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Hi XzAeRosho Brian here Im the Sitenna co-founder and CTO. As you can see this is a worldwide problem that we want to solve! We will be expanding globally but the initial rollout is US and UK focused. We would definitely love to hear from your FIL on what he is working on at the moment to see how we might be able to help.
Merlin also recently added sound ID for North America. I would assume they're working on other regions as well based on their previous track record.
Not really, but we never go to places where a lot of people go. Having a few (3 to 5) people in the queue can happen but not much more.
I’ve always been fascinated with the Coleco Adam. It wasn’t a super successful computer, but I had one as a kid and it was a pretty amazing system that was both ahead of its time and behind at the same time.

They made really unique choices for user experience… the default mode for the system is actually a typewriter rom (!), and you can switch to a word processor mode. The system uses Atari style rom cartridges and had an integrated cassette drive, as well as an optional floppy. The weird thing was that a daisy wheel printer was the power supply and was required for the whole thing to work.

Even crazier was that they had a version where you could attach your ColecoVision game console into a dock and convert it into a general purpose computer.
Good luck. Yours is the only one in this batch that made me go: "Hey, that's a smart idea."
The article clearly says the AI is for the Reaper's autonomous flight and sensor arrays, not employment of its weapons systems.
If your toilet paper specs are off by 5%, what happens? Your toilet paper is a little bit too thin or thick?

EV batteries are pretty high tech, and small manufacturing faults lead to things like bursting into flames while charging (see current Bolt situation).

I don't think battery making is Intel 5nm chip fab level complicated, but I think it is a lot different from a toilet paper factory.
The article explains all of this, and a lot more. It's absolutely worth the read if you are interested in this stuff.

This diagram shows some of the proposed anchoring systems.

https://www.economist.com/img/b/1000/679/90/sites/default/fi...
Sort of the same reason why `if (true) let a = 1` is a syntax error (and the error message says why: "Lexical declaration cannot appear in a single-statement context")

The rationale here is that the variable goes out of scope right away due to the implicit block, so they made it a syntax error so that you don't waste time pulling your hair out debugging issues downstream from this line without realizing this scope-related obscurity. (This also has potential security implications e.g. if you think you're shadowing a variable from a parent scope but you're not)
Thank you, glad to hear!
A lot more on the topic here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/op1t7m/activision_bliz...

Apparently their office was basically a frat house.
Question for lawyers: could lying in this sort of public statement expose Blizzard to further legal repercussions (fresh criminal offenses, informally irritating the California DFEH and the judges, proving they are in bad faith, etc.) or are they free to make up any bullshit they find useful?
The fifth law of thermodynamics: thou shalt not go to space?
it always seemed weird to me that fb, that sort of defined "casual interaction", was doubling down on such an immersive technology. the "metaverse" described by Rosedale & Ondrejka was nothing if not immersive.
The title is nonsense. It should read:

"Russia has ensured that it could handle being cut off from foreign infrastructure and has tested that."
Correct. This episode in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
In the United States, 75-90% of all land is zoned for single family residences with maximum densities of 4-5 households per acre. This is a legacy from the era of integration of non-white Americans called "White Flight." White Americans, seeking to avoid living next to non-whites left urban centers and populated suburban centers which had been engineered to be unaffordable or inaccessible to black and non-white Americans.

Houses were large and separated by lawns. They also required financing to purchase. Financing which was usually denied to non-whites by red-lining. In addition these neighborhoods were usually walled off and mazed to prevent people from walking through them. This made families depend on expensive cars to get where they were going, further increasing the burden on those living within and excluding poor and lower middle class Americans.

Now we have these pointless laws that are slowly strangling us to death with expensive car infrastructure that is insanely expensive and deteriorating fast. Small businesses can't survive because of poor walkability, parking minimums and outside investors jacking up rent costs. People can't find homes because they are all too expensive.

The legacy of racism is a death pact for America. I hope we can escape it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#:~:text=White%20f....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
How many monitors can you plug into the laptop given the appropriate number of modules? Unlikely to be 4, but is it at least 2 or hopefully 3?
umm... because manholes are round, and about 500,000 golf balls.
I have a car that detects rain quantity and automatically increases or decreases wiper speed.

I still have to turn the wipers on, but otherwise it's completely automatic.

I never would have thought a feature like this mattered until I actually had it. Now I wouldn't want a car without it.

FWIW, this feature in my BMW works great. The same feature on my Ford Expedition doesn't work nearly as well.
Judges reject Viasat’s plea to stop SpaceX Starlink satellite launches
In US, on non international flights, you can take 160wh ones if they are replaceable.

Strangely, the rule comes from ICAO.

