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5mm is just too low for a web based SaaS business. You’ve already done the hard work of getting some PMF validation. Why not double down and try to scale the business? Going from 5mm to 15mm is way easier than 0mm to 5mm.
Raspberry PI 4 runs with 1 4k monitor pretty well and has audio and you can attach peripherals.

It is desktop like.

Arm desktops are just single board computers. Why? Because that is all you need.

If you want to assemble overprice parts yourself to get marginal benefits stick with x86.

The truth is the market for desktops even in the x86 market has shrunk considerably because there are few benefits except if you are rendering and even then you should be using cloud compute in that case.
Oh Come on, the two story is entirely different. One was having an affair for a long time, knowingly had a child, and abandoned the child.

One had a complex relationship at the time that he refuse to believe the kid was his. And he didn't "abandoned" her, he reconciled.
It's almost like there's a reason the FTC requires disclosure of paid content...
I've recently been recommended YouTube videos by ExplainingComputers and that channel introduced me to the new breed of SBC (single-board computers) including the Odroid. One of the more recent videos is for the Khadas VIM3 [1] which was a very interesting ARM based SBC.

I am blown away these days by the power of these cheap and small boards. I just don't have any use for them right now and I know I would tinker with them for a few days then they would end up in a drawer collecting dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryTykjUbJIs
This is clearly a PR effort associated with the
research paper hosted on the site.

It's a single-purpose domain name, so the Name of the domain is the same as the Name of the content on the domain.
First time seeing two mit submissions on the frontpage on the same day.

"Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs (mit.edu)"

"The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution"

What are the odds?
A well reasoned post. I think that's a fair argument.
How about by using "We can do better" over and over after every single gaffe that it's become a joke to people outside the SV bubble?
What's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenticate against each other)?
If you work in a corporate environment, you would probably notice that systems that insist on bundling their own certs without an easy to activate option of using system cert store are broken. (And even if the library has an easy to use option, if it's easy to not expose it, much software built on the library will still be broken.)

People should be empowered to substitute cert stores, but the system store should be the default.
It excludes "unincorporated self-employed" people, which I think covers much of the gig economy. Even more relevantly, it means many construction workers, most painters, etc. are excluded.
Looks nice, but I can't help but think ... what will happen to the environment if every game publisher starts creating their own console?
The problem there is that it's not very clear that you didn't trigger the login yourself.
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1. That is unarguably false. 2. There were other candidates. 3. Mr Trump also won the primary.
The key part here is to only post this comment under headlines for which the answer in "no".
I agree in this case the author created this problem for himself by not following some norms, namely getting a non-refundable deposit for his time and energy.

lesson learned for seller and a good reminder for the rest of us.
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The friends of billionaires do, I would argue. Why would Epstein leave his private island to go to lunch in a public location in Boston when he can entertain his guest at his home?
It was not a joke. I once saw a new WinXP install get hacked soon after being plugin into a modem.

The Register reported the avaerge time to infection was 20 minutes.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/infected_in20_minut...
That vantage point has a limited view of the entire crowd. Here's a higher-altitude look: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-media-idUSKBN15...

Found via https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/the-facts-on-crowd-size/
Although the building number (mostly) doesn’t tell you much about the location except approximately.
>but you have to pay something like 4x the cost.

Last time I check their pricing was actually quite competitive to x86 system.
At first, this sounds like a great idea. On second thought, I have two major categories of concerns:

1) If I fix a bug in a function, (thus creating a new version of an existing function) how do I propagate that fix to all that code that transitively depends on the buggy version? Doesn't that mean I need to create new versions of all the downstream dependencies? Doesn't that defeat separate compilation? Does this scale?

2) Does this closely couple interface and implementation? Is it a hash of an implementation, or a hash of an interface? Is it possible to depend only on an interface, and not on an implementation?
> I think this is a dangerous way to look at things

That's a fair point. I should have said "while a small technical oversight such as stating 'he went for lunch' as a fact (absent proof) would normally not be worth highlighting, the facts of this case make me feel that even such small technical oversights should be avoided or highlighted when they occur."

By "the facts of this case" I mean the facts that 1) Epstein appears to have been guilty of trafficking many underage girls and directing them to have sex with friends or business partners of his and 2) this guy who had other inappropriate/unethical dealings with Epstein went to his island, for a few hours.

Basically I'm saying they should just say "This friend of Epstein made a 3 hour visit to him on pedophile island" which are the only known facts. Not saying he did anything, but neither should the report claim he didn't unless they have evidence. Just stick to the facts.
It's been my experience that it's often reasonably clear to users that they did perform a login themselves in the past few seconds. Adding an approximate location and a short verification token to the prompt generally helps.

