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would you like to live in a world where every behavior that could be construed as having benefits for you was expected to be compensated?
I want to point out that this article doesn't acknowledge this major change, regarding ANSI/Unicode API variants in Windows:

> "Until recently, Windows has emphasized "Unicode" -W variants over -A APIs. However, recent releases have used the ANSI code page and -A APIs as a means to introduce UTF-8 support to apps. If the ANSI code page is configured for UTF-8, -A APIs operate in UTF-8. This model has the benefit of supporting existing code built with -A APIs without any code changes."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globali...

It seems not everyone is aware of this, too
Here's a good analogy for crypto that I think helps close the loop on people who don't seem to want to understand it.

If I have a tungsten cube sitting on my table, it is theoretically possible that I could track that tungsten cube backwards through time. It's sitting on my desk now, but before that it was in a box on a UPS truck, before that in a foundry somewhere, before that it was in the earth, before that the elements were in a supernova which themselves could be traced back all of the way to the origin of the universe.

So the fact of the cube sitting on my desk is really just an expression of all of the events leading to it sitting on my desk, and this isn't something that can be fabricated no matter how much authority you have (you could like, but the universe would know it as a lie).

Blockchain is that. I have some value in my wallet, but that value can be traced all of the way back through various transactions to when it was mined/minted/whatever, and actually the entirety of the various crypto ecosystem could be traced back to, literally, the genesis block.

That is a Very Big Deal. It means that the block chains are internally consistent universes of their own, with no central authority. That's a big deal for gaming, for ownership proxies (like NFTs), for currency, and for really anything else that exists within our own universe.

To say it in a somewhat flowery way: our own universe is a physical blockchain.
Thanks for the house-sitting recommendation, great idea. What's your job now?
> I recently learned this is no longer true! AMD EPYC processors (and maybe other recent AMDs?) divide cores into groups called "core complexes" (CCX), each of which has a separate L3 cache.

It's still kinda true, just that "a CPU" in that context is a CCX. Cross CCX communications has shown up a fair bit in reviews and benches, and really in all chips at that scale (e.g. Ampere's Altras and Intel's Xeons): https://www.anandtech.com/show/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review/4 and one of the "improvements" in Zen 3 is the CCX are much larger (there's one CCX per CCD, rather than 2) so there's less crosstalk.

And it could already be untrue previously e.g. the Pentium D were rushed out by sticking two P4 dies on the same PCB, I think they even had to go through the northbridge to communicate, so they were dual socket in all but physical conformation (hence being absolute turds). I don't think they had L3 at all though, so that wasn't really a factor, but still...
Oh man, I didn't know that Groupon started as The Point, a tool to help people organize to work towards a goal. The biggest goal ended up being to save money..

Does anyone know of a service today for helping people organize around a cause?
You too =D
I think this is a very valid question, HN is not for personal attacks. Not sure why it’s flagged, I’ve vouched now.
>Ford dealers are adding $10k-$30k “market adjustments” to Mach Es and $5k-$10k for F150 Lightning reservations (which is obnoxious)

The price of Teslas went up by 10k+ this year and Teslas famously have reservation costs, so I don't see how that's different at all.

> Teslas have the Supercharger network, frequent over the air updates, a robust battery warranty, strong resale market, etc.

This sentence, the propoints, seem important and barely added as an afterthought. Given that Tesla has been starting to open up its supercharger network, does that change your view of its value?

You consider frequent over the air updates to be a benefit. Can I ask why? It seems like you're at the mercy of Tesla's software QA department for each update to make sure it doesn't decide to crash stop and or accelerated into traffic. Meanwhile, I'm not really aware of what benefits you're getting from those updates.
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In general, Ada has a pretty good compilation model. It has a formalized version of C++'s physical design with spec/body separation. It's also defined grammatically to required the context clause with dependencies first before everything else in a compilation unit (subunits or library units). `separate` also allows you to separately compile those things which might change a lot.
On a+b. I'm suggesting it simply copies all the non-aggregate select pieces to the group by clause. If I want to group on a and b, I could either select them too or add them to the group by (I'm imagining something like "GROUP BY SELECT, a, b"). Note that selecting them is the natural thing you'd do if you wanted that grouping, because otherwise you wouldn't know what the grouping is when you got the results.
Just start with Shopify. You can be up and running in hours.
New Year's resolutions fail when they aren't engineered to last and direct you for the entire year. If you aren't reflecting on what it did to you and your life on December 31st, 364 days after setting it, then the resolution failed.

Setting any resolution that won't fit this description is dangerous for a couple of reasons: First, it both will be a failure and will teach you failure. Also, it will distract from the resolutions that could have been successful ones.

