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His videos actually got me into operating systems, from his covering of more obscure alternatives to his videos on previous attempts that failed.
> Many contracts that have illegal/unenforceable clauses have been run by lawyers...

Many contracts that have illegal/unenforceable clauses have them because they have been been run by lawyers. They know perfectly well that most ordinary people are in no position to tell whether or not a clause is enforceable.

My landlady when I was at uni (74-77) tried it on me not realizing that my girlfriend was studying land law and contract law at the time.
Highway Expansions Hit a New Wall of Resistance
I just bought a $1000 iPhone. It's not even the most advanced model either.

I'm certain Apple could make an AR (ish) headset that is amazing for $2k
Sum types and typeclasses in Haskell (or enums and traits in Rust) are a much better fit than classes and the mess that is operator overloading.
Exactly. In fact, the best way to determine a fair value for an investment is to estimate the net present value of future cash flows to owners: from dividends or a terminal acquisition.
Is the Earth's magnetic field affected by its rotation speed?
Chef Michel Roux dies aged 78
> you set the entire state

And how would you easily create that state?
The monitor I have is a Samsung C27HG70, which _is_ a quantum for LED monitor.

Although it’s not 4K, given the fact that it ships with a color calibration report I think calling it “some gaming monitor” is a bit silly.

As someone who’s a bit of a picture quality fanatic (I preferred color accurate panel displays “before it was cool”, my television is a 4K HDR10 OLED, etc.) I think it’s quite ridiculous that you’d classify your suggestions as anything other than luxuriously decadent for most programming work.
So would that younger than a fetus be considered life?
WHO has been shouting “take action now” the whole time and the official stance was “it could be stopped if governments act now.” Governments didn’t listen, so here we are. I fail to see what good declaring a month earlier would achieve, as governments clearly don’t give much of a crap about WHO advice unless the situation is seemingly spiraling out of control. One likely outcome of declaring one month earlier is being taken even less seriously; they can’t just re-emerge a month later and declare it’s really a pandemic this time.
You're missing a very important fact, which is that 15-20% of all ages need a hospital. Get ready for warehouses full of sick people like China had: and that was with a total social lockdown.
Singapore wins praise for its Covid-19 strategy. The U.S. does not
People are worried, constantly checking the news and distracted because of it. It doesn't matter where they're working from, productivity is going down.
Can someone find the relevant suit and allegations? What eCommerce patents does IBM own?
I wonder which of my "pet" virtual machines will hit it first: slackware or voidlinux ?
> You don't have to worry about any pedestrians or unpredictable drivers...

Actually you do. Most airspace is uncontrolled, where the collision avoidance algorithm is "see and avoid". There are plenty of airspace users who do not broadcast any kind of beacon apart from being visible to other pilots.

You could demand that they all wear electronic beacons. Such technologies do exist. However they aren't currently predicted to work well enough in the expected congestion created by large numbers of autonomous aircraft in the future. And it faces most of the same practical challenges as putting beacons on pedestrians and all other road users.
I don't see how his statement about antibacterial products is wrong. My grocery store, for example, sells hand soap in liquid pump dispensers. Some of these say antibacterial on the label and some of them don't. The antibacterial ones are very similar to the plain ones, except that they contain an ingredient which is of no use against viruses.

I think his point is that I have no reason to prefer the antibacterial one when my goal is to kill this virus. I'd say he's 100% right about that.
Memespeech: Censor-proof end-to-end encryption
it's partially open source, so you don't get the stuff you mentioned.
I'm starting to think that these 'we don't know the denominator' arguments are somewhat irrelevant.

E.g. it might be that 20% of cases require hospitalisation. Or it might be that there are ten times as many cases as we thought, and only 2% require hospitalisation.

But the number of people in hospital remains the same in either case, as do predictions for the future strain on the healthcare system (up until the disease infects a significant fraction of the total population).
> exclusive contract for a personal friend

Similarly in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, a politically connected one-man "energy company" called Whitefish, with no experience or skills, emerged out of nowhere and was given the contracts to rebuild the entire Puerto Rican grid.

Months later nothing had happened other than he hired a few people as unskilled as himself who were just dorking around down there, while people died.

So they fired that guy and hired another company called Cobra, with the same terrible terms, and the same ineffective response. Eventually it was found out that Cobra people had paid massive bribes to officials to ensure the deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/puerto-rico-fema-arres...
Building relationships as a remote engineering manager
Rotational speed of Earth is 1,000 mph at the equator where it is moving fastest. Other parts of the mass are moving slower.

