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To be clear, he doesn't want to bring all the troops home. He want's to pull out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. The question shouldn't be why pull out of these places. The question should be, what is the benefit of keeping troops there.

Pulling out of "pointless" foreign wars was part of his 2016 platform.

It was also what Obama wanted to do.

>Obama gave his first major foreign policy speech of his campaign on April 23, 2007 to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in which he outlined his foreign policy objectives, stressing five key points:

>1. "bringing a responsible end to this war in Iraq and refocusing on the critical challenges in the broader region,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_O...

Why was Obama unable to achieve his top foreign policy goal?
> in 2019 the amount I was able to put away into 401k, IRAs, and other tax advantaged savings accounts exceeded my entire Florida gross salary in 2009

Note that I specified 80% of a Bay area salary, not an arbitrary salary difference. You're implying that you got a 25% raise to move to SF and were able to life off of only 20% of your new salary?

I'm not comparing average middle of nowhere salary to SF, I'm saying that for remote workers you typically get something like 80% of an SF salary, typically dramatically higher than most locals get for similar work. Were I lived I was still easily making double what most other tech people in the area were paid.

Getting double or triple your old salary will of course make the move to SF worth it. But if you can work in the FL pan handle for just 20% less than you make know, you'll live amazingly.
Cool. That's part of what I did too - lower starting comp and stayed at the same company (8 years now).
This is a great blog post. Lots of great startup ideas in it. Nice to see it connecting across disciplines and domains. Also a great explication of how technology drives discovery.
Also, Apple has tuned the M and A series chips to perform well with Objective-c and Swift as used by iOS and Mac OS. One example is that they made some object operations 5x faster than on Intel chips. This speeds up loops and garbage collection significantly. Those are very common operations.

Other vendors are using generic chips that were not tuned for the OS.
And thats just two things we know about.
It's dumb to call it a fuel - you're recovering the energy that you stored in it during refining.

As a battery, a box full of iron has a lot of drawbacks - it has low specific energy (you need a lot of iron to store your energy), it's heavy (it costs a lot to transport from the refinery to the place the energy is being used), and it's inneficient (burning iron to generate steam to drive a turbine might get you 40% efficiency at best, and removing the oxygen again later has its own issues).

The one application that this makes sense is for generating process heat - you can slowly store energy by electrolysis and then release it as a very high temperature heat source. In most cases hydrogen would make more sense: it's simpler to electrolyze and burns hotter, but it's difficult to handle and store which might be important for the application.
It depends.

Are the websites about something that may go away? I mean, is it about recipes for the most recent culinary trend? Or strategies about whatever is this winter's trending shooter game? Or programming on a language that may start to die in 5-10 years? Or a framework that everybody will drop in 6 weeks?

It's hard to predict something that generates X income from visitors today will keep generating >= X income in the future.

Is your revenue mainly from Google or something like that? I have heard quite a few stories about people suddenly having to change ad networks and then having their income drop. Or Google changing something in their SEO algorithms and then the site dropping. I even remember reading something about Facebook making a change that stopped most of the organic visits to a specific site. Are you subject to that?

If any of the cases above might be true, I would pretty much only quit my job if I had "can retire in a few years" income.
If ruby's float's are exact, how do they translate arbitrary literals to IEEE 754? Surely the vast majority of literals are not representable with IEEE 754, so any exactness of these floats would solely exist in comparison between floats, not with literals.
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I don't believe any identity group needs a day because can come across as trite and patronizing. Golden Rule, gratitude, and go forth.
I agree. As well as for most jobs.

I think Jackie's perspective makes a lot of sense as a creative artist though. The extra effort has a tangible reward and is appreciated by those around him.
Ah I see. It's a rules thing. In that case it's fine. The ToS explicitly allow this after all. So you aren't really changing things outside of what's allowed.

This is like when you put into a contract "Party A may withdraw from this contract at any point" and then you withdraw at some point. That's playing by the rules.
It is strange. I noticed all the ads lately, sometimes even 2 in a row.

But thinking about it I can't remember a single ad. Today more and more people have an ad filter in their head. This means that Google earns a lot of money from ads that have a lot of exposure but almost zero effect.
I'd also much rather have a page that brings me to a cookie recipe when I search "cookie recipe", but Google ranks pages with tons extraneous text, images and ads above your bare bones recipe site. This has given rise to an immense amount of blog spam on Google, where you have to scroll through paragraphs and paragraphs of inane content created by an army of underpaid writers just to get to the relevant information you searched for.
I'd guess their coworkers decided to write all tests as doctests, rather than use doctests to ensure examples run fine?

