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Based on how this comment is resonating with HN, little did I know suggesting fallibility would result in such disdain.

No matter.
Or, y'know, leave it as it is. As DOS app it is available almost instantly from boot and it's designed specifically for any PC, even ones that are over 30 years old. It's probably faster than any rich GUI version. It's also FREE. It looks like it does what it says on the tin, and for many people, that's all that is important.

There are MANY phone POS apps. I do not see why this POS app needs to be re-vectored to also run on phones. I don't want to be ageist about this, but just because something is old, that doesn't mean it's no longer useful.
They are still positional in Swift. color(r: 255, g: 255, b: 255) is not the same as color(b: 255, g: 255, r: 255). Also the parameter names are part of the method signature.
How far could the willpower go?
Serverless: slower and more expensive
Uno [1] and Avalonia [2]?

[1]: https://platform.uno/

[2]: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
just curious. Would you consider git as blockchain?
Not AI related, but I had a boss who thought hackathons were great because they would spontaneously produce great things in a day.

I’m kind of an introvert so I hate hackathons but did one and had about 75 code for a day. My boss wasn’t happy but I was surprised at the fun culture and connections created across teams. Five years later people mention something they learned or a technique they use or someone they met that they continue to work with.

I don’t think these competitions are the best mean for solving specific problems, though think they are part of a good portfolio.

I think that they are valuable for other purposes like communication and interoperability.
Imagine how many tried moonshine before that.
I've been running CURRENT in production myself for about 2 years now. No problems so far.
AFAIK all streaming services pay per play (of more than 30s). So no, they incentivise the exact opposite of "longer album-esque songs". A single 30mn song would earn the same as a 2:30 song, and would be unlikely to have the early catchy hook which ensures it passes the 30s mark for a payout.
The idea of simulation is unfalsifiable and therefore shouldn’t be taken into account anywhere unless somebody proposes a proper experiment.
Well, no. That assumption is as good as any.
For some years now, I've thought about trying to do some kind of diagram that illustrates how your hands, feet, ears and nose get shorted when you have poor circulation. I don't know how to illustrate it.

If you have a "cup half full," it's the same areas that consistently get less oxygen, fewer nutrients, etc. Over time, that takes a very big toll.

I used to read medical records as part of my job. Diabetes, which is a blood issue, significantly impacts the feet. After many years of poor blood sugar control, feet issues become so serious that diabetics can end up needing to have a foot amputated.

I don't think it matters that much how much you move your arms per se. If you do aerobic exercise to strengthen your circulatory system, it eventually impacts the feet and hands significantly.

I was born with a serious medical condition that negatively impacts my circulation. After getting diagnosed, I began redressing a backlog of lifelong issues.

As circulation to my hands improved, I had pus appear under my cuticles. I spent weeks or months waking up with very painfully sensitive fingertips. My hands began to slough dead skin.

This stuff went on for a long time. I wasn't exercising my hands particularly. I was just improving my baseline health, including my circulation.

N=1 (sort of -- my son with the same condition also had a lot of hand drama as we got healthier)
Lately got my HP48s stolen when our office was raided by burglars. Had not used it for quite a while but loathing losing the university studying memories attached to it.
WeWork offers the exact opposite of that.

WeWork offers both services. WeWork will just as happily get you a whole building designed and decorated to your exact specs, as they will provide you with 3 desks paid for by the day.
Not only is the response fast, but also don't you have to look at the keys or for some entries even the screen.
https://youtu.be/oOjnpOyUzS0

For a while I always said, that I preferred a counter for getting tickets (train or something) as the trained clerk is faster on the keyboard than me on the touchscreen of a ticket machine. Nowadays however clerks on counters have to push the mouse more and more and seemingly have less training.
Unequivocally yes. Most of the problems mentioned in the article simply do not apply to the single threaded, and (almost) deterministic nature of microcontrollers. The Teensy 4.0 clocks at 600Mhz with a true double precision FPU. This affords a very comfortable budget for DSP, even at single sample update rates.

