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I don’t see this. So you have examples? I think that smaller companies can compete on knowing their customers better - it’s hard for a highly paid 10 year at Google person to put themselves in the shoes of say a dental practitioner or even the shoes of a typical full stack dev wanting to use nextjs for example.
It's cool that Signal is open source, that's a big source of confidence for me. Is there some way for me to verify that the app in the app store is actually built from the OSS code on github?
no they promote diversity as an easy, cheap legal and PR blanket
I think the central claim of this article is something of a mainstream concern. For example, here's a blog by Tom Frieden, who is in my opinion one of the more credible voices: https://www.tomfriedenpublichealth.net/tom-frieden-blog#janu... . Other virologists and epidemiologists who I follow on Twitter are saying similar things.
This is just a terrible article.

It’s just a lot of “I think” “There’s a non-trivial chance” “I expect” “I predict” without any sources to back anything up.

If you’re going to disagree with the CDC model, at least show why they’re wrong or why your reasoning is correct.

Same goes for the Ireland situation, if you’re so obsessed with it; put them in context. For instance, name how Ireland eased their lockdown for Christmas [1], how 45% of new cases are due to the UK-variant [2]. Given that, what could happen, based on data, that a similar event can happen in the US? Don’t just show a chart and say “I predict that there is a non-trivial chance that the same thing will happen in the US.”

If anyone went to the comments to see if this article is worth your time; I predict there’s a non-trivial chance you will find that it is not worth your time. Furthermore, I expect you’ll also not find the website worth 200$/year.

The website looks pretty though.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55364744

[2] https://www.irishpost.com/news/taoiseach-uk-variant-account-...
If I suggest McDonalds to my family, the wife and 3 kids will all say yes. Heck, if I suggest Popeye's, 3 of the 4 will still say McDonalds...
This isn't an issue and also very irrelevant though, Trumpism is more dangerous than all of these three. Flagged.
The entire point of Gatekeeper and SmartScreen is to only warn users about unsigned software that could install a trojan horse.

If you check to see if the developer's signing certificate has been revoked before running their software, you can be reasonably sure that doing so is safe.

Apple's developer program is cheaper than the extended validation code signing certificate you need to develop and sign software use on Windows without running into a block from SmartScreen.
haha... I havent written any lis since 2000 or so.... so I forgot any proper format...

edit: Why TF was this flagged???
the bgp implementation on all ubiquiti's products is a tangled mess.
it hogs CPU, is unstable and does not support most "nice bgp features".
When you apply a normalization like that I don’t think my statement is true anymore. But as a proportion of sex over any given time slice over time I still think it holds.
What's the functional benefit of using containers over EC2 images for a database? I can't see why anyone would reasonably consider trying such a thing.

Containers make a lot of sense when you're the one developing the software, and you have a lot of micro-services to support, none of which really scale to EC2 levels of utilization.

But EC2s seem better suited to running pre-installed software that can, and will, fully utilize an entire VM. Such as a database.

My intuition on this subject is, docker is the latest, trendy hammer and so everything becomes a nail / container. Maybe people aren't familiar with the tooling around EC2 image creation and deployment.
you are not the general public nor do you have an understanding of their opinion. please don't project
Who is the authority on the integrity of routing?
For that matter, what is Zoom's architecture and dataflow?
Dropbox had direct sync with camera app it worked better than Google photo sync. Over years, you accumulate multiple GB of just photos. I got my Google One subscription because of that. Once people star buying storage from google/apple there would be no point to buy any of Dropbox offering. I am only paying for Dropbox because there is no good Linux alternative.
That’s criminal, I like McDonald’s but Popeye’s is brilliant. Scarce in New England though.
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This comment took effort and adds to the discussion; what's with the downvotes?
Parler is now on a different host, so maybe not completely destroyed
/r/homelab, which is where I heard about it, seems to like it.

I've had UniFi equipment for a while now and am generally happy with it, though I'm not doing anything terribly crazy. Well, maybe crazy for a home user, but not nearly as crazy as some of the /r/homelab folks get.

I've got multiple VLANs, firewall rules controlling traffic, multiple WiFi networks. I'm using 2 switches (8 port 150W PoE, 24 port non-PoE), a USG, and an AP AC Pro. It all works fine.

My only complaint is that the new version of the controller software rearranged all of the settings and I haven't figured out where everything lives.
Its seems the obvious thing do is build a career in the US and half retire in a foreign country with good free healthcare and affordable rent. Rent out the american real estate bought over the course of the career and have that income pay for the European rent(which in my experience seems much lower).
Fully agree with everything you wrote here. It isn't a problem to be not-living. I was not-living long before I was born, and it was never a problem.

