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You can tell someone hasn't watched the Ratchet & Clank demo from the other day[0]. The SSDs in these consoles go far beyond short load times. They can radically change how games are made and designed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnG-3-r6-Q
Mid 2014 iMac, bought as a refurbished unit from Apple in 2015
That is not coercion or appealing to community shaming. Those are both terms that have meanings. Telling people to consider the actions of the developers of a software project is not coercion or an appeal to community shaming.
i think you have become way too cynical. of course we don’t have the huge leaps we used to. the marginal utility of twice as many polygons or pixels is much less now. the effort that goes into these advances we do get is much more than it was nonetheless, and borders on magic.

amazing time to be alive for computing hardware power and great to see the consoles letting us fully leverage it
I don't know why you would call a lab escape a "wildly implausible conspiracy theory." We know viruses like this are studied in labs and that lab escapes are possible. Maybe it didn't escape from a lab, but it's not a wild conspiracy like saying 5G causes Covid.

As I understand it, the best reasons to suspect lab escape are:

1. The horseshoe bats thought to carry the virus live about a thousand miles away from Wuhan. Why wouldn't the virus start over there instead of in Wuhan.

2. The Wuhan Virology institute was a "BSL-4" lab, China's first and only. The BSL-4 lab is the only kind rated to handle very severe or infectious pathogens.

2.5 There were preexisting documented concerns about the safety protocols at the lab, saying they were substandard.

3. The Wuhan lab worked on "Chimeric coronavirus" exactly like Covid.

There's a lot more evidence and analysis from people more capable than me (see sources 3 & 4), but to me, the basic case "We are absolutely certain it came from bats a thousand miles away and definitely not the bioweapons lab next door researching this exact type of virus" makes me pretty suspicious. Add on to that the "mainstream" consensus has been wrong at every step, no lockdown, it's the flu, masks won't help, slow and few tests, etc - and I don't think anyone is really justified in dismissing the lab escape theory out of hand. Perhaps the experts are wrong. Again.

I'm actually not familiar with the evidence claiming that it's certainly zoonotic. My understanding is that is less likely due to the fact that it looks like a combination of a horseshoe bat virus and a pangolin virus - which theoretically could happen if a bat caught a pangolin virus, those two viruses infected the same cell, while reproducing the viruses were accidentally merged to cause the resultant virus to still be viable and have gained function, and then that unlucky bat traveled a thousand miles away to Wuhan to enjoy a bat stew...

Either all that, or, again, the neighborhood bioweapons lab with sloppy safety controls that was genetically modifying coronaviruses accidentally let one out.

1. https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-complicate...

2. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52318539

3. https://project-evidence.github.io/

4. https://link.medium.com/MI3PjBt0g7
Master no more – do your small part
Master is old language that should be purged from existence. Renaming your default branch is one small thing you can do right now.
Playstation 5 doesn't swap out the SSD, it's an additional slot for a PCI-E nvme SSD. The onboard SSD that comes with it doesn't seem to be removable.
that is not a fair characterization at all
Luigi Galvani
Rambling post ahead:

You see this trend in MMOs as well - towards convenience (and fun) at the expense of community.

Back in the old days of EverQuest and Final Fantasy XI, it was almost impossible to do anything by yourself; you HAD to find other people, and ideally a clan. Enemies would destroy you after level 10 or so, and quests were incredibly laconic and abstruse seemingly by design.

Everything about the game was difficult, dangerous, and mysterious. Reaching out to others was expected, and many were glad to help you through those same challenges they too struggled with.

On the other hand, it took hours - often all night - to accomplish just about anything. Once you got a good party going, you basically didn't want to stop, as just getting to that point took two freakin' hours.

On the other other hand, because everything took forever, you would inevitably shoot the shit, because there was just nothing else to do!

