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The USPS has missed most of they payments, not making a full one since 2010. The health benefits fund (the 50% one) was the only one that needed to be funded and much of that funding came from transfers from the other, overfunded, pension accounts.

Anyway, the point is moot, since the prefunding period is over and the payments are now on the permanent schedule. Because the Post Office couldn’t fully find the account, the fund is now running deficits and will be depleted in a decade.
Like others said, what?

Anything unique about it? Are you running Windows 10? Latest updates? Need any driver updates? (Most drivers are updated by Windows but a few, like graphics/network sometimes benefit from checking yourself.)

Are you running a (really) resource intensive anti-virus program?

I own an $800 Asus gaming laptop and a $700 Asus ultrabook. One with 7th gen i7 and 16GB DDR. The other with 8th gen i7 and 16GB DDR. One has SATA SSD and other NVMe SSD. One is 1 year old. The other is 2 years old.

Both of them can run Visual Studio Professional, VS Code, Netflix, Hulu, StarCraft 2. Both are very fast and a joy to use. One is heavy; the other is light!

If it has a 5400 rpm hard drive, consider getting a 2.5" SSD to replace it, and use software to clone the drive. (Although it kind of sounds like you could use a fresh install.)
I'm a few weeks into an XPS 15 after a decade of Apple. I'm really liking it as well. I'm even running Windows 10, of all things— between WSL and native SSH + git and friends on powershell via Chocolatey, I'm finding it surprisingly comfortable.

I think my main frustration is just that a few things about the trackpad aren't quite right. For example, I can't find a combination of settings under Windows which give the physical right-click behaviour that Mac OS has.
or if not advertising inside products, then it rewards walled gardens to grow - the games, blogs, et al end up inside a subsidiary that collects payment for access to all of it together. and the walls grow.
not for me, my hand kill me with any mouse, vertical included. Cannot leave the mac's touchpad
For anyone interested, a new book on the topic just came out

"Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development (Sei Series in Software Engineering)"

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Technical-Debt-Development-E...
Perhaps this is naive, but also as someone who grew up in the bay (south bay specifically) it feels like after the crash of 2001, and the resurgence of tech after that, the culture took on a markedly different tone. I guess perhaps in the transition from silicon dominance to web dominance something felt like it was lost in the valley.
You're correct in saying that Excel is not cross-platform, but I'm referring to my application that lives on top of Excel. If the user is running Excel 16.0 64Bit, my app can run on Windows or Mac... does that not make it cross-platform?
You're right, I've overstated my point 1., and neglected how many organisations promoting terrible values there are these days.

However:

1. Many of these share significant characteristics with religion (epistemic closure, or a stunning disregard for the truth; Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny touches on that).

2. For some reason religion still enjoys much more respect and reverence than these other organisations (among non-members).
People.ai, the predictive sales startup, raises $60M at around $500M valuation
Late reply I know but ... just replace the words "company strategy" in your last paragraph with "everybody wants to be involved with "electing parliament" ... stick to the scope of their role.

One of the things that came with increased literacy was increased middle class and increasing widening of the suffrage.
A standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes
Reading the rest of the story, and presuming the statements are true, I doubt the decision was made based solely on abstract political opinion.
>Just because someone is at the top of their field (consumer electronics) doesn't mean that they know anything about other, non-related fields (music)

Apple was not exactly at the top of their field before betting on the iPod. The curated collection was not only personal, it was also as iconic as the device it was meant to show off. You would probably balk at the idea of Karlheinz Brandenburg's choice of Tom's Diner too.
3D Printed Prosthetics Are Helping Amputees Save Money
It frankly isn't relevant. What could the author possibly have done to warrant the kind of experience he received in the backlash?
It's supply. We have a lot of supply of labor. As the supply of [competent] labor goes down, the wages will rise, as they are right now in the US.
Mid 2012 MBP here. Replaced battery with new one from iFixit 4 weeks ago. There was zero glue so no peeling necessary.
It's interesting that you describe a Unix/Linux development environment as web development friendly. Historically, the only relationship between the two was that a portion of the server/hosting market ran on Solaris and Linux boxes (and now, Linux servers and VMs). But that's not really why it became popular for web development.

