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After trying virtually every display setup imaginable over the years, I've settled on a single, large, high-resolution display as the optimal setup. While I have written a lot of code on small, low-resolution displays, there are definitely disadvantages to that.

I don't understand the value of multiple displays for code work. Just about everything that I could do with multiple displays can be more ergonomically achieved with multiple logical desktops. I can swap a desktop with a keystroke rather than pivoting, and that workflow translates well from laptops to large workstations.
I have job interview now for remote position, but will be back in an hour or two and happy to answer any questions. I don't advocate drug usage, just sharing my experience. Don't block me.
Black Box Entanglement
I would make a cogent argument to rebuff your straw man, but it's not worth my time if you don't share a priori assumptions with me about E2EE being uncrackable. It's just math. I don't see why the talk of trade-offs even is relevant to the discussion. People will use secure tools with E2EE or they will suffer the consequences of not doing so. Doing illegal things is already illegal. Banning or watering down E2EE so that it becomes no long E2EE is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If I recall from their even more previous statement, it was already E2EE, but that turned out to be a lie...
Wow! That's very surprising. It's been a while since I lived without fibre; maybe DOCSIS got a lot smarter in the last few years?
I hope they relook at the model - wouldn’t want to see people suffering due to the wrong methods being used to grade their work.
All of this makes sense to me, except I have no idea how they fit 100tb of capacity in a box that small. Aren't HDDs maxing out around 16TB these days? They couldn't fit 6 drives in there.
This is a perfectly fine point of view.

I just refuse to be told that I must use a { three-monitor setup, mechanical keyboard, 4K monitor, macbook, $LATEST_FAD } or otherwise I'm using a subpar development environment.

I still remember when Full HD monitors were all the rage. Nobody considered them cheap tools back then, and somehow code got written and developers were happy. There will come a time when someone on the internet will tell you that a 4K monitor is a cheap tool and that nobody can properly code using one.
Also the half life is 8.5-12 years, depending on who's counting. This means that the effects are short lived.

This is not a pressing problem facing the world.
> This pattern of assuming what other people know about is endemic on HN (and the internet more broadly, but especially so here), and it is harmful to productive discussion.

That's not really what my comment is about; and I know very well who Pike is, and I'm assuming everyone here does. (Come on, legendary!)

Note that the phrase I used, "doing the experimentation", specifically avoids speaking to what Pike knows or doesn't know.
To be clear, you can already detect if people are in incognito with JS (you can google it and find plenty of articles).

So DNT doesn't seem to add much if someone cares enough about this variable.
"I'm all about change, but this is heading in the wrong direction!"

- Conservatives at every step of the way as the rest of us have been busy correcting society's worst injustices
I don't think it does. One possible explanation is that they don't want the "Edge Effect". If the header is set by everyone than people will just ignore it. Since Edge started setting it for everyone the header is basically useless already.

It would also provide an interesting way to identify incognito users which chrome has been trying to prevent websites from doing it. Of course it won't be perfect, but probably more than 99% of DNT headers would be incognito if they did this because I would bet that very few people enable it manually.
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Remember ~6 months ago, when RH had that little "glitch" that let traders access essentially unlimited leverage? Stuff like that is why RH is a meme, and options trading has become wallstreetbets favorite game. Its not like RH even makes it particularly easy to setup these kinds of trades, or has any useful tools that make it a better platform. If you want to setup a put spread, or an iron condor, or any other fancy options trading strategy on e-trade its a few clicks away. On RH? Not a chance, you're going to have to build those strategies yourself, one leg at a time.

I still love gambling on RH, but you have to know its gambling before you start. I feel bad for this kid, getting caught up in the hype and throwing away his life over a few dollars that really never existed anyway.
I agree, and not. I like having many windows side-by-side (code, docs, thing I'm developing), but I also like having more vertical space. I keep one of my monitors vertical for coding, although that's a little too tall so there's some lost space at the top and bottom (9:12 would be better for me).

Really I want a single plus-shaped monitor that can act in several display modes:

- mimic 3 monitors. Left and right are 4:3 (ideal for single application), center is 9:12 and larger. Shape: -|-

- Single vertical monitor. Same as above but with left and right "virtual monitors" turned off for reduced eye strain. Shape: |

- Single ultrawide horizontal monitor (connect the left and right parts with the strip in the middle, turn off unused pixels at the top and bottom). Shape: ---
I don't know whether 30% is fair or not. But I'd be very very hesitant to develop software where I'm reliant on a mega Corp with monopoly power AND that Corp view me the way whales view krill. That's what both the Android and Apple markers are. 30% would be a lot fairer if there were a guarantee that you wouldn't be dropped from the platform with no appeal by an algorithm...
That is exactly my point, CRT don't scale things, monochrome CRT can even draw pure vector graphics, having "infinite" resolution.
>1) A lot of businesses probably won't be willing to spend a week with reduced internet capacity to upload stuff. Things we as single users might be okay with might not always translate to being a good fit for a business overall.