Anyways, nowadays you can easily solo pretty much any modern MMO; and any group content just automatically plops you into a party with some dudes that you will quite certainly never see again. Action is immediate with little time to type anything, (there's surprisingly little support for voice chat in these games), and usually easy enough to hardly require spoken coordination.

Just gotta look for people on discord I guess.
What planet are you living on?

Even if you were to take nonviolent offenses like marihuana possession out of the sample, you are high if you are suggesting that you have better than coin-flip chances to pick any arrested person , and having that person be innocent.

If you think cops are going around arresting people left and right coin flipping for catching real criminals, i have a bridge I'd like to sell to you.
It depend on your position. Some sensitive topics are okay at some levels of your career (like when you're a student or entry-level employee), while other topics are basically fire-able offenses for people in semi-public roles like startup executives, academics, politicians, directors of various non-profit organizations including sports clubs, partner-level people at white shoe firms including VC and law, or middle managers and above at larger companies.

For the latter group, more things are sensitive: the seriousness of the pandemic, nature vs nurture for certain skills/intelligence, being dismissive about ethical issues (robotics, computer vision, privacy, etc.), border control and foreign policy in general, saying the wrong thing about minimum/living wages, usual hot topics like abortion and gun rights (especially during some news cycles), opinion about public funding for certain institutions, agreement with diversity/inclusion initiatives, opinions about laws around discrimination, and taxes and social welfare.
> I've never once found it difficult to eat a "standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-added".

Actually, I find that a simply prepared, decent (not excellent, cut of meat) steak has now become a rare thing and is ferociously expensive.

I suspect that there is too much wastage of better meat cuts and that restaurant margins are so thin that every owner immediately cuts back the expensive stuff right away.

Anything other than turkey, chicken, salmon, or shrimp is now problematic to find as a protein. And, with the possible exception of certain kinds of salmon, all those flavors are bland enough that they almost always need something in the dish to help them out (cream, butter, sugar, etc.).
Active-duty military of a foreign nation gets special attention at borders. As you might expect.

When I was in the USAF my unit got invited to participate in a shooting competition in Innsbruck. At the time, Austria was a neutral country (that is: not in NATO or the Warsaw Pact), so we each had a special document from their Foreign Minister giving us permission to enter while in uniform and handle weapons.

https://imgur.com/a/5ZDNWBI

This PLA Major knew that his J1 visa would have been held up (best case) or denied (worst-case) so he lied on the application about who he worked for. Customs & Border Protection is actually being low-key about this, because as an officer in a foreign military who lied and entered the country and then worked at a research facility, he could easily have been charged with being a spy.
> Ask any digital marketer, most of them see FB and Amazon as serving different purposes than what targeted search ads do.

I'm very well aware of this, but this doesn't necessarily mean that budget planning will be done completely independent across multiple different channels. We already have observed a significant fraction of search advertisements budget has been moved from Google to Amazon as Amazon becomes a more effective ads platform. In fact, nowaway this becomes a much more attractive option since Amazon now owns literally everything from advertisements, auction, optimization and measurements in a single platform.

> in many areas with deep-pocketed investors who think they'll eventually turn profitable Google actually takes more than 100% of potential margin.

Most of the Google's largest advertisers are big, conventional companies with a strong cash flow, not those burning the money from investors. They really care about incrementality, efficacy, measurement and performance. Sure, you can probably burn a few million dollars without a good reason but you cannot spend x100 like that.
@aphyr could you please clarify this sentence?

> This behavior is allowable due to long-discussed ambiguities in the ANSI SQL standard, but could be surprising for users familiar with the literature.

Should that be "not familiar"? And which literature - the standard or the discussions?
There's absolutely no excuse for why a console released in 2016 still had 5400 rpm spinning rust. Those drives are barely usable in low-end laptops, and you're trying to run games from it?
Ask HN: RSUs, ESOPs, and “super preferred” shares for Indian founders
Hello,

Some of the most pertinent practical questions for founders concern the finances and shareholding of the new venture funded startup.

