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I had to use Windows 2000 recently. The user experience was wonderful! Even on a machine that's two decades old, the UI was fast and responsive.

It was also very intuitive. Functionality could be found exactly where it was expected to be. And the UI elements were well-demarcated and sensible.

I felt so disappointed when I returned to Windows 10. So much of the Windows 10 experience is worse for me than that Windows 2000 experience was, especially the UI.
Learn Go in five minutes
I suppose it's probably possible for this thing to download and run some malware, but the VirusTotal results are clean[0].

[0]: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/826fca3edb8d883bb9710cabb...
Scihub is awesome but protesting copyright laws isn’t the solution, just like scihub is just a patch to the faulty system
When my son has asked me what he should do about courses or employment or even vacation choices, I answer that he ought to choose the path that gives him the most choices.

He has thanked me many time for that advice, which has resulted in a high-value path for him.
Signal is just another walled garden, no better than WhatsApp.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I generally don't downvote because I disagree. I downvote because I think a comment is detracting from the discussion.

It's my opinion (and feel free to disagree with me) that saying that your local 15 floor office building that was built a year ago is more impressive than the Colosseum doesn't add much to the conversation.
You can disable Google's Advanced Protection

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645981
Thanks for reading!

This is useful and I agree with you. It's almost a superpower if taken at the right times.

I think I would still drink caffeine if I didn't have headaches. I could have tolerated the sleep issues for much longer.
It's also one of the verses that inspired Voltaire's character Dr. Pangloss to declare that "All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds."
Just search for 'asemic calligraphy' on Instagram on your phone. You can scroll happily ever after.= leaving the web as you knew it far behind.
This is exactly my journey with tooling. I still customise my environment more than the vast majority of people - and write user scripts and styles for websites I use heavily - but I don't need or want to have every single thing exactly how I envision it.

It made more sense to customise when you had a limited environment you used and never much changed, but what's really changed is I'm twice as old now :)
> And yes you need to install application extensions via the store, so what?

Writing your own code and executing that is explicitly forbidden. Be it REPLs or compiler suites. That too would have to go through the store. Only interpreters are allowed.

The other issue is obviously that you can’t have an extension developed by person A for an app developed by person B. It’s very common to see mods, plugins, addons whatever you may call them on many other platforms, but Android explicitly forbids this.
Python is a beginner-friendly language with many books available.

If your associates use Excel, maybe they could be introduced to writing functions and subroutines in VBA? I know of non-programming financial traders who used Excel and picked up VBA without formal training.

Maybe someone can comment on entry points for web development.
Your two threads seem to be essentially the same thread. The "weird stuff" in entanglement comes pretty directly from collapse as part of measurement. If you drop this and go to something like many worlds then things look a bit nicer, but then you have so solve the measurement problem in many worlds, which seems quite hard.
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>These results show that free choice behaviour is well explained by an inference-based framework in which both utility and entropy are optimised.

Yeah, I LOL'd at this conclusion in the abstract. This is a great example of economics not being science.
Also, Email is username @protonmail.com

let's have a Zoom?
- price comparison website
- mvp already running
- 5 countries
- 7M products
- profiles, groups, posts...
- 200+ companies
- basic seach inplemented, parameters search
...and lot of ideas to implement/discuss...
- php, go, python...

Somebody with UX/UI skill and/or sale skill. It is no mini saas or small website. Somebody with real interest... i already invested several months.

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It's just a fork of LineageOS with some app changes
There is great incentive for Physicians to push "precision" medicine. The non-marketing word is called Authority. As they use experience rather than science.

Authority based medicine requires 10+ years of education. It creates a cartel-like system. It's seen in wages, favorable mal practice lawsuits, and Political power.

Science based medicine can be done with no credentials. (Taken to the logical extreme, there's likely a pragmatic middle ground). While science based medicine can reduce errors, the establishment of Physicians have been fighting against it.
> Yup, 6 months is a write-off ... any kind of reasonably sized existing project will take weeks to months before one can reach anything approaching full capacity

I won't speak for the GP, but I think you and I have differing definitions of "write-off". I don't consider all time spent below full capacity to be a write-off because, to me, "write-off" means "net unproductive". I believe someone should hit net productive well before it hits full capacity.
There are three ways:

- You repost yourself. It's a different submission with different ID and URL. It gets no special bonus.

