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> As a vegan I refrain from eating insects (although I find it a lot less offensive than eating mammals), so some selected nuts/seeds and a B12 supplement do the trick for me.

Hey cool, I'm vegan too! I agree, supplementing B12 and eating nuts and seeds is way nicer (morally and taste) than eating bugs.

> Given that we can buy tropical fruit (yay for mango) by the box, and have knives, I'd say it has never been easier.

That's a good way to look at it and I agree. However in my own experience, it is still a lot of work. I live in the tropics where it's easy to buy a huge box of papayas, mangos, etc. I did this for about 3 months, eating only raw food and mostly only fruit, and some greens and soaked seeds. My body felt very strong and refreshed, but I spent a lot of time preparing and even buying food to keep it in stock and fresh. I slowly went back to more cooked foods like rice and lentils. It doesn't feel as good, but it's a compromise of time at this point.
It’s been on the front page twice already, from 2 different news sources
I'd say my vision of an ideal technical career parallels an ideal academic career: the Juniors learn, grads do grunt work (but sometimes that's the most interesting stuff), post-docs do their own projects and lead small teams, and finally, professors get to pass on their knowledge all while contributing their valuable expertise to many different projects of their grads and post-docs. In this scenario, the difference between a post-doc and a professor is the difference between a senior SWE and a senior staff SWE.

The sad reality of both tracks, however, is that admin work eats your creative time more and more as you progress along your career path.
Allergies are frustrating as well. Before I moved to the US I had no allergies at all. I grew up in a place where ragweed grows dense and 6 feet tall. There are plenty of allergens there, and yet I was fine. Like with my RSI I went to the doctors, they did tests, prescribed medications, and my life still kind of sucked for a good chunk of the year. And then I bought a house and started gardening with my bare hands (giving my immune system better things to worry about), and things are much easier now, allergy-wise, though still not ideal. And yet, no doctor in the US will prescribe that you expose yourself to dirt and germs from time to time.
The two of you have missed the part of my post about "modernized car requirement" (that would be something like autopilot), and "dedicated lane" that prevents other cars from getting in. I'm pretty sure this road, if built, will have fewer deaths on it than a regular highway.
See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religi...
Sorry for the late reply.

Voice synthesis takes getting used to, and it is much easier to deal with if you have to rely on it for a print-related disability. The voices on Voice Dream Reader, such as Sharon or Heather, are excellent compared to the stock voices on iOS/Android.

You may want to try getting a subscription to the digital databases at Houston Public Library (if you live outside the state of Texas, otherwise it is free) before shelling out money for an Audible subscription. For $20/6 months or $40/year, they have one of the best digital media databases in the country (there are also a few other libraries of similar caliber. You also get premium access (including the app) to Lynda.com for that price, in addition to a ton of audio books.
In case it was missed. My take in UBI outlined above would avoid this. Even better, I’m hopeful we could abolish all forms of income tax.
In the US maybe, but definitely not in most of Europe. Software engineers are not as valued here as they are in some parts of the US (SF bay area, Seattle, etc.). As a result, salaries here are pretty miserable.

I'm a very senior developer in my 30s who lives in Sweden. I have a "good salary" (make the same or more than every other dev that I know in my age bracket), which translates to a take-home pay of around 45k USD.

Sure, health care is free, education is free (no college fund for my kids) and employer-paid-for pension plans are quite decent, but housing is not cheap (450k USD for a simple 4 bed room family home, luckily I don't live in Stockholm where that costs an additional 200-300k USD) and we also pay 25% VAT on almost everything.

30 days paid vacation (not PTO) per year is pretty sweet and so is the lack of overtime (40 hours is 40 hours) and the parental leave (at home with your kids for a year as a father? no problem!). But man, these salaries that I see quoted here on HN regularly (200-300k) do sting a bit...
Lifting weights was the long term fix for me when I had a RSI.
"... threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism."

"targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category."

"We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized ..."

Trump: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"

Trump: "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"

Trump: "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how...it is done."

Trump: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"

Trump: "Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees.” @FoxNews
Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!"

Trump: "Kevin Corke, @FoxNews “Don’t forget, Michael Cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud, and as recently as this week, the Wall Street Journal has suggested that he may have stolen tens of thousands of dollars....” Lying to reduce his jail time! Watch father-in-law!"
These announcements always make me ponder about the people we'll put on bank notes or erect statues in honour of in 50 years and are alive and persecuted today but not recognized by society.
The code overall is pretty clever, but at the core of all this they completely ignore strict aliasing to dump stuff into a char* buffer indiscriminately... Look at this function:

https://github.com/PlatformLab/NanoLog/blob/master/runtime/N...

