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Any random blog post that you find with instructions to run something in a shell that uses a variable just won't work copy and pasted, you now need to either modify them for your esoteric shell, or wrap them in a script to be ran through bash
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I have a Quest 1. The game selection is alright but expensive for what it is, but never found an unmodded game that kept my attention for more than ~5 hours - they are mostly VR demos without staying power. Modding is a huge pain in the ass, and every update breaks it again.

I used to use it regularly for BeatSaber + Custom Songs (though its underpowered so can't play all custom songs). For a while I was able to limp along by avoiding updates, but it eventually was broken by one of them, so I could no longer change custom songs. Finally I tried to fix it, failed, and tried to uninstall and just get unmodded BeatSaber working again. Quest decided to update, and now it doesn't even load the home screen - just a loading icon and then infinite black. I guess I'll try a factory reset, but I'm so frustrated with it I'm not sure it's worth trying to salvage.

It feels like Facebook is deliberately hostile to modding because they want to fortify their walled garden.

I will never buy oculus again. Steam's VR is higher quality, has much better game selection, and is much easier to mod as you want. My friend has an Index and I prefer it in every respect - the only downside is that it's wired and more expensive.
> The primary reason is that it uses all of your computer's available cores to walk through directories and copy files, effectively speeding things up by a factor directly proportional to how many cores you have.

CPU cores can't read/write files, those are IO operations by the storage device. The CPU could have 64 cores but on a system with a single hard disk that can do just one concurrent operation.
Another not-SEC example would be Eliot Spitzer who parlayed his policing of Wall Street corruption as the Attorney General of New York into a governorship.
Yep, same! That event was organized by a community member (https://racketfest.com/). Matthias was not involved in that event… and Matthew Butterick was a sponsor.

My experience with the community has been 100% positive. But I’ve also never had to deal with Felleisen. We’re worse off if good people who invest a lot more of their time and money in Racket are going to be subject to pointless abuse by the project’s founder.
There's a convenience store (Walgreens) a couple blocks away; the closest grocery store to me is a 25 minute walk, but mostly highway/no sidewalk. I did it once when I first moved here but ended up getting an Uber back. There isn't public transit that stops there. Before here I lived in downtown Boston, and that was very convenient for walking to markets.
403... not anymore! There is a source map however so you can still explore. Looks like it's structured as an entity-component-system project? I'm not at all familiar with game dev, but that's my guess based on the structure.
I signed up but received only welcome email. Where is the newsletter with verified salaries?
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The information on this is, admittedly, hard to dig out of the primary docs but there also exists an INSTEAD OF trigger mode - so you can CREATE TRIGGER "actually_save_stuff" INSTEAD OF INSERT which will intercept an attempted insert on the table and write the rows elsewhere.

Generally I've found these useful in the short term for letting application logic continue to work blissfully ignorant to the fact that the "table" it is writing to has been moved, merged or refactored into a set of tables that the trigger will bridge logic over to. While in the long term I've found that the automatic logic covers the most common case, a view that's filtering out some rows for some reason (permissions - soft deletion) before presenting it to the application logic.
>No one is out to ruin Felleisen's career, he will be fine no matter what

I mean, why do you assume that? I don't know the Racket community, but if he is "the self-styled leader of the Racket project" being potentially forced to step down/ousted seems like it would very much impact him personally.
But that's still comparing minimum wage rather than median wage, like the parent poster was talking about.
So, today's topic is promises and gov/corp entities that give them. If such an entity was a human, it would be a schizophrenic because of the revolving door in such entities.
Looks like the game 'Journey' 2012

I like these kind of games a lot
So will the proceeds from these ad sales go to Facebook? Or the developer of the title(s) the ads are featured on?

Edit- I don’t know how I missed this:

> Developers will get a share of the revenue from ads in their apps, but Facebook isn’t publicly revealing the percentage.
I think like many formalisation, they are a tool that is useful within the right culture, but are useless in the absence of that culture. The Rust Community is an excellent example of a community with an effective and well-enforced CoC that has contributed towards creating a community that is renowned for being welcoming. But I suspect that has at least as much the attitude of early community leaders (Graydon Hoare, Brian Anderson, Huon Wilson, Aaron Turon, etc) on these issues and ongoing excellent moderation of community platforms from a dedicated team of moderators.
I have to disagree with both points here.

Following the child after apparently granting freedom would be a massive breach of trust: bad enough on its own, but potentially very scarring if discovered. Don't add that risk!

