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> The whole point of a decentralized web is to remove data hosting costs and eliminate central points of failure which are vulnerable to DDoS and censorship

Vapor has nothing to do with data hosting costs and DDoS. It solves the problem of data ownership, incentive, monetization, etc.

This difference in the interpretation of what benefit decentralization provides is why many past "decentralized internet" projects have focused on the networking aspect (censorship resistance, DDoS avoidance, etc.) whereas Vapor is taking a different approach where it tries to solve a different problem. Its main focus is to decentralize the power structure, and to do that it needs to solve the data ownership (both philosophically and technologically), as well as frictionless monetization.

The goal is to change the power structure that drives the web, and I believe it has more to do with how the data itself is structured (so that it can be distributed trustlessly regardless of the network) than the network stack.
Nope. There's a self sponsored immigrant visa.

H1B is just your regular temp.
Agree with these comments. Like maybe the "AI" found some "Hand of God" move for the economy....

Like many solutions that AIs come up with—such as some of AlphaZero’s game-winning moves—the result appears counterintuitive and not something that a human might have devised.

...or maybe their model doesn't include the fact that when you raise taxes on the poor too high, in eras of tremendous inequality, you get bread riots, political violence, and eventually, revolutions.

Not to say this kind of modeling isn't potentially useful!

Just modern monetary policy already uses algorithms etc (Taylor rule optimization etc), so the question is how can ML/AI supplement those humans with better tools, rather than thinking a computer is going to be able to deal with the complexity of the real world.

Put another way, what does the machine do when interest rates hit 0?
same same. i think palantir will be around for a while
Yeah, he did. Not common, but hey, Haskell is his middle name. (Really, it is.)
I like the buy it for life concept, but it's been morphing into basic wanton consumerism. Some examples just from browsing this site:

Kitchenaid Refrigerator - Unless it's a lemon, any refrigerator should last at least 10 years. Although all are at risk for the coolant leaking, but all can be repaired. I don't really see what would set a "BIFL" fridge apart.

Nalgene - I had a few Nalgenes that I thought would last forever, then the harm of BPA was discovered. I'm now wary of any water bottle made of plastic. I've got a stainless canteen, but I still don't consider this "for life" as they can get dented, you might need to buy more for trips etc.

Socks - No matter how sturdy they look when new, eventually they're going to end up worn through. Buy yourself nice socks, especially for hiking. But they're a wear item, not capital equipment.
Thatcher's government also required the assistance of a third-world military dictatorship to recover a group of near-uninhabitable rocks in the south Atlantic from another third-world dictatorship, in part because they had severely cut military spending.

"British people still believe in loyalty to their friends." (https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/06/pinochet.chile)
Ah-ha! So true, never thought of it that way. I’ve seen a startup BURN through money with Kafka clusters. The kicker was that they didn’t need it.
Is it essential though? I'm a competent software developer developer, and programming rarely saves the day for me. In fact, I'd probably have fewer problems if I stopped coding outside of work.
Some thoughts:

* Habit: GA is so ingrained into the web development / marketing so it's the safe / default choice that not many will question

* Data: GA collects everything imaginable people don't need but it's still data that may sometimes be used so it's a safer choice to collect it than not to

* Awareness: many people are not aware of alternatives

* Convenience: most people don't want to self-host while most open source alternatives are focused on self-hosting

* Price: GA is free while hosted open source alternatives are not
Distinction without a difference. My code is an interoperability layer between making a computer do a particular computation and other developers or composers of software.

Looking at an API and going "you could do this any other way than ours" is absolutely nothing more than a fundamental deconstruction of the entire field, at which point it's just Math. You're wasting everyone else's time. No one gets to copyright 2+2.

I'm not shoving in 3 API layers to represent "Math.max()".
Editorialized title in the submission strikes again!
Golden Dawn Found Guilty of Running Criminal Organization in Greece
The person you're replying to is saying there was an improved model of PS4 Pro released with the Red Dead Redemption bundle.

If you disagree, then refute that... but an anecdote about how playing RDR2 causes the console to get hot isn't a response to anything they said. You could have a very early PS4 Pro without the improved cooling system.

(To be clear, I don't know whether the PS4 Pro's cooling system was revised in a later edition, I'm just explaining why your response doesn't fit with the comment you're replying to.)
Right, I do that too.

The real problem is the development lifecycle for a lambda. It's a constant loop of changing the code, building it and then invoking it. This process takes a bunch of seconds even for the smallest change in a tiny code base.

