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Short answer: Chair, something comfortable. Desk: any horizontal surface big enough to work on.

Longer answer:

Chairs: Gaming chairs (Noble chairs look nice), Steelcase (Leap), Humanscale, Herman Miller (Aeron), etc or just about any Ego chair from Staples/Office Depot would probably be okay.

Desk: Standing Height or adjustable (Ikea, Geekdesk). Legare (Funky toolless/knockdown) and Levenger are options as well.

For one stop shopping take a look at Branch Furniture. https://www.branchfurniture.ca/collections/work-from-home (They probably have a US site as well)

Notes:
You should be getting and moving around during the day anyways. I pace a lot while thinking so I am up and down all day. But I have a good/expensive egonomic chair anyways. My desk is 64"x27" table I made for myself. My wife has the ergo chair from Branch Furnture and it's okay but not great.
Specifically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

The original title on the linked page is "Dogfooding Warp" and the title on this HN page is still, at the moment I write this, editorialized: "Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster"
Yes but at the same time the auto makers let another team make Electron apps for the dashboard. Engine ECUs are nice and decoupled. Maybe the hard realtime requirements is what saves them and keep all the novell crap out?
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Contrary to the promotional ads, I feel the main use case is to have a closer look at small things where your main cameras are unable to have a good enough look eg, is the stove or toaster still on? Did my kid leave his school project in his room? Did I drop my wallet in this spot? What is my cat or dog doing right now?
We're not saying it doesn't exist.

We are saying exceptional stories like hers are repeated and spread by the media. These stories scare the general population because they think it could happen to them. Statistics tell us otherwise but most people don't know that but instead they react emotionally and get scared.

On one hand these people's stories need to be shared. On the other hand sharing them spreads fear and, indirect, mis-information about the potency of the virus.

I don't have a good answer but stories like this bring eyeballs and viewers to the media. That's their goal and by attaining that goal they're scaring the public.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. If the argument is that taxation is too high, then advocate for cutting taxes. If the argument that taxes are too low, advocate for raising them. Pick a side!
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> Everything is cheaper per pound in a data center....Going up to WAN for everything is redundant but costs less dev time.

Yes, agreed. That's just a totally different argument than the one supergeek133 made, so my point stands.
Ask HN: How does one lead a team in a hackathon?
I'm participating in a week-long hackathon in a few days and gathered a team
together for an idea I've been exploring recently. I guess this means people are looking at me to be in charge and that's
not a role that comes naturally to me.

A few questions:

- How do you get people excited and aligned to the same vision, so we're all
pulling in the right direction?

- My biggest concern is everyone will be remote, so there's no natural space
for us to all occupy when working together. I'm looking for advice on how
best to structure the week so we actually make it to the finish line. I'm
guessing motivation will play a big part here.

I'm definitely not experienced in leadership (I'm just a typical worker drone
here) so advice is appreciated!

Edit: Worth mentioning everyone on the team are engineers (with some extra skills on the side).
I agree. That's seems like a useful product, and wouldn't be exceedingly difficult to make. I'm wondering why no one did it yet.
The US does extradite to China...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-crime/china-hai...

And the diplomat case is not proof of a one-sided extradition treaty; it's entirely separate from the issue of extradition. The diplomat's wife had diplomatic immunity, and therefore would have been immune to prosecution whether or not she remained in the UK. The UK had to change its laws to make criminal prosecution of her possible. Under US law, you cannot retroactively place someone under threat of criminal prosecution, so even though diplomatic immunity has been modified since then (and if the hit-and-run occurred today, she would be subject to criminal prosecution in the UK), the US probably could not legally extradite her.
> Yeah, Apple is the opposite of a company that would bother with focus groups and surveys. The butterfly keyboard was a good example of that. The "You don't know what you want" model. It worked out really well for them for a while, but I think these days when it doesn't work out, they sit in denial a bit too long.

It worked until organizational entropy caught up with Apple. It's all fine and dandy when they make changes that are consistent, if not totally intuitive at first, but now the low hanging fruit has been picked and the only way to get promotions is to push for stupid projects like "fixing the keyboard."
The grass was greener when I was younger, and the sugar is sweeter.

Most software has always been crap. There never was a golden age, when developers 'cared'.

The truth is, some developers produced polished, well-working, well-made software. Some developers still do that.
I had the good fortune to have Ole Caprani as my 2nd year teacher at the university and he really drilled home the message that it's all the same the whole way down. The more you understand the whole stack, the more you realize that even the CPU is just an interpreter for it's own language (the ISA).

A sufficiently smart interpreter for a language can be faster than a native binary as the former has the freedom to adapt to dynamic conditions. This is the essential point of JITs. It beats ahead of time compilation when dynamic conditions do change but slowly enough to amortize the overhead of adapting to it.
Funny complaint; PG didn't even get a first name in that article.
Correct, and mortgage deductions are highly criticized for being a subsidy for the rich..