You should only set one NYR until you have successfully done one for an entire year, because it's incredibly hard and you probably aren't capable of one, let alone more, until you show that you are. After one successful NYR, you've earned the right to try two, the year after that three, and so forth.
This is an interesting read from their site: https://blog.mecheye.net/2020/06/modern-graphics-apis-1-intr...
That is a valid concern. But in practice most of the sites which allow federated authentication support multiple providers, typically Google, Facebook, and Apple. I expect one of those will eventually ban me for wrongthink, but probably not all of them simultaneously.
Nfts will be enforced by client software in web3.
Which you could say is exactly what happens with the altcoins, then also for technical reasons: when the one crypto that first was didn't do what a young russian bord canadian wanted to do, a very different one got made. AND A BUNCH OF OTHERS NOW!

It's as if the market responded to not being provided with what it wanted (in terms of affordability or features) responded in a way where hoarders got fully circumvented...
Same here. Would be nice to be able to do it on an app-by-app basis, or add exceptions.
Email is the last stand against millisecond invasiveness of tech in every living second of our lives.

The reason that large companies struggle or fail to implement systems like slack and teams is not because they are superior to email. Its because these huge corporation treat employees as faceless cogs in a machine. Email fails email delays email sucks everyone knows this and accepts it so it becomes the only way to take a break from the corporate pressure cooker.

I suspect in the future small companies that treat their employees as human and can use better tools effectively will eventually take over sufficient market shares to force large companies (they already are really) reevaluate the dispensibility of its workforce.

The death of email is a social not tech problem.
I didn't. I'm close to my parents, and have a decent friendship group who I meet up with often, but the lack of a romantic partner means I am incredibly lonely. I've tried both dating sites and in person meet ups and nothing works for me. I've been in two long term (4y, 2y) romantic relationships, which both started the same way but that isn't available to me any more. I feel unwanted and I know why it is. I've felt loved and desired before, and not having that just burns me up by day day. I feel hollow and worthless.
I see some comments saying they are alone, but not lonely. I'm the inverse, I'm not alone, but terribly lonely.
No need to limit your analogies. NFT's are digital and their use will be of a digital nature. Anyone who has participated in a virtual item marketplace can see clearly what NFT's are good for, even if that's not quite what most are yet. The primary issue with today's NFT's are that most lack a platform - a place to show them off like in game, or in (trigger warning for buzzword-phobics) a meta-verse style environment.
Kodak was never known for good cameras. That was cannon and Nikon who both pivoted to digital. Kodak made great film and didn't have a simple pivot in pictures. Their simple pivot was pharmaceuticals which as others noted they did do.
I had a stroke a couple years ago at the age of 29. It has forever changed me. It is a scar on my brain and body. It is a part of me. I suppose I will never get true closure from the trauma until I __acknowledge__ that it has forever become a part of me. Our lives are composed of the good and bad parts. All are physiologically and neurologically manifested. We cannot completely eliminate them as we cannot reverse entropy. But we can make a peace with them. A bit like having a new scar on your cheek and looking at yourself every day in the mirror until you don't really notice it anymore. Both therapy and time can help. Allow life to take you on new journeys and then these will fill your thoughts, becoming more a part of you than the traumas that you're trying to move on from. I guess that's my take on it, at least. Self-compassion does a wonder as well. Hope you find closure, peace, direction <3
The author makes a great case for creating protocols such as http and xmpp and the like, which as protocols, are decentralized already.

Why add magic number guessing for financial gain to something like a photo sharing platform?

Maybe your answer is micro transactions, but then how do you protect consumers from fraud and abuse with reversibility and dispute resolution? This seems like a feature and not a bug of our current financial system.

Things like Patreon and Kickstarter exist already and seem to do a fairly good job of this. Why do we need all of the downsides of cryptocurrency to do something that already works well for billions of people?
No the NFT itself is fine, the issues that OpenSea is the biggest marketplace by far and so it becomes more difficult to buy the copycats. There is currently no good decentralized marketplace for NFTs.
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That’s not the same thing at all, you’re stretching here.
https://archive.fo/e2OLZ
> But AirPods still sound fine

Is that not something to be angry about though? They're not $20 pack-in earbuds, they're $170 top-of-their-price-class accessories, they have every right to sound good or even great! Apple has billions of dollars in R&D, they deserve to figure out how to make their audio sound like a not-mess. Sony did it great, Bose does it well, even Jabra makes good-sounding earbuds at-or-below that price figure. So again, I stand by them sounding not good.

> I feel like HN is the only place I hang out on the internet where I find people who unironically act this way and then complain that nobody wants to interact with them.

