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I recently had to get a new laptop and went with windows for the first time in a decade. Macs are still great to develop on for now, but looking at the trajectory apple has taken, the growing pains ARM will likely bring, and also the trajectory of Windows, it seemed like Windows would be the safer choice over the next few years.
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My impression is that management roles won't migrate to remote nearly as easily as dev roles and overall demand for dev managers (that aren't hands on) will decrease.

This is from personal experience - all our "management teams" went back into the office, and scrum masters are pretty much sitting on their hands.
Is there a Vitess for Postgres?
I don't really mind the string typing of Bash. Shell commands, their arguments, and their outputs are all strings anyway so it makes sense to give special treatment for strings.

That said, features such as word-splitting are terrible footguns that only exist because of the burden of backwards compatibility. Hackernews, what other languages do you suggest as Bash replacements that doesn't have as many opportunities to shoot yourself on the foot?

This is an area that I never found something I truly liked. A lot of people suggest Python for this kind of task but when I have a small script that is mostly doing pipelines and command substitutions with "$()" then the python version with subprocess is much more verbose.
I'm trying to have a conversation so I can figure it out. Pretty confident that being a classifier does not make it machine learning, econometrics has classifiers too. Econometric models also need data to train them, so I'm not sure your second point is helpful either. Unless you're claiming the difference is nothing but whether the model is used by an economist.
> Are consumer digicams even a thing anymore?

As in do Walmart and Best Buy still sell digital cameras to normal people? Yeah.
> it doesn't support colour profiles AFAIK, so edits can be lossy if the image isn't sRGB.

To be clear, AzPainter V2 actually in under heavy rewriting (next generation would get new toolkit with Wayland support & more features).

As for now you could add feature request & bug reports for AzPainter V2 here.[0]

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/issues
Don't forget how Epstein had a girlfriend.

Girlfriend's dad was a Big Deal with the Mossad. Like, awarded medals by the Israeli government Big Deal. Like, we can't talk about him in the UK unless we make it an official Parliament discussion -- that is, by law, on the record and can't be sued as libel or slander -- kind of Big Deal.
my favorite story about intentionally bred plants: modern maize has a predecessor, whose identity was uncovered by some of the leaders in genetics in the 1950s (McClintock and Beadle). When they visited Mexico, they saw locals collecting grains from teosinte growing on the side of the road, near massive fields of modern maize.
If you try to keep in tune with previous notes, you will often start wandering away from the original key. This video has a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhPAbsIqA8

So in a choral context, you would typically aim to be in tune with the people singing simultaneously. The root note of each chord is pitched according to equal temperament.

This has its downsides as well. Consider the chord progression Em -> A7: both chords contain the note G, which in the first chord acts as a minor third, and in the second chord as a minor seventh. The minor third should be pitched 16% of a semitone (cents) above equal temperament, and if we're doing really just intonation and pitching minor sevenths as harmonic minor sevenths, the minor seventh should be pitched 31 cents below equal temperament. So consider a voicing where one voice should hold a G across both chords: this means that even though it's singing the "same" note, the voice should drop 47 cents when the chord changes - almost a full quarter tone!

This video from the excellent Voces8 ensemble has an example of how this might sound, at 55:50 (between the first two notes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXbQ-2_sns

I highly recommend watching the whole thing, it goes into a lot of detail about the practical implications of singing in just intonation. For the problem described above, one solution is to avoid the issue by tuning minor sevenths using equal temperament in tricky cases like this one.
An enormous amount of money going through Britain appears to be money laundering. Look into real estate in london. An absurd situation.

Anecdotally - I spoke to a Goldman Sachs guy who quit - he made software to flag “suspicious” transactions. He said it flagged millions everyday. Money coming in from Saudi Arabia, Gibraltar, Panama, Jersey etc.

I asked him why did he quit? This seemed like a useful thing. Stopping such transactions is a good thing, no?

