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I was convinced I should build a productivity app because none of the existing apps suited me. Turns out I was an unorganised person blaming their tools. I went low tech and organised myself by writing into Bear.app, which made me realise I didn’t want to make a productivity app I just wanted to be organised.
If few people bought the standard range and more bought the plus, then they just pissed off more customers than they made happy. Considering they're still far from being an overall profitable company, they would also never again be able to sell the plus trim price.
> Your delivery address proves your jurisdiction in case of weed.

What if that address is a mail forwarder? How do you prove that I reside at the delivery address?
Really brings into question what type of law education that guy was getting if he didn't know student loans couldn't be bankrupted...I think I learned that from high school...
The cure today, which is the enforcement of a set of beliefs on pain of shunning or job loss, is worse than the disease. For example the Connie St Louis fiasco
If you keep doing ideological flamewar on HN we are going to ban you. Breaking the site guidelines will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Again - I don't disagree we need to change, but I think we need to be honest about the scale of the disruption involved. Think about the amount of debt in the world, and imagine that that was created with the foundation of an oil based economy, and then imagine what would happen if that foundation were removed. We are talking potentially catastrophic economic crisis, with all the problems that would bring.

The final thing I would say is that if those in control are sincere about tackling climate change, an open borders immigration policy is a very strange thing for them to be promoting. Instead of supporting people to live good lives where they are - in low carbon countries - we are encouraging them to move to high carbon countries, and effectively creating a reason to generate massive amounts of carbon through house building, infrastructure etc. This is one of the main reasons I am sceptical about the messages that come down from on high, and even more so given that the stock response to this issue is accusations of racism etc.
If I haven't eaten those croissants I'd give them back.
Video chat often has better audio quality than phone calls. HD calls are still rare, even on VoIP. POTS is almost guaranteed to cut off at 3.2kHz which cuts out a lot of information.
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? it's against the rules here, and we've had to ask you this already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Customer-Driven Engineering
With all the secrecy surrounding composite armor, I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff is being used already.
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Quite a few are interesting and even insightful...
Should /E/OS Drop Telegram and Signal in Favor of DeltaChat Universal IM App?
Beat Your Fears
I would rather call it a profitable business.
Sorry, I missed the comments on that submission. If you still want to contact me, you can contact me on twitter at BaudDev.
Actually, I'm in the middle of writing an e-mail to the Tim address at Apple, saying that if it takes the environment seriously (and I commend them on what they have done so far) they really need to take the next step, be truly 'courageous' and prioritise repairability and expandability in their forthcoming products.

Apple in the last 20 pushed the boundaries in terms of sleek and slim, but I argue those are last century's imperatives. Apple has the clout and profile, that if it took a stand and said 'we are going to make our products a few milimeters thicker, we are going to make them so that they can be upgraded, we realise that this will hit sales and profits, but this is the planet we are talking about', they could probably pull other members of the industry behind them'. Conspicuous non consumption might be the new fashion statement.
USA corporations like IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel buy and invest all over the world. In Israel Microsoft’s investment was used (as well) to stop the government (ministry of education) to drop any interest in open source and free software.

So it’s a mixed bag. I’m specifically talking about bringing products to market. There are non.

And “looking at my comments history” to not-a-patriot shame me is soooo Israeli... I tell it like it is. Again, what’s was Israel’s big product brought to market after Epilady?

What about Indians stuffing (unprofessionally) IT jobs all over the world, including Israel btw, ... at least until they brought cheap Russian labor as part of Shamir’s demographics re-engineering of Israel to produce a “Jewish” majority with (at least) 30% non-Jewish Russians...

but that’s another story and yet another myth needs busting.
If money spent on keeping them in jail is > the money required for bail; system needs fixing!
> If you want precise results for large sizes, then the integer-arithmetic recurrence is faster than computing the square root of 5 to very high precision and raising it to the nth power.

Know what's even faster? Exponentiating a 2x2 matrix of integer coefficients. And again, that's what a bit of math tells you, so I think the point of the author holds.
Boring manual? It was the dragon book!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techn...
US companies don't view foreign degrees that positively unfortunately.
How to Use Skype in the Classroom
My late 2013 MBPr battery finally died recently, and I took it to an Apple store for service. Two days and $199 later I have it back with a new battery (and keyboard, which is attached to the battery) and in like-new condition. It looks and feels like a brand new computer.

Probably worth seeing if having Apple Service can do the same for yours, but via a screen replacement.
Honestly, this is good advice.
> Given this, exactly what advantage does a FPGA give?

Not spending an hour on performing the calculation, I’d guess. An hour for PageRank is probably acceptable, but there are applications where waiting an hour for a result isn’t viable.
Hi

If you are familiar with arduino, 3d printers and stepper controller/driver here is a project that I have been thinking/dreaming for a while.

