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I choose to play fighting games, and I get my current fix from Dark Souls - an asymmetric fighting game. I enjoy winning, and I structure my play around intentional practice so that I can improve.

But I don't want to win. This is an important nuance.

Do you know what winning means? It means the game is over. It means there's no more challenge, no more adversary. It means boredom and purposelessness.

Rather than winning, what I want is to fight. Focusing on the outcome of the fight is missing the forest for the trees - the fun is in the conflict, in the struggle with your opponent(s), in the instinctive collaboration with your occassional teammate.

In the glory of the defeat, as well as victory. Unless you've got firsthand experience of this, you won't believe how wonderful it feels to get your ass handed to you by a truly superior player.

To put the gaming analogy aside, life will always have its ups and downs. Life will always take you somewhere unexpected. Fixating on outcomes will blind you to opportunities and invite needless suffering into your life.
way overrated imo, you will learn neither finance nor ML from this book, don't spend your money on this.

Given author's tendency for excessive self-promotion I would take any of his advice with a grain of a salt.

Besides he seems to have lost a ton of money for AQR, given his short tenure there. People who make money rarely publish.

if someone is really interested in finance and ML learn each on its own, in finance start with Hull Derivatives, in ML may be some coursera course.

Also quantstart blog has excellent tutorials and 'getting started' guides.
> We don't want GPUs artificially restricted from mining Ethereum.

Oh let's not make sweeping statements haha, I want to play video games much more than I want the ice caps to melt so some ancaps can play multiplayer excel. I'm not usually onboard with vendor restrictions like these, but if the card self-destructed Inspector Gadget style when it detected crypto mining, I'd be okay with that.

And I say that as someone who has turned off their in-wall space heater and replaced it with a 3090 mining ETH when idle. No e-waste, no wasted power, (in this case) just a heater that pays you back.
FIPS 140 provides a standard for assuring that a product has implemented their crypto correctly. It has its warts but overall it skews very close to otuer published sources of algorithms. I think the biggest differences lie in handling edge cases and key generation.

That said, receiving a FIPS certification is a huge effort in terms of time and money. I think it is tragic that neither NIST nor the NSA provide a already certified library you can integrate in. That would save enormous amounts of effort. Fun fact - lots of FIPS certifications are white labeled openssl with the latest set of FIPS requirements so I'm not even being that radical.
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I get that, and I know this is HN, but you don’t need a full ride at Stanford + be a founder to be a successful person
5Ghz doesn’t work well in a lot of houses. Weird geometry, thick walls, etc.
It's often a requirement for any Federal customers. It's a mixed bag in terms of security, since it does force you off of _very bad_ algorithms, but it doesn't always support the best algorithms.
Correction on #3: It was generally the brakemen, not the engineers, who were doing the coupling. (Engineers mostly stayed in the engine.) It’s horrifying how cavalierly this problem was treated; there’s an old joke about how, at conventions for brakemen, everyone had to pair up to applaud.

Brakemen also had the unenviable job of running along the tops of the cars while the train was in motion, jumping the gaps to get to the brake wheels on each car. In fact, I’d argue that more important than the automatic coupler was the automatic continuous brake—particularly the Westhinghouse air brake and its gladhand connector, still used today on railways and semi-trailers—which was considerably safer (both for the brakemen and also for everyone else, since trains would now fail safe and stop if they broke) and made longer and faster trains possible.
Agreed. why does this get rated by everyone on the internet? I read it, and it's total amateur hour.

Just the code examples are bewildering and atrocious.

Still looking for an alternastive.
Serious question: what companies are still building (new) native Windows apps?

Even as a web developer, I think it would be pretty cool to make/see more native desktop apps, but nearly all of the only ones I've used in years have been a) built-in, b) a browser, or c) a video game.

So I'm genuinely wondering: who is this for?
> They don’t leave because, at the end of the day, they can’t allow themselves to risk their acquired prestige, which is another way of saying: they can’t risk losing external validation, the driving force of the prestige industrial complex.