Python's doctests are also formatted and in some ways behaving like an interactive shell session, with

>>> code here
output here

rather than just "literate code" so the execution context is a bit strange. This makes complicated doctests hard to inspect and debug. Doubly so because there's almost no tooling which understands doctests.

And of course on the flip side the best tests make for absolutely terrible examples since they try to exercise weird corner cases.
Nevermind the fact that for the vast majority of creators, their advertising revenue is 100% up to the whims of some bullshit black box "AI" algorithm on whether they are worthy of money they earned or not.

Most of the valuable youtube creators don't care much about their ad revenue and prefer to curate out of band sponsorships and patreon. And if I wanted to actually support them, I'd invest in them through patreon, not watch an atrocious ad that will likely give them 30% of 5 cents
I found say intel not just failed in the process nodes. It also failed to see the rise of the dedicated fab (tsmc) and fabless business model as a more efficient model. Intel also failed at innovating on lower power designs and the gpu. Even at 14nm, there are so much that could be done to improve igpu performance. From color compression, to the more efficient shader array. The nintendo switch runs Nvidia tegra x1. It's a 20nm chip, and look at the performance of the gpu. Intel could have also put their markshare weight to put the alternative to cuda be it opencl or even their own API to really gain market traction. They could have their dedicated gpu. Yet they just ignored the whole massive simd compute market. I think for intel, lossing mobile to arm and see the improvements in mobile year over year should be a wake-up call. Yet they didn't do anything to increase their moat for the past 10 years. Or maybe they did try, but their strategies are just flawed. The strategists at Intel just don't have enough foresight and vision.
It has been over a decade so I don't exactly remember - I looked it up and the class was Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning.

What I personally recall was following along in class while the professor walked through classic proofs emphasizing what each new notation meant as well as the difference between Direct, indirect, and induction proofs. Tests and assignments were essentially recreating proofs cherry picked to be similar to ones we walked through in class.

I realize that's kind of how all my higher level math classes were run. It's just that once the cherry picking becomes looser, intuition doesn't necessarily catch up :(.
Very interesting, do you have any more details about how this works? Does a user effectively `git push` to your Github proxy from the browser?
Paying for content instead of being fed ads doesn’t seem unbelievable to me.

On the other hand, the method employed by YouTube is just akin to its contents. 90% BS.
Place rational messages high up and emotional ones down
When my Laptop runs low on power it pops up something like, "You're running out of power." They clearly have the technology to detect if the battery itself is going bad. Why can't my phone boot into that mode and say, "It looks like your battery's life is at X% would you like to slow your phone down to concerve power? [Yes] [Yes, always] [No, ask again when it's more dead] [No, Don't ask any more]"

You know... let the user know what's going on.
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Vimeo is well known in design and art community for higher quality content, unfortunately it lacks the large viewrship base that YT has.
> Its not monopolizing diligence, its setting a floor for diligence for investments by people outside of (expanded by this action) pool of investors.

The floor just happens to be very close to the ceiling excluding many people with varying risk tolerances.
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I would think this is an argument for telescopes using UT1, not whether UTC should be adjusted for leap seconds. This is such a fringe application and all involved are aware of the issue, that I don't think it's relevant here at all.
and some alleged welding sparks in the same location
Whatsapp (haha). But seriously the answer for me to de-social media myself in general was to focus on the few relationships that matter to me and message them directly. Phone calls, facetime, direct messages.

Whatsapp is the primary way I do this because of it's global reach, but you could get away with sms too.
> But the real issue still stands: Bio is hyper complex and it takes a long time to get used to the nomenclature and ideas.

That is exactly the point, which I believe the article author either glossed over or didn't fully appreciate.

I have a B.Sc. in general biology and am about to get my M.Sc. in ecology. I do scientific work at a university and read (ecological) research papers every day. Out of curiosity, I just followed joshuamcginnis' advice and did the Google Scholar search.

I failed to understand the first three items that came up.

The basic principles of biology are usually not actually that complicated, at least when you compare them to particle physics or compiler design or stuff like that. But biology is still hugely, hugely complex, because you simply have so many interacting parts - and yes, you only really understand it when you know about an appreciable fraction of those parts.

That is why they spent the first 1.5 years of our degree simply drilling knowledge into us as fast as we could absorb it. Because it's only once you have a broad overview of how everything works, that you can start to grasp (and reason about) how anything works in detail.

Biology is fascinating. There are millions of cool things to learn and yes, most teachers could probably do a much better job of teaching it. But if you really want to understand it, you just have to put in the effort.
I hated it initially, but am fine with it now.

When YTM is better than GPM:

1/ Auto-created playlists, especially after you just search for a song and hit play. On GPM, it would play different covers on the same song (basically all the search results) by default, unless you started a radio, which is a cool concept but was hit and miss in practice. On YTM, it continues with similar songs, and I have liked their selection so far.

