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I started my first business at age 9, a fruit shop. (Was forced to close it as I took the customers of a legit :) nearby shop, who in exchange threatened to sue my parents for letting me trade under age). Worked as a stock broker during university trading on the NYSE (straight after school till 10pm every day), then moved from Hungary to the UK in 2008. With lack of jobs and desperate for cash I took a job cleaning dishes. In 3 months I worked my way up to a General Manager position and eventually got back into finance. If I want something, I don’t take no for an answer. I always find a way. On the side, I started my accounting firm and built it into a distributed practice. We have clients all over the world, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, but I keep running into scaleability issues so I'm looking for other opportunities. The past 3 years, I lived as a digital nomad traveling the world solo. I have been to ~20 countries and lived a year in Vietnam.

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I think that it should be changed so that it has text (perhaps "Super") instead of a logo.

The Windows logo is on the Meta key. Super (and Hyper) are other keys.
Thanks for the heads-up. I work in an open-floor-plan office, and dozens of people might be able to see my screen at any random instant. This includes men and women and some from other countries and with different cultural backgrounds.

_Probably_ nobody would have seen it on my screen and _probably_ nobody would have given it a second thought if they had, but I prefer not to make people uncomfortable!
This "article" appears to be an ad for a license selling business.
As a consumer, can I please have a standard where I don't have to chase a new version every few years?

I know that many are backwards compatible, but they aren't forward compatible -- my MicroUSB cables don't help at all with USB-C, and type A and B connectors are still around.

By the time all of my micro USB devices have disappeared from my household, I'm sure a new thing will have emerged that's incompatible with USB-C, and so I'll still have to have several different cables around.
Summary of this Business Insider piece:

* I went to a Walmart store in Virginia with the intention of buying a gun as part of an investigation into the placement, selection, marketing, security, and sales of firearms in Walmart’s stores.

* My journey to bring a gun home from Walmart was more complicated than I expected, and I was left with the impression that the company takes gun security and sales seriously.
"At some point, I want to work through Ubik."

I consider Ubik PKD's greatest and most accessible work. It's a really quick, easy read. Do yourself a favor and pick it up now!
> This means that it cannot be used safely in portable incantations of variadic functions that expect pointer arguments.

Why only variadic functions? The answer to that may make my next question obsolete, namely: Wouldn't only C++ complain about this? In C, isn't the input to anything coerced to the data type it will represent, in actual complete disregard of the input type?
But none of that justifies saying that psychiatry isn't evidence based. They just think the diagnostic criteria are poor across the board. And they're probably right. We're still in the stone age when it comes to mental diseases, and as long as we have weak disease models, updating and pushing out improved diagnostic criteria will be more laborious.[1]

But neither science nor evidence-based medicine is synonymous with advanced; you can't say something isn't scientific or evidence-based simply because it's not sufficiently advanced. Both are processes, which by definition means they'll always fall short of what could be at any point in time--it takes time for new knowledge to travel.

[1] The fields of medicine and psychiatry are replete with examples of where supposedly revolutionary models and procedures were adopted by overly credulous practitioners, causing much harm and some of the most memorable horrors of recent history. Without better disease models practitioners will be more skeptical of new evidence, as it's more difficult to judge the quality and applicability of the evidence. It doesn't mean they're anti-evidence. Now, maybe these fields, especially psychiatry, are too skeptical and intransigent, or too indecisive, or too confused. It would be more constructive to just say that, rather than coming out swinging with conclusions that don't follow, effectively committing the same sins they're accusing of others.
We spend ~$7k/month on SaaS relating to employees.

Google 20.90
Travis C 1,494.96
InVision 150.73
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Rsync.net 15.27
Abstract 50.91
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StatusPage.io 44.38
Github 10.68
Balsamiq 0.00
Zendesk 904.57
Chart.io 303.21
Github 157.42
Hubspot 1,536.15
Google - GSuite 373.68
Intercom 155.60
Xero 141.25
Browserling 28.98
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BuildKite 46.30

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You could have a setup where the other end of the USB cable is hard to reach so you can use the circular connector to swap the keyboard-side of the cable for a different style USB connector. But then why not just have a USB extender mounted to the desk in an easy to get to spot? You would need to make a bunch of variations of the USB to circular connector pigtails to plug into the main one. Seems like a lot of work for something that usually only takes a couple seconds if you have an easier to reach USB port. If the guy says the circular connector is just decorative, I'd believe him. Nothing else really makes sense.
You snark, but I think the enclosing conversation was about whether YA fiction is worthwhile (or, whether we should be concerned when people fail to progress past it), not whether it's literature.
> want to know more about implementing in a low level language.

You might check out Jonesforth [0], which is an extensively-documented Forth implemented in x86 assembly language. If you read the single source file top to bottom, you'll get a good understanding of how it is implemented. There are also ports to x86-64, ARM, and other machines.

