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> And why are these build systems necessary in the first place?

Because depending on the use case you generally need to build the same software in a lot of different configurations : debug / release runtimes on windows, various sanitizers, static / dynamic / dynamic with LTO, you also want to build some files only on some platforms, you want your users to be able with / without tests / examples / implementations of various types (e.g. enable / disable network protocols or media codecs at build time for the two most common use cases I know), enable / disable profiling or coverage or tracing support... add a flag for having split debug info but you need to disable it if your users run ubuntu 16.04 because here it's broken, add a flag for linking with lld but you need to disable it on macos because it's broken, change debug mode to -Og if you're on a CI machine because -O0 takes too much space and you fill the Travis CI vm, except if you're on a worker with a recent enough toolchain to support -Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib

e.g. look at the configurability of something like ffmpeg :
https://paste.ofcode.org/zBhsKWiSk3Gn73bkgfA9Yk

or qt :
https://paste.ofcode.org/wmZZX9emiNr2uPksceZNz6

or one of the project I work on - most of the config flags here were added after the request of some users who wanted to be able to make a leaner build in some specific case ; making multiple shared libraries is a no-go first because then your users complain that they don't which of the five libraries they have to add to their system, and also because you loose LTO and have a lot of duplication of template instantiations (or monomorphized generics as it is said in Rust parlance):
https://github.com/OSSIA/libossia/blob/master/cmake/OssiaOpt...

You rarely have complex problems with simple solutions.
That’s the default, I guess, my main concern is that it’s very subjective.
Sun CEO: “You have zero privacy anyway, Get over it.” (1999)
Housing nationwide isn't actually that expensive:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USSTHPI

Remember: the Fed governs the entire US economy, not just San Francisco and Seattle like HN would prefer.
HN is not a job board, please read the FAQ w.r.t. job posting
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>it was a little dishonest of you to link to the one photo with cooling towers

It's the first picture on the page "Fossil fuel power station", which is the redirect for "coal power plant".

The second photograph is Currant Creek Power Plant, which is a relatively modern (2005) gas-fired plant, which does indeed use air cooling.

The third photograph is the decommissioned coal-fired Carbon Power Plant. Although not clear from the photo, this uses water cooling. The cooling towers are visible here:

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705396191/New-mercury-st...

The fourth photograph is the decommissioned coal-fired Mohave Power Station. This also uses water cooling, although its cooling towers are shorter and wider than the classic hyperboloid design.

Fifth is the active Taichung Power Plant, coal-fired, also water cooled according to its Wikipedia page.

100% of the photographs of coal power plants on the page reached by searching Wikipedia for "coal power plant" show water-cooled plants. How is my example dishonest?
It sounds like you are talking about text that doesn't move.

If you want a general filter that can give a result without visible aliasing while sacrificing as little sharpness as possible, a 2.2 gauss filter is very hard to beat and I have spent a lot of time trying.

Box filters can be sharper, lancoz filters can be better for scaling down a final image, etc. but they will alias in a general sense. You might not see it in static text which is fine.

Also thin black on white lines are an extreme outlier, since what you percieve is relative and the entire image matters. It is more into the realm of optical illusion that play off our relative sensitivity.
Did Bank of America retain its original 0.5% agreement with the other banks when they spun off visa ? It seems odd that they would just give up an asset like that for other banks to own it.
People don't automatically trust the most expensive daycare. They research, talk to their peers, interview, and tour. I'd be curious to see if parents switch daycares more often because of rate hikes or for other issues. I've considered switching daycares more for things like how they treated potty training, snacks, naps, and class size. The cost is just a crude proxy for those things and never assumed to be taken for granted.

People and companies are willing to spend a lot more for reputation, with good reason. It's way easier to buy one more of something 10 years later than to switch out a line of hardware (or support more than one style). It's basically a trope to have a new management come in, cut costs, exploit trust in the brand for a short-term profit. So I'm constantly looking out for signals for changes in quality/trust.
Never, ever talk to the authorities directly. Always hire an attorney. Exercise your fifth amendment rights.
It also might be a result of the pattern matching proposal having only been introduced this year, and concurrency/coroutines having been a focus in C++20 already. Whereas compile-time programming has been discussed for a while now and is getting more well-baked, but still hasn't made it fully into the language yet and many (myself included) are eager to use it. See the revision history of P0707 for example.
With subscription based software you effectively are paying them for bugfixes. They just also (potentially) give you new features to justify it.
> In particular, the standard way to solve problems in that mode of thinking is to introduce locks

nowadays I mostly see lock-free queues and message passing across threads, it's trivial to do with a few nice libraries
Ask HN: Was my submitted post nerfed / hidden / shadowbanned?
I don't submit a lot of content, but this morning I submitted this link to a WaPo article on e-cigarette addiction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20535474

It looks like it has been hidden from the front page / subsequent pages despite what appears to be a ranking upvote.

