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> I wish more sports would embrace technology the way F1 does.

If F1 embraced technology they wouldn’t have cars they’d have airplanes that as a design constraints must always remain in contact with the ground. Technology is a huge factor in F1 but they’re perfectly happy to ban new technologies and materials to maintain the spectacle.

> Waiting for people with random mutations, or ready to put huge amount of time for training, or crazy enough to take illegal and harmful drugs, in pursuit of hundredth of a second is not very interesting and not very useful.

The audiences for sports worldwide show that you’re in the minority.
John Vervaeke – Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Summary – Episodes 1 to 7
Sure, but Xubuntu is a thing, so your phrasing is very unclear.
I think that this kind of advice is based in stuff that's actually helpful (like taking care of your body) but is ultimately useless to anyone who is actually struggling with depression.

> Good thoughts. Great thoughts. ...

> Arrogance hides away anger. Anger hides away sadness. Sadness hides away attitude of helplessness. Helplessness is lack of resourcefulness. So be resourceful.

This reads like Trump and Yoda merged into one.
Building structures that last thousands of years is somewhat easy and the default once you start working with stone; many past civilizations have accomplished that. It's our modern civilization that optimized everything we do in a way that makes it not last long.
This just seems like an add for Nike. The reason all the fastest runners are using Nike shoes isn’t necessarily due to superior performance as much as the effects of superior sponsorships.

It would be interesting to compare times with other shoes under controlled conditions, but likely there are hundreds of factors more important that small differences in the shoes. And why would Nike allow scientific comparison when they all-ready payed all the athletes millions to side with them on the conclusion?

The are other important factors, but no-one is pouring millions into marketing “Nike brand pacer support with efficient patented wind-breaking formations”.
The Lenovo X1 you hated, was it the Carbon or another in the X1 series?
Exactly this. My girlfriend had severe pain when ovulating and also had strong menstrual periods so basically the only tolerable days for her were the 2 weeks in between. She went through several different pills (as prescribed by her gynaecologist). One gave her severe headaches like every other day, another made her absolutely crazy - fights, crying, always moody, she really was NOT the person i knew and loved. Then finally one worked okay, she only had mild periods and just had them every 3 months or so.

After our first baby her cycles and pains got a lot better, having a baby kind of resets the body so right now she's off the pill and for the past year we're doing fine with the pull-out method (but if she got pregnant we wouldn't mind so it's no problem).
Letter from US Senator to Activision Blizzard [pdf]
>>Amazon said it had responded to Foister’s collapse “within minutes”.

Yeah, in just 45784512 minutes. Actually less, but 20 minutes is not minutes when it comes to heart attacks.
I assumed the OP was saying they both need a -nix OS, and need Adobe CC (e.g. if you do front end web development, although with the move away from Adobe stuff for web design (such as Sketch) and the availability of web based tools like Figma and Zeplin, this is a bit less of an issue than it was).

Of course, Windows now offers WSL - not sure how good it is but it does mean both platforms can offer -nix Terminal while running all the software you need.
The latitude varies with specific location, as temperature ranges vary considerably at different longitudes. It's much further north in Western Europe than in Eastern North America, for example.
> Out of curiosity, why did such cookie-cutter pablum suddenly resonate with you?

No idea. Perhaps it was the right time, the right moment. I'm extremely sensitive about the climate crisis these days.
Let's be honest - this is an SQL-server only issue. Nobody says you can't index NULL values, it's just that SQL server can't do that.
In all of those cases you can:

1. Take 30 mins to find the most affordable option.
2. Ask for a lower price.
I really want to use Fira Mono/Code, but it sadly doesn't support italics, which is a deal-breaker for me, so instead I've been using Iosevka for a week. It's really pretty!
So long as those probabilities are aware of context (style, form of this piece, location in the form, etc.). I've played around with Markov models a little, but I don't think they would quite cut it. This problem is probably slightly less difficult than generating prose from scratch, but it's a similar type of difficulty.

Getting solid curated input data would also be tricky, unless there's some big and well-annotated library of midi recordings sitting around somewhere.

For building a good app today, your best bet is almost certainly to use existing sheet music, pieces and etudes in the given style.
Buffett's Alpha (2018) [pdf]
it is very noisy and hard to see what is happening if you log and return an error at every layer of the stack.

Like everything there are exceptions to the rule and at times it makes sense to do both, but it shouldn't be the norm.
Looking for the best way to compare the performance of different SVMs and CNNs?
Hello,
I'm a beginner in machine learning und I have a problem to find the best way to compare the performance (accuracy) of different SVMs and CNNs (Jupyter Notebook)?
The CNNs I train in Google Colab with GPU.
So far I've tried to make the models reproducible by setting seeds und train each model architecture several times. The reproducibility works with the SVMs, but not with the CNNs in Google Colab.
But generally I'm not sure if reproducibility is really helpful in this case.
Wouldn't it be better not to put any seeds and train each model several times and then
compare the models by using the calculated mean and standard deviation?

