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The proprietary drivers are not "good". They don't support Wayland which has been the default on many distros for years. They also don't support prerelease or custom kernels. I had to build a custom kernel to include some patches for new hardware I just got and found out it was impossible for me to use the nvidia drivers on it. I ended up getting an AMD card because of that.
Doable with Americium. Start hoarding old fire detectors.
Published reviews will just make reviews political in new ways. As a graduate student, I helped my advisor review a paper submitted to Nature that was publishing a large biological data set. The internal metrics that the authors provided made it clear that the data was 95% noise. The review was direct and to the point. The paper was rightfully rejected, but ended up in another high profile journal after the authors removed the damning evidence. The corresponding author was one of the most famous and powerful people in a very large field. My advisor was still a relatively junior professor at the time, even if well known. I don't think publication of the review would have changed things for him, but for many others I have known, it might have.
"communicate like a normal human" is a bit unnecessarily negative/aggressive there. Some people genuinely do have trouble with that. belittling them isn't gonna help any...
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Was just about to mention this game. Glad other people still play it, an absolutely incredible game and open source project.
Even though the absolute numbers may well not apply to other types of apps, the general concepts of how to scale do. We have 100k+ users on effectively a single box too (actually two for redundancy, ease of upgrades, etc., but one can handle it), but this is a great overview of how to think about scaling beyond that, however many users that's done at. Honestly when I was reading the article I read that 1/10/100 as more of a unitless degree of scale than actual numbers of humans.
Hugely slower, and there is little (maybe zero?) hardware encoding support out there, which makes it too expensive for most use cases.

You are completely right about Netflix’s needs here. Spending thousands of dollars on re-encoding video to shave off 1% of its size in bytes can easily be profitable at the scale of a hit show like Stranger Things.
Xiongmai has a history of oopsies this big or bigger, going back several years at least. Their software usually turns out to be spyware, whatever their intent may be.
I didn't see anything in the article that implied the rogue waves were proportional to the average. In fact the thing that makes them rogue is that they are many standard deviations away from the average.
It’s not on the most shorted stocks list here: https://www.highshortinterest.com/nasdaq/

Where do people get their short interest data ?
Ah, Standard ML. That brings back great memories of my compiler class at University. This was the first functional language that I was truly comfortable with, and a great tool to write our toy compiler.
1. if the device name contains "smart" -> always assume it is vulnerable.

2. put all IoT devices behind firewall/NAT router and never allow any traffic from WAN to the IoT. (Allow only South->North traffic)

3. Never allow east-west traffic between IoT devices.
There is a significant one time cost to a new codec, because the entire library needs to be re-encoded, but that cost is more than made up for as long as one of two things are true:

1) It takes significantly fewer resources to stream to customers (bandwidth, CPU, disk, RAM, etc) or

2) It provides a significantly better experience for the user, which translates to more retention (either better picture quality or fewer video pauses or both).

If you can find a codec that does both, that's worth far more than any encoding cost.
At least its found one thing to be good at.
There is no such thing. People still buy online marketed products a magnitude times more than non-marketed products. In fact, advertisement techniques are now so advanced that consumers believe they were not "influenced" in their purchasing decisions.
"Hahaha, my ad-blocker and 7 proxies make me un-trackable"
Not accusing, but it's still worth considering - could it just have been that your targeting was bad?

I worked in a heavily regulated industry with some of the Top 10 most expensive keywords and we spent about $150 million a year on advertising with a solid 1/4 of it going to digital (almost exclusively Google) and it was worth it. Digital spend got customer acquisition costs way way down and we spent significant effort into trying to _reduce_ our call center operations (mostly via automation).

It's important to invest in people to crunch the numbers and get your targeting right.

TV was still king though.
Banning third-party developers from loading modules into kernel-space does not a microkernel make.

Apple-approved developers are still going to be loading whatever crap they want into kernel space, incl AMD or nVidia graphics drivers and the lot. It's not like they can convert XNU into an actual microkernel in less than a decade or two.

This just means that if you're not on the Apple-whitelist then macOS becomes a yet even more close platform for you. Wanted to developed a driver for a PCIe network card? Sorry, no can do!
The vessels I was thinking of, Humberkeels, are traditional.
Ahh yeah. _Almost_ within an order of magnitude... (Good enough for government work, right?)
30fps on a 9900KS at 1080p. Three to four times slower than x264. As you say, for ahead of time, write once, read many media like Netflix, that's an acceptable trade. It's not going to work for live media yet.

