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>They're essentially circumventing market mechanisms

That's the point. Market mechanisms will only fund things that will obviously succeed in a short time. A market cannot innovate or be creative. A single person, with a proven track record of being ahead of the curve, can.

>and wasting a bunch of resources

The tremendous excess of resources we enjoy today comes from allowing a large number of people to explore ideas without first proving that does ideas were guaranteed successes. Not only can we easily afford to waste resources, we can't afford not to.
You don't hack a bank across state lines from your house, you'll get nailed by the FBI. Where are your brains, in your ass? Don't you know anything?
It could be, but in most cases it's not due to RAM commonly being unupgradable in laptops.

A larger amount of RAM might still be cheap to install in the first place, but that choice is not always directly up to the consumer.
> In other words, there are enough IPv4 addresses that I can get a block of 5 static IPv4 addresses, but CANNOT pay for a static IPv6 block. What's the limit / issue with giving me a static IP prefix if I'm willing to pay? Seriously...

> I feel like proponents of Ipv6 have not actually tried to use it at the consumer / prosumer / small business level.

Have the same issues. I solely blame my ISP for it, not IPv6. They still think IPv6 is like v4, but with extra addresses.

A little bit off topic (but might be an option if you are a really dedicated prosumer guy or a business it sysadmin) but you can get static IPv6 Prefixes from Internet Registries and announce them yourself over BGP. You can buy prefixes from Securebit.ch, for example.

My shitty ISP gives me a static v6, but only a single subnet (/64 Prefix). I even tried getting the business package, but even then they would only give me a /60 prefix, which isn't enough for me.

Now I have a whole /44, of which i will never even use 5% of.
> Seems like they are delivering decent profit numbers for their investor

This is IMO completely the wrong benchmark. Are they delivering value to society? Yes some, but IMO not nearly in proportion to the amount of wealth they've accrued. Your free to make your own judgement about that, but if you agree then you also agree that market mechanisms are not working in this case.
For web backend, I like Swift better as a language, but the ecosystem and the performance are not really here. The compilation times are also a bit annoying.
Zendesk acquires Momentive to boost its customer analytics offerings
It does, wonderfully.
Protecting your Google Fi calls with end-to-end encryption
It's hard to follow through on the right to a speedy and fair public trial when the defendant cries asylum and holes up in an embassy for years.

Human rights always get fuzzy at the interface between nations. A lot of nations don't even agree on what human rights are.
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haha very much this. The upside of not getting disturbed while concentrating and having better work/life balance is not exactly one of life greatest mysteries.

https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png
Some standards are good, some standards are bad.

OpenBSD chooses to have an opinion on standards according to the project's own security criteria - simple inclusion/exclusion of a given technology X while ignoring their decision process is not a valid reason to critique the security posture of the project as a whole.
I mean, different Asian fish sauces are different quality/taste, and I think I can tell the difference between the terrible ones and the great ones! Quality varies quite a bit.

I suspect this is indeed a very good fish sauce, what with the high-quality fish and fancy salt, and "artisenal" production. There are also very good asian fish sauces!
Except, great irony, in TFA, it was the glass vessels and not the other ones which had bits of the walls going into solution and helping to make the other amino acids. Eventually perhaps giving rise to oak trees. Doesnt look like it to a lowly primate, but glass has a hallowed place in the cosmos, cherry oak is a fucking upstart
“Scale to fit below built-in camera” on MacBookPro2021
Texas shocked by killing of motorist who pulled into man’s driveway
Waypipe https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
Facebook almost certainly gets a higher margin from ads compared to selling hardware.

Answering your question is difficult because the kind of people who buy a Quest have more money to spend and therefore advertisers' click-through rate might be different.
For me it sounds like they are still requiring a form of login so some sort of oauth. And they probably track you with that anyway.
As far as I can tell, the word "cracker" has close to zero uptake outside of the food industry (and, perhaps, people who produce cracks for software). You're far better off letting the context distinguish between the type of hacker, or mentioning it explicitly if the context does not make it clear, since more people will understand what you're talking about.
"The way that hundreds or thousands of hours of human lives swirl about their whims" and many other little quotes in the thread betray the real motivation here. There are many more industries/groups of people that "waste" (under some moralistic definition I would disagree with, but it's a separate discussion) less per capita, but more in aggregate. E.g. most air travel. Or really any large entertainment-related industry (I love video games, but is there really nothing more productive the game developers and players could be doing?)

What is really going on is good ol' envy. Historically- primitive egalitarianism, as rational and helpful for building a good society as other aspects the social structure of clans and tribes.

