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Hey, sorry if this is off-topic, but how have you been finding Keycloak? This is the first time I've seen it mentioned on here, and it looks like a great auth solution at first glance.
Thank you a lot, especially for this rough one.
Ask HN: What are the best-designed products you've ever used?
I'll start: Teenage Engineering OP-1 Portable Synthesizer. Simply music magic.
AWS lacked something like this before, which is why I used MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB's own managed mongo service). How is this different than DynamoDB (other than the obvious API differences)?
In what sense are these theories a "basis" to NLP? Did they have any influence? Do they bring any practical contributions? I suspect a slight similarity between popular domains (Wittgenstein and NLP) was contrived into an article that seems very light on the W part.

The "Wittgenstein’s theories" that appear here is just that "the meaning of a word is its use in the language". If such a plain concept was all of Wittgenstein’s theories, he would be long forgotten.

For centuries, dictionaries have presented words through one or several explanations as well as quotes and examples. 150 years ago, Émile Littré wrote a wonderful French dictionary that contains 80,000 words and about 300,000 literary quotes. He knew no word has a simple and permanent meaning, and that one needs to know many real world contexts to get a fine view on a word.
SSPL style licenses only work if the software can't be cloned but that's a difficult assumption.
Same thing happened to me in Guild Wars. I loved that game to death, but I'm honestly grateful.
Out of curiosity, what use cases did you have for CouchDB that weren't feasible with MongoDB?
Basics of multithreading in C
Cool game, but am I the only one who's a little skeptical about the title?
Does Rust support a monadic coding style (like Haskell "do" blocks or F# computation expressions)? That would allow you to work with Options without having to explicitly unwrap them.
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Some of the questions seem a bit silly to me, and not really indicative of anything negative.

>"Have you lost interests in, or reduced participation in other recreational activities (hobbies, meetings with friends) due to gaming?"

Of course becoming engaged in one hobby (gaming) would cause you to become less engaged in other hobbies you may have. I don't see why this is bad.

>"Do you game to escape from or forget about personal problems, or to relieve uncomfortable feelings such as guilt, anxiety, helplessness or depression? *"

Yup, that's kinda what hobbies are for (partially). Imagine replacing gaming with say - cooking, or watching old westerns - does the scenario presented in the question still seem sinister to you?
It's a learning experience too, for both China and African societies. I believe Chinese people and institutions working in these countries are finding themselves in positions of responsibility and connectedness that they didn't expect, and they seem to be (sometimes slowly) be finding creative ways forward.
Agreed. Instant tab close for me. Flagging the "story" and downvoting the obvious shills.
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Good point.

Beyond that, FWIW, homophones are words that are pronounced the same way. Homonyms are pronounced and spelt the same way. I guess in the context of Chinese (where disambiguation by character is the big issue), one should speak of homophones?
Unfortunately that's just not knowable, I guess. And even if we could, how would we describe "hard"? And is "trying hard" even necessarily sufficient?

I would guess: no. Say we could map out every decision Chan made to get where he is. Let's also say we could quantify exactly how "hard" he worked.

To me, it follows that some of those decisions were likely pivotal in his success, even if they didn't seem like it at the time. And that some of the other decisions he could have made weren't obviously wrong decisions, or wouldn't even have decreased the quantified hardness he worked. But maybe making a different decision just one of those times (or maybe two, or three, or some manageable number) would have resulted in Chan toiling away in obscurity, despite trying so hard.

It seems reasonable to me to suggest that someone else attempting a parallel path as Chan, given similar starting conditions, might have made a few different decisions here and there, all of them involving equally hard work, but the outcome may have been nowhere near as good. So what do we call the cause of Chan's better outcome? Foresight? Better decision-making? Or just luck?
>They are usually adult men without much of an education, living below the poverty line; they are the very backbone of Trumpism.

I stopped reading at that point since it became clear it wasn't about smoking but just another shit article.

Adult Smoking Rates among Racial and Ethnic Populations

https://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/tobacco-use-...

What does Trump have to do with it?
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You may just be joking, but just in case, the Mesopotamian early dynastic period was very familiar with metalworking. Metal swords were common, and there are several examples of fine gold and silver-decorated weapons.
I have an s8 on the table next to me collecting dust over issues like that. If only they would let you unlock the bootloader for a lineage install it would be a good phone.
With 10^12 possible account numbers, it should be relatively easy to build a rainbow table for tokens of any practical complexity.
If the urban dwellers like me suddenly had to kill their own prey, I agree we'd see a surge of vegans. But on the other hand, I think that's also because that disconnect allows people to think about cows as "cute". The people I know who grew up raising and killing their own animals have a much more utilitarian view of the matter.

