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> You get the entire GNU/Linux desktop for free, so you aren't in a position to complain.

I would buy that argument if we were talking about some new technology that still has some warts. But we're talking about trackpads here. Technology deployed on the scale of billions of units over many decades. At some point users must demand a basic standard of quality for technology that is not only old, but ubiquitous. If libinput shipped a version that randomly duplicated keystrokes on a keyboard, I'd be the one on the hook to fix it and I'm not allowed to complain because it's free? Really?

> This isn't kernel development.

This perfectly illustrates my point. My day job is not in this sector and I don't even know the right place to start looking. And I'm supposed to fix this in just a day, like any old amateur student supposedly could, otherwise it's my fault? Give me a break.

Edit: In this very thread we have one user who submitted a kernel patch that possibly might solve this (but who knows), and another user who points to a year-old libinput bug that possibly might be what I'm talking about (but who knows). Not even the experts agree on where the problem even lies, but I'm supposed to fix it in a day. OK, right.
> If there was no kerosene left by tomorrow morning

I suspect the medium term solution would be to make some, either from other hydrocarbons or plant cellulose, or even by the US Navy seawater CO2 to liquid fuel process.
Via a third-party though.
It isn't specifically Silicon Valley anymore.

Boston, Seattle, and New York would instantly qualify.

Some might say Denver and LA as well as many others would have plenty of well paid developers.
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but how can the applications use that data in any meaningful way then? what;s the purpose of sending transactions to applications otherwise?
Monthly refill authorization is simultaneously the craziest thing I’ve heard and also so characteristically on theme for US health insurance I didn’t doubt it for a second.

Hey this is Blue Cross, does Bill still need insulin this month?

Yea, he has type 1 diabetes, it’s a chronic and lifelong condition he will need insulin every month.

Cool, cool, we will check back in next month to see if he needs more.

Do you expect me to come up with a cure for type 1 diabetes by next month?

No, that would be ridiculous.

Well why check every month?

In case he doesn’t need it anymore.

How would that happen?

Hmm.... good point, we can talk about it more next month when we check in to see if Bill needs more insulin.

head slamming into desk sound
I had to wrap a USB 3.0 cable in tin foil once when I realized it was causing the issues I was having with wifi
I recommend this read:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...
Note that Google won both the jury trials (first on not violating copyright, and then on the violation being fair use after the first was overturned on CAFC).

In other words, Google won on most or all of its arguments at the jury trial level, and CAFC kept overturning all of its arguments. The sentiment I'm getting from the oral arguments is that SCOTUS is leaning much more towards "CAFC is off its rocker" here.
Well there are a few companies that use Cincom, for example Deutsche Bahn, HRworks, OOCL.

Others use Pharo.

Instantiations is supporting old IBM VASmalltalk installations.

But I don't think it makes to much sense in starting new Smalltalk developments besides the learning experience.
True, but take any <rich person>. If that rich person doesn't pay taxes because they legitimately had no positive income because their business is hemorrhaging, the media can easily spin that into public outrage.

"Mr. Moneybags over here paid fewer taxes last year than Working Class Joe! The injustice!"
I think a present-value calculation of the cost to buy+run+maintain would be a more accurate/useful metric (i.e. present value of cash flows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_value#Net_present_valu...) - although perhaps it is too sophisticated to be done well in practice for a crowd-data-aggregation project like this. If something costs me $100 to buy, and $10 every year to maintain for 20 years, that is not the equivalent of costing me $300 dollars today - because most of those dollars are spent in the future and need to be discounted by inflation and opportunity-cost investment rates. So it might actually only have a net present value cost of $200 in today's dollars. Somehow you have to account for the time-value-of-money factor in order to properly combine the up-front cost with ongoing operation/maintenance costs.
As we age, we find bigger and better dreams to pursue.