But 10bit 4k streams need nearly 50gb RAM and exponentially more time than 1080p. I've never had much luck.
My Pixel 2 does the same. I assume all Android phones do. I can see everything ive opened in my Google profile
Any other XMOS developers here? I first encountered elements of Occam when using XMOS, David May’s successor to Inmos. Was surprised later to see that Go had inherited various features too.

Great platform for embedded audio! www.xmos.com
I'm able to do the same on my Android phone. I can go into the Google settings and see everything I opened and when.
you desribe almost my exact usecase and limitations. 2015 MBP, never free disk space. Being able to play these games and not having to think about hardware and installation is great. I've signed up for the $5 tier.
Newer Snapdragon SoCs, and that's about it right now.
Maybe. I thought I saw something from IEEE; it may have been this company.

edit: Looks like yes: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/the-return...

edit again: also this from 2017 https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/how-to-build...
Wacom tablets work fine in Linux, Gimp, Krita, etc. in my experience (and haven't required significant setup for over a decade). Why are you trying to use obscure proprietary software instead?
hand-write efficient SQL queries (ditch ORMs)

Raw SQL strings or a query builder?
I would like to point out that this is not specific to IOT. I deal with lots of servers and enterprise networking gear at my job and many of them come with hardcoded passwords on ipmi / networked admin consoles.

The difference is that your average Joe doesn't even know he has to configure these devices, let alone how to configure them.
If a consumer device ships with a “debug console” that gives the manufacturer (or any attacker who knew about it) root, that’s a vulnerability. If it happens on purpose, and they don’t tell you about it, then that’s the very definition of a backdoor.
Later versions have a lot of problems, apparently. Why are you blown away? This isn't some negative commenting problem.

It may be confusing to you that things changed. I have the last 2019 xps, and it has terrible battery life. Something went wrong along the way, but the reviews mentioned 18 hour battery life, and also talked about 4k. I have the 4k screen and it gets less than 5 hours. I hate it. I regret buying it. This isn't because I want to bash dell. It's because they built something that gets about 30% of the claimed battery life. There are other software problems that I can live with, but the battery life is completely unacceptable.
And the savings are much better than 1%, if they really do spend that much time encoding. The complexity of encoding is relatively similar for equivalent quality/bitrate (at least with some of the encoders).
I think the only way not to get screwed by lawyers is by employing them and using them to avoid getting screwed by other lawyers. Still it's a giant cost center.
> Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap.

As the situation on windows shows us, the alternative is drivers that are crap for other reasons. If Linux offered a stable binary interface for drivers, we'd have proprietary drivers that "worked" but were nevertheless still crap insofar as they were essentially malware, as is the case with this wacom driver.
Ok. I think you're right, but I just want to point out that people who are inclined to do things like this experience irrational thoughts. Anxiety is not rational. It fills my mind with irrational thoughts. It makes me afraid of things that rationally do not pose any risk whatsoever. I understand that my social anxiety should be fixed and I should not be inclined to do something like this. Truth is, it's very hard to communicate everything well with people, I have no problem communicating most things to my friends, but some things are very hard. This seems to be always missing in this conversation.
It's only the "cost of doing business" because of man made arbitrary laws. It doesn't have to be the cost of doing business. Why do you claim "noone is demanding that", when in the next sentence you just shrug it off as "they'll just have to sink, whatever". If the alternative for the business is to go out of business, it is "demanding".

Businesses are not at fault for their employees getting pregnant, so why should they have to shoulder the risk? If society wants to protect mothers, society should pay up, not the individual businesses.

Are you saying people shouldn't run childcare facilities? Or only huge childcare facilities are allowed, which certainly wasn't the intention of the laws for maternal leave?
But why does entropy increase?
Everyone savvy enough to browse HN ought to, at the very least...
Not the parent you're replying to, but I agree with their perspective for the most part.

I think absolutes are silly to use as arguments, and sure, there are certainly some people for whom it's really difficult to proactively cancel plans. Sometimes I'm that person. But I choose to suck it up and act like a human instead of (if I were to use this app) hiding behind a computer to let it do my dirty work for me. I certainly grant that there are some people who just can't do that sometimes, or even more often than sometimes.

