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Of all the people I know order from Amazon (we'll say 200 people if you count all the people on slack channels at every place I've worked) in the last 3 years, I've heard of some computer parts being obviously repackaged twice. That's it. These horror stories of consistent problems is just not something that's common in major metropolitan areas of the west coast USA.
It's rather unfortunate that you have to sacrifice your HN score by recieving downvotes to fight propaganda.
Simply as an observation, it’s interesting that serving in the military is usually treated as honorable, but working at a defense contractor is viewed as unethical. I wonder why that is?
from the article.

"The PowerPC 601 code also requires special handling from the rest of the PowerPC 6xx support still within the kernel, thus it's a maintenance burden."

so yes some differences.
Haha, same happened to me in Spain two years ago. I stood there minding my own business like a doof until someone on the other pump were like, "Yo!! Watch out". Wasn't much, but still surprising.
Shooting them at something that is going to hurt more people. Eg. at artillery that is setting up to fire on a populated city.
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I tried doing this in college too but it broke down immediately. The way coursework and exams are conducted almost forces you to burn the midnight oil and sacrifice sleep for forcing another three or four things to memorize into your head.

That’s what it felt like, like I had very limited time to shove x amount of things into my brain which only processes at y rate, so if I had too many things to shove in at a time due to taking a full courseload, that meant staying up since I cant change the rate my brain digests information without abusing stimulants like some of my friends.

So then you end up with a few nights of 5 hour sleep which you pay for by sleeping for 13 hours on the weekend. Not healthy, but it became a matter of necessity due to also having to make time for a part time job.
> Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics.

That is in fact what advertisers know. It’s the aggregators that know who you are, not the advertisers.
wow, I was literally just about to download the trial for the archetype nolly (after being iffy on whether the fortin nameless was right for what I wanted), what are the chances it's being discussed on HN.

I'm hoping that the nolly plugin can cover both dirty and clean sounds well enough to not need a second plugin, fingers crossed
I was interested in this article until I realized it was an ungrounded opinion piece.
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This is very belated, but thanks for the answer. I only asked because I lived in Nevada only to move back to the Midwest for a job opportunity. I kind of miss it, as it is much more scenic than where I am in the Midwest, but at the same time the jobs are simply not there.

>I think the most important thing is cost

I completely agree, where I live houses aren't exactly cheap, and we have high state property taxes. It gets even worse if you move towards the local college town which has seen a huge bump in housing prices along with additional property taxes added on. It's a shame that western NV doesn't have more UX jobs, but at the same time, remote work may change that.
Ah I see, yeah I misunderstood you.

> What I did't see was how I could use the AVX2 instructions myself.

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want manual control over vectorization, the package SIMD.jl [1] is pretty good for manual, handwritten vectorization. There's also VectorizationBase.jl [2] which LoopVectorization.jl uses. Which one of these two packages are most appropriate just kinda depends on what sort of interface you prefer.

[1] https://github.com/eschnett/SIMD.jl

[2] https://github.com/chriselrod/VectorizationBase.jl
Stereophile magazine has never been known for science, mostly pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiable claims. They still insist that double-blind testing is not suitable for audio. I used to subscribe to the magazine, but would get infuriated at the "reviews," especially at the unabashed glowing reports of what is obvious snake oil.

OTOH, I have owned a Carver magnetic field power amplifier, and I liked it very much. Bob Carver is a audio genius.
What does "rogue states" mean, in your view?

(Also, what does "hypocrite" mean, in your view? I'm used to it meaning "one who denounces behavior in others while engaging in the same behavior themselves," which doesn't seem to apply here, I think, since the person in question ceased engaging the behavior he denounces, and as you point out, we have no record of him denouncing anyone else doing it.)
Right there with you. The ability to use any system you happen to be in front of without issue is a huge boon in and of itself. I have friends who spend hours customizing every little keybind, using uncommon peripherals, etc.

Does it make them more productive? I honestly have my doubts. The number of times I've had to wait during a group project because a software update broke their keybinds, they're at another desk and are now slow because they don't have the muscle memory for 'standard' layouts, etc is not even close to zero. Even on their own systems, they spend significant time every week tweaking things. For many, I think it is a form of bikeshedding as much as anything.
Dactyl manuform user here. That's definitely my only complaint. The dactyl is the absolute perfect keyboard, except for the fact that it's a nightmare to transport anywhere. If I have to take it anywhere I carry it in a paper shopping bag with nothing else in it. It's not a cheap keyboard either, so getting one for work and one for home is a hit to the wallet.

