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Has this ever happened to you? There can't be many areas of mathematics in which it could.
Do you believe that trade regulations such as ITAR apply to publicly-available open source software? I do not¹, and it appears that your employees do not believe this either.
GitHub is currently hosting multiple GPS implementations² that are clearly against this line in your ToS, in addition to also being against ITAR by not implementing speed limits for missiles:

"GitHub may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of […] long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles."

I think you should probably make a blog post explaining GitHub's stance on this issue.

[1]: https://www.unr.edu/sponsored-projects/compliance/export-con...

[2]: One of which is https://github.com/gnss-sdr/gnss-sdr. This repository does not implement ITAR-required GPS speed limits. Even if it was ITAR-compliant, the limits could easily be removed as it is open source software.

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Update: GitHub has updated their ToS to remove this line. It was present on July 27, 2019. The issue still stands with this current statement from their ToS ( https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-and-tra...), which forbids ITAR-regulated software:

"Users are responsible for ensuring that the content they develop and share on GitHub.com complies with the U.S. export control laws, including the EAR and the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The cloud-hosted service offering available at GitHub.com has not been designed to host data subject to the ITAR and does not currently offer the ability to restrict repository access by country."
In case you (or someone else reading this) didn't eventually find a workaround, here's how I was able to get lldb-mi to work in Catalina:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/3829#iss...

I also had the library issue mentioned here and copied the file the same way to fix that: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/3829#iss...
The linear plot is a lot more relatable (and scarier) than a log-scale plot, but it is impossible to filter out "susceptible" and "recovered" making the linear scale view impossible to read. Would be nice to be able to filter out.
https://about.gitlab.com/features/

From what it looks like, the free trial is similar to GitHub‘s paid account but you can use the extra tools for free for the duration of the trial. Seems as transparent as GitHub.

Never used GitLab outside of running it myself but I think hosting OS software on GitLab.com is free.
And yet, you could probably with a bit of work swap out the container runtime for a VM manager in Kubernetes and most users wouldn't even notice.
I have the reverse setup and use the 4k side monitor to run 4 windowed apps and any temp windows I need.

I use a 1920 in front of me as my primary monitor/ide
The USB-C connector is surface-mounted, so that makes it super easy to be torqued off by the massive cantilever that is the USB-C plug. I regularly have entire connectors ripped off PCBs but that has never happened with cheap, industrial connectors like the various ones Molex produces (and they're dirt cheap).

Molex has very sturdy through-hole power connectors as well as plugs that are lower profile and won't torque off the connector as easily. 2-pin Mini-Fit Jr. would work pretty well.

Or XT30 even. I love XT30 connectors.
Google was there first with ChromeOS and Android, apparently many like their Linux "improvements".

Also Solaris, SmartOS, IBM and Unisys mainframes also run Linux on their hypervisor based environments and not much are complaining about them.
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A miracle would be great, but I'm not counting on that in the short term.
The topic you are tackling is a very hard one, but you have figured that one already. Good thing is, you have both a solid and relevant background.

A general thought, which might be important in the future. This kind of optimization tools work best at scale, I would go even as far as saying only at scale. And that can make a MVP a hard thing. I have seen people try something similar without the necessary scale, or rather density as routes were spread out over to large a region. And it didn't work out that good.

What I didn't get, but then might be just me, is who your customers are. Developers or users? If it's the latter I could provide some operational insight.
Also, public access can mean that once someone gets a copy of the data they can host it for free as well. It's not as if it's under a commercial license.
My biggest problem is that Chris is an asshole.
No hypervisor support for Windows Home is pretty insane. Ran into this problem with a friend's laptop during a hackathon a year or two ago. Wonder if ripping that out makes QA faster.
For comparison, the Apollo Lunar Module had a launch mass of 15,200 kg.
I suppose you'd prefer that, instead, the entirety of Japan would have had to be bombed into oblivion using non-nuclear weapons, not to mention the extra loss of life on the Allied side that would have almost certainly occurred during a more traditional invasion that would have likely been necessary.

War sucks, and there are rarely good choices; it's nearly always going to be a choice between something truly awful and something just merely really bad. Nuclear weapons suck, but I dare say they saved lives -- on both sides -- when used in that instance. Of course, after more people had them, and we realized the implications of MAD, using nuclear weapons is (thankfully) more or less off the table for any non-suicidal nation.
I think this is very common.

Genuine question: what, if anything, could a note-taking app do to assuage this fear?

e.g., is there something extreme that would help like giving you example notes to run through the export process during onboarding, or maybe even an automated export to an email every number of days so that if the app shuts down, even if you do nothing, you'll still have your data.

