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That's a great question. Our current setup is p2p WebRTC and should scale to many small rooms (up to ~12 people) fairly well. That said, there is a TURN server for NAT traversal and a signal server for coordination.

We'll try to get a better picture of where the limits are this week. I don't have a good answer atm to be honest.
Yeah, that sucks, but getting flagged enough to be shadowbanned seems to take a fair bit more work/arguing than a few retaliatory downvotes. Surely anybody getting close to that knows they’re doing so?

And you can always come back as bigiain2 or ratsmack2 later...

Assuming that HN/YCombinator “owes” you any points reputation is a pretty silly point of view.

I guess there probably are some cases where YC (or other) backed startups might judge people based on HN meaningless internet points, but if you care about that, perhaps your choices to argue vehemently enough against the groupthink here are nit great choices for you? You probably aren’t waging a vegan or anti surveillance capitalism war of words on your LinkedIn in that case, you might want to keep personal crusades out of your professional persona here if you are playing a profession persona here?

Or own the personal crusades, because if Facebook or Google refuse to hire me based on my privacy stance in my HN post history, or Palantir refuse to hire me based on my distrust of law enforcement? I’m totally OK with that. I will back out of arguments with Googlers or Facebookers well before things get to punitive downvoting stage though, just for my own sanity...
Heaven's Vault is a great game, for anyone interested in playing an archaeologist who has to translate an ancient language and uncover secrets of a lost civilization.
This. When it comes to desktops, macOS is a national railroad, Linux is a model railroad in someone's basement.
Does it still come with a 20 year version of bash by default?
I thought macOS stopped shipping with python
The grim history of the word ‘shot,’ which has its roots in morphine addiction
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
I never understood this line of argument. It is difficult to see why something being hard to define makes it nebulous. The use of the concept of free will (which is incredibly intuitive—try asking a stranger if they have it, and they will certainly be able to answer) is only in this rather useless discussion associated with physical determinism (which is certainly not being thought of by the mentioned stranger).

Can you define a "decision" either? That is a word you use effortlessly and apparently without irony in the same breath as free will, which shows you really do understand what we are talking about when we talk about it. It is hard to pin down but that doesn't stop it from being at least linguistically related to other, more grounded and—I must emphasise—_extremely_ basic concepts of human life and behaviour, let alone psychology.

Of course, some people in a particularly zealous "scientific" mood feign ignorance about folk-psychology ideas, even basic ones like "decisions". But this is as self-defeating, really, as solipsism (at least, I have never known anyone who simply did not make decisions ever).
Seems like the Homebrew version already builds on M1. People have been working on this since last year.

https://amitp.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-emacs-27-on-appl...
But we weren't spending a fortune building non-working computers (and then lying about that) in between, which we are doing for quantum computing.
For C++ers, there’s ImTui https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui an ncurses backend for ImGui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I guess you never heard of the Richmond city manager who got fired? [https://richmondbizsense.com/2021/01/20/richmond-planning-di...]

Are activists making some inroads? Sure. Things change! The generation with the largest vested interest is dying out and the changes snuck in during the last election that neuters a lot of the longer term prop 13 issues is going to help with some of the transition. I’m looking forward to when it happens.

Until one of those 3 items I talk about happens though, it ain’t, and this is still hot air - I’ve been in California nearly 30 years, and this hasn’t changed yet. I’m hoping sometime before 50 it will, but I’m not holding my breath.
But this is using the seemingly harmless keyword "is" that's you're supposed to use sometimes. A programmer could stumble upon one of these statements and think it's going to work reliably after it works the first time.

I used to test for None by doing what seemed to work:

if my_variable:
do something

until I discovered it doesn't work if my_variable = 0 or some other falsy value besides None.
Elections are the responsibility of the individual states, so right there there’s at 51 entities with their own data sets. Of course, in many states, elections are handled at county level, so that’s more entities involved. And at least in my state, individual precincts may have different voting systems, within a single county.

Basically, it’s a decentralized mess.
Well then you should definitely be. We are not ;)

That said yes there were lots of programs (which I also took advantage of like the reno Vert and what not) and it probably helped put us on the map especially in NA. But not compared to Europe. I have some friends in Germany who have a Passiv Haus for example.

