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>How am I supposed to equate a drawing any graduate art-school student could reproduce with foundational discoveries in mathematics

Pretty sure that's GP's point. Nowadays, any graduate physics student can solve calculus problems. The amazing part is the creation of new ways to see and describe the world.
Well right, you can't. Very good point. But perhaps you have guests for a month and when they leave they have guests, that means more of the house has to be heated instead of sealed off. I've seen that in huge houses.
Put it on a rocket ship and fly it into the sun of course.
Thanks for the SORTDEMO link! That little jingle brought back some memories.
Interesting mistake. Lets see if and how GrubHub learns from it.

It's possible they will, and have some good results for restaurants in future from the next time around. Assuming they implement rate limiting (for restaurants, delivery staff, etc).

That being said, they could just ignore everything and not care at all. Hopefully they take the improvement road though.
This is pretty awesome! Does anyone know when it was published? I’d guess late 70s or so, probably? Just curious how it came to be. I have the Cherry Audio CA-2600 which is an emulator for this synth and it definitely includes some of these sounds. I used the 65 cent piano on a track the other day!
MTA’s new stairs in Times Square subway station cost $30M
Most of those sounds hilariously close to Danish, probably because of the glottal stop :P
Not especially. I do care about special pleading, particularly the when pleader is the one that lit the fire in question.

I would like there to be no private money in politics, full stop.
When I read "Ghost surgery", I think "surgery where nothing was done", not "surgery done by someone else".
> my skillset

What is your skillset?
The person asked an easily google-able question, so I assume they want an answer deeper than a simple list. The only way to give that answer is with more context.
My sides, what a shitshow.
1,000,000 humans require 4,000,000 liters of water daily. Seawater is 3.5% salt (35g/l), giving us 140,000,000g of salt. If we assume NaCl, with a density of 2.17g/cm3, that gives us 64,500,000 cm3 of salt, or 64.5 m3. I am getting a range of capacities on dump trucks, but somewhere on the order of 10m3 per truck. So 6-7 dump trucks dropping salt into the middle of nowhere. That does not sound like an infeasible problem for maintaining 1e6 humans?

Expecting Cunningham’s Law to show I goofed the math.
I've had a very similar experience with my Galaxy S10. I got the battery swapped a few months ago for a very reasonable ₹2000 ($~30) at a Samsung service centre. Now my battery life is back to what it used to be. I'm confident I'll keep using this for at least two more years.

There's absolutely no replacement for this phone right now. Flagship specs, amazing camera, decent battery, SD card, headphone jack, 1440p screen. There's nothing like it.

PS: the in screen fingerprint sensor was quite horrible initially, but updates over the years have made it quite similar to a regular sensor.
my eyes....
>This result is tremendously implausible to me, but I am finding quite a few articles documenting similar phenomena across things like retina scans and brain MRIs.

As prometheus76 says, perhaps you will one of these days be able to mentally resolve the inherent contradiction in the above sentence.
So your argument is that "it's worse that a right was taken away than we never had it in the first place"?

That doesn't seem logical.
With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
Sometimes there's subtlety. Well it's a language unto itself, that's why everyone can play with any language cards (except Asian language cards sometimes) no problem. It's mostly image recognition, you see the image and you're like "Oh fuck, that's the last thing I wanted him to play!" And weep a little inside, from the pain of losing alone, no bets really. Never bet on the outcome of a casual game.
I feel the same when I see someone making 6x my salary on hacker news and complaining
Has anyone done a security review of Heroku alternatives? I see lots of comments about moving there and using them instead of Heroku because of this incident. But that's hardly a justifiable reason alone, since those new platforms are probably worse off in security.
Don't you have to, ya know, store your headphones somewhere? Keep the dongle on your headphone cord
Keep a base and make the Mini another premium option. It's not always that a smaller device is weaker but that it required sophisticated engineering to get everything that compact.