I'm asking because I recently launched an app in precisely this space (https://www.notefuel.com - it's a note-taking app dedicated specifically to learning, kind of like Readwise.io meets Evernote), and I totally understand this worry, have it myself, and would invest in mitigating it.
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Does anyone familiar with the community have other counterpoints or hypotheses about its friendliness? I can't help but feel that's the most important part of the article.
> Use covfefe protocol to start coffee machines.

I should have known, but I wasn't paying attention.
For orchestration:

Someone else mentioned this in a different comment, but there was very much a link to firecracker in the article.

That - and all the other many tools that you would deploy vms to the public cloud today of which there are numerous production quality options out there.

Lastly, this is precisely the point I was trying to address with the "I'm honestly curious - what are the alternatives?" paragraph.
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I remember seeing your design back around 2009 when I was taking my first web “publishing” courses! What a trip down memory lane
>How is the post an attack?

Perhaps by asserting the OP is trying to "exploit" the situation by not wanting to pay Google wage rates at their small business?

I'm not sure I understand why the business owner "deserves" to take the financial hit for the sake of a new employee. The market will sort it out.
Congrats on the launch!

I've worked with Ryan a couple times over the years since 2009. I also interviewed with Carolyn once upon a time as well. These founders are the brightest in the industry!

They have developer's experiences at the top of the priority list. That's not something I see when looking at existing tooling in this domain. The problem they are solving is real and applies to so many industries both obvious and not and this is a modern toolset to bring in to your stack.

I cannot wait to see the many successes they will enjoy. I encourage anyone with an optimization / constraint solver in their stack to take a look at Nextmv.
Then stop using ten squares to wipe your butt and restock slightly sooner than usual. Still no excuse to buy excessively more than you usually do.
It’s almost as if there’s multiple solutions for multiple problems.

Containers are just a solution to a problem. I’ve been around long enough to know that containers aren’t novel either.

Novelty is the future. It always is.
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Ehh if microvms are the future, we are going to need software to schedule and orchestrate them across large clusters. Software with this capability happens to already exist and it’s called Kubernetes.

I feel as though the author is only thinking about Kubernetes as an application platform. However, you can build platforms on top of Kubernetes (knative, Istio, etc) which solve many of the issues the author has brought up.
Then you have nothing to worry about at this point.
>it's fair to criticize any physicist who establishes a theory to be beyond testability and continues work on it

Would the same apply to people who further explore questions like P = NP and what happens if it is true or false or what happens if the Riemann hypothesis is true? Sometimes digging more into something that doesn't seem testable results in a finding that is testable or into knowledge that helps advance a related field.

I think the deeper question is, how do we make sure that public money is spent in a justifiable fashion. And when it comes to science that is a hard question to answer, especially if one considers that science works a bit differently than the way the average voter thinks about things when it comes to notion such as proven or disproven.
Perhaps this shows that industry experts, with skin in the game, are better at determining the relevant trends than the people and institutions you mention.
Arguably a benefit of substantial tariffs is that it gets that message through (i.e., your supply chain may not be nearly as reliable as you think).
> Sanctions for online services

Not my field, but my impression is there's an ongoing argument over whether severe economic sanctions constitute a form of collective punishment as prohibited under the Geneva convention. Usually it's in the context of trade and infrastructure. "Once your government submits to our policy demands, we'll permit your infant mortality rates to drop back down - until then, don't blame us for your suffering". But where access to information is seen as a universal human right, a similar issue might arise with online services.
Why it takes FBI so long to process FOIA requests, paraphrased
that's also where i've landed on the tariffs issue. theoretically a bad idea, but has practical uses beyond purely economic considerations.

good tariff policy is hard to achieve in divisive political environments however. for instance, in many cases, you'd want them to go away dynamically as conditions improve, but lawmakers hate giving away their levers of power.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.
Nice! This would be really awesome.
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By the way, the South Korea's National Security Law still has the clause that "any person who praises, incites or propagates the activities of an antigovernment organization (that includes DPRK by design)... shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years". And this clause is actually used (see Amnesty International's report https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa25/006/2012/en/ ), so it's literally illegal for a South Korean newspaper to print anything positive about DPRK.
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Guarantee you deaths will be less than swine flu deaths. But you will just say it's because of our amazing response, the same response being treated by MSM as inadequate. Just remember it was the Democrats/MSM willing to go scorched earth on the economy to push this pandemic narrative.
> No app can offer that kind of guarantee.

