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I've described this on HN before; forgive me if you've already seen it.

I have chronic migraine. It sounds worse than it is; I rarely suffer attacks anymore, and when I do, they're usually mostly harmless, as in the case I'll describe below.

Contrary to popular belief, migraine is not a headache. It's something a little more like an epileptic seizure. Intense headaches are one common symptom, but there are a lot of others.

One common symptom of migraine is called *scintillating scotoma*. A scotoma is a blind or blank spot in the visual field. A scintillating scotoma caused by migraine is an area of the visual field that is temporarily replaced by a vivid visual aura. Its appearance is commonly the first symptom of a migraine attack, and is often followed by more unpleasant symptoms.

I've seen scintillating scotoma many times over the years. A few years ago I was reading and enjoying a good book, and my scotoma appeared. It was a humdinger: roughly triangular prisms of white light with utterly black zebra stripes moving along them kaleidoscope-style. It took up the lower left middle of my visual field, pulsing and radiating and turning, covering the book in my hand.

I was disappointed. I didn't want to stop reading. I was enjoying the book. So I decided to keep reading until the scotoma made it impossible to continue.

It never did.

It became so vivid that I couldn't see my hand at all, but I still had no trouble reading the book. I even started reading it aloud without any difficulty.

After a few minutes the scotoma faded. In that instance, it was not followed by any other symptoms (that's happened more and more frequently over the years since probably my forties).

I could now see the book again, and could confirm that what I had been reading was indeed what was on the page.

I thought about how to explain my experience. The best hypothesis I've come up with so far is that the neurological process of seeing and the neurological process of being consciously aware of what I'm seeing are not the same thing. They're independent processes. The scotoma prevented me from subjectively experiencing seeing the book, but did not prevent me from actually seeing it, nor from correctly interpreting what I was seeing.

This experience (and one two other odd experiences) has led me to adopt the working hypothesis that many of our cognitive experiences are more complicated than we tend to assume, and that they're often made up of several more or less independent processes. We usually benefit if related processes pretty much work together, so they pretty much do. Because they do, we experience them all together as a single experience, but that's an illusion that unravels if circumstances screw up their synchronization.

I hope someone finds that as interesting as I do.
One person’s “new interesting thing” is another person’s “breaking change”.
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I said that I would pay conditionally on getting the job, not for the help. ;)

And it was on purpose. I know that HN is US-centric, but I lived on both sides of the ocean and as time passes I am getting more sensitive to this limited (dare I say privileged?) view from otherwise very smart and educated people.

My proposal was more of a provocation to see if you could really back up the statement that "it should be easy for good people to make that much money remotely or medium-sized city".

> information about interviewing at big tech companies

That's the other thing that bugs me a lot: Big Tech. If these salaries are only attainable at FAANG companies, then the road of getting 200k+ offers is no longer just about being "above average", but also to be okay in selling your soul by working in places that long stopped worrying about the welfare of its consumers.
Same experience, sans probing. I have also, interestingly, overstayed in the West including using a residence permit to enter that was no longer valid. Japan they checked my baggage, same smuggler thing, but I only had my host of bootleg (not really, I just like being equipped so I just get them from generics factories) antibiotics + pharma and they don't really care about those personal quantities.
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why is stuff like this pushed to the surface here? i don't want to see whiny content like this on HN.
Isn’t it a kind of proof that a function is generic? I can map over some xs with an f and produce ys.
> Millions of square miles of sea floor abutting Indonesian islands, between Australia and New Guinea, and under the South China Sea connecting Korea with Taiwan and Vietnam, off India, and the whole Persian Gulf were lush bottom land that started to vanish under the waves some 20,000 ya. No knowing what might have been constructed on all that, but the oldest cities we know of started right upriver from some of it.

That was the land of Lemuria according to oral history of those peoples.
It's not that bad of an analogy. When a toy store runs out of Furbies, that doesn't mean there's no Furbies available on the world market anymore. It just means that at that specific toy store you can't get any Furbies anymore. When they get resupplied (posted additional collateral, in the case of Robin Hood), you can buy from them again.
I don't think the privilege is just about being handled things easily, it's also about being able to reach such positions, no matter what the upbringing you had.

A lot of people are going to work as hard or harder than you, but because they chose a different career or because they don't have your set of skills, they'll never reach what you got and that is a huge privilege.
you are comprised of many selves, subpersonalities, which you can talk to. they have their own agendas, views, emotions. i could talk to your inner teacher, a six year old in you, your lazy bones, etc. bonus fact: it goes deep and it's fun and interesting as hell.
This may be also caused by confusing syntax highlighting in some editors, for example in VSCode [1]

The variable in the second string gets highlighted (with slightly different color, but still) because it would still work with `str.format()`. GitHub doesn't seem to do this.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/9KGWVG0
I disagree. Most user-facing apps I've seen in my career don't really need strong consistency.

