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No, Russia isn't part of the USSR any more: It's all that's left of it.[1] Source: am not Russian

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[1]: But, hey, don't despair: Belarus will join in any day now.
This is the kind of thing I wouldn't do but I'm glad someone out there is
Very heavy Google Cloud Storage user here.

According to Google's own calculations (in the email they sent about the price changes), this will increase our GCS bill by about 400% (and our entire Google Cloud bill by about 60%).

It would seem that we have until October to move elsewhere... :(
It reflects the company culture. Unlike Amazon, where customers experience is their top value, at BigG they seem to build stuff for the sole gratification and ultimately promotions of engineers and managers. They don't seem to care much for their customers.
my example was illustration of how triggering nuclear war could be a rational decision. I do not have any privileged access to Putin's objective
That’s not what rent-seeking means

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html
Oh, that's so cool, thank you very much for clarifying.

Looking at your example in light of Jacque's overall question I would say, this operator is either paid directly or indirectly to promote the site. I don't know/can't tell if that's a long play "in order to influence the discussion" or just promote installs for compromised software.

Anyone know what the usual go-to reason for this kind of submission is?
From my reading it will no longer be safe to use it, basically the warranty of the materials expires, it will be risky to continue using it.
Yeah honestly I think there would be too much processing involved to make it realistic.

The benefits of Seaweed to soil (ignoring salt and sand) has been proven to help bring key nutrients and metals to the soil that are missing from farm land that was used for single plant production.
> If people are not planting trees now

New trees are growing all of the time.

Net deforestation is only happening on two continents: South American and Africa. Forests are growing in Europe and Asia, and the rest of the world is around equilibrium.
> Not for blind kids.

That is a very good point, and yet another reason why it would be good for something else other than Scratch to take off (particularly in schools).

I honestly am not 100% sure what makes Scratch click with people, my best bet is it's the community features, which are one of the few parts of Scratch I think are reasonably good. But it could be other stuff too.

Quorum looks interesting, but I don't know if the problem is that mainstream languages like Lisp/JS/C are too complicated or if it's something else. I feel like both of my nieces would be capable of writing JS without too much trouble if they actually wanted to (but they don't and I'm not going to force them). I also vaguely feel like Scratch is straight-up harder to work with than JS for some problems. So I'm torn with whether the compromises it makes are helping it be popular, or if it's popular in spite of them.

Scratch (on top of being a drag-and-drop block language) is also very visually oriented in the types of programs it encourages people to write. And that might be a contributing factor for its popularity with sighted kids, but obviously is not going to translate very well for blind/vision-impaired kids even if the interface itself was made more accessible. I strongly suspect Flash would have had the same problem back in the day (assuming that was accessible, which... I haven't checked but I also suspect it probably wasn't).

I wonder if there could be some cool things that would be possible to do nowadays with pre-packaging a bunch of decent-quality sound effects in an engine or setting up some of the AI-driven voice tools that have been popping up online and letting kids start programming with them.
that makes sense considering khtml, from which webkit evolved, was designed as a web view for the kde desktop environment.
Nice article, good insights.
Ported my "2005" number to a voip carrier, and have an automated lookup - not in my known caller list? Straight to voicemail. Known caller? Forward to my direct number with a known caller ID, otherwise muted.

I should not have to put this much effort into not being contacted, but otoh, it saves me quite a bit since dropping the US cell line.
How does one do that? Do I need another app? I don't see a setting for this in my Android settings.
The US actually makes a lot of fertilizer and those companies are looking to expand. (the big ones also own oil refineries so they have plenty of money to invest right now)
For an average consumer, are those things worth hundreds of dollars?

I know the value, but I work in tech and spend tons of time digging into hardware as a hobby. Camera matters to some, but most of the rest are pretty bare features compared to the $200 (20%) increase in price.

When I list all the things I can buy with $200, where do these features rank in comparison to those other things? I'm blessed with a good job, so I can afford the luxury. I was poor when I was younger and I definitely wouldn't be spending that for those features. $220 out the door would be almost 20 hours of work at $15/hr (after taxes).
I know of a few applications that target AppEngine and Datastore.

You'd have to rewrite the entire application to port it to another cloud provider.
I've been following Marijn for years in his development on CodeMirror and all I have is great admiration of all the work he has made over the last couple of years, how he gives support, and provide patches to fix reported bugs.

Just for that fact I've been implementing CodeMirror in every project I need to.
I mean, the math totally checks out if you can afford the real estate investment. And I mean that both in terms of assets and willingness/desire to take on the risk associated with real estate in [area].

Well, it checks out depending on the assumed return of the real estate vs. other investments.
I would back into it from the basis that the Tomahawk missile as it exists in 2022 is a joke.

