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One factor you're not accounting for is Maya's cost put(s) it firmly out of range for hobbyists.

Considering the tools required for digital art (a Wacom, iPad Pro, or even a cheaper Huion etc) the art program is probably the cheapest purchase you're going to make, and they're all perpetual licenses (sans Adobe CC)
Tesla comes with a J1772 adapter. Isn’t J1772 limited to 20kW?

Why would a built-in 20kW max charging connector be a must-have specification for an EV?

And the lack of the “real dashboard” is obviously one of the best things going for the Model 3. Makes night time driving in particular almost surreal.

The car is extremely forward thinking and futuristic. Definitely not for everyone.
Come on it’s not being biased but completely blind (I don’t want to get banned otherwise I’d use another word).

Out of nowhere: Kantorovich, Kolmogorov, Smirnov, Markov, Chebychev, Chernoff, Sobolev, Egorov, Novikov, Galerkine, Levenstein, Alexandrov... etc.

Some could cite physicists like Sakharov, Bronstein, Friedmann, Ginzburg... etc.

Their approach to Variational Calculus was very unique back then ahead of their time.
Speaking of... I forgot to mention Pontryagin!

They messed a lot of stuff but not their academy, nor the mass education.
I recently worked at a major retailer who has offices in the Bay Area.

Part of the role involved migrating the ERP and ATS system, which had employees, salary, details etc.

In the building I was in, which had incredible developers btw some of the best I’ve ever seen (and despite working on a legacy system!)...209 out of 209 were H1-B’s. Our consulting team at the time was about 20, and 19/20 of the team were H1-B’s.

The really sad part about it was as we were leaving, they were establishing a training program for junior H1-B’s with liberal arts degrees to learn programming. I have no idea how they got the visa licenses for those folks.

At the same time, they were the best people I ever worked with. But it’s not a sustainable way to run an economy.
Sorry, but this there IS been a long time ago.
And the name is Emacs ORG-Mode Literate Programming :))
Just search the github repo for "cpuid." It's used in two files, and while it does select for featuresets of Intel-specific models, it does so using common feature bits that AMD can implement, and has a fallback path for baseline AVX2-only mode. It isn't clear that they intentionally cripple AMD in any way. There is no explicit check for GenuineIntel, for example.
It seems perfectly valid to "moralize" (that word sure has some baggage, doesn't it?) about those who have power exercising it at the expense of those who don't. In fact, I'd expressly encourage it.

Not saying I'm particularly worried in this case, but overall I don't think that "argument" is a very convincing one if we're actually concerned with "doing the right thing".
I've seen this countless times in SF too. So frustrating.
As a native Texan, it's weird for a few reasons:

a) Pragmatically, separating from the rest of the United States would be devastating to our economy. Much like the United Kingdom from the EU, but on a much larger scale, because the vast majority of our trade, people, and connectedness come from being part of the U.S. Texans like to trot out the factoid that relatively little land in Texas is owned by the federal government because the feds didn't get any when Texas joined the Union, but the land that is owned by the feds contributes a massive amount to our economy. Metro areas like Killeen and a good chunk of San Antonio would simply cease to exist if the military left. (Never mind that a lot of that oil that Texans are so proud of us dragging out of the ground has to go on pipelines that cross the U.S.)

b) It promotes an "us vs. them" philosophy that's not healthy. Texas tries to hold itself out as separate and, to some extent, "above" the rest of the United States. Yet we get the same two Senators and elect representatives to the same federal House as everybody else. Our way of doing things is not necessarily the right way simply because it's the Texan way. (Our legislature, proudly to some people's way of thinking, only meets once every other year and only for a couple of months. That's a terrible way to govern a state of several million people, especially with a phenomenally weak executive.)

c) When do we move on from trying to live history to remembering it? In order to graduate from college, I had to take courses in both federal and state history (3 credit hours of "HIS 1024 History of Texas I" is on my transcript), just because we're so wrapped up in our own mythology. Yes, Texas was its own country. So was California, and Alaska, and Hawaii. Those are things for the textbooks and to explain weird language on deeds and why so many flags fly over the state capitol. It's not the basis for some inexplicable "independent" streak.

Texas needs to get off its predisposition with its past and look towards its future, preferably being one that doesn't embrace fossil fuels--good job on the wind production, thanks T. Boone Pickens--and a car-focused, sprawling development culture.

I hope it does, though I'm watching from afar, having decamped to Washington State many years ago.
Depression. People are spending the majority of their lives staring at a screen, and then wondering why they're depressed.

In the moment it might not feel lonely. Exchanging DMs and posting on Reddit / HN / social media might feel like real communication. But ultimately there's a sense of emptiness to it, and it can't substitute real flesh-to-flesh human connection.