I'd pick a name that suggests that it's a lifestyle thing rather than being spartan.
Microsoft to boost employee pay in effort to stop attrition
10% is a shockingly high number. In a city where 1.25% of people slept in a homeless shelter last year (not counting the tens of thousands on the street), having 8 times that as a percentage of rental stock to tourists seems insane.
Windows runs fine on at least a few ARM SoCs and I'm sure most have no SATA. Maybe some have PCIe or at least NVMe. BTW, they were available commercially prior to M1 Macbooks.
The vast, vast majority of software written for Windows doesn't care about those buses. And emulation allows for the x86 programs to run without being rebuilt.

Windows' biggest drawback in this regard is that hobbyist/enthusiasts generally can't add support for any-old-board. You've got to be a vendor who is willing to get in touch with Microsoft to make it happen.
100vh is a good default for unaware websites, because otherwise you get unexpected layout jump. The other units are good tools for aware developers who intentionally want to match largest, smallest, or dynamic height. Seems like best of both worlds.
> In short, Bello, an author who admitted to plagiarizing in her now-cancelled debut novel, wrote an article about the experience and, in that article, included poor paraphrasing without attribution of an article that I wrote over a decade ago.

When I was a teenager I collected a couple of head-scratchers like this. I’d say they were ironic but I’d be afraid of being wrong.

First: visited church with my grandparents, received a typewritten postcard a week or two later. Quote: “Thank you for visiting our church last Sinday.”

Second: was listening to my favorite radio station, a local university-run station. One of the students who ran it read an editorial about complaints regarding pronunciation. She defended the personalities, said they were after all just students.

The irony: she repeatedly mispronounced “mispronunciation”.

I was 14 at the time, so didn’t have the courage to call and point that out, but I have to assume someone did.
By checking boxes.
Is this available in other languages yet?
These days when I want a falling sand game, I go to https://sandspiel.club/
> But many government employees aren’t issued an approved card reader device that lets them use these cards at home or remotely, and so turn to low-cost readers they find online.

It’s pretty common knowledge in many gov’t agencies to not procure devices from Amazon or other unauthorized vendors and connect them to gov’t machines. So I’m surprise to read that.

This is an ongoing problem with many USB peripherals from Amazon and Aliexpress. For personal use I only buy peripherals from Apple, Dell, Belkin or Logitech. Any other brand I consider untrusted.

I also highly recommend virustotal. Anything I download goes through it.
So they might be paying 2x-3x. Does that justify professional player analogy?
I actually ended up going out and buying an iPhone mini today because of this thread. An upgrade from the 12 Pro.

I love it. It's SO much lighter, and small enough that I can reach the entire screen one-handed, so no longer do I need to awkwardly try to find a place to put down whatever I'm carrying in my other hand just so I can text or interact comfortably.
Many have died since pledging to Star Citizen, waiting for its release.

But that does not make Derek Smart right—space sims are within humanity’s grasp.
Did you know the US is partaking in a genocide in Yemen as we speak? And committing war crimes with cluster bombs to boot.
If you'd like to know how it's worse...

A gopher URL looks like: gopher://host/Xfile

Where X isn't part of the path name, it's one-character file type code. This code is client-side only and determine how the client downloads and interprets the file. Gopher has 2 separate ways of sending files - Binary files are sent as-is. Text/Menu files are sent line-oriented, with a CRLF after each line and a trailing . CR LF at the end. Again, the type code is on the client side and is not sent to the server.
Any guesses as to how the "threat actor" got access to the databases? I understand most guesses would be conjecture (unless someone here has an inside scoop). Just curious about how stuff like this usually gets compromised.
After the company spends the windfall it's only worth a million afterwards.

But you're right about qualified dividends. I had no idea qualified dividends were taxed at the same rate as capital gains. I'd always hear that was why companies do stock buybacks.

