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Right, but the game needs to actually build with it in mind.

In a CRPG, death is basically an illegal operation — your only option is to save scum or reset the campaign (eg on TPK. On single death, you can probably resurrect), so the tail risk of instant-death is untenable.

In ADnD and roguelikes, death is a matter of course, so tail risk is a natural function of the game — and they offer various mitigation strategies (e.g. campaigns don’t require anything to actually be dealt with — ADnD just says you need to get gold, by any means necessary. Rogue says the same, but for the necklace. So tail risk is truly an opt-in). Boss fights are optional and rewarding, but not required, and often many exist, so trivializing one by a 1-625 crit sequence isn’t nearly as damaging as in, say, baldur’s gate.

In grand strategies, there’s enough rolls, and its not sufficiently damaging, that it’s just part of your day-to-day. The same is true of tail risk running a distributed cluster.

In risk, tail risk means a group of 5 can knock down your group of 30 — which voids any strategy whatsoever. There’s not mitigation path, and there’s not much alternative except to say “such is as the gods have deigned”, as they penetrate a key area with basically nothing. You could describe it like wesnoth “good strategy, bad luck”, or you could describe it as a bad mechanic (not to comment on wesnoth’s usage).

Ultimately, it depends on whether you actually have the tools to do something about it, or a design to convince the user accept it outright. But without either, you just have bullshit.
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[Cwm (pronounced coom) is a general-purpose data processor for the semantic web, somewhat like sed, awk, etc. for text files or XSLT for XML. It is a forward chaining reasoner which can be used for querying, checking, transforming and filtering information. Its core language is RDF, extended to include rules, and it uses RDF/XML or RDF/N3 (see Notation3 Primer) serializations as required.]
True, true. But from the picture in the article, it sure looks like there's a heck of a lot less rubber overall in this tire— so regardless of what it's been historically, this is a step toward a tire that "consumes" way, way less rubber per X distance of driving, whether due to less rubber being in it overall, or it being able to be recharged with additional tread before being disposed of.
(Replay engineer) Google is currently the only way unfortunately. We wanted to support secure logins at launch, with SSO and Multi-factor Authentication, and focus most of our efforts on the core product. As a result we just went with Google for launch.

We don't currently have any plans to add additional authentication mechanisms but we've heard this feedback from a couple folks and we'll sit down to prioritize it after the excitement of launch has died down. Sorry about that!
I think allowing the federal government to insert itself so intimately in our careers with such strange specificity is a precedent set today (in an emergency) that we will come to regret. Its not just the rights taken away today of those you disagree with its the long term decrease in burden to take away anybodies rights. Even apart from the intertemporal concerns, some of these decisions seem immediately negative: Does it really make sense for instance to introduce mandates which cripple businesses on which we directly depend to get through this crisis? What is the long term outcome? How can we model our situation and chart a course. Is vaccination the only hammer?
I wonder why those big companies don't hire someone new and train them. I'm sure not everyone is interested in new techs. I for one is very interested in these "boring" techs but it's pretty difficult to train myself on these stuffs.
I think using `or` for default fallbacks is generally considered bad practice because it disallows all falsey values, like `0` and `{}`.

It doesn't matter in this particular case because the only falsey List is `[]` anyway, but it's a bad habit.

JavaScript added the `??` operator for this specific problem.
I love the concept that the solution is to work around the applet issue and not find some new monitoring software.

I wonder how effective ancient monitoring software is.
Go read your link carefully. Page 23 not only does not disallow network access, it specifically allows logging it and stipulates what can be done with that data.

“ keystroke logging done by any such extension must be clearly disclosed to the end-user prior to any such data being sent from an iOS Product, and notwithstanding anything else in Section 3.3.9, such data may be used only for purposes of providing or improving the keyboard functionality of Your Application (e.g., not for serving advertising);”
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Somewhat related - how would you setup geospatial indexing using a traditional index? For example IndexedDB?

I’ve been wanting to implement something similar to this (albeit much lighter) for the use with indexeddb - it’s challenging since many of the capabilities here just aren’t available to JavaScript on the browser.
Won't be the first time this happens...
This seems at odds with the Go 1 compatibility promise. It's trivial to see that the go1.17 upgrade will break any program that relied on 'PreferServerCipherSuites' to run correctly.

The Go 1 compatibility promise (https://golang.org/doc/go1compat) does have an exception for "new security issues that come to light", but this really doesn't seem like it's a new security issue, but rather closer to a defense in depth measure.

I think the correct Go-like way to handle this is to deprecate the entire 'crypto/tls' package and tell users to use the 'v2/crypto/tls' package, akin to how go modules work.

That new package could then not have the 'PreferServerCipherSuites' option at all, which would make it very clear when a user migrates that this change is occurring, and if they relied on it they must make an appropriate change to their code too.

