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permanent fix: learn to use your uBlock-Origin quick element picker.

Every time you open a site and it shows a popup for picking your cookies, just open uBlockOrigin from your browser toolbar, click the quick element picker (eye dropper icon), click the popup.

Done. Now you will never see the popup for that site (even if you do not save cookies, or clear your cookies), and you are technically guarantee to not accept any non-essential cookies ever (if they follow spec)
I found this survey: https://www.builtinsf.com/salaries/dev-engineer/senior-softw...

Average for senior engineers is around $200K, upper limit towards $300K.

Why not just make it open to typing in the sum, at least optionally?
Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mIqFTizGMI
I think it's good you're correctly identifying the group actually making the decision, rather than vaguely blaming "Twitter" or even more broad, "cancel culture".

I wish more folks understood it's the companies themselves who are overreacting. Trying to fix people on the Internet is an unsolvable problem. Demonstrating to companies that outrage is almost always temporary and not business-impacting seems achievable.
Not disputing your other points, but functional programming is by most measures older than OOP. The FP hype now is definitely more a matter of rediscovering the wisdom of the past, and I think that's a good thing.
You don't need to create everything with modern AAA standards. Games like FTL show that you can achieve a lot with much less effort. You just need to be bolder. And i think being bolder is the hard part: games these days are more timid in their aprroach to than they were in early 90s, like always trying to stick to a working formula. Mashups of different genres like SC2 are somehow nonexistent.
I wonder if this is in response to (perceived) threats of pending regulation...
Isn’t it enough to just copy and then delete origin account?
Obviously, yeah, that's actually something I should have added. It just isn't a solution for most people who want to switch from X to Z. But of course it's awesome of everyone scripting and reversing these things, which takes a lot of time. They definitely deserve praise and/or at least a coffee.
We already spend a shitload of money on education here, and it's crap. Same with healthcare. Our spending is not the problem.

Spending more money on schools will not fix a social problem.
I wonder if the master recordings for WC3 were kept or still exist. Imagine taking them and remastering the game.
Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

The improvement is great, but I think the audio professionals jumped ship long ago to Apple, and they're not going back. I know of several music professionals plugging into their Macbooks or iPads as part of the pre-amp, but I don't know if any using Android. Google sat on this for way too long while Apple courted the creative professionals, and for any that have already made the upfront buy-in for Apple hardware, I don't see them taking the risk of switching ecosystems to save a few dollars for performance that still won't match what they're used to.
Lots of talk about shrinking the magnets required (which is a big part of ITER’s cost). Useful of course but the article doesn’t mention the big problems of neutron embrittlement.
Strongly agree. Hello World apps are great but it would be even better to see a Hello World tutorial that can actually be distributed to customers. You probably also need auto-update, native installers, code signing (notarization on Mac) and the ability to build native modules cross-platform.

This is a super-interesting project though.
Not to mention they're just fucking annoying to listen to all day in the summer.
What would proper truancy laws look like?

Taking kids away from parents? Jailing parents as well?

At some point I'm pretty sure that a sufficiently draconian "cure" is worse than the disease.
Absolutely agree! My points were more about the benefits of running code on your own machine rather than in the cloud or on a cluster. I don’t own an M1, but if I did I wouldn’t want to use it to train models locally... When on my laptop I still deploy to my lab desktop; this adds little friction compared to a compute cluster, and as you mention we’re able to do interesting stuff with a regular gaming GPU. When everything works great and I now want to experiment at scale, I then deploy my working code to a supercomputer.
I’d need to pass that question on to Atul (who made the parent project, NodeGUI). As long as Deno supports the same native API bindings as Node does (does it?), I imagine that it wouldn’t be out of the question.
The author's website has tons of before/afters!

https://www.drawright.com/before-after

Incredible results for only six days.
This is a rehashed generalization of degree vs non-degree engineers. If you write code long enough you'll work with both brilliant people who take pride in doing the uninteresting work and idiots who talked their way into big projects.
I hardly ever see a user of a blower actually blow stuff into a pile and pick it up. This is the part that makes me crazy. The wind is just going to blow it right back to where it was!
Are you referring to this submission? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23369999 Outstanding article. Total shame it only got 100 upvotes.
Yup. Anything bigger than 500mL or anything more vicious than a water solution gets an overhead stirred in the lab.

