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Genuine question curious to discuss with others: what is the purpose of states now anyway?

States have all the inefficiency of competing against each other for tax dollars, having to promulgate separate laws and regulations, school curricula, inefficiencies in sharing information, it goes on and on.

On the plus side (I'm trying to brainstorm) states enable (do they?) people to live in places with different ideals or laws, or standards of living? Is that true? Do people go somewhere to live because the state political/governmental structure is different from another? Does it protect or enable extremely conservative (or radical) communities that would be washed out to the average otherwise? Is it a protection against broad brush government that cannot know or correctly allocate funds and attention to small jurisdictions?

Other than to emphasize or give power to certain differences in population that were baked in long ago, what purpose do states serve? In a country where people move and work almost without boundaries? Why not delegate some of the finances / taxation / regulation functions to the federal government? Is it more effective at a local level?
Pretty reasonable thoughts here I think!

It's true that being at a company where everything is abstracted from you makes it hard to step out on your own where things aren't abstracted and you have to do all the dirty work yourself. Also true that working on only one part of the stack forever means you may not have the diversity of skillsets to build out a product e2e fron scratch. I've had this same experience at [large SV company] and honestly going to a rocketship startup where I started as one of the first couple hires and being there through the 500th hire helped give me so much more of a diverse set of skillsets (FE, BE, DevOps, Sysadmin--even setting up the wifi at the offices!) and visibility into the business and fundraising side of things, getting to work with the top VC funds in the world to see how they think.

I haven't started my own thing, but the experience at the fast growth startup gave me the confidence and skillsets I would need to start my own thing, and those skills largely track the main points of the article.
Hello Jose, I wish you success in such an important endeavor.

I have a question, but it is more of an advice one, rather than specifics about your company. I am going to soon embark in a Masters program for medical research, then medical school after. What advice do you have for a novice that is interested in the idea of starting a biotech company in the future? What are the things I can do now that can set me up for the future with regards to starting a biotech company?
How many times does one remote into a server and then spend significant amounts of time editing files? Usually I make small enough edits that I don’t miss my custom keymaps
That doesn't makes sense to me, it can make recoveries faster, while still making dying faster or slower, and still have the same mortality. They are all independent consequences
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That's the wrong URL, too. Just use https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/
Same here, moving away from Excel with R and Python for pretty much everything.
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Good! I hope they prevail. California's legislators are talking about taxing Californians for up to 10 years after they've moved from California!

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/08/18/wil...
Yeah... Those people in the pictures on that site... they're not going to be living on this ship.

One thing I can tell you for sure: you are not going to like the smell on this ship.
> To me, it talks about everything but actually deploying a machine learning model in production.

This seems to be a common theme of a lot of articles about 'how to put ML models in to production'.
Well, first of all I don't believe you're in Europe. It's pretty obvious you're a CCP shill.

But assuming you're not, you do realize you're argument is a double-edged sword? Why should the world care about a country who locks up millions of people in internment camps? Why should we care about a country who silences people who speak out against atrocities committed by their government. To use your language, "You reap what you sow, I'm sorry". If we all had your attitude, then we should all say "Screw China".

Obviously I don't use your logic because it's flawed and deeply hateful. Your racism and generalization are on full display. You paint with such a broad brush that no one can take anything you say seriously. You label the entirety of the Uyghur population as terrorist. There have been isolated incidents of violence. But that does not justify the persecution of millions.

Your racism is truly disgusting. If this is what the world looks forward to with China being a new leader on the world stage, then our future as humanity looks truly terrifying.
For many years I've wondered if the extremely close 50/50 splits we so frequently see in politics isn't because randomness (in some way) is playing a role.
> the R^2 for all three fits was above 0.9, suggesting the exponential growth model is reasonable

What is the R^2 for other fits? Say linear or quadratic (the most obvious alternative choices)?

> it's non-sensical when you look further back in time

Of course, because the factors that are at work in producing the data are not constant in time. So there is no reason to expect a single curve fit with a single set of parameters to be applicable for all times.
Well done response. Kudos.
Try telling that to the southern Italians. That area of the country is depopulated and also gorgeous. The foreign retirees all move to Tuscany.
Sam Vankin claims he is a malignant narcissist not a psycopath. He is even adamant about it. He seems very knowledgeble about the subject and found myself listening to quite a few of his rants. I also saw the documentary you mentioned and am on the fence.
What are the usecases? And why is it worth 29$ pm? Isn't it too steep?
Looks like I'll be switching to self-hosted Gitlab or some other equivelent. I can deal with cloud Jira, but there's no way I'm going to use cloud Bitbucket instead of hosting my own Git.
Isn't it mainly rural? It's not as if Napa is very crowded.
Enterprises get a premium usually, not a discount. And for good reason, software doesn't have economies of scale (which is why volume pricing is discounted for physical goods). It costs you a lot more per seat to support 1k seats than 100, since you'll have more support requests, possibly uptime guarantees, higher risks all around really.
Short answer, ideological extremism.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805748
I read it too young to remember Pippi well, but the Moomins are fantastic. Highly recommended to all.
>* Cell styles, much like headings in Word, are really great but nobody uses them. They clue end users about what cells do. If my end users see an orange cell, they know it's an input they can modify.

