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Gaming is my only use case with windows, and I am filled with deep hatred each time I have to boot this OS.
If it's funded by a non-governmental source, isn't it kind of an independent media outlet by definition?
That's not my diagram it, comes from the Financial Times of London

> If the vaccine has an improvement in 70% of hospitalizations,

You have misread the diagram. Multiply the first filter (80% against infection) by the second ( 70% against hospitalizations)

Fatality is _not_ the only very unpleasant outcome that can occur, your characterisation of the vaccines as experimental is increasingly false, and you ignore the way that vaccinating people prevents disease in others around them.

> Things are not going to end well for people like you.

Should I report your threat then?
> By charging a fee to drivers who can afford it and providing discounts and exemptions for those who can't, we can get traffic moving and improve transit, bike and pedestrian options.

Why should only those who "can afford it" (in whose opinion?) pay?

Are you running a congestion management program or racket on the very people who paid for the roads (middle class and above)?

> And by prioritizing travel, safety, and clean air improvements for the people who need them the most, we can advance equity in our transportation system.

If you charge low income people less or nothing, you subsidize pollution and don't "prioritize clean air improvements".

Just looking at the list of busybodies who took part in devising that nonsense plan makes me sick. You don't even have to see the details to know it's going to be another gem.
I know how to get around it, but many people don't. And it's similar enough in the warning that it gives that it seemed worth mentioning.
I work for a large insurer underwriting cyber.

For large companies the answer is a clear yes. At least we do this. It is not very complicated process, but depending on the IT/OT complexity it might take 1-2 weeks to gather the data since it usually requires the input from many stakeholders within the company.

What I'm always amazed by: companies think protection only when thinking about cyber. But that's not how an insurance thinks about. You have got to take into account what is at stake, too.
This reminds me of the movie The Name of the Rose, which I love. One of the characters was named "Jorge", and he was from Spain, so it was really baffling to hear everyone calling him "Yorgeh"... I guess they didn't have anyone on board who knew any better. Still love it.
I totally get it. The brain's autocorrect has "fixed" my last name (Harwood) for people my entire life. Hardwood, Howard, Hayward... and even stranger modifications.

Fun fact, I can't type hardwood without great effort.
> syringes

So that's what those piles of brown stuff are!
This reminds me of a quote from Raymond Chandler, describing a chess game:

> ..seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.
If you would offer $600k for an engineering position, there would be no problem finding any numbers of engineers in Germany. They all would have to line up behind me of course :).

Yes, to quickly ramp up, you would have to pay more than teh average market salary, but as you pointed out, engineering positions are not as highly paid in Germany as in the silicon valley. There is nothing preventing you from paying good salaries though.

Europe has a great supply of electronic engineers and physicists. The only challenge would be that currently a lot of semiconductor investments happen in Europe, but these investments don't happen because Europe is such a bad place to invest in. Including a great supply of engineers.
Yet they still build the Magic mouse as though it was a single button mouse so it doesn't actually have 2 separate switches, just 1 in the middle. This annoyingly means that clicks don't always click if you're too far from the center.

Apple has never actually built a mouse with 2 distinct switches for left and right click. It's like they are too proud or something and "right" click needs to be faked for some reason.
If you had literally more than $5 billion per employee under management, swiping a few billion because what are the odds of a bank run becomes extremely tempting…
If your case is that the judicial system and the media as a whole won't touch your issue (and the outlets that will are decried by society as being bigoted) maybe, just maybe, you're the one who is wrong and the entire rest of society is correct.
Depends on the industry, different industries get different unions. I believe the ones I work with are in the steel workers union, but since I don't live in Germany I'm sure. I just know they find their union worth it.
I'm not yet an expert on this, but I'm coming to the same intuition that the writer has so let me attempt to explain.

Let's say we have 4 domains, and 4 domain experts. P is product, B is backend, F is frontend, and D is database(this is heavily simplifying, I know there are many sub-domains within each depending on the scope of the project). Each new feature starts with the P expert working with the team translating the user requirements into what he thinks is needed. B and F communicate with each other. B and D communicate with each other. But since none of them have a shared understanding, the communication is of poor quality. You get mistakes. You'll find that if you had an PF expert the implementation would be 10x simpler. You get things where if you had an PBFD expert would be 1 million times simpler. Without the cross-domain knowledge you will never know when those simplifying measure are possible.

The problem with starting with a P is that the expert is basically starving the rest of the team of the knowledge that they have accumulated. They handle that work, it's up the the product expert to come up with the new features. And by putting that title on their head, and never letting the developers in, it tends to lock in place.

