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I’ve long suspected consumer willingness to pay _for things they value_

E.g. people pay heaps for entertainment (Spotify, Disney+ etc)

It’s about finding the line between whether the individual service is worth x% of their pay check or not

I don’t know how we ended up in this twisted “everything’s free on the internet” model based on surveillance ads but I hope it ends. I’d rather pay a reasonable amount for value.

The only question is how general browsing would be paid for.. maybe ads will always be there for some sites. Maybe we could do micro payments in the browser.. I don’t know.
In boxing, it is argued that not wearing gloves would decrease head trauma, too.

Hitting a skull with your bare fist is more likely to break your hand than to knock out your opponent, so bare-knuckle fighters won’t go for head punches as much as boxers do.
Thanks, I always appreciate it when you chime in. Looking back, did Atari Corp actually build any hardware (prototype, wirewrap, etc.) with the 320xx? Or was it just evaluation from the POV of reading datasheets and the like? I've heard conflicting stories around this.

That and the story about Atari talking with Microsoft about an early version of Windows for their hardware.
> If you think functions and modules as an example of what makes a code maintanable,

It’s definitely a part of it. This isn’t an all or nothing thing, one can learn good practices without encumbering their scientific work.
How much of that is developers doing it because they want to make something new?
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Yeah, the runs-in-a-browser thing is huge, especially if you want to outsource your bookkeeping. The monthly cost for QB online is crazy, especially when they want you to pay per-company. Be sure to post a Show HN for whatever you come up with please!
I run a windows VM in my Linux host for work every single day. When I leave that org, I just delete the VM and its files.
It's a horrible company that without reason keeps your money hostage. I still struggling to get my money back because you can't talk to a human
Indeed, and I have been downvoted thoroughly for it.
Getting the promised version (plus ~7 years of updates) as open source doesn't sound like a bad deal to me.
I just don't even.
The (big) difference is honesty. You know you should pay at some point in future if you use shareware/trial/demo and find it useful.
TAKE MY $2.00!!!
If you work in a bank, entering deposits and withdrawals all day. Or a shop that doesn't have a barcode reader. Or if you're an accountant. I suppose you could also argue for a special programmer's pad too. I mean, I play the odd FPS and I'm still happy with WASD so I'm definitely not gonna understand.
I mean, your "Besides IT endpoint management" comment is the primary reason that most of the jobs that I have worked at won't let me get a linux machine.
So if I hear the opening bar of either The Simpsons or Futurama, I can absolutely tell if it's been pitch shifted, even slightly. Some episodes of Futurama have a slightly sped up opening theme to make up for the episode being a bit too long.

This clearly requires the ability to distinguish absolute pitch, but isn't this something most people could do?
> What if you asked the person who would write that email to instead ask Docker if they can extend the grace period for you until you can get a contract set up?

I think OP's principle is that it will probably just be easier to switch tools than to push the $42k annual spend through the organisational mud to get it approved (depending on how muddy the mud is).

This is particularly true for a single developer that wants to start using docker desktop, if the rest of the org isn't already using it.
I haven't had a full keyboard with a numpad in years, but if you ever worked in any data entry job in your career and learned to properly touch type on the numpad it is wildly faster than touch typing with the regular keyboard and needing to use two hands to reach all of the numbers.

I suspect the utility of a numpad is increased while the off center problems are decreased for touchtypers which is why there is such a divide.
It's all Clevo based anyway. System76 doesn't go much beyond what they source. It's a shame, if they actually made the effort to design a laptop that went beyond its foundation, I'd be more interested. But instead it's Clevo guts, Clevo problems.

Looking at the AMD laptop linked...

Lots of empty space that could have been slightly optimized for a larger battery. It just seems basically thought out... not like consideration is actually put into the design and layout.
Maybe it's a good thing the selfish people aren't having kids.

Having kids used to be a positive economic decision as 150 years ago, most people were farmers. Extra children meant extra help on the farm and kids quickly provided a positive return on investment. Now having kids is a mostly privatized cost with socialized benefit.

I went to public school but other than that, the cost of raising me was put primarily on my mom's back. Now, as a 30 year old, I'm pretty sure I've paid enough taxes to pay back the public several times over. I'll never be able to payback my mom in any sense.

We absolutely need a future generation as our deaths are guaranteed. That being said, the self selection process may be filtering out some potentially awful parents as there's no longer money to be made by having kids.
Evergreen comment:

Don't forget to request your credit per their SLA[0]. You have 10 days to request your credit, which by my calculations should be 10% of this months' charge. Not a fair trade for leaving us dead in the water, but SLAs in general are worthless.

