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I am an inveterate and incorrigible Mathematica user, as most of my “real work” deals with what might be best described in layperson’s terms as “symbolic math”.

Even though Wolfram has not (yet? hope always dies last!) released a version of Mathematica for the iPad (meaning, a frontend notebook coupled to an actual onboard computing kernel) they have released a client for “Wolfram Online” (often referred to as “Cloud Mathematica”) offering. This isn’t quite what I would like, as there’s a significant range of circumstances where I cannot rely on network access (such as when flying) but for most other situations it suits the purpose.

Other mathematics-inclined apps allow even greater range of onboard functionality (Pythonista, MathSudio spring to mind).

Upshot: one can most definitely do significant amounts of data analysis on an iPad.
> I see you've never personally experienced the US military

I see you haven't bothered to actually look at the record. The U.S. Navy has decades of operating many nuclear reactors on ships and submarines with no incidents.

> there's plenty of non-compliance and outright malfeasance without accountability

Not in the U.S. Navy's nuclear program. Even what would be considered minor infractions in other parts of the military are grounds for immediate dismissal. I saw that happen once while I was in the Navy and stationed at a shipyard. A minor administrative irregularity got the reactor officer of a ship fired; he was off the ship the same day and never came back.
> no important content creation apps are Sandboxed[0], so they can't be in the Mac App Store

Logic Pro, Final Cut Studio, Motion

Considering the Best Picture Oscar winner was cut with Final Cut, I’d say that’s an “important” content creation app.

I agree that all content creation apps aren’t on the store, but you said “no important” ones, which isn’t factual.
I believe major releases are blocked because much of the QA staff isn't authorized to access key systems remotely.
I think you missed my point: just about every company that is not in life sciences or some critical supply chain is scaling down, laying off people or simply hanging on for dear life. International hiring, tech or otherwise, is over and done with for the foreseeable future.
I don't mean it as gatekeeping either. It's just an observation. Although I've clearly offended someone...

I've lost count of the amount of times I've factored out the "not" from horrid expressions in my colleagues' code like "not this and not that" using Dr Morgan's law. Funny thing is I learnt Dr Morgan's in electronics a long time before I got to computers.

I think the problem is it's "boring" and people get hooked on doing stuff with programming. I can't blame them. But I wish more people remembered the fundamentals.
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>>But what is visible to the camera from rasterisation is different to what is visible to a camera using ray tracing! That was the point!

That is not true.

>>You were the one who first got offended by spelling and tried to correct me to do it your way!

I wasn't offended, I just told you the way that it's spelled by the vast majority of people who invented and work with these things. It isn't 'my' way, I'm not sure why you are so hung up on this. Maybe you are trying to avoid answers you don't like to the incorrect assumptions in your questions.
At google?

I find it harder to believe that google is not equipped for remote work than somewhere like Ubisoft (where I work) which is having serious pain as testing games over RDP is bandwidth heavy and horribly laggy.

And we’re not pushing any releases as far as I’m aware.
> This problem also becomes much less of a problem every day as the browsers converge on common standards.

Only Firefox and Chromium are able to keep up. It's an improvement over native apps working only on Mac OS and Windows as they are mostly open source, but still only two platforms.
The opcode OP_INHERIT takes two classes as parameter on the stack so this is equivalent to do a function/method calls with the class and the super class and let the function do the magic of filling the vtable, etc.
Do these projects have PMs etc.? I am curious about them (and work at a company whose services overlap with some of these initiatives) but it's hard to tell if there's anything more just a title + a paragraph to these projects. Nothing wrong with that, just looking for some clarity here.

Limiting this list to projects that are underway and have some clear leadership might help avoid the "random list of ideas" problem that another user here pointed out. I mean to say, if you don't have a plan, a leadership group/person, and something underway, don't post (if you're not able to get that much together, you don't have a project, you have an idea, and ideas are not very valuable).
There are a lot of obstacles for temps/contractors to gain remote access at google. I'd imagine a lot of testing is done by people who aren't FTEs.

disclaimer: I am a Googler, but know nothing about how the Chrome team operates
A hydroelectric power station is a far bigger risk if that's your threat model. A you have a relative eternity to get people out of harms way if a reactor goes pop compared to if a dam bursts.
I have an anxiety disorder. Mine's co-morbid with ADHD, but even if it weren't ADHD-like symptoms are well-known secondaries of anxiety and depression. For people like me, gamification helps greatly with incentivizing participation until a habit is built. I have no idea if this particular app would be what'd do it for me, but you're down on the concept in general in a way that doesn't represent my own situation well.

