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To be fair. Electron bloat doesn't grow with application size. Only incompetence does. By using electron you are basically forcing your application to need around 200-300MB of RAM no matter how trivial it is, but that's all there is to it. Poor application performance has more to do with bad application development. Nothing prevents you from e.g. building Atom in a way that lets you view files bigger than 2MB with good performance or building a Slack client that doesn't leak memory. I can run lots of tabs in Firefox with good performance but if each tab was using its own browser instance I would run out of memory very quickly.
It reminds me of what Stephen Jay Gould said:

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
While such action can make a difference, such as whether to put kids in cages or not, it can't really do much. You can't use it to change quotas, set a minimum wage, or allow H1B holders to change job.

So calling it an "overhaul" is perhaps a bit much. It's more like a tweak that mitigates some of the abuse and issues with the system.
Both are true. FTA:

"As a socialite, she was expected to hold frequent dinner parties. She served the meals on her expensive, heirloom china. When the household staff hand-washed the dishes, the delicate china often got chipped. She opted to wash the dishes herself, but after she damaged many a plate, she decided to design and build a machine that could handle the task—faster and more carefully."
This is why I don’t work for a startup. However, I suspect the average candidate doesn’t understand the equity well enough to properly value it. Therefore it would be a waste to give away a bigger chunk of the cap table to those employees if it doesn’t save the company much cash on salaries or attract a lot more talent. Only for the subset of roles where you’re trying to hire people who understand how a company runs do you have to give a serious equity stake, because those are the people who know how to value it.
Hi everyone,

I've been designing this set of iOS 14 icons during my spare time, when I haven't been working on my startup, Supernotes [1].

It started out as a passionate project, where I challenged myself to see how far I could stretch the customisation of iOS. Squircles have been the default iOS shape for over 13 years and I wanted to change that. Using a neat trick, matching the iOS wallpaper with the outer background of the app icon, I was able to modify the default icon shape into these playful rectangles.

I originally intended just to make a few icons, but then one lead to another and another, and then over 120 – with more in the works! So I have decided to release this properly as a full pack, including instructions, icons and wallpapers for all iOS 14 devices.

To celebrate the launch today, use the code `hackernews` at the checkout to get $5 off.

[1]: https://supernotes.app
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Agreed, I'm in the UK, living in one of the more expensive regions outside London and I'd be considered to be doing pretty well if I hit £50K.
Even if comments were stripped (which sometimes happens), you could still put it in the URL or font family name:

* { font-family: '</math>...'; }
I hope this is in the backlog, because I'm not switching for GitLab for this.
I mean you can use your own brain and think about the idea of living forever and the consequences it would have. The more I think about it, the more it becomes a depressing idea at least for me.
A few months ago, another HN user raised an objection to FireWire due to DMA attacks in another thread. I wrote a 1000-word response on why it's a valid but unfair criticism [0]. The same response is also applicable to Thunderbolt - DMA attacks are a symptom, not the problem (which is the lack of IOMMU).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991732
Stepping back for a moment, it's amazing to me how much the conversation has shifted from merit to privilege in my lifetime.

Up until around 2010, you'd be shouted down as a troll for taking down this kid's achievements.
https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/2766922/commercial-dis...
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Ironically given that VSCode was born as online IDE to start with.
Because the universe around us is unreachable, for a long time coming. It simply does not matter to our daily life that we are insignificant. We can observe, explore and expand knowledge. But never touch the surface of any other planet or feel the warmth of another star. Your neighbor matters more to your life than the Andromeda galaxy.

Not even the closest star changes or affects life on Earth in time scales relevant to us. For all intents and purposes we are an isolated microcosmos, save maybe some astronomic catastrophes unlikely to happen within humanity's span of existence (which isn't even a single million years yet).
Indeed. When I was 16 I wasn't able to "get funding" for a lab bench power supply.

I resorted to building one off an used ATX computer power supply, but voltages fluctuated a lot and also it was pretty high and non-regulable in current output. That was a recipe for troubles. Indeed, when one of the first boards I was learning on caught fire (mis-configured potentiometer + non-limited current dwaw) I didn't feel safe anymore to continue and basically stopped doing that kind of stuff.

So yeah, extremely impressive achievement for a 13 years old student, not downplaying his achievement, but it's wrong to understate the role that his parents and their funding had.
It’s only an insightful comment if you just discard the entire notion of a state and citizenship which most of the world has been structured around for the past several hundred years.