This usually happens in practice, too; but for a large fraction (and maybe a large majority) of leftists it's also the poorly hidden goal - "virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"
I think the simplest life is at least few orders of magnitude more complex than creating amino acids though. I feel people gloss over this fact.
> Guess what happens in this situation – Bob spends 40 minutes talking out of the hour's meeting about how his way is right, interrupts everyone, and by the end of the hour meeting the boss is saying “Well, why don't we do a proof of concept with Bob's suggestion” simply because everyone is bored and hungry.

This happens in Zoom meetings and phone calls all the time too. It’s even worse in remote land when it happens.
I was a bit surprised why they used zukerburg to make the announcement in the first place. Fb is seen as a very creepy company. The amount of memes calling zukerburg a creep and the amount of jokes I have seen in the past few hours is astounding.

If fb did meta as a separate company/project and not directly linked to zukerburg and maybe had fb as a partner company they would have made this whole thing feel less silly and less creepy.
In Thai fried rice, sure! (By which I mean fried rice from thai restaurants in USA, I have zero idea what they do in Thailand, or China, or if they eat fried rice at all. :) )

Whether it's "usually" part of the recipe or not, if you like it, go for it!

Totally different thing than oyster sauce as I've seen oyster sauce.

I put fish sauce in lots of stuff, if it's good fish sauce it's really an umami boost.
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It also felt to me like vaporware, just a bunch of promises and no product or no real announcement. Apple on the other side is just quiet and opens up once it has something to sell. Then again FB is an ad company so this is what they know best, marketing.
My kid: runs into room, hands $5 to me and starts to run back to her PC

Me: What's this for?!?

Kid: Bought something on Roblox byeeeee
I recently wrote https://staysaasy.com/career/2021/10/16/mentorship.html about mentorship

My narrow advice would be to make a list of 20 questions you’d like to ask someone. Then reach out to people on LinkedIn you think could give you good answers and ask them if you could pick their brain for 30 minutes. Then ask those questions and say thank you a lot.
AAE it's different because uses Broadcom chipsets.

That TP-Links are running on Athreos and later on MediaTek.

Difference - Broadcom drivers are old and for old Linux versions (like 2.4 or 2.6).
While I agree and do the same, I guess when something you integrate with is untyped (hardware, bags of (crappy) json or xml etc), exploring really helps.
Thanks. I like many aspects of their service description. The pricing per website, makes sense, but I obviously prefer the Dreamhost one price for unlimited sites model.
> The tremendous excess of resources we enjoy today comes from allowing a large number of people to explore ideas without first proving that does ideas were guaranteed successes.

Yes, that is why I believe we should distribute resources so that as large as possible a number of people continue to have that opportunity, rather than concentrating so many resources in one man's project.
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> ...but a particular strain of voters who are motivated by racism, sexism, etc

It was received quite properly as an attack on any voter who would not vote for her: that is to say, anyone not voting for Clinton herself would by definition be deplorable: racist, sexist, etc.

This was taken as a rather self-serving statement
Piece of news is sensationalist. This is 100% on the student. Had she actually failed she should’ve jumped also. And that’s completely unreasonable.
Yes. And add Thailand to the list. full lockdown almost 2 years long, not a case, population goes into (even more) poverty as tourists are excluded. Then they open and... oops..
How much money does Facebook make from selling headsets? The answer is <= 0, as they sell at or above cost.
There is certainly a tension in modern devops tools, between the desire to do things easily across large sets of machines (and especially across large sets of diverse machines) easily, and the fact that you lose all the advantages of inertia and difficulty in making stupid changes the better you get at that. As you scale up this tension gets worse and worse. You don't really want to create a tool that allows you to trash "every router you have" in one fell swoop, or to trash "every server in every data center", and yet at the same time, you need the ability to manipulate "every server" at the same time with the same tool because who can afford to log in and manually change 20,000 machines? It's really difficult to have "the power to administer" 20,000 machines without having "the power to destroy" them all.

You can't even easily ask "are you sure?" because if you're asking that for every little thing it ceases to be a useful guard. You need tools that detect if you're doing something stupid and dangerous and only ask then, but in the limit, that's strong-AI hard for ops people. That is, there are some obvious ones you can try to catch... "did you really mean to unassign all IP addresses?", but in general there's always something that will go wrong more cleverly than your detection code.

Hooking machines up to orchestration code is something I have to do. I operate at scales that Facebook would laugh at, but they're still well beyond what is practical to manually manage. In my opinion that scale taps out somewhere in the large single digits per ops person, which is nothing nowadays. But it always makes me nervous to do so, too, because I can see I'm putting all my eggs in one basket in the process, and the traditional "watch that basket really hard!" answer for when you're stuck in that situation is visibly not adequate.

I don't have a solution to propose. The tension seems fundamental to me. All I can suggest is that everyone sitting in front of any devops tool always be keeping the possibilities in mind, despite your brain's desires to say "hey, the last 1000 deploys went fine, I can stop being so vigilant about this one", and that any guard rails that can be added should be, even though they can never be 100% effective.
> Are they delivering value to society? Yes some, but IMO not nearly in proportion to the amount of wealth they've accrued.

