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Hi, I'm Pankaj. I've been working as a developer for just over 4 years. I've worked with many different clients across the world, to build scalable web services & platforms from scratch. Fortunate enough to have a portfolio of 25+ projects.

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What's not sane about dithering? It has been used for a long time in print
+1, count me in
Its basic data science to identify what kind of errors the current system introduces. Is it Type 1 errors or type 2 errors.

Type 1 = right people not being able to vote

Type 2 = wrong people voting

The US has massive type 1 errors by far. So far I have only seen one instance of Type 2 error - a Republican voting twice. When I see people pounding on reducing non existent type 2 errors I have to question their intent.
got to find revenue for prisons
There is a rumor that Ferrari makes more money from accessories and accoutrement than cars. Its not true https://www.statista.com/statistics/696098/net-revenues-the-... but its pretty substantial.

Also https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/ferrari-turns-fashion...

Apparently new Ferrari CEO comes straight from STMicroelectronics :O.
No worries! I assumed good faith. :)
No one argues that the Immaculate Conception is parthenogenesis. It could not possibly have been, because if it had, either Jesus would have been Jesusa, or Mary was hermaphroditic and Jesus her genetic clone. Since we know neither of these explanations is credible, it had to be miracle birth. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Now with Horace and Isis it's quite different. Isis was a virgin and Horace was a falcon, so I'm really not sure how that worked.
How is it hard to understand that if a person was in charge of deciding how much HE made, at the expense of others, he would favor himself?
Amazon do not say that DocumentDB is a drop-in replacement, neither do I. Moreover, I have outlined specific incompatibilites between Mongo and DocumentDB we have encountered for our use cases; RBAC controlled document filtering is not available in DocumentDB, either. Therefore, it won't suit everybody.

However, for simple to medium complexity projects, especially for brand new ones, DocumentDB is a viable and a more affordable alternative to Atlas MongoDB with a decent level compatibility.
Facebook name change challenged by Arizona retailer
Thanks, but I'm not able to verify that currently. I've just followed that link in the above post through Google Docs to the LinkedIn page and it works just fine. Perhaps there was a temporary issue at LinkedIn. Also, you probably need to be logged in to LinkedIn to access the page.
Features I’ve used::
* Tables: more features and is standard instead of specific to some Markdown “flavors”
* Admonitions: better than ad hoc emoji + bold *NOTE* usage as it then becomes styleable
* Titles for blocks: better than putting "######" for an <h6> when you want a caption
* Display block images
* Ability to add [.css-class-name] to arbitrary blocks
* Ability to add arbitrary attributes to images and links (title, rel, ARIA, etc.)

What I’ll often see however in Markdown is a lot of handwritten HTML to accomplish this stuff which kinda defeats the point of a lightweight markup language. There’s also a big list of typographic substitutions which is nice for authors that prefer to type in ASCII but want proper quotes, dashes, arrows, etc. These are all things I would want if writing technical content where I am in control of styles and demand good typography.
How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
This is a fun list of all the predictions including current ones, and all the previous ones used to increase taxes that never came true.

https://extinctionclock.org/
I've accumulated a few synthesizers the past few years and wanted to start making d&b, trance and acid. But having frozen once I actually sat down to play I realised I didn't know wtf I was doing, so ive recently picked up piano lessons. I can't believe that I'm slowly sight reading... totally blows my mind that humams can sight read music
The LotR movies aren't book-accurate. But they are great!
> Disagree

I disagree with you. In India nobody respects walking people. They will honk multiple times, get angry if anyone walking blocks their road. Basically people in car feels they own the road in India and walking people are lower class obstacles. It made me hate walking in cities. Yes, there are footpaths where people walk all the time, but Indian people also ride motorcycles there in traffic jams. Multiple times they came close to hit me. It's total chaos in India.
Yes but they're doing it from a political angle. We should be building simpler, snappier, and more resource efficient software because it's the right thing to do and it makes software better.
I realize we’re mostly US-centric here on HN, but I have greatly benefited from my Physics Ph.D. Obtained in Denmark, while being paid $55000 a year throughout the study (standard rate for PhD students in DK).
In Denmark most people will hold a state sponsored Masters degree, so it has served me well in the private industry as a differentiator. Combined with an MBA (yes, I hear the snuffing sounds guys) it has been the perfect package for senior engineering management.
WebP is a terrible practice and and it has no real value vs jpg https://pagepipe.com/dont-use-webp-image-format/ - just because endorsed by google doesn't mean it's good (i would even argue, the contrary is true)
Ghetto: Sanctuary for Sale
Because mistakes are very expensive!
> Connect your bank account

Does this work in any country, or just one?
This is not really true. The amount of physical activity you do absolutely influences both your shape and your health.

