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I bought a mac mini with 8gb ram for $650. It significantly outperforms my company macbook pro which cost almost $3k. I run logic, docker, intellij, and it never complains about not enough memory.
Hinting is not really used nowadays; it made sense on low res displays, but not in HiDPI. You are better off with autohinter now.

Wrt weights, fonts are not defined in pixels; so adjusting for this is the easy part.

Yes, ignoring gamma is a problem, and I'm not sure whether anyone in Gnome/Freetype/Harbuzz is working on this; probably not. But this is a problem for low dpi and integer scaled hidpi too, not just for fractional scales.

Widgets slightly shifted also mean your mouse is going to be shifted, and quite possibly in different direction. Now, that's going to be a problem, that the users can clearly reproduce.
Of course.

It's interesting, though, how the CEO managed to present successfully to Steve without crumbling (no mean feat!) and still didn't have the sense to understand that Steve himself would not be negotiating the deal, just giving final signoff. A bizarrely rookie move.

Just based on these two anecdotes, I get the impression this guy simply does not have a feel for the etiquette of these negotiations.
Cool stuff!

Out of curiosity: how does the composition of the sort function work? Can you avoid knowing all rows at the point it occurs?
This machine is not new. I remember it being used to approximate my prescription when I joined the US Army almost 20 years ago.
There are no probabilities in the equations of quantum mechanics. The probabilities appear in Copenhagen interpretation of QM but there are alternative interpretations that avoids probability and use global hidden variables.
That's not what I'm saying. If a company hires a foreigner instead of an American then that American doesn't have a job. If they don't have a job they are unemployed. If they are unemployed then they are a net cost to me the taxpayer. If we reduce unemployment we reduce the tax burden.
It is amazing how things that we take for granted somewhere do not work in other countries.

Here in The Netherlands, I can walk in a shop and get contact lenses off a shelf. It does not even need to be a dedicated shop. These are available in generic care shops where you can also buy shampoo, vitamins, and even some medicines that don't require prescriptions.
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How did I get back to reading? The journey from 2 to 20 books
As a person who is trying to lose weight, a maximum BMI rule that made a lot of tempting but unhealthy foods inaccessible to me would actually be helpful. At the supermarket too. Bring it on!
An updated LLVM-based quantum research compiler with further OpenQASM support
Editorialised title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>That means if 1,000 elderly women take aspirin daily for a decade, 11 of them will avoid a heart attack; meanwhile, twice that many will suffer a major gastrointestinal bleeding event that would not have occurred if they hadn’t been taking aspirin.

Now can we openly talk about whether the adverse event risk:benefit ratio justifies vaccine mandates for a virus with 99.99% survival rate in healthy people under 40? Especially when efficacy has been rapidly and seemingly inexplicably dropping?
This rhetoric reminds me of the cynicism that a lot of, especially, environmental activists have. There are a lot of ways to make change. If you can prove that a drone can carry a dog out of a very hazardous environment then it's useful as our environment gets universally more hazardous. You're also casting shade on raising money or publicity -- my question to you: what major problem can be solved without isolated public examples and money?

Last, I'm fairly certain calling folks naive is against the HN guidelines.
You are thoroughly misrepresenting what Apple does. I initially thought you don't know what they do, but apparently you do very well.

Still: they scan photos locally - those are not cloud photos, those are local photos. And they have deployed the technical capability. You can bet that once capability exists, they will bend to government demands - there's ample precedent for that.

SO, yes, Apple, unlike all others, scans your photos locally. If they are going to be uploaded to cloud, or if they are forced to.
I really don’t understand the anger over usb c, even now. I got a single cable dock that handles all my peripherals. It’s not like they made that useless; it would still work and it’s still nice to have a single cable that drives everything. Even if I got a new MBP I’d continue to use USB-C, because it’s a better UX.

Hell, you can now buy monitors that work only with USB-C. It’s clearly the way everything is going, Apple just moved a bit too fast.
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> My understanding is its only before you can sponsor a visa. H1 transfers do not require such efforts.

What do you mean H1 transfers?

You need to prove that there are no US citizens able to fill the role before you sponsor a H1 visa. You also need to do the same thing again (only much more detailed, including prevailing wage determination yada yada) before you can sponsor for permanent residency.

L1 (intra-company transfers) also require proving that there are no better candidates (in the US company) that can do the same job. Including specifying all the skills and how many people you employ in the US that have those skills.

> The other way companies do this: creating job ads that look impossible to fill by requiring 5 years of experience in a technology that's only been around for 2 years.

If this is true (it probably isn't) why haven't you notified the Department of Labor and USCIS? They will be very interested.
It's real: https://web.archive.org/web/20161103093653/https://blog.pinb...
I remember going back and forth between the student center and the computer lab in college, in different buildings. I noticed that I took a different route in each direction... surely, not optimal.