If you're looking for something in C, you might check out Ficl. [1]

[0] https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
[1] http://ficl.sourceforge.net
In this specific case I think it is clickbait. "China Drone Attack" is a hook, and the drone seems to play almost no significant role in this story (it is essentially about spraying Bayer Chemical insect poison onto the crops).
These packages aren't maintained by the companies that use them because their incentives aren't aligned. The most efficient approach would be to fund development by the current maintainers who are familiar with the project, but as long as the module continues working the companies have no market incentive to fund development.
That's also because the RasPi 4 failed to implement their connector according to the standard. [1]

Now, why that passed muster is a valid question.

[1] https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...
It’s a little different. If some company gets food from your food bank and makes billions of it the volunteers may get a little annoyed.
That's why we have GPL.
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And it's true...

Has Intel ever said "we guarantee that hyperthreads are entirely isolated from one another?"
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Android has 1.3 BILLION users. 3-7% is tens of millions of users
My understanding is that you claimed that education does not help one bit to social mobility. On national level, to big groups of people. I still think that is false and I still have not seen any one example that would even rise a suspicion that your claim could be sometimes true.
Mysterious radio bursts from space may soon have an explanation
Ask HN: What would you build if you didn't have to code it?
What would you build if it were incredibly easy to spin up an app?

Are there any repetitive tasks you do day-to-day that aren't worth lines of code?

Do you know of colleagues in different orgs at your company that would benefit from automation, but perhaps they don't know how to code? What are the specific tasks they'd want to automate?

Do you ever get requests where you think, "I wish they could just do this themselves"?

In your personal life, are there hobbies that you wish had a bit more tech?
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Except most users aren't modding their PC games. Every user runs untrusted Javascript.

If someone is patching DLLs they can figure out how to enable hyperthreading.
The Pixel 1 XL has a good camera and you can buy a used one for under $200.
> The decrease in the percentage of kcals from fat during 1971--1991 is attributed to an increase in total kcals consumed; absolute fat intake in grams increased

This is very interesting data, but it doesn't say what you're implying it says. The condensed version is that people are eating more quantity, which is leading to increased obesity. And that's certainly the biggest factor. Macros are far less important that overall quantity.
You should look up the origin of that quote. Not only is it paraphrasing part of a story and not an actual quote, but it's referring to people that voted to enact communist policies and ended up poor, instead of creating a society where everyone had everything they could want. They didn't want to admit that they'd been fooled by the government, so they were the "temporarily embarrassed millionares".
> Chinese school for ABCs

That's your problem, most American Born Chinese can barely pronounce their own last names right; "Chinese Schools" in America are mostly just a formality.
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206 points and 287 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857465
Raspberry pi foundation being too cheap to buy two resistors in place of one is not a problem with standard.
What rights are you referring to? Are those actual rights, or make-believe rights specifically conjured up to discriminate against minorities and groups you don't agree with?
>I don't think we should give kids a terminal window and tell them to figure it out from there, but we should definitely be giving them computers that give them the opportunity to peel back the layers, and then we should encourage them to do so.

I agree with you on this one, but with one important caveat: it shouldn't be their primary driver/school work machine, it should be something provided by parents. I am all about letting kids figure stuff out and play around with the OS, but doing that on the machine that you use to submit homework, do your class scheduling, gradebook management, etc. is a recipe for disaster. Have you ever had cases where your machine became useless until you fixed it, because of some non-trivial symlinking or config screw up? Now imagine being a middle schooler who is already overstressed due to all the homework and other school stuff, but without enough technical and coping skills to deal with it.

In a similar vein, if I had a kid, and they were interested in learning things about cars, I would be absolutely glad to get them a shitty old beater car, appropriate tools, and look into working on that car with them. However, for their daily driver, I would heavily insist on getting them a less than 10 years old japanese economy car they can use on the daily basis or in case where something on their "learning car mechanics" beater went wrong. You make mistakes when you learn, and I wouldn't want their daily life to be handicapped due to making a mistake or two.
I see what you're saying.

At the same time, with cosmetic surgery, you are changing physical reality. Someone has sliced up your body and reconfigured it to be more what you want.

So it's not necessarily a "lie", as such.

Like I said, though, I see what you're getting at, and it's a valid point.
Android exploits are now worth more than iOS exploits for the first time
Paracord is usually a bit more rough than the smooth nylon that you find on lots of fancy cables.
> That strikes me as a highly undesirable future.

I'd argue that this is one of the most undesirable futures, and we should continue fighting however we can. Both Kyle and Feross are working their asses off trying to manifest sustainable open source funding and I've got nothing but respect and solidarity.
Not a US company being infringed, but Lego has gotten a Chinese court to order Lepin to stop making imitations of Lego products. [1] Since arrests have been made over Lepin not complying [2], it seems like the ruling has teeth.

[1] https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/11/05/lepin-ordered-to-s...

[2] https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/04/28/arrests-made-in-le...
> The engine now makes 1578 horsepower, a 78 hp increase...

