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Not sure how it is in other countries, but don't the knobs when going left-to-right always correspond clockwise to the burners, starting at the lower left? And the oven knob is to the right?

I've never seen a different arrangement.
I used ICQ in it's original form and i don't think it did
I'm the same and have been very disapointed with the whole Apple developer experience. Coming from C#/Visual Studio/Resharper to Xcode has been a huge step backwards. It's not just the tooling either, the documentation is nowhere near as comprehensive.

Having said that I despair at what Windows has become.
> What you wrote is true, but it also seems to me unlikely that the OP is going to set up a sandboxed hermetic build to process a handful of pngs for her zine.

But it's trivial!

Assuming you fix the OP's Makefile (so much for Makefile syntax usability):

# put into Makefile
THINGS_TO_CONVERT := $(wildcard *.svg)
all: $(patsubst %.pdf,%.svg,$(THINGS_TO_CONVERT))
inkscape $< --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=$@

# put into default.nix
with import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/7ad5e816faba3f808e2a8815b14d0f023a4e2160.tar.gz") {};
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "zine-images";
src = ./.;
buildInputs = [ inkscape ];
installPhase = "mkdir $out && cp *.pdf $out";
}

Now make sure you have sandbox=true in /etc/nix.conf, run `nix build` in the directory, and boom done: hermetic build of zine images. Good thing too, I got a warning about --export-pdf being deprecated when I ran this. Note that running make or the dependency on make is not explicitly specified, mkDerivation has some basic smarts to figure out from the presence of a Makefile that it should run make.

(Hardcoding the version of nixpkgs directly into the default.nix just for demo purposes, better to use niv or similar to manage a json file with versions for you).
> are you claiming that there is something biologically different about the different races that means their normal biochemistry differs between one another?

Yes, genetic variations meaningful to e.g. certain drug responses [1] correlate with race.

Fair question which, if asked without malice, doesn’t deserve a downvote.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17329986/
The HTML/web model is still fundamentally incomplete. Links are one way, things don't flow based on concept but based on this clunky chunk called a page. We still only have one functional semantic for cross linking the clunky chunks called the hyperlink.

The only way we have to find things are to use companies that have managed to visit and index all the sites, not through some search and index interface but by processing the page that the human sees and then trying to rank them making the web ultimately heavily centralized.

Then there is the authorship meta layer that doesn't exist to interleave content from the same author, say by email or some other identifier. Instead we've centralized that into temporal structures that vanish when you look back, like in a dream in a "let 1000 flowers bloom" method where all you ever end up with are just a bunch of silly flowers.

Then there is the permanence feature where the internet is like a river that's always moving. Someone else has to rely on generosity to yet again, centralize the historicals so hopefully things can exist at least as long as bad ink on terrible paper. Otherwise a couple generations of thought will be in metal garbage heaps

I could have written all this, word for word in 1993 but instead it's 2020,

Honestly, I'd say solutions to 70% of the fundamental problems are still unsolved nearly 30 years later.
There comment is sarcastic
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I learnt that the US (population and media) was mostly pro-Hitler at first. They idea of someone uniting Europe was appealing, the US had not too long ago fought for independence against the Britain monarchy, and Hitler was a strongly anti-commie/anti-union/pro-capital.

It was only later that the picture changed, largely by the US media portraying Hitler as evil, opening the way for a joint intervention.

Also note that some US businesses where still trading with nazi Germany throughout the war.
Just as suggestion, extend it with the following

https://readable.sourceforge.io/
That amounts to Monday Morning Quarterbacking and blaming the victim.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. -- Andrew Carnegie

When it works, it works. When it doesn't, it doesn't.

Paul Graham has said that a successful startup "does everything right and also wins the proverbial lottery" (or something along those lines). In other words, you can do everything right and something can happen out of the blue that no one predicted and you are screwed. If you actually get rich, you did everything right and luck was with you instead of against you.
That's a good point. The association between vitamine D and coronavirus could be hidding a confounding variable: time spent indoors. Spending time indoors increases the risk of contagion and viral load. Also it's correlated with lower sun exposure and lower vitamine D levels.
edit: disregard, article pdf available upthread

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vox's link to the archived NYT article is broken because most archived NYT stuff is behind the paywall now. if anyone else wants to read the full article, someone has reproduced the entire thing here with helpful wikilinks added: https://medium.com/@marcslove/new-popular-idol-rises-in-bava...
> I can't do any of that right now. I've been feeling like I'm scamming the company, because there have been entire weeks where I literally didn't work.