As for the phone, you're right if you only think of the phone as somehow protecting against stranger danger. But as someone who lives alone with health problems I think of the phone entirely differently: it's a lifeline to all kinds of potential help, from a medical emergency to being locked out of my car or apartment building. And of course not only in that direction; it works the other way too where having my phone means I can be a point of contact for help for others. This is obviously a somewhat new aspect of our society in the past 20 years, and I'm certainly not saying we couldn't get along without it; but I am asking, "why would you want to go back to a time before these universal lifelines?".
I think that at a similar sort of length are the lengthier essays in the London Review of Books, New Left Review, etc. Some of them impinge on rather controversial topics (and would of course elicit some disagreement), but they’re perfectly good reads nevertheless (though I suppose that that’s orthogonal to merely pointing out that I, rightly or wrongly, ended up influenced by this sort of thing.)

Tom Crewe wrote of ‘The Strange Death of Municipal England’ on 15 June 2016 (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n24/tom-crewe/the-strang...). I suppose that at the time I was broadly a utilitarian and had very évolué/neoliberal politics. This exposed something of a tension between them and I ended up at a rather different place politically. I suppose that I am rather a slave to, if not passions, pangs of guilt, and so occasionally a day or two will be upended in (often useless) politicking of one sort or another—a moderately important feature of my life. The other article that had some effect was Mahmood Mamdani’s ‘The Invention of the Indigène’ (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n02/mahmood-mamdani/the-...).

The second effect, I suppose, was to broadly influence my intellectual outlook: first, in a rather uncritically admiring sort of way, and then, beginning with the observation that the book reviews never mentioned the books, more critically: untranslated French is a good reminder that I ought to read French newspapers more often, but when will the historians be reminded e.g. to understand elementary probability? Useless chattering is an excellent pastime however, and the LRB was terribly good fodder.
Hi @jfengel, thanks for mentioning your concerns. We try our very best to use the provided Api-s and documentation from the payment companies like Stripe, Razorpay etc. I believe they deal with security and vulnerabilities the most as they handle millions of dollars everyday and would take all necessary precautions & measures around it. Our job is to provide an interface for that connection. Main transaction happens on the Payment-Companies Servers. I believe it should not be a problem.
I know this is mostly a joke, but what you really want is Benjamini–Hochberg correction, unless you want to prevent even a single false discovery in all of science. FDR vs FWER
> while inflation means you get large raises

Wages haven’t kept pace with inflation in the US for some time.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

They’re only starting to rise because of labor pool constraints from the pandemic. Inflation would be very bad for most low to median wage workers, especially those in urban center where housing crises are rampant, especially if business interests continue to succeed at putting downward pressure on them by blocking things like minimum wage hikes.
You'd not be able to label anything as non-fiction, unless it were from the mouth of Cthulu. No matter how dryly something is presented, the reader should still be skeptical.
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The advantage of Unix workstations is that they are still useful as X terminals.

But then they aren’t much simpler than our modern desktops running their own Unixes.
While primarily targeted at the public, login.gov is used for some internal gov sites as well.
That is the problem that most journalism has always had. There has never been a time when the most of the media wasn't pushing one narrative over another - usually in the interest of someone powerful.

One excellent example is Watergate. It was an extraordinarily well-reported story, and it remains to this an iconic story that everyone remembers as a major outrage. In the same era, there was the COINTELPRO leak, where a few people broke into an FBI building and found documents detailing extensive, egregious FBI Gestapo-style activities against the Civil rights movement (including trying to blackmail MLK into committing suicide, and working with the guy who assassinated Malcolm X, and many others). This was barely reported by a handful of papers, and even though it sparked actual legislative action, Senate committees, hearings etc, it has been all but forgotten. It never really fit the narratives deemed important by the kinds of people who write the news (who were largely against the Civil rights movement at the time).

This is not to say that extraordinary journalists haven't existed, to whom we owe great debts. It's not even to say that journalism hasn't degraded - there may well be fewer great journalists today than in other periods.
For me, the general process would require a police report for lost/stolen ID (mandatory, so that it can be marked as lost/stolen so that it would be detected if someone tries to use it) and verification with the data they have on file - nowadays with EU biometric IDs they can be quite sure that I'm the same person as the one who got the previous ID as the face and fingerprints can be verified.
Wow it's almost like we shouldn't be doxxing people in case we have mistaken identities?
> what tools do you use to scientifically analyze the scientific process?

Engineering. If you can build something that works based on the rules theorized by scientists, they are on to something. e.g. building a skyscraper proves we know the properties of steel to a pretty good margin of error.
I agree with this. The SEC cracks down on amateur inside-traders, because the professionals no how to cover their tracks: they have the resources to fight it in court; and the smart ones hire the SEC staff via the revolving door.

