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Were you wearing padded cycling shorts? Those are said to actually prevent the saddle from molding itself comfortably to your sit bones.

Me, I spend half of every year cycle-touring the world, wearing ordinary cotton underwear and Fjällräven expedition trousers on the bike. My Brooks broke in after 500 km without sores and only a modicum of discomfort, and after that it has been like I’m sitting on air as I ride.
A bunch of fully connected layers also "contains a CNN inside", but empirically CNNs lead to better performance on image classification tasks. When you can cut away an enormous, and mostly irrelevant part of the parameter space, that has a lot of value.
Except, the UK was allowed to leave, and the deal they got is probably not that different from the kind of trade deal they would have had with the EU if they had never joined.

The UK didn't revert to WTO rules in their trade with the EU. Instead, they got a deal that gave them fewer trade barriers with the EU than most countries have to deal with.
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1. It includes all workers, including janitors.
2. The unions goal more so here seems to be to democratize the company process over concerns that the corporate structure puts money over people.

>Everyone at Alphabet — from bus drivers to programmers, from salespeople to janitors — plays a critical part in developing our technology. But right now, a few wealthy executives define what the company produces and how its workers are treated. This isn’t the company we want to work for. We care deeply about what we build and what it’s used for. We are responsible for the technology we bring into the world. And we recognize that its implications reach far beyond the walls of Alphabet.
> I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled.

I know a bunch of folks have replied, but I'm another one. I remember back before JavaScript; I remember when Flash was the bane of those who cared about privacy or security; I remember when 'DHTML' was the buzzword of the day.

I actually have a lot more appreciation for what JavaScript enables now than I used to. It really is neat that we have this platform-independent mostly-not-completely-insecure app runtime. Pity that it is built atop what should have been a hypertext system, though.
The article mentions Bill Atkinson’s dithering algorithm, invented during his work on the original Macintosh. You can also read more about it here: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/dithering/

It’s actually implemented in BitCam iOS app by icon factory: https://iconfactory.com/bc.html

And Emilio Vanni did a neat e-paper display experiment with it here: https://www.emiliovanni.com/atkinson-dithering-machine
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> regarded by many to be one of the best macroeconomic thinkers

By whom? She doesn't seem to have a wikipedia page.
Does the AI still go crazy? The last time I played (~5 years ago iirc) it still did the trick of filling all possible space in an area with loops of train tracks (which are then impossible to shift later on unless you buy them out). Still my all-time favourite game though even despite that
This won't be a popular comment but if your entire business model is based upon the existence of FB, you should have had a formal contract in place, as well as dedicated points of contact. I can't imagine that someone with millions in annual spend couldn't require this of FB.
> not ok for the union to say "actually, we prefer but don't require you to stay home"?

If I prefer to work from the building, and the union is pressuring[1] me to stay home, that tells me the union is not working for me.

If the union were working for me, it might demand that work from home be allowed for those who prefer or need it, and that work from the building be done in safe conditions.

This is my problem with unions; it's fine if you fit with the majority, but if you don't you're paying a portion of your salary to prop up an organization between you and your employer that's actively pushing for things you don't want. It's just a different windmill to tilt at.

[1] When the union expresses a preference, and people are worried about the union hearing that they didn't follow the preference, that's pressure.
No, my blog went down from hitting the front page of HN
So this is some kind of blockchain thing? The article just kind of dives in and I’m lacking context, but it seems interesting. Can anyone give a brief overview?
bayindirh is raising valid points of criticism, which I think you can tackle without trying to raise a stink.

The point about scope e.g. isn't "weird dogma" imo, but very valid, because it has security implications for an init system.
The points you raise about unmaintained alternatives is also valid, but doesn't invalidate his criticism.