Perfect for us. We used to ship small amount of data in the scheme of things on external drives to Amazon for long term storage in Glacier. Worked great. That program was dropped and replaced by Snowball.

We tried Snowball and never could get it to work properly in our location. Amazon support couldn't get it to work, either. It was really overblown for what we wanted to, anyway.

Sending over the wire isn't an option for us.

This is a better solution for us as long as the networking issues are resolved and the pricing works out.
“No one is free until we are all free.” -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was hoping he would discuss Github as a whole, as implied by the headline.

Instead he complains about the Trending feature. I did not even know there was a Trending feature, and I've been using Github since 2012.
Assuming you are playing individual games, yes. But, if you are playing a series of games up to X points, the cube does come into play somewhat.
Really the problem is they are using vector fonts; I use bitmap fonts in my xterm, and it is not as bad as the vector fonts used in Firefox. The text is not blurry if you are using bitmap fonts. How can I force Firefox and other programs to prefer bitmap fonts? (What I have tried, just results in no text being displayed at all.)

(High DPI is probably useful if you are doing a lot of print previewing, though.)
ASICs are overpriced, returns from mining can be imitated by a portfolio of BTC
> Also, the articles talks multiple times about using Snowcone to upload the data for you, over your own internet connection. Why would I pay for Snowcone to do that when I could just upload directly to S3, without using Snowcone as the middle layer, and get the same speeds?

Most or at least many households in the UK I think max out at my speeds (FTTC) which puts me at about 20Mbps upload. At 2.5 meg/second that's over 4 days per TB if I've done my maths right. 8TB is over a month.

I'm looking at a house where I'd have an upload speed about 1-2Mbps, so well over a month per TB uploaded.

> It would be cool to have a swarm of Raspberry Pi sized devices that I controlled entirely through the AWS console with AWS services,

You used to be able to manage things on opsworks outside of AWS if you installed a client. Maybe you still can do this kind of thing - possibly AWS Systems Manager for non-opsworks things? I get a bit lost in all the services these days and their restrictions.
Women’s body odour during ovulation modulates testosterone and cortisol in men
Thanks for a thorough answer!
1 extra bit is the last of my concerns, there's plenty of bits to uniquely fingerprint a browser anyways. I'd gladly trade one inconsequential bit, which requires malicious intent to misuse, to keep my privacy safe when dealing with honorable entities like, I presume, Google.

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/07/26/this-is-...

What goes into one's fingerprint:

1. navigator.userAgent, 2. navigator.language, 3. navigator.doNotTrack, 4. screen.width, 5. screen.height, 6. screen.colorDepth, 7. Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone, 8. navigator.platform, 9. navigator.hardwareConcurrency, 10. GPU vendor and renderer, 11. isTouch, 12. storage types, 13. font-list, 14. canvas-hash
The SEC told bankrupt Hertz it has issues with its plan to sell stock
Honestly, hope this crisis shows industry that not everything is able to fix/solve by technology and you still need "the people" to be on spot
Quake(world) and Quake III Arena matches were often frantic twitchfests between blurry, nearly flat textured models :)
I tried polyphasic sleep a month for fun, and this was my experience as well: feeling a bit out of touch with reality.

I've never done drugs, alcohol or tobacco, but I've been a messy sleeper most of my life. Night owl as long as I could get away with it, pulling all-nighters, sleeping a whole day, staying awake for a few days to set a personal record, etc. Even for me, polyphasic sleep was too disorienting, as if I wasn't fully awake when awake, and not fully asleep when asleep.
Asking everybody: is there some page where one can enter the URL and see minimized pictures from some web page?

E.g. I guess these 200 MB in 60 pngs could be reduced to cca 2 MB jpgs all.
I merely expressed how I’d probably react in that context. That’s a personal statement. There’s more to reality than numbers.
If they're actually encrypted, I don't care much security-wise, but I do performance-wise. Given that Zoom works reasonably well, I very much doubt that they're sending all my data to and from China. You don't run a service like this without servers in lots of places.

I'd hope that when I Zoom with my coworkers two miles south of me in Austin, we're using AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/whatever servers in Texas, or at least within a couple thousand miles.
Businesses have no incentive to keep employees on. If you want businesses to keep employees on then you offer to do exactly what the UK did https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51982005

This is not at all what the USA is doing. The USA is making a terrible, terrible mistake. Trickle down economics once again, and trickle down doesn't work. At least not for the bottom 9/10 of society.
That's a good point - I guess if you know what you are doing then I guess it's fine.
This looks like it's worth a place in an electronic bookshelf. Among other things, following a link in the contents led me to this little pearl: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/globalthis
I just have this joke done to me, at my new company, on my 2nd week, just a while ago. I hid my feelings well, but that second and since then, my bond with my company reduced to half.

