.
Oh you caught my little scam! /s

There is no rule against posting a paywalled article on HN when there is a workaround. FWIW I had posted an outline link in the comment on that posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If you're registered on their developer portal, you can upload public symbols (exports only) of your builds and receive stacks & problem signatures of any matching WER dump. I work for a small-to-mid-sized infosec company (with no special Microsoft partnership) and we've gotten WER crash reports of our UI component this way.
There are two purposes to modern high schools in the US:

* College prep for the college-bound

* Day-care for the non-college-bound

In contemporary high schools, if you're not college-bound, you might as well not exist. You will be ignored by teachers, administrators, and guidance counselors (unless you are a troublemaker).
> I realize that code signing certificate is just an overpriced masturbating toy of FOSS authors

What does that mean?
It seems the author is very focused on signing with x509.

I'm wondering if they are aware of free alternatives like signify or pgp that would work just as well (minus the windows UAC thing). Right now there are only checksums but no way to verify they are from the author and are distributed on the same server as the binary, so the only security layer is https.
And now you are swinging too hard in the other direction. We can and do draw distinctions between narratives as we best we can.

The unattainability of ultimate truth does not negate the partial truths we are able to grasp.
> It was one of those moments when I could actually imagine my cranky diner-coffee-swilling Irish grandfather rising from the grave and saying, "You know what, kid? You're an idiot.

What a great article. The takeaway sentiment is that the experiences and interactions that surround coffee-drinking are way more important than the quality of the coffee.
Hahaha. No one is going to expose themselves to criticism. This article is just going to either be a bucket of virtue signaling, or ignored.

I think it's interesting, though.
It's not quite insurance. Firstly, this is a relationship between the government/insurance companies and the drug companies. The people (however flawed) already have insurance. For those organizations, drugs aren't risk, and they are paying in bigger lumps, so this is closer to the opposite of insurance. It's constant price gouging mitigation.

There's a slight difference since nexflix entirely covers the marginal cost per item consumed. If we had drug bounties, the drug companies could become entirely R&D outfits, with boring old chemical companies doing the pill manufacturering. Over time, if the existing companies lose their manufacturing ability, they will need more dependent on this arrangement. Finally, it removes the perverse incentive against cures/innoculations and for rest-of-your-life migrations.
Hacker news peeps seem to not like FB, giving an impression of a dieing service. But, look at the revenue: "Facebook reported revenue growth of nearly 32 percent in the U.S. and Canada compared to last year, bringing in $8.43 billion in its fourth quarter 2018 compared to $6.39 billion during the same period in 2017."
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I completely agree with your goal definition of convergence. The ability to have one device for all your computing needs. I don't expect to be able to do everything on a 5-6" phone screen, but I should be able to connect my phone to a monitor (or dock) and be able to do everything. The closest thing to this on the market is Samsung DeX but it's still incredibly limited.
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> ..."you can have strong coffee without having burned coffee"

just noting that when people say strong coffee, they usually mean "more caffeine", not "darker roast". and coffee people generally know that darker roasts have less caffeine.

i actually like darker roast too, when i want a caramelly coffee (by adding cream and sugar). my theory is that not only does a dark roast better hide lower quality beans, but starbucks knows that most people put cream and sugar in their coffee and darker roasts are better for that, which is why it's so popular.

but when i want straight brewed coffee, i seem to prefer a medium roast.
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In any discussion about adblockers the consensus among HN readers seems to be "I'd pay if I had the option" - yet the first thing to appear on any paywalled story is a link to Outline.
I share many of your feelings.

However, I think you should think of this in a different light: Purism's real problem is: How do we bootstrap this device?

That is to say, there is simply not enough money / engineering talent to both develop all the hardware AND all the software needed to bootstrap this thing. It must appear "viable" to the public as a 1.0 product.

Therefore, using convergence to bootstrap the product and then building out native UI's in further versions is probably the best decision.