What is it so special about the minions? Do they have to be robots? What is it with the Moon? Answer those questions and you will figure out what is your new dream... or reframe the older one
The trouble with finding BIFL products is that by the time it is old enough to know that it is BIFL, the product has been severely cost reduced and if you bought a new one it would no longer be BIFL. Sigh.
I heard somewhere that in Holland every bicycle + lock weighs 5kg. If you have a cheap 5kg bike no one wants it and you don't have to lock it. If you have an expensive 1.5kg bike you need a lock that weighs 3.5kg to protect it.
It does not work on firefox with disabled ads, trackers etc. I got white screen without content.

I dont know if the reason is that site isn't compatible with firefox or some other "measure" but those are the urls that were blocked, if it helps you fixing it.

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-154925745-1 (blocked by ublock origin)

https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.... (blocked by ublock origin)

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,500,6... (blocked by LocalCDN)

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans&display=sw... (blocked by LocalCDN)

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cookie (blocked by LocalCDN)
I _think_ this is similar to many "self sovereign identity" projects, but using Bitcoin wallet keys for signature, and Bitcoin transaction format for encoding. It isn't clear to me how the whole "decentralized web" part of this is done though. You need quite a bit more than just signed http requests, I suspect.
How much did they increase your open rate?

The linked report actually indicates a decrease in replies.

Combined across all seven test variations, we saw a 42% decline in reply rate when the subject line featured emojis.
Nobody says being Google doesn't help in launching products. It's just not a decisive factor. They get exposure but if the value proposition isn't there then they don't win in the market.
If Bing ever drops DuckDuckGo, will there be a search engine they can fall back on?
>I disagree, he did not discovered a property, he discovered and described the CRISPR mechanism.

Exactly this! You cannot downplay his influence, at all. He also did speculate on plenty of those applications. Really weird to have him excluded.
More likely he is clueless about what Alexa offers. It isn't just Voice Recognition, but also integration into many other devices that I can control.
It's likely that a lot of those commenters only read the title, and not even the beginning of the article. I'm not accusing anyone in particular†, I just think it's worth acknowledging in terms of understanding how HN functions.

† Except myself—I do it sometimes!
This is surprisingly well written, diagrammed and promoted for not seeming to solve a single problem other than what could be solved by an SSL client cert.
Ask HN: Why Do Focus Is Still Active On Mirrored Surfaces?
Not me, I hope?
mot at all
I like the BIFL concept.

The problem is I find BIFL communities often can't distinguish between just more expensive, or rando add on features / durability ... from actual utility / quality.
AFAIK there's no RabbitMQ-compatible broker, unless you use AMQP 1.0 in RabbitMQ right now. Their AMQP 0.9 implementation has a lot of RMQ-specific stuff and there's no equivalent.
Models are supposed to be based on first-principles reasoning. A "model" that's not designed to capture some aspect of reality is called a computer game...
I'd like to see an app or web extension that basically screenshares someone's desktop, and comes with chat functionality. High quality screenshare with chat, not sure how legal this is but this would be ideal for movies or live sports (especially in these dire times).
https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
> To me this becoming the norm is chilling and echo's in my mind as 1984 becoming a work of non-fiction.

I think the real chilling thing here is your attack against freedom of association while ironically complaining that the world is becoming more like 1984. Sure, like all rights freedom of association has its limits, especially around protected classes and unions in the business world. But should the government really step in and force me to continue to employ a holocaust denier just because he makes me a lot of money? Should the government really stop me from kicking out a dude dressed in a KKK outfit from my store?
Ask HN: Hands-Free Mouse Control Options
Due to RSI and ulnar nerve irritation I am not able to bend my arms a the elbow for long periods of time. This directly impacts my ability to type and use a mouse throughout the day as one normally would.

I am considering hand-free mouse control options.

Looking around there don't seem to be that many options, so any suggestions in terms of devices, software and their precision and performance would be very helpful.

