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> Computer monitors are most guilty of having some of the biggest power bricks, and I'd love to see them replaced with regular power cables

Dell Monitors have a single power cable (for example this P2418D [1]). Many other manufacturers ship giant power bricks because it allows them to make the screen thinner, and nobody sees the power brick under the table. It comes down to customer preference.

1: https://snpi.dell.com/snp/images/products/large/210-AMUH-mvi...
It doesn’t need recursion, you can do a while(round(x/3)-2 > 0) type thing, but recursion is simpler.
Bullshit makes the art grow profounder
Google doesn’t lose from this (other than brand value), since Google just arbitrages between advertisers and webadmins. Unfortunately, the ‘solution’ to this cat-and-mouse game is increased targeting and surveillance, allowing advertisers to selectively target likely customers from bots.

If we want to wean off of this surveillance economy, both consumers (via ad block) and companies (via organic demand) need to leave the platform. Otherwise we will end up with scams to fill either side of the market. Consumers with Adblock get replaced with bots, companies get replaced by Taboola-style clickbait.
Had I known more about my condition, I could have saved my ears from nearly a decade of damage.
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Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better (2016)
that comment (while technically correct) is undoubtedly from someone who has obviously never driven across the nullabor.
Wasn't it the case that oxycodone was marketed as working for 12 hours (per its patent) when it only worked for 8? And that doctors were told by the pharmaceutical company to increase the dose rather than make it more frequent?

Recreational users wouldn't be the problem since addiction is the intended result.
It's funny you mention this, I've been thinking about this lately. I make a 1.1 hour sporty bike ride every day and listen to podcasts while doing so, but I'm often asking myself if I should just not do that and instead listen to myself.

The same goes for falling asleep, where I used to listen to podcasts but they got replaced by YouTube videos which I just listen to. I remember the time when I dealt with my thoughts before falling asleep. That was maybe 10 years ago.

And kids nowadays will probably never get to know that feeling.
That people can become addicted to crack and heroin without being prescribed opioids does not necessarily preclude people getting addicted to opioids after being prescribed opioids.
try privacy.com one off credit cards with fixed limits. use them for each service that may bill you again.
So basically the same trick as Stuxnet?
I know your company knows how to use the monthly hiring threads, post there (and on a personal note, maybe respond to people applying ;))
I wrote a book that is exactly what you describe (high school math review for adults), which you can check here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/099200103X/noBSmath (~200 pages = compact review of high school math topics with lots of exercises and practice problems)

The green book is a subset of the longer book that also covers mechanics and calculus https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001005/noBSmathMechCalc (see preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ... )

High school math is very deep, so I will not claim to cover all topics, but I present the most useful parts (equations, algebra, functions and inverses, math modelling), so it would be a good starting point.

Independent and in addition to the above, you can check out this printable tutorial on SymPy that can also be helpful as a review of lots of high school math material: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
I fail to see how this anecdote about a Twitter comment is relevant to a comment about IP theft.

GP is correct - any older Cisco employee can count off a laundry list of things Huawei directly stole from them, and the Chinese state absolutely subsidizes them. GP is making the point that it isn't fair to compare Huawei prices to Apple prices given the amount of engineering Huawei stole from other companies and their government subsidies.
It really helps to (1) have taken an algorithms class and (2) be aware of Python libraries that implement common graph algorithms if you're going for time. At least, that was my impression 2016-2017. The later puzzles are impossible if you don't know a good enough algorithm (they're more or less designed to take impossible amounts of time to completely brute force).

I'd suggest new programmers do any they can reasonably understand and just skip ones that seem like they'll be frustrating or require a "fast" algorithm they don't know. (OTOH, many days' first star can be gotten with a brute force algorithm. It's usually the 2nd star that takes something more clever.)
Cryptocurrency exchange CEO gone missing
Because mannequins almost exclusively refers to showroom figures. Manikins usually is the diminutive for man/people and usually refers to medical models of people though also small sculptures of people.
What a disaster. There is no doubt that was an epically awful experience.

Yet I fail to see at all how it was everyone else's fault. You pay the landlord and uber the price that the market sets and you are free to not do so. The points about being a tenant vs. owner, of your John Deere, your phone, your car are more accurate, but all of these are totally off-topic.

To travel with inadequate funds, to not be able to afford a couple days in a hotel if need be, or a rental car, is just foolish. To do so during a huge storm on some of the busiest travel days in the year is asking for trouble.

What does the author expect that with 50,000 or 100,000 other travelers delayed due to weather, that American (who he paid a couple hundred bucks) is going to magically part the clouds, make aircrew and equipment show up, and fix his personal planning problem?

