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You can always take a compositor and fork it to implement your window management features…

or, much better, use a compositor with a plugin system, so window managers can become plugins! :)

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
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One would hope so, given the astronomical cost of healthcare and the near-universal requirement that every household own and maintain at least one car in order to work and attend school.
The top 10% for individuals is 114k[0] and for a household is 178k[1]. They may eventually get to millionaire status, but there's still a long way to go. Basically, getting to 100+k at the end of a long career and plenty of saving & investing (which Americans are not great at [2]) may get you there, but I don't think those stats you provided really bear out the case.

[0] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

[1] https://dqydj.com/united-states-household-income-brackets-pe...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/heres-how-many-americans-are...
That is the point of copyright, yes, that a limited monopoly on an intellectual property provides benefits to the creator to tackle other risks.

It's definitely the question of how limited that monopoly is that is at hand. Scale is exactly the question. The current copyright terms are outside of human scale in that they extend past a human lifecycle (explicitly in the case of single, clear authored works as the current copyright is author life plus it's number of years). The original US copyright allowed for 7 years with one possible extension for an additional 7 (for a total of 14 years). That's relatively a lot more human of a scale. (That scale still covers the current 10 year scale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date, for example. That's 3 MCU planning "Phases" of 3-5 year planning horizons. Imagine if it were only roughly four more years before, say, Iron Man 1 might expire from copyright.)

It doesn't seem likely that we will see copyright terms reduced back down to human scale, but it's a shame.
In my high school matrices were first taught in geometry class, starting with using matrices as affine transformations in 2-d and then 3-d, and using that to teach concepts like what eigenvectors/values are, the equivalence of matrix and function composition, etc.

That was taught right after a unit on complex numbers and trigonometry so that we could see the parallels between composing polynomial functions on complex numbers and composing affine transformations.

To this day I think that was one of the most beautiful and eye opening lessons I've had in mathematics.

In hindsight, I think I got lucky that the teachers who wrote the curriculum this way were math, physics, and comp sci masters/phd's who looked at their own educations and decided that geometry class was a great Trojan horse for linear algebra.
> Personally, I'd like to nail the guys who put landscaping flyers in sandwich bags with some rocks and drop them on my driveway.

In the grand scheme of things, this kind of advertising for me is minimal at best. I'd by far much rather that the junk mail I get sent via postal mail would go away, though the practical effect of that would be that the postal system itself would die, I suppose.

That said, had I started collecting the rocks from those baggies the day I bought the house, I'd probably have a pretty nice rock landscaping by now.
Most expenses are housing and health care.
Ah, ok, I think the furthest east I've pumped gas is Quebec, but most of my knowledge comes from BC, Alberta and Ontario.

Anyway, pre-paying for gas is a thing that's pretty straightforward, is my main point.
Which is not a reason not to use it for a safety feature like L5 autonomy.
Getting something like Arduino IDE is for C(++) for microcontrollers out there would be a great step forwards growing the community of Rust programmers.
Direct to hardware. There is a framebuffer driver that IIRC uses VESA primitives, and a few other more generic drivers with bit blitting and OpenGL support.
> Who in their right mind would ever write a shell script

I quite enjoy writing fish scripts. Largely because I can actually remember the syntax for conditionals and loops.
Disheartening to see so many apathetic or downright hostile responses on here. I applaud this article for taking a stand.
Need to subtract the cash you need to set aside in case if medical emergencies and higher education.
It's not a great practice but super common. I have seen code like

$i = "j":
$$i = 3;

WTF?
Using two attention layers with √N inputs to cover a context of size N = √N × √N is somewhat intuitively understandable for image data, since the decomposition corresponds to rows and columns.

But it's quite surprising that this also works for text data, especially that the fixed pattern performs better than the strided one, despite there not being anything analogous to image boundaries in the data.

It'd also be interesting to see what happens for other decompositions, such as 3 layers of ∛N or a logarithmic stack of dilated convolutions.
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The actual OECD report is a good read: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/689afed1-en/index.html?i...

The more complete quote is:

> There are two striking exceptions to the positive relationship between absolute median income and the size of the middle-income class:

> The United States. Although it boasts the fourth-largest median income, it has only the 31st-largest middle-income class of all OECD countries. Related statistics are that its population has the third-largest share of people in poverty and the fourth-largest in the upper-income class.