2/ The library seems to have increased; I guess they have access to more songs that were YT exclusive for some reason.

3/ While I normally never use video mode on YTM, but once in a while for a cool song, it's nice to be able to seamlessly switch to video and cast to my TV.

On the cons side, I don't like the playlist management and home screen UI (which is what I hated initially), but it's not bothering me much anymore now that I am getting used to it I guess.

Initially, I had planned to just cancel the subscription, but held on because using YouTube with ads was just plain intolerable. I get reminded of this everytime I open a Youtube link on my work account Chrome profile by mistake.
You also don't ever stay on top by stealing/copying from others. By definition that always puts you (at least) 1 generation behind.
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Needs "Ask HN:" in the title.
That the US (as of April 2020) does not take any part in.
What would a world of widespread statistical numeracy look like?
The analogy is for opioids, cocaine etc which are highly destructive, not recreational/medicinal drugs.
No, we already have the FAST telescope. It is more a degradation of US infrastructure.
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Executives don’t understand software and that’s a problem
Hi HN, six months ago I met a fellow dev who wanted to focus on reducing global warming and encouraging people to drive electric. So we quit our jobs as software developers to focus full-time on building an app that would help.

We recently launched what we’ve been working towards, Charge Scheduling for Optiwatt, www.getoptiwatt.com, a 100% free app that automatically schedules your Tesla to charge during the cheapest electricity rates and tracks your exact spending.

We spent months organizing utility data so that users can automatically integrate their electricity rate schedules based on their zip code without having to dig through utility bills.

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Please let us know what you think :)
The bandwidth is what kills this for me. I actually have a use-case for something like this. I'm re-partitioning my ZFS array, adding some space, and need to host all of the data for a few months while I get it all setup and tested, but the bandwidth cost at $5/TB is prohibitive.

What's the best place to do this? I'm using google drive, but they throttle your upload quite significantly. I can see right now I'm getting about ~150kB/sec even though I have a 1GB upload speed.
With experience, you realize that minimum effort in the key places that bring maximum result is the name of the game.

Obviously "minimum" differs from situation to situation. Just enough effort, but not more than needed, but not too little either.
VMs are only expected to run ARM clients. There is no cross-architecture VM support. That might come but it would require something more like software emulation of x86/64 processors which is a bigger tasks.
I also love that it is consistent between projects. The fact that I can just go to https://docs.rs/chrono for any public project and have a consistent interface for reading and navigating is huge.

Of course this is somewhat fickle and makes competing documentation generations harder to get started but as a user when rustdoc is really good it is a nice benifit.
You can consider reframing the problem: what's the best I can do, given the constraints (time, money, resources, etc.)

I find that I'm most creative when I'm constrained. And these types of mindset hacks allow me to enjoy whatever I work on.
Is it really a logical fallacy to assume that we should have better outcomes from spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on academia vs e.g. spending thirty dollars on amazon?

At least naively, that money could (should?) be going towards paying for staff and a support system/hierarchy to ensure a higher quality. That's at least nominally why accredited, non-profit education is so expensive, because it's nominally supposed to be capable of paying decent salaries to intelligent people dedicated to teaching, compared to say amazon or the gym where the incentives are to cost cut and maximize profit.

In reality, I suspect the same applies to colleges, but I don't think it should, in some ideal world.
What are the things that need to be solved in next versions?
Same here. I usually just shoplift at the retail store and then send the wholesale price to the wholesaler. Not a big fan of middlemen.

It's a pretty good back around not having a Costco account.
Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles certainly didn't play nice. The list of things that they messed up, and too big to hide from being on the record, is quite illuminating (Vietname, Cuba, China/Taiwan/Tibet, Korea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, most of south america really, and so on) which suggests far more things occurred in the shadows too. A couple of Italians is small peanuts in comparison, especially since by 1960 the possibility of Italy flipping to the Soviets was gone. The secret agreement to base nukes on Italian airbases would have been signed around this timeframe, so Rome wouldn't have protested, really quite clever.

Also the organizational and logistical possibility was very real too considering that enormous sums of money were diverted off the books for funding secret projects in that period. In fact, even up to early 1945 nobody in Congress knew about the real purpose of the manhattan project (which was consuming a sizeable chunk of the national budget!). Not even Harry Truman, who was Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization at the time (who was given the run around by Stimson).

Though to be fair it was not just Washington, all the powers invested in covert, off-the-record, stuff to some degree. French/Israeli/Indian/Pakistani/South African/etc. nuclear bomb development being the most well known examples as again they are too big to fully cover up.
I've uploaded videos to YouTube that I've intentionally intended to be ad-free. I simply use it as a video hosting platform, since it's been more convenient and performant than rolling my own.

