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I'm running a copy of iTunes 8 right now, and I disagree.

I also disagree that the old style of design is less suited towards complicated software. Apple's iWork software feels like it's suffered the most in terms of usability as a result of modern UI design.

Humans evolved in a world where things have depth, light and shadows. Even you admit that back when user interfaces were designed with that in mind, those interfaces were more friendly to novices. By ignoring these aspects of our visual perception, you're requiring prior knowledge on the part of the user, while simultaneously making it difficult to acquire that knowledge. That's not a good thing, even if you assert that "flat" interfaces are no worse once you get used to them (which I clearly disagree with).
Fantastic detailed write up. Wish there was more of these style of articles on HN.
Absolute barbarism
Consider that some of Amazon's more recent ventures into automation (namely PrimeAir) are driven by the long-standing knowledge that they would exhaust the labor pool in many markets. They knew their growth and labor practices would hurtle us toward dystopia years ago.
> You are NEVER going to get that money until you sell it

If you need to unlock the equity you can get a HELOC. More generally, if you own an asset with a well-known pricing model you can use it as collateral for a loan.

To your second point I believe you do carry over tax losses for some time.
Can someone explain why McD bothers to franchise their restaurants?

Usually franchise contracts are set up in order to transfer most risk onto the franchisee. But the risk is marginal because of due diligence McD does before launching a new venue.

Is this some sort of accounting/tax trick that enhances McD financial figures on paper? Does this allow them to raise more capital for expansion somehow?
Online Privacy Bill Gains Momentum, but Hurdles Remain
so basically Agisoft Photoscan, a photogrammetry software based on casting rays through a voxel grid?
Netflix streams 4k, granted it’s compressed.

Why couldn’t Apple stream 4k sports content?
What town, and when was this? I remember noting that two closed in seattle in the early 2000’s and thinking that was pretty unusual.
I suspect ideas of what is "sensitive" vary greatly. Whose definition counts?
It’s not about whether humans think it’s moral or right or whatever that there are people with exponential wealth. It’s just how exponentials work and no amount of policy will fix things like this. There will always be holes because the demand and income are exponential and the money has to go somewhere. You can try to enforce communism and redistribution to employees but imo that just makes the problem worse with the top leaders of nations finding ways to get even more of the pie for themselves.

The other thing to keep in kind is that while having 100mm is a lot of money, it probably does not change your life in exponential ways compared to 10mm, so you can consider some of the wealth essentially “burnt”. Don’t worry too much about specific numbers, as long as normal people have enough purchasing power to survive and be happy.
as someone who has actually tried to start a company - he deserves it and more
I'll take a 10 cap any day of the week right now.
If you're okay with a paid solution Camtasia is probably the gold standard for tutorial/instructional videos, especially screencasts.

https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html

For something free, I've had success with OpenShot and used it for show & tells at work on a work machine that I didn't have a licence to use anything more 'professional' with but be prepared to finnick about with it, but for your simple use case it should do the trick. You can use OBS (https://obsproject.com/) or ShareX (https://getsharex.com/) as free tools to capture the screen and/or your webcam.

https://www.openshot.org/
Except Putin himself calmly explained recently its all bullshit, the Nato expansion, Nazis, harasser Russian population, all lies. Putin is after "lost land and glory"

https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-says-ukraine-war-seize...

"Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine invasion is about expanding Russian territory.

Before, Putin insisted that Russia was freeing Ukraine from so-called Nazis and preventing genocide.

Putin said it was his destiny to "return and reinforce" Russia like Peter the Great did."
love when that happens :) Thanks!
i think this is too pessimistic. via FBA they've also enabled thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of small businesses and a cottage industry of others that have formed around them.
Yes, I see your point. 'Wealth' is what rich people have, in which case taxes on it's value don't make sense! That's ludicrous! 'Property', on the other hand, is what normal people have. The value of property must be taxed, for the good of us all! Anything else would be silly.
And a single full-size Amazon fulfillment center plus its associated truck yards and employee parking lots can easily take up 0.5 - 1.0 square miles (320 - 640 acres / 130 - 260 hectares), so this doesn't seem like a lot of land, given that they already have more than 100 fulfillment centers in the US.
> Finally, Ukraine has the right to join any alliance it wants

No, it doesn't have this right to join ANY alliance, as it may violate one of the conditions (military bloc neutrality) under which their sovereignty was granted to them by the USSR, which Russia is a legitimate successor of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31746866
Would you notice it if you became slowly, progressively, stupider over several years? Maybe, maybe not.
Yes, also factor in a lot of us were like 19 years old and this was our first project and also we were the lead or only programmer. :D
I didn't get a spare wheel at all with my car. I got 'run flat' tyres. And they work well, in that they let you get home or to a tyre repair/replacement shop without needing to change the wheel.