It would be interesting if excel had some sort of internal markup language perhaps. So those orange cells could be semantically represented as <input> or some such.
That does not look like exponential growth at all.
not sure why you've been down-voted but I thought that was well explained. I do rather strongly disagree with your example as being relevant, but I think you've made a lot of good, relevant points. Your example of stimulus being a gift is incorrect. We explicitly pay into social programs as a society with full expectation that those funds will be used to help us. Stimulus isn't a gift.
> vscode is a superior alternative

What about vscode makes you like it over vim? I use nvim + coc for Intellisense and prefer it to vscode with vim mode.
They asked him why he supported fracking.
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Honestly same. The vim integration in vscode is good enough, and the IDE features make refactoring and editing so much easier.

I know that you can get good LSP integrations in vim, but the problem is that discovering the features available to you is impossible in a text-first UI. In vscode I can go through menus, I can right click and see available refactoring options, etc.
I think you mean they tax you as a non-resident who is earning income in MA.

My understanding is it all comes down to whether or not there is a 'nexus' and that can get some what complicated and states vary considerably as to what constitutes one for tax purposes.
I think the implication they were trying to make is that the school library doesn't have any computers, so students can't use the library computers if they don't have one at home. If I'm wrong and they truly don't have a functional library, the school system is either woefully mismanaged or massively underfunded (or both)
Can’t you ssh from vim? I’ve done it in the past.
"Stand over broken glass"? "Keep an umbrella handy"? Really?
You might also be forgetting about legal migrants who can actually vote but their English vocabulary is still growing. I dont judge someones intelligence by their words but by their actions and how they react / perceive situations. I have heard some amazing insights from people who do not necessarily know a lot of English. Those people matter too.
Did AIX actually _allocate_ and map the pages you requested, or merely _reserve_ them by bumping a counter? Solaris at least historically did the latter. The heavy lifting of determining which physical page you would get, and actually mapping it, was generally still deferred until a fault required it.

While paging out to rotational media is a tremendous latency issue, paging out to an NVMe SSD or something like Optane doesn't seem like it is nearly as bad. One could imagine a tiered system of paging also: first by compressing into another RAM location, but then evicting the tail of that compressed page set to SSD as required to make more room in RAM.
As someone who has personally had to use Alteryx in multiple projects, fuck Alteryx. What an absolute garbage piece of software.

I've already written a rant about it before and I don't have the energy to repeat myself, but do not fool yourself into thinking switching from excel to Alteryx is doing yourself any favors. You're just trading one monster for another.

Save yourself a huge amount of money, not to mention your sanity and just take the time to learn some Python, Julia, literally anything else to get the same results faster, more reliably, and not be locked into that noveau Oracle-esque nightmare.
There's certainly a trade between time and money. Also, thanks: People like you help keep the used market moving and cheap for people like me:) (In case tone is lost in text, let me explicitly say that this is sincere appreciation for the symbiosis between people making different but all rational choices, and not intended as snark)
Thanks! For those who are busy:

>Hubert Lim, a biomedical engineer at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, hit on the role of the tongue in tinnitus by accident. A few years ago, he experimented with using a technique called deep brain stimulation to restore his patients’ hearing. When he inserted a pencil-size rod covered in electrodes directly into the brains of five patients, some of those electrodes landed slightly outside the target zone—a common problem with deep brain stimulation, Lim says. Later, when he started up the device to map out its effects on the brain, a patient who had been bothered by ringing ears for many years, said, “Oh, my tinnitus! I can’t hear my tinnitus,” Lim recalls.
It often revolves around whether the company has a physical place for you to work. Just because you are not using it may not alter the tax situation.
I personally find vin to be a good tool for editing text without leaving the terminal. But when I’m writing a lot of code, I’ve found the vim ide concept to be far more trouble than its worth.

Modern IDEs like VSCode + Vim bindings is my preferred platform
If that's true, you can almost guarantee a cottage industry of doctors writing off label scripts.
>Psychologists hate their patients with this diagnosis, and ironically, feel very little empathy for them.