Or they need to maintain their income to continue their lifestyle.

I am not particularly passionate about my job as a sysadmin. I don't hate it, but it would be nice to just spend all day skateboarding or playing Starcraft.

But, I have aging parents to take care of. Housing prices have skyrocketed around me. This is what I need to do to maintain a certain level of security, and indeed luxury, for myself and my close family.

And this isn't weird.

Go back 3-5 generations to when half of the population was employed in agriculture. Was everyone passionate about cows? Potatoes?

The reality is, I have a better shot at following my passion by trying to get into FAANG and working there for 10-20 years so that I can then pursue the things that I am personally passionate about.
That Bandersnatch went (spoilers?) meta, while being one of the first of its type, really highlights the limits of a very simplistic CYOA medium like that, I think. What else do you do with it now? Bandersnatch already said the only thing that medium had to say that's worth a damn. And hell, that exact thing had already been explored by "real" video games, many times over.
You can still buy iPod Shuffles, but they're surprisingly expensive. The SanDisk Clip series is good (starting at $30 for 8GB) but they have a tiny screen.

This this $21 screen-less MP3 player looks interesting: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722KVJM3/
Chrome is based on WebKit, which itself is descended from KHTML. That was essentially a little widget for formatting help pages in KDE and only had a handful of developers. In fact, it was chosen as the basis for WebKit because it was minimalistic clean code.
One thing that is striking when visiting Singapore is the number of elderly people working basic jobs in fast food, street stalls, and similar roles. I don't know enough to judge their financial well-being, but it's very different to what we see here in Australia. Without more information I can't even say if it's mainly because over here we are reluctant to employ the elderly at all, I'm sure some Australians need the money too. It's just different.
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Learning in general? Much easier if I care about the subject, and sometimes I can pretend to care long enough to actually care.
I’m almost always working through multiple books, taking advantage of the Zeigarnic Effect (first step makes next steps more likely?) and interleaving (from Make it Stick: the science of successful learning). Messier, but it feels like the more I know the easier it is to know more, and this way I have more hooks.

I use Anki for spaced repetition, ideally while reading, but I often read with TTS while walking, so I practice attending fully. My paper notes are a mess. Getting info into flashcards helps get it into my brain.

Clutter is a pain point. Space to work is important. A conversationally-adept personal assistant to help make flashcards while walking will be awesome.

Sometimes I use WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan (not my idea), to get beyond daydreaming.
It doesn't get censored, disappeared because the company tries to erase its history (cough Disney cough), and best of all, no ads!

I remember the thing that first drove me to piracy: previews. Nothing like trying to watch a VHS or DVD rental and being subjected to 10 minutes of ads. DVDs were the worst perpetrator, with bullshit unskippable ads before you even got to the menu.
Because heavier elements have higher binding energies than iron.
Interestingly, the author gives four reasons for building the project. Four “purposes” if you will. Learning was not one of them.
Wow, this is very cool. Thank you for sharing!
That's ... too perfect.

Though in fairness, Pastebin doesn't appear to be substring matching. Context blindness is fully sufficient however.
That just gets you a neighbor running even more wifi stuff to try and fix whatever 'bad connection' problem is happening.
Are you sure about the comment about students? I am not aware of the rules in the US but everywhere else I have worked at students (unlike academic employees) own their own IP. In many countries this is actually not just because of school rules, but because of legal rules: the universities can't take something from you without compensating you, but you are paying the university.

That said, rules for graduate or PhD students on a scholarship/stipend are a bid more complex.
Deliberately jamming the channel is an FCC violation. The FCC is very effective at coming down like a ton of bricks on people who mess with the spectrum.
No, not really. I don't do all the things that I do to win, I do it because I actually like them. I like to build things, I don't care if its the best. I like to play basketball, I don't care if I win, we rarely keep score. I know people that always want to win or have the best or be the best at something, it frequently makes them intolerable to be around for others that don't share their passion.
Wi-Fi 6E would solve this for you. 1,200 MHz of bandwidth is now available at 6 GHz. Wi-Fi 6E routers exist now. Here[1] are some devices that are Wi-Fi 6E capable.