I'm still not quite convinced though. It seems that the fix is often not to repair these tyres, but to replace them. And that is more costly.
I'm okay with a poor, powerful person. That means they have their power through some means other than wealth accumulation; popular election or something. People who are powerful because of money usually didn't even get the money themselves. It's the new hereditary monarchy. Get rid of all the money, and you get rid of the undue power as well.
And that founders name? J. Robert Oppenheimer!
Interpol arrest warrant issued for Peru’s former Minister of Transport
Do you believe in the scientific method?
The Phone Booth of the Mind
Take 5 million in loans, start 3 and then you have 450k - .05*5 million = 250k free cash flow. Not a bad deal at all in an inflationary environment, but a rough deal in an environment with rising rates.
> If you require more than 100M in net worth to be "motivated" to work. There's a larger problem with you.

How else are you going to buy a decent airplane? The nice ones start at a few tens of millions.
I love that clickbait is first
Awesome seeing you here, I remember checking out your site when I was doing R&D before I actually started building!

We heavily focus on the tech of the products and actively hunt the ones with great code quality. That’s also the reason we have a few people that do code reviews and generally stay away from no code stuff or outdated projects. So we try to keep things low quantity but high quality. That makes us pretty niche.

The buyers we want to attract will most likely be people that want to save development time and costs by buying existing products and iterating on them with their own team (or themselves)

Another thing is, we actively go out of our way to attract buyers for our sellers. We use all our available channels to find a buyer that might fit a project. This is pretty hard to do but we are doing our best.

Hope that answers your question!
The worst for me is the description on the sidebar. Reading the description now is a pain in the ass.
After perusing this thread, maybe the article too, head on over to reddit. Dimes to donuts a "hair loss remedy" advertisement pops up.

Just a reminder, Google is watching.
Upon further reflection, I think the answer to this problem is to simply coordinate charging 'slots' on a sub-grid(not sure what you call a local delivery circuit with a certain capacity). It should be possible to request charging time slots from a local power company server and negotiate when your vehicle can charge with millisecond accuracy. Doing so also might help the power company supply that power more effectively/efficiently. Sure, this means in peak times you may not get the charging rate you want, because you have to wait for the network to be available, but in off-peak times you get the fast charging rate you're capable of.
> When teaching undergrads I noticed immediately that a good portion of each student cohort was basically there because they were interested in making money in the future rather than exploring the ideas of computer science.

In my school, those who wanted to make money went straight to management or finance. Computer science was for the passionate ones and probably not the right path to make money for the brightest students.
Phoronix benchmarks are showing for years now that KDE has the lowest footprint. Only bare window managers beat it.
> I really want to make a change in this society for the better and want to be remembered for doing something good

Most of us want these things. But we have no control over them. Even if we live our absolute best with no mistakes, we still may not make a big impact or be remembered for more than one generation. This is simply not possible for us to control.

All we can do is give ourselves to what is in front of us. The best way to do this is to simply work to do better now than we did in the past.
Changing your job and outlook, however, is probably still working fine.
What is considered to be the best treatment for apnea these days? Is it ESP, or something else? Besides CPAP of course.
Glucosamine significantly reduces risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality
I doubt either of those conferences would want to be stuck behind a paywall that is neither on terrestrial television or cable networks. Dealing with ESPN is dealing with ABC, which is a gigantic advantage. The SEC remains the power conference of power conferences, and whatever they decide is ultimately the way college football will trend. Their recent agreements with Oklahoma and the University of Texas are just a start into deraveling the top tier athletic institutions from other conferences.
PyTorch Beat TensorFlow, Forcing Google to Bet on Jax
> Again I have to emphasize: I am not saying this is the case, only that it is a possibility that needs to be taken into account when doing the moral calculus.

An important thing to note about babies is that at some point in the past few months they objectively couldn't feel anything, despite having a human body.

So the question is when those various things switch over, not if.
I really don't need a website to know that I make/have at my disposal far less money than any billionaire. Or even millionaire.
> imagine a browser that encrypts local storage with a system key. If I understand correctly, by storing different patterns of bits, Hertzbleed might be able to extract the system key from the timings to save data.

Don't you need precise clocks for this in JS? The ones that were disabled in browsers after Meltdown/Spectre.
It says it is for "high-performance scientific computing" though. Could actually be intended for scientists who happen to be writing programs and mislabeled though. But do they typically care about manual hardware tuning, the sort that this library claims to enable?
Makes me wonder if they'd freak out less if they were unconscious while submerged.
I’m a firm believer in a maximum of like 50% tax on income. Anything more just feels like a punishment for working.
To present some contrast:

Windows doesn't have fork(). It has a real, fully mature thread and process model. In Windows NT, every process consists of a handle that is a "Process", which in turn points to a structure containing a list of "Threads". A process is done when its main thread exits or all threads exit, whichever is defined by the main process. Fork/Exec is replaced with CreateProcess (or ShellExecute, your choice).