On my way to the student center, I'd leave the library by the nearest door. On my way from the student center, I'd enter the library by the nearest door. I figured that my brain was breaking it down into hierarchical steps: the computer center is inside the library, so the first step in getting to the computer center is entering the library, and I would do that by the nearest door, rather than choose a door close to the activities building.
GTK2 had an integer DPI variable. GTK3 now just has an integer scale variable.

GTK2 could actually render at 144dpi, or 108dpi, just fine. Everything was slightly misaligned, not everything scaled perfectly, but it worked.

X11 had an integer Xft.dpi variable. Wayland now just has an integer scale variable.

WHY was this downgrade made? If a protocol break could be made to remove this functionality, a protocol break to add it back should be just as justified.

Break everything, apparently removing functionality was a good enough reason to do it, re-adding it should be just as well.

Yes, I am extremely angry after having spent years yelling at the wayland-wg and gnome devs not to make these decisions, not to put these things into the protocol, and complaining that if an API break is necessary, it should be extensible for these use cases. I’ve been complaining for a decade now and all of the complaints got ignored and instead the mistakes I warned about were made.
> welcome to not being included for once in your entire life. Now maybe you can start to begin to understand what others have experienced basically every day of their life.

Your examples are proving OP's point.

Your snarky response is what's wrong with the world now a days. I am brown but this over-pandering by companies feels more patronizing and condescending than genuine care. It's like winning an award or being hired just for being a specific skin color and not because of my skills.

This over-correction ends up creating more animosity because people start wondering if their heart surgeon was hired because of their skin color or skills and the brown person starts feeling lower because they aren't sure if they got hired because of their skills or just to tick a checkbox on the diversity list.

This type of over-pandering might be okay if this web page was localized to lets say another country with those demographics. But when countries like US and Canada don't have any representation of the largest demographic, then that's not genuine and mere pandering. I would even go as far as to say it's simply exploitation of skin color.
There is no way to measure the "duration of the decay process".

When you look for it, you either find a neutron that has not decayed yet, or you find the decay products.

The quoted decay time is just the average time. A free neutron might decay after 1 millisecond or after 5 hours.

Like for any other decay process, it is unpredictable when an individual neutron will decay. Nevertheless the decay probability in a time interval is predictable so if you start with a large number of free neutrons, you can predict very accurately how many will remain after 1 minute or after 10 minutes or after an hour, because the number will decrease exponentially with a known time constant, which was measured more precisely in this new experiment.
I just ordered some AirPods Pro to see if they will be adequate.

I’m not sure hearing aids can really replace headphones for phone calls etc until both HAs and phones support BT 5.2, and I don’t really want buy several $K of hearing aids that only work some of the time.
You're right, it doesn't mean that. But independently of that point, what HN does here is right.
The prosecution serves as a warning to those thinking they can do the same thing. Had these compliance laws not existed, there would be no incentive to _not_ commit fraud.

Unless you think nobody is going to look at this and go “these are consequences that could apply to me”?

SOX compliance builds a paper trail so crimes like this are recorded and uncovered.
On the device means it's going to the server in Apple's case. The option is only enabled when you have the iCloud Photos feature enabled, which means the photos it's scanning are photos that are on their way to the cloud.

If you turn the iCloud Photos feature off, no more scanning is happening.

This seems pretty simple to me.
This isn't true imo. With AndroidX and before that the support library, most of the new features have been backwards compatible with older versions of Android.
> None of Apple's SoCs since the A6 (2012)

Yes, but the M1 is nothing like a new product. As you indicated, Apple's first custom SoC was released in 2010, 11 years ago. They have >10 years of experience shipping SoCs for Apple products. The M1 family can be viewed, to some extent, as an extension of the work on the Ax chips, which likely builds on their experience customizing chips for the iPod family.
Not yet, right now all datapoints must be known at the during the sort
A better way of phrasing would be -- until I understood your point. I meant "saw your point" as in "I see your point".
They often leave off the IPD (distance between your pupils) to make the prescription useless (you can measure the distance yourself).
Considering Hoff claims Penguin does not have permission for an ebook format, I suspect they held a perpetual license to publish the book rather than the copyright itself.
Exactly. It is basic Business 101 with Yahoo. It wasn't about "too honest". ( What a nice way he is trying to spin it ). But that is Ok. We were all once young, naive and vigorous.

