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Terry Rudolph's[0] 132 research works with 7384 citations and 7159 reads, including: Creation of Entangled Photonic States Using Linear Optics[1].

Or yeah, maybe he just finished Remembrance of Earth's Past

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Rudolph

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Terry-...
At this point I usually only use my DX for reading textbook-like content where being able to have a large visual field matters.

But for the first few years I owned it, I actually used it to read nearly all of my ebooks and do a significant amount of web browsing and communication, including HN, Gmail, FB, and anything else. The e-ink + physical keyboard made it my favorite web mobile device.

Somewhere between 2012 and 2015 sites stopped working as well and I realized it was because of https requirements which the experimental browser wasn't supporting, and I stopped using it as much, and then not too long after became a less frequent user of it to read ebooks -- my iphone was always with me and almost as good for most ebook content.
A usb device can have a hub inside and contain multiple devices. Those devices could include a ‘keyboard’ and other input devices; looks like that is what you saw.
I use to make and search for pages like: "List of foo with bar" trying to make the list as complete as I could. A bit like a single page web directory. Google would then complain that I had to many links on the pages and de-list them.

When seriously researching anything at all you want the full picture of things out there. You cant work with random joe's top 10 affiliate links.
It's called virtue signalling. See how virtuous this guy is, giving up the precious entertainment he already paid for a decade ago for no reason other than internet points - it's not like these girls are going to be ungroped by this guy's actions, if the allegations are to be believed.
The part you removed is the crucial part that explains that paragraph.
Just need something like this for postgres and we would jump on it. Citus is close, but all the features that are important are behind their exceptionally tall paywall.
“Soon, your Volvo will be able to drive autonomously on highways when the car determines it is safe to do so,” says Henrik Green. “At that point, your Volvo takes responsibility for the driving and you can relax, take your eyes off the road and your hands off the wheel. Over time, updates over the air will expand the areas in which the car can drive itself. For us, a safe introduction of autonomy is a gradual introduction.”

https://www.volvocars.com/au/about/australia/i-roll-enewslet...

"Everybody is aware of the fact that driverless technology will never be perfect - one day there will be an accident.

"So the question becomes who is responsible and we think it's unrealistic to put that responsibility on our customers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34475031
If a trained language model exactly reproduces copyrighted text, is there any question about whether copyright still applies?
This is StackOverflow, and the interview is about code, so they probably mean developer in that sense. Tarn is the only programmer.
I do not see any proof that the Malthusian predictions were wrong, on the contrary.

There has been indeed as you say "an explosive expansion of wealth".

While so much wealth would have been enough so that a much smaller population could have lived much better, the increase of wealth has been used so that a larger population lives about as well as before.

While modern technology provides a number of devices that allow me to spend much less time with chores than my ancestors, e.g. microwave oven, refrigerator, automatic washing machine, computer, mobile phone, there are a lot of things that I cannot hope to ever be able to buy, even if I am supposed to be a well paid professional, which my grandparents were able to buy from their salaries, e.g. large houses and land.

Moreover I am not even able to buy food of a quality comparable to that of my grandparents. While food is very cheap now, food of a quality similar to what they had can no longer be found anywhere that I am aware of.

I have never seen any evidence supporting this dream of "people working together who can actually create greater abundance long term".

People working together or single will continue to discover more efficient ways to make everything that we need, but no matter what they do, they cannot create an extra piece of land for me to have a house, or an extra forest like those in which I was happy to wander as a child, but which now do not exist any more, having been replaced by cultures or buildings or just wasteland.
Show HN: Stacked diffs / interdependent changes (on GitHub)
We (Screenplay, https://screenplay.dev) built an internal tool (Graphite) to enable stacked diffs on GitHub for an individual (i.e. you can adopt it without your team also having to adopt it). It's inspired by some of the internal tooling we had at bigger companies. Specifically, the tool has two parts:

* The CLI - https://github.com/screenplaydev/graphite-cli: Allows you to create diffs, restack them, submit them to GitHub, etc. It runs locally and stores all the metadata in your .git folder.
* The website - https://app.graphite.dev/: A UI layer on top of GitHub (ultimately reads/writes from GitHub). OAuth in to have a better/customizable review queue and stack visualization, with notifs and an improved code review UI coming soon.

You can use those two either separately or together. Would love people's feedback!
Most gas stations will not change to charging station. Instead, every parking place will eventually have its own charging outlet.
No they’re very easy to avoid. Just don’t play games by ten cent owned companies. There are a lot of companies out there and a lot of games - more than you or I could conceivably have time to play.
I have noticed you've become dramatically better in Lisp in a short time (2008)
What we talk about when we talk about performance (2021)
Only on HN can you provide specific industry advice and be downvoted for your insight because your opinion wasn’t agreeable.