Specifically:

1. How to vest founder shares without too much of a tax burden.

2. How to share equity (ESOPs vs RSUs) without too much of a upfront tax burden on the initial few employees.

3. How to retain long term voting control.

Most of the "good" resources I find on the web on these topics are written from a US PoV. I would be grateful if someone here experienced with these topics could share some info/links specifically applicable to Indian founders.

PS: Humble suggestion: Seeing as YC is getting more active in India, perhaps someone on staff has an incentive to write up or put together some info pieces on these topics, to help out Indian founders.

Many thanks
I want to push against this silence is complicity mindset.

Looking at your profile, I can point out countless atrocities that you don't explicitly denounce. Do I see you upset about how Israel has amped up its program of settler colonialism in Palestine in the past few weeks? How the PRC is running literal concentration camps in Xinjiang? Or, moving along to the USA, how men have extraordinarily high suicide rates? Or how the elderly are being sacrificed at the altar of economic growth in the midst of COVID-19? Or, thinking long term, the tens of millions of people who will die because of climate change?

I don't. And, for what it's worth, I wouldn't be surprised if you have "correct" points of view on all of those. But you're still being complicit in deprioritizing those things and prioritizing your own set of causes, at the expense of human lives. And if you're indeed complicit in a conspiracy of silence on them, you've got blood on your hands.

Brandon Dail was demanding someone add some kind of explicit support for BLM to a Github repo. Where does that stop? I can think of hundreds of very worthy causes that need more publicizing. Is what we ultimately need some long list of evils that every open source project needs to denounce before right-thinking people can choose to use them? And, if you choose to use e.g. Linux, can I denounce you for choosing to use software that is complicit in a conspiracy to terminate black men's lives?

People can prioritize and take action on different causes in whatever way they want to. It's fine to ask individuals to reprioritize, but you're not entitled to anything. And, tactically speaking, ever-increasing stridency of tone and denunciation of imagined enemies is not an effective way to gather support for a cause.
f# also has language flexibility that ocaml lacks.

and ocaml isn’t always faster
Wow, I'm not going to believe that's realtime in my hands. I started the video thinking "whats so special about this", and when they started going interdimensional I realized either this is very cool or just hype.
So innovative you can buy it off the shelf, from China, $90 free shipping, for the last ~3 years, including engraving laser. Idea is even older http://davidegironi.blogspot.com/2014/07/38mm-x-38mm-laser-e...
Enroll in law school.
Ah yes, I misremembered: there's an additional slot but a very specific spec requirement. They'll be whitelisting individual devices.
Insulin does not lead to increased weight gain. If this approach does work, it's because it's a roundabout way of eating lower calorie foods and thus lowering daily caloric intake.
I just checked some hamburger buns that I bought from my local grocery store. They were in the middle price range.

Enriched flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, potato flakes, yeast, wheat gluten, sugar, 2% or less of: salt, soybean oil, soy flour, sodium stearoyl lactylate, corn flour, extratives of paprika and turmeric, calcium propionate, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, sucralose, natural and artificial flavor, ascorbic acid, enzymes

So not much better than the McDonald’s buns, and maybe a little worse. I’m guessing that the above ingredients are all required for a hamburger bun that is both shelf stable and cheap.

I’m not sure what the takeaway of that is. Maybe I should get the more expensive and presumably more natural buns? Either way, the McDonald’s buns aren’t any worse than what most people are eating at home.
I don't think being an active mid-level military member, when he stated he wasn't, is a BS reason. I'd expect China to treat U.S. spies similarly.
Because it's not really a one-time cost. It's a cost for every computer that you sit down at. If you're only ever at one computer, that's great, but in practical terms, it's more likely that you'll have your home computer (possibly more than one), your work computer (possibly more than one) and your team mates' computers. And if everyone's computer is a little different in some subtle way, that's a big problem. If the default settings, on the other hand are good enough that few if any tweaks are necessary, that means that the experience of moving between machines is less painful.
I used the transfer decal method extensively for ICs/pads along with fine tip water resistant markers for traces.
The trick that helped me a lot in avoiding errors was to redraw the circuit mirrored before writing it on the pcb, that is, with ICs having pin 1 on the upper right instead on the upper left. With time I learned to think the circuit mirrored and routed, so all my diagrams were drawn on paper very close to how they would appear on the pcb.
Of course I mean a bunch of TTL/CMOS ICs, or one-two LSI max, and some transistors. Anything more complex would have been a nightmare to make this way, at least for me.

