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I wouldn't rush to call VR market failure, VR sales are steadily increasing.

What a lot of people don't see are the iconoclastic milestones that are coming up, that will transform the entire domain in terms of market acceptance and saturation.

Foveated rendering is the first of those.
Hand-finger tracking (e.g. a glove interface) is the second.

These technologies are not science fiction, we know they are coming out since lab prototypes already exist. Moreover, impact-wise, these technologies are not really incremental improvements but complete game changers (thus iconoclastic). The VR landscape in 5 years will look completely different to today.
Document things to get an idea what's going on. Add comments and probably tests (but don't rewrite) to the 2 page function to see if you understand the style of the previous developers.
This is only tangentially relevant to the question as asked, but you may be interested in reading about China’s “new cities” initiative.

There are lots of articles on DuckDuckGo but here is one: https://outline.com/ZAZvTt (Forbes, yuck!)
A 20+ part twitter post? Have people not heard of blogging platforms?
Ask HN: How to manage expectations when inexperienced?
I am a math grad with reasonable coding skills and a nontrivial amount of CS education, but no real-world development experience. I've completed a few personal projects of various degrees of complexity, but that's it.

I might soon be getting a part-time/contract position as a full-stack developer. I would be working alone to build a small prototype of a moderately complex web app. I'm about 70% sure I can do it, but I'm not completely confident: it would be my very first paid programming job, after all.

My concern is that my prospective employer, who is an entrepreneur with no background in tech, may have unrealistic expectations of my abilities. I've been completely honest with her about my background, but with no experience, I feel like an impostor or a fraud.

What if the project turns out to be more complicated than either of us expect it to be, or I have overestimated my abilities, and I can't make any progress? Is it unethical to take on a contract job you're not 100% sure you can finish? Are these just completely normal anxieties that everybody has at some point?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
> Zero tolerance for illegal crossings, on the other hand, is probably actually good.

That's what I used to strongly believe then this weekend I listened to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast (yeah, I know, I know) and he made me think about it a bit differently.

Back when the border was super porous, immigration was more circular and cyclical. People would come into the US, work for a season, then go home. When the border became difficult and expensive to cross, people would cross the border and then stay.

There's an argument that can be made that a zero tolerance policy has created the current situation.
Which PKD Story Are We in Today?
And yet the problem remains. There are topics about fake claimants, false positives and wrongly blocked videos all over the place.
You are right and make an interesting point.
Part of the advantage of dealing with a human is that one hopes they can deal with whatever strange problem it thrown at them.

If you can’t deal with corner cases, or have none than leveraging rules/software is the way to go.

I think of vending machines and parking meters as automation of simple tasks, but what to do when they break?

I think google tries this by trying to “automate all the things”. It works most times but when it goes wrong it makes it very frustrating to correct.
Anti-vaccine hotspots are getting hotter
Flores does not mandate that

a) every arrival be prosecuted instead of just deported (or even any arrival)

b) Trump end community detention programs for immigrant families, which were very successful and far cheaper than prison under Obama

So no, there are no laws mandating this. People like you are choosing to do it because they think it will deter people from arriving here. That's not a legal mandate, it's a moral choice.
The U (ultra-low power) lines are indeed two-core with Hyperthreading. All others are 4 core without.
Sure, and there are structures you can use for that (e.g. Writer). But that's kind of the easy part: every serious programming language allows some kind of pair structure, but a lot of languages still don't have a good "A or B but not both" structure.
Largest or deadliest (by individuals)?

I assume soldiers come home in waves.
Meditation app Calm hits a $250M valuation amid an explosion of mindfulness apps
Blender videos are back: https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009358627839381505
Read about the chain of coincidences, bad UIs, wrong error messages, ignorant support desks and being non-standard here:
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
Violence begets violence?
The problem seems to be that the drug has indeed been prescribed, but the writing was erroneous. This is not about "should we freely sell drug", but about "should we use human judgment in addition to paper orders".

Clearly, some commenters are also trying hard to be robot-swappable. :)
> which is a notable difference from many other programming approaches

Except that it isn't "a notable difference", more precisely (quoting the original):

"replace things that look like they would need custom language features, like multiple return or async, with libraries"

Replacing "things that look like they would need custom language features" with libraries is exactly the essence of Smalltalk.

"Talk small and carry a big class library"

It's even in the Design Principles Behind Smalltalk:

"A language must provide a means for classifying similar objects, and for adding new classes of objects on equal footing with the kernel classes of the system."