Thanks for teaching me something new. You're right it's about allowing investors to time their taxable events.
Not using filters is huge! RO watermakers are really sensitive to poor quality water. Algae from last year's heat wave knocked out a lot of watermakers in Pacific waters.
There's an argument to be made that Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) has been iterating on the same game since ~1995, and releasing as they hit milestones and polish they were comfortable with.

Which seems like an incredibly reasonable way to approach doing something complicated...
This is a bit off topic, but does the "professional sports" analogy really work for tech (e.g. software/hardware) organizations? In sports the game is always the same, and while there may be different play styles or systems the fundamentals are pretty much the same.

In tech orgs, a system (potentially composed of dozens of service) can often outgrow their team, especially when there's high attrition and turnover (perhaps because you view each individual software engineer as a highly expendable/fungible "pro sports player").

Seems like a breeding ground for entropy, and compositions of systems built on lost history, chaos, and confusion.
> who enjoy pretending to be a space pilot

Why did you word it like that?

> all I know about it is it’s long-standing status as one of the biggest Kickstarter vaporware stories

They've had playable modules for a long while, development is transparent and active. Not really the definition of vaporware.
this assumes there is a finite list of available actions. for example, a primate has to see that "sharpen a stick to use as a spear" is an option, and add it to the list
> Tech leads in most engineering firms don't have that kind of control

That's a mistake by most engineering firms.

Direct technical leadership is extremely important. Weekly direct feedback and performance evaluation on technical tasks. By a technical leader who is directly responsible for getting this person improved.

I think, the vast majority of the status quo re: "managers" in the software industry is absurd rubbish.

I use the army/medicine analogy.

In the military/medicine, a junior doctor/2nd lieutenant has every aspect of their work overseen and audited by an expert who can do their job better than they can.

In the software industry we often skip this step.

Most software is cut price rubbish. Engineers who enjoy leadership and mentoring other engineers cost $$$. It's not cost effective, so bad management ensues.

> OPs point is that developers are a reflection of their environment

Definitely agree. I'd say my points are additive, they're not an alternative to OP's.
It sounds promising!

When explaining it, it might be a good idea to focus on a little more on what this technology can do for you: "How to add cross-platform plugin support to a Go program using WebAssembly."
They say skill without creativity is craftsmanship and creativity without skill is modern art. I wonder what creativity without skill would be in science...
I think R users should know how to use vectors, vectorized functions, loops, and core tidyverse (e.g. basic dplyr and ggplot). FP stuff like purrr::map isn't essential.
Simple, Cheap and Portable: A Filter-Free Desalination System
From what I understand, a major concern is thermal generation of nitric/nitrogen oxide compounds because the heat of the exhaust gases can split atmospheric nitrogen.
Given that a human is going to be listening to each sample, I wonder if a style-transfer style algorithm could be used to map the intent of a sentence to a simulated voice.

I tend to view most of these things through the perspective of what would help mod-maker's for video games: VA is the one thing you basically can't do yourself, but you also tend to have a decent data set to pull from (and I suspect various open source voice sample sets would become pretty popular).
Frankly, we've already hit that point and nobody really wants to acknowledge it.

Is a college degree absolutely necessary? Probably not (but extremely valuable, nonetheless). But bootcamps are completely worthless. At best they can operate as a screen for the already capable, but they certainly don't market themselves as such.
As an Ivy Leaguer, I consider all of the above to be parvenu. But, certainly, Stanford/Berkeley/Caltech are worthwhile in a way that chuckle Canadian schools are not.
I'm thinking about it! I downloaded and played with it and I'm going to try to use it over the next couple of weeks.
> Tt requires both client to have the full game state to run the simulation,

> The second issue with lockstep is that if one player is lagging, all players are lagging

Where are you getting this?

My game Nebulous uses lockstep, and it's a MMOish mobile multiplayer game. Plenty of clients lag, but one client lagging doesn't cause any other to lag. Furthermore, clients do not have full game state, as an optimization and data transfer reduction first, anti-cheat second.

