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> The only thing that matters is wall clock time so if cache layout is making a 300% difference to wall clock, focusing on instructions counts will mislead you on the most impactful optimization to make

Ahh, very well said!
It's also worth note that manufacturers like JLCPCB have SMT Assembly Service which might be able to deliver fully assembled boards. I haven't looked at the gerber+BOM to verify.
that's my first one. First app was done in 9 months.
this is great if for no other reason that in section 1 it explains the difference between a switch and a router (which took me a decade? to really understand). I really wish someone could have laid it out clearly for me.
Woh, are you familiar with this? I've never had to navigate around a flagging like that. Thank you for bringing this you my attention.
The archaeologist?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Murdoch_Smith
This is the secret of the startup business.
Like tab pinning?
aw how lovely, best wingman is your mom
YASE - Yet Another Stock Exchange
"This time I, Yes I, collect the listing fees! Yippee" - IMVU senior spyware deployer

I fixed the marketing for you Eric. It's less abstract now. Almost like your startup speech at Skirball.
https://victorcaballero.com/twiistup-7-agenda/
I think something important we are missing is that vitamin D effects seem to be quite different when the vitamin is produced by the body and when it is taken orally.

It is a lot less effective when taken orally. This study doesn't mention this important distinction.
I trained a model. What is next?
The BBC has guides for using the common tools:

https://bbc.github.io/accessibility-news-and-you/accessibili...

Microsoft has documentation on the built-in Narrator: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17173/windows-10-he...

Apple has docs about VoiceOver on iOS and macOS: https://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/
I’m not an X hater but just know you’ve given that server access to your display socket which is effectively remote command execution.

In most cases this could be solved with a good web user interface, but you can rest assured X won’t be dead in the next 5-15 years, and you can use an intermediary box w/VNC if security is that much of a concern.
If you are interested in consciousness, then yes, Consciousness Explained is a worthwhile read. If your interest lies with sea squirts, then not so much.

While I do not necessarily agree with Dennett's position in whole, I believe his arguments make a valuable contribution to the subject of consciousness -- even moreso in the context of Wigner's thought experiment and the recent empirical results.
I got good at elisp in my first years of emacs 30 years ago. Tons of customizations. Then I let it go. I remember the basics but I never write any serious script. No need for that. There are so many packages ready to be installed and Stackoverflow. The solutions are already there so I can concentrate on my job.
if you simply erase you watch history that will reset your recommendations, always works.
It is, they just added an extra https :)
Here you go, good luck:
https://fundjournalism.org/2020/08/26/job-opening-data-analy...
The longest possible straight-line journey on sea – from Russia to Pakistan
Nerdy nitpick: It might not be quite an "address". In the UK at least the machine readable information (either added during sorting or printed deliberately for a discount rate by bulk senders) indicates a delivery point a place to which this post will be in fact delivered, distinct from an address.

For example my address says Flat 7 of 60 My Street, and a friend lives at Flat 10 of 74 My Street. But my delivery point is a letter box in the front door of my home, whereas his delivery point is just a locked box at street level. Timed locks allow the postman to enter my building despite not having a key, so as to deliver post to my front door, whereas his building doesn't do this.

The company (almost everything in the UK is privatised because Tory ideology says this is a good idea even if it clearly isn't) delivering post owns very detailed maps of where all these delivery points are, because of course it needs its employees to visit all those points to deliver post, whereas it needn't care where in some sense an "address" is other than where the post is to be delivered.
Insect wings tear apart bacteria, may hold key to fighting superbugs
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21601600

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18125167
congrats on the domain Taylor! Way to go man.
You can make a vehicle roll "uphill" if you choose the spot carefully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_hill
On the developer side, both Godot and Unity have some support for VR.

On the game side, there's also Windows MR, which supports some games. I don't know if this headset supports it now, but it could presumably be made to.
I’m not sure what to say as I haven’t experienced such tragic loss in a short time. If you’re looking for someone to talk to, I’d be more than happy to chat and talk about all sorts of random things.

Other than that, please hang in there, when you’re at the lowest, it only gets better. As you said, low expectations yield pleasant surprises.

Hopefully life throws you some soft balls soon.
I do get targeted ads, it's called newletters I sign up for on services, and blogs of techincal companies I keep up with. Both work well for things I am interested in.

