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Mech Warrior 2 was one of my very favorite games, ever. Right up there with Monkey Island, Myst, StarCraft. Man now I want to go play a bunch of old games. Maybe even Starship Titanic, which came a bit later but was so much fun.
One guy they profiled is making $20 an hour in Toledo, Ohio. If he's working full time, that's 40k a year.

Zillow has a number of houses for sale in Toledo for under $40k. Like, they need some work, but a real house, under 40k.

I think that guy is doing fine, he should just keep doing exactly what he's doing.
If you're not familiar with NSO Group and Pegasus, I highly recommend episodes 99 and 100 (just released) of the Darknet Diaries podcast.
Spreading third party misinformation is different from creating said misinformation. You could ask them where they got the misinformation and go up the chain till you find who knowingly made it up and don't have someone else to blame.
Mouldy corn, obviously.
I was asked to do some bash programming for a linux admin gig, was able to do them all with 1 liners in bash with sed/perl/awk, which is how I would do it on linux. They didnt like that, real world experience, how strange.
Show HN: Load env vars from variety of sources with ease
Legitimate government? A warlord the US liked was over thrown by a warlord the US didn't like. Taiwan was under martial law for almost 40 years! It only recently became a democracy, what is the claim?
What they want is high throughput per watt, just as they say, hundreds of Watts more per unit that stand up is a lot at scale. Infrastructure providers are eating up business purchases, and they do care about what used to be a blip in accounting with the electricity and estate bill, now becoming a significant part of their costs which must be optimised to compete with margin. Energy efficiency is more and more important, Intel got Apple's love with their core architecture, killing Ibm/Motorola in the mobile space. I think the same fate will happen to Intel in the server space if they don't deliver an energy efficient architecture. With the headways the apple silicon has made recently, it seems improbable that Intel will catch up.
>more than 10 million unique monthly visitors

>our ~$1500/month budget

I understand not wanting to show ads, but is there no way for the users to contribute to hosting costs?
Oh totally.

Half of games networking is finding out what you can "get away with" from an impact/user perception. Ex: play hit effects, sounds in a de-synched way locally but have major game events be authoritatively acked by the server, the local events also do a good job of masking the latency. The other half is really cool tricks like dead-reckoning or lock-step[1] which uses a completely deterministic game state to sync hundreds of entities over latent connections.

It's a really fun design space that's leverages heavily both the game design(designs where players "predict" are easier to keep in sync/fun), a level of deception to hide latency and cool technical approaches to hard problems in a non-deterministic environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep_protocol
Assuming you've installed Minikube and separately downloaded the Docker CLI client, you start up Minikube, set up the Docker environment using `minikube docker-env`, and run `docker` commands as usual.

This configures the Docker client to run against a "remote host", it does have some notable limitations. The `--publish` and `--volume` arguments don't work the same way, for instance.
Over here (Uruguay), rideshare services are way more reliable for tourists.

I have family from the countryside, and while they're not robbed outright, they're driven on the most inefficient way that drives up the meter.

Tourists can pay up to 100 dollars for a trip from the airport for example (legally if morally questionable).

A similar trip on a rideshare is less than half, but they're banned from the airport.

Plus, taxi drivers are unionized and are terrible drivers, while rideshare drivers are regularly kicked out if they give substandard service.
It's a nice article, I guess, but the site is down (the one discussed in the article, not the blog post itself) for me.
The Chinese people, even if not all, support their own government, at least more so than a foreign government. Trying to separate the two is misguided. Chinese people shape the CCP, make up its ranks, and for the most part tolerate it and grant it legitimacy by the act of not rebelling.
There is a reason I wrote my post in as carefully a neutral manner as I did. My message is that the author has a significant body of other work supporting her position and has spent considerable time developing and advocating for it, and that this is not really about OnlyFans alone but part of a broader social movement the author is a notable part of. I am deliberately not taking a stance on that movement as part of my comments here, because I think it’s a complicated topic deserving of serious discussion, and that that discussion has been ongoing for forty years as part of mainstream feminist debate.