It's much slower than writing code and immediately going to a browser to reload to see the changes which is something a lot of dev environments were able to pull off since about 1998.
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Reminds me of https://arweave.org
I just have to say, I would have completely forgotten about 3-2-1 Contact until reading the reference in this article. I "learned" BASIC exactly the same way. Excellent :)
> I didn't grow up in a tech-centric place -- Wisconsin is full of farms, cows, and people dreaming outside of the cornfields

Not to be snarky, but the currently 13th ranked UW-Madison CS department would beg to differ.
I guess I wasn't super clear. Also, obviously the system is powered on when any disc reading is happening.

I was thinking about the issue with key expiration dates and validation. It's not a good user experience to force users to enter the current date every time they boot their offline system.
In chrome if you create a custom search engine and and set the url to javascript: it will focus to the page. I set it to the letter j, so if I ever hit ctrl+l and change my mind, I just hit j then Enter to refocus the page.
Spoiler: Unlike what you'd expect, this project has no voice recognition or response - it's just a touch-screen that shows weather/calendar/etc.
Someone wiling to work for less is a loophole? You must be a fan of price fixing then.
The original version at the link is not only black&white and not upscaled in resolution, it also has jerky mis-aligned frames. I'd think there would be a middle ground here, in which that sort of artifact is removed, without adding things like colour, which can only be added by making assumptions that have no basis in the actual images captured.
Why would you like for the government to break it?

It's literally telling someone that wants to hire a particular person to not hire that person, because you think that that person is wrong.

Would you like me to advocate for the government telling who you hire as your barber? Advocating employment restrictions - is just that.
Maybe rating by brand would be better. Harbor Freight is known for high variance. If they added a “no really, not destined for a landfill” brand line that was 99% unbreakable, then that would bubble up to the top.

The problem with trusting brands is that manufacturers (like whirlpool and frigidaire) intentionally rotate which of their sub brands is garbage every few years to prevent people from avoiding planned obsolescence.

Better then, to go off of manufacturers / holding companies / design houses, but that varies by industry. (In computing, counting all the name brand computer companies as design houses would make sense. But then, what about ikea appliances? They’re mostly rebranded whirlpools...)

The other problem is that internal politics can tear down a reliable brand in less time than it takes their old stuff to fail. Various shoe brands in the late 90’s come to mind. They went from reliably lasting years to lasting 6 months (there was a trend where the hiking or leather tongue bottoms were replaced by tennis shoe style material).
Oh wow, my time to shine!

Grapefruit juice combined with Vitamin D drops caused me a lasting headache, which, in hindsight, was like a sinus infection without the sinus infection part, but including the typically incredibly stiff neck.

Lasting here means a whole month. One month of continuous headache. Not headaches. One gigantic headache. Mostly 7/10, two times 9/10, at which points we called the ambulance because I couldn't take it anymore.

Don't ever mix grapefruit juice with anything.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they're selling these at a loss at $499.

Isn't that how the economics of consoles actually are?

The user has to pay for network connectivity (PSN or Gold), publishers have to get their games approved (which was introduced by Nintendo [0]), and then there's a single market for the console (included game store with cut or through authorized discs only).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System (not as precise a source as I would like) (This was needed to avoid "low-quality" games from ever reaching the consumer, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(vi...
I have found I am able to finish a good book on long flights like this. Work not so much.
Solving first world problems. ok.
The difference is the H1B workers are taking jobs at the expense of Americans.
Why? I don't use gloves when working on my PC. Should I be wearing gloves?
H1B related posts on HN will attract the worst kind of crowds. The experience of debating them is futile since their objections don’t come from the facts of the matter but from a misguided belief that immigrants, and h1b holders specifically, are “taking their jobs”.
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It's an alternative strategy for oligarchies to defend their wealth
Designing an API is a creative act. An API is source code. Witness thousands of languages, all with recognizably different standard libraries, including languages like Go or Dart created by Google themselves. The problem is less with individual examples like "max" vs "maximum" or "write" vs "scribble", but more with thousands of packages, classes and methods, 99% of which have the exact names and structure as the Sun's Java ones. That is blatant theft. Google stole Java code from Sun. Shame on them.

What we need the law to do is to distinguish between copying a piece of code and using a piece of code. Just because I use your code doesn't mean you own my code too. What we need the software industry to understand is that relying on a proprietary library makes it impossible to cheaply switch your code to an alternative implementation without rewriting your own code. Alternatives exist: use software with an open license model, or shim out the proprietary library.
I wrote a new tool in Rust to convert M4A’s to MP3’s
Bitcoin transaction packet format and signature scheme is used, but the transactions aren't actually sent to the Bitcoin blockchain.
Mail clients do pretty good spam filtering these days.
Java namespaces fall into the latter category, since there is an embedded graph of symbolic coordinates. The existence of Refactoring negates that it can be seen as an accidentally creative act.
If there's someone who is willing to take a job at a particular rate without coercion - that's a competitive salary.