Since web development doesn't require a proprietary dev toolkit, it gravitated towards the platform that most naturally supports software development in general. And that happened to be Unix/Linux.
12" MacBook hasn't been updated in 2 years.
I don't know where you got your numbers but they certainly don't reflect reality. As my cite says, they missed ~34 billion worth of payments. As your cite says they're missing 86 billion dollars that they need to pay their pension obligations.

>Please explain your use of the word "hypothetical".

Hypothetical as in they are not actual real outflows of cash from the USPS. They can't be blamed for the USPS' financial woes since they haven't made a payment in 7 years now.
I'm going to make a wild guess that it was more than that, given that they were the type of person to harass the conference organizer after the fact.
In a similar vein there was also David Auburn's "Proof" which featured a female mathematician following in the footsteps of her mentally ill mathematician father.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(play)
Atmospheric turbulence, yes, adaptive optics can ameliorate that. A cloud? No, that won't help with that.
The little to no content is exactly right! I'll find an API, and click on a method, and all it sends me too is the method definition. No description about the what to send it and what it does.
Darpa Funds Ambitious Brain-Machine Interface Program
How far do you really have to go?

In the outskirts of San Francisco (where I moved from), it's easy to find massive hardware and fixture stores that aren't Home Depot. The East Bay is full of them too. In LA and Sacramento there are literally giant industrial parks full of retail stores dedicated to specific home improvement niches. I once spent nearly a whole day walking door-to-door looking at flooring.

Of course, it might take you an hour to get across town if you time traffic badly...
The American urban-rural divide in the US maps pretty neatly to who is dependent on AM radio for information. US AM radio is a cesspit of disinformation operated by extreme-right-wing billionaires who have found it is remarkably cheap to manage populations, and get them to vote for benefits to billionaires at the direct expense of those voters.

This was the fond dream of Edward Bernays, inventor of modern PR and propaganda. (One of his early successful campaigns got women addicted to tobacco.) He worried deeply about democracy's ability to decentralize power, and strip it from elites, so he set out to invent a way to subvert it. He was immensely proud of inspiring Josef Goebbels's work to drum up enthusiasm for Hitler's project.

Rural voters are the most valuable target for disinformation campaigns because, by a historical quirk in American electoral politics, their votes count for quite a lot more than urban voters', and because they are more isolated from one another and so easier to keep on track. Urban voters have easier direct, face-to-face contact with one another that makes lies more expensive to sell.
>Just because someone is at the top of their field (consumer electronics) doesn't mean that they know anything about other, non-related fields (music).

So?

I think the article is just a geewiz kinda article that looks back and lists the CDs. It's interesting, I don't think it is declaring Jobs or anyone else some sort of status as defining music in anyway. Most of that music is highly thought of by lots of people anyway.

The rest of your post I think says more about your preferences than anything else.
The same way he orders it - whether in Japan or in America. Japanese people don't flip the order of the names Americans call themselves. We should extend them the same courtesy.
That's exactly what I'm wondering. I returned a recent 2019 MBP because it was getting so hot just after an hour of normal usage.
Extroverts just don't understand introverts, and they think they can "fix" us.
Call me a big city liberal but in my view small states have way too much power and Congressional reform is needed to balance it out. If demographics stay on trend eventually we'll have something like 70% of Senate seats going to 30% of the population. The arbitrary limit of 435 House of Representative seats is not enough to accurately model the population growth of this country and ensure that the ratio of representative : constituent is feasible. We cannot keep operating on a constitution built for a completely different country and expect to grow with the challenges of the 21st century.
People don’t always or even normally act at the level of civilizations. Why would this apply at the civilization and not the town or the state or country or corporate level.
I wonder how similar this is to a Rife machine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rife
Kdb is a very niche product that has open source alternatives that are made use of by the rest of the software industry outside of FinTech. It's not bad, it's just not what the market wants to use because it's a closed box.

