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Exactly. Except I thought you should use "Prof" for anybody with Professor in their title.

My University also has a few other titles: Acting Prof, Research Prof, and of course Prof Emeritus
There are a plethora of reasons to reject smart tvs outside of the privacy infringing angle. Roku devices can be found for well under $100. You can choose not to use your Roku, disconnect it, or buy a different device for small financial hit in comparison to buying a new TV. Back when we had TV-VCR combos, a significant segment of the population was educated enough to opt for the TV sets with fewer features, because we knew that when the VCR stops working, the TV stops working. When you want to upgrade the VCR, well then now you either get a new TV or have a redundant VCR you can't physically get rid of.

Similarities apply with the Smart TV situation but the reasonable "non-smart" options are quickly being drowned out by the "smart" devices.

For what it's worth, my setup is a dumb Samsung TV and an attached Apple TV. One HDMI slot is left open for the occasional thing I want to plug in that can't be streamed or mirrored (e.g. a playstation). I haven't used that other slot in over a year and it's nice not being forced to do so. I'll keep using this TV for years with the comfort of knowing that, a few years from now, I won't have to wade through menus of streaming services I don't use in order to watch something on an 5-8 year old under-resourced, internet-connected OS with a half-assed UX that stopped receiving software and firmware updates after its first or second year.
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Having Florida sink into the ocean will do more harm to our economy than paying a couple dollars more at the pump.
Have you got some sort of inferiority complex? Your three replies are all: "what, you think you're better than me?" No, I don't, and I didn't imply that. What's your point?

I don't even know how to reply to you... You didn't address any of my points, and tried to paint my reply as claiming I'm superior to you.
Do you have a website or contact info for hiring? I'm interested. You can reach me at the email in my profile if you prefer.
> It gets even pixel aspect ratio wrong, or rather, doesn't account for it in any way.

You are right. I did not account for the aspect ratio. I will consider fixing the aspect ratio and updating the images.
Kind of like a modern equivalent to the old Windows NT Ping of Death.
Not a reference to any story, just a few personal experiences. I had various issues, and they couldn't escalate anything to actually fix them, they just read support docs back to me. It's not like the paid support that gsuite customers get (although I'd be happy to pay more for that if I could).
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These contact hours are further diluted with TA's shouldering a lot of the burden too.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572810
I know there’s not a mass market for it, but I think a lot of privacy conscious folks would pay extra not to have apps on their TV.
There are multiple 'professor' titles, but only one tenured faculty role. The tenured faculty is the holy grail, and everyone else is underpaid and overworked. [0]

You have instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. There's also such things as visiting professor (temporary postition) or professor emeritus (used to be a professor).

[0]. https://www.bu.edu/handbook/appointments-and-promotions/clas...
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On the other hand, the security of a smartphone with maps that cover the world have opened up self-guided international travel to people that may have otherwise limited themselves to guided tours.

I just took a sibling on her first non-guided international trip a couple years ago -- her fear was always getting lost in a strange city, but when she found out how easily her cell phone would help her navigate the city streets and transit systems, she's been on two trips on her own since then and enjoys the freedom of being able to explore on her own with much less worry of getting lost.

Of course, she could lose or break her phone, but then she's no worse off them if she lost a paper map, she'd have to ask for directions, take a cab, or find a new map, but the cell phone gives her the freedom to explore at her own pace.
Promotion from associate professor to professor is not automatic; indeed, there are several associate professors in my department who have been at that rank for some time, and seem unlikely to get promoted.

But it is reasonably common, unlike in (say) the UK.
This fits really well with the single submission queue model, particularly if you're careful to use AZDO style OpenGL. You merge sort the lists once you're done with the frame, and then you have a pretty good approximation of the minimum state changes needed as you iterate through the sorted list on your submission thread.

Now, the better implementations I've seen use per thread lists during queueing so you don't need any of the barriers or atomics here at all, but this is a good first pass.
Because Google is never known to abandon products.....