It's an expensive, possibly inconvenient solution, but from the perspective of RF spectrum it has a high probability of success; your 2.4 GHz neighbor is unlikely to appear at 6 GHz for some time, and even then the reduced 'range' of 6 GHz will work in your favor.

1. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/wi-fi-6-devices-top-compa...
(the distinction between 6 and 6E is crucial; you want 6E)
Agreed. Though "4K77" might appear in the file name.
Most frequently I do it for PHP. I help a friend with a Wordpress site, PHP is easy to read but I'm hardly fluent in the ins-and-outs, and a simple Wordpress hook added to functions.php can fix so many issues. I always leave a comment with the full link for context.
That is equally parts silly and useful. There's so many time's I wish I'd had one.
For anyone who are interested, I created a small project awhile ago called HelloBox to help those who want to create "HackerNews for XYZ".

https://www.hellobox.co
A technical opinion on Linux kernel's withdrawal of kernel_FPU{begin,end} (2019)
So at least three reputable sources recommend not changing passwords periodically. Maybe that can persuade my employer though i doubt it.

One aspect though is that some people tend to use the same password in multiple places and with passwords ending up in https://haveibeenpwned.com, you might argue for periodic password changes.
There is literally no benefit if you are this person to acknowledging its you. From their perspective you might be a well informed tech person or just crazy, but either way you don't want to be dealing with them everytime anything goes wrong with their wifi.

And it's pretty obvious the person ranting doesn't feel this problem rises to the issue of "spend $50 to get a 5ghz router and dongle".
Posted on HN recently:

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h...

Factorio is the game
Shameful and regressive corporate tactics. This is part of the main kernel source code, not some private module.
This is obviously against any sense of openness and inclusive development process. If a certain person has something to offer that is technically correct, must be able to do so in any secure way he wants.

This is plain face control.
Don Becker suggests otherwise.
It’s like my entire comment was ignored :). You need more than just density to increase the size of a community.

My mom and step dad built a house in Helena, which isn’t that far away. Pretty expensive place to live, infrastructure wasn’t great, housing was expensive (this is back in the 90s). The house turned out to be economically non viable for reasons unrelated to demand.
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This is kind of a fluffy article. How do you define "clean" or "useful" code? Unfortunately, code quality is notoriously difficult to measure and many aspects are in the eye of the beholder. It would be helpful to dive deeper into some of these areas.
That might work, but also, it's possible 120 devices is simply too many for one person to be using in an apartment complex. Wireless spectrum is a shared resource, it's not okay to hog it.

If not 120, imagine someone with 200 or 1000 devices. At some point you've eaten more than your quota of spectrum and you owe it to your neighbors to stop hoarding IOT devices.

Edit: heh, not believing in scarce resources is peak Orange Site.
My hundreds of neighbors and I pollute the 2.4ghz spectrum with all kind of devices. If you want a descent speed, use another spectrum like 5 or 6Ghz.
The FiiO M3K FLAC-compatible player looks promising, https://accessibleaudio.co/2018/12/27/fiio-m3k-review-a-pock.... There's a partial native port of Rockbox firmware for the M3K, which improves on the stock playback UX, but is missing other functionality.

Firmware: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/FiioM3K & https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/hardwarerelated/mp3player/fiio_m3k

M3K native port source: https://github.com/Rockbox/rockbox/commits?author=amachronic
Does your health insurance also only apply for 8h/day?
I wonder what you think is the alternative to Kubernetes that makes it easier to deploy a piece of code to run on a cluster. I hope it's not some kludge of cobbled together shell scripts and ssh.

