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> One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p.

> It ended up being the last straw that pushed me to Ubuntu, and I've never looked back.

On Ubuntu, that would be:

$ Q=$($(echo /usr/bin/*rintf) \\x70)
$ echo hel$Q
help

right?
> PCIe tunneling

Hell yeah, USB over PCIe over USB over PCIe here we goooooo!
From what I have seen, it is more the hobby/semi professional range that has all the possible connectors built in whereas in the high end it is more modular and you buy different modules dependent on the connectivity you need. Especially if you need to fit it into a rack. E.g. you might only have some DSUB 25 pin connectors, but they cover dozens of analog I/O channels on minimal amount of space.
I've also been looking for a Ryzen that can be upgraded to 32 or 64 RAM :- )
The problem is that the big insurers are some of the most profitable companies ever. Just look at the lists of highest paid CEOs. As long as they can afford the most and best lobbyists nothing will ever change.
first hand report from 600km away: my windows rattled, briefly, and i swayed ever so slightly on my chair.
That’s bull.

I have a nasty medical condition that necessitates ER trips. I know all three ERs. There’s the good one, the OK one, and the terrible one.

The problem is I don’t get to chose my own insurance. My employer does.

I know exactly which doctors, specialists, and ERs are best for me.

Doesn’t matter. My employer, who is remote and employs nobody else in the state, has determined who I can and can’t see.

And they’ve done it completely blindly.

It’s a messed up system.

But the idea that people won’t avoid bad hospitals, including ERs, is untrue.
For NZ I'd recommend Mount Maunganui, Matakana, Omaha, Paihia. $500 NZD per week for whole place, probably $200 for room only.

Auckland rents can be same price (or even cheaper when compared with nice rural areas), but provides tons of dining options. Lack of good food in smaller towns is one of biggest issues for me IMO.
Again ? Universal healthcare?
Naw, BPF-verified BF. Or someone will make "BrainFuck Plus" so we can get BPF-verified BFP.
Exactly. Smoking wouldn't be so widespread if those "simple tricks" everybody is fond of sharing were actually effective. Delaying your next cigarette is as effective a smoking cessation tool as praying your deity to wake up tomorrow and be reborn a non-smoker. I'm certain it has worked for someone.

I have quit January 2020, and it's taken me 12 years of hating myself, 3 years of electronic cigarette, 6 months of patches, a pandemic where I was away from people and temptation and now the rest of my life of constant vigilance and fortitude not to fall into the pit again. I am happy and don't think about smoking anymore, but I can feel the good old mental pathway faintly light up whenever I'm a little bit distracted or vulnerable.

It's incredibly fucking hard to transform yourself back into a non-smoker.
You don’t get it. Working hard is not what a software company pays for. What they pay for is knowledge. The knowledge to solve difficult software development problems. The best software developers don’t work hard. They have the skills to automate most of the work.
Us men with wives like this are empowered beyond measure. Treasure your wives gentlemen. When I was thinking about making a change in my career my wife immediately said do it and supported me 150%.

I wouldn't be the person I am today or have the success I have without my supporting wife.

Thank you for sharing OP!
> What's wrong with a job just being a job, for most jobs, is that it's 1/3 of your life being spent there. What excuse is there to do stupid, monotonous, or worse - counterproductive stuff for 1/3 of your life?

Absolutely agree, but there's middle ground. You can work at a job that you find fulfilling, and believe to be something positive for the world, without it being a passion. My belief is that people who are passionate about their jobs are driven to do foolish things, like stretching that 9 hour day to 10, 12, 14 hours far too often, because "X needs to get done by the weekend". Passion can also cause people to wrap way too much of their identity up in something, and if they aren't calling the shots at the job (that is, if they aren't the CEO or at least a C-level), it can really hurt their sense of self if (more like when) that job changes in ways that make them unhappy.

Certainly, do something worthwhile, something that you can feel good about. But leave passion for family, friends, and hobbies. Or, if you can swing it, a company you start yourself.

(It's funny, though, because I think the workforce does need passionate employees. Consider that many non-profits are staffed by people who are passionate about the non-profit's mission, yet the majority of those people won't have a say in the direction of their organization. If no one followed their passion when it came to employment, a lot of those jobs just wouldn't get done, since they often don't pay all that well. So I guess in a way I'm grateful to the people who work their passion projects, since they help the world go 'round.)
“Corruption for everybody!”

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/corruption-for-everybody-sl...
Yep! The script was essentially:

* Invoke ruby program
* Find all in-memory dependencies
* Statically link ruby and the discovered dependencies
* Compile with an args interface with the Pascal compiler
* Spit out exe

This was for windows only if I recall correctly.
I don't know why but I really thought Australia was the most stable continent in the world (I guess thanks Education Queensland).