I understand you feel your life isn't worth living. It is very much possible (though not easy) to change that. As the others have said, please talk to a professional. I don't know you, but you seem like a bright, thoughtful person. Humanity needs you.
This is huge, this man should never hold office again, finally part of a club that nobody wants to be in.

Good job on saving democracy, please forcibly remove him while we're at it.
I don’t see that in iOS Safari with Wipr.
I've been using this almost every day for the last month. I try not to read any article the moment I see it now, and instead just send it to my podcast player.
> “Yeah, whenever something changes, we grab a lock in our single process and rewrite out the file!”

Is this actually easier than using SQLite?
Isn’t it a bit petty to deny him that? It seems a hell of a lot harder to me to get a honorary doctorate than a normal PhD, and I can think of a lot of PhDs who deserve their doctor title a lot less than Stallman.
If you like this line of thinking, I would suggest reading "Games People Play" [1] (also can find the original research paper if you look around for it).

Basic premise is how we fall into transactional games in social settings (talking about weather, sports, etc) and acknowledging that can help break out of that into more interesting conversation.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Games-People-Play-Psychology-Relation...
My illusions of technology were lifted after a course in advanced computer architecture. The true technical complexity is unfathomable enormous. I mean, correctly flickering 3 billion times per second on nm scale and being super sure you got the designs right? Cannot imagine.
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I’ve been shocked by the old plastic slides at McDonalds so many times as a kid that I salivate whenever I hear the word.
One fascinating sidebar in the WRT54G history was the Fon [0] "Fonera" project, which was one of the reasons I bought WRT54G specifically. (Which I found in a box just recently, Fon stickers beside it.) Fon had the idea of trying to build a network of independent residential wifi that users could share roaming among each other. It was a paid wifi network, so people that had a Fonera AP at home could opt for either free access wherever they went as benefit of running an AP or a simple profit sharing option (but then they'd pay for their own roaming).

The original Fonera projects were all built on top of OpenWRT.

It was cute idea for trying to make guest-accessible wifi ubiquitous. It ran up against shifts in law in some countries making network AP owners more personally responsible for accesses to their wifi. Also, it never really hit network effects that the scale mattered. I ran a Fonera AP through a large chunk of college/grad school and can't say that I ever saw another AP in the wild to take advantage of the free roaming (and if I had it switched to the profit-sharing mode I never would have seen a dime).

Fon pivoted entirely out of the Fonera residential wifi project in 2016. It was a neat idea, but it didn't survive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon_(company)
You're able to serve all your clients from a single control process? And this would probably work for quite a while? Then I struggle to see why you couldn't just use SQLite. On startup read the full database into memory. Serve reads straight from memory. Writes go to SQLite first and if it succeeds then you update the data in memory. What am I missing here?
> site looks somewhat awkward on mobile

Ah... yeah I'm on my desktop right now so didn't even think about that. I don't love the colors/ fonts or justification, but they also don't interfere with readability which is my #1 criteria for evaluating a site.
sure for the mechanisms we have come up with so far. doesn't say anything about things we come up in the future. we don't know what we don't know.
Yes, a hand is different from every animal, and it's your personal hand. We still do the same with baby-feets and paint. And if you look at baby's what they do in the sand it's always press the hand in it and look at the form, it's like a signage.
I'm sorry, The Internet still isn't a public resource, but we're supposed to pretend that cloud computing is? Quite literally: "I have the the right to run My software on Someone Else's Computer."
Since when FB is a Dropbox competitor? I'm sure their engineering expenses will continue to drop, esp with the whatsapp exodus to Signal...

Joking aside...

> They were able to reduce the expenses in the last 2 years

That sounds pretty good to me! Reduce expenses but revenue is growing and revenue per user is growing. So they make more money without growing costs. That's great. With the layoffs that ratio would even improve.
His responses sometimes come across as abrasive, but he means no offcence I believe. Maybe it's a cultural, German, thing, don't know. Don't give up, just continue calm and polite discussion and conversation will go back to the right track.
There is a Veritasium video really fun to watch which exmplains with examples why you cannot measure one way speed of light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
It sucks having to pay google and dropbox for storage cuz i have files and photos. Dropbox doesnt do photos well, i dont trust them for it. Dropbox wants to do photos, but doesn’t separate that from storing files, so just searches all my files for images or something. Also, it doesn’t allow searching based on image recognition.
Care to explain why a product that does what it's supposed to is terrible to sell in today's world?
I've come to the conclusion in the past couple years that the world would be a better place if adults were forced to watch Daniel Tiger episodes. So many things it covers (like, how to be kind, how not to over react to bad news, how to give a proper apology or show gratitude) seem like they ought to be simple but turn out to be rare.
Extensive discussion about the longer piece of which this is a subset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622756
> I honestly believe that there is a non-trivial percentage of the population that _likes_ the COVID world and wants to keep it going as long as possible.