So either there is a claim that "hey this is a cool way of doing things", in which case "yeah, I agree, this other thing does that as well" is completely benign.

Or there is the claim "here is uniquely FP way of doing things", in which case the example of OO is a refutation.

Either way the response is appropriate.
Wordpress Persistence in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
Unnamed envelopes left on people's desks?
Fully autonomous mobile manipulation
I'm not sure Google, Facebook and the like are actively trying to make government irrelevant or heading for the bin for that reason. Their core stuff of providing search results or updates of what your friends are up to are kind of separate from the core duties of governments of making laws.

I agree the tax situation is a problem and think govenments should change the tax laws. Countries could estimate a fair tax for each multinational and tell them pay it or be blocked. Its not really the problem of the CEOs who can only really pay the tax required by law.

GDPR seems something of a success at regulating things supra-national level if not perfect.
Yes, they have free trials of many things.
Insider Look at Affilight: what is unique in our traffic monetization?
23andMe.com already does that.
Being poor (I would say "weak" but I really mean "not powerful") is the causation behind "doing good". Derp
Brain Training Programs
Rust MIR-based borrow check (non-lexical lifetimes) status update
To anonymize at least buy a burner Sim and run a voip client on your handset over 4g
"They" refers to anyone who is quite rich and or powerful, and actively uses those resources against others.

So when you start to wonder, "hmm, I wonder why housing is so expensive relative to my income", or, "hmm, I wonder why that policeman gave me a $400 ticket for 'speeding'", or, "hmm, I wonder why those federal agents are killing children in Waco", or, "hmm, I wonder why no bankers went to jail for fraudulent mortgage practices in 2008"...

... I mean, if you ask yourself these questions, and you tell me that these things are happening because we elected people to do these things, then I don't precisely know where you got that notion.
Nothing in my comment prompts your question, I don't even come close to denying that misdemeanors are crimes.

My point is that bloviating about law and order when the crime is minor and the danger (in many cases) is real, is pathetic. It'd be less pathetic to make it clear that you think that babies should be taken away from mothers that have merely crossed the border away from an official port of entry.
That wiki link has a great example:

"To give an example in layman's terms: a mother may tell her child he can't have cookies from the cookie jar. The father, regardless of his beliefs, can't tell the child it's okay to have a cookie as that would result in a conflict with the mother. If the father sees the child taking a cookie anyway, he may choose not to say anything. He may not want to punish or stop the child but can't condone the behaviour either. The father may act as if nothing had happened to avoid a conflict with both his beliefs and the mother. He "gedoogs" the behaviour."
That German regulators are so thoroughly captured by industry that they approve a zip tie for a safety critical fix and apparently didn’t order them to do crash testing again
... so it's going to look like GitLab? /s
> Does that mean I have to sell lumber to the KKK even though they will likely burn a cross with it? Yes, unless they explicitly say they're going to.

Then you're a slave of the state. It's not a policing problem, it's a freedom problem.
Hertzner: avoid if you have DMCA /(C) sensitive content
I had several websites that were privately sharing stuff (for reviewing) and some author didn't liked our reviews and sent a DMCA.
We had 24h to remove our stuff and go somewhere else. They never given us any information about who did it and why.

I have been in Softlayer, Server4you and OVH with the same website, angry author tried to shut us down but it never happened.

So Hertzner is above and beyond the DMCA law, they totally ignore or are ignorant about the fair use doctrine and will kick you out if a competitor send a DMCA takedown notice.

Apart from that I love their offers, but nowadays, people are sending DMCA for anything and their policy is a liability for any website.
But then you are paywalling access to videos of non-profit organisation. Meaning
1. Blender will have to use different platform to make them accessible to everyone anyway.
2. Youtube/Google are still making money on otherwise free content.

Don't get me wrong i think they should get money for hosting but they want much more than that. That is the reason why they don't have any hosting premium plans (like vimeo does). If they did Im sure Blender foundation would pay for hosting of their videos.

Also lets not forget the overall highly positive impact these Blender videos have for the platform. They bring in people from embedded videos and people continue watching more videos (most likely monetized ones). When youtube hosts videos from blender or MIT they also can claim (as they love to do) how big educational impact they have...
An internal Google site that let's people see who has left the company and, occasionally, why.
>managed without government [...] It's called anarchy

If people agree to "manage" something, you'll end up with something that acts very much like a <scarequote>government</scarequote>.

The issue with talking about "anarchy" is that it's very easy to slip into semantic word games instead of looking at the underlying concept of how humans behave.