Some countries too follow the 160wh standard, but most airlines simply don't bother enforcing anything, but the lowest common denominator.
Underlying point I'd say is a concern, even if the specific example might not be applicable.

Thanks for the article on that!
Two more battery fires spark second Chevrolet Bolt EV recall
Now that's what I call a courteous roundhouse kick to the social nads courtesy of the great Chuck Norris.
Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
In which countries FB is the only Internet?
Unicode Explorer
> So TPMs are great if you're a big corporation!

Quite true. They're pretty bad if you're just a person.
Here's the link to the article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
Has he some how gone bankrupt? I can't help but feel if he wants to keep Blue Origin running, he could use a handful of the cash he has laying around one of his mansions. or one of his yachts. or his Texas launch complex. Pretty sure he could bank roll Blue Origin for decades without seeing any significant hit to his personal wealth.
> The feed is algorithmic and designed to surface topics to elicit responses/engagement with the community.

I don't think that's entirely fair. For instance, posts with a large number of comments or a high ratio of comments to votes (I can't remember which) are actually penalized, since that is an indicator that the topic is controversial. The flag feature is another example in that it is a way for users to veto low value posts that might otherwise get high engagement.
If you lived through the 80’s you should know that not only is loyalty not rewarded, but the breakup was quite traumatic.
A lot of TV shows and movies use the red tailed hawk sounds for when a bald eagle is on screen. The eagle sounds are much cooler but it’s basically like the Wilhelm scream at this point.
It gets worse, because the DEFLATE compression format used in Zip has a number of unspecified behaviors: https://www.nayuki.io/page/unspecified-edge-cases-in-the-def...
> How much time do you spend on HN?

Too much :)
It's Freeletics. I now added it as a footnote, thank you.
The usage of a 5g capable phone may also require an "upgrade" to a 5g capable plan. The major upgrade at the moment is paying more money. If it is 1 phone, then it is not that big a deal, but the cost value is not there with an (extended) family plan of 6 phones.
Exposing LemonDuck and LemonCat, modern mining malware infrastructure
Counterpoints:

- Libraries often CAN'T be written in a separate language without an additional effort -- and often writing with interop in mind means you have to give up nice features like C++ STL containers

- Libraries often CAN'T have separate build environment -- want to switch to C++14 but you have a third-party library which is stuck in C++03? Tough.

- Libraries often CAN'T isolate failures. A segfault or OOM in library will kill your app. Not so with external process.

- For many languages, libraries CAN'T have access to resources that the rest of the program cannot access. Other that few exceptions (browser Javascript, Java with non-default security settings, or exotic execution models), most languages have "escape hatches" which allow underlying OS access, thus bypassing any language-based restrictions there are.

- Libraries often CAN'T have effective resource management. Trying to find out how much memory does library use, or changing library IO priority is very hard. (putting all library in a separate thread might help with CPU usage but not with other things)

There are definitely times when you want a library -- your "priority queue" class should not be out of process. But for things which can tolerate extra latency / interface limitations, consider making them a separate process.
At one point it was suggested it's moons "shepherd" the rings ... keep them in line.
Covid: Anger as half of Australians in lockdown again
Shame they don't offer a touchpad with separate buttons. I will never understand why people tolerate clickpads. They're just ok with not being able to feel where the dividing line between left and right clicking is? The way the pointer slightly jiggles every time they click doesn't bother them?
I will say, having been following this blog for a spell, that cutting out seed oils a couple months back seems to have raised my average body temperature a few tenths of a degree. YMMV.
Can you give an example of a business that uses this? How does this set apart significantly from other competitors with similar use cases and functionalities?
Thanks. We appreciate that. We have some big plans for the company
just don't name anything after anyone because chances are they are not flawless
I had this idea as well, but as you start to build the app you quickly realize that each bird doesn't just have one sound, but many sounds and trying to do this accurately takes much more effort than you're probably expecting.

Download any of the existing bird apps that help you recognize birds by their sound and you'll see that each bird often has 3-4 distinct sounds, each of them different, and these are just partial examples.

You'd have to be extremely dedicated (and very good at machine learning) to see this idea through to completion.
You might want that trade off, but consumers in general have been leaning towards thinner and lighter for years. Just look around at complaints about the thickness of early android watches being too big and chunky. Or the huge popularity when the first MacBook Air came out.

