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>The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

-- (fictional) Mark Twain

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-...
Err, my bad. I initially quoted a lot more and then trimmed it down, but deleted the wrong part. Let me try again:

>From Todhunter's biography [9] we learn that the reviewer was William Whewell, F.R.S. Whewell wrote:

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>[...]

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>/Philosophers/ was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge, both in his capacity of philologer and metaphysician; /sarans/ was rather assuming, besides being French instead of English; some ingenious gentleman [Whewell himself] proposed that, by analogy with /artist/, they might form /scientist/ [...]

The "[Whewell himself]" is an interjection by Sydney Ross. As I said that entire section is cited to the Todhunter biography, so I assumed Ross had found something in the the biography that would verify that Whewell was referring to himself, but I couldn't find it myself.
Mozilla is a Google subsidiary whose job is to support and perpetuate the illusion of competition.

Mozilla privacy policy is a lot like Google's --- sufficiently vague and opaque to allow them to violate user privacy whenever it's convenient.
I was very close to entering graduate school for a particular field as I was absolutely in love with the research. My teachers considered me to be very talented and were grooming me for the elite schools for said field. However, the more research I did the more I realized how much hot air was being blown and how much ego was involved. I chose to not add my own ego and voice to that self inflated hall and instead taught myself to code (painfully and reluctantly).

Coding isn’t my passion and I still love that field. However, I just couldn’t in good conscience participate in it as I knew my ego would drive me far too much.

Coding isn’t particularly pleasant, isn’t something I would do in my free time, but it is interesting, keeps me humble, and pays the bills.
It's a problem that is not limited to Adobe, and is a by-product of their commercial nature. The need for artificial scarcity (in this instance really really artificial) .
Would be great if you tried to look up that information and cite your claim.
I like to believe this person’s email thread is at least partly to thank — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
I am getting through grad school using photopea.com for all raster needs. For vector graphics I just use python- the figures are reproducible now in addition to my research results.
> switch to Gimp

How is this comment grayed out? I just scrolled past like eight pages of bozos shamelessly talking about pirating Adobe, suing Adobe, and regulating Adobe... before finally finding a comment I can respect, and it's downmodded. I mean, is this Hacker News or is it Russian Hacker News?
Companies pledge to donate at least 10% of profits to effective charities
California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees
I’ve been using photopea.com for basic editing and it’s pretty amazing how good it is considering it’s completely browser based. The UI is based off of photoshop.
> please use end-to-end encryption tools such as GPG or fetch locally all your messages periodically and encrypt them yourself

This is good advice but it just isn't going to happen in practice unless gmail makes it the default for everyone. WhatsApp added support for the Signal protocol and made it the default for all users, now the whole world is communicating with end-to-end encryption.
I remember from either Linear Systems or was it Discrete Math that the negative of the log probability is the information content of an event.
I just realized that I'm apparently scarred for life by this. I still regularly open electronics boxes from the bottom/back because of those silly little "no returns if broken" seals that seemingly were only on the top of the box.

Just did it couple days ago for a sim for my LTE hotspot.

I guess on the plus side, my returns tend to go smoothly as the boxes tend to look unopened.
The problem was that the stepper motor was too slow to do anything worth messing with like this, so I ultimately wound up taking it all apart and reusing the components in other projects. I build different rigs for timelapse motion control so the steppers are perfect, but live action motion really needs the speed a servo can provide. I did take what I learned from that to building a motion control focus puller for time lapse that used the stepper from this test. This rig doesn't need to arbitrarily adjust focus and does a "dumb" move focus ring from point A to point B in predetermined amount of time. Much easier to program.
Well said. This will happen soon.
Recently I Came across some Honda car ad that mentioned "free subscription to blahblah app for xyz years". That's the step-1 towards conditioning us into accepting that "car features will stop working in xyz years"
Yeah, this is why people dislike Adobe.

Updates come via paying the fairly high price to start with, you know, supporting the damned product you paid for.

Document sync is something that is provided via a bunch of other services if you need it - icloud/onedrive/dropbox/etc

But sure, come up with more laughable excuses to justify shitty company practices.

Feature updates just come in new versions, which you pay for.

Monthly payments can still work, many other companies use that model, and after a period of time, you're frozen at the last version you paid for (after a year for example) if you stop paying.

But yeah, screw them now - I used to have a usable paid version, but no longer - there are better alternatives now.
This change only applies to people who want a replacement "car" after losing their 13+ year old "car".

