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Dress well, have good fitting clothes. Look groomed and clean. Stand with a decent posture. Try to say something interesting in your profile. Look as if you have your life in order. Look as if you have interests, especially one that might be interesting to a potential partner.
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Fair enough. We should make sure software including screen readers properly support Unicode in a useful way. Lack of support in the present is not a reason to avoid emoji. And math notation is already very non-ASCII so arguments related to plain text mode debugging are not applicable. There is probably an argument to be made about color blindness.

But overall my argument is that emoji are not a solution to the problem of very limited naming options for things in math, lack of significance of the symbol used and that of homonymity . The solution is using words. And those words may contain Unicode characters. And alias longer names to symbols on case by case basis.
Sorry, I should have said "trading firms", but they are pretty similar culture wise. Most hedge funds have internal funds as well and they run it similar to a prop trading firm.

I think in general though a small company (JS has 900 employees, so I'm guessing around 50-100 devs) simply can't hyper optimize their entire engineering stack to the same extent that a large FAANG can. It's far too wasteful. And I'm talking about tooling, infra, and overall process, not just the code. Code review is the minimum any competent engineering org should be doing.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Probably distributed evenly over the 'shareholders'.

Their screenshot doesn't show "Your share of the leaky roof repair bill: £1400"!

Also, Proptee is in a very powerful position being able to choose which contractor fixes that leaky roof. Plenty of other management companies only hire their mates who give big kickbacks and charge skyhigh rates for basic maintenance.
Many lobbyists and lawmakers, unfortunately.
Honestly, I don't see it. Or rather, I see what Spencer is saying, but don't agree. Selling consoles "at a loss" and earning the money back through subscriptions, games and other services sound like a pretty terrible business model, and it's only relatively recently that this has become common practice.

Heck, we're also only talking about the Game Pass and PS Plus here - this isn't accounting for in-game subscriptions, season passes, battle passes, AND the price to buy the game in the first place.

Basically, I don't believe that they need the money to recoup losses on console sales - it's a move to squeeze as much out of consumers as possible.

If they DO need to recoup their losses... Well, that's a failing business plan that consumers (and developers) shouldn't have to cover for them. If it weren't for the monopolies in the console market, they wouldn't have to either...
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OpenGL supports multi-threading via creation of multiple contexts, sharing resources (textures, shaders etc) between them.
Agreed, it’s also about progressively moving the diet.

I lost 9kg down from 97 to 88 not changing much. Still want to go down more to 85, then ill be below bmi 25. :)

I strive to still eat three full meals a day.

- stop eating after dinner, just drink tea (this took about 4 months to get comfortable with. Dropped 6 kg using this technique. Over the course of 6 months.

My weight plateaued for two months, so I changed the following.

- cut out the afternoon snack and changed breakfast to one egg and a bowl of oatmeal. I’m now losing approximately 1 kg a month again.

My weight loss is quite slow and varies day by day +/- 2kg, only over multiple months do I see results on the scale. Recently I’ve also started seeing changes to my gut and shape.

Maybe this will help other people in their weight loss journey. It’s not easy losing weight, but small changes over time can have results. I enjoy using the iPhone health app and then the year view as it averages out the daily variations. I log my weight every morning when I get out of bed.
> It's hard to see how rent can be disconnected from the property value because if the achievable rent for a property skyrockets that will pull the property's value up.

In a free market (the UK is about as free a market as you get in relation to property ownership and rental), this might be true. But it does depend on how regulated the market is, in terms of rent controls etc. I'm not sure this would hold for an older, or bigger, or more difficult to maintain property in an area with a high percentage of renter competition in some European countries, for example (e.g. Germany).
Resume based development definitely happens.
We should try and stop this thinking. This is going to hurt a lot of people (my parents included) who are in their 50s and 60s now when they soon try and sell their homes to retire.
Exactly - the energy of the released counterweight will inevitably produce an explosion as it's stopped pretty quickly by something. My question was how big an explosion. The answer is pretty big, but this probably isn't their biggest problem.
Add the Orelly UNIX CD Books and you'll have a vast compendium for AWK, sed, perl and scripting.

Also, they are free.
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High levels of activity burn lots of calories.

The author of this blog post made a simple mistake: he thought that if he had big muscles, he would burn a lot of calories even when sitting still. That doesn’t happen.

The only way to burn a lot of calories is to do a lot of physical activity.

