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When you are located in Bahrenfeld, then there is another nice place to be, not so far away. I noticed that by chance one summer night, walking down the Baron-Vogt-Straße from the S-Bahn Station Klein-Flottbek (Botanischer Garten). I could see many stars and even some meteors, while walking down to the Elbe, and then thought why not enter the park here?

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenischpark

It has downsloped open spaces, and the glare from Airbus Industries and parts of the harbour on the other side of the
Elbe are visible, but the field of view from straight up to maybe 50° above horizon is ok. It's better than Altonaer Volkspark or Lise-Meitner-Park in my experience.
My computer has USB-C ports, not Ethernet ports. ;)

I’m a sketchy dongle away from a client zoom call going poorly.
Yeah but the problem is the end user have to setup those to receive payment.
I don't see how it is more complicated than existing setups.

You will just have to connect your card and generate link by putting the username and social site, amount etc. And then drop the link.
That should only take a few minutes for first sign up and afterwards, a minute or so.

Patreon, buy me coffee etc are not comparable since they focus on recurring transactions and are not anonymous, require registration from both end of users.

Instead of that, the end user just needs to click on verify by reddit button and then put their bank details to receive payment instantly. They can make an account if they like during the process so they don't have to verify next time they wanna receive a payment but otherwise don't have to.

Comparable platform would be keybase I guess but that still requires you some setup on both ends.

I don't need to know your identity outside of whatever platform I am interacting on to send you a tip. I shouldn't assume you have xyz account except for the platform I am interacting with you on.

example - you wanna tip me right now but how will you do that?
>People aren't going to give up single family detached homes with garages and yards until they have to.

That housing stock will eventually rot away as people age and their local governments can't afford to maintain the infrastructure anymore. Entropy will win eventually as future generations can no longer afford to live so far away from job centers.

Plus, it's not as if you can't have urbanism and still have garages and yards. They just end up being smaller. Plenty of places have yards and garages in urban Pittsburgh or Philly. The template for density doesn't always have to be Manhattan or Hong Kong.
I mean, Gerrymandering, voter suppression...

Hard to believe they're acting in any democratic fashion. Btw, impeachment is a well documented power of the legislative branch.
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That’s 1/2 right SSD’s do have fragmentation issues, but it’s about IOPS not latency. http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Does-F...

TRIM is also important, but it’s a different issue.
Can we start a guerilla campaign to DMCA all of Trump's re-election campaign materials?
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> or at least not any gerrymandering that happened in the past 100 years.

This is the /very/ important distinction. Our entire country was gerrymandered when they gave every state 2 votes in the senate. It's truly crazy how few Americans can sway the makeup of the senate/house/EC.

Edit: removed "(and 3 base in the house)" because that's not correct, I was mixing it up with the EC in my head.
I do pay several hundred a year in tolls but as far as I can tell it all goes to state or local DOTs.
> It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me.

Is it though? I mean I've had none of these problems. You could literally have a bad RAM stick or a misbehaving piece of hardware.

For every one of these posts, are hundreds of thousands of people will no problems at all and therefore no reason to make a post.
This is the best news to Start the new year!!!
Stop drinking. Specifically binge drinking. Everything else will fall into place after that I think.
Yeah, it also helps to frequently remind yourself of the times you thought you were entirely correct, only to later discover you were completely wrong. It happens to everyone, many times throughout our lives. Though we tend to forget them.

Another thing that I've found helpful is to adopt a frame of mind where you don't want to be wrong for a moment longer than necessary. Therefore open to being incorrect, and would rather be corrected than continue being wrong. When your model has been updated, view it as a positive.

Steelman instead of strawman. Seek the strongest opposition to your idea.

It can be hard to do, but worth trying as much as possible.
In PostgreSQL we could do that in parallel:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+hUKGKzn3mjCAp=TDrji...
Countries with public rail systems (or railway companies that are largely owned by the state) are usually way better than privately operated railway lines. Private railway service almost always sucks (crappy trains, high fares) and is only profitable on the most popular routes.
Does France not allow a citizen to hold multiple passports at once? I know the US allows this. Say you travel often, including to places where you need to send your passport to a foreign embassy to get a visa. You can request a second passport so you can continue traveling elsewhere while you wait on your first passport to be returned to you.

Seems like the CEO of multiple major multinational corporations would be the sort of person who would need this.

So maybe when Ghosn was required to hand over his passports, he gladly handed 3 of them over, quietly retaining 1 or more in a safe place.
Auto plant closures tied to surge in opioid overdose deaths
> I don't see how Apple hasn't done the best job in terms of operating systems.