- The system automatically reposts your submission. It gets an automatic front page spot (low on the front page), and it drops from the front page quickly if still nobody is interested. The timestamp of your submission is changed, so it looks new (this leads to confusion sometimes).

- You get an email with a special submission link. When you resubmit using that link, it's basically the same as #2, as far as I know.

I still don't really understand the difference between #2 and #3. Maybe #2 is triggered by super-users and #3 by dang? I have no idea.
54% of the sales of NEW cars. Not all cars in Norway.
The big blue box to the right says it all in terms of incentives https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/
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After a bad reaction to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, caffeine would cause a painful pins-and-needles sensation. Needless to say, I quit cold turkey.

That was over two years ago. I find that I don't miss caffeine at all. I am a slow caffeine metabolizer, so I couldn't drink too much anyway without getting jitters. I never actually felt awake or focused on caffeine.

Now that I'm on decaf coffee, I can drink as much as I want purely because I enjoy it. It was difficult to find high-quality decaf whole bean coffee, but thankfully I identified a couple. For a long time I used Slow Motion from Counter Culture. Lately I switched to Swings in the DC area because 1) they have at least three excellent decaf roasts and 2) I live a few minutes walk from them.
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>they require you to transfer your domain to GoDaddy

Not according to this page:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-your-own-doma...
Beyond the House of Cards caricature, Machiavelli is a philosopher of the people
Looking for mental sparring partner.

I have opinions on what the future looks like. I'd like to hear yours and see if there is overlap in our opinion of interesting customer segments and problem domains we could tackle together

Professionally, I am in leadership on the business side of a AI/ML start up. It's going well but I can't shake the feeling that I'm not actually solving any problem. I'm ready to take the dive on my own.

I would be interested in partnering with someone that considers themselves an Engineer regardless of what that looks like from an execution side.

Email is username @ protonmail.com
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Hi, I'm Suan. My business partner and I are both primarily devs and have a few bootstrapped products in the wild. We're looking to connect with individuals who have experience in some of [sales/marketing, bizdev, product, funding]. Our products are:

https://porterhouse.app - Mac app that sends mass individual texts using your own iPhone. Currently get a few signups everyday but with very bad churn. We're planning a relaunch next week with paid plans, a redesign, and ability to upload recipients via CSV.

Political campaign CRM (no public landing page yet) - Our focus is to be modern (the Slack to the HipChats in the space), and also make it really easy for political consultants to re-use and enrich their data across multiple campaigns and clients. It's been used on a senate campaign of a connection and that went well. A few features away from trying to sell to the masses.

https://wreckingball.systems - RFID tracking for the construction industry. Have the hardware built and awaiting approval from our first client.

I can be contacted at yeosuanaik at gmail
haha.. yeah can't argue with that.
Long postmortem on the virtual reality concert that happened in Notre-Dame
I've bootstrapping an ecomm analytics SaaS at https://www.sourcemedium.com/. There's already product market fit and the company grew to 6-figure ARR since May 2020. Cash-flow positive & profitable since day 1. Slated to double again in Q1 2021. Goal is to reach $1mil ARR with or without investment. There's decent amount of investor interest and growth has only been organic word of mouth so far.

The primary needs are someone who can head up R&D (BigQuery, DBT, Elixir, Node) and Sales. For the sales side, we need someone with extensive inside/outbound sales experience at fast-growing SaaS before (+1 if in ecomm space).

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A few months ago I wrote an article testing out the relative speed of Python's async options for web apis/sites (https://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html).

My findings were a bit controversial at the time as I found that uWSGI + sync Python is about the best option, largely because replacing interpreted Python code with native code is a very significant factor in the performance of a Python program.

In the following discussion (and private emails) I was stunned by the number of async enthusiasts who proposed raising the number of database connections in the connection pool by two or three orders of magnitude (I had 20 conns in a pool for a 4 cpu machine) for reasons along the lines of "the async app is starved of connections".

In my opinion that suggestion betrays a misunderstanding of what is likely going on in the database when you have 100s or 1000s of connections all contending for the same data: in SQL even reads create locks. Async applications yield a lot, by design, and under hundreds or thousands of requests per second there is a considerable buildup of "work in progress" in the form of async tasks that were yielded from and which have not yet been returned to and completed. Many hundreds of database connections is going to create an enormous volume of bookkeeping on the database side and is very likely to slow things down to a absolute crawl.