I upvoted your comment to bring it out of 0 or less because these concerns are valid and critically make or break important when building multiplayer servers.

My relevant background here is in building multiplayer server software where a minimum of 1000 concurrent players is a required goal metric.
Definitely not! Well, maybe if I waited a while for it to cool off first...
Like Yjs, our Storage block is CRDTs based, but we're making different trade-offs. For example, our CRDTs are not "pure" so we solve some conflicts on the server. Also, we don't support Text CRDTs yet.

But Liveblocks is not just about conflicts resolution!
Our vision is to shape our API and guides to help companies transform existing products into collaborative ones. For example, by simply adding live cursors and avatars and refreshing the data with existing REST endpoints, an existing app becomes more collaborative even if the conflict resolution is not perfect. At the same time, we provide analytics on how Liveblocks is used to help product teams prioritize their collaborative features and if they still want to integrate Liveblocks further.

We're also hosting the WebSocket infrastructure and make it scale because we know how troublesome it can be to maintain.
I was sexually abused as a child, and having learned in the last week that Blizzard management has actively protected and covered up the sexual abuse and harassment that some of their high level employees have enacted on others, I have felt extremely sick to my stomach and it has been highly triggering for me.

Seeing that they're making literally no changes at all to management or executive leadership, I'm having a hard time describing the rage that I feel inside. These people who knew and covered up the harm deserve prison, not just being fired.

I've been a huge fan of Blizzard games since I was a child. When I see Blizzard pushing back by aiming to crush internal protest, these feelings I have about this corrupt anything good I ever felt for these games. These people in leadership positions and the HR department that covered this up are criminals and should be seen as such.
Seems like they're out of the immediate problem area: https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1420798716554928132

Still lots of investigation to do and probably a permanent fix incoming, but no big risk of them falling out of the sky right now.
> charge speed is would surely be the number one gripe for EV ownership

As far as I can tell this mostly only a concern among those who do not own an EV.
> they just advise...where to hire said external resources [mercenaries]

Do you have some evidence for that allegation or are you just making things up?

That would be quite serious, and illegal, if it's true. If it's true.
Wild Church
Maybe it’s just a normal thing as you get older, but knowing the company mistreated people sucks the fun out of it for me. I’m not completely against playing the stuff I’ve already paid for, but they won’t get another penny from me.

I’d like to have a database that tracks the C-Suite employees. I’d personally boycott any company that hires any of them. Their careers should be over IMO. I wish we could take away Bobby’s money too, but that’ll never happen.
That is a valid position one can have.

However other people for varying reasons have other ideas ...
How not to be that chemist
One of the things that companies rely on these days is engagement and playerbase. If you don't find that compelling, that's up to you, but Blizzard invests millions every year into maintaining their playerbase - so at least they find it compelling.

Just by being a part of the starcraft community, you are providing support to activision blizzard.

If we were talking about offline-only non-community driven content, sure... but this is a company that is almost entirely driven off of multiplayer games.
> Controversial HN opinion: ten years ago everyone would be up in arms about this change. Something happened. We no longer care about device obsolescence. It's like our concept of ownership and longevity has been stripped from us.

I don’t think this is true at all. Ten years ago, we had already gone through the analog to digital transition in a number of countries [1], obsoleting a lot of older television sets without the aid of a converter box.

In the US, TDMA and AMPS cellular networks were shut down by 2008 (TDMA shutdown started even earlier), obsoleting tons of early cellular phones, but also many phones from the early 2000s (again, TDMA). People were often given vouchers by carriers IIRC, since phones were largely subsidized by rate plans.

DIVX, a terrible DVD rental scheme that helped put Circuit City out of business, went under by 1999, leaving the devices essentially worthless (fortunately, most did receive a firmware update allowing them to be used as regular DVD players).

I’m sure there were some grumbles about some of this stuff (people were very mad about TV, even though converters were given away for free), but it is largely accepted that progress obsoletes certain technologies. This isn’t new.
Does this remind anyone of "booth babes" ? Is that still a thing at trade shows?
Agreed. I think plenty of articles have covered what happened that day, and the conclusion is that the central clearing risk controls (which are designed to protect both traders as well as the system as a whole) kicked in appropriately to handle the skyrocketing single stock risk.

The big problem here IMO is Robinhood's messaging. What the heck was their PR department thinking? Why didn't they just come right out and say "hey look, we have legal requirements which we're unable to fulfill in the short term, here's an explanation of the risk controls we're unable to meet. We want to help you do these trades safely, we're working to put more capital on the table for you, our beloved users"? Why molly-coddle your user base with "uhh sorry can't, goodbye"?
The article you're commenting on isn't about Javascript nor PHP though.
Yes, but by doing so RH drastically lowered the value of their customer's assets. It's like your real estate agent knocking down a few walls of your home before selling it for half price.
Critical observation:

""The risk of a single centralized party was realized at the worst possible time when the system could least tolerate it.""