> The Central European countries of the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland and Slovenia. In these countries, the shares of the population in the middle-income class exceed what might be expected from their median income levels.
I recall compliance with the NV Gaming Control Board's processes to be painless compared to other regulated markets such as health care, but this is from the 80's. Can you say something about one dimension of the comparison such as change control in both cases?
Substantive != substantiated. It just means a comment should contain a bit more thought and information.

Freedom of speech on HN is subject to the site guidelines, which are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's for much the same reason that freedom of fire is limited in national parks. If you want to comment here, you need to follow the rules the same as other users do, so please review them.
One of the most nostalgic things about Windows was messing about with MS Paint to kill time in the days when the internet didn't exist yet. I wish OS X had some kind of native paint program. Seems like such a basic thing, why not include it with the OS?
Not that I'm familiar with. I know various sports were big in Ancient Greece, but I couldn't say if they were seen as a 'diversion' from a cultural standpoint.
Please don't do this. It's both ineffective and pisses off those of us who try to produce good bug reports when your obfuscated software misbehaves.
I'm quite surprised Vice/Disney would be publishing this type of content. Someone has probably just forgone their next promotion.
While I agree that individuals should consider the ethics of the projects that they work on, I think it's unfair to place the entire burden on them. Those in management who make the product requirements in order to sell the software are in the best position to evaluate the ethics of how software will be used. Why haven't I read a story about management conscientiously objecting to something?
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Palo Alto does something like this.
> Can it leak my credentials to a network socket as a consequence of any of those bugs, memory or otherwise?

Sure, that class of bugs still exists. But they're rarer and less damaging (even with stolen credentials, an attacker can't do as much damage as one who had arbitrary code execution).

Rust eliminates many classes of bugs. C++ does not: the fact that theoretically there could be non-buggy C++ libraries doesn't help you out in practice, because there's no way to distinguish those libraries from the very many buggy C++ libraries.

> Putting your memory errors in unsafe blocks may make them invisible to you, but that does not make them go away.

It's just the opposite: it makes the risk very visible, so in Rust you can choose to avoid libraries with unsafe. Whereas in C++ any library you might choose is likely to have memory safety bugs and therefore arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities.
Sorry - yes, I meant served with meat, not necessarily ground and blended together. I'm thinking Mapo Tofu (Chinese), Soondubu/Jjigae (Korean), Niku Tofu (Japanese).
There is a new company that lets you build your own basket of up to 30 stocks or ETFs. It's not exactly what you're looking for but might be helpful. https://www.motif.com/motifs/byo
You're talking about translation.
It’s hard to make a comparison because it’s purchasing power that counts not dollar income. It’s much cheaper to eat better quality food from Waitrose in London than from Wholefoods in New York. I felt that food shopping in New York State in general was about 3 times more expensive than in the UK. But British people pay more per m² in rent because our houses are smaller than US and EU averages. In fact many new builds built in Britain would be illegal in a lot of EU countries because they are too small. So it’s more complicated than dollars.
In Ontario, at least, "engineer" is a protected designation.

http://www.peo.on.ca/
Working week of 40 hours once also seemed utopian and yet here we have it. And it didn't lead to economic ruin. I don't see why we can't reduce it even further.

"Most countries in the developed world have seen average hours worked decrease significantly.[14][15] For example, in the U.S in the late 19th century it was estimated that the average work week was over 60 hours per week.[16] Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33,[17] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day.[18] The front runners for lowest average weekly work hours are the Netherlands with 27 hours,[19] and France with 30 hours.[20] At current rates the Netherlands is set to become the first country to reach an average work week under 21 hours"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
I remember drawing ovals, circles and then using the fill feature to put colors in there. That were some fancy colorful circles back then :)
> He didn't even bother going to conferences in America

Might there be content in these professional conferences that would be relevant and beneficial for patient care? Is not going to professional development conferences a badge of honor or a mark of quality that I fail to grasp?
Technically, the phrase victim blaming fits this sentence, but I feel like this context is not its intended or commonly accepted use
Paint3D is not bad per se but replacing the good ol' Paint that everybody like and know how to use was incredibility stupid and hostile towards users. Too bad Microsoft never learn about this kind of moves (Windows 8 UI, Start Menu, etc.)
They haven't found a good alternative yet?
Interesting. I didn't know about all that.

The cynic in me thinks all these companies are just continuing to push on something people don't want because it's a gold-mine of data collection opportunities. The optimist wonders if IoT will settle down and mature into spaces where it's actually useful, and "90%...are devices that don’t need to be connected". We'll see, I suppose.
Presumably since you're posting on this site you have a marketable skillset in a high demand field, which means you can enjoy a lucrative career and through making good decisions have significant retirement savings so you can afford to eat normally.

