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This is pretty much how I feel. I've traveled all over the world and seen everything from good to bad. I generally opposed increased taxation in the US, not because I am opposed to the policies it would benefit, but because I do not believe I get my money's worth from our government. Given the services I receive, I pay a massively higher tax burden than I would in most of Europe comparatively.

The quality and quantity of services are so much higher in Europe that the minimal additional cost isn't burdensome, but our services are so few and so poor in the US that any additional cost I couldn't abide and I think we should be pushing hard for the government to do more with less.

In the end, this is what Eisenhower warned us about. It's a consequence largely of the military-industrial complex, and then similar complexes between government and other industries. These situations with the intentional incompetence to drive cost overruns is effectively a fraud committed against the American taxpayer, and it is absurd to expect us to want to pay one red cent more into what is effectively a scam.
>Should Amazon factory workers not form a union if they find it's easy to join the ranks?

Please mind the is–ought gap. Parent was talking about difficulties in unionizing, not about whether or not people in this or that sector should unionize.
Krita is a simulated canvas and doesn't cover the tiny scope that Paint does. It has the same problem as Paint 3D: too complex.
FWIW, that is not exactly true (in the US). Driving is not an explicitly enumerated right, but it cannot be taken away without due process, so it's more than a privilege.
I think commenters here are missing the point. Yes there are alternatives. Yes there are open source versions. But Microsoft isn't bringing paint back because it needs a powerful image editor. They are bringing paint back because many folks are very familiar with it, it gets the job done for them, and has a certain nostalgia factor to it to boot.

The point is to bring back paint exactly as it has been for years. Not iterate on the project.

One of my favorite examples of paint is the popular streamer destiny doing a Bob Ross painting. It actually comes out looking pretty okay...

https://youtu.be/8XxsgEw49p0
It's a very good piece of software. Unfortunately its early Linux fork (Pinta) is much more unstable.
Although the US doesn't have much higher GDP levels than Western Europe, it has substantially AIC (average individual consumption) levels.

That is the median American household doesn't produce much more than their European counterparts, but they tend to consume much more.

There's a couple of reasons for this. One is that many land is cheap and abundant, which lowers the cost of living. Two is that US multinationals make a ton of profits overseas, which get remitted to mostly American shareholders. E.g. Apple makes a $1000 iPhone in Asia, which doesn't count towards US GDP, but $500 of that revenue gets paid in dividends to American pensioners.

Third is that Americans tend to earn much more return on their investments than foreigners. This means that America manages to get by with substantially lower saving rates than other countries. This is particularly true with oil producing countries. A country like Norway has high GDP, but it has to continually reinvest a high proportion of its production back into a very capital-intensive industry. The US's economy is heavily concentrated in services, which require very little capital investment.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
Absolutely on the money. The corruption/inefficiency in US government is staggering. I am not sure how it is in other countries, but a major problem in the United States is that government employee unions are allowed to lobby the government, strike, and run political advertisements for their own agenda, which is usually not in the public at large's best interest.
Encryption keeps communication private, talking to someone directly keeps communication private. The analogy is extremely simple, it seems like you are intentionally trying to ignore it.

Do you think the government should be able to listen and see all of your communication?
That's definitely interesting, though I think your comparison isn't entirely fair either. You will live a much better life in Sweden, Ireland or the UK as a "middle income" and especially as "lower income" or "poor" person. Those people, for instance, don't have to fear going broke if they break their leg one day.
Also interesting is looking at GDP per capita vs equality (GINI coefficient)

I've posted the graph here: https://kyso.io/eoin/gdp-per-capita-vs-gini

And a discussion link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732909
You're replying to a comment that gives an example of use of X11 forwarding that's not fulfilled by ssh/screen/emacs.
A Brave shift in online advertising
> Do you think self driving cars should be prohibited as long as they are less safe than the standard set by human+collision avoidance cars?

If having a human in the car reduces the accident rate, then I propose making it necessary for the human to be in the car. Are you advocating that we make roads unsafe so that disabled people be able to take taxis more?

> I don't see why the safety standard should be even higher for self-driving cars.

I see it as the opposite. The advocates for driverless cars are advocating lowering standards. For me the standard is simple. If the same car is as safe driving itself as it is assisting a human driving it, then it can drive itself. You can only remove the human if the human adds no safety in the same car. Please do not compare to "the average car on the road".

I see there are positive externalities to cheaper taxis. There are really negative externalities too, in terms of traffic, urban sprawl, and carbon emissions. But I don't think we should deviate from the topic of safety for those externalities
how does the quote go again? "every working class person in the US thinks they are a temporary inconvinced millionare?".