I have lived here my whole life and never experienced an Earthquake.
Hacker News has a real problem when it comes to trying to understand people with different backgrounds, mindsets, and values.
Injured woman with no memory a true mystery for Croatian police
That is an amazing thread. Thank you for posting it.
One shining light in the healthcare world is the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. It's a multi-specialty operation with all prices posted on their website. Pricing is clear and known up-front. The surgeons involved make a profit, and the patients are happy to pay their prices. Physicians own and operate the facility, pricing is transparent and set by the surgeons themselves. People come from all over the world, and the center continues to serve the public year after year.

No, it's not an emergency room or a labor & delivery suite, so it's a it different than the article on this page.

This is what free-market healthcare looks like: https://surgerycenterok.com/
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I bought a numbered print in 1993, the robot coming out of the egg and have it framed in my office, it's great!
thanks, im hoping to get to thailand soon, one of my lockdown covid hobbies was learning thai cooking
I've seen the same in Python, probably a dozen times. Sometimes folks think it's ugly (un-pythonic) but there's plenty of cases in the standard library to point to.
Why are you avoiding answering my question? No company wants to pay employees more than they need to. So why are they paying software developers a lot more than roofers? And why aren’t all roofers applying for “easy” well paid software development jobs? Why aren’t you grabbing one of those “easy” well paid jobs?
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A number that stuck with me is that a 2-week sprint for a team of 5 engineers roughly costs the company somewhere around $50,000 - $100,000 in labour costs.

When framed like that, paying $100,000+ per year for a service contract is likely going to be a lot cheaper than hiring the equivalent team to do it in-house.
Maybe the 1961 NSW earthquake? Though that one was on a Monday morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_New_South_Wales_earthquak...

Wikipedia has a whole list of significant Australian earthquakes, if that's not it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Austral...
This was an exceptionally long blog post to say “we don’t want to be vaccinated and have no recourse if we refuse during a public health crisis.” Compared to other countries, these measures don’t seem onerous (Australian lockdowns, United States employer vaccine mandates, 14 European countries having a similar COVID passport).
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ClickHouse vs. Pinot
https://www.reddit.com/r/bigdata/comments/pse4gb/clickhouse_and_apache_pinot/

Originally a reddit post. Wanted to see/have more discussion on this topic.
After skimming the link, what is the conflict of interest here?

He benefits if Apple and Amazon go up. So does everybody who owns an S&P 500 fund.

Does this mean that Pelosi has an incentive not to be too harsh in regulating the tech giants? Is that a big problem?

Or was the timing based on an insider's knowledge of when there would be publicity about regulations and when it would die down?
If you take quick stock, you'll notice that everything called a "system" is corrupt and absurdly dysfunctional. Then think about other areas of life that don't fall under a "system" and notice how they're not nearly as insane, and we often take them for granted, since they just work.

We need fewer "systems."
Do you know the difference between Causality and Correlation?
As expected, climatists and globalists are trying to blame this on the lack of wind (climate changes!!!) and Russians.

Who would have thought of that?

Sadly all those who didn't vote for the insane energy policies championed by those two groups are now paying the price just the same, and some of them will no doubt be "converted" to the climatist and globalist cause because how else can we stop this from happening again? Right?

It is most worrisome that even after exiting the EU the UK government has continued with idiotic climatist policies. Totally unforgivable.
This is wrong on all levels. Banality and evidence don’t sit across a spectrum. Hedge funds largely don’t offer sector exposure for balancing purposes in the general, and neither in this specific case. Paul Pelosi runs a diversified investment portfolio, not a hedge fund.
Isn't the title another click bait?

He said he doesn't see viability for 5000 cryptocurrencies and not cryptocurrency in general.

Of course no one thinks every dust coins have a future.
The "audit warnings" are unfortunately entirely irrelvant to a build tool like CRA:

https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/

The size of CRA is largely due to its primary dependencies (Webpack, Babel, Jest, and ESLint), which are normal parts of most modern web app build toolchains.

That said, there's plenty of other alternatives. For example, Vite uses a combination of ESBuild + Rollup for its build steps, and has only a relative handful of dependencies. As a result, it installs fast, and creates + starts projects even faster.

None of that is specific to React the UI library, though.
Nice article and nice looking product.