Having this allows for straightforward code, not always relying on ARM intrisics - which I personally find much more enjoyable to write, and especially so to read.

The Teensy audio library is already fully featured, well developed, and the community is active. Now with the Teensy 4.0, I expect that to only improve.
I really wish they had multi-factor authentication like bank transfers have. The only credit-cards that I use are prepaid ones, for the reason you just mentioned.
So if the compiler decides to spill an intermediate value to the stack, you'll have a horribly confusing corruption bug? Fun!
Show HN: Avoid copyright infringement – make your own beats for your videos
To get an idea of the length of the tail:

Suppose a deadline of 6ms to produce an audio buffer. If 0.01% of the callbacks choke on a lock, we get a dropout once a minute, which is quite a lot. This means we're interested in the 99.99th percentile.
Where is Facebook? I guess that would be one of the most interesting policies to analyze.
German Spiegel Online has a bit of information:

Basically Condor answered that they will continue operating but also had to apply for a state backed credit to bridge short term liquidity issues caused by Cook's insolvency. This is being assessed by the German government at the moment.

The german travel agent subsidiaries however have stopped selling travels for now (brands Neckermann Reisen, Bucher Last Minute,etc)

https://spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/thomas-cook-reisek...
This isn't the only article; many US newspapers have also had the same focus.
The photos of it in use in stores are adorable and must be heartwarming for the developer

http://keyhut.com/posphoto.htm
But plenty of "non-WeWork" office space offerings have already been like that for decades.

Cynically, those companies have the downside of needing to make a profit. WeWork strikes me as the sort of company that would happily take a massive loss, just to get to brag that Stripe and Facebook use their services.
Understanding RegEx in JavaScript
Which ERP Is Better, SAP Business One or Microsoft Dynamics 365?
Not really. The compiler sees the resulting C code after macro expansion, so the compiler sees the giant switch and the return statements. It won't try to preserve anything.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to reading that summary, too. I hope it gets better than the original thread as a noticed the quality of n-gate summaries go down a bit recently.
You’re right, the atmosphere is much more complex and dynamic than in these idealized models. But assuming the system is closed and in thermal equilibrium and that these are ideal non-reacting gases then gravity has an effect on the density and pressure but not on the composition.
> Why do you assume they were unqualified?

Because the point of being given the answers is to meet qualifications that you don't actually possess.
Indonesia’s Rainforests Are Burning and They Matter Just as Much as the Amazon
I was wondering why I couldn't open this pdf on my android pdf viewer and this link gives me cloudflare's captcha. It uses google's ReCaptcha - storefronts, bicycles, semaphores. What a terrible practice. People stop overusing cloudflare!
> I won’t cite a bunch of statistics (that may seem encouraging but actually are not). Just look around you.

Weird article. The author is basically saying I am gonna ignore statistics and gonna talk about my personal perception.

Statistics linked in the article are actually pretty cool: https://www.eei.org/issuesandpolicy/electrictransportation/D...
Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go
Really? I had no idea Altavista was from DEC.

In school in sweden we actually had a computer class where they taught us to use altavista. This was before Google blew up.
That’s pretty fascinating, thank you!
Designing U•HODL, a user-friendly hardware wallet
Would you be much happier if it was a normal room, but locked from the outside?

I never saw anyone talking about "cages" until about a year or so ago. It seems the alternative of better accommodation isn't what people are demanding here, but rather, giving children a waiver to break any and all laws. If you want to see children being forced or recruited into cartels in record numbers, making them immune from any kind of border enforcement is a surefire way to do it!
Tweaking Docker Desktop’s Kubernetes on Win/Mac
"superior" us what you call forced Prime subscription and tonight's server over-pricing ? Or is it when a company obviously in position or power is still asking for monetary help ?