I don't really care about the visibility, but I am curious about the moderation that might have resulted in this content getting shadowbanned.
If its like the analytics for the 45MM users I get on the sites I manage the SE traffic is less than 0.5%.

And to be clear, its not broken, the alignment is slightly off: https://imgur.com/a/GBLe5Jt I would totally let this pass QA for such a minority view.
I was recently looking into audio antialiasing/interpolation algorithms for a software synthesis project and stumbled across this. It's written by Miller Puckette, who created Max/MSP and PureData. It's one of the best resources I've seen for the theory/math and implementation of digital audio algorithms.
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Is the cost more than paying someone to maintain the physical system? Does downtime due to hardware issues cost you revenues and customers?
Was wondering who would catch that ;)
Rent and health insurance are included in CPI.
Those domestic goods are kept scarce either through regulation or difficult to build attributes such as brand power of schools.
Wow. From where I'm sitting it seems like Reddit went to the ends of the earth to make users happy during periods of change, and wound up with a prevailingly negative reputation (in its own community) for its efforts. Was that the impression internally as well?
To support your point, here's the wikipedia article about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple

> Regarding his pseudonym "Theodore Dalrymple", he wrote that he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world"
How could they even reasonably measure the market value of his skills changing so much so quickly?

Let the market do it. When someone comes with an offer, give a counteroffer and convince them to stay.

There's no way they can justify giving a person who's been with the company for 10 years 4x salary growth in 2 years.

Why not? Markets are better at pricing things than bureaucracies.
I'd be interested in knowing if that's true, and if so, to what extent. My knowledge of Japanese culture - especially modern prevailing attitudes towards the Japanese government's actions in the second world war - is very limited. I'm not qualified to speak to that.
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I hate mergers like this, but the option is Sprint goes out of business and either AT&T or Verizon feasts on their carcass and we still only have three providers.
Even Apple doesn’t care about the iPhone SE anymore. I installed the iOS 13 beta on my iPhone SE and in several places the built in apps or parts of the operating system don’t properly fit on the screen. It’s a shame
Sure. You'll just need to differentiate [i, j, I, l , 1], [o, O, 0, Q, G], [a, e], [E, 3], [S, 2, 5, Z], [A, 4, h], [B, 8], [L, 7, J], [6, 9, , [R, P, d, b, p, q, g, y] , [M, m, w, v, u, n, W, V], [X, x, k, K].
It likely triggered the flame war detector. (usually when comments > points)
Upvoted for the point that how inflation is measured matters a good deal to any discussion of whether fed policies of managing it are good for society as a whole.

But... a picture of specific problems with the measure the fed uses (PCE, apparently) would be better than vaguely implying it's bad. Apparently it does include housing expenses, medical care, education, and even recreation, so it's not clear it's just "a basket of consumer goods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...
Firefox Reality includes support for WebVR, so you can use web based VR applications through the browser.

Part of the reason you might choose to install Firefox Reality on your VR headset is because it's important to you that developers of VR apps always have an option to use the web to share their apps, which will avoid forcing their users in the way you mention.

We've built a social VR application called Hubs (hubs.mozilla.com) to showcase the potential of web based VR applications.
This story is over a month old by now and was multiply posted to HN at the time.
There have been a few (OpenDyslexic, Dyslexie, and others). However, to my knowledge no significant improvement has been shown over other, more common sans-serif fonts, despite several studies having been conducted.
I knew I would be, but its fine. Thank you for your words! I share the same belief regarding freedom of speech.

About the research, I hope I am wrong and the advances that came out of it help save lives and extend the human life. I just wish they take those ethical questions in consideration too.
Pioneer is, yes. Hackernews is not
I like both as long as they as smaller items. Bugs will help you to understand what is there and new functionality can be a good bridge where a new person can leverage existing experience.
> Is hackernews the small local news source for the bay area bubble?

is what he was responding to
Sure, taxes couldn't be fully automated, but those are the reasons the IRS won't just send you a pre-filled form with the information they have, and instead makes the taxpayer duplicate that information.
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Probably the flexibility of that router having 3 MiniPCIe slots for the wireless card(s), from the standpoint of ease in firmware development. The cheaper routers with embedded radio chipsets range from very good to crappy support for open source firmware. But, few people are going to be interested in a 350$US product, when equivalent is available for a fraction of that.
If they made a cherry mx notebook it would sell like gangbusters despite probably being heavier and thicker
> From a beach with a few locals walking through each evening, to now, what has become a honeypot for crowds of photographers getting in the way every “golden hour”...

