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Because they aren't meant for you (assuming you're an engineer). They're meant for level scripting, simple prototyping, stringing together systems written in lower level (C++) code, and beginners.

They absolutely don't suck when used in the intended way. I'm not a fan of writing code in visual languages either (worse information density, slower to write the code, harder to debug) but if all you're doing is wiring up some triggers in a level? Hell yeah, it's great. Need to fire a bunch of events over time, maybe do some super simple code-drive animation? Timelines and latent actions are way easier than the textual equivalents. And extending it is dead simple which makes it easy to write something in C++ to be used from Blueprint.

It's also worth noting that Unreal's C++ has many of the niceties of C#. I won't say it's as easy to use (it isn't) or that Unreal gets rid of some of the eccentricities of the language or build system (it doesn't, and Unreal's build system - while nice - is incredibly under documented), but Unreal does provide garbage collection (and even reflection) which takes a big part of the burden of C++ away.
Why work for society's benefit at the expense of your well-being?

I once asked an Oxford-educated post-doc, who had worked as a quant, "are you going to go back to finance?" He replied that he simply doesn't know. He wants to do mathematical research, but both academia and industry stifle such ambitions. For the former, unless you're in the literal handful at IAS, you'll have to waste the majority of your time teaching, advising, and writing grant proposals. For the latter, one lacks not only the time, but also resources for research (seminars, journal access, colleagues, etc.).

The critical difference is that working in finance (or any ad factory) provides less stress and much more financial stability. Of the professors I've known, many work obscene hours every day of the week. Society will benefit, but at what personal cost?
this is a terrible analogy

the US purposefully withdrew per negotiations with Taliban - something almost everyone wanted but no president had the guts to do until now

sure the US totally failed in its mission and shouldn't have been there as long as we were (if at all), but trying to characterize it as the partisan failure (in the larger sense) of one president is just flat out wrong
Plasma looked good but it didn't handle suspend very well :( So I had to go back to Cinnamon.
This is indeed a negative feedback cycle:

1. Don't educate people about how to use computers

2. People can't use computers

3. Because people can't use computers selflessly offer yourself to manage it for them (without a any monopolistic thoughts of course)

4. Because people now cannot use their own computers, even if they would know how they can't make mistakes, innovate or learn

5. GOTO 2

I really think we should consider teaching kids command line in school, just like we teach them how to write.
Sorry for the delay. I would say it's a variety of things.

One, a lot of what makes India and Pakistan work, or Slovakia, are that there are class natives who can navigate the vetting process. This is huge and there are tons of Indians or Chinese in the valley who can fill this role but who are themselves demonstrated top-tier talent, not just people selling outsourced teams of unknown quality.

Second, English. English is simply an absolute requirement and one of the things that absolutely kills non-US teams is a lack of English skills. Chinese teams have a lot of problems here and it gets even worse elsewhere. Eastern European teams (Poland, Estonia, Solvakia, ...) tend to have competent technical leads (not salesguys) with solid english skills even if the average is zero. I deal with a ton of people who have marginal English skills, but there's a very steep ramp between Bangalore, Chennai, ... and then other options.

Third, and importantly, the populations are large enough that they can provide outsourced work at scale - I'm not talking huge numbers, I'm talking managing a team size of 30-40 people even with departures, etc.

Fourth, there's an honest question of demonstrated competence (or demonstrated good-enough mediocrity, more often than not).

Fifth, there's work culture. I know Indian, Chinese, and eastern european work culture. I know what to expect and there's basically been a selection process at work selecting outsourcing destinations based on what actually works.

I'm probably starting something in a few months. I'd much rather outsource to a common time zone with Pacific or at least eastern time. I wish I could find a way.
I think these apps still have a long way to go in terms of aesthetics.
Exactly. WTF? If I release an open source app I would LOVE for you to theme it, mod it to your heart's content, and have a party. Send me a pull request if you come up with something cool looking.
CBD vs. CBN: Benefits and Differences
Operators and for Loop in C++
To expand: the web gave us a mindset where developers and designers dictate to everyone else how their app will look. Beforehand, that was up to the OS, the windowing system and/or the user. Now, it’s fair to ask that problems with appearances be reported to the intermediate themers first, but this invasion of the web mindset is profoundly anti-user and anti-community.
One wonders what they could have accomplished with more tempered reports of what they had accomplished (that is, not fraudulent) and the likely less vertical funding trajectory that would have resulted.

