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> To some extent the Android 10 disaster is to be blamed on Google since apparently the fingerprint problems existed in almost every vendors Android 10 release. I guess that when google moved their pixel 4 to no fingerprint/only faceID(or google face unlock) they just didn't care enough about other Android OEMs.

I feel that it is sad that Google phones mostly follow iPhone trends. It's as if the Google phone team are iPhone fans. Heck, I saw an Android team video and most of the people in the background were using iPhones.

I think customers would be better serve if each company play to their strengths, not on carbon copying each other.
So it's "kinda complicated" because... you've tagged people disagreeing with Musk as "Brooklyn Socialist". And such "Brooklyn Socialists" are, apparently, people you can not imagine ever agreeing with, on anything.

But sometimes, you also disagree with Musk. Which should be impossible, logically, if the above were true. Which is causing some sort of cognitive dissonance.

And your current thinking on this breakdown in everything you hold to be true is that Elon Musk is the rare subject that's not quite as easy to judge within your simple good/evil framework that usually works so well.

Have you considered that maybe it's your thinking in tired clichés that's giving you all the trouble here? Maybe Elon Musk is right on some things, wrong on others? Maybe "Brooklyn Socialists" aren't always wrong on everything?

I believe I know some people you might file under that term, and some of them like cats, others don't, and there's one who doesn't care either way. Unless you categorically deny the existence of cats, it would seem impossible for you to disagree with all of them.
Wow, how does one achieve this level of self-deception? Can this power be used for good as well as evil?
I wonder if so many layoffs, freezes etc. happening at the moment are directly due to the crisis or something that was long overdue and can now be done without much negative PR.
I met tons of rich kids doing residency in their mid 20s with massive egos and zero humility. I doubt a millionaire former CEO doing it as a hobby requires any humility.
Nix doesn't really come with packages to be installed, you can create one though.

You install it by running this installation script: https://nixos.org/nix/install

It should work on any Linux and OS X.
I have started using emacs in 2016 because of org-mode. It was powerful enough to make me use emacs on a daily basis since them. However, I have been using RStudio/Sublime as IDE/editor, not emacs.

Curiously last weekend I have found a video about org-roam and the presenter mentioned he was using Doom emacs. I was curious enough to try it. It uses vim key bindings by default. To get started I highly recommend this series by Zaiste [0], he explains how to set up the environment and digs into org-mode which were my main concerns. I found the sections on projectile, magit, dired and avy very helpful. Now I am tempted to give it a try in one of my projects. The downfall so far is I didnt find an in depth explanation on how to grok it with python.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMh7srOqvw&list=PLhXZp00uXB...
Except you're not. This is a popular talking point in 35mm circles, but the amount of light on a given area on the sensor remains unchanged, which is what actually matters.

The smaller sensors are challenged to keep their noise down, given they typically have a smaller pixel pitch to keep up the megapickel count.
> but this is of course easily defeatable.

How so? Is it really common for non-cheaters to have exotic PCIe devices connected?

You could certainly build the cheating functionality into a common PCIe device, but I’m not sure I’d call that easy. There may not be enough money to be made from cheating on ESEA to justify such efforts.
Almost every language build system ecosystem does someting quite wrong---it's irked me for a while. I hope to within the next year or two find the time/budget to pick one language and make it work properly, and integrate with Nix perfectly.

I think not everything knows what they are missing, and by doing one complete demo we'll be able to raise the bar and give the other languages a good jolt.
I had come across Building Arduino PLCs: The essential techniques you need to develop Arduino-based PLCs when i was looking for something similar a while ago. You might find it a good starting point.
>you think that being in middle or upper management is the same as running a business

The parent comment made no such assertion.
> Patience is a virtue.

Your anecdata doesn't align with actual studies that indicate frequent job changes as the optimal strategy for maximising income.

Your loyalty isn't worth anything to your employer in the current market. Those times ended several decades ago.

Here's some counter anecdata: after graduating, I doubled my salary and seniority twice in 3 years with two job hops. If I stayed at my first employer, I'd be lucky to be making a third of what I am now and none of the career prospects that have become available.

I'm in my mid 30s and have a seniority level that lifers at my current employer hope to achieve sometime in their mid 40s if ever.
I appreciate the reply, but I would expect a detailed technical analysis of the issues faced by scaleway with these instances and a more detailed reasoning in a separate blog post.

The mention of this retirement on just the migration document seems unforthcoming.
Yep, it almost looks like a few companies got together and 'faked the demand' for COBOL devs so that they don't have to pay them so much after the older and wiser maintainers retired.

Or maybe we have a shortage of JS devs? Since they can program everything from linked lists in microcontrollers to machine learning pipelines, and, obviously, are well paid for it.