Walking around here I see a loooot of icicles drooping from roofs. So you know they're literally heating the snow off their roof.
“Burn the Ships, We’re All In”: How Pillar Pivoted (After Raising $5.5M)
Something like that, but they changed the default shell to zsh, which is newer.
Is posting disabled? How do I add a post?
Terminals are a really solid front-end interface if you can get by the inherent tradeoffs.
Why there’s no such thing as “hate speech”
Nobody in the simulation you've described would actually make any choices; the choices are predetermined, baked into the heap of the CA/TM being used to drive the computation. Conway's Free Will concerns situations where the choices cannot be predetermined, as a consequence of the Kochen-Specker lemma.
So, if I install this, does my insurance go up, down, or get cancelled ?
Aside from the fact that CUDA is proprietary & very obviously made to lock people into using NVidia products, the thing is also that it's not just about CUDA. Indeed, deep learning primitives use CUDNN which have professionally written code hand tuned by PhDs in internal only assembly, getting performance not available to the public even if you did end up getting a CUDA compiler somehow.
Relevant to HN's interests: a compelling, layperson-accessible argument against electronic voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
I think the reasons for not being allowed to complain are pretty fair though, it’s not going to make any positive difference (and you’ll more likely end up Streisand Effecting yourself), and it’s uninteresting for everybody else.

I see it as not so much “take your lumps”, but more like “Meh, haters gonna hate - just ignore them.” Not a perfect solution, sure, but if you wanna participate on a anonymous/pseudonymous forum, that’s kinda inevitable. What’s the alternative?
Random link from Google: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2021/01/21/sf-...

I don't consider it conclusive, so I did not post it initially.
Tesla Giga Press’ Major Advantages Recognized by JPMorgan, Could Furth
Exactly! All of the "YOU don't actually choose to move your hand, it's THIS PART OF YOUR BRAIN" stuff makes no sense. What do you think 'you' are if not your brain plus your body?
Wow nytimes.com looks drastically better than their current design.
By what means can a government restrict use of Bitcoins that you hold in your own hardware wallet? You can run your own VPN at home. I don’t believe it would ever be practical for any government, of any size or sophistication, to prevent use of Bitcoins.

Governments are deeply incapable of stopping even just basic crimes and fraud. If they can’t stop overtly criminal acts often committed with no technology to assist in obfuscation, why would anyone believe they can (a) detect network traffic somehow related to Bitcoin and (b) trace it back to an individual and (c) prove that individual has broken some law? Let alone to do this to perfectly law-abiding citizens conducting perfectly legal purchase of Bitcoin.

Your point is very bizarre to me. Are you suggesting a government so incapable of managing fiscal activities that it descends into hyperinflation crisis is somehow magically super competent at extremely bespoke and difficult internet traffic surveillance of legal cryptocurrency transactions they have no reason to need to invest in expensive capabilities to monitor in the first place?
Weatherwatch: How typhoons in Korea made California wildfires worse
how much would it cost to buy the underlying hardware?
> as NYC hospitals apparently did in an unethical attempt to control spread.

I am curious where did you git this from? In the spring 2020 COVID patients in New York City ICUs were intubated not to control spread of the virus (there were many more actively shedding virus patients on regular hospital floor) but to sustain patients' life when their oxygen saturation drops dangerously low. Some patients were so bad that they were put on ECMO. Putting people on a ventilator was not an issue in itself, it is keeping them on ventilator for weeks on time that was problematic.
> Can someone actually provide a definition of free will?

No, never! We must just argue endlessly whether we do or don't have it.
> You can already give these hints with Object.freeze/Object.seal

You can but my understanding is the performance tradeoffs aren't great unless you have a workload that especially benefits from it. Those calls are expensive.
That's awesome! I'm sure the press'll be picking that one up any moment now.
I mostly use the app for adding widgets. It works great but native smoothness of apps wins by just a little bit for me. plus the web browser version kept logging me out.

Definitely a thing I could live with if web browsing was snappy enough (which for me on pinephone, it isnt). I could survive without a HA app, if it meant the rest of the device was usable... but that's not the state it's in for me, so for now, I use the app (from F-Droid)
Accurate headline: Over-investment in a single renewable energy source leads to mass rolling blackouts when unprecedented winter event occurs.
> Their keyboards got progressively worse as well.

During Jobs's tenure? The 2010-era Apple Bluetooth Keyboard is actually my favorite keyboard to type on. I'm currently using one I tracked down on eBay after my original finally broke.

> Another great example was the iBooks that soaked up skin oils and became gross and disgusting.

That's a long term problem. It's not the same type of general workflow issue that Jobs was really good at identifying.
Patents encourage innovation. In exchange for publishing your tech, you get protection from those who might copy it for ~10-20 years. You get to make money from it and the world benefits from knowing the details of your technology.

Software patents are the ones that make no sense because software is already protected by copyright and patents were never intended to protect algorithms.
Why are you running away by hiding your comment? Someone else saved your comment anyway. Next time delete your post if you want to run.

> In general, they’re fantastic.