- An auto level grill based on the charcoal temperature

This will use the code of the Z axis of a 3d printer, the mechanical part will also be very similar to the Z axis (just in principle), instead of the 3d plate you will have your grill to put the meet and a couple of temperature sensors bellow the grill, based on the temp the controller will keep the grill at the right height from the charcoal, this way you will have your perfect grilling temperature all the time!

I have seen that the projects/ideas that I enjoy the most to work on are the ones that could solve an issue and/or make things easier and are based on my own experience/pain.
>imagine being a teenage girl and overhearing boys talk about how girls are dumb

What do you think girls think and say of boys? This is just stupid (and incorrect) victimism, directed at a gender, when the other one acts the same.

Someone using that argument is either 1) completely unaware of the experiences of the other gender or 2) being dishonest.
I've done user-upgrades of the RAM on all my desktop Macs, and subsequently had repairs done under warranty here in the UK. Never had a problem and one at least two occasions the Apple engineers knew about the RAM upgrades. In fact the last HD replacement on my iMac was done free even out of warranty, I think because I mentioned I'd had it happen before on a previous Mac.
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Reminds me of the concept of "Social Stories": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Stories

> Social Stories are a concept devised by Carol Gray in 1991 to improve the social skills of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The objective is to share information, which is often through a description of the events occurring around the subject and also why.

I'm wondering if this kind of "common sense" interactions could be leveraged to train models?

Here's a concrete example, "Being Angry and Safe": https://youtu.be/R8c_Br8I_Tc?t=28
Someone made this claim:

“The peak capacity of a mile of track will always be less than that of a mile of highway. ”

All we’re doing is arguing by examples.

Clearly, depending on the population it’s simply not true. I don’t know the specifics in each case. I’ve been stuck in huge traffic jams in Seattle, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC, Virginia, Philadelphia, etc. I’d say we need more mass transit in those places.

Yes, mass transit needs to go where a certain number of people want to go. However, we’ve ignored mass transit in the US and we complain that it doesn’t work, when it seems to work everywhere else in the world.

So, we’ve mostly build minimal mass transit and lots of roads in the US and are using that as an example that mass transit doesn’t work.
> You’re literally sustaining the human race.

While true, that's not the reason people reproduce.

Most people are only truly concerned with their own offspring and their own bloodline.

That everybody in the world is primarily focused on their own legacy but just happens to contribute to the numbers of our species as a whole is an evolutionary mechanic, not a human one.
I'm not a local, could you explain the difference ? In practice, are there limitations on jail time or the cases in which one is allowed to jail people (e.g. jail people for suspected murder but not suspected theft)?
I dont' know what you mean about "the utter collapse of western health".

Public health organisations are staffed by experts who have spent most of their lives studying the relevant subjects. How likely is it that you, or anyone who hasn't dedicated that much time and effort in studying those subjects, will know better than those who have?

I'm not saying it's impossible, mind. But just what are the chances that your opinion is right and that of thousands of experts is wrong?
A huge 3rd category of programmers is entirely missing: those that don't care about abstraction at all, be it mathematical or linguistic. I think the priority for our industry is to get those on board, then we can discuss what tools for abstraction they should specialize in.
I've been (I admit) just starting to try and learn about FPGA's and where their applications might be. Outside of the painfully obvious - 100G networking, HFT - I can't see a case where their expense makes them a valid solution when compared to a GPU. Ideas?
Putting unnecessary hardware in cars may be costly, which is why traditional car companies don't do this, or at least rarely do this.

At the same time Tesla doesn't produce enough cars to make it worthwhile to make the production process that flexible. There are costs associated with having different parts to manage and streamlining your assembly line to handle it. Additionally you have to develop, test, produce these additional parts which also costs money. If they become one of the big car manufacturers at some point it will become worth it to specialize the hardware more. Right now software is easier and cheaper.
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I graduated from high school in 2006 and was determined to study computer science when I went to college but by the time I had graduated I decided to just go with accounting because I had heard so many horror stories about how there were no jobs in tech anymore. I viewed accounting as something that might not pays much as a programmer but it would surely get me a job because every company needs accountants. Nowadays, being employed in accounting, I kinda regret it because my true passion was computer science.
“Speed recruiting” events are efficient, but only for the recruiter
Exactly. Many of us loved the old Mac Pro. Great that the iMac and Mac mini works for many, some of us just don't like them. Apple is in their right to build computers they want, we are in our right to not buy them and complain they no longer build the machine we care about.
Because using a phone in most offices is pretty disruptive for everyone sitting close by. You also have to consider if the other party is available or just in a meeting, bathroom etc.