Perversely, it seems that writing in an intentionally neutral way has caused me to get downvoted to zero, while the top comment calls the author a crank.
There's nothing unreasonable in the concept that people should stay out of high traffic roads where it's not safe.
the singapore government has birth incentives well beyond a $500 voucher. plus, there are decent HDB flats available for $500k.
Reverting to a different resolver isn’t difficult on something like Fedora and even manually editing on other distributions wouldn’t be that bad. Logging is a per application basis and I’ve found most things easily support syslog. So, both wishes granted.
A $5/mo premium plan would break even so quickly
You’re just using two different definitions of “legitimate” which is as common as two people using different boundaries for “blue” vs “green.” You’re talking about legitimacy as having effective control of the country, as the North Korean government does and the Somalian government does not. The person you’re arguing with uses “legitimate” to mean something like “with the just consent of the governed” which a government can have even without de facto control of its territory.
The better things will not remain so for long. Many of the industry and technical progress came at a huge cost. It's the future generation who will bear it. Data conclusively indicates real-world climate change is tracking the IPCC's worst case scenario.

https://youtu.be/fliCxyAwBWU
So… you admit to not reading the article.
It works fine for me: https://mangadex.org/
I'm amazed that their architecture doesn't include a CDN. These days I expect nearly all high traffic websites to make use of a CDN for all kinds of content, even content that's not cached.

They cited Cloudflare not being used due to privacy concerns. It'd be interesting to hear more about that, as well as why other CDNs weren't worth evaluating too.
From the gp-linked wikipedia article:

"The film struggled to find a distributor for eight months and was not able to run on a large streaming platform like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. It is widely believed this was due to those platforms' fear of offending the Saudi Arabian government and possibly losing subscribers.

Fogel showed disappointment at The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to acquire UAE e-commerce site Souq.com shortly after he refused to release The Dissident on Amazon Prime Video."

He tried to get it published by other means, but money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/media/dissident-...
Current version of the CCP seems worse than more recent versions. It depends quite a lot on who is at the top and how much authority they wield.
Taiwan wasn’t always a democracy, so if that is the standard for “legitimate” then Taiwan fails on that measure too.

Same with South Korea. Both countries started as US-backed dictatorships, and US backed them mainly for its self-interest of halting communism (a threat to American invested political ideals).

Like it or not the majority of Chinese people fought for and aided the communists, and continue to legitimize the communist party government by engaging in orderly civil participation.

Like it or not, anything bad the Chinese government does the Chinese citizenry are culpable because they are not agent-less slaves of the party.

People in China can participate in government. Believe it or not a government which has no finger on the pulse of their constituency or acting outside of their interests can and will be overthrown. You eventually run out of bullets—and people, if you point a gun to their heads.
Curious if anyone on HN has built a testing framework to catch this kind of issue.
We use libwebsockets in Ardour (a cross-platform digital audio workstation) to provide the ability to create control surfaces (GUIs) within the browser. We mostly treat it as a transport layer for OSC messages, which could otherwise be transferred via UDP (if the endpoint wasn't a browser).
As someone who works for a non-major datacenter. We use VMware and have evaluated OpenStack. Lots of moving parts for OpenStack, administrative burden. So we don’t use OpenStack.
I think the author was speaking generally about Minikube, not specifically as a Docker Desktop replacement here. Minikube can also be installed on Linux and doesn't require a VM in that environment. On Mac and Windows, it does of course require a VM, just as Docker does.
They use hours, not battery drain.
I’m pro choice, but gender equality? You can’t be serious.

If I get a girl pregnant, what equality is there in choosing to abort? None. I have no say. My only choice is pay support if she keeps it or go to jail.

The above being said, banning abortion doesn’t improve equality over the current situation.
Yes they did, I said that. But it was a claim made as a question, because I didn't know whether it was actually true. I still can't demonstrate formally why this would be so, because again, the reasoning and even veracity of the claim is still in question due to lack of anything but a hand-waved answer.
Teen Drug Addiction Reasons, Remedies, And Parental Roles: https://www.hackerslist.co/teen-drug-addiction-reasons-remed...
> By having a separate voice channel, it's implicitly broadcasting "these people want to talk".

Is that significantly different from making a new channel and labeling it "voice channel"? To me it doesn't seem to be, but I haven't tried it.

>It's also broadcasting who -is- talking

That sounds like a legitimate feature request, if it's not in the issue tracker already?

On the rest of your comment: thank you for the context, it was an interesting read, but I think I got what you meant with the first three sentences... maybe edit out some of that that if you file a github issue :)
I loaded the front page of Mangadex and it made 114 web requests including 10 first-party XHR requests, 30(!!!!) Javascript resource requests and somehow 4 font requests, without me interacting with the page. Clicking one of the titles on the front page resulted in nearly 40 additional requests.

Perhaps if you are limited by requests per second you could consider how many requests a single user is making per interaction, and if this is a reasonable number.

The website is impressively fast though, I'll give you that.
For reference, here's two I've found:

CTemplar: https://ctemplar.com/features/

Helm Personal Server: https://thehelm.com/
Single Parenting Challenges and How to Raise Children Alone: https://www.hackerslist.co/single-parenting-challenges-and-h...
Would seem worth noting that, to appreciate a concept of "the outside", such an outside would need to be sufficiently logically aligned to be [bound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem).