I'm not sure if we're left having just washed a lot of time and money, or if it's worse and investors have been scared away still. Whatever the case, one thing it is is sad.
> apps can be arbitrarily restyled without manual work, which is and has always been an illusion

Sources? Win9x and 2000 were perfectly restyleable as far as I know.

This essay comes from the position of "the application developer should not be expected to make the application restyleable", which hangs on the above assertion. If the assertion is false, the argument falls apart, amounting to nothing more than pleading to change the social expectations.
Yeah, my threat model is common house thieves, not intelligence agencies or police.
Good thing we’re finally able to display text and images with all that hardware.
Usually if you have payed taxes for 5 years you can get the German citizenship with all it's benefits, iirc.
This one is worth $55k: https://opensea.io/assets/0xff9c1b15b16263c61d017ee9f65c50e4...

A brave new world.
>There are 45,000 people in Australia who are alive right now who would not be if Australia had the same death rate as the USA. So they're doing pretty well.

the idea that the difference in death rate is due to some intrinsic policy or mandated behavior rather than something more simple like population density/metropolis commonality/average temperature/humidity, etc seems like a pretty big leap -- and that seems to be your point , no?

is there already some big comprehensive list of social policies that provably worked to reduce death rate during the covid-19 pandemic across the board with environmental factors normalized out?

I thought we were still in the middle of this experiment, but i'd love to see some data if it exists.
Sure - as long as you provide dark/night mode.
Yes, one can’t really blame the individuals themselves. Especially when the incomes are double or triple that of academia.

It is a deep structural problem.
Be careful what you wish for, NSI. What would happen if you chynge jobs?
Reflections from Trello's (and Fog Creek's) Co-Founder, Michael Pryor
When I used to write apps for Gnome I would always test with all the available style sheets. Why would you test with just one? At least try an inverted (dark) and a low contrast style.
Interested but overwhelmed! Wow that's a lot of stuff to chew on, visually and product-ally. Impressive on both counts. Thanks for submitting.
> In free society law-abiding citizens are trusted to observe the law even without persistent surveillance.

for something like a pandemic, the public cannot be trusted to make a personal sacrifice for the public good.

As long as such surveillance is limited to such medical emergencies, and rescinded afterwards, it is acceptable. Of course, this requires that the citizens be vigilant, but the current protesting, and fear-mongering and misinformation is beyond just being vigilant, but is instead defying health orders and delaying the end of the pandemic. If that's not stupid, i dont know what is.
That's a misperception of the strategy, which isn't about keeping discussion "civil" (we stopped using that word years ago), let alone protecting oversensitive feelings, but rather about staving off the default tendency for internet discussion to turn into lame repetitive shit. We just want an internet forum that stays interesting instead of burning itself to the ground. Scorched earth is not interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

If you know a better way to do that, I'm all ears.

It might be good to first read some past explanations about why the rules are the way they are, so as not to repeat arguments that have already been answered. This subthread gives a worked, detailed example (but it's long): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161447.

A few other past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26157447 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22805993 (April 2020)
Yeah this also third world needs this kinda solutions where you can replace specialist with algorithm.
The Covox Years (2017)
Could be worse. I've been doing dev on a citrix desktop, where a single keypress can take seconds to register.
The article says clearly they are talking about distros that apply system wide themes without checking that all GTK applications still look good and not taking about people tinkering.

Distros do this because it looks good in screenshots and give the system a unique flare, but it gives all these applications a bad image when people try them and they look terrible.

Is the expectation that programs like geary should look at all popular distros and make style sheets to look good in all custom themes? I think they are saying they don't have time. People are stepping on their hard work and giving their apps a bad name.
Coming to her webpage without any further context, I'm having real trouble understanding her "Apple Story". It starts with her publishing an article[0] about her apartment complex being built on a former toxic waste site. And Apple immediately gets mad and starts retaliating against her? Why? What do they care about this article that, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with them whatsoever? What's Apple's motivation here?

[0] https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...
Honestly wish GNOME would leave well enough alone. The best UI is the one I don't have to maintain a configuration that fixes all their mistakes over the years. And it's complicated too, because they've got multiple places where things need to be configured back to a reasonable interface that doesn't hide controls or shadow common keybindings that have existed for decades.
That was a comparison was roughly for the same air cleaning rate. I think it has to do with the fan architecture. With purpose built purifiers using static pressure fans instead of air fans.
It's safe enough to let test pilots (and one attention seeking billionaire) into the rocket. That doesn't mean that it's safe for the general public. You can do all kinds of foolhardy nonsense with self-built airplanes without pissing off the FAA, but the moment you try and sell a ticket life is going to get unpleasant fast.