The entire Earth orbits the Sun at 67,000 mph -- around 67X faster. And note that it is the entire mass of the Earth moving at that speed, not just the equator.

Changing the rotation speed by 1% is a whole lot easier than changing the orbital speed by 1%.
They have to accept the patch.

Currently if you want a website that records audio, and you want an iphone user to use it, you have to make a native app, just what Apple would prefer.
Are you quoting from the Abstract or something? The claims are what matters.
> "maintain physical possession of their platform"

That ship has sailed.
What's the internal codesearch tool written in?
With regards to your question: "Whatabout whatabout?"

Here's a map pointing out the parties responsibilities for anthropogenic atmospheric CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_responsibility_1950-2...

So, it looks like the ball is firmly in the USA/EU/Russland/Canada/Uk corner. Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, India; not so much.
Thanks for sharing. What’s CMG? Also, how easy is it to buy options with Schwab or Etrade or similar?
> but hands Elliot Management and others more ammunition that social isn't growing to expectations.

If the growth is largely from bots, then perhaps Elliot Management is right even if you disagree with the business dealings.
Ok, one thing — perhaps not the most important — is that “timestamp” is a very unfortunate terminology for the abstract concept you describe. The word timestamp very much suggests that it’s referring to an explicit representation of some sort. “timepoint” would be much better for what you’re talking about. Not a criticism of you of course! I mostly write python at work so I rarely am directly exposed to the integer offset values, but I know many people use the word “timestamp” to refer to that integer, as opposed to a formatted string. Which also seems like unfortunate terminology, since what is a stamp if not formatted?
Prions are the things of nightmares. Good god, I wish I never read up on them.
Brilliant post that inspired me to do this research when I was at ReadWrite:

https://readwrite.com/2009/04/30/what-do-vcs-say-and-do-in-e...
the fact is that generates the ebook fro that page only. i would love to have the whole ebook
How things have changed. Byron was a rock star author at the same time as he was described as 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know' By Lady Caroline Lamb.
It's a well-reasoned respectful comment though. It has been the HN way that downvoting is really to punish overtly bad comments and a lack of upvoting boring comments.
I'm trying to work out why they think manufacturing their own laptops is going to be a profitable business. Margins on consumer hardware are razor thin even for the big players like Dell who have the advantage of scale. So far just being open source friendly has not been nearly enough of a market differentiator.

That said, I wouldn't mind considering a system76 laptop for my next workstation, except that they don't support one thing that Dells do exceptionally well: driverless docking stations. (And no, USB and Thunderbolt docking stations don't work well under Linux and I have no reason to believe they ever will.)
Show HN: Is Bourbon Street Clean Now?
Since the magnetic field is tied to rotation of the planet’s core, I would expect it to slowly weaken as it caught up with the lack of rotation of the surface.
I'm frustrated enough that smartphones have a battery life that can barely last through the work day. Call me from your smartwatch once we've made enough advancements in battery technologies.
Does V2 support STEP output? As a semi-professional (i.e., an engineer, but not a mechanical engineer, using this for work purposes that aren't 3D printing), anything that does not support STEP is simply useless to me.
Satellite images show Iran building vast burial trenches for coronavirus victims
Hi, sorry for the issue, the instance Redis.io runs on is very small and has only 1GB of memory, so the OOM killer killed the Redis instance. Normally this was not possible, because redis.io itself uses just a few keys, but lately I installed try.redis.io there, and apparently this uses a lot more keys, I'll have to monitor the keys usage and change the code in order to flush the old sessions faster. The current instance is costing 5$/mo at Digital Ocean, maybe I sent too cheap on this :-D But the idea was that I own everything and don't ask for expenses about Redis OSS official stuff, this was the idea back then. Now no longer makes sense in the new setups but still...

EDIT: just to be a bit safer I set a memory limit in the instance as well.

Btw if you see this as being not very professional, well it is :-D The website was setup by a friend of mine in an afternoon once we upgraded the site to use SSL. I have access and do sysadmin tasks without knowing very well how it is configured (it uses systemd for instance, while I setup things differently usually in my machines). The instance was configured without even a proper configuration file, just a few parameters on the command line. The thing is: we handle this as a "community" thing. And after all considering the near zero-efforts, and the 5$ instance for many many years, it kinda works well.

