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Certainty is defined as an intellectual thing. It is an epistemic property of beliefs closely related to knowledge. The author is wrong, not that he minds.

The author is trying to move knowledge off facts of things and intellectual processes and into the realm of emotion and kind compassion. A kind compassion is simply a mask which hides a different form of power seeking. Which is on-point for the current cultural shifts we are going through, he mirrors the nature of humans at this very moment.

The author seeks to replace existing knowledge in the reader, destroying all the knowledge of facts and feelings in an attempt to keep relationships on track. It is a mistake.

You can disagree and be right in a calm manner and also in an angry manner without changing the content or aim of your speech. The article aims too low at a reader who is willing to accept what is written without thinking critically or taking a higher perspective gleaned from education. Like most psychologists he risks undermining those that are experiencing these mental processes as a function of striving to achieve a goal. The undermining of useful definitions is supposedly necessary for maintaining a relationship without looking at other solutions first.
Pivotal Tracker is okay.
Keeping the schools closed has a high cost, and it is likely to exacerbate many problems for weaker students, or students that don't have an ideal situation at home with strong support from their parents and easy access to all the stuff you need for remote learning.

But there isn't really a choice in many parts in the US unless you're willing to let the pandemic run its course and kill as many people as it takes to get to herd immunity. The only way to safely reopen schools is to suppress the virus enough that you can contain it with contact tracing. If you can't do that, there's no way to safely reopen schools in full. You can try alternatives like e.g. teaching outside, using masks, but they're not entirely safe, difficult to do and can't really work at 100% capacity.
Eight megabytes and constantly swapping
Facts About Cork That Will Impress Your Friends
You run a grocery store and you'd like to increase the frequency of customer visits, what do you do?

You are designing a game to teach kids math in a fun way, where do you start?

You'd like to shift your company's communication patterns from being primarily "synchronous" to primarily "asynchronous," what do you do?

Anyone want to cheat and give me their answers? Because I am not sure I really grok it.
Fredrik's post is two years old. It would be interesting to try again using the ArbNumerics.jl [1] package that wraps the Arb library in a different way than Nemo.jl, which Fredrik describes

[1] https://github.com/JeffreySarnoff/ArbNumerics.jl
Automatically lower volume of Spotify player when Ads are playing (in Chrome)
I wonder if Blackboard is any better since 2016 when Bill Ballhaus took over as CEO. I met him when I was an intern at SRA International and was beyond impressed in my brief time there. Besides his obviously impressive technical and management credentials, this was a titan of industry who remembered my name and always initiated conversation whenever I ran into him. We also had the same car (a GMC Yukon), although his was older.

I suppose I could just have been subject to his charm and I suppose this could be a ridiculous heuristic, but I definitely have a lot more confidence in a company (and its software) when the CEO drives a practical car and is kind to the interns. Hope Blackboard gets better under him just because it’s so deeply engrained in educational institutions.
recently gotten worse, it's started giving me a huge list of top 40 stuff that doesn't jive with my tastes

and on the web/desktop version you only get like 4 recommendations, but the mobile gives you a whole fistful.

seems like abandonware mostly. too bad its replacement (youtube music) is complete garbage. the web version can't even cast.

somehow at google we went from "mobile first" to "mobile only" and i guess only old guys like me care? it's just terrible. the new google podcast web interface also does not support casting. i'm not sure how one wing of product managers at google can't talk to the other to make sure their products just support basic standard google media infrastructure?

i tried spotify and it was also terrible. so not sure what to do.
Gotcha, makes sense that smaller companies wouldn't have access to it (I'm sure it's quite expensive).
What's the point of accomplishing stuff without any rewards ?
This is true not only for software or engineers.

10K is still significant but you definitely need to set your own bar.

Anyone in the 50K to 150K wage market needs to have a deep understanding of whatever it took to bring in 10K without your employer, it's going to take a lot more of that once you no longer have a paycheck from a job there.

Even building success selling used cars on the side can be very worthwhile to engineers who are considering becoming entrepreneurs, when it could be regarded as a career distraction on many other engineering paths.

And however long it took you to bring in the 10K, it's likely to require 5x to 15x as much time to match your employment income, when left to your own devices.

A lot of times when you get far above 150K in wages, any windfall can be based less on productivity and more as temptation so you don't start your own company when you think about it.

At that point you'd really need to independently be able to make a lot more than 10K a lot easier & quicker before it would make sense.

Might have to sell something at a lot bigger scale than a few cars then.
I prefer standards.

For example json-editor:

https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor

It uses json schema validators that have big toolset available.
Fwiw, my usual work flow involves 2 remotes, one for the project's mainline repo and one for my fork.
I really wanted to read this article. There seems to be some kind of scroll jacking happening on mobile that makes it real frustating to swipe down. Page keeps moving up and down due to some overlay. Can't even go into article mode for this. Why dont developers test these things ?
Workplace from Facebook.