Actually the one I'm developing offers that [1], as it stores notes as plain Markdown files on disk, it doesn't get any more future-proof and no vendor lock-in than that.

[1] https://notable.md
Some time ago I made https://github.com/fiatjaf/classless, a framework for making themes for simple websites (like blogs) using the same basic HTML structure.

The idea is: you write HTML that conforms to the structure, then you can reuse any of the themes by just including a CSS file (and sometimes a JS file) in your <head>.

Turns out I wasn't the best person indicated to push this, as my design skills weren't marvelous, but I still think it was a good idea. There are 17 themes available, mostly ported from other places. A playground where you can see the themes (and test your own, if you are feeling like building one) is available at https://classless.alhur.es/
Nothing. To satisfy the programmer type users who claim their file type independence:
1. Just give the users a nice pdf export with lots of options.
2. iOS files integration , so that we can save directly into a repo program ( Ie working copy)
It sounds like you lack some Computer Science knowledge. Try to find/take some, during which you will know what math areas are important if that's your thing.

It's not the same when you go to a tech university to get a B.S. degree in CS, but it's very doable. Nowadays a lot of video resources are available.

Buckle up and good luck :)
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Probably there is even good competition between the cloud providers, because hosting the data means that you can sell a lot of compute time to all the users of the data. NASA choosing for AWS means that any IO intensive analysis on that data will run faster/better/cheaper on AWS.
I would say flow chemistry lays firmly in the overlap between chemistry and chemical engineering.

With flow chemistry, it’s not good enough to know just the chemical side of things. Other factors like mixing, residence time, different flow types, etc becomes much more important. That’s where a chemical engineer can really add value.
What if you don't have any co-workers?
"Hallway Rouhllete" perhaps a spin-off feature for v2? *powered by a few selective criteria?
1) the parameters that don't fit with the already observed data should be visibly marked in a sense how much they are away from the observation. That's the most important use of the tool: to show which parameters simply don't match: for each parameter one should assume that others remain the same, then show how much that specific parameter has to be for the observations to match. If the parameter can't be any value with the rest unchanged to produce the observed output, it should be marked as n/a or whatever, otherwise the difference from the nearest possible should be shown.

2) you should allow longer time frame for the simulation (it should be possible to run it for e.g. 12 months).
I was fighting my coworkers with 1440 monitors to make sure we still worked on 768 width (plenty for 800px + scrollbar, or portrait on the brand new iPad). UI people like to maximize negative space in their mockups and it's not uncommon for them to use extremely short example text to emphasize that effect. Like how your living room looked so big until you put all of your crap into it.

And the thing is, even if you had a 16XX monitor, who wants to maximize a tool that you might be transcribing data in or out of? I might actually need two windows side by side to facilitate that work.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted here - these all are extremely valid points on why we feel change is necessary.

Things have changed dramatically since the 1970s (Unix) and even since 1991 (Linux) yet we are still using the same constructs.
CS has historically been associated with the math department at many schools. At many others, it's in the engineering school but that's by no means universal.
You're doing your own ASIC? Very nice. I'd love to talk that over if you'd care to be in touch. (Contact details in profile).
Off topic, but does anyone know if Shakti is going to have a q like interface? I was under the impression that Whitney decided that having operators that can be both monadic and dyadic was a bad idea?
That sounds good in theory, but in reality you end up with worse outcomes than doing nothing:

a) The target country just allows their citizens to feel the brunt of the sanctions while the ruling class hoards resources for themselves.

b) The target country starts a propaganda campaign to blame the sanction-issuer for all their problems, which the citizens mostly believe.

So ultimately you end up with regular-Joe citizens in the target country having a worse quality of life, while also being led to believe that your country is the evil one.

Another poster hit the nail on the head: the politicians in the sanction-issuing country need to be seen as doing something by their populace, regardless of what the result of that something is.
Yes, what you describe is exactly what happened to me. I simply couldn't go past those initial hours. It felt like a (cute) platformer to me. Everybody said there was something amazing once deep into the game, but honestly 5+ hours of jumping around was too much for me.
That's why "Linux Subsystem" would have been clear and straightforward. Just one more of Window's subsystems. Cramming "Windows" in the name is what makes it confusing.
If you have enough viral load to be infectious RT-PCR on nasal swabs will definitely find it. PCR is enormously sensitive.
Totally agreed. It ended up being too fiddly - mostly due to their annoying auto arranged thing. Just let us throw the frames manually around; and let us select a subset of frames to have the program visually auto arrange for us, if we choose we need it (note: you can kinda do this, but then your subtree is tied to the auto arrange of its parents, until root node, which is the global canvas). There is ability (iirc) for manual placement of frames at root level, but not at any other level (this here is the crux of the issue).
yq r test.json > test.yaml

yq r -j test.yaml > test.json
Hey! I created this, please let me know if you have any ideas or questions!
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Right (I didn't say it was new). It's easier for someone who's unemployed to work under a short-term contract so I was encouraging employers to use "contract-to-hire" instead of a tech-interview.

