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The current winner in my box of cables seems to be Micro-USB. Most manufacturers assume the user doesn't have one, so they come shipped with /everything/. In my other box, I have exotic and rare cables like USB-C (Which is slowly gaining traction) and other proprietary cables that only work with specific devices (like my vaping pen has this weird USB cable that only works with that device).
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So far, only allegations.
Outside the US, in the civilized world, we expect people to be found guilty in a court of law under the due criminal process.
I posit that the costs will continue to decrease as mindshifts change--right now (or more precisely, around the time these drones were designed and purchased) we think about drones as being "unmanned planes" and planes are supposed to be big, reliable, and expensive and the military procedures and culture is calibrated to minimize losses of these planes. As expectations change, I think costs will decline as well which will feed back into a change of expectations (time will tell).

Regarding "delivering them to the target area", it's pretty easy to conceive of a larger transport craft managing delivery.
Your comment does not address the contradiction in the parent comment.

The contradiction is that two media outlets are stating opposite statements from the same source with regards to whether the 4th booster raises the amount of antibodies.
Thanks, I didn't know kurzgesagt had them on their shop as well. I've ordered mine from the waitbutwhy shop after reading the blog post, which was pretty silly for a piece of paper to be sent to Germany. Oh well.

Then I got stuck filling it out: Is week #1 (the square in the top left corner) the first calendar week of my birth year? Or is it the first week of my life? The latter makes more sense, but then it gets really tedious to translate timestamps for university graduation etc. (OP takes the birthday into account and offers month markers. Good idea.)

The life calendar is now posted next to my desk, still empty half a year later. Once/if I get to filling it out, I should mark this long period of time where I have it but don't use it. Time flies.
It'll depend on the perspective.

For the gaming industry, this seems to push Microsoft into 3rd place (by size) behind Sony and Tencent. So hardly a monopoly and akin to T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint a few years ago. It makes Microsoft much more competitive against Sony and even Nintendo since it'll likely bolster their 1P offerings in the future.

But if Microsoft uses their ownership to favor their own game subscription services (aka GamePass) as well as platforms (aka Windows 11, Xbox console), then certainly that'll be monopolistic behavior. Interesting to note that they're probably #1-#2 in either of those sub-industries. It's possible to end up with an "Internet Explorer-esque" antitrust scenario if Microsoft removes or heavily discourages Activision and Bethesda from making their titles cross-platform.
>This is annoying on professional VMs that are way behind the current version of gcc.

Get binary PKGSRC packages from Joyent and set PATH accordinly.

https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-linux/

It's for RHEL and clones but it should work on any parallel distro or more recent.
Not at all (and I'm not really sure why you're leaping so precipitately to that).

But someone's previous conduct in a professional role is absolutely relevant information when considering hiring them; that's why we have the concept of a reference at all. It's not stigmatising someone or being unfair to them to consider their prior actions.

If someone has previously been fired for harassment, then that doesn't mean that they should never be employed again. Rehabilitation is totally possible, but it's not an automatic thing: someone with that history should expect it to be a concern for future employers, and should be able to outline (as you would with any other issue) the steps they've taken to mitigate it and ensure the same behaviour won't be repeated.
not really. they were fawning over bernie then hillary in 2016 and bernie then biden in 2020.
Source is paywalled, this might be better: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-pro...

There's other tractor manufacturers, farmers don't have to use JD.
It could have been killed until around 18 months ago.

We chose to let people travel and to not put in place the same countermeasures that China put in place.
They don't say how many of those were found by people snooping comms and how many were logged by users. E.g. if someone sees someone talking creepy on a forum like Reddit, that still gets reported. If a neighbor does something creepy that still gets reported. Those millions over reports don't go away. This is classic fear-mongering from governments not skilled enough to protect their citizens without violating their rights.
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This is what I can't figure out. 200Mhz is a large guard band, and it isn't hard to design filters for that at all.

Now, single digit khz filters at RF frequencies, that's difficult. But not 200Mhz!

I guess the radio altimeter manufacturers just figured, "there's a large guard band, why play it safe and put in filters", or what?
Hey all, I recently created a job search site called coolstartupjobs; it shows the currently available jobs from startups, but also shows each company's history of job posts over time so you can see how much hiring they have done; this can be (though is not always) a useful signal in understanding how much a company is growing. Each company is assigned a rank based on its percentage growth in job posts in the past 30 days; for example, cowrywise (YC S18) is the #1 ranked company right now; they had 1 job opening last month but have 7 openings right now.