I understand you feel that systemd has been treated unfairly before, but I suggest you shouldn't try to match the level of spite and throw it the other way, especially when someone is very nicely bringing up what they are worried about.
Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636045

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627398
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But then surely - if you take the position that generally some kind of government and law is a good thing, and generally they're not out to hurt the everyman - the idea that anyone should be hiding anything (away from taxes) is destructive to the detriment of the things that hold society together (laws, roads, having the rubbish collected, etc?)?
Bitcoin does have a source of value: money laundering. That could be enough to prop up the value as new crime generates new dirty money which ensures new demand (you can include "evading capital controls" as "crime" but that won't generate dollars). That would peg the value of bitcoin with the general "dark economy", making bitcoin sort of Stripe-for-crime.

The speculative and tech aspects of it provide enough of a veneer to keep authorities from entirely cracking down (though banks really really don't like touching it!).

I dunno how long that can go on, it seems like eventually someone will start making stricter KYC rules and the whole thing will come tumbling down. The feds are currently sniffing around Tether, which might be the start. That or the bitcoin system invents another part of traditional finanical systems, the bank run (tether is already backed by loans and crypto neither of which will assuage depositors looking for dollars).
Well, the state said that the power is still with the state and not with some super rich tech companies.

We _ALL_ know the harm of facebook and _ALL OF US_ wished this platform would be shut down immediately. But the state has nothing to say here.
I thought in Germany it was pronounced "döner".
His Twitter account was created in March and he follows zero people. I'd guess it was created as PR for the IPO, and possibly controlled by others.
I can only offer my own personal experience: Matrix has been working well for me for a couple years now. However, I probably have a more narrow use case than you're thinking of.

I run a small homeserver and use it to communicate with a group of about 20 friends. Most of them aren't "technical" people. We use it mostly for chatting and image/video sharing. We never use live calling (audio or video).

There have been a few bugs in the mobile apps, but for the most part, everything has been working fine.

The biggest issue is the UX. It's not as polished as the big players.
It has, and I’ve been using it since its early days. I still use it. It’s still terrible, just slightly less terrible. And, no, messages don’t consistently send in 100ms on the default home server; there are regularly disruptions that cause significant delays, sometimes as much as 10-20sec. That’s a big problem for a federated chat platform.

Edit 1: I want to love it; the design is everything I could ever hope for in a chat platform. I even tried to contribute to Vector, but it was such a mess that I eventually gave up.

Edit 2:

> That said, Element could certainly use less RAM, irrespective of Electron - and http://hydrogen.element.io is our project to experiment with minimum-footprint Matrix clients (it uses ~100x less RAM than Element).

I'm not sure why this is a priority. Techies complain about RAM usage a lot, but if we have to choose between performance+power and a small memory footprint, we're going to choose the former almost every time. Take Telegram, for example: they have a bunch of native clients that perform amazingly well, although they do gobble RAM. Most of my technical friends use it as their primary social platform. It's not without issues, but it's really hard to go from something like Telegram Desktop or the Swift-based macOS Telegram client to Vector. And those clients aren't made by large teams--most (all?) first-party Telegram clients are each maintained by a single developer, if I'm not mistaken.
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> cuddles with your significant other

Not all of us, especially those living in endless lockdowns, have the privilege of having an SO lol
He is just benevolently chilling in the ICU with his 996 engineers.
The advantage China has is that they can plan over the long term without worrying about short term concerns. This means that they are in a better position to avoid the slide into wrong decisions that compound over time, though by no means immune to it.
> make it unhackable

This hinges entirely on control of mining, in fact you could argue who mines it is one of the most important questions to ask.
RIP Zhang. A change in 996 would spare China's young talent, reduce brain drain, and maybe lure educated people from abroad to help Chinese companies expand into new markets. I hope something can change, stories like this are heartbreaking, though not unique.
This is quoted form a different article, but am I the only one who sympathizes with this?

