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A proper undergraduate program today must counteract a lot of awful cultural nurturing, from contemporary 'news' and 'social media' -- not coddle students who arrive thinking they know all about learning, thinking, issues, dialogue, and what their role should be.

I actually stopped donating to my (still) favorite university, over a last-straw incident of permissiveness, when some students there were in the news for shouting down a controversial invited speaker, and forcing the talk to end.

Instead of those students appearing to get a good corrective dose of education about the basics of university, marketplace of ideas, critical thinking, etc.... one of the students instead did a media tour, to try to establish themself as an activist leader personality, and solicit funding for their personal career brand.

I'd been donating token amounts to the university, despite money being very tight, as a symbolic show of appreciation for the opportunities and support they'd previously given me. But, when this incident happened, I'd recently happened to be in a position to give a small amount of help to an acquaintance who was a kernel hacker and transgender, and who'd become homeless (and was worried about where their next meal would come from, and then how to do more coding to get another job, when they had to worry about being any laptop being violently taken from them). I asked myself why I was giving any money to posturing university students who, despite their very privileged university opportunity, failed to have basic education smacked into them.

(I'd planned to write a letter to the university president, encouraging education-smacking, and also to resume donations once I had much more funds to apportion to various purposes, but none of that has happened so far.)
I'm not sure its entirely fair to say that's their plan has only begun, as SteamOS first released over 5 years ago in 2013. As best I can tell, it was originally a strategic hedge against Microsoft locking down Windows in some way that prioritized the Windows Store for game distribution. That never really took off for Microsoft, and Valve didn't do a ton of work try to try to market SteamOS.

Though certainly they've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes with Proton now. I'm not sure where Proton leads quite yet other than making their existing Linux user base very happy. It's certainly increased the stickiness for me.
HN is not doing them a favor, except when you think that HN reader are actually incapable of thinking themselves, and need to be protected from knowledge.

I refute this picture of humans.

Silencing developments with ignoring them would actually do Gab a favor, whatever that means exactly. The term "hate group" is not clearly defined, anyway, and a propaganda-term in itself, and a tool of so-called 'hate'.
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Where to start

1) "Better luck" doesn't begin to describe making $500k/year. That's just extraordinarily wealthy and well into the top 1% in the US. It is even well into the top 10% in Manhattan and San Francisco.

2.) The last recession was over a decade ago.

3.) If 57% marginal rate is "shot in the kneecaps" in someone's mind, then there is a real problem of perspective.

4.) Decreasing wealth inequality levels the playing field for people not born into extraordinary wealth (see William Singer)
>The award for the most asinine thing about the Apple Store is their insistence on not having a proper area to pay for things.

For small ticket items, you can scan, pay and leave without needing to interact with the staff.

>Thanks to the Apple Store app, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of an accessory off the shelf and use Apple Pay to pay for it. From there, you can just walk out of the store with your new Apple accessory in hand.

https://www.howtogeek.com/338754/how-to-buy-stuff-at-the-app...
Agree. iTerm2 has been doing rendering with opengl for years. If you're on OS X its unclear why something like Hyper is necessary.
Next time, they will...
Yes and no. Mostly yes, this is marketing, but is not really disguised. It explicitly lists writing such articles as a form of marketing as part of their strategy.
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Yea they persuade you to buy more from them with bad service. Flawless logic right there.
Two things that were features aren't anymore now that I moved to Miami.

I'm tired of Face ID. Give me back Touch ID please. My sunglasses prevent Face ID from working when I have them on, and that's quite often here, and I don't want to switch to a light form of Face ID that doesn't check that I'm actually looking at my phone. Sometimes I temporarily take my sunglasses off to use Face ID.

The cooling design makes my MacBook Pro very quiet, but it doesn't always keep up with the heat indoors here. I've got to the point where I have to suspend my Vagrant box before I close the lid, or there's a good chance it won't wake up when I open my MacBook Pro and I'll have to restart it. I wish it used fans more to keep it cool.

I need to take it into an Apple Store because I think it might be a real hardware problem and not just a limitation or a software problem that causes it not to wake, but I'm not sure. Fortunately we have lots of Apple Stores and the availability is not too bad. There's only one appointment available today and that's 40 miles away in Boca Raton, but there are appointments at about 5 different Apple Stores in the area with appointments available tomorrow.
You're missing the point completely, it's not about depriving citizens of fundamental services.

- How do you know care home providers don't bribe their way through contracts?
- How do you know they are not an oligopoly that sets the price under the table, and the government pays 1.5 - 2x contributions for someone to be in a care facility versus what you would pay yourself for an elderly relative going to the exact same facility?