Given the option between thicker w/ a bit more battery life or thinner and lighter, consumers are choosing thinner and lighter.
Yeah, you're right and I was wrong. Perhaps only the gas planet was animated using the Scanimate though. The firing solution circles might have been done on a computer.
Yet again it’s the old jwz point of people focusing on the irrelevant tech details of why something’s successful. Roblox isn’t successful because it’s a ‘metaverse’, it’s successful because it’s got a crapload of games that shut my kids up.
I wonder-- is this why my Sony HT Receiver remote has four unlabeled buttons on it, colored Red, Green, Yellow, Blue?
Further discussion:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724363
I can’t figure out how to click and drag on them! I can click, I can move the pointer, but switching between those seems to unclick.
Crafting an Interpreter with Rust
> Nobody is writing binary searches in their day-to-day jobs

But in an interview situation, they cannot give you a three week task. Like FizzBuzz, a binary search is a simple task that can be done during an interview. They are not testing your ability to write a binary search. They are testing you on your ability to implement a function, given specific requirements.
I think and have thought for along time we are indeed headed for a few competing "metaverses", but having ruminated on the topic for a long time, I could tell you all kinds of reasons a metaverse created by someone like facebook will inherently not be the one metaverse aka the one that actually makes a paradigm shift.

Ive pitched metaverse style training systems to the department of education for example. There is a lot of really good progress to be had in the space.

If done right, a good metaverse will be the next WoW. Thats billions of dollars. Im not surprised facebook is doing this, Im surprised they all didnt start their own metaverse programs much sooner...

The race is on, may the best win.
>JWST already has a name, they can't undo that association, even if they change the name.

To the technical people who're already interested perhaps, but the general public won't have that association.

It seems valid not to glorify people who were involved in atrocities (perhaps overstating things in this case, I've not looked into it - but as a general point) from the past.

Personally I can't see them deciding to rename it, but I don't think it's silly for them to consider it, and if they did I wouldn't be bothered... just get the thing launched so we can do more science!
New attacks on Kubernetes via misconfigured Argo Workflows
The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones
It's also a bit like: 'Man born over a century ago hasn't the same values that we do today. More news at eleven.'

Do you really think that Hubble didn't have such views, or any other person you name stuff after?
Cannot evolution theory be validated by calculations?

We know the size of genome of an animal, we can estimate the maximum possible number of mutations throughout history. And then calculate if it is possible to create such genome with this number of mutations or not.

For example, if a mutation happens once per K animals, if one successful mutation happens once per L mutations, and there have lived M animals then maximum number of successful mutations is M / K / L. We can compare this number to size of a genome and verify whether it could be created as a result of an evolution.
Yet another in a number of Bezos fluff pieces I’ve seen in the last few days.

Oh, he wants to save the planet? Maybe his garbage spewing engine named Amazon could do something there.

Bezos is smart enough to know the odds of him saving Earth or an asteroid hitting in 30 years are about even odds right now, so sure, sell that but also figure by then he’ll be too old to miss out.

Humans sure love to live in the fantasy that humanity is forever well they needlessly consume the only planet known for certain to support their biology.
What happens when a buy limit @10 order meets a sell limit @10.5 order?
I think at this point we shouldn't name anything after anyone ever again, its the only way to be safe
Or name after people mainstream media would approve and never dare to question.
How long until the designers rethink the design and make it as thin/robust as credit cards. I think there are already some adopters of keyboards with a credit card chip reader, though not sure how mainstream popularity of it would be jump started.
This reminds me of the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
My previous house was built in 1902. It had lots of issues. We lived in it for almost six years, loved the place and its character. I sold it for 50% more than I bought it. It never made it on the market before the contract was signed.
If I am not mistaken the ports on recent Apple machines are on a separate, easily replaceable board.
Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that.
Most of them already live in a town. Not every French person owns a 100-acre vineyard.
Well, I'm not sure about repairability of the case, but I suppose that after buying you can always buy/hack your own build with separate buttons. This is the beauty of full repairable hardware

If this is a popular idea you can even monetize pre-built touchpads
yall need to read Snow Crash
https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/facebook-free-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-...
I don't know how your bulbs respond so fast. My philips hue bulbs seem to always take half a second to react to anything.
Maybe if they are doing it in a SOS pattern.
Zero trust principles apply.
My 12 year old son has finished Robomind and I've started him on their Python version. I'm going to check out the link on this post. Anyone have other recommendations for his learning Python that I should check out?

At his age, something interactive or even hardware based seems like it would be the best approach. I've got a whole list of resources I could use with someone older. But I'm struggling to find something that's both incrementally guided, so he doesn't get overwhelmed, but also engaging, so he doesn't get bored.
Foundation – Official Teaser 2 – Apple TV+
Good question. Redis Timeseries is just a different data structure and works alongside other data structures so it wont add too much Impedance when compared to having different data in different systems.
On the other hand, imagine you used Redis for just cache and used TimescaleDB instead. TimescaleDB is based on PostgreSQL, so you need to use a different thought process, different SDK, different commands (SQL), different hosting, different devOps, etc. And for performance purposes, say stored some data in Redis for caching, now you have additional overhead because you need to now manage data in two systems. And let's say TimeScaleDB needs some other adopters to sync the data to Kafka, and Kafka needs Zookeeper, now all of a sudden you have 4-5 systems.