You are only as creative as your feedback loops, and your feedback loops depend on the bandwidth of communication. Within waterfall that might be months. Within agile that is a sprint. But with a PBFD expert your feedback loops can be measured in seconds.

You don't need PBFD experts, but it is very helpful to at least have translators. So there might be a PD expert, there might be a BF expert. That way you can get a reasonable translation of the requirement out. By taking on the team a Product Manager who is explicitly non-technical person, you lock that P in place. I think that's why we're seeing push-back to PM's where it's a general domain issue. P is a fine role, if you also have a PD, if you also have a PB, if you also have a PF. The Fullstack developer is already a BFD, why not also train them in the product?

The example I like to give is that Linus Torvalds created git in 10 days because he was a master user of Source Control and knew exactly what he needed while also able to create everything, while Microsoft's Source Control team had worked with hundreds of developers over years and couldn't compete. When you have hundreds working on a project the ability to communicate in a depth-first-search style drops to 0, and you are left to only breadth-first-search solutions. Metcalfe's Law destroys productivity.
Germany was setting an example, until they shut down their nuclear and went back to coal.
Because while TSMC is production, the innovation happens mostly with those companies.
Antiphilosophy works pretty well for the physicists.
Ahh, well no. I don't think Windows users are idiots. I think they're normal, non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal to pair their bluetooth earbuds because the BlueZ GUI was written in an afternoon by some rando and never worked right.

But I do admit that for programmers, I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows. I mean obviously there's reasons, but they're totally beyond me. Seems like masochism.
Yikes, I've liked some of Alan's talks but I think he's gone a little of the deep end with this one.

For me responsibility is a key component of getting shit done. You do need an environment where fear is driven or so that if someone feels they can not fulfil they're responsibility they can come forward for support. But in my experience if everyone is responsible for something it often ends up no one is.

Accountability should not nearly be as negative and adversarial as Alan portrays though it is admittedly often treading a fine line. As a leader i try to be accountable for my area of responsibility and aim to filter external blame from the team. I encourage my team to be introspective about our processes and to continually improve, I definitely don't find finger pointing helpful.
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Subnautica is amazing. The natural unease in exploring the depths of an ocean is something I didn't realize I would love until I finally got that game a few months ago. Also constructing your base in a modular way is good fun as well.
> It seemed like a good idea because back then the OS wasn't multi-tasking.

Of course virus scanners have been around in some form forever, but I believe always-on virus scanners didn't really take off until the multi-tasking age (and indeed couldn't—"always on" doesn't mean much without some sort of multi-tasking). For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#2000%E2%80%... tells me that ClamAV wasn't released until 2001.

Optional, "on-call" virus scanners are highly unobtrusive (though, like manual backup, only as reliable as their operators), and I can't imagine this sort of outcry against them.
Many consider the changes in vaccine recommendation by the STIKO (german panel for vaccine recommendation) as a bad thing. Personally, I like that they are changing their opinion based on new data - what else should they do?
Are you suggesting Merkel should have taken a second dose of AstraZeneca?
Yes. When I used to hike in the UK we used Naismith's rule [0] to figure out the additional time due to ascents / descents. We didn't generally climb or scramble and IIRC the rule gave us a likely minimum time, not accounting of course for breaks, really steep bits, goofing around, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naismith%27s_rule
Load-balancing seems... okay? There are other places that want growth. Win-win.
>Tether usually has 2-3x the volume of bitcoin in any given day. And no one seems to know anything about how it works.

I think these are both bad arguments. If the most used stablecoin is used for most BTC volume as well as other crypto trades, you'd expect it to be more.

>. And no one seems to know anything about how it works

What? People do know how it works, or at least as much as with many other projects.
They are low compared to the world. However moving is NOT easy for personal reason. If you are going to move from the countries you listed Germany is going to be easier just because it isn't as hard to get back to visit family.
In my view, if a tech-savvy person putting significant effort in still can't find a way to view the coverage, even if they have a subscription, NBC is doing a poor job.
If congestion pricing is not pegged on income or value of the car (both are tricky to implement), it is most likely a regressive tax. A flat low fee of 5-10 dollars will just remove low-income drivers from the street, making it more complicated for them to earn their necessary income to survive while having no impact on behavior of the higher income drivers.
As I understand it, the surface of the earth is commonly bombarded by muons (and lots of them).

Surface muons are used for imaging the Egyptian pyramids, among other things:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05254-2

Neutrons are much more dangerous, as they will readily be absorbed by atomic nuclei when moving slowly enough, and can form unstable isotopes that might decay by alpha/beta/gamma radiation.