In general these ideas of magical 'immutable' infrastructures seem to pan out much worse than just plain VMs with some orchestration solution inside. Anything that tries to capture the state of the world and reify it usually has to severly limit what you can actually do to avoid the halting problem, or just copy some things and hope for the best in terms of external dependencies being the same.
Only that this is false, or more precisely intentionally misleading. The total binding energy increases all the way up. See carefully the description: It's binding energy per nucleon. It's the amount of energy you get by fusing one more proton with the nuclide, which peaks with iron, but it never goes to negative, ever.
> In California, I've never seen an invention clause in my contracts, but they were also much better at divorcing your work and personal identity systematically (forcing you to use a github account specific to the company, not mentioning this handle on your personal account, etc.).

California has a state law that covers this. Any work you do on your own time, with your own resources (so, not your company laptop or photocopier) is your own and the company cannot force you to assign it - so long as the work is not connected to your employers current or reasonably anticipated business.

More details here: http://www.intellectualpropertylawfirms.com/resources/intell...
Susan B. Anthony and other suffragettes were also tangled up in racist groups and movements.
Exactly, what if this comment would change depending on who is reading it?
The notion that the communication could wind up on the LKML, HN, or more widely distributed, could still argue for restraint in voice.

The employer ultimately has all the power here. Bullying ... doesn't add much.
"Damn the votes, full speed ahead"

Posters should go full speed ahead if issue is with a topically relevant opinion, not the way it is expressed. We're all here for different reasons, but I like to presume we want to discuss a topic online.

Gaining Internet points or avoiding moderation penalties shouldn't be a priority. If it is, the result is sycophantic conformance. This makes for uninteresting discussions.
>doesn't everyone want to win the game they choose to play?

This seems totally backwards. Winning is fun, but you don't choose a game because you like winning it, you choose it because you like playing it. All games can be won, but they all play differently.
You're the same type of wimp the GP was referring to: lacking skill in internal-state management.

If you believe you need to "slow down," you will think it's the only way to manage your state. If you see someone else espousing "you can go as fast as you like, deglove your entire body, and still feel alright" you'll learn that it's possible to live another way.

The human nervous system has a wealth of tools at its disposal, and your suggestion that people eschew them in favor of simply avoiding the circumstances required that call for these very same tools is meek and unvirtuous.
I clicked on those links to see Spectrum Analyser noise floor plots and was sorely disappointed.
Why are your first two links just about buildings looking the same? I was thinking they'd spectrum visualizations per your lead-in which would be really fascinating to see...
> If sales are not sold at opening-market prices, what happens is that offer prices increase until they are attractive enough to be filled.

This is literally exactly what happens in a direct listing. There is no obligation anywhere. Each person selling is selling because the price offered is attractive to them.

It's not that a group of insiders has to liquidate because there's a DPO. It's that there's a DPO because a group of insiders wants to liquidate.
True in many places, but the papers in the 10- and 20-thousand person towns my relatives live in have a strong classifieds section because they’re too small to be on Craigslist.
All the major tech companies are acting like they expect AR to become A Real Thing in the not-so-distant future. Which means non-dorky, decently-functional AR glasses (AR on a phone or handheld game system plainly sucks and everyone can tell that, yet they're all pouring development money and PR into AR efforts)

Things are gonna get much weirder, and it'll be soon. We went from "what's a smartphone?" to "you basically can't function in the modern world without a smartphone" in, what, a little over a decade? We'll see how long this one takes.
Withdrawal of this pair of kernel calls was what made it impossible to continue in-kernel support of OpenZFS's cache decision algorithm, hurting OpenZFS performance on mainline Linux.

This opinion argues it was a plain technical decision that would have happened sooner or later, so no malice by the kernel team drove the decision. An alternative view is that the call could have been deprecated with a timetable of removal, allowing the OpenZFS team time to react to the new regime.
Correction: I was thinking about a family of patent lawyers.
In a weaker gravity field with a low sample frequency the algorithm does indeed appear 1:1. The complexity arises once a peripheral second gravity field can no longer be ignored or a certain noise threshold is passed.