I can't believe our SPOF actually F-ed!!

As is tradition.
Wow you come off as incredibly arrogant and myopic.

Why should anyone need to sign in at all for this functionality?
Israel will give third Covid vaccine shots to those over 60
Customer Obsession _is_ one of their Leadership Principles, after all.

Their LPs are somewhat fascinating to me in that they're publicly available and you can see how their actions fall into them. Well, save for "Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer."
Ask HN: How does the Austin tech scene compare to the Bay Area tech scene?
Thank you for pointing this out. I read GP in earnest. Your comment helped me re-evaluate that.
Why: most people don't know about the existence of this tag and the possibility of adding visually pleasing, local, informative annotations without any JavaScript or CSS trickery.
My goodness, that prose is turgid! I stopped reading after two paragraphs full of subordinate clauses and parentheses, and gave up.
The article is no clear on what the server is actually doing, for example just replicating state between players through that hub or it's doing simulation.

Either way they had to re-implement Racknet which is annoying because from now on everytime they add / change something in the network layer they won't be able to re-use the client code in the server.

I'm curious on why they did not go with C++.
That is just one form of communication that you cannot easily replicate in a remote work force and another is social interaction. I have found that it is the glue that holds organizations together and helps keep teams producing quality work. With remote first I can see teams becoming individuals and thought processes becoming siloed. Through the pandemic I’ve seen our department pre covid, then during the pandemic we went mostly remote first then now as we are all back in the office with remote allowed on a less frequent basis. Both moral and productivity have improved since our return. It fun to work again and that also means it will be more than “just a job” as remote work can become.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but I don't think you should attribute the progression of myopia to your glasses. It's likely it would have happened regardless, correlation not causation.
Fellow cel-only DX owner, also haven't received an email.
That's what I'm interested in. And yes, it does seem that the use of the artist's pigment name seems intended to obscure the fact that this is a complicated material.

Any solid state chemists here who can enlighten us?
YMMV, but:

- Memory consumption in production peaks at like 300 MB for us

- Scalability (i.e., being able to go wide on, say, a 64-core CPU) was more important to us than raw, synchronous speed

- Garbage collection is not something I've ever had to think about with Elixir (which hasn't been my experience with Python and Java)

- Because it's a sim and not something like a FPS, we don't have to worry about cheating (what would cheating even mean?), so we don't have to do any physics on the server side

- Despite being way more familiar with C++, I can't imagine going from zero to production in 6 months (or even 2 years) if we'd tried to do this in C++
I did, but I was going when I did so. Spent more time outdoor looking far, then close, then far, etc. I've become aware of the duration of the transition in focus and it now serves as a warning side. Whenever it seems to take longer to focus on far-away things I know I need to do some more exercice. Went from needing glasses (which I declined) and seeing everything blurry to having a great vision I can't complain about.
IIRC they added paid options after a family health scare caused them to realize that they needed a way to pay for better health insurance.
Is your comment just anti-virtue signaling then?

Sometimes people just want to share their opinions, and they actually feel those feelings. Sometimes those feelings are about ethical issues.
Rarely have I ever seen a serious tutorial or guide be so wrong on so many levels. I was flabbergasted, entertained and felt pity at the same time. Truly a train wreck of a video, would strongly recommend watching.
Blame your local state government[1] for not allocating the billions in rental assistance funds they received from the federal government. In many cases they aren't allocating these funds (and once available, landlords refuse to sign up for them) because they come with a "just cause" eviction policy if they are used.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/many-states-have-given-out-u...
Throwaway for some obvious reasons, but I work at Sennheiser and I think this is awesome! Personal opinion, and not speaking for the company.

A small disclaimer: operating modified RF devices can, in some jurisdictions and depending on the impact of your modification, put you in contradiction of the law.

From the manual:
"Your SKM 3072-U hand-held transmitter can be operated on one of up to 32 different frequencies. These frequencies and their sequence are pre-programmed by the factory and must only be changed by your Sennheiser distributor who has the required specialist equipment."

You may be surprised, but I just checked with some colleagues, we still have the software (SePT.exe) around as well as the service cable. :) I am not sure the last time we performed that service though!
> The US uses a vaccination compensation fund

So, the same terms as Pfizer was trying to negotiate in South Africa?

Doesn't make it any more/less unreasonable, but the article should at least mention that millions of doses have been given under similar arrangements.
What? How it more difficult that CVS or even RCS that lies under CVS?