One crazy-expensive option I'm considering is: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HNPB2ZM/A/ablenet-trackerpro-2-hands-free-mouse
It's not a popular answer, but US is by far the most recognized place where SWE's get paid well.

What country would be number two? I bet there would be a spirited argument.
The article is just simply wrong. The mirror "person" also raises the right hand. Its just our brain tricking us into thinking that if we would be in the position the mirrored person appears in (rotated 180 degree), that it would be our left hand but we cant be in a mirrored position ever.
Yes, grapefruit would increase the effect, and you want to maximize the unmetabolized THC. (although the first metabolite 11-OH-THC is also active, the next metabolite THC-COOH isnt)
Higher than Windows' standard timer resolution, which is abysmal.
But you won't. I don't think the law cares about hypothetical occurrences that have probability less than 10^-100000000000.
I haven't read the article and I have no intention to do it. I've been seeing breakthrough titles like this popping up every month for two decades now. It's not not worth the click unless lithium batteries are your hobby somehow.
To expand on that point, they're basically selling pre-executed computing to you. Resolving the query itself is nothing.
Actually, the rotation of the ATPsynthase motor was observed under the microscope to be proven. The investigators attached a very small copper rod to the rotor to show that it indeed made a full rotation.
Per your tweet, yes, running without publish confirmations is a major unpleasant surprise that folks eventually run into.

However, that's less Celery's fault and more RabbitMQ's: pub confirms are a Rabbit-specific extension to their protocol, and are left off in most example implementations. MongoDB, also, chooses horrible default settings; however, I wouldn't blame a Mongo-backed product entirely for being hackable.

Additionally (I mentioned this in a sibling thread), Kafka's publish behavior is even worse. The vast majority of Kafka publishers' default settings don't even send the data to the broker without waiting for a response (like RabbitMQ without publish confirms); they send the data to a local buffer which is asynchronously flushed periodically/volumetrically. If your process crashes, you lose the buffer. Unpleasantly, if you force a buffer flush on every publish, Kafka's ingest rate goes from 10-100x RabbitMQ's to 0.01-0.1x RabbitMQ's.
In an ideal world, I would like to write plain Markdown and send an email off like that, with conversion to HTML happening in the background. A suitable Thunderbird addon for this [1] seems abandoned. Formatting HTML is a real struggle for me in Thunderbird's WYSIWYG editor. On the other hand, using plain-text lacks in readability (lists, short links instead of full URLs, headers, quotes, ...).

[1]: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/markd...
I believe, also the nighttime light show at Niagara Falls.
I think the difference is less on small or big company, but wether it’s an open topic or not.

You don’t want a password reset confirmation mail from Andre, or in this case a simple account creation notification from Tom.

If it’s a full onboarding email where you are invited to have questions and interact further, sure, why not, assuming all following mails will be from Tom as well. Otherwise the mail having personality is just noise and abusing people’s social behavior.

I feel the same with mails addressing me on a first name basis. It’s skating on very thin ice, and I hate most companies doing it.
Did you watch the video? Mirrors reverse front and back.
"In 2017, Jacob Lundberg of the Uppsala University estimated Laffer curves for 27 OECD countries,..."

"In the early 1980s, Edgar L. Feige and Robert T. McGee developed a macroeconomic model..."

"A 1999 study...found no evidence that the United States was on the wrong side of the Laffer curve."

"Writing in 2010, John Quggin said...presented a model...A draft paper...presented a model...estimated...a stylized reduction..."

And there's Kansas...
This sounds rather similar to a lot of the work being done in macro/public finance right now.

If you look at a model from someone like Mendoza you’ll see that they have several parts of the economy characterized as recursive optimization problems + various constraints.

As others have pointed out, however, it is quite difficult to interpret these model results. The best you can do oftentimes is argue for why your setup makes sense then provide some intuition for what is going on. The problem is that slightly tweaked models are capable of delivering qualitatively divergent results.