I just re-read this and I think I misread your comment the first time through and we're pretty close to the same page. I wasn't trying to suggest Apple's completely dropped the ball on MacOS, only that they've lagged on some features and had several fairly buggy launches over the past 3-4 years.

I used to automatically upgrade to the latest OS early in the cycle. This year I'm not even on Catalina yet. Too many bug reports with very few features to make it worth the pain. I think the current version has ironed out most of the issues.
I'm a CPA, and I pay another CPA specialized in taxes to do mine. Our tax code is far too complex. Basically no one can just sit down and do their taxes and be sure that they are paying the minimum amount they owe.
It's by design. The GOP wants you to rub your face in the fact that the government runs on tax revenue, in the hope that you'll develop an allergy to taxes.
This takes me back.

One of the last projects I did in college was a terrain generator.

After, I was learning a new programming language, so I picked it up again to experiment with some world building.

I started trying to generate more realistic (and traverseable) terrain. I had worked out coastlines and rivers, made some headway on biomes, and gotten stuck on simulated erosion before I remembered that I like games a little too much and didn’t want to make them for a living.

I was pretty bummed when No Man’s Sky was panned. Using generated terrain as a canvas and dropping a story into it still feels like the right long-term solution for exploration games.
The first is crumbling and a major cause of urban sprawl and global warming. The second has brought some benefits like a microwave, but nothing of any meaningful use. We lack moon bases for example. National parks should be state run. This is a massive power grab by the feds under feel-good logic.
I find plaingnome on top of Ubuntu not needing any feeling. My kids grew up on that and were really confused and found it hard when they had to use Windows and OSX in school.

I, for one, cannot get my head around the OSX UI, I find it impossible to use.
The reason Microsoft do this is to respect the user preferences[1]. When a program goes through the proper channels, Windows pops up the dialog which says "you have installed a new program which can handle {Foo} filetype, would you like to open it in the new program, or the one you were using?"

When a program skips this user-respecting dialog, and edits the registry directly to take control of a file extension without user consent, Windows detects it and resets, to give control back to the user instead of letting random software take over. It's part of Raymond Chen's "What if two programs did this?[2]" and "I bet someone got a nice payrise for hijacking user file extensions" comments on his OldNewThing blog.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96...

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35...

[3] See also: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190724-00/?p=10...
Really cool project! Small suggestion, some indication of which type of tile is currently selected might be nice (like maybe highlight it or something).
I hope you're trolling because this is a guaranteed way to climb a peak of stupidity [1]. If OP is determined to get a bit deeper than 30 min guides on Medium, there is sure theory to learn. But it is merely second year of college, and probably you would like to skip Kolmogorov axiomatics and measure theory, it won't hurt your understanding of bleeding edge researches.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
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"it is the exact definition of why we pay taxes: for the government to provide services that are common to the country´s citizens"

I disagree with that definition. In a limited government, taxes are only for specific purposes, not any service that might be commonly (or even universally) needed/wanted.

You can agree or disagree about whether a limited government is good, or whether tax filing services should fall within those limits. But it's certainly not the definition of taxes to be for any and all "common services".
Following this advice can single handedly avoid so many negative things in all of our lives. The older I get I keep coming back to this lesson. For humanity to keep progressing we can't keep treating people as computers and expect them to accept some statement we believe in. We're fluid sacks of chemicals, the farthest thing from an objective computer. Effective communication must begin with that.

Also somewhat related:

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” - Will Rogers
I have never understood this and this very issue has caused trouble in my romantic relationships.

Here's my thought process: why would someone talk about something if they don't want input? It seems like a waste of time.

Where's the gap in my thinking? Is there some way I can mentally reframe my thought process so that I 1) Don't immediately try to solve the problem and 2) Don't get annoyed at my significant other for wasting my time.
I agree with much of what you say but I wanted to clarify one point.

> 3. I like UAC. The article claims that giving users a dialog box to permit admin access is good for malware, but the alternative is taking admin away from users altogether on their own computers. I don't think this is an acceptable tradeoff.

The UAC is about persuading legitimate developers to do the right thing. In that respect it has been successful. Many developers have learned they should not be annoying users with the admin dialog unless they really do need enhanced privileges.

The UAC has no other benefit. It's not a security barrier (malware can bypass it, or get the user to). If you're running on an admin account you are admin and all win32 programs running on your desktop have admin rights. They just need an elevated token to make use of them which, as I said, is easy enough to gain. The exception is if programs create their own sandbox to run sub-processes with limited rights.

UWP is an attempt to sandbox applications by default and thus allow the user to be admin without programs being admin by default. However its uptake has been slow.