It's hard to believe that there are enough people like that for an app. My feeling is that most people who use this would actually otherwise actively cancel plans, but will use the app instead just to be socially lazy or to avoid even a hint of confrontation, and the effect will be to lower the quality of social interaction between people overall.
I can list multiple streaming services off the top of my head that could really use better picture quality.
I can't speak for high performance/near or realtime system people but I would not trust a managed database service for those needs. My experience is that the managed offerings lag behind upstream versions substantially and usually are economical because they are multitenant. So you have a bit less predictability in io wait / cpu queue, lose host kernel level tunings (page sizes or hugepages, share memory allocation, etc), and - not naming names - some managed db services are so behind they lack critical query planner profiling features. That's not even going into application workload specific tuning for various nosql stores. This is a nice article but its audience is people that haven't scaled up a system but are trying to cope with success. It's not great generalized scaling advice.
> Or will Youtube and Netflix force AV1 upon everyone where if you want high quality HDR or 4K Content you will require AV1.

I sure hope so!
Sorry to break it to you but most of this "we" already sold out. Much like the corporate hippy boomers.
I have also found this to be absolutely true
Yea it's a bit of a strawman. It's because I've tried to follow these discussions, and usually it resolves around that.

> Unless you think that making different choices would turn elm into something mainstream? If so, I'd be interested to hear justification for that.

I don't think it would. It would end up being just another coffeescript without any notability. It is precisely so interesting because Evan is being pragmatic. No matter where it ends up, until now at least it is far more valuable and interesting than just another kitchensink.
Thanks. As basic (and utterly unnecessary/counterproductive) as this app (client) is, it looks like the real villain is the server side.
Daycare, the act of handing your infants and toddlers over to minimum wage workers who do not care about your children on an individual basis and who are also supposed to be taking care of several other children, is not a great idea, or even a good idea. It's a bad idea. For any decent parent, it would be a last resort before giving the children up for adoption.

Yes of course it's great when the extended family can help. That doesn't happen much in the modern world. It would be great if it did though.

>a comparatively trivial thing to do is to realign employee and employer incentives. And there are governments that do that successfully.

What does that mean? I think it's defeatist to want so many people slaving away for corporate masters rather than spending time with their families.

>Stop projecting your view of the world on everyone

I don't know what that means. I'm not going to stop advocating that people make lifestyle choices that I think are best, because as a father of a young child, my child is going to grow up in a world populated by the children that are the result of the lifestyle choices people are making today, and I would prefer for him to be surrounded by people that have been raised as well as possible.

>but it is not the only possible way to have a healthy family.

It is by far the best way to ensure you have a healthy family that we know of.
If small businesses in general can't afford an employee going on [mp]aternity leave, that seems like an argument for socializing the cost.
In many ways the real peer review comes after publication, when more people have seen the work, and can react to it. In some fields it is not terribly rare for flaws in the work get discovered at that point, and rebuttals get written and circulated (or possibly even published in the journal.)

The prepublication peer review is not always a terribly high bar to pass. It does help to weed out some of the crap, but lots still get published, especially in less competitive journals.
No, but this particular article is Marxist and self-consciously so. As to Georgism—it is predicated on private ownership of property.
> That section is talking about using an incrementing counter as the IV--it doesn't say anything about a PRNG being a bad choice (in this case, the PRNG being a SHA256).

Let's try this again.

You have two types of inputs that APIs refer to as "IVs".

Nonces: Must never repeat.

Initialization vectors: Must never repeat AND must be unpredictable.

Counters are acceptable for nonces. When an academic cryptographer says in a security proof that a counter doesn't suffice for the security of a scheme, what they're really saying is that you're in the latter category (must be unpredictable too) rather than the former (where predictable is okay as long as it never repeats).

If it can be predictable, it can be a counter. If it can't be a counter, it must be unpredictable.

The correct way to get an unpredictable IV is to use a CSPRNG.

SHA256(some predictable low-entropy inputs) fails to meet the bar for unpredictability.

> Are you talking about brute forcing the IV? The IV is not a secret to anyone--it's usually appended to the cipher text.

IVs aren't secret, but given the security proof I linked, IVs cannot be predictable. They must be unpredictable.
I have the same as this guy. official dell os, no added drivers, updated to all changes, did some recommended bios update. 4k screen, less than 5 hours. it occasionally won't put up the login prompt when locked - it moves the mouse but bit it won't put up the login panel. Thus I have to power off to reboot.