T argument = *reinterpret_cast<T*>(*in);
...
uint32_t stringBytes = *reinterpret_cast<uint32_t*>(*in);

A total of 6 reinterpret_casts in that file alone.

I didn't see any indication that you have to turn off strict aliasing to use this library (and would you really want to make all your remaining code slower just so your logging has better benchmark scores?). Which makes all this code UB as far as the C++ standard is concerned (no, their allocator does not magically placement-new the correct object types into the right places).

They could just inspect their T values as char* and/or memcpy them around instead of all this pointer aliasing (well, as long as their values are trivial types - I couldn't figure out whether you can log non-trivial stuff here?) at virtually no additional cost.

Edit: And this right here convinces me that I definitely wouldn't want to use this library in production... Adding a volatile to fix a threading bug is just a big no-no.

https://github.com/PlatformLab/NanoLog/commit/e9691246ede6da...
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This is a common observation in Iran, specially regarding governmental activities. The whole country is littered with ads and propaganda.
You have chosen very clear cut examples, but the law will not be limited to those.

For example, a boy and girl start dating. Eventually, she sends him nudes - maybe they discussed it offline, so there's no written record of consent, or maybe she correctly guessed he'd like them. But then they meet, and he pushes her to have sex, saying he'll claim the nudes were unsolicited otherwise. Or maybe he's white, she's black, and the boy's racist family push him to claim they were unsolicited, to hide the affair, or to get rid of her.

> or images of someone else who would not have wanted the images shared (revenge porn)

That is an entirely different matter, that this law will do nothing to help. There are sites devoted to revenge porn, so those pictures are solicited.
Globalism was literally a concerted effort to off-shore blue collar work with the expectation that the population of richer countries would become more educated and work in information intensive jobs (also siphoning off value from said off-shored industries). Where it went somewhat awry is that computers and automation have meant that less jobs are actually required in those sectors that we envisioned people having, leaving a large portion of the population under-employed in low paying service jobs. Globalism was literally a concerted effort undertaken after WWII, this isn't some sort of Fox News level conspiracy theory. It's history, literally stuff in economics textbooks and easily verifiable.

As for why Scandinavia and Germany have managed to keep inequality at bay, they've got very robust welfare states and strong labour unions.
It's not how much pizza you can eat.

Think how many slice a person typically eats at a team lunch in a professional setting. It's usually a few slices. A large pizza has around 8 slices, so with two pizzas, that covers 6-10 people. And that's what the article says.
Not dumb at all; in fact, Win32 resource scripts[1] end with the ".rc" extension

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/about-...
Sounds interesting! could you share some metrics related to the performance of your model / explained variance / adjusted R^2? Do you have sufficient airlines who have a tendency to drop prices instead of steadily increasing them the closer you get to the desired departure date?
And most importantly
Did you backtest your model and run a simulation before pursuing this project to test its viability?
Ignoring early retirement, consider that those salaries come with less free time, less brain cells to do what you like, and more stress.

A lot of the value you can gain from money (e.g. hiring a maid to clean & cook, buying better quality food) is about clawing back what you lost to get the extra money.
Mailfence.
China's major problem is that it's not the USA. The USA has lots of capital to throw around, it can shift manufacturing to other countries. The USA is also the leader in style, culture, and innovation - China just plays catchup. With a centralized government, you'll always be playing catchup.

China may led the world in cheap electronic components, but there is no reason that India couldn't do the same if the USA trade war with China keeps escalating. Italy also has many small workshop that can crank out small precision parts. Sooner or latter Eastern Europe will get back into the game.
AFAIK A bunch of things founders would like to do often gets heavy push back from investors, which the founder giving the offer doesn't tell employees about.
This.

Whenever I see "Zed Shaw," I steer clear.
former is runtime bash environment, latter is when you log in with an interactive shell to run commands, and stuff.
If you like writing, could technical writing be an option? Writing documentation, user guides, API instructions, and so on - the field for technical writing is fairly broad. The audience doesn't have to be other technical users. The GOV.UK site has lots of posts from 'content designers' who write and research. Could this type of role appeal?

Here are some links from the GOV.UK website to give you a flavour of what they do

Content design: planning, writing and managing content:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design

Posts on writing at the GDS (UK Government Digital Service) blog:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/?s=writing

And just to re-iterate what others have said: it's perfectly natural to feel overwhelmed at times, or to struggle to understand things at times. So don't feel too disheartened, everyone experiences these things and it isn't unusual at all.
I try not to be /that Amiga guy/, but every time I dip in to a little Amiga history it leads me deep in to a rabbit hole of things that still amaze me.