Obviously, the entire world would have to shift over (since a 'v2/crypto/tls.Conn' would not be compatible with a 'crypto/tls.Conn', it's a struct not an interface), but that also seems fair. It's what the go team tells users to do in the case of module versioning, so it seems quite consistent.

I find it surprising there's no mention of backwards compatibility or the go1compat page in the CL or linked issues.
Are bipartisan bills a thing of the past? I don’t have any sources, but I thought a sizable segment of the voting public in the US favored bipartisanship. Just wishing we weren’t so polarized…. Also wishing I better understood what interests were pushing the polity towards polarized ideologies. I’m not convinced it’s a completely organic phenomenon (rather, that there are special interests benefiting from the polarization).
Not sure if this helps but someone did a bit of reverse engineering on this plugin:

https://thomwiggers.nl/post/proctorio/#:~:text=The%20virtual....
How to buy crypto and stay anony?
Hey, I'm looking to buy crypto and keep myself anonymous, what is the best way to do it? if i try to buy throw a wallet it requires me an email and after that some personal information.
anyone is familiar with a way that could be helpful to get crypto anonymous? ( no ATMs)
I kind of dropped out of Linux audiosome time ago. Can I ask why both pipewire and jack? I thought pipewire was supposed to implement most (all?) the stuff that jackd does.
Most of us here have read this exact story several times over the years, whether it's on LinkedIn, Twitter, or HN. He increases wages after a conversation with an employee, the employees all pitch in to buy him a Tesla out of thankfulness. He's "the $70k min wage guy."

This is honestly worth millions in advertising for Gravity Payments (I remember the name!) for this story to somehow keep popping up.

The dark side is that he keeps milking this story to look like a good person while he was sued for overpaying himself initially, and was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife.
Replay’s designer here.

Bingo! We’ve been iterating on our story for a year, and the “let’s refer to Learnable Programming” angle felt like a huge breakthrough.

So glad it resonated with you, thanks for letting us know!
Every time someone mentions meetup, I go check it out and search for events around me. Nothing in 50 miles.
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You are right, and I was just lazy. 28 is an even number, and it felt nicer to say 14 days out of 28, rather than 14.75 out of 29.5.

Separately though, the misconception comes from the fact that we have 4 phases of the Moon (new, first quarter, full, last quarter), and it's easy to conceptualize that the interval between two is 7 days, or one week, rather than 7.38264725.
The sound of a modem handshake. The whoomp of a CRT monitor powering up. A vending machine on another uni's campus replying to your pings. Hum of a computer lab with the hollow of elevated floor under your feet. Those linen floppy sleeves. Using finger. Plan files. To each their own, obviously, but welcome to nostalgia.
The more interesting story with that site is how many of those charts indicate whatever is going on with the data it's showing happened a decade after or a decade before the date in question, and people just blindly take it as evidence of something happening in 1971.
If peanut butter was $200k a jar and not $2 a jar, then I would imagine there would be a lot of talk about the soil and pesticides.
Agreed on principle, although in the last 2 years there's enough material for a highly successful Idiocracy sequel. Probably a short series too.
If you have the patience, I would recommend spinning up a VM so you can isolate your test envirorments, you can keep the goddamn extension installed there for future tests, but you only use that VM for testing, and spin it off and never touch it again until next test. since it's a VM, it shouldn't have access to your system to delete files

Little google found this on reddit might be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/UBC/comments/j0gq1m/psa_forced_to_u...
I'm pretty sympathetic. More transparency means that class based lobbying will be easier, so we should expect the more powerful classes, like the credentialists, to win out and get themselves higher pay.
I suspect a significant causation could be that living near a highway is low status, and having a beautifully manicured lawn is often about trying to signal high status. Why bother with a high status lawn on a low status property?
Inverse is true as well. How do you prove it?
Is it possible to use tarsnap's deduplication code on my own server? We're setting up an ML dataset distribution box, and I was hoping to avoid storing e.g. imagenet as a tarball + untar'd (so that nginx can serve each photo individually) + imagenet in TFDS format.

https://github.com/xolox/dedupfs was the closest I found, but it has a lot of downsides.

Has anyone made an interface to tarsnap's tarball dedup code? A python wrapper around the block dedup code would be ideal, but I doubt it exists.

(Sorry for the random question -- I was just hoping for a standalone library along the lines of tarsnap's "filesystem block database" APIs. I thought about emailing this to you instead, but I'm crossing my fingers that some random HN'er might know. I'm sort of surprised that filesystems don't make it effortless. In fact, I delayed posting this for an hour to go research whether ZFS is the actual solution -- apparently "no, not unless you have specific brands of SSDs: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/my-experiments-i..." which rules out my non-SSD 64TB Hetzner server. But like, dropbox solved this problem a decade ago -- isn't there something similar by now?)