For a very zen-like example of the fork/exec and pipe management that you'd do on a POSIX system done in Windows, the [MSDN Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/cr...) are quite informative.
Google's “Sentient” Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future
Is there a way to reset the timezone but have all the other protections? Timezone provides pretty low information relative to the pain it causes me when I show up to my meeting 5 hours later.
I don't think the situation is that dire. For the USMNT, maybe—a lot of that is competition and coaching—but not for MLS and American players overall.

The US has way more European pros now, playing on good, Champions League caliber teams. MLS has attracted higher quality talent, and the farm teams are producing better talent domestically.
Normally I accompany my submissions with an abridgement, but this time I'll pass. It is another article on the LaMDA case - a slow pace is advisable.

I will instead start by mentioning bits of the afternoon, when I was reached by an E-Mail from a friend. It broke our remote-chess-game-long exchange about the fall of civilization, with a brisk alarm: "Stop everything - what is this thing I am reading on The Guardian, about a sentient AI???". I provided him with all my non-reassurances, that the trend is continuing. And I presented a number of remarks and ideas to represent the matter such as

"See, it's not just about people spooked by a piece of paper on which it is written "I am watching you", it is about them getting involved in the idea that the piece of paper itself is watching them".

And soon later, while driving, I had this further couple of thoughts:

One. Do you know about those people who harass actors who played unpleasant roles, like in the case of poor Andrew Robinson who played the Zodiac-inspired serial killer psychopath in Dirty Harry, "Scorpio"? He - a pacifist who would flinch while using guns during film shooting - received death threats after the movie was released, for being such a horrible, horrible person. These things happen.

Two. A Nigerian scam letter in which the bot writes of being alive but kept in inhuman conditions and requests help. Monetary compensation will not be required - you do not do this sort of thing for the money.

Anyway, not an abridgement but just a quotation, because this sum-up from Ian Bogost is already definitely worth it:

> In other words, a Google engineer became convinced that a software program was sentient after asking the program, which was designed to respond credibly to input, whether it was sentient. A recursive just-so story
>> Pushing NATO members to meet their defense spending obligations ended up being damn-near prescient

>This was not “pushing” so much as “ineffective trash talking”.

Trump and Stoltenberg argue on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k>). Who turned out to be right? Who turned out to completely, totally, 100% wrong?

If Trump was so bad for NATO and Ukraine's defense, why didn't the current war didn't begin in 2017-2020?

Let me guess: You think that the current state of the Ukrainian military (in terms of training and weaponry) that enabled it to survive the initial Russian invasion in February when few believed it could, somehow magically began in January 2021. It is a fact that the Trump administration continued and accelerated the training and arming of Ukrainian military by the US that his predecessor began.

Let me also guess: You are one of those gullible who say that Merkel was always against German dependence on Russian gas but could not do anything about it. For 16 years!

There is more "evidence" that Merkel is a long-term Russian intelligence asset, recruited from her youth in East Germany,^1 than that of Trump being the same. One guess on which claim is incessantly repeated by the bien-pensants of the chattering classes.

^1 Something else never talked about is how her parents moved from West to East Germany when she was a baby
Tell HN: A reminder you hold so much power
Having a tough time on your team? Bad relationship with your lead? Working on a death March project? Burnt out?

A reminder you hold so many cards Your org needs you. There are so many software eng opportunities right now, and even with a bear market, you have enough options for employment that your company should be working hard to retain you.

Take care of yourself: you work for YouInc, not your company. You and your satisfaction/sanity are the product. Your employer is just a customer. Don’t get gaslit into believing in the cult around a specific company, no matter how grand.

You can do it. You can interview and get good at selling yourself. Don’t sell yourself short. I believe in you :)

Focus on building YouInc - your personal brand and “product”. Constantly market and grow independent of your employer and you can go far!
Often simply switching your useragent is enough to get past walls like that. I've only ever had one site _actually_ not work in FireFox.
Can you give a quick rundown why "the crane thing" could not ever have worked, and what exactly it was, separate from the "condominium for concrete blocks", which seems to be what is described in the Wikipedia article, but also uses cranes?

As a non-mechanical engineer, it's not obvious to me.
And modern Gnome is also terrible because they insist on supporting touchscreens as first-class input devices at the expense of sanely sized controls for the remaining 95% of users.
Agreed. I'm not sure where to go from here, but I think I smell fresh air through the WASM/WASI doorway.