Anyway all the content is public and open source... (see redis-io and redis-doc repositories), and all our releases are tagged on Github. So the site is not vital in case it goes down for some short time.
- NPM module here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/memespeech

- Docs and detailed format specification: https://gitlab.com/obsessivefacts/memespeech#memespeech-java...
I didn't realize I could potentially get free karma by saying Donald Trump is a legend. Good to know.
Yeah, not a good idea for hands! It can be good for disinfecting inanimate objects though.
The willingness of the various web consortiums to bend over backwards for individual corporations has got to end. It's making the web worse, not better.
Fascinating. And very impressive the way the sun color is parameterized so you can do, e.g., `$sun1: aquamarine;` in the CSS and still get something that makes sense and looks quite psychedelic.
Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
This is easy to say when you have capital or access to capital. Having lived most of my life quite poor, I find it somewhat frustrating to hear things like this. When you can't afford food, rent, health insurance, etc, the last thing you're thinking about is dumping your life savings into a new business that has a 90% chance of failure.
Bitcoin plummets along with stock market. Officially lost digital gold status?
The professor is the front-line guy. I'm talking about epidemiologists, not physicists. If he wasn't acting as a "free agent," then you would be back to hearing from elected officials, who are mired in compromises and not entirely trustworthy.
Do Us a Favor
I think the title should be “start a startup in bad economy that will recover soon”. Ongoing misery is a totally different beast.
CBOR was originally part of the MsgPack project, by the way, before its designer forked it and renamed it after himself.
This is from 2007, but it sounds right, and it includes some patent numbers:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2545023/ibm--amazon-co...
Sorry, but this is a terrible argument.

If we see that type of shift, we're going to be living in a very, very different world where American's general way of living will need drastic change.

I hedge my bets, but somethings go well beyond y control.
Tour of Home Network 2020
I'm pretty sure they're talking about solid bars of soap.
> This is used for things like providing anti-piracy DRM protections, and Internet-of-Things attestation

"Internet-of-Things attestation" ?? A poor attempt to stick a refreshing buzzword in front of a fundamentally unwanted user-betraying open-society-undermining technology.

Remote attestation does away with the basic foundation of protocols for mediating between mutually-untrusting parties, making it so users must trust the remote party. Imagine if websites attempting to enforce (browser fingerprinting, no image save, anti-adblock, etc) could successfully implement their hostile restrictions!

This break is great news for everybody that wants their computer to remain under their own control, rather than an increasingly locked down Big Tech WebTV.
A list of tips, tools, and examples to support your transition to virtual events
The logs are stored to internal flash storage as FIT files and can then be synced to Garmin's cloud service or mobile app. You can also copy the FIT files directly from the USB storage device to analyze them yourself.

https://www.thisisant.com/developer/
A typical way to handle this in a functional language would be to create a datatype with a name like "PositiveInt", which just contains an Int inside it. However, in a language like OCaml, you can make it so that users of this type cannot directly create it, and instead must use a function like "makePosInt", which would check that its argument is positive, then give you back a value of type PositiveInt containing your data.

I'm not too experienced with this though, so this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on this topic.
The US political proceed being so fucked up that it can't react in a meaningful and halfway coordinated way is structural. That's far from the whole problem, but it's part.
Makes sense. If I’m collecting data to look for exoplanet transits, I might go “wow, weird” if I get some strange light curve, but then not really follow up on it since I’m busy looking for exoplanets and only have so much time with the scope.
These guys are like George in Seinfeld. So wrong about absolutely everything that doing the exact opposite is the winning strategy.

On a serious note, remember that they are not your friends at all. They make money when the rest of the investors are predictable. There is no incentive whatsoever for making accurate predictions.
The stocks that survived 1929
Etsy does take their identity verification for sellers fairly seriously, though it's hard to combat if you have a workforce of people whose ID you can use.
I made this in an internship except that I get the metadata from Entity Framework and those subqueries but those woudn't have been hard to implement.
I see one factual thing presented in a neutral way and a bunch of transphobic bullshit. And the factual thing is essentially "Google this", which contributes nothing.
It's a reference to the Silicon Valley sitcom: https://youtu.be/cB7dInljmO4?t=23
List of bugs fixed in 9.3:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED...
It was like most other big IT problems that are properly anticipated -- a ton of work went into making sure it wasn't a problem, so everyone assumes there was nothing to worry about and all the IT people were lazy and dramatic.

But that couldn't be more wrong.
if you think that's bad. go to my home country, Zimbabwe.
Do we need Discriminated Unions in C# 9?
In this video ( https://youtu.be/ABfZfTSsyt4 ) I have learn that Enum and Discriminated Unions are similar, but they are not the same. Enum can be combined and Discriminated Unions are for the heterogeneous data. I still can not understand. Do we really need Discriminated Unions in C# or this proposal is a clone from F#? is C# OOP or it is now a multiple paradigms programming language?
That exercise makes me feel like too many people believe that accurate == perfect.
Yes it was real. My fav phrase to describe the work was 'KY2K Jelly - helps you insert 4 digits where only 2 would go before' :-)
Haskell Visual Arrow Syntax
Changing rotational speed or revolutional speed matters more on tidal forces and other sources of drag, which for the latter are much less.
"All the greatest hits from the past 40 years just use four chords..."
Ask HN: Insight DS Fellows program now charges membership fee, still worth it?
I just got accepted into their summer session. However, different from their website description, they now ask their fellows to pay 5% of their gross income for two years after they are employed.