Pre-tax benefits for transportation are also not universal, and the State governments can deduct Federal taxes in their calculations if they want to follow that model.
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If MDM is deployed by companies, the device may come from the author's employer, friend's employer, government?
Memory ref + CPU ref makes it somewhat identifiable.
“The Primary Law of Software Design” is relevant here.

https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/the-primary-law-of-softw...
I remember seeing some videos of notch (creator of Minecraft) working on Minecraft.

Watching that video I was impressed how much "courage" he had to try weird ideas immediately, see what happens, and not be afraid to mess up progress he has made, etc.

Of course, notch, like antirez, are gifted, way above average, people. So we have to keep that in mind.
Debate is really the only thing I think that is effective at cutting through bias and believing one's own bullshit. Debate and diversity of opinion should be actively cultivated in university environments, however, it seems compliance and groupthink rule the day.
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That's not too far fetched. It is well known that heart and, obviously, lungs are affected by COVID19. Add to that a potentially week long sickness and I am not surprised your friend is in a bad shape. Compare this to coma patients, for instance.

The question is: Is her condition chronic? That is, given a good treatment, diet, and specific exercise, could she return to normal? What did she do after recovery?
To your point, I always thought of Red Rock and Coupa as the most physical manifestations of Silicon Valley, since you can see a bunch of teams brainstorming, others pitching VCs, etc. The personification of the network you're talking about. But yeah, SV the place is mostly boring suburban and office park sprawl.
There isn't much difference nowadays. I think it's just a matter of preference as long as the trackpad is made of glass, which aren't hard to find on PC's anymore.

I even prefer my PC trackpad on Linux vs my Mac trackpad on macOS because on Linux there are many more settings I can configure to get it working exactly to my liking.

Personally, I don't like the cursor acceleration profile in macOS by default. You can change certain values through the terminal, but the Synaptics and libinput options on Linux are way more in depth and packaged in a nice GUI (at least in KDE Plasma).
Ah, but I don't think video is intrinsically suboptimal (I assume suboptical was a typo?) any more than comparing a movie to a book. There are pros and cons of each medium and I can't dismiss either.

I love a proper 90s-style book for sure (No Starch seem to be really good at still putting these out) but there are plenty of times where a video usefully fills in a gap, particularly if you want something super up to date or running on a certain setup (e.g. you're a Mac user and you want to see someone setting up some Python library.. that is definitely on YouTube to follow along with somewhere).
MP4 is an ISO standardized version of where MOV was at the time it was made a standard. MOV is an Apple product that they are free to update as they see fit. Apple has since modified the QT container regarding things like the moov atoms for aspect ratio, color systems (709 vs 609 etc), and all of the other similar fiddly bits. This is the major differences between the two to me.
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> Actually I am using a Retina display. I’m still noticing the difference very much.

I suspect you are not running at the "correct" 2X Retina resolutions, which for whatever reason are no longer the default on Apple Macbooks. Instead, they end up running at a 1.75x or 1.5x of native resolution, which results in slightly less crisp rendering for everything, not just fonts.
Definitely this:

(i) change the bad faith registration “and” use element to bad faith registration “or” use – to address scenarios where an older domain name openly infringes a newer brand;

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2019/06/article_0006.h...
> YC was started in Boston and worked well there.

I would actually argue that this was critical.

Boston (and East Coast in general) at that point was a closed ecosystem that had pent up startup founders and no real release valve for those same founders.

That gave YC a significant amount of traction before having to scale out.
that's an interesting thought. Use it to fly around a lake house after a storm looking for damage.
Let me host my app on my own servers, I'll pay the bills.
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Get an alarm with some renters insurance. The security on these cameras are pretty trash. I think Ring got hacked , having strangers watch me all day is a scary thought.
The linked Business Insider piece falls into a category of stories that come out fairly regularly which could be described as "exposes on truly bad things about the global supply chain that many technology companies benefit from but we've learned we get way more attention if we say 'APPLE <sub>and also many others</sub>' and focus on Apple specifically." This is a pretty classic example on BI's part. The NGO in Australia that the BI piece links to describe their own findings with "The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has identified 27 factories in nine Chinese provinces that are using Uyghur labour transferred from Xinjiang since 2017. Those factories claim to be part of the supply chain of 82 well-known global brands." BI puts the focus specifically on one of those 82 well-known brands, writing, "Although the report highlights that the displaced Uighur workers are present in many different companies' supply chains including Nike, BMW, and Amazon, Apple features prominently as a case study." That's both true and misleading -- they could also have written "Nike features prominently as a case study" or "Adidas features prominently as a case study." The big Apple suppliers mentioned in case study #3 also contract for Samsung, HTC, HP, Microsoft, Oppo, Nintendo, Sony, Oculus, and others.