One of the major differences i have found between people of working class in the US and those of other nations is their relation to their social class.

a lot of people in the US seem to be trying to get out of a "working class" strata, instead of getting a bigger piece of the pie for said strata.
Also https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1120551175403786241, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19731223.
It made me smile that Paul Thurott's SuperSite lives on.
I strongly disagree skipping determinants provides a more intuitive approach to linear algebra. I don't know your background, but I'd venture a guess you feel it does because the Laplace expansion formula for computing the determinant[1] feels uninspired and out of place.

The reason determinants are hard to teach (in my opinion) is because a rigorous derivation of their formula isn't possible without first teaching multilinear algebra and constructing the exterior algebra. Once you do those things, the natural geometric interpretation of the determinant basically falls onto your lap. But it's still very useful for e.g. computing eigenvalues and using the characteristic polynomial, so it's taught before that context can be formalized.

Professors shouldn't teach determinants in the context of matrices, at least not at first. That's heavily computation-focused, and the symbol pushing looks really unmotivated and strange to students. Instead they should teach the basis-free definition of determinants (i.e. focus on the linear map, not the matrix transformation representing the linear map for some basis). Then the determinant is "only" the volume of the image of the unit hypercube under the linear transformation, which is where the parallelepiped comes in. If the linear transformation is invertible, the unit hypercube is transformed from an n-dimensional cube into an n-dimensional parallelogram, from which you can geometrically see the way the linear map transforms the entire vector space it's defined over.

3Blue1Brown has a very good video on the geometry underlying the determinant[2]. For a more rigorous presentation which constructs the exterior algebra and derives the determinant formula using the wedge product, Noam Elkies has notes[3][4] for when he teaches Math 55A at Harvard. Incidentally Noam Elkies uses Axler's book, and while he obviously approves of it he's pretty upfront in asserting that the determinant should be taught anyway[5].

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1. http://mathb.in/33068

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3X9LOh2dk

3. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.10/p8.pdf

4. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.10/p9.pdf

5. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.10/index.html
Hey Peter,

I'm quite fond of buying domains myself. I just came here to tell you I'm so happy to have found someone with a hobby like mine, though it is more accurate to call yours a business. My wife hates it, but many of the ideas I have had, have started with a domain name and that being my lift off point.

I tend to buy 1 year registrations for $8 like they're lotto tickets or something.
It is the best balance between ease of use and sufficiently advanced features for someone who is not a professional designer - at least among all image editors that I tested on Windows and Linux (never had a Mac).
Millionaire status has been retconned to mean $1M/yr in income, to keep it out of the realm of something you can just work for and achieve with a middle class lifetime.
Wow. According to that first chart, the middle class has shrunk 10% since 1971, with the upper class getting 5% larger and the lower class getting 5% larger.
He's saving Paint
Peter Woit on Falsifiability and Physics
Neurosci shows that 50-yos can have the brains of 25-yos if they sit quietly
It really depends on what kind of job you have. If you’ve worked hard and have a good job (like most people on HN), your health insurance likely means that you don’t have to pay a lot out of pocket. In my case for example, I have a family of four covered with a very, very good plan for $300 a month and $5k max out of pocket. Household income is north of $200k in a low cost of living area. So my max theoretical out of pocket costs of $8600 per year means in the worst possible scenario less than 5% of my paycheck goes to healthcare. Ain’t no way in hell a socialized healthcare system in this country will take as much or less out of my ass every year. And that’s not even getting into concerns that the quality of care won’t be as good (we have the VA as an example of what we can look forward to).

That’s why there’s a lot of resistance to socialized healthcare in this country. The rich will be fine, the poor will benefit massively, and the middle class will take it in the rear, as usual.
Hi HN!
We have also published an article to showcase wapm:
https://medium.com/wasmer/announcing-wapm-the-webassembly-pa...

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Once we tried to had a conversation about gun control, health care, and social security with an American ex-colleague.

He went from being this nice composed man, to be a GunNutz-take the government out of my health care jihadist in just seconds. It was bizarre, no one really argued with him anymore since he was so visibly upset. That is some serious indoctrination that's going down there, that is for sure.
The amount of time required to 'learn' the Google interview would be time that could be spent learning more universally applicable skills.

Is it true that an experienced developer would not be able to pass the interview without studying using a similar guide? If so, then the interview process is... fubar.
This is very interesting! I have so many questions. If you see this, kindly send me an email. It's in my profile. I love the idea!
In the US there's a strong belief in self reliance. Just because something is harder doesn't mean it's worse (so the thinking goes). You can't honestly say everyone that supported Regan is racist. People just don't believe in hand outs, to anyone (I know I don't). There's nothing racist about that.