Maybe you meant that you want that existence for others, in which case, you might have a point, but I think a lot of the people who have your worries in the tech industry only have them because they live in stupidly high cost-of-living areas like SV.
Why does the fact that people can join easily mean there's less interest in a union? Should Amazon factory workers not form a union if they find it's easy to join the ranks?
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Bureaucracy being lenient and reasonable can look a little dystopian. I'll take it.
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>Conversely, it's also what has attracted so many immigrants to America and created so much historic social mobility[0]. Note - I believe this has largely been reversed (and thus stagnated) due to a generation of "I got mine" attitudes, aka the Baby Boomers.

It's not "I got mine" attitude nearly as much as it is plain racism. As a block, White Americans preferred to shred social services rather than extending the umbrella to cover minorities. Why else would "hardhats" have voted for Ronald Reagan over their own working class interests?
When I lived in NY I felt the same way about the DMV. Here in Canyon County Idaho there are a good 10-15 agents and I've never waited more than a few minutes. Guess we take all the savings from our poor education system and put them into the DMV!
That is the case

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
> I would also consider an aborted lane change doing nothing.

Aborting a lane change before you initiate it is changing your behavior, in response to a danger.

> Your other examples would be happening in front of the car.

Or from the side.

Or from behind, again. If I'm in stop-and-go, danger can come from behind. Picture an ambulance coming up from behind. You absolutely should change your behavior, depending on conditions all around you. Not just the front.
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Amateur tomato grower here. One key difference between the flavorless tomatoes you typically find at the grocery and heirloom varieties is that the non-heirloom tomatoes are genetically optimized for shipping durability while the heirloom varieties are optimized for flavor. I'm not saying you can't ship heirloom tomatoes, but they're definitely more prone to bruising, so this is likely an obstacle in shipping them over longer distances.
This causes them to act against their own best interests.

This is why enlightenment values have ultimately tilted toward capitalism. No collective can accurately define the best interests of every individual and design a policy to match. Better to let them sort it out themselves.
> As soon as it was possible for other languages to run on the JVM, the huge amount of developers working around JVM [...] started looking at alternatives

This is true, but...

> Groovy, Scala and Clojure were the early contenders that people were exploring

... Jython and BeanShell were much earlier than those three.

Jython, JRuby, Rhino, and Clojure are JVM languages that are syntactic copies of existing non-JVM languages, and it seems JVM developers didn't want these. Clojure has won within that group.

But the other group is what developers really wanted, i.e. languages with a Java-like syntax but with extra features added. Beanshell came first with dynamic typing. Then Apache Groovy cloned Beanshell and added closures, and Beanshell never kept up. Scala had all that but also had inferred static typing, which Groovy later added but was too late to the game to have much impact. Kotlin then came and merged the best features of Scala and Groovy, and became successful on Android.
The chalk on the tread of the tire proves you didn't just get there, though. If you did, then it would not have been possible for the parking enforcement officer to have chalked it an hour ago.

But if it's on the pavement, it's not crazy to imagine the marks were for a previous car, and that you parked in the same spot. Even the officer would be unsure of it.
if you've got a device to spray time notation with chalk, you probably can also spray some notation of the car model or license plate
Seriously, I wish something could be done about flyers like those. Not just the bag+rock ones, but all of them. I've got real estate agents (the worst for this kind of spam), landscapers, house cleaning, etc all tossing flyers at my house every day. They ultimately just blow away and litter the place.

It's such a small annoyance, but having to pick up the "trash" from these companies every day really grinds my gears.
Not all side channel attacks rely on speculation, although I think all known speculation attacks necessarily rely on side channels to exfiltrate information. I'm not an expert but I think that specifically attacking speculation was novel.
If I ran a library that was given millions by a donor, even if they didn't ask for it I'd like to name the library after them. Instead of it just being called "Houston Public Library" or whatever, you can show how people choose to give back to communities and maybe inspire other people to contribute in ways they're capable of.
That study, and the corresponding NYTimes article, present serious issues with their presentation - no effort was made to identify or refute potential non-standard sources of that income. This came up just recently on HN and it was mentioned that inheritance could offer this momentary bump - I am much more suspicious this "golden year" is the one where retirees realize the accumulated value of their real-estate in a working city - turning it into cash and a much more affordable property in a retirement area (florida, arizona etc...)