I recently grabbed a keyboardio atreus for travel and laptop use. Not nearly as ergonomic as the dactyl, but still a very nice keyboard in it's own right.
IME, except a couple of obvious mislabels, all men's clothes are with a couple of cms - I've never had an item more than a couple of cm out. Cut however, that's a different matter. Honestly some "designers" mustn't realise men have external genitalia.
I'm guessing Eidos's Optima video editing system? That was the last of the major RISC OS users as I remember it.
Very few of the US’s weapons have been used. They have the capacity to blow up the whole world many times over, and end up attacking a minuscule portion of the population.
OK, thank you. I was just curious. Good to know.
Those are real compile times I've experienced, the post is about what it feels like for compiling to take "too long" and approximately what "too long" is. Rather than what it's like to use a particular compiler on a specific project, at this moment in time.
It's ethical to do unethical things because other "worse" people do unethical things?
My guess is that some people view defense contractors as being responsible for lobbying/corruption that encourages more wars in order to earn profit (they're the corrupting part of the military-industrial complex). I don't know to what extent this actually occurs though.

The military is mostly reacting to the executive branch and doesn't have the same perceived corrupting influence.
Last time I compared Katex to MathJax, I was also very pleased by Katex's synchronous rendering support, as compared to mathjax.

In CoCalc.com I made it use Katex, but if there is an error it falls back to MathJax.
Bob is completely an audio genius: I have his Sunfire HRS monitors and one of the super cool tiny Carver 400 cubes and I can literally peel the paint off my walls with stuff smaller than your average boombox. #gameon
For me the thorny ethical issue is not so much working on directly evil stuff like missile targeting software for the military but software that has both military and civilian use. For example, consider a company that develops and RTOS that is used in both cars and missiles, where does that stand morally? Even the most benign technology can be used for evil so it's worth asking the question to what culpability individual bear for who their company sells their software to. In the case of SpaceX, I’m sure much of the code is the same between the military and the NASA use cases.
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Presumably because soldiers are at putting themselves at risk while defense contractors are generally not.
Seconding this. There's a grand total of two sentences vaguely describing what she wanted the instrument to do but zero information whatsoever about how that differed from its normal operation, why nobody thought it would work, or why it posed a risk to the instrument. This article is just a bunch of compliments toward Dr. Ghez.
Technology is just a tool, ethics depends on the user.

Study history: WWII, Cold War, etc. If you play nice with dictators, you will be annihilated. We have been enjoying the benefits of freedom and democracy our ancestors fought for, without considering the costs of their sacrifices.

Extensive data and studies (ex: Zimbardo, Milgram) supports that humans have immense capacity for evil- checks and balances are there to avoid this dark side of human nature.

Missiles are there to deter evil (order), not necessarily to propagate it (chaos). So there you have it.
The Good Friday experiment used an "active placebo" in the form of a low dose of amphetamines.

Doesn't help: any normal person can tell the difference between a full dose of psilocybin and a low dose of amphetamines.
It is unethical because the US is the only country to have used the atomic bomb and by far the largest missile threat all over the planet today.

In contrast, Iran, China and Russia do not on a daily basis assassinate civilians with missiles.
Why is that? Has the US ever been seriously threatened on its terrority?

These missiles are there to protect the economic hegemony.
Blasting an incoming asteroid.
Hitler started WW2 because he thought the other countries wouldn't fight or were incapable of fighting. His comment about invading the Soviet Union: "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."

The way to make peace is to make sure it is not worthwhile for someone else to attack you.
While you're learning, you'll probably suck at both layouts. Once you've mastered the new layout, switching is really not so bad (at least for me).
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 and https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/.
I'm pretty sure that is what Marxists mean by "owning the means of production" vs alienation.

I also suspect that the USSR was "Communist" in practice in the same way that many companies are "Agile".
You don't think that's balanced by the US selling weapons to several dozen of the freest nations on the planet, liberal democracies with the best human rights records?

Do you know why the US is the world's biggest arms dealer? Mostly because all of those free, liberal democracies buy very expensive weapons from the US and have the most affluent economies (thus they can afford US aircraft that cost tens of millions of dollars).

In a typical year, 3/4 or more of all US weapons sales go to human rights protecting liberal democracies. Across five years to 2017, 18% of US weapons sales went to Saudi Arabia (12.4% went to Taiwan and Australia by comparison).

Should the US stop selling weapons to Taiwan, so China's annexation is really easy? Should the US stop selling weapons to Australia, so China can be even less worried as they try to intimidate Australia and control Asia?

Does it take all of those liberal democracies to offset Saudi Arabia, or is it one to one? How does the subjective moral scale work exactly? Does it accumulate over time, such that the US has a billion year credit for protecting and aiding Europe and Asia before and after WW2? How many credits is keeping democratic Taiwan apart from China for this long worth? Does the US get a trillion moral credits for being the only nation that is willing to stand up to China militarily re Taiwan? How about South Korea, does one South Korea for 70 years off-set one Saudi Arabia?

