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> In the middle of Seattle there are still holes in coverage where I data speeds slow to a complete crawl.

Ironically, this is the one situation where 5G is actually useful. The unambiguous benefit to 5G is that it increases the total load capacity of the cell network. People who live in areas where the network operates at capacity large amounts of the time (such as Seattle) will see an increase in reliability even if they don't see an increase in speed.
I thought it’s more just that nuclear power plants aren’t economically or politically viable any more, since wealthy governments are no longer subsidizing them with their massive and growing nuclear weapons programs.
Tehran is a beautiful city with a wide range of smart, compassionate, cool people.

My cousin in Tehran introduced me to games like Counterstrike, Grim Fandango, and Battlefield, which got me into PC gaming, which got me into open source game scripting. We spent a few summers in Tehran, and there was this electronics bazaar called Paytakht[1] that I'd always beg my mom to take me to. They had everything from motherboards and CPUs to cracked versions of Photoshop to iPhone screen repairs.

Cosmopolitan Iranians are stuck in a strange situation: a majority resent the current regime for a litany of reasons (repressing religious minorities in Iran, regressive attitudes toward women, corruption, economic stagnation and inflation, the list goes on) - but they also resent the US and UK governments for denying them a chance at being a secular democracy[2]. They don't want to be the next Iraq, or the next Libya, or the next Afghanistan, either.

OTOH, because of this conflict between the people and their government, many Iranians see a country's actions as not representative of the sentiments of its people. This (plus Iran's hospitality culture) is why, despite the political tensions, Americans generally get treated very well in Iran. It's also likely why most people the author of this article interacted with treat him with an air of "I'm sorry, it's not personal." When it comes to Islamic fundamentalism in Tehran, only a vocal minority's hearts are really in it.

[1] Still exists! https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/width960/38765094_bQrfJd...

[2] If you want to understand US/Iran relations at all, you need to know about the 1953 coup and its after-effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
There is evidence that performing minor activities like tree planting actually reduces willingness to take meaningful action against climate change. This is called the 'low cost' hypothesis [1].

If you wanted to reduce public pressure against fossil fuels you would instigate something exactly like a tree planting program.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/ecolec/v166y2019ic2.html
Out of interest, at what kind of dosage did you have the enlightening experience? I've had plenty of introspective experiences, but not much further, at what seemed to me to be fairly high doses.
> But the Mac’s “When do I click, when do I double-click?” issue has confused untold millions of non-expert users for decades.

I mean. Does it really, still? If so, that's horrifying as a technologist and sad.
The iPad's software designer and program lead reflect on its first 10 years
RawTherapee is great. I also use Digikam. Linux is great but I needed Photoshop (GIMP is not there yet). There are also a handful of mac OS apps without replacements. I upgraded my Hackintosh build and for a while had Arch Linux running on it. Runs great, but ended up running Windows 10 to get my Photoshop fix.
Ok yeah fair. Some founders are better situated than others, but in general yeah most get the raw end of the deal.
That's more or less what I was trying to convey: for any size reduction, take the route that follows the path with the shortest Euclidian distance[1] (as opposed to Manhattan distance[1]) from the original resolution.

If you do that, then the transitions should look quite smooth. You better memoize the intermediate results if you want decent performance though ;)

So yes, I think your line of thought is on the right track!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry
Even China takes >5 years to build a nuclear plant. China normally builds non-controversial infrastructure 3X as fast as the US, so by that rule of thumb a nuclear plant would take 15 years in the US, and longer if you don't get rid of the anti-nuclear activists.
I can't imagine anyone falling for these scams, unless there's a complete and utter breakdown in due diligence. At some point you're gonna go on and have a meeting or video chat, and it'll all come crashing down.
>Hard to downplay the impact of Spotify on our culture.

I'd say it be hard to convince anyone that Spotify has had any material impact on our culture...but here we are. Music (sure); the internet (sure); smart phones connecting us wirelessly to the internet (sure); a single music streaming app with countless competitors (I have heard the name Spotify, but never used it, and yet I still stream music everyday...just don't see any impact on our culture)
Sometimes you have to spend resources before you can reach a conclusion, which is is a risk. People are always looking for low risk/high reward investments, and when they're unable to evaluate an investment for themselves they incentivize optimistic proposals.
Just get a fresh passport after the trip, with no Iranian stamps. You should be fine unless you are person of interest to intelligence agencies.
Within weeks, I sold the iPad v1 I bought the day it was released and I derided the iPad from that day on.

Fast forward to today, iPad Pro has been my primary device for pushing 2 years.

