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Ask HN: What are you doing about Windows 7?
So, RIP Windows 7: 22 July 2009 - 14 January 2020. Or not?

It seems that larger businesses with enterprise-level IT management have mostly been migrating to Windows 10. So have some smaller businesses and home users, perhaps tempted by the offer of a free upgrade, wanting some new functionality that 10 offers, or simply concerned about security and future-proofing if they stay with an old OS that is no longer supported.

It also seems that many other smaller businesses and personal users have not moved to Windows 10. With the usual caveats about accuracy, various sites attempting to track OS market share still have Windows 7 on roughly 1/4 of all desktops with no obvious sign of accelerated migration by December 2019, which translates to hundreds of millions of active users. Possible reasons for this have been much-discussed for as long as Windows 10 has been around, and many of them haven't really changed and remain a concern or even a deal-breaker for some users.

So, what have past or present Windows 7 users among the HN community been doing? Have you willingly (or begrudgingly) upgraded to 10? Have you switched to another platform? Are you planning to stay with 7 for now despite the lack of further support?
Understand the difference between managing and supervising.

https://hr.berkeley.edu/node/3818
>good content and discussions, they'll be timeless.

It really depends on the topic.

Something like 99 Percent Invisible is pretty evergreen. An interview about AI research? Something from a few years ago is probably going to be a bit dated unless it's about fundamental principles. A podcast that deals primarily with current news/politics/etc.? I'm probably not going to be interested in something a year old.
Number of Americans working from home has tripled and it's accelerating
But is it good for the scientist in the US who did 95% of the research that is then stolen and written up and published in China? Your comment shows a lack of understanding of what is happening.
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> (I have suffered incredible emotional and physical pain over the last decade but I have never shed a tear in that time. Hell, I watched a lot of Disney movies and I still didn't. I do it just to prove that I still have control). You lose some of that control when you drink alcohol (from what I've been told).

This sound less healthy than drinking alcohol occasionally. It sounds as if you're glorifying some kind of stunted emotional capacity.
TL;DR: it all boils down to reinventing Common LISP.
Soccer is a group effort, but you still have star players that get paid outsized compensation.

Trading is very much about managing and taking on risk. Even if there are computers managing trading - managing risk is still human driven.
An aside: when did the phrase "foot-guns" become a thing.

Cuz I've never heard it until this thread, where it pops up multiple times. Great phrase but went 0-60 in usage.
What's needed is an internal data-structure that defines the state needed -- YAML declares the structure directly, but an alternative is to use either a DSL or even a general-purpose language to build that data-structure.

Of course, you could write code to generate your YAML, but the tooling is _not_ going to help you with that today.

Maven and Gradle are examples of each of these methods -- both build up an internal model of the build, but while Maven uses XML, Gradle uses a Groozy DSL.
> You can simply consider an attack on your modem an attack on your ISP.

Never thought about it that way. I agree.

> All ISPs I've ever seen in the US allow you to use your own router.

I'm not familiar with the US market, I was speaking from my personal experience with EU based ISPs. I should have made that clear.
You're talking about banking. I think the context of the original question is actually the buy side, because that's the comment you're replying to.

I have not seen any of the typical sell side grind common to investment banking among hedge funds. New grads hired to reputable hedge funds typically work comparable hours to their friends who work at Google/Facebook. They might earn 20 - 100% more though.
https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/apps/terminal...
for example
Finding the real first post on Instagram
> It's not actually Lisp but some new language with superficially Lisp-like syntax.

So, like Clojure.
To Guard Against Manipulation, Beware of “The Anchoring Effect”
Interesting. There have been a few of these super-manycore processors before; their main characteristic is being quite hard to program effectively due to the need to partition the work and think very hard about memory bottlenecks.

> The Vanilla-5 cores are a 5-stage in-order pipeline RV32IM cores so they support the integer and multiply extensions

So, roughly comparable to a high-speed Cortex M.

> instead of using caches, the entire memory address space is mapped across all the nodes in the network using a 32-bit address scheme. This approach, which also means no virtualization or translation, simplifies the design a great deal.

The diagram shows each core has icache and dcache; what they've ditched is cache coherency. That certainly makes it simpler to implement but now the cores have to be responsible for their own coherency. Also, none of your protected mode operating system nonsense - this is designed to run a single program and get everything out of the way. Every core can potentially overwrite any other core's memory, and if it does so you won't know until you have a cache miss. Good luck figuring that one out in the debugger.