Sure, you could just say “anyone can come to the US to work”, but you’d also have to entirely overhaul the whole societal structure to accommodate that.
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To play devils advocate, Google could (and is the only party who can: oracle can’t) appeal to want to establish binding precedent.

But there is zero indication google is trying to sabotage their own case.
Well part of the reasons for all this is my salary was low, and I set myself fairly ambitious savings goals. But in Bay Area, rents are brutal and eat into most of your savings. In some cases even with sharing accommodation with people you end up paying like 15% - 25% of your paycheck(added utilities, general toiletries, home utilities, starting furniture, utensils and other expenses). Then of course internet expenses, phone bills, and coins for the washing machine. Add food and transit. I lived fairly minimal, like I didn't even have a mattress/comforter(sleeping on home carpet, with a pillow), given I was changing residence every 8 months. Only real things I owned was phone, laptop, clothes and a harmonica.

Its not constant, because during yearly bonus time you make a little extra. And when you visit home, you carry some gifts for people back there. I also made sure family back home was taken care off really really well.

But I was able to save a lot. Like able to go close and sometimes above 60% of the net paycheck most months. Keep in my I arrived to us with $200, a job and a suitcase with clothes.
Question: how would you change your method if you didn't have 3 hours to spend every day on pure, focused learning? What if you didn't know how much time you had, or if you had time at all, and your time came only in very small bursts of free time?

When I was at the university I had all the time in the world for learning, and I was (artificially) incentivized to learn and retain a lot. Therefore my learning method was really different, rich, deep, optimized for the available time and the broad task.

Since I started working, my free time has shrunk by ~90%, and all the incentives for understanding deeply anything have gone to nearly 0. Now I can't afford having a big time slot just for learning, and I changed myself from being engineered to learn and retain theoretical knowledge in bulk to just be able to learn on the fly only the things that I need to use (this has been a positive change, actually. It was a painful change but I realized university had me optimized for something useless for practical purposes).

More and more I'm not even trying to retain in any way the small bits of knowledge, documentation, etc., that I encounter. I just read something up, I use it, and I forget it. For example, sometimes I program in programming languages that "I don't know". I just read up the syntax for the constructs I need, search stuff on stack overflow, and then forget everything.

Before being able to consider applying your method as a learning method, one has to overcome the time scheduling problem of finding 3 straight hours. Your blog has a "Why I wake up at 5 a.m." entry. I suspect that's what makes it possible for you in the first place?

I'm curious! :)
SetEvent/WaitForSingleObject is a thread yield from SetEvent thread to the waiting thread. Scheduler does that when SetEvent is called. So microsecond level waiting time is expected.

You don't need to wait for timer tick.

IOW, parent was talking about timer wait, not event wait. Timer events are only processed at timer interrupt ticks.
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As compared to any year of windows on the desktop where my touchpad randomly registers right click rather than simple tap and drivers are closed so I can't fix it? I'll take the possibility to recompile.
I take it you want to hire Andrew Ng for $10 an hour. There's a shortage of those people yes, but that's by design.
To make paying back the company viable you would also have to commit tax fraud.

Doing something like that at scale seems like an easy way to get caught and go to jail.
Full HD raw image data nets you about 5.something FPS on ~480 mbit/s USB2, which already hits physical limits. Higher standards basically just increase the number of data lanes, but we still call that serial.
Plex has a feature called “watch together” and does a good job

https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
Thank goodness we live after the 2010s then =)
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There is a big difference between safeguarding and fighting for peoples rights to free expression and being willing to stand and listen to the lies, misinformation and hate that some can spew.

And none of this has anything to do with a piece of paper. The world is not some chaotic place (like the author describes) where mob law still applies.

This is just idiotic to be honest.
Why use TB of data when people have literally just been making astrology based content up and it has still resonated with people on a personal level? Seems like a way to eat into your profit margins unnecessarily.

Seems like an AI spewing out feel-good crap that gets proof-read would accomplish the same at a fraction of the cost.
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To be fair on the kid, in a video on YouTube [1] he ends by saying he's trying to create an organisation to help kids do experiments who don't have the financial support that he does. I don't know what that means exactly, but it at least demonstrates some awareness to be saying that (even if it's just on behalf of his mom/dad who might have told him to say it).

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvhy141WU14&ab_channel=Afrin... (Fox affiliate if that bothers you)
I want all services to be rate limited. What I don't want is for some runaway process (whatever the cause) to bankrupt me before I can respond to any alerts (i.e within hours).

In other words, I don't necessarily need to set a hard spending limit, but I want to set a hard spending growth limit (allowing for short bursts), either directly in monetary terms or indirectly through rate limits on individual services.
Or is it another idea we've lost?