Magnetic stirrers are great for small scale or even larger scale if it’s just mixing water with acid (for example), but they stop working well after that.
https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=google&year=2020

Median base salary at google is 149, and there are plenty of offers in the 200-400 range with outliers well above that. From personal experience 140 is on the low range for 3 years experience in the major US tech markets (Seattle, Bay, Austin)
I feel like this is a point the HN crowd likes to ignore when it calls for governments to regulate certain aspects of tech. Do regulations like this really protect consumers, or just make their experience worse?
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Same here. I've even seen an increased number of Linux-based studios, oftentimes running Bitwig or Reaper. I don't doubt that audio latency can be a little high on some workflows, but I've honestly had a less laggy experience with Pulse than Coreaudio. Out of the box, Bitwig has a latency of ~8ms on my (Linux) machine, as opposed to 20ms on my Macbook.
not a bad approach, just make sure its not the 'how did he die' kind of story.
That makes a lot of sense to me. It used to be that writing a blog engine was the "Hello World" of a new language or framework. So, it makes sense that a SSG would be a good non-trivial project to use to learn or understand the pros/cons of a language.
Why does this need to be better than humans to be interesting?

It's still extremely interesting to me that a program can determine with over 70% accuracy a person's political orientation from a cropped photo, without taking age sex or race into consideration.

Among other things, it means it can do that to 10 million photos, which you'd have to pay a lot of humans to do if you wanted it done otherwise.
That’s true for the 2017 chart and probably was true in 2017. The 2020 chart lists Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi.
If we're only interested in one/"not-Mac/Win/FreeBSD" of those platforms, how small could we get programs down to? Is forgoing certain platforms supported?

Also, there was a really fantastic question asked in the last Cosmopolitan thread, but it wasn't answered; what's the answer to it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294721
Geosocial Networking Application Use Among Sexual Minority Adolescents
The most common results on this page indicate that it varies with buffer size, but could be 9-11 ms for iPhones. https://superpowered.com/latency
Both examples are very bad. Surely the “bias” in the rule referred to the person committing the crime, not the target. And the rules in baseball are neither laws, nor apparently enforced with bias. Seems like they’re not enforced at all.

Of course it would be nice with bias free laws in some abstract sense. But I’ve never heard anyone say it was an absolute precondition. Then we’d have no laws.
What do you think 'controlling for age [,etc]' means?
Aggressiveness is only indirectly related to testosterone. Testosterone makes a person defend status. Researchers have created situations where status is determined by generosity, and they found that in these situations the people with more testosterone were more generous.

Aggressiveness is only going to have that association with testosterone when aggressiveness seems like the best strategy to maintain status.
We'll think about it, many thanks!
Immutability and mutability of content, and expectations or conventions surrounding it, seems to play a large role in feasibility here. The successful examples listed are generally cases where content is immutable to the general audience (someone produces content and then publishes it to others) or the way content is mutable is "understood" by the participants. That is, text editors mutate content, but no one expects there to be multiple editors of a text file, and the convention of a file is understood and encapsulates the "state" of the data.

In the wishful cases listed, collaboration is the norm, so to make it BYOC, you'd have to expose core "mutation" API or else use a general convention that is understood across the board.

In my dream world, we'd be use CRDTs for data and the "schema" of the data for a given "service" (say something like Google Docs) is open. The data storage layer would be a commodity and you can swap in different providers as you see fit. Of course, there is no benefit to the creators of such services to do this, and I don't think CRDTs are quite there yet with defining mutation efficiently with respect to multiple collaborators. However, from a data portability standpoint, it feels like the ideal to me.
I guess everyone has a different experience, then. I made a sport out of trying to kill an old Briggs & Stratton lawn mower by doing no maintenance at all. Running old gas, never changing the oil or anything else, just didn't care. It wouldn't die. Well, except for the self-propelled part, that was always a nuisance. But the engine was indestructible [0]. I finally retired it after 20 years due to rust, but the engine was still going fine.

I have my share of electric battery-powered lawn equipment, but I've already gone through one generation of batteries which rendered the old equipment obsolete. And the markup on batteries is on the order of 500% compared to what a generic battery of similar chemistry would cost. It's an excellent racket, very profitable.

I wonder about the people here on HN buying Ryobi stuff... maybe they're onto something. Normally I wouldn't touch Ryobi with a ten foot pole, because it's trash. But OTOH, it's cheap, so maybe the quality of the tool will match up with the expected availability of batteries so the TCO isn't as offensive.

[0] If you haven't seen those old videos where B&S demonstrates why the Slick 50 demos were BS, you should. Lawnmower engines are way overbuilt, mostly as an artifact of their small size. They're hard to kill.
That’s pretty funny! Thank you for sharing!
> And of course mining for lithium as a fuel is still necessary, so you should perhaps say "no additional mining" or something.

True, but the quantity of lithium required to breed tritium for power generation is ridiculously low. Operating a DEMO-like reactor for 30 years would consume 2 tons of lithium, which is nothing compared to the annual consumption for battery manufacturing (around 30000 tons).
I’ve noticed that projects like this primarily focus on recruiting for software roles (which is understandable if they are shared here), but what are the roadblocks to listing traditional engineering roles (mechanical, electrical, etc). Lack of exposure to those industries (understandable)? Companies not offering relevant positions?
Best Electronics is a pretty amazing place. Here's an interview with the guy who runs it: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-5-the-atari-...
That actually sounds kinda impressive, considering [0] says a minimal standard Qt hello world app is ~5mb and stock node.js is ~100MB.