Edit: Like the other commenter here (sesuximo) said, "want to make a bet?"
Weird article:

> The idea is that programmers must fight the natural tendency to treat their programs as part of themselves, and therefore to reject all criticism.

This seems to suggest that the author believes people have a natural tendency to reject all criticism of themselves, and that the programs they help build are just an extension of that. In that case, why single out programs? OTOH I could be interpreting that completely wrong; most of that page seems to be about various definitions and interpretations.
The Subways Seeded the Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City [pdf]
Folding@Home now more powerful than top 500 supercomputers combined
Free weights and kettle bells. Not even on the used market.

Twill tape and elastic. This is a herringbone weave strip of fabric, you use it to tie pajama pants, cloth bags, things like that. People are using it for ties for homemade face covering.
I was just about to buy the new Pixel but at this price point this is going to be my next phone. Hoping I can get an order in Friday morning.
A friend interviewed with Google a few years ago and the process took well over six months before he actually got an official offer. It really is amazing how slow they are.
That's one factor. Also great margins, a disciplined acquisition strategy, monopoly position, an inherently labor-efficient business model, and a shrewd prop-trading desk.
You would think that at least one of the countless Android phone makers would try to produce a premium device in the sub-5-inch segment, but no. Not a single attempt. It must be impossible.
If you must ask, it's probably because you think it's a little bit of both.

Anecdotally, I wonder the same thing myself.
Yeah I’m aware the world isn’t perfect, and some things are not as labeled, but thanks for the heads up.
It means the stock is over-priced. In a rational world the investment decisions would be trivial.
Good work! Highly recommend adding a gif of a few seconds of your game in your README so people can enjoy this without having to build and run it.
That’s a really good point about preparing for industry. So many people don’t get much experience starting from a blank slate.

I think for me, the question is how to make it a more obvious gateway. As a child we had things like the spartan C64 or logo. There are some modern equivalents but most are simple. Hard to inspire kids with that compared to what they see (vs an 80s kid). Perhaps on online repl (like shadertoy) plus a demo 101 lib with pre baked effect routines and simple graphics primitives?
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In the 90's, the answer was FTP.
And getting things like bluetooth/screen light adjustment/and a list of annoying things right on a laptop.
You are going to get a lot of derisive comments because this is only an in vitro study, but I think the most important part of this article is the aggressive approach Brazil is taking to try these treatments.

We are so conservative in the US - we only allow doctors to try different drugs on the severe cases, when we should also be focusing on pre-hospitalization trials.

Brazil’s hand is forced because I doubt they have enough ventilators and have a lot of people living in remote regions.

I am also aware that the US is more litigious, but I believe doctors should be empowered to try regimens before hospitalization, particularly things more benign than Chloroquine, like Ivermectin, which has shown some promise.
I'm in this school of emacs usage. I use Aquamacs on my Mac and while I've been using Emacs for almost as long as kabdib, I've barely scratched the surface of what Emacs can do. For me, the biggest thing that'll get me to drop out of IntelliJ (I was so happy to learn that there were Emacs keybindings hidden in one of IntelliJ's Mac keymaps) and into Emacs is to do ctrl-x(...ctrl-x) to record a macro, then ctrl-x NUMBER ctrl-x e (I'm hoping I'm translating muscle memory correctly) to do a repeated complex edit on a block of text. It's always fun to see junior devs (and occasional seniors) watch me do this and ask, How did you DO that?
I would like to share [1] that my daughter brought to me yesterday as her reading assignment. It brings some of the points that society will face once the most terrible part of the pandemic is over.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19s-...
I did — she said, paraphrased, "I wouldn't blame you if you took another offer. I have no idea how long it will take in light of today's memo"
Those pixels are off.
From DevOps to GoalOps
National Command Authority?
I've heard on-boarding is totally remote now - they mail you a badge and a laptop and the laptop has the requisite forms and software pre-loaded.
When faced with death as an alternative? Of course! The hypocrisy is that all the shouters and screamers would likely make the decision to try HCQ if it was them in that situation.
As a note, there’s another compensation review that takes place after hiring committee.
Aren't most Google employees paid to do nothing?
I appreciate your reply and explanation. But the title was not a clickbait. It was the title of the article and the point of the article. If you disagree with the message of the article, that's fine. But the title WAS NOT a click bait.
iPhone SE is the form factor of iPhone 5s, the last phone in the previous generation before iPhone 6/7/etc.

iPhone SE 2 is the form factor of iPhone 8, the last phone in the previous generation before iPhone X/11/etc.

iPhone SE2 is only a tiny bit smaller than the iPhone X or iPhone 11 Pro. Less than a half a centimeter in height and width.
I like Aquamacs on the Mac. It comes with the most popular packages pre-installed in it and enables a lot of basic customization through the GUI. Even though I do the vast majority of my code editing in IntelliJ, it seems I end up installing Aquamacs on any new machine within a couple of weeks.
It can't be more than a simple slow. This crisis decimated their revenues while increasing their huge subsidized operational costs like bandwidth.

