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I'd get a MacBook Air and learn on colab or Kaggle kernel.

With the money left over from the price difference between air and maxed-out 15" MBP, you can buy extra hours of GPU online, or just get a cheap box to put in your closet.
What does using a terminal as your UI have to do with the demands you are placing on your hardware?
Indeed the whole point of smartcards are that they're portable HSM's, you can't simply clone a smartcard. You'd even need the pincode if you stole one and would have to use it before it was noticed/revoked.

Presumably there are some organisations that use smart cards for EFS encryption in windows but not sure if BitLocker supports it
The Subaru beeps insistently if you don't have your seatbelt on. Other than that, it only beeps if you have the adaptive cruise control system enabled and you start to drift out of your lane.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan, "The Elements of Programming Style"
I'd have thought it would be relatively unusual not to be able to use HTTP into a cluster login node, but I'm puzzled why you can't "sync code" with ssh otherwise. If you're prevented from doing things you need to work, it sounds like an institutional politics problem; subverting controls is likely to cause more friction as well as presumably wasting resources due to inefficiency.
In VLM's analogy, the bike lane is entirely separate from the regular road (he said "deconflicted"). What he's talking about there is an entirely separate bike path, not a "bike lane" that's a part of a regular road with different paint. They're also frequently called trails.

It is possible for a semi-truck to drive on such a path, barely (they're usually 8 feet wide; these paths are driven on occasionally by service vehicles after all, to construct and repair the path), but they'd have to run over all the bollards, and any bridges wouldn't handle their weight. Otherwise, it's a fairly accurate analogy IMO. No, it's not a very good solution to the problem of traffic on the roads, but for a few jerks it might seem like a good shortcut. (This is similar to how amateur radio bands don't have very much spectral bandwidth.)
The Bank of England in the 2000s? The Swiss National Bank in the 2000s and again in the 2010s? Central banks sell gold all the time, there isn't some bubble about to burst once a single central bank sells its reserves.

Even if the central banks did sell all their reserves, sure, it would be a shock to the gold market and professional commodity traders would notice, but it wouldn't vastly change the availability of gold in the long term. The central banks have maybe 20% of the world's mined gold in their vaults. Most of it is already being used in jewellery or industrial applications.
Depends where you are. In the UK, "please could you..." is much more polite than "could you please...", which is quite direct and potentially rude.
I often say that I like using macOS, but what I really mean is that I like macOS itself along with its apps and ecosystem. Perhaps the same thing was meant here.
WiFi frequencies are often crowded and harder to get range on.
An iPhone is more useful than a raw hunk of gold, though. You are comparing a raw material with a processed good. The value of gold (and basically all raw materials) is tightly coupled to its supply; not as much with iPhones.

If everyone in the world got 1 kg of gold, it would be as if everyone on earth got 1 kg of aluminum... that is to say, you would have a hard time turning that gold into something more useful than a paperweight. You would probably be able to take it to the nearest scrap metal recycling plant and get a few bucks.
brevity is the soul of wit and the veil of clarity.
Just letting ya'll know the best version of Windows 10 by miles is called 'LTSB'. It doesnt come with any shit on it (windows store, xboxlive, cortana etc etc.) MS have also promised It will not receive any updates that change its functionality but will receive security updates, for 10 years.
You can only get it if u buy in bulk tho. Or, u can just get it from tpb.. Considering MS are intentionally not selling by far the most user-respecting version of their OS to regular folks, it behooves us to pirate it.
... the poster you quote was saying the money will go into pockets instead of safety nets and this is likely for the worse. The statements are already reconciled.

The phrasing might have been a bit confusing, and this could lead one to think there was a conflict, but this was an agreement post.
"Bash on Windows is maturing quickly." -- Hold my beer. Sorry, maturing quickly isn't going to cut it if you're a hardcore developer that works off the bash command line.
Poured out on the feet of Jesus

我們傾倒耶穌腳前

This is my output from tesseract (chi_tra) (for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzIh2pamcwU)

I have just extracted the U component (YUV colorspace), binarized the image and tesseract just loves it. The players in the background are completely removed.