The unoptimised software and the missing developer tools says otherwise. Especially for users of deep learning, if it lacks the tools they will not use it at all for this use case.

> The question was "Are they good for deep learning" and the answer was no. No one asked about them in general.

Don't you think the answer is to skip the M1 altogether and in general for developers and deep-learning users? At this point, there is no reason on getting an M1 Mac at all since the software required is not even ready for M1 and the hardware will almost certainly be obsolete this year for M2.

I wouldn't want to be an early adopter on a system that has unoptimised software on it and would be running on Rosetta. The answer to the question above lies in whether if the hardware in the newer generation Mac products is powerful enough for deep-learning. In this case, it is not. So just get a desktop with a RTX 3080 instead or wait for an M4 / M5 Mac.
You can find extremely overpriced and extremely cheap food in every major city.

Median salad price makes a city cheap or expensive.

I suspect SF is more expensive than average by this metric, but I'm not sure, I didn't dine in SF much.
Digressive rant begin.

Well forgive me for being so intolerant to state such an offensive opinion, but I'm really getting fed up with transgender issues taking front and center with every possible place they can insert themselves, as if they're our top priority when in reality they're a 1% problem. Ironic when you think of what groups actually push this.

I personally have never seen such an issue be so flogged to death by a willing majority of self-proclaimed liberal society who probably have never even spoken directly in a conversation to a transgender person.

Worse, it makes it seem like we don't have equally important yet bigger civil rights issues that have not even yet been resolved. Personal pronouns, ambiguous "they" speech, policing algorithms for transgender hate, contorting ourselves as if we're majority transgender and being persecuted left and right.

Look, I'm not saying anyone of any group should be made to feel disadvantaged. Or that a minority just because few in numbers should be overlooked.

But for fucks sake, enough with transgender agenda being made to seem like it's the top concern of society, ahead of those who have been patiently waiting in line for their fair treatment.

/end
I assumed it was a typo but I like it. I’ll start calling it Kate.
Exactly. I love the adaptive cruise (although I wish it would go below 25mph) and it makes long highway drives so much less tiring. If I also didn't have to worry about minor steering adjustments, it would be even better.
yea sorry not my best work, was in a bad mood after reading the pretty negative early comments
Where Will the Next 50M Developers Come From?
As someone who is forced by my employer to use MacOS, I cannot agree with this statement.

MacOS for me is a massive pain to use compared to Linux.
Bargaining power would refer also to the power to obtain favorable non-salary conditions (and to other types of negotiations), but "low bargaining power" certainly does imply "easily exploitable", yes. It's not entirely tautological - it does say that they get a poor bargain because they're in weak position to bargain for more, which is kind of the default cause for that (at least in economies with a mostly free labor market - if the salaries aren't set by market, then bargaining power is not that relevant), but it also clarifies that the poor bargain didn't happen because of, say, lack of trying or lack of information or fraud or pure randomness, and it also implies that their situation won't change unless either the main factors weakening their bargaining power (mostly the "excessive supply" issue) change or they get handed (e.g. through legislation) a better bargain than they would be able to negotiate.

The power to strike is relevant as the capability for collective action does grant a somewhat higher bargaining power that they would have otherwise, other things being equal; but of course there are many professions which have a higher inherent bargaining power without even attempting to organize, simply due to having better alternative employment opportunities.
She's a keeper :)
I used to like Telegram for their cloud sync as well, but Signal does an equally nice job (at least for me!) in syncing my chats across all devices. The messages are end-to-end encrypted too, unlike Telegram. It has become the standard for me.
Ifs are generally bad for readability though, because they force the reader to understand your control flow. Replacing an if with a ternary makes it more readable, not because the generated code is any different, but because a reader immediately knows that they don't need to scan through the two sides for control flow constructs (because the two sides of the ternary are guaranteed to be expressions rather than blocks). An if might occasionally be clearer than some convoluted algebra, but not often.
true true... I also make my $$$ designing systems for people to earn money to spend with the ad peddlers. We're all guilty
I’m in awe at how well China utilizes its soft power on the world stage.
Given any decision, you have t amount of time to consider how to decide it. Suppose everything the same, if you were given `t + k` time but with no other external input, could you choose something different?

If you could, you have free will (internal inputs _only_ can augment your decision).
> more by material conditions than ideas

I suppose you have heard about religions and faiths. I'd hazard to say that about 1000 years of European history was shaped primarily by them. Major wars fought, new countries founded, major discoveries and inventions made or unmade and prohibited, people's daily lives shaped and defined.

A similar thing has been occurring to Arabic world and neighboring peoples for about 1500 years, and is actively continuing now.

Looking at the current situation in the US is also illustrative.

