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My approach is to simply organize work so that anything development oriented is kept in the WSL home dir and keep docs and PowerPoints in the Windows Documents dir which covers 95% of my use cases. The new Windows terminal is also pretty cool. I prefer this because I've sometimes run into weird assumptions that Unix utils make in a Windows environment based on how they've been compiled (eg. If they're built using Cygwin)
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None of the items you mentioned cost much
Have you seen the surprise when it made original moves people did not expect arguing that humans would not normally make these moves, and the delight they have shown witnessing these moves? Have you noticed that the very challenge elevated Lee Sedol's game who found a strange adversary and was pushed into uncharted territory leading him to make a strange move himself that threw off AlphaGo and lead Lee Sedol to win the game?

I think that, on the contrary, finding new challengers with different styles pushes us to explore further, expand our envelope, and grow.

Imagine AlphaGo's impact on people who may not have playing partners. People could be able to enjoy the game whenever they want to and improve and come up with original moves when stressed, just as Lee Sedol came up with a move when stressed.

Clinging onto comfort zones seldom leads to progress or growth.
No, it isn't. Constant 2.8 at M43 is exactly equal to a constant f/5.6 on FF. Indeed, at the FoV equal to 50mm on FF, you would need 25mm on M43. At f/5.6, the aperture diameter of the 50mm FF lens is 50/5.6=8.93, and the M43 lens would have an aperture diameter of 25/2.8=8.93mm.

This means that the lenses are equivalent. Indeed, the amount of light captured by a lens from a point source is proportional to the angle of the cone with its tip at the point and it's disk at the aperture. And so, since the FoV is the same, you will be at the same distance from the point for the same image, and since the diameter of the aperture is the same, the two cones will be identical, and thus the amount of light will be the same.

For depth of field, the calculation is similar, and they are indeed also equal.

And so, an f/5.6 aperture on FF is equal to an f/2.8 aperture on an M43 lens of the same FoV.

As a conclusion, your 12-40mm f/2. 8 lens is exactly equivalent to a 24-80 f/5.6 lens on FF. And so, a 28-75 f/3.5-5.6 lens on FF is faster in average but has a slightly smaller zoom range. In the end, the variable aperture lens is optically superior, at a third of the price.

As for the Tamron, it is indeed made of plastic, but I like this because it makes it lighter and barely less resistant as the G-Master. It is still capable of gathering four times more light.

If you want to actually test this, we can print two test charts and put them one meter from the camera then one meter from each other in a line, and you can take a picture of them at 25mm f/2.8 on your Olympus, I'll take the same picture at 50mm f/5.6 on my A7ii, and you'll see that the depth of field will be exactly the same. If we had a way of controlling lighting, we would see that at the same shutter speed the noise levels of the two images will be very similar too.
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Whether it is in CS, Math, Philosophy, etc.
I’d say Uber must be envious of Airbnb’s much better business model.
"Milk does not keep for very long in a warm environment" (3:39)
This was the explanation I was given, and it seems simpler to me: the addition of milk to coffee predates widespread refrigeration. Cows are milked in the morning, and fresh (unprocessed) milk will only be good for a few hours. Thus people only put milk in their coffee in the morning. This eventually becomes customary, and the custom is retained even after its original justification is removed (as with countless other culinary customs).
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Nothing happens in Chicago unless the proper people are getting their payoffs.
Why? Do you think that delaying the analysis will make a difference in anyone's conclusions? Do you think COVID will be over in March 2021? If not, why not do a running tally from April 2020 until the disease is eradicated?
> "Let local residents handle it" was how America went through Jim Crow laws.

No, "let Democratic State governments of the Southern states handle it" was how America went through Jim Crow laws. Localities would never have gotten away with it if the State governments had not supported them and helped them crack down on local citizens who pushed back.
Section 230 affords protections to HN - that doesn't mean HN doesn't moderate. It does, which involves removing potentially harmful posts. Is this censorship to you?

Now regardless of 230, if the government says "twitter, you can not moderate." That is a violation of Twitter's freedom of speech. It can moderate content however it pleases as of now.

> I know there is no law preventing social media from censoring people. If there was, we wouldn't be arguing about this right now. What I'm saying is that free speech should be extended to social media.

The reason there is no law is because it's unconstitutional. The government can't force speech on platforms, even if said platforms are not responsible for its content.
> even though there has been obvious bias in all mainstream reporting for over a decade

Fortunately we're getting into this really interesting era where I don't have to waste my time with their bullshit, nor with yours. Cheers.
I am not that afraid that google would require sign-ins for everything. Even google with its massive market dominance should be pretty scared of given such a clear opening for a competitor, and being accessible without a login is a huge feature in order to get market share quickly compared to a competitor that does not.
More specifically here the humans in the process are the credit reporting agencies, which shouldn't exist at all and neither should systems to keep them up to date.