[0]: https://auth0.com/docs/support/services-level-descriptions
Interested in that too. I checked their blog, they seem to be talking about everything privacy except for this.
I’d like to see how employees split on this. People always frame it as if it’s the company fighting the employee want for transparency - but as an employee I do not want transparency (although that highly depends on the level of transparency we’re talking about which is also rarely discussed).

If this a vocal minority of employees that what transparency or a larger group?
> Apple made these rules when they were not a monopoly by any definition

Didn't Apple have the only app store for iOS devices at that point? For that matter the competing app stores of the time (for Symbian devices) were dreadful and all of them are long gone.
Living in California right now is scary, given our direct democracy.
That's possible, but the research studies showing clinical benefits from ivermectin have generally been small or had other methodology limitations. Other studies have shown no statistically significant effect. This is an area where we need some larger RCTs with multiple arms for variations in timing and dosage to definitively resolve the issue.

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989

For now the smart option for most people is to get vaccinated rather than expecting ivermectin to save them.
Thanks for clarification. It's nice to know that this approach is fully standard compliant.

(and that's exactly my point: the standard is hard to access for normal devs like me, so I can guess "some reinterpret_cast hack seems ok", but never be 100% certain until some standard expert confirms)
> If anything, it's a human entitlement, but that doesn't have the same ring to it, I suppose.

This is nonsense you just made up. Positive and negative rights are both rights, as is common understood in English but especially as defined within political science and philosophy. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Seems like many more services got affected including Doordash and Headspace https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Have you ever tried to get your friends to join you on some new social or messaging platform? And failed miserably? Yeah. Now try getting random coworkers to do it. And then try doing it without being allowed to tell them about it at work, over email, over slack, or over any of the other ways you contact your coworkers.
Have a re-read, it is not the Judge's opinion that he was unduly sensitive. The judge is showing a mirror to you, by your standards he is.
Inaccurate title.

The article actually says that a single drink increases chances of an irregular heartbeat episode within next few hours in people that already have this condition.
Thanks for the kind words and feedback!

Yeah, the photo tracing experience is the most contentious part of the app. Lots of similar feedback from lots of people. I will be improving that in the coming updates. The zoom/pan is definitely tricky b/c it conflicts with the drawing gesture, so panning isn't the easiest thing to accomplish. Again, planning to rethink how to make that better.

You should be able to long-press a sticker in the main view and get the same options menu for copying/etc.... does that work for you?

I'm also planning on supporting other messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegraph, etc...
Hasselblad vs. iPhone Shootout Shows the Importance of Lighting
Get to know does ksqlDB work under the hood
;D damn right….
Wanted to buy a css framework extension for 50$ - Mission impossible ..
I'd actually be really interested in what reformations could be attributed to the Trump administration when it comes to aspects of the justice system that disproportionately target minorities. I'm not very educated on the subject so I'd love some analysis available for a layman if possible. If not, a specialized analysis is fine and I'll just glean what I can glean.
I did data entry for a job. In my experience, the numpad was considerably faster and accurate. It has been a long time, but I recall it cutting down entry time by ~5-6x (yes, I finished my daily quota in about an hour or two, instead of all day). The advantage was being able to use multiple fingers comfortably, without looking (there is a nice nub on most numpads) and leaving a hand free for letters/tabs. But like anything, I'm sure there are people that would have a different experience.
>trying to start treatment

This is contrary to the directions given by the healthcare system, which generally tells covid-positive patients to wait until they have trouble breathing to seek medical care.

So they may be getting downvoted because they're essentially recommending cutting in line ahead of people that need more immediate care from strained ED / ICU infrastructure.
No, I still have kids in school. No point in retiring until all the kids are done with college (to make sure I can help pay for their college).
> Today a diagnosis of significant ADHD might have been given.

The hyperactivity component of ADHD is often expressed as impulsivity, so that fits.
As a (former) high level manager: your manager knows _exactly_ who her best people are, and she prays to dear god every day that they don't leave, because then she'd be SOL. This tends to lead to unequal distribution of rewards (and as some people in 2021 would say "inequitable" since the meme is now that everyone should be poor), but without this all business would collapse.

Note that I'm not talking about "old boys network" situation here. That should be dealt with at the cultural level. I'm talking about some folks being just legit amazing and making more money than I do because of it.

> I'm mature enough

If that's the case, you're _way_ more mature than most people. Most people couldn't care less how valuable someone else is or what they do, if they make $1K/mo more.