One suggestion for your website: more articles on general advice for how to sell on premise software and what types of business models work best depending on software usage patterns and software delivery. People don't want more features, they want more advice.
There are some towns nearby. Worst I've heard of so far is broken windows, cracked ceilings and the like. Definitely some potential for injury, but I haven't heard of anyone significantly hurt.
Here's a good introduction to Little's Law and associated operational rules derived from it on queues: http://web.eng.ucsd.edu/~massimo/ECE158A/Handouts_files/Litt...
You just summarized the main problem of quantitative finance: you need points to assert statistical significance. And thus why data providers with long history are paid so much.
I find this situation refreshing. The banker is uniformly applying criteria for a loan. Just because you're the surgeon general doesn't mean you get special treatment.
The blanket proposition that cryptocurrencies in general are going to fail is very different from your proposition, that most cryptocurrencies are going to fail. Look at social media: not too long ago, everybody and their cat was attempting to create the next big social media platform, and people were warning that it was all just a fad. And they were right, but people didn't stop using social media, quite the opposite. Social media is now more used and more important than ever, it's just that everthing clustered around a few winners.

That would be my prediction for cryptos: most of them aren't special enough to be useful, a lot are just pyramids schemes where the creators premined a big chunk and hope it will be worth something once they find users, but there's certainly some that are here to stay. I don't see the original Bitcoin disappearing, Ethereum is having a bit of a rough patch right now but has the potential to become a proper computing platform and I think privacy features like those Monero is offering are always going to be in demand. But we shall see.
Visit a few estate sales and library book sales. It’s quite doable and starts to feel immersive once you have two shelves.
Forgive my ignorance, but how is it overblown? The article discusses Facebook deciding to inject positive stories about itself into the news feed so that people think, "Oh, maybe they're not so bad."

That's what the linked image is designed to do. That it says "from Facebook" is beside the point, and the article even says they would say it was from Facebook: "People essentially see posts with a Facebook logo that link to stories and websites published by the company and from third-party local news sites."

The fact is that they're purposely injecting fluff pieces into news feeds to try to get people to forget negative news about the platform. The only thing the linked tweet does is confirm what's reported in the article.

Edit: Previous tweets in that chain from Joe also don't lend themselves to trust. First, the comment about how they didn't quote him for saying, "There is zero change to News Feed ranking," which the article never said would be modified - there's no reason to quote him on that if that's not the claim they're making. They only said that more puff pieces would appear, not that their ranking for where they are placed relative to other content would be adjusted. All they said was that you'd see more, and according to Joe's confirmation of it's existence, that's true.

Second, his comment about how the meeting never happened. The article cites six current and former employees as having discussed that meeting. All he offers as proof that it didn't happen is that the article doesn't name the attendees or the sources.

I'm sorry, but that entire thread holds almost no water.
I’m not sure honestly.

Companies are super risk averse. They’d rather use arcane tools with seriously battle tested guard rails. As an example, if someone hacked your email and sent them a fraudulent Bitcoin address, and they sent the BTC, they’d have no recourse. No way to reverse, nobody to even complain to. Corporations would much rather have those arcane layers to protect themselves.
Where did you get a NH36 for $30?
Google's FEC Filing Is In
They’re going to want to know how you want to store the information and how you plan to use it in the future.
These are four reasons why the governments of the world would want to ban crypto.
The Gann Principle for NFT and Web3 Communities
A loose confederation of 1.8 billion Muslims or approximately 1.4 billion Indians might have a thing or two to say here in the long run. It's not all about China and the US. Even more so as they both pursue policies leading to their own irrelevance in that same long run. But also; "Prediction is hard, especially about the future." - Niehls Bohr
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/new/
Strange it's so flat then.
There aren’t too many issues that are black and white, but the development of a vaccine that will/has saved ~280k people in the US and the rejection of that same vaccine due to willful ignorance (for a large part) is definitely one of them
That's quite interesting. But if I were to learn chording, I'd rather invest on a stenograph keyboard and learn plover. There's a bigger community and more resources to rely on.
If you're not careful, the data engineers team is often overloaded with requests from the analysis team.

With big data warehouse, more often than not, the fancy dashboards would not run fast enough without a dedicate pipeline that materialize data before hand. Too many useless dashboards and your data team would not have enough manpower to do anything else other than operating the existing pipelines. As a result, new dashboards become slower than old dashboards due to lack of maintenance/optimization, and everyone complain about the poor performance.
how about domestic partnership?
Become a freelancer/consultant. Also perhaps consider moving to a different part of the US. I moved from the lower peninsula to small-town Montana 20 years ago and much prefer it here.
In this instance, I don't think it's a problem specific to the HN community.
Sometime I feel half the same when posting on HN: mostly of the time got no response, but at least I can read posts and comments from others.

At least you can use it as a personal blog or daily journal when you write not for the purpose of getting response.

