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> You really don't pay more for games or certainly don't have to. Farcry 6 is $60 on PS5 and it's $60 on PC,

But subsidizing doesn't necessarily mean unequal pricing. It does not follow from equal pricing that a part of the $60 for a PS5 game didn't go into subsidizing the platform. For example, for all we know, a comparable amount of money for the PC game could have gone into extra development and QA effort necessary to support the more varied PC ecosystem so in the end the prices could be the same anyway, even without the game vendor willing to give up some profits for one or the other.
Observability in Practice
Nobody knows what the long-term effects of covid in developing kids could be. I'm not worried about them dying of covid, but having their lives altered.

> But unvaccinated 20-29 years old is like the biggest deal ever

Don't know exactly what you're referring to since all the unvaxxed people I know are old, but it's irresponsible not to get it.
> They're subsidised by the game prices. You still pay for it in the end.

Initial game prices can be higher, but you can sell the games. Here in Australia it's common for new games to be $100 on console and $80-90 on PC. A month after release I can still sell a console game for $80, and often do, since I prefer single-player adventure/RPG type games which I will take 5+ years to replay if I ever do. That effectively means that games cost me $20 to play on a console or $80-90 to play on a PC. I prefer playing on PC for all the other reasons but it's really hard to justify the extra cost now that used PC games are no longer a thing.
>Now-a-days I see interviewers skipping the pleasantries and straight jumping on to LC style questions

lmao software houses in Eastern EU jump straight into day-to-day stuff, 99% of the stuff was normal development, that 1% was just for lulz, to check whether you heard about stuff.

0 algo questions.
Placing emphasis on correctness sounds like a plus. How does Rust do this? Does it only apply to memory management? For added performance I could live without gc, but I still prefer it.
I've recently been making a study of misinformation and am forced to agree. The more I dig into how we as humans process and validate information the more I realize how bad we are at it. Myself included. As I've attempted to create formal methods for validating information I've had my confidence in my own rationality severely shaken.
I hear you, but like the OP, your argument is still based entirely around absolutes, and is rather dismissive of the vast spectrum of human behavior. Just because some people get lost in the addictive mechanisms of a game, doesn't mean everyone does, and an addictive mechanism is not universally malicious just because someone becomes addicted to it. If that were true, every company and product would be considered malicious, because everything on the planet is designed to be addictive to some degree.

My grandmother and aunt, for example, visit a local casino once in a while and exclusively play slots. They each bring $20 and play until they've either doubled it or lost it. I've gone with them on a few occasions, and can personally attest that they genuinely enjoy the experience of playing the game -- my grandmother even says "wheeeee" out loud while pulling the lever. I, on the other hand, do not enjoy casinos at all, and easily get caught up in the addictive aspects. Is the casino malicious because I, personally, am more susceptible to addictive behavior? Should my grandmother not be allowed to have her fun because of someone else's addiction?

At the end of the day, my experience is not my grandmother's experience. And your experience is not my experience. And the OP's experience isn't a universal truth, no matter how much they want to insist it is.
> It looks like a very not-creepy way to serve up ads.

Context-based advertising is great for web content (and should have been made the standard years ago), but in a chat room, I'm not so sure.

How does Telegram pick the relevant "topic"? From the channel description alone? I don't think that would be accurate at all. They do it for now, but who knows what will happen in a year or two! Their profit margin is on the line, after all.

I know Telegram can read along with most messages sent through their platform, but up to now they didn't have a reason to do it. Now, I'm not so sure.
So you think Rosa Parks was also a criminal for having the foolishness to refuse to give up her seat for a white?

Breaking immoral laws is a sign of being a hero, not a criminal. Unfortunately the monied interests were more powerful than a brilliant kid, so we have to live in a world without Aaron Swartz but with rich idiots in charge of scientific publishing.
Rise of the Robots Speeds Up in Pandemic with U.S. Labor Scarce
Haskell was used in banking and the aerospace industry for high integrity systems, that's why I mentioned it in addition to Ada/Spark.
Too much good PR is definitely sus. Especially being featured on Mr Robot as super clean hacker friendly, eventually reeks of a IC honeypot. I cant recall a western company that does not comply with their spooks behind closed doors. It is too big already
Here's the most complete list I found while researching the subject a few months ago:

https://xboxkbm.herokuapp.com/
It still works for Amazon but it doesn't really work for books in their newer KFX format. It's best to use an older version of Kindle for PC or use their download and transfer to USB if you have a physical eInk Kindle to get an AZW3 file which should unlock no problem.
But my PC can run PC native games, console emulators and upscale the graphics to make them look better on top of running programs. A 360 is limited to 720p, slow discs, proprietary slow HDD, and RRoD (I killed 2 360s when I had them due to the poor quality heatsink).

On PC they even have BotW DLC. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/03/introducing_second... there’s no comparison for functionality.

