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Ask HN: How Do You Cope?
I'm critically demotivated and the only time I get any work done is when I'm drinking in the cafe across the street from my house. Everything at work is just so incredibly tedious it's so hard to actually sit down and get anything done (so much Jira and deployment automation bullshit, I probably spend 2 weeks a year doing anything I would consider actually productive.) I don't want anything materially (I have a yacht etc etc) and although I would be much less comfortable I have enough in my 401k that I could live without working. The only reason I stay employed is to afford the things that impress women (cars, large house etc.) I don't even use half my house, it's probably been months since I've been in half the rooms.

I don't want to look for a new job either. That's so incredibly painful especially since I didn't finish my degree (I did all the course work, but I was 20 hours short on community service and between COVID and the semester boundaries the administration decided that I needed to retake a bunch of liberal arts classes which had been rearranged and I hated the first time I took and passed them.)

I feel like if I don't change something I'm eventually going to get fired for under performing which is something I'd like to avoid. I'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions/coping mechanisms other than just drinking to get through it all.
What's interesting here?
Ok, but why shouldn’t your kids be able to also use them in similar ways?
The video was posted 19 hours ago.
Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting
Torque vs Horsepower. 1000 RPM vs 6000 RPM. The small engines work fine in a (the?) large number of cases. Torque is still won in the low end. For an example, Ram's 392 CID gas vs 392 CID diesel. That example is not 100% accurate because of a turbo and fuel characteristics, but it's illustrative.
Whistleblower group says Meta misled investors over misinformation
Have nice dreams while MS builds a walled garden all around with ads and surveillance.
It's a shitty question. it's not O(1) in space cause it's using bits of the numbers on the stack to store extra information. The operations will overflow if it's filled with large enough numbers.

This is not a brain teaser, this is a question you know the answer of or you don't. Nobody can come up with a crappy algorithm like this on the spot, especially in an interview setting. I hope your interviewer is reading this.
that’s why you should create a personal website with photos for your wife (if it’s not just a few photos but seriously deal or even business). great example of why social medias are garbage and ppl have to look at indie web idea.
> But if I were to take a closer look, I'd check out what the examiner wrote in their allowance (Notice of Allowance and Fees Due) to see if they identified a specific feature that makes it patentable.

Thanks. That seems helpful.

To save people some digging and so it's easier to discuss, I've copied (actually retyped) something I found which seems relevant. At your second link, there's a document called "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)", and starting on p. 10, there's a section called "Reasons for Allowance", which reads:

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Reasons for Allowance

Claims 1 - 28 are allowed in light of the Examiner's Amendment and the Applicant's response filed on August 23, 2021.

The following is an Examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: Applicant has amended independent claim to incorporate detailed subject matter of the decoding process and apparatus.

The closest prior art Greenfield et al., (US 2016/0248440 A1), Li et al., (US 2015/0103902 A1) and Converse (US 2017/0164007 A1) do not disclose the claimed element, "during a first phase of the two-phase structure, selectively updating, depending on a determination of whether or not an output symbol from a previous iteration was generated, state of the RANS decoder using probability information for the output symbol from the previous iteration, the state of the RANS decoder being tracked using a value;" and "during the second phase of the two-phase structure, selectively generating, depending on a determination of whether or not the state of the RANS decoder includes sufficient information to generate an output symbol for a current iteration, the output symbol for the current iteration using the state of the RANS decoder, the state of the RANS decoder including sufficient information to generate the output symbol for the current iteration if the state of the RANS decoder is greater than a threshold". Therefore, the prior art references taken either alone or in combination fails to anticipate or fairly suggest the limitations of the independent claims. While using a range asymmetric number system (RANS) decoder was known at the time of the invention, Applicant's very specific claimed structure is considered patentable over the prior art of record.

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As a total layman, not knowing the tech here (or patents or law), it sounds promising to me, in the sense that it probably doesn't stop everyone from using RANS.

It mentions prior art and says "RANS" ... "was known" in conjunction with that. And it also says "very specific claimed structure", which also sounds like this doesn't cover all of RANS.
This is how I wound up becoming so annoyed that I finally switched to Linux. It’s been great. I haven’t even missed out on gaming.
I still run windows 7 as the primary os on my daily driver.
I do like the idea of prizes, they seem to work quite well for some well defined problems that needs solving.

I'm not sure they would prevent ideas being kept secret for most forms of commercial research though. Publicly funded research should be available to everyone in any case IMHO.
Simply understaffed. Since I've been full time, we've only ever had two full time employees.

Also, Samsung doesn't sample AnandTech.
They do have a Linux distro.