How is this determined? I am trying to see if there is some actionable chain of reasoning here, or if people are just stating the top 5 companies in the public markets qualify? Is it a certain net profit margin? A combination of various factors?

The funny thing is Facebook (or Meta I guess) could fall of the face of the earth tomorrow and humanity would not really be impacted other than temporarily losing WhatsApp groups and having to migrate to a different chat program.
These: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ortholinear&atb=v279-1__&iax=image...

The keys are arranged in an orthogonal grid, instead of each row being offset from the ones it's next to.
I don't think the tech is ready for a metaverse. It's hard to capture the attention of youth. The device hardware is somewhat high, it's not something you can carry in your pocket or use on the go. The software is gimmicky. It requires physical space. Although it can be used in a network it's not easy to do it with other people physically present, and is thus somewhat antisocial in a way.

I'm also constantly amused that nobody mentions that one thing that snow crash explicitly identified as the key for the technology to take off. High fidelity facial capture. The book made a big deal about this. I think it was an astute thing. I don't think VR chat meets the bar.
Our family has decided to permanently disrupt Roblox at the house.

I find that the games my kids were playing were really just totally mindless. They involved no real skill or thought.

Most of the games consist of finding coins and then getting different skins for their character. Or even worse gaining “money” for time served and then buying things.

What’s up with the devs? These games are terrible and are just a waste land for our children.

The kids were bummed at first, but because there are so many other choices in gaming, they have recovered and not looked back.

Good riddance I say.
Were they? Or were they worried that their characters would be the ones given 4 bytes, and unifying means not squabbling with China and Korea over who goes first? It's not like Japan was not a technical center at the time. Shift-JIS is still around.
This comes just a few weeks after fb were shown not to be able to implement door access badges to their own buildings in a safe and secure way. Why would I ever trust a company like fb with hardware in my home/interacting with devices?
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The forum features people running multiple GPU's using onboard graphics as a secondary GPU and improving performance drastically, yet a few cases where the onboard GPU really hurt the benchmark. Some other people are seeing modest improvement, others are doubling their scores with this multi-gpu feature.

Yeah... I'd take this benchmark with a grain of salt.
The perceived effects of cannabis on stress, depression, and anxiety
"high system requirements and a $2000 price tag"
> ... as of course the authors of these softwares could easily detect such "temporal inconsistencies"

Not easily at all. It was near impossible.

Without access to the Internet it was always impossible for, say, a software from 1999 from being able to tell it was ran in, say, 2005. I had shitloads of "Ghost" (before it became "Norton Ghost") images, ready, with a Windows installation at a specific date. I'd re-image an entire HDD (it was very fast back then when images were small and HDD even smaller, even if they were slow by today's standard) and set the clock of the PC. There was simply no way for a software to then detect we were in 2005 and not 1999.

Without Internet and without any file dated "in the future", there was simply no way to detect any inconsistency.

Back then users where in total control of the hardware and of the PC's clock. There was no way around it.

EDIT: I'm not talking about VMs btw, but running on bare metal, just set, in an undetectable way, at a date in the past.
Seems like we as a species can't shake the notion that someone MUST be responsible for what is happening.

- conspiracy theories - those damn reptilians/rich guys/secret services

- covid - china/unmaskers/antivaxxers

- autism - mothers/quack doctors

- anything else - some other unknown agent (so we invented a god to assign blame for "default:" case)

What else can you do if the only thing you can blame are rules which do not work in border cases or just random harmful events/mutations? We can't sue the social rules or physics, so we try to find someone you can direct your hate to.
The Church of Doritos and Porn.
Fermented foods in general go way way back, all sorts of fermented things. Just a great way of preserving food needing nothing but salt. I suspect fermenting fish pre-dates even Roman times and was not invented there.
On "high fidelity facial capture", are you familiar with Facebook's impressive codec avatar research?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqQDTpGZ4c
One example is having SOME eyesight but not correctable enough to qualify for a driver's license.
True blindness is very rare.
More often it’s low vision on a scale between poor and true blindness.

Or for some, focusing is painful. (Nerve damage) on a bad day I can see fine. But more then a few seconds can be horrifically painful.

Extra large text helps a lot. Avoiding red / blue mixed colors is a big help.
What an encouraging comment - and thank you so much for looking at that RLC repo! It's riddled with mistakes, to be honest. I took it on as a learning project, speaking of which...

> Instead I kept practicing and studying until I was good enough to hire for a mid-level position.

May I ask how you demonstrated how good you were to the hirer? I mean, when you were studying were you producing side-projects, contributing to github repos, going through a course that gave you grades? I hope this question isn't rude. I'm not sure how to jump over the junior dev role without my resume being auto-filtered out because of lack of experience, if that makes sense.

