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How do you know those sweepstakes are illegal? Have you verified that the Paul brothers either have bad legal teams or no legal teams?
I just bought a nice new bong but I think I need to swap to vape. What vape did you try? I owned a volcano but found the bag to be cumbersome for semi-regular use.
If it could import existing QBO account I'd switch over right now.
Maybe https://hey.com?
> But if this issue goes unresolved for a long period of time, my employer might pay me to fix the issue myself and contribute the change upstream. That doesn’t sit well with me. We pay Google a lot of money to use their products, and having to fix bugs in those products ourselves isn’t what we signed up for.

If they ignored the issue, it's likely they'll ignore the pull request to fix it as well.

A lot of companies seem to end up maintaining forks of various projects with fixes.
I love the idea of domain specific browsers.

Congrats on shipping, will be monitoring this one!
Steve Jobs helped launch her career; Now, her startup brings in millions
It's not relevant. Unity is claiming an automated system for determining an optimal memory layout as entities with new combinations of components are generated (at runtime). Such a layout defined in advance would not infringe.
Hey Cameron. Here's another vote for PDF. With regards to additional applications I can strongly recommend adding as a first-class use case electronics design where summoning, displaying, comparing and extracting data from electronic parts datasheets is a huge part of workflow. Specific parts of these documents are typically the focus - eg. schematics, physical package drawings, tables. Adding a local (non-cloud) feature to auto-identify or quick scroll-through those to show them larger without manual zoom/repositioning as per current PDF viewer workflows would win many loyal users and should be feasible to build based upon open source OCR layout analysis engines such as tesseract. You may also consider for UI/UX purposes creating either voice input datasheet <MPN> and/or a popup search box with bangs: !datasheet <MPN>, !diagram <MPN>...
I would guess they are meant as consumables. The needles are 0.8 mm long and 0.35 mm wide, pyrimidal spikes. Definitely too shallow to cause bleeding but that's still quite intimate contact.
The alternative to an efficient labor market is an inefficient labor market. One with regulations, unemployment insurance, unions, all kinds of subsidies (education grants are subsidies for the labor market) etc.

Indeed, worrying about the efficiency of labor markets is a mug's game. We should be worrying about creating productive ecosystems and acquiring skills, and leave the labor market to be inefficient.
Your image of socialism is so tainted by state and soviet-style socialism that I think you need to dig a bit deeper into the history of socialism before assuming so much as you do. Bertrand Russell's "The Practice and Theory
of Bolshevism (1920!)" is a good start, even if just the introduction. Basically that it's a really clear contemporary criticism of it from other democratic socialists.

It's fascinating how uncomfortable it is for some to even acknowledge the existence of democratic minded socialists, even when we've existed as long as socialism itself (obviously).
Well the front page of HN won't get you 4.2M views today, but it's a pretty good real world test!
Computer Vision in Agriculture
it seems pretty clear that one is strongly related to the other... which like Elon's randomish tweets just goes to show how fragile and immature the crypto market is.
2 billion people use Whatsapp, some of them for purposes that are not as pedestrian as yours.

Private Whatsapp groups can include thousands of people and the topics can be anything from retail discount alerts, to COVID updates, to political organizing. That absolutely merits some kind of reporting capability, particularly if criminal activity is being conducted or is about to be conducted.
It's specifically archetype based ECS that's been patented. Like (seemingly) everyone else in gamedev, I've implemented ECS multiple times over the past 10 years. The last time I did it was in Rust, trying to be the first to use Rust's awesome parallel processing constructs to make an automatically parallel ECS, I got distracted halfway through and then specs beat me to it.

I'd never seen or heard of archetype based ECS before I first saw Legion and I was very impressed with it. I don't know where they got the idea but it's very worrying if Unity legit came up with this first. I'm not super up to date on what's happening inside AAA studios, but what I've seen in production is that game studios usually manually group components to optimise performance. The automatic grouping in archetypes is definitely not mentioned in any tutorial or game engine architecture I've ever seen before Legion.

Edit: creator of bevy has a great initial reaction to this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/pjtpkj/comment/hbzaz6...
That's a good spec for 4 bucks. With cloud hosting you might be able to push the cost down a bit with less CPU resource and memory.
> If you wanted to reform this in the existing world banking system, you'd need the US and El Salvador government to work with each other to some treaty which streamlines these channels; this would lower costs either directly or when competition arose

Major banks in El Salvador accept cheques from US banks, sometimes of them without any fees or very low fees. Main disadvantage is that it is slow.

I haven't seen this used as a mainstream remmitance channel though. But an Salvadoran American relative could give their family a checkbook and they could deposit it here.