Well, I'm certainly not mad if nobody is interacting with me :p Not sure where you're pulling that from, but I have yet to see it. Nitpicking, on the other hand, is what nerds do. It's just part of culture for people with a birds-eye view of a landscape to tell others when they're being taken for a ride; with Airpods, I think it's a little obvious that they're priced ridiculously for what they are. Next up I expect people to defend the surplus since they're a "fashion accessory" or the like...
Why do employers care
As from the blog post, the source is public[0] and the Android review process is almost entirely automated static/dynamic analysis of apps submitted, so it wouldn't be super hard to find UA-like strings and have some elevated manual review if there are a lot of them (if they decided to implement this sort of abuse policy).

0: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/c1c2ebaf4690fd91c116d...
CPU as mentioned. Years ago at a startup, we had a mobile app running on Windows Mobile. Tracking down an SSL library was difficult. The one we found was slow. We ended up working with a well known cryptographer to come up with (he had) a paired down key exchange to set up symmetric session keys.
How do you recover your account when you lose your keys?
I run a home-server with pretty high spec and how much extra juice it has left over has been bothering me. It feels wasteful.

My server isn't bound by CPU almost at all - the most intensive thing is the occasional trans-coding for jellyfin, however it does use quite a bit of ram for a couple of minecraft servers and ZFS. I'd really like some sort of preferably arm or maybe risc-v based server (in the future) that can take sata and a good bit of ram but most of the SBCs I see would require that my drives work over USB which is annoying and usually dont have more than 4/8gb of ram.
Very good points. I can't see Joe the Plumber using or caring about web3 if it requires any more effort then the current internet ( which is arguably already decentralized ... )
This was the crypto pitch for several years except it was for supply chain. "You can't hack the database!!" that didn't work out either because it doesn't stop someone from putting incorrect data into a database regardless of how easy it is to hack the database.

Same thing here. There is nothing to stop the government employee from putting incorrect data in the database.

This is why people see Crypto/Web3 as a solution looking for a problem. The complaint people have about the DMV isn't that their database gets hacked. The complaint is that the government workers do not care about doing a good or quick job.
Yes. It did. It's just another subsystem over the kernel. Kernel did not care about POSIX. The POSIX subsystem is yet another abstraction layer, not too different from CygWin on MinGW for the use case. Since it was limited, it would not solve the portability problem that the author mentioned.
I would be more worried about the kids than the husband. These sort of changes can end up doing damage to their development
Is common on British cars? The only other time I've known it to happen was on a family friend's MG a long time ago
'Pretty likely' isn't a measurement, it's just a way to dismiss thinking about the problem. Most hard drives, for example, are only reliable for 3-5 years. Other components have varying lifespans. And that's just an average; in a hot, vibration-filled building with heavy carts banging into server racks, it gets more dodgy. And I wouldn't bet on the datacenter even having a UPS or multi-phase power set up correctly.

Assuming your one giant server will be as reliable as a 10 year old box sitting on your desktop is a gamble. All I'm saying is be prepared to lose.
sure but you have to spend lots of time reading documentation and know stuff to figure out you need to put these things together.
Just set up a spreadsheet to track interviews. Take 5 min after every interview to write down their answers to your questions, next steps, etc. in the spreadsheet. Use it to track where you are in the interview pipeline for each company. Don't bother writing down jobs you applied to. Only start a record if you hear back from them and they want to set up an interview.
Yeah... does every new technology change mean a pivot? Or evolution of business strategy?

If Netflix counts as a pivot, I feel like every company more than a few decades old should be on the list. IBM for sure, car companies because they now sell electric cars, banks because they now offer online services...
Amazon doesn't know anything. Sometimes I go on Amazon literally LOOKING for something to buy. That's any seller's dream, just show me anything I might like. You have hundreds of my purchases to reference, thousands of hours of browsing experiences. It basically never has anything remotely relevant, or if it is, it's things I've bought.
Playing devil’s delegate with a normal process how we launch new service in big tech:

1. Have you done a security review and ideally pen-testing from a 3rd party? Are you fully TLS from end to end, are you aware of any exploitable vector from your API/UI and how you mitigate them

2. How do you handle software patching and vulnerabilities?

3. Do you consider your app Operational ready? Can you rollback, do you audit changes, do you need multi-AZ resilience, do you need cell based arch. Did someone other than yourself or outside your team look at your monitoring dashboard? Do you need to be paged at 3am if some of your dependencies or underlying node degrades. We have to answer a 50 questions template and review it multiple times..