I would probably use some background removal or some morphological operations from leptonica to make stuff more robust (instead of binarization).

Of course, if tesseract does something incorrectly you can do a quick connected components in leptonica, extract the symbols and do your own OCR (manually). For chinese it's a bit of an issue because there are bunch of symbols, but for english you will be done tagging all the unique symbols in no time.
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4-5 hours on T480s, I have TLP installed and I tried tinkering with it, but that's the best I've managed. People claim more, but I think it's just wishful thinking.
> How do we agree that everyone needs more vacations?

Certainly not at the major tech employer level with their tech workers? A software engineer can already work at any of these and get vacations benefit similar to what's law in those European cities, and that's not doing any movement at the government level. And my non-tech colleagues at the same companies have the same benefits for the most part (commission sales folks probably excluded, but that field is unique)

So you're suggesting we organize to even out the power with our employers to...get something we already have so that...this influence that's currently not spreading will bubble up?
I have a friend who moved from a 2016 MBP to a Dell XPS with Ubuntu and has liked it a lot. Personally that's the only jump I would make from my current MBP as a development computer because even though WSL2 has come a long way, I still like having a psuedo*nix system to program on.
Off-topic(ish): I didn't know about Microsoft UI Fabric until I read this, but found it to be really interesting, huge collection of components, well documented and for Web, iOS and Android. Anyone tried it out?

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric#/
> so why don't you just do that and not use threads?

Sometimes multiple topics are being discussed at the same time in the same channel, threads are helpful here.
> It should be possible to limit an app to only save images, and/or limit accessing images to photos from the last 3 days etc, or only the images the app has created.

It is, but currently this is something that apps need to use the API for rather than it being something that users can restrict.
This begs the question about audience ... how did you get to 1,000 subscribers in a month? Were you part of an existing community you launched to? Marketing it in some way?

Sounds like a cool passion project! Thanks.
Decorators have been in stage 2 for a very, very, very long time at this point.
Ask HN: What are some audiobooks to listen to while programming?
Something that would not intervene while coding but still engrossing enough to be interesting.
I love how Bloomberg immediately jumps to some market/chicago/hbs/wharton concept of wealth and ycombinator thinks of wealth in terms of actually prosperity that can be created.
If you're changing the scroll direction, you're not moving, you're trying to recreate your MacOS experience on Windows, and it isn't surprising that didn't go well.
You're ignoring the vastly larger group of developers, of which I am one, that simply refuses to program in lisp specifically because of the parenthesis hell.
> The best OS is the one you enjoy and are most productive on.

What if like me you dislike them all? Actually I'm not kidding - I find the desktop OS in 2019 pretty miserable. I'm using Windows right now, but not because I like it. Current Apple hardware is of no interest to me, so macOS is ruled out. Linux and Windows are kind of neck and neck - I dislike each roughly equally, but find Windows wastes less of my time fiddling to get & keep things working.
This isn't raster rendering, he is producing an SVG file.
I'm a great proponent of the UK (Type G) plug. It's wonderfully over-engineered for safety.

The plug is an asymmetric triangle shape, with a well-defined orientation that is "forever" polarised. The earth pin (at the top) makes contact first, as it is longer and physically larger. In the process of doing so, it opens two shutters on live ("hot") and neutral within the socket. The live and neutral pins themselves are insulated from the base of the plug to a distance slightly more than the extent by which the earth pin sticks out. Therefore, it's impossible to make contact with a live exposed pin, even if you drop a pin in the gap between the plug and the socket. Each plug is individually fused, with an amount that varies by each device. Cable strain relief is integral, and the wire lengths are designed such that if someone pulled the cable out incredibly hard, live breaks first, followed by neutral, followed by earth. The plastic is designed to char and not melt if burnt, and a standard 13 A (240 V) plug can take around 50 A at 240 VAC or instantaneous kV before coming a-cropper. The contact forces on the pins are far higher than a US plug. This means that a plug is very unlikely to arc in its socket, leading to less wear and tear and longer lasting plugs and sockets. I like the fact that each socket is individually switched, which further ameliorates the above. Because of the higher voltage, the maximum commonly used residential current, 13 A, delivers ~3 kW of power as opposed to the US maximum of ~1.6 kW, so you don't need a further set of incompatible plugs.