When I was looking for a job, I knew I wanted to join a startup, but I found it hard to figure out which startup would be a good one to join; there are many reasons to join a startup, but when part of your compensation is in stock options, you want those stock options to be worth something some day. I thought a source of information about startups for job seekers would have been really helpful, so i made coolstartupjobs to try and give job seekers more data.

Right now, I do only have job post history, but I'm looking to add more data as time goes on; I'm thinking of change in domain rank, various data from crawling news sites, and fundraising data, but I'd love to hear if anyone has other data they're interested in seeing.

Note, I do only have YC companies at the moment, but I'll definitely be adding more companies, especially if this strikes a chord with anyone.

Let me know if you have any questions, thanks all!
They have shifted greatly in France too (towards the right, very unusual for France). So is this really linked with Biden or linked with the social isolation?
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I am thankful for the opportunity but this is weird and unfortunate. Algeria has 66 Universities. only one offered a program in my major.
They haven't completely given up on mobile. The Microsoft Launcher for Android is really close to what a modern Microsoft mobile platform would feel like.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/launcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Launcher
Right, but big developers have also been getting away with producing crappy AAA titles. They always have tried to push unfinished games to the market, but it has become more widespread in the last years. Now, with less competition, things might actually get worse.
That's not true. Microprose is back and have a lot of indie developed titles coming out this year. They are almost singlehandedly bringing the wargaming genre back from the dead.
I did - I bought a Speed Queen set. To be fair, mine was a set of used units, but after reading thousands of these anecdotes across the internet, I knew that they were easily rated for 10k+ loads.

The part that was true - they're built like tanks.
The part I didn't expect - they're super rudimentary machines. They're loud and not particularly efficient.

I had mine for just over a year before my wife voluntold me to find something else.
Character customization has always been a huge part of multiplayer games even before MTX became a thing, particularly for Halo titles.

Disregarding that as "you only want to play dress-up" is not only unbelievably reductive, it's also a very lazy way to just hand-wave away a very real issue.

The same way you could disregard the vast majority of features from any game except core-gameplay features; "You want to color your car in your racing game? How silly, you only want to play dress up!"

I guess it's just naïve of me want to play things in games?
> But back to the entitlements - why is a teacher going to agree to teach an unruly kid?

You missed my point, the kid is unruly because of the entitled attitudes running around this country. If you pay people UBI, it doesn’t fix this, it exacerbates it. Fix the entitled attitude by making people earn what they get instead of handing it to them and maybe we’ll fix that attitude and not have to destroy our economy?
The last three games I fell in love with; Hollow Knight, Ori, Souls Series, have me believing this. You can build amazing games with a smaller team these days which is incredibly inspiring.
So you're willing to admit exemptions. Who determines their legitimacy? I think I have a very rational risk/reward assessment that tells me the booster is not in my best interest. It's not so easy. Your strategy of coercion extends to doctors as well. Doctors that post about adverse affects are often banned for spreading misinformation. There's a lot of pressure on them not to write up notes for exemption. There's no guarantee that I will get a life-threatening adverse reaction from my next shot. Maybe I'm just be bedridden for a week. They have to make a judgement call under strong pressure. I'd rather wear masks, stay isolated, work remotely, whatever. I'm cognizant of society and responsible. But I don't have a choice short of quitting work, which I don't want to do. That's why forced vaccination is wrong.
Phil Spencer is my favorite executive. His work since he had taken over has been splendid and I like his calm manner of discussing competition. He doesn’t make it into war. He seems like a genuinely nice guy and I am happy to see him succeed.
The idea that criminals will break into Facebook's servers and steal your messages is was less likely than the government using Facebook messages to catch child abusers, and that's already a little dubious.

A better counter-argument is foreign governments (China, Russia, etc.) requiring data to be held on their soil and then using it to hunt and impression political enemies.
> RDS is slow. I've seen select statements take 20 minutes on RDS which take a few seconds on _much_ cheaper baremetal.

I'm sure you observed this, but concluding that RDS is slow as a blanket statement is totally wrong. You had to have had different database settings between the two postgres instances to see a difference like that. 3 orders of magnitude performance difference indicates something wrong with the comparison.
Yep, Thats me. Glad to help. :) There still room for parallelization when converting to a matrix. I will take a look. Haven't given that conversion any effort yet because that's often a one time conversion at the end of a pipeline.

But I will improve it. ;)
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It cannot be randomized for a vaccine trial since the participants are all people who want to be vaccinated.
Because those young people still have a chance to end up in the hospital, even if they're in great health ( as far as they know it). And it's not like a vaccine mandate can only apply for people in bad health - how would that even be decided? Erring on the side of caution seems to be a decent idea.
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I don't think Intel's manufacturing problem is purely that of incentive which will be fixed by a split. That's massive oversimplification.