But that was the Yahoo era. He then repeat the same mistake with Steve? And Apple has a history of not paying much for M&A. It was really well known even in 2008. And $300M for P.A Semi was considered a very big deal back then.
So we may still find some day ice-nine like the one found in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Or do we know that it's impossible?
The letter of the H1-B requirements is very reasonable. If you are a first tier tech company, you should have no reason to run the same visa playbook as lower-tier "body shops." It's not a good look and it's not saving them much money.
Yes, but also it could be written and maintained by an assistant, publicist, etc. as it's often the case with authors.
You might enjoy the "How Google Earth Really Works" article I linked from the article. It goes into how the multi-resolution texturing works and why it's unique.

I see the lineage from SGI's Clip-Map to Keyhole's Universal Texture to Carmack's "Mega Texture" to today's Unreal's Nanite for geometry.

(not claiming anyone infringed anyone's IP, just the natural evolution of a clever idea)
> and changing drawing in every app

Exactly. Nobody is going to update everything what's already out there. For many things, there's not even the source, even if there was a will. There's unbelievable dragging of the feet in the Linux community, so even that will is a big question.

These compositors have to play with cards they were dealt, not with cards they wish they had.
As others here have hinted at, while NNT and NNH are both extremely useful concepts, they (deliberately) leave the consideration of whether a treatment's level of effectiveness, or the magnitude of a harmful side effect, subjective. When, after all, should a negative side effect be counted as "harm"? This is especially true for NNH; there are usually far more possible (helpful or harmful) side effects than the one intended remedy for the ailment, for a given drug.

As an example, in one study, for elderly patients the NNT of a number of (admittedly different) sedative hypnotics was 13, while the NNH was 6 [1]. From that alone, you'd probably rightfully avoid using them! But for certain populations who have chronic insomnia, the benefits may still outweigh the risks.

Of course, there are ways to (less subjectively albeit still subjectively) quantify harm, and these get used to keep "harm" comparable to "treatment". But it can definitely be more of an art than an exact science.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK71441/
> Ultimately, they’re all cool, modern languages, so pick whatever fits your brain and helps you reach your objectives easier, while engaging in this social (or solitary) activity called programming.

Extremely, extremely true!
Given your skepticism, if you want to apply your studies this might be relevant to your interests: https://www.skepticoin.org/
Yeah, it's a bad fit. Doesn't mean that wasn't the corporate intent.
Thanks, that does!
Duped, because they are doing it the old-fashioned way?
Which makes the Apple presentations all the more impressive. The camera is head-on, but I don't notice anyone's eye's moving as if reading a teleprompter. I think they've memorize it
> If you know the code works then there is no benefit of running it. If you need to execute it it is only because you don't know if it works correctly

People make mistakes. You have to run the code. Do you submit PR's without running code? If not, then we're agreeing. Making code simple enough to reason about without executing is a great goal, but you cannot replace running code.

> You can't keep 10k lines of code in your mind and tell if it works correctly, but maybe you can split it into multiple modules and make sure each works correctly, separately.

But ultimately they need to work together, and that's the most important part. Again, you need to run the code here.

> when I have written a module that I am just not sure works correctly, I refactor it so that it is easier to tell if it does what it should be doing.

This is a good goal, though again, I hope you run the code. You don't know what you don't know.
So I personally didn't do the sysadminning, but it's a docker container in which CUDA has been loaded, and after that it 'just works'.
I'm confused about how 17 USC 203 works. Specifically (b)(1):

> (1) A derivative work prepared under authority of the grant before its termination may continue to be utilized under the terms of the grant after its termination, but this privilege does not extend to the preparation after the termination of other derivative works based upon the copyrighted work covered by the terminated grant.

The naïve way I read that is that Penguin can continue to sell any work they prepared under the previous grant. They just can't make any new editions. Is that the case?
I have been to maybe a half dozen different optometrists over the last 25 years and they have always used several expensive looking machines to screen for eye disease. Most frequently a machine that uses a puff of air to measure the pressure in your eye and more recently, a machine with a bright light that gets detailed imagery of the vascular structure on the back of your eye.
You misspelled TAI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Intuitively I agree, from a different angle although I don't know about chemistry either, but from a supply chain perspective, for generations it's all been about optimising delivery to a consumer. Supply lines point directly at households and beyond that point it's a bit of a dark web. Random piles of crap end up... somewhere?

If the consumer became a supplier of raw recyclable materials, and those materials had value, they deserve to be compensated, and will probably be more engaged in the sorting and quality control processes. I drink a lot of beer - that makes me a great supplier of ready-made glass bottles to anyone that wants them. Rather than bulk collecting a random pile of potentially recyclable material, here's a bunch of sorted glass bottles each quarter. Anyone that can hook into that kind of idea and find some kind of economy of scale might make a killing.
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In this thread there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding both the Permanent/Temporary visa distinction, as well as what Facebook did.