This case is hilarious, and for that I applaud the SEC, but it's also theater.
That is comparing professional to professional. The reason young children in rugby get padding is not so they can hit harder, but because they haven't internalized proper tackling form yet. So many more kids are going to get a knee to the face as they tackle their opponent, or unintentionally truck a person they're trying to tackle, compared to older people who know how to tackle correctly and safely.
> If everything is in a bubble, then what does it matter? If crypto is in a bubble and you don't own crypto, then what does it matter? Same with Tesla.

It matters because you can: 1) divest from said assets classes or 2) short said asset classes. It also matters because there are downstream consequences of a broad market crash, from which you can protect yourself (if you choose to believe this prediction).

> Frankly, I'm more worried in general over normal economic issues than I am about any speculative asset bubbles

There's nothing stopping you from worrying about inflated asset prices along with your long list of other unrelated concerns.

I agree that the article is light on details, but I fail to understand the rest of your point if there is one.
Where's tail call optimization when you need it?
Mine is bricked, and my facebook account was attached. Tried to reinstall a mod I was using for over a year that a system update broke, and now whenever I turn it on it just shows a loading spinner and then hangs on a black screen.

It feels like Facebook is taking a deliberately hostile stance to modding because they can't get their cut.
Chickens are a fun example to use here, given the culinary cliche that unfamiliar meats taste to varying degrees "kind of like chicken". So I guess any individual chicken would be very close in flavor to the Standard Chicken, whichever one that is.
The value of debts also go down.
Yes, economically it likely is. Its your stagnating wages that are a bad thing. If wages had increased like they should've, then a few dollar increase in your groceries wouldn't be the issue that it is.
I have used and benefited tremendously from both of these libraries. While the methods are sound, the training data they used is not that comprehensive. He will probably want to apply some heuristic clean up before and after processing. Or if your organization has a lot of time and money, add additional training data.
You can just use the quest 2 with Virtual Desktop and SteamVR and save yourself some money.
There was a faction of right wing Republicans who wanted to end the war quickly in order to forestall Russia, but they wanted to end the war quickly by forgoing an invasion and allowing Japan to surrender conditionally, without an occupation or a forced change of government or constitution, because they thought an armed and relatively intact militarist-run Japan would be a good buffer against the Soviet Union. This was unacceptable to the liberal new deal faction running the US government, who believed that a disarmed and democratic Japan was the only way to prevent another war.

“They only wanted to keep the commies out” is a nicely glib line, but one that glosses over the many, many political considerations that shaped the end of the pacific war and reveals an almost total ignorance of the scholarship on the subject
One of the current technosignatures are em radiation indicating Dyson spheres or swarms around sun's. Another is molecules in planetary atmospheres which are only known to arise from industrial applications.
Contract violations or fraud or whatever this was aren’t the same kind of crime as taking somebody’s property.

This is a semantic dodge. It is widely acknowledged that fraudulent misappropriation of wages is a form of stealing; there's even a name for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft

Also, Amazon's violation was orders of magnitude greater in scale (and enacted against victims who were individually more vulnerable) than, say, Ewing's alleged violation.

Ewing was a serial burglar and robber who refused to stop stealing stuff.

Bezos is also a serial violator who can't stealing in all sorts of other ways (tax avoidance, pushing counterfeit products, etc), also at ginormous scale.

Kalief Browder was charged with robbery and assault and had bail set at $3000, and would have gotten out, only he was on probation.

There's no way you can talk down the harm that was done to Kalief Browder. The consensus among everyone involved was that he was wrongly incarcerated (even given the circumstances you've described) and severely mistreated (beaten -and- sentenced to 23 hour shifts of solitary confinement).

Even the City tacitly agrees - that's why they agreed to the $3.3 million civil finding. (Oh and the charges against Browder turned out to be quite flimsy, btw, and were most likely spurious all along).

Ewing is a textbook example of the kind of guy who belongs in jail.

The point isn't that Ewing doesn't belong in jail - but that Bezos clearly does, by this point.
To go a bit meta, I think this link contributes to Hacker News because it sparks curiosity. While I was among those wondering if this would look into some kind of computational model that did what Transformers do (at least in the modern movies), scan an object in order to reconstruct it / reconfigure itself into that object, I quickly realized this is about something else. But it is something interesting and worth learning more about[0]. So just get over your prime instinct to be disappointed that the subject doesn't match your expectations, and change your attitude towards information shared that feels alien.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(machine_learning_...
> I'm struggling to publish this post because there's a high risk I come off as a privileged asshole (here I am voluntarily leaving a cushy job when there are so many people who can't find any work

Honestly there needs to be a word for this. It's very difficult to describe the estrangement of that. As a result, I find myself more and more unable to communicate with people outside of tech about basic things like complaining about work.