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/
Hey just pull any yt video analyzing finishers form with stop motion frames. You won’t see it in the lead pack on long races but otherwise it seems to be roughly 20% with slight heel striking stride
I'm starting to think that these kind of scientific studies, that focus on a single factor and rule every other variable aside, are not the best way to analyze weight loss.

Because following that logic, exercise supposedly does not work if you want to lose weight.
But if every study around aerobic exercise arrives at that conclusion, why aren't the majority of athletes overweight? Where are the fat runners?

Is this a survivor bias? (Fat people even with great aerobic capacity end up hurting their joints so they stop running)

Is it because the addition of exercise generates other kind of changes in the body, like less insulin resistance, and overall more signals in the body to burn fat rather than store it?

Do runners spontaneously change their diets once they get used to their new lifestyle? Maybe the food they used to eat, both in amount and in composition, makes them uncomfortable so they start making lasting changes?

Yes, it does look like running a static amount every time has diminishing results. But, overall, people who run tend to be less overweight. And a lot of overweight people who start doing exercise and stick to it, tend to lose the weight, or at least they lose fat and gain muscle.
This feels like a rather uncharitable interpretation. Entering into in an exclusive relationship with someone means you have come out ahead of other potential "competitors" and are able to claim the reward: access to the elevated relationship with the said individual, and not necessarily the individual themselves.

Do you also take issue with the phrases like "How to win his heart" or "You need to win her over"?
Are you speaking about US companies? I was about ~200k usd at my last job.

But it looks like the ranges heavily depend on the country, not the "style" of the company (Europe companies being the cheapest).
Yes, damn governments always after our benevolent corporations
We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again.

Very annoying.
I think this is a better story than most one gets asked about a 5 year gap.
problem is when you pop the min, you can't know which was the second to min unless you do the trick that's in the website quoted.
Which LTT has been shown to be interested in producing, buying cable testing equipment, using high speed cameras for monitor analysis, ... and with LTT Labs those efforts will likely increase.
Almost like someone who would think that they could do something that whole countries haven't been able to do in 60+ years?
I suspect it's because of American tech companies egregiously monitizing their customers
See, this is what I expected the story to be like: instead the linked story is just "they were using a jammer".
There are ads on the internet?
Works for me, last time I changed programming language and framework was over 20 years ago, but remember like TFA says to pick technologies that will be actively supported in 20 years, eg C and SQL are not going anywhere for a very long time
Using a modern popular browser. For some time I also tried "links" and that works, but opted back since the novelty faded.
No I think I saw them on openbenchmarking, why?
> Often the employment model doesn’t reward for going above the acceptable minimum

I keep finding more and more evidence to this statement, weirdly enough
Yeah, but what a long couple of years they've been...
for sure, thanks for the reply. i meant something like "is the group doing anything to initiate or solicit contact, or a relationship, or do they only create an account and wait?"
in your example there seems to be a line between initiating contact and an initiating an illegal act, and i'm curious which side of that line the investigators are on in this case
Maybe a better term would be "critical projects" instead of "important projects" in that case?
I heard that a loophole is to install Windows with a MSFT account, create a local account with admin access and then delete the MSFT account
> Which email client would you recommend?

Mailspring

https://getmailspring.com/
I made an assumption based on "manager" as his title. Usually they is way down in the hierarchy for big companies, I could be wrong in this case
Smart move by Meta.
But if the NLP is able to flag more errors than the rules engine, how could the rules engine explain the errors?
that's too bad. You told me to get out of my bubble, but then won't give me your opinion. Would love to hear your points if you decide it's worth it. If not, have a good weekend!
I mean, that's totally fine. How often do people even visit their home page? People who want to search things, just use the URL bar, so you might as well make your homepage useful.
What protocols stop a person from removing the drive from your machine, and imaging the drive?
Wow this looks awesome! This could definitely be what I'm looking for. Thanks so much!
I believe, like apple, microsoft sees their future as a service provider instead of a software company.

I always wonder when I see stuff like this - isn't this a business opportunity?

but then the businesses that do it with linux start doing the same things (like canonical getting ubuntu to phone home and force updates, etc)
Billy left in the middle of last year
Yep. And the one that was deleted by admins was posted over a day ago.

It now seems at least plausible that someone was trying to wipe this story, and lost.

At the time, users felt frustrated no one was covering this: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/...
Good encryption protocols create cyphertext that is indistinguishable from random data. You can't tell the protocol from the cyphertext.
The Microsoft release notes specifically mention that this only applies to personal use installs which means non-domain installs.
Yes, that's currently the problem. I'll be that Grammarly is doing something similar itself.

Do you support Japanese or other East Asian languages?
TBH, I think we need at least a first-order predicatelogic to adequately model this.

