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Why should a peaceful demonstration of technical superiority terrify anyone?

It's clear whomever, or whatever, possesses this superior technology could fly circles around and/or obliterate us on a whim, but has expressly decided not to, and instead simply announced: "Hey, I have this."

If they/it perceived us as a threat, we'd surely be gone already. That leaves only our hopefully sane response, to influence what happens next.

Being terrified would be exactly wrong.
Such people exist, and enough don’t seek help.

Would you choose to force them to get help, or would you choose to let them consume ever more?
I don't understand this argument.

All three Molly White, Stephen Diel and Nicolas Weaver have made arguments beyond "cryptocurrencies use a lot of energy".

You cite a couple of sources in your statements but I would like to see these twitter threads where they "have all deliberately been ignoring the eco-friendly cryptocurrencies and technologies for years". I'm not saying it didn't happen but in these cases it depends on the details because I wouldn't engage in a debate with a laser eyes account whose only talking point it "you forgot about 'eco-friendly" cryptocurrency X".
This is a standard complaint about McMansions out in the suburbs.

Appallingly poor workmanship, and everything looks like it was bought on sale at a second tier do it yourself store.

And who would glue carpet to a wall and call it luxury?
Yeah, for my specific use case, I'm less interested in user