I've also seen automation fail spectacularly because of inconceivable edge cases during design. Almost universally it's because the process being automated was originally human, and the conceptual model of an automated process is as a human that doesn't sleep. If there's friction to structurally altering the process so it can be automated - including restricting the input data and output conditions - then you're going to see spectacular failures.

Automation isn't perfect but it really falls over when the stakeholders don't understand that it isn't perfect and the process needs to be altered for the project to succeed.
Sometimes part of the service you are providing is cover. The outside/inside distinction can be important.
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At Caltech, they were normally take-home. Institute policy was they were not proctored. The exams had a time limit from opening the exam to pencils down. The conditions, like open-note or open-book, were specified.

The students were totally on their own with this and nobody would know if they chose to cheat or not. Cheating was so trivial to do there was no cred for bragging about it. If other students found out someone was cheating, that someone would be ostracized by the students, which was much worse than anything the institute could do to them.

Of course, people are people and I'm sure some cheating went on. But I bet it was at a much lower rate than at places with proctored exams.

As for me, it was the first time in my life adults trusted me and treated me like an adult rather than a child. I much prefer that to the extended childhood offered by other universities. I was motivated by simple pride to earn the degree rather than cheat and get a tainted one.
Yeah sure man: if I finally made a product that worked, that I bet the future of my failing company on, and it is actually a product which every human on earth needs to take, possibly many times: first thing I'm gonna do is lower my S&P500 correlation risk. That totally makes sense. Not.

People have been calling them the new Theranos for years for not publishing anything, and basically having zero useful products. They just got a half billion in bridge funding from the government on top of the 2-3 billion they've lost over their history. These are scammers taking the money and running.
In my experience a restaurant's real website is always in the top results on google and almost always the one linked from google maps.
I travelled through Europe 2018, mainly spent my time in Italy, Greece and Malta. Also spent some time in Prague and Budapest.

I personally really enjoyed Greek style Coffee but I guess not for everybody. I'm hardly what you would call a coffee snob here in Australia though.
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Sure, but there's other cheaper/simpler methods of vaccinating against Covid-19. Moderna has the inside track with $2.5Bn of government funding and a wealthy country able to afford their more complex vaccine. We'll probably find that the Russian, Chinese and Indian vaccines all work in the next few months so the mRNA aspect is not essential.
Enormous but keep in mind how many "failed" startups you would have to go through before finding an AirBnB type investment, especially early on.
"It's like crying because a hand mixer can beat eggs faster than any human can beat them by hand..."

How fast you can beat eggs depends on how much transferable practice you got as a teenager.
> My guess is its due to caffeine and avoiding any ingestion of it for a long time before bed is a smart move.

Don't look now, but the Italians love their espresso after dinner.
Agreed, grandparents proposed solution is basically the same as pushing for users to be better trained to protect themselves from phishing, which has shown to be ineffective time and again and is downright masochistic when an easier system solution exists.
Ask HN: Self Promotion on Reddit
Hey everyone,

If you have a project that you think perfectly fits a niche for which there is an active subreddit and you want to share it there, what do you even do? Every subreddit has fairly draconian rules against self promotion, so I’m curious if anyone here has strategies.

I am NOT trying to sneak around barriers to spam people with bullshit, I don’t even have a product to sell yet. I’m just curious to hear thoughts from anyone who may have succeeded here.

Thanks!
Could you imagine getting HN to agree on what the definition of Open Source is?
The 'copyright violations' section of the RIAA letter (regarding the unit tests) was clearly a standard §512 notice alleging copyright infringement. Even if §512 wasn't explicitly mentioned, it's still a legally effective notification of claimed infringement.

> The rules in section 512 do not apply.

Assuming you're referring only to the §1201 'anticircumvention' portion of the claim (the main focus of the GitHub post), whether this portion is also subject to §512 rules is a little more ambiguous. §1201 defines a trafficking violation separate from copyright infringement itself, but some court rulings have established a requirement that §1201 violations establish a 'nexus' to copyright infringement in order to be valid. If this requirement holds, §512 safe harbor protections could indirectly cover §1201 claims as well. However, because there's a circuit split on the issue, unless GitHub is sued on this exact point it's impossible to say for sure what rules would apply in this specific case.

In any case, GitHub handled the 1201 takedown claim in reference to its established, documented process in handling takedown notices and counter notices [1], except for the fact that it didn't wait 10-14 days after receiving a counter notice before re-enabling this content. The deviation from their published policy is still itself noteworthy.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
Maybe that's more of a BigQuery use case then where you pay for usage?
they dont own the assets, their product is their booking technology
Airbnb's main offering is its software and its ability to create a market between consumers and producers through that application. I imagine it is also a company that is heavily invested in its software engineering workforce and all the resources that support/flow from that.