The question is the performance of eventuality for propagating changes. If it's sub-second level, I'd say 99% of apps (of those which don't need strong consistency) can live with that. Single-digit seconds could still serve many purposes.
Ah TIL that the requirements would be different per-stock. It still seems to me that Robinhood should be able to fulfill orders for customers who had fully settled funds in the account. If I have money in my account (fresh from my bank account) that money is enough for 100% collateral.
The Oberon book describes the compiler, operating system, windowing system and other things.

http://www.projectoberon.com/
I'm surprised at how much of an impact your use of the en dash here has on how I read the sentence. I found myself pausing longer between words in my inner dialogue as I read "Italian–American".
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Blue Ridge Mountains, Colorado River...

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I absolutely love the use of simple shapes in notation (fig. 5) and am absolutely stoked this is becoming more and more popular.
What you describe around a two-mode screen is basically the whole IP around the transflective displays made by 'Pixel Qi' (Unrelated to google pixel).

I know they made a few devices and saw some projects of people retrofitting them in acer and thinkpad laptops. For a period maybe 10 years ago adafruit also sold the display and driver as a standalone. Then I assume they went bust (around 2015, according to wikipedia).

Would be great if someone made those again to retrofit on business laptops.

Edit: here is a demo with the transflective and light-up mode of the Qi10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6DbFyZde8
Can't you sue these people? This situation sounds pretty ridiculous.
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I realized a while ago that a good 90%+ of news stories are about a) things that affect my life in 0 way whatsoever and b) things that I have absolutely no control over.

I thought, if something fits these two criteria then what exactly is the point in me spending time reading about it? So I no longer read the news.
Can I talk to you about the job board? What's the best way to get in touch?
If the EULA wasn't notified to you at the point of lease, or indeed of the transaction was described as a sale, then it's fraud as you were misled as to the nature of the product in order to provide a financial gain for Red. I think you have a good basis for a small claims court case to recoup spending on peripherals.

I think it could go either way, but sadly the establishment aren't keen on limiting they overreach of companies which mislead when they call things sales and which try to own the World through Eulas.

Thought: if their EULA is lawful then a post-transaction contract from your side should be lawful too ...? (YMMV, I am clearly not a lawyer and this is so far from legal advice.)
> full of shameless lies about most historical events ... skiing had been invented and developed by Russians, before the English and the Norse

I opened Wikipedia and immediately found this as the second sentence: "The earliest archaeological examples of skis were found in Russia and date to 6000 BCE."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_skiing

They also mention China there.

Sure attributing it to modern Slavs is anachronistic, but was there really such attribution in those school manuals you read? Or did they simply mean it was the territory of USSR where the first examples were found?

It's modern skiing which was developed in Scandinavia.

I'd say it's often quite the opposite, Western historiography is largely Eurocentric and disregards a lot of what happened in Asia/Africa.
Came here to say this. Wonder how much research this “researcher” had to do. Visit amazon.com/privacy?
I like multiple columns. There is a reason that newspapers and many magazines have settled on that, and it's about readability. I wish more websites would do the same. What is your issue with two columns for papers?
Maybe but I'm not certain I have the technical capability of preventing these things. Not while the camera has a wifi radio and closed source firmware. I suppose one could build their own custom camera module which features a network stack, constantly de-authing every wifi channel as long as the camera is powered on. Not super practical but it might be a fun weekend project.
> Again, what part of the world are you on?

Doesn't matter. There's plenty of remote (as in worldwide) offers with these figures now.

Source: heavily interviewed last July while living in Moscow, Russia. Got several offers in that ballpark, accepted one from "Who's hiring" HN thread. Not a rockstar, just a regular developer.
I guess you're replying to the wrong person. I clearly said that for "most people" it's NOT worth it. And I haven't cherry picked any failures in the current system. I'm not a crypto proponent. I don't own any crypto, I'm definitely not saying we should replace dollars with crypto.

> Who actually desires money that can double and halve in value overnight, and why?

As I said twice above, if you live in Zimbabwe, or even Argentina, bitcoin is probably preferable to the state currency. That's really all I'm saying. Technical hyperinflation is not all that common perhaps, but even at 10-20% a month it gets hard.
> Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it does use voice data from Alexa interactions to inform relevant ads shown on Amazon or other sites where Amazon places ads. “Similar to what you’d experience if you made a purchase on Amazon.com or requested a song through Amazon Music, if you ask Alexa to order paper towels or to play a song on Amazon Music, the record of that purchase or song play may inform relevant ads shown on Amazon or other sites where Amazon places ads.” Amazon spokesperson Lauren Raemhild said in an email.