None of this "excuses" Apple; it's just that there's something faintly disingenuous about focusing on them as if they were a unique source of this problem. We could just as easily say "your Nintendo Switch is manufactured by literal slaves in concentration camps," but we don't, because... it's not as satisfying to be outraged at Nintendo, I guess?

At any rate: I strongly suspect the OP was referring to recent controversy surrounding the way Apple runs the App Store.
The Airon chairs were pretty OK, but I prefer the Swopper and the HAG Capisco chair. The both make me more likely to move a little bit.
I haven't used very many laptops, but I am one of the people that will say the mac trackpad is better. I can only give anecdotes, but I have thought about what feels different.

2012: Sony Vaio, running linux: Trackpad was infuriating, so I used an external keyboard + mouse. I'm not sure what it was - the sensitivity of the trackpad was very high so it was hard to point at things, combined with separate buttons.

2015: Macbook pro. The trackpad was so good, and gestures so well done and supported, that I _won't use a mouse_ anymore on my work machine. (Five years later, still feel the same.) Clicking was as easy as tapping on the trackpad, and scrolling with two fingers (as well as two-finger click as right-click) works flawlessly.

2015: My wife has a windows laptop, and its trackpad is infuriating. While in theory it can be clicked anywhere, I always have to _Very Deliberately_ click (significantly harder than on my macbook's trackpad) before it can reliably register.

2018: Using a newer (2016) macbook, with touchbar and a larger trackpad. This has a larger trackpad, but it somehow doesn't register incidental thumb-bumps on the trackpad as clicks (an issue that my older mac sometimes would do).

2020: I moved to a 2020 macbook pro, my wife has a new windows laptop, and we have a Chromebook. I've used them all -- and still notice a strong preference for the mac's trackpad.

Windows trackpad handling has improved a TON since her old laptop, and it no longer feels like I need to press super hard to get clicks to register, but it still feels more finicky about recognizing clicks than the mac does, while still being harder to get the pointer where I want it to be. It also seems to react to accidental touches on the trackpad that the mac would ignore while typing. The chromebook's trackpad seems better than I expected for a $300 machine, and is better than her old laptop's trackpad, but it still doesn't seem quite as responsive as the mac's.

I'm not sure how much of this is hardware versus drivers. Windows laptops seem to be Very Good, in fact, these days. I still prefer the mac's trackpad behavior better, though.
I'm arguing that having the same income taxed twice due to a quirk in the structure of the US government is unfair, that is all.

Edit: it's not really on the income taxed, it's on the money already spent to pay a seperate income tax.
This is awesome! Great work on getting this running in tensorflow.js !

Question on business / strategy for my "startup" (actually just a side project) in this space.

I was just working on a server side streaming implementation of first-order-model for https://vo.codes

I'm trying to build a 1-stop shop for deep fake memes, and first-order-model and wav2lip are two of the video processing facilities I want to add.

My product pipeline is to add the video tools, a Twitter/Discord bot, and voice conversion (which I have working). I'm hoping to draw enough traffic that I can run a Kickstarter to give me runway to build a client-side real time voice and video conversion app for gamers, Twitch streamers, Discord, etc.

I already have real time voice conversion working, I'm just struggling with the time to do it as this is still in the "side project" phase.

Does anybody think this is a sound strategy? Does Kickstarter work well for product funding? I've demonstrated lots of interest (millions of uses of vo.codes, and growing), but my marketing strategy is still weak. How can I fix this?
I was thinking new stuff was done in Rust. I guess Gecko is CPP only?
> means that people get to decide where their money

Yes, that's exactly what it means, because, as you say it's "their" money. A pretty fundamental part of ownership is deciding what to do with something.

You really think government should be telling people how and where to spend their money?
>I can't believe that 2020 is making Windows look like a respectful steward of open platforms.

Windows has always been substantially more open than Android or iOS, it's just taken people awhile to realize it.
Try using some old software. Like windows 7 or vim or emacs , or PHP or old reddit. Due to their age , they 've accumulated a lot of fixes to their bugs. They may look weird and old , but they waste less of my time.
I am not claiming, it is a fact.

It was dropped from C11, moved into optional annexes and all commercial compilers that were yet to be fully C99 compliant just moved to C11 instead, without bothering with optional annexes.

The world of C compilers isn't only GCC and clang.
>My belief is that forcing somebody to do anything against their will is inherently immoral. Taxation is included in that. It's not that simple of course- it's all relative, and sometimes taxation can do enough good to outweigh that morality.