Your experience and standards of clarity may be different from mine, obviously.
There is always a non insignificant chance that exits will be followed by layoffs
Federated: there's a distinction between clients and servers.

P2P: there are only nodes.
Definitely not. In my home country the banks use SMS 2FA.

It's a complete shitshow. Occasionally syndicates manage to get both sides of 2FA lined up (insiders) and clean out someone's account.

Then the bank says not my problem - you didn't keep your password safe. And the cell provider says not my problem - not intended as security mechanism. Leaving the customer poor and sht out of luck.
That type of service can allow the attackers to access SMS contents, but not from swapping numbers back and forth between SIM cards. And without it, the victim will know he is being attacked.
That's called an investment bank
This is fantastic for an automated tool! It seems to work really well in the few cases I tried it with.

One area it could be improved in that that lyrics sometimes overlap. As far as I can tell, it always shows 2 lines of lyrics, but sometimes one goes over the other so that they're hard to read.This is probably just a spacing issue that could be fixed with some CSS.
It was just a bit of hyperbole.

Do you feel equally outraged to condemn "murder" if anybody uses the verb "kill"?
Are we talking about business decisions? My experience is, that developers are only interested in taking that risk, if they also get a share in the company and get access to internals. "Your house, your decision, your money. We are just the hired gun to do the carpenting."
You have been probably been very busy over the last year maintaining a very healthy lifestyle(which is awesome).

So what the studies say of everyone who starts a diet some will successfully lose a significant amount of weight. And of those success stories every single study that's followed them for 5-10 years shows that almost everyone regains almost all the weight.

The most famous of these studies was "The Biggest Loser". But are others, but they all show the same effect.

I've tried finding a study that showed sustained long term weight loss through diet, and there aren't any.
There were comments around this thread with book recommendations (good thing I still had the page opened in firefox on mobile).

How come is it gone ?
>the T2 chip and Bitcode.

BitCode is iOS only.
Someone may not want to have a kid and also object to having an abortion for any number of personal and/or religious reasons.
I want my things protected by a human with a process to unlock/reset/.. given some kind of proof of identity.

Because with 99.99% certainty the person that needs to unlock the account is me, and not an attacker.

Even with a dozen backup yubikeys and spare codes written down I’d still be much more likely to lock myself out than be attacked.

If it’s one thing I have learned the hard way it’s that the most dangerous person in the equation is myself. I won’t trust myself with any kind of security.
Very little, actually. You'd need CreateWindow to get a surface to render onto, and from there you have access to GDI, GDI+, OpenGL, and D3D via P/Invoke

If by "basic Canvas pixelData" you mean blitting an array of pixels in a loop, that would require a grand total of 4 API calls: CreateWindow, GetDC, CreateBitmap, BitBlt. Keyboard and mouse handling would be a dozen lines of code to process the corresponding window messages in the event loop.

I bet this would all still fit in under 64Kb.
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awesome post, thank you! certainly addresses some issues ive had at work recently.
I'm certain there'd be questions unique to a company that only the staff would know but I'd want to assume most questions would be the same across companies.

Are you saying in most of these situations the questions never overlap?
For anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
I didn't downvote, but I agree with GP that growth isn't a zero sum game. If you create the right product, then you and the people who pay for your growth all end up better off than you were before.
"As a result, a Unison codebase can be versioned and synchronized with Git or any similar tool and will never generate a conflict in those tools"

Conflicts are a feature, not a bug. If two developers are making divergent changes in the same piece of code, I suppose Unison would just let the divergence happen, essentially forking the code. I don't think forking code is the right default.
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this is mostly research. there are a lot of things you can do to slow down aging right now - almost orthogonal to your age: sleep 7+ hours per night, hit the gym (mix of cardio+strength), eat high quality food - the less processed the better - also try to eat a plant based diet, reduce the level of stress in your life, properly hydrate yourself, hang out with people you like, get a pet, get a side project that is a work of love, learn something every day, read books, reduce your social media (and media in general) consumption.
I'm not seriously suggesting this is likely, im just presenting a hypothetical scenario, and it doesn't need to be plausible in order for it to be used as a narrative. Do it properly, remove any doubt, secure your (one's) website so people _know_ the information came from you.
I've worked in media, and I can confirm the "packages" that sponsors buy as described are totally normal in media.

There's a reason editorial departments are totally separate from ad sales.

FTC disclosure of paid content is extremely important and taken very seriously (at least where I worked and by the FTC).