I don't have much opportunities around because it's a small city and because of COVID, so I kept shut.
Seems neat, but some screenshots or a demo account would be nice so I can see the product before I give away my email.
Not sure where you're seeing 100TB?

> AWS Snowcone weighs 4.5 pounds and includes 8 terabytes of usable storage
The reason (probably only reason) RH is successful/popular is because of their $0 transaction fee. I wouldn't use it if I had to pay for anything.
How sustainable is pursing ride-hailing as a standalone service?
No, because one is about private accountability and the other is about legal accountability. The bar to legal accountability was expressly adopted to enable private accountability measures without incurring legal consequences, so there is absolutely no inconsistency in applying private accountability measures while supporting the existing exemption from legal accountability.
According to a new paper by Aviv Yaish and Professor Aviv Zohar:

1) Mining ASICs are overpriced.

2) A portfolio of Bitcoins can imitate (and sometimes outperform) returns from mining hardware.

3) Bitcoin's volatility should increase rig price.

Medium post: https://medium.com/@aviv.yaish/your-asic-is-probably-mispric...

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11064
AWS already had Snowball available as an intermediate level:

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
Yes, some would - but not all.

I agree that these reasons are why it's not a good idea to break or outlaw encryption since bad actors can still use it and good people that need it are blocked, but this doesn't mean that making it the default doesn't enable more abusers to get away with it that might be caught otherwise.

There's a spectrum of sophistication, if it's harder more of them will make more mistakes that make them easier to catch.
If everyone has a lock on their door, then people will just ignore it and break into the house anyways.
A tax should be paid in advance for the cost of plugging the hole before they drill. If they go bankrupt is paid already.
At this point, it's "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me", like it's tough to believe anything they say at this point.
Simple. Suspend the right to loud forms of free speech during political campaigns.

Or have an independent panel measure the media exposure of each candidate. Then compensate them accordingly.
From the article:

The pattern [for FRB 180916.J0158+65] begins with a noisy,
four-day window, during which the source emits random
bursts of radio waves, followed by a 12-day period of radio
silence.

How do astronomers know the bursts are random...? Or is that a shorthand here for lack of understanding about the process (like planets passing in front of the source) and therefore the pattern itself?

Edit: formatting
Well imagine somebody trying to push back a competitor which may be a young startup which is threatening to take part of their cake.
That in 8 weeks you have to watch all the curriculum content - it seems like the focus is to go through the content and launch/be ready to launch/find customers. But the other comments prove me wrong, it seemed like that from the FAQ :)
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It's why managed languages have such a bad rap: people think that this stuff ceases to matter.

I remember the C# DirectX billboard sample, it was something like 10x slower than the same C++ sample in the same version of the SDK. Why? C# didn't have generics yet, and a value type was being stored in a non-generic list. Something like 4MB of memory was being copied around due to boxing and unboxing.

These things always matter.
Font are optimized for resolution they were designed for. Courier New is optimized for 800x600, and you can't have it on anything beyond 1024x768.
That's not the case. You can sign up for Office 365 through IAP.

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1273010912484446209
In short in many cases an amplification attack is used where you send a small quantity of traffic from a spoofed address (the victim's) to a server that will reply to the victim with up to several hundreds of times (even 50000) more data [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Ampli...

More detailed descriptions:

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/memcached-ddos-atta...

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/ntp-amplification-d...

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/dns-amplification-d...
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Jitsi Meet's not a viable competitor?

It's simpler to set up (accounts and password protection are optional), IMO easier to use (eg. the hand button is on the bottom bar with mute, etc. and not in a menu labeled "Participants") and higher quality according to the New York Times, who deemed it "reliable and easy to use": https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-confer....
I've introduced it to extended family members who've used Zoom prolifically, with zero complaints.

Can you name a single disadvantage?
If you're on Linux, you're probably perfectly happy to use the `aws` command-line tools. No need for fancy graphics. :)
This is really tragic. For one, he never ended up that much in the hole and two, even if one finds themselves bankrupt at 20, it's not the end of the world, you simply file bankruptcy and it's difficult to borrow money for the better part of a decade...but other than that your life goes on as normal. I opened a business at a young age and was bankrupt by the time I was 24. It was sad and painful, but it is far from tragedy or hopelessness.
Kearns may not have realized that his negative cash balance displaying on his Robinhood homescreen was only temporary and would be corrected once the underlying stock was credited to his account. Indeed it’s not uncommon for cash and buying power to display negative after the first half of options are processed but before the second options are exercised—even if the portfolio remains positive.