I'm not sure I agree with your définition of superior.
I haven't even hit fifty yet (31 months to go!) and I already feel that way. My first 'proper' job when I was ~20 was as junior sysadmin on a large DEC VAXCluster[1] which are mainframe-like, and over the past three decades of working with computers, I too am very sad at how commoditised it has all become. Programming is mainly now just a process of bolting existing libraries together with no real idea of how everything works, hardware is now shrunk down to effectively be like magic, and unless you constantly jump aboard the latest fad, you are considered obsolete. The fun and discover-ability of the whole thing has completely gone. It's a real shame.

--

[1] http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/dont-screw-up-a-vaxcluster-tale
I heard on the news that the government will stump up the 150M needed to help the travellers. Does Thomas Cook or the traveller have insurance?
> ...seriously though, I can't fathom why people are so caught up on the Star-Trek-like predictions where hyper-advanced aliens are still essentially humanoid.

I can't fathom why people fail to realise that being bombarded for decades with pictures of hyper-advanced aliens still essentially humanoid somehow shapes the general public imagination regarding "aliens". /s
Forget the Beatles – Liszt was music's first 'superstar' (2016)
Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor – passively safe lead-cooled reactor
How to encrypt secrets in config files with sops
However, bankruptcy laws in many countries are pretty good at destroying value in these circumstances.
Maybe the link was updated? It now points to arxiv, from where you can download the paper (or does arxiv implement some geoblocking?).
Fill in time:

> unless the effective probe launch time is greater than 270 million years, the galaxy is old enough for every system to have been settled from an initial single civilization

Conclusions:

> When diffusive stellar motions are accounted for,they contribute to the Galaxy becoming fully settled in a time less than, or at very least comparable to its present age, even for slow or infrequent interstellar probes.

>While settlement wave crossing and fill-in times are short, consideration of finite civilization lifetimes in a steady state model allows for conditions in which the settled fraction X is less than 1. Thus the galaxy may be in a steady state in which not every settleable system is currently settled.

Conclusion basically says that if there are expanding civilizations in our galaxy, they spread very slowly, have filled the galaxy sparsely or have limited lifetimes. Assuming they are not avoiding contact.
This was last week but I haven't used this macbook since about 2017 so its quite out of date.
That isn't a type, but I like the direction you're going.
> I don't remember hearing that IBM suffered a huge losses (or any) as a result of this, so could it then be that it wasn't such a big deal?

That is a pretty silly argument that you wouldn't make in any other context. For instance, I also don't recall hearing that IBM suffered huge losses as a result of rampant discrimination. But that doesn't mean that they should do it.

> There's so many variables at play when hiring it's just silly to presume that 100% perfect fairness in tests is of any huge significance to "fairness" of outcome or to maximizing the benefits for a company, especially when compared to the things like racial or other purely personal biases.

I don't recall making that assumption. However, it's clear that any benefit the test may have had in selecting candidates is completely subverted by giving them the answers. And it's certainly not up to this guy to make that decision.

> The idea of "keeping the bar high" is too idealized, as tests and interviews even today just measure how prepared is that person for taking the tests, and not the real world knowledge and abilities. Ultimately what company really cares about is estimating the future performance of that employee, not just the knowledge. People who had to fight hard for a chance to work will often be much better hire and work harder and do more for the company, than someone a little more knowledgeable, but who lacks that kind of drive.

That may well be true. And when you create your own IBM, you can apply whatever candidate selection method you like. Maybe your method will be so good that your company will outperform all the others. However, IBM has their method and it is not the right of some random engineer to subvert that process for their own personal reasons.

Secondly, while it's true that "IQ like" puzzle tests may not be a good method of filtering candidates, it is not the case that knowledge tests have no value. For an engineering job, there is absolutely a minimum knowledge bar you need to pass to be effective. If you can't code FizzBuzz, you probably don't belong in an engineering role, basically anywhere. We don't know which type of test these were. Or at least, I don't.
I would put on my tinfoil hat and call for a conspiracy theory, but the reality is probably a lot more boring.
Wouldn't you clone Stellar or IBMs stuff already if you wanted "corporate" blockchain, i.e. a group of nodes sort of not 100% trusting each other, just keeping an eye on eacher.
Urinating frequently at night, sleeping little and 100 doctors can't tell him
Regarding the Kashmir issue,

When British left India, they divided India into 565 princely state, eventually almost all princely states joined either India or Pakistan.