Note that there are roughly 1000 Tomahawks in the arsenal, they cost well above $1 million a piece and the time to replace them would be a few years. The unitary warhead on them now packs insufficient punch to justify the cost of the missile. Against that 40km long column north of Kyiv these would destroy about one vehicle a piece, which would hurt the Russians but by no means stop the attack, even if we used all the missiles we have.

The old nuclear variant had a a high yield (150 kT) and a low yield (basically a neutron bomb) setting. The low yield would have a roughly 1 km kill radius even against troops in tanks, so 20 or so missiles could stop that column.

In between there was a cluster bomb warhead that was several times more effective than the unitary warhead. Cluster bombs have the problem that a few percent of the bomblets fail to detonate leaving behind a dangerous condition that could go on for decades. Their removal from arsenals leaves behind a big gap.
> And we are in the realm of tons of little tricks that improve density and performance - nothing really dramatic but there are still improvements here and there.

I don't think that's fair. Density is still increasing fairly substantially. Just going off of TSMC's own numbers here:

16nm: 28 MTr/mm2
10nm: 52.5 MTr/mm2
7nm: 96.5 MTr/mm2
5nm: 173 MTr/mm2

Performance (read: clock speeds; but for transistors those are one & the same) are not really increasing, though, those have pretty much plateaued. And the density achieved in practice doesn't necessarily keep up, as the density numbers tend to be for the simplest layouts.
Hardly a surprise. From what i have heard, it sounds like Google's internal use of GCP is mostly automated, using internal apis. I.e. it sounds like are not clicking through the screens, or even using the external version of the APIs. I question if the externally available screens are even capable of handling some of the special permissions that google internal workloads can be given.

This is in contrast to say Azure, where plenty of Microsoft employees are using the same resource manager APIs and even using the portal. I think even the billing related features get used as part of internal budgeting (they want teams to try to keep resource utilization reasonable). While teams developing parts of azure itself may be utilizing internal APIs (for example Microsoft Graph is basically just a giant wrapper around a variety of internal APIs), most of the rest of the company sees and interacts with azure in the same way we do. (Except that they also have access to dogfood/PPE environments that we don't, such that endpoints for say integration tests don't need to run on production azure).
The fact your question is downvoted really speaks to the motives of content consumers.
Let's say you have a gun at home. This doesn't mean you have to shoot it every time the door bell rings.

>Your tests for the existing functionality won't, obviously, be testing the new functionality you're creating.

Well... duh, that's why write test in the first place. To test new functionality. In fact some people prefer writing test before the functionality in question.

>this solution can help you with that!

While making the codebase (subjectively) less readable at least. This maybe a viable option for a pet project but I wouldn't be happy to have it for a code review with the only reason being "now you don't have to test it" (you will have to test it anyway most likely)
Ah hmm, that's interesting, thank you.
And tcc, and quickjs, and tinygl, and...

Honestly his output is insane in terms of both quality and quantity. There's a list of his projects on his homepage (https://bellard.org).
I myself went through a breakup recently which exasperated my experience of loneliness, esp. in the context of Pandemic related isolation.

I came to understand that spending time alone needs to be balanced with time-with.

Similar to time indoors and time outdoors - if I don’t take my daily walk, I start feeling uneasy and claustrophobic.

Or, sitting still and moving / working out.

I call my body “the puppy”. It needs to be taken out, it needs play, it needs a “pack” - or it will get sick.

So yes, spending time with people is a biological necessity.

Doesn’t have to be in person. I started by calling friends during my walks. So I’d have an hour long walk and a 30-40 min honest, open, uncensored conversation about what matters in my life and what matters in theirs. Making sure to spend about equal times on each other. The result is feeling connected, seen, know that I matter to someone.

I highly recommend this - found the conversation practice to be an essential contribution to my mental health.

In your case, I’d consider looking for ways to spend time with your children. This kind of separation is very heavy on the heart.

As for how did I find 5-7 friends… I called more than that and befriended the ones who showed up for it. I didn’t mind being the one initiating for a while, or being turned down.

But eventually they’d pick up with “let me guess - you’re on your evening walk and need a friend to talk to”

Yes, I am, and you’re the friend.
That sounds like a horrible idea, if so. Storage is sticky. You can migrate compute easily, it's databases that keep people in your cloud.
More than 80% of Steam Deck Verified/Playable Games Are From 2015 onwards
"Go to Japan Just for the Sandwiches" [0] seems very unrelated.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635532
> Throw everything into one bin, put sort the glass one way, paper another, all X plastics in their places, metals, compostables...

Cardboard, at the very least, would generally be immediately ruined and rendered non-recylcable doing this.
I just want to say this is a great summary of the predicament of modern atheism. (I watch Pageau’s videos regularly and am halfway through the book Dominion.)
AFAICS, it's all the same to him: If he were dreaming only of reviving the Tsarist (why "pre-"?) Russian Empire and not the Soviet Union, he'd hardly have gone on the record saying "the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of thetwentieth century".
PotashCorp here in Canada was pretty big not sure if it still is. A large part of global supply of potash came from the province of Saskatchewan.
Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War
A simple derivation of such formulas is given here

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919892

The idea is you begin with an elementary integral that yields the underlying constant, such as pi, and then accelerate its convergence by using a polynomial.