This is very clearly intended for the sort of AI or image processing workload where you can clearly partition it two-dimensionally across the array to identical nodes, and then have those nodes collaborate locally by passing messages across the edges.
Good essay. Yes, the sociology and politics of the way we do science is overtaking the reproducible learning aspect. Foundations for many things, like physics, are as solid as necessary for doing a lot of work, but by the time you get to the point where you should be testing, rearranging, and ferreting out flaws in the foundations, you're so indoctrinated into a culture that you don't have the mental tools necessary to do the required work. So instead you just chug along the way the last generation did, adding a decimal point here or there.

It's not wrong. It's just not changing over time. It is stagnant.

The nice thing about physics is that with new advances in astronomy and the lack of a unified theory, it keeps getting poked with reminders that there may be missing pieces. That's not true in many other fields.
I actually wrote a plugin for sublime, which allowed them to write the script then directly upload to our service, it also had some code snippets in it so they could right click, then quickly add and modify what they needed while they were learning (this feature was not used as much though, watching them, they seemed to prefer looking at scripts that did something similar and just copy and pasting from it). But other than that, it was just sublime.
Despite the defecit hawk rhetoric it isn't the actual finances that damaged the credit worthiness. It was the GOP and their sheer sociopathic brinkmanship to make the debt ceiling a regular event to try to force their pet issues that harmed the credit rating.

There is a reason why debt in nations is always mentioned as a percentage and not a raw number - the raw number is meaningless.
That statement would read as arrogance from anyone.
But isn't that exactly what was done, e.g. in supersymmetry? The Standard Model could not explain dark matter etc., so physicists tried to come up with a new theory potentially explaining it. Yes it's based on math, on beautiful math, but isn't it always the case in physics? How did Newton create his laws? By using math. How did Einstein create his theories? By using math. It's math, math, math. So create your math theories, explain nature and then use Occam's razor to find the simplest. Maybe I'm just getting this all wrong but I don't get her point.
Ah, Trumpet Winsock - and then Windows 95 spoiled that party!:)
The entity behind it: https://sahamati.org.in/

Nandan Nilekani (cofounder of Infosys and one of the main architect of India digital payment movement - UPI [0]) launched Sahamati (='consent'), a private not for profit company, that aims to be self regulatory organisation for Account Aggregator ecosystem which aims to facilitate financial sharing among financial institutions with user consent.

https://medium.com/karana/sahamati-sro-for-financial-data-sh...

[0]UPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
> Talking from Germany, the preference here would be http://ecosia.com

Which is essentially Bing[1], including the ads[2].

[1]: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where...

[2]: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206019452-How-d...
It was Peter Higgs who said that (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...).
I'm 6' as well and 75 lbs overweight (working on it). If I find dress shirts that fit my neck they are basically potato sacks on me. And it has always been that way, even when I wasn't overweight. The only option I've ever had if I've wanted to look sharp was to get shirts tailored.
> If you are just a relay, the content is encrypted and your chances of liability are low.

It's not just liability, for me it's also ethics. It gives me piece of mind that I am not contributing towards these practices.
This reminds of this scene:

https://youtu.be/OMDQzITWJyU?t=204

From "The Dictator", where Nuclear Nadal is reporting on his progress.
Note of course you don't say "they is awful", you still conjugate they with "are", even when singular. For an unknown person, for a specific person, either way.
I don’t think physics operates on anything resembling a social-justice system - nothing like the parent comment is going to send us backwards any amount of time in the field, but an attitude that bars commentary might stagnate us for a long time.
This is great! I have an idea for v2, can I email you?
Link to Lotte Geevan’s recording in the German borehole. According to the article the rumbling sound recorded was unexpected.

https://vimeo.com/80266870
https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000003076
Honestly I'm surprised they didn't try to enter the space by buying an existing competitor. GoG, or Humble maybe.

It might also be possible they're trying to build critical mass to get bought by some gaming company. Perhaps Amazon for Twitch integration? MS in some bold attempt to buy a userbase for their PC game store?
Toyota city in Aichi is a pretty futuristic place already, even by Japanese standards. They even have a world-class modern art museum.
Different barrel jacks and adapters on different products have different voltages, sometimes different polarities, some are AC, some are DC.

Some laptops have different voltage batteries that each "prefer" a different optimal voltage for building the on-board charger. This is a close analogy IMO to different sized tires on autos/trucks.

Many companies would be happy to standardize, so long as everyone else changed and they got to be the de facto/de jure standard. Bonus points if they held a royalty-generating license on the connector/communications standard.
Getting advice on which fields to study, which schools to apply to, what friends to make who also know which schools to apply to, and which companies to apply to all count as “right connection”. And of course, getting an interview because your friend’s parent knows someone at a firm looking for someone.

I know I like to hire based on personal recommendation of people I trust, it removed a lot of risk for me in dealing with random people. Hence “right connections”.
Absolutely agreed. None of that is particularly actionable, though. "Don't do the bad thing" is not actionable advice!
Some funds share bonuses across the entire firm, while others operate as internally competing pods/teams. I know people at Jump Trading doing spectacularly well because they're on a high performing team. Not everyone does as well. Millennium and Citadel have a similar model.