When the amount of content is built up, it will have higher chance to get response if you're still on the network, and followed the audiences back.
Yep. Reddit is pretty terrible if you have any opinion outside the approved opinions of the mods. You’ll get banned quick and it turns into a circlejerk dumpster fire.
It says that "Liveness detection will commence using a series of colorful flashing lights" - presumably that's designed to catch folks holding up photos.
For some, "Give me Liberty or give me Death!" is simply an anachronistic saying. For others, it's an important motto.
That sort of surprises me. On worldometers, Alabama's per capita death rate isn't that unusual. It's ranked 5th and roughly on par with, e.g. Massachusetts. And that's now counting Delta variant and its likely higher percentage unvaccinated population; I don't think I remember it being so high in 2020.

So what's the story? Higher death rate than other states excluding covid? Very low birth rate? It's also the case for other states and just not mentioned here?
>> You seem to be taking a highly individualistic view here

I don't believe in an afterlife. I also don't believe that the most effective way to accomplish something is to take yourself out if the equation. And I also don't place all my money on bets that I'll never know the results of. So remaining in the world is, among other things, the only rational way an individual can know whether their efforts bore any fruit.

>> which is not an appropriate framework

According to whom? From an individual's perspective, it's actually the only rational framework.

>> You do care about things outside yourself, don't you?

People or movements? I don't consider jumping on a grenade to protect your friends to be suicidal. I don't consider pushing someone you love out of the way of a train to be suicidal. But to set yourself on fire or blow yourself up to make a statement on behalf of an ideological group? Whose leaders are too cowardly to blow themselves up? Yeah, I have more respect for my own individuality, and more respect for life than that.
I see your point. It's easy to forget that a single state in the US is as large as an European country. And the federal government is more like our EU Government. Some far more distant institution to my daily life, where I also have some trust issues from time to time and less insight (still I feel like an EU citizen and don't want Germany to disband like some do, don't get me wrong).

Anyways I hope the US society will find a solution that fixes this sad situation. It's sad to hear and see such stories and think about the victims of such political failiure (not that such failure would not happen here too, especially the lobby influence an corruption is a thing in Germany - sometimes it feels like our Country is run mostly by special interest). The US once was such an inspiring country, I really hope you find a way to overcome all this.
>This was an exceptionally long blog post to say “we don’t want to be vaccinated and have no recourse if we refuse during a public health crisis.

That certainly is one way to read it.
Hospitals charge exorbitant fees because they know that insurance will only pay for a fraction of whatever they ask for.

The real crime is how much of our healthcare dollars fund a behemoth of a bureaucratic apparatus for this cat and mouse game where insurance companies deny payment on technicalities and hospitals file counterclaims and overbill to compensate. An obscene amount of money is burned here and not a cent of it adds any value to patient care.

This is a big reason of why we spend so much more on healthcare than European countries and don't have better results. And it's an excellent datapoint against the idea that the private sector is always less wasteful than the public sector.

As an aside, the vast majority of what the hospital does collect goes to the hospital itself, not to the physician. If the sticker of price a surgery is $50000, you can expect the surgeon to get about $1000 of that.
With all due respect, you're making that sound a lot worse than it is when compared to places that are genuinely earthquake-prone. Australia is extraordinarily stable in geological terms and well outside the Pacific Ring of Fire, which frequently generates earthquakes of magnitude 9+. And since the magnitude scale is logarithmic, M9 is 1000x more powerful than M6.

Yes, magnitude does not equal seismic intensity and all that, but Australia has never in recorded history experienced a M7+ earthquake, while Japan alone experiences one every couple of years and New Zealand has had 4 in the last 5 years.
Food is definitely unremarkable, but I actually enjoyed the cheesecake. The portions are outrageous though so better to get 1 slice and share it.
Go for it. Let your users make your market, you should just make a great tool/service.

If you're better than the competition you should be profitable, and if your maths is better you're better than the competition.

I would pay for it. More importantly I would use it. Not everything has to have a price as long as everything has a value.

It's funny because I was trying to sing a melody into Musescore just the other day and had to apply a bit of Audacity and then remember theory from secondary school to make it work. My middle-age voice sounds different to a computer than to my ears. If you could make this easy and accurate you would do every amateur song-writer on this earth a huge favor, though maybe not every amateur listener :)
And the very same system that is being trained to say a word is also being trained to recognize intent from intonation all the while. As soon as it can say it, the child will likely use that one word with different tones to mean different thing successfully.

We are insanely complex machines...
Sure but there are so many vastly different versions of Quran (because the author was illiterate and had to pass it on orally, over a period of 23 years) and paper was scarce back then. So no idea which one to start from. Open to suggestions.