Still hurts like hell if you tread on one barefoot though.
> Europlugs, the pins are still exposed when they're live

Europlugs are specifically designed so that no live parts are ever exposed. That is why they have only conductive tips on insulated shafts.
Sure, all I mean is that I get frustrated and lose unnecessarily much time being distracted by keeping a model of how the function works and how variables interact in my head. I have ADHD so my working memory isn't fantastic for these kinds of functions.

I suppose you could take my definition of complexity to be approximate to cyclomatic complexity
It'd be very interesting to see if people on the fight for 15 campaign would support starting off by setting a $15/h floor for temporary labour (H2 class) visas.
You probably need to preprocess the subtitles before feeding it to Tesseract. Crop them to size, use some thresholds to only get the subtitle in the image. Seperate by languages.
The sand comment had me perplexed, until I did some googling:

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/21/538472671/world-faces-global-...
Request: Rename title to "Posit as a IEEE float alternative" as it's more descriptive and less click baity as the original article title.
It's not a restatement of the question; it's an algorithm.

The problem with procrastination is that it has so many different potential causes and idiosyncrasies that a random advice from the Internet or self-help literature isn't likely to work long-term (once the novelty factor wears off, which for me is usually around a week). The solution really seems to be to keep trying all of the advice, one after another, in combinations and with personal modifications, until something sticks and you start to do better.

For me personally, what seems to have stuck is, in order:

- Doing a "mind dump" whenever I'm overwhelmed by anxiety or confused by what to do. It usually calms me down and clears my head.

- Doing work in pomodoros to reduce the starting anxiety; setting a modest goal of pomodoros to achieve any given work day to consider it a win.

- Most recently, a perverted form of Unschedule. I tried Unschedule and started failing after just 3 days, but I twisted it into the following form: I don't schedule/unschedule anything at all, but just reward myself with 1 point of "guilt-free play" per each 2 work pomodoros completed. I get to spend the points on whatever hobby project or videogame or other fun activity I want, without feeling any guilt or obligation or pressure to do something else. The ratio is somewhat arbitrary (like, e.g., 1 point = 1 flight in Kerbal Space Program), but that doesn't matter. What I realized is that I started to like raking in GFP points, and then spending them in bursts on some projects I previously kept in a "someday/maybe" list. I find myself thinking, "hey, let's work some more, gotta earn GFP points to burn in a couple of days on $project". It seems that I like accumulating them just in anticipation of spending them.
An operating system with advertisements will never be my first choice.
Ah, that's pretty sparse. I did note that another near the center of town is scheduled to be open this year. There should be more though.
Glass isn't used for structural applications either. I think if gold were cheap we would coat a lot of things with it, for the corrosion resistance. We spend a lot of time already just worrying about corrosion.
I have used all 3 major OS (Windows, Mac & Linux) for at least a decade each, and I review my current choice every few months.

I have regained a lot of sanity by realizing computing happens within platforms, and regarding the OS as just plumbing. My platforms of choice are the web (for hypertext), elisp text applications (for interactive development, task management, email), and Unix.

I only need a browser (Firefox), a text editor (Emacs) and a terminal. I prefer to use a tiling window manager (StumpWM), but it's not a big deal to use the WM provided by my current OS.