It could be that the alienation brought by modern slaughter is the keystone in bringing about a substantial reduction in the number of eaters of animals; now that would be ironic!
Polar seems neat. I'm a little confused by the landing page. It says Offline-first, but you can use git or dropbox to share between machines. fine. Then later in the page it mentions Cloud Syncing. What's the distinction here?
Well, if data serialization, transfer and deserialization with protobuf is faster then that's a big improvement over SOAP and XML.
Given it was owned by a king, it sounds like a ceremonial weapon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_mace
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It was for a King, so potentially it was just ceremonial..
If San Jose was designed to benefit its residents it fails miserably at it. Most cities around the world of a similar population are easily way more pleasant and convenient to live in.
I disagree with a definition of crapware that emphasizes the inability to remove, rather than the clear crappyness. I would call the first mandatoryware.

To me, crapware is:

- Order of magnitude bad engineering by industry standards (esp if it is not customer centric).

- So bad that if it could be removed, a majority of people who know how would remove it immediately.

- So bad that if [FANG / anyone competent at software] designed an alternative, most people would switch to it.

Crapware for me is not identically equivalent to mandatoryware. I get the GNU-like hate for mandatoryware from some people, but it's useful to have a distinction between (potentially subpar) mandatoryware like IE in Windows XP, and the absolute rubbish that was Verizon Music Store on my 2005 flip phone.
As far as logic goes, I totally agree, but personal preference nit pick, from a code writer and reader perspective, I think all subproperty access (`hero.acceleration.x`) could be cached to a variable, or just operate on plain variables and assign property access after mutations and only manipulate objects as needed.
It makes the code easier to write and read, IMHO, and I believe older engines had infinitesimal changes in performance with updating objects, so it's more of a habit and code clarity thing for me.
Of course, that's far less important than the fact that the logic is clear and concise, especially after learning JS in a week :)
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The Ryzen chips offer more PCIe lanes and ECC memory support. These chips also use the Infinity Fabric high-speed interconnect, which is not needed by Intel's single-chip designs. The two CCX units in Zeppelin also need to talk to each other, so probably all this complexity just adds up.
considering how some museums seem like they are 75% ancient vases and cups, it makes you wonder what else is out there
I'm a FAANG software engineer but I want to work in the space industry
Throwaway account here.

What are my options if I want to break into the space industry? From some basic research, it seems that it is pretty much SpaceX, or applying for NASA.

Are there any interesting forums or startups in the space?
I agree that maybe this article would have been better suited if its headline was about how renting a Tesla for a tryout on a road trip is not a good idea (having never rented a car, I have no idea the lifestyle of people who rent when going on long leisure trips). It seems like many of her problems would have long been figured out by Tesla owners. But her complaints seem like the kind I would have if I were to try out a Tesla for fun -- I could definitely see myself underestimating how much research I need to do to properly plan a trip, compared to how little I have to plan when driving a gas guzzler. Obviously things will get better when infrastructure continues to improve, but unless Tesla is marketing its rentals as beta products, I don't think it's unfair to point out the limitations in the experience is as a paying customer today.

And as far as this being an indictment of EV in general, and how the author shouldn't have singled out Tesla. I thought it was more or less accepted that Tesla is the top-of-the-line EV brand. I agree this article applies to the EV experience in general -- and as a layperson, I'd want to hear what it's like for the car brand that I am far and away the most familiar with. If she had chosen a non-Tesla brand and written the same complaints, I have a feeling Tesla fans would complain how the author tarnished EV -- and by association, Tesla -- and thus how irresponsible she is for talking shit about EVs without trying a Tesla.
Does Rec Room Have 30,000-50,000 Monthly Active Users on Steam Alone?
Also:

SS has longer service life than composites or aluminium due to being less susceptible to fatigue. This is important on a spacecraft intended to be reusable, and

SS is highly reflective to infrared aka heat, which is important for handling reentry heating which is mostly radiative heating from the bowshock.
Now can some tech companies fix Oakland? Why is Oakland always left out?
>light rail is an easy approach that is guaranteed to always be slower than street traffic.

That alone wouldn't have been half bad, but with the ultra-low coverage / density of this network, it becomes useless for 95% of the people living in the city.

For example, in North San Jose, my 4.5-mile commute would take 12 minutes by car, 25 minutes by bicycle, and a whopping 75 minutes by public transportation. At that point, one might as well walk (90 minutes).
A contra point to the example you give

None of those are contra points.

In these situations, government failure to intervene (and educate, and...) renders legislative protections useless.