He said “you don’t understand. All the software did was flag the transactions. It didnt stop them. It just marked them as ‘suspicious’”

I was blown away. “Why have a piece of software that just flags the transactions and does nothing??”

He said “Because that’s what the law demands. And so that when we get caught, we can go to the Parliament in the inquiry and say ‘you’re absolutely right, our software did mark this as a problem!’”
OK, lets roll with your example. You want to build a time machine. Cool.

What limitations will you end up with? Once it is built, what will the user experience be? Can you change history? Can you travel to the past or only the future? Can you return? It is interactive or view-only?

Without actually spending the money to do the R&D and see what you can achieve, you have no idea what price people would be willing to pay for the experience, because you cannot tell us what the experience will be. So you have no idea whether the price point would be sufficient to recover the R&D costs. Sure, it gets you thinking of how to "move the needle". But... what needle? What problem are you trying to solve? Who has that problem? Can they afford the solution?

Your example falls into the exact trap that people try to avoid by creating a quick MVP - jumping to conclusions about ideas that the founders are 100% sure people will buy, and assuming that people will pay for it, without actually doing the work to prove it.
That's called blackface and is sort of what Elvis did.
No, I actually prefer Reason.

I'm happy to argue the benefits of either. The differences between it and Purescript are much smaller than the differences between them and most things.
I think you are seriously lacking in historical knowledge and context for the general regard and treatment of black professionals in the 60s.
What the parent meant is that medical imaging and such aren't part of the deal. All of Olympus's 4/3 and Micro 4/3 stuff would count as consumer goods.
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I was actually being serious. I've never seen anyone refer to a customized RoR, have you?
Agree Consul is an elegant solution for managing files, what about running commands?
As MLK Jr. wrote, to confront racism we must find the strength to love
Of course, it's a Clevo/Sager/whoever makes them design/chassis. Coreboot however, is a golden feature - not for everyone, but I really appreciate it in today's RSA encrypted, locked down BIOS times...

I wish they were higher quality tbh, HP and Dell hardware is still well ahead :/
VERY cool work and results :)

I'm always curious on these... microbenchmarks can skew things because of CODE cache localilty? E.g. startup time, ability to inline, etc.... any thoughts on how to do a more "real world" test?
I also found that it took a while to find the commits page. Not GitHub web related, but on the mobile app, 2 issues I've came across:

1. Not being able to click to a repo home page if you are on a nested page, or link to a file from the web etc.

2. Markdown files displaying in raw form when someone links to a ReadMe.md file directly etc.
I don't know.

A remark I often make with my family is: Poland is about the optimal spot on the planet! We have mild climate, no weird weather events besides an occasional flood, no earthquakes, volcanos, etc. We have sea access and mountains to scale. We're just about enough developed a country for a comfortable lifestyle. Our crazies, both left-wing and right-wing, are just mildly crazy compared to countries around us. We have enough resources to live off and sell, but nothing so substantial as to induce a resource curse (and in particular, no oil = nobody will come to bring us Freedom). We're not the bleeding edge, but also not the lagging tail. We're comfortably average.
I have a P1 Gen 2 with Ubuntu installed. My USB-C ports on the left side of my computer don't work for some reason (might be a cable issue). There really isn't any support from Lenovo for Linux. I'm fine with it for now, but I think the certification is for a specific build of the OS + (one? idk) run from Canonical, as opposed to a comprehensive test from an OEM (e.g. like those monitor color/brightness reports you get during unboxing).
Oh no. This is a huge blow to the MFT form factor (which is supported mostly by Olympus and Panasonic), which I personally love.
That's true. If you count the Alaskan camps [1] you get another 118 American citizens who died in U.S. government camps, which would put us at 1980 dead - leaving us 20 short of thousands. I stand corrected.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/516277507...
We moved some comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23642432 which was on the front page at the same time.