Neutron radiation must be at much lower levels than surface muon bombardment.
Vaccine center in France vandalized with symbols of French Resistance
Even more shameful is how Hollywood feted the man and it took the MeToo movement to even bring some form of retribution for his actions.
I'm confused why you see it as fallacious. My logic was comparing the jurisdiction to charge a person for a crime they committed digitally upon a geographic region without having to be in that geographic region.

Could you say more why you see it as a fallacious comparison?
Ah. That’s very frustrating.

I’m not on Windows myself but I wonder if there is any workaround.

E.g. does it help to add the qBittorrent application folder as an exclusion to Windows Security?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion...
Because a media outlet that is trusted and good and has a significant following would keep people away from disinformers.

Unfortunately, we appear to have something towards the opposite - large media outlets that aren't good, aren't trusted, and are trying to manipulate the market (à la Youtube with it's now completely useless search and its nefarious recommendation algorithms) to stop people going to competitors who might actually be doing a better job.
Chkm8 was the first of its kind since the early days of iOS. It's not impossible but we'd have to get very lucky.
"/s" detected.

This is what's wrong with most US media: it's insufficient to portray X for its own value, a spackling of drama must be applied on top and that must take priority over X.
Agreed! A key thing that I don't think they realised is that the free to air rights across Europe always created an intrigue among the population that fed into the youth. No matter the background of a child in the UK, for instance, they would typically have completely free access to damn near every Olympic event.

That's gone now, and that's really sad.
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I don't understand why the Olympics have to be so fast. Build an insane amount of infrastructure, have dozens of events simultaneously all of the time, then ship everyone home.

I end up missing just about everything. If I want to catch some of the storylines, I really need them spoon fed to me.

If they stretched out the events over a month or two we would get double benefits - we could actually consume more of the events, and they would drastically reduce their need to build venues/villages/etc.
"agreed upon deliverables" is one definition of output. I think he is talking more generally, e.g. lines of code, over-long email, unnecessarily verbose documentation, ..., I could go on indefinitely.

But you are really arguing in general against such lists like this, that don't "examine the nuance". But perhaps they are useful discussion point or memory joggers. And shouldn't the senior members of a team or managers explain to novices the importance of meeting such milestones that you mentioned?
They invest the funds backing the Tether in dubious investments (mostly short term loans to unknown companies, but some precious metals, bonds, funds, and even some crypto

(all according to them, but completely unaudited)
Advertising ruins everything.
Yeah, but less likely frankly, because it's less likely the malware author would take the time to make a ransomware for Linux, though I know it's happened before. 1% of the market vs 80% of the market, which would you target? And of course, utilities being free on Linux negates the need almost entirely in any case.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-World-Will-Ru...
Nah, this is absolutely going to be added to people’s “reasons to leave San Fran” list.
It's bald-faced gentrification. Doesn't matter, the anti-car crowd on HN will support it because cars bad, especially those with vested interest in SF real-estate value, because money good.
I'd say this depend on where you want to introduce the encryption and de-duplication.

I'd lean towards 1, so each machine has a standalone encrypted backup, but 3 would provide easier access without the borg client for local backups, and better de-duplication if files are shared across machines.
Just FYI, the pictogram sequence was my favorite part of the opening ceremony.
One good rule I used to use and make everyone in my team use was when you get a handle write the 'anti' call at the same time. Good portions of the older windows API is allocate functions and destroy functions. If you write both at the same time your mental overhead is less.

many start using 'auto managed' style languages (c++, java, etc) where the life cycle is not as clear. The life cycle is the same though but you own it in an indirect way. Who makes it. Who uses it. Who destroys it. In some languages that is easier to do, others you own it front to back. When doing this I try to start with create/destroy then usage. It is a style that helps remove leaks before they happen. They can still slip in there...

I have used the common string thing a few times to help narrow leaks (does not work in all cases :( ). You also can use tools like valgrind, boundchecker, purify, etc. Think MS has a couple that I can not remember off the top of my head.
They still employ Cade Metz, who doxxed Scott Alexander.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...
Just look at the tether terms of service. A whole section on your representations and warranties as user. The reps and warranties that tether makes? "Tether makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees to you of any kind."
Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI
There is an executor project: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy

I'm very excited about this for one simple stupid reason: sleep(). Awaiting a timer delay deep inside some code is gonna be amazing. With typical sync code, you basically have to split your code and queue up the next work somewhere that would be picked up by the timer interrupt… basically doing the whole state-keeping that async would do for you.
The reason he got off was the train was about to blow through an improperly configured switch. He jumped off at the last minute to flip the switch mere seconds before the train made it there.