The new Xbox can emulate (very poorly, less than a weaker computer can, but it’ll get better) too, it’s why the xbone with dev mode for homebrew was never hacked. https://www.ggrecon.com/articles/emulate-playstation-2-xbox-...

If I had to buy a console, form factor is the most important, I love my PSP. Could play NES, some SNES and very slow N64, perfect compatibility PS1 emulator, GB+GBC,GBA and of course PSP games. The homebrew on it for apps was amazing too with music players, ebook readers, cheats for every game, ability to change clock for battery life or performance, really a game changing device.
I wish I could replace go generate by //go:embed for the case where I want to embed static assets with a pre-embed pass (eg, for something like minification). Sadly there's no room in the current API for doing this.
Well you know, it's like the standard of the high end for windows laptop, still behind what apple put in their macbooks, but comparable with what you are gonna find on xps and thinkpad x/t.
They are the best at extracting information from publicly available data at fast speed, no more than that.

If you hire very intelligent people to do just that, you are doing it right. But the info is out there for everybody to see. They just arrive earlier than others. How? That is the secret.
Can't you both be right?

They're trained into making flat sheets and then lose the ability or instinct to make non flat sheets?
That's assuming the settings tweaks are even correct. I've seen plenty of these types of things where the suggested change is incorrect or otherwise not a mere oversight but actively a bad idea.
Ya, it could also have to do with time zones.

For example, a small company might not worry about legal implications as they can float in a bit of gray area... but once a startup hits $100m valuation they might need to do a ton of extra work in order to hire in Ukraine. For example, they might need to form a legal presence in the EU, etc etc...
Toyota increases 2022 Tundra pricing by 15 year-over-year
For complex notation I had a keyboard distribution with symbols available (e.g., α is alt-a, ∩ is alt + shift + i, ∈ is alt + shift + [) and also made commands to abbreviate, which made it faster than writing (and more consistent). The pace depended on the lecture, but I had no issues keeping up with the teachers speaking/writing pace. If the class was being too complex and I couldn't understand and write in my own words, I just went into "memory dump mode" and wrote whatever and then understood and reformatted it later.

For diagrams I had several options. Simple ones were easy enough to do with Tikz (maybe I didn't get it perfectly on the first try but good enough to fix later), diagrams that had a repeated structure were done with commands, and then for the ones that I couldn't do on the fly I just either wrote the description in text and did them later, or did a drawing in a notebook/phone/took a picture and then replicated it later with Tikz. I could also take diagrams from the web and paste the image.

If you want examples, we actually had all our note PDFs in a shared Dropbox folder [1] (in Spanish, though). Not all of them are mine, but there are a good bunch of them where I'm the main author. I'm specially proud of some notes, like the differential geometry course [2] or topology [3] with a good amount of diagrams (for a math course).

1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AADuRd3CoU6UUCZMt...

2: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AAA1SKV3JLkVPX2nc...

3: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbymf37cykz77ha/AABNb9rTsaRzc-3xP...
A botched circumcision and its aftermath
Just leaving this here without any context, but this song (Olivier Orand - Thursday Night) is the only one which really raised a desire to "debug" it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-z2IW0CBBo

It's awesome.
Can’t wait until the aliens show up…
That's not been my experience on a console since the Sega Megadrive. Whenever I find a couple of hours to play video games (working around kids, wife, etc) I inevitably have to spend an hour downloading countless patches, updates, etc. Modern day gaming consoles have become more difficult to just pick up and play than consoles of yesteryear.
Because of all the little things they don't have: Keyboard and mouse, office suit. command line, etc. Sure you could probably solve all of those problems with enough time and money but you'd end up with something that's neither the same as the original console nor cheaper and easier to maintain than a mid-range laptop.

This is what general computing is about these days. Most consumer devices these days are powerful enough to do most general computing tasks. Even watches! But it's all the additional stuff you need to do to expose that power that prevents it from being a good general purpose device.

Whereas consoles are can be well suited in other domains outside of gaming even without installing additional peripherals nor hacking the OS.
But IP addresses are actually _numbers_, and you can also save them as bytes 32 bits for ip4, 128 bits for ip6 addresses. (Postgresql has a native datatype 'inet' which supports ip6 since 7.4, if you're using postgres and save an IP address in a character string, you're doing it wrong) If you would save the IP as number and put an index on it, all your queries would be blazing fast!
https://www.cityam.com/renaissance-hedge-fund-pay-5bn-back-t...

That is one example.
> Forbes

Forbes is also estimating (fancy guessing), doesn't make it into a fact.

> net worth

Also not cash, which would be needed to fund Telegram

> vast majority of which comes from Telegram ownership

Also means you wouldn't be able to use that net worth for funding Telegram, as that's where the net worth comes from anyway.
> Cool, tell that to Alan Greenspan.