Wikipedia has an article on Time series databases and they contain a short list of popular TSDBs [0]. On that list 11 are libre-software to some degree and 4 are commercial. Relational TSDBs are new to the open source space but they're still being built despite there being the existing kdb+. This shows that people will spend considerably more funds to engineer a replacement (and give that replacement away for free) to avoid using a closed source product for this use case.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database#List_of_t...
Sounds like a startup opportunity!
ESports Fortnite Player, BreezeAgent Wins $50k in Fortnite Secret Skirmish Event
The “Secret Skirmish” is an invitational Solo tournament organized by Epic Games and had take placed on February 15, 2019. 100 Players had to compete for a prize pool of $1,000,000 Dollars. Mohamed Bah or BreezeAgent had also been involved in the LAN Event with 99 Other players trying to win a prize pool. The Event had lasted for 2 Days and had 5,000 fans attend to the stage.

Epic Games additionally live streamed the event on Twitch and YouTube, Both cumulated 200,000 viewers.

Mohamed had come across challenges to be able to win some of the prize pool. Being able to get a victory royale was difficult but he was able to do it and had won $50,000 Dollars on the Solo’s event. Once again though he had grabbed enough eliminations to keep himself in the fight and went towards match three with a tie for first.

Mohamed Bah is 16 Year old Professional E-Sports Player. He been competing for 3 years now for games like Fortnite and Black Ops 4. He had called himself BreezeAgent as a Player name. Mohamed Bah usually live streams his game plays on his Twitch verified account with over 25,000 Followers. Mohamed Bah has cumulated with over $60,000 winnings in total of his career.

His Social media accounts are on the rise as he had played a game of Fortnite with the famous Twitch streamer ‘Ninja’. Ninja has over 12 Million followers on Twitch and 21 Million Subscribers on YouTube. Mohamed was able to play a game of Fortnite with him and had won a game. Ninja had described him as a ‘talented player’ and grasped him on his Twitch and Instagram @BreezeAgent.
The average wait to see a specialist across the US is closer to 24 days, the longest it's ever been - the average in Canada is 21 weeks, also the longest recorded.
Seems they get Korean names right more often than not...see a lot of Kim Jong Il (and similar)....except if they have a westernized first name like Gloria Kim.
> Yes, I do remember when Uber killed a pedestrian. A pedestrian that the car didn't see.

The car did see the pedestrian. It was unable to correctly identify it as pedestrian initially. And instead of taking the pessimistic path of 'something unknown moving toward roadway, so I brake now' it had that portion disabled in favor of 'safety driver take over.' Reason being, as it came out, that these types of events are so common it would be wholly infeasible to attempt a 'driverless' solution without disabling the emergency braking routine.

> lane markings are damaged, you're going to have a bad time no matter what size vehicle you're in.

That's true. But it's not a problem humans have. In a Tesla (or whatever, not picking on them specifically), you can probably stop in a reasonable distance, and if you don't, you probably aren't going to kill scores of people. With a semi-truck, stopping distance is greatly increased. So, you need the ability to see farther up the road. If there's traffic in front of you, you obviously can't see lane markings 200 yards up the street. There's just so many variables. What if the road's wet and the lane markings end and the computer thinks it needs to slam on the brakes? I guess jack-knifing the trailer in the middle of busy highway is NBD, because that's what the computer was supposed to do.

I won't share the road with such a contraption.
Me too. I see little reason to upgrade it. I planned to upgrade it two years ago but am still waiting for something that's up to the expected design. More memory (more than 16 gig) would have been nice when I bought it, but that's the max Apple allowed and it can't be upgraded.