One reason "governments" or "managing" happens is that the real world has finite resources that's simultaneously desired by multiple people. E.g. there's a desirable piece of land. Since more than 1 person wants that land and since multiple can't live in the same spot, a conflict occurs. This eventually leads to a subset of people that make rules for others to follow. Whether you call that subset a "government" or "leaderless anarchy with unacknowledged rule-makers (wink)(wink)" is academic. (This is related to the joke, "we are all equal but some are more equal than others.")

If we depend on abolishing the idea of "property" to support the implementation of "anarchy", it still devolves to semantic word games because humans will invent equivalent euphemisms to "ownership" such as "99-year leases" or "temporary stewards of this land as communicated by a God", etc. Whatever people decide to call the control of that land, it's functionally equivalent to "property ownership".

This "resource limit" pattern repeats itself in the digital realm. Theoretically, there can be 7 billion people each with their own cryptocoin of which mad_tortoise_coin is one. However, these 7 billion individual blockchains are not useful. On the other hand, if people want to converge on a single blockchain cryptocurrency (such as Bitcoin) with stable attributes, a governance model will have to emerge. There's no way around it. If we still insist that we can have "anarchy" in Bitcoin because people can fork it, you eventually get "governance_0002" emerging in bitcoin_fork0002. Nobody "owns" the entire Bitcoin blockchain but nevertheless, participants still want to own pieces of it via public/private key pairs.

The collection of behavior that trends into a <group> that's functionally equivalent to something called "government", and a <concept> that's functionally equivalent to "ownership" seems to be embedded in the human condition.
While I haven't read the actual scholarly anarchist stuff, I hung out with some bookish lefty radicals in my college years and early 20s. What I saw then was a lot of attempts at alternative and non-hierarchical forms of organization, all of which seemed to evolve into something that could fairly be called government, if these attempts got far enough before falling apart.

> These all can be managed without government should the people want it

You say this as if the predictions of a social theory are as reliable as those of Newtonian physics. I don't think they are. And because I know of no historical example of an industrialized society functioning sustainably without a government, I tend to doubt a theory that says it's possible. Because if it was, you would think somewhere, somehow, it would have been successful already.
The Immigrants Fueling the Gig Economy
That's not racism, that's laziness. Or perhaps just being a bad engineer, if you want to be more cynical about it.

It's not that hard to find both conscious and subconscious examples of systemic or individual racism. Engineers taking the easy path with webcam facial recognition is probably not a good one and serves only to give more fuel to those who claim people jump to the racism cry too quickly.
Peculiar that he could log in to confluence but not jira. Maybe there is a layer of dramatic embellishment here?
Because any recall done the second time will be done by the dealerships, which will simply bill VW for the time spent on this. The first one was done at factory, which slows down production and results in delays.
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Tesla hit by insider saboteur who changed code, exfiltrated data
A website where you can share your opinions on any subjects, even controversial
The difference between this website and others is that your posts are not ranked based on dislikes or likes, even if people don't agree with your opinion your post can get to trending, which makes sense since everybody has a different opinion about everything.
Just remember to compare checksums afterwards.

Preferably a cryptographic hash... UDP is known for not being reliable at all, and that's partly why it's so fast --- the sender doesn't care whether the packets reached the receiver, it just sends as fast as it can.
Yet another reason to choose Open Source.

There will be other political skirmishes. How to decide what to take a stand on? What if time reveals you made a mistake (i.e. NOW supporting Bill Clinton)? People are too easily manipulated.
Really?
HTML/JS editors based on the standard contentEditable attribute seem as responsive to me (and they don't break basic browser features like scrolling)

For reference: http://jakiestfu.github.io/Medium.js/docs/#invoke
YouTube is requiring them to switch to monetized

That's just what "The Machine" says and may not be the intended policy, even if it is now the effective one.
Almost all those ns/op numbers were measured by repeating BenchMarkSizeLong or BenchMarkSize iterations.
European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
ads are required for big channels (false) [...] everyone
is just going to bring in their unrelated and false pet
peeves to every discussion.

The article [1] has this direct quote from Youtube support:

I’ve received an update from our experts stating that you
need to enable ads for your video. Once you enable, your
video will be available in the USA.

That's a direct quote from Youtube support about Blender's issue.

I feel your claim that this is a pet peeve that has nothing to do with Blender's issue is unfair.

[1] https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
> Al least, in our democracies, you can decide the government with your vote.

Though that ability is diluted as we make every little thing a national issue.
> There are unfortunately people that could be damaged by smoking weed, irreversibly

Perhaps peanuts should be made illegal. There are people that can be irreversibly damaged by consuming peanuts.