Specific counter examples are not fruitful, people who don't have the means don't understand the economics and don't understand money, that's why they are complaining about the inequality, and they can downvote me here all they want, I truly hope it relieves their frustration even slightly.

If you've ever worked with government directly, you're expected to understand it's one of the most rigged and corrupt institutions by very far. Yes, it exists to perform universally beneficial functions, does it really do that? Hello no, in most cases it spends 2 - 3x the money it really needs to for the same service. I'm not suggesting it should cut off the elderly, just cut the waste in providing those services.
Microsoft back in game with another Terminal?
> The bigger issue is usually stack vs heap allocation and it’s hard to reason about that.

I don't think it's especially hard to reason about in the main cases, and when you're unsure (as you mention) you can actually print out the escapes. Would be really interesting to have an editor that would show you where things were escaping (although that could easily lead to premature optimization).
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The linked article specifically argues that it would not hurt the economy. My question was how does it "kill motivation" to make money, really.
Strange. The article doesn't reflect my experience of Apple stores at all. The only problem I have with them is trying actually to get in past the hordes of kids playing with the latest tech.
"Despite the carriers' promises, a Motherboard investigation found in January 2019 that "T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are [still] selling access to their customers' location data and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country"

The problem is that those companies can do these crimes because they know they can afford to pay the fine and that no one will go to jail

It's absurd.
You certainly don’t know that, what an arrogant thing to say. Do you think garbage truck drivers work for personal edification?
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also remind me how paying more in taxes is supposed to help do anything but concentrate wealth in government?

Ok so you reduced the amount the richest hold privately, but the government is filled with some of the richest people around already. This does not sound like a good plan.
The murderer of your loved-one stands right in front of you. He did it, he's gonna do it again, nobody's gonna stop him, nobody's gonna punish him. What do you do?

Well you get some buddies and some guns and do some damage, obviously.

I don't think that this is unreasonable or unrealistic.

Am I crazy?
It's the first bullet point in their reasons for dropping the support. About 1% of their users are on IE.
I think it depends on the area. I live near an Apple store, but it is the only one for a very large area that includes a college. It's literally packed from open to close. I haven't had bad experiences, but definitely not as smooth as yours.

People have been saying that Apple has not grown its store count along with the numbers of device users they have added. I think it shows in areas like mine.
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anyone have any insights on how oracle does their intake of this to create OEL? it's always been a bit of a mystery to me.
The French Revolutionaries had that. Well, they did acknowledge the primacy of the physical day and year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
I know ICE engines use turbochargers to "recapture" the energy. Exhaust can be used to power the intake fan, which can increase air-pressure available to the engine's intake.
> Also, I am absolutely unconvinced that the zoning process is even remotely that simple.

Let's back up a second.

Are you familiar with the history of redlining in the U.S. in the 20th Century?
Open source was very obvious in 1998 for competent tech companies. As in look at successful companies in 2005 and most of them where using OS software in 1998.

One of PG’s essays has a line like, ‘any competitor using Oracle was easy to ignore.’ Successful OS software needs to be good enough not to need marketing and happens to be free. It might not be the best, but cheap and good enough generally has a lot going for it.
New evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang
This is neat, but one important point is that networks NEED to be significantly over parameterized for SGD like methods to find the minima. I know that's slightly tangential.

Another interesting point is that NNs can be thought about as preforming coordinate transformations on the data manifold, which means these sub nets are potentially approximations to those transformations, potentially up to some scaling factor.

I'm excited to see where this goes
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I remember reading an Andrew Lo quote back in 2007-8 where he said something along the lines of there at the time being about 9000 hedge funds in operation at last count, and for comparison, there were about 7000 Taco Bell franchises.

Given that sample size of funds, possible returns, and any distribution you want to fit into it, your odds may be better at a roulette table.
How long are you waiting in line to get a chance to charge? I've been driving with my friend with a Tesla and he visited 2 places before giving up because the line was too long.
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Nice. I'm currently building an operator and this comes in handy.