As yourself this: How do you feel about the possibility of any personal information you give to any company may be given to others without your consent (or "with your consent" behind a huge wall of "this is how we use your data, take it or leave it"), and for those companies to sell it to data arrgrators to build a complete picture of you, to sell it to anyone with enough cash?
Pandemic accelerates construction industry changes. I had you at ROBOT DOG
Another HN comment a few months ago let me discover Twinkle Tray. It's a Windows app that sits in your tray icons.

https://twinkletray.com/

Super cool, you can even link multiple monitors together to control the "global" screen brightness at once.
Ah, I thought fairness meant in the current legal system. If there were different laws it would be different.

But even with your example, imagine starting a company in CA, having remote engineers around the world building your company, and then having all of your gains taxed in CA when you later sold the company (but no longer lived there). Why would that be fair? What if you sold it 5 or 10 or 20 years after leaving? Part of the reason we don’t let CA tax you after you leave is because doing so opens up a can of slippery slopes, to mix metaphors.
When I was at Qt I spent a decent amount of time porting the native rendering engine from Qt4 to Qt5. It should be available and work relatively well. I have retired from the Qt project, but it looks like the code is still there in the repo. [1] You might need to tell the configure script to build it. To use it, set the QT_XCB_NATIVE_PAINTING environment variable.

[1] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/plugins/platf...
Chrome has a "minimum font size" setting that overrides websites that use small fonts. I set my minimum high (16 normal, 14 minimum) and haven't run into any breakage.

(I am not sure if the point sizes of fonts have any meaning. I like my text a certain size and it's a different number in Chrome, Powershell, and Putty, which is weird to me...)
Can anyone pinpoint the location? Then we could clear this up. Seems like relevant evidence on the whole scheme, if that's really the case.
you can disable them in the settings. it gave me icons for brightness, contrast, saturation, and volume. I only care about setting brightness so I disabled the others
The problem for any proof of work system is there are really only three possibilities-

1. No set of coordinated attackers with significant (state-level) resources- think, say, Manhattan Project- exists. If this is the case, the network is not a serious threat to existing power structures. And, at that point, why not just use a system with a diverse set of trusted coordinators?

2. The total resources used on PoW are less than any such set of attackers can collectively use. In this case, the network is insecure.

3. The total resources used on PoW are more than any such set of attackers can use. In this case, the network may be secure, but the resource usage is also incredibly high- again, we're talking about trillions of dollars a year- what a set of coordinating states and big banks could plausibly spend to stop something that actually threatened them. And it's worse than that, actually- the network must spend that much all the time, but the attackers only need to spend that much when they want to attack.

And this isn't even considering that an attacker may be able to appropriate, or even nationalize, large mining farms.

So any PoW network, as far as I can tell, must either be no more than a relatively minor annoyance to world governments and those in power, be insecure, or consume resources on an almost unimaginable level- and have all the users of the network pay for those resources.

That clean, unused, overprovisioned hydro power? Yeah, it's also cheap. That means, to maintain a given security level, you need to use more of it- an attacker has access to the same cheap power legitimate users do, and may well be able to shut legitimate users out!

Please let me know if I'm wrong, but the choice seems to be "boring, insecure, crime-against-humanity- pick one."
Yeah, I definitely care about performance more in that tradeoff. In my experience when performance matters, these details about using such a null representation and what different representations lend themselves also tends to matter. vs. gluing libraries to libraries willy-nilly. At that point this null issue is far from the main thing that comes up bc. you care about data layout enough that you have control over that representation.

One example I'm running into in practice these days is--I'm using chipmunk2d game physics engine in a library. It does heap allocations, while all the component data for other stuff in my game tends go be well managed into pools that I can walk through contiguously. Even if I use a custom allocator for it, it uses pointers to refer between objects internally so I can't "move" instances of its eg. `cpBody` object around in memory. Would've been so nice to just own its data and let the library be layout-agnostic but alas.

But yeah those are the data-data glues I've been interested in--libraries that kind of own representation but not location I guess.

For your particular issue though, I think it really is bc. Lua is a language that out of the box doesn't tend to own representation, to the point of not eg. having its own class system etc, and it mostly shines when used in ways that play into that strength (eg. you want to wrap your own object ontology for ppl to script). The best libraries for Lua have tended to the invent their own representation and expect you to care about and own the mappings between libraries. esp. for JSON, the impedance mismatch with Lua tables puts it in this weird uncanny valley.