Edit to add: controlling diet is more effective than adding activity for most people in rich western societies because most of those people do not have the time, inclination, or opportunity to do a lot of hard physical activity every day.
Often it has been that Vulkan is closer to how GPUs work simply due to GPU manufacturers having to change their GPUs to work well with Vulkan. To for example add a co-processor to the GPU so that it can do job scheduling in a more Vulkanish way.

Vulkan was after all a spec from one GPU manufacturer (AMD), there are a handfull others with their own archs developed with their own assumptions.
Isn't it kind of rude to jump on an announcement of a project to claim that the project is too important to be run by the entity that incepted it and paid for all its development up to this point? Anyway, this very announcement notes that these fonts are now all on github at https://github.com/notofonts. Anyone who feels better qualified to manage the project can easily fork these repos.
Good question, one of many that if we had answers for I bet people would be much happier. Some of us don't control what comes into the house for various reasons, I know that's one answer.
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thanks, it makes sense now.

For what I understand, the isa pointer is sorta-kinda similar to a vtable pointer in C++.
Besides all the typical startup recommendation, I’ll advocate for something about talking to customers. Everything else is secondary.

- Mom Test
It's completely different.

Mass ownership only started in the 1960s/1970s. Before that most people were tenants. In the UK there were large scale council housing so people had moderate rent and security of tenure but they were still only tenants.

Again there is no human right to own property and that would not make much sense unless you want to create another scandal down the line of shoddy, worthless properties that were built in order to be affordable to people who can only afford £15,000 over 25 years...
And you will get 3mbps up.
Technically, it still is.
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I'm just fairly skeptical of this comment.

I understand that there are more models being thrown at the solution space, but if you think about people at jane street, while they don't have 3000 employees working on these, they've got a few hundred, and then if you think about the _time_ they spend on (the real, not this kaggle competition simplified stuff) models, I think there's a good chance that they'll have a significant advantage in man-hours (it's a full time job).

Also, while there is a high standard to people doing kaggle competitions, I think you can easily discard >90% of them as not being super competitive, then your 3000 models becomes 300, and those 300 have less than 1/3 of the time spent on them that jane street-ers are spending on their models.

(I realise it's not an apples to apples comparison, as the models they're working on are different since this is a toy example, but you said "will outperform anything that Jane Street _could_ come up with)
You shouldn't be tech savvy to have your right to privacy respected. We need regulation to compel companies like Apple to stop harvesting data they don't have legitimate need for. Any surveillance should be opt in only.
It's very far from the truth imo. There are diseases that are airborne, but most aren't spread by rotting organic matter. It also ignores the other routes of infection (eg. food/water). The only thing it got right was "disease can spread through air". The magnitude of the effect is probably off too. AFAIK the miasma was thought to extend at least a few hundred feet (ie. encompassing entire neighborhoods), but I don't know of any disease that can spread that far through the air.
I don't totally agree with GP, but I think their global point was that during a long time (all the 2010s ?) there was just no decent Mac Pro.

Outside of the Mac mini, the most powerful desktop machine was actually iMacs, with all the compromises that come with the form factor, and the trashcan Mac Pro who was thermally constrained.

In that period, no amount of money would have helped to get peak storage + network + graphic performance for instance.

We are now in a slightly better place where as you point out, throwing insane amounts of money towards Apple solves most of these issues. Except for those who don't want a T2 chip, or need an open bootloader.
Rent controls do not solve any issues. They certainly don't make it easier to find a home. They only tend to restrict supply and to discourage people from moving.
My experience with this kind of numeric data munging is that small errors like this can totally destroy the final outcome, even without considering the feedbacks between small errors adding up.

The article is diligent in showing the impact of the bugs. The individual impacts seem small, but the fact they found so many instances in one little function is beyond worrying.

For a little quantification, let’s extrapolate the number of such benign bugs (I make it about 1 per 30 LOC), to get about 500 in the whole codebase. Suppose each bug, charitably, has a 1/1000 chance of catastrophically distorting the result. The chance of no such bugs is a mere 60%. For an imho more realistic probability of 1/100, the chance drops to 0.7%.

If the code gives the right answer, it is by pure coincidence.
From some of the same authors: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala
HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948342
A little HN story. Prompts are italicized

> You open your browser to hacker news and find an article at the top of the page with the headline "Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance". You think to yourself:

"I can't believe I didn't know this before. This is going to be so much easier now!

> You immediately go grab your Raspberry Pi and plug it in...

You turn on your PC and get your Raspberry Pi ready. You power on the device and immediately you have a successful boot no issues from there. You navigate to the folder with the vk.