Take for instance YouTube. Just imagine the cost to operate the site increasing exponentially overnight (because of all the quarantined people) while their ad business goes down. You're in the worst possible situation for a business with a model that is heavily dependent on that particular ad revenue.

That's like a supermarket having three times more foot traffic but people only buying gum.
First, ask yourself if you really want to invest time in learning Emacs. It probably isn't anywhere near the most important problem in your life, and won't change it much. In fact it might make things worse because it will make you aware of all the ways other editors are bad which didn't bother you before.

That might be problem as teams standardize on newer editors with good collaboration features, which don't exist or aren't as new-user friendly as in Emacs. Some languages also don't have as good integration with Emacs as they do with some IDEs.

That said, if you really want to learn Emacs, then

- go through the tutorial
- print out a good Emacs cheatsheet
- Have piece of paper or notebook to make your own supplement/complement to the cheatsheet
- use a Rosetta stone site if coming from Vim
- Force yourself to use the keybindings to move, not the arrow keys or the mouse. It will take a few weeks to get comfortable with the basic movement.
- Probably most important after the tutorial: learn all the help functions and their keybindings
- C-h ?
- info
- apropos
- where-is
- describe-key, describe-function, describe-mode, describe-variable, describe-bindings
- find-library
- understand how undo works
- package-list-packages to install packages
- Start a basic init.el:
- (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
- (global-font-lock-mode t)
- (transient-mark-mode -1)
- Learn keyboard macros <--- Enormously useful
- After you are more comfortable, install and configure helm
- Read or browse the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual (in info)
- Read the "Mastering Emacs" posts for more advanced features
- Also Mike Zamansky's Youtube channel
The bullet of getting hired by a company with famously large margins and a huge pile of cash? I could think of worse places to be during this crisis.
There's this Polish guy that climbs buildings, and he uses the P1000 from time to time, for very dramatic zoom effect.
Like in this video
https://youtu.be/1fP4UArArNg?t=104
Well, this specific video was on April fools, and him standing on top of the mast was masked in (faked), but that background footage of the zoom out was from P1000 camera.
I remember some years ago when npm was having a lot of stability issues because the guy just was not being given adequate time/resources from Joyent or whatever, I made a post on r/node saying now was the time for a fully decentralized package registry.

The post if I remember was mostly ignored, but received a few downvotes and maybe a couple of negative comments.

Based on that, it seems that what's preventing decentralization from taking off is ignorance and apathy.

A day or two later the guy announced npm, Inc. if I remember.

There are actually a lot more developers that have accepted a federated services worldview than a peer-based fully distributed one. But there are package registry projects along both of those lines.

https://github.com/orbs-network/decentralized-npm

https://blog.aragon.one/using-apm-to-replace-npm-and-other-c...

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entyropic

https://github.com/axic/mango

But again, ignorance, apathy, and the status quo remain the most popular options.
Hello James,

Please could you take a look at an amateur logo and offer some advice and/or maybe even fix it up a bit?
I like how Microsoft basically just acquired a whole slew of open source tools and no one seems to notice or care.
No, it's the other way around--I was talking about online communities that are primed to say vacuously negative things about Musk. I'm saying I never quite agree with the gratuitous pile-ons, but sometimes there are legit issues with his behaviours.
You are mindreading my comment of "TCM has its place" and are wrongly confusing it in your own imagination of "used to make public health decisions". Please don't do that, it's insulting to folks trying to have open discussions, and it also makes you, the mindreader, stressed and anxious about things that are not happening.
Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession
I think the fact that you're reflecting on it means there's no actual degradation. Someone with Lee's disorder doesn't seem to be capable of self reflection at all.

To me it doesn't really sound like he's suffering, especially given the fact that he doesnt really have meltdowns and freakouts. It sounds more like he's just reverting to a state where his behaviors and consciousness coming from the cerebellum/brainstem, i.e. living much more instinctually and in the present, like all other beings in nature. Yes it creates a big disconnect between him and average human society, but at the same time it seems like he's also freed from a lot of the shackles that come with the human mind, free to live moment to moment.
Buses and delivery truck don't need giant parking lots, which can't be used for anything else.
I've been on iPhone 7 for 3 years now and I still miss the smaller form factors. IMHO, the 3GS has the perfect form factor for a phone.