Jammu and Kashmir decided to stay independent by Harri Singh(King).
Pakistan looked out it as opportunity and tried to seize J&K, later Harri Singh, came to seek out help from India.
Then Vallabhbhai Patel(Deputy Prime Minister) took advantage of this situation and suggested J&K to become part of India.

There Harri Singh have signed making it part of India.

Indian government didn't occupy the area which is occupied by Pakistan, they have stopped Pakistan. But didn't push back Pakistan.

This part of area which is occupied by Pakistan is called as POK(Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) in India.

Later Article 370 was introduced as temporary provision for J&K, giving them special status in Indian constitution.
Article 370 goes something like this:

1. Nobody can buy any land in J&K.

2. If a women marries any Indian citizen, she was denied as citizen of J&K.

3. ...

Most of the J&K citizens were unemployed because there is no investment.
Terrorists have always seen this as opportunity and infiltrated into India and many Kashmirs were trained as terrorists.
India lost nearly 40,000 soldiers in Kashmir.

From nearly 70 years, Kashmir have been easy target for terrorists groups, because citizens have got nothing to do, and some of them turned into extremists.

Indian government is used to pump in lot of money for some of J&K citizens for basic necessities with subsidies.

Regarding abrogation of article 370, Jammu and ladakh people were happy, some Kashmirs were not happy, and almost all of India is happy, regarding this change.

Regarding Muslims being suppressed, ....
We live like brothers. With such a huge population, sometimes disputes happen, media take it to another level, showcasing it as if though this is how whole India is like.

Media turns even normal disputes into religious. Despite all this we live well.
So jokes are Little-endian I guess.
Regarding the Kashmir issue,

When British left India, they divided India into 565 princely state, eventually almost all princely states joined either India or Pakistan.

Jammu and Kashmir decided to stay independent by Harri Singh(King). Pakistan looked out it as opportunity and tried to seize J&K, later Harri Singh, came to seek out help from India. Then Vallabhbhai Patel(Deputy Prime Minister) took advantage of this situation and suggested J&K to become part of India.

There Harri Singh have signed making it part of India.

Indian government didn't occupy the area which is occupied by Pakistan, they have stopped Pakistan. But didn't push back Pakistan.

This part of area which is occupied by Pakistan is called as POK(Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) in India.

Later Article 370 was introduced as temporary provision for J&K, giving them special status in Indian constitution. Article 370 goes something like this:

1. Nobody can buy any land in J&K.

2. If a women marries any Indian citizen, she was denied as citizen of J&K.

3. ...

Most of the J&K citizens were unemployed because there is no investment. Terrorists have always seen this as opportunity and infiltrated into India and many Kashmirs were trained as terrorists. India lost nearly 40,000 soldiers in Kashmir.

From nearly 70 years, Kashmir have been easy target for terrorists groups, because citizens have got nothing to do, and some of them turned into extremists.

Indian government is used to pump in lot of money for some of J&K citizens for basic necessities with subsidies.

Regarding abrogation of article 370, Jammu and ladakh people were happy, some Kashmirs were not happy, and almost all of India is happy, regarding this change.

Regarding Muslims being suppressed, .... We live like brothers. With such a huge population, sometimes disputes happen, media take it to another level, showcasing it as if though this is how whole India is like.

Media turns even normal disputes into religious. Despite all this we live well.
People do disregard numeracy if all the, "LOL, your teacher said you wouldn't always have a calculator in your pocket" memes are anything to go by.
Carol has to let it go. Worst thing to do is interrupt the current flow. She will come across as a "Barker" like she had sat there not listening to what Alice or Bob had to say and was just thinking about what she wanted to say about topic one the whole time.