To note, it feels like 'tech company' is a bit ambiguous these days and doesn't necessarily have great clarity.
California’s governor pulls ‘emergency brake’ on reopening amid Covid surge
> I only agree in the sense that there are no good things when it comes to consumer credit reporting in the United States. This is just an example of systemic problems that can and should be solved by increased automation and removing humans from the process.

I don't understand your comment. You seem to be saying that we should increase the amount arbitrary, opaque decision making that happens in consumer credit reporting, by increasing automation. Am I reading that correctly?

As for nothing being good about consumer credit reporting in the US, consider the old system what we have now replaced. It was all done on handshakes and personal references. That sounds really fair to poor people, doesn't it?
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For context, there are only 603 prize winners total. That's extraordinary.
Your comment made me weep for humanity.
"I will just mention my main two quibbles"

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Poking through your history, why do you quibble on the word truth so often? Do we not agree there are statements that are true? Do we not agree there are provable true statements ? If there are unprovable statements in any consistent set of axioms, might we also conclude there also be an unprovable but true statements?
You should read the project page before commenting. Nothing in Gobolinux is statically linked, it's just a different place. Check this page for more details: https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html
Not a concern at all. For IPO type companies, the objectives is to grow as fast as possible. Losses in the short-term don't matter.
It's just arbitrary. There's prob even a low-sev ticket somewhere in Youtube's issue tracker to take out youtube-dl. They can do it at any time.

That they haven't done it (make youtube-dl's life harder) yet just means they might do it tomorrow, not that they don't care.
Spain has a better health system than both Denmark and Norway.
That would almost completely rule out people renting out a room in their home
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That’s the issue. Linux runs everywhere and is not a consumer product, that’s why I exclude it.

Until you can build your own general-purpose PC and can decide to make it ARM, it will not be considered an equivalent option, it will just be another tablet, “chromebook” or “board for hackers”
Would you get on a plane if it had a 1 in 200 chance of crashing? Why do people keep talking about a 0.5% chance of death as if it's minuscule?
There is whole district here, called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speicherstadt which has those things for real. It has UNESCO World Heritage status now.
Interestingly for the building of this, about 1,100 houses were torn down, with about 20,000 total residents who were displaced... what about their heritage?
Yeah, that's normal for startups, they are made profitable (not "become profitable", this is not a process but a deliberate choice) after the growth phase, not during or, in case of Tesla, before it (as you pointed out, they still sell low amounts of cars). Tesla is in process of building their first factories and learning and developing the production, that costs money - money that other car makers have already paid off, but they paid it and their stocks looked just like Tesla at that time. Actually, it is incredible how good margins Tesla has given their stage as a carmaker, and it's a miracle they are profitable at all.

See this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118086

Tesla needs its years too. And it's looking good so far.
1. It's not an entire country. It's people who use a Danish card and can't/won't subscribe through the Play Store. That's probably a tiny number of people.

2. Fires are almost always burning when you're supporting an app with millions of users expecting instant functionality, including instant messaging. They're also constantly working against bots and spammers.
> which is that mathematicians compute /all sorts/ of uncomputable systems, with no apparent restriction

You are flattering us, but that's not actually true. We already have lots of trouble with proving (which is the same as computing, essentially) many computable things as it is. It is only occasionally that we can make progress on some uncomputable problem, and it's always because of making use of some properties very specific to said problem. The point of Rice theorem is that there's no universal method to solve any problem without any concern for the guts of that problem, and that's true: when mathematicians or computer scientists are proving that some computer program halts, they don't apply the same general machine, but instead they try to figure out some "tricks" based on the particular situation at hand, which will not generalize to every conceivable problem.
Exactly: Moderna's phase-I and phase-III trials are both running right now. [1][2]

1. Phase I: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04283461

2. Phase III: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427
That's a very interesting observation, that is very much aligned with my own views, but I'll need some time to absorb the details here.

I'm myself on the quest to fully understand what is really wrong with OOP and then try to share it with more people. It's actually very hard because it's a complex topic, ridden with subtleties, and even the exact definition of "what is OOP-code" is elusive. I've just recently made a reddit post that you (and other's who find your post interesting) might also enjoy: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ju5oqp/how_to_avoid_r...

I wish there was some "OOP-deniers" community, where we could discuss things like that with an open mindset. Usually discussing OOP degenerates quickly and it's impossible to even establish some shared understanding.
A more obvious way would be to get the shortened part of the URL via "random" bits extracted by hashing the input URL.
They have a merit-based admissions reputation at least, and their small numbers keeps it exclusive.