As people have mentioned with modern systems there is rarely one single point of failure. It usually requires the failure of multiple systems in close succession.

In this case the rails were slick with rain, the switch was erroneously in the wrong configuration, the engineer misconfigured his locomotive in haste, the engineer dismounted a moving the locomotive against policy, the engineer failed to board the locomotive due to the wet handholds being slick as well as the train picking up too much speed, and only then did they have the full on runaway train.

Changing any one of the above variables and there is no incident.
There's an app for that.

https://www.plivo.com/blog/snapcrap-how-built-app-solve-san-...
>I was told I was making stuff up and/or this is in 'best interest'

I read the comment thread. It's unclear which comment said that you were "making stuff up". There's also zero matches for "best interest" (your direct quote).

>that this only happens because these are 'uncommon applications'.

Relatively speaking, winmerge and kdiff3 are quite uncommon, compared to the normal stuff that people have installed on their computers.

>Pardon the snark, but this is BS and its really sad to see this shitshow being defended.

Are you against people defending microsoft on principle, or are simply unsatisfied with the explanations given? The explanation given (ie. unknown software -> don't know whether it's safe -> warn users it's unknown) seems pretty reasonable to me, as it fails closed rather than fail open. For a technical user that might not be an acceptable trade-off, but I also don't see it as an unacceptable default for non-technical users.
Searching for an app that lots of people already have installed doesn't seem like "significant effort" to me. If people don't want help or advice with this I don't see the point of this thread.
23 hours a day! And lots of live - of that's the middle of the night in USA/Canada
To my knowledge there were no major changes in the abacus industry in 2020.
Heres a better intro - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
Can we open source the Olympics?
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> AZ "is responsible" for the serious adverse effects (not blaming them - it is most likely due to poor application method and the vaccine getting into the bloodstream)

The AZ vaccine has been reported to contain protein impurities: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/protein-impurities-found...

Although no causal link to adverse effects has been established yet.
NBC has held the Olympics hostage in the USA. But the last time I made an effort, a few Olympics ago, I did try to watch the gold medal round of women's judo to see the American. I couldn't watch it because NBC was showing a qualifying round of women's handball: Poland vs Lithuania or some such. So much for USA-centric.

I guess you'll never please everyone.
China might be tougher recently but the this compromise was made years ago when China was weak and poor. In any way it’s a complicated 40+ years matter that has nothing to do with what China does recently.
Many German companies (BMW, Siemens, Bosch, BASF, ...) historically cooperate with unions like "IG Metall". Unions win benefits for their members, but companies usually pass these benefits on to all employees. These benefits typically include: 35-hour work week, regular and performance-independent salary increases for all employees, at least 6 weeks of vacation per year, parental leave beyond the legal minimum, training and job placement if your current job is eliminated, etc. If you are a developer working for one of these companies, the union contracts will always affect you, even if you are not a union member.

It is hard to tell if you are in a better or worse situation as a developer when you work in such a company. Many employees in such companies would like to have a 40-hour week, because that would result in higher pay. Unions, however, push to allow 40-hour weeks only to a small percentage of the workforce on the grounds that if the workload is higher, it should be compensated by new hires instead of overtime for existing employees, since more employees also means more union members and thus more power for unions.
What a stupid article - it doesn't mention which supplements are supposed to be causing these liver injuries.
Maybe some but not most https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-janitor-sal...
She (rightly) got the internship at the FSF the year I applied [1],
so now I feel envious every time I read about something amazing she did.

[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-alyssa-rosenz...
Aldi and Lidl are even expanding their foothold in the US I think, so they are probably quite competitive
Ask HN: I have a SaaS product with $300 MRR. How do I build a company around it?
I work solo, full-time on this product and have savings from a previous job to pay the bills while I grow my startup. My goal is to grow revenue first and after crossing some threshold of revenue start hiring people. I want to grow it into a business that I work on for the next 10-20 years. I would like to know what startup founders on HN would do in this scenario. A couple questions on my mind:

1. What are the top 3 things to focus on at the moment to drive up revenue -- product improvements, customer connection, marketing, etc.?
2. Is applying to YC recommended?
3. Is TinySeed helpful at this stage?
SML doesn't have typeclasses/traits, so it's fair to say "Haskell" instead.
All I want to enjoy the olympics is a schedule of events in my local time and the ability to watch said events LIVE if I choose to.

I tried searching for this when the olympics started and I gave up entirely.

Is there any ability to get this?