The problem with this argument is that it can be used to shutdown any government service. I can easly say, I don't have kids so I won't support schools. Or I don't like police/firefighters so I won't pay for them. I don't like parks so I won't pay. I drink water so I won't pay.

Any such society wouldn't survive. Either the next generation would simply be taken over by a competent government with an educated workforce and functioning social services. At some point you have to think beyond yourself ask what is needed to keep America alive.
I once opened an issue on his kitty project, asking about right-to-left support. He answered me by saying (falsely, and condescendingly) that the problem was with the CLI apps I ran. But I had screenshotted just typing “echo یک نوشته راست چین” (or sth similar, it was months ago). I, unfortunately, replied to this with a non-respectful (but not rude) comment, which he then answered with another nonrespectful comment and closed the issue. Overall, my impression of him is that he is a kind, productive, but arrogant person; I’m thankful of the man.
It's not about getting to the whole house, it's that the maps are not useful because they exclude furniture and other obstacles. What you end up with is a map that is no more useful than seeing the building footprint from an online map.
The alternative for intelligent species without fire is to evolve fancier biochemistry; it's hard to know where this might evolve but several species have independently produced harsh acids, venoms, and even combustion (bombardier beetle). When it comes down to it you can grow your tools or you can make them out of the environment, and arguably being able to grow effective tools is superior (which likely means it's more complex and why it didn't evolve before fire use).

My bet would be on the cephalopods; they've already got ink and venom and intelligence and prehensile limbs with chromatophores that could potentially evolve into tiny manipulable chemical factories. They would probably also need to evolve the longevity and social and communication abilities to pass knowledge on in a society.
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> Why would my charitable giving give me power in the government?

I feel like I already outlined this, but it bears repeating. Taxation gives money to the government and the government decides how to spend it. If the government spends it poorly we can vote out those who use it improperly. You can't vote Jeff Bezos out of the country.

> Everything could be government money, my house could be a government house, my wife could be a government woman, etc.

Technically a percentage of you house is claimed by the government through property tax and your wife isn't property and I hope you know that.
I wasn't only talking about immune response. Also the fact that an unknown now is more known to me.
This is an excellent clinical trial you've undertaken though, given that you've used the same beans with both grinders and have noticed a distinct difference. Guess I need to watch the Black Friday specials this year for a burr grinder.
afaik pmeunier is currently completely rewriting pijul (since ~1 year) privately so that he can focus on getting the important things right (core algorithms, repo representation) and not on fixing stuff. It's debatable but has been explained. Apparently we could see that 1.0 release soonish. Relevant thread: https://discourse.pijul.org/t/is-this-project-still-active-y...
By which you mean a single organization has claimed that many Uigher people were forcibly moved to new areas, where they found work in factories making goods for a variety of western companies, including Apple.

Apple and Foxconn both claim to be unaware of any irregularities, and Apple said they're investigating.

I rather think the OP meant something more like their practices surrounding their App Store than this not-quite-substantiated and hyper-sensationalized claim.
By very definition it does.
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A 10-15% speed bump in CPU performance is certainly nice but in most cases it's not going to be something that users are consciously aware of. Web page performance varies a lot due to network performance, new versions of websites being deployed, different ads being served, and so on. This noise obscures things enough that it probably won't be easy to attribute a change in performance to the browser if you're not looking for it.

But even if the users aren't aware of what changed, it will likely affect user behavior.

For the better? Hard to say. Websites that load a little faster are a little more addictive.
This is catastrophism. If Mozilla can make a browser that developers enjoy using as daily driver, developers will make stuff for it. If Mozilla can build bridges with framework makers, frameworks will work just fine. They just need to regain some of the focus that was squandered on too many moonshots and hazardous choices (FFOS, Pocket, etc).
Ah yes, enforcing the law, which, “in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
> It seems that no one gets this. Today people want to replicate YC because "I want to get rich like they did." because for them, it is all about the money. From what I've read, PG wasn't about the money he was all about helping people realize their ambitions.

Relevant: https://youtu.be/rdN_hijtnGk?t=89
So what about apps through which you can purchase physical goods, like Amazon's app (I presume one exists)? Do those also have to give 30% cut to apple?
Yes, I don't know why I wrote "against SALT deductions" when I meant "I don't see why people would be for SALT deductions".
If you want to use market power to force your anti-competitive business model on 3rd party companies or you're a corporate bootlicker defending a 2 trillion dollar corp then these terms are totally rational, not absurd at all.
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Can't speak to PoE but Raspberry Pi works fine as a camera. I just have it shoot a still every hour that I can see on a web page. Also have a temperature sensor. Obviously I could password protect, add a motion sensor, save video, email, etc. if I wanted to get fancier.
The CPC is a dictatorship.
Yes, US cannot be allowed to ruin another country, after what they did to Japan and South Korea.