Is there a way for a content-publisher to pay Google to not show videos on our ads?
Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group has said somewhere that a YouTube premium viewer is worth several times as much as an ad-supported viewer apparently. Apologies for no citation on this.
> Seems right up Elon Musk's alley.

Eh, does it? I've never heard of Elon Musk being interested in space science, only space business. An observatory doesn't make shareholders any money.
I hear you! I wasn't mature enough to join study groups or go to office hours during undergraduate, either, and my grades also reflected it.
This vector has always existed - all that changed is RFC 8484 defines a standard way of doing this.
The Mysterious Appeal of a Labyrinth
But that isn't something that has to happen, only something that Apple may choose to do. They do not have to, however.
When I see an ad I then think if video is worth watching ads. Usually it's not, so I close it few seconds after an ad pops up. It's positive for me as I waste less time on YT
A few months ago I tried Rust but found that the tooling like auto completion and highlighting where still a bit alpha. IIRC I used VSCode with the most popular Rust plugin at the time.

Did I miss something or is there some progress being made in that respect?
You'll never guess whose idea this was
The first link suggests the blast was equivalent to 1000-1500 tonnes of TNT. Ammonium nitrate is not as powerful as TNT (Trinitrotoluene); therefore you require more of it for the same effect.

Edit: The second link is probably misquoted and is also an estimation in terms of TNT. This is common; nuclear weapon yields are also stated in terms of TNT for example, despite not containing any.
How do you compete with Twitch? Any use can clip a moment, and the moment is available for free to watch.
Close the airports.
I don't like central silos, but I do love threaded discussion in the style of newsgroups/HN/reddit over message boards. PHPbb is vulnerable to a form of chat flooding where two people start arguing on some piddly issue for several pages and everyone else has to SHOUT LOUDER. The posts of the 2 people get in the way for everyone else and commonly the rest just gives up and the thread dies. In a threaded discussion system, they can face off in their own world.
None of the marines, the army, nor the Air Force have successfully fielded nuclear power. The navy is the only branch to pull it off. It might be harder than you think.
From Reddit thread:

> MySQL 8 is used for DB. The seach server uses elasticsearch 7.8.
Pretty fun that this is on github
No, the Chinese just created the FAST telescope.
Maybe `pure`. Then it is fairly straightforward to explain that the computation of `const` values must be `pure`.
>The absence of these regulations will create room for businesses who would vet investments for you at different risk levels.

Those already exist and are called managed funds. The problem is, there is often a conflict of interest and the fund managers profit off the ignorance of their own costumers.

This is actually a very big problem in the financial space: the incentives of the B2C entity and the costumer are almost never aligned. The costumer lacks information and the B2C is supposed to help them attain that information, but the B2C entity can also profit off the ignorance of their customer and this is often more profitable than getting paid a fixed fee for honest advice.
There's no good content for toddlers on youtube.
Toddlers shouldn't be watching anything.
International Journalist's Remembrance Day

World Toilet Day

International Men's Day

Citizen's Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_secular_observan...
So tldr: people don't like writing documentation, and it's hard to make them care.
I don't think you're remembering that right.

The early iPhone adopters, myself included, were focused on all the amazing new stuff the iPhone gave me over my Motorola Pebl, like a giant screen, a full desktop web browser, unlimited (albeit very slow) mobile internet in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and a buttery-smooth UI experience.

Remember the state of the art at the time was the Razr for consumer phones, Rokr for music phones, and the N900 for smartphones. Put them side by side with the original iPhone and you'll understand why copy-paste and MMS was the last thing on our minds.

There was no Android, that came out a year and a bit later. And Android 1.0 was hot garbage.
Not exactly ‘stored’ but it’s one hell of a mess - the sunken explosives near London. If those went up the theories on what happens are horrifying.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...
The future is truly now [1]. The detail on this.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/VwuLdbi
What stack did you use for this?
> And yes, I understand that tailwind allows you to create types and @apply them.

After (a short) twitter discussion with Adam Wathan about this, my impression is that his idea is to basically never use @apply, and instead create micro-components to encapsulate your basic styles. So instead of <div class="modal"> you create a component modal, and then you can put all the utility classes in its html, and still be able to quickly change it if needed.
Mathematics is high on the list of "you can't fall behind and cram".

This is true not only within a single class but from class to class.

Aren't fluent in manipulating equations? Calculus is going to be misery. Don't know calculus like the layout of your bedroom? Differential equations aren't going to happen.

All the way back to `2+3 = 5` in first grade. If that doesn't go well, the rest will likely not, either.