But it feels like we're always expected to be on our "grind", always bettering ourselves in an increasingly competitive labor market, so it's harder to go offline and just enjoy life because there's always that lingering sense of guilt that one is being left behind in our collective arms race to...nowhere.
Or the Epstein-like blackmail video feeds
It's pretty much everywhere you can see the scrollbar. Just press on the scrollbar for a second (so that it seems deliberate), then drag it around.
Thanks for this. Looks like a good excuse for playing with hardware finally for me.

Had a chuckle at the garish nails on the model of this one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4243
We are here because we are deeply interested the software that we're using. If one group of programs does something that tends to suck, then we're going to call it out.
“In fact, one of my kids was recently interviewing at a startup and I told her to ask about the preferred overhang — she said the interviewer looked at her like she was asking about his sex life! She didn’t get a call-back.”

I’ll do you one better. This is like asking someone you’re about to have sex with if they have an STD and then having them act indignant and not answer. And you should do the same thing in both cases and run away.
....why just one provider, anyway?
Tapping the button of the tab you're on doesn't always scroll to the top; it does always scroll to the default position. In the "All Photos" tab of the Photos app, which is sorted with newest photos at the bottom, tapping the tab again will bring you down to the bottom, as that's the default position.
The Second Battle of the Alamo: The Midnight Connection
I mean, I'm personally strongly against showing scrollbars almost everywhere on mobile because any kind of visual noise makes the UI harder for me to parse, the scroll position is not relevant to me usually, and there is not enough screen real estate to make it an actual usable control. I understand this is a personal preference, but I assure you I am not alone and these ideas _were_ tested and debated because there aren't obvious solutions here. You have a much much bigger pointer closer to your face than on Windows 95 (which I remember as a usability nightmare personally to me as a child, I don't know if people have rose colored glasses or it is a generational thing). On desktop I don't have any good arguments, but at least it is an option to re-enable there.
I think that what the article suggests is not to turn Kindles into tablets, but add specific applications. For example, there may be applications of The New Yorker or the Washington Post which are real reading applications: with no distracting ads or notifications, but with updated content and a tailored experience. Web sites may also have specific Kindle versions. This sounds like a terribly ambitious goal, but we are talking about Amazon. Amazon has been capable of much more in the last 10 years.
Supercritical liquids are generally weird. H2O, for example, changes from being a polar solvent to a nonpolar solvent -- you can dissolve oil in supercritical water, and even burn it if you have a source of oxygen. It's also more corrosive -- which is relevant if you're considering using supercritical water in a nuclear reactor.
The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar responsibilities as a manager at a company with 1000 employees. They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.
Imagine the difference between software distributed as a tarball and the binary package. Both totally work, but one is so much easier to deploy in bulk. (This is obviously a very loose analogy, but I think it's roughly correct)
The article cherry picks a few words from the original Krugman essay in a way that would make Maximilien Robespierre proud.

So while we’re at it:

> major disruptions now would be more likely to come from an attempt to reverse globalization than from leaving the current trade regime in place. At this point, millions of decisions about where to put plants, and where to move and take jobs, have been made on the assumption that the open world trading system will continue. Making that assumption false, by raising tariffs and forcing a contraction of world trade, would set off a whole new wave of disruption along with a whole new set of winners and losers.
They offer one likely non-sinister explanation right in the article:

“The software engineer market, it’s so saturated with H-1Bs that some of the people who are laid off are almost inevitably H-1Bs and some of the people that are being hired are inevitably H-1Bs,” Bier said. “I don’t read into it anything like this is obviously job displacement.”
I thought the H-1B was supposed to be a lottery, how is any company having this much "good fortune"?
Long live the rolling brown outs.
It kinda does though, because modern software companies tend to shift focus away from projects before they get completely "done". The whole reason for "mobile first" is the tacit admission that whatever is not the primary focus will often get drastically less attention because there's already something that sorta "works".
Younger people are less likely to be able to deal with directories. (er, "folders", and get off my lawn) They are also less clear about what is on the local machine.

They use iOS and Android. They don't use a file manager, and certainly don't use a command line.

Chromebooks are now common in education. Stuff goes on the Google drive.

This is causing trouble when these people end up needing to use traditional desktop software in college or in the workplace. They have trouble with saving files, moving files, and making backups.
No reason at all to believe those same people will feel the same in a decade, or even still live in Texas.

The state is politically shifting blue. Some may head to redder pastures. Climate change could make it intolerable to the masses.

If recent history was an iron clad predictor of the future we’d all be focused on Brexit, and going on about those royals
iPhone 8's were one of the highest selling devices the year they came out, outselling the X some quarters.

There are millions of iPhone 8 and 7 devices actively being used.
Well paid workers, OSHA, and the EPA vs countries with dirt cheap labor and no worker or environmental protections... which do you think will win?