IMHO Facebook doesn't have any reputation left to tarnish, but Teen Vogue screwed themselves here, badly.
Missed opportunity to title this paper "OK Bloomer".
Right. I'd gotten a similar clarification from dang when I emailed mods.

When I was posting the dupe/prior notes, there'd been about 4-5 submissions within an hour, and it seemed likely the story would continue to draw submissions. A challenge in that case is that no submission gains critical mass.

A challenge of user-submission-based media aggregators.
I think the concept of "professional event" has changed considerably in the last few decades. So judging what should or shouldn't have been known by the guests based on modern standards is a mistake.

As far as nude pictures and paintings, were they clearly underage and non artistic? There's a lot of post hoc reasoning by those who want to spread blame around that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
> To be fair, one of the most vocal advocates of higher code quality is Carmack

His code is full of these antipatterns!

One concrete example - magic numbers in Quake.

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/bf4ac424ce754894ac...

Doesn't seem to cause him any problems in achieving success.
What about Authenticator? Maintaining a small fleet of yubikeys costs as much as a whole phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
> market (or technology) pivots into the startup

I think Apple, Google, Twitch & Uber (I don't know enough of the others) were clearly building the right thing for an early market.. I wouldn't say the market "switched to them", it just became more mainstream.
Thanks for the questions!

Are you prepared for the incoming wave of DMCA takedown requests if this proves to be popular?

I don't expect this to actually happen but if it does, I would comply.

If someone spends the time to create content for this platform, how can they be sure that it won't shut down next week?

This currently runs on just one server and even with the incoming HN traffic, the server utilization is pretty low. This won't cost much to keep running.

Can players create private content, such as for a D&D
campaign?

Authors can create private games. This means only they are allowed to create a room. Rooms themselves are only semi private (the 4 digit code is guessable) and will expire after a period of inactivity. Not sure if the current setup would work for private D&D sessions but would love to support that use case.

If a player starts using content created by someone else, and it gets taken down for either copyright or because the author removed it, can that player continue to use that content?

If the game itself is deleted, all rooms of it are also deleted.

In fact, can an author remove content at all?

Yes, authors can delete their own games.

Is there a system in place where the legitimate owner of an IP can create content for this platform and monetize it in some way? Tabletop Simulator may be a den of piracy[0] but there are some games for sale there as well: https://www.tabletopsimulator.com/games*

At this stage I expect most games to be from hobbyists who want others to playtest their games or kickstarter creators who want to offer a digital game copy to backers. Would be open to creating opportunities for monetization if this gets more traction.
I’m a little scared to migrate some of our microservices off VMs and onto k8s (because our deployment story isn’t great). However there doesn’t seem to be a lot of consensus around how to do _anything_, even with a green field.

A dozen microservices, several diff DBs, and some large stateful datasets, all supporting a basic Rest API in the end. What tools would you choose nowadays?
It's increasingly common for small businesses in US. Many restaurants, for example, have a Facebook page, a Yelp page etc, but they don't have a website.
I think that some primal instinct gets triggered when you are building your own thing.

Hundreds of thousands of people use the product I helped build at my current workplace and I don't feel a thing. Yet having even a 100 daily users show up at the website I used to run felt exhilarating.
The article says "We found 17 websites on which user accounts can be compromised based on a SIM swap alone", that seems like a pretty clear indication that it can be worse than nothing.

I happen to think the benefits of SMS 2FA, even when working as intended, are negligible. It seems like a bad idea to waste the finite amount of developer good will we have asking services to implement it.

Literally the only attack that SMS 2FA has any impact on is credential stuffing, and even then it's debatable. Credential stuffing is using the credentials stolen from one service to compromise another. If you don't reuse passwords, then you don't need SMS 2FA.

If you do reuse passwords - then it seems impossible you're not also vulnerable to phishing. After all, you're already willing to hand over your credentials to anyone who asks. SMS 2FA is not a solution to phishing, as the tokens themselves can be phished.
The world of business brokers is 75% charlatans and 24% outright frauds. Good ones do exist, but bad ones are abundant. If you need a broker, find one via a referral from someone that has sold their business via a broker.
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I have nothing wrong with populist presidents. In fact, I want populist presidents, as until Trump the Republican party was dominated by ideologues. The Democratic party has begun descending down that path, which IMO is one reason why Jerry Brown--or his more ethically challenged twin, Willie Brown, for that matter--isn't getting many visitors in retirement.