Tbh my fav method of using JSON is to not have an in memory document format at all and just treat it as reader / writer objects directly into domain data so that you don't keep paying this intermediatw representation conversion cost. eg. https://github.com/beached/daw_json_link is interesting here In my own game stuff I just have game components accept reader/writer objects to read from / write to and each component tends to have domain logic about what it means to be missing something, what some defaults are, etc.
China bars media coverage of Disney's 'Mulan' after Xinjiang backlash
Anyone else getting Theranos vibes? As others have stated here, Hindenburgresearch is a known short-seller and so has an self interest to drive down the stock price of Nikola.

Also it was only yesterday that GM announced taking an 11% in the company for $2B. Surely GM has done their due diligence before throwing a couple of billions in? https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/business/nikola-gm-badger-ele...

That all said, everyone also thought Theranos was legitimate until they were exposed to be not.
> In the early 1970s, I was very poor, living paycheck to paycheck.

I'm just curious, was an engineering job at HP in the 1970s not well paid?
I like Crusader Kings more than all the others because it results in amazing stories as it's character-focused rather than focused on faceless nations (Victoria, HOI, EU, etc.).

I can tell you about the time I conquered most of east India and became a king, swore fealty to the emperor of Tibet for protection, married my daughter to his son for a non-aggression pact with him, then somehow my daughter later ends up becoming empress, and one of my fellow vassals (my daughter is my liege at this point) starts pushing my _wife's_ weak claim on the empire of Tibet in a civil war...

And I have tons of stories like that. I have basically none from other grand strategy and civilization management games in comparison.
For those looking for a stripped down Civ, take a look at Polytopia (iOS / Android). They've done a mostly brilliant job in creating a very minimalistic Civ-style 4x game. Has two modes: a 30 turn game in which the player with the highest score wins. Building wonders and temples gives more points than conquest, so that mode is a very stripped down version of a cultural victory goal. And then there's the free-for-all mode, with no turn limitations and the only possible victory is conquest. I mostly play the latter.

There's a simple tech tree. Diplomacy is done in an interesting way, and I wish more games would emulate it. There's no direct negotiations, relationship scores, or anything like that. Instead, you have to measure how they feel about you by the way they act. They give you a greetings when you first meet. If they laugh at you or are suspicious, then they'll probably attack immediately. If they worship you or condescendingly pat you on the head, then they won't attack for a while.

And this is also built on by judging them based on further actions. If you move a unit adjacent to theirs, and they don't attack it, then you know they're trustworthy for a time. And you can subtly manipulate their feelings towards you by doing things like not counter-attacking even when they're attacking you. This is useful in a multi-front war when you're losing. You can make the decision to concentrate an offensive on one front when your defenses can possibly hold on a second front. If the enemy isn't hellbent on your destruction, they'll possibly just stop attacking and do something else. If you accurately guess that they hate another nation more than they hate you, then attacking the hated nation will get them to consider you acceptable. It's a bunch of big gambles and an interesting ones. Judging the other nations' attitudes towards you by intuition alone.

That definitely adds a little nuance to the conquer-the-world bits. Most games are over in 30 minutes or less, though occasionally they stretch out when you're evenly matched. Even then, it's rarely more than an hour.
this is interesting. i worked for someone like this who was CEO of a YC backed startup. everything was “in progress” but really hadn’t started. the stuff that was “finished” was ongoing or never happened. it got to the point where every line in a meeting about plans i had to question to find the real story. you can get very far bullshitting your way
Even if this is true and it's just practice, any new programmer still comes with years of practice in reading mostly lowercased text and very little experience reading all-uppercase text. In a field where everything gets reinvented all the time this should have a big impact.
Scientists use laser pulses to create plasma conditions comparable to black hole
Not close to the same thing.

Musk has a history of building and shipping successful products company after company in spite of a constant amount of people saying he would fail. (X.com, Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring).

Nikola is a complete fraud that collected money from know-nothing investors riding on EVs and Tesla's name. They haven't shipped anything and probably never will. Bizarrely positively portrayed in the press alongside negative Tesla stories - I imagine because it's good for clicks?

I find it hard to believe the SPAC that brought them public wasn't solely for the purpose of allowing them to steal as much as they could from the public before they shut down. No idea how well they played it - I guess we'll see if anyone ends up in prison.

At least he got to con his way into a fancy ranch in the mean time: https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2019-11-1...

