skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO it's just very well executed. The job was to get Doom's sprites and level geometry onto the PSX, and this happened in time for 1995's holiday season.

PlayStation Doom had fewer framerate issues than most console Doom ports, and some nice extras (colored lighting). It preserved the aspects of the engine that Carmack valued most: subpixel correctness, perspective correct texture mapping, and diminished lighting.
I work in security and let me explain why McAfee products are so commonplace in corporate environments, even when there are vastly better alternatives out there.

You want an AV product? Done
You want a firewall product? Done
You want central management? Done
You want SIEM? Done
etc etc

Are any of their products amazing compared to the alternatives? No! Do they integrate seamlessly with each other? No! Are they cheaper than alternatives? Probably not!

But.

They provide a solution for every checkbox. And it's easy to convince management and auditors that you have done 'the right thing' by using a well known brand. And this in turn gets pass marks from the auditors.

A specific note about integration between products, McAfee has a history of buying good security software companies and basically destroying them. The integrations usually 'barely work' and after enough people complain and the original core devs have packed up and left, they basically scuttle the product.

Remember when 'Foundstone' was a vulnerability scanner that was an actual alternative to Nessus and not the consulting arm of McAfee? I do and I'm still sad they gutted it.
It's the same problem you'd get by looking at a JSON document out of context ("is this array-like thing an array, list, set? ordered or unordered? type bounds on members? are these integers or decimals with no remainder?") You gotta refer to a schema document or human-readable document or whatever and not guess.
One place where the original article goes off the rails was when it mentions a walk with a misguided botanist who only sees a forest in terms of competition -- and then the author builds out that idea into the theme of their approach to business. I was in a PhD program in Ecology and Evolution myself (studying with Larry Slobodkin and others), and here is something I wrote long ago drawing from that knowledge reflecting a world of both competition and cooperation (as well as both meshwork and hierarchy in Manuel De Landa's terms):

https://www.pdfernhout.net/a-rant-on-financial-obesity-and-P...

> "... I agree with the sentiment of the Einstein quote [That we should approach the universe with compassion], but that sentiment itself is only part of a larger difficult-to-easily-resolve situation. It become more the Yin/Yang or Meshwork/Hierarchy situation I see when I look out my home office window into a forest. On the surface it is a lovely scene of trees as part of a forest. Still, I try to see both the peaceful majesty of the trees and how these large trees are brutally shading out of existence saplings which are would-be competitors (even shading out their own children). Yet, even as big trees shade out some of their own children, they also put massive resources into creating a next generation, one of which will indeed likely someday replace them when they fall. I try to remember there is both an unseen silent chemical war going on out there where plants produce defense compounds they secrete in the soil to inhibit the growth of other plant species (or insects or fungi) as a vile act of territoriality and often expansionism, and yet also the result is a good spacing of biomass to near optimally convert sunlight to living matter and resist and recover from wind and ice damage. I try to recall that there is the most brutal of competition between species of plants and animals and fungi and so on over water, nutrients (including from eating other creatures), sunlight, and space, while at the same time each bacterial colony or multicellular organism (like a large Pine tree) is a marvel of cooperation towards some implicitly shared purpose. I see the awesome result of both simplicity and complexity in the organizational structure of all these organisms and their DNA, RNA, and so on, adapted so well in most cases to the current state of such a complex web of being. Yet I can only guess the tiniest fraction of what suffering that selective shaping through variation and selection must have entailed for untold numbers of creatures over billions of years. To be truthful, I can actually really see none of that right now as it is dark outside this early near Winter Solstice time (and an icy rain is falling) beyond perhaps a silhouette outline, so I must remember and imagine it, perhaps as Einstein suggests as an "optical delusion of [my] consciousness". :-)"
> Maybe there was an accusation in that article you consider so gratuitos and bad that it's worth condemning this institution which for better or worse has figured out how to squeeze out human innovation and potential like nothing before in history.

1. There is a common fallacy. Just because a system is getting good results (even the best results) doesn't mean that every part of it is well-chosen to contribute to those good results. It's entirely possible that it has bad parts that worsen the results, in spite of which the results manage to be good.

2. Article says: "My advisor was hemorrhaging students, yet no red flags were raised. ... Those who planned to complete their PhD left the group or left MIT."