But, whether the TV is smart or not, as long as it has HDMI ports, it really doesn’t matter.
I think spreatsheets (nowadays Excel and Google Docs) are a much underappreciated tool. I neither fully appreciate nor fully understand them myself, but I'm starting to see the potential. Accountants and other business people already know them well, but I don't think the average HN user realizes what they could do with them, even for personal use. I think they're useful for all things of tracking, from to do lists to even recording time spend. Combine that with some simple scripts that work with csv, and you have a powerful setup with little programming.
It's not just about bandwidth but latency. Sure I can double the bandwidth by widening the bus but that won't get me any closer to servicing a r/w request within a clock cycle and remove the need for memory stalling.
Yup, 'professor' covers everything from adjuncts who are one step from freshly graduated grad students with the pay to match and eminent figures with entire departments under them and decades of connections.
It seems obvious to me that one team of software engineers doing testing and diagnostics on a piece of software is way cheaper than training and then paying entire factories to do testing and diagnostics on each button and knob. (Not to mention we're talking about like, volume controls. Not exactly the most complicated and expensive kind of software to engineer.)
Least charitable? There's no way that the author could have been expected to anticipate how logic would develop over the next century, I'm just looking at it from a modern perspective.
I don't think the idea is to expose the brain to air, but to increase blood-flow to the brain.
Pollution control standards make incineration expensive.

It’s not like the US is going to run out of land for landfills.
My Sony has the ability to be connected to the internet, but have never been connected to the internet.

Do other manufacturers force a connection in some way?
Mazda and other automakers build TRULY AWFUL UIs in their cars. Carplay is a godsend in this case. You can direct Siri to send texts, read texts and you have a superior GPS application. CHeck out the abomination that it Mercedes-Benz carousel for showing/selecting radio stations on their cars.

What you are really advocating is tactile feedback for digital displays--with some method of shaped feedback on by the screen itself. As a touch screen's in cars don't offer haptic feedback, that is an issue. That said some aspects like moving up and down stations or songs in a playlist can be controlled by steering wheel paddles or buttons on the wheel.
The article describes a way to use one database for all users, and mentions cases like "each user can see all posts, but can only see the author field on posts they made". The difference between that and a database-per-user design is that in a database-per-user design, there's no shared data (or if there is, it's manually synced in to all of the databases by something outside of the database).
The main problem i have with online grocery is this.

If i want some mushroom , pretty sure ill spend 15 seconds to pick up the "fresh looking" one, while in online delivery someone gets to pick that out and its a coin flip on whether it would be fresh looking or not.

Also, wouldn't the grocers want to clear out the first expiring products first (milk, spinach etc etc) than give out fresh ones .. How can we be sure on whats being delivered to us is fresh looking at least?

Note : I've been pressing up the notion of "Fresh looking " vs "Fresh produce" as I mainly buy with how it looks to my eyes and i have no idea how to validate if a vegetable is actually fresh..
I mean, Tim Cook is basically coming out against companies that are following the law at least as much as Apple. People just don't like the way the laws are currently setup. Apple even benefited from these lack of legal grounds in the past to get through their own privacy issues[4].

And it's not like Apple is innocent here. They've done illegal things in the past that directly hurt users [1] and it's employees and other people in the industry [2]. They have a long history of violating user trust [3].

This isn't to say they are unique in this. Most large companies deal with these sorts of things.

But Apple isn't innocent. They just happen to find an area where they can claim to take the high ground because their business model allows it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-ebooks/apple-collud...
[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#In-app_p...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#iPad_and... "The problem facing the plaintiffs is the current state of electronic privacy law, the issue being that there is no national privacy law that provides for compensatory damages for breach of privacy"
A basic map is all people need if GPS were to go offline. I have driven across the country, and around cities (both in the US and non-US) without using a GPS. Not really noteworthy nor does it say much about a lot of people who can't function without one.
Amazon is so much more than a "web shop"... its logistics infrastructure alone is worth actual money, to say nothing of AWS, Prime lock-in, etc.
cache speeds scale right along with the CPU

This is true only for L1 cache. If you’re ok with having 64KB total memory in your computer then sure.

Re memory bus width: you’re forgetting about latency. Also, a wider bus is usually a slower (in terms of frequency) bus, for multiple reasons.
There is also a large difference between disciplines. Professors in professional schools such as law, medicine, or business tend to make significantly more than professors in the liberal arts (note: this includes math, engineering, and CS many places).
I think the problem is she brought it to her organization's doctor that often does the ER admitting in situations like this and that doctor overruled her.

The NP could still have done it, but it would have been against two different doctors and the organization who employs her practices. The sad thing is that this probably happens often, this is just the first time someone sued over the death.
Upthread, this commenter did post specific measurements from production projects.
I'm one of the authors of the paper.

Thanks for pointing this out -- while I knew about various advanced Oracle features, I'd missed the Database Vault feature.

The multiverse database idea and Oracle's Database Vault are different, but somewhat complementary:

1) Database Vault is designed to protect sensitive application data against privileged users (DBAs, highly privileged role accounts). This is an important problem: administrator accounts are juicy targets, and restricting their access while still allowing maintenance activities is hard. Multiverse databases, as described in the paper, do not solve this problem, as the administrator still has access to the base universe. But ideas from Database Vault and its "realms" concept could be combined with the multiverse DB concept to achieve this!