Most remain here since they're reacting to a specific sentence in this post.
Here is an article depicting a couple other fruits and vegetables pre/post domestication.

https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domest...

My favorite was learning the carrots weren't originally orange but purple or white. Corn may be shocking to people. In my opinion the banana has many similarities to the watermelon in terms of the "holes" and filling out post domestication.
The reason for location permissions is because BT can track your location through Bluetooth beacons. See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...

This is just Android being transparent. "Bluetooth usage may allow apps to track your location." Which is perfectly true.

There has to be a balance between explaining to the user, e.g. that there are multiple ways their location can be tracked, and permission request overload.

I don't imagine explaining to everyday users the details of the Bluetooth protocol is viable.
> originally designed to produce HTML pages

Jinja2 can produce HTML pages, but it was never exclusively designed for that. In fact one of the earliest uses of Jinja2 was generating LaTeX.
Those are very good points. Without going into too many details, I am hoping to resolve some of the issues you've mentioned and provide a bit more stability to this format.

Haven't thought about celebrities screen-shotting their thoughts but it's definitely a thing :) there could be something there.
Huh, it's funny. I didn't know this either as someone who only dabbles. The only reason I bought Canon is that the community has aftermarket firmware.

Honestly, I wouldn't buy Nikon or Pentax or whatever just because no aftermarket firmware.
Definitely - my favorite film camera was a Pen F half-frame with the big gothic "F" on the front. Old, but really compact (and worked well-enough with lens adapters, right until it got stolen a couple years back).

The feel of the thing definitely got me to buying the E-M5.
What I find amusing is that all of today's SPA frameworks/views are kind of descended from Angular, which Google built internally after learning the lessons of how to build such a thing while putting the Gmail front-end together. We 15 years of SPA usage in email applications demonstrating their superiority. We have things like Facebook, the one true SPA which rules them all. And yet. Turbolinks.

(And I say that as a big RoR fan!)
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Inertia, forgetfulness, lack of decision. Which can be construed as incompetence if it goes on for too long. If it's for a website that started within the last three years, it's direct incompetence.
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How long does the battery last?

> NVIDIA graphics currently unavailable when dual-booting Windows

How the hell did they manage to do that?
I actually wouldn't be surprised if Apple were to put SVE in their first desktop class ARM chip. They were the first to move to 64 bits after all and SVE has been optional in the standard for quite a while and they wouldn't be the first implementer this time.
I ran this on a Linux laptop - it looks like it's running qemu-user-static:

root 9934 103 0.0 125444 6664 pts/0 Rl+ 12:25 0:12 /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static /usr/bin/gzip

So it might be that Docker already runs a native x86_64 Linux, then uses qemu-static binary translation.
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That's a legitimate shame for open standards. M43 has its proponents and critics, but either way it is rare to see a somewhat successful multi-vendor standard in photography that actually worked.

The main problem is that the market itself has been shrinking, and there's just not enough room to have so much competition (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji, Canon, and Nikon).

M43 was successful, but it succeeded in an area that is shrinking faster: Smaller form factor/lower optical powerful photography equipment; exactly the kind being eaten alive by smartphones.

While Panasonic and others will continue the M43 standard for a while longer, the writing may be on the wall. Some competition have moved into niches (e.g. medium format, videography, etc), which may have better longer term stability.
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"Nothing bad did happen, so nothing bad will happen." is not an especially compelling argument.

If we talk specifically about this one instance, with this limited set of actors, then nothing bad happened, but spilled secrets have killed a lot of people, throughout history.

Some, it is good (like cracking ENIGMA), and some, it is bad (like that old H-bomb thingy). Both of those examples are because of dedicated espionage (and luck). In both of those cases, there were people that believed they were on the right side of history. There were also absolute scoundrels.

The simple fact of the matter is, it's dangerous to greenlight reckless transparency. There's probably a number of folks that are ferociously dedicated to finding out where other folks are, so they can do Very Bad Things to them. In some cases, we might cheer them on, and in other cases, we might be horrified at what happens.