This sounds like clearly a waste of resources, to have lots of people begin PhD programs and either abandon them or transfer. The phrasing of the paragraph seems to be saying that none of this particular professor's PhD students stayed with him long enough to get their degree—which, if true, means it's not just weeding out the bottom X%, but that it's driving everyone away. And if it's just one professor, that's one thing, but the article says that the administration dismissed all complaints by saying all faculty had their own "methods of advising". Which rings true to an account from a friend of mine:

As a PhD student, he was the "golden boy" of the department, doing very well. After some years, he wanted to get his degree, and said that some of his earlier work should suffice to qualify. His advisor said, no, I insist you keep working on this project, and if you don't, I will not recommend you and will generally prevent you from getting a degree. (I'm hazy on the exact details of what was threatened.) I think it was also impossible to have the other professors in the department recommend him—I think my friend said it was because they weren't willing to oppose the advisor. My friend went to the administration. They said, we believe in academic freedom for our faculty. He said, all right, I believe in suing you. They said, what do you want? He said, I'm not asking for anything outlandish—just bring in a well-regarded professor, a neutral party both sides can agree to, and have him judge. This was arranged, and the professor said, yes, this is worthy of a PhD. My friend got his degree, and left the university system permanently after that.
Wow, I hope the typescript compiler is ready for this kind of dynamic complexity...

type Protocol = 'http' | 'https';
type DomainExtension = 'com' | 'org' | 'net';
type DomainName = 'example' | 'google';
type Domain = `${DomainName}.${DomainExtension}`;
type Path = string;
type ApiEndpoint = `${Protocol}://${Domain}/${Path}`;

This would seemingly get out of hand very quickly...
If they're using your photo you could even DMCA them, or their hosting company if they don't have a DMCA email/page.
Largest earth-moving project in North America at the time and the techniques developed and engineers trained on it would later be used to dig the Panama canal.
"They"... the GPU operators, or their parents? Furthermore, in most jurisdictions electricity generation produces externalities that aren't fully priced in, eg. air pollution or co2 emissions.
re Insulin: I did say insulin was a major component, I agree of course it's not the only component.

> There's nothing really special about IF for fat loss, muscle gain, or for reducing insulin resistance. Improved insulin sensitivity is a natural result of fat loss.

I think it's too early to say that, which is why we need more studies. To your own point, there aren't enough. In no small part because there are so many different protocols and studies both mix-and-match protocols and also often use questionable ones. Sometimes "fasting" means eating a few hundred calories or a fasting-mimicking diet. Sometimes it means 16:8. Sometimes it means alternate-day. Sometimes it means 5 days on and 2 days off.

> It's also only a matter of time before you start losing muscle. Muscle protein breakdown rates starts in between 15-30 hrs of fasting[1].

For what it's worth, proteolysis does not imply the loss of muscle mass after re-feeding in short-term fasting. The working thesis is that while fasting your body attempts to spare as much muscle as possible (in part through HGH) and that protein breakdown slows dramatically [4].

After all, HGH increases fat oxidation and increases protein retention, so it would all make sense.

I didn't, and don't think that, fasting will increase muscle mass, but I have seen no evidence that it will, as you suggest, break down muscle in any meaningful way until far, far later in the starvation cycle. Muscle in particular is a fuel of last resort. Wouldn't make much sense otherwise. There will always be some turnover, of course.

> Resting Metabolic Rate

Studies show that during short-term fasting your metabolic rate stays pretty consistent, and increases over the first couple of days. A couple of studies pins it at up to +10% after 36-48 hours. [1,2] It doesn't actually drop until 60-96 hours into a fast. [3]

tl;dr: I guess my point is, it's too early to be dismissive. More data is needed.

> This suggests that 20+ hour fasts may negatively affect you muscle mass and fat loss.

I will say this particular line is kind of nuts, if you think about it. How can not eating anything at all slow down your fat loss when you have a caloric deficit of 2500kcal/day? That's why you have fat. That's why your body enters ketosis over the first 3 days. Why would your body burn your muscles (i.e. means of obtaining more food) when it's been storing stockpiles of energy in the form of fat? This right here, is a common myth.