I've seen no evidence in the clinical literature that psychologists hate these patients, just that their is little help that can be provided them, especially given their propensity for manipulation and deceit. Talk therapy has been proven to actually polish their skills in these domains and there are no drugs or other treatments that can develop the capacity for empathy or remorse where none exists. The best one can hope for is that they can be instilled with a kind of risk vs. reward calculus that will prevent them from indulging the more extreme aspects of their behavior. But this largely is largely determined by their level of intelligence and upbringing.

>Psychopaths aren't usually terribly dangerous.

This depends on your definition of dangerous. Not every psychopath is violent, but they almost universally engage in constant lying, manipulation, exploitation, and pushing of boundaries, which take, at the very least, a strong psychological toll on those around them. If you end up working for a psychopath or in a relationship with one, your life is likely to be more miserable than not, regardless of whether they behave in an explicitly antisocial fashion.
This could be read as an elaborate attempt by a sociopath to use the media to make her husband believe he actually taught her empathy.
I understand that you can't think of an example...that is why I gave you an example (Thatcher relied almost totally on her policy unit because, again, literally everyone else hated her). I will give you another: under Cameron, everyone had the same issues with Hilton (a hint, Tory backbenchers always complain, people seem to forget this every few years).

What you don't answer is why you believe that a PM wouldn't fire an adviser briefing against the govt? The only instance where this has occurred was Brown (and remember, pretty much every person around Blair asked repeatedly for Brown to be sacked,and most people ended up leaving because they couldn't deal with Brown). Indeed, this occurred under Cameron (with one of May's closest advisers) and the person was fired, no questions. The odd thing was that Javid refused to sack the people in question (I remember the day it happened the advisor was briefing the press that Johnson was going to fire Cummings...it was utter insanity, and this was after it was well known that they had leaked govt documents...this is typical for the Tories but Javid was given plenty of room, and chose to shoot himself).

Being "a focus for public outrage" is neither here nor there (thankfully). Some people are perpetually outraged, doing what they demand doesn't affect things.

Advisers also aren't supposed to be invisible. Again, when anyone has advised the PM, it has caused problems (with backbenchers, with the Civil Service, etc.). Under Blair, everyone complained about his advisers. Under Cameron, everyone complained about his advisers. Under Thatcher, everyone complained about her advisers. Under Brown, particularly, everyone complained about his advisers. Under May, particularly, everyone complained about her advisers. They are not supposed to be doing interviews and briefing the media (openly), and they clearly aren't supposed to be briefing against ministers in other departments...but they aren't invisible either.

It isn't tangential, the original point was: Clement was influential...saying that he wasn't influential is not a tangential point.
It's harder to imagine coming from the IBM of today, but historically the company has earned many laurels from its numerous important contributions to computing. As my computer architecture professor used to say, "everything that's worth inventing already has been at IBM." In addition to RISC, they created out-of-order, superscalar processing, relational databases, TCM, magnetic hard discs, DRAM, etc.
> The requirements, pushed by two national auto shop lobbying groups, would make vehicles more vulnerable to cyberattacks

Is this a real concern? God, it makes me glad I drive a vehicle that's as close to analogue as possible. As someone who works on production SaaS all day, there's no way I want to trust my life to anything like that.
If you manage to get anyone from Apple to speak with you send them my way also. I am the author of IOS support for DeviceFarmer ( previously OpenSTF ). Part of that support involves getting video of the screen over the USB connection which uses the same undocumented pathways that libimobiledevice uses. I've been attempting to find someone at Apple to support the open source efforts for nearly a year to no avail.

What I would like Apple to support is fetching the raw h264 stream in a documented fashion, rather than forcing one to use AVFoundation and get pre-processed frames/data. Only allowing decoded video makes it impossible to scale. ( having many devices connected to a single mac all streaming video )

It would also be awesome if they would open up and document all the protocols and operations that the lockdown protocol supports. I doubt that will ever happen though.
Unlike cellular modems, the iPhone acts as a router and the link state it propagates is the link state of a (virtual) interface connected to that router, independent of the state of the upstream cellular interface.
About Excel visual grid performance...I have tried many data table libraries over the years in various languages. Almost all have performance issues when reaching 100-1000+ row range (even with virtualization and other tricks enabled). I would like to know how the Excel team made their grids so fast. Scrolling is so smooth.
This is just a trite excuse and no where near the truth. We can do better we can learn from others and have done it before. A lot of it has to do with generational disadvantages for poorer parts of society as well as lack of opportunity and mobility.
Is there confounding factors here such as size, weight, skeletal composition/dimensions, and/or even day to day patterns that could account for this?