2) Unlike multiverse databases, Database Vault does not protect the data against a buggy application, nor does it isolate different end-users within a single application from each other. In practice, this is where a lot of leaks do damage: a bug in the frontend either exposes information or can be exploited to expose it. Database Vault won't help here, as the leak does not even require a privileged user to be involved, and since the application runs inside a single realm.

You can see multiverse databases as the DB vault idea with application-level end-users each having their own realm. Making realms/universes work efficiently at scale, though, poses some serious systems research challenges. It also raises questions about how to write the policies defining what's visible to each end-user -- something that Database Vault doesn't have to deal with, because it merely requires an application-specific policy that indicates what information is sensitive and needs protecting.
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Patio11 just had an automated loss of access on his phone when enrolling. Lack of support hurts there too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/114040469625693798...
I'm a huge fan of physical/tactile input (and output) devices. I use foot pedals hooked up to an Arduino for my CTRL/SHIFT/META keys both at work and home, which helps my RSI enormously. I also designed a wearable bluetooth device for adding physical buttons to phones[0] for a school project. I think there's a huge potential for such products, and I'd love to get back to exploring that space at some point.

If you want to get excited about this type of stuff, I highly recommend this TED talk[1].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTOxHxHFjwJXeCLROAPf6OJD...

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_s...
Does x86 maintain any real advantages over ARM at this point, other than the ability to run legacy software? I'm genuinely asking; all I know is that ARM devices can be really powerful these days and they're also much more power efficient.
Good data, just wish it was presented a little differently. I can't tell where zero percent is for any of the salary graphs, and I'd also like to know the median home value used for calculating the values in the second graph. Otherwise, very informative post, thanks!
You must never have driven any kind of decent car.
I seldom saw lyrics in a booklet. Maybe because I was living in France?
> If by 'destroy lives' you mean duly punish those who willingly and materially support murder, torture, and lawlessness for the sake of their addiction, yes.

To your eyes it's one thing. To mine it might be another. I have a strong feeling the government is to blame for creating this.

> and the subsequent wave of terror in Humuboldt county

If you wish to say this at least post some links. The ones I've found do support what you say up to a point eg <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/califor.... But it is an unstable situation at the moment as the story indicates, and it also says "found that after medical marijuana was legalized in California, violent crime fell 15 percent." (but temporarily it seems)

> But the laws are not unjust, it is a well accepted legal reality that governments the world over have a right to control substances

There we disagree utterly. Please see an earlier post of mine <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165080>.

And 'well accepted' isn't justified here. And 'have a right' I don't automatically accept.

> most people believe this is not only ethically sound but ethically necessary

Sigh. Justify 'most'

> Regardless, buying drugs from people who you know will use the money for drug wars (pretty much every illegal drug today) is still morally wrong

Yep. I would like to buy from a source that is well regulated and does not feed crime. We agree.

> If you chose to buy your hamburgers from drug lords, I'd think you guilty of the same thing.

Yep. Difference is, I have a choice not to.

I think we're so far apart we can't possibly agree here.
I like this, but how do you know the keyboard layout?
> To me, a TV should be a more-or-less "mechanical" device that does one thing and one thing only: display video.

Because a lot of regular people don't think of a TV as a "big monitor" (the way HN does), they think of a TV as a the thing that shows Cable / Netflix.

The best thing about Roku TVs, for example, is that a normal person won't accidentally break them most of the time. No more calls from parents about "is it on the right input" or "did I use the right remote" or "which cable goes where" or "how do I get back to the main menu" or "why does this remote have a volume icon, but not actually change the volume".

Fixing all of that is excellent UX for the average person (read: not HN users). And excellent UX is worth money.
What car manufacturers could|should do is focus on making Android and iPhone apps that replace these screens. Apps that would update regularly and allow controlling various functions of the car. And have analog controls and small dash etc. display to access | configure systems that are essential for driving and safety, complete with e.g. voice control.

I agree from personal experience that these LCD screens in cars are distracting, and what’s worse, don’t get updates so that in just a few years UIs will feel sluggish and ugly (if not already the day it rolls out of dealership (I’m looking at you Ford)).
To borrow from a favored cartoon, "I don't want to live on this planet anymore."

But more seriously, how about a world where companies take responsibility for the chaos they create?
Not really. 1040 Schedule C and 1040 Schedule SE.

Between an LLC and sole proprietorship, my understanding is that an LLC creates a legal barrier between yourself and the business. The tax implications are the same. LLCs, from what I understand, especially a one-member LLC will just be pass-through (I believe you can elect differently) tax-wise but an LLC protects your personal assets from the business.