I do think that reinforcement learning brings to the table some novel techniques for solving models with larger state spaces, though.
>I think the best thing online stores can do at this point is just nuke all user-submitted ratings and reviews. They're 99% garbage.

Yes, in order to re-start, but what then?
The whole user reviews concept is bonkers, I would add that there are - besides "fake" reviews - "real" ones BUT written by clueless people (in good faith, but completely disconnected from an objective rating), and in this it is also way off the "5 star" rating where 4 stars are already "not so good".
Coffee makers are some of the few devices where this makes sense. While commercial things can occasionally save money, they usually don't. Furthermore, the TCO calculation has to take into account what you would have done with the same amount of money. Let's pretend you buy a $2000 commercial grade widget instead of the $500 consumer grade widget. Over ten years of use, your commercial grade widget cost $100 in parts, running and maintenance costs, and depreciated to a value of $1800; during the same time, the consumer grade widget would have required about $50 in parts, running and maintenence but would have depreciated to a value of near zero.

So, you might think, your TCO of the commercial grade widget is $300 and the consumer grade is $550. Easy win for the commercial widget! But then factor in the potential uses of that extra $1500 upfront. Assuming you were earning an average of 3% on your cash during that period, you would have made $515 on 10 years' interest on $1500. Now, put your money into an index fund, and your returns would be (historically speaking) thousands of dollars.

(Before the inevitable comment, there are plenty of ways to earn a return on money that don't involve an index fund. Investing in your home, high interest savings accounts, Treasuries, paying down any debt, etc etc.)

So you can easily see that for most things - where maintenance is cheap - it's not worth it. This includes most white goods, almost all electronics, etc. Where maintenance is expensive, though, you can save a lot by buying commercial. The classical example is the Isuzu crew cab trucks: if you do need to haul a lot of stuff, they're far cheaper in every way than comparable consumer options.
IBM Z15 Design and Technology – IBM Journals and Magazine
CRISPR Pioneers Doudna and Charpentier Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Zipapp – Manage executable Python zip archives
Who said anything about stupid? I'm not sure why you dug that description up but I think it says more about your views than mine.
> Is your mind blown? Yep, ours too.

Hhhmm, no. I can't even understand the supposed problem / paradox here?
I think a lot of the BIFL folks out there find it really hard to distinguish between 'oh it has better materials' and 'lifetime longevity'. They're not the same... and they fall for a lot of luxury brands that just look nice / provide some sense of better workmanship / materials, but reality doesn't match up.
To me, if it's a 'real person' but an automated system it's even more dishonest.

The message is not coming from them.

I know it's not particularly disingenuous - it's just 'marketing' but at the same time it really triggers my 'Orwellian Dystopia' concerns about the completely impersonal future where relationships are utterly commoditized and we lose the ability to distinguish between man and machine.

In fact, the overly familiar tone of messages those that 'try to hard' to lack protocol bother me as well.

A 'corporation' using the language of 'friendship' is ridiculous. Sadly, I think this will go on as we love to think that 'someone who uses more casual language with us must be on more familiar terms'.

Frankly, I'd rather go back to proper titles. Mr. Ms. whatever.

"I don't know you, you are not my friend, you cannot be familiar with me, don't tell me jokes or help me 'chillax'" is what I feel like saying.
If you are white, then take how many times you get asked "where are you from" and multiply it by 10. Then decide if you don't think it would get annoying.

It's rarely out of malice. But that doesn't really matter. If you get asked it enough, you will start to feel like you don't belong.
> Is this a uniquely USB3.0 problem?

https://usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf

Paper by Intel about USB 3.0 interfering with 2.4 GHz WiFi. The fact that the USB-IF hosts this paper on their own site seems to be a strong endorsement of their conclusions too.

