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Great post. Minor rant: However while Cloudflare does not charge for edge-egress, their pricing story is terrible, awful and dare I say terrible again.

It looks like they took their internal evolving developer docs and turned it into pricing for customers.

There is a tree of docs and pricing you have to get to the punchline which is that Cloudflare for the most part is several orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS or any other cloud provider. And each 'team' seems to have their own little pricing page with arcane details - exactly the definition of 'ship your org chart as products'. Just check out Workers pricing for instance. The product is great but the pricing story is silly.

But it's almost like they want to drive customers directly to AWS with Amazon's simple pricing calculator and tools.
I am very proud to say that I was successfully able to get "Northern Cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis - Almost certain" by whistle-copying the cardinal that lives in my backyard.
Don't forget that although the base floats it is also tethered to the seafloor with chains and anchors! The mooring provides most of the stability, and if it were not tethered then it would not stay in place at all.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth my U.S. state tried to stem the brain drain to out-of-state universities. They offered big money scholarships to anybody who graduated in their school's top ten. The higher the rank, the more money.

This was pre-internet, but people still tracked rankings across the state. One kid would transfer schools to bump their rank two spots. That would cascade to a flurry of transfers. All the top students knew where their GPA would place them in every other high school in the state and everybody was watching for movement. Eventually, they capped the program to be based on your rank midway through senior year to prevent 100s of transfers in the last month of the school year before graduation. Which of course, just moved the activity to the last month in the semester before the last semester before graduation. But then you had to maintain your GPA in the new school for a whole semester, so it involved more risk.

Now that I've told this whole story, let me say that none of it is true. Or, at least, I don't really know how much of it is true. I do know that it was the buzz among students when I was in school. I never entered that world very deeply. I'm pretty sure that it did happen a bit. Probably not as much as it was talked about.
The routes are published, I don’t see the big deal of removing a few frames from the composite shot when one fly’s over.

“It’s hard” does not seem like a valid excuse to deny internet to the underserved. Plus, I looked through the manual for the most widely used telescope compositor and it supports tracking published satellite trajectories and automatically dropping the frames when a satellites overhead. It seemed a bit tedious to set up, but the GUI of most of the thing looked positively 1997
Well, I still make regular one-way backups of everything, so I'm happy to cross that bridge should I encounter it. Unless something really freaky happens, SyncThing would probably just complain about the conflict until I resolve it. At least I don't have to worry about silent corruption, i.e. either the file is fine or there is something wrong and keepass won't open it.
Saying the market isn't big is indeed questionable, as the total addressable market for advanced robotics is easily that of the global labour force.

Likely what is meant is the market for current state of the art robotics, which have limitations and are cost prohibitive (capital wise).
Radial symmetry is the term usually used for animals, yeah. It's just nuts that they switch body plans so radically.
Property taxes are fundamentally regressive because if two individuals in the same tax jurisdiction live in properties with the same values, they pay the same amount of property tax, regardless of their incomes. That's the literal distinction between progressive and regressive taxation. The fact that the middle class household can offset the burden by getting a smaller place is quite irrelevant.

In addition, it's erroneous to think that property taxes are shouldered by landlords. They are, in fact, passed on to renters.
I've been using /e/ on my android phone and it has been working great for me. https://e.foundation/
PC games are built with power in mind that Switch does not have. So you couldn't play them. Switch games are not built with m+kb support, so that would be pointless.
Any old Maple Story / Neopet players here?

We all know those games sucked (Neopets took a while before they added those Flash minigames and even then, those minigames weren't really ever that great). We stayed for the community and social environment. Even back in the 90s / early 00s, there were lots of "games" which were primarily a social experience rather than a gameplay experience. Maybe Club Penguin and Eve Online also fall into this category...

I never got into MUDs, but some friends of mine described (some) MUDs as glorified IRC chat rooms where you play a bad game with friends. I expect this "social game" has been going on since maybe the 80s.
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See Duck curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

Essentially, solar is great from 8am to 4pm, and California has replaced about half of their load during those hours with solar. However, they have negligible renewable capacity during other times of the day, including peak demand from 6-10pm.

There's a more up-to-date version of California's Duck Curve here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...
But how can robots be used to harvest personal data?

Maybe this is an end-use case.
Sounds like we have an excellent accord, then. I want employees who can think creatively about problems that they haven't seen before. So with any luck, you'll find places who want employees like you, and I'll find employees who match my criteria.
Boy Scouts, 4-H, Lion's Club, and other shooting clubs are out there and very active. I shot in all three organizations competitively as well as the local smallbore club. There were and are Postal Matches as well, where they send you a target and you mail it back in after having shot it (there is a degree of honor system going on there, which I never saw abused).