> I’ve seen photographers edge further and further into the water – ruining the view for others...

> For instagrammers, and wannabe “influencers” – learn that there are people on the planet who might not be interested in YOU. They might want to see the view without you in it. They might even want to just sit and enjoy a scene without a camera (shock!). While it’s easy to get wrapped up in this stuff online, they have every right (or maybe even more) to enjoy a place without it being ruined by your need to be “liked” by people you’ll never meet.

It sure sounds like he's berating photographers for ruining the view for others.
I've had the same experience. Whenever there's money involved, people will take advantage of you unless you adequately convince them it's a mistake.
So obviously text is one of the things I care about a lot. I'm willing to accept your filter as being very good for a lot of stuff other than presenting a GUI.

Does this mean that there is not one true right answer for images, as there is for audio[0]? That you should use different reconstruction filters depending on the application. Is it accurate to say that a pixel is not a little square unless you're rendering text, in which case it is?

[0] I know this is a slight oversimplification, if you care deeply about latency you might choose between linear and minimal phase, etc. But for consumer applications it's true enough.
Why do people hate change? Because of BLOAT. No one gives a shit about your fucking react or electron or node bloat bullshit, give me a fucking simple site like lazyfoo.net this whole Web 2.0 is so fucked up and inaccessible to people in 3rd world countries or even just pla es where connectivity is bad. People care about looks, aesthetic, style. It's all form over function nowadays. nearly 2 decades ago, Windows XP used less than a 100MB RAM and was initially buggy shit. Back then, the SP updates FIXED issues; they didn't CREATE them. I want to go back
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A world where everybody gets what they deserve is a just world - is that so bad?
And on what basis is a person added to this database? I'm referring to the "reported and followed".

Activists perhaps?

You know, those perfectly legitimate parties that rapidly tend to get labelled "terrorists" because reasons.
"Users don't hate change, they hate arbitrary change that forces them to learn how to use your site again, or that removes features they enjoy."

How does this square with the overwhelmingly negative early responses to facebook's news feed, or reactions? Would you characterize them as "arbitrary"? I use those as examples because they now seem widely loved, so they seem like good (non-arbitrary) design to me, but they were poorly received.
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Well, by the standard that economists used to use, yes, U3 being 3.6% should be associated with high inflation because it should be much better than full employment.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez asked Fed Chair Powell about this at a recent hearing, and Powell said that it meant that the economists (including him) were wrong about the relationship between unemployment and inflation. That has led many to wonder if "full employment" (something economists technically call NAIRU- non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, meaning that full employment was the lowest unemployment consistent with stable prices) is a real thing or not, if that was another thing that is no longer operative in our current economy.
This doesn’t solve the issue of individual team member performance evaluation, even if it improved the overall performance of the team, you still wouldn’t know who are under and over-performers.
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> he has committed an aggravated felony in the eyes of immigration law and so is barred from ever entering the US again. For life.

IANAL but it sounds like he may be able to appeal based on a recent SCOTUS ruling[0].

> The result is that people convicted of certain crimes -- such as the California crime of burglary -- that are not by definition necessarily violent, may not be deportable.

[0] - https://www.shouselaw.com/immigration/aggravated-felonies
My mid-2012 MBP is holding up just fine so I'll keep waiting and hoping. 7 years old, not a single flaw or hick-up. (Have two, one at work, one at home).
"Buy a software" is vastly different from "Buy a software license"

Problem being, <shovel> makers are now prohibiting you from owning your <shovel>. From fixing your <shovel>. From changing your <shovel> so you don't need to buy <super shovel>. Now with forced updates, you're now literally prohibited from keeping the shovel you have and like!
Ah, I get it now. A couple crossed wires there.
I'm a programmer and I love it too. It looks really nice and the virtual buttons that appear in the different applications that I also use are really convenient (e.g. the settings button for my VMware VMs or the full control I have over Spotify as I work somewhere completely different).