Your word salad is your own, not Greenspans.

> I wonder where that perceived value comes from?

I believe that is the holy grail of investment. There are many different models that try to approximate it.
It's rather difficult to say what prompted this. First intuition would be that it has something to do with NSO not giving backdoor access to certain US organizations, but it could be an actual political shift away from supporting stuff as murky as this.
And the following paragraph begins with "Eight years later, as we emerge from the global pandemic"

So definitely a copy-paste error on the date.
I measured the Gflops/W and the big cores give 2.5 which compared to f.ex. raspberry 4 at 2 is not revolutionary.

What gives the M1 an edge is also it's weakest point: proprietary designs, it cannot run things like Unity or Java Minecraft that require generic x86 CISC to run well.

From my perspective the only hope apple has is linux reverse engineering the GPU to allow OpenGL.
Yes, agree with that, but I thought this to be an entirely different topic and a given. I should probably point this out as a disclaimer still. All of what I said was for the case after you've got covid not accounting for your vaccination status or behaviour at all necessarily.

The main point is that even with the vaccine you should still be careful about getting covid since it may not necessarily fully protect against long covid, which for me is a much bigger danger than say chance of hospitalisation or death.
U.S. will experience a 36% decline in per capita output by 2100 due to climate change.

GDP per capita in most countries in Africa – down 80%… India, down 92%… Brazil, down 83%… and Indonesia, down 85%. The biggest drop in Europe is forecasted to be Greece, down 51%.

Canada, the study suggests, will see a 247% rise in GDP per capita… Sweden, up 210%… Germany, up 63%… Kazakhstan, up 208%… and Russia, up 419%.
Why Marketplace Startups Won't Replace Full Time Employers
I am an interviewer for C++ job candidates in the automotive industry.

I do a coding task first and a Q&A afterwards — because these are the requirements.

I did many interviews. My experience is: I could skip the Q&A completely. Most candidates could answer the questions just fine after reading the Wikipedia article for 10 minutes. In the interview I can see if they already read it or not. But I don't think it matters.

What matters are the coding skills. The coding task is quite simple and half of the candidates (with master degrees and 'years of industry experience') fail. But these candidates are often good talkers when they are chatting about the benefits of agile methodology and so on.

I totally agree with you that a candidate should just write any program. I believe I know after 15 minutes if they are developers or not.

But I also agree with the idea that we interviews must calm down the interviewee and remove the nervousness. I don't want to see if they stay cool in an exam situation because daily work is not an exam situation. I want to see if they can code when they are relaxed.
What worked for me was to create as much space as possible for those bursts of inspiration. Following them tends to pay off, perhaps more so than pure grit.

I run a website. I have to work, but I never have to work right now. If I wake up with an idea, I can pursue it and I still get paid. I end up learning a ton from these side projects, so this approach works great for me.

Coffee helps staying on track, but it works even if you're on the wrong track. Some people had good results with meds, but they just felt like a really strong coffee with a side of evening depression.

Turning off distractions help. I turned off most notifications. I use ad blockers to hide feeds and useless notification badges. I aggressively filter incoming email. I get sidetracked really easily, so I'm working hard on preventing it.

When it comes to reading, atmosphere helps. A cup of tea, a reading chair and a blanket work wonders. If that doesn't work, go to a separate environment like a cafe or a park.

Meetings are harder. Taking notes helps a lot. Leading the meeting also helps, when I can.
The microphone also explains this. I keep a tight reign on which permissions I give apps. I rarely get accurately targeted ads. Last week I suddenly noticed that the ads I was seeing on Facebook were matching the conversations I'd had that day. I immediately knew an app had been eavesdropping on me. Turns out I had given Instagram microphone and camera permission "while the app is in use" earlier in the day to try out an Instagram feature I was curious about, and forgot to turn it off. Even though I wasn't using the camera or mic intentionally, Instagram was still spying on me. This really should be illegal behavior by apps.
>The goal would be for labor prices at the the low end to increase faster than prices, so that the people who were previously consuming more have to consume less, and the people who had to consume minimally can consume more.

You're right but the real problem is that those who have the money don't actually spend it on consumption. If they did then you wouldn't need to raise the minimum wage as there would be enough well paying job opportunities for everyone.
Hi gus!

Main idea is that instead of reading all the info someone wrote about themselves and that in many companies HR department will not even read,

You can set the question you would like to hear about the candidate and let them record an answers just for them, plus you will have ability to share it with other people in you department
Why would you reply to this comment instead of the one where I broke down the price into core components showing that no, it's not over MSRP at all??????
There's no official English post nor profile anywhere? Kinda amusing, I'd say.

I won't be surprised if in the next few years ads will be added to private convos anyway along with some form of profiling but at the same time users will graciously have an option to disable these with one-time payment or subscription.