Cars only have replacement parts available for N years.
Yes, but the scope of the comment and article was just about the state of faculty path.

But it follows the same logic even if you bring in your point about other outlets. Those obey the same rules too. Unless government expands, museums grow, or some tech company has a need, there's also a finite set of jobs being competed for by an increasing population.

Some fields have it better. In biotech, computer science, engineering, etc. at least those are growing, viable, and profitable fields (and respected). In other fields, not so much. Not only do you not find a job easily, you get looked down upon for leaving the "pure" path, when in fact most people eventually have to face that future anyway.
Thats some pretty horrific shit considering I have dot com era machines lying around still running fine
I recently finished a pure math ph.d at at a highly, but not THAT highly, ranked public school in the US. I didn't continue in academia, but based on my classmates, most of whom did, the market is not as much of a pyramid as you're portraying it. Most of them ended up with postdocs at equally or more prestigious institutions than the one we graduated from.

Edit: to be clear, this is based on the pre-covid experience. I gather that this year things indeed look pretty bleak.
I might go even further and suggest that a strong research culture implies not everything will be productive.

I swear somewhere here or elsewhere I read a story that one of the major quantum computing contributions that accelerated the field was essentially the result of a faculty member spending several years doing nothing but teaching and thinking about the problem, with no grants or anything but salary. Maybe it's a myth or I'm misremembering it though; I've tried searching for it (to confirm or disconfirm my memory) with no luck because of the volumes of irrelevant results.

Also, history is an interesting example, as it seems one of the first sets of experts everyone seemed to turn to with all the events of the last few years are historians. "What happened with previous pandemics?" "How did past pandemics effect economics of the time?" "What did people do then?" "Is this the first time this situation occurred?" So forth and so on. The more "unprecedented" the problem the further back in history people will look for precedents and guidance.

It also seems implausible to me that the same sorts of history research could happen by hobbyists as happens at universities, just due to time and funding constraints.

There's a lot of problems in academics at the moment, at least in the US, but I think 2/3 of it is actually coming from outside those in the field (pick your field). Administration problems, federal incentives, state incentives, private incentives (yes, corporate management requiring useless degrees or offloading employee training elsewhere to decrease investment costs and its consequences) etc etc etc
Not under this administration.
Thank you for this timeline. I was trying to figure out what had happened to the CS2/CS3 pages and downloads a bit ago and there was no info!
Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
>Isn’t it a moot point anyway because nobody ever “buys” software, they just obtain a license to use it.

Well, depends on the country. In Germany that's not a thing because contract law doesn't allow it. Either you buy software or you rent it.
Root, an insurtech targeting a $1bn+ IPO, uses ILS for aggregate reinsurance
You're wrong. Cracking your own software is always legal, and making illegal copies is always not, regardless of cracks.
It's not a proper CMYK support - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GIMP/CMYK_support#About... You can do separation and editing from there.
Literal poverty isn't a "lifestyle".
I think this is what they're talking about

> Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

> Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.

https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html
Actually, the email was directed at US citizens, which I believe includes most if not all of Expensify's employees (which were all in the loop on this, if you read the CEO's twitter comments). As is stated in the opening paragraph: "If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy."

If the leadership of a company is willing to send an email like this to all of their customers, it doesn't seem unreasonable to believe that the employees are being influenced, which is the core component of that article:

When the Founders set about designing the world’s first democracy, they were particularly concerned that employees might be subject to the undue influence of those who controlled their economic fate. “In the main,” Alexander Hamilton warned, “power over a man’s support is power over his will.” Constitutional author Gouverneur Morris likewise worried that those who “receive their bread from their employer” would be pressured to “sell [their votes] to the rich.”
Does such an asset exist?

If it's worth that much, buy a new piece of software. Adobe isn't responsible for your 13 years of failure to make backups.
> The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired.

Oh come on. Surely a company with the resources of Adobe can figure out a way to keep an activation server running. In fact I'll bet you could find one competent sysadmin to keep it running indefinitely. I hate when companies spew out obvious utter B.S. like this.
What version of OSX was Lion? Snow Leopard 10.6 was the last one for the original cheese graters, and I know plenty of people running those and Final Cut 7 systems. It ain't broke, so they ain't fixin'. It's older SD tape based work flows that just ingest content from tape all day long, and then places it on the SAN for others workflows.
Not to mention the whole crux of this discussion was whether he coined the word for Somerville or not. If he had coined the word in 1833 because Coleridge complained about what they called themselves, then presumably it was unrelated to Somerville.
So what are you doing with that ph.d?
> One such pop-up only provides the opportunity for drivers to select “Yes on Prop. 22" or “OK,” to exit, which pressures drivers to accept Uber’s political stance, the complaint alleges.