Just sort of strikes me as absence of evidence not evidence of absence scenario after reading the article.
Realistically, you'd use the FPGA as your NIC.
If you get a stock grant in California, you owe California income tax on every share that vests from a block that is awarded in CA. The income tax is prorated by the number of months that you were a resident in CA, relative to the vesting point.

I left CA about a year after a stock award and had to pay CA state tax for 3 years after leaving (but each year the rate would decline).

There's a serious WTF moment when you find this out, particularly when you pick up from CA and go to WA (a state without income tax).
24% is a -low- number for overbudget. Talk to any civil engineer or look at city records, particularly in heavily regulated cities and famous NIMBY cities.
Growing up in charismatic Christianity I don't think the baggage is worth whatever modest bits of advice are there. It seems to me like looking trying to strain potable water from a thoroughly polluted lake.
Herpes, HIV...
At what grade level do we repeat prepositions at?
I'm surprised they don't use FreeBSD or some sort of in-house headless build of macOS, since their entire product line has been built around FreeBSD/POSIX base for macOS.
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The Used Thinkpad Buyer's Guide is worth linking here (and probably well known to many on HN):

https://www.bobble.tech/free-stuff/used-thinkpad-buyers-guid...

Are there any similar sites for other manufacturers, e.g. for Dell?
> The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula is a useful tool for

> estimating the U.S. grade level required to read a given

> text. The formula uses the average number of words per

> sentence and the average number of syllables per word.

That sounds like a potentially flawed measure of grade level - and I'm not really sure it's a great measurement of debate quality. A good debating/speaking tactic would be to speak in such a way that the entire audience understands what you say and there are no other meanings.

The article opens with "at least 93 interruptions in 90 minutes" which they suggest indicates bad quality debate, then asserts that the solution is "don’t talk to us like we’re in middle school". Using more complex language and longer sentences doesn't address interruptions, it doesn't address the answering of questions and it doesn't address the discussion on policy. Using flamboyant language will simply not help here.
I like that quip about low cost of living, because luxury boats are certainly known for their cost effectiveness
Yes, I know he does. In the documentary he is assessed by some very knowledgeable experts and he qualifies as a psychopath. There's also comorbidity between NPD and APD and some traits also overlap.
By dirty I mean debate tactics designed to waste your time, confuse you, distract you, etc.
Cochlear hair cells are fundamentally different types of cells than the hair follicles that produce the hair on your head; the name is more than a little misleading in this respect. Cochlear hair cells get their name from hair-like structures called stereocilia that project from the surface of the cells; they don't produce anything like the protein filaments that make up human hair.

A treatment that happened to have application to both male hair loss and hearing loss due to cochlear damage would be a really weird coincidence.
Did they ask him about his literal crackhead son being being paid $600k per year to provide access to the White House?
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Setting hard boundaries is completely absent from software management and so essential to productivity and job satisfaction. In the military we call this staying in your lane or knowing your left and right limits.

This concept is often easily achievable through automation by removing the flexibility to allow knowingly bad practices. Such techniques are code validation rules, interfaces, method removal/redefinition and so forth. It provides a clear sense of direction by removing distractions and bad conveniences as passable options.

The concept also sets hard business limits on what work a team performs without intermingling in the responsibilities of other teams.

I am amazed at how absent this concept is to software given that it is so foundational to project management.
I went to summer house to work and got my old Linux with me. For 10 days, I was out of internet bc wifi driver (obscure brand) was also broken. It was very frustrating, now I know why!
That's part of it. Two other factors I've seen are ridiculous build out per capita (student population) and also states lower % they contribute to schools more every year almost.
We ended up ordering refurbished Lenovo and HP laptops. It had to be done in smaller batches and took forever. We did manage to get one for every student. It is often overlooked in the conversation about connectivity that you need something in the home to hook to.

We also put a public wifi outside the building. That helped a lot of students out.
Do psychologists really need to empathize? Being skillful at detaching from your own emotional response would seem to me to be a useful skill for such an occupation. Empathy might help one to recognize or predict behaviors, but it could also hinder them, and in any event I would think a sufficiently intelligent and experienced psychologist could more than compensate for that particular deficit.

The book "The Sociopath Next Door", written by a clinical psychologist, describes a real-life story of a [presumed] sociopath who fraudulently worked as a clinical psychologist. Unfortunately, their habits tended to the more malevolent end of the spectrum and they supposedly delighted in manipulating their patients. The story begins at page 77 of the Kindle Edition.
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I can't agree. Tons of other countries do it. Hire good people from there. It was a travesty how terribly run that whole ordeal was. It should be taught as an example of how -not- to do a railway.