No one would disagree that intervention at the level of preventing murder is probably a good idea. I'm sure no one would disagree that intervention by the state at the level of injections of hormones and anti-gay "therapy" would be an overreach. Preventing murder is objectively something the state should do. States that cannot maintain an monopoly on the use of force are failed states. However, the state should intervene as little as possible on things like family life. How much should the state intervene? Answering this question was the purpose of the exercise above, which you apparently missed. Take the policy and power you propose and put it into the hands of the worst state you can imagine. A policy to prevent the murder of children, if practiced correctly, would still be a good thing, even in a theocracy. (Perhaps especially there.) Once you start adding the enforcement of things like social standards and societal mores, then such power looks less palatable in the hands of the state. It's easier to see that if you imagine a horrible state.

Even in totalitarian theocracies, I'd suggest that in such regimes it's often outraged parents that "out" their gay children to the state.

This would also be a tragedy. Children outing their parents to the state would also be a tragedy.

I could be wrong.

Many of your statements are correct. What's to question is your positioning those statements as somehow contradicting my position. They do not.
DynamoDB has specific requirements on how data is partitioned. You have to do upfront planning on how you access your data based on keys.

Mongodb is more flexible in this regard.

I’m sure there’s other big differences but this is the biggest to my experience with both.
Not sure what you're going for here. Silicon Valley is basically the opposite of Fordlandia.
how little is little? why didnt he post it here himself? feels a little suspect.
The product can suck, but without high engagement, you can't fix it.
AnCap doesn't say that babies should be eliminated, just like it doesn't say that poverty should be eliminated. It just say babies born to poverty shouldn't receive an subsidized help from the government because taxes are theft. Which is saying the same thing as let the fuckers die.
For some reason I thought they could sort of fly. Not high or great distances. Less then a turkey, but still in the range of a few feet.
You're forgetting the gBikes abandoned at the MTV Caltrain station or outside random stores/parks (not always by Google employees or interns). That and the new restaurants on Castro Street. The former is a net negative, the latter a positive.
F# supports it, too, although it doesn't seem very popular. Personally, I'm still on the fence and usually avoid it in practice.
> This suggests that AMD’s new processors with the same amount of cores are offering performance parity in select benchmarks to Intel’s highest performing mainstream processor, while consuming a lot less power. Almost half as much power.
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>How has AMD done this? IPC or Frequency?

Am I missing something? Wouldn't this be expected given that this new AMD processor is running on 7nm while Intel hasn't really launched in 10nm processors yet. AMD is a process generation ahead...
Agreed. Too bad the Azure portal is the polar opposite. AWS, for all its faults, is mostly just a boring HTML portal but it works.

Azure tried to get fancy, with side sliding panels all over the place, and it is barely useable. The nicest thing I can say is it is "quirky." It isn't really productive however, particularly not on my 1080p monitor at Windows 10's default 125% DPI.

I literally quit Azure's Application Insights and went back to Google Analytics simply because I hated the Azure UI with a burning passion of a thousand suns.

The concept of writing queries is good, but if that's the only way you can get at your data you better make it damn easy, and they didn't. I'm sure for full time data pros it is a dream however.
Geo-distributed WordPress with Kubernetes and TiDB
The mix between French and English variable names or comments is a bit irritating, even for as a French guy
Don't use money to distribute things needed for basic human existence.

Throw out all your ideas about economics and politics. You want as many people as possible to have a comfortable enough life to pursue things they find fulfilling without stress about survival. You're an engineer, how do you do it?
I flagged this post because the last entry of the quiz requires users to enter their email to receive results. Please don't do that.
Hey, sorry but I posted a reply right as you were writing yours, I even refreshed before to make sure you hadn't replied yet but looks like we began at around the same time. I just want to say that it does look like there are real issues now, and I think you did your own valid concerns a disservice in the original post by not having some more details and keeping things more measured. Remember a lot of us don't follow any of this that closely, and after a long time on the net have developed an innate distrustful response (reasonable or not!) for any usage of things like calling fans "fanatics." Even in this post:

>even the slightest critical comment

But I mean, I wouldn't categorize something like that NYT piece as "the slightest critical comment" it was pretty brutal. Maybe correctly, but not nothing. Same with the Top Gear, though since that's more a comedy show it shouldn't be an expectation (but I think a lot of Americans at least don't know that). Unless you can really link to something showing say a bunch of random owners doing little blogs or tweets along the lines of "the color wasn't quite what I expected" or "range is overall fine but a few miles lower then was represented" resulted an "overdrive response" your argument would be stronger if you just stuck to a basic "negative reviews". And as far as the "a lot of potential customers" you must realize that we've all seen the anecdote/data thing a ton of times right and a few dozen out of hundreds of thousands of sales and an enormous backlog of demand kind of seems not very compelling either? Particularly given all the confounding factors of their genuine other fuckups?