The goal of the Impedance impedance mismatch test is to identify such scenarios using a simple calculator and avoid them. In 2021, there are many single systems like Kafka, Redis, Cosmos, etc which can do multiple things way more efficiently. Many of these are OSS projects, so you wont get vendor lock-in.
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It is! Most people pronounce the first part of Hashicorp the way you say "hash" (as in MD5). Technically it should be "haw-shee" because of the last name Hashimoto.

Side note, internally a pseudo company name used for example purposes is "Dadgarcorp" after Armon Dadgar. :D
One part of the discussion that I found useful:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1297679530744852481.html

It's one of the tweets in the chain.
I've assumed this was well-known... AWS has never been a good deal on the billing side. You're paying a huge premium for API access and the strength of the AWS brand.

I was a bit confused as to why Cloudflare was blogging about it until halfway through the article, when The Bandwidth Alliance came in. Makes sense now: they just want to shame Amazon into offering free egress bandwidth to Cloudflare. This is basically a hit piece.

Also, another aside: for hosting providers (AWS included), ingress bandwidth is typically free because it's also basically free for the provider. Outbound dominates so much that the inbound traffic is a rounding error if it's billed by their transit providers at all. But I agree that the high egress prices are a vendor lock-in strategy.
In some African countries, Facebook is free via Mobile Data (also Wikipedia).

Therefore, it becomes the "only" Internet.

They even have cases of piracy movies being shared/available within theses sites.
They approached me, I had interviews with each one thought about it and and on reflection once I found out more about each company and the roles decided I was better off staying where I was at the time. At the time the company I was working for had some commercial trouble (not related to me) so I thought it was wise to be informed about what opportunities were available but I wasn't desperate.

Since moved somewhere else and am very happy with my new role.
> JWST already has a name, they can't undo that association

I think this is all quite silly, but wanted to push back on this narrow point. Renaming works. Uluru was renamed in the last few decades; the new name has stuck [1]. (With more time, New York and Istanbul.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru#Name
> failed to see was the democratization of tech. "A computer on every desk" has become an internet node in every pocket.

I find it harmful to equate mere proliferation with democratic participation. Sure, you have many terminals, but most of the information processing is still lopsided towards the centralized "server". When recommendation algorithms shove content down people's throats, only consequential participation expected from them is to engage with the ads, and they can't talk back to ads. The rest is almost as "democratic" as watching TV.

> One measure of the progress of a civilization is efficiency with which ideas can be communicated.

And it is a bad measure.

A psychotic person's mind also communicates tons of ideas back and forth, in fact too "efficiently". Propaganda posters from an airplane also communicates very efficiently. The idea that mere communication makes progress is what we've been thought by the engagement-maximization culture.

Real measure of progress is the extent those ideas converge towards the truth. How they can form a pattern of meaning that increasingly conforms to the reality. Current tech cares about none of those, and no wonder there is a crisis of meaning making and acceleration from departure from reality, just like a psychotic person.

> Now that capability is accelerating, the same fears arise anew. But it's a different world today. Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore.

It is just developed in secret by large scale internet companies now. For most of the tech most of the people have the most screen time with, what content is recommended why, what data is processed how etc are the biggest secrets.
As an employer, you don't want to be on the bad side of labour court.
Okay maybe I’m getting my software think pieces backwards and it’s this that is more relevant:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

And not:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
> they are in distress

> they just have kids

Is there a difference?
I'm sure the comments were made in jest...
We're going to quickly run out of names if every person we ever memorialize has to be without sin.

I bet Isaac Newton was pretty racist, let's rename physics to "pride math".
Thanks, I must have messed up the copy-and-paste.

@dang, would you be able to update the link?
> The team is still relatively small (it's 7 people), and supporting a service like this at GitHub scale is hard, but we're keen to keep improving.

While I empathize with your team regarding their apparent workload, that's only because they (probably) don't control hiring. GitHub isn't a struggling startup; it's not a non-profit; it's a mature, sizeable organization whose owner has over a trillion dollars in assets. If the team is too small to do a job, it's not because you lack personnel, it's GitHub's choice not to do it. You're GitHub, owned by Microsoft; GitHub doesn't care about these issues enough to staff them.

EDIT: Removed something provocative.