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I don't know how active it is now, but last summer I was trying to decide whether to upgrade as I love my SE but it was starting to feel slow (thanks Apple!). Back then, eBay has lots and lots of "new" ones at every spec level, and some foreign shops were still selling new-in-box ones at the lower spec levels.

I ended up buying an 8, by the way, and I like it much much less than I liked my SE, though it is a lot faster and the pictures are a little better. Still have the SE as a backup phone and because my banking software has no option to move between devices once configured. (Thank you Commerzbank!)

If you use your SE with one hand, be aware it is the last model of iPhone that can be used that way. Starting with the 6, all the larger ones have impossible reach from the bottom-right (typing) to the top-left (navigation), unless you have massive hands I suppose. In retrospect I wish I'd bought a couple of refurb SE's and not ever done a major-version iOS upgrade.
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I'd lump those fields into "ML" and the difference is probably more like 4 years in the US (2 vs ~6).

The career consequences are also weirdly mixed. Some places seem to recognize that, along with your area of specialization, getting a PhD also involves a fair amount of project management, writing, etc skills. Other places (or even different people at the same place), seem to think it's a glaring red flag that you can't "get real work done" because you sit around all day in a smoking jacket, thinking. (I think that's mostly bunk--academia moves fast these days, but that sentiment is nevertheless not uncommon).

And, if anyone has actual advice on monetizing a comp/neuro PhD, I'm all ears :-)
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Oh, man $1billion just waiting to happen yeah that's suspicious.

That would be pretty brave of Honeywell there ... I guess it wouldn't technically cost them anything to have a PO where they maybe had to deliver a product first but big company like that looking at someone without a factory would more likely get a "lol k thanks bye" than a PO ;)

Seems unlikely they'd bother to even plan to sell a product that isn't a thing yet tied to some nobody without means to produce it.
@dang this is a much better link

>> we estimate an 8.3% increase

> it would just be nice to have real data if they’re claiming exactly 8.3%

Point of fact, they don't claim "exactly" 8.3% -- they call it an estimate, and the notation indicates uncertainty -- read it as 8.3 ± 0.1%.
I think there used to be an informal expectation that games in the Humble Bundle would be open-sourced if they did well there. (Just the code, not the art assets etc.)

https://indiegamebundle.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Humble_Bundl...
This is an issue in the Puget Sound region as well (and, I'm assuming, many other areas). We're facing an acidification issue that's limiting smaller bivalves' (mussels, oysters) shell production. Generally they do okay once mature, but the seedlings don't stand a chance.
Nethack's still being developed. You could say it's 'early access'. Probably my favourite game ever.

Of more recent origin, Space station 13 is great. It's a tile-based multiplayer (up to about a hundred) in-depth space station disaster simulator. A stable community of servers and players, innovating and sharing patches among the various major code branches.

(The codebase is a nightmare because the game's written in an ancient engine from the 90's, but that just makes what they've managed more impressive.) It's been over 10 years of intermittent, branching, and re-merging development.
>in order to chase yield.

At this point, it's not to chase yield, but simply to try and not shrink.

This is the reason why people are willing to buy debt with negative interest (e.g. EU sovereign debt): they're actually willing to pay money to shield capital from the impending implosion rather than grow it

Edit: or, better said: people are willing to buy debt with negative interest rates to get some sort of a guarantee on the size of the haircut that's coming their way.
The guy who bought the painting prior to it being shredded decided to keep it, which was probably smart since that media stunt made that painting famous and doubtlessly more desirable than it was before being shredded. Maybe Banksy hates the guy for buying his art, or maybe Banksy did the buyer a favor.

Also, the story of the shredder being prepared years in advance reeks of bullshit. And if that part of the story is bullshit, I can't help but question the rest.
Building a listing approval tool in MongoDB in under an hour
Well maybe Ring shouldn't have bundled so many third party trackers.

If it really were just crash reporting, this would have probably gone unreported on.
Reading this, it sounds like he is not pleading not guilty, but rather saying whatever has been done but blah blah I don't deserve this. Reading into his thought process feels very dark, I may be reading too much here but there almost seems to be some subtle undertones of vengeance and encouraging (maybe his past friends) to help seek revenge to what happened to him.
...and so is Yeni Safak, am I right?
I really want to visit Iran, as well. As an American, I love the look on people's faces when I tell them that.

I also think it's important to distinguish between the government and the people. It can be easy to see them as one and the same, but that would be a mistake.

Peter Santenello opened my eyes to Iran. I couldn't believe how pro-America so many Iranians are; the culture seems so rich, and the people so pleasant.