Don't be too hard on yourself. A lot lf people are going through this. Some people are really struggling with wfh, others have multiple kids at home and can only work at 20% because they just have no time or energy left. Others study with mental health problems. And finally, others have experienced serious strains with their SOs due to being locked in together for so long (which might be worse than actually splitting). My point is, this is the reality for now, we are all aware of this, and I'm guessing your boss is banking on you being able to go back to normal after the pandemic is over.

Beyond that, what helped me is to think of the people that depend on you. Whoever you are or should be mentoring is an actual human being that depends in one way or another on you. Same for your coworkers and boss (although. "coworkers" is such a vague word in a big corp). So don't do it for the salary, do it for them. Keep doing therapy, keep going on ine day at a time , there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

ps: what was the sport? rock climbing, swimming, soccer?(just curious about what hobbies can i take once this is over)
You seem to be confusing stupidity with strength. Also confusing violence with strength. All these things are unrelated, except I guess the more stupid one is, the more one needs strength to exert violence...
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Complex is a very tricky question.

I think people already simulated a worm's neural nets, but we simulated just high level abstractions of what those "simple", 200 neuron networks are.
Sure, by simulation tickling part of the worm, we get the exact reflex reactions a living worm would, but surely the simulated worm does not have sensations, I can do the same worm simulation with if-else statements, just because I see a worm realistically wiggling on the screen I do not believe it can suffer pain, or else I would never play Worms Armageddon.

I believe there is something to the chemical processes themselves that we will not be able to replicate in pure software.

That brings the question, what if we could simulate the quantum particles themselves, not just some high level representation of cells, would that simulated being have sensations/feelings?

If we perfectly simulated, at the quantum particle level a cat, would the cat behave like a real cat?

That is mindboggling to me; unfortunately we cannot do that yet.
> I gave up on dual-booting a long time ago and 2 OSes fighting over overwriting the MBR every time

This is why UEFI was invented, and if You actually read the post, you would know it details how you set this up with UEFI instead of legacy boot and have none of those troubles.
Not doing the first example is a sure way towards either copying that function and changing it a bit because you need a slightly different call, or a function with a pile of branches in it because it needs to operate in several modes.

Both ways could go wrong. I don't care what your architectural choice is, you can still mess it up.
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With most people working out of Apple, Microsoft and Google salaries, good luck getting a bunch of random weekend coders to pick up and counterattack an alternative browser based on that open source.
I don't see a freedom or accountability difference between native apps from an appstore and webapps from a webserver.
Covid-19 researcher fights back against sexism and power imbalances in science
Let's do a thought experiment : if the above is true then it means that no thought at all has been given to launch security for the most powerful weapons in the USA's inventory. This disregard for national security has been maintained by all presidents since Kennedy and all national security officials as well. During this time any state or non state actor who gained access to the control infrastructure could have issued launch instructions, for example the USSR could have caused a launch at PRC by the USA.
There is absolutely no way I'd buy such critical equipment as a carabiner from Amazon, with all the problems they have with counterfeit goods.
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In practice, it doesn't work like that.

There are two major networks, but many vendors of credit cards, with very difficult qualities from each other.

If you have any problems, it's the vendors you will deal with and who decide things like your credit limit, how often that's revised (up or down), whether payments are blocked and how to unblock them, how you are notified about transactions, whether paying off the card turns into credit instantly or takes a few days, your interest rates, whether the interest is applied immediately or not, whether you have balance transfer and money transfer, whether you have 0% transfers, cashbacks and other deals, and the kind of customer service you get (whether it's on the phone or forced to be via chat, whether they answer quickly and are helpful or take forever and are not), and whether their website and app are down "for maintenance" regularly.

Almost everything you'd care about is up to the vendor of which there are many, not the network.
The biggest problem with Notion IMO is the overuse of Emojis in written documentation.

You could probably hide them using a client side script like Stylish.
> in a sunny country like Israel vitamin D deficiency should be less common, does that translate into fewer Covid-19 cases?

The first time I drove through Phoenix I was confused by the number of tanning salons. After living there for a few years, I learned the extreme heat drives people indoors and into cars. The same is true in e.g. Dubai.
This is another one of those articles where the author is condescendingly trying to fearmonger to a segment of the US population. It is so obvious.

Lets be fair. If NYT supported Hitler, should we cancel the NYT for supporting systemic racism in the past?