I do hear what you're saying, and nothing replaces social interaction, but I think you're making an assumption about this being a be-all-end-all. Maybe it would be for some, but those are probably the people who wouldn't adequately find in-person on their own anyway. Maybe this gets them far enough to do so, since just being functional enough to get help in the first place is often one of the biggest problems.

On another note, everyone's different. It's one thing to say what works for you, but your social fulfillment will likely be higher if you don't tell everyone else what will and won't work for them.
Are you already running Catalina? I observed a huge UI performance increase with the current Mac Mini on Catalina. The lagginess and stuttering you described bothered me to no end, but it feels (almost) completely fine on Catalina.

Edit: I have a 5k screen connected
The bum guns are advertised on Amazon, for washing diapers! lol.

Agreed, you don't just throw the towel up on the rack and call it a day. Usually you throw it in the wash or wash it out with soap when you are done. But at least your bum is a lot cleaner than smearing poop all around it with TP.
It's possible someone has incorporated such a feature into one of the third party apps/services/extensions.

I don't have a list of them and mostly don't use them myself, but a number of third party things already exist. You will probably get more helpful and enthusiastic replies if you ask about such options.

HN policy is intentionally conservative. They don't like changing things much. But the membership also has tremendous enthusiasm for providing third party solutions, usually for free. HN staff appears to be happy to tolerate this ad hoc ecosystem and I'm not aware of them getting cranky about it.

Edit: I absolutely suck at finding such things, but here's an old discussion to try to get you started:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310291

They come and go. Since it's an old discussion, some of the services listed may be defunct.
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Real question:

Who can accurately assess and answer the question: "How anxious are you?"?

Just reading this question triggers a bit of anxiety, as I go into self-analysis mode to figure out what signs I've been exhibiting that may indicate that I am "anxious".

"Well, I have been a bit jittery, so...7? But I just finished a coffee, so maybe a 5?"

I would have a very difficult time answering this question accurately.
If they're collapsing due to a massive external event, the answer is no.

If part of the blame is to be assigned in the decision to do share buybacks over the course of many years, then the people responsible for that decision need to be held accountable (personal gains clawed back etc.).
Pilots aren't easily replaceable and you need a certain amount of flight attendants minimum for every flight.

Clearly a strike would be effective - look what's happening now. They barely can handle 1 month without asking for a bailout. Even more so in an economic recession.

Let them liquidate. It's no different than before.
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Yea, almost none of the bathrooms in the US are designed like that. I only see it in the occasional hotel. I wish they were. Things are so much simpler that way.
People will not actually spend the three minutes to do it everyday. Even people with serious medical conditions skip it most days until a nurse calls to prod them to. This is according to telehealth and inhome care nurses.
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I think it's wrong that revolutions have always ended poorly. In particular two specific examples are the magna carta and the english bill of rights, which certainly made things at least incrementally better for the median englishperson. Of course, neither of those reforms came about at the end of the gun, so one wonders...

Moreover, Jack London was kind of writing very romantically at the time. He had gotten quite fat off the profits of his bookwriting. But It's not entirely clear that he really had sympathy for the working class, well according to the accounts of the laborers on his villa, anyways.
Why? It's not really more expensive than an iPhone 11. Ipad 11 pro 128gb = e899, iphone 11 128gb = e859, just 40 euro difference. Why should it run a full os when price is almost equal?
Remote work is one thing, working with kids at home because daycare is closed, not being able to lead a normal life, people getting sick... that's a completely different matter.
Performance based compensation, were share value is the key measure/indicator for performance, leads to this kind of culture.

There are legitimate reasons for stock buybacks, but when they're being used for nothing more than short-term increases (in share prices), then that says something about the system.
Once the practice causing the problem were identified, they were outlawed.

The problem with wet markets has been known for decades. They've done nothing.

Besides, mad cow disease was not an epidemic, let alone a pandemic.
Agreed. Good intentions but this needs some filtering of ideas to focus in on things people can actually do.

"1 Million Ventilators" Why not 10 million, or 100? This is effectively clickbait. :(
Fiat bought Chysler.
This doesn't mean that many of those who were younger and without pre-existing illnesses weren't in a serious condition and in danger of dying, just that, with the help of intensive care, they were able to survive.

If and when heath services become completely overwhelmed and there are no longer enough hospital bed/ventilators/doctors and nurses to provide the assistance they need, then we'll likely see a lot of younger and otherwise healthy people start to die as well.
Once they offer a 4-core 13" option it will be a lot more compelling.
In my view, Apple doesn’t want to make an iPadOS-running iPad into a laptop replacement, they want to make it into an orthogonal alternative.