I've yet to have to replace my battery. I'm hoping that the 2019 edition is worth buying, e.g. this stuff built in:
* Escape key
* SD card reader
* Older USB and new USB C sockets
* HDMI out
* >1TB SSD
* magnetic power adapter

I'd also like to see touch screen but let's see. I'd give that up for all the above.

I really don't see the point in making the macbook pro an ipad with a keyboard and some extra umpf. They're totally missing the target audience.
Sounds like a great weekend project for a bored hacker: Buy a Chinese drone, run a packet capture, see what it tries to send and where. For bonus points, put a logic analyzer on the PCB, dump the ROM, try to isolate the code that's doing the sending and reverse engineer it.
Can you not own any real estate period in Communism?
The discussion is the meaninglessness of the parentheses. ⇔ is indeed commutative and associative which means that we can define removing the parentheses as equivalent. However it is equally valid to not do this and define an n-ary '⇔' operator that evaluates ⇔(a1..an) as all ai have the same value. The result is different semantics for A⇔B⇔C.

I've taught and always assume ((A⇔B)⇔C). I've apparently used (A⇔B)&(B⇔C) once.
Boeing's new '797' could be built to fly with just one pilot on board
It is the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

As another person mentioned, DerbyCon got tired of dealing with it (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-h...). And then had to respond to a bullshit storm related to their integrity a month later (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-clarifications-inclus...).
Yeah, we are really down on the touch bar because one failed hard and another crashed so it showed nothing. It was quite the irritating thing. The keyboards are just a failure.

I actually wish they had a touch id sensor on the back of the display like some Android phones so it is accessible when I have the machine plugged into a display.

I really, really don't want thinner. I want the glued in battery banned, and a replaceable keyboard with ability to clean and replace the keys. I guess I just want a different definition of Pro.
>I feel too old to compile my own kernel for a glitchy wifi driver

You can buy hardware that comes with Linux support including drivers. Changing your workflow is always a pain though, so Linux with a decent DE like KDE could be a suitable alternative for you but because of the big change you could get frustrated and hate the experience.

I am also at that period in life where I don't get pleasure from tinkering with compiling custom kernels, making the PC boot 10% faster, use the latest and greatest... so for me Kubuntu LTS fits perfectly it may be a good option for you too.
The touchbar is an abortion. A touchpad screen would have been a better innovation. Two dimensional touch area with multi gesture and visual feedback – just like an iphone.
Seriously. It is hard to imagine a much less capitalistic housing market than SF without every building being owned by a government entity.

Who can live on $15 an hour in this city transformed by innovation?

It's a city transformed by bad zoning policy, not "innovation:" https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing
Does that mean we won’t have a real update at the usual June event? :(
There are Humanist Churches in some areas.
Yes; but that would be irrelevant if they didn't depend on secrecy for security, right?
Thanks, this makes me feel better about my decision a couple months ago to switch to Lenovo's ThinkPad P1 Mobile Workstation. I don't have any regrets switching from Apple hardware, and frankly Linux is so much more superior (especially when using i3[0]), I'm quite pleased with it.

(The only complaint I have with the ThinkPad is the fan is super aggressive and very loud. It usually doesn't run for long, but it spins up with a whirring noise pretty often for 1-5 seconds before slowing down.)

[0]: https://i3wm.org/
You do realize that you don't need church for any of that right? Any sort of club or organization will work. This beating over the head that church is the answer is rubbish. I know lots of religious people that are very pleasant and kudos to them for having their own faith while respecting others, I know more that are prejudiced and feel morally superior to those around them, or won't let their kids go on the school trip to the natural history museum - so I'd rather see people not getting sucked into the Church machine like it's an answer when there's lots of ways to socialize without the dogma.
Still doesn't seem right. with an SSD it's only as fast as Windows 7 on a rotating HDD?
He’s correct. If they had made the payments they were suppose to, the health benefits account would have been fully funded by 2017. Because they didn’t, it is only half funded and is running deficits.
As a counterpoint, I find that when introducing people to coding, mentioning Grace Hopper's role in the development of compiled languages does a lot to break down the perception of it being a job for boys.
Phoenix framework for the Elixir language. It's a web framework that leverages the natural concurrency and performance structure of the Erlang VM to handle both standard web development and web sockets.