Or maybe they should comp everyone hotel rooms for a weather issue? If they did that they'd be out millions and soon be out of business. And as irritating as the airlines are, they are way better than walking.

Lesson #1: whenever you travel, have contingency plans. Don't expect the airlines to have them for you. I learned that on 9-11-2001. Good thing I had a rental car and could drive home.

Lesson #2: don't expect businesses to set prices and/or provide services based on what you desire or need.
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.h...

https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/medieval-prices-a...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/
The problem also, is that tech companies in Russia and in China have no choice but to cooperate with the state and be part of espionage. This is not just about open and fair markets, yada yada. This is only "clean" in theory.
After some long nights either performing work tasks or going to local meetups I try to take a nap on the train when I commute back to work. Sometimes during my breaks I do some breathing exercises using my Apple Watch.

But, now that I am using meal replacements the actual time that I take to eat lunch and or breakfast goes from 15 minutes to nearly 1-5 minutes which I spend preparing the meal replacement and ingesting it. Since I now have 25 minutes left and I typically eat at around 11am when most people eat around 1pm I have actually started either meditating or doing nothing.

Going on for other ergonomics that should be done during work and or mental tasks remember to check that your workspace is paired with a good chair and that your monitor is at eye level and your mouse and keyboard or other input devices don't require you to reach.

Another thing that is handy is rewarding yourself for a task not necessarily with food but with some form of exercise. After I complete a task using a computer I typically take a victory lap. This seems to actually cause positive reinforcement by rewarding myself with that victory lap. I know that dog trainers will use a toy instead of food to reward their dogs. It also will help your ergonomics and could help with back problems. I find that walking and or doing planking removes back pain for me (I'm 31).
Amazon makes one https://aws.amazon.com/config/
People can drink alcohol every day without being addicted to it.
Excellent point. I would say it would be more impressive if China were to build its own EDA tools.

At this point, I think the US should start protecting its EDA companies from Chinese investors.
I do not care what a traitor with blood on his hands has to say about privacy.
Articles whose content contradict their headlines are rather quite frustrating. The title is "Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips"

But the article itself states: "While Huawei hasn’t stopped using American chips entirely, it has reduced its reliance on U.S. suppliers or eliminated U.S. chips in phones launched since May"

And it's graph shows significant usage of US chips.

I'm sure Huawei is trying it's best to reduce its dependence on US chips, and thanks to access to chips from the EU, Taiwan, JP, it likely will succeed. But I can't help but be annoyed at the thought that Taiwan and Japan are relying on the US to protect them from the same CCP they're short sightedly profiting from.
Medieval pricing and economy is interesting. I just listened a lecture last summer.

These were not free market prices. "Fair price" was moral issue within the community. You could not charge too much extra if the customer faced sudden urgent demand. And buyer was not allowed to exploit the seller either. Exploiting temporary scarcity or oversupply when bargaining would get you into trouble with the law, the guild etc. Determining the fair price level was delicate political process.
Not the answer you were looking for, but I couldn’t find one so got the ravpower 61W and an extra small international adapter.
That would be much easier, if the rules in the first place were a static system made available to everyone on real time and understood by all, and the costs of engaging with were proportionally burdensome to all. But its not, though if people seem fine with cat and mouse game between EU regulators looking for quick cash, and Google et al always seeming one step ahead (with no notable improvements people search experience outside more skinner boxes of compliance sprinkled around), then I guess that's what most people want and are ok with… meh
Create an international cap-and-trade network where American companies can purchase "pollution credits" from Indonesian farmers. The credits would be used to clear land sustainably. The scheme would be designed in such a way that the mitigated Indonesian pollution far outweighs the American pollution enabled through such a scheme. Naturally, it would be cheaper for Indonesian farmers to clear land sustainably than for American companies to pollute less (some are hitting a wall with current anti-pollution technology).

After Indonesia reaches a certain GDP-per-capita, its own companies would be subjected to progressively higher restrictions on pollution. At that point, Indonesian companies themselves would be paying companies in less developed nations (Laos, Rwanda) for the right to pollute.
@agronaut: most interesting to me: why did you post this? What were you working on that led you to this?
Possibly, but it's a dangerously fragile ecosystem where absurd concessions are the norm.
I had plenty of 20-20 hindsight about faster ways to have solved puzzles in the past. I don't know if I was ever #1 on any day on either star. I think I might've been top 10, on one star, of one day, once.
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True, the main reason is to understand differential equations. The first vector is supposed to be the speed and the second the acceleration. And the area represented by the dqdp is invariant through time in a conservative system.
Yes, of course some relative prices have changed dramatically! If you choose to hold constant the price of a customary work-week of semi-skilled labor, you get something quite close to dsr_'s calculation where the tunic costs as much as $1,500. But given that the goal of all economic activity, including labor, is consumption, the least bad choice would seem to be choosing some sort of indexing based on an average consumption basket - which is essentially what an "inflation calculator" does.
Huawei is special in that beyond even requiring to cooperate with the state, it has a corporate structure that is seen in State-Owned Entities and could be thought of as a CCP entity.
Wasn’t Stuxnet the other way around?
For such a simple question, why wouldn't you just use Wikipedia?