I believe two factors at play can be identified:

1) Among ordinary internet users, the “stay home and save lives” recommendation in spring of last year became highly memetic, and although the median age of death is now there for anyone to learn, the blanket admonishment continues to be rather unthinkingly repeated across society even though in many countries the lockdown is really starting to bite the economy. It is not that people consciously like the COVID world, they are simply perpetuating the social pressures that formed at the outbreak of the epidemic a year ago. (It doesn’t help that often one cannot public take an anti-lockdown stance and participate in street protests, because then one risks being lumped in with the anti-vaxxers and 5G crazies that tend to be so visible at those protests.)

2) Elected officials cannot ease off the restrictions, because the opposition will immediately accuse them of killing grandma or whatever. In this case, the opposition may in fact be acting much like a “concern troll”; they might not really care about the elderly (and deep down, they themselves might be thirsting for an end to lockdown), but they cannot ignore the political point-scoring that they could do with such a position.
I don't have anything against Lisp, I program Emacs with it, but wouldn't you get mostly the same features if Emacs used Javascript for its programming, for example?
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I would venture that this is indeed how these exec rationalize the whole process. No one should be irreplaceable and therefore the move make sense. Even though management bashing is trendy these days, most managers/execs know these things and are not the idiots we satirize them to be.

Even Swan is probably not an idiot, he simply expected everyone to struggle as much as Intel on the 7/10nm node and when TSMC just breezed past Intel and AMD came out with a much better product than anticipated he found himself in very hot water.

(He could also be quite the idiot, I don't know him)
We could use SQLite. (I love SQLite and have written about it before!) The goal is N control processes not for scale, but for more flexibility with deployment, canarying, etc.
There's a phenomena happening for hundreds of thousands of years called "winter".

Every single one of these "winters" we see an exponential rise in respiratory illnesses like the flu or COVID-19. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/m6223a5f1....

If things *didn't* go up >10x, it would be news.
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Can you please explain why the tweets in the article are "not an issue"?
This post is decently interesting and fun although I can't really understand where it's going? I see the connections between the ideas the author is making but overall the post feels rather meandering.

Aside: I hate to be a grammarian but the paragraph with four em dashes across two sentences really did my head in. Generally I expect them to set off parentheticals and I had no clue if I was supposed to place the parentheses across the sentences.
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It’s pretty simple to me: I like being alive and want to continue living. I’m old, but not “will probably die next year” old, and I’m out of shape. I have a family and a kid who wants to keep her daddy around. The economy will recover. People will get back to working and shopping later. What we can’t do yet is come back from the dead.
It’s become more important, and I think will now become less important as the concept of a file changes.

A google docs file isn’t a file in the traditional sense, it just exists on the cloud and we can collaborate at the same time.

Similarly with Figma, that’s not really a file. It just exists and we can all edit it at the same time.

My todo list app used to sync with Dropbox, now it syncs for free without Dropbox.

Even Microsoft office documents on 365 sit in a weird space between ‘kind of a file and kind of not’ - the file is there, but when you are doing live collaborative editing that’s presumably not also updating the file on the disk in real time - there is some other sort of magic going on.

The important thing with the above examples is they can offer better sync because they don’t rely on Dropbox, rather than despite not using Dropbox.

If sync is an application feature, sync tends to be better than if sync isn’t an application feature and it’s left to Dropbox to do the sync.
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I'm no physicist, but wouldn't you need some kind of medium to efficiently transfer the heat away?

On the moon you have no atmosphere to do it with radiators with fans, so I gues you would have to make huge radiators which simply emit the heat away as infrared radiation?
> Dropbox had direct sync with camera app it worked better than Google photo sync.

Still has. It's called "Camera Upload" now.

> Once people star buying storage from google/apple there would be no point to buy any of Dropbox offering.