The big question for me is how in the world so many smart people convinced themselves it would turn out otherwise?
It is for sure a lot. AWS wants it. Everyone wants it.

But, it is a maximum of $10Billion ...over 10 years. Th at is the key thing to focus on. I'm sure both companies have private sector customers right now that pay a quarter to half-billion a year right now.

I think the greater damage is optics vs financial..and optics can cost a lot.

Let's say AWS makes $30-Billion this year. So, losing $1-billion this year is 3.33%? (Though I'm sure the contract starts not this year?)...How much will AWS be making in 10 years?
This doesn't appear to include tipping in cash, only tips include in the payment via Uber.
Wait what – they made a second season of Jericho?! You sir just made my day!
At some point isn’t it simpler and cheaper to have several independent battery packs which each present their own 350kW ports and you can connect multiple charging cables at once — versus inventing entirely new standards and needing a pluggable harness that can carry two freakin’ megawatts?
For one, it has the only decent C++ debugger in existence.
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OK but labor is a dominant cost in most of these startups. The labor is all local, being paid local wages. PPP is absolutely relevant.
There’s nothing stopping us writing software that reversibly transforms code so that the keywords are expressed in a different language, with the transformation being reversed before the compiler/interpreter sees it, right? What’s stopping us from treating language as a superficial “view level” property of code?
https://youtu.be/gNbSazIqVYA?t=290
When will i.am become i.was?
He’s suggesting it could be a really good newspaper and magazine reader as well, not that it should become an iPad.
Exactly. The entirety of the company roster could easily be 5 people and still have someone with a title like that.
The Timex Sinclair was a variation on the ZX81, not a Spectrum.
Western nations aren't growing that quickly and likely have enough space. The fact that the whole world can't sustain it doesn't mean America can't, at least in terms of land. There's plenty of physical space; crowding is only an issue in part of the world.

Besides, if this is really the case, then demand will vastly out-strip supply and the price will sky-rocket. No need to try to stop people eating meat; the market would do that.
Chrome and Firefox auto updates too. But those are fast, done in the background and they don't require reboots.

Windows is still terrible at this.
I had just realized it must've been the tenth time I've had to google an acronym on HN over the last couple days. You're probably right that it's fair jargon in the context of e-readers. It's just that context is constantly changing as you click between HN comments. I might just be in a sassy mood. :P
You can't compare directly compare clock rates like that, since the 6502 family takes 2-4x fewer cycles to perform the same operations.
> Would we rather have the people in control of the military and our troops use out-of-date tech

I don't trust or rely on any infrastructure that largely uses microsoft products...I'm sure there's some minor stuff hidden away here and there within systems. MSFT has a software philosophy, which is reciprocated in their culture, that can only be described as byzantine and unpredictable. They are basically 00's Oracle at this point.
Haven't followed Bezos too closely, but, never thought of him to be a political person or saw anything where he made political comments.

Buying the Washington Post certainly forced the world around him to see him as political...even if he considers himself not.
They could be "older" H-1Bs , folks from India are waiting for a GreenCard since 2010, they can renew their H-1Bs in 3-year increments (perpetually) if they have a pending application for permanent residency.
Is this true? Fascinated to read more if so.
To be fair, it elected BHO as well. But the tone, culture and mainstream media then was different. When "Yes we can" and "Hope you can believe in" didn't pan out those emotions took a u-turn.

It's easier to see the direct line to DJT, but that historic line passes through eight years of BHO.
It was kinda a whole todo the last time some people tried to secede from the Union. It's weird to think it's a good idea to try again.
Ya I don't see them moving their entire infrastructure out of Azure in 10 years unless they use kubernetes/other extremely portable software for nearly everything.
Azure revenue includes O365 revenue though.
I'm now super curious what percentage of pages from 2008 are still around/available today.
Pentagon Picks Microsoft over Amazon for $10B Jedi Cloud Deal
"What's the most important part of any message?"

"The name of the messenger."

The quote is from

> Immigration policy analyst David Bier of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, [who] didn’t see evidence of H-1B abuse by Uber in its increased visa approvals and efforts to obtain more.
> will.i.am's AI startup raised a 100m round.

Nope, no bubble to see here. Definitely just a regular healthy market doing healthy market stuff.
Fair enough, sounds mostly like a matter of opinion, with the exception of point #1, which sounds more like a matter of fiscal priorities that aren't necessarily set in stone.