The escape key being "hard to hit" is exaggerated to say the least, and the F-keys I only use then I debug and need to step through my code. I do other things when developing than stepping through my code.
Slavery kinda influences lives of slaves. Maybe.
The original study is available here: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4

Abstract:

> Trees are commonly regarded as distinct entities, but the roots of many species fuse to form natural root grafts allowing the exchange of water, carbon, mineral nutrients, and microorganisms between individuals. Exploiting the phenomenon of leafless (photosynthetically inactive) tree remnants being kept alive by conspecifics, we show tight physiological coupling of a living kauri (Agathis australis) stump to conspecific neighbors. The trunk remnant displayed greatly reduced, inverted daily sap flow patterns compared with intact kauri trees. Its stem water potential showed strong diel variation with minima during daytime and maxima at night, coinciding with peak and minimal sap flow rates in neighbors, respectively. Sudden atmospherically driven changes in water relations in adjacent kauri trees were very rapidly and inversely mirrored in the living stump's water status. Such intimate hydrological coupling suggests a “communal physiology” among (conspecific) trees with far-reaching implications for our understanding of forest functioning, particularly under water shortage.
Fwiw I don't think the fed chairman should ever say "we're about to enter a massive recession," do you?
The discussion is very settled in a number of countries. I assume Japan is one of them.
As usual, Japan is ahead of things.
Maybe in not-so-distant future we'll see human DNA modification.
It's the only way towards, as devolution will dull us otherwise with all these bad, useless habits too available.
> With that rationale you literally can't change anything ever. Version 1.0 ever after.

The point was IF users hate it, you probably did something wrong in the redesign. That doesn't exclude the possibility of doing a redesign that users are excited about.

Plenty of IM clients I use update semi-regularly with new features, and I'm either neutral or excited based on whether I plan to use that feature, but I'm never upset because they're not breaking my existing workflow.

And, yes, sometimes a redesign just takes time to come around to, but there's also lots of redesigns that genuinely reduce functionality. I've lost track of how many times an update has outright removed a favorite feature of mine, reduced configuration options, and so on. This might be a sensible business decision, but it's not to my benefit.
What country are you in? My macbook keyboard definitely doesn't look like the ISO one (the ISO one is the one with the L shaped return key).
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Almost by definition (if this is true, and I'm sure it's way way way more complicated than a simple rule of thumb), the market would have priced this in already. Or do you think that you're in possession of a secret, which has its own Wikipedia page, that the PhDs with supercomputers on Wall Street were unaware of? If so, congratulations, you are free to make billions in the markets by exploiting your superior knowledge which the Street cannot match.

I am a little bit familiar with the inverted yield curve thing, and it is certainly much more complex- including that rules that governed the economy in the past may no longer apply
At one time (maybe still), purchasing power for computer components went up much faster than inflation. If your goal was to buy a faster processor, then waiting effectively generated a rate of return based on falling prices.
> If I read right, the author is just implementing an older algorithm but switching the order of two steps for efficiency reasons.

That's right.

> No it never generates crossroads.

It can, but they're rare. It would be an easy tweak to make them more common.

> Despite saying the maze can be imperfect, I think they are wrong.

It always generates imperfect mazes. The code that does that is:

https://github.com/munificent/hauberk/blob/db360d9efa714efb6...

Basically, it removes all connections between regions that are already connected. Except there's a finite chance it will keep the connection even when the two regions are already connected. In other words, it adds known cycles.

> Anyway, it's kind of boring as maze generators go.

Yeah, it does produce sort of same-y results. I'm not currently using it because of that. But I also intend to reintroduce it back as one of the multiple algorithms my game uses since it can now mix algorithms together. If every dungeon used this style, I think it gets boring. But when you only occasionally run into a part of the dungeon like this, I think the very same predictability gives it a nice distinct flavor.
Not a tax professional, and you should get professional advice if you're in this situation; but the way I handled it was by treating it as regular income (since the IRS defines "gross income" as "all income from whatever source derived"). So pay regular income tax on it, using the initial trading price to determine how much. Thenceforth it's a regular capital asset with a cost basis of whatever you used as the initial price.

Essentially, it's like you found X dollars and used all of it to purchase the newly forked coin. You have to pay income tax on the found money.
> * What gamma curve yields the perception of equal width of black-on-white and white-on-black thin lines (also relevant for text)? (Hint: likely not linear luminance)

Gamma curves do not affect black and white themselves, only intermediate grays. It’s true that grays are usually used to draw antialiased black and white lines, but we can also think about “ideal” (axis-aligned, pixel-centered, non-antialiased) black and white lines. By framing this as a question about gamma, you’ve implicitly assumed that “ideal” black lines on white would have equal perceived thickness to “ideal” white lines on black.

This is not the case, as typographers have known for decades. The right way to draw perceptually equal-thickness black-on-white and white-on-black lines is to vary the line width (perhaps even by more than a full pixel if the lines are thick enough!). Gamma only comes in afterwards, to help us reproduce the varied widths accurately, and the accurate way to do that is in a linear color space.
How do you know your metrics actually measure user happiness?
Learned this in "The Hidden Life of Trees". Great book.

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...
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