With a keyboard and multi-tasking it’s a far more flexible, collaborative, and portable compute experience compared to my MacBook.
slightly related, does embedding arithmetic in mov instructions go faster than explicit ALU operations ?
Exactly this. And doing post trip integration work with a therapist or a group is particularly helpful in weaving the experience into your life.
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I work remotely, and I have done so since my kids were babies. But in my case my wife was not working during the hours that I was working, so she was able to care for them.

I also have colleagues where both spouses work during the day. One colleague went to 3 days a week, her husband went to 4 days a week, and they had a family member cover the other day.

One thing that tends not to work is both spouses working full-time and expecting to juggle child care on top of that. It can work occasionally, like when the child is sick, but it's not sustainable.
I think they're going to get in trouble for it (and Amazon Choice) because it implies they're the ones doing the work.
Agreed, I once had to tell an out of towner "just drive the speed limit, you'll get all green lights."
I'm always looking to better my flow for PDF reading so really appreciate this question.

I have settled with Notability due to its nice iPad app where I use my Apple Pencil to annotate - the annotated PDF syncs to iCloud so it's available on Apple products (don't think it supports Android/Linux so maybe not cross-platform but something I'd recommend checking out if you can live with that limitation). If it's a book I'm using to learn something (usually tech), I then transfer notes to Bear in outline format (using the Notability mac app to read notes) and sometimes Anki for flashcards. One downside is that Notability doesn't support ePub so I either convert those or read on Kindle.

I tried OneNote recently but the iPad app seems unable to handle larger PDFs like textbooks which is a major bummer and surprising to me.
> This in turn would pose security issues as there seems to be concern over whether or not China could be trusted not to use their tech as spyware.

That's not special to China. No nation can be trusted in that way.
> It's also worth noting that the CVE had a stable fix available as of that announcement.

It's also worth noting that the problem was there before it was discovered, fixed, and then disclosed.

Ultimately, it comes down to how paranoid you are about your sources of software: https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
If you don’t want to read the whole essay, skim down to the section that describes daily life in Teheran. It’s really fascinating.
I was involved in a bitcoin ATM company and left... two years later, was sitting at my current company in the bathroom and I hear someone from the non-technical side go 'Dude, you have to invest, it's at nearly $20,000, it could go to a million'.

You'll never guess what happened when it passed $17,000
This is great defense in depth but if someone gets RCE on your host then I would assume that entire box is compromised. Local privilege escalation is very frequently possible, only costs ~$50k for a 0day [1] and there are tons of free PoCs available if you don't keep your systems fully patched.

The protection I would highly recommend everyone use is enabling Amazon's "v2" metadata service [2] in enforce mode, which will neuter nearly all SSRF metadata attacks. This won't do anything if someone has RCE on your host, but it would have prevented the Capital One breach the author uses as their example. Nearly every metadata compromise in recent history has been through SSRF.

Another aspirational read is how Netflix detects credential compromise [3]: the first time a host asks for metadata credentials they save its ip address, and if they ever see those credentials used from a different ip address they alert on it.

[1]: https://zerodium.com/program.html

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/defense-in-depth-open-...

[3]: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-cloud-security-detecting...
I think it's common knowledge that every nation state spies. The real question is - which nation do you trust to spy on you? Last time I checked, the US's spying did not result in people getting kidnapped and tortured into black jails for something as benign as comparing their leader to a cartoon character.
funny how you didn't call out the OP and ask them for "some additional arguments backing" up their claim that the Iranian TV show was propaganda, but here you do when its American politicians.

Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

as for context, a good book on the subject is "manufacturing consent" by Noam Chomsky. In it he details how american media of all forms is used as a propaganda vehicle in order to shape and create the american public's politics.

The TV shows linked are just applications of that strategy.
Scale is missing in your analytsis. For instance in New England, the peak demand goes from 15GWh (average) to 16.5GWh down to 10GWh.
Solar and wind on the other hand, need supplemental for 100% of its installed capacity the day there is no wind...

In France, 70% of the electricity is nuclear, 15% is hydro, pumped by the excess nuclear power generated at during the night.

Now for your arguments:

1. Wind goes from 0 to 50mph at sea. No reliable wind corridor exists. Even if Market Street in San Francisco makes me think otherwise frequently :)

2. The concept of wind proliferation has been debunked, at least on the European level. We built a network between Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Italy. It doesn't work.

3. If you don't have wind, putting 3 wind turbines won't help you more. Germany learned it the hard way where their CO2 emission flat lined since 2009 instead of going down despite their all in on the wind and solar energy. If you install 3 times more than what you need, you also have the side effect of making your renewable energy 3 times more carbone intensive. It kills solar as a viable, scalable option for instance.