This is for cheques though. Different from Panama and Mexico whose ACH systems are connected with the US Fed ACH system in a way El Salvador isn't.
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/what-is-stopping-you-from-using...
400,000 at federal minimum wage, 1.2 million below according to BLS. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2019/home.htm
Perhaps he felt he knew it to the extent that the problems posed weren't completely foreign to him and he felt his solutions were reasonable which was possibly corroborated through either subtle bodily cues of the interviewers or direct verbal confirmation.
I thought you meant stable as not collapsing into authoritarianism.

I called it stable because it was a kind of a democracy for all that time. It wasn't petrified like US democracy is. Changes were suggested and some were implemented for the benefit of the people and the system.

In Europe democracy wasn't our secular religion with founding dogma. It was just a good idea that was allowed to evolve rapidly to become better.

Whatever your response to this is, I concede. I'm way too ignorant about history (of USA and in general) to discuss those subjects. Apologies.
And let's not forget about the amazing commercial offering of Awk, known as Tawk (by Thompson Automation). To this day some features from Tawk cannot be found in Gawk.
Mothra in Plan9 or the gemini protocol as suggested.
I've worked at a major automative company in a R&D org of 5k people. Nothing in our org was "set up for ICE", and none of the suppliers would have been specialized for that. Keep in mind that a motor is only one part of a car, and even if you add other drivetrain related parts (exhaust, transmission, etc) it might barely end up as 33% of a car.

Infotainment is pretty much independent of the engine (apart from some icons/visualizations/settings here and there), as are most driver assistance systems, safety systems, anti-theft, chassis, mirrors, lights, wheels, brakes, doors, trunks, etc.
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It's not really a standard Apple play - take a new-ish technology and commoditise it, while wrapping it in pretty design and marketing glitter.

Making pocket/rucksack electronic doodads is one thing. Cars are on a completely different level of industrialisation, supply chain management, dealer networking, service support... and existing competition.

And the plausible market capture is much smaller.

It would be like Apple trying to compete against NEC, Fujitsu, and IBM with a commercial mainframe project. They could surely get a product out. But why? And then what?
Just ordered your book not been so excited to read computer history book since the folklore book about the Macintosh. Thank you for taking the time to document such a pivotal moment.
How did this make it to the number two spot on HackerNews?
In my experience "dedicated" means "put up with our BS"
Everything, even salt has some small amount of consciousness. That's why I refuse to eat salt.
Baltimore student passes 3 classes in 4 yrs, top half of class with 0.13 GPA
> prohibits all opposition parties

Not all opposition parties are prohibited. there are more parties in Russian parliament(6) than in US congress(2). Even after this year elections there will probably be 3+ parties in parliament.

> outlaws individual opposition to the state

it's not really outlawed still, but yes, we are very close to it

>extremely high degree of control over public life

no. There are very chaotic attempts to control public life, but they are not very systemic.

> political power is often held by autocrats

This sentence is like "democracy is when political power is held by democrats"

> propaganda is broadcast by state-controlled mass media in
order to control the citizenry

check for every country in the world
Not only does the backchannel save a company many man hours of senior engineer time (which has the bonus effect of not upsetting said senior engineers), companies often give substantial cash rewards to employees who's referrals get hired and stay for some period of time. I'm talking tens of thousands of dollars, it's pretty insane.
Well known but still interesting.

Nowadays I generally don't use any swap at all and find it annoying when distros/Windows create swap anyway. I mean if my 128GB+ or even 32GB of primary memory runs out, is it really going to help to swap 2GB to disk? And any larger swap than that is too slow to be usable.
iOS has a couple decent ssh clients, if you are into command line stuff. Blink and Panic both seem fine, although I'm sure I'll get some better suggestions now as that is the inevitable result of publicly airing an opinion on an ssh client. :)
> Isn't it intuitively obvious, though? At the beginning of the disk

Where's the intuitive start or end of the disk? I knew the answer was the tracks furthest from the center. Whether that was the beginning or end, I couldn't tell you.
https://ledgersmb.org/ (a cloud offering for this https://efficito.com/)

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

I haven't used these solutions much, just know about thier existance.
I do not see any reason why Apple would invest in making a TV when all of these TVs exist that already support Airplay 2.

https://www.apple.com/ios/home/accessories/#section-tv

And they sell Apple TV devices, which when plugged into a TV with HDMI CEC controls (all of them nowadays), renders TVs indistinguishable from one another except for picture quality and maybe how quickly they turn on and off.

I guess it is possible for them to integrate the Apple TV device directly into a TV, but I do not see the profit motive on the part of Apple nor the convenience motive on the part of the TV user as it is pretty easy to stick an Apple TV onto the back of a TV.
A world without McKinsey will probably be a better world.
Absolutely. Even a terrible Wordpress instance can be beautifully (and transparently!) cached behind either nginx or varnish with ease, in which case you’re just serving static html pages and can probably handle any traffic you are likely to ever get.
Jobs' point on simplicity and the clarity of thought required to achieve it is a valuable statement.