That would have been the OS tool back in 1998.
One of my favorite Twitter users.

https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs

It's just funny Dwarf Fortress bugs.
Attention to "in the last year or so". The same link was posted 13-14h ago, not "1 year or so ago".
> All stars have very savvy agents and lawyers...it is an industry which selects for people who work very long hours and drive hard bargains, at every level.

When I was in law school at UCLA, I considered going into entertainment law. I attended a presentation by a famous entertainment lawyer who said that the lawyers in show business are not actually the most talented — unlike other industries, the big players don't hire primarily from Harvard, Yale, etc.

Instead, the halls of Sony Pictures or Fox are lined with graduates from second- and third-tier law schools who had a foot in the door because of a family connection.

The reason he gave for this is that entertainment law is not as complex as other areas of law, so the basic contract work can be done by a not-stellar lawyer. This was a 15 years ago, and perhaps times have changed. But I'm sure that family/industry connections are still an important part of getting these jobs.
Reminder that Robinhood are the folks who wrote the "infinite money cheat code" bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXrVriacUM
It's so handy! And I have personally tested a restore using it. It's a good idea to check out the read-only flags so you don't accidentally touch the file-system and invalidate an incremental backup.
If you have tenants that are not paying: approach them. Explain to them (not in writing) that you can no longer make payments due to lack of rent - and the bank could foreclose and seize the home. Offer to pay them 2X monthly rent cash to sign a contract to leave the place clean in 30 days plus free rent. Have a lawyer draw up paperwork (~$500/2hrs) and explain you and the tenant agreed to the terms.

Once the place is vacant sell the property or re-rent with short term rentals.
I thought lithium is a light element so the Lion batteries are lighter. But sodium might be useful for non automotive applications like the power grid batteries.
A sincere thank you for all of those links, very educational.

It seems to me that the "condescending sweep under the rug" you identify is motivated by the same reasoning that caused Fauci to declare early on that masks don't work - people need to be manipulated into doing the "right thing", and exposing them to information that might make them not do the right thing is bad, therefore that information must be suppressed.

Then, it was "we don't want people hoarding masks that are more urgently needed by healthcare workers, so tell them masks don't work". Now, it's "we need as many people getting vaccinated as possible, so suppress and cast doubt on all information that might make people hesitate". A few decades ago, this likely would have been effective (although arguably morally reprehensible) public health policy. With the internet, not only does that not work anymore but it actually backfires spectacularly, and our government elites haven't come to terms with that.

I find it at least somewhat reassuring that the biggest unknown potential side effect of the vaccine seems to be around female reproductive health, but the demographic by far most at risk from covid is past their reproductive years anyway. The ADE discussion I know nothing about, but look forward to reading; thanks again for the links.
Olympics Insider Calls Bullshit on Firing of Black Performer Latyr Sy
I don't think there's a single "anti-competitive monopoly" today that has less FOSS involvement than any major software company in the 20th century.
He told us he has just cashed out of an alarm company for $1M when he engaged us. Turns out that was typical Trevor hype... he had gotten nowhere near that amount. Would sometimes pay his invoices with stacks of $50 American Express prepaid cards. Drove my bookkeeper bananas. I assume the reason was rewards related. His claims for traffic on his Upillar platform were ludicrous; made out of whole cloth. Hired Glenn Beck to shill for him. Drove a comically lifted 4WD truck with UPillar emblazoned all over it and seem to always have plenty of motorized toys... boats, ATVs, etc. All funded by investors. At the end he poached one of our employees and left us. I was glad to be rid of him; the engagement was never comfortable for me.
I don't care about OCaml documentation, my point was about "Which is admittedly not as convenient, but that's Windows for you.", and UNIX versus other platforms in general.
Given that their first response to the lawsuit was to complain about “unelected bureaucrats”, I think their response is being driven more by their id than by careful market research.
But they're trying to figure out if the person they're interviewing has the level of knowledge necessary to understand what a process sandboxed from other processes in its own cgroup and namespaces means, not trying to give an intuitive description to someone who doesn't understand how Linux works.
They did implement their game server in Elixir, and it performs great for them in reality. From what I understand, they are supporting 10 000 players with a low CPU and memory usage, so if this scales linearly they should be able to support 100k players. You're also ignoring the reliability aspect, which is why they chose Elixir (and the BEAM) in the first place. Performance is also less of a problem since they're on the server, and thus can add more hardware as needed.

Could you share a bit more about your experience in the industry? I think you and they have different use cases, which makes you reach different conclusions.
Aside: Today I learned about the existence of "video.ibm.com" which seems to be where NASA now streams its live video. I'd never heard of it before.

Live ISS stream: https://video.ibm.com/channel/live-iss-stream
(Currently no video, intermittent audio.)