Many towns in the US have their versions of Schuetzenvereins. Where I am in California (!), several surrounding towns have their own clubs with ranges, as well as one facility that is essential county-wide. The latter range has hosted national championships in a variety of shooting sports. My cousins took hunter safety classes at a public high school in Louisiana. The local public high school has an indoor range, but sadly it's just used for storage, now.

These things exist and are used in large numbers, but the press is actively uninterested in them because they near-universally lack blood or excitement. Just people safely enjoying shooting sports, preparing for hunting, or putting holes in paper for fun.
Is there some info on how they tracked him? Just bought some public data, that was so badly anonymized, that it could be correlated with his public visits?
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We have an ISO layout for UK English and other languages tooled and in testing. There are an enormous number of hurdles to shipping in each new country, across currency, language, customs, fulfillment, support, certifications, compliance, taxes, duties, business registrations, and more. We're working through them as we go, but as a startup we had to focus and pick a couple of countries to launch in first (the US and Canada).
That makes sense, thanks ! Good luck to you as well.
I don't know about other places, but historic downtown areas in Oregon are pretty consistently packed, especially now. My family just took a trip to a small town mid-week, which is when you can usually get a seat at a restaurant on the "strip". We had to wait nearly two hours for lunch this time. Walking between shops was bordering on bothersome because of the crowds. I can't even fathom how it is on the weekend.
VR/AR is such a new paradigm for interacting with computers I think that its inevitable companies will make many failures before finding the apps and hardware that clicks with customers.

In 2017, we had only had mainstream non-beta VR headset hardware in the marketplace since 2016 (original consumer Rift, HTC Vive), lets not forget the 20 years of PDA hardware/software attempts we lived through before the mainstream smartphone designs we all use appeared in 2007. I expect a very similar arc will be followed for VR/AR, especially as the interaction model is so different from screen based.

I'm happy to see some development out "in the open", and wouldn't be so quick to criticize small project flops; VR/AR needs to begin somewhere. Zuck isn't trying to pretend VR/AR is ready for primetime either yet, he's made it clear he wants to be in a very strong position when/if the market does heavily move to VR/AR hardware, which he obviously believes strongly it will over time.
I'm not as familiar with Houston in particular, but I think the important note for most of these places is that while there are expensive "central locations" that isn't the same as saying prices are centered in downtown (which in many cities comes from a legacy of racist policy/actions, though this is rather aside from the point of them being different from what the article linked here describes about a constant outward-migration and abandonment cycle, vs a particular moment in history). In Dallas and Atlanta, those areas are largely north of downtown. In LA, they're largely west. IIRC Austin and San Antonio had hot spots in the northern parts of the city too, but I'm less up to date there.
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Found this as a useful alternative to progressive house while working. It is Indian Classical Music
A typical C implementation would be using realloc():

The realloc() function tries to change the size of the allocation pointed to by ptr to size, and returns ptr. If there is not enough room to enlarge the memory allocation pointed to by ptr, realloc() creates a new allocation, copies as much of the old data pointed to by ptr as will fit to the new allocation, frees the old allocation, and returns a pointer to the allocated memory.

Worst case definitely 2x memory. But not necessarily always.
Isn't the context an interview, ie. give a decent order of magnitude estimate with back of the envelope methods.
will depend on some very open standards that are decentralized at the core

There's a performance problem. The open Web only works because we have enough compute power to tie up multiprocessor computers with a few gigaflops per CPU and gigabytes of RAM to display 2D text with a few pictures on the screen. A good 3D game world pushes the limits of what current hardware can do. The level of inefficiency associated with Javascript/HTML/CSS won't work for an interesting 3D world. It was tried. See X3D.
Good luck with quantum proof encryption
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I got a quest 1 for as a gift a couple years back. They frequently automatically installed updates that break mods. Now, my headset is currently bricked and I need to figure out how to factory reset or something to fix it.

Maybe its just indifference, but given facebook's history it feels intentional.
Wow, I had no idea the big car companies were making self-driving vehicles by lidar'ing all the highways ahead-of-time. Wow.

Feels like magic: is actually just humans doing a crap ton of work behind the scenes. It's not quite fakery, but not too far off either.
Now that Facebook has announced their intentions, it seems like Apple would be motivated to construct precautionary measures against intrusive data collection and user tracking into their hypothetical imminent AR platform.
VSAT is primarily owned by large hedge funds and mutual funds, just like most other publicly traded companies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VSAT/holders?p=VSAT
There are some restricted form of value prediction in the wild: Indirect branch prediction is fairly common; so is alias prediction that will speculate whether two data addresses (at least one if which is a store) do not alias; AMD memory renaming also makes assumptions around stack addresses; outside of these special cases I'm not aware on any cpu that will actually generally speculate actual values or address.