Im so exhausted of these condescending and self-righteous articles.
With the Chrome monoculture, the Web is effectively ChromeOS nowadays, specially with the increasing amount of APIs that are Chrome only, which although other browsers refuse to implement really doesn't matter as their market share keeps decreasing towards zero.
As someone who primarily works with either backend development or web frontend, it's just SO refreshing to build a native Mac app - or in fact even an iOS app as it's very similar. It's hard to explain but the development toolchain, the libraries, language (Swift!), makes me feel a lot more enthusiastic than what I normally am.
It was supposed to be a code needed to arm the nuclear weapons mounted to the missiles. (It would be sort-of-pointless to launch a missile with warheads that would not pop.)

But it was a scam, an attempt to reassure people that the generals couldn't start a war all by themselves, from a time when politicians were thought not to be even more insane than any general.

Nowadays we rely on the generals to be less batshit insane than a president.
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Is it? You could make the same point about engineering, literature, the arts, sociology, ... you get the idea.
Having a dark mode available is one of its redeeming qualities in my opinion.
Has there been any work on speed improvements?

I did this LUKS1 encrypted boot partition thing on a relatively recent laptop, and GRUB takes about 25 seconds to validate the passphrase. Once it loads the initrd, the early kernel environment validates the the root volume passphrase in about 2 seconds, presumably because it's using an optimized implementation that's available in the kernel but not in GRUB...

Right now I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you have a really good reason for encrypting the boot partition. Most people will be better off having an unencrypted boot and enabling secure boot with your own platform key instead.
Only time I've faced an issue was if Linux was installed first, Windows would modify the existing boot partition. But for simplicity and to ensure isolation, I use separate drives as well.
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Hi, these books look very interesting.Before I go ahead and try to read them I wanted to ask if they are still relevant today?
I don't agree Walmart would make for a textbook example. I'd argue they were/are not even a monopsonist with regard to their suppliers. They might be a strong regional force but they have failed (or chosen) to move out of their regional power position. That's not a bad thing and in fact is a strength. I'm pretty sure they were cited as an example of good strategy for exactly that in "Competition Demistified" but don't have the book with me right now.

However, in the day and age of modern logistics I'd argue that their suppliers could have sold to other customers in other states.

Ultimately I suppose it depends on how we define a market (ultra regional or wider) and how high the transaction costs (+other extra costs) of the suppliers would be to move to another customer. The classical example in "The Economics of Imperfect Competition" was the labor force in a small town (mining iirc., once again not at my bookshelf). I suppose that would give precedent to the fact that small markets "count". However most studies on the topic I am aware of are about labor not supply/demand structures. And I'd argue it is "easier" for a supplier to move their wares to another customer than for a (specialized) worker to move to another company (uproot family etc.).

Additionally some of the suppliers of Walmart are in pretty strong negotiating positions themselves (Unilever etc.).

At least there's enough doubt in my mind to say Walmart's supplier relations are "a textbook example of a monopsonist".
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Earlier this year I tried to create my own tablet operating system by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Microsoft Surface Go tablet. I learned a great deal about what I like about tablets. But I still preferred my iPad Pro, mainly because of its polished user experience. This time I set out to refine my tablet software to replace my iPad.

I am happy with the result so far, ready to show it to HN to be of (possible) inspiration for others.
In 20 years it will be impossible to manually browse to an unapproved "unsafe" URL in a general purpose browser.
> What you wrote is a different justification for why turing tapes are worse than lambda calculus. It has nothing to do with the number of people programming on turing tapes, which is the argument that I was responding to.

It has everything to do with it: the reason for wanting a lambda-calculus-like model is that lambda-calculus-like models are what working programmers actually program in. If programmers actually used languages that looked like turing tapes then turing tapes would be a good model for talking about programming in.

> I could easily have used 'lambda calculus' instead of 'turing tape' above. Most people do not code in the lambda calculus. They write haskell or javascript or whatever.

Haskell has been described as essentially a typed lambda calculus. You're treating this as a binary distinction when it isn't: there's a lot of value in the model that we can do formal program analysis with being close to the models that we like to program in, whether the models are exactly identical is a lot less significant than the degree of similarity. Likewise the problem that "mathematicians don't work in ZFC" isn't just that mathematicians are doing something slightly different day-to-day, it's that it's a very different paradigm from normal mathematics.

> My point is that almost all pure math (e.g: linear algebra, topology, differential geometry, category theory, group theory) is already metamathematics. Of course, there is a spectrum of 'meta-ness' but I think this is a continuous spectrum. I do not think there is a well-defined division between 'mathematics' and 'metamathematics'.

> For example, can you give an argument for why, say, the irrationality of sqrt(2) is not 'metamath', yet godel's incompleteness theorem is 'metamath'?