The approach Intel is taking - outsource cutting edge products to TSMC while continuing to invest in their fabs making their lower end stuff and other people's stuff like automotive chips in-house is the best strategy to buy some time to advance their fabs while letting them earn money to support R&D investments.

It's a huge problem and nobody except TSMC has succeeded at it. Besides there is years of lack of focus, incentives and interest in specialized education and manufacturing processes that'll take time for Intel to fix. Meanwhile they will be competitive in consumer markets by going TSMC 3nm and continue to improve on the side by taking on outside fab orders. Seems reasonable to me.
Yes, it's the classic "up to some max figure" weasel words. Could also be zero!
So, COBOL? That's an argument that works in a historical moment of Java legacy, until it doesn't. Monzo is an example of a bank writing everything in Go.
> You’re trying to apply logic to an untestable philosophical debate. If you believe free will doesn’t exist, you can’t design an experiment that would invalidate that belief. And if your theory is untestable and unfalsifiable, then what good is it other than a creative exercise?

This is reversing the burden of proof. The issue with "free will" is getting those who think there is a meaningful "free will" concept to actually define what they mean.

Look through this discussion and see the comments trying to justify the existence of free will, and look for definitions of what they actually mean by that.

> However, we do know from Quantum Mechanics that the universe is probabilistic and not deterministic:

That's a meaningless distinction in this context. The point is that nobody has presented a mechanism whereby you can inject any form of agency that fits a definition of "free" (see your own point: define "free") that doesn't devolve to smoke and mirrors that way.

In order to do so, there'd need to be something that would lead to measurable biases in outcomes that can not be explained by the probabilities.

The rest of your argument devolves to Russel's teapot: As long as nobody has posited a reasonable definition that'd give rise to a theory of what free will might mean, the notion is so absurd that it is entirely reasonable to say that free will makes no sense.

If you can present a definition that can't easily be shown to be just smoke and mirrors and which somehow makes sense to people, even without coming up with ways of actually testing it, I might be tempted to moderate that claim, but I've had these discussions with people for decades, and in none of them have anyone ever managed to come up with a cohesive definition of what free will would even mean that doesn't very easily start looking distinctly "unfree".

There are clearly definitions of free will that would allow something you label with that term to exist. But I challenge you to come up with one that people would agree is both "free" and "will".
I agree with everything but your last sentence. Can people not look at other people anymore? And I am concerned you are actually sexually harassing the female employee by asking her that question and singling her out for her sexual appeal and gender.
Sites like https://use-the-index-luke.com/ capture a lot of wisdom around tuning. But IMO, it's easier to learn from doing.

So write your product, then start monitoring it as you release it to production.

Postgres can track aggregate metrics for queries using the pg_stat_statements extension [1]. You then monitor this periodically to find queries that are slow, then use EXPLAIN ANALYZE [2] to dig in. Make improvements, then reset the statistics for the pg_stat_statements view and wait for a new crop of slow queries to arise.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.htm...

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/using-explain.html
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> Why are there no golfers?

I explained why, read it again. And golf is not a basic need, it’s entertainment. Which in hard times nobody pays for. You’re gonna choose golf over eating?
They have any hardware that took off?
Just as advances in war tech in the past have led to the more "advanced" war machine "fighting the last war," these advances only serve to change the behaviors, rules, and context of any future engagement.

Keeping in mind that war is ultimately a "battle" of resources and expenditures, no one in a position of great disadvantage will invest in that particular effort, but seek a way to circumvent it. Whereas the "winner" has already sunk that cost. (Even without AI, how common are dogfights or air-to-air confrontation in the last 50 years?)

There are ways for the more advanced participant to defeat this game, but so far it has required violating human norms that are held sacrosanct even in war.

AI's advantage might end up being the ability to navigate this evolving game theory, but only if it's able to properly value what's acceptable to human nature and what isn't.

A "kill all humans as a solution to end spam" doesn't work here (unless the AI has taken ultimate charge, which becomes an entirely different issue).

On the other hand, certain near-peer potential adversaries have signaled a willingness to violate whatever norms need be violated to secure victory.
AAA studios already target Linux via Android and Stadia, guess why they don't bother with GNU/Linux.
He had me at „powerhouse of the cell“. But I also remember mitochondria have been separate organisms once that we basically adopted into our own DNA. Hat’s why mitochondrial DNA is used a lot for determining the evolutionary distance between organisms.
There is no room for free will in classical mechanics. Quantum mechanics has plenty of "room for free will," because either:

1. The universe is not deterministic (if you believe that wavefunctions collapse)

2. The mysterious thing that makes conscious entities experience high-amplitude events more often than low-amplitude events is not deterministic (if you believe in MWI).