That's the high altitude view.

In my professional opinion, Elixir and Phoenix also address the vast majority of short and long term issues that cause problems in projects without a negative impact on developer productivity. I'm a big believer it both. It's also got the perk of being so lightweight that there's almost no performance impact to using Phoenix instead of raw Elixir.
Right, what's with the want of change for the sake of change? I can't see how "Grey. Archaic. Uninteresting." are issues.
Ask HN: Blogs about Being CTO/Head of/Lead Dev?
Mainly interested about retrospectives, feedbacks, tips, etc., from CTO/Head of… or Lead dev of 10+ teammates, about growing teams, people management, project management, tech decisions, processes, etc.
The best answer is to decentralize and devolve power as much as feasible. That way, everybody can go their own way as much as possible. Of course some people/groups don't like that and want to impose their way of doing things everywhere.
Apple's mantra is "form over function".
I'd say most intuition matches the reals, even if people's explanation of it would not match the definition.

You just need to walk someone through 'sqrt(2) is irrational ' and 'pi is transcendental' and you essentially end up with 'I want all converging sequences in Q to have a limit'. Which gives you the reals.

In some sense, the reals are the most naive number system. Just start with the natural numbers, and allow every sensible opperation.
Did you guys meet at church or did you join the church because of them, and which was the main cause of you feeling less lonely?
I'm an introvert too, and I know many people who are as well. The need for human interaction, love, and belonging still exist.
It depends who you're talking to. If you're talking about what the founders of modern Communist theory thought Communism is then you're incorrect; Marx sets out in Capital specifically what he considers to be wrong with money and wage labour in general - its genesis in commodity exchange, as Engels said, money is contained "in embryo" in the fact of commodity exchange.

The USSR, as a matter of fact, operated under mostly capitalist conditions, capitalism distinguished by:

* The predominance of wage labour in the economy

* The goal of economic activity as the accumulation of capital

* Private ownership of means of production (this is the "mostly" part - the USSR did not have much private ownership, which sets it apart from other capitalisms, but Marx was careful to point out that even under simple "public ownership", society becomes a "general capitalist")

In short: if there is wage labour, it is most definitely not "Communist". Money in its function as money in the circuit of capital, that is, C-M-C', remains money, not merely a symbolic "voucher". Socialists have proposed the idea of non-exchangable labour vouchers, but this is a far cry from real money which was what the USSR had. The ruble was just as much money as the dollar.
Surprised nobody's mentioned it in this thread yet, but Matthew Walker's Why we Sleep [0] is a great in-depth look at sleep and how complex its interactions with our day-to-day routines/quality of life are. It has a lot of practical advice on improving it, most of which is summarized here [1].

I went from a varied sleep schedule, trying to catch up on the weekends, etc to a solid 7.5-8h routine every night and it's made a tremendous difference. Best of luck to you!

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZ1YGJ5/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_...

[1] http://routineexcellence.com/why-we-sleep-book-review-summar...
Not sure if its worth to comment but both statements (blog post or your comment too) could be lies because neither provided any proove. So at the end the outcome of the lawsuit will give some closure and until then any comment on this matter is without value.
As someone who had to deal with a situation like this, it is often more complicated than it appears. Often you don't have perfect information. However I strongly agree with deactivating credentials for abusive people.
Once you’ve solved your first programming issue in your sleep, you’re officially a Real Programmer(TM).

Or at least you can feel confident that you’ve picked a good career path.
Google’s Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts
> judgment and sentencing of some other person has very different standards of proof and process.

If this other party is known to many unrelated people over numerous past events for that pattern of behavior, it seems like fair game to me. People out there already know; it's just "connecting the doxx" for the rest.