I'm curious what kind of magic is happening where node.js is in the picture yet the executable comes out at ~20MB. Is it simply a bundle of wrappers for most of Qt with Node.js being required to be installed separately? Is it purely UPX compression?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/450455/minimal-qt-execut...
Does Utah actually have that much market power? Could manufacturers just stop selling to Utah?
How to Shut Stalkers Out of Your Tech
And then Half Life came along and showed you could have a game without any cutscenes whatsoever, with story and expositional moments parts of the game you could still interact within the map. Listening to the security guards in the main hall, finding that button under the desk... and pushing it.
It crashed on a specific cut scene point for me every time. Didn't buy another game until Rimworld. Still so angry.
Probably https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2...: “Java — both its runtime and compiler — go into an infinite loop when converting the decimal number 2.2250738585072012e-308 to double-precision binary floating-point. This number is supposed to convert to 0x1p-1022, which is DBL_MIN; instead, Java gets stuck, oscillating between 0x1p-1022 and 0x0.fffffffffffffp-1022, the largest subnormal double-precision floating-point number.”
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that education is this zero sum game, and that by intentionally helping less privileged students, they're holding more privileged students back.

For instance on the math side, a focus on numeracy rather than rote memory gives students without access to extra out of school resources another set of tools to approach later math classes on their own.

On top of that, a focus numeracy also helps out privileged students as well and IMO actually teaches math rather than just arthimetic. It'll actually be useful in an age where everyone has multi ghz calculator in their pocket.

Everyone wins.

This whole discussion reminds me of the push back against New Math, where the changes in education were described by some as a soviet plot. No, we just keep making improvements to how we teach each generation, using the data we got from the previous gens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
A few resources for learning how to draw.

Books:

* Fun with a Pencil by Andrew Loomis (everything Loomis is great)

* Perspective made Easy by Norling

* Christopher Hart's books (friendly to beginners)

YouTube:

* Proko

* Alphonso Dunn

* moderndayjames

Websites:

* Drawabox

* Kazone

Podcast:

* Draftsmen (Marshall Vandruff is an excellent source of guidance)
That's one. Another showstopper is that all the energy has to be radiated through the wall of the reactor. By limits on this areal power density and the square cube law, the volumetric power density of fusion reactors will suck. Compare ITER (0.05 MW/m^3) or ARC (0.5 MW/m^3) vs. a commercial PWR fission reactor primary reactor vessel (20 MW/m^3). Stronger magnets don't save a reactor from this.

The large size and complexity of a fusion reactor also means their reliability is a huge problem. There are many parts and joins there, and the machine will be so radioactive hands on access will be impossible. A single leak of coolant into the vacuum chamber renders a fusion reactor inoperable (while a fission reactor can keep operating even with multiple fuel rod leaks.)
I recognize that this is a somewhat controversial opinion, especially given the downvotes you had when I stumbled across the comment, but I want to say that I agree and think our current views towards lawns, grass, and weeds are a point of cultural insanity.

I grew up in northern MN, and routinely people would spray disgusting pesticides in their lawns that would drift across the neighborhood, all to get rid of dandelions. Why? Dandelions are flowers, and not just regular flowers, but ones that kids like me enjoyed kicking or blowing on when they went to seed. These people created dead zones for plants and animals all for some bizarre aesthetic that doesn't even look good. I'm hoping newer generations will find big lawns as ugly and gag-inducing as I do.

Get rid of your lawn. Fill the space with gardens, mini-farms, and native pollen-producing plants.
Let's hug and cry. :D

Last time I blindly updated Spacemacs itself I lost an hour getting it back to a workable state, sigh. Learned my lesson since then. I do both: (a) completely back up my ~/.emacs.d to another directory and (b) write down the last-known GIT commit hash of Spacemacs. Paid off huge dividends half the time I did updates ever since.

I love Emacs but it seems certain things won't ever get resolved (like macOS slow rendering although that's like 70% attributed to huge fonts with a lot of emojis in them so I got that part sorted at least).

Again, thanks for the support -- much appreciated! I'll go through the links plus will try to resolve my Org Mode problem in particular -- eventually.
It didn't start with SA, it started with the blog post they cited and continued with studies about "feeling safe".
He's marketing his own company's stock as an investment vehicle for Bitcoin, shilling Bitcoin, and then dumping his own stock. He's clearly not planning to dump Bitcoin, otherwise the whole plan goes up in smoke.

Seems like a pretty sweet setup for an experienced fraudster.

https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/133755689074262425...
They regularly short stocks, then tell everyone why that stock is a bad investment, prompting people to sell off and tank the price, resulting in them making $$ on the short positions, so.......yeah?