Also, we do have more sedentary lifestyles then typical 1960 person. Just in terms of how much you walk during the day, we are already not moving.
Sorry, but anti-health-care supremacists don't get to do everything in their power to sabotage, strangle, and corrupt something necessary, good, and sensible, just to backflip and whine that it's not perfect, not named after their cult leader, and "not hurting the people it needs to be".

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

Why is penalizing people you disagree with (or secretly agree with, but just hate) more important to you than saving lives?

If the net effect is saving lives, improving health, reducing poverty, battling pandemics, fighting quack medicine, and advancing science, then maybe the DO deserve to pat themselves on the back, huh?
Thanks for explaining your point, I really appreciate it.

Mostly because the original reply seemed like it was just trying to insert a video that doesn't fit the criticism drawn in the comment, but is baiting for people who will just read the comment without watching the video. But I get the point you were trying to make now.

While I disagree, I cannot in good conscience not upvote a point made well.
Agreed, the difficult part is getting a USDT-denominated loan without crypto collateral and counter-party risk.
> farmers market which there's an abundance of in rural areas. You're not going to find that that in a big city

I lived in Boston for a couple years and went to Haymarket [0] all the time next to the amazing Boston Public Market. There are a bunch of smaller produce stands and specialty shops throughout the city like Deluca's. I am sad to see, however, that Russo's in Watertown has just closed. Elmendorf Baking Supplies in Cambridge looks awesome and I'm sad I left before they opened.

If ya just want a big bag of rice, Super 88 has a great market in addition to all the great food stalls. See also Little India next to Market Basket in Somerville.

You want stationary? Check out Loyal Supply Company in Somerville.

I've been able to locate similar places in every city I've lived in, with the exception of feed stores (although my current city has one, and I just never really looked for one). I'm curious what city you're in, maybe I had it even better in Boston than I already thought. I'm sure the last two years have not been good for discovering new farmers markets in large cities, though.

Check into CSAs too, esp. if you can't find or attend a farmers market. I'm sure that model is branching out from beyond just produce, too. We have a mushroom grower and dairy creamery where I'm at these days.

As someone who escaped suburbia for the city and later countryside, my experience reflects that of the poster you replied to. Big box strip mall chain complexes are found in the burbs.

[0]: http://www.haymarketboston.org/
I don't think that's necessarily true given the rise of mobile computing. We definitely had to optimize for performance, RAM, and energy usage with mobile phones. The M1 for laptops is a direct benefit of those optimizations, where Apple has essentially shown that such power optimizations for battery devices can be useful even for desktop class computing.
What's the worst case? The Matrix?
Visa or PayPal are quite expensive to transact. It ranges from one to three percent overhead on every purchase you make. I don't think btc is that high is it?
But the phone number system isn't perfectly secure. A fraudster could transfer your account or even have physical access to the phone line. And it still relies on a solicitor to authenticate changes which could then be fraudulent.

The advantage of the current system system is that it is fairly explicit and public. It can be checked without any secret codes or processes using the information on the title itself.
Employers and government regulations determine pay. If the market gets too high in one region, they simply move to a lower one.

Right now the market has determined that pay is too low to fill job vacancies, but employers are not raising wages, not the market.
I love the design of this webpage, such a polished look, yet not banal or corporate. It has a strong personality. And it's responsiveness is amazing. That's what good design is about. Also, no JS bullshit. What a breath of fresh air.
The difference comes from the fact that smart Europeans graduate secondary school with the equivalent of an American university grad's education. U.S. universities must therefore offer more coursework in order to bring their postgrads up to snuff with what's expected of a fresh university grad in the rest of the developed world.
> Uber and Lyft have been known to add more cars to SF than before

The emergence of a faster, more convenient and in many cases cleaner alternative to BART/Caltrain created demand. To top it all off, the cost was comparable in many cases for a while.

In the past, one of my 32 minute Uber rides was a > 2.5 hour trip on mass transit around the Bay Area on the weekend. I'm all for supporting mass transit, but that is a fool's bet.
... you never had a phone break down ? Now 8'm stressed about what will happen to my signal messages when my current phone inevitably suffers from a dreadful fate
NASA delays SpaceX launch to ISS over ‘medical issue’ with astronaut
Why not? There have been much stranger stores of value in the past https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
There is a basic data science question here. What kind of data errors exist in the US system.

Precision error = invalid voter voting

Recall error = valid voter unable to vote

You can look up detailed definitions on wikipedia.

US is plagued by recall errors. Like tptacek pointed out miniscule precision errors identified so far are by Republicans. The errors trade off with each other. Reducing precision errors will increase recall errors and vice versa.