I highly, highly, highly recommend you check out Peter's vlog series in Iran (https://www.youtube.com/user/santenello?app=desktop).
I really hope the EU will not allow this kind of US meat into the EU market...
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Then why was he not prosecuted for that? There wasn't even enough evidence to bring that to the trial.
[Whataboutism?]
“ Am I saying that I'm a chicken wing expert? No. But I am telling you this, the wing is hands down the best part of the chicken.” [1]

1 - https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-snl-sketch-2004-chicke...
> Computer science is a thing. Programming is a thing.

Engineering is also a thing but that's vanishing too.
It's not about the doubling, it's about how the distribution changes as you gather more data and get closer to the actual mean (e.g. if you had EVERY possible customer ever, like cable companies).

Take Tesla, for example. Its first customers were enthusiasts, but the mean of that group is not the mean of all current Tesla customers - they would look very different, and had Tesla optimized for the latter we'd be looking at a very different outcome.
I don't think it is necessarily about being fair it is just that the philosophy of developers in the .NET world has always been if MS has something then that is the thing we use. I've felt that within Java there are usually more competing products and flavors.

Often the product MS provides is good enough but I remember in the tail end of the web forms disaster there were some good open source MVC libraries inspired by the Java ecosystem but they never really got traction and people kept building things with shitty web forms. This is until MS came with ASP.NET MVC and people started to switch.

I don't think Microsoft wants to kill alternatives. I think they really want a healthy ecosystem to get more developers using .NET but they also want to be able to create a complete developer experience and that sometimes clashes and kills other products due to the culture.
Nn a lot of other places (even here in Canada), "Engineer" has a specific meaning and licensing requirements, similar to Doctor and Lawyer.

Like, to be an official medical Doctor you have to graduate from an accredited program, do specific training and internships, pass the boards, etc. Likewise with Lawyers you have to come out of certified law schools, pass the bar, do articling, etc. Same deal with Engineers.

Otherwise the term starts to lose meaning, such as someone being a Sanitation Engineer (Janitor) or Food Service Engineer.
> Unfortunately, our macOS and Linux native clients depend on our DX9 implementation for their OpenGL renderer to function.

I'm not a gamedev and just have some hobby xp in DX and OpenGL, but I don't begin to understand why an OpenGL renderer would in any way depend on DX. Is this just code for "we have such few Mac and Linux users that it isn't worth our time to support OpenGL"?
Yeah this happens pretty often, though I'm surprised it continues with Font Awesome's organizational changes: The "fab" prefix is specifically supposed to communicate that it's an icon from the "Brands" style. (Non-brand icons use "fas".) If you find yourself using a "fab" icon generically, you might want to double-check what it's supposed to represent...
The rate of ecological collapse far outpaces most organisms ability to evolve.
I started doing massively parallel programming on SGI systems around the time this paper was published. SGI's at the time could have 64 CPUs in a single system image, which was very novel. Sun was working on its early multi core workstations, and companies like Cray were pushing different models of distributed computation.

This paper came at a time when threads were really painful to work with. POSIX threads were still new and mostly unsupported, so you were stuck with whatever your OS exposed. On IRIX, you would do threads yourself by forking and setting up a shared memory pool, on Solaris, you had the best early pthread support, in Java, you used the native Thread classes which only really worked on Solaris at the time. It was a mess!

This mess is now solved. Pthreads are everywhere, C++ has std::thread, Java threads work everywhere, and we've had many new language some out which handle parallelism beautifully - for example, the consumer/producer model built into channels in Go is very elegant. The odd one out is Win32, but it's close enough to pthreads for the same concepts to apply.

Event driven programming has also become threaded, this is how the whole reactive family of frameworks, node.js, etc, handle parallelism.

As someone who's been doing this for a long time, what I find confusing is higher level constructs that try to hide the notion of asynchronous operations, such as futures, promises. As a concept, they're fine, but they're difficult to debug because most developer tools seem not to care about making debugging threads easier.
If Bezos tried to have six people killed, then yeah, he should be in jail.
Product Hunt Has Released a Social Network Where People Talk About Products
It's called wine. But I have no idea if they were using it.
Nethack et al. and a giant legion of other roguelikes, SS13, some space sim knockoffs... I'm sure there's more.
I can't provide evidence that this specific intervention will depress the dollar's value, but since the Fed aims for 2% inflation, I expect my dollars to be worth less every day.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/january/fed-infla...

At least it's been true for quite some time:

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-value-of-a-dollar-tod...