In short, it's not the UAC that's the issue. It's Windows permission model. Microsoft is aware of this and is attempting change.
+1 for python panda. Amazing tool to manipulate data and csv very easily. Lots of options!
> They know all of your income down to the cent

If you have a W-2 job and all your investments are in a bank or brokerage, but they still don't know your filing situation, dependents, other income, or deductions.

Not that I'm justifying the current system. It's just that the IRS only knows the big picture for most people. The rest is complicated.
I don't disagree with the first line but the second line is a huge problem IMHO. Things will only continue to degrade when we paint these people as "morons", it will only push them further into the arms of the party that espouses to be fighting for them all while working against their best interests.
Good question. I often (not always) start the custom command name (script or alias) with the same letter as what it abbreviates, and if memorizing were my goal and that didn't help enough to remember them, I might do as you suggest.

But I have enough to remember as it is, so I make backups of my scripts (as with everything personal on my main computer) using tar/gz/gpg/rsync/scp, optical media, etc., so I can refer to them when memory fails. Overall, I'd have to guess it depends on the person and the priorities, and how well one way works for you vs. the other. I currently always use a computer under my control, and over time, enough has stuck in my memory.

I also want to save my hands by making things ergonomic (shorter to type when practical), as the hands are useful in the long-term. :)
When Win10 came out, we had several meetings about privacy concerns. I did not understand the concern. Smart phones spy on their users all the time, and no one really cares. Why, all of a sudden, is it an issue when desktops/laptops do the same thing that phones have done for almost a decade now? No one gave me a good answer to that question.
I'm a systems administrator for a small MSP. I've used Linux as my primary OS for 9 years, despise using Windows, and I can tell you with 100% confidence that nothing but Windows is ready for prime time, and for one major reason: _ease of administration_.

Think of the growth cycle of the vast majority of businesses. Almost all businesses are started and run by non-IT people. They buy Windows machines because they're simple(don't have to worry about OS installation, chosing a distro, etc), have Microsoft Office, and work with any and all enterprise software they use. This gives them a key advantage for small businesses. Like it or not, Linux is just relatively hard.

Where Windows _really_ shines, though, is when a small business transitions to being a big-small or medium-sized business. If you have a couple dozen computers and a couple dozen users to manage, do you think it would be worth it to have a linux admin spin up an LDAP server with kerberos and all the bells and whistles needed, then be hired to manage that infrastructure? No, they're going to contract someone to spin up a windows server to manage user logins, create a network share, and call it a day. The infrastructure is super-stable, and when the cost of labor is considered, it is considerably cheaper than letting the system be the plaything of a local Linux zealot.

It's only when you consider big and massive businesses that Linux can really be viable, and even then it ain't cheap. Most big businesses grew in a Windows environment, and switching the core of your IT infrastructure sure as hell better be worth it to warrant the massive labor costs, IT fire fighting, and drop in employee productivity that will result.

No, Linux infrastructure and desktops really only make sense for companies that are either highly technical, need absolute control of their hardware, are _extremely_ price sensitive, are (or hope to become) massive, or a combination of these.
You're OK if this kills Lyft's business in California?
1. Find a paper you like/admire

2. Implement their methods from scratch (i.e. numpy not pytorch)

3. Experiment a bit, tweaking the models/algs to gain intuition

4. Repeat 1-3
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This is awesome, and I can tell which articles I read because it uses standard link/visited colors. What a crazy idea :)
I believe iOS phones give users a lot more control over their data than Windows PCs do now.
See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation.

"A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps getting reset to the default, which is Microsoft Edge. [..]"
>> Because the flawed system was only installed for the purpose of avoiding the expense of retraining human pilots to a new model of aircraft!

I'm not sure that's the only reason. Otherwise they should have started building them without MCAS and retraining pilots several months ago. That seems far simpler/cheaper than whatever they're doing now.
They pretty much have what you want through the free fillable online forms. Everything is digital, you simply enter the numbers from your documents and calculations are made for you. It does not do any SSN verification though.
Whelp, I guess that means we’ll see a proper response right around the time Aspen has no snow over winter, Miami beachfront drowns, or some politicians family members pop their clogs die to something CC related.

Alas that’ll be real late.
> To the best of my knowledge, it's impossible to get a start menu without all the tips and ads without using a 3rd party Windows-10-decrapifyer/debloater kind of thing.

I wonder how I did that. I never install regcleaners or similar tools. I disabled some setting and manually right-clicked and deleted a handful of tiles in the start menu. That was many Windows 10 updates ago. I have never seen anything in my Start menu that I didn't expect to be there since.
I don't know about moving to the web on #2. From what I have seen the web alternatives of those products, if they even exist, are tailored to the hobbyist, semi-professional market.