The equation ends up looking something like this: https://slack-files.com/TEGQB8GNS-F01UU5FMKRR-820b186081

Once you start thinking about it in terms of the definite integrals of a piecewise function you'll see where the weights would be applied in more extreme situations.
Yes you are right. But the user base is not paying a cent. Of course, there is maybe some 0.0x% users who donate sometimes...

« They owe you nothing » totally apply in this context. Even if you were a donator (which there are few probability you are).
Reading "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time" guarantees that I will be an IBM employee 0% of the time.
I'd guess the answer is the same as - Why isn't Kickstarter doing this?

From your research why isn't Kickstarter doing it?
Or sometimes even nicer with replacement of PCIe/M.2 WiFi card.
Here it's not just work on the kernel, but work on the kernel on a driver for IBM hardware that two other IBM employees maintain, and that the employee in question was -also- previously a contributor to during work hours.
> Author wants to throw code at cloud, without thinking about performance or resource usage.

Not really what Erik is saying. Taking AWS S3 as an example, you absolutely need to think about performance and resource usage when dealing with S3, but you never have to think about the servers. You never think about some cluster that is making your S3 usage possible.

S3 is such a great success that there's very few (if any) examples of companies starting with S3 and then getting too big for it and needing to build their own system (thus wrangling servers and clusters etc). Dropbox migrated off of S3 to 'Magic Pocket' but I'm pretty sure this was for $$ reasons not because AWS simply couldn't handle Dropbox's massive read+write requirements. AWS S3 is a marvel of serverless computing, and we should try and get more like it.
That's a trivial challenge. You can rely on things that people are instinctively familiar with.

Look at the current £10 note. To even start on getting a "close enough" material (the feel of the polymer, the clear windows), you're looking at acquiring specialized print stock they don't exactly stock at the Office Supply Warehouse down the street. Now, how exactly are you going to transfer a design to it? Conventional CMYK inkjet and laser-- if you can get it to stick, are going to be a dotty, indistinct mess. Heat-transfer might bake the colour in, but would probably wreck the material and be blurry and smudgy. Once you've figured that out, try to figure out how you can precision-cut and apply holographic foil and optically-variable panels. Now scale it up to the point where it's economically viable.

If you've used a printer before, you know it's not going to be capable of cranking out a convincing banknote.

For consumer acceptance, it's important that people can directly trust the system. I'm concerned that "here's some papers that if I go to my local university, there might be a few experts in the math department who can parse them and tell me it's trustworthy" won't have quite the same impact as "look at the fine lines making up the portrait of Jane Austin, you know that's not coming out of your HP DeskJet."
But then where do you go once you're done viewing that one specific profile? You probably close the tab because you finished catching up on their tweets, and/or go to some other webpage that they linked to in one of their tweets.

The suggestions implore you to continue browsing on Twitter, instead of leaving Twitter altogether. The cynical take is that the purpose is to drive engagement and revenue, while the UX design take is that this helps users find more conversations that they're interested in, that they wouldn't otherwise find ("you follow Foo, people who follow Foo also follow Bar, so you might like Bar").
Buy bigger antenna - make yours bigger than theirs!
:)
You may want to consider mqtt-based devices like tasmota or shelly, if you prefer off-the-shelf products.

I have a few dozen stock shellies in my apt., all controlled via mqtt. All of them are disconnected from the internet. Works well.
Niceness does nothing but waste emotional energy to please another.

There's no reason for it, except personal preference.
That being said, the last thing I would do is work with something related to this company without being paid for it.
I went down the rabbit hole of portable media players, even going so far as to write software to sync my Plex music library with an iPod. Unfortunately, shortly after that Spotify launched for Teslas in the US, so I switched to that full-time. I do still wish there was a small wifi and bluetooth enabled dedicated Spotify player in the vein of the square iPod nano. Ideally something that connected to my phone when available, and fell back to on-board storage when a data connection wasn't available.