> "VK" you remember, was the directory where you were conducting your vulkan 1.0 driver tests, but now that full conformance has been announced you realize:

"Now I can start working on a vulkan 1.0 conforming game engine!!!" You copy and paste the contents of the folder you made in step 2 into a new folder called "Boom"

> You've been waiting to work on this for a while... You open a file called vk_1.c and begin typing in the code:

VK_ DECLARE_STATIC_DNS_FUNCTIONS;
VK_DECLARE_FORMAT_SIDES_IN_DEPTH_P3;
VK_DECLARE_SERIAL_BITMAP_TYPE;
VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_BUFFER_PIXELS;
VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_STENCIL_PIXEL;
VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_STENCIL_DIMENSIONS;

Vulkan is a very powerful graphics API, but it's probably one of the most cryptic, especially since they seem to be fond of using ambiguous names for things. You'll have to look up all these obscure APIs you're declaring at the beginning of the file.
Bill Gates sacrificed nothing to acquire da Vinci's Codex.

Dave Smith sacrificed a big screen TV to acquire a new motorcycle.

Which one has more value?
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Hello, do you know how or who should I approach in order to offer my studio's professional services (for free of course) for tackling this UI problem? I want to commit to this, but with some kind of planning, just blindly sending PR's seems like its not gonna be throwing hours go the void.
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There's a massive US centric bubble when it comes to Apple.
iPhones and Macbooks are not in the majority, let alone universal, with software developers as whole, just in pockets
And depreciation.
No GPIOs there, though.
I have no motivation to exaggerate. The game does run buttery smooth with no heck ups even in very crowded areas.
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A nation state virus that stole a cert is not a good argument against this , windows only started checking certs very recently please get your head out of the sand. It’s worked great for many years for us Mac users.
>everything goes on poles in Japan..)

Ah yes, the infamous wired mess in the Japanese media.
May be they have other channels which could or already do send device identifiter and Apple ID.
How do you know what _else_ they do ?

Who knew they were sending hashes till the recent malfunctioning? What _esle_ we do not know now?
Genesis may be profound, but evolution is not. Humans didn’t appear out of a void of randomness
We're going to try to work to change that. In the long term, our approach should help democratize property ownership. It should also create fundraising opportunities for new projects; either using LSH token as the shared currency or using a 'sidechain' (this can help to facilitate some degree of inter-generational wealth transfer).
Ask HN: Anyone here working on healthcare software?
I have to write an article for my elective writing class and I wanted to tackle the topic of the role of software during the covid pandemic.

I'm looking for people that works in the field of healthcare software to explain how the software they're making is helping during the pandemic.
> Some tools might be unavailable due to heavy traffic in this file.

The irony of that is, that simply posting a parameterized version gained a lot of traction as well, because the satire just hits home so well (the product is good).
Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis established nature preserves. You had to ask for permission to experiment on a worm not the untermenschen. They funded programs to populate the forests of Europe with Big Game like Bison

All political movements take the shape of the territory they occupy. When fascism arises it uses symbols of its host society. Indians won't use a phyrgian cap they'll use saffron
For what period, daily or per-minute candles? I have OHLC market close data going back to 2000.
How many G is a drop on concrete?
Any of the Udoo boards, most specifically the x86 Advanced Plus II. Plenty of GPIOs from the Braswell core, and another chunk from an integrated Arduino.

Its a bit more than 2x the price, but the flexibility and standard boot and peripherals it offers is worth the cost for hobbiest hacks.
The larger the program, the longer it takes to verify the first time you run it. I can only interpret that as meaning they are basing the whole program.

Source: me, downloading and running various apps
Agreed. I've always found the group social stuff to be contrived because the work is the only thing I have in common with most folks at work. That's not to say I haven't made friends through work but it's always been isolated and organic.
There is. When you live here it's easy to see it. Tensions have been escalating for last 6 months. Hence many changes in Foreign investments - esp. from China.
I tought you kept the docs updated at least as good (or close to) as the OpenBSD counterparts.
One of the pain points of Jitsi to me is the client-side muxing of media streams causing load shifted to laptops and phones, so not sure if Jitsi would work with this.
Another (albeit restrictive) way to consider the progress of science is asking what practical advances it has made that people value. Obviously the understanding that allowed us to create semiconductors and lasers has been put to good use, but, outside of biology, have there been many discoveries from science in the past 50 years, say?

I'm not saying that the only research worth doing is that which leads to an institution or company making a profit from the discoveries, but understanding the economic factors behind scientific research is helpful if we want to think about its future trajectory.