> Amazon told The Verge that it believes the research is flawed. “Many of the conclusions in this research are based on inaccurate inferences or speculation by the authors, and do not accurately reflect how Alexa works,” Raemhild said. “We are not in the business of selling our customers’ personal information and we do not share Alexa requests with advertising networks.”

Doesn't seem very surprising.
>"But cybercrime is just purely global," Witschi added. "I can't see a single nation being able to get on top of it when you think that 13 per cent of countries don't have law – let alone policy – around cybercrime. It just means that any international legal framework doesn't exist in those countries."

Therefore all attacks can proxy through the immense size of these wild west of countries who don't police this. Better yet, this is counter intuitive but who has the money? If Nigeria princes are earning big $ with illegal activity. Bigger entities like Interpol who are offering no $ aren't going to win here. They will side with $ so long as it's bigger.

South Americans made this same huge mistake when they let US politicians dictate their laws. Pablo Esbobar era. He has been dead for 30 years and the drug wars are still impacting south america to an extreme degree. Not offering them money, but threatening to punish south americans for criminal elements in their country.

I suspect history will repeat and the African governments will make the same mistakes. History always repeats.

>Interpol 'cyber surge' targets African crime rings Over the summer, Interpol will lead what it calls a "cyber surge" in 30 African countries. These coordinated efforts, which also involve the Gateway threat-sharing security partners, focus on pumping resources into both identifying threats and then helping local law enforcement disrupt cybercrime rings.

You know what blows my mind. It's clear a cyber world war is ongoing, China, USA, Russia, etc. Interpol is obviously not going to be effective in policing the cyber world war. Invert it, if you want to avoid policing the cyberworld war, you can only target who isn't involved.

Guess that's Africa?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2018/11/26/the-...

Maybe Egypt? Maybe Jordan/Israel? Really Africa has virtually no cyber armies. No wonder interpol is headed that direction.
Emmm...Thank you!
Ask HN: Startup Jobs as a Solution Architect
I've worked as a Solution Architect for several years and have been considering roles at startups, but startups don't seem to hire Solution Architects? Is there another term for this position in startups, or do senior developers typically take on design responsibilities?
I understand the point you are making, but I feel that using a female pronoun while discussing Thomas being male would have been the more jarring linguistic choice, given the subject.
I am aware of that, and that is Robinhood being unable to manage their collateral requirements in order to continue trading GME. There were other brokers that managed to do it just fine. Robinhood messed up here. Really I think the DTCC is who messed up, but that's a much larger discussion.

The reason I dislike the analogy is because brokers aren't (typically) supposed to run out of shares to buy and sell. Retail traders don't think of trying different brokers for availability like you might trying different toy stores. The point of having a large enough float is so that you can continue trading the stock. Market makers exist to provide liquidity. It's supposed to keep trading, and only some brokers like Robinhood were unable to manage this.
kyle is very friendly and I recommend reaching out. we can't and wouldn't disclose any pricing that is not public information. would be unethical on my part. all i can say is we wish to continue our work with him indefinitely as long as we keep making progress on the product :)
> OH•

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical “Notation: The unpaired electron of the hydroxyl radical is officially represented by a middle dot, •, beside the O.”

Note that article uses a superscripted dot <sup>•</sup>OH, and the dot is usually prefixed in the article (presumably so as to put the dot next to the O that doesn’t have a full shell?).

However the article sometimes suffixes the dot, to put it beside the R organic radical. Weird.
Unless most of it's going to train some kind of giant ML model.
Yeah, if it works with the PA tools, then you're using pipewire-pulse. If you aren't using WirePlumber, try it out, as pipewire-media-session doesn't work as well and is more of a reference implementation than an end-user product.
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Or you can just use the product normally without agreeing to it. Look up "unconscionability"
I think a lot of the x86 performance per watt issues are really Intel issues. Intel has spent the last half decade increasing max power consumption to its limits to eek out just a bit more performance to justify launching a new generation.

It's clear that they're turning a corner but even the just released 10nm big.little Alder Lake chips fall behind AMDs several year old TSMC 7nm chips in performance per watt.
I've been wishing for a while for someone to successfully port Celestia to wasm+WebGL; It's a bit beyond my capabilities, but there's nothing keeping it from being possible (the codebase already supports multiple frontends / build targets / graphics backends).
99% of workers would probably consider quitting their jobs if they were given $100 million.