I hope and would be very grateful when you can explain me how to do it right.

Many thanks in advance
Show HN: Gent – Generate the perfect title for your LinkedIn and Twitter profile
Except Apple isn't a monopoly, there are alternatives to all their products, most of them outsell Apple by an order of magnitude.
Styling it “Pop!_OS” seems like a bad idea if they want wide adoption. Should I type it like that every time? Or maybe omit the explanation mark, as in the HN submission title? Or just type it the same way as I am (presumably) supposed to pronounce it, “Pop OS”?

I bet all three variants will be used regularly (and probably other, erroneous ones like “Pop_OS!” and “Pop_!OS”). What is the point in making a name ambiguous and difficult to get right? Why not just call it Pop OS?
Atomist Adds Drift Management Features to Minimize Process and Code Divergence
Automatically repeating todos in Things.app, that have a link to the manufacturer's web page where they list BIOS/Firmware updates. The todos are set to repeat 2 months after they were last completed.
In case you didn't notice, Windows 10 is now a tiling window manager with virtual desktops, by default, if you just learn the new keyboard shortcuts.
Are you joking or just don’t know? Google “x222 thinkpad” for an example. There’s a whole market for classic thinkpads.
There are instructions[1] for pointing your Pi-Hole directly to Cloudflare to forward DNS requests over DoH. You can use the same software to point at any other DoH resolver, and you can disable (or alter the endpoint for) the DoH resolvers in Firefox and Chrome.

In July of this year my ISP (Entel Chile) started blocking all ICMP and DNS to non-Entel resolvers. They will not respond to tickets requesting an explanation or confirmation - DNS and ICMP just went dark. In response, I set up DoH on my Pi-Hole with the instructions above.

I don't trust Cloudflare, so a couple weeks ago I started modifying the tools from doh-proxy [2] to run in a container [3]. I have this running in three locations under my control, in networks that I trust (or at least that I trust more than Cloudflare), and in one location I run a proxy that uses Nginx to load-balance requests across the multiple locations.

I made two videos that show how you can set this up, first about the proxy [4] and how to run a stub DNS-to-DoH forwarder in Docker on your local machine if you don't control the network DNS server, and then about how to set up your own private DoH resolvers in Kubernetes (using a $5 VPS and running k3s) [5].

These solutions, while more technical than what my mom can put together, will not only use systems that you control, but depending on how you set it up, will encrypt all DNS traffic from your machine. Encrypting browser traffic is good for the masses, but it only solves a small part of the problem.

Even if you only use the proxy, you can forward to public DoH resolvers that include parental filters, adblocking, and other benefits. If you don't have a Pi-Hole or can't run one, you can get the same benefits with a service like NextDNS [6], who have a generous free tier.

The next step is to configure the resolver to support auth, so that it's not all just hanging out on the Internet like it is at the moment.

For those who are asking about malware and if DoH makes it easier - consider that this is an HTTPS request. All any malware has to do (and already does) is bypass your system's DNS configuration and make the HTTPS request for DNS resolution of C2 systems directly. Whether or not you have DoH active on your system for other requests is irrelevant.

[1]: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

[2]: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/doh-proxy

[3]: https://hub.docker.com/r/monachus/doh-tools

[4]: https://youtu.be/1RTHCieZqls

[5]: https://youtu.be/Z-_SpFWloQo

[6]: https://nextdns.io

Edit: Link formatting
It's even in the name. It's literally the prime formula or regulation. As opposed to free class racing, precisely to foster uniform development of the cars.
Trail of Tears
How can they patent if the researcher publishes the work? Any patent search would show this to be prior art.
> Violent protests with people setting fire to cars, bins, etc; and people throwing rocks or acid to the police must be prosecuted.

Maybe or maybe not. Everything is context dependent and ultimately it will be for people to decide what is correct.

If protestors resort to violence it is likely that their demands have not been met. It is up to the court of public opinion to decide whether those demands are reasonable. If they are and government is failing to meet them, then there is tyranny and the protestors are heroes. If they are not, then they are terrorists.

That is how it works. I know you do not advocate non-violence because you want violence against protestors: "must be prosecuted". You seem to think only the state can exercise violence and that no one else is justified at any time to exercise violence. What if the state stops representing the will of the people?
When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’
Al the options mentioned here are good.