For example, suppose that there's some root-universe (or much-more-root-than-apparent-universe, anyway) which simulates a child-universe, that simulations a child-child-universe, and so forth. If the rules of simulation and mechanics are distorted/reduced along the way, then it may be the case that higher-level universes would lack any logic to be parallel to a lower-level universe, making the lower-level universes fundamentally beyond conception.

(Example of "beyond conception": Imagine if a god appeared before you to truthfully explain a new type of physical particle/whatever that exists in the universe. However, the particle described operates according to a complexity so vast that making any predictions based on knowledge of its existence would be infeasible -- you'd need a computer larger than the observable universe to make even the most trivial of predictions in the simplest of cases. Then, even if you looked and tried to find examples of the particle, you couldn't, because you couldn't compute a prediction to align with the hypothesis that you're looking or not looking at one.)

And so, an analysis of apparent-complexity would seem insufficient to eliminate the concept of being a simulation within some more-root-universe.

That said, we can still consider notions of universes more ontologically local to the apparent-universe. And so it might be more interesting to consider not the question of IF the apparent-universe is being simulated, but rather what the space of productive notions of plausible outside-universes might be.
It would be an issue if Youtube's doing it for their own benefit, but they are just honoring Nintendo's request to not show that content to minors, so Youtube isn't at fault here.
Gamers have been spending real money for proprietary "skins" for quite a while now. Epic makes billions on FortNite through such a system. But they are only able to charge such fees because they are in control of the system. They would never voluntarily give up that control if they could. Making the world that players choose to socialize in is where the hard work is.

Facebook is betting that the Metaverse is the next step. The Metaverse is already here, and it's called VRchat. There are millions of skins that chatters can use for free, though like early YouTube much of it is breaking copyright.

It takes real skill to create a skin, and if you want a custom skin there are people willing to pay for the creation of a skin that fits them. These custom jobs can take modelers tens to hundreds of hours sculpting and animating and they can charge thousands for their hardwork. This is all already happening.

That is to say, I see no reason that NFTs or cryptocurrency changes any of this. It's just false scarcity. The artists are already getting paid for their work.
What can be the next big thing after the internet?
I think the usual argument re: Cloudflare on the privacy front is the fact that they pretty aggressively fingerprint users, and will downgrade or block traffic originating from VPNs or some countries. This is a natural side effect of those things often being tied to abusive traffic, and a lot of it is likely configurable (at least on their paid plans) but it often comes up around this.
They should have debtor’s prison at some point. Obviously going bankrupt from medical debt should not send you to prison but running a $60 million fraud should.
It's effectively a warez site. There's a reason why they host in the places they do and can't be too picky about providers.

CF will also pass through things like DMCAs easily.

Based on their sidebar, it's probably hosted at Ecatel or whatever they are called now (cybercrime host) via Epik as a reseller, the provider famous for hosting far-right stuff.
On one had - yes please, screw OSes, gimme something like Smalltalk environment (in it's Pharo incarnation preferably).

On other hand - define OS. Isn't that Smalltalk environment an OS if it runs bare metal?
The government is most certainly legitimate if they're able to hold a country together for centuries. Whether or not the claims of being blessed by their god is legitimate is a different matter entirely.

Just saying you don't like a form of government makes it illegitimate is a silly proposition. You get people every election in democratic countries saying the government is illegitimate. Usually they're considered crazy. Should "tyranny of the majority", as they'd say, be considered legitimate? What about tyranny of the minority, since in many countries, most people don't even vote?

You can recognize that a dictator is the legitimate ruler of a country, while also acknowledging that he's not working in favor of the people. If someone has an entire territory's military at their command and they can write and enforce laws, that's usually a sign that they have a legitimate government.
The concept of equality of the sexes it not normal in Japan because of the culture which is focused on tradition and not growth of the culture. The roles assigned and expected behaviors have helped caused the birth rate issue, where a large number of the population never marry and procreate.
Nukes are not the solution because they are mature tech. They are very expensive, always have been, always will be. Nuke plants have to be big to be worth building, but like any big public works project, they attract corruption. Most of the price of a typical nuke plant in the US is (100% legal!) graft. That won't change either. It takes many years to build a nuke plant because nobody involved wants the gravy train to stop. Finishing means it stops.

(A fusion plant would need to be enormously bigger than any fission plant, so would attract enormously more corruption, and probably never be finished.)

Solar and storage prices are still in free fall. Battery tech optimized for utilities rather than phones and laptops is coming to market at 1/3 of lithum's price, and will fall from there.