So I disagree, they're pretty completely wrong.
If only a password manager could add a sane agent and UI
New York is enormous and there are plenty of places where you could buy a few hundred boxes wholesale.
The thing about American healthcare is that the solution politicians offer is to spend more money on it when the cost is vastly higher than what it should be. Spending more money on it will only increase costs, but this is what we get. Other high income countries have semi-private health care and have much much lower costs than we do. A politician who can figure out why the COSTS are so high and make concrete proposals to do something about it will have my vote. I think there was an idea around that said that the maximum you can bill for anything is 150% of the medicare reimbursement. Sounds reasonable.
> if self-driving cars are statistically safer than humans, then allowing humans to drive will make cars less safe again.

You mean "if driverless cars are statistically safer than humans". It shouldn't be a surprise that driver assistance decrease accidents. But Autopilot isn't a driverless system, and neither is there satisfactory proof that it is safer than a human.
Conflicted here, because clearly the Cloudflare angle on publishing a piece like this is to establish themselves as the "climate-conscious" choice for dns/CDN/etc (among their competitors). While I really appreciate the required assumption that customers should care about the stance of their service providers re: their environmental impact, more cloudflare sales == more CO2 in the atmosphere. I guess it's better than higher sales for another less-responsible company, though. Still, the growth mindset is ever-present.
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I've monitored elections in Ireland and the Netherlands which both have an interesting problem. They each use Proportional Representation and ranked voting. Voters filling in their ballots mark each candidate with a number indicating their preference.

There are routinely 10+ candidates in each constituency. That makes it easy to encode a highly-likely to be unique voter signature in the lower order numbers, which would make it possible to sell your vote.

To combat this, when the votes are unfurled from the ballot boxes in public, tallymen (independent checkers of the vote) are expected to record only the first preferences, and if you start marking any more, you can expect a conversation with the returning officer. They are keeping an eye out.

If you are a scrutinizer of potentially invalid ballots, which I've done a few times, you're also not allowed to bring or take any notes.
What on earth is Iker doing in that article?
Wow, Cloudflare using Earth Day as a marketing opportunity for their CDN? How depressing and yet I'm not surprised. The claim that edge caching is somehow better for the planet is disingenuous as best.
>If you’ve ever read the Charlie Stross book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

That's by Cory Doctorow, not Charlie Stross.
Middle class is a meaningless term even within the US, let alone in comparison to other countries. What is "middle class"? Nowadays it seems that if you can afford to buy a house and reliably put food on the table, and have a couple of kids, while putting any money away for retirement you're considered "upper" middle class at least. To me that's just a baseline requirement for not being poor.
The USA's ethos in based in the motto of doing it their own way. Sometimes that's good: when everybody is doing the same, it breaks from the status quo and can become a leader in an industry, or just generally break ground in scientific and civil progress. That has happened many times in the past.

The flipside is that there are many things are a consensus worldwide because they _are actually better_ but that the US still refuses to adopt, generally because it would mean following others' lead, or because there are special interests in keeping the current status quo.

To me nothing is more emblematic of this problem than the country's refusal to adopt the metric system: the alternative is objectively worse, but the country is pretty much the last developed country on earth to refuse to use it.
That's a fair argument to hold, that's why I limited the robot to only intervene when accident is imminent.
A larger government is the characteristic of the poorer countries in the graph
It's practically required to carry a transponder in your car on the east coast as there are many toll roads and they are in the process of phasing out cash.

There are companies that want to turn your cell phone into that transponder so that you can just use your phone as a universal transponder.

This seems likely to happen. Once it does, will having a smart phone with this feature enabled be required to drive on a road? If so, it is seems likely that this requirement will be challenged in court, but what's the difference between being required to have a plate on your car or an app on your phone?
How do you take care of the shipping? Do you pick up the onions and ship them? Or do you have the farmer do that?
I don't think your analogy holds unless you cherry pick a bit - neither the French nor the British are particularly known as rule followers in the sense you are suggesting. Both have good (even great, in Frances case) health care.

The line you are drawing probably has at least as much to do with economics as culture.
But the Internet has existed for over 20 years. Wouldn’t it be better to encourage the use of open source where a community can develop and the app will get much better?

Krita, for example, seems popular:
https://krita.org/en/
osx has a perfectly useable markup tool, the one that pops-up when you print-screen. Weirdly enough, I don't know how to launch that with a blank canvas.