I've seen this small-steps tactics way too many times to know how this gonna end.
Are you finding the benefits and features of ZFS worth the perf penalty? Or maybe even its compression makes it overall a faster alternative to say ext4 for a database?
I’ve considered in the past running a DB in AWS with direct nvme drive used for SLOG and for L2ARC cache while the main storage would have been a mounted EBS volume, I haven’t tried it but am still wondering if it’s a better alternative to running a DB on top of bare EBS in Amazon (it should be a lot cheaper than say io2 type volume with provisioned IOPS)
That's true and it's one reason I'm not too comfortable with Signal's access to metadata (even though they are the best nonfederated communicator in that regard).

There are a few reasons why I would prefer them to provide source code that they claim is running in the service due to the metadata issue:

a) if it's actually running there, people can find simple bugs in it that could allow that metadata to be stored or revealed by accident,

b) if it's not actually running there, but something very close is (i.e. that code with small amount of patches), then the advantage above still applies and if those patches come to light, they can be easily evaluated for intent and effect,

c) if they're running something completely different (which would be very weird), it'd be noticeable and it would be an obvious lie once exposed.
As I've heard it, it's motivated by security rather than usability: If two people use Signal to communicate with each other, then they should use the Signal protocol rather than SMS, without having to go through any extra steps.

There are different ways to achieve that, all of which have drawbacks. They chose one.
Honest question here, slightly of topic. How do you handle indexing a compressed column? Or is this considered an anti-pattern?
I think it does. And I think the argument that it is useful for other to learn about that person and the general approach they use and avoid being scammed a pretty persuasive argument.

The situation I imagine is someone outside of the parking lot showing up to me and telling me there is something wrong with my car, but they will only disclose it to me if I pay them $50. Then I happen to be an expert car mechanic and I know my car pretty well and I know whatever they tell me is irrelevant and definitely not a security concern. I think it is pretty justified to alert other car owners of that same parking lot that ”that guy in the blue shirt telling you you have a problem with your car is just a scammer, don’t pay him”. That’s nothing like complaining about a begger offering to wash your window.

It is useful even for real white hat hackers sharing actual problems.
Same with Montreal. Berlin winters suck because they're just a very long autumn.
C++ Library Management System Project with Source Code
I don't get it either. This is pretty basic shell knowledge. Is the goal to have at least one Python article on the front page every day?
As others have pointed out before that requires some serious guts because the people who are well enough off to pay their way out of ads are exactly the ones that might be most attractive to show ads to.

So, not impossible at all but will need someone to take a principled stance.
I had commented on something related to this a couple of weeks ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930278

The top reply had a great suggestion. Putting this at the top of a python 3.6+ required script results in a reasonable error for those with older /usr/bin/python interpreters, instead of a generic syntax error stack trace.

#!/usr/bin/python
0_0 # Python >= 3.6 is required
[list apply {args body} $value1 $value2 ...] can be used to capture values without actually generating a string because even though conceptually a list is a string, it's actually stored internally as a list.
I put Aaron Swartz at par with Alexandra Elbakyan.
I wish I could financially support Ms Elbakyan's efforts but I am not so good at cryptocurrencies.
Everyone shouts how adding more money will make everything more expensive. In some countries the added dollars don't even circulate once. Inflation is dead.
> especially on the web where it's quite nice to just be allowed to make your design react to device motion without having to ask.

What kinds of motions and reactions would that be, beyond rotations (which are a much higher-level API than raw accelerometer data)?
There clearly aren't a lot of good bedfellows to be had in the region. US engagement in ME politics is rife with contradictions and blind self-interest, as are political calculations in the EU, China, or anywhere else with enough reach to matter. When you have to weigh blood, oil, military projection, and short-term regional influence in a unpredictable region, it's hard to see anyone as being on the right side of anything. At least the Russians aren't even pretending otherwise, which is sadly refreshing!

Anything involved Israel just has a depressing tendency to quickly degrade into double standards, name calling and selective vision from otherwise intelligent-seeming people I would normally respect. That's what really depresses me: the inability to have an intelligent rational discussion on anything involving Israel.

Be mercilessly critical if it's justified! I certainly am, and don't think oil is worth so much blood. But it's as necessary with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, and Palestine as it is with Israel. Just be lucid, honest and fair about it, and willing to admit you don't have all the facts or answers. Why that's so damned hard baffles me, especially from people like engineers who trade in complexity and nuance and edge cases days in and day out.
Which also means reduced battery.
> I have a visceral desire to avoid it.

That could easily be defined as mimetism nonetheless.

You may genuinely have benefited from this very popular thing, but you opted out because of your fellow humans' behavior.

Even if the outcome is opposite to typical mimetism, the process is similar.
If you can raise wages without any damaging effects that just means you were underpaying your workers. In other words, raising a low minimum wage just works by accident. It's not a very reliable policy tool.