Thinking about storage now…

My favourite drop in disk hack was probably diskspr¹ to store 980k on a double-density disk, which worked by replacing trackdisk.device².

And awesome libraries like xpk³, which allowed you to add aftermarket compression/encryption support to applications. Looks like people are still writing modules too, including LZMA⁴ support(although I can't begin to imagine how slow that would've been on my Amiga ;).

1. http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/Diskspr3#contents
2. https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Trackdisk_Device
3. https://www.dstoecker.eu/xpkmaster.html#Overview
4. http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpkL2XZ
I was a civilian student sport parachutist in the late 80’s before square canopies were in widespread use. We used Vietnam-vintage ejector-seat round parachutes that were modified to include a ‘double-L’ hole on the rear panels [0]. This created forward motion and gave some steerability, albeit at the cost of increasing the sink rate. We always landed with a parachute landing fall because the downward speed was a potential ankle-breaker. Basically you kept your feet and legs together, and as you came in the inevitable lateral motion automatically dragged you over sideways, and you could roll back on to your feet. I landed about 70 jumps, and by the time I stopped I could achieve good accuracy in low wind conditions (landing within a yard or two of a target after deploying at 2500 feet).

[0] http://www.parachutehistory.com/round/combo.html
That's all great until interruptions in the service you are depending on interferes with your business getting done (and you can't fix or mitigate the problem yourself).

Don't get me wrong, if you choose your partners carefully you can make this work in many (probably most) scenarios, and save yourself some headaches in the process. But even with the bigger players (like AWS), there is a tradeoff to handing such things over to someone else. Services aren't always as reliable and partners aren't always as resposive as they are advertised.

I totally get why people don't want to do such things themselves. I just think it is important for people to realize that doing so has its own set of consequences and risks that they should be aware of. I suspect most of the folks on HN are aware of this, but there does seem to be an awful lot of "it would be dumb to do that yourself" sentiment here.
You don’t know the half of it...
What it's like to be ejected involuntarily, at 3.2M and 78000ft/23.8km altitude: http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-fr...
> No tests

yikes, that's hard to justify.
I had a battle with tendinitis for about a year and it was terrible. I was icing my hands multiple times a day at work just to get by and it really destroyed my productivity.

One thing I noticed that’s not in this article (and from my perception is commonly missing from resources about RSI) is cortisone shots. In my case I tried for a long time to get by with better ergonomics, stretching, NSAIDs, and ice but getting cortisone shots in both my hands made the pain stop for long enough that I could actually rehab my hands properly and function at work.

After the shots I started lifting weights and focused on my ergonomics and it never came back. I’d highly recommend asking about them if you have an inflammation issue. In my case it bought me the time and space to really fix the underlying problems.
Yeah most things are isomorphic to religion. It's better to ask what isn't religious?

Mathematics and science and all things isomorphic to either.
63: Down to 5, right to 20, up to 25, right to 30, left to 38, up to 45, left to 48, up to 57, left to 63.

I've also got up to 65 on similar strategies, but that's the best one I've got written down.
On the other hand, if your kids go into fields where the pay is unequal across the country, they are less likely to stay in your small town of 100k and move to somewhere else with more economic or artistic opportunity. And by being in small town, it's a lot more time and money for them to fly to see you, so they will see you less.

Ex: I can fly across the ocean for the same price it is to fly 2 hours direct equivalent / 4 hours connecting to see my family in their relatively small town.
Hurricane eyes have been some of the most amazing experiences of my life
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Yeah lets see again in 2025~2030, that is when China plans to be the top of these sectors with the Chinese Made in China 2025 plan.

Semis are already feeling Huawei presence in the world, huawei designs its own soc and some of its components. The bigger Huawei market share the smaller amount of US components need to be exported.
Yes, spot on, I think that describes it exactly.

And yes, the alias map serves a very similar function to rejection sampling of a discrete distribution, except that you don’t have to waste any samples. And the alias map serves as a deterministic mapping function; the same input will always yield the same output.

There’s another method for discrete distribution sampling that is closer to alias mapping, and better preserves stratification than the alias method but costs O(log n) per sample: compute the discrete CDF, and then invert it by picking a uniform sample and using that to binary search on the (sorted by definition) CDF to recover the choice, which will be then distributed according to your original discrete PDF array. For sample set size that is known in advance, you can avoid the binary search, and do this in O(1) time per sample.