>Everyone at Alphabet — from bus drivers to programmers, from salespeople to janitors — plays a critical part in developing our technology. But right now, a few wealthy executives define what the company produces and how its workers are treated. This isn’t the company we want to work for. We care deeply about what we build and what it’s used for. We are responsible for the technology we bring into the world. And we recognize that its implications reach far beyond the walls of Alphabet.
The EU intends to introduce a similar system later this year.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/modernisi...
This is visually very attractive. Have you considered supporting uploading structured resume formats like FRESH?

Edit: also I want to emphasize the fact that this looks great on mobile, which isn’t something I always expect in this space. That said I’d consider bumping up the text size a bit (or allowing users to do so for their own profile).
I actually agree with you, but then Brexit isn't such a big deal then, isn't it.

The complainers are trying to get all the upside with none of the down.
Bitcoin is a denomination. Currency is a religion. The value is based on faith.
Probably also putting all eggs into one basket.
Muscle atrophy will do that for you. Things get harder and you do it less. It’ll be a challenge to get your muscles back to where they were.
This level of government intervention, censorship and alleged intimidation should be a warning to world-class talent and entrepreneurs who might be attracted to China.
I would love to hear the inside scoop on why this failed.
The cost of lawyers is >0 and the chance of winning is 0. Better to take whatever cash you have and walk away than sue.
>Any of those points could be applied to nationhood... except the part about Bitcoiners eating only meat?

Yep.

prophet: george washington

genesis: declaration of independence (doesn't have "genesis" in its name though)

sacred text: the constitution

saints and apostles: the founding fathers

holidays: july 4th, president's day

dietary customs: ???

schisms: american civil war

disputed claims to the crown: 2020 elections, if you count the presidency as "the crown"

fury and apostasy: "unamerican", "traitor", "russian asset", etc.

saying and incantations: "freedom", "democracy", "in god we trust", etc.
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I follow a lot of macroeconomic and investment personas on Twitter and in the past 2 years Lyn Alden has been a rising star. But she is still young and fairly new so it will take a while before you see her more often on CNBC.
I am lucky enough to have a wonderful local gym. High ceilings, well ventilated, padded running track suspended where the 2nd floor would be. Running machines (elliptical etc) on balcony overlooking main floor. Glass-walled classroom on other end 2nd floor.

Even the main floor workout machines are spaced out and all have views out the glass side of the building at the woods etc. Weight wall on one end with benches and mats, plenty of room, several of each weight. Clean, doesn't smell, well lit but not bright.

So it can be nice. But I don't live in a large city. We have room for nice places.
I read a few sentences and am wondering what an NFT is. I’m familiar with OpenSea but there really is not much explanation here for people not already deeply embedded in this world.
At least here in Tarrant County, we've seen less demand than expected [0]

I wonder how much of the "low distribution rate" is due to people not wanting it?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/in-tarrant-county-fe...
Ah, thanks; that explains it nicely
Why are they in camps along the border? Why are the Uighur? Did the "brown people" break any laws? Did the Uighurs?

Are the "brown people" in camps along the border a single, ethnic minority? Are all "brown people" in the country subject to arrest and under surveillance just for being "brown"?
What about dithering for the smallest possible images? I'm talking in the 300 byte - 2kb range here. Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do to really get file size down?
Oh for sure—wild tangents are fine as long as they're unpredictable, which is what makes them interesting. The offtopicness we try to avoid are generic tangents, the kind where people get sucked into the same argument about some topic that they always get sucked into. Those are the black holes of internet forums—it's best to steer clear.

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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
If you want to understand the broader macro story around bitcoin, go listen to Lyn Alden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_JmGLMjIOk&t=27s
Right, the data structure depends on the tradeoff being made.

Do you add or remove nodes as often as you traverse the graph? Then a dictionary/network-of-pointers make sense.

But generally, if you're doing that a lot, a database also makes sense which is why I don't like the tradeoff NetworkX made at all.

If you don't add nodes often at all, but traverse from edge-to-edge a lot, a CSR representation makes sense.