Edit:
The transparent sheets with pcb traces transfered on them are called "acetate sheets", made of the same material used in transparency projectors slides. They're used to transfer the drawing onto copper boards previously treated with photosensitive material via exposition to UV light, then the boards can be etched by the usual FeCl solution.
I don't think the new consoles will even install games onto external drives.
I dunno, I think they're pretty similar— both are an arbitrary cap that protects against exhausting a real world resource (time, memory).

In any case, the compile time evaluation would obviously still have a bunch of interesting constraints— like, probably reasonable to read in the contents of a file, but is it reasonable to make a network call? What about reading a file that's on a network share? Can you even tell the difference? That operation could also hang for reasons entirely outside of algorithmic complexity.

And of course, like a stack overflow, that's also true today; you can hang your compile by including a header from a network share that hangs.

So would it really be that bad to have the compilation hang, and just show a stack trace for the invoked-at-compile-time code when interrupted?

I don't think the halting problem is a deal breaker here.
Wouldn't the exposed wiring cause electrolysis if the water is conductive enough (possibly due to contamination)?
Finally some effort to address the replication crisis
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The N64 looked way better, loaded faster, had a better controller, and to me had a better game library as a whole. The PS1 had comparatively horrible architectural choices like no built-in z-buffer, texture filtering, or floating point processing. Apparently N64 sold less per year available though. What did everyone see in the PS1?
I meant UDHR. Check article 26.
He isn't a former officer. He is a current officer. Being charged with espionage is a very real possibility.
I haven't tried American bread, but Australian is terrible compared to what you can get for little more than 1€ in Germany.

Presumably that's made without human involvement in each loaf.
Go back to the gym. Quit being fearful about Covid-19 if you're under 60 (which you likely are) and healthy (no autoimmune disorders and not diabetic) - the odds you will catch it are low and the odds it will kill or even damage you should you catch it are ridiculously low.

As for the shin splints, quit running until your body heals. Take up rowing, recumbent cycling, elliptical machine or (my nemesis) the stairmaster. I favor swimming too but it doesn't do much for your legs unless you use fins and do kickboard work or have a helluva breastroke.

The single lesson about exercise that a young man should learn after the age of about 22 is do not injure yourself. The reason is that you can no longer heal as you did when you were younger. This only gets worse after your mid-20s. Do not try strange exercises that your friends or gym buddies recommend or that you see someone else doing in the gym - be they unusually heavy weights, random martial arts moves, etc. and especially never ever do anything based on a dare. (Instead, if you must, practice them alone on your own terms at low speed, low weight, and low effort first).

If you do injure yourself don't tough it out, take Advil. The usual dose is 200 mg twice a day but when injured (cracked bones) I've taken 800mg twice a day for weeks (I think 3200 mg/day is max, but at (2 X 800mg)/day I was feelin' no pain!) If you're planning an adventure where you'll be making unusual moves (e.g., hiking, distance swimming in open water, climbing.etc.) start taking Advil a day before you start and keep taking it until you return home.

Finally, your next year's New Year's Resolution should be to quit making New Year's Resolutions.
This was my first thought as well - just something I don't have in my workflow at all and it makes very little sense to me.
Wow, these photos are beautiful and I really enjoyed reading through this. They capture a rich piece of technical history that most people wouldn't normally get to appreciate.