“Tragically, I don’t even think he made that big of a mistake. This is an interface issue, they have slick interfaces. Confetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.”

Am I reading this correctly and he really wasn't in the hole badly, but a crappy presentation of information broke him?

Firstly, if someone reading this is in the same situation, take a breath and know this is not Student Loans, you are young and bankruptcy is about as bad as its going to get.

If you are the interface designer, well, I don't know what to say to you other that sort your damn self out. Its your job not only to convey the truth, but show what the final result is approximately going to be. Conveying just the current facts is as misleading as outright lying.
I wonder if this had to do with the T-Mobile outage
I thought this was going to be about the guitar.
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I work in healthcare, sometimes we have to go to places with no internet, and sometimes with no electricity. We gather a lot of HIPAA-protected data. This might be useful for those events.

Sometimes, even when we're in the middle of a big city, there's still no secure or reliable internet connection at the location we've been given, so this might be good for those cases, too.

I'm not on the infrastructure side of things, so I can't say for sure. But I've already forwarded the page to our mobile IT team to make sure they've heard about it.

Edit:

They might also be good for television and movie production. In the early part of this century, rushes were sent from remote filming locations to the studios loaded onto iPods. With everything being 4K and higher now, this might be useful to move those rushes to a cloud location where they can be accessed by multiple people who need to see them in multiple cities.
I am torn. I like the in app payment and subscription systems easy to use and manage and trustworthy, no run around if a later I want to cancel a subscription, good stuff for the consumer.

I do think their 30% cut is excessive but they provide a lot a value with it, not sure what number would be acceptable to developers in order to just use it, part of me thinks they should just take no cut and make all their money by dominating phone sales.

The real problem here is complicated rules that are inconsistently enforced, and changing their minds later, that really screws over developers.
Twitter now allows you to tweet your voice
This was already posted a few days back
New way of identifying viruses measures their “vibration” when shot with lasers
Thanks for the experience, your post is encouraging, might apply!
The lack of "more tactical content" is what I noticed and that is what caused me to have that kind of a perspective at this being aimed at quicker-moving startups.
Ask HN: Has anyone left software development and returned years later?
I have seen many threads on HN recently discussing software developers leaving for other careers. Does anyone have experience returning to software development after being away for years? I was a developer for 8 years with stints at large tech companies and left tech in my early 30s for law school. I graduated 3 years ago and have been writing software patents since. 6 years have passed since I worked as a developer. How hard was it to land interviews after you decided to go back? Do you have any advice for how best to go about this?
I was thinking more having a "personal cloud" between trusted connected devices at different sites.
Best screen experience is a 6-foot TV at 4k @ 60hz.

This allowed me to move the screen back 6 feet. The result was an improvement of my eyesight (I'm near sighted) within 6 months.
This line of thinking is almost always a less-than-useful simplification.

Should punching Richard Spencer be punishable by the law?

Yes.

Is punching Richard Spencer "moral"?

No.

"Should" you punch Richard Spencer?

No.

Is punching Richard Spencer "understandable"?

... this is grey. However, if you have a sufficient ideological motivation in a certain direction, the argument essentially makes itself: Violence! It's bad. If you're not motivated in the opposite direction, it's the easiest thing in the world to stop there. If you're motivated enough, you can tack on some extra easy hops in logic: "You're advocating violence! You're evil!"

Yet if somebody drives a car into a group of fellow citizens whom you know or identify with, killing one of them, and a news outlet puts out a story calling the dead a whore, you'll quickly find yourself willing to meditate on the scenario more thoroughly.
> The issue is national origin, not ethnicity. Japanese Americans were thrown into camps for the same reason

```
Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast.[9] About 80,000 were Nisei (literal translation: "second generation"; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ("third generation"; the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ("first generation") immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship under U.S. law.[10]
```

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

What do you suggest?

Should there be a upper limit on the generations to be considered not originated from a nation state? According to what happened to WWII Japanese ethnic Americans, that number seems have to be > 3?

And remember that what happened in WWII Japanese internment camp is an evidence that "national origin" as an association was plainly wrong, from the same wiki page:

```
In 1980, under mounting pressure from the Japanese American Citizens League and redress organizations,[30] President Jimmy Carter opened an investigation to determine whether the decision to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps had been justified by the government. He appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) to investigate the camps. The Commission's report, titled Personal Justice Denied, found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty at the time and concluded that the incarceration had been the product of racism
```

Emphasis on the last statement: `the incarceration had been the product of racism`.