In some sense, for many categories of use, the App Store hosts superior offerings to what the Mac App Store does. Panic and Omni offer extremely sophisticated applications that I use on a daily basis. Office is likewise almost on par with the desktop equivalents (for most users, I’m well aware of the limitations in macros and plugins and so forth).

Many developers seem to be taking a “Mobile First” approach these days, and that is driving wind into the iPad’s sails.

I really would be more prudent before dismissing it.
I don't think this is similar to normal remote work though. Schools are closed, so people can't work on home in isolation. On top of that people must be anxious. When people are worried about lots of other stuff their output may not be the same.

Even basecamp, which is highly remote, postponed their email service launch.
I actually quit a company in 2004 because they decided to go VB.net first. Was a good move because they are still on it and up shit creek now. I’m not sure how they managed to retain any staff as long as they did.
Yeah. Multiplicative identity, additive identity etc. Not sure what the name of the "andity" identity would be. Maybe just "identity of the and operation".
Years ago I wrote in and had an exchange with someone at Slack regarding "folders" for channels. I begged for the feature, and included some mock screenshots showing how they could do it. This was before Discord did it.

Anyway I got a tone deaf response, and someone on the Slack team passionately arguing that "folders" were too complicated and that nobody needed them and that 21 characters for the names were enough. I wrote back, and they doubled down on how folders were a bad idea.

The response almost turned me off Slack.

Anyway glad they finally changed their tune. Will really help people with dozens of channels stay organized.
Public NTP Pool is ideal honeypot.

You signal there is a new server that is still yet vulnerable with default passwords, firewall rules, patches.
I would think it would be better to have a bunch of servers in a single datacenter if low-latency between them is important. Fly.io sounds great for the case where you're willing to sacrifice low-latency between your own servers to get them to have low-latency with your users.
If you want to try it you can find it on Github https://github.com/moklick/face-mask-browser-extension
Crisper as in everything has 4x antialiasing.
This is neat. I've been doing the same with Pi 1s and 2s for a few years (http://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster) but stopped short of upgrading to 3s and 4s because of heat/power/cost.

I've found that it is possible to run k3s on SD cards quite well if you're patient, but that the Pi 2 master node spent a _lot_ of time just doing internal stuff even on an otherwise idle cluster, so I went back to Swarm.

(I also had quite a bit of trouble with setting up a container registry, which was hard and undocumented in the first few releases of k3s. Ingress was also a bit of a pain, it's much easier to get traefik working in Swarm...)
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Loneliness is warranted on the entrepreneurial path. My DMs are open if you'd like to talk.

If you have made enough money, have you considered starting a non-profit? You seem good at starting new things and a non-profit just might give you the meaning that you are searching for.

Just thinking out loud here.
This isn't really the criticism that the OP is making. Coal may kill more people, but it doesn't irradiate the surrounding area for hundreds of years if something goes wrong.

Personally, I agree that nuclear is probably not anti-fragile enough to be a widespread solution. Political instability is the norm, not the rarity, throughout history.
This is a difficult problem. During WWII the Army of the United States calculated the amount of toilet paper required to win the war in Europe at 20 squares per soldier per day. The British did the same calculation supplied their troops 4 squares per soldier per day.
All of a sudden, it doesn't connect to the internet anymore. Happened a few times already. Good reason to go back to firefox
When one makes personal attacks like, "Can tell you don't have much experience of bankruptcy," it is imperative that you actually know more than the person being attacked.

Many, if not most, US airlines have been through bankruptcies before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_bankruptcies_i...). Typically, large ones are not grounded; companies go into receivership, where they continue operations as normally as possible while the bankruptcy is settled.

Most US airports are public infrastructure. JFK is owned by the City of New York and operated by the Port Authority. O'Hare, Denver, and ATL are owned by Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta, respectively. LAX is "owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency of the government of Los Angeles." Public institutions such as cities can go into bankruptcy, but it's difficult.
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Privatization also stops making sense when private companies constantly need bailouts.
> That is not true.

No it is true - a polyglon not visible in rasterisation could become visible in ray tracing if the ray passes through a refractive material. So you may need additional geometry. Get it?
This has a social solution, which is to complain about bots being added to channels that are for human discussions. ;)

It has a fairly successful track record for me.
They're welcome to maintain their own ecosystem. Microsoft made it clear over a decade ago that VB.NET was symptomatic treatment at best.
The 10K+ deaths is over the entire course of H1N1/09. The US had ~4K deaths from 2009-04 to 2009-10 [1]. Italy has had 3K deaths in just 2020-03 [2]. You can't directly compare the early state of COVID-19 to the end state of H1N1/09.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/estimates/April_February_13.htm

[2] http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/media-communication/press...
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I don't know - I think that at some level our discovery of Mars could be dis-proven if you think that Mars is a solid terrestrial planet then in all likelihood you are correct, but you may be wrong - Mars could be gaseous with a floating mantel and some very strange properties... That all said I'm happy to tell bible thumpers that evolution has been proven since they aren't approaching the question from a legitimate point of skepticism and trying their best to misinform others.