EDIT: How timely -- Wyng (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537761) was just submitted a few hours ago. It seems to support "Data deduplication," though I wonder if it's block-level or file-level dedup. Tarsnap's block dedup is basically flawless, so I'm keen to find something that closely matches it.
It sounds like just a bad deal. You don't have to do it based on credentials. The flip side is maybe you WERE being overpaid, able to trick your way to some kind of advantage, and got caught.

It does make it more challenging to reward top performers, who might be better off just sitting back
> What I miss the most now is the feeling of everything being new, the possibility for exploration and discovery.

Oh, good... it's not just me. :-)
"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there (and not sure what the point of the comment is, you're just restating the details of the original complaint? only with implied upward inflection like this?), but even when you "just" do those things, it doesn't get you a time machine or a refund for the energy you've already expended (read: wasted).
Indeed. Before Obama it was considered bad form to bad mouth your predecessor. If it was done, it was subtle. Since Obama kept talking about the situation he "inherited", the practice has been institutionalized by his successors.
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Right, sorry I copied the wrong number. Edited the comment above.
Per https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sec-advanced-attributes:

> passAsFile: A list of names of attributes that should be passed via files rather than environment variables.

Looks like it's basically just a hack for envvars that do/might exceed whatever bash's internal limits are for them.
Can we stop giving this dude a platform? He embezzled millions of dollars from his brother and co-owner, who later sued him, and him taking a pay cut and increasing his employees' pay was nothing short of a settlement. Not even going to go into the domestic abuse allegations. This guy is a certified scumbag.
Your thinking is too black and white.
Dan Price is more of an activist than a businessman. Good for him for doing this, but of course it would be very easy to assume that revenue would have risen more without this.

Compare his business growth to others in the sector and in the same time period and you'll (probably, I am too lazy to do this) see his growth is below the curve.
They don't pay enough. That's the issue. If COBOL paid as much or better for the average developer than Java, there would be no shortage of COBOL developers.
What would actually happen is 10X you would negotiate to be paid double what your slacker coworkers made. Then they would look at the pay spreadsheet and dedicate the bulk of their time thereafter to complaining to anybody who would listen about how unfair that was.

Eventually you’d have to leave or the boss would have to ditch pay transparency.

There is no world where 10X people will agree to a 50-75% pay cut, so the only people that will be left in these transparent shops will be the bottom half of the talent pool.
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Thanks for substantiating my point and doing the research.

The HN community - or even just small parts of it - did not go hard on Epik nor Rob Monster >12 months ago and mention all the horrible things about them, and it was not as commonly known as some currently make it out to be - not even in the thread about them welcoming Gab, nor the one about them not hosting 8chan.
Just my anecdote: Personally I don't like using the one in Xcode (and maybe I'm missing something obvious) because I got so used to the debugger in JS land where I get access to a live REPL which functions just like the code I write. In Xcode, I'm stuck with some lldb prompt which I don't understand and definitely doesn't function like the one in JS tooling. I'm sure it could be more useful if I invested more time into learning it, but the barrier is there.
I get those every so often from US websites that doesn't want to deal with the GDPR.
> though there are stringent regulations i don't think they are the limiting factor

This is exactly the limiting factor. I could build you a Pulse Ox device with a nice graph on a Raspberry pi in a few days/weeks quite easily and put it in a pretty case with battery power and connectivity to the internet and your phone if needed. A cool hobby project.

However, selling it as a Medical Device (those words have a specific meaning) will raise the price exponentially. Let's look at some of the things we need to take care of in order to keep the FDA happy.

Development process: the software & hardware needs to have been developed with a predefined process, with specific minimum steps taken and certain documentation needs along the way. This doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize just how much it can slow down the development process and add more cost. If I can't prove that those steps were all taken, then I have to create a validation process to prove that the part I bought off the shelf (like the Pi) is suitable for the task -- not a difficult thing to do, but all these little things add to the cost of producing something.

Supply chain: you need to be able prove the provenance of every item in your device back to the originating manufacturer. If the manufacturer changes something, there needs to be a mechanism so you can be alerted to evaluate if it has an impact on your product. No buying cheap parts from pulse0x7337 on Amazon.

Manufacturing: basically set out a process for building it and make sure there are no deviations from that process and be able to prove that you are always following that process.

Complaints: you need to have in place a method for users of your device to report issues with it and to be able to respond quickly and correctly, in some cases within a federally mandated time (if in the US) depending on how serious the complaint is.

Compliance: ensuring compliance with 21CFR is such a huge task that there are entire companies that are dedicated to doing this for you if you can't afford your own team.