RenTech and TGS had a spectacular year as always. But even if you don't work at a firm like that, being on the right team at a strong second tier firm can be extremely lucrative.
A Cross Platform(Android and iOS) ActionSheet for React Native
Computing Education Lessons Learned from the 2010’s: What I Got Wrong
Clearly the most likely answer is "for both reasons", as I explained in the parent comment. He had an interest in Western art, the work itself incorporates Western techniques, the pigment was rare and associated with (Western) modernity, and its particular qualities made it suited for his visual goals. It would not make much sense to note that he made all of these decisions to highlight a changing Japan / new influences from the West, but say that he only chose Prussian blue because it looked nice.

This is not really an uncommon occurrence; artists choose materials for their visual appearance and symbolic meaning all the time. Klimt's use of gold leaf is a similar example.

Klimt's use of gold was inspired by a trip he had made to Italy in 1903. When he visited Ravenna he saw the Byzantine mosaics in the Church of San Vitale. For Klimt, the flatness of the mosaics and their lack of perspective and depth only enhanced their golden brilliance, and he started to make unprecedented use of gold and silver leaf in his own work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Klimt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt#Golden_phase_and_...
PyDev of the Week: Tyler Reddy
I want this so badly it hurts. I ache for it. I _hate_ the fact that I'm too terrified to let my kids cycle on city streets, or suburban streets, or country roads, and they're completely trapped on a small patch of land surrounded by asphalt ribbons of death on all sides.

https://culdesac.com/ is close, but only in Arizona I believe
Is that very different from the websites of the 90s? I distinctly remember creating a somewhat-dynamic site in FrontPage, then rendering it into static HTML and FTPing it to the webserver.

Perhaps this was an impedance mismatch: "web requires coding" - it mostly doesn't, most people would be okay with a better HTML editor, and providing that via WP was a historical quirk.
React Native Module for Floating/Popup Video Player on Android
Instagram killed the celebrity gossip machine
My 70 kb/s connection disagrees. I was barely able to get slack to load, when it did load.
I think this is an extreme view that isn’t entirely represented. I’ve had friends that worked pretty much 7am-7pm tying to get to that huge bonus, yes, but the majority of the team didn’t get fired. They did, however mostly all transition to other roles that are not as well known for lavish bonuses, but they do do very well. There are many support roles, client dealing roles, project management type roles, that are less ruthless than a front office buy side role. And less well compensated too, I’m sure. But that is where the majority end up at these banks.
> That cannot be true. It does not contain the message '4'. (Or any of the non-primes.)

Any finite message (containing a finite number of symbols drawn from a finite alphabet) can be represented as a positive integer.

Any positive integer n can be encoded in a prime, even a composite integer.

Use the following encoding system: write 1 n times, followed by a zero, followed by an arbitrary bit string.

For example, for 4: 11110xxxxxxxxxxxxx...

Using that encoding system, there will be an infinite number of primes that encode 4 - all the primes which start with 11110 in binary.

Thus, the set of all primes contains an infinite number of copies of every possible finite message.
I'm not sure how you missed it, but she did give a recommendation. Attempt to resolve inconsistencies as a means of discovery.
Actually, you're spot on and maybe my comment is wrong.

Recruiting has these crazy dance steps. Unless you know in October of your sophomore year what the door knock is on this special process it can be hard to get in. But you can get in later. Its just much much harder.

I've been trying to figure out for a few years what that's called. It's not wealth, because knowing to apply is some sort of social/human capital, and its intergenerational. But I wonder like in the area where I volunteer...how much of the difference in outcome is related to just not knowing how the process works?
Your dream is that people not have sex for fun and that poor people stop having children?
The folklore.org links I provided go into this and more.

As I’m about to type into another reply in this thread...

I think the conclusion to be drawn from discussions like this is that although narcissists like to suggest they and they alone provided the “magic spark” that make projects successful, it is an entire team of people who actually create revolutionary products.

The business press—and society on average—love the myth of the visionary entrepreneur, but upon close inspection, success has many parents.
From an outsider's point of view (i.e. mine) it looks like physics has become too enamored with mathematics, "thinking" that reality can be totally described by mathematics. Which brings us to one of the author's point of views, the fact that physicists (and I guess most scientists) nowadays dismiss things like philosophy of science or epistemology, they just continue head-on on their "quest for knowledge" not realizing that for almost half a century now nothing big has been "found out".
The folklore.org links I provided go into this and more.

As typed into another reply in this thread...