He was a master at removing cruft to reach the simplest nugget of UX. Simplicity where nothing further is left to remove. But, generally not so simple that it became silly.
> If you wanna pay your neighbor's kid $15 for 3 hours of lawn mowing, you still can.

Can you, though, legally? Or is it just unlikely that you'd get in trouble for it?

This also raises the question of why it's even ok to do this. Isn't this is why labor laws exist? I imagine if you called up a local landscaping company and asked them to come do 3 hours of lawn mowing, they'd charge you something on the order of $300. I think it's pretty safe to say that they're not doing 20x the work your neighbor's kid would do, or would do it 20x better. Even if you were to find an adult handyman on Craigslist or whatever, I expect you're not paying less than $15/hr for that, and often will be paying quite a bit more.

So for some reason it's socially acceptable to pay kids a pittance because they have no leverage or negotiating power, and because they're "learning responsibility" (sounds like "we should be able to use your professional photographs for free because it gives you exposure" or "this unpaid internship will give you valuable experience!"), and well... they're just kids, so who cares? It's kinda gross when I think about it.

When I was in high school (14-17 years old), I was a referee for my local youth soccer club. I took the same training (with annual refreshers) the adults took, worked alongside them, and got paid the same amount for the same work. The pay varied by the age level of players (older kids play longer games and the expectations for referee rigor are higher), but for most games ended up being around $25-30/hr, which was pretty good for a part-time weekend job in the mid/late 90s.
> It's abusive, anti-competitive behavior

I think it's abusive, but I don't see how it's illegal or anti-competitive. Why can't businesses switch to someone else?

I know migration is not easy, but that's true of almost any application.
If he was trying to launch a scam then he would have followed Venezuela's example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_(cryptocurrency)

https://www.investopedia.com/news/why-venezuelas-cryptocurre...
Wow, didn't expect this to hit HN! I'm the author of this project and super glad that it's getting some traction.

Under the hood, this is essentially a Python wrapper around JUCE (https://juce.com), a comprehensive C++ library for building audio applications. We at Spotify needed a library that could load VSTs and process audio extremely quickly for machine learning research, but all of the popular solutions we found either shelled out to command line tools like sox/ffmpeg, or had non-thread-safe bindings to C libraries. Pedalboard was built for speed and stability first, but turned out to be useful in a lot of other contexts as well.
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> Most cars are replaced because the lease was up on the old one.

From a bit of cursory research just now, only a quarter to a third of new cars in the last few years in the US have been leased rather than purchased, so I'm pretty sure this is not true. (Of the folks I know who've leased cars in the past, about half of them actually bought out their lease at the end, too, although obviously that's anecdotal.)

I think the rest of your comment's on point, I just think you're underestimating how many people treat cars closer to the way you apparently do. :) While this is again an anecdote, when I traded in a Mazda 3 after eight years, I was surprised at how many friends and acquaintances I talked to -- including other folks right here in Silicon Valley, making more money than I am to boot -- reacted to that as "only eight years?"
I'm also concerned about how such devices will affect and be affected by cavitation. Cavitation inside the skull has been found to happen in concussion injuries in explosions. It's also thought that it can happen with the smaller impulses coming from punches and everyday impacts. Are the devices subject to cavitation, particularly the long, thin parts, and what happens to those long thin parts inside the brain when they are subjected to cavitation?

EDIT: This device is only penetrating the scalp, but other devices like Neuralink penetrate into the brain.
I like the US very much and enjoy visiting the country more and more every time I come over. But let's be honest, some things could be better. Every place in the world has issues. I mean, it's illegal to bring a Kinder Surprise to the US!
Yea yea west coast states are a disaster. But why is this on hacker news?
This is a good, simple way to show how much can be done with modest resources.

Sometimes we see people fetishizing bigger and faster, then gatekeeping when people want to do the same work with modest means, whether it a four quid a month hosting service or a first generation Raspberry Pi. Not everyone has the money or desire for bigger & faster, and it's nice to see that here.
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Kurt Vonnegut reportedly sat next to an indexer on a plane once, who convinced him of the value of indexes. After that he made sure his novels had indexes
Apple executive Doug Field joins Ford
I didn't know this. It's absolutely bizarre. I wonder why Russia even bothers with elections -- it's clearly not on the bandwagon for western liberalism, which seems fair enough to me, but then why go through the motions?
Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring Engineers/Designers to Invent the Future of Programming
Between the time the court rejected a stay and the hearings next year, a constitutional right will be denied to countless people.
People have been talking about the Apple TV for many, many years. This actually sounds like a stronger case for Apple not making a car.