IM everyone can get back to you as soon as it suits them without doing another “I’ll call you back” round trip.
That says it was true historically, not any longer.
The big one is an increase in the value of their land. And is this initiative purely about commuting? Maybe the new train will allow people to more easily socialise or receive healthcare or any other part of their non-work life.

Also, trains/buses are not usuualy free in the same way that some bridges have tolls.
>> I don't have a college degree and it's been impossible for me to find a 'real job'

More and more people are becoming like me in this market and not overweighting degrees. I don't care about your formal education and I actively blind resume submissions for it through an assistant. I care about what you've done and what you're passionate about.

On the way to hiring 100 people pretty soon here and growth is solid. Leads to a lot of diversity of thought and background, which is a good thing.

After all, I'm a dropout nobody, too. Someone's gotta look out for us.
I need to finish the article but let me leave a “reaction post” here just for starters... that Strumia guy - the misogynist Italian physicist - is a tool. The prototypical socially disabled person that compensates for their ineptitude by digging themselves into a trench of books. I’m male, but having studied engineering I had the displeasure to bump into examples a couple times; and it left marks.
> I didn’t know that the package managers require you to use Linux’s LLVM. That’s a shame.

They don't require you to use “Linux's LLVM” (which would not make any sense given that Linux and LLVM are two independent projects), they make you use the version of LLVM they are currently packaging.

> Do all the major package managers do this or is it just apt?

All the package managers will conceptually do that; however, how old is the considered LLVM will vary strongly depending on the packaging policy of your distribution.
I don't think they promise both - either you get 120Hz or 8K.
As the father of a son it doesn’t look at all like things have gotten worse for boys since I was a student.
Most people who go to Harvard have to get very high scores on the SAT/ACT, which include math sections that are of, at least, remedial math difficulty.
Background checks? Maybe if you're joining the secret service. In most cases the employer just needs to check that the qualifications you claim to have are genuine.

Probably you should be allowed to keep quiet about qualifications that you don't want to claim. I read about a case in which a factory worker was sacked with the justification that they had failed to declare their university degrees when applying for the job. They had a degree in politics and the employer believed (probably correctly) that they had got the job specifically in order to be a trade union activist. However, whether that ought to be a valid reason for dismissing an employee is another question.
Eye contact would be brilliant but at the moment I would settle for full-duplex audio. It really impairs the ability to have a natural conversation in e.g. Google Meet when you have to wait for the other party to be totally silent before you start speaking.
What if the other proposition is true? Is it ok to infringe on fundamental liberties for utilitarian reasons? If so, would you condone the chinese social points system, which follows this logic further?
As long as it remains a market success. It’s not a market failure yet. I think all these little slights pile up to make it collapse, but I’ve been waiting 30 years and it seems to be getting worse in that more companies are getting huger by meeting the 95% at the expense of the 5%.
Sounds like the foreword for Godzilla 1998
How is the FAA culpable? No American planes crashed? The FAA doesn’t control regulations for Indonesia do they? Indonesian maintenance standards are atrocious. Look at Lion Air’s record. Is it a coincidence that one of the world’s worst airlines also happen to crash the 737 and yet Southwest Airlines that flew an order of magnitude more flights on the Max never had even a scratch? Lion Air knew they had a problem on the penultimate flight — but they ignored it. The FAA would never allow that level of negligence in the US: that plane would have been grounded. The FAA has a better safety record than anyone else — and that includes the Europeans.
Mac Mini is not a really powerful desktop. It's has mediocre CPU with terrible cooling (not allowing it to reach even full potential), built-in GPU and non-standard soldered SSD.

I want 16 core CPU (probably Threadripper, as Intel is unable to produce anything competitive recently) with Nvidia 2080 Ti or better GPU, and 32GB ECC memory for $2k.
I can't say much about Switzerland, but on a slightly related note, in Poland we have automatic doors in trains that don't bother detecting if someone's in the doorway before closing. I'm honestly surprised that these didn't kill a single child yet.
I'd be happy to pay for Firefox, but I have a few points that are important to me.
They are probably not very realistic but here they are anyway:

1. I want my money to go into Firefox development and nowhere else.

I certainly don't want my money spent on their content business, even if it is used as a leverage to generate more money for Firefox development. I'm torn about Rust development because I certainly would love to see Rust flourish, but if we allow the money go into personally preferred projects it becomes hard to draw the line.

2. I want a Firefox with absolutely no strings attached.

- No Pocket, not even a trace of it

- No experiments, labs or whatever they call it (see Mr. Robot for an example)

- No network connections to third party hosts as long I haven't explicitly opted in.

- Safe search off by default

- No predefined search engines

- No predefined start page

3. I want Mozilla (as a whole and not only the Firefox branch) to be more carefully
with the selection of their businesses partners.