4. Did you calculate the cost and forecast it with how the service/app may grow in the next 12-36 months?

While you still need to do all this when using a Cloud providers, you probably _should_ do much more if you manage the bare metal

If you have already done all those, Kudos to you, but I still find it hard to trust everyone who DIY
I think you missed this excellent article that was posted to HN a few days ago. You are describing a gradient, not a spectrum. Autism spectrum means something different.

https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682917
How do you trust the client software? Who writes it? How do they build the provenance that they can be trusted?
What is the latency for something like AAC? How much power does it take to encode and decode?

It seems to me like some of the big constraints on codec choice are power, latency and then quality. Maybe “spectral efficiency” too, but I don’t really know.

Could be why they are using a high rate lossless codec? Maybe said codec is super efficient to encode on a tiny airpod with a tiny power source?

I guess what I’m saying is maybe there are additional constraints specific to this problem domain that aren't a concern for the rest of us?

That doesn’t mean it can’t be an unencumbered, open source codec though. It just might mean the “common” ones out there don’t fit the constraints of the system.
My main gripe with writing C++ on Linux is the dependency management. If you need to do stuff that's not covered by the standard library, like interfacing with GTK or X11 you are in a world of pain. You need to probably install a distro-specific package in a distro-specific way to get the headers/symbols, use some build tool to configure those distro-specific include/so locations, and hope to god that the distro maintainers didn't upgrade one of those packages (in a breaking way) between the source commit and the time of build.

If you suffer through this, you have an exe that works on your version of Ubuntu, maybe on other versions of Ubuntu or possibly other Debian-based distros. If you want it to also work on Fedora, it's back to tinkering.

Tbh i think the only sane-ish way of building to dockerize your build env with baked-in versions.

In contrast, you pick and SDK and compiler version for Windows, and as long as you install those versions, things will work.
Thanks for that clarification. So... NOT CPU bound, but by server configuration! ;)

I asked about RAM as I'm aware some maths functions can be sped up considerably using pre-rendered lookup tables.

(And great library, lol'd a few times reading your humorous description.)
I am high-risk, and PCR tests are imperfect, so a year ago I set about trying to answer the question: How long would a quarantine have to last to truly guarantee safety? Or at least, guarantee safety within an acceptable margin of error (like a .001% risk)?

I looked at research papers from the beginning of the pandemic. I don't remember the exact statistics, but it was something like: 95% of cases became positive within 14 days. But then a few outlier ones became positive through day 22. And then there were a very few freak cases that turned positive after 30 days or so.

Even if you threw out the super-outliers after day 22, you're still left with about 5% of cases showing up in week 3. I believe some Asian countries are requiring 3 week quarantines for this reason. However, in the US, we've pushed quarantine to 10 days, and most recently 5 days (?!?!).

And there's still the issue of asymptomatic cases. A person could get asymptomatically ill on Day 22, and maybe a PCR test would still fail. In that case, we'd have to wait 10 days for their symptoms to resolve. So we're at least 32 days out for a true "quarantine." Round it up to 40 for good measure and we're back to where we started in the middle ages -- the word "quarantine" comes from the word for "forty," meaning 40 days quarantine to prevent the Black Death from spreading.

I don't know how likely the scenario is of a person turning positive on day 22, and then a PCR test failing to pick it up. The problem is, nobody seems to know that, because the research showing how UNsafe we are (potentially) is strongly disincentivized. The CDC keeps reducing quarantine time in a naked tribute to business interests. And yes, I use the word "tribute" intentionally.

I volunteer as Tribute....for The Economy.

Omicron in general tends to have a shorter incubation period, but obviously not always. From what I glean from this article, it appears one individual got sick 17 days after starting the quarantine process -- again, well within the 22 day incubation period of the original sars-cov-2. It would be great to know now what the outer incubation period is of Delta and Omicron, but we don't, because it's not in anyone's interest for us to know.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
No doubt Bitcoin and other's proof of work system is horrible for sustainability. I enjoy reading these contrarian takes, it seems like this year over night my twitter feed previously of a lot of designers has turned into crypto twitter.

But I think it's a bit foolish to write off the entire industry as a whole due to some of these problems. I don't see payments use case taking off anytime soon but I find the SSO with Ethereum/data portability interesting. Love seeing the 'connect wallet' on sites and being able to interact with whatever UIs I choose to complete x task

some projects working on the above:
- https://ens.domains/, https://blog.spruceid.com/
While legally you are correct, you want to make deals anyway, if you do you can get plenty of DVDs in on release day (they might sit in your backroom for a few days to ensure it was shipped fast enough). There are other things you can get in a deal if you make one.
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I'm not sure how that's a response to my comment — it seems unrelated. Did you hit the wrong 'reply' button?