I'm not a Texan but I do see the rationale behind freedom to associate or not associate with people based on shared values or a lack thereof.
also if it’s a fixed value (say $1000 a month), it

1. doesn’t cover the rising costs of medical care and insurance (in the us at least)

2. won’t keep up with inflation

3. sets up private markets to potentially inflate prices “because people have 1000 dollars extra to spend”

UBI in concert with price limits for basic goods and services, insurance reform, and medical costs limits might have a chance.... but then you are now confronted with the potential that it’s now the “rich and large corporations” who are subsidizing everyone, giving them extraordinary political power over the govt/people

i’m still skeptical of UBI
I can't provide any technical advice unless the op shows their config. I am downvoted because this community is already biased thinking Google must be at fault and the configuration can't be wrong at all ?.
There are several known conditions. Each will perceive things differently. For any color combination each group of people should see it as high contrast. If a group that is only 1 percent of the population cant read some color scheme it may still be considered fine If their perception is averaged in with everyone else.

Come to think of it, someone should have already done the work and color sets should be published somewhere.
> Trump's economic policy is a near exact copy of what Krugman has been advocating for years:

No, it's not.

Let's start with the major area of economic policy called taxation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/alexandria-ocasio...
Just blindly handing off problems has no added value.

No, if the CEO tasks an executive with something that guy/gal should responsibly* think about the task, analyze it, break it down, and hand off "smaller" chunks to underlings.

And smaller could even mean a lot more detailed but with better scoping. Fixed budget, concrete goals, etc.

* - said exec should/must ask the CEO about the priority of this task, what other tasks will be demoted, is it possible, do they have enough budget, resources, timeframe, etc.
You can be sarcastic all you want, it doesn't make you right. I never said connecting grids makes them invulnerable, just more resilient. Connecting the EU grids has made them more stable, made electricity cheaper, made energy production more efficient (no more hydro going to waste), etc. etc.

There is indeed risk for cascading failure but it is very rare (how long have the US grids been interconnected vs. how many times has there been a massive, multi-state blackout?) and with EU countries higher attention to infrastructure maintenance the risk is even less.
So in the past ten-ish years, the kindle has remained the same, the amazon store has been flooded with knock off products, and the only other notable consumer products Amazon makes are unremarkable Android tablets, buttons that let you accidentally order more laundry soap, and eavesdropping devices.

I say lets let it be.
> Double tap selects a word, and triple tap selects a paragraph.

FYI: Triple-tap is for sentences. Quadruple-tap is for paragraphs.

Text selection is the one area that the lack of 3D Touch affects me the most, and I am truly upset about it.

With last year's phone/iOS, you could 3D Touch anywhere on the keyboard and enter a cursor-move mode. This was replaced with the spacebar thing, which is fine.

But then while moving your cursor around in the old version, you could 3D Touch again to select a word, again for a sentence, and again for the paragraph. I could select text so easily! This made deleting sections or copy/pasting bits of edited text sooooo much easier.

Now it's significantly worse. I can move the cursor fine, but then to select text I have to use my fingers to tap on the text directly and it's much more difficult to be precise. (Why? Because I can't see through my fingers, surprisingly. You can see through a cursor just fine.)

Sigh. I'm really disappointed in this change specifically.
Do we even know if it's possible to prove correctness of a theorem-prover, in a very general sense? At some point, that would imply that some theorem-prover would have to prove its own correctness (either by proving itself directly or by proving itself through a loop of theorem-provers). This seems intuitively like it start to run up against Gödel-style incompleteness problems.
Prepare to be disappointed at a season ending cliffhanger... all over again.
Try telling a kid you're older than Google.
Microsoft Wins Jedi Cloud Contract
I've been using computers religiously since I got my Vic20 at 9 or 10, after working for it for a year.

Almost every time I need to change something on son's aging iPad (2012 issue, updated to latest iOS but is before cut off point for iPad OS) it seriously risks defenestration.

Parental setup including App store restrictions is the absolute worst, followed closely by the scattered application settings.

If only there was an Android tablet that was as well physical engineered. Unfortunately they don't really come close.

So his iPad is for educational apps only, and I got him the newly issued Switch for gaming. The quality of the A grade titles is astounding, well worth paying; none of the ad ridden crap that's par of the course on the iPad. And even though I'm missing some granularity, their parental controls are a textbook case of fantastic UX work by comparison.

The companion Android app lets me easily define and monitor daily limits; it just works.
i.am+ was founded by will.i.am, who is globally known to be the founder of The BEPs, which he started with no money.

this story about i.am+ going broke is likely planted by H1B workers that are turning on him and the somewhat notorious Indian CEO that has had his hand in will's pocket for far too long. if they had done their job right, or even done what they obviously promised to do, they might be in better shape over there, don't you think?

by the way, one of those people that you think has "this coming" is widely known to be Marc Benioff, the Founder of Salesforce, who is himself fighting hard to ensure that people treat you right (and let you keep trying to start a tech company) after you finally become homeless.
Well, the article mentions how many visas were approved, not how many were requested. Maybe there were many more that were requested, so that even with the lottery they got a huge number of accepted requests.
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Or just use the Quick Access Toolbar. I have it set up with all of my most used commands that I know the icon for.