I'm am not aiming at their co-operations with Google, Yandex and the like, which are OK for me. At least as long as my points from above are respected. Specifically I'm OK if the free version of Firefox continues to be sponsored mainly by Google. I'm not OK with business deals of the kind they had with Cliqz for example.
They also don't make it clear what the difference between iPro and Pro is (desktop vs workstation). When you know this, the prices can be seen with different eyes (except for the stand maybe).

For example the top range workstations from HP are over $10,000.

And you can buy a Sony reference monitor for $20,000.

But I still don't know what market Apple is targeting. Most of Hollywood is using Windows and Linux. So it will be hard to get them back.

Maybe they target audio shops who are still mostly on MacOS.

Or they have a surprise for us all. For example: Apple is working hard with OTOY to make real-time rendering very fast with Metal.
If this boost is so great maybe they can get back marketshare in Hollywood.

But until then I think only the real fans will buy a Pro.

Video, CAD/CAM, research will be using Windows and Linux for now I guess.
College will already be made free in due time but it won't be from a government funded university. It will simply be from a private organization making the courses on their own and putting them online for free. People won't believe this but the technology already exists for it to occur. Most of college is simply organized textbook reading, with lectures, homework, exams etc. All of which can be digitized and delivered over the internet. Homework and exams can be digitally graded. Final exams can be proctored at a testing center like prometric. This system will deliver essentially the same results as a traditional university.
> And, aside from that, you're just plain wrong.

Convincing argument.
The Mac Mini got a nice refresh, but it is still limited in CPU, has no real GPU, doesn't have much drive space. So to turn it into a nice deskop machine, you have to get an external GPU enclosure and an external drive bay. At which point the whole desk is covered by computer parts stringed together. Makes any beige box look elegant in comparison. I really wonder when someone makes a box which has slots for a graphics card, drives and a mac mini...

The iMac Pro is quite nice. But extremely expensive, the computer is tied and limited to the 27" screen (which I consider on the small side), you are tied to the graphics card ordered (not sure how the top choice compares to a full desktop card), CPUs are Xeons, so quite expensive for what they do, RAM and SSD are not accessible, not even the cooling fans can be cleaned (and eventually cooling fans have to be cleaned). Once again limited to external drives.

The standard iMac now offers an i9 CPU which seems to be a sweet spot, but you don't get the same graphics cards as the iMac Pro, but at least accessible RAM. For all iMacs of current design, its a $300 bill to get anything done on the inside, due to the glued nature. A non-glued iMac would become instantly more attractive. But all have in common that you are limited to the builtin screen which you have to dispose of, once you don't use the contained computer any more.

And what is a very practical limitation: they don't have any screen inputs. I would like to connect my (work) MacBook Pro to my iMac screen, but that is not possible. Sometimes I even used via VNC screen sharing out of desparation, but that sucks.
Who the hell uses a phone in this and age? Who ever WANTED to use a phone? It is the most unpleasant method of communication available in this world.
Outside HN and other techie watering holes, happiness with the new MBPs is absolutely fine[1]. I'm not saying there aren't problems, I passed on getting a new MBP due to the keyboard issues myself[2], though I'm ok with the touch bar. There are real weaknesses in the current designs, but for the vast majority of users none of this is much of an issue.

[1]https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/25/apple-devices-earn-high...

[2] Though this means I wouldn't be included in purchaser satisfaction ratings, because I didn't purchase.
Doing all this, right now, with 16gb and works fine! Memory left.

Three pycharm instances (=yay microservices)
9 docker containers (=hyperkit =vm =yay for microservices with dependencies)

Slack, ms teams, no outlook though.

It all runs smooth. The thing which makes my workflow slow is the switching between code of and keeping shared code in sync of those goddamn microservices.
I think you're misidentifying the comment we're discussing as having some kind of political affiliation that you disagree with.
You could start using Ctrl-[ instead of the Esc key and see if that works better for you. The [ key is easier to reach, it's closer to the center of the keyboard. But sometimes using a different key is tricky, as we get our muscle memory used to a particular key position and after some point it's difficult to change that.

I personally also tend to use Ctrl-M instead of Enter and Ctrl-H instead of Backspace, for the same reasons. And some people map Ctrl to Caps Lock as it's also easier to find with your finger than the Ctrl key - it's a big key. I usually do this too.
> and will hit a wall as customers and regulators demand power efficiency.

Sorry, but LOL. That's so low on any regulator's agenda that it wouldn't make it even as a campaign point if we were to elect a "president of IT", let alone a real-world senator or mayor or president.
Very relevant, because containers are often under what basically is ulimit.

Not that you can do much when malloc fails...