A good leader is responsive to manifest problems, as opposed to problems in the abstract (which are often manufactured and non-existent); prefers evidence-based policies; and most of all is willing and eager to make course corrections (reality is messy and dynamic). In general it's difficult to do that today without being populist, as a populist almost by definition enjoys greater independence from the political machine and special interests. (Not that political machines aren't important! Hillary was nominated by the DNC machine over Sanders because the DNC machine was built to prevent someone like Trump from being nominated.) Of course, being populist doesn't mean you'll be a good leader; it depends on the character and ability of the person in power, and the extent to which their personal ambitions can be checked by the system--i.e. by making success the only option, as opposed to permitting a populist leader to manufacture success through lies and deceit.

A non-populist president would be someone like George H. W. Bush (the first Bush), who clearly represented elitist interests, albeit an enlightened elitism. America has a long history of this sort of elitist politician, largely to our[1] long-term benefit, starting most famously with George Washington. But H. W. Bush was the last one. Now we have a mix of ideologically (George W. Bush, on balance) and populist (Obama, on balance; Trump as an archetype) driven leadership, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[1] Notwithstanding that some groups do better than others. But so much about healthy democracy is about minimizing the risks of majority power, and minorities are often at their most vulnerable when populism controls. See, for example, Andrew Jackson, whose politics and character may be the closest to that of Trump. Or consider that during the heyday of union power mid century, big business and African Americans sometimes had an enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend relationship, as unions were notoriously racist. Look at how minorities have faired in the Middle East when populist governments come into power in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, etc.
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Factually there's no contradiction. But in terms of principles, there seems to be a tension.
Great example of the kind of misinformation this article is talking about.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/08/polic...

edit: and you missed (as did everyone else reporting on this) the pertinent piece from that article, which suggests that none of the fires have yet been linked to any of these arrests.

"Investigations into the cause, origin and overall impact of fires are continuing and since the latest State of Emergency was declared last Thursday (2 January 2020), Strike Force Tronto has provided expertise to six Police Area Commands and eight Police Districts."
What may happen, though, is that the proponent may ignore you pointing out the false argument and keep repeating how true the fact is. Online discussion often includes a lot of this kind of repetition, plus noise to keep people from focusing on the core structure of the argument.

I made https://en.howtruthful.com/ to facilitate presenting the core structure of an argument concisely, with the true parts and false parts appropriately marked.
>I think this is a dangerous way to look at things

No it is not. Its sound.

>Whatever other things happened with other people doesn't really matter.

YES. They Do!

The guy was trafficking kids for sex and blackmail, and was frequently ferrying high profile people to his island which to every account was used for sex acts with minors.

The witnesses are many. His ties to Mossad, high powered elites in royal and political circles globally are well documented, his personal fixer/trafficker, Maxwell, is still MIA, assumed to be protected by those involved in this - with close ties to people in the UN and in compromising situations such as the Silsbey event in Haiti etc...

It stinks to high heaven and it is foolish to deny the literal mountains of evidence.

It just came out that Comey's daughter was responsible for the deleted tapes from the prison FFS...

This case is unbelievably bad.
There's a plan for that.

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Firewatch was top-notch. Untitled Goose Game was top-notch. I would never imagine a handheld with a _crank_ actually selling well in 2020; but if anyone can do it, it's Panic.
the sexist history is that people prefer watching better athletes.
That's for pi 3; I don't think it works on 4 (yet)
Short answer: no.

Long answer: nooooooooooo.
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It’s an economic disincentive for Fiat to continue producing them. Sure Fiat could continue to sell those cars, but being on the hook for shoveling Tesla $2bn every few years isn’t a winning long term strategy. Hurts Fiat, helps a company that’s got much better CO2 performance. CO2 will be reduced because it will now be in Fiats financial interest to produce EVs. It certainly won’t happen overnight but the incentives are clear for Fiat.
The projected rise in funding was cut, and then largely reinstated. There are also some other complications around funding which allows both sides to claim it was/wasn't cut do to firefighter entitlements. But broadly, there was not only no cut, it was increased in line with previous years.

Effectively though, the gov has had no strategy either to fund or manage increased risks associated with climate change, because their unofficial line on climate change is 'it's not here, this isn't happening'.

The whole reason for the public find raising for volunteer firefighters kicking off, was that the PM refused to give them any additional funding (up until a few weeks ago). Despite the increased length of the fire season. They were using their own trucks, chainsaws etc even having to buy their own P2 masks from bunnings. Now of course the gov is providing P2 masks to half the state.

So yes, while funding was not cut, it has not increased in line with the increased risk, as to do so would acknowledge the climate change elephant.
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What would be a good example of that in your opinion?
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