Even idle connections are known to have detrimental effect in postgres. Someone at Microsoft is apparently working on this and released this great blog post quantifying the problem:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...
> Frankly most organisations continue spending on digital ads despite seeing diminishing returns because they have had hired people, often at the VP level to do just ads. These people obviously have to justify their salary so they forcibly convolute numbers to attribute some revenue to justify what they do- which is running ads.

How the hell do I structure my empire so that it out-lasts my reign as obsessive good emperor? I am the one guy who can finally say, “I’m sorry, you’re a good person and a great VP of marketing, but you’ve done such a great job that you’re now just marketing yourself really and you’re fired.”
These are not the only options.

Funding of terrorism is still happening now, and their support is being funnelled through countries that are not under any economic restrictions, some even have good relations with US, like KSA. For example, most official fundamental/terroristic TV channels/groups are based there. Most shell companies used by oppressing regimes in MidEast are in the UAE.
Kia niro comes out the same price, electric sells the most.

Hybrid 405k NOK [0]
Electric 415k NOK [1]

0: https://www.kia.com/api/bin/docDownload?program=brochure&loc...
1: https://www.kia.com/api/bin/docDownload?program=brochure&loc...
Stimulus Debate: Trust Government Inflation Numbers
Microsoft Flight Simulator FS2020 vs. Real Life
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This smacks of the anecdotes anyone will have about someone they know (or a an acquaintance thereof) who's abusing social welfare. In reality, in most European countries, welfare abuse it at most 2% of all social welfare users and usually at 1%. The data just doesn't support large-scale welfare abuse. Is it shallow when people still assume there are huge amounts of moochers?

Now are there reasons why you might ask someone how long they stayed at their previous job? Yes, definitely. Does that make everyone suspect automatically? Hell no.

I don't have more data on the subject, so I won't draw any definite conclusions as to whether it is warranted to base someone's professional worth on the number of years/months served. My own experience shows only a very weak correlation there, and no correlation at all between seniority within a company and said company's attempts at retaining that employee.

I've seen people who had "ten years' experience" who in reality had done the same year, ten times. I've seen people who had three years' experience but were driven, looked into things on their own initiative and who outclasses those "seniors". It all seems to depend on what you're exposed to and, lacking exposure, what you'll subject yourself to of your own accord.

Have you read any studies on the subject?
Surely the fuel cost savings would wipe out the price difference within a couple of years?
Not sure what the average price of petrol is where you are though.

[Edit[ https://myelectriccar.com.au/calculator/ confirms this at least for a Nissan Leaf running in Australia.
> In the end, these are philosophical positions

Not really. Realist theories are actually just rhetorical sleight-of-hand. Bohmian positions, for example, are supposedly "real" but they cannot actually be measured, and this inability to measure them is not a technological limit, it is an inherent part of the interpretation. Bohmians essentially take the randomness, hide it in the infinite digits of a real (no pun intended) number, call that number "the actual position of a particle" and claim that, because it's "the actual position of a particle" that it is somehow "real". Well, it's not real. You can't measure it. You've just hidden the randomness behind some clever rhetoric.

> the reality is that we do not know

Yes, we do. The Bell inequalities and concomitant experiments show that quantum randomness is fundamental. You can hide it or sweep it under the rug but you can't get rid of it because it's actually part of our reality.
Think this is a great idea, quick q:

is this an entirely separate platform, or an integration to Zoom?

I think everyone has experienced the awkwardness of being in a company "party" this season, say one word and you're put in center stage for 60 people, really discourages participation.