The late 2019 4k is a lemon. I tried to return it and they wouldn't take it back. I got it in mid Dec, figured they would update the drivers and tweak it to get better battery, but it never happened by mid jan. then it was too late.
A hidden door that nobody but the installer of the door knows about is generally referred to as a back door. If it was without the knowledge of the main device manufacturer, then it was injected.
Quite impressive, I didn't know I was reading a Marxist gripe until half way through. Started out interesting before its agenda was revealed.
Similar to the problem with the 'secret crush' version of the same idea -- people can insincerely tick every box, simply to see which of their friends has a crush on them. I guess the same caveat applies: only use this app with people you trust. (Of course, some would say that if you really trust each other you don't need this app; but I don't know, I can see a use case for those situations where your plans have become inconvenient, but not sufficiently inconvenient to back out at short notice without seeming rude. I wouldn't use it myself but I don't even use a calendar app.)
Is Casper supposed to be a tech company? If so that's even more absurd than WeWork.
The ruling class has always used history as weapon against the people. This has been true thru all of mankind’s history to this day, this piece included.

So why would you then be in trouble when you are just carrying water for the ruling class?
I agree: plain text is after all, easier to manage.

Personally, I've used Joplin [0] some months ago, and Im using QOwnNotes [1] now. Both are open source, cross platform, and can synchronize with Nextcloud. QOwnNotes may feel a bit faster since its written in Qt/C++ (Joplin is an Electron app).

However, I still find hard to write tables in Markdown manually.

[0]: https://joplinapp.org

[1]: https://www.qownnotes.org
my late 2019 4k screen doesn't have the coil whine. just terrible battery life ;-)
There are not many countries where you get full pay. Full pay makes it a different matter.

And again, I am all for fathers taking time off to spend with their kids. I just think the narrative is harmful.

Harmful to women, actually, who tend to be forced out of their motherhood privileges by well-meaning laws.

As for "fathers feeling uncomfortable", I am not buying it. That is just in people's head and could be remedied with a little propaganda (some TV shows telling people it's fine to take time off as a father). Finances on the other hand are a real world issue.

Seriously, you would forego spending time with your children because it makes you uncomfortable that society might frown upon it? There are no real repercussions, just a mild feeling of uneasiness?
Some of them hold quite a few missiles. Yes, some of the subs are quite massive. There are some fairly recent pictures on google images.
it's good. the problem is battery life.
It's a bit surreal having multiple trillion dollar companies all of a sudden. Meanwhile, the tent city that used to just be under the bridge near downtown keeps spreading, it's up to a few hundred tents spread across almost two blocks now.

Not sure why I keep thinking about those two things together.
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I think that Ullman's 'Elements of Standard ML' remains one of the best introductions to functional programming in general. Wonderful little book...
How do you get people to use it?

Like let's say I have drinks plans with my friend, and I want to bail using this service. How to I tell her to install the app?

Wouldn't asking her to install it be pretty rude? It would basically be saying "Hey, FYI I like to bail on stuff a lot. So you probably shouldn't make any plans involving me."

I could see that stigma as a critical roadblock against growing the kind of user-base you'd need for this to get popular.
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Causal effects are (typically) defined via potential outcomes[0]. If I do X, what happens to Y? The laws of physics can be used for that, which is what I mean when I say they're causal.

If our physical laws couldn't predict what effect a given cause has, we'd say they're wrong. Like if I couldn't swap out one mass on a spring (in an known scenario with an ideal spring blah blah) for another mass (cause) and predict how much lower the new mass will hang (effect), we'd say we don't understand spring physics.

There are unresolved foundational questions like those discussed in your link, but those aren't practically relevant, just like missing foundations of set theory wouldn't prevent us from balancing checkbooks. There's some notion of arithmetic I'm using for my checkbook, just like there's some notion of causation when I apply a 10N force (cause) to my 1kg mass and get 1 m/s of acceleration (effect). Foundationally formalizing it is neat, but unnecessary.

[0] Pretty much all of the rest of the time, they're still compatible with this definition.
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Nope, it would be pretty straightforward to set up a stateful dns server that serves the "real" ip on first request from a new client, and then ever subsequent request returns a local IP. That one dns server would enable an attack on anyone who visits the malicious site.
Joplin's (https://joplinapp.org/) whole shtick is basically being "open source evernote" in case anyone's wondering (can import from them and all).

Personally I'm having a good time with Tiddlywiki with a markdown plugin and nice context-of-backlinks setup (inspired by roamresearch.com )
What do you mean by "taking double in taxes"? Yes, parents also pay taxes, although usually less than single people because of the "split income". It is still a net transfer of money from single people to parents. (Not only for parental leave, also schools for example, or even free childcare in many places).
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