Also, this craft has, you know, actually killed someone.
> If you said "we shouldn't have corporate income taxes because they're bad for business" the Republicans would mostly nod along, and the Democrats would say, "Wait, hold up there. Of course they're bad for business, but the point is to raise revenue to pay for other things. Governments need revenue from somewhere."

Well, some Democrats would say that, but a lot of other Democrats would say something more like "Of course they're bad for business; that's the point! We hate business and we want to punish it for being business."

Note also that we just had a Republican president who focused heavily on imposing tariffs where there were none before, and we now have a Democratic president who approves of those tariffs and wants to keep them in place. So the perspective that both parties are united in disapproval of tariffs would seem to be somewhat off.
In principle the president has access to EVERYTHING. There is literally nothing he shouldn't have access to, at least within the executive branch which includes nearly all military/defense/intel secrets.

The only thing he does not have unrestricted access to is Justice department stuff (e.g. FBI), although there'd better be a damn good reason to deny it to POTUS if he asks, and legislative branch secrets which really infrequently comes into play. That's due to the whole separation-of-powers, checks-and-balances thing. But security clearances for everything in the executive branch stem FROM the president. If he wants to reveal some state secret, he can just tweet it with no consequences, or blurt it out while on the phone with foreign states. As Trump did on multiple occasions.

That said, of course there is a significant deep state bureaucracy which attempts at times to keep certain things hidden, even from the current president. But if the president were to ask about it, they have to tell him.
I’m the first author! I’m happy to take feedback and other comments :)
To be fair, I too have ended up thinking that free will probably does not exist. Yet everyone else and I will always continue to behave and live as if it existed, that is my consolation.
I also occasionally code using pen an paper, when facing a tough problem. Drawing the systems out, then physically writing out the code verbatim is a great way (for me at least) to develop a picture of the problem and develop a canonical solution. In addition to copying the code over, I also clean up and copy the notes over as documentation, either as comments in code or markdown.
Yeah I changed my Firefox icon to go away from the POS it became, I'm totally going to blame any Firefox bugs on my icon. This page is ridiculous.
I see their point. If they don't want their apps to pick up the system theme, I'd suggest that they provided a choice which theme to use, and bundled a good default theme, or several. For instance, GIMP and Inkscape do this, which I find very nice. GTK makes this easy to do.

Otherwise, I very much prefer when apps pick the system theme; on my desktop, both GTK and Qt apps look more or less the same, and I find this good from both aesthetic and ergonomic points of view.
Apps should be designed with the goal of being themeable. Applications need to supply hints and avoid e.g. icons with baked in BG.
I went from 'well it's OK' to 'I quite like this' to 'it's great!' in about 10 minutes.

Creating a new web account loads the tutorial page, but it's a little confusing at first how to add a node. Also, there are quite a few spelling and grammar errors on that page which will make an unfair negative impression. If you clean those up you will get more conversions.

Examples:

It's my job to keep your complicated brain neat and tidy and remember **things** for a long time!

Here's how you can **create** a neat Note Garden.

2. Structure what you have learned and put **it** in order.

I even take care of your knowledge so that you won't forget **it** for the rest of your life!

(The road to being a great gardener** was **not easy, but we did it!)

Note also in the last example how the bold markdown surrounds the whitespace. I highlighted this manually (and carelessly) but clicking on a word also selects trailing spaces. You should probably strip the whitespace.

On the landing page 'Write Smartly' is correct English, but people rarely use the word this way - although it is technically correct it feels weird, and you don't want to create that feeling on a landing page. 'Write Smart' would be better.

Also, you wrote 'Law students - People who study for a long time that should not be forgotten'. I suggest 'Law students - People who need to study and retain knowledge for a long time.'

These are small language errors, but they would be very quickly noticed by your target audience.

Finally, the desktop sign-in with Google seems not to work - it opens a blank window and then closes again. Maybe it is just from server load right now.

Anyway I like it a lot and will consider using it regularly. I am more of a pencil-and-paper note person but this is one of the nicest digital notebooks I've found.
Reduction ad horseshoe theory absurdum.
I'm pretty sure when Powell says inflation will be transitory, he means that inflation will spike and then subside to normal, positive levels. He's not saying inflation will be higher than desired, but then will drop below the intended target. So yes, prices are not coming back to pre-covid levels, but the current inflation spike should ease next year.