No, 100% of workers would consider it. 99% of them would quit.
In general, I agree with you, but I'm referring to speech in the context of a social network. 4chan is a niche community because it is too rough for most people. Unless Musk wants to turn Twitter into 4chan, he's going to have to get real about moderation and like I said, even 4chan is moderated.
Granted, I'm not in the target market, but I don't understand why people keep buying RED cameras. They do stuff like this, charge an arm and a leg for what should be commodity parts but aren't, and claim dubious patent protections on things like compressed RAW video (IIRC, at least one compressed RAW image format existed prior to the release of the RED One).

With really attractive options from companies like Blackmagic, Sony, and ARRI, what's so appealing about RED?
This is misleading for athletes and the article is clear that the BMI increase could be due to sports nutrition and new training methods.
Am I missing something here? If we're just litigating the difference between "hierarchy" and "pyramid", I just don't think there's anything worth discussing here.

I think the ordinary, uncritical reader who hears about "Maslow's hierarchy" and sees a pyramid (1) isn't necessarily committing themselves to any high-stakes claim about what Maslow originally did or didn't intend and (2) they aren't being mislead by seeing a pyramid (as opposed to anything else) to represent a hierarchical structure.

I understand that mis-quotations and misattributes are a thing, and the cultural forces that lead to them, and the ripple effects they cause, merit attention. But there's a second, parallel tradition that centers on "correcting" supposed misperceptions over trivial distinctions.
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> The UX is important. It's important that all users have the same one. For link aggregators, you want comments displayed as a tree. For microblogging, flat lists work better, especially when people post "threads", which they do.

That's subjective and exactly the type of thing that could be handled in a client. In both cases you're displaying the exact same data. A microblogging thread may be displayed as a flat list, but it's still a tree like a link aggregator thread.

> I meant a Facebook-style social network.
So a platform to post what are essentially blog posts. In ActivityPub, that would be the Article type, which, according to the spec, has no semantic difference from Note. An Article could be created as a Note and vice versa with no semantic difference or loss of data. Just like above, the data is the same and the only distinction is the visual presentation of it.
Casinos do fine. Robinhood probably won't be the next Vanguard but they've essentially created the casual betting market version of investing.
> collapse doesn't happen everywhere the same, nor all at once.

Frankly, I have a “living experience” of a practically instantaneous collapse. January 1, 1992. Prices were “freed”, (hyper)inflation started, people life savings were burned to dust, monthly pensions - at once - begin to cover just about a week of food (and were not paid until 3 months later). Policemen’ salaries became meaningless and the police - in the whole country - started to look for additional ways to feed their families… It all happened pretty fast.

So “inflation” is a trigger word for me since. And you can imagine unease I am watching the US government printing shiploads of money with.
> Indeed, if "{value} is bad" can be automatically f-stringed by an external program automatically --- then why can't Python do this automatically -- so we can get rid of the f-string type as a required explicit declaration?

Because it would break existing strings containing braces, such as those used with `str.format`, or string.Template, or literal Jinja templates, ...
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Because contract law is a thing. OP can return the camera and get a different one, or they can agree to the usage terms.
> In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[1]

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20220422061858/https://james-iry...
As a beginner, maybe. But this is code in some of the biggest open-source Python repos in existence. Probably written by someone with a reasonable level of Python expertise.
it's interesting folks have interpreted this as a blocking call to effectively do nothing in the face of such uncertainty. To me it was an invitation to begin to engage in second order thinking.
Does LexiFi use vanilla OCaml now? I remember that in the past they had created their own custom dialect.
The trailing "per liter" seems the problem: I think maybe what they mean is that 20W gets you 0.3 liters per hour? So their machine produces 0.3 liters per hour, and draws 20W?

I wish journos wouldn't bandy around terminology and statistics they don't understand. It's getting worse.
Be very careful when you see things like, "Rohl asserts that the New Chronology allows him to identify some of the characters in the Hebrew Bible with people whose names appear in archaeological finds."

It's likely that the Biblical identification came first and any evidence was identified to support the identification. And, to be fair, that's not always invalid.
Most of Europe sees you with the same tax rates of roughly 40%, if not higher. Even after rent, tax, and health insurance, your leftover pay is more than a mid to senior engineer will _gross_ before tax and rent in most major European cities. The real outlier there is the care cost. if you didn't have that, you would have 7/month left over (and even after that, you have $36k/year) - that's more than a mid level engineer will gross in the UK.
It won't. Any material so created would immediately receive an injunction at a court and the risk would be so high that you wouldn't even do it because you can't use the material. Also, there are zero people in movies who can tell you whether a movie will succeed. You can't make the bet.

The incentives force RED to not abuse.