There is no lower limit on useful size for solar. It can start producing useful power immediately while you add capacity. It is more valuable with storage, but works without. The more storage you add, the better it is, but even a little storage pays for itself immediately.
They mention a $1,500 budget per month but then omit things critical to understanding how they achieve that cost point.

What is actually more interesting is to understand what portion is spent on servers versus bandwidth - and what hardware configuration they use to host the site. For example, Is $1,500/mo just paying for colo costs + bandwidth, with already owned recycled hardware (think last gen hardware that you can get at steep discounts from eBay / used hardware resellers...)

That would have been way more interesting to know given the blog title than the choice of infrastructure software they use.
There is the MangaDex@Home, where users can serve part of disk space/bandwidth to help serve (mainly old) manga chapters. It does need to be something that is running 24/7 (e.g.: not a PC that is shutdown frequently), so something like a VPS or a service is recommended.
I've sufered their virtual cloud solution professionally, I concur. And not only they failed, while they focused on providing Software Defined Data Center solutions to enterprises, the enterprises were already trying to figure out how to actually kill the infrastructure cost. It wasn't too much of a software feature problem than it was a hardware cohesion problem, which VMware weren't even very good at providing support for to make their software actually be somewhat on par with say AWS which itself isn't particularly shiny in term of performance.

We were getting sub ms latency between applications on the same DC site, across all layers up to application. With VM were we were well over 2ms and at the virtualised network level. With marginal improvements on that front observed after 2 years of back and forth support projects.
You can get within 20% the performance for 1/10th the cost by using a modern fast language (rust, d, nim, go), and within 50% for even cheaper by using c# or java.
I didn't say it was an argumentative fallacy to ask the basis by which a person's assertions have been formed, I said it was a fallacy to say a person's assertions are wrong because of some aspect of themselves, which is what's taken place here by insisting I must be a calculus teacher in order to challenge your assertion that IQ is the primary source of the problems your students have with learning in your classrooms.

What is interesting to me is the fact that you retreated to this ad hominem the moment you were challenged, because it tells me you don't have any real explanation for how you eliminated other possible causes for your students sometimes performing poorly.

You'd prefer to live in a world where your experience has meaning than to live in a world where your experience is not valuable when faced with this question, which is completely human of you, but ultimately not useful in this discussion, due to its anecdotal and un-rigorously collected nature.

I can't stop you from throwing this New Yorker article, and the other works of Dr. Harden, in the face of your colleagues, but I can hopefully dissuade others from making the same logical mistakes you're making. I believe I've succeeded at that, by clearly highlighting the carelessness of what you've said here.

Ultimately, what I find most fascinating is, in real time, you've demonstrated how right Dr. Turkheimer ultimately is and how dangerous this research can be when put in the hands of folks who don't understand its delicacy or even the basic facts surrounding these arguments.

I'm grateful for your engagement with me, it's been helpful to work through this with someone like you, but I'll commit to the thing you tried and failed to do; I'm no longer going to reply to your comments in this thread. You're clearly (and I mean clearly) wrapped up in a need to think of some of your students as too dumb to learn calculus, and there's literally nothing I or anyone else here can say that would convince you otherwise, and at this point I've done my part in preventing others from thinking that your insight is useful or helpful in this conversation.

Have a great rest of your evening!
This. DES was strengthened against differential cryptanalysis, a technique not discovered by the public for over a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis

In 1975 brute-forcing of 56-bit keys was a NOBUS capability.
Premium plan on content that can be considered as dubious in copyright context? Seems like a quick way to get shut down.
>anyone with a mainstream political belief different than my own

The law as written goes far beyond a mainstream political belief. There is no civil reward for turning in or reporting or suing a child rapist, serial rapist, a pedophile, a child abuser or a cannibal or a serial killer, much less someone that assisted them. None of these are legal activities in any state or country.

But you can report someone helping someone else get an abortion and you get a minimum of $10K? That's a full degree of separation from an abortion and is an indirect 'crime'. Is that 'crime' somehow way worse than all the direct heinous crimes that I listed that we have to allow civil litigation? Abortion is legal in large parts of the world. What about women who get unfairly sued? How do you prove you did not have an abortion? Who's going to pay for the lawyers to defend them?
Is there a precedent for this apart from autocratic regimes where people are supposed to watch others?
And you still need to review the code yourself and review the compiler's code, and all the object code produced, and test it, and...
You probably have Verizon - they've started null routeing traffic to sites "like this".

https://old.reddit.com/r/mangadex/comments/nvj7qf/is_verizon...
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This could work if it had groups based on topics.