I'd argue that irrationality of sqrt(2) is applicable outside of a mathematical context - it's a fact about something we're modelling rather than solely a fact about our models ("2" and "sqrt" are of course abstract models, but they can be applied to model a variety of concrete things that we care about, and you can carry over the irrationality of sqrt(2) into at least some of those contexts, where it will translate into something meaningful and useful). Whereas godel's incompleteness theorem is a map for which there is no territory; it's a fact about abstract models that could never correspond to anything that wasn't an abstract model.

But if you want to regard number theory as a subset of metamathematics then I don't mind. When I say I want to be able to do metamathematics, I mean I want to be able to do all metamathematics; in particular I want to be able to talk about proofs in general. You could argue that the irrationality of sqrt(2) is a statement about proofs, but it's certainly not in a context that allows you to reason about general proofs, and number theory does not give you a first-class way to work with proofs in general (of course the Godel encoding exists, but it's extremely tedious and not useful for practical work). Likewise, as far as I know, there's no way to really talk about (general) proofs directly in terms of group theory or linear algebra.
That's not at all related to any point the article is trying to make.
> Youtube would be another example of a highly effective UI.

Because it doesn't do much. I'm quite frustrated by the lack of features for advanced users.
As some who has used the Web since 2000, I could not second more! Chrome dominance feels a bit better then Internet Explorer dominance, because the Microsoft browser was shitty about features and documentation (anybody remembers quirks mode and the IE box model?). In the grand, the overall topics did not change (in many cases it's always been about DRMs, OS support, being the first setting/implementing the standards/proposals). Unfortunately the web browser landscape got thinner. The decline of Opera and the modern Internet Explorer (what was his name again?) is a real loss for web diversity.
Totally agree! This is exactly what I tell people who ask me why we have failed (I’m the author of this post : )

Yannick.
The one I recall was about streaming OTA transmissions captured from individual antennas, one per user, essentially renting remote access to the antennas. The court essentially said relaying the stream is a new broadcast and needs its own broadcast license.
The Outer Space Treaty bans nations from claiming a celestial body or stationing weapons of mass destruction on them.
The answer is simple: It's unclear, because the study design they did cannot answer such questions.

This is one of the most basic misunderstandings in interpreting scientific studies. If you have "we saw x where we also saw y" then it can mean anything from "x causes y" to "y cause x". And also "unknown factor z causes both x and y", "it's a random coincidence", "they looked into the data long enough with enough different methods to find something" or a combination of all of those.
It's stunning in retrospect, but 1922 was really early, and Mr. Bad still a relative nobody. A lot of people around the world were saying crazy things at the time.

The Weimar Republic was dominated by feuding between the relatively normal Social Democrats who held power, and the more radical German Communist Party who were directed and funded by Stalin, who had a considerable share of the popular vote, and who regarded 'all parties to the right of them to be fascists' - and of course the Social Dems (nominally left of centre) to be the 'worst fascists'.

The 'far right' were a weird fringe group that were even used as stooges by the Communists when their objectives aligned i.e. to overthrow the incumbent Social Dems.

There were street/youth/thug parties of all stripes.

Remember this is the time of Universal Suffrage, the rise of Unions, literally just a few years post Russian Revolution.

And of course, there were all sorts of other Germany-specific issues such as hyperinflation etc. - which by some measures is happening right now (real estate, stocks, other assets) and our governments faced with COVID are going to be spending 20 years of deficits in 1 year etc..

The Weimar Republic [1] is a fascinating episode in contemporary history we should really spend more time looking at.

By the time Hitler came to power, the cards were in play, so in a way, the 1930's are not nearly as interesting.

Hitler did not just magically come out of a bottle in 1932 and take over - really it was the result of complicated set of factors in the 1920's. We should pay more attention there, but it's complicated, and doesn't make for great, populist filmmaking.

Edit: 1924 Election results [2] 1932 Election results [3]. You can see this early, the Nazis & Co. were not important until later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1924_German_federal_electi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_elect...
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Agreed.

The oldest devs I’ve worked with have to be mid 40’s, don’t think I’ve worked with anyone in their 50’s, they’ve long left.

At 35 working in software for 15 years I don’t see any career progression, I’m probably getting my highest pay of my career as stuck in a job now where my options to move involve a pay cut. The only career progression I have is people management which I have no interest in and will be bad at as not my skills.

I don’t want to be dealing with corporates and agile nonsense in to my late 40’s.

The only option I’m seeing is save as much as I can while I’m getting paid well in order to have some kind of hobby business in 10-15 years time.
> This item isn't available in your country.

Wonder why.
Ridiculous statement. Sketch is very much alive and it can survive on Mac-only users for a long time going forward as well, if they decide to.
1776 was a long time before the 1930s.