Adding "benevolent coercion" to the mix, doesn't negate the coercion.
yes crypto wallets can help, although if you want to go deeper this direction, I would say it is important not to use crypto in "encryption" and "digital asset" contexts without further elaboration on which one you are talking about.

reason being that its not clear if you are confusing the contexts or if the reader is. to the delight of cryptography aficionados who may not like the newer asset-based context, it looks like you did it correctly, but people in the crypto-asset space have abstracted the cryptography aspect so well that they would be confused.

the downside is that you will likely be relegating yourself to just the crypto-asset market, which has its own nuances as well as being a general anathema to some of your potential supporters who just want to ramble incoherently against crypto-assets.

fortunately, in crypto-assets your small project with just a few hundred users will probably make orders of magnitude more money than your big project with hundreds of thousands of users.

could you have just used a database? maaaaybe

could you have just made a lot of money while lowering your overhead costs by offloading your entire backend to the wallet and blockchain? definitely
If I could actually know "durability" before buying something I would love that info. It's just hard to really know that in advance, because products change so much. E.g., my vacuum cleaner is still working fine after 15 years. Great, but that just says that if you bought one of these vacuums 15 years ago it probably would have been a good idea. But it doesn't actually tell you much about what to buy today, because the models and designs and manufacturing processes and quality control have all probably changed since then.

Nonetheless this site looks great for getting what info we can. Nice work and I'll be saving it.
If you're referring to the language, you really should use all-uppercase BASIC, otherwise people might get confused: a basic fanzine - huh?
What is your approach to screen out those trying to game the product review system?
Ah, I agree with that entirely.
And poor cooling was the reason so many PS3s died. I personally had two separate units die due to heating issues.
The part of the documentary where she relates the Hitler dream, weighing in on the impact of her work is a poignant moment. A very responsible scientist.
I see CBD edibles, oils, candies, etc... here in Oregon.
So, to be clear, you are saying that in this case the grapefruit would increase or decease the effect of the THC? In other words, to increase the effect of the cannabis, is it metabolites that we want to maximze, or the amount of unmetabolized free THC?
Yeah not intending to downplay what the author created, but the voice recognition and voice commands are kind of the key advertised feature of Alexa, so calling something without those an "Alexa knockoff" is a stretch at best.
Apple gets shit for building shit to be thin over having good cooling; Sony gets shit for building a chunky, properly cooled device. I think Sony wins here.
it's just one example of many of huge swaths of people in this country not being treated in the way they they would be treated if they were in a well functioning representative democracy.

see if:

> In a well functioning representative democracy, voters will kick out politicians/administrations that don’t represent their interests well.

and "half of this country is a very small bill from crisis for their entire lives, people do things like describing the insurance agent as the most traumatizing part of the bear attack they survived" are both true, in what way can it be considered well functioning?
Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering are common ones.
Don't try to download ubuntu server, and switch to debian https://ubuntu.com/download/server
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You can make a mirror flip something vertically, just put the mirror on the ground.
Do these problems also apply to USB C?
Same with India. Indians want the whole world to roll the red carpets for them. At the same time India just recently passed anti-immigration acts.

Its the classic 'Do as I say, not as I do'.
Also see https://www.shitredditbuys.com/page/17

This is a new category of websites that are frontends for Reddit content. A year ago someone made a jobs website that compiled interviews with people in different occupations. All were from Reddit and uncredited.
Mozilla as an organization has lost its principles.

Just one example is the fact that it is not possible to run a fully self-hosted sync service. You must use Firefox accounts or something like that.

Sure, you can run your own actual data hosting, but it still forces you to use some authorization service. Sure, you can try to also run your own version of that, but now you have to setup two distinct services for one sync function.