On the other hand, most Stanford guys I've met have also been sharp, and they graduate 700 PhDs a year according to someone below.
Try spynt. It's SPY except it doesn't force hipsters to feel embarrassed for letting liberal bloggers lie to them about consensus.
Anyone know who '[link to an airbnb user]' was? I heard the story about a celebrity using AirBnb very early, but can't recall who it was any longer...
I don't understand why people seem to want K8s but then find it 'difficult'. It's really not that complex, and when you add stuff on to it, that is your own choice (just like with k3s and k0s). You essentially end up with a kubelet, apiserver (with etcd) and two or three copy-and-paste YAML files (manifests) to setup a 'full' k8s cluster.

If that is too much, is k8s even relevant to your case?

Say your workload is so small and so simple that having a minimum of 2 servers isn't what you want, then again, is k8s even relevant for your case?

Or perhaps the better question: who is this for?
I made a shortener using nginx and a config file: https://statico.link

It uses a tab-delimited nginx map file as a config. To make changes, I wrote a tiny shell wrapper which opens the config in Vim, checks it in, and reloads nginx: https://statico.link/how

People frequently asked me for a list of all of the links, so I wrote a tiny server to serve them: https://github.com/statico/statico-link-list
That's suspicious to me - is cinebench doing different things based on detecting whether it's running on a laptop vs desktop?

It might be reasonable to use different measures due to different expected uses, but if it does do that it can't put the results in the same list.
I think you mean "customer support" when you say "supporter". If not, please disregard.

Tinder doesn't offer much customer support. They're definitely not spending a substantial amount of time on issues that affect the subset of users that use Danish cards, don't pay through the app, and have one of the cards that has this issue. If you told me the number of affected people was under 5,000, I would believe you.
HN loves to hate on TikTok but it's by far the best entertainment app out there. I go there because it makes me happy.

It's like imgur or reddit but with a recommendation engine that works and where you can completely avoid all the community infighting drama bullshit.
Exams are generally take home.

Students are expected to follow the exam instructions on the honor system.

It's a refreshing change of pace to take exams when and where it's convenient.
Fun fact, that inscription also contains of the few continuity errors in published Tolkien material. It starts with:

> The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria

but as the Tolkien Gateway explains:

> The name Moria means "Black Chasm" and was a derogatory description of the place which the Dwarves did not like, and was given after Durin's Bane took over the city in the Third Age. It is therefore a mystery why that name appears on an inscription made in the Second Age, and made in consent with the Dwarves.

The most common "mitigating explanation" I see is that Tolkien, the "translator," perhaps used the name the reader would be most familiar with (Moria) instead of the city's real name (Khazad-dûm) when transcribing the door's inscription.
Not to mention that

* Sony opens their E mount design to third party lens makers like Tamron, Tokina, Cosina, Sigma, etc

* Sony makes an adapter to mount legacy A-mount lenses

More lenses is a great plus when it comes to selling cameras.
Valuations may be nutty at this point... but ...

Tesla is many things - they’re a distributed utility company for one. They’re ramping up their battery production for the coming shift to clean tech infrastructure.

They have a growing distributed utility business with proven track record. They work with governments to shift their grid to battery / solar. On a global scale, this is a enormous market

Plus extensive supercharging network. Giga factories, solar roofs and they’re going to reconfigure battery tech from ground up and I won’t be surprised if they’ll have major breakthroughs.

Not to mention Tesla’s energy tech is going to be a major component of Mars Colonization. Another huge market in not so distant future. Imagine this, if America’s energy infrastructure was built by singular company (a la standard oil) at its very inception towards today.

Space X is probably the only company on earth that’s gonna have the means to build Mars colonies en mass.

Long term (20+ years) Tesla is laying the groundwork for new world(s!), both Earth and Mars. This is mind boggling and other car companies are apples to oranges comparison.
>I have not seen a single mention of DKIM w.r.t to Hunter Biden. Did you? Was any evidence presented? I couldn’t find any.

You really couldn't find any? Come on. Did you Google "DKIM Biden"?
Thin article without much substance. Maybe rtPCR and more ELISA tests would put it to bed. But really, who cares? Musk does whine a lot and proclaim statements insouciantly without knowledge or expertise.

In other news, US cases are growing concave-up with no end in sight.
Ramp up into the expected ipo. If not for COVID, 2020 would probably have looked great.
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If state and local law enforcement were subject to this level of federal oversight and control, we would not have legal marijuana anywhere.
'America's Funniest Home Videos' meets 'Dancing with the Stars' meets 'Robot Chicken'
i switched from xfce to mate due to some hidpi issues (can't remember what exactly now). i like that it's lightweight, but primarily mate and xfce are the only two desktop environments i can find that let me swap out the window manager. gnome no longer does it, gnome-flashback is buggy, and kde says it should be possible but i've never managed it.
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