In any case, I'd dispute your logical equivalence. All quitters are not winners. But not all "not winners" are quitters. Some just keep playing and losing. Like I do at chess.
Nah, it just means that Electron is the new Java is new VB6 is the new FoxPro is the new Pascal is the new… Every era of computing has had its "frowned upon" tools for building software that were productive to a class of developer that needed to get stuff done and couldn't "afford" the "right" tools. Electron kind of proves the strategy is still working more than it proves the strategy is not working. Windows itself doesn't care if you build a UI in Win32 or Electron or XAML or Tcl/Tk or DirectX or bubble gum and duct tape for that matter. That's the strategy: let developers do what they want (for the most part). That's still working as a strategy even if you as a user don't like Electron, or you as a user hate that Electron apps don't look like Win32 apps don't look like XAML apps. "Consistent designs" isn't working, but "software written in late 1990 something in VB6 against Win32 still works in 2022" is a working strategy. As a developer, you have choices, even if that choice is to use Electron or to use VB6 to build apps in 2022 despite the VB6 IDE itself not running or supported in any Windows after Windows XP (the runtime is still supported for eternity, but development tools are stuck).
Windows 10 for life then, cheers for making it easy lads.
Best I found: https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/functions/

UCS core is free and runs windows compatible active directory. Not sure they have a pi4 version though.
STREET SMARTS!

You need your proverbial money clip with $50 that you can throw and run when you're being mugged.

STREET SMARTS!
It's already happened:

* Discord replaced Go with Rust[0]

* Microsoft's VS Code uses ripgrep for searching through code which is coded in Rust.

* npm is using Rust

* Cloudflare (I believe for their serverless platform)

* Figma (unsure how)

* And I'm sure countless more, hell one of my former employers is using it for mission critical work in place of C++

As you can see Rust is used by some pretty massive services, even if you don't use them, millions of people do. In fact VS Code is the most surprising to me I had no idea it was using it all along. I also believe Atom was looking into using Rust to improve performance for Atom but I'm not sure if it was just native code in place of JS / HTML.

I would argue Rust has entered the mainstream, it will be slow to be far more common, but it is getting there. I will not be surprised if we see it all snowball once there is a full feature web framework like Django or Rails but for Rust with all the batteries included. Go took a little while before it became as big as it did, and some would naively argue Go isn't mainstream, while they deploy code using docker to their kubernetes cluster (for those who missed it both of those tools are coded in Go) or what have you.

[0]: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture (1979)

Masculine Domination (2001)

Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977)

State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (1998)

He intervened several times on TV and there are audios of him, in french. Maybe youtube does auto subtitles.
Yeah, it's truly terrible. I've had downtime from this as well.
Graphene and an intense laser open the door to the extreme
How to say you're young without saying you're young...
Just curious--how do you use LXD in production? It always struck me as something very neat/useful for dev machines, but I had trouble imagining how it would improve production workloads.
You don't need cycles, unless power outages are frequent. (good point but power outages are probably going to be correlated to our capacity to make lithium batteries at all)

Lithium has ~half the longevity compared to lead-acid unless you heat/cool them like Tesla to keep them at a stable temperature (too high/low and the longevity drops like a stone because of tiny impurities between the metal sheets).

NiMH is actually my preferred battery tech now, but it's WAY too expensive for the Ah you need for anything beyond say a maglite solitare LED (awesome torch btw).

Lithium and high power vehicles are completely meaningless for the wider human population in the long run because electricity is NOT an energy source.
Mac it is then
Destroying 1 copy pretty much guarantees someone is going to go find that $5 wrench and explain to you how disappointed they are.
@js2 please check your inbox: you have been recalled
Yep, we have Metronet here and it has been pretty great (North of Dayton)
McFunley has had some amazing moments in his career. "Choose Boring Technology", "data driven products now" and of course the "Richard is a fucking idiot control" which made its rounds...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...

nothing lately, which is a shame...
So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?
Yet the video shower that wasn't an issue and he gave tips how to minimise corrosion anyway
Translated Israel MoH Survey of reported adverse events
This question somewhat trivializes the "radicals" and their "extreme" views and denies them agency. What would it take for you to change your strongly held views, "extreme" or otherwise? Who the fuck knows, right? But probably nothing formulaic and generalizable. So it is with others.
The referenced blog post is still not clarifying whether this requirement will only apply to current and future "Window Insider flights" (which require a M$ account anyway to join the program in the first place), or be released to public builds as well. Everyone is kinda assuming that this requirement is going to apply to actual Windows 11 Pro releases, but the way they're phrasing this does not seem to imply that at all.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but neural net-based NLP can't explain itself while the rules engines just use simple pattern matching techniques, so it can.
They have promised they'll fix this for the Steam Deck, so there's a chance this will change in the next week.
I truly do not know what your comment is talking about. There is no easier lucrative career to get into today than tech. I work at perhaps the most difficult FAANG to get into, and just my tiny org hires hundreds of 20-something each quarter with no experience at all who barely know what they are doing, and pays them 6 figures. Every other company does the same, just even easier to get into.