Things like Siemens NX _can't_ move to the web, since we are talking about entire development platforms, not just applications.
At this point I'm not sure that a desktop OS with this wide hardware compatibility and backwards compatibility can be written any better than Windows 10.

The thing is, if you are an experienced user with willingness to search for solutions, you can fix most of the problems. Disable updates completely, disable cortana, stop 99% of the telemetry, use alternative utilities instead of the built-in ones, fix security issues with network rules etc.

It takes time and patience, but in the end you get a good work environment that is relatively stable, compatible with literally every hardware and also has the absolutely widest selection of software available. That is all I want from an OS.
I feel somewhat similarly. If you want to learn ML from the “ground up” that means learning math (at least a few subjects) to the senior undergraduate level, some numerical methods, some probability and statistics, sprinklings of other stuff before you even get to the models. And it’s not even clear that stuff is important for ML in practice.

I’m someone who took all those math courses and some grad ML coursework. And what that means is that I’m qualified to try and hack together some specific research level things that a practitioner will be confused by, and then try to write a paper about it. It doesn’t mean I’m qualified to do what the practitioner does. Frankly I never ran my code on anything other than MNIST yet and don’t know the different architectures or applications well, since they’re not directly what I work on. They’re just different things, as I see it.
Posts like this one are exactly why I keep coming back day after day to this forum. Thank you for this amazing informational share.

I've long wondered if infections are behind many of the unexplained mid and late life disorders. It's exciting to see that it's finally being recognized as a credible explanation in the literature. As someone with a family member suffering from autoimmune, I'm hopeful that this trend will continue and result in antigen mediation therapies that can help.

Worth mentioning that the family member I am thinking of developed these symptoms within a year after getting a bad stomach/GI infection.
I can't speak for XSV but when I had to do similar analysis of logfiles in range of hundreds of thousands of records - SQLite would consistently seize up on my machine and make it impossible to do analysis. Had i know about XSV I may have tried it, but GNU Join saved my bacon that week and would do my analysis in minutes.
I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those problems - all these problems people mention here I haven't see any real problems.

Where you using the windows git client that plus atom with the right plugins is great

The only annoying one is the way Dell messed up its recent sound drivers - sound is one are which Microsoft needs good hard kick up the ass.
Kareem thank you for sharing this post. I hope you and folks over at Hacker News will enjoy it!
Fully automated flight is the far future. The question is how near future is it?

I think Boeing and Airbus have such long delays between project initiation and delivery that planning now to deliver a fully automated flight system in 10 years is likely in the realm of reasonable?
It’s so so much harder than transcription of language. The article attempts to capture this point, but while there’s generally only a few ways to punctuate a sentence, assuming you have all the words right, there are thousands of potential ways to notate a musical phrase, even assuming you can correctly interpret all the notes and rhythms correctly, but only a few would be easily sensible to a human performer.
I do agree, that ultimately there are several deductions that can reduce the taxes you owe in a given year. But most americans don't have enough of these deductions to make a significant difference.

So the ideal solution would be that the IRS sends you a letter in January that basically says "You made $XX,XXX this year, you are in YYY tax bracket, and thus you owe $ZZ,ZZZ money".

So if they sent that in January, then Americans could have until April 15th to either send a check for the amount owed or to send back an approval for the refund.

For most people, the amount the IRS sends us will be accurate. But if you do want to submit additional deductions then there could be a deduction form you fill out that takes the IRS' total and submits deductions against it.

Again, most Americans would not need to do anything. Self-employed individuals or individuals with many investments or donations might need submit additional information. But this would be the minority. Most people honestly could just agree with the IRS' determined amount due.
This happened with the last chapter too. I’m not sure who changed it...
And this is why all those people said "F it, I'll vote for Trump and give these people a taste of their own medicine"
Windows 10 is vastly superior to 7 with just a few UI tweaks. It's also supported. Performance is on par or better. If you looked my desktop, you'd be hard pressed to tell it's Win10.
I also make notes occasionally for review, to help me remember things (like with anki, or my sfw at http://onemodel.org ), or try to make mental connections with manual pages I have read so I know where to look something up again when needed. I also sometimes go to https://man.openbsd.org and put in just a period ("." w/o quotes) then click the "apropos" button (optionally choosing a section) to see "what is available" and jog my memory on good tools I have forgotten. Plus somethings get used so often they really do burn in to the memory: like, I am not going to forget "ls", but I don't want to type "ls -ltr [...]" very often and it is what I want, to see the most recent entry last, so I aliased that to just "l".