It seems all invested parties are budgeting at least 7% annual growth in asset prices, from the government's pension fund liabilities to people's 401k and IRAs. Since, voters won't like to see their balances go down, the powers that be will do everything they can to prevent it. And in the absence of a growing young population, I don't see many options other than devaluing currency.
I totally get that. In all honesty, in a rational world a MacBook is more than enough performance for me (and it's actually what I use at work), but there's still very much an enthusiast alive in me that loves my over the top desktop.
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>The catch is that it's your own citizens who bear most of the burden of these tariffs.

that's not a catch, that's the whole point. It's not just a punishment for the countries that are polluting, it's also a punishment for people who externalize their pollution by buying from countries that are polluting. Putting all the responsibility on third-world countries doing the manufacturing and none on the consumers who buy whithout concern for where their products come from is the whole problem. the consumer nations should bear the burden of sustainable production just as much if not more than the producer nations.

Trump's tariffs are dumb because they ignore the impact on the consumer, but that doesn't mean tariffs are bad. A tariff on pollution means we stop externalizing that cost. If we pay the cost of pollution, it makes non-polluting alternatives economically viable.
Folsom street in the Mission District of SF has one at 15mph. Perfect if you are on a bike. Keeps the average speed of drivers down in the residential areas, and if you know the timing is at 15mph, you might as well just cruise.
What is stupid about Microsoft loving Linux? A large portion of their business offering is built on Linux.
I read this as "evil Microsoft Product Managers researched the market and understand the competition and if they decide to compete with you watch out because they will be evil folks who understand market needs deeply and are intimately familiar with competitors."

I mean, I get that's hard to compete with for a smaller company or an less-formal org, like those who maintain many OSS projects, but that's just... being a good product manager. If you don't like that, hire a Product Manager and get those skills yourself.
Read up on the debasing of the Roman sesterce [1].

This is the modern equivalent (i.e. the vocabulary and implementation means have changed, but not the deed in itself).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement
Same article on CNN if that is any better.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/us/pacific-ocean-acidificatio...
I know very little about economics, but If there is no net injection into the market, why did the Fed's balance sheet start to expand at the same time? Are they separate things and this is a coincidence?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Because there was no need to, the other charges were enough to put him away for life.

There's really very little reason to doubt he did it, either.
Given that he was never charged with those attempted murders, I’m sympathetic to the argument that it should not have been used against him at sentencing.

But practically, it always seemed to me fairly obvious that he did author those messages. Do you not think that’s the case?
This is not a new issue between the US and European nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
DirectX9 is ancient, like somewhere between an original Xbox and an Xbox 360 in features. It's very difficult to use any modern graphics techniques with it. DirectX 11 is the most recent version of that classic style of graphics APIs, with DX12 being to DX11 sort of what Vulkan is to OpenGL. If I had a legacy DX9 codebase and I wanted to use some features of newer GPUs than what existed in 2002, I would convert over to DX11.
I have always stuck in the 1.5g range, and feel comfortable doing that in public or alone. I think anything over 3 is entering dangerous territory. Not physically, but you are going to need to be cautious about when/where/why/who at that level.

I took 5-6g when I was much younger and it was not an enjoyable experience on the whole, forgetting who/where I was, thinking I was other people. The most interesting part was everything arranging itself in sensible geometric patterns. No matter what I looked at, tree bark, the ground, the wall of a house, a pile of leaves, everything would appear structured as sort of repeating hexagons or octagons. That affect combined with occasional moments of profound peace felt revelatory, but I did not take mushrooms for a few years after that. I will almost definitely never do it again either.

I have not experienced the marijuana thing though :).
He says at the end that if you want true concurrency, use threads. But the point is that many people use threads where concurrency is not a requirement, or even desirable.
A semi is doing 400x as much damage as essentially the heaviest personal vehicle driving. For a more typical car at 4000 lbs (2000 lbs per axle), the semi does 6000x as much damage. If semis are 2% of all traffic (true in my observation), they're doing over 99% of the damage to roads. It makes no sense to care about road damage at all from any vehicle other than a heavy truck.
This is a big part of it for me. I love Logic Pro / Cubase / Ableton, and having access to those is pretty important.

Admittedly part of the reason I prefer macOS to Windows is that I find pro audio software tends to get more love on macOS.
What do you mean none of the other QE rounds were inflationary?
I had to look it up, but Sonny Perdue (the secretary of ag) is not related to Perdue farms (large chicken manufacturer)
Wow such surprise. How many articles like this do you need to understand that every single internet connected object will collect your data ?
I'm getting bored to read the same thing everyday.
Raw threads are really hard to program correctly, however sinking parallel code into an executor or queuing framework tends to really reduce complexity and in a lot of cases get all the cores working.
Seems you're not eligible to a Visa Waiver if you traveled to Iran or Sudan. Which means you need to apply for a visa at your US embassy [1] (which in my case was expensive and required a one day trip). Also it's not only a matter of having an Iranian stamp on your passport. You're not eligible for the VWP even if you visited this countries. I wouldn't try to lie about this!

"When can’t I use the VWP (ESTA) and need a visa?