And there is no need to climb the ladder, just get to mid level engineer, which requires virtually no effort, and with some frugal living you’ll be financially set.
Yes, for example GMail with Thunderbird or iCloud with the native mail app, probably some people just don’t know that they can connect their Outlook mail to another mail client.
The funds are frozen for a reason, upon failing to defend then the the freezing rolls over into forfeiture.
Babbage's work pre-dated mass production. Today, production people look at something like that, and ask "how many different parts"? Because banging out a lot of the same part has been a routine job for the last century. Babbage was too early for that. Parts required much hand work and craftsmanship. Metal part manufacturing did not scale yet. It was possible to build Babbage's parts using clockmaking techniques, but it would have required a lot of clockmakers.
Ely Terry had a mass production clock business in the US by 1804, but the gears were wooden. Apprentices made rough clock wheels, and better workers finished them more precisely with hand tools. Precision stamping was still in the future, awaiting the widespread ability of steel in the 1880s.

The Ingersoll dollar watch (1896), "The Watch that made the Dollar Famous", was probably the first high-volume mass produced product with part complexity and precision comparable to what Babbage needed. A few years later, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording company, the predecessor of IBM, was manufacturing the first commercial electromechanical computing devices in quantity. After that, there was steady progress.

Those were the days when New England was to the world what Guangdong is now.
Very nice example of math in a web page!
Because they are children. They get to have fewer responsibilities in return for having fewer freedoms while they grow up and gain experience.
Is there a way to save comments so I can come back and laugh at them when I'm feeling down?
Ah yes. Blame the EU and not, you know, trillion-dollar multinational corporations that go out of their ways to subvert the law.
I had one of these too! Though parents could override it if needed (which was generally done if e.g. we had a friend over, so we could play games together without using up all our weekly time).
Which is also explains why the Segways are so off the cuff.
You don't always know what you'll need to plug in to on a given day, when you leave the house.

Old Macs covered a bunch of those cases with built-in ports.

Modern ones cover a lot fewer so you have to carry more crap.
Yeah, I figured.

That's why there are almost no NLP tools on the market that support Asian languages, in particular Japanese, Korean, and somewhat Chinese (Chinese is its own thing because of the large number of engineers it has to throw at problems).
It's way more common to see people using multiple workstation instead. Usually a Windows/Mac laptop for everyday computing tasks in conjunction with a dedicated workstation for development.
Makes you wonder whether Canonical has any idea about operating servers. Auto-updating packages is the last thing you want. Doing that for a container engine, without building in some jitter to avoid the scenario you described is absolutely insane.

Who even uses snap in production? If I squint my eyes I can see the use for desktops, but why insist on it for server technologies as well?
The gst-plugins-bad repo is defunct. GStreamer now uses a monorepo (also mentioned in the article).

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/frequently-a...

That said, webrtc is still in -bad: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/tree/ma...
Not even just that - in addition to imaging, write blockers should be used for evidential integrity as well.
great question ! i guess i was just wondering how the investigators make sure they aren't creating a situation that wouldn't exist otherwise. i couldn't find much info on the process. is the victim a real underage person ? was the victim already being contacted in a sexual way by this guy before the investigators got involved ?

having seen internet investigators get things wrong before and having an incentive to create the most sensational content possible, i just want to evaluate for myself how careful they are about what they're doing
Wait a second, just a few hours ago these comments were made by this user:
[redacted]

Now all the down-voted ones are supposedly by:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_hhkg

@dang, care to explain what transpired here?
Are you protecting someone's account from down-votes?
You shouldn't store a password in plaintext in your database. So if your database is leaked, they don't have the user's actual passwords. But with the digest scheme, you can't store a hash of the digest, because if all you have is Hash2(Hash1(username:realm:password)) and the nonces, then you can't compute Hash1(Hash1(username:realm:password):server_nonce:client_nonce), assuming that Hash2 is irreversible, which you want it to be.
Not even kidding, a huge part of what made me move to Arch was that it's one of the few distros that packages LXD. Apparently it's a pain, but I'm forever grateful!
Ronald Reagan used this during the Iran Contra investigation as well.

Boy, did the universe pull a monkey's paw on him for that.