There's only two tissues in your body that require glucose. Red blood cells and the brain. After 3 days 70% of the energy required by your brain is provided by ketones. The remaining glucose requirements are satisfied via gluconeogenesis from glycerol backbones of triglycerides, and yes, to a small extent, via protein breakdown. The entire rest of your energy requirements are satisfied via lipolysis, to the tune of 2/3 of a pound of fat per day. Or the equivalent of running 17 miles.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2405717/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10837292/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3661473/

[4] https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/50/1/96
Microsoft Azure Ad Was Down Is Cloud Reliable?
This 9to5 article is half baked. Official blog post link is preferred than such article.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-...

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Hm thats interesting. I want to cast from my nextcloud server and it seems to work on the android version of nextcloud but not the ios one.
A keyboard without ESC is a gaming keyboard. Nope.
The impression I got from GTC a few years ago was that they're probably doing synthetic graphics simulations, based on edge cases identified by real world data.

You don't really need 1000x real examples of a scenario, if one still image provides enough information for you to mimic it in simulation. (E.g. toppled barrel, weathered paint color and reflective stripe, in front of exit guard rail)
> I have tinnitus because of laptop fans at work.

This seems unlikely, but on the off chance - ear plugs or concert ear plugs[0]? Concert earplugs ideally attenuate without changing the sound (not realistic, i know). Or a really good set of active noise cancelling headphones, in-ear monitors?

I do question the laptop fans being the root cause of tinnitus since there'd have to be so so many... are you in a server room of laptops running at full strength?

Regardless, protect your hearing!

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-earplugs-for...
I show that I can't be trusted with credit, the result of my low credit score is that it becomes harder for me to get more credit.

Jobs too.
What are you talking about. Loss porn on r/wsb is great entertainment and scratches the “cautionary tale” itch very well. You can’t say that Robinhood users do that to themselves without consent at this point in time
> They are slowly but surely converting what could be generalized computing machines to limited Internet gadgets.

Aka "The war on general-purpose computing". Far too many people in the tech industry are fighting on the wrong side of the war.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Fair enough. Though wouldn't that work better with languages like Java where the programmer typically ends up making a type or class for most things?

With languages like Clojure it's fairly typical to declare no classes or types and to simply have your data structure be a composition of maps, sets, and vectors, etc.

I suppose you could use your Clojure.spec keywords as the tag names in XML, but that's probably going to be more work than (clojure.edn/read-string (slurp "my-data.edn")). Could be an interesting option if you had to use XML as an interchange format.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/active-d...
No I’m saying people aren’t buying print newspapers. There’s 30% less than in 2000 and the revenue of the remaining has dropped off a cliff.
The surviving papers have moved online to find new customers and some have got rid of print version altogether.
Netflix doesn't hire junior engineers: https://www.quora.com/Why-aren%E2%80%99t-there-interns-at-Ne...

But at companies which do, progression usually goes up by around 100k per level: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Netflix,Google&track=Softwar...
There's two sides to homelessness:

1. the health crises of addiction and mental illness

2. the economic crises of wealth inequality and housing costs.

These both create "chronically" homeless people, but they're distinct enough in their situations (the former are outcasts of society, the latter are functioning and mostly employed but "down on their luck").

The first thing we need to do is educate other Californians on the differences, because the solutions are going to look different. The former is going to essentially require permanent supportive housing units and something that looks more like the old asylum system than most of us are comfortable with right now, while the latter is going to require dismantling environmental and other local ordinances that inhibit new construction, while abolishing rent control and prop 13 to return housing stock to the market and create sustainable vacancy rates alongside new construction.

The bigger political issue for the bay area is that between the five counties, state, and god knows how many municipal governments any kind of meaningful change requires collectivism across the entire region. Basically we're all in this together, it affects all of us pretty equally, and yet any kind of change that would do something is impossible when it creates a legal fight.
$100k on the under.
What you are not understanding is that it would have made no difference in this case. That statement about being tired of displaying raw text was intentionallly chosen by the author and it is not something I am going to ignore after I read the article. I am already familiar with the software. The article did not tell me anything I did not already know.
>It's like their designers want the device to be less useful, not more!

The main focus of most of these keyboards is ergonomics. Even if it comes at the cost of learnability.

This is also why there's a lot of variation. People are dropping and moving keys to deal with things like hand size and existing RSI.