You're also ignoring many other social issues that Republican's have traditionally supported that have nothing to do with race. There are probably very few people taking race into consideration at all when they vote.
Well, Simon, when a man loves a woman very much, he ...
Do you live in Japan, the US or somewhere else? I work in marketing strategy and we use in-home and other ethnography vendors all the time. I'd be interested in someone who can work in Japan/APAC, or even to have someone else to call here in the US.
> You have more wealth than nearly everyone else on Earth.

But huge swaths of the earth are in poverty and have entirely different costs of living.

A more relevant measure... they have more wealth than the vast majority of San Francisco itself - 80th percentile household income in SF is $190k according to https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/San-Francisco/...
Tabulating ballots as they are received eliminates the secret ballot. Ballots should be sorted into precincts beforehand.

Many larger jurisdictions use high speed image scanners for their postal ballots and adjudicate voter intent electronically (no paper record).

Election integrity types consider postal balloting and touchscreens roughly equivalent.

The gold standard is poll sites where the ballots are tabulated onsite immediately after the polls close. Anything else compromises public voting, private counting, or both, in some way. Though sometimes the tradeoff is worthwhile, eg enfranchising voters.
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Seems like there are lot of sites like this in past few years. Great.
The irony is that MacOS used to come with a really good paint app up until system 7 or so:

https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw...

The closest 3rd party app I've found to ms paint is Paintbrush, but that's a bit too primitive compared to paint and it doesn't work that well with retina screens.
I think that's the story of trying to turn anything hobby-like into a living. You start out as a photographer or an artist, but you end up having to be a general manager and an accountant.
Off topic but what kind of jobs are there in Canyon County?
Discussions about ethical, privacy, surveillance issues often get hand waved and diluted here. See yesterday's thread on Google's retaliation as an example.

We need a diversity of communities that can represent the the software industry in more dimensions than the VC funded side of things, growth hacking and the singular focus on success that are often in heavy conflict with any kind of value dimension and ultimately greed and opportunism crowds out every other concern.

There is also often a extremely selfish mercenary view of the world this is disturbing and can jade most of us and needs some maturity to handle without letting it poison ones worldview.
IMO you could find the same information at European, Canadian or Australian conferences, etc. I speculate it has to do with the idea that the focus in the US isn't on patient care and outcomes but rather on profits.
Being smaller, though, those companies can simply be up front about what they do during recruiting and people who don't like it won't sign up for them. Succinctly, prudes don't work in porn.
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And also smaller, that can't be forgotten.

Reading this through the lens of income inequality; I don't think having a smaller, yet richer middle class, is necessarily something to be proud of.
Elon Musk Claims on Tesla Chips Don't Match the Reality
> Half the authors of the American Constitution thought that slavery should be legal, but they managed draft the foundation of modern day democracy anyways.

This is a story of democracy happening in spite of the founding fathers, not because of the founding fathers. It was, as you may know, a long (multiple centuries) and bloody (a pretty big war, plus lots of extrajudicial lynchings etc.) road from what they drafted to universal suffrage. It's still in progress in many ways, and a lot of people were hurt in the progress. So this seems like a pretty good argument that we should not let people who have views that are contrary to the long-term goal be setting the direction of how to get to the long-term goal.
how does this compare to Luigi or Airflow?
Absolutely true, and I didn't think about this. In retrospect, my intro physics courses (which were 90% engineers) were in such classrooms, and could not have used a projector. But the rest of my physics classes, and all of my math classes, were in rooms the size of my high school classrooms.
Its scary that they equated chalking to GPS trackers.
Pervasiveness is exactly the difference between the two. It seems that the courts did not recognize that.
If you as a consumer think “Autopilot” means full autonomy, you are undereducated and/or misinformed. That’s not Tesla’s fault, and they don’t advertise Autopilot as such, either on their website or in the numerous warnings in the vehicle interface. I don’t agree it’s immoral to ship what they’re shipping calling it Autopilot.

I do agree much more work needs to go into how life critical systems are developed and deployed, but impressed at Tesla’s development velocity without sacrificing safety (as evidenced by so few deaths in Tesla vehicles overall).
Good luck with this project! I know this industry gouges the inmates and family. Read your FAQ, but a few questions..

* How are you going about getting your system into these prison systems when they have basic tech and still using old phone systems?

* Would your solution be another opinion, or are you looking to replace the existing system at a location?

Thanks!
With hw rendering enabled, opening a single Firefox window and browsing works fine. However when I try to open a new window the browser and desktop immediately become incredibly laggy and eventually unresponsive. I think I was able to successfully open a different tty and kill Firefox, which then fixed the issue, but it repro'd every time. Open one Firefox window, everythings fine. Open two, things slow to a crawl.