Ramanujan-like pi formulas can be derived similar to the Fabrice Bellard
one, but with an inverse cosine instead of elliptic integrals. Visually, the formulas look like the Ramanujan pi formulas, but the derivation is elementary and it computes pi, not the reciprocal of pi. The Bellard and Simon formulas use inverse trig functions as well. I think he uses arctan.
I started learning C at the age of nine because I wanted to make games and somewhere along the way I realized it was a viable career. I still love coding and computer graphics and feel very happy that I'm able to do it professionally.

Right now in the room next to me my son, who is five, is playing with Nintendo's Game Builder Garage. He likes watching me work, he likes using the Game Builder with me to make his own silly games together. And he spends a lot of time goofing off and making his own silly prototypes that don't amount to anything but give him a lot of pleasure. He's also very much into Minecraft and makes some astonishing things in Creative Mode which I didn't think you could (a city on land but encased in flowing water yet dry on the inside?!).

He's at an age where he loves creating and he has a surprising attention span for his age. I showed him code because he asked what it was, but he can't read yet. I've tried showing him actual game development tools since he said he wanted to learn. Despite being very smart and intensely focused that kind of exercise doesn't quite work for him, yet.
I don't actually like my avatar very much, lol.

I can't decide whether it's a moustache and glasses or a bikini.
I’ve had pretty good luck with B2 for storage. In my case it is as an online backup for my home hosted services (storage + DB).
IANAL.

It is not an absolute requirement. It is often preferred from EU-based customers to store their data in EU-based data centers because then that data is subject to EU law, which can make things easier for your customers with their own legal compliance.

edit because I was incorrect It is a requirement for EU users for their data to be subject to GDPR. It is not a requirement to store that data in the EU to be compliant with the law.
The last time I tried it, it was so unstable that it was beyond unusable.

It wouldn't stay open for more than half a minute even if you did nothing.

If you did anything it was an instant crash. I'm not sure how anyone calls something like that a 'release' version. I'm not sure I've ever even left software in that state, let alone committed it and let alone actually letting other people run it.
How do trusted setups work?
Investing, buying property is the best during "SALES" and those occur during hard economic times.

1. Build an emergency fund. I have enough to cover about 12 months of all my expenses.

2. Avoid life style creep when you start making more money.

3. Invest pre-tax, take full advantage of 401k and IRAs (make sure your expense ratio is low in your selected funds)

4. If you need a car be reasonable, take efficiency and repair costs into consideration

5. Learn how to do basic home/car maintenance

6. Learn how to cook

The idea of emergency fund is that you are not forced to sell during hard times. It is extremely likely that total market will recover and go higher than before.

Saving cash beyond emergency fund is like setting it on fire. Every year inflation is eating it away.
It will be easier to just add those elements directly as chemicals.
Yes, that's obviously true, but it's not so simple. You still have to put all the wood somewhere. The more you have, the harder it will be to find places to store it. The more concentrated the storage, the larger the resulting fires will be when they do inevitably start. Remember, we have to sequester this carbon forever. It's a harder problem even than storing nuclear waste. At least that only needs to be stored for a few tens of thousands of years, and there is a lot less of it.
Of course we humans should exploit as much as possible without giving a damn about anything else, including our own future generations.
You are confusing flows (initial rate of sequestration starting with newly planted land) with stocks (amount sequestered at peak), I think.
> release a new Apple server that has 10x the processing power of the next most powerful server running at 1/10th the Wattage

The power efficiency of M1 is vastly overstated. Reminder here that the M1 Ultra is almost certainly a 200W TDP SoC (since the M1 Max was ~100W, and this is 2x of those...)

So 10x M1 Max's would be ~1000W. That's possibly to put in a server chassis, but it's of course also not remotely 1/10th the wattage of existing server CPUs, either, which tend to be in the 250-350w range.

And interconnects aren't free, either (or necessarily even cheap). The infinity fabric connecting the dies together on Epyc is like 70w by itself, give or take.
[dead] does not mean mods killed it. It could be mods, could be software, could be user flags. Mods is the least common reason.

minimaxir's page has this:

A submission that's flagged to death will have a [flagged] tag.

which is true, but I think it misled you a bit. It would be clearer to say:

A submission that's flagged to death will have both [flagged] and [dead] tags.
Agreed. I wasn't disparaging incubators, accelerators either. I was on one and sort of admired the fact some people, with no tech skills, were having a go at making a tech business. I think those with tech skills should put the head down first as you say.
Rathole: https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

> "A secure, stable and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust"

It compares itself to these other big projects:

frp: https://github.com/fatedier/frp

ngrok: https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok
Yeah I've seen tauri, but they're just using the glib bindings for webkit-gtk. So they're just sharing the preinstalled browser for rendering inside a webview.