So many fascinating questions and that's just scratching the surface.
Good points. I suspect when you need a high degree of accuracy with nontrivial shapes you’re probably right (my 2D games required neither of these :)
Amazon's official policy is they will send you inventory that they didn't source themselves, meaning they don't even do the bare minimum for quality control. Even if this policy results in 99% good experience, I wouldn't want to waste my time with a business that is simply serving as an online flea market when I can go to Aliexpress.com and get the same for cheaper.
A Staples by where I used to live threw anything returned away. Used to dumpster dive there and got all kinds of interesting things. Perfectly good stationary, an expensive suitcase, an office chair, a PC (which was on the of cash registers but still neat).
No, it is ethical to have weapons because it's a bulwark and disincentive against countries with even more tyrannical objectives. This is not to defend the extent to which weapons systems are being invested in. But they need to be invested in. The race is not optional.
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Many companies does that, they buy the pallets and sell the stuff, sometime even on Amazon directly. There's plenty of Youtube video talking about it. There's even a shop near I live that even clearly advertise that they sell returns from Amazon.

It's way scarier the stuff they send directly to landfill. I know someone that works in chemical waste disposal and they had a deal with Walmart to take care of it all (I'm pretty sure they still do). She was taking back some pretty nice stuff that could easily be sold pretty easily.
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As i have cousins that are survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing, which the US prevented in the late 90s by the use of such weapons, i completely disagree with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

But to each their own.
You're asking whether a person making $400k+ a year, even in a place like SV, with a network of other engineers also making $400k+ a year could branch out and start their own software business that requires almost $0 overhead because, you know, it's software.

Gee, I don't know.

I sometimes wonder if people on HN even know what privilege is or how they sound to the entire rest of the world. You think it's typical that people making $7/hr just happen to land a job at Google?
These would not be qualified as missiles and have their own guidance systems. Having your rocket go and slam into a neighbouring country is not very conducive to putting satellites into space.
I'm pretty sure that what power really does is either:

1. Reveal the already-corrupt

2. Impose stress and poorly-assigned responsibilities that lead people to unhealthy actions.
You have to build it by hand, but check out the Dactyl or Dactyl Manuform. I think they're about the pinnacle of the erg keyboard world. 3d shape like a Kinesis but with more optimization for wrist angle and allows you to customize wrist rotation and split.
It's the AT-5000 auto-dialer all over again.
My dad used to work on personal carriers during the Vietnam war. In 67 FMC sent him with a group of other engineer to Vietnam to figure out why the M113 wasn't performing as well as advertised. Short answer when you hit a M113 with a tank rocket it turns into an oven.

My dad came home and quit.

Since then I've been kinda aware that a lot of engineers work is on the balance is a net negative. Especially true in the US and getting worse.
Any vectorised operation in Numpy is an example of this. The pure subset of Numpy can be used to write useful programs, but the Numpy functions/methods are mostly implemented in impure C.

Another example is completely pure array programming such as in Accelerate[0] or Futhark[1].

[0]: http://www.acceleratehs.org/

[1]: https://futhark-lang.org
it'd probably totally be.. possible - to get OS X to boot on a POWER9 system. There seems to be more interest in getting Classic OS to run on modern hardware though
Let’s continue the anecdotal train: my Computer science major requires a class that does teach source control. Better yet, it’s a liberal arts school and I’ll graduate with a B.A., so instead of focusing on anecdotal evidence, why don’t we talk about what ought to be?
I’d argue more people need faster phones more than faster computers because more people need a phone more than a computer.

There’s some weird status thing with people preferring to be digital masochists unnecessarily. Like people who used to loudly tell everyone they don’t have a TV, good for you?

Getting a high end phone every year when you can trivially recoup most of that cost from flipping the old one lowers the bar.

Sure you can choose to use outdated hardware for years if you want to, but a lot of people would rather not.
This is a really good counter.

And for what it’s worth, looking into the eyes of an intelligent dog like a border collie gives an unnerving sensation that it’s calculated the next 20 moves and knows how to win.
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> It’s about exposing PII of public officials; names and home addresses? Take pause to appreciate the possible consequences of this. What could possibly go wrong?

Why should official working for public money be anonymous? If they have the power to apply force to public, it will not end well (and this is what is happening).
Yes, during the Pearl Harbor attack. This was 75-80 years ago, on the time scale of civilizations, quite a short time. Not to mention that the US is within range of the ICBMs of various authoritarian regimes.
I can only confirm that -O0 performs some optimization, which can be annoying when single-stepping through the code (cough, cough) using a debugger. Hence gcc offers -Og to suppress those optimizations (not sure, whether that in itself causes some debugging info to be added though).
> Isn’t it illegal to fill your gas in NJ?