Anyways, congratulations! I hope you're liking your work in web development, because your story is really encouraging.
Unfortunate, and sad, but suicide isn’t an appropriate or understandable response to having to change course in one’s life. It sucks that people feel that they have to make an irreversible decision in reaction to a situation that can be changed. That it was a mistake makes it worse in some ways but the tragedy lies elsewhere.
> I trust Apache to spin up a new PHP process for each request. Except under DOS attack or with some horrendous memory leak, it's just solid. Obviously it's a lot more overhead.

FWIW, PHP-FPM has been the standard way of deploying PHP in production for many years now [1]. No need for running PHP as an Apache module.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/httpd/PHP-FPM
They are beautiful.

The first image appears to be some kitchen gear. But I'm unfamiliar with it. Is it a toy home distillery?
So the only person that should learn from this is the person for whom it's too late?
I’ve played with wireless to my PC with a Quest 1 and dedicated WiFi interface, and it was good-not-great…what’s your GPU and network setup?
What I sadly learned years ago is that a bad idea presented with absolute confidence and certainty will pretty much always beat a good idea presented with caveats and answers to questions that start with "It depends...".

The other thing I've noticed is that people who have good ideas are usually all too aware of the limitations and corner cases so will never present something with absolute confidence.
FFXIV has something like 24 million subs right now and growing.
I've been lucky enough to work with a few highly skilled organic chemists, and I know enough chemistry to know that I could never, ever join them as such. It's such a niche, specialised, and important and yet under-recognised set of skills.

A few examples. The order in which you add nominally unimportant reagents to a reaction can significantly matter – the enthalpy of mixing is non-zero, and so if you dissolve A and then B in solvent C before letting it reflux for five hours (say), it will be a different initial condition to adding B, then A. Many (most?) chemists weigh vials before adding a mass of x g/mg of a compound, in the process of adding that, and then again when they have removed "x" grams. Lids are pared with volumetric flasks. Tiny variations matter. Room humidity, temperature, and the history of the use of the equipment involved may change the answers. I had one graduate student (who came top in her year in chemistry) make an isotopically labelled molecule for me, with a ~70% yield and a ~100% labelling purity. A few years later, a biochemist following the "recipe" she developed (and beautifully illustrated!) was unable to get above 10% yield and about 80% purity. I never really was able to work out why. Any "debugging" conversation starts with "tell me exactly -- what did you do?". Things occasionally don't go "as well" when certain contaminants are (not) present. The debugger for reality sucks.

And still, despite all the fiddly nature of the work, it's downright dangerous. Organic chemists, as a species, live less long. They get blown up and gassed. I've been in a building when a "small scale" reaction has exploded and you feel the vibrations of it – nobody was seriously injured because the fume hood's shock sensors detected the azide derivatives decomposing rapidly and, within microseconds, dumped a load of cold CO2 down the front of the hood, stopping combustion and redirecting/reducing the blast. Another acquaintance of mine managed to have the building evacuated after ordering a 10 ml bottle of a compound he distilled from a hops extract and identified via GC-MSMS and MS^n spectrometry as part of a project trying to understand beer foam (and make better non-alcoholic beers; this is in about 2000 or 1999, before "good" alcoholfrei bier was available) – he naïvely opened the lid to see what it smelt like outside of the fume hood, and immediately uncontrollably vomited. So did his neighbours. Then the rest of the room. Then the floor. They closed it over a weekend, opened all the doors and windows, put in industrial fans, and it still stank for months.

Chemists do important, undervalued work. They make drugs, materials, batteries. They do everything from quantum mechanics to what I still consider to be not far removed from alchemy. Some of them are slightly odd people, but they are usually very fun to share a drink with...
Hi HN,

I've spent most of the year wrangling with the Google Analytics API to build a nicer web-based interface than the official one we all love to hate!

It's completely private, runs client-side in the browser, only requires read-only access, and no data is ever sent to our server.

Works on both desktop and mobile. Hand coded old-school style - no frameworks, just a sprinkling of jquery :)

I've tried to take all the essential bits of GA (usually hidden all over the place under layers of menus) and put them all on one easy-to-use dashboard, which you can check and understand at a glance. You can also dig deeper with filters, history etc.

It's been genuinely surprising how much more I've gleaned from the stats with this new approach.

Hope some of you find it useful too. Would love to hear any feedback or ideas!

Thanks,
Steve
so he has to remain in jail while the US gov tries multiple ways for many years to extradite him?
Yep. This is basically on the same level of 'looking at the HTML is hacking!'.
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The article mentions that explanation and, presumably, they found it uncompelling.
This is a really good comment.

I think this sort of research done by large corporations is a big reason for the US's success. Just look at Xerox's PARC[0] where so much was incubated that couldn't have been if Xerox just focused on short term profit seeking.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)