For everyone who is earnest though - discoveries (even the earth being round) are only accepted until they're disproven, and there have been widely accepted theories that have been disproven in the past - like how relativity blew holes in Newtonian understandings.
If you're writing a script that needs to be that portable, you're doomed anyway and you might even find the autoconf manual's "Limitations of Shell Builtins" section useful.
Got let go about 3 weeks ago now, not sure if my employer saw this coming or if their timing was just spot on. No one is interviewing at the moment and it looks like it's going to be at least another 2 weeks before people are even thinking about hiring. The employment situation is going to get much worse before it gets any better. Hang tight, keep applying and hope for the best.
No more paper notebooks? YES GIVE ME! Top of my wishlist.

Does it support ePub format ebooks or just PDFs?
how many of these are scams? 100%
In the US at least we have massive tracts of wasteland perfectly suited for this purpose. Beats pumping poison in the air everyone breathes.
> You're giving developers root, maybe with extra steps, but root none the less.

No you aren't. It's arbitrary code execution in the target app's sandbox which is already doing arbitrary code execution in the first place. You know, the thing that you compiled & ran before you ever attached a debugger? Every iOS app is already doing arbitrary code execution. That's the whole point of apps. And the security model holds up just fine.

iOS's restrictions on JIT'ing is about App Store control, not security.
Depends, bailed out or taken over? For take overs (like Fannie and Freddie) value went quite close to nil
Can you give examples of voice projects where Violet excels in reducing time to ship?
I just cloned Packer from the master branch, and via a (very) crude mechanism looked at the number of lines of code in `_test.go` files vs the number of lines of code in `.go` files which do not have the `test` build tag, excluding vendored libraries.

There are approximately 60,000 lines of test code, vs 149000 lines of non-test code.

Other HashiCorp products have a much higher test to production code ratio, but it is by no means uniformly 10:1.
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If we're being really honest, it is for profit margins and planned obsolescence.
I don't know if you took that personally, but it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek comment.

If you look at one of my earlier replies, I acknowledged the relatively good (but not pristine) record of Navy warships but also linked to a list of a surprising number of military mishaps (both facility and weapons related).

To be fair, the list dwindled as the timeline became more recent.
It wasn't exactly sure randomness. I was registering for some band forum as an edgy teen and he was on CNN stroking Strom Thurmond's ego

It's wierd enough that any old niche forum friends I've lost touch with would recognize it...and I can't imagine anybody else would use it coincidentally. He's been a non-figure for years and years

Your curiosity demands more upvotes than I've got!
That's exactly why it's a poor choice for a product name. It's "greedy" to claim generic words for your products. It works for the likes of FAANGs with stuff like "Google groups", but at least they're coupling it with their brand. To just come out and call your product "Sink" for example, with no qualifiers, is foolish and bordering on unethical.
Italy's mortality rate is probably overstated by the lack of tests - there's likely many more infected people that don't show up statistics.
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Cremona, Italy - not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0
I'm not sure what "status panic confection" is supposed to mean. Nor does philosophy generally fall under humanities departments.

The philosophy of science is an established field that is hundreds of years old and includes pretty serious thinkers like Kant, Popper, Kuhn, and quite a few others. Ignore it at your own peril.

https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=philosop...
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The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 1000sqmi (32mi by 32mi). That's not so vast if it's in low populated area.
I’m referring to everyone being invested in index funds, even via their defined benefit pensions. If SP500 goes up, then everyone’s net “worth” goes up.
Without knowing much about the team I really doubt this has much to do with remote work. It seems like a smart move to take pressure off team deliverables in general right now for a host of reasons.
> airborne is not its transmission method

If the virus can stay "alive" in the air for 3 hours [1], why wouldn't airborne be a transmission method?

[1]: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200318_23/
If you’d like to do something similar, check out the Turing Pi, which uses RPI compute modules and runs off a ATX power supply.

https://turingpi.com/
Does this feature also work on uBlock Origin for mobile browsers?
They also just make it hard to concentrate on actually reading this announcement. A bit gratuitous.
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Among emacs users, the helm completion framework is also very popular.

Among FP enthusiasts, the helm FRP engine is pretty interesting, too.

So, at least the first 3 I mentioned are pretty well known in their respective communities.

The last one is from the last Show HN I saw for a Helm project.
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