It's another idea we've lost. You can run VM on VM on VM... Wikipedia has a good article on why this doesn't work well with x86.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
You're walking outside with a mask? How much mask wearing are you doing? A mask isn't going to help your energy levels at all, and you don't need to use them, especially if you had it already. Try losing the masks for a few months except when forced and see if it helps?
> Initially, NASA underestimated the electromechanical interference (EMI) projected by the light and the Apollo computers crashed when the beams were aimed at the rockets on the launch pads.

Not wanting to ruin a good story, but I find this unlikely. If it were true I would think the military would be more interested in using them as weapons for electronic warfare than search lights. More likely the lights were interfering with radio links like telemetry or voice. Or maybe they were just not conforming to some EMI guidelines NASA was using at the time and were modified as a safety precaution.
Electromagnetism. On the other hand, obviously any electronic circuit, including USB, is electromagnetic. A more accurate choice of word would be EMI (i.e. electromagnetic interference), or EMC problems (i.e. electromagnetic compatibility problems).
>You criticise the article but then post this without any backup.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x
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>ditto. Show us the figures please.

When I have more time I'll pull out this figure. Let me know if you find it in the meantime.
To do this you would need a way to create a good vacuum and a way to generate some seriously high voltages. For confirmations, you would also need a neutron detector. Totally achievable stuff, many people have done it with home setups, there is even an Instructable here https://www.instructables.com/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/

Impressive build by the kid!

The kind of nuclear fusion that governments spend billions of dollars of research on though is the kind where you actually get some net energy out of the reaction.
It's really strange they insist on calling it a playroom. Sure, he is a child (young man / young teen) but it seems weirdly demeaning and distracting. It's a laboratory, which they correctly name it later on, but why not in the title is beyond me.
Link to the actual project https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/
You can share a youtube video with meet.jit.si. It can almost be like mistery science theater 3000 :-D Too bad it is only youtube.
There is no vs, imo.

Plenty of kids with pianos and parents musicians grow up not being child prodigies. But, pretty much no child prodigies grew up in environment where people don't listen music much, without access to piano, teacher (official or unofficial) and so on.

Unless the parents lie and literally manufactured it all, both components needs to be present. For most 13-15 years old, just focusing on one big project and keep interest is quite unusual. So is willingness to build one thing for so long.
That was the thing I was trying to convey: what was offered for me was a safe API. The things all the PHP tutorials of 2001 taught was "glue strings together and it will do what you want".

That was the knowledge offered for us 13 years olds wanting to write a discussion board for our game groups. I think it is a lovely example of "the simple thing should be the safe thing, and if you need more there should be ample warning". That was not the case of PHP 4.0.

Anecdote: the Swedish PHP book (I recall there being only one) that most of us got taught the string building approach without any escaping. The oldest things I can find Googling now are from 2007 and are almost all safe, either through PDO or a safe mysqli interface.
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Looking at a demo vid - this is really well-done. Fantastic fit and finish!
I've connected popular bluepill board to usb3 on my computer, effect - device works, but is damaged in such a way that it draws additional 200mA (even without usb connection) and uses it for heating. Fixing it requires soldering new chip.
Your beliefs about masks aren't universally shared even by many scientists, let alone the public. To many people you have seized on an unsupported belief and now insist everyone around you makes their own lives worse, indefinitely, or else they are "bad people".

Please do show us the people who are now seeking an oxygen bottle around for the rest of their lives because of covid that could have been stopped by a mask.
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You had a used ATX power supply?! You were LUCKY!. When I were a lad, all we had was a bike dynamo. And you had to crank it by hand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
Atheism is about not believing in any God. That’s different than not believing in any religion.
Have a roomba-like fill a dog-bowl like resevoir then use an electric pump to circulate to nearby plants? Or just fill the resevoir manually?

Seems nifty.
That doesn't seem specific to programming. You could say the same thing about mechanical engineering for example.
For a flip side to the dominant opinion here... we migrated to micro services. Then the PMs figured out a bunch of new products to ship by combining the micro services in different ways. Grew the business a lot.
Yes I understood that. I am asking what he's trying to say by mentioning that. If I were to read between the lines it'd mean that a more prude culture is not a factor because he's in Germany and he gets a warning or can't access the link on mobile. He didn't specifically write that however and I'm therefore trying to clear up the ambiguity.
There's a quote from Schopenhauer's "The World as Will" in the article as well. Interesting about von Neumann, I would never have guessed.