In any event, neither a blog nor Wikipedia would likely be a "primary source". Maybe something like a driver license would be a primary source.

It could be that you have a "philosphical objection" to "copy-pasted crap and artifically inflated content". I wonder if Google could have a role in encouraging the continued existence of this stuff. The effective opacity it creates seemingly justifies having an entity like Google.
Yes, you don't need doing any fourier transform, but it seems to me to be equivalent to doing signal processing after a fourier transform with the knowledge that it's a pure tone.
Remembering the Home Computer Christmas Wars of 1983
Can’t help but be reminded of that immortal sales pitch: ”I can make whatever you wish for a wee little bit more than me competition.”
I find more and better solutions to problems without actively thinking about them in a 1 hour yoga class than I can actively trying to solve them all day at work.

It's gotten to the point that I need to bring pen and paper with me into practice.
> I checked out a Huawei store - they're the same asthetic as an apple store with a ton more useful tech then an ipod, macbook and imac.

If you cannot tell the difference between the design aesthetic of an Apple store and a Huawei one I will heavily discount your taste as a guide to my I own. I’ve only been to Huawei stores in China, perhaps it’s different elsewhere. The tables are plastic fake wood. The stores smell bad when new, like cheap plastic or putting your nose right next to the benches in a just opened McDonald’s. I assume the same kind of care for aesthetics and design goes into their products so if you want a bad cheap copy of the surface level of good design go with Huawei.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

"Purdue tells doctors to prescribe stronger doses, not more frequent ones, when patients complain that OxyContin doesn’t last 12 hours."
Google, Facebook, etc can kill this off by requiring a 90 initial day payout for new news sites and also requiring a deposit that can be forfeit if the site is violating their ToS.

Facebook wants to actively encourage this as their strategy is to push fake news so the GOP gets into the Whitehouse again as Sanders/Warren have threatened to break up FB.
I also have never driven across the Nullabor. Would you kindly elaborate on what you mean?
We also never have time to fix TD because we are too busy creating it. It's all a question of managing resources, for a small startup or a Medium-sized company, if really stop to listener our "drones" we would waste so much resources
Part of the problem is that they handle much differently than purchases. To buy something you need to have enough money at some point in time. Subscriptions require you to have a stable cashflow. The former is usually easier than the latter.

On top of that, subscriptions are also relationships you have to keep track of. With a lot of subscriptions, it can become overwhelming.
The author left the pharmaceutical marketing industry in 2000; now, the author works as a doctor. From the bottom of the essay:

> When I was a drug rep, I really believed my pitch for our products — and I believed that by exerting influence over doctors, I helped patients access medicine they needed. As a doctor, I now have colleagues — colleagues with sharp, clinically trained minds and only the best of intentions — who think they write prescriptions on a wholly rational basis.

In 2000, the author would have been witness and/or a party to the industry most excessive and unmonitored marketing practices, i.e. well before the federal push for transparency and disclosure [0]. Now, as a doctor – albeit an ER doctor, who may not be the biggest target for pharma reps – he likely has decent awareness of how both pharma marketing and doctor attitudes have changed.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors...
The mobile and the desktop security has to merge. To wide or too or too narrow no good. Windows different era
Yeah, it's really frustrating when the text summary is vague and underspecified. It makes it hard to understand exactly the result the author is looking for, which isn't the fun kind of puzzle.
Securing Smart TVs
>And obviously it's not so great for the US.