I'm surprised you were able to get WebRender working as well, I think I recall Firefox instantly crashing when I tried that. This was a few weeks ago.
Ubununtu, hilarious typo
The article states:

>Extract the hidden state to recover the inaccessible data. For this, the attacker needs a clock of sufficient precision. (Surprisingly low-resolution clocks can be sufficient, especially with techniques such as edge thresholding.)

Might anyone have some good resources or links they could share on this "edge thresholding" technique?
No, but the organization providing the code could be...
Yep, Naans too. I suppose you can do steaks and veggies as well but I usually do those on the grill.
Does anyone know what are the best OSS Orchestration Engines? Am wondering what I should be comparing this to.
No, I wasn't, but I did confuse the terms. Shear can be done without the extra dimension. Skew transforms require the extra dimension, as does translation.
The one month period was already a major concession by traditionalists: historically, the era name was announced the day it started.

Then again, this transition is also highly unusual because the emperor abdicated, allowing time to prepare. It's the first time in the modern era that this happened, as all previous (recent) emperors have died on the throne.
I know, but that's a little slower, way more expensive, and fails if the battery runs out or the GPS can't connect, or the license plate is too dirty to read.

Obviously the chalk method isn't perfect either, but it's close.
The ACM is basically this, they even have a code of ethics. People just aren’t very involved in it though outside of academia.
Maybe not the retirement so much, but a medical issue can easily lead to bankruptcy, even when you have seven figures in assets.
It seems that using "fixed attention" for text would encourage the network to periodically summarize the context so far and put it in that fixed column for the rows below to access.

Maybe the reason "strided attention" didn't work as well is that it would require the network to put this context summary in every column lest the rows below be unable to access it. That would waste features since the summary wouldn't vary much over time but would still be stored in full at each step.

If this is true, the approach they used for images might actually be inefficient in a similar way.
I guess you're thinking of privacy while the court was thinking of trespass in terms of property and property damage. The chalk affects the tire, so property damage. The camera doesn't affect the tire, so no property damage. Both affect privacy: the chalk mark signifies that you parked somewhere where they mark tires and the camera records that you were in some spot.
Or you know you could just type "print".
You can in a many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics. On a branch speculation, split the universe. Follow one branch in one universe, the other in another universe. If the CPU realizes that the speculation is wrong, destroy the universe (this is left as an exercise for the reader). As a bonus the CPU will have 100% speculation success. Unfortunately I think quantum mechanics itself might allow for side channels between universes.
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If you ask a mathematician a tensor is an element of a tensor product, just like a vector is an element of a vector space. This moves the question to "what is a tensor product", which you can think about as a way to turn bilinear maps into linear maps (this is an informal statement of the universal property of the tensor product, you also need a proof of existence of such an object, but it's easy for vector spaces and alright for modules after seeing enough algebra)
AFAIK Scala is much more popular than Kotlin in terms of job postings and projects in big enterprises. My data limited to some Fortune 100 companies tell me it is on par with Python in popularity. Spark, Kafka, Flink, Finangle are written mostly in Scala. Pretty impressive for an academic, non-pragmatic language that has failed, isn't it?

So can you elaborate what do you mean by "failed"? Because it seems you are using a different definition of it.

"Sometimes, improvements in programming languages are reached by having fewer features, but Scala is a kitchen sink that was always unable to turn down features, just because their implementation would lead to more research papers to submit to conferences."

That's some different language you're talking about. Scala is built on a small set of very powerful, general, orthogonal features which cooperate nicely and allow to build most of the stuff as libraries. Its design is much more principled than Kotlin's. Kotlin has special features built into the language, that Scala needs just a library for.
After bringing it back though, it would be nice to see some few features being added, without too much complexity. IMO Paint should be the default image viewer, allowing basic editing, my 2 cents :-)
Four of those 10 districts are suburbs of DC. They're voting for bigger government because they're getting rich from it.
> Although the US doesn't have much higher GDP levels than Western Europe

GDP per capita:

US: $59k
Germany: $45k
UK: $40k
France: $39k

30% higher than Germany isn't "much higher"?
Being required to identify yourself and related property in relation to suspected crimes (with probable cause) is acceptable. E.G. "License and Registration please, you are suspected of committing X and possibly other crimes."

Being required to wear a real-name badge in a public place is much more unsettling.
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Interesting. I may figure out a way easily to get a full screen of white (full-screen in a browser on a blank HTML page?) to hackily print screen to use that as MacOS "paint", heh.
> Discussions about ethical, privacy, surveillance issues get hand waved and diluted here.

Do they? I tend to find that Hacker News often has a lot of discussion of ethics, especially with respect to technology.