People like this make the world worse for the rest of us (and make it harder for honest startups to raise money).
Of note, you can use the ARIA label attribute to customize this for many users:

https://www.deque.com/blog/text-links-practices-screen-reade...
Exactly.

https://hub.docker.com/r/certbot/certbot

certbot has an official docker image. By using the official docker image you don't manage the updates beyond having to call `docker pull certbot/certbot`. I just integrate that into the same cron task that triggers the renewals/checks. Could not be easier and more fault tolerant.
While that may be an interesting fact, it's got no more practical advantage to us than the old myth of the moon being made of green cheese.

Unless there's a magical way of going faster than light, that new planet is thankfully forever out of our grasp.
Those developers by and large were active in software development before the creation of VSCode or IntelliJ. If you've already invested time and energy to learning the ins and outs of one tool, the hurdle to switch is large.

VSCode would need to be 10x better for the seasoned veterans to justify switching. If it were only 2x better, arguably the investment would not be worth it, but it doesn't change the fact that VSCode would be 2x better than emacs.
Yeap, like a pig with telepathic abilities /s

Seriously, stop being so naive.
That's essentially what Python's struct module does.
Sorry, search used to be good, around ~15 years ago.
Esoteric hardware won’t work first, then maybe browsers. I’d estimate 15 years.

I was not using pulse or systemd until early this year, having used Linux since 2008 thats a pretty decent lifespan. It was finally required for Bluetooth headphones which weren’t really around in the age of alsa.
How do we tell that this research has 'teeth'? Sounds super juicy if true! Would there be a 'ticket number' of some kind for an SEC complaint that Hindenburg filed?
Your first link does include curl examples for everything except for the instructions for downloading the client libraries and for the frontend examples. This has already been pointed out to you in another comment, so I'm not sure why you're persisting with your claim.

Granted, your second link doesn't include curl examples.
I think you need to calm down with the rhetoric.

Criminal activities hurt people. Ads do not.

Especially in this case where PII data is not being provided to the advertising company.
???? who corralled those workers? I always see this argument, if Milton has the same ability to bring together talented people as Musk does, his bullshit will be gladly accepted - both have proven the ability to bullshit, but only one has brought together groundbreaking teams thus far
Constitutional protections of freedom of expression are not absolute.

The most well known such limit is that on yelling fire in a crowded theater, which is limited in the interest of public safety.

Going outdoors without a mask also impacts public safety, so the government could prohibit it if they wanted to.

The problem is that the country is not united on this, and political agendas are getting in the way of keeping people healthy and safe.

COVID-19 is definitely a worse health threat than any seen in most Americans' lifetimes. Despite all the shutdowns, social distancing, and mask use, there are already around 200k American deaths from COVID-19, and it hasn't even been a year yet. That's about 50% of American casualties during all of WW2.

People are just not taking this seriously enough, and that needs to drastically change if we want a chance of things returning to anything remotely approaching "normal" any time soon.
Maybe I'll give that a try next time. I keep a Linux partition around on my desktop for the handful of times a year that I need it, but even Ubuntu throws up roadblocks occasionally.
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I don't see it as very different from Tesla, since when they started there was no real technology to talk about. The CEO of Tesla is also well known to be untrustworthy with his promises, having even being formally investigated by the SEC for stock price manipulation. I don't know the future, but there is a possibility that they will also develop the needed technology to make it all work.
Microsoft forms strategic partnership with Refinitiv
Yeah, he certainly invests in innovative high-tech industries and I like that a lot. But he also overpromises a lot, e.g. coast-to-coast tesla autopilot (probably not happening anytime soon) or something actually useful with the neurochip (also years ahead). some of his remarks on AI also tells me that he has a feeling that he knows everything about everything but that might not be exactly the case. he is a smart guy and he got rich basically by having a really good electronic payment system. but that does not make him a universal engineer/scientist/philosopher.
I especially like BANANAREPUBLIC
You continue to state that market forces are bad, while not paying any attention to the counterargument that they are pretty good compared to the alternatives. Making an honest comparison would be a much tedious discussion.
.WTF
I've always had a soft spot for the classic .INI style configuration.

Modding command and conquer through "rules.ini" was always an adventure.
Yeah we are basically a thinking chunk of meat that grew around a ringed worm, for it to feed itself more easily than wallowing naked in the dirt. Welcome to the depersonalization disorder.
>oddly do not share any of the positives that a company may possess

Oddly? It's not the job of the investors to champion for the company. The short seller presented a report with research and evidences. Another party is welcome to produce their own report that 'share any of the positives that a company may possess.' For example, Nikola.

Let the company presents its side of the story, then it's up to the market/public to decide whether the reports stand on their own merit.