To go some way towards answering my question above, though, I will give the examples of graphene (isolated and characterized in 2004) and arguably the understanding from climate science about how the Earth's climate can vary with specific changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration (which has important policy implications).

Others can probably think of a few more, although there is much scope for debate about what counts as a "discovery" and "science". For example, public-key cryptography was invented in 1970s, but this could be said to be "merely doing engineering" or "merely inventing mathematical processes" rather than learning about the natural world.
> It sounds nice but it's just one non sequitur after another. A very sleek looking plane that is incapable of flight.

I like this analogy, especially because it alludes to the Dijkstra quote [1]. In this light it's probably unfruitful to try to create submarines that mimic swimming or that look like fish - you'll just end up with fancy looking stones.

[1] "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim"
Yeah, the article's last paragraph irks me... to reformulate it in the context of domestic spying, it'd be like saying "NSA's communication monitoring have kept you safe for years, now that you've heard of it, you decide it's a bad idea?".

Most people probably never noticed this phone-home feature existed, just like they never knew that NSA was recording everything. (Obviously anyone who bothered to look under the hood could've seen it, but hey, how many people do that).
Read again. I said the right to a home is a human right, not the right to home ownership.
I was in similar state a few of years back. Read these, and used them to a good extent.

Lean analytics. (must read)
Product-Led growth. (must read)
22 Laws of marketing (must)
One million followers

If you like scientific approach:
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Contagious (Jonah Berger)

This resource is also gold: https://brianbalfour.com/essays/customer-acquisition

I am also documenting my learnings in a book [1].

[1] https://book.amols.blog/59decisions
There are folks that exercise AT THE GYM for 2 to 3 hours DAILY just to out-train their diet. That's dedication.
To be honest I would expect if you told people "your TV will report what you're watching" they will think "wait, doesn't my cable company already know what I'm watching???"

If you tell them it's the manufacturer this time in addition to the cable company, I'm not sure how many would freak out over the extra entity.
These numbers are amazing. The fact that most of these aren't even native yet blows my mind.
Hoarding: More Than Psychological?
What does that even mean? Of course they can identify you, you are knocking their door with the same IP with your iCloud account. Maybe the file you are giving them does not have your uid, but as long as you have connected your Mac to your Apple account you are uniquely identified.
"People working on open source are hobbyists doing it their free time" is such a tired idea.

Here is a thought: do you want committed UX people working on open source? PAY THEM!

If every developer set aside a budget of 5-10% they spend on proprietary services to contribute to the funding of open source projects, there would be enough to attract hordes of UX professionals.

It amazes me how much of a premium people for, e.g, Apple products yet can not plan to spare 5-10 bucks a month to support R&D of open source.
If they wanted that information tied together, they would send it together. Otherwise they have to keep guessing about what goes together with what. That would make no sense.

And it was known this data was being sent.
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This thing is phrased in a really weird way. First: "The left believe the right are dumb and don't have values" followed by "Evidence the left are correct" then "They're as bad as each other".
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Apple itself is selling it's new chips as making faster devices. If only a niche want that speed, Apple probably wouldn't be pushing it as part of the pitch so hard.
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That sounds like bitcoin "hodling" effect, but squared in a cryptographically verifiable way.
No market anywhere can offer that
Lots of material sciences, also knock-on effects like CERN needing lots of non-physics related stuff done to the point that I have been using CERN's docs to work on automated pipe cutter in factory...
Not sure about the US, but here in Germany, the prices for NVIDIA 3090 are pretty much back to normal. I have an electronics shop within walking distance and they have 2 different 3090 onsite with the cheaper one priced at $1599. (NVIDIA's official launch price was $1499)

Also, it looks like some ppl had a lot of fun annoying the scalpers:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Truly-Custom-Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-309...

So I guess scalpers are only relevant if you need the ego boost of getting a Black Friday deal.
Considering how much my university(about 3k students) seems to struggle with their BigBlueButton install, I wonder if it's really that hard to scale.

Voice, video drop out all the time, loading takes ages, recordings only process 50% of the time - and they say that they upgraded the machine it runs on three times with 80 cores and 500GB RAM. Especially when the lecturer insists on using a document camera, but the bitrate of the video is so small that you can't make out anything.

Really not that pleasant, especially in a situation where you need to depend on it for every event.
Plenty of computers share a single public IP address. Plenty of computers jump IP addresses constantly. It is not at all reliable trying to tie IP addresses together that way.

If they wanted the information, they would need to send it.