When someone makes a song and dance about virtually non existent precision errors and tries to worsen recall errors - the intent is not to reduce the errors, but increase it to subvert the democratic process.
*edit? I am replying to myself in hopes of replying to everyone who responded.

You are all right and much smarter than me. I kinda outlined that lots of aggregated 3.5" (9cm) drives are better than some sorta boomer 30cm platters. I'll admit it was kinda for aesthetics.
Yeah I should have replied to the parent above. I would have loved to use horsecoin to purchase human ivermectin from India last night.

All the feed stores in my area have locked up the paste and I have only the toxic to ingest orally pour on cattle versions readily attainable.

You can get by with rubbing it on the fatty areas of your body but dosing it is hit and miss.

Anyhow back to the guys in India, they would only take pay pal and the demand was so high, I had to pay an extra thirty five dollars just for pay pal processing. Crazy times...

Anyhow, I hope the mods don't burn this post. What if ivm is the real deal and I need it to save my life because my country with free health care can't fund any other kind of useful early treatment? It costs about two thousand from what I've read and there's no way they can print more money to cover this for the masses.

I'm not trying to get around vaccines even though the first one I took clotted on me and almost killed me. You should see my face right now, there's a huge scar on my forehead where my plastic surgeon ripped out a hardened clot from a vein in there last week. I'm just looking for early treatments for all of the people's no matter the vax status.

Pay pal will almost certainly shut this company off in India when they find out what he's doing. Horse coin will be the only way after that.
That's good to know. One of my projects is to write up experiences like this I've had.
A Ph.D. is pretty much a license to do science in many fields, such as biochemistry. Unlike CS, you just don't get to do the cutting edge work without one -- you will remain forever a lab tech unless and until you get your doctorate.
Sorry, I mistyped :)
Arabic numerals can be justified since they are dominant and most commonly used in modern science and technology across the whole world. Supporting additional systems would not introduce too much hassle though. Numbers follow a rigid syntax and generally do not employ free mixing with numerals from other systems.

What I have in mind actually exists already: Jupyther notebooks, which combine code, text, and resources combined into a nice JSON ball. Horrible for SCMs and editors without using special plugins of course.
The usual question is what to do with the those who don't know anything about that, don't really want to. Should particle physics simply ended? Should they go and beg for money from billionaires?
> For all the fantasy here, let me remind you doing a PhD at an early age

A PhD is mainly if you have an interest (or could have an interest) in an Academic career.
For every 100 men that would volunteer to endure enemy fire, how many of those 100 would volunteer to have the young girl in the video discipline them for their lack of microagression awareness? How many of those 100 will assume she will be promoted to higher paygrades than they ever will? How many of those 100 will get the impression that girls like her will be deciding which foxholes they lay in while guided Chinese smart munitions rain down? Rather than speculate I would love this study to actually be done. Randomly sample 200 men who show up in recruitment centers. Show one group of 100 the "my two moms" cartoon and the other group of 100 a video more like the Chinese or Russian one. Then see how many of each group of 100 afterwards say, "Ya' know, on second thought, training to be a carpenter or plumber ain't so bad."
I don’t know. It seems quite different than parenthood.

Are these people complaining about something that’s hard-but-worth-it? Or are they regretful participants in a genuinely broken system? Many signs seem to point to the latter.

Academia has a very small chance of, specifically, anything more than an extremely mediocre income. This, despite the fact that (generally speaking) some who would enter into, let alone complete, a Ph.D program would already tend towards the right said of the bell curve in that regard.

These programs often make many, if not most, people who join them miserable for years at the cost of a medium-to-large cut in lifetime earnings, all for a quickly shrinking chance at stability.

I know money isn’t everything in this life; truly, I do. I know that the pursuit of academic knowledge is noble, and in some ways a separate and valid good in its own right. It’s still a fucked-up system with serious and numerous flaws.
If you break « technology » into hardware and software, you have a different story.

Hardware have never been so efficient, giving you a lot of computing power for very little energy usage.

What is questionable is what we do with this power. Basically we use it to run our badly written garbage collected programs into layers and layers of VMs.
Welcome to HN, where nothing makes sense and sources don’t matter
Am I the only one that can't read that blog post? It's seems stream of consciousness and odd grammar that throws me off.

And the bio of the author doesn't engender much confidence: "He is not an economist, which is probably why he's been able to develop a working model of the global monetary system. His research is unique and informative in ways an economist would never consider."
There is a VAST difference between softball (big ball with relatively lower velocity) and baseball (smaller ball with faster velocity). To the point where they're almost not the same game.