Due to personal circumstances:

you traveled to certain countries (Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen on or after March 1, 2011)"

[1] https://nl.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-waiver-program/
The developer has come out and said that as of the announcement of them dropping support for Mac/Linux, the two platforms combine make up 0.6% of their active player base [1]. I am guessing they just did the math and decided the cost of switching APIs to something like Vulkan is not worth it when such a small portion of their users would benefit from it.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/rocket-league-will-dr...
Virtue ethics can be a strategy of using social pressure to reach consequentialist goals.

More than "implementing a consequentialist ethic" that sounds as a cynic "the ends justify the means".
Wired did an awful job at covering the case. Total sensationalism. That link you sent is a 6-year-old hit-piece. Nothing more.

This case generated sensationalism and media like Wired and ArsTechnica ran with it, at the expense of a young man awaiting trial. They destroyed his public image and relayed false and inaccurate information. It's sad to see people still sharing those superficial and sensationalized articles years after.

You should check this. Based on 400+ references, incl. investigation reports and more never-before-seen docs. The real story is SO much more interesting & mind-blowing than Ross being that one guy running the site the whole time.

https://freeross.org/real-untold-story/
Ted's needlessly authoritarian on implementation details, down to very specific details in file formats and how the components interact with each other using protocols that simply do not work.

For instance, he was insisting on ASCII only, byte addressed implementation of a cross referencing system with me in 2014 for the Xanadu implementation you mentioned. I couldn't convince him that multibyte encoding systems were worth considering or that offsets would change leading to fundamental data inconsistencies, thus corrupting formats...the rabbit hole gets deep. He gets very opinionated on details that don't matter and frankly don't work.

Thus it could only ever be a demo because you can't just feed open formats from the open internet it in any dynamic organic way. Everything would have to be curated, filtered, and babysat. That's not memex, that's some digital form of Pearson publishing with some proprietary e-reading system. Which is fine, but TBLs W3 system of intentionally leaving things open ended so every step becomes a potential platform for the next is so much dramatically better then just a cathedral cross referential monolith hybrid of hypercard and pdf. The brilliance of TBL is the W3 is half assed in just the right ways to make it not yet another unused visual language or mind map format. Should more be done? Sure, of course.

You may think it sounds absurd that Ted thinks there will be manual publishing under some private company's direction in the new format and not automated machine transliteration, I agree, it sounds like an archaic museum piece at the living computer museum in Seattle and not a future oriented system of thought. Well here we are anyway.

He needs to cede ground and intentionally leave pieces open ended so that other groups, in other cultures, with other priorities can fit in their specialized pieces into the puzzle. He apparently is still unwilling.

He's a brilliant philosopher but a classically toxic engineer. Usually that second group is full of people with bad ideas. His are undoubtedly revolutionary and profound, but the delegation of other thought systems to other humans and then interacting with them is like Drucker management 101 and he's just not onboard.

Also, without going into detail Andrew is a backstabbing ass. I hope he reads this and I'll state that publicly.

PS: In case Ted sees this (he probably still doesn't browse hn, but he gets forwarded things), I love you, you know this. You know my criticisms comes from a desire to make the acts as revolutionary as the thought and I want it to happen as much as you do. Hope to hear from you and hope all is well.
They should really track down whomever framed him how shouldn't they? As you say, it's serious business.
As they stated, most of their players are on windows. If windows is your target market, then DirectX is generally the graphics API you want to support. You don't want to make architecture decisions because one or other approach would be untenable to below 1% of your target. Cross-platform is not a value as such.
Calibre on PC & clients on mobile devices that can sync against Calibre ?
No sources other than observations from myself and all of my friends and family going to work the same route every day.
Research is, almost by necessity, based on "pipe dreams". If there's certainty of outcome it isn't research, and most likely doesn't belong in academia.

Second, well, private investors give money to whoever they want. If they believed they'd get most out of their money by just following some academic metric like citation count or impact factor (and throwing money at them), that's what they'd likely be doing; I don't think this would work all that well for them, do you? For one it's very hard to come up with any objective metric that can't be gamed, distorted, etc. The Media Lab has a rich history of collaboration with industry and yes developing innovative products/ideas. They promote this history, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think they (Iranian government) recently changed the rules and don’t stamp the visa into the passport. Not sure though, you better do a little research about it.
Nothing new under the sun [1]

If history repeats itself, next step is empire falls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement
Proton works great for single player games but isn't that great of an idea for multiplayer games. Their anti-cheat system could end up banning proton users. I believe this has happened to Destiny 2 and GTA:O players.
I still feel that, while all these abstractions are very fine and handy, there is only so much you can do without actually understanding how threading and locking works. If you grow up as a developer without actually touching it I wonder how you can actually understand this.