One man's "freedom fighter" is another man's "terrorist." There's a number of folks that regret that the Germans lost WWII. They are absolutely, ferociously dedicated, and they'd like another crack at it. They would love to know a whole lot of things. There's also people that would like to change leadership in Damascus. Some of those folks are ones we'd like to have over for dinner, and some are ones that'd like to have us for dinner.

It's not simple, and there's very, very few "white hats" in the game. Everyone is convinced they are the ones wearing the white hat, and anyone who dies is just "collateral damage."

It's all fine and good, until we become "collateral damage."

For example, I have friends with kids in the military. Some of them are in clandestine service. They may be doing nasty things, or they may be preventing others from doing nasty things to us. Chances are better than even, that it is both (maybe at the same time). I don't want to see my friends have to deal with their kids' death.

We can't have every person that feels they are in the right simply leaking stuff. We also need to shine the light on some of the rot that grows in the dark.

There's no simple solution.

I should add that I have lived in nations run by dictators and thoroughly despotic governments. By the time I was 11, I had lived in two nations that experienced brutal, genocidal war. It can get very, very bad. Many of the kids I played with were likely tortured to death in secret detention centers. I think that the "dark rot" can be downright evil, and it does need to be unearthed. I'm not jingoistic, but I am someone that has been shown both sides of the issues.
This is neat. I'd love to know what are the most shared google docs/sheets on the web. Is it possible to scrape these off of Reddit/Twitter/Forums etc and get stats on how many times they have been viewed?
Such a pity. I started ripping my CDs back in the 90s and have a huge collection of ripped and purchased music. I've been pretty happy with Google Music, in spite of the fact that it hasn't improved one inch in 4 years, and in fact disabled the ability to rate your own tracks. (I have my own opinion about "why", and it's nothing to do with complexity because the actual data is still there and you can install a browser plugin to get access to it).

Instead of improving Google Music, they did that they always do: kill it. The Google product graveyard is so full of bodies they're digging up the bones to make room for fresh corpses. They'll have so many bones, they'll start making decorative chandeliers out of them.
Absolutely. Krita easily has all of these features and more.

I honestly don't like how it calls itself "just" a drawing/painting program as it seems to be just as capable as Photoshop if not better. Also waaay better UI/UX than GIMP. Give it a go.
Great argument. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and it's fallout probably have some good lessons to learn on both sides of this question.
Something like that, yes. Coreboot lets the relevant driver in the Linux kernel do most of the hardware initialization. The firmware does comparatively little, just enough to make the driver recognize the hardware and configure it so it functions. The Windows driver for that hardware probably needs more handholding from the firmware.

It's refreshing to see the tables turned for once. GNU/Linux first, Windows secondary :)
As Chomsky always says "Unionize!". You can't unionize and rebel against the companies' policies when you quit. Quitting is the easier choice. Staying in the company AND refusing to do what's against your moral code of conduct. That might end up having you fired eventually but might shake things up.
Good idea but agreed that it would never happen given the trends.

What I'm really disappointed by is laptop manufactures pretty much only go two routes now on laptop keyboard layouts: 1. The one with numpad on wider laptops like this one, 2. The compact one with smaller arrow keys and no nav keys (Home/End/Pgup/Pgdown) in a reasonable place. (typically hidden behind Fn+arrows)

I used to have this old laptop, Dell Latitude E6410, that had pretty much the perfect laptop keyboard for me to write code with. It looks like this [1]. I use Home/End keys extensively while coding and it's part of muscle memory to reach for them directly vertically above arrow keys. This is the only laptop with a keyboard layout like this that I know of. (the full size arrow keys also help)

1: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*pDN_eHnop3QdkRbjkxRSFQ.jp...
I've been using it for the last few days and I don't have this experience. It's better than Outlook (web or desktop), hotmail, yahoo, gmail and other email services I have tried.
Hi HN - I posted this yesterday with a different name (H1B Valley) which was misleading. That's my fault - I asked the mods if I could resubmit with a new URL which they said was fine. This is a gallery of companies founded by immigrants who've come here on a variety of different visas. Hope you like the site - Shikhar
Maybe dang can help you remove it.
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One of the things they don't tell you about quantum computing is it's supposed to be reversible. Which, ceteris paribus, probably means they're not physical. Nobody likes to talk about that as it's terrible for funding.