4. Yes that would be the required breakthough to change the game. Right now batteries production pollute way too much and cost too much to be climate efficient.
I'm curious why iPad Pro and not Surface, which from my (admittedly limited) use has always had digitizer responsiveness and functionality at the same level, with the benefit of also being a computer with all the normal software workflow and hotkeys.
Well written article. I love Gruber's realistic take on Apple more than when it seems like he is a fanboy.

>and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make?

I think that hits the nail on the head. I just couldn't believe that somehow Apple settled on this UI interaction for multitasking.
macro voices podcast has interviews about this frequently ... the answer is we don’t know but could be a 40 year recession, could be a financial crisis, could be a world war & collapse of countries. Today this aligns with income inequality ... stock market up 4x since 2008, home prices way up, poor people get none of those windfalls
Gave myself a quick D lesson just to understand the approach to flags here (Yes.keepTerminator rather than just a meaningless bool). Turns out D lets you define a template with any args you like, in this case taking a string for a name of a Flag type, which in turn contains an enum with 'yes' and 'no' boolean values. This means that you can only use the right type of Flag, with a matching name, and its yes/no value. But the syntax is a bit icky (Flag!"keepTerminator) and so _another_ nice feature of D appears to be that you can intercept field dispatch in a struct. And so the 'Yes' struct does this, captures the 'keepTerminator' as a string, and creates the correct type of flag.

For whatever reason I found all this rather cute (and apologies to any actual D programmers if I've misread this whole situation).
Just yesterday I wrote some code that was pretty boring, pretty readily understandable, and also pretty apparently a good target for an easy simplification. However that obvious simplification would also non-obviously introduce a bug that might not be noticed immediately. So I left a comment to the effect of "yeah these two lines look kinda dumb but we need it because X"

Could I have instead massively restructured the feature to prevent the possibility of the bug the comment was explaining the workaround for? Probably. But that would have increased the number of lines of code to make the change by a factor of something like 20x-200x and would have required far more testing. It also probably would have resulted in something overall more complicated.
Revolutionary thinking? Colleges let students opt out of admissions exams
When I read about that it did make me wonder more then a bit - What exactly is wrong with this plan?
Tachyon-edge: A reworked version of Tachyon that works with Lambda Edge
Inflation is tracked using the Consumer Price Index, which indexes prices that ordinary consumers face, not housing speculators or art collectors. Inflation is high for the capitalist class and low for the working class.
Ocean acidification should be much more worrying to us than sea level rise or even drought and food price increases. Cities can be moved but large swathes of phytoplankton going exctinct is much more concerning considering they provide 50 to 85 percent of oxyten. We can live in a world without wild animals or fish in the ocean but we can't live in a world without a functioning carbon cycle.

Would love to see a survey on what percentage of political leaders are educated on sea level rise or carbon emissions vs threat of ocean acidification. Seems like a failure of our media or our educational institutions that this isn't more widely known.
Because money, and its management, is not distributed by I.Q. but rather hazardously. Here are a few categories that I can think of.

- rich people by inheritance. They might have been spoiled and thus required little due diligence in life; or simply they are dumb and believe the hype.

- rich people by accident. They are not particularly bright. They invested in real-estate very early on because that's what they know at the time. Then real-estate appreciated significantly in the last few decades in their area and they are crazy rich.

- people managing other people money. they have to invest in "blockchain" and stuff and they get introduced via their circle. It's not their money at the end of the day; and if the VC fund collapse they'll manage to jump to the next one thanks to the networking circle they were busy building during their last tenure.
A PhD can help with jobs that don't really require a PhD, especially in finance. I have a few friends who ended up joining large investment banks after their DPhils at a higher level than those who had joined straight after their bachelors as analysts and worked up. This is in the UK though, where PhDs can be 3 years and completed immediately after a bachelors, so they were entering the job market at 24/25.
Chrono-Compatible Low-Level Date Algorithms
We also don't do double blind tests for surgeries. We must have an accepted process for determining if a particular type of surgery is effective for various conditions. Applying the same standard here would make sense.
It drives me up the walls when some kind of list or collection touch UI doesn't offer any kind of batching, and most don't.

Some kind of data-selection mode where I can drag across all the elements I want to select would be awesome.
Not true at all. Do you think Facebook would be as big without their feed, or YouTube as big without recommended videos or their front page?