Softball is about putting the hit to a particular spot on the field while in baseball hit control really isn't a thing as it's tough enough to nail the ball.

And why would you make fouls benefit the pitcher? Benefiting the hitter is always more exciting. If you really want to speed things up, make fouls benefit the hitter. 4 fouls and you get on base will add quite a bit to the scoring and make ties quite a bit less frequent. It would also make the pitchers have to put stuff where the batter can smack it also increasing score and decreasing likelihood of ties.
Nice, but I'd like some type safety with that ...
Can you do bitwise stuff pretty please?
With the explanation, you took the fun out the two word question. :)
My Kaiser health insurance is increasing from $1392 to $1563 in December. It is actually a bigger increase this year than last year. My wife and I haven't talked to a Doctor or stepped foot in a hospital in four years.

I have noted increases in many staples on Amazon Subscriptions which include pet food, shampoo, shaving foam, pet treats and so forth. Routine pet medication at the vet has increased around 10% over the course of the year.

Oddly enough our 5lb bags of coffee have stayed the same price for almost 4 years.
>It's hard to get people past the initial shock of the Pascal family syntax

What's so shocking about Pascal?
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Reddit is growing fast. We have raised $410m in our Series F funding to make strategic investments in the platform including video, advertising, consumer products, and expanding into international markets.
We are hiring across the board, I want to specifically stress out the jobs for video product which is currently a really exciting area to work and innovate in.

For any Golang enthusiasts out there: we are writing more and more of our services in Go. We have interesting challenges in scaling, data pipelines and building the foundation for a series of new products.

Reddit does not have geographic compensation adjustments: you can work from anywhere and receive compensation tied to pay ranges of high-cost areas such as the Bay Area (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Reddit-permanent-work...)

If you are interested apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit?gh_src=3c9ba6c41us
I was fortunate enough to pivot from Chemistry PhD (which I completed) to a career at Microsoft that has provided me with more than enough financial security to fund an adventure like this when I do decide to retire. While I may not be typical, I do use skills (though not specific knowledge) from my PhD all the time in my day job - mostly around communications both written and oral. The act of writing my thesis and papers really taught me the value of being able to communicate technical information clearly to a technical audience.

I think that the structure of pursuing research would be a great way to avoid losing a "sense of purpose" that I fear might await me when I do decide to retire. The tricky part of this is finding the right advisor and the right project in the right field.
Just yesterday I finally had my 3D printer I bought a year and a half ago tuned and serviced by a professional. I bought it as a kit and built it not completely wrong, but it did have issues I'd not have been able to iron out myself. Yesterday, right after the service of the printer, I printed a Benchy and am very happy with the result! Next up I plan on printing a plastic case for a replica of a bus cash register and ticket machine that was in basically every bus in my country when I was a child (Czech Republic, the ticket machine is USV-24C by Mikroelektronika). I managed to buy this ticket machine in a pretty good condition when a local bus company was going out of business and another in a less than ideal condition for parts in case I ever decide to want to work on the real thing. In the meantime, I plan on building a replica of it running on an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.
I was in that middle ground and didn't like it. The worst thing is it was tremendous fun to get there... but not enough motivation to do it again without that incentive.

People who find meaning in being rich, enjoy being rich.

I kind of think riches are an illusion - you should just go directly to whatever you find meaningful in the first place. Which might include a lot of experiences to find out what that is. Essentially: living.

You can still do that - although
having to do something is very motivating, even if we don't like it!
If you had afsked me a year ago if “Good Omens” could be adapted to the screen I would have told you it was impossible. Heck if you asked me back in the day of A Song of Fire and Ice could, I would have told you it was impossible, but in reality it’s just the case that it’s only possible if you start from a place of respecting the source material and building everything around that. If you start by defining that it has to be a 8 season high budget series. It has to be a 2.5hour movie and try to shoehorn the material into that, then you get rubbish and it looks impossible.
Yep totally right. Worth noting that you can use an older phone repurposed for connecting to a cheap baofeng for just APRS purposes. Radios with APRS are great but quite expensive.

Also 100% recommend anyone interested getting their Amateur Radio Technician license. TBH you can pass the test with an afternoon of study, and the advanced licenses are really only needed for additional HF spectrum privileges.
Soccer is played intensively to the last second and there are no stops as in football or baseball, just some extra time added at the end of the game to compensate for time wasted. In general nothing compares to soccer, I am sure there are more books written about it or using it as a background story than any other sport, just because it is so popular around the world. It might be that baseball feels more romantic and nostalgic exactly because it is such an American pastime and not very popular around the world.
I see an option of secret chat in my desktop app. Is that not E2EE? Because its the same option in mobile