You can build totally reversible computers using ordinary classical physics which ... in principle can be arranged to dissipate no heat (in practice they'll always dissipate heat). The problem is you're basically effectively dissipating the "heat" into a memory system which rapidly becomes practically infinite [1]. Imagine keeping around all the bits that got AND-gated away from .... I dunno, fitting GPT-3. Or even just inverting some big matrix. That's what you got to do for reversible computing: at the individual bit level mind you -many of the fundamental floating point operations are not themselves reversible, so they throw off more "heat" aka fill up memory cells with bits which allow you to reverse them.

Landauer, who is an underappreciated genius, wasn't aware of the reversible computing idea, or had too much sense to bother with it. There are others who attempt to defeat his very common sense idea with hand wavey adiabatic relaxation ideas, but I think they're all baloney. All of this is a barrel of monkeys to think about (not QC, which is dumb; the general reversible computing stuff); I recommend the seminal papers listed in the below wiki article if you have an afternoon to burn. Bennett, Toffoli and Vitanyi in particular are real fun to read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
Agreed. Not a powerhouse (get the X1 extreme if you need discrete graphics), but its an excellent product nonetheless.
I bought a system76, because I didn't want to give MS money. It was janky and broke a year later. It had a lot of problems with the wireless connection dropping.

So I bought a zareason laptop. It was basically the same hardware, it was janky and lasted two years.

So then I splurged on a Thinkpad via LAC Portland, and it's been pretty wonderful. I just wish I could buy them from Lenovo directly.
> Ancient versions of all the tooling. Command-line utils have that weird BSD well-water flavor. No package management.

Can be easily fixed by installing homebrew. Also you claim it is a shitty Unix experience while complaining about BSD flavoured tools.

> Funny Docker quirks.

How is that Unix related? BSD has similar issues.

Maybe you should have written the GNU/Linux experience is pretty shitty on macOS but no one claimed otherwise.
Unfortunately, numpad keyboards and 16:9 are the most common, cheapest options. They would have serious trouble sourcing non-common keyboards and 16:10 displays from, well, anywhere.

For the price, I think one could live with it. High end workstations from HP/Dell (their own design, their own suppliers) went for $5,000+ a decade ago. They stopped doing that recently.

Nowadays only Apple seems to have enough pull to get uncommon features on their machines.
That's a pretty cool project. It also is written in bash as well!
I agree with you, Canon and Nikon seem like the "Costco" brands so maybe while he pointed them out. But Sonys mirrorless are top of the industry. Fujifilm has great cameras. And you cant forget Leica
You should just use anycast for that instead of trying to shoehorn it in with DNS trickery.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181308
That’s better :)

However...

> Protesters may get hurt, many of them bring it on themselves by not dispersing after a few bad apples stir things up by throwing rocks/bottles of cement/etc.

I recommend you avoid this type of reasoning. After all, I’m explicitly not saying “Police may get hurt, many of them bring it on themselves by not disciplining a few bad apples who stir things up by sitting on someone’s neck until they die“, which would be an equivalent statement.

I think you and I would agree about the current police unions, although I do think there are at least two other possible solutions than getting rid of police unions entirely.

I definitely don’t agree that police need to be armed, because although I’m no longer living in the UK, I grew up there — UK cops are not only not routinely armed, their unions are mostly opposed to becoming armed.