On relaxed memory model machines naive value prediction would break dependency ordering (i.e. memory order consume), so things get very complicated.
Bad in what sense? Curious because I just signed up for OCI a few hours ago.
That doesn't in any way tease out the effects of sockets it seems impossible that that doubles power usage.
The real artistry is to deploy updates without doing a hard fork. Taproot is one of these and it is very, very important.
Except the Vulcan hasn't had a single launch yet, will have half the payload capacity of the Falcon Heavy and is being built by a company with no experience in rocket landing/re-use.

I don't really see how the Vulcan will be competitive with the existing launch capabilities of SpaceX, even if it does launch successfully before Starship.

I don't see how Blue Origin producing the engines for an also ran rocket is going to fund their operations. Blue Origin will be dependent of Bezos and the USG for quite a while, atleast until the New Glen can be launched re-usable.
At this point personal data is irrelevant, the new goal is for robots to harvest persons directly.
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Reminds of this post that was HN 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064. Both had some pretty useful tips for someone like myself who doesn't have a systematic approach for productivity.
>It's so nice to know your elected officials work for foreign powers and themselves and they say the folks who stormed the capital were the terrorists.

Why can't it be both?

What would you call folks that violently and successfully interrupted a core democratic process of tabulating the votes from different states?
That makes sense. I know there is a lot of resentment in the astronomy community over Starlink, but suing is a big financial risk.
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I'm sorry that I got the prices reversed. Your explanation makes total sense to me and thank you.
I'm not sure I buy this type of attack. How is this different from calculating yield of a bomb as Fermi did? It's back-of-envelope calculation that physicists do all the time. Ping Pong in a Boeing is merely a setup with the least context. This is like criticizing a math teacher for asking elementary students to calculate how long it takes to fill a swimming pool when water is flowing in and out of the pool at the same time. Yeah, the setup sounds ridiculous, but you know what, that's the setup that a student understands, and we see similar scenarios in real world: a company earns and spends at the same time, a queuing system has incoming traffic and completed tasks, a factory has incoming jobs and outgoing completed products... So, what's wrong with the question again?

Frankly, the fictional Feynman in the article sounds confrontational and arrogant. Take the manhole question for an example, all the counter questions are either nit picking, or rejecting the value of industrial design. Of course there is a reason for choosing a round shape for manhole cover. Of course there is a trade-off among different shapes.

Please note, I'm not saying the manhole question is good for interview, but it does not mean that we need to be mean and resort to cheap attacks to make a point.
> People getting those payments now are following the standard unemployment rules.

No... they are still on unemployment from the loss of their job last year. The rules changed, but the people already on unemployment (voluntarily) did not lose eligibility.

> The unemployment benefit for corona was calculated to be a minimum wage job plus 40 dollars a month.

This is _on top of the existing state benefits_. You are pretending that the federal benefits are the only UI, which is just not true.
We done mention that movie around here...
> Only stupid racketeers get caught.

Evidence suggests that in all walks of life, half of people are below average in intelligence.

The larger the conspiracy, the higher the odds (asymptotically approaching 100%) of getting caught eventually (and eventually isn't all that long).
Saw a talk a couple years ago about similar techniques being used to identify marine mammals. https://research.redhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RRQ-V...
I'm not sure to follow "15000% annualized inflation in a one-month period"... Could you expand?
Thanks. I mostly use it for synchronizing my various machines and as a backup. Sharing with other people is absolutely secondary and something I can do without.
I think it actually makes a lot of sense, from a computer architecture point of view:
(1) total resolution is generally a component of the graphic processing power needed (for straightforward graphics rendering), and so scaling GPU power with displays/resolution make sense
(2) placing a GPU in the display lower the demands on the interface, of which Apple has repeatedly hit the limits on

In addition/as a result of these you get some usability and user experience advantages:
(a) avoiding degrading laptop performance when connecting an external display without the user having to know about eGPUs
(b) no additional box/cables/power mess from using an eGPU
Agreed. The iPad is leaps and bounds better for casual device use during travel - reading, movies, music, emails, browsing, social media and some casual document editing works just fine on the iPad. Except for the development environment, I don't need to reach for a laptop at all. I can even read code via the Github app.