When you are weighing iPhone 7 against a first iteration iPhone SE, there's a lot of things to consider beyond form factor. I've been holding out waiting for the smaller phones to come back. I guess I'll just keep on waiting.
> I very much don't have smaller hands, and still think 4.7" is the best phone size I've ever used.

I don’t know what normal size hands are, but I’m quite tall, 195cm ish, and the iPhone 8 is too big for me to use single handed. The iPhone 5s was excellent size wise for me.
Open source foundations will go to bankruptcy without subsidies from Google and others.

Are you ready for the dot com bubble 2.0? :-D
Eric Schmidt says that's the worst mistake he made as CEO of Google, though. They were well-positioned to clean up all the good engineers in Silicon Valley (lots of cash, solid business) and instead Facebook catalyzed their growth. I think they haven't forgotten, and that's why this isn't a blanket hiring freeze, it's them getting more selective. (Technically, '09 wasn't a hiring freeze either: I was hired in Jan 2009. My Noogler class had 13 people hired across all of Google for the 3 weeks it covered, and half of them had received their offers in July '08 - so effectively it was a hiring freeze.)
https://adrevenueindex.ezoic.com/ down like 30-40% year over year. Which matches what I've seen at my sites.
I guess I'm lucky I got my approval just today.
My recruiter did mention things are slowing down drastically.
Or Monsento's previous owners/shareholders saw the writing on the wall and offloaded it at the ideal (for them) time.
You don't think google has telemetry on every file you open in google docs? Same problem - different ecosystem. In fact, you literally have to ask google for your file in order to view it in the first place.
If you use Black swan events to inform your investment strategy you will lose on average.
So Much Cooking (2015)
Not often that something on HN causes me to hit print, but that figure is worth printing and tucking into a book.
1) SARS-2 is highly contagious.

2) Testing and tracing is working fairly well in S. Korea because they're treating it like a war, and they've been orgainzed since fairly early on. The US is not organized.

What most people, including HN, miss is that passing a test today means nothing about tomorrow.
But that's what OP is asking/saying right? If the information was made public it would mean that heads would role (proably even prosecutions) but the nation would be just fine (other than that lots of people might have to get to terms that their government has been lying to them for decades).
Neuroplasticity is an extraordinary thing. With proper consistent mental exercise and training, you can improve your working memory and focus back to what it used to be if not better.
Tape is pretty constant. It has a (let say) "optimum" throughput, and as long as you get the data to the drive controller fast enough that's what it'll do.

If you don't then the tape drive write speed falls off pretty quick as it does stuff to cope.
Yeah, at the point before I got it replaced seemed like sometimes you could watch the percent going down in real time. But then at times I’d be at a few percent and it’d run lot longer then I expected.

I know the OS itself prompted me to get a repair. Got a popup when restarting about a unexpected shutdown. So maybe that helped with the replacement process.
> delivery times have moved from 2 days to up to 1 month

At least here in the UK those items showing delivery estimates a month away still show up in a day or two.
I have friends that are doctors or soon-to-be doctors. Some of the stuff I've heard from them as well as regional outlets always end up being horrifying and it doesn't help when we see downplaying of the issues coming from both the government and the mainstream media.

With profits on the line, I guess it was to be expected. At the same time, I feel like this is going to be a watershed moment for our healthcare system. The average person may forget about it in due time, but the medical community watching their coworkers die and make life or death decisions due to shortages won't.
I think it's time that our industry retired the notion of the 10x engineer the same way we don't use the terms "rock star" and "ninja" anymore.
Counterpoint: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/04/15/the-subway-is-...
If even Google, which is pretty much the pinnacle of Silicon Valley tech, is slowing down, imagine what the Chinese tech scene must be like.
That's not true. To get 1ms of response time, you generally need a TN panel (and even then, you'll see ghosting running in the 1ms fast mode).
There's nothing inherently 'rational' about self-interest (which is entirely orthogonal to the justification or lack thereof for the latter). It has literally never occurred to me to consider whether party policies are good for me personally when assessing who to vote for. This is not irrational behaviour on my part (I'm well aware of my values and the relationship, as far as I'm able to calculate it, between those values and proposed policies).

The conflation of self-interest and rationality is just ideology (often forcefully conveyed by evangelists for the most salient superstition of our age, ie. economics).
“ ProtonMail Bridge is a desktop application that allows you to fully integrate your ProtonMail account with any IMAP and SMTP email client, including Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail. Open sourcing the code lets anyone verify how the encryption process takes place through Bridge as the emails are transferred between your ProtonMail account and your desktop email app.”