Adjacency array representations have other tradeoffs vis-a-vis CSR representaitons and are kind of an in-between solution.
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> Shared.com is in the business of producing and distributing crap content.

Isn't that essentially FB's goal too? Albeit crap content that hits your brain's pleasure center
Shockingly the human genome itself has not been fully sequenced, despite the human genome project completing years ago [0]. There are difficult to map regions of the genome, some of which are interesting. Only recent advances in long read sequencers have helped to solve some of these issues [1].

For the future to truly be amazing with one sequencing the lab prep, chemistry, and equipment required needs to advance. Oxford Nanopore has some advancements here [2] but it's still a ways to go before you could have a sample prepared as easily as an ultrasound or x-ray.

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> But that's a terrible idea, and it doesn't get implemented anywhere, because you literally choose people to represent the population and to make sensible decisions.

Haha. My beloved country has free healthcare, education and government social grants for women mostly and a lot of free actual legit housing for the poor. Don't get me wrong, the whole thing is crashing in slowmo for a few decades now because we really don't have anyone driving the vehicle but Jesus. I'll never abondon ship though.

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How do you know that this is not one of those cases when openmp actually helps?
That depends on your current job and where you would be working for/as the police. You could make 50k-60k and higher with promotions and overtime. Then you have to factor in the pension and other benefits (this can be huge).
"Lawyers for US authorities are appealing against the ruling at the Old Bailey, which rejected arguments that the WikiLeaks co-founder would not get a fair trial in the US but blocked extradition on the basis that procedures in prisons there would not prevent him from potentially taking his own life."

That's it. Nothing else.
The price of BTC isn't rising as much as the dollar is dropping.
I really doubt something bad will happen to him even if he is under CCP custody. CCP can't be that stupid that they let a successful entrepreneur with an amazing story and global appeal go missing.

Because if he really disappears it will cause talent drain like anything, which will be just stupid to the ambitions CCP has for PRC.
Not the OP, but I use a 40" 4k screen.

> How far away do you sit?

70cm - closer than a TV, further than a smaller monitor.

I have it wall-mounted on an arm, so I can adjust the distance if I feel the need (which is rare)

Browsers and IDEs and terminals all let you scale the fonts, and I apply a modest amount of zoom.

> How is a 43" screen for coding?

I like my 40" screen, and I'd recommend one to anyone with the space. I chose a single large screen in preference to a multi-monitor setup.

I'd probably have liked it even more when I was a teen with great eyesight.

> Do you use a tiling window manager to allocate all that space?

No, but you will often want to use multiple windows - CAD software and things you might still fullscreen, but webpages and suchlike don't generally benefit from it.

When I got it, Ubuntu let you tile windows with Ctrl+Alt+Numpad - alas they dumped that feature, so now I have to resize my windows manually.

> Do you use it for gaming at all? If so, how hard is it to keep track of everything on the display?

Yes, but I generally play slow-paced games like Civilization.

Many games scale up the entire UI with screen resolution, and you can always move your chair back if you want the small-screen experience.

Obviously, if you want to play fast-paced games like FPSes in 4K you'll need a $$$ graphics card; initially, I had a "4K capable" GPUs and it would run spreadsheets and web browsing and 4K video no problem - but not a triple-A FPS.

> Do you find yourself having to turn your head to keep track of everything?

With my seating I move my eyes rather than my head.
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I think you have to make a routine, rather than hoping one is provided for you. I am not a routine person, but for me showering, opening up Slack, and switching Chrome profiles is how I transition from "home" to "work". I don't do "home" things during work hours, and I don't do "work" things during "home" hours. Even though I'm at the same desk. For me, it works as well as commuting did, without 30 minutes of being frustrated at the subway.

(I admit that I do do some "home" things at work, like laundry. That mostly involves turning on the machine and tending to it in an hour, so not a big time commitment but nice to get done during the day.)
Also, this is a barrier that the EU intends to introduce for themselves as well (postponed to July 2021).