The company I work for uses this for internal communication. Workplace is basically the same Facebook and Messenger, but tweaked for a private group of people.

The problem is that, because this is basically the same Facebook, it is designed to keep you "engaged". It uses all kinds of patterns to keep you addicted to your timeline and search for attention. Rather keeping you informed with the important topics, it distracts you with a lot of irrelevant stuff. The algorithm will always show you something that keeps you scrolling. Huge time waste.

The motto of this software is "Bring your company together". And it works exactly as Facebook's motto, "Bring the world closer together", in the sense that it does exactly the opposite. The software has all sorts of mechanisms to generate controversy. Because controversy is what ultimately drives more engagement. Reactions, memes, notifications. It makes you fight with your colleagues about silly things, and it makes it really easy to derail any sort of constructive conversation.

Imagine having to try a technical conversation in this platform and then people are allowed to "react" with an angry face or a silly animated GIF. No argumentation required. And those reactions will bring more reactions. And in those rare cases when some meaningful discussion actually happens, then the thread is quickly buried by the constant stream of new things.

If your company is considering this, avoid it like the plague.
Are you using GNOME? Lots of problems just go away if you switch to something else.
S3 is a flat object store. It has no concept of folders or hierarchy.
Yup. Straight to the bottom of the page. Did you know, they're pushing it into schools? Every time a student asks a question, all other students lose track of which pieces of work they've still got left to do.
As much as we like to focus on the past, let’s not forget that we still have a long way to go. On average, nosocomial infections (hospital-acquired) kill 100,000 Americans per year in US hospitals. There are many issues that have yet to be resolved. The problem with adequately cleaning and disinfecting medical scopes, for example, was a recent topic in technology circles (Olympus TJF-Q180V).
Yes! And also the experience of a recent baby shower.
It's not though, see TSLA.
I use github as well (but never just bitbucket), I feel jira provides a better coordination/overview functionality, although I agree in most ways they are convergent. Part of it is our jira covers multiples related projects/sub teams/independent repos in ways I don’t think github can do seamlessly (but I never worked on a big project on github so maybe it is just my limitation)
It literally means "thus" which is just another way of saying "Yes, really!"
I agree. The AWS complaints don't address the fundamental issue with this "business" and other startups like it, lackluster revenue. I think sometimes in the tech industry all the freely flowing angel and VC money makes us a bit unrealistic about how things work out in the real world. Low marginal cost of distribution does not mean no marginal cost of distribution. There are no bandwidth fairies riding rainbow farting unicorns sprinkling hosting and bandwidth dust on startups. At some point, you have to get serious about what you're doing.
They just removed it in favor of the normal numeric keypad.
They’re not done well in slack if you’re not looking for them! The default reply in a channel is not in a thread, so you get people replying inside the thread and outside at the same time. Makes them feel pointless.
I think users have a performance budget and once you are inside that budget, there are rapidly diminishing returns for faster speed.

> it's obvious that modern software will be as slow and inefficient as it possibly can be before normal people notice and complain

Thats sort of circular. If people don't complain there's probably better places to spend engineering effort. Besides, the slower speed is traded off for something: a safer abstraction, faster development, features the users are requesting, better security, etc.

I think some of us on HN have higher expectations for software performance than "normal" users, so we are the first to complain (or use alternate, faster software).
Mobile gaming has evolved quite a bit past 2013. You can get console quality games now, especially now that developers are now using MFI more consistently.
Not ATM. I've been thinking of writing a book on acoustics and perception of sound though for about 5 years, which is related to how I know about this sort of stuff. I've also built speakers in my spare time.

I've always been fascinated by sound and how people perceive it. I'm also a classical pianist and guitarist, amongst other things, which may explain it, or be caused by it. Who knows?

It's not something I thought other people would care to read about though, hence never doing it. Maybe time to re-evaluate that.
Threads are good, the Slack implementation is still lacking though. They really need the ability to subscribe to a thread without commenting in it.
"Gathering people together in-person spreads viruses" is well supported by both anecdotes and data.
Scroll down and up again to get it to trigger loading more. You'll lose your place, though, because it will immediately jump, then unload what it just loaded…
The interest in the 2016-2018 version of truth will continue to drop. The people who were listening that didn't already have an affinity for it were there because they needed it. They are done with it now and the kind compassion of emotions will wash it away. Heath Ledger's Joker was correct these people are only as good as the world allows them to be, as soon as trouble hits the wallet, truth is tossed out the window.