To some extent, the "levels" constrain the compensation ranges in most organizations. Those ranges get much wider the higher you are on the org chart, and sometimes disappear entirely for VPs and up. But this isn't about how much VPs get paid. This is about how much Joe from 2 cubes down the hallway gets paid, and why that's "entirely too much" and "unfair".

The best raises I ever got were due to changing jobs, not by pleading with my manager.
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Well, that makes it even cheaper.
> This isn't going to be a typical outcome for you or me.

Can you elaborate? What makes you say that with such confidence? Is amateur rugby non-contact?

Edit: Digging into it a little bit there does appear to be some anecdotal evidence of CTE among amateur rugby players: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/13/rugby-dementia...

> “I’ve seen quite a number of rugby players in the last five to 10 years with CTE pathology in the brain, and none of them has been professional – they all come from the amateur era.”

I don't think we can say definitively that CTE will be an issue for amateur rugby players but I think that's only because of a lack of studies not because any study has suggested amateur players don't suffer from CTE.
Every place I visited that had a volcano, has been an amazing place filled with natural beauty. Hawaii and Costa Rica, and Washington. I can see why people want to live close to them.
The meadows of Mount Rainier, The hot springs of Arenal Volcano, and Haleakala in Maui really stand out in my mind to this day.
You've been posting these repeatedly. Please stop. You're adding noise to the threads and undermining HN moderation, which is not cool at all—especially in the case of spammers.

When an account has an established history on HN, we tell people we're banning them and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Shadowbanning is reserved for spammers, serial trolls, cases where people are creating multiple accounts to abuse HN, and so on: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: I've banned your account because you've been posting nothing but unsubstantive comments, including a ton of comments like this. Definitely not ok. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
I'm a big advocate for simplicity. I think it's one of the most important guiding principles in software engineering. I don't care for Go mostly for reasons unrelated to its simplicity; I have respect for the latter, even for decisions like excluding generics. I think broadly that we need more simplicity-focused languages.

However, I find that simplicity's most vocal advocates often go off the deep-end, dismissing extremely productive technologies and practices simply because they appear complex when viewed from a certain angle. To use the author's own quote:

> There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Nothing is a cure-all. That includes a relentless focus on simplicity. If your language is minimal, it probably means you're going to have a lot more complexity in the code itself. Maybe that's worth it, maybe it's not. There's also no hard line between accidental and intrinsic complexity; the goal-posts shift when things get generalized at the language or library or service level. Both the complexity of the holistic system, and the complexity of what you and your team actually need (or don't need) to manage yourselves, have to be considered.

In short, the landscape is more complex (no pun intended) than the ideology represented here.
At my previous job at a national lab, we could access these charts that would show pay bands for each title, and had a dot for each employee in your department. Since you know your own salary, you could pretty easily see if you were being underpaid--although of course you'd need to take into account how long you had been in the position vs. your colleagues.
Level design was kinda fun back in the day of Quake/Half-Life/Unreal. Professionals or amateurs with enough skill can push out a good looking level in a few weeks to a couple of months. A good team of 6-8 amateurs can pump out a full map-pack (usually consists of at least 10 maps) in under 6 months.

Since the introduction of more sophisticated rendering engines level designing (and asset creation in general) has been pushed further and further away from modders or even professional themselves.

I'm not particularly sure whether this is a good thing or not, because nowadays people are still making maps and mods for legacy engines such as the first DOOM, first two Quake, the two Half-Life and UT99 (Unreal Tournament happened to contain all UnrealScript for Unreal and Unreal return to napali thus becomes the premium development platform for Unreal single-player modders, plus it has a better engine and more importantly a better editor). But when you go down the stream, the more modern the engine is, the more difficult to make mods for.
The journal's home page states that "The main criterion for acceptance will be the quality of the arguments given." The principles of deductive logic are pretty cut and dry, so evaluating the quality of a rhetorical argument boils down to (1) making sure there are no logical fallacies, and (2) judging the strength of the assumptions made.

I suspect that the vast majority of papers which are "unscientific, incorrect, or in bad faith" would be filtered out at step (1), at least if the reviewers are sufficiently adept at deconstructing logical arguments. Furthermore, judging by the content of the first issue, it appears that the editors intend to focus on topics for which the assumptions (2) can be plainly stated and understood by the average academic.
Point taken…and now I have about an hour more free time to go learn to play the hurly gurly.
Not sure if you're being intentionally hyperbolic...

But stimulus checks alone (ie free money for everyone under the income threshold of $75k) were over $3000 per person.