You're unable to use the app unless you click "OK". You're unable to drive. Being unable to drive is essentially being kicked off the platform.
Or kill two birds with one stone and get ones medication script filled for all remaining days of life.

What could go wrong?
> postdocs

...are fixed term soft money positions.

Check back in 2 years.
This is what kills me about the xbone, games come on disks, but immediately want to call home before allowing play. Game calls home, and realizes it needs a 8GB patch! Proceeds to download patch at 500Kb/sec on my 100's of Mbit/sec internet connection.

Then despite probably "authenticating" itself to the xbone, won't actually run unless the disk is in the drive.

(don't get me started on how bad the UI is, I really haven't any idea why gamers love those little machines so much, they are mostly just trash).
Adobe CS3 is about 10+ years old right?. I can see people blaming Adobe if they did provide a 10 yr old software without security updates.

Talking about software that no longer works, I tried network recovery on a 2016 Mac. 2016 Mac is programmed to download only Mojave. And Mojave can't be installed on a Mac that had Catalina at some point in the past (even after a complete disk wipe). It took me a whole day to find another Mac, download offline installer, buy a new USB stick (because the installer was a bit over 8G) and get it reinstalled.
Just think about the 1990s internet. Geocities is gone, xoom is gone Yahoo pages is gone. There's already a hole of all of the content that existed the. Sure for some people it might just be senseless 13 year olds' pages, but it is a big chunk of history right there.
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BEING JUDGMENTAL IS A SIGN OF LIFE

Days left: 18,879
“””

Everyday I get the new day count and a Jenny Holzer poem sent to my phone. Not sure if it’s a good idea or not, but I haven’t stopped counting days since I was 19.
Can't wait for the womens studies and social justice departments to disintegrate in the wake of this.

They were riding in the wake of other liberal arts degrees that are actually bring some value to society. Now that these colleges actually have to make cuts, it should be to the degrees and departments that provide no value to society.

I can't wait for the future where roles like "VP of diversity" at companies no longer exist. Hopefully the lack of SJWs inventing battles and enemies to fight once they get out of college ushers that in.
Not sure what you mean, the table [1] is expressly in terms of current age. The better way to approach such a "death clock" I think would be to slow the countdown rate to match the curve implied by that data.

[1] http://www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/publicati...
It's fascinating to watch someone code in an environment so different to the one I'm used to (vim, no highlighting, no formatting, no realtime errors or lints). What's more important though than any of these is to have such a great grasp of the code that the author can talk through everything. That's a great exercise no matter what environment you have.
Wake me up when Apple filters away Facebook and a host of Google Apps from its store, since their apps trick users into divulging information involuntarily.
Because the format is video ads. They’re not paying for audio only. In fact most of them are optimized for video first with audio secondary by having visuals that communicate the message. You see the same with Facebook video ads in the feed.

If you don’t deliver what the advertiser paid for then you can’t charge for the ad.

Changing the format for audio ads that would run in the limited scenario of background video involves way too much effort and tooling to make it worth it.
>f you can arrange to further your education without incurring new debt

How do?
Don't forget all the time spent learning the beast that is CS3 only to have it stripped away.

What is the value of the years it takes to become proficient with such software? Remember, that investment was made on the back of the idea that the software would continue to be usable.
Stick to DRM-free tools.
Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public
Here's some resources that might help:

* https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/25/some-comics-about-css/

* https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/10/some-more-css-comics/

* https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/11/01/tailwind--write-css-without-...

* https://github.com/awesome-css-group/awesome-css

* https://css-tricks.com/guides/
You're partially right. But AB5 does more than just apply a minimum wage, it also requires the drivers to be employees rather than contractors.
Not clear if the author is referring specifically to mail services like gmail here. Full disk encryption would indeed encrypt my email at rest (assuming I'm syncing mail locally on my laptop with FDS turned on).
> Especially for NZ, isn't the population density high enough? Always thought that two islands are not that much space for few million people.

We are ranked 166th by population density and our cities are usually small and almost always spread out.
Why are they running physical servers for this anyways? Why not just host in the cloud right next to their current servers authenticating recent rental software?
There Is a Solution to Big Tech Censorship – But No Politician Will Touch It
This takes my phrase 'they have signal' to a whole new level. Wow. Remarkable thoughts by Jaynes. Thank you for sharing this.
Important to realize that that lifetime income is spread over a shorter lifetime: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...