I think the conclusion to be drawn from discussions like this is that although narcissists like to suggest they and they alone provided the “magic spark” that make projects successful, it is an entire team of people who actually create revolutionary products.

The business press—and society on average—love the myth of the visionary entrepreneur, but upon close inspection, success has many parents.
Aye, it’s easy to make criticisms (and Zeus knows the price of good science is eternal vigilance), but the easiest and most satisfyingly Ockhamite explanation of the slowdown in physics remains: all its low-hanging fruit is long since taken.

And while there’s no harm in pondering the philosophical origins of the scientific method while debating where to go next, we should take care not to go backwards either, as that way lies fractal navel fluff and bloody string theory.
In the spirit of pointing out inconsistencies...I am not a physicist, but something I've been confused about lately is why the action constant has a unit of seconds baked into it.

Feels like E = hf is an experiment with a hard coded 1 second measure time.

Why not express the relationship in terms of power?

P=uf where u is the action constant without the seconds unit hard coded. And E=utf has a variable time parameter
From my personal experience:

1. Releases were less often, usually in the range of a couple releases (4-6) a year. We had dedicated bug fixing time for two weeks before a release with extensive QA.

2. Mostly the same, except scrum master (or equivalent) was usually the project manager.

3. Generally about the same size teams, but teams had total ownership over what they built. Code bases and services were never split among multiple teams.
Or, for true professionals, https://ddg.gg/.

That's almost the most "grey suit" URL possible.
For those unfamiliar, that’s Aza Raskin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin
Ruby's super power is it's meta programming ability. So they were really just writing Ruby. If you google, I think there's a bunch of tutorials out there for creating a DSL in Ruby... but I learned from a book called "Metaprogramming Ruby"
Realizing that they're on bad path could be a first step in the right direction. Nothing big not having been "discovered" for 40 years probably means that the problems are structural.
I know you mean well with your comment, but I secretly suspect that you are actually saying that you like your team and think this is jerk behavior. I have never seen how a standup actually helped team cohesion. Being called to stand in front of the middle manager and say your spiel about how soon you'll be done doesn't help team cohesion, unless you mean by simply submitting to the same crap the others are. Team cohesion is just flat out more complicated than 10 minutes of parrot and nod.
I still have my reservations against Pulumi in particular, though.

I've only really skimmed their documentation, but the idea that calling 'new' against a VM class instantiates a VM in production seems to be to magical for my taste, and might be an indication that it's yet another product that targets the happy path more than what we tend to experience in production: failures.
Did you find a solution to the remote mopidy instance yet? I'd like to do the same thing.
Probably buy side
Stagnant? Or just mature, like a fine cheese and wine?
As an end user I view it the exact opposite way. On windows I have dozens of auto updaters running in the background that may or may not fix security issues in any reasonable amount of time. I also have lots of different versions of .net, libraries etc. installed, some with security support some without. Also, an issue in a central library will require hundreds of updates, some of which may never come.

In contrast on linux I have exactly one updater and can be certain my software uses the fixed version. I don't care about disk space saving or RAM savings (though those are nice), I care that stuff gets fixed and is secure. If you don't enforce that you trade convenience (for the developers, not the user) for security.
I think setting AI on it may be the way forward.
Ask HN: How to deal with big existing code base when you are new to the team
Context - I am just starting with a team as a new member which have huge ReactJS code base. I have only basic understanding of ReactJS.

Is there any mental modal, tips, experience which I can follow to speed up my understanding of framework as well as code base and start contributing ASAP?
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So, instead of "learning a new language", they're "configuring a new integration"? Guess how much these differ...spoiler: two marketing labels for the same thing.
Direct jump to the PDF download page, avoiding the terrible hosting and Russian ads:

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paul...
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 01/13/2020
From years of schooling and artificially constructed engineering problems we've gotten used to, for some addicted to, the idea of end solutions fitting neatly into a clean edged box. We've grown up on complex physics problem with a clean integer solution, homes with clean lines and polished finishes, and engineering that's constantly pushing for smaller and faster solutions. So, naturally we want our code bases to reflect our experiences : concise, clever, code that feels like a clean integer solution. And while maybe it should be a common aspiration to write code that's 'clean, the reality of the natural world is that solutions to some of the most complex problems are not 'clean'. Furthermore, rarely is the true end goal of the code you're writing to be the 'final state' of logic. The code that we write is almost always for ever evolving and expanding use-cases; we are creating scaffolding rarely a 'finished' product. Furthermore, most of us are writing code in ever evolving languages so even 'finished' state code will ultimately be paved over with something more concise and efficient as the language evolves. The point being : there's a happy medium ( I haven't mastered it ) of reconciling with the realities of complex evolving solutions and our internal desire for clean elegance in our codebases.
Android is arguably not “Java”, but rather “Java like”.