Dell XPS
ThinkPad
Lenovo X1 Carbon

I use a Dell XPS with only 8GB RAM. This can be tight at times. I switched to Ubuntu based Bodhi Linux and I am pretty happy about it. The RAM footprint is very very low and the system is very snappy.
I believe the Optimus thing is broadly speaking fixed in Linux. Intel integrated defo still preferable if you are not gaming or similar.
Ask HN: Career and Jobs in New Zealand
One of my closest friends is moving to New Zealand. He is asking me to come with him (in 8 months). Since NZ has all the bits I love, mountains for hiking, beaches for surf, and a chill population, it started to draw me.

Has anyone considered/has moved to New Zealand as a software eng? Focusing on the three big cities: Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch.

What did you like/dislike about it? Would you do it again?
How is the tech sector there like - career, salary, and recognition?

To put it blunt, would it be a career set back to move from a known city (my case: Toronto) to NZ?
Public executions of the operators of this laboratory would do Humanity good.
It is very nice though not new, Lektor did this for years now: https://www.getlektor.com/
Radioactive chlorine from nuclear bomb tests still present in Antarctica
The Chromecast in particular defaults to 8.8.8.8, ignoring your DHCP-assigned DNS servers.

I've completely blocked any outbound traffic to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 from my network.
sometimes I use ~/opt
Or Beider-Morse.

Solr, for example, supports quite a few phonetic matching algorithms by default[1].

[1]: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_4/phonetic-matching.h...
Good question. They don't have to be, but I suppose it's worth checking.

I found a forum post where someone asked Lenovo support[0] which apparently said:

"When it comes to changing the thermal paste - if you know what you're doing, you're totally fine, but if you break something during the procedure, the repair will not be covered by warranty."

That sounds entirely reasonable. But I guess it's worth checking how well it works with the factory paste first. Some people say it's nonsense to believe an amateur can apply thermal paste better than the factory, others report a 10 degree C difference.

[0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Ca...
Suboptimal hydration promotes degenerative diseases and shortens life
Social engineering, huh? Reminds me of the xkcd cartoon with a $5 wrench https://xkcd.com/538/
Quite literally, for most of us.

I'm willing to bet most people on Hacker News don't live in Silicon Valley, we don't work for a FAANG, don't earn six figure salaries. But maybe you do.

Or does it simply compel people to buy the "new shiny" as the "old" is pushed out to pollute landfills and poison 3rd world countries.

Hasn't the complaint amongst analysts been that people are keeping their phones longer. Isn't this what is driving Apple's push towards services. I don't see environmental groups publishing charts showing phone use is driving climate change instead of travel or agriculture.

Given a choice between the antics of the tech industry vs those of the oil industry I'll take tech any day even if some of the are arseholes like Zuckerberg.
Clinton’s email practices were risky but not malicious, State Department finds
Some solid advice, some not so much. I do call myself a simple programmer. That is how I introduce myself either. Helps a lot when dealing with people whose job title require a third of A4 page to fit.

>How do I become better at negotiation? This could be a post in itself. Short version:

He misses the most important thing. The most powerful thing into negotiation is to know you can stand from the table and leave.
Ask HN: A company gave my business data to a client without consent. Can I sue?
Ask HN: A company gave my business data to a client without consent. Can I sue?

Any lawyer recommendations along with advice would be very helpful.

I run a marketing consulting agency that purchases ad inventory from another ad agency. I then resell this inventory to my consulting clients.

One of my clients contacted the ad agency that my consultancy uses (they figured out who I used) and requested data from my business account relating to their website. The ad agency gave them impression data and the financial costs that my company incurred for those impressions. This was done without my consent.

I was told before in writing that no one would be able to access my account except myself. Also from their privacy and data policy on their website this is made clear as well. My client is not a part of my company and the account is under my own company name. However my clients website name is listed in my clients section of my account.

After my client received the data including the costs I incurred (I mark up the prices) they decided to terminate their relationship with my company and purchase direct from the ad agency. This was a client for over 5 years, my largest client, and has ruined my company.

Am I able to sue the ad agency and reach a financial settlement of some kind? Their actions have ruined my business financially and I'm not sure what will happen with me personally because of this. Further, is what they have done illegal? Perhaps against US or GDPR data laws? I am a US company and they sent the data to Europe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I dodged and got a 2015 Macbook Pro this year.
NASA’s first all-electric experimental X-plane is ready for testing
No, it's not, but people don't understand that it's not the deficit that hurts. It's the lack of carbs. It's the _bonk_. Bonking during a ride sucks hardcore.
Top two posts on hacker news today -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302498

^ this is the other one, wherein the second line of the article states: 'As programmers...'
> The audiences for sports worldwide show that you’re in the minority.

The audience shows that there's room for sports, which, you know, nobody disagrees with. There's not really an established alternative.

I myself would love to see sports separated into "pure" and "enhanced" sports. The former is pretty much what we have today, while the latter would be modified with as little regulation as possible. If it's a car race, something like "don't intentionally hurt other participants" and "your car should touch the floor" would certainly boost creativity.
> If it’s is trivial, why isn’t in the standard library?