That is literally what Melvin Capital was doing with GME originally, and that is what sparked the GME short squeeze back in January.
I’ll take pointless virtue signaling to moral voters for $100, Alex.
How the Cruel Moraliser uses a Halo to Disguise his Horns
To turn that position around, what is the appropriate number of jobs to have for someone with three children?
I'm not the poster who claimed the lower figure.

> They propensity score match against people who had the flu during lockdown

Any kind of stress can aggravate psychiatric disorders, substance misuse, and insomnia, and having COVID is surely more stressful than having the flu.

That's not the same thing as COVID causing the illness.
Perhaps. Though I wonder if every musician afford Macbooks or iPads. These things are not cheap, especially if you consider earnings of non-US based musicians, etc.

Disclaimer: Googler, but opinions are my own.
It's been decades since I used it in a practical way, but "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" - https://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671530... is a surprisingly great tutorial for learning. You can ignore the bits on dynamic drawing that are more geared for comics, but it will give you a lot of foundational knowledge of composition and observing. The chapter on perspective is still one of the best writings on the subject I've ever seen. Pair it with a good life drawing book.
I mean... yes? Just pre-installing/enabling some parental control filter on phones is way cheaper than even losing out on a few millions worth of sales.

It's pretty trivial to do since those filters already exist.

It will probably end with retailers having to do that at the time of sale, but still, it's perfectly possible.
Bye, Felicia.
I'd rather have a preactivated and effective US news filter on my phone.
This was my first thought. Assuming this bill even becomes law, it seems like this might hurt local retailers.
Because of this I imagine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_...
GP mentioned leaf blowers, not weed whippers. Of course electric weed whippers are quieter.
I got so good at WC1 by playing on a 286 and then being able to speed up my reflexes on a 486. I could read every bitmap.
The point is that you're focusing on the worst-case scenario costs, rather than considering that there are workarounds (faster commercial chargers, vehicle as less-polluting power store for mains-power electrical tools, manual tools that work better and faster in some contexts).

I think you understand this quite well.
Alternatively, could they close stores/facilities in Utah, and still sell to Utahans online? Commerce clause seems like it'd protect that.
I mean. I'll let my political colors fly a little bit here and tell you what I see to be as plain fact: the American dream you were sold when you moved here is a scam. The American dream, as it stands today, is a dead ideological notion that the wealthy in this country use to justify stepping on the backs of the poor in order to attain more, and more, and more.

Saying something like "choose to live in a nice neighborhood" is analogous to saying "if you're poor you won't be given access to good schooling" because poor people can't choose to live in a nice neighborhood, no matter how hard they are willing to work. Not to mention poor children. And you're presenting a false dichotomy here. We don't have to choose between rewarding people who work hard and providing good education to everyone. We are absolutely capable of doing both, we just choose not to because the system in place has clear benefits to the people who are creating/perpetuating that system. Much like the caste system in India. I'm absolutely, in very clear terms, not proposing we implement the Indian education system. That should be obvious.

What you're defining as American is very dangerous. You're saying quite literally "to be American is to have the individual right succeed no matter the expense to others". While that's a very Hacker New mentality, and quite obviously how America operates, I wouldn't call it particularly equal or meritocratic. If hard work was rewarded, the hard working lower class Americans who have three jobs would be given access to these neighborhoods and school-systems. But this is transparently not the case.

You seem to be someone who believes you should seek the rewards of your hard work, and I agree with you 100%. However, what you're missing is that the rewards system in the US is not designed to reward those who are putting in the most effort. Nor is it designed to reward the children who are driven and likely to be successful. The rewards and incentives in the US currently favor anyone who already has money, no matter what they are actually providing to society. And it certainly provides no opportunities to promising young children who happen to be from lower-class backgrounds... but at this point I'm just stating facts.
I thought Utah was a GOP state? What happened to 'small government'? This seems like shoving gov't down your throat.
I would if I were them. Let the voters drive to the next state over to buy their phones, see how they like it.
Finney on General AI
I've been following react-nodegui since it was announced and I really like it. In terms of memory usage it's the cat's meow; now there's a question of adoption and component / UI libraries for the ecosystem.

Perhaps a way to bootstrap that would be to align closer to react-native; at that point, we could use (js) components and libraries from react-native land.

The QT licensing question is also somewhat iffy; you need to put front and center what that implies for users of your library (do they need to open source their use of react-nodegui by extension of QT's licensing requirements for example).
two possible solutions (either / or):

1. https://drawabox.com/

2. book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Presumably, compliance with this standard would enable the "here's your shit" part of "here's your shit, now get out." for your "excommunication".
Sounds fine; it's their culture and prerogative. Probably a benefit to deter such consumption for as many youth and young adults as possible, given the negative impact on mental health.