So, unless I know I have to write code, I don't carry my laptop anymore. 10 years (or even 5 years ago), this was unthinkable for me.
This Pay-to-Taproot output spendable by anyone is a decent example.

Most multisignature behaviors still aren't exposed, its kind of weird. But looking for to taproot making multisignature addresses indistinguishable from other addresses.

There's the general empty space that people shove all sorts of things into. From plain text metadata to encoded messages to derivatives trades.
Thanks for the feedback Jacob, and for all the support over the years. I'm going to pass those three on to the Dependabot team, who are best placed to think through solutions.

(FWIW, I'm sure we can think of something to fix (1) which balances security and usability - it just needs some thinking. (2) sounds like a bug to me - I'm sure the team will want to look at that. And (3) is a tricky case where Dependabot's Ruby logic needs to be able to unlock a dependency's "parent" or peers in order to make security fix (e.g., rails in the case where the vulnerability is in activerecord). Entirely possible but hard!)
If the users want native notifications, which most do, then developers have no choice but to release a native app because Apple purposely doesn't implement web standards on iOS that make web apps and PWAs usable.
I don't know of any, and I do not think doing so would solve the problem, but I do think misinformation is one of the largest problems that humanity faces. I feel like it is the root cause of most of the worlds problems.
Funnily enough, one of those dozens of examples hits close to home here:

A main source of the original fortune that funded the creation of YC and thus Hacker News was the $49m sale to Yahoo! of Viaweb, a SaaS website builder (focused on ecommerce) founded by Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris in 1995.
>Looks like Podesta is everything the 'Drain-the-swamp' Trump supporters hate.

Yet not a peep from the same people about swamp creatures Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn.
But Newton is at least a scientist. Webb is a bureaucrat whose name was memorialized as a surprise unilateral move.
A ~50% drop in purchasing power over a one-month period (from 65K to 29K) is an annualized inflation rate of ~15000%.
I think there's advantages and disadvantages to either approach. In this case, the thing I like about it is having them talk through their reasoning, regardless of the domain. If it's a domain they're familiar with I get the benefit of their knowledge, but it also takes longer because the specificity raises a lot more questions. If it's an unfamiliar domain, I get a glimpse of their creativity with a problem they haven't previously considered.

If anything, it sounds like "ping pong ball" problems have become cliche. That makes them less useful: it doesn't represent my creativity, and it potentially leads to them reciting rote answers from "cracking the interview" books.

Fortunately, I can come up with a thousand problems off the top of my head. How many letter "e" in the New York Times every day? How many sodium atoms in the ocean? How many people at the Nobel Prize Ceremony?

The more off the wall the question, the more I'm testing how they handle the unfamiliar -- as well as conveying who I am. Which is part of the point. They should be interviewing me as much as I'm interviewing them.
As a side note, FizzBuzz is mostly a meme, right?

I don't get how it's a real interview question considering that it requires hardly any thinking at all. You're almost directly writing the description of the problem in code instead of having to think about algorithms, complexity, data structures or edge cases, like in most other problems. Is a test of if-statements and remainders that useful of a filter/signal?

I know that some companies give it because I've had to do it myself but I still find it bizzare to give such an easy test. Maybe it's fine as warm-up in a series of questions and it's used to make the candidate comfortable?
Thanks for posting the original source
I'd rather have a medium house with big safe parks. Growing up out in the woods is great, but having kids who are trapped with no autonomy hurts kids in a way I'd like to avoid.
I interviewed for a job at the BBC many years ago and there was an HR person in the room with the interviewer making sure that they stuck exactly to the script.

As someone who thrives on talking about side-projects, I did not do well in that interview.
> it so resolutely silly

All technological leaps sound silly until they happen.

> It takes a huge amount of energy to get into orbit

Sure, for the initial resources that you haul up there, but heavy industry begets heavy industry -- and light industry, and everything inbetween. Once you can build in space without hauling resources up the gravity well, costs go down, and the cost floor is a lot lower than it is on Earth, in the long run. We'll probably never see the crossover but our grandchildren might.

> Meanwhile, it is actually achievable to reduce the environmental impact of heavy industry and agriculture on Earth, reduce consumption

We should chase those paths further than we have, but in the long run it's a game of diminishing returns. You can only be so efficient before the victories become pyrrhic and even then you will still be a long ways from zero-impact.

Space scales all the way to turning Earth into a nature preserve (not that we would or should, but we could).

> It would also be a lot more impactful to invest billions into stuff like that instead of space access.

Today? Yes. A hundred years from now? Maybe. Two hundred? No way.
So why not make a lot of noise then?
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