Quick question: how do I differentiate between freely available and subscription-only containers on the Red Hat Registry?
I wonder how much oxygen is contributed to the atmosphere by lawns.
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Yes: https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet

I haven't updated it in a while (I haven't integrated git into my small, informal process).
I noticed the study cleverly avoided hard questions like “absolute levels of income” which the USA largely dominates and instead focused on “rates of growth” which favor poorer countries such as those in the EU. Where’s the EU’s Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, or Microsoft? All they can do is slap “fines” (backdoor taxes) on our most successful companies but they seem utterly unable to build their own. Never mind it looks at the USA shortly after a business cycle nadir, how would this study look during our long boom cycle?
Players can also lie in out-of-competition communications.
we don't only need large discrete items. 83% of a software engineers lifetime earnings could feed/house a lot of people for a short time or at least a few indefinitely. it could pay off many student loans. it could buy thousands of books for a library.
out of curiosity, could you give an example of where Alacritty would be faster than iTerm in a day-to-day environment?
Tariffs against China are actually a tax on the American citizens, and only causes increased prices and unemployment.
The great depression was a de-facto national emergency and the responses at the federal level reflect that.
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In my city, for onsite service, I have two options within 30 miles: one is an office depot, and the other is a computer repair store. Both seem to contract with Lenovo. I'm sure that there are some repair centers that provide excellent service and some less so.

Meanwhile, Apple has five stores within a 30 minute drive. And in my experience, every single Apple store I've been to gives me a more-or-less consistently good experience. Is it perfect? Far from it. But they can fix most issues I've had onsite, and the turnaround time is predictable when they ship out for repairs.

Meanwhile, with other companies, it's a crapshoot. I had a phone from LG that broke. I mailed it in and after 5 weeks and many follow up phone calls, I still didn't have it back. They claimed that they were out of the part that they needed to repair the phone and were waiting for it to come in. They initially told me that the repair would take 2 weeks. In my mind, a company with decent customer service would see that the part is out of stock and just give me a replacement phone if they can't turn around the repair in a reasonable time frame.

With Apple, you know what you are getting into. And if they say 1 week, they usually mean 1 week.
Exactly how many browser engines do we need? There's currently Blink(Chrome|Edge|Brave), Gecko(Firefox), and WebKit(Safari and various OSS browsers). With web technology standards, it doesn't really make sense that there would be that much competition, so having 3 competing engines seems sufficient to me.
it's 57% _on the amount made over 500K/1M/whatever_ to boot, so you're really talking about nominal taxation effects until you're like 4x whatever the income limit is on this mythical "new top bracket"
Pistols at dawn.
WINE is to Linux as WSL is to Windows... they're the same thing.

In any case, the WSL experience on windows is still pretty sub-par. Until you can at least support the functionality offered by PodMan directly, including SystemD etc, it's not there yet. Even then, it's been kind of nasty to work with in general the handful of times I've tried.

Currently using Docker for Windows, and the msys bash that comes with Git, which though annoying for some things is still better experience wise than WSL is. Next desktop (Zen 2) will be on Linux.
Only changes in “effective rates” is meaningful anyway. A correlation between nominal rates (which no one paid) is almost useless.
It's actually not that different from a traditional (pre-AJAX) HTML forms web app.

That is the mainframe would send out a burst of data to draw a screen on the terminal, the user would fill out the fields, then the user would hit a button that sent the field content back to the mainframe.

Thus the mainframe did not so have to handle an interrupt for each character but instead just one for the whole form.
false. no matter how many times people say this your statement is incorrect.

Consumers faced with higher prices will spend less and save more. Taxes are only applied to transactions. Higher tariffs will shift consumption to lower-priced goods - you say those goods don't exist?

That's how new business and market opportunities arise. Production will shift geographies, as the tariffs are geography-specific.

China's government is playing checkers, I never thought I would say this, and Trump is playing chess.
They could downsize them to street corner booth for repair needs, or even better just sell some self-help-kits to cover majority of the basic DIY fixes.

I don't use apple, my Dell PC and Thinkpad laptop and Android phones never needed any repair, if they do, most likely I will just repair them myself or buy new ones(e.g. keyboard etc).

Apple will be struggling for a while after the iphone era for sure.
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Put this on your site. I know that https://nextjournal.com/features seems more like marketing copy, but this is much more compelling.

Just saying "much more", or "fully" doesn't help much. Try removing all the adjectives from your marketing copy to see if it's actually communicating anything. (Then edit, then add some back :-)). Also most of the features on this page are things you get with Jupyter or collab, address what is actually different, like you do here.
If we're just talking aspirations, if (1-taxes) halves, then I'll just aspire to earn double. Earning 1M a year is almost exactly as plausible as earning 2M a year for the vast majority of people.
The second would fit - but I think Pokémon has to appear in the title for the novelty value alone.
The fact that there's a "how to" article for buying things at a store is a sign that the UX is a complete and miserable failure.
Picketty kind of reminds me of Yuval Noah Harari in that they both have stunning insight and perspective on the past, but get quite bland once the present comes up.