No one should really mess with C-corps or S-corps until they have someone telling them to. It's expensive and cumbersome to maintain one. Stripe Atlas is misleading a lot of young startups into believing they need a Delaware C-Corp immediately, when really it just benefits VCs not having to make businesses convert to those structures. If you aren't going VC, don't bother.

For instance, a C-Corp costs about $700 / year before doing taxes. An LLC costs about $30 / year.

A C-corp requires you to file monthly (or is it yearly?) minutes... which costs money to do... and you'll be the president, secretary and treasurer of. Then you have to fill out forms and junk (Stripe Atlas makes this easy but costs $).

An LLC on the other hand, you file a yearly report basically just saying "Hi, we are still around." and pay your yearly dues to your state.

Sole proprietorship is even easier. You just declare yourself as one. Like, just say "I am a sole proprietor" and boom, you are one. No filing required (Check the state, I am sure some are different). You can file a DBA (Doing business as) with your state treasurer and still be a sole proprietorship.

To be honest, an LLC is probably the safest thing to do in the long-term but short-term sole proprietorship is fastest.

The thing that I do is have an all encompassing LLC that I run all of my projects under, rather than having a new structure for every business.
Back in school, I played with SCREEN 0, SCREEN 1, and SCREEN 2 documented in the GW-BASIC user manual. Here's a copy: http://www.antonis.de/qbebooks/gwbasman/screens.html .

The reason why I stick to aspect=0 (the DOSBox default) is that this is the one that more closely reproduces the experience I had with the CRT monitors at school. I agree that the actual monitor or the way it is configured could affect the aspect ratio we observe. Perhaps ours was not adjusted to produce 1:1 square while working with IBM Logo. But it did produce 1:1 square with GW-BASIC SCREEN 1 mode.
Do you think I feel anything to be called any kind of names?

I just like to explain how the gaming industry works to those without any real experience on how it works.

It was my OpenGL and Linux blindness zealotry that costed me a few interviews at well known AAA studios, back when I still cared for making my mark in the industry.

Still, those days left me quite a few friends that I still keep in touch with, and I got to learn what the industry actually cares about.

Producing good IP to sell, using the best tools available, with support from platform owners, and ensuring good deals with publishers, eventually even movies and board games from titles.

Everything else are just windmills.

Now, whatever anyone learns from my comments or decides to carry on advocating practices that the industry doesn't care one second about it, it up to themselves to decide.
They spend tons of money on excursions, there is a cottage industry of tour guides and mini malls at every cruise port. To cater to short tours, snorkeling/beach/hiking trips, and shopping. This if anything cruise people get off the boat spend their money, and get back on without filling up hotels, etc.
> The likely driving force that is causing it is the manufacturers BOM costs.

Whilst I think this is part of it's about more than just reducing the BOM. There's a trend to move all interfaces from knobs and switches to touch screens even when money isn't the problem. For example the SpaceX Dragon capsule also takes this approach which you can see from the images below:

https://www.spacex.com/crew-dragon

A heavily vibrating vehicle which needs to be operated quickly and with 100% reliability by a human operator really should not be operated via a proliferation of touch screens and touch buttons as the images above show.

I think current fashions are very much to blame in a lot of cases. A sleek touchscreen operated car in the showroom is a sexier buy than your more traditional button festooned dashboard. Buyer's only get a chance to regret it after they've spent a lot of time with the vehicle.
Does that take into account all the private contractors who sell services to "not for profit" prison systems and the sale of prison labor by those same prisons?
Amazing prose here. The description of the death of the passengers, and the final moments of within the cockpit before the plane ran out of fuel, were chilling in their capacity to imply a peaceful bliss in the wake of hundreds of needless lost lives.
I'm still working to figure that part out honestly. As you can see, it looks like my account has only been partially restored at this time.

At this time, I still do not have login access to the account and I don't know who "john" is (the public name on the account). I have not been contacted directly by anyone at Twitter support.

If I receive more information I will post it here if I am able to.
Huh? In the US?

If you mean that they won't torture you if you refuse to testify at trial, you're correct. But the judge may declare you in contempt, and throw you in jail. And if you continue refusing, there's no limit to jail time. It could be for life, if you're determined enough.
Yeah that's me quoted above, and yes arguing against smartphones.

I believe smartphones are a net loss to people's happiness.

All of these liberating technologies are fun for the early adopters, but then become oppressive once you are expected to have them. We are quickly reaching that point.

What they really are are surveillance transponders that we carry around voluntarily.
These things run full Linux distros.