It is worth noting that the RF noise generated by USB 3.0 covers a fairly wide spectrum from basically zero up to the mid-4 GHz range, but it gets discussed mostly in the context of interference with 2.4 GHz because most USB 3.0 capable devices don't have any other radios in that range to interfere with.
> The problem is less with individual examples like "max" vs "maximum" or "write" vs "scribble", but more with thousands of packages, classes and methods, 99% of which have the exact names and structure as the Sun's Java ones. That is blatant theft.

You know, it might be worth asking the engineer who wrote java.lang.Math how he came up with those names. Actually, you don't--he already answered it one of the amici briefs. The answer was that he took it from C.

In other words, taking Oracle's argument at face value means that the example API it is accusing Google of illegally copying is itself an illegal copy of the UNIX copyright, whoever actually owns that now.
This is a nice use case to study how human behavior works when there's no quotas/limits.

I often say that unlimited calls means people talk less, not more. On the similar lines offering unlimited learning and self improvement budgets to your employees means people will likely spend them less, but more relevant training and development would happen.

A very similar argument can be made about unlimited sick leaves too.

When something is free people don't feel the need to rush and fill the quotas/limits. They use/spend per relevant needs and scenarios now that they know they always have an option to use the thing when they need it.
Not sure why you're getting down voted :(

I mount my TVs, but I think it could be a bit of the chicken/egg problem. TV mounts generally aren't designed to fit anything behind them, and many devices aren't designed to be mounted. I suspect this leads to many people saying "why bother with mounting if I'm going to need a cabinet to sit all my devices on, I'll just sit my TV on there too."
That’s fascinating. Do you mean that you mixed vitamin D with grapefruit juice once and got a headache that lasted a month? Or were you continuing to drink grapefruit juice and take D during that month?

How much vitamin D were you taking?

How much time was there between taking vitamin D and drinking grapefruit juice?
Python, OCaml, (and Rust, and Swift) in a Machine Learning Context
> Emojis in the subject (use with caution)

The only emojis I see in subject lines occur in emails in the spam box

What is the point of an "onboarding" email by the way? If you signed up on a website, can't that website show this info instead?

Receiving an email I didn't ask for (other than functional ones like verification, pdf receipt, ...) after signing up for a service also is spam to me. Especially if they come with some delay, or it start to become multiple ones

Is that not so for other people?
> The words “up” and “down” are absolute, but the words “left” and “right” are relative to you.

I disagree. In this sort of conversation, "up" refers to the direction from your feet to your head, not away from the ground. If you do a handstand and hold your piece of paper up to the mirror then you'll still find it flipped left-to-right but not top-to-bottom if you turn it the instinctive way, and still find it flipped top-to-bottom but not left-to-right if you turn it vertically.
My SO and I have been discussing this for years and everyone we've spoken with about this stared at us like we were crazy. It's weird finally encountering someone who is describing it in the exact same terms.

We do experience it in relation to our dishwasher sometimes, but I don't think the dishwasher is an essential component: it happens with handwashed dishes too. The essential factor, as far as we've been able to determine, is wet dishes which get in contact with outdoor air. However it only happens on some days and more often in some months/seasons!

My theory so far has been that it's a reaction between some molecule in air (something which varies in concentration over a period of days, perhaps a pollutant) and water. But it may as well be that it is interacting with detergent residue.

The interesting thing is that we don't actually manually measure detergent for our dishwasher but use detergent tablets, so the quantity never varies.
This. Enhancing drone flight times, or other automated/semi-automated airborne machinery would be an absolutely huge win for industry and commerce as a whole.
> "fancy stuff" gets showcased

Often I find it is just as much utter carelessness: using Chrome specific hack that offers nothing in return and not doing even the most trivial test in Safari and Firefox.
In your theory wasn't this already the "optimal move"?

Sounds like bullshit knife hanging over American tech workers heads. Cut the rope, let's see what happens.
That sucks. I still have my original "Phat" PS3 (though not a launch one, it doesn't do PS2 backwards compatibility) and it works well.