> can we make a version of this product that is differentiated enough to be meaningful in the market?

FWIW, I think the answer is 'No', unlike e.g. AR glasses or smartphones pre-2007.

Heck, Apple TV and the homepod each are struggling relative to competitors and apple really hasn't delivered anything innovative in those spaces. Aside from truly wireless headphones, I can't think of any successful apple product that isn't primarily a computer.
Why is there not a website that shows how much, when, and who? It may be a popular site. It may already exist. I havent seen it yet tho...
Would be nice if they totally skipped on VR and focused on AR applications. The AR space is so much more interesting with respect to merging compute with normal life (example learning a new instrument). While it's true that VR is still a very interesting space to explore in itself, Apple is pretty late to the game there, so instead of discovering what everyone else already knows, it would be nice if they invested in deploying something where they could lend novel discovery. Plus, hey, they are usually pretty late the party over all with GPU support.
As someone in dire need of a solution like these, can you help me understand how they might fill my requirements?

1. Completely offline use
2. No separate accounts
3. Stable interface
4. Straightforward payment model

I'm really looking for a next-generation Thunderbird, not some weird ML or smart task aggregator.

Honestly, just make iLife 2.0 while your at it. Just don't hold my hardware hostage this time please.
Your description doesn’t sound too different (if at all) from the face mask/ventilator shortage at the start of the pandemic. We didn’t stock up, and everyone tried to JIT purchase the necessary equipment.

Maybe we all have something to learn from Doomsday preppers.
The Quickbooks Accountant program isn't 'special access to stuff', but Intuit does offer accountants a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC), which allows them to easily work with many customer files with no complicated licensing requirements (as is the case with many other softwares).
I am cloud hosting using OVH cloud, I brought the server a couple of years ago now so they probably have some better specs for the price I am paying.
Things did add markdown support in the notes field of tasks recently, which might help you out a little bit.

It’s still inflexible compared to something that’s primarily document-based, but it’s a better than plain text at least.
#1 on HN and still up. That speaks for itself.
It is! It's crashed my analytics but the website seems to be doing fine.
Except that it might be, because if people knew how to do it, they would have for the past 20 years that ECS have been implemented in the games industry that is notoriously focused on memory locality optimisation.

(not that I'm advocating for the patentability of software in general, I just think that if software should be patentable, this sure seems like something that could be)
I'm in the same boat, I'd love to know what you end up with.

Personally, I'm leaning towards just doing everything in a big spreadsheet, but that's not great for many reasons.
> they are too expensive per hour to ask them to learn an entire new software program

Many of us here are way more expensive per hour than our accountant ;) -- but to your metapoint that the accountant is more expensive than a new quickbooks subscription, that probably remains true even in the face of the price hike.
Yeah I think it's a huge roadblock for Unreal. Though, I'm not sure that the patent would preclude a system which organizes memory layouts at build-time rather than runtime (though I could be wrong about that). Could be a good opening for Unreal, though to this point I think they've (disappointingly) shown little interest in any kind of ECS system.
It is a safe bet for the employer and ends up benefiting the employee chosen - the issue is that it can leave folks stuck "outside". Hiring is a messy process and anyone who says they only hire the best is lying to you - sometimes folks interview poorly due to having a bad day or end up being screened out due to automated software not seeing necessary keywords in resumes by blind chance.

However, the more you limit your hiring pool the more you're missing out on good folks and you can end up breeding a culture of nepotism within the company if you're not careful - where those folks that make it in from the outside are outside of the social group you're drawing from and end up leaving because it's cliquish.
If you had a publicly accessible server, you could SSH to it and vi todo.txt there. But I'm not sure this would be worth the effort of setting up...
I'm not sure there was ever an argument saying otherwise. The ease of processing X million requests is heavily dependant on what those requests actually do. Trivial use cases shouldn't be a surprise to have high throughput.
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I understand your excitement for being able to handle a decent amount of requests on such a small server, but just like many other websites that get on the frontpage of HN, your site is taking multiple seconds to load for me, depending on when I refresh.

As you said in your post, adding caching to your site increased your throughput by ~20% (or +10/req/sec). What you and other sites seem to lack is a more distributed caching, a la CloudFlare, S3 CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc. Those last two only really work well for a static site, however as mentioned in your post that's essentially what you're serving.

While I'm all for having a free-as-in-freedom hosting solution and keeping things lean, the internet is a fickle beast, and nothing looks worse for a company who posts on HN when their technology-oriented site can't handle a few thousand requests per minute. (Or in this case, when a blog claims to handle 4.2M requests a day -- 2.9k req/min)