>I wish people would just copy the MS Natural Ergonomic 4000, but with better keyswitches.

You can probably get someone to 3d print and solder you a one-off keyboard that fits the bill. It's doubtful anyone other than MS will mass produce such a thing though.
On Blind they're famous for paying the least out of any FAANG company and having the fewest perks. I have met some talented engineers who work there though.
That’s bizarre, I have no idea why anyone would recommend HFS+ for that. It’s a Linux system running Netatalk, which uses normal POSIX file I/O. ext4 is a far better choice.

Cargo-cult HOWTOs is the only explanation I can think of.
I use this frequently with stuff like mdn, where I know the exact page and which search terms will get me there, but it's not worth bookmarking (I have Firefox set to only autocomplete bookmarks, not history). For example, "justify-content mdn !"
it's funny how big tech has become like big government-
there is no recourse to your personal complaints even if it's shared by a large number of people

and

it's too expensive to roll out your own personal solution and share it with other people who think like you(think global scale not acquaintance scale) without using big tech
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Bingo. This is why I hate XML. Nothing wrong with the syntax - I hate that I have to massage arrays, dicts, etc. in cryptic ways to generate the XML output, then massage them right back at the other end. And PHP's SimpleXML module, at least, is anything but - lots of iterators, casting objects to string, and "where did my data go?".
> In my case, the NAS is a Synology server.

Same here. I'm also using BTRFS (I've not had a problem and my understanding is Synology doesn't use the flakier features of BTRFS). I can't remember if I'm using AFP or SMB (SMB I think is the only one Apple supports), but my backup is encrypted and I have a specific user. I'm not sure BTRFS matters all that much because the backup is a disk image. When I've had them get corrupted I've run disk utility on the disk image to fix things--there's a lot of layers to unwind.

I hear stories of people having issues with similar setups, but I haven't (I know that's a sucky answer to hear). Years and years ago I felt like I would get a corrupt backup when I closed my lid during a network backup (I believe this was pre-APFS), but I haven't noticed an issue in years. I have it auto-backup and it usually does it at night when the lid is closed and it's charging.

In Snapshot Replication I have a daily snapshot created at midnight with a 2 snapshot retention. I tend not to run out of space, so I'm fine with any deletes taking a few days to roll off. "Recover" under "Recovery" can restore old snapshots easily. I do this for most all of my Shared Folders.
I'd agree that things like JSON and EDN don't convey all the type information that you might want (things you mention like type bounds, orderedness, number format). Though at least in a JSON string like {foo: [elementOne elementTwo]} you know that foo is a list of things, which is something that the XML document doesn't encode for you.

So perhaps I should make my statement more precise and say that XML data, in the absence of the schema information, is lossy compared to some formats like JSON or EDN.

[Edit: to answer the potential question of why I'd be using XML without have schema information, I was being provided the XML by an API that called web APIs and converted the result of the web call into XML (even if it was JSON) before passing it to me.]
You can be doing mostly the same job as eng I vs sr and be just fine if you stay in sr forever.
What is it about hexadecial that makes this happen?
Too bad, I really enjoy those long distance Amtrak trips, and I can't wait to take the California Zephyr or the Southwest Chief again, but not sure I wanna ride multiple days on Amtrak in the current situation.

I hope service is resumed after the pandemic, I haven't had the chance to take this route yet!
No, because those were all in common use.

It shouldn't matter whether you think Wuhan virus or COVID is the propaganda-name, a company just defaulting to the most common term for their market is not a useful sign of propaganda.

Using Tik Tok's Covid information as proof of propaganda is just looking at noise and pretending it's data.
Usually in games you have some sort of mechanism for determining what is the 'truth' in terms of game state. I agree that if everyone is online while editing or only briefly offline then what you suggest would probably be much better. If someone was offline for long periods of time and made extensive edits they would essentially have to be discarded.

I think in practice what you would do (if your use case allowed it) is use CRDTs, but periodically checkpoint and trim them when you know everyone has synced. That gives you very similar properties to the video game world and still has the features of not losing peoples edits when they make them offline.
Is it possible to query across objects? Like if you wanted to find every object instance which had “string” written to it?

Can the data store only store alphanumeric or can you write blobs? Could a chat app store uploads inside the object?