Trivial does not mean generic. Just because error handling is easy doesn't mean I want the same handling as you do.
Yea but you're selling yourself and all of us short -- you're either a hacker, a poet or a craftsman, haven't you heard?
Wouldn't a superpower county invade if there was no US military?
I’m not sure Patrick would entirely stand behind this as written anymore, just because the long term trajectory of just a programmer looks better than when he wrote this.

https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/117561737079606886...

An under remarked-upon trend: SFBA/NYC engineering wages are starting to drive engineering wages in the rest of the US as these companies open other US hubs and print remote offers, in both cases keeping salaries in relatively tight bands for e.g. internal fairness reasons.

If you were going strictly by geographical market standards you could have a $200k new graduate in SFBA reporting to a 15 year veteran EM making, hmm, $120k or so in Chicago, but since nobody can tolerate that, that EM gets offered $250k.

“Are there enough engineers from SFBA companies for this to matter nationally?”

There are approximately 3 million software engineers in the US and approximately, finger to wind, 300k work for AppAmaGooBookSoft alone, and that number increases by 50k per year.

The modal software engineer in the US is still working for a digital marketing agency or midwestern insurance company but capitalism is starting to say "Look if you can paint pixels on a web application and you presently work in a cost center, that's unacceptably inefficient."
I think this is a misunderstanding of the desired outcomes. Ads like the article are an effort to make us believe a certain brand can make us perform better, as in "a better person" if you dig all to the bottom of the messaging.

In competitive sports, specially racing, the entertainment factor comes from a level playing field where certain actors can push the boundaries just a little to overcome the competition.

With running, the limiting factor is the human body. This creates a natural ceiling for possible performance.

With F1, there was no "natural ceiling" to begin with. Technology isn't a way to overcome an already imposed limitation, it's quite literally what made the game. So to begin with, you could always get a massive edge by engineering innovation. You could easily add wheels to get even more traction, while you couldn't just add legs to a human to make it run like a cheetah.

So regulation in f1 pretty much takes the job making it a stay a race, not a tech demo where vastly different constructions would compete for speed.
AFAIK there's even plenty of people who order components from newer thinkpads in order to retrofit them to older thinkpad's chasis, either as a way to upgrade their own machine or just to assemble a better laptop (like in most things in this industry, older interfaces and form factors are very often better).
True that! Personally, I need to not have sugary stuff during a long, hard day in the saddle. In fact, yesterday was kind of an experiment ( a rather painful, crappy experiment ).

Gels are great for the last 1/3 to half of the ride though. Straight energy and easy to take in. But even so, I have had gels that made my stomach feel like ass during the ride, so I tend to stick to SIS gels. They're the mildest, packed with carbs for the size, and dont have any coloring.
Interactive Timeline of Design History
What should have been an IMG element became this
I don't agree that January would obviously be on the top. Consider that almost everything on the internet nowadays has the most recent piece of data on top: Twitter, Facebook, Email threads (anti-top-posting battle was lost years ago).

As for Mandarin, yeah, that is true, but that is just one language among many. Some languages refer to past as "front" and future as "behind", should we make a 3d picker too?

One reason they went with up/down may be to shelve the problem with right-to-left languages. But in that case they should use something more obvious. Note that a three letter abbreviation of a month is also not that much larger than an arrow...
Yes I'm sure that's what was going through Turing's mind when he solved the enigma -- let me save freaking Western civilization so I can be forced to suicide and all these millennials can come and get free lunch from their benevolent corporations
How do you find the touchpad? I disqualified LG Gram because of it, feels like cheap $500 HP laptop
Stroustrup uses them in The C++ Programming Language and it is made it much nicer to read.

If you're using tabs for indentation, and not trying to do pointless alignment then there's really no reason to use monospaced fonts at all - it just makes things uglier.
I think if you call yourself a programmer you can do consulting at a relatively high rate for companies who need to get some project for their profit center done. You do that, demonstrate your worth, leave with lots of money, and they might just call you again next time they need to do something for their profit center.

There's definitely ways in which being a programmer can be part of a rewarding career.
> I made a conscious choice to stop customising my desktop (and then later, mobile) experience away from the defaults as much as possible, as I was fed up of having to document and then re-deploy all of my customisations every time I had to reinstall for whatever reason

I tried this for some time and came to the conclusion that for me most desktops' defaults don't fit me and it seems to get worse from release to release.
Except it doesn't force you to be aware of them or explicitly handle them. It relies on a programmer having the discipline to handle them, or even just the inclination to do so. Fine in a perfect world but most of us work in an environment with unreasonable deadlines, we are tired and eager to get home on Friday afternoon, mistakes happen.
Unexploded bomb safely defused by laser method