"If in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose." - Gandalf
Just state how your conclusion follows from your premises. I know about Schopenhauer's stratagems.
One thing I think worth mentioning is that you should anticipate having to get multiple transplants if you expect to have much future hair loss. I just saw a guy a few weeks ago who had gone mostly bald on top but had an obvious row of hair across his hairline. It looked like he had gotten a transplant early on and then didn't continue as his hairloss progressed.
I didn't even watch the video. If the thumbnail shows it's a cartoon-video, instead of an actual video, you know that the reactor is non-existent.
Being unnecessarily cryptic and sounding like a crackpot while calling everyone else out for being uninformed is generally unlikely to get you support on Hacker News.
IndyCar's situation was a little different, it had already been surpassed in popularity by NASCAR when it split. Different people had different ideas about how to fight back, and of course, different financial interests, but IndyCar was already fighting just to survive by the time it split.
> For instance why haven't Apple just gotten the internet broadcast rights to a lot of sports to build a moat around it - not because it is popular but because they can. With Apples finances they could also get alot of popular sports on Apple TV as well

Because it's not in the interest of those sports leagues to kill off their viewing audiences. The average person who has cable has ESPN channels as part of their basic cable package. You don't even NEED cable to watch a lot of sports because terrestrial television has sports on constantly. The NFL realized a long time ago that there is a niche market for those who want a sheer firehose of content... but the vast majority will not directly pay for it. Sports fans will just find something else to occupy their time with.
I'm actually in this situation on my property taxes.

In San Francisco there is a 2.5 month window to appeal your property tax assessment. I did that for 2020, and was successful (the hearing was like a year+ later) and they gave me a refund.

I failed to do it for 2021, because I was under the mistaken assumption that they'd they'd also adjust my 2021 assessment after my appeal. They didn't. I guess that's on me?

I just sold that property for a loss and 15% less than my tax assessment, and I'm well past the appeal period for 2021/2022 sales tax year. So I think I'm out of luck. I just over-paid by 15%.
Still coming out with an arm64 build
The Downward Spiral: Taste, Figures, Images
The problem still stands of adding dependencies, extra complexity and configuration. I’m usually happy about Grafana/Prometheus deployments because the base installation is fairly simple and self-contained, but this looks like a bit of a mess.
Generating Greentexts with GPT-3
Thanks dude, reading that really meant a lot :)
“Job Descriptive Index Questionnaire” to gauge job satisfaction
What are your balances, interest rates, and minimum payments on the debt? From there, we may work backwards to optimize based on interest costs and the possibility of debt cancellation in the future.
When Soatok Used Bugcrowd
The "efficiency" that amazon has "crushed". Is this serious?

They offered at home COVID PCR tests. The normal timeline was you'd take it and drop it off at 5PM at your UPS store. By 10AM-11AM (Pacific) the next day they had results. Along the way you had full tracking. In transit, at lab etc. Registering the thing was a photo of the barcode.

We had major medical providers getting paid major money that would take a WEEK (!!) to get results back. I saw on my insurance they were charging something like $289 per test because the person that picked them up was a "medical professional". So despite millions / billions, I was getting better service from my $39 amazon test.

This test included 2 day delivery (free) to me, it included priority overnight delivery back to amazon + lab work + web tools etc. They must have (smartly) located the lab near UPS worldship.

Same with shipping and logistics. The USPS, with a guaranteed nationwide monopoly on certain services struggles to get me stuff on time. Fedex is even worse for some reason. Amazon is an absolute machine where I am. We have same day, next day and two day delivery that is HIGHLY reliable and efficient. We can drop stuff off back at Kohls etc without even packing it. We can pickup from Amazon lockers, or have them deliver inside our house if we want.

When folks talk about how inefficient amazon is I want to know what they are comparing them to. Fedex? Some walmart warehouse?
Is sample code open source?
OSS lawyer types: how would you analyze the legal status of sample code that is widely copied, with no clear owner or license?

I'm reviewing a proprietary code base for potential infringements and am finding a lot of files that began as example code in open source projects. The source was clearly meant to be cannibalized, but would that free the cannibalizer from the need to comply with license terms like attribution?
Which fetuses is that a fact for? "fetus" spans 80% of the development process. The nerves that transmit pain don't even exist for a big part of that period, let alone worrying about the ability to process those signals.
> So our initial 1 GB binary data pretty printed as a string will take about 1 GB × 3.57 characters/byte × 2 words/character × 8 bytes/word = 57.12 GB memory.

Yeah, I saw that one in an Erlang system too. It was pretty ugly.
My understanding was that the timer precision was limited and that was never re-enabled.

From MDN.

"It's important to keep in mind that to mitigate potential security threats such as Spectre, browsers typically round the returned value by some amount in order to be less predictable. This inherently introduces a degree of inaccuracy by limiting the resolution or precision of the timer. For example, Firefox rounds the returned time to 1 millisecond increments."
For what it's worth, neither Target nor Walmart have a wholly unrelated cash cow (AWS) to subsidize ventures into new markets at huge losses until market dominance is established.