Support: can't remember details off the top of my head but you are required to provide support for your device for xx years after you remove it from the market. This means the capability to answer user questions and perform repairs if needed.

So yeah, it might seem like an excuse, but it really isn't!
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My question is inspired by this tweet:

https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1433881190889521152
Do you mean ads in the sense of "please buy brand X coffee" or in the sense of "please try some of this machine's delicious coffee"?
If you’re on this site, you probably work in an industry where it feels like very large things can get done in 18 months. I remember in February 2020, before anything reached the US, watching China build a new hospital in all of 10 days. I have some vague understandings of “all-hands-on-deck” govt projects of the past. FDR’s WPA jobs program, etc.

So it’s dishearteningly easy to look at this situation from that point of view: “my government, and everyone currently exercising power, has had 18 months to do the dirty work of expanding health capacity, retrofitting buildings to make them safer in the presence of a virus (e.g. open-air supermarkets), and whatever else is necessary to help us all live how we’d like to during this time,” and instead they’ve not really tackled any of those things. We got the vaccine, which is a huge triumph, but beyond that it’s just “hey we need you as an individual to stay at home another couple years while we slack off and keep ignoring any opportunity for letting you live the life you did before.”

I know not all real world systems are as flexible as software systems, especially true of the Frankenstein healthcare system we have here. But it really is not hard for me to say “if this were my problem, I would solve it like an engineer, by building (more capacity, tools to make it easier to grow manpower in the areas they’re needed).” And then be upset at the people who are asking me to make my own life shit for another couple years so that they can avoid making life-long improvements to the systems that need it. Because if our roles were reversed here — if I were the one at risk of this disease — I would never ask of them what they’re asking of me. It’s just not how I think about the world or how I think about solving problems.

I think some people voicing GP’s comment really are doing it in good faith. People have different lived experiences that lead to radically different ways of thinking about the world and how to act within it. These disagreements will always exist. The pragmatist accepts that and says that of the range of possible solutions to your problem, the most successful is the one that can be grounded in this world where people disagree with each other and pursue their own interests.
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Doesn't it say one of the individuals is an ex-US citizen? I'm curious around that mention. How is he being charged in that case?
Thanks! I agree with this. I was mostly wondering is any carrier had consumer privacy and stuff in mind from a nontechnical perspective, like not selling user data.
Any nurse "exposed to hundreds of cases a week" has probably had Covid by now and is thus far less likely to transmit it to you than anyone who never had it but took the vaccine.

Even the immunocompromised are probably better off having actual nursing staff (even ones with a marginally higher risk of transmitting Covid) than not having them. I mean, it's kinda funny how the freakout about ICU capacity just disappears the second it's time to start mass firing hospital staff who won't get the shot.

Can you point me to a large RCT showing that the unvaccinated are "plague spreaders" for the currently-dominant Delta variant, in comparison to the vaccinated? For the purposes of the comparison I will take a 50% or greater reduction in transmission, although the way the vaccine mandators talk you would think it's 100%.
Back then malware was fun unlike today.
If they're dumb enough to use the same hotspot from the same location over and over, sure.
I don't think VPNs go that far. Wouldn't that be more like Tor type of security?
I’d like to think that if there were alternative good paying jobs in WV, many would gladly give up the coal mining jobs. It seems like this bill could be an opportunity for WV to chart a different course in exchange for its vote.
The prerequisites of the applied force in the case of drunk driving would be driver’s acts of volition to choose to get drunk and to choose to drive afterwards.

What are the prerequisites of the applied force in the case of staying unvaccinated? What are the acts of volition that justify the force?
Im more skeptical.
one of the reasons we're still on jre8 is any of the newer jres I tested throw crash panics on several tasks and the ones that dont take 40 or 50 hours to finish instead of instead of 4 or 5. (mostly changes in the garbage collection as far as i could tell, several command line options we rely on for performance were depreciated with no way to turn them back on)

That left me with the impression that stability and performance had been abandoned over throwing everything including the kitchen sink at it to try and attract people who like rust and go.

Could be wrong, but the hand waving away the implication that 17 is slower than 15 at the end and not even trying to compare with 8 which is rock solid and crazy performant leaves me thinking nothing actually changed.
According to the website the solution is....bitcoin?
> Our employees had a 10x boom in terms of the number of babies they were having. We went from having between 0-2 babies born per year among the entire team, to over 65 born or announced over the last six years," he added.

I'm 100% a huge fan of direct payments to parents and incentivizing parents to have children, but I do think this undersells the consequence of having a workforce which is moving from their mid-20s to mid-30s. Existing evidence is that getting people to have more children is really, really expensive. I'm sure this did move the needle, just not 10x.