If we’re goi to be consistent and ban or regulate substances because there might be harm to an incredibly small minority then sadly there would be very very few legal foods, medications, etc. hell we should probably ban strobe lights as well.

On another note you’d probably be disappointed to hear research and use of hallucinogenic substances has been on a sharp rise. So it seems those wild times you’re fearful of are returning.
This should also show that append is really, really heavy when the slice is not pre-allocated and should be avoided whenever possible!
I think if you set expectations that you both will be learning together (about the tech) as you go and that there 100% will be some unknown roadblock you come across it might help.

Everyone feels like an imposter and that is a good thing compared to being over-confident and unaware that you are implementing things in a poor manner.

My advice would be to start small and follow agile principles as you go. You don't need formal SCRUM or other methodologies if you are the solo dev but you should build things in vertical stacks. By that I mean as an example: a feature is logging into the system, build that out so it is ready to ship. Sure you don't have other features at this point (its just an example) but you should have the UI, server-side handling of data and database parts all figured out to the point that you could ship it if you want.

It's like breaking a large math problem down into more manageable parts - same thing with developing the software. Small, shippable, testable parts.

Figure out your deployment process, this often isn't taught in CS and is more of an "ops" thing. This will help make it easy to ship new things into your environments AND to roll it back if things are messed up. It is liberating to know you can just type a couple commands and restore things - you feel more free to make mistakes.
what I don't get is why a director-level person is willing to stand by and let this happen. Whatever the system says - if I, as manager of someone (and responsible for them) did not fire that someone, nor agree to they being fired by a higher up - I am NOT going to let security escort them out - no matter what.

Is there no sense of responsibility here?
To give you a Dick answer... who’s to say what’s real?

Most likely the latter, but honestly, I don’t know. Disch’s work did change fairly radically and suddenly, but that’s not to say there was an external influence.
Unless we have brain implants then VR is not what people want.

I certainly don't want to be wearing any kind of apparatus that distinguishes me from a normal individual.

If we do have brain implants I don't want advertising and tracking.

I would pay for a direct internet connection to my head only if I know it is anonymous and I control it.

VR in its current state is pretty lame if you like the real world too... imho; and it isn't going to take increased resolution to fix it.
Not sure how this works in other jurisdictions in the EU but in Germany a work contract can be silently renewed if both parties act as if it had been renewed even if the contract itself says it has to be renewed explicitly and in writing.

If you keep showing up to work and your superiors keep managing you (and especially if you keep getting paid) the contract remains valid beyond its stated expiry date.
This is such a great thread.
They went back only until they got another offer, which makes complete sense to me.
Looks very much like Umbria (Italy), where I grew up.
So the machine "fixed" the "glitch"?
That’s what the SSH ProxyCommand configuration directive is for.
I for one am glad that at least some employees of companies like Google and Microsoft are taking ethical stances for the greater good. A job cannot be seen as just something that provides some personal satisfaction and puts food on the table. There are lines that, when crossed, have larger implications for a large population and how we as humankind want the world to be. Where there's more clarity on certain topics, taking a strong stance is the right thing to do!
Solitaire cryptosystem
How Bats Evolved into Vampires and What It Takes to Live on Blood
> I think both governments and corporations can be a good thing

> Governments will always do evil.

> they are by nature evil.

Please either make up your mind or use less misleading language in the future. You made a strong, controversial assertion, which then turned out to be a pretty mundane belief upon challenge.
It just seems odd to put tariffs on things that'll hurt local industries and make life harder for companies that have moved at least some production steps into your country (after lots of talk to encourage companies to do that, and apparently at least some successes doing that) over those that operate entirely outside.

> I don’t think the end state of the negotiations is protectionist tariffs for the US

We'll see, at least some of the recent tariffs seem to be exactly that, e.g. the steel and aluminium tariffs against the EU (which are now countered by the EU with tariffs on american exports) to limit their exports to the US, all the while complaining about Canada doing the same for agricultural products.
The (in)security of the TP-Link Technologies TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extende
Agreed, it should be part of the standard technical on-boarding process. Once someone is familiar with what the editor is buying them in terms of productivity they are free to search for their own should they choose. A pet peeve of mine is joining a new team and asking what the editor of choice is to be told "really it is up to you."
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5300+ ns/op is for BenchMarkSize (1024) defer operations, so we are actually paying about 5ns/op for defer. Not sure why the author chose to report the ns/op number in its current way.