The lawsuit refers to the Permanent Labor Certification process - the process of certifying that a position cannot be filled by a US citizen. This is one of the first early steps of an employer sponsoring an employee for a Green Card (so called immigrant visas, not H1-B). In the overwhelming majority of cases this affects people already employed by the company often on non-immigrant visas (such as the H1-B) which it would like to retain. They have already gone through the much demonized H1 visa process.

Onto the process - the "newspaper" reference which some commenters have been hung up on is a DoL requirement. It's literally Facebook going by the book and filling all requirements. Where the lawsuit comes in is that Facebook only followed the DoL requirements and did not advertise positions how they would beyond that.

Additionally the article itself states

> When U.S. workers did apply, the suit said, Facebook hired them into different jobs, reserving the open position for the H-1B worker.

Is this discrimination? Yes. Is there a better pathway to retain foreign employees? Not currently. I'm not a fan of Facebook at all, but they do what they need to to keep talent in a competitive environment.
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Employment based (EB2) and i know many people who's process took similar ~1.5 year plus/minus couple month. Though that's been about 5 years ago, haven't kept up since going thru it myself. No RFEs/audits, they where not common back then at least.
Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, they had their own system before, but they replaced it with somethign else. However, it turns that I read this too long ago and mistook DC/OS for Nomad. My apologies!
It becomes even more irrelevant, where UI enhancements have already been implemented by manufacturers to improve their OS. For example, Samsung OneUI with Good Lock (Multistar, Navstar,Notistar, Quickstar, Home Up, Clockface) One Hand Operation+, Sound Assistant etc. I am looking forward to how some of the features will be incorporated/improved in the new version(OneUI 4), rather than the stock features of Android 12.
No love for Scrivener[1], though? It's been around since 2007 and it was really the first tool that showed me document editing using a computer can reflect what writing is really about: collecting, creating, and organizing a lot of chunks of information and ideas that come from different sources and formats.

Of course, all these tools are really finally realizing the ideas that are as old as "As We May Think" (1945)[2] and "Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate" (1965)[3]. I don't think we are just now getting to the point where computers are powerful enough, but I do believe that we've reached a tipping point where computers have outgrown the metaphor of file, folder, and the printed page.

I do have one criticism of the tools mentioned in the article: proprietary, closed formats. I think we should have learned enough by now to be wary of vendor lock-in, but I acknowledge that standardization efforts these days are likely to be years-long efforts in omphaloskepsis that squeeze out things like SAML, COBRA, and WS-anything.

1 https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

2 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

3 https://doi.org/10.1145/800197.806036
A few things off the top of my head, as a programmer in 1980:

- Quite possibly you still used punch cards to enter your programs.

- Probably you had a degree in something other than computer science. Math, physics, electrical engineering, something like that.

- Probably you were the only one working on whatever application or system you worked on.

- Probably you didn't have any kind of internet or email access. If you needed help figuring out a problem, you went to books.

- Very likely you didn't have any kind of proper source control, automated testing, or bug tracking.

- Most likely you didn't have any software libraries to work with other than whatever came in your language core library.

(I learned to program in 1981, but I was only 9 years old at the time, so some of this is secondhand.)
I did not report it because I found somebody else had already reported it and it was a WONTFIX (for reasons I don't immediately recall).
Thanks for the viewpoint l. I've been wholly satisfied with my old MacBook, though, and thus don't think the overhead of switching systems is worth it for me.

Just out of curiosity, which Dell laptop would you recommend? Ideally a 14", light, and with good battery life. (I'll leave the more technical specs up to you)
I was waiting for the inevitable "we now sell monthly subscriptions to spice racks, hammers, factories, factory factories..." but I guess 2005 was a bit before the time for that complaint.
Spare a link or two?
If you use a third-party ROM such as the excellent GrapheneOS, in practice you get fully featured updates for really really long.

With that said, open source ROMs don't take advantage of some features such as the Tensor SoC, and therefore the camera stops performing so good.
Year after year, Google keeps reminding us its hardware line is not something's it's taking seriously. They sell phones in a ridiculously small number of countries, and without fail, they can't even do it without hiccups. And when you actually get a device, there's often some hardware issue, or annoying bugs, and sometimes both.

(Writing this on a Pixel 5).
I understand why things like drugs we inject in our body need to be regulated. But I don't understand why hearing aids need to be regulated this way and even need a prescription. It's either "hey I can hear well and it fits my ears well" or it's "it doesn't help me hear well".
Ad hominem is a term of diagnosing a logical fallacy far more than it's a disinformation tactic, per se. A lexicon around tactical uses of information that are technically exploiting the ad hominem logical fallacy would be far more useful than whatever this is.
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Hyperbole is a logical fallacy for a reason
Is there any other benefit in having account deleted vs just an inactive account(default case for the majority)? They don't stop tracking you based on whether you are logged in or not.