These 3 platforms (web, elisp and Unix) will be long-lived. Whereas native Windows, Mac and Linux applications tend to have much shorter lifecycles. Furthermore, they don't tend to talk well to each other. They are little silos.

Also, since the lifecycles are so short, by the time I work out all inconveniences and learn all tricks, the platform is beyond its prime time. This has already happened to me several times. I was really happy with Gnome 2 circa 2005, but the whole ecosystem collapsed with the transition to Gnome 3. Same thing, to some extent, in OS X Tiger-Snow Leopard. A really nice ecosystem of indie applications that has slowly lost a lot of momentum to iOS.

That said, I prefer to use Linux because it's so component-ized I can always replace frustrating things, and nothing gets pushed into me by a corporation. Plus code is open, and some userland things like Nix are so unique. And first-class centralized package management is great.
> Blockchain is not "new". It's 10 years old.

More like 40 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

The only thing that's new about blockchain is that on top of being a Merkle tree, it wastes a ton of energy.
I think you're right. And we've had a "golden age" end twice already: first in the 1980s, which was double-whammied when they cracked-down on contractor labor practices, and again after the dot-com burst. Both times left a lot of carnage and a lot of bitter people who swore off the industry.

And both resulted in a labor shortage a few years later.

I suppose an argument could be made that unionization would increase the output of the technology sector by virtue of preserving the labor pool, along with all the expertise and domain that would normally evaporate, during down-cycles.

Also, lots of people seem to be equating unionizing to having some sort of fixed wage. In reality, it comes down to how the union decides to structure its contracts -- several unions simply dictate a minimum rate/wage, and leave room for negotiation. It's why SAG offers people minimum day and weekly rates and SAG movie star can negotiate a multi-million dollar contract.
I wonder if that was before SunOS binaries ran on SPARC Linux; I must have been doing that at least 15 years ago.
Right? Right? I'm no fan of modern art, but this I would make an exception for.

It's just such a perfect metaphor for how we acquired enormous power but only used it for {insert your favorite rant subject}.
Whether frequent use of "please" comes across as condescending or polite seems to be a difference between BrE and AmE: https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2012/08/sayi...
There is no perfect system, it’s all about the tradeoffs
Actually, it seems like a pretty good analogy for many reasons, including that one. The same will happen with amateur radio bands: it'll be easy to convince "many people" that hams are a bunch of freeloaders hogging valuable spectrum, and that we should let corporate interests use this spectrum instead.
I get at least 8 hours with Debian/Openbox on a Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 13.3" - NP940X3N
> Sometimes splitting out code makes sense by making the underlying structure clearer, sometimes it makes it bothersome to find the actual important details.

Yeah, that seems to be something I'll have to spend some time learning about. Right now I'm just mindlessly splitting off everything, and it kind of works, but it's annoying to navigate all over the place just to find some detail somewhere
It's cheap to change a configuration setting. It's expensive to rewire habit.
and unless that matters.
Not gonna happen!
I'll have to dig in to my bookshelf once I get home. I believe it was in The Wizards Of Langley, but Google book search is failing me at the moment.
clears eyes. What?

HN is a public board, viewable without logging in. There is no expectation of privacy in communications here.
I already feel distrust for my outspoken colleagues who purport to speak for me when making demands of management, but would treat me like James Damore if I dissented from their opinions.

The last thing I want is to let those same people formally represent me in a union. Given the current climate, those are very likely to be the people who would be running it.
I'm not being an advocate here (I don't like, but do use, Windows), but WSL2 is actual Linux running in a lightweight VM. It's not even a VM running on Windows, but sits alongside Windows on the hypervisor (as far as I understand).
Alternative explanation: People just got sick of blockchain after the umpteenth Ponzi scheme makes it onto the frontpage.
The UK system also has shared lines, but prioritize passengers and has a severe capacity problem.
I see your point, but I think it’s a slightly inaccurate analogy. There is no “bash ecosystem”; if you switch your login shell to zsh or fish or tcsh, nearly everything works identically. I suspect if this guy were forced to use zsh, he’d be fine; he just doesn’t because it’s not the default.