I'm getting a PhD in operations research related areas and I am pretty new to the job market. They say that they use the membership dues to help me with interview preparation, compensation negotiation and career coaching. I wonder if attending this program while paying up to $14,000 is still a wise choice.

Any insight is appreciated.
It seems OP is trying to hedge savings in the form of RSUs granted by his employer. Since they can't be sold yet cash isn't an option (pun unintended).
Ad blockers block ad networks. A fancy publisher like Economist doesn't have to use ad networks. They could sell online ads the way they sell print ads.
I mean, I'm sure in some cases being bigger or smaller is helpful. It just feels incredibly lazy, borderline disingenuous to throw it out there without bothering to connect the dots or analyze how size would matter in that specific case.

> small states turn out to be better for humans

Source/examples of this? In Europe, the larger countries like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain don't seem obviously worse off to me than their smaller counterparts. Like if you compare the UK to Ireland, Germany to Austria, Spain to Portugal, etc.
Thanks! These definitely sound like what I should explore next in my journey.
I’ve read and understood everything you’ve written. I think your contention that the baseline risk for all is so high that it renders the additional contributions due to race etc to be irrelevant, is absurd, unsympathetic, and neurotic.
Even without a numpad the keyboard is already irritatingly offset. There's just more stuff to the right of the alphas.

A 15" laptop with no numpad and the alphas (not the whole keyboard) centred would be ideal.
Experts: Rapid testing helps explain few German virus deaths
Good information, so we would have a Neural Net that takes a vaccine input and predicts the human (or animal) immune response, and another neural net that generates the vaccine inputs. I suppose the problem would be lack of labeled training data, which is why I was thinking about the chess example which works by simply knowing the rules of the game.
>Retirees and home owners would riot in the streets.

Letting prices fall even further ...

Regarding the price development:

Prices will fall, because interest rates at 0 means that it is cheap to fund competition. Competition drives profits down.
Is this a frontend for Grok - the thing that Steve Yegge built?
It is a measure of how valuable a company stock is (price-to-earnings ratio) but in contrast to the standard P/E which looks at data for only one year it looks at data for the previous ten years, so it's less volatile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically_adjusted_price-to-e...
I don't really see it as still alive: half of the commits in that repo in total were on that day, and only one was a change of code. Before it, the last code change was two years prior.

"Mostly dead" may be more accurate, I'll grant.
I feel like the article went way too much over aspects like TPDNE and the non-existent lawyer, which - while being useful to know - are somewhat poor indicators of fake profiles especially in a tech circle. I personally know a few people who use TPDNE profile pictures and many who use fake names, although none do both (a wise thing in this day and age). The rest was quite lacking.
>make sure you check what your camera "sees" in the background, and clean that up.. wall=OK, pile of laundry 3 weeks old= NOT ok

I can only assume that's why Teams has the "blur background" option.
I think founders do those same calculations, Since you can't be successful if you can't accurately judge risk, but I think the utility function is different in how founders value non-monetary rewards and the mission of the company etc, and I think founders might also see themselves as in positions to influence those payoff numbers to increase the probability of success or the venture or the payoff as t the end.
If you just go up one category you'd see you don't need a third party tool: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle
In my experience, custom types often turn out either being so restrictive as to be less than useful or being leaky abstractions. (This might be an example of just where a healthy engineering compromise is unavoidable.)
The matches! macro looks awesome! Looking forward to using it a lot (especially to check variants).
The whole US patent system needs to either be scrapped or rebuilt. The purpose it was originally intended to be used for doesn't make sense in a world where most new technology is just software, and software is incredibly easy to copy and duplicate. Getting a software patent is mostly a matter of sneaking past the people at the USPTO, and making sure you're the first to file. These patent factories could just write code to generate patents all day (maybe start using PyTorch?).
Alternate soaps to avoid dry hands, since dish soap will strip the oils.

Tangentially, if you are handling raw chicken, and then try to use antibacterial soap, it cannot penetrate the grease from the chicken. The trick is to use dish soap first, followed by a second wash with antibacterial soap.