I think secure erase, transfers, file requests, "Apps" and OS independence is worthy of the price they ask for. Also on-demand sync on other OSes and other small features increase their value in my eyes a lot.
I cross my fingers for a well-performing and open-source-hardware RISC-V CPU.
Yes, what I am doing is completely equivalent to actually forming an angry armed mob, and actually ransacking a building while chanting actual death threats against public officials.
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It's worth pointing out that traditional data brokers are able to track menstrual cycles based on purchase activity. Nobody can opt out of this and it's been going on for a few decades. It can be used for ad targeting by presenting the target with the optimal content for each week.
> Could not find files saved in the WSL terminal in explorer (I understand that is a limitation). The was so much unknown going on in the "integration" that I wished I just used a VM and took the perf hit instead of digging to figure out where Windows was mounting the FS and figuring out permissions.

You can explore the files stored inside wsl partition by going to \\wsl$ using file manager.

You can now also mount an external drive formatted as ext4 directly.
That makes sense. Thanks for answering all of my critical questions. Looks like a very nice piece of technology you’re building!
Now, I do really want to agree to your analysis, but knowing how many Desktop Linux users are either just using a browser or Electron app (consistency) or Wine (consistency) and the fact that essential libraries (from the Gnome 2->3 debacle to systemd to unreliable semantic versioning) are much more unstable (which makes a non-consistent environment, and even Debian is discussing this very issue again), I am not sure if an average user really wants to have customisability versus consistency.
Doubt if 80x difference would make it attractive. If it were 8000x then maybe.

And that only if you use the soil for cooling, which is non-renewable resource. If you use radiators, then you can put them on a satellite instead with much lower ping.
AFAIK we don’t (can’t, really) know either way, but viruses it’s more closely related to (SARS 1, MERS) don’t seem to have that kind of flu behavior.
I think they were alluding to the fact that it is impossible to measure the one-way speed of light, and even the definition is an assumption based on the two-way speed
Not HP, but see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24997064-the-nightmare-s... which pits elves and dragons against the British military and intelligence services. All books in the Laundry Files, of which this is one, are great reads.
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Thanks, this works! It fails when one video isn't found, but gets 60% of the way there. I'll see if I can exclude that one and get it to keep going
Surprising not to see EmberJS listed in the front end frameworks. Did it not make top 20 or was it an oversight?
It's not trivial to do. First you have to account for a lot of things if you want to make a fair wage comparison. Europeans generally work much less. Germans almost work 500 hours per year less than Americans. Cost of living is vastly different. I've heard from a lot of friends in the US they pay tens of thousands per year on education and childcare in expensive cities, that's not the case in Europe where most of it is free, so lower salary is a function of that.

The one thing that probably has a real impact is the enormous size and and profitability and competition of large American software firms for talent. There's not many of them in Europe with the exception of SAP or something? So that's a real difference but it's not easy to recreate because the European market is not homogeneous and policy environment is much more weary of big tech.

I don't actually think Europe should or can compete on wages. Europe has other things to offer. Smaller, healthier ecosystems with focus on working on tech that solves social problems, better balance of life and work, free education and high degrees of safety and equality, walkable cities, and so on. There's no need to be more market-driven.
I'm not sure any online service can be expected to be around in 30 years.

1 year, definitely. 5 years, probably. 10 years, not so sure. 20 years, insufficient data.
Wonderful example, and this is why signed-distance functions/fields (SDF) are used. The diagram in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level-set_method might help explain how such a representation can "uniformly" handle topology changes.

I'll excerpt:

> The advantage of the level-set model is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a fixed Cartesian grid without having to parameterize these objects (this is called the Eulerian approach).[1] Also, the level-set method makes it very easy to follow shapes that change topology, for example, when a shape splits in two, develops holes, or the reverse of these operations. All these make the level-set method a great tool for modeling time-varying objects, like inflation of an airbag, or a drop of oil floating in water.

It is unclear to me what you mean by "implementation detail". In order for a SDF to be used in vector graphics, it must be represented symbolically (the alternative is to rasterize them, as what is implied by "level-set method", which means you must commit to a spatial resolution).
But I suspect you then have the same problem on your lap: how to take derivatives with respect to structural changes in your symbolic SDF?

This question reminds me a bit of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871207 discussing "Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?"
Bingo. Except there is something stopping them: money and regulation.

Amazon allows you to scale globally with a button click and a pinky swear. Rolling out their own shit would be an Elon-level undertaking which the Parler folks clearly had no interest in. Whatever batshit lawyers told them their backup plan for WORLD PEACE would somehow fly (on the back of fuuuucking AMAZON) should be disbarred for malpractice.