Everyone complains about work, but why do I get the feeling that even when I complain, I'm humble bragging?
iMacs stood for clean desktops with little hazzle. Now you need basically a docking station and tons of wires to connect your "legacy USB-A" equipment such as a goddamned printer or your goddamned Arduino board.
I have been working in IT for 25 years. In the early days independent recruiters, especially good ones, were very helpful.

Nowadays I am not sure what a lot of them do. Almost any job they know about, I already know about, as it is posted on Linkedin and in other places. A lot of them seem to be people one or two years out of college.

Annoying things - pitching me jobs I do not have the qualifications for (like a C# job if I have worked in a Javascript stack) and if I defer they say "why not give it a try". So in the older days I relent, apply, do not get it for the reason I had told them, and then they don't want to talk to me any more because I couldn't close the deal.

Suggesting to me I come to their office and meet them, despite only having given some vague words about some possible openings. Springing a surprise tech quiz on me when I arrive at the office (happened once).

While their usefulness has gone down, the one useful thing they still give is feedback on how the interview went. Of course, having been on the other side of the table and interviewing people, sometimes there is nothing wrong with someone - they are mediocre, just like the last three interviews, and the next person who comes in was suggested by the best coder on the team as a great coder, and they come in and impress us all as well - so they get the offer, not you.
cheers ;)
Maybe we can start by growing up and not caring how people define the insult of the day, even less whether they spit it at us, and less still about whether they are offended by our opinions.
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My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. (2012)
Inflation means that wages go up along with the prices of groceries, so it's a wash. The only thing that suffers with inflation is a big pile of cash, which poor people don't have (they generally owe a big pile of cash, which inflation shrinks for them).

The people trying to scare everyone about inflation are the ones who the poor people owe the big pile of cash, and they have a very large megaphone.
I find it surprising that they Rank China as #21 in the world for having "AI talent". It seems like a large percentage of AI papers that I read originate in China.

They do rank US and China as 1 and 2 in the world overall, which I agree with.
> I'm not sure how this is superior to just shooting a tank with a missile.

armour underneath a tank is usually much lighter, because it's difficult to hit. Missiles have to do fancy armour-penetration stuff to get through the main armour on a tank. If you can get a shaped charge stuck to the underside of a tank, you don't need to do the fancy stuff.

> If you have a single payload, you have just a shitty, slow moving cruise missile.

yes. exactly. Except that for the cost of a single conventional cruise missile, you now have 10,000 shitty slow-moving, intelligent, able-to-do-evasive-maneuvres missiles.

> Al Qaeda was chaining RPGs in the last war together

so it works then? Imagine 10,000 RPG grenades flying by themselves, able to chain-hit a target, with no human operator in sight.

> A drone with a gun can sit in a location for 4 hours waiting for the tank to come, then fire the RPG when the tank comes into position.

The drone is the grenade. It doesn't fire the grenade. It flies to the target, attaches itself, goes bang. Next one flies to the same point, attaches, goes bang. There's thousands of them.
Anti-fragility is a concept I don't think enough people think about. This is a good clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OXI17ye9Gw
New to me. I like it.
where? i see general statements
IANAL but I wouldn’t risk it. Especially as it’s AWS related stuff (rather than your name is Andrew William Smith or something)

Why not use cloud in place of AWS in the name?
Fair enough. It also adds to your point that the earlier wars tended to be a lot longer than the later ones, meaning the intensity of the killing has been increasing, eh?

FWIW I'm usually on the doom-and-gloom side of the argument (benefit vs. hazard of tech).
I think it may be because of the teacher / student power dynamic. I expect you get used to treating everyone like they're much younger than you and that you can treat them disrespectfully without any major consequences.
I’m also 30-something and 6 months into a sabbatical after 10 years working in ‘big tech’.

It’s been a lot more stressful and busy than I had anticipated but ultimately a great learning experience.
I may go back to a paid position at the end of the year but it won’t be the same as before, I feel the year has significantly shifted my perspective on different aspects of my life
Except real wages aren't actually increasing for most people.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-wage-growth-the-av...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/09/25/real-...

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/aftertax-income-is-barely-...
Ugh. I have enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell's writing in the past, but this smacks of the Tucker Carlson defense.
Yeah a vicious cycle of human beings actually needing to work less, rather than the surplus from technological progress being chewed by up the rent treadmill and spit out into an overgrown financial sector. We certainly can't have that!
> No. You stand up for yourself

Do you feel this is an acceptable way to respond to someone who's telling you they feel bullied? Shouting 'no' at them and telling them what they should have done instead, when presumably they felt they couldn't do that because they felt intimidated?
That makes me wonder whether an analysis could be done over a long period of time to determine where in the region the user isn't, and thereby narrow down where the user is.