For work I need either silence or non-distracting music, noise can really interrupt my flow. There's construction going with my neighbours now and it's impossible to get anything done unless I use my ANC headphones..
Also therapeutic if you view it as natural upkeep.
It's crazy how average pay differs from even expensive, technology and knowledge heavy parts of Europe. Where I live, Stockholm Sweden, this would be a very well paid person. Even more so for families, considering it's one income and not two for the household.
No it isn't. The curves used in all real systems are based on prime fields. The results against binary fields don't seem to generalise to curves deployed in the wild.
And no matter how much privilege may have indeed played a part, it seems very gross to me that people seek to debase their achievements by focusing on aspects that these kids can't even control. It's rude (to a point) to point out how much raw luck may have had in one's achievements, but why is privilege (which is arguably very similar in many ways) fair game?

The focus should be on all of the effort that the kid put forth which many other equally privileged or lucky kids would have squandered.
Why should a consumer bother if amazon is the most convenient and reliable?

I supported a local computer shop in Australia. Umart. My $450 monitor had 1 dead pixel out of the box.

I took it back and was declined a refund or exchange; apparently I need 5.

I had to sell it on gumtree and took a $200 loss.

I bought the monitor again for $500 on amazon, and I know if I get a dead pixel, I’ll get returns no questions asked.

To top it off, one of the employees in store was quite unprofessional.
It looks like an ancestral duplicate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chromeexperiments.com
Never a huge fan of 'Stadium Rock' I saw him live with Van Halen on free tickets and it was just immense. Only then did I understand what 'Stadium Rock' even meant. All talent, zero gimmicks, just raw genius filling up an entire stadium.
Almost 1'000 pages will take me a while, even skimming. At the outset it reminds me a little of A New Kind of Science but with the events of 1914-1918, and their resultant shattering of empires and morals[1], to lend credence to its "copernican" claims to novelty.

Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. The Meaning of Numbers
III. The Problem of World-History (1) Physiognomic and Systematic
IV. The Problem of World-History (2) the Destiny-idea and the Causality-Principle
V. Makrokosmos (1) The Symbolism of the World-picture and the Problem of Space
VI. Makrokosmos (2) Appolonian, Faustian, and Magian
VII. Music and Plastic (1) the Arts of form
VIII. Music and Plastic (2) Act and Portrait
IX. Soul-image and Life-feeling (1) On the Form of the Soul
X. Soul-image and Life-feeling (2) Buddhism, Stoicism, and Socialism
XI. Faustian and Appolonian Nature-knowledge[2]

[1] Zweig's The World of Yesterday contrasts the Victorian/Edwardian world and the interwar world.

[2] Caveat: the translator may have exoticised perfectly normal words, for instance if Nature-knowledge were Naturwissenschaft, "Faustian and Appolonian science" would have been smoother.
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From the outside, it came seem like there are no problems. The process can be nerve-wracking. The interviews need to happen clandestinely because if your current employer finds out and fires you, you have to leave the country in 60 days. After weeks/months of interviewing, your new employer applies for a visa transfer. This process could take 3-4 weeks for application (again nerve-wracking if you are desperate to move), another 15 business days for the application to get adjudicated if you apply through premium processing. Under this administration, denials and Request For Evidence are being issued willy-nilly. So this 15 business days can end up being 30 or more. Again, the mental anguish can be hard if you really want to quit your current employer. Then 2 weeks after resigning. By the time you join your new employer, it could be 2-3 months. By law, one cannot take a break between jobs so you'll have to negotiate with your new employer if you need a break in between. H1B for people from India and China is indentured labor. Even as someone whose compensation is in top 0.5% in the US, it's extremely restrictive. I can't even imagine what the average H1B employee goes through.
RSA key sizes have gone up constantly over the years exactly because we did factor ever bigger numbers. ECC key sizes are the same as when the schemes were new, that's one reason ECC is better.
well done, I really love the UNIX tiny tools to do things pattern.
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Wouha !
This visual universe magnifying lens is super fluid on my two years middle range Smartphone.
I am amazed.
We can now each the performance of original VGG16/VGG19 with models that are much smaller. On ImageNet MobileNetsV2 matches the performance with 1/30 the size of weights, and same order of magnitude reduction in inference time and RAM usage.
The same will probably happen with GPT-3.

Of course we will probably also get models that surpass GPT-3 at the cost of even larger and more expensive models. The two are not at all exclusive.
And I'm sad for people who watch NBA. What a misfortune to sit and watch sports instead of partaking in them.