Recommendations and turning that into useful products (like auto generated playlists, mood playlists, upcoming talent, etc) are a huge draw to Spotify and creates a high bar for new competitors (including Apple Music).
Yet threads make backtraces and control flow much less useful, since they miss out important context from concurrent threads.

I wouldn't personally say that threads make control flow easier to follow: we might gain a little by disentangling separate activities into threads, but we lose a lot when these get interleaved in arbitrary, non-deterministic ways.
> The petition was aiming to gather at least 7,777 supporters and today has exceeded that by 1,000.

Maybe those 8,000+ supporters should go contribute to ReactOS.
I have a full page visa and entrance stamps from Sudan in my passport, and I've crossed into the US three times now with that in my passport and they've never said a word.
Or, framing it in another light, maybe they want to support something they have tried and believe in.
An extremely controversial topic! If you are middle class to upper middle class, owning assets to protect from the inflation (stocks, bonds, housing, gold, bitcoin) would be one way.

If you mean unwinding our current loose-money global monetary system of fiat currencies, I'm not sure that genie can or will ever go back into the bottle. Let's hope the next recession is gentle.
I definitely recommend finding somebody who will at least sit with you, better yet, find a guide. Also, in my experience, therapeutic MDMA was more useful at getting to and releasing past trauma than psilocybin. The guides are all underground in USA due to what were largely racist and fear-based laws that were enacted in the 70s and 80s.
NO ONE is a professional on this topic, they are all amateurs, its not a real science.

You found a way to adjust your thinking patterns and thats great, but proselytizing a whole new myth does no favors for anyone, least of all yourself.
You can't parse it properly with a Regular Expression, but you can parse it with regex-like systems. However I doubt it is parsing outright - it only has to look for certain keywords and patterns that indicate certain behaviors.
I meant that I run on a Macbook. I was comparing Windows with MacOS. Btw, software that I won't even notice? I paid 2.5k on a laptop that I keep docked most of the time, so I guess I do notice it, along with all the other things I've mentioned.
I sometimes used to get an alarming amount of grief entering the US because I had quite a few Turkish stamps in my passport as we used to go there a lot on holiday. I hate to think what would happen with an Iranian stamp!
Hey HN -- I made this site to give myself a steady stream of intriguing videos (mostly talks) to watch. I'm partial to the monthly ranking [0] as I find that many of those videos hit my personal threshold of "worth watching". Rankings, search index, and HN comments on vids are all updated live.

Hope you enjoy -- comments appreciated.

[0] https://yahnd.com/theater/?t=month
at face value is a great idea, you sidestep blockchain adoption by tying it to physical and social services, you sidestep certain taxation like vat because value is gained only when these coin are converted back into money, you're not holding account because people purchase coins for money, so the money you sit on is yours, they only have a guaranteed buy back price.

it's extra funny because I know a startup that did basically that and is quite successful; but of course it focused only on the coin service exchange part and throw away the bitcoin / services nonsense.
Being involved in a blockchain company since 2001 is quite an achievement, given the Satoshi paper was only published in 2008.
This is why having a million dollars in liquid assets isn’t impressive anymore. You really need to have about three times as much for it to be cool.
Java is actually a simple language.
I was reading the elm/time source and saw a bunch of weird magic numbers. Trying to figure out what was going on, I googled some of the numbers and found this paper.

It is enthralling and terrifying and supports the implacably-true mantra: dates and times are very hard.
Machine-learning tool guesstimates how well your code will run on a CPU core
Inflation is largely measured on commodity goods that everyone buys. Thanks to the widening gap in earnings, the masses don’t have more money to spend on groceries and hammers so the prices of these stay relatively stable. But the things people with money try to buy, education, property, financial assets, are mostly of a fixed supply and the prices will just keep spiraling.

I’m potentially crazy here but I’m laughing off every article that calls stocks or bonds or real estate overpriced. As long as the economy keeps running this way there’s a never-ending supply of money and nowhere else for it to go.
The 2019-nCoV is going to get much worse, before it gets better. Q1 in China is going to be much worse than Q1 last year.

Factory output will slow. And this will affect the entire nation’s export engine to the world, and including the US.

How do you think this will affect the stock market? It kept going up in a straight line, until the coronavirus outbreak, and then SPY fell 10 points off.
The results are not specious. MAPS.org has excellent information about the progress of the trials for psilocybin and MDMA. It works and I speak from experience.
As far as I can tell, from a outsider layman's perspective, the Media Lab exists only to marry "artists who aren't good at technology (but think they are)" and "technologists who aren't good at art (but think they are)" so that they can get together and set large piles of cash on fire and call it research.