Now, I'm not saying I personally believe that, but I see a lot of folks twisting his words and it's getting tiring. Happy to be proven wrong if someone can show me a quote from him where he contradicts my interpretation of his comments.
> The restrictions on leaving Australia are particularly indefensible

if those leaving would sign a waiver that they may be refused entry back (e.g., people who left australia after the first wave, but decided to come back when delta variant first appeared), then it would be ok to let them leave.
>This is aimed at distributions breaking apps by default, not tinkerers playing with their own setup.

The objection here is that distributions are building incompatible system themes that break standard GNOME expectations and make applications more confusing for users.

They're not talking about individuals messing with their systems.
I don't use themes or a very heavily themed distro, so maybe I haven't seen egregious (mis)uses of theming.

That said, I absolutely agree when (if) it comes to theming actually breaking functionality (and the original developer having increased support burden because of it).

But asking distros not to style icons feels a step too far, in particular app icons. I appreciate when a distro tries to achieve visual consistency.
>I think it doesn't get used because it would increase the immediate cost, not reduce it.

indeed that is the problem in many areas. Almost always mgmt looks with "tech = fewer human = instant cost savings" expectations.

and anything that increases cost in the short term are shot down. sad . all blame on the cost-center vs profit-center mindset.
Of course. If someone themes your app. But if distro xy creates a shiny new look that breaks your app, you probably are not so happy.
I know one of the DoD sysadmins who was involved in making this happen, and have taken great joy in listening to her brag about it any time she likes. Never gets old for me :D
Actually one thing that is missig from tablets with inking support is exactly this.

For example, using Swift Playgrounds with pen instead of going through all the digital keyboard transitions, or the external keyboard.

As for the article, that is also my approach most of the time, and how I sometimes do coffee shop programming, with a paper notebook and pen in some pseudocode.

Then back at the home/office I actually try out the ideas.
I don't know why people are against this, it seems reasonable to me. If anyone goes beyond the intended usage (through themes or other modifications) then the developer shouldn't be resposible for supporting it
I'll add it to the list of reasons why Linux desktops have a long way to go before becoming mainstream. Brings back memories of jwz. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...

please be careful clicking this link from HN. He doesn't like the HN crowd very much.

I understand the app developers, if you have to support end users because unexpected changes were made not even by the users themselves, it makes writing applications painful.

> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.
What an absolutely wild opinion to hold! Kind of speechless at the hubris, especially in this context.
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I saw a news article that said modelling suggests cases will plateau in about a fortnight in NSW before trending down as the vaccinations start impacting the spread.

We are also vaccinating like mad right now. The vaccination numbers for the UK were about 160K, and for NSW about 140K, but that's for a pop of 67mil vs 8.1mil.

Our first doses for some age groups are also hitting 90%, so I'm taking that to mean there's less vaccine hesitancy here too.

NSW did have it's worst day, but I reckon overall we'll be fine.
> ERCOT also didn’t know it was shedding natural gas compressor station circuits when performing rotating blackouts, causing a cascading failure when natural gas generators were starved of fuel. That’s just plain ol’ incompetence.

And despite all that incompetence, they were much better at maintaining the power supply than north Georgia. That would seem to imply that the system is even better than the performance gap would indicate.
> Do you mind sharing some of your "Deep Learning Research" work?

To what end? I value my anonymity here. I wish there was a way to anonymously bet money on these outcomes. I'd bet you $10K (the cost of the thing) that there will be no "FSD" "later this year" like Tesla is promising.

It is also baffling that people still read Scoble who knows nothing about anything.
It may be possible to believe you don’t have free will, yet act like you do and to find meaning in life. After all, given how hard it is to even define “free will”, how can we know for sure whether we have it? Now recent research seems to indicate (note the weasel words) that we have less of this “free will” stuff than we like to think. Yet hopefully, if you dig a little deeper, we find something that qualifies as free will, even if we live in a deterministic world. Which we don,t quite; see quantum mechanics. But a free will based on QM seems no better. Who wants a “free will” based on randomness?

Please forgive my ramblings. I may have been reading Daniel Dennett too much, most likely with too little understanding.
Ah, the one size fits all approach. I guess the user better find a different app if he doesn't like the default themes. Lots of light and dark themes are sloppy and poorly designed.

Some of them have too high contrast which makes me see after effects of text everywhere on the screen. Some of them have poor contrast and require users to ruin their eyes. But no, let's assume everyone on Earth is fine with a single light and a single dark theme.
I have to thank Reddit to enforce login on mobile site subreddits. It has reduced my overall addiction to reddit. Now if HN does that, I will be able to reduce my internet usage by at least 30%.
this threaded view so much better though. maybe sort by time instead of votes would be better. once you got through a few pages message boards got unreadable