Path of Exile actually lets you choose lockstep or client-predictive. "Serious" and "competitive" ladder players choose lockstep because, naturally, you want your client's representation of the game state to be as close to the server's representation of the game state as possible, UX be damned.

https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Networking_mode
Get the feeling many wouldn't take that up except in dire circumstances. Modern kitchens are actually quite efficient and can pump out a lot of meals in a short time. Once you run out of prepped ingredients it does get harder.
Pumped hydro has been extremely effective in Australia since the mid 1960's. There's currently a project to extend the capacity of the Snowy Hydro scheme to soak up this extra transient renewable capacity.

https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/generation/the-snowy-scheme/
I was a little underwhelmed to see that the model was trained to imitate other SOTA RL agents, still very impressive results
Ah, okay, fair. I don't think anyone is super interested in a return to only direct-connect multiplayer. Third-party server browsers showed up in a hurry, to be quickly superseded by much better in-game server browsers, with official servers being preferred, to cut down on cheating.

And especially if you want any kind of global ranking to ensure reasonably fair skill levels for matches, you're going to need a centralized service.

Imagine a game like Valorant without any central server. It'd be a much different game, a lot less user-friendly. And some people would go for that, because it would appeal to their moral sensibilities, and more power to them. But it would get destroyed, market-wise, against actual, centralized, user-friendly Valorant.

That's not theory, that's history. Players demanded games have good server browsers, good official servers, and good match-making, and games that didn't provide that suffered.
Semgrep has "experimental" support for C++. My understanding is that the major gap with both C & C++ support is macros, which are really hard.
I can also confirm the support seems to be terrible at the moment, which is disappointing as in general I think cloudflare is a great service and I've had good experiences with most of the features (though the docs often leave a bit to be desired) and have been a user since cloudflare's early beta days.

We're on a pro plan and have had an outstanding support ticket since March 22nd. With the last cloudflare response being 19 days ago.

I can't seem to get cloudflare to talk directly to backblaze (it's a domain mapping issue) and playing the middle-man in a back and forth between cloudflare and backblaze support seems to be recipe for not getting things resolved promptly.

I know it's covid times and organizations may be short staffed but compare this to cloud66 support who implemented a whole code update to support a special edge case for a non-paying customer within 48 hours. That makes an almost 2 month old unresolved ticket seem a bit tired.

@jgrahamc I'll email you ticket details in case you'd like to take a look.
Minimal Neural Network Models for Permutation Invariant Agents
Most probably because United States influences them so much.

As an Iranian, United States politics have brought so much misery upon my country, I feel like we should get a vote in U.S elections at this point. Or I don't know like half a vote. Or 1/10 of a vote. I don't know somehow let us be heard our country which once was on the path of reforms and whatnot is being crushed under the weight of senseless sanctions!

Disclaimer: Current U.S. resident, rant over!
Regarding horizontal outlining and Tree replacement, it’s not native to macOS, but there’s a web app called Ginkgo.
There is a strong chance this is response to the covid outbreak that occurred as a result of GDC this year. An outbreak occurred because a knowingly infected individual decided to surreptitiously interact with other conference-goers rather than stay in their hotel room. Do conference makers have a responsibility when creating systems and policies and the effects of those policies including the decision to have an in-person event? That's my read at least.
For me, the constraints are what makes WWII fighters so fun. I've tried some space sims, but without aerodynamic limits I always feel like I'm piloting a spinning ball of lasers.
The Zombie DOM – old DOM stuff that still haunts us today
Not to mention that you can no longer view more than a couple tweets of a given user without having the experience blocked with a "sign in!" modal covering the screen, preventing further use of the platform. This change alone has made the platform less accessible than ever.
I like smaller size phones as well. I've considered the recent Moto Razr models. But I can't get over the fear of mechanical failure due to the hinge and folding screen. I'd much rather have a viable mainline linux phone even at a larger size, but that's for another thread.
Oh yeah: Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz Flagrant 2 when I work out.
Are you sure you cannot buy such a phone from Aliexpress? They have all shapes and sizes of random stuff... they surely have a small Android phone.
Netflix's keeper test doesn't apply to someone going through a personal problem or other temporary issue. A manager would support them, making sure they get the time off they need. (And Netflix managers are usually very generous and understanding in that regard.) The keeper test is about maintaining a team of great contributors.