A deontological ethic, doing the right thing regardless of the consequences is still my favourite, but nature is rolling over to a consequentialist maximization of profits at the expense of everybody.
I had a look at 1588 and was a rabbit hole of paywalls - latest draft seems to be https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1588-2019.html

Why is a standards group paywalled!
It used to be Jira. Thankfully my current company doesn't use it. Now it's probably DBeaver, which is hard to complain about because it's free and full-featured, but it has one of the worst user experiences I've ever encountered.
Excellent read. So much of this resonates deeply with me based on uni experiences. I studied math and was guilty on more than one occasion of basically memorizing some theorems and methods of manipulation, missing the forest for the trees so to speak.
not that it's much use to you now, but you don't need a twitter account to keep up with someone... just use something like nitter that will let you add them to your rss reader
"Randoms" wouldn't hang out on a site called "Hacker News" to begin with, much even know that it exists. A more "inviting" layout wouldn't change that.
Trump's War of the Masks – The White House Insider
Google Wave’s algorithm is now used by Google Docs, it’s Operational Transformation (OT) [1]. You can approximately view it as a special form of CRDT but the theory underpinning each have separate origins.

OT is efficient and fast at real-time editing with a central server, whereas CRDTs are more capable in distributed/p2p scenarios but bring significant overhead as they store a lot of metadata.

1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
That happens for global lookups, but methods should use a stack-like lookup for local variables which should be much faster IIRC

(Personally, I really question the extremely-dynamic-by-default design of that generation of languages; is being able to treat globals as a dictionary occasionally worth forcing a key lookup on every single global use?)
Emergency use is explicitly allowed by the FCC. And thank god. We’ve had to call 911 over the baofengs for life threatening emergencies in the past and have very probably saved at least one persons life.
If the speakers (or their combined phased-array effect) are directional, you can project antinoise with different effects in each direction.

So for the person inside the apartment it sounds like a wall in the way, attenuating sound from outside, but for the neighbour across the street, it sounds like a hole absorbing the sound instead of reflecting it like a wall.

With enough points in a directional array it starts to resemble an acoustic hologram, with some remarkable one-way properties.

If you wanted to go really far with this, you could cover the exterior walls of buildings with dense arrays, and it would dampen street sounds for everyone in the neighbourhood, indoors and outdoors. In the street it would sound a bit like there were no buildings either side to reflect sounds back into the street, yet at the same time the buildings would still block sound from neighbouring streets.

Perhaps in future cities will do this.
C# using is Common Lisp's with-....
I like docker-compose so much that I'd use it even if the underlying containerization technology didn't exist. I think it's one of the things they got most right, and I wish there was a bigger ecosystem around managing compose-based projects.
Of course four. My apologies, too quick to type.
The problem is that the "public health consequences of having the schools closed on the kids" have not been defined, yet alone measured, and thus we have no basis for comparison against the fairly well-established risks of opening schools. The director is making a political statement based on hunches rather than evaluating risks based on science.
Great. I think that social media concept is awesome. I want to follow people in my feed, I want to create discussions with them.

But how those main social networks did it, with likes or other shallow simplifications of human response, with not showing stuff from those I follow in a linear order, instead pushing "engaging" content to my face, is just terrible.
To be clear, your question about traffic was unwisely unencumbered by real context and details. Let me give you a personal example: I have a friend who routinely drove in the oncoming traffic lane. She never had to adapt to a rule about driving in this way, because she had an additional layer of frameworks to protect her. She was a construction engineer. The adaptation was already performed for her, by smart civic policy.

So what you have to ask is, who's doing this thing, and why? What factors are involved? Details. Otherwise the solution will fail to the extent that it is divorced from context. And that's no way to develop policy, be it personal or public. This kind of fixed, non-adaptive thinking leads to the Judge Judy phenomenon, rewriting public policy discourse as shallow "common sense" pornography for what amounts to entertainment for armchair critics.

Your summary of my position as "no truth" is also unfair to the details, since I communicated upthread that multiple truths and perspectives may exist, and that this can create a smarter approach to problem-solving. This is true even in computer programming, where multiple, conflicting truths about an object can be reconciled, simulated and leveraged. But the trick is depth, and details. That's why there's no computer program that stops everyone from driving in oncoming traffic. By itself it's not a useful rule in that it fails to account for the exceptions.