The method in the article feels similar-ish to the binary search method, maybe it’s equivalent, but I’m not sure.
Not once. Tbf, I am considering the herculean task of getting off of gmail, but if I were to go with my own server the burden has basically nothing to do with setting up the email server (easy) as this post might suggest, but instead the burden and latent risk involved of having to be personally responsible for operating, maintaining, and being exposed to externialities (like 0days, being blocked by filters, server outages, etc.) Setting up services is trivial compared to the aggregate cost in time, money, and context-switching tax over time of operating them.
Bit strange I have to read about this on nytimes via hn, it wasn’t even in the 20:00 news in NL?
Profile is for login shells (thus executed once when logging in at the terminal or over SSH). The rc file is for interactive non-login shells (thus executed once each time you open a new e.g. xterm window).

But some systems treat all terminal emulator windows as login shells by default (e.g MacOS), though you can change that behavior.
Similar in some ways to the ancient "Daleks" terminal game.
I got 66 but I didn't track the steps. I'll try to get there again and document.
Keep in mind you’re on a team. As a good team player would you be satisfied with 2 slices even if you could eat 6?
I understand you believe that but I don’t have to believe it myself and that kind of condescending tone isn’t really necessary here, especially defending a conspiracy theory. The existing publicized NRO grants, including the keyhole satellites mentioned elsewhere in the thread, suggest the simpler answer is more accurate. The Hubble development was heavily publicized through its lifecycle, including the repair after it was deployed. Why bother with such a performance when next time the NRO donates a satellite they publish about it for the PR?
If you don't want to protect US interests and US intellectual property while you are benefitting from it maybe you should not have students.

Whatever Americans want or not, they have the face the fact that most countries don't play "fair" and if they have the chance they will wipe the US as soon as possible.
This is great. I grew up skateboarding, and the cultural overlap between music and skating is huge.
this is the correct solution ... its also what I have been using forever ... when I reformat a new laptop and launch Dropbox after it finishes a full sync I copy a file out of its dir which I execute on my local laptop which automates defining symlinks on my local filesystem pointing into Dropbox ... it just makes no sense to symlink out of Dropbox into the wild and wooly world at large ... symlinks should point into Dropbox not out
I have a non-striver on my team of strivers. He is quite valued, because he's:

- always fun to be around (a consequence of not being overloaded)

- the guy to say "the emperor has no clothes" (having time to look around does that)

- always accurate with his estimates (because he really doesn't want to work overtime)

- always high-quality with his output (because he's not rushed)

Done right, working at 80% speed means that you have 20% of your time to pick up the super-high-value tasks that might otherwise fall by the wayside.

Now, maybe he'll get promoted more slowly than his potential as a striver, but I don't actually think that's going to happen.
Very anecdotal, but in my experience the higher employee turnover is, the more dogmatic a place tends to be about being "agile".
You can't claim it is faster if you don't provide reproducible benchmarks.
Ross Ulbricht 50 yrs from faceOnBankNotes?
I would do an exponential smoothing of pixel values over some timescale, say, 0.2 seconds, before further detection of scene changes. That should do the trick.
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This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
You would need thousands of civilians to take part in your life then. Not easy.
I 100% agree. I had kept a journal continuously for about 17 years. My decision to stop was intentional and difficult. I loved my journal deeply, and it's difficult to explain how it became an impediment for me and why I believed it was a crutch. Living with a journal was, for me, similar to watching a concert through the screen of your iPhone. My life is less examined now, but it is better and I feel better.

I destroyed that journal entirely. I can never get it back, and I can not see how I felt 8 years ago on this date, or 16 years ago on new years. It does not matter how I was then. The continuity of it prevented me from feeling I could break with the past.
Even a very very cursory review of the code turns up giant red flags.
As another comment noted it lacks tests, uses poor project structure and has private deps. Much more seriously, though, the encryption looks very very unsafe.

The encryption uses math/rand. This alone clearly shows the authors have absolutely no clue what they are doing. The encryption itself is also very unsafe - loads of obvious side channel attacks and really far too many flaws to cover here. This isn't just a few mistakes, this is a group of people who don't know enough to do this safely. Sorry, this stuff is hard and this project doesn't come close to meeting even the lowest bar.

1: https://github.com/CHURPTeam/CHURP/blob/master/src/utils/enc...
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Diagonal moves by alternating directions are helpful.

69: Alternate down/right to 18, up/right to 30, up to 32, right, left to 40, up to 46, left to 49, up to 55, left/up to 65, left to 69.