But the "dream team" doesn't last forever. The metaphor is meant to reinforce that. If you could play for a season with Michael Jordan, Barkley, Ewing, and the other amazing players from the actual 1992 Dream Team -- wouldn't you do it? And if you got cut the next season because there was someone even better than you -- would you regret being on that team? It would probably be a great experience, even if it only lasted a while. This is what the "dream team" idea is about.

It's clearly not for everybody, not for every company, and not for every situation. Netflix's culture is all about excellence, and the "dream team" and "keeper test" ideas work well there. I saw it play out first hand.
Not sure if the computing world would be that different, but maybe Oracle would have taken a humbling tumble (I loathed them years before they even attempted the buyout, as their corporate culture is too much like Lord of the Flies except "anyone not named Larry Ellison is Piggy" and I've rebuffed every attempt to be recruited by, purchase new or renew existing Oracle contracts. Rip and replace any chance I've had.
Actually, it's more convoluted than that:

Water that naturally flows into the state’s “wild and scenic” rivers, which are not connected to the state’s water system and can’t be under state and federal protections
Water required for maintaining fish and wildlife habitat within streams
Water that supports wetlands within wildlife preserves
Water needed to maintain water quality for agricultural and urban use

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/drought/sdut-sacra...

I'm unable to tell whether that's a tally for untapped water or if it's really meant to account for something meaningful.

The CFB does say that ag accounts for 80% of "human use".
I've started to really appreciate measuring things by "CPU time" even if it's also a surface-level estimation at best. It does a good job letting you know when a program is slow from blocking, number crunching, and can even suggest more sinister metrics.

GNU `time`, people. It's a wonderfully fun tool, but use it responsibly.
Korean Police Action
I work on two major projects - one is written in vuejs (with a .NET Core backend) and the other is on top of a .NET CMS Solution (not going to name names).

In the .NET CMS Solution, when I make a code change (view changes are easier), if the change restarts the application pool, it can take up to 2 minutes to see my change - worse in some solutions. (I work to support some existing solutions that weren't written by us but only have a certain amount of hours to accomplish, so doing the "best" thing isn't always an option). So click reload and then I'm off to another project and/or distraction and may not be back to check the change in quite a while.

The vuejs project on the other hand. I make a change to the backend, reload the app - in under 2 seconds and then re-run the API method. Or even better, if I make a change to the frontend, I hit save on the file and the screen is updated by the time my eyes have a chance to move to the other monitor! It's so refreshing.
Ask HN: Favorite tech communities besides Hacker News?
> I know that’s simplistic and a little condescending, but then look at SUV and truck sales.

I knew the response sounded American, then this clarified it. I’d like to see the sale of phone sizes by country.
China has signaled easing of its tech crackdown
Back in my high school days we used a platform called TurnItIn which gave our writing a 'plagarism score'-too high and we'd need to rewrite the essay. It would flag silly things like two word fragments sometimes. I remember writing a strenuous objection because the license agreement (which I read because I was a bit of a stallmanite at the time) allowed the platform to publish our writing. In effect, they could supply plagiarism sites and then sell you the solution!
I’ve been using a Sony ZV-1 as my webcam. With a low end laptop (Intel core i3 8th gen running Ubuntu) I had a lot of problems with using zoom. But I switched to a beefier machine with a Xeon processor and a Qadro 6000 graphics card which I use for simulation work and it all worked fine. The camera itself had no problems even with 4 hour sessions.