My goal, compared to tauri (or webview/webview), is to offer an alternative, slimmed-down version that can be used to bundle apps on mobile and embedded devices. I mean, from a security point of view you have to assume that Edge and Chrome are compromised, so all your tauri apps will be compromised too.

So in retrokit I removed things like the massive plugin legacy in webkit, or pdfkit integrations and other stuff that was unnecessary, or webgl, or canvas, or the static geolocation API (which comes with a static copy of the ip<>geolocation database) etc.
seriously, never pick up the phone unless you know the caller. every stranger who calls you is trying to waste your time in some way

even 'legit' businesses that call you from random numbers are basically a spam channel / are training you to get phished -- for example health insurance and credit card. every time I call back on their official # to ask what they want, it's 10-20 minutes to figure out what they wanted (if they even know!)

we somehow aren't a society that can legislate to prevent spammers from using the phones. at this point let's pivot and punish legit businesses who use the phones to waste my time
You can focus on both the “how” and the “who”. I work in an engineering organization where when something sufficiently complicated goes wrong, we do a proper root cause analysis, ask 5 Why’s, propose process improvements, etc.

But sometimes, people just screw up, and preventing every unique screw up, would mean the creation of an absurd amount of process.

For example, one time, excited by the performance results of a colleague, I tried to immediately apply his performance optimization in a different context serving production traffic; we had a team culture of don’t test in prod, etc; but my hubris/excitement meant I powered ahead, which ended up driving up latency, failing requests, and causing a small outage.

The solution in this case isn’t to invent a new process to prevent my mistake, but rather to make sure the engineer knows they screwed up. A bit of shame/guilt leads to self improvement.

If you focus solely on process, and avoid personal responsibility, you may end up missing opportunities for personal growth.
> I would have found something dumbed down and kid specific uninteresting

No one likes the idea of something "dumbed down", but Scratch and block languages generally are not dumbed down, they're just visually different. It's all the same stuff, but a visual instead of text representation.

> QBasic that kept me interested was: included example games (gorillas and nibbles)

Yes, this is what many block based languages provide, examples, and also a thriving online community.
I thought this too, but if the goal of the control plane software and blade host OS is solely to create VMs and not to actually be a general-purpose OS, this probably doesn't matter as much?
It's easy to dogpile on BigCo, but this is selling the employees and teams short.

They definitely care about their customers, and many things were made better through subsequent fixes.

But the larger point is that the processes and mid-high+ level management structure at Google don't seem to prioritize cohesive, customer-centric experience. Which means teams will always miss things... because the process doesn't ensure they're caught.
Gmail is still ad subsidized, under the sponsor tab or whatever. You don't need to mine emails to show someone adverts to click on.
I would guess the Moon is actually much brighter once you filter the Sun to safe levels.
Quite right, I struggled to trim the tweet down in length to make it fit the HN title restrictions. Not ideal, however the trivia is interesting.
It is actually incredibly easy! If you are using a voip line, it is just a configurable field in the UI. You can do it with any voip phone app (e.g. [1]) and a voip provider (e.g. [2]). I have an old archived video showing it here [3]. It is not so interesting though, just me poking around in a voip provider's UI.

To address the other question about phone providers verifying stuff. SHAKEN/STIR [4] protocols are supposed to address this, but I think the telcos are still in ramp up time.

1. https://www.zoiper.com/

2. https://voip.ms

3. https://odysee.com/@cybering:1/spoofing-call-id-using-voip:2...

4. https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication#:~:text=STIR%2FSHAKE....
Or even a way to make it more efficient.

I have relatives in the business. They are buying out a lot of ammonia plants around the country that were build post WWII with Nazi technology, and then never upgraded. Just by modernizing those plants they are able to save a lot of money in the processing. Stagnation has been a real problem even though the chemists knew how to do better for years.
I'll give Gassée the benefit of the doubt. If you were ignorant of the fact that it was Women's Day (guilty here!) he might have thought it disingenuous to not mention it? At least in passing as he did.

I'm glad Apple are showcasing the diversity of their workforce (I raised three daughters of my own, wish they would have shown an interest in programming, not really) but I worry that there is a danger of backlash for going too far.
I watched a brilliant interview with Vladimir Klitschko with him basically saying that Ukraine is part of Europe. Why are you standing by and not defending this European country? It was the way he said it, so brilliant and convincing.

Ukraine has won the information war in a total wipe out.
Device Automation Bus Specification
Game Developer's Conference Event Details
Done
https://gitlab.com/z3c0/oghma_infinium/-/commit/88027ae48af1...