For YNH, his key points in history really changed my perspective, on people history and progress. I'm totally sold on the central thesis: human progress is fundamentally the ability too cooperate in increasingly large groups, and the quality of that cooperation. The whole thing is mediated by our arsenal of collective fictions.

But when we get to the present, what we have is fairly generic. He's certainly an intelligent commenter, but the historical thesis doesn't seem to play into his current affairs opinions at all, or his futurism.

Picketty is similar (but a lot less readable). He makes a pretty compelling empirical case for his thesis, growing inequality is a long term trend during capital accumulatui periods. Wealth disparities are mitigated by big capital destruction events like big wars. There's a theoretical case but it's simple and the evidence is in the data, not the theory (r<g). Convincing.

What does this mean for the present? Apparently, something approximating the current French tax system.

Income tax isn't new. We've had higher and lower high marginal rates than suggested in this article. The problems within those system are the problems.

Maybe im being harsh.
Besides the other problems noted, mirrors and ablative shielding aren't really practical for guided missiles which target aircraft or ships. The missile needs an infrared/optical/radar seeker. So it would be difficult or impossible to find a material which would be electromagnetically transparent for the missile's own seeker but also protect it against incoming laser wavelengths.
holding a million dollars is way different than earning a million dollars in a given year. the number of people who earn 500K/1M in a given calendar year is a much, much smaller subset.
New title: "Silicon Valley Is Coming for Your House"
Or, this represents the real price of goods including externalities which are ordinarily absorbed by Chinese citizens...
While I agree that they will eat into affiliate marketing revenue, this title is completely misleading. The links still work, consumers just may not access them if Google's review algorithm becomes robust.

Frankly, this is not a new issue. It's just the effort by Google to use publisher content & data for their own profit continues to expand.

I always end up going to Wirecutter and their related sites for product reviews as they are the modern Consumer Reports. In those circumstances, the affiliate link will still function as anticipated.
Node and Python already run on windows natively... Docker for Windows is, meh, but it works. Still switching from a hackintosh at home to Linux... wish I could switch at work.
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Probably trying how to install (sneak in and make it hard to remove) the Watson Daemon as a background task for both back end AI and Front end desktop search AI like Cortana, Siri, etc..

LOL

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> It would work on killing any motivation I might have to make money.

That's probably not true of most of the people dedicated enough to making money that they'd be subject to it in the first place, but to the extent it is, that's probably not a social problem; the rich maximizing their own income isn't always socially optimal.
When I want to buy something from Apple I can buy it from apple.com and have it shipped to me, but the last time I did this their "two day shipping" took a full week. Never again. Or I can buy it from Amazon, but last time I bought an Apple product from Amazon, I didn't notice it was counterfeit until well after the return window. Never again. Or I can buy it from their physical store. Last time I bought AirPods I drove 45 minutes to the Apple Store and had to wait for 10 minutes for the employee who was going to check me out to answer questions for the customer ahead of me, even though all he needed to do was swipe my credit card (there's a category of products that you can't self-checkout and it includes AirPods).
This is wrong on a higher level too as most commercial software will disclaim all liability for the correct operation of their software unless you pay them lots of money for a support contract. Turns this is just as viable a business model for OSS too, as Redhat and others found out.
I know it's just my experience, but it looks like this thread (as the article) is all about personal experiences.

I had four time the same issue with a MBP 2011, the HDD cable was failing again ad again. First time they replaced it, next time they replaced the cable plus the HDD, third time they replaced cable plus logicboard, fourth I got a new MBP 2013. All for free, without Apple Care. Every time I got my laptop back in less than 4 business days (also the replacement unit, I received it at home even before they had picked the old one).

This is true heaven if compared to my nightmarish experiences with DELL, ASUS or ACER (as a private customer, not business).

About the repeated MBP issue, I blamed my way of carrying it around (with a passport bag) and the fact that the cable was directly in close contact with the unibody shell.
iTerm is not that fast for debugging output. I switched to kitty. It sometimes crashes and ssh does not work completely but the speed makes up for it.
I love how his wishlist is basically “I want more fault-tolerance in my life.” It must have been supremely frustrating having built Erlang to see so much brittleness in the rest of the world.

Also, +1 for Emacs. :) It’s nice to know that some really smart people like the same tools I do.
CloudFormation is a declarative state management language and framework just like Terraform. The problem is that CF abstracts said state away from you to the degree that you can't hack around it and you wind up forcibly deleting resources if you try to use it like a configuration management framework. With CF Custom Resources you can add all sorts of other stuff and that's pretty cool at least.
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>Disable VSCode type checking

okay?