Crazy: that's slightly more horsepower than the turbine engine of an M1 Abrams tank produces.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_AGT1500
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I remember hearing that on .. Dave2D I think? Or Linus Tech Tips .. one of them said USB4 is Thunderbolt 3.

I assumed the standards were just combining and the two would be equivalent protocols, but I assume that's not true then? Does USB4 basically just add PCIe onto the USB bus? How will that work with AMD board that still don't officially have Thunderbolt/PCI Hotplug support?
SpaceX satellite was on “collision course” until ESA satellite was re-routed
>> a drone could both carry it and easily kill someone with it

Now imagine some terrorist hacking Amazon network and doing that deliberately. I can even imagine a not-so-US-friendly country, like Russia, or North Korea doing that.
You could argue the same underling problem could be concluded from "won't fix" as "cant fix". Equally problematic too.
I think the selling points with Go are:

1. Cross-platform
2. Fairly mature ecosystem
3. Pretty easy to pick up coming from either a dynamic or static language background
4. Somewhat simpler approach to concurrency (although I've created my share of race conditions)
5. Backed and used by Google (if that is positive for you as a developer)
6. Is a pretty good multi-purpose language

I think in comparison to (my limited understanding of) Rust, Go is beginner friendly. Also, I think Rust has most of the above covered as well, but it seems like there are lower level primitives with functional aspects built-in. Haven't needed these in Go, so haven't investigated them there.
Deep Expertise: The Need for Fine-Tuning at Scale
Signal requires a phone number as well as Telegram.
Rust is really great, but I feel like you are overselling it a bit here:

- async/await is available in the nightly version of Rust (1.39), but not in the stable version (1.37).

- 1:1 threading is not strictly equivalent to M:N threading (the main practical difference being that the stack size per OS thread is larger than the stack size per goroutine).

Writing that "Rust has broadly the same concurrency support" is misleading right now. But it could be true in a near future.
> So, if a friend asks you out to dinner, your phone will suggest you text "". Then, it’ll also pull up directions right in Google Maps.

"Smart reply" sounds like a privacy nightmare. Now just opening a text causes unsolicited connections to made to Google's servers and other websites containing the contents of your messages. I hope this is something you can easily disable.
With all these side channel attacks, I am suspecting that there may be a SPS theorem.

Given shared CPU, performance, and security, you can at best get 2 out of the three.
Does the GPL do enough to protect us from private extraction of the commons? I used to advocate for 0BSD but at this point it seems like we need something like the AGPL or Parity.[0]

[0]: https://licensezero.com/licenses/parity
Type C is the intended replacement for Micro, A and B.
It sounds like the point the person was trying to make was in use-case, rather than language semantics. As in, where one might've used Java before, they would now use Go. Not that Java and Go are semantically similar.
Most fridges have a lamp where you may be able to draw power from, however that's probably 12v.
Keys to Upgrading Rails
Neither Maps or Gmail is using Dark Mode for me on the Pixel I updated this morning. Hopefully it'll be added in an update.
What you propose is in fact prejudicial by ascribing primary importance to American agency, and then furthermore by assuming other cultures have the same priorities. This is the same mistake as hoping China would turn into 1 billion big mac eating coke drinking bona fide neoliberals.

Also a demographic trend is not political statement or a value judgement, it is a curve fitting exercise. I never used the word explosion, that’s your word. I am not being alarmist. The long term trend is for population growth to slow if you look at the data.
Do you have multiple in depth articles comparing those keyboard recommendations in relation to the amazon keyboard?

Price wasn't really a factor in my decision to use this keyboard. I mean it's nice and all that it was $14, but I wouldn't think twice about spending more if a better solution existed.

As mentioned in the article I did spend a lot of time looking for alternatives.
> We have had similar, but not as bad, reactions to other low end device we use for testing

Let me guess -- Nexus 5X? I use one as my primary phone, and the slowness is noticeable but usually tolerable.
Nobody knows exactly what a UFO and Bigfoot really look like so that helps. The debate is not so much about whether the footage has been doctored but rather about what it depicts.

A better example would probably be the moon landing footage or 9/11. And then it's really only questioned by conspiracy theorists and specifically because a state actor might have wanted to hide the evidence of a conspiracy.

Tomorrow with this new technology I might not convince you that Bigfoot exists but I might be able to show you extremely convincing footage of Margaret Thatcher and Mao Zedong frolicking in the Swiss Alps while Tupac is watching.
Understanding the Realities of API Security
Well, the USB port on my pixel is already useless for anything except charging. Somehow the data connection is broken.

I hope the update still lets me charge..
Reading through this, I'm left unable to see the underlying forces. None of the people working on this spec are idiots, so how did they arrive here? What are the forces and unstated requirements behind the scenes that I don't understand that have led to a USB4 spec with this many potential flavors and absurd naming conventions to express them? Is it something about cost? Or patents? Or some random company who won't budge on something but needs to be included?
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