Huh what? You can't mean that literally?
MathJax is probably the poster child for Next.js/Gatsby SSR.
> The most popular guitar amps now are all solid state

Maybe on the low end of the market, but tube amps still reign supreme for most serious players.
If the US disarmed and Iran, China and Russia were in charge, do you think the world would be better or worse?
Similar evolution with no selection pressure:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/wisdom-teeth-evol...

I don’t think Darwinism is scientifically established. It has become a bit of a sacred cow because of its opposition with religion, but it is merely a good explanation compatible with the data. That doesn’t prove it. It may be that life evolves and adapts through other mechanism than mere selective pressure.
> in a democratic country it’s meant as a mechanism to correct violent (hopefully) outliers.
But unmasking violent agents of a violent state won’t do anything except provide the excuse to repress even harder...

Knowing who breaks the law and applies violence to civil protesters will allow to have a fair trial later.
> Microsoft could select from any number of desktops for its official flavor: GNOME, KDE, Pantheon, Xfce, Mint, Cinnamon...

False. Most, if not all of these are licensed under the GPL. And there's no way that MS will ever embrace the GPL.
MathJax can do synchronous also, but it's a config option. The fact that it defaults to async really saddles it with the perception that it's incredibly slow. The async operation basically forces the browser to through many, many rounds of relayout, when in most cases it would be much more efficient to do it in one batch.
Note for the HN reader: if you are not into online verbal fights, you may not want to read the comments in this thread.
oi... WW2 is not that far away.... japan attacked us soil.

Also, WW1, the US stayed away as much as it could, the eventually had to intervene as its ships started sinking

The point of having lots of weapons, is not to have to use them, but be credible threat to not have the other side dare to use their weapons on you.

Russia/Putin and China are developing hypersonic nuclear missiles. What is the US going to do about it? Sing, kumbaya and pray for world peace.... ?
My wife also buys a lot of clothes online, and indeed it's a matter of fitting and sending back what doesn't fit. I recently did it too: ordered two pairs of pants, one was fine, the other didn't look remotely like what I ordered, so I sent it back.

In shops, you can try them on. Online, I think it's unavoidable that people try them on at home and send more than half of their clothes purchases back.

Standardisation in the clothing business seems incredibly unlikely. And even when the size is technically correct, it can still be too uncomfortable. You just never know until you try it on.

If you want a truly universal sizing standard that will always guarantee correct sizes, it's going to have to be a lot more detailed than just one or two numbers. It would be a data dump nobody can remember. It might be interesting to have an online service that would remember such detailed sizing info for you and could produce clothes on demand with perfect fit.
Why is it expensive? Compared to what?
If you can find me a single, real person who genuinely thinks "maybe missiles are bad" doesn't apply universally, I'll eat my hat.
Even in the absence of vpn, is it not sufficient to use encryption, e.g. https?
Howitzers (retired/surplus military guns, before purpose built varities were designed) are used to clear snow accumulations and prevent catastrophic avalanches.

Charges that would be considered equivalent to land mines are used to implode buildings.

Demolition charge equivalents put out oil fires.

And any projectile or missile ever made can be fired in a purely defensive use, although that's more of a moral boundary than a benign usage per se.
When I purchased my Ergodox, I also discovered that I cross-type the letter Y, and my muscle memory would lead me to hit a layer key instead, in the default layout, which would cause a bunch of the letter keys to do different things.

My solution was to reprogram the layer key to be a null key that doesn't do anything, so instead of "Y equals your keyboard is now broken" it was "Y means nothing happens". I kept it that way for a couple weeks, until my nervous system was rewired, and turned it back into a layer key.

These days, the remaining problem is that I've moved a few 'glyph' keys, so when I'm on the laptop my fingers go to the wrong place when I try to type e.g. "-". It's like I have two modes with substantial overlap, and sometimes it takes awhile to switch to the laptop mode.

Not the end of the world, and more than made up for by the convenience and ergonomics of the Ergodox.

Edit to add: from this and other reports, it's clear that for some people, the ortholinear layout requires substantial adjustment. I wasn't one of those people, it was a rapid accommodation and I don't consciously notice switching between ortholinear and staggered. It would be nice if there were a way for people to guess which category they're in, before shelling out $300 and change on a keyboard!
I quite like it. As expected of it being a Google phone, the software is very good and you get updates before anyone else. The camera is also good, especially the software, but I miss not having a wide angle lens and manual ISO/focus/exposure controls. Battery life isn't great compared to other phones but I charge overnight so it doesn't bother me. I also like the form factor a lot, it's quite thin which makes it much easier to use one-handed.
There are services like zelle but the daily limit is often too low to make a rent payment in a high cost of living city.
Does the patient need to know which drug is being tested?

"You'll be given either a psychedelic or a stimulent, followed by x testing" - then knowing which drug you're getting doesn't mean you know if you're in the placebo group or not?
Self-defense?