I wonder how "natural" you could make the mingle, like if you're in one group and see three people chatting in another bubble (I'm envisioning a panel with all sub-groups in separate bubbles), can you move over non-chalantly? (Don't know why this came to mind immediately, I'm just imagining being trapped in a conversation at a party being 10X worse if there's no way to leave the bubble without everyone immediately noticing lol)
The US is wealthy, has lower taxes, and lower happiness than similar countries
The minimum size for an empty DMG I could create on my mac was 8Mb. If I make the DMG directly from the folder with the app in it, it becomes 1.2Mb. Maybe the developer uses a script that makes it this size.
And they pay for it multiple times over. They pay once for the researchers carrying out the work, and then they pay again for the reviewers, who provide their peer review services for free (i.e., not paid by the journal). Then, they pay for it a third time when universities (the government-funded ones, at least) have to pay exorbitant subscription fees to access the research.
OFAC sanctions are transitive.
> A support bubble is different to a childcare bubble and a Christmas bubble.
Where the Most Journalists Are Imprisoned Worldwide
I've spent some time in hospitals and I don't overestimate the <1% efficacy, but I'm still frustrated by the innumeracy of the discussion. There are biases in the other direction: medical professionals who watch 100 people die for every 1 saved become desensitized to death and round that to zero. They're not economists, and they don't understand the statistical value of life implies it's worth spending $20,000 for just a 0.3% of survival.
It may be cheaper because Zoom subsidizes the cost in which case net neutrality would increase the cost to the end user.
The magic step is basically "f* around and find out". The main observation is "the top part is flat, so you just fold over the corners to get them out of the way". That's easy to do for the first side, and hard to do for the second side without losing what you did.

His solution is to put it on the table so you don't have to support both sides at once. There's not really any theory to the next step, just sticking your fingers in the corners and matching things up. If he wanted to talk about symmetry he could probably slip some math in there.

As it is, "f* around and find out" really is how most of the progress in math and science are made, despite the after-the-fact veneer of the scientific method and presentation in journals. That's the part they always leave out in pursuit of justifying the truth of science and math, but it's really the important part.

That really forms the heart of a lot of work on the philosophy of science, which flips the old model on its head. That's actually worth pondering more deeply.
They are not subsidized in Norway, just exempt from taxes.
Same here as well. I’ve quit caffeine before for months and gotten over the withdrawal hump. What did I find? I’m not nearly as sharp and focused.

I always struggled to pay attention in class a few decades ago, and when I look at my college career I can connect the dots and match up massively improved academic performance with when I started significant coffee consumption.

Nowadays I’ve discovered my “dose” and rarely exceed it. Even with tolerance effects, it still provides that same sharpness and focus. Given the semi-recent vindication of its health benefits and neuroprotective effects, I see no reason why I’d ever stop.
Adding on: we are also hiring in India for these positions. If you're interested and based out of India please say so in your intro email and I'll pass along your email to my counterpart over there.
Topre, my dude!
This just sums up how tax payers subsidise EVs and some meme company takes the credit
> the government is spending something like 2.5 billion US Dollars per year to subsidize electric cars

The government currently does not charge import taxes on electric cars, but charges very high import taxes on ICE cars.

I wouldn't say that the government is "spending" that money. For sure it's a subsidy, but the Norwegian government is not actually sending checks to people or manufacturers if they buy electric. There is a cost to road maintenance that needs to get funded from somewhere, and that cost is not currently being borne by electric car owners. But using the phrase "spending" makes it sound a whole lot like a check is getting cut in some amount and sent somewhere.

(There's an ongoing debate about when to ramp up taxes for electric cars, and to what amounts, so don't expect the situation to remain as-is for too much longer.)
Thanks. I just launched the project last weekend. I'll start reaching studios in the next few days.
What is so wrong with Android that you trust it 10x less than iOS? What attacks are possible on Android that aren't possible on iOS?

There are also trivial ways to root ancient iOS versions with a web browser, too. In fact, I think that technique was more common among iOS devices than it ever was among Android...
The Netherlands gets wind, it isn't always good cycling weather.
A Plan Made to Shield Big Tobacco from Facts Is Now EPA Policy
I've been working on FluentCard.com - trying to build a better flashcard app for learning to read and write Chinese. The MVP is more or less done, and I'm honestly not sure what to do next or where to take it. I've been using it for my own studies and it's been very effective. If anyone's interested in teaming up on it, hit me up.
Federal funds support state efforts in eduction, and HUD's section 8 housing vouchers are direct aid to people.
I dismissed the notion that 2 correctional facilities that nominally are subject to a legal regime are in the same set as Camp X-Ray.

Well, we Americans until 21st century were repeatedly told that our way of life was in fact “morally superior” to “torturing” USSR. I can dig up the imdb link for TV shows in 90s that used that very line in discussing the Soviets.

[here you go: Stalin, 1992, Robert DuVall https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105462/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1]

> any sort of credibility

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=542354234235