Additional unemployment was hundreds of dollars _per week_, on top of the standing unemployment benefits.
I think it's pretty clear that that is NOT the reason why <img> still exists. Otherwise, why not just discourage its use in favour of <object> while still retaining it for compatibility? But actually the opposite is true, <img> is encouraged because it is more semantically descriptive and provides image-specific features that couldn't reasonably be added to <object>.

If this line of thinking actually matched what the W3C believed, then how can you explain the addition of ANY of the new tags, for example, in the HTML 5 specification, since we already have the most general cases covered with things like <object> and <div>? Following this to its logical conclusion, why not deprecate EVERY tag except those? Why have tags at all?
Sounds like a reliable recipe for loneliness. All people, even the perfectly nice ones, occasionally misbehave.
It's not AI. It's carefully written content that converts and is engaging to read. Also much cheaper.
My girlfriend is Australian, stranded abroad here in Germany like many other Aussies.
I’ve bern following the news from down under for quite a while. I have the nagging feeling that Australia is currently the Western country with the highest chance of turning into Gilead.
> we do have a growing startup scene yearning for experienced engineers

Money is a bit of a problem and equity rarely makes up for it these days (most of the legitimately profitable business ideas have been done, what's left is either complete shots in the dark that are unlikely to succeed or grifting such as blockchain or "growth and engagement" crap).

Besides equity, the salary itself for software engineers is terrible in Europe (unless you branch off into consulting which while more lucrative comes with its own challenges).
> I live in the US without the fear of death in a mass shooting because I understand statistics.

Obviously you are making the assumption I do not understand statistics, which I do. There are multiple preventable causes of death that can simultaneously be tragedies, and whataboutism does not negate from the extremely high death toll and comparative probability from gun violence in the United States.

The comparison to cars is facetious because cars have the necessary utility of moving people about around the world and are highly regulated, whereas assault rifles have by comparison miniscule utility and regulation.
> Your overstimate what we protest for and the effectiveness of it.

I don't care, it's the spirit that counts.

> Also protests have been heavily repressed during Macron, it's becoming scary to actually go sometimes.

You helped us during our revolution. Maybe it's time to become state #51?
The title is not what that the author says. The post basically explain that it is close to impossible to know whether it is more transmissible or not
You don't even need to use HDMI or have a capture card; you can connect the camera with USB and use gphoto2/v4l2loopback to present it to the OS as a video input. With older cameras that have USB2, you will be limited to a lower bandwidth and resolution (200Mbps -> 1024x680), but it still looks fantastic, especially with high-quality lenses and shallow depth of field that enables video codecs to encode the out-of-focus-areas efficiently and concentrate on detail in the focal plane.
"Fee-fees"? Have you gotten this site confused with 4chan?
> You must keep the basic properties of strings in your head.

Actually I just call whatever the languages version of len, rest, first, strip, split etc. is and move on. Snark aside, when I'm using a language I don't keep the implementation details of it's data structures in my head, I just use the provided API. I think the representation of data structurs is a different discussion.

Maybe a more appropriate analogue would be how many features were used to implement a string library, rather than focusing on the details of how a string is represented in memory.

Do I need to be aware of 6 different potential ways to sequentially navigate the string? Is there a way to do it using a loop, iterator protocol, destructuring, pattern matching, coroutines, special string indexing syntax, etc? Or can I just use a simple, uniform consistent interface and build the library on top of that?
> The object tag is problematic because it has a single interface for every supported content type. Want to expose functionality? Can't, unless it's a param that is passed as a string.

On a markup level, that's true of any tag.

On a functional level, it’s not true of <object>, as the tag expects supported functionality to be defined separately for every type.

> Having a dedicated element type enables it to be used in many ways (like drawing images to a canvas) that an object tag does not support.

There’d nothing preventing the handler for a media type from doing that.
The docker daemon is easy to install on any *nix. Docker desktop doesn't really actually do much.

If you're on Windows, you'll need WSL. Enable remote daemon access on the internal IP, then install the CLI (scoop or chocolatey) and set your default context to your WSL instance.
So this report, touting additional hour of outside time (within the limits of curfew and for fully vaccinated families of course, we're not savages!) is a complete fabrication?

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-restrictio...
I've got to imagine most of the big companies do at this point. Amazon uses Slack as of about a year ago.
Some of the images in the article seemed to be high-res images that where downscaled to low-res (and it makes sense to see how the upscalling process changes the original), but wouldn't that make it easier for the ML to revert the downscaling process rather than taking an original low-res photo and upscale it?