It's a gigantic enormous hassle to do it, you must also override several Firefox settings to make it use your "3rd" party auth service. Oh and the documentation is not existent because their official stance is "don't do this, don't run your own Firefox Accounts service"

Once upon a time this wasn't the case, but at some point it was decided to 'upgrade' the sync stack. which resulted in a centralized auth function. Gotta keep up with google chrome I suppose.
Until we have a global satellite internet reachable from anywhere.
Agreed, title should be edited.
>you want to reimplement some component of that system

That's patching and is already disallowed by licenses in USA, but allowed by law, but that law was goofed up by a court.
>I'm really glad to see that these new consoles will continue to have ethernet ports

I expect mainline consoles will have a hardwire option (ethernet or otherwise) forever. There are game genres (like fighting games) that are latency sensitive and it would kill the competitive scene for that console if Wifi was the only option available.
Same for me, but FF and MS-Edge on Win10. I disabled uBlock Origin, and also tried a private window to no avail.
> Because authentication is privately handled by each service provider's proprietary system, it is not easy for people to move their data around across multiple applications.

I'm struggling to understand the relation between owning your auth and owning your data here. So far as i can tell, the only way i "own my data" is that i could.. i guess, record every single HTTP request i ever make, and replay it against some other version of an identical app?

Eg, lets say Facebook added Vapor; How would i move my data away from Facebook in the future? How has Vapor helped me own my data?

(honest question, Vapor has some really cool properties!)
Sony Beaten to PS5 Trademark in India by 3 Months, Trademark Now in Contention
Yeah we had other hiccups around networking, but I’d say Azure Functions is only local debug experience I felt productive in
Yes, they mention that in their original post:

> This makes it more attractive to do without stealing, but that's an attack style that is only really done by state level threats, and one that was still possible anyway, because hardware access is essentially game-over anyway at that point.
Only if the system is online. While that might be the case for most users, Sony designs their hardware with the consideration that it can be used offline. Considering the unit cost of a PS5, and the fact that backup batteries are already the norm, including one isn't imposing at all and there is very little reason to stop.

Inventing software solutions to already solved problems (and ones that don't pass all use-cases) isn't really a path worth going down unless the savings are actually significant.
The only way to make it better - do away with H1B and government restrictions on labor of migrants. (Show your passport, geta job and pay taxes - done)

But xenophobia will not let that happen.
This is unlikely to occur due to management incentives (grow clout, influence, status, etc).
Your first point is a personal bugbear. Its worst form is when the tone of the email is personal (first name in title, photo of said person, signed off by said person and bonues points for graphic of hand written signature), but it comes from a no-reply address.

I once received one of these after I was mistakedly billed too much for a product. The person involved had a C suite type role at an ISP. After a bit of searching, I found their personal work email address and forwarded my reply directly to that. It got a more or less instant response, roping someone in to help me and I was phoned twice by an obsequious rep afterwards to make sure I was satisfied with the outcome.

All I wanted was a normal email address I could reply to and expect a response.
False - Mirrors don't reverse ANYTHING.

Look in a mirror. Raise your right hand, THE HAND ON THE RIGHT GOES UP. There is no reversal, it's a myth.

When you stand facing a real person, THATS the reversal. If they raise their left hand, you see it on the right. Because THEY are reversed. They are facing the opposite direction.
Yep. I forgot. So lets add:

Every letter you type into the address bar in Chrome goes directly to Google[0][1].

If they don't log everything you ever put into the address bar it is either:

- because of the goodness of their hearts (heh)

- because they haven't gotten around to it yet

- because the marginal privacy they could squeeze out from that isn't worth the complexity, storage and processing cost and the risk of getting caught red handed.

PS: If I sound annoyed, yes I am. There's no one you despise more than those you used to love but who betrayed you, right? ;-)

[0]: for autocomplete, but still true.

[1]: this is true for the default settings in modern Firefox as well, but there I can always easily flick a setting and get ny search box back. (Maybe you can do something similar in Chrome as well but I don't know as I only ever use it for compability testing and for websites that just doesn't work in ny other browsers, -and I only do that if I have to and typically after complaining to whoever I can get hold of, just like I did with sites that only worked in IE.)
Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
No, while those things are factors, the core problem arises from the structure of the funding and career advancement system. These are systems we've constructed, not aspects of human nature. It's sink-or-swim, and even those swimming are only barely doing so.
With your countdown implementation, how did you solve the resolution issue? I.e. if I delay a task for 111 seconds, I can publish it to RabbitMQ with a queue with a per-queue TTL of 100 seconds, after which it'll fall out to a DLX. What happens with the remaining 11 seconds? Does the DLX deliver (somehow) to a series of increasingly shorter per-queue TTL queues?

I, too, would love an implementation of arbitrary-granularity delays without buffering (potentially huge, mem-wise) tasks in "unacknowledged" in a giant binary heap: that's expensive for consumers and terrifying for RabbitMQ stability when a broker has to e.g. re-"ready" millions of messages because a delay-buffer OOMed.