I would say that ideas greatly prevail over material conditions once immediate survival is secured.
Isn’t email hard to set up though? As in, Gmail silently dropping your emails even with DKIM set up properly? There’s services you can pay to have more luck, but then you’re at the same downside as texting
You described really well the advantages of Romania's lack of regulation. I think that's also part of the reason we have high quality gigabit internet connections for just 8 euro.

Of course, there are also a lot of disadvantages of living here, but it seems like while we're getting closer to Western Europe's standards of living, we also lose the advantages you speak of.

And about freedom, I also think you're right. I've travelled a lot and I'm pretty sure we have much more freedoms in Romania compared to the western part of Europe and most of the other developed countries outside Europe. This also comes with its ups and down though.
And thanks for your collective work.

While criticisms of this place are common, and often deserved - it’s still one of the largest and most civil places where discussions that interest me take place.

Stopping public discourse from descending into shit flinging cesspits is a tough job, and overall I think what happens here is amazing.
The kernel can pull "tricks" to mitigate speculative execution during context switches. But it can't do anything to prevent a process running on one hyperthread from using side-channel attacks against another process, or the kernel, or a secure enclave, running on the other hyperthread of the same core.

That's right, if you don't have hyperthreading disabled right now, you are technically vulnerable. All the major players have decided that it's not worth the performance cost (or maybe just the feeling of loss of giving up that hyperthreading) for such a niche, difficult-to-exploit vulnerability.

A popular idea is to only allow threads of the same process to run on hyperthreads of the same core (or of processes in the same "security domain"). Patches to do this for linux have been floating around for about 2 years, they might have been merged recently, I'm not sure. But the performance cost of the logic that enforces this is greater than the performance benefit of hyperthreading in most cases.

IMHO either give up hyperthreading, or give up security against the "MDS" vulnerabilities. I leave it enabled for my gaming system, I think there are bigger problems if attackers have local execution on my system ;)
oddly enough, as boring as parts of math can be, for the layperson at least, I've yet to meet a boring mathemetician. Yet...
Telegram private chats are not end-to-end encrypted. They are opt-in, in the name of "secret chats". If that's not done, chats are stored on their cloud in plain view. While Signal can offer synced end-to-end encrypted messaging, I wonder why Telegram cannot. Probably comes with a few tradeoffs like slowness and loss of features?
i love linux for everything except for:

- gamedev

- gaming

- audio

- video editing

anything multimedia, linux (for me) only good for terminal based tasks, everything else lags behind competition, even macOS is better suited nowadays
Less than $200.

The board there is overkill -- if you really want something with a Zynq including an Arm Cortex A9 that can run Linux, the Arty Z7 from Digilent is another Zynq board that's essentially a one-stop shop for this: https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-z7-zynq-7000-soc-developm...

However, for something as simple as an NTP server you could easily get away with an Arty A7: https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developme...

From there you can instantiate either Xilinx's Microblaze MCU _or_ you could stick to Arm and use one of Arm's DesignStart cores (Cortex-M1 or Cortex-M3): https://developer.arm.com/ip-products/designstart/fpga/fpga-...

Glancing around Digilent's catalog, they've got an even cheaper Zynq board: https://store.digilentinc.com/cora-z7-zynq-7000-single-core-...
Texas just isn't prepared for these kinds of temperatures. They had natural gas pipelines freeze up. "Temperatures are low enough to trigger so-called freeze-offs, when wells shut down because of liquids freezing inside pipelines." https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/02/12/30202...

There are plenty of technologies to drain off water and other condensates in cold temperatures. Oilfield operations are 12 month affairs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, even North Dakota and Manitoba, which are routinely much colder than Texas is right now. They have to weigh if reliability is worth the extra cost of planning for a two or three days every decade event.
It is obviously not the case with all the wireless peripheral devices out there or they would not exist. Did you really believe that there is people out there putting up with keys being repeated randomly?
"The fed" does not mean "the federal government." "The Fed" means Federal Reserve.
put your interest in your bio, delete rooms you aren't interested in in the hallway, follow people you find interesting, follow clubs. Especially remove room you arent interested in will remove the usual breakfast with millionaires snake oil sales rooms.
The first few Q Anon branded 'drops' were on 4chan, but quickly relocated to the original 8chan.

It is all but assured that there have been several different authors of the identity 'Q Anon'.
Linux 5.11 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures
PTP seems like a telco/enterprise thing; hackers don't care about it.
> for faster boot times, Emacs binaries burn in some kind of low-level memory-image that gets dumped into an mmap region and then "revivified."

unexec hack

No true anymore for Emacs 27.x, they go with more portables (though a bit slower) preload