Evidence for free will, a definition of free will; those things physics cannot provide. But there's room for it.
All technical talent already left Blizzard - also the reason why they didn't produce anything (of value) in last 5 years.
I think physical modeling is a poor choice.

The advantage of subtractive synthesis is that each of its elements (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, modulation, effects) has an impact on the sound more or less independent of the others, and so their parameters can be understood and modified independently of the others.

In other techniques, notably FM and physical modeling, the parameters and elements are very tightly coupled and nonlinear: the particular effect of parameter X changes depending on the setting of parameter Y. As a result you can't study the pieces separately, but instead must understand the dynamics of the entire system as a global unit. This is what made FM nearly impossible for musicians to wrap their heads around: and it also plagues physical modeling.

The other problem with physical modeling is that there are many physical modeling methods and architectures, and learning one doesn't help all that much with regard to the others.
I have one of these that I regularly get a kick out of smashing on my way to work each day:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdkids/offgrid-make-m...

However I also have one of these that is also amazing, just a bit fiddly to wire up to the iPad:

https://www.amazon.de/Keith-McMillen-Instruments-Multitouch-...

Of course, and Akai LPD8 is cheaper, but also needs fiddling - which is why the OffGrid is my current "pad of the day" choice.
Because that’s why our money is worth anything in the first place. Unless you’re trying to make arcade tokens worthless outside of the arcade.
This doesn't even seem like a reply to what I said.

If you map memory anonymously you aren't doing interprocess communication.

If you don't, you have a file path that the other program can use to map the same memory.

That's it, there is nothing wrong with this. I don't know why this is so upsetting. Mapping memory anonymously is local to the process tree and doesn't work for two different programs communicating.
I agree, however it’s difficult to move everyone. There are so many groups - family, friends, founders, batchmates, etc. Until WhatsApp brings native polls this problem will exist.

As a developer, building a solution was way more fun than nagging people to move to a different platform. Haha.

Btw this is not really bound to WhatsApp. You can use it to share your poll everywhere.
I have seen some polls getting upto 14k votes!!!

People use it to gather data on smallest things like what is a good time for going out to who do you prefer in the local elections.
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I think our species is post-genome for a lot of the complex behavior you see in society. Cultural and ideological memes use us as information carriers. We fixate on certain ideals and values, and some of us make them our entire lives.

Preferring Pokemon over Halo doesn't entirely reduce to one's genes. Being too busy to have kids is situational and part of a complicated modern life. There is genetic contribution to these outcomes, but we're well past the point of genes being the most complicated factor. Now you have to model society and a person's random walk through it.
>>The problems are impossible to decouple from "blockchain on principle" because the problems are intrinsic to the data structure itself, not "contemporary" approaches to the data structure implementation.

If that is indeed the belief, then I concede that is an example of someone opposed to blockchains in principle, for a reason that is not an illiberal political agenda.

In any case, I like to think I am pretty well informed on blockchain technology, and I can't think of a single problem that currently afflicts the space, that cannot be solved through engineering a solution that does not involve moving away from the general blockchain architecture, or more generally, a solution that does not involve moving away from autonomous ledgers that use cryptoeconomics to maintain consensus.
And we pay taxes to cover that.
Some people hate tweet threads like this, but I feel like it really forces concise communication and arranging thoughts into small but complete chunks. I’ve never put my thoughts into this format, but I would guess it’s actually pretty difficult and requires some careful planning to do it well, especially for a challenging topic like this. Thanks for sharing this to hacker news, sohkamyung!
I think these "overdriven goals" might be the result of leaky abstraction. We are basically seeing an implementation detail come to light. As TFA points out, there is really just one reward-taxis algorithm. Everything drive-related is a variation on it. Meaning there is no "obtain visual appeal via body building until sufficiently attractive" algorithm.

There is a top-level algorithm of "find mate and reproduce", which is enjoyable. How does it boost the odds? By doing things to be more attractive, for example. But how does one "know" one is on the right path? Activities which we learn increase attractiveness are enjoyable. There's a gradient we follow. More attractive = more enjoyable. So you end up with complex behaviors that basically become self-hoisting; the activity itself becomes the reward.

Basically, games and hobbies. Something becomes enjoyable vis a vis various learned reward functions, so we just pursue the enjoyable thing.

There's also a meta-loop wherein staying mentally stimulated and curious is itself a useful fitness, so we do things which are interesting, because it's enjoyable to do that.
Yes i forgot about half finished games, that's another perk of modern gaming world