There's a lot of confusion, I think, about how you "win" a trade war; as far as I can tell, autarchy is pretty bad for all involved; trade wars seem like a thing where everyone loses and the 'win' comes from winding down the trade war and trading again.
Agreed, from the title I was expecting Swift language extensions with compiler plugins.
I have met people who claim to have tried various hard drugs without addiction, but they usually don't talk about it because of the taboo. As a non-using bystander I would find it interesting if both prescription and banned substances had something like LD50 but for addiction. A measure of what dosage pattern will lead to 50% of the population being addicted. An AD50.
Is the article you are talking about "What Putin Really Wants" by Julia Ioffe[0]? It was published in January 2018. It doesn't have the USB key story you're talking about though.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/putins-...
Reading the link, it sounds like that's (a) fraud detection and not targeting and (b) a third party, IAS, that the advertiser is including in their ads
One the best sources is the National Institute on Drug Abuse:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/
Talk to a lawyer to determine what options you have, do not rely on advice from strangers on such an important topic.
One of the most useful shell plugins IMO.
My 5 year old had to have surgery to repair a small abdominal hernea. Not a big deal, most kids recover incredibly fast and are back to running around within 2 or 4 days. We were given a prescription for enough opioids for 3 months at the maximum daily dosage. She needed one day, half the daily max.
It's ... sort of a text-mode chatroulette, but with presumed roles of the asker (supplicant) and responder (Oracle), a protocol for asking (#INCLUDE grovel) and answering questions, and a presumption that what is being submitted is in fact a question, with a voting mechanism for best responses.

Best question-response pairs were curated weekly and at longer intervals, in a digest. Those were absolutely delightful to read.

TL;DR: Like "Ask HN", but very, very, very different.

You owe the Usenet Oracle a pint of maudlin.
The problem isn't with unexpected or fraudlent charges. It's with the expected ones. Each subscription is another recurring charge, of a different amount and at a different time. Eventually it can become a death of a thousand papercuts.

I too share the subscription fatigue, and avoid subscriptions as much as possible. I prefer to pay once, up front.
Xiaomi is even more impressive. A friend of mine from China showed me a video (2017 or 2018) of a man who ordered from a Xiaomi store. The video was of the man receiving the item he ordered 5 minutes after he ordered it! It was around midnight not sure of the day but 5 minutes to his door step from ordering it!

I asked my friend how is that possible so he showed me an image of a map of Xiaomi warehouses. I can't recall if he said there were dozens or hundreds per city.
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker.

Sleeping is important, and since I started doing more (and improving the quality of), I feel better and get more done.
I predicted this and it will continue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20303157

I think we are in this awkward time where China is shifting from playing catch up to the US to taking more of a lead in some areas that are meaningful. This type of transition is awkward for all involved, but it was going to happen and these sanctions moved it forward a bit.

I am still surprised that the sanctions didn't have that much of a financial effect on China or at least us in the west didn't notice it very much.
Something like this?

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000237954145.html
I agree that developers should be given a lot more space then they are given today however:

- I think it should be constant, not a day every now and then;

- I think it should be in the context of their current work;

- I think it should be an integral part of product building.

I remember reading a nice post from Basecamp [0] about how they structure their work. It felt like a nice way to go about it.

> Once a six week cycle is over, we take one or two weeks off of scheduled projects so everyone can roam independently, fix stuff up, pick up some pet projects we’ve wanted to do, and generally wind down prior to starting the next six week cycle. Ample time for context switching. We also use this time to firm up ideas that we’ll be tackling next cycle. More on this in a bit.

[0] https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-structure-our-work-and-tea...
Haven’t been through the Nullabor myself, but I can’t imagine it’s so treacherous that you can’t drag a few five inch HVDC conductors through it (which only need to be buried, no concrete channel or conduit required, to support ~2500MW of transmission capacity).

If I recall, that’s where the latest Mad Max film was filmed.
The key is better education and destigmatisation around addiction and its causes, and encouraging open dialogue. Otherwise we'd end up in a weird, accidentally classist society where poor (and other "at-risk") people aren't allowed opioids but wealthy people are.

People don't want to, or choose to become addicted, and it's not like people take a drug once and they're instantly hooked. People being prescribed potentially addictive medication (and those around them, friends and family) need to be educated on the warning signs of dependence, and encouraged to talk about it. There shouldn't be a stigma in admitting addiction, it's not a moral or personal failing, but it's treated as such by so many people.
I'm super skeptical of these articles about programmers with superhuman powers.
I don't get how "let your developers do whatever they want" equates to playing with some "shiny new thing". Most companies have a training budget that should allow for learning new technologies, even ones not directly applicable.

If I had the opportunity to do what I wanted on company time it would 99% of the time be fixing some technical debt in the existing code; reworking something with a different/speculative architecture; or build some tools to automate anything that gets in the way of doing more meaningful work.
I am talking to a lawyer tomorrow. Thank you..
And those people deserve to be treated with respect and dignity too.
Australia does not have a national electricity grid.

We have this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/National...

Also, we have plenty of natural gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Australia#Natural_ga...