Also citations?
I feel the pain of people that want to stay in science and do not want to move to software engineering. At the same time, at the end of the graduate school many people loose their passion for science. I would recommend these people to learn how to write code and move to industry. The demand for programmers is pretty high.

P.S. I got PhD in theoretical Physics at UC Davis, but moved to Bay Area for a Machine Learning job.

I love Physics, and can get back to it after retirement, but right now now I am paid well, and more flexible. I like that I can choose company and geography. Postdocs and faculty members do not have this luxury.
Written by the guy who works on google project zero. He says it's 30 year old software, so I guess the article is from 2019.
i think it might just be a misunderstanding then — i assumed no state funding of the humanities would mean completely eliminating those departments at public universities.
I tried it for my project and found lit-html's component composition unintuitive compared to React, Svelte and other leading frameworks.

Also, I've seen the maintainer of lit-element flaming people in comment threads. It doesn't inspire confidence.
So... Uber spent $200 million campaigning to claim they can't afford to pay their workers minimum-wage or health care? Makes perfect sense.
Cars only have replacement parts available for N years

...and for some models, N is closer to half a century than half a decade.
McAfee raises $740M in its IPO
Changing the UI would raise so much uproar. Millions of workflows would have to change.

In addition, it just does so much that changing it would be a very costly task likely to break a lot of things and end up removing features that some tiny niche still uses.
This site is just all dark patterns. Please don't override my back button to recommend me stories about inhalers...
I've been a firm believer that copyrights should expire when the item isn't commercially available anymore. And to keep people from abusing the obvious issues, it needs to be available at a reasonable cost relative to its price when originally released, or the copyright renewal needs to have an exponentially growing fee.

I've also been considering what it means if copyright was to assure something for the public good whether there shouldn't be some kind of enforced escrow of the source. Having the copyright expire on the binaries does nothing if no one hid a copy of the source away in their shoebox.
I just don't see the appeal of triggering PTSD from late nights grinding at what was de facto a hot desk in the basement of my college library as a full time job until I retire. That sounds like a horror movie to me, honestly. I also need my workspace to be mine.
Deaths Per Million By State:
1. New Jersey - 183
2. New York - 172
3. Massachusetts - 142
4. Connecticut - 128
5. Louisiana - 124

These states have had some of the harshest restrictions. They've gotten worse results than the mixed approach for the rest of the country.

Good case in point: Michigan vs Florida. Both have about the same deaths per million at 74 and 75 respectively. Yet Florida is fully open with no restrictions. And Michigan had some of the harshest lockdowns and restrictions.

Density may have been some kind of argument early on, but we are 9 or 10 months into this. The virus has had a chance to spread.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
This article is brutally honest. It's the first time I see their service, and they sure offer an honest service with no BS.
cracking the pm interview book, then get an interview coach to grill you.
State schools provide adequate education and are affordable. I hope the same people who introduced federal student loans don't decide to nationalize the education system because the former was an absolute disaster.
I would be willing to bet that less than 1% of adobe users were still using cs2 or 3. Anyone doing it for a living isn't going to blink at the subscription price (if they even had to pay for it personally).
Hopefully the AMD MSR tool amdctl makes it as well:

https://github.com/kevinlekiller/amdctl
Michael Mcintyre's recent Netflix special has a good bit on ReCAPTCHA tests.

I am surprised they work because the seem to me to be the kind oo problem easily solved by a CNN but hard for humans.
Obviously they can't turn the car off while you're driving, so they'll perform these checks either when you stop the car or when you start it. The solution then is to never ever stop the car. And you may also need to fool the onboard gps and vision systems into believing the car is moving.

So in the future, a crappy old car will need to be left running 24 hours a day, in an augmented reality garage that fools the car into thinking it is on a long journey.

I would like to write a science fiction story from the point of view of a sentient car in that situation. But I have to write my code instead.
Really? Australia mandates a 12+ year warranty?
What hardware are you running that old crap code on anyways? If you are in the video world today, those old versions of software can't even handle HD let alone 4K/8K. I couldn't even imagine trying to run RAW video without GPU support. Why are people so clinging on to software that only allows work from 10-15 years ago? Times have progressed. The old software doesn't support anything I need it to today (maybe I could get by with an old version of PS except for today's RAW formats would bring it to its knees).