Funny story: I actually did contract-to-hire by accident at one of my jobs. They wanted to hire me but couldn't fit me in their salary scale so I was a contractor for a while. They actually needed about three people and agreed that I could work as many extra hours as I was willing to on the other projects. So I worked 9 hours on my contract software project and most days about another 5-6 hours on the other embedded systems projects (I was young and an early riser, so I still got home before 1800 to play with my kids and have dinner). After about 2 months I got called into the presidents office and was offered a job with a better salary than the rate I'd asked for and was told I had made more than the president the last pay period and it raised the board's eye-brows. Still worked 10-11 hours a day for quite a while (and some ridiculous bursts in years after) since it was a start-up but I really was just trying to impress them enough to get hired.
A few weeks ago I was reaching for VScode + Qt because I normally do a bunch of small one-offs. My go-to is mostly command line (vim and shell scripts for building or Makefiles or eventually cmake if things get "heavy")--which means I'm very excited about avoiding qmake in favor of cmake. I find most IDEs unbearably slow and heavy, but I really like Visual Studio's debugger (with multiple languages).

I hear great things about QtCreator, but for me it's more about not wanting to invest in yet another large application for things I don't do every day.
That is my biggest problem with it too. Sony and MS need to crack down on that. We don't need 4k assets. We're not f'ing there yet. Quit making us all have to download them.
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Hello,

I have been a Hacker News reader for years, but I have never posted before.

I am regularly amazed by the high level of discussions and exchanges. It is great.

That is why I would like to submit the following problem to you.

I live in Belgium and because of the Covid-19, we have a shortage of respirators. In my opinion the problem will be the same in other countries.

A respirator costs 50,000 € / $.

All of you, geeks, nerds, software and hardware guys, couldn't you help solve this problem by designing a respirator yourself ?
Maybe not the best, but enough to save lives ...

Thank you in advance,

Olivier
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The texarea is also currently the default, at least on English edition.
this site isn't working for me, I grant location access and it says I need to turn on location access to see the map. Doesn't seem to be working?

Fails on Chromium and Firefox.
You can't do that with a console. All of them have to hit the min specs.

You can allow one game to use more gpu while reducing cpu and vise versa.

Just imagine a cpu heavy rts vs a graphic intense rpg
Linkedin job postings do show the number of applicants for a job.
So how do you plan to not overreact going forward? Or did the Microsoft acquisition play a role?
That's a half-truth.

All of the cloud vendors de-empathize network egress costs. It's similar to products that depend on Microsoft licensing who will always omit those types of costs. (Oh, so you needed to spend another $500k in SQL Server Enterprise?)

Many organizations lack the operational metrics to allow them to effectively measure their egress needs. And AWS/GCP/MS salesmen arent in the business of slowing down deals with awkward questions.

This is especially true where an org like NASA probably contracts out things like network services. Going from a model where you make fixed capital investments to paying for the byte is difficult to measure.
I'm sure a big piece is Microsoft thinking "most users don't need this so we can get away with charging the few who do". I have trouble feeling outrage because it is only $100 to upgrade. I've paid almost that much for a text editor.
That's expected. All the service industry workers are in that age range and can't afford to skip work because of some coronavirus.
>IT companies had been hiring like crazy based on the assumption that infinite Internet growth would require infinite resources. And then, it turned out it was all a bubble and most of the IT workforce was not needed.

How are you confident that this isn't exactly what's happening now, and the virus was a catalyst?

People have been talking about the froth, seriously, for a couple years. Theranos, WeWork, SoftBank, the recent IPO busts...
> wasted too much time and effort trying to come up with elegant math and grand theories that sound plausible but can't be tested

Einstein did not believe the gravitational waves he predicted could ever be detected. Or so I recall. But stuff like many-worlds interpretation appears fundamentally untestable (add same disclaimer here).
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> They get pissed off at the sanctioning government as well, and are less likely to believe that that government actually worries about their interests and rights...

Oh thank god they’re less likely to believe that, because at least in this version of reality no government actually worries about the interests and rights of the human beings on the other side of the planet; if they say so they’re just bullshitting.