Best thing to do is wait until the end and circle back with a question that leads into discussing topic one. Doing this you immediately relinquish control of the conversation, and when appropriate say your thoughts.

Otherwise, just let it go. Is it going to kill you to not say it?

I read a good summary once of analysing the thought process:

- Does this need to be said?

- Does this need to be said by me?

- Does this need to be said by me now?

Which are good questions to ask when interrupting the flow of a conversation.
I mean a lot of this all turns on what happens to us in the next 200 years. Which... That's slightly less time then federated America has existed.

Are we at the peak of what people achieve on temperate world's? Maybe technology doesn't meaningfully advance much beyond what we already know - you get a computing boom, Moore's law ends and then a couple decades of discovering no substantial alternatives to the silicon chip.
It ends up being a subsidy when the largest provider collapses and the funds don't cover the problem. Who pays then? Oh, the government.
You are absolutely correct in that most of the people think of blockchain as something that includes distributed consensus mechanisms, but strictly speaking from a technical point of view blockchain and proof-of-[insert flavour] are two separate things, so IMHO their claim that is blockchain based is correct.
It's time software engineers worked really hard to produce correct software. It's time programmers stop talking about ethics, comic book heros, gaming, movies, and everything else not-work-related, and got back to doing their job.

Being an ethical software engineer should be similar to being an ethical professional mechanical or structural engineer. It means first doing your job correctly. Doing your job correctly includes "doing your job". Not worrying about world peace or <insert moral dilemma of the week>. Because, your opinion is NOT a moral absolute. Such Hubris!

Taking this analogy further: a structural engineer that makes a calculation mistake ("bug") that causes a bridge to collapse and kill people would be unethical. One that refuses to refuses to work on the bridge project, because he believes it will be ugly and will ruin the skyline, is unethical, and conceited. As is the one that spends 7 hours a day talking about politics (erm... "broader ethical issues").

It's time that consumers start paying attention to the ethics of the companies they consume from. If they don't like it, they should stop paying them.

The buyers and investors are the one to worry, not the paid help. If the paid help doesn't like it: Leave. Form your own billion dollar company with a "Do no evil" slogan and let me know how that all works out.
In order - Humans, OS/DB Licenses, Rent, Hosting Infrastructure, Marketing/Sales, Misc Tooling (like 365/VS/JIRA)
I've use the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboard for the last 15 years. I also do weightlifting once a week to keep the forearms and finger strong.
What if we are the probe and we haven't figured it out yet ? Or what if we somehow didn't get the memo telling everyone to stay hidden because of danger, because we are late to the party ? What if there's a natural/alien occurring culling of some kind and we somehow slipped through and now we are alone ?

^^
I worked in a studio (with 8 work spaces and a Dante network) and there was no single Apple machine. Of all the musicians I know maybe two use Apple, most use Windows.

The whole “musicians use Apple”-thing is really not true — at least in my subjective sample size.
Well I mean it's still pretty big though. We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way.

Still you're right though, the race for "fist post" by the media definitely exaggerates scientific breakthroughs. To the science specific literate they can sift through the hype but others get it in their head it's something else. Like investors for example, those guys are big dreamers and when they hear stuff like "ground breaking quantum supremacy" they'll throw everything they got at it. Investing in startups by itself has worse odds than slot machines, hype only makes it harder to predict the future. But oh well, at least we have the actual details and most of the articles link the results for those actually interested. Can't do much about what others think or do though.
That chit chat can be about “delivering, being consistent, and helping out.”
Welcome to Hacker News! Lots of startups have gotten to within two weeks of closing, and then didn't close.
I am rubbish at small talk. For one I'm not really that interested in other people, and secondly I find it really boring. As such, all jobs I've had as a permanent employee, I've found myself completely stymied when it came to career progression, despite always having very good performance reviews. It very clear to me, that the people who float to the top of organisations, don't do it via their work performance, but by slapping each other on the back whilst sharing a pint or two down the pub.
Cancer now working to improve brain tissue handling.