Anyway, that's all. I'm not saying you're wrong to be critical, but I don't think you did as good a job of it as you could have.
My line of thinking is what makes companies profitable.

You can moralize all you want, but the incentives align for a company to maximize on profitability, not on "hey my customers like me". You can't pay for dinner with goodwill, but you can pay for dinner with money.

If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected?

You're talking about what ought to be, as if it were how it is. It's not that way. It's how I describe. Maybe it should be some other way, but it's not.
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Even if the subject had legal ownership and control over their cellular location data, they would certainly have to sign it over to the bondsman. Just like you sign over the right to hunt you down and physically capture you (which could otherwise be grounds for a lawsuit against the bounty hunter).
Why is MTV a "pit"? Decent-ish downtown with a Michelin starred restaurant, plenty of parks, good library, relatively bike-able, rapidly densifying and adding housing. Caltrain goes to SF, you can drive easily north to Napa or Tahoe or south to all the beaches. It doesn't have any world-class attractions, hip nightclubs, renowned museums, or acclaimed architecture but that's not the point of the city, and honestly most cities in the world don't have those things. Overall it's a pretty good place to live if you ignore the price of housing - which is a regional problem.
Yeah well, nobody's arguing that the electric charger network is as developed as the gas station network yet. It's getting better and better though
exactly i call bs
Once the new high pressure Raptors are working, most of that dream will be a reality. The only things holding SpaceX back at this point are the heatshield, the engines and Planetary Protection.
Yet you get hardware kill-switches for the baseband and mic that assures you of your privacy when you require it. Much better than any 'assurance' from Apple that you can trust them to be the good guys. Has everyone forgotten that Apple, along with every other major platform, complies with FISA requests or their foreign equivalents? How do you think Apple operates in China?

They will be good guys until they decide they will not be good guys for arbitrary reasons or if they are forced to comply with a Government decree.

I'd much rather put my trust in a good-enough hardware platform that I _know_ I can control when required.
The video is funny and all but I love the high level pattern recognition aspect of it. This is a silly example of I would call the work of a "deliberate expert", where he used his knowledge of the songwriter's songs to identify key features that made them recognizeable. Enough to use his findings to extrapolate to a new song. Sometimes experts are more akin to savants, they know a lot about a subject but are not able to process all that information into new knowledge.
I thought the main reason is that AMD still needs to use GF's manufacturing capacity (according to their Wafer Supply Agreement) and it also makes the chiplet design cheaper (the high-performance node is only used where it really matters).
My comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18866778 got downvoted and flagged because I called out Khosla's selfish and boorish behavior. Apparently calling a spade a spade doesn't sit well with some of the hive mind here.
"That ain't exactly helping your case."

My case is amoral. Your dislike of that does not change whether or not my statement is true.

"Right, but one of them is literally a totalitarian dictatorship, and the other is the United States. The US is by every measure the lesser of the two evils."

You do realize that there other cultures view us in the exact same fervent manner right?
Yes, there are a bunch of methods that let you do this, though with a bit more syntax than do notation; for example, and_then is pretty much bind.
A string will be copied if stored in a Table.
You are 'not allowed' to sleep in the storage unit, even though it is open 24 Hours. The guards keep tabs on who is in and out. And even if one could, I would still choose to sleep outside. I tell myself: "I'm just Urban Camping .."

Thanks for the wishes. I don't doubt it may take longer than three years. But I've been @ it for 10+ already & have written / self-published what I believe is a great novel (like everyone;) But am without marketing. (What I need's discovery)

And if nothing happens, I'll just self-publish over and again
Once the shell is sealed the rocket becomes its own clean room. They have access ports for workers to climb through and for air conditioning ducts, and the 9m diameter interior should provide few restrictions for workers.
On this issue, see also "The Homonym problem", in Wm. C. Hannas, Asia's Orthographic Dilemma:

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/east_asian_languages.html#...
It absolutely does, but the businesses that work that way are dinosaurs run by people with a 1970s mindset.
Chicago is in a blue state with a rather notorious history of regulation and local labor.

Also, the cities you list have different seismic realities to contend with.
You're missing one critical point -- lack of engagement means you can't iterate with the customer. No engagement means you can't improve, and you can't make your customer happier.

Nothing happens without engagement. You can survive an unhappy customer as long as they're still around, even if they're only providing feedback and aren't likely to buy again.

You can't survive nobody coming into your shop in the first place.
It's such a weird city. I've never been to TX but it felt like TX. Lots of space and no people.