Also, I didn't understand why Google Photos was in the title at first, but I actually really like this presentation format. It's kind of like a super clean blog post.
You don't count a load time of almost 10 times faster as a generational leap? Ray tracing right now is just a gimmick, I don't care about puddles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqV7BNoQEr4
So it’s a VST patch, for one particular VSTi. Title is wrong.
The short form, as an overall answer to his article: No.

The longer form answer: His article makes several mistakes about the US and ignores the bloody and dark history that we have today. I frequently see this sort of ignorance (whether feigned or not) in these sort of arguments because people are convinced that we're somehow past a lot of these issues. We're not. There's this terror of a new 'liberal orthodoxy' while we see black men beaten and killed by the police, rights taken away from LGBT people and more. Rather than fear the government boot coming down on people, they fear the people showing rightful anger against the government doing something about it.

One of his first claims is

>And we are not defined by black and white any longer

If you were to ask a black man this question, the answer would likely be far different. He says that we have 'no secret police', but ask someone who's had experiences dealing with ICE or someone who's been harassed by the police solely because of the color of his skin. Ask any of the women who've had to deal with sexual harassers and predators in their job. You'll find out that there exists two Americas: One for a very specific type of citizen, and another for the rest of us.

Anger is never simply the result of people living in luxury and opulence. Anger is a build up of pressure among the people. And people are angrier than ever because these problems have persisted for decades and have kept persisting.
If you reject the "it's not that bad" response then you are saying all bugs are equal in severity / urgency / priority.

Which is obviously not true.

A better response might be something like "I understand the problem is X however the fix might take Y months and the next release will deprecate that feature anyway. Can you quantify or guesstimate the impact on our product if we allow this bug to stay unfixed?"
Giving up "git add ." is a steep price. I prefer to store my secrets outside the working copy. Then when I cd into the working copy, direnv sets environment variables either pointing to or catting the files from my home directory. This works beautifully with Ansible Vault.
Take Linux Mint Cinnamon for a spin. I think it'll change your perspective for Linux on the desktop. Browsers like Vivaldi make a consistent experience across all three OS platforms.
> If you're not following my argument, I'd be happy to rephrase it.

I'm not following what it is that you think Rice's theorem tells us.

Rice's theorem says that nontrivial properties of Turing machine programs are undecidable, i.e. for a given property, there will be Turing-machine programs for which we can't tell whether they have that property or not.

That doesn't tell us anything about what is possible for programs, or put any limits on programs that we do understand. It just says that in the Turing machine model there must exist programs that we don't understand. Fine. Who cares?
F# is only slightly winning due to Excel interop. But that can be delegated to other languages.
Then maybe we shouldn't approve J1 Visas for people who openly say had a working relationship with the People's Liberation Army?
Calorie count _is_ the key. This is incredibly well established in studies. Weight loss does not occur without caloric deficit, no matter what you eat. Likewise, weight loss will occur in caloric deficit even when eating what people would consider "junk", including sugar. See The Twinkie Diet, for example: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...

Avoiding food because "we didn't evolve to eat" is not sound science, either.
misleading title too... what a let-down...
It's a generational leap in game load times, but it's not a generational leap in gaming.
If your primary use case is Linux, xpra is very good.

Unlike RDP, xpra defaults to passing over individual windows — it acts as windows manager for it's own Xorg process on server. This can completely side-step the hassle of wrapping and interacting with existing desktop environment, it's login screens etc. Xpra uses unmodified Xorg server from your distribution with xf86-video-dummy driver to achieve this. Mirroring existing Xorg session is also supported (but slower).
They need to change the title. It's an absolute disgrace to make fun of today's moment. Please share https://twitter.com/Zedmor/status/1271637729646915585
Pretty sure the Buran only had one flight because of timing with the fall of the USSR.

Here’s a good summary of its life:
https://youtu.be/XLOCQw5s9Uw