Whereas when you say you “like using macOS” I assume you don’t just mean that you like using computers in general and you would have absolutely no preference for macOS over Linux or Windows.
Yep, my current combo Mac + Linux; i'm super happy with them:

- macbook air with OS X for holidays or house related

- macbook pro with OS X for work

- desktop with Ubuntu for long programming sessions

- home-office headless server with Ubuntu for NAS/webapp hosting/home-automation/backups

I have setup my systems to synchronise all my files through my NAS using unison. So all my project files are accessible locally on all my personal computers. I've been using this setup for at least 6 years now.
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I think it's from

> to playfully challenge perspectives, while unlocking achievements

Who's looking to "playfully challenge perspectives"? and "[unlock] achievements"? Discussions aren't generally a game, but this seems to pitch it that way. I don't know about you guys, but I think more often than not, discussions are a generally stressful thing that people do because they must. The description might benefit in changing to a somewhat more serious tone.

Also, talking of "unlocking achievements" gives the project a manipulative kind of feel. The description states what it offers to people, and in that is the mention of being able to obtain fake internet points in the form of achievements. Is fake internet points supposed to motivate one to join the project?

Anyway, I'm just trying to expand on what's probably cringey. It's still good work.
Which is set at Ross Island iirc, with Mt Erebus (one of the other lava lake homes) and Mt Terror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_L7t7fD_U
You're entirely right; I've edited my comment accordingly. Thank you.
There is a better terminal coming out, but I use Cmder in the meantime.

Taking screenshots has a shortcut key. Alt + Shift + S.

I use a screen manager called Aqua Snap. It's great.

I turned off notifications. They are awful.

I use Windows and OSX, but I understand how you feel. I still prefer OSX.
Their are a variety of ways to manage all of the power management settings on Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management

It can be a pain; enabeling sleep for every USB devices will likely result in the keyboard or touchpad becoming broken, increase the latency it takes to respond, etc. But once it's configured it just works very well. I'm getting 10+ hours on a Dell XPS 13" under light web browsing + youtube.

Any Apple laptop will likely need some unique customizations for everything to work and for maximum battery life. It could be argued that instead its popularity drives up the number of discovered errata. Case in point, the Archlinux page contains not only an extensive "Mac" page but it also has dozens of pages for specific Apple computers documenting pretty much everything you would need to know to get every feature working and get comparable battery life (could be a little better or worse).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro#Power_manage...
Can you elaborate on this? If someone pwned my container and is able to execute commands, what does it change whether they get to use a text editor? Otherwise, what does it change whether unused programs are around?
Run Chrome.

(ignoring the extra battery back that I really should have attached to my MacBook Pro compared to just running Safari)
MSYS2 has been distributing a native Windows port of bash for years; it's completely stable and works great (it's the one used in Git Bash). "Maturing quickly" refers to the reverse-Wine/integrated VM situation that MS is developing in WSL.
Somewhat off topic, but I found the idea of different prices interesting. It reminds me of industrial diamonds vs natural diamonds. If I have understood things correctly, industrial diamonds have reached a level of quality that is at the same or even higher quality than natural diamonds. However that has still not affected the price of natural diamonds for some reason.
this is great!

Here's a similar thing : https://vimeo.com/308956882
> That’s when I found out the wallet file format was no longer readable by the bitcoin client.

Another bold innovation from the fintech industry! Imagine if that happened with regular bank accounts.
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I haven't found it as bad as that, but agree it's a poorer desktop environment in lots of mostly small ways than macOS.

I don't know how you work out it doesn't have a unix shell though. It does, in the estimation of many a better one by default than on macs.
From the article: "It’s because wealth mostly doesn’t come from big hunks of metal. It comes from the ability to create things that satisfy human desires."

I am failing to see much difference between this definition and your ycombinator definition.