What seems to be happening at the end of your comment is that you have a set of perceptions from your past, these exist as fixed labels or categories in your mind, and you are attempting to map them onto my words without so much as asking if they're relevant. Which, unfortunately, they're not. Postmodernism needn't be involved; these ideas predate it by quite a stretch. So while your conclusion seems to have felt therapeutic, it's also a communication of subjective-emotive values, and not quite ready for logical and useful public discourse.
The ones usually mentioned are a) lack of exercise, b) malnutrition for want of school lunch programs.
Same for me, I only realised about 5 seconds ago
Also, the linked area of the line is too thin - I can barely click on it.
There's actually a very common joke in the homeschool community: "Sometimes I worry my child is missing out on socializing in school, so once in a while I beat them up and steal their lunch money".
> Everyone using it is an adult,

It's the primary platform for entire schools, now. Whoopee. So you're going to get lots of new child protection features (that fail at their intended purpose) added.
I had similar problems attempting to read the page in FF with uMatrix. I gave up after it tried reloading repeatedly while eating up ~200% CPU.
Yep, same. I dual boot and only rarely use Windows.
Since we're currently in a solar minimum (which reduces the propagation of radio signals here on Earth, and generally makes it more difficult to make long-range contacts), you would expect innovation to be happening in... making contacts in high-noise conditions! That's exactly what is happening with FT-8, WSPR, etc. The thing that excites me most about FT8 is that its implementation (https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html) is open source, which means you can decide to modify or improve it without asking permission. That's exactly what the author of JS8CALL did -- he took FT8, which was designed for short "call sign and signal" contacts, and turned it into a conversational protocol (http://js8call.com/). The ability of FT8 and its descendants to transmit information waaaaay down in the noise is pretty awesome, and I hope it spawns at thousand imitators.
People aren't allowed to socialize anywhere anymore. School would enable one partially.
Only if you have your personal device signed in to your work slack, surely?
My experience with bug trackers is that people hate them no matter which one you choose. The infinite list of stuff you know is broken or sub-optimal crushes the spirit. (Jira is particularly bad, because it is slow and complicated, but switching to simpler tools doesn't make that underlying problem go away.)

When people complain about bug trackers, they probably need a new outlook on work. They need to aggressively prioritize tasks. They need to be in a mental state where they're happy working on the highest priority thing, not the most interesting thing. You can't get there by buying a new tool for $9.99 per user per month. You probably need a vacation.

At my last job, we switched from Jira to Github Issues to Asana. Each tool had the same problems -- bugs were filed faster than they were fixed. I am personally okay with that -- I know that most of these things will never be done, but it's nice to park the idea somewhere. But to others, it's crushing, and although people will complain that they don't like Jira's UI, what they really hate is that realization that they will never "finish".
Not to mention how horrible Confluence is, which is a product I can't believe how strongly it's advertised as a life saver.
Any editor I've tried is way better.
(Every time I have to "insert macro > other macros > code > choose title > choose syntax highlighter" just to document some code it just makes my life more miserable.)
Can somebody with a lot of money please regularly give a bunch of it to Dave Ungar, so he can keep doing what he wants to do? He has generated so much value on so many levels, that's so important and useful to millions of people and companies on a daily basis.
Well this is exciting. The biggest risk of Zig, among many risks, seemed to me to be that it was a one-individual show and so privy to their whims and subject to their ongoing interest and availability. Seeing an organization created with the intent to foster its development is a step in the right direction.
I don’t get it, kids have 3 months off in summer. Do we just ignore them during those times. They still have meal requirements and issues at home. Delay school start at a minimum until we can get our positivity rates down. The Feds could feed kids who need it.. it seems like a false narrative to focus on kids here. Am I wrong? Congress could do a lot more and save the day.
If there's an extension, maybe we could have a collaborative tagging system so we can see what other people have labelled the author as?
Trust isn't healthy, when you're worried about cybersecurity. The economics of trust work differently in real life than at web scale.
If you just need the driver and don't care about the fluff, you don't need GeForce Experience AFAIK. Same for Adrenaline.
The red LEDs on Garmin watches are used for SpO2 (Pulse Oximeter) tracking, not sleep tracking. They are also generally regarded as terrible[1].

[1] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/06/garmin-fenix5-plus-5s-5x...
I have two young children who spent the last few months in online learning. Online learning requires more attention span than most children have available, and I haven't seen a program that's simultaneously a) engaging, and b) does as good of a job teaching as a teacher.

Honestly, a big part of this is the social pressure of 21 other classmate sitting there paying attention.
I would like to call BS on this entire "analysis" and presume that dropping fertility rates (and child births) across all of the developed world with enough discretionary money to spend on toys might be the single biggest reason why toy businesses are stagnating and perhaps reduce over the long run.
> Do we just ignore them during those times.

Working parents tend to send them to summer camp... which have also been closed.
I use my Macs basically for browsing, as a thin client for Windows AWS instances via RDP, and also Linux development via VS Code Remote Development (ssh) for AWS Linux instances.

I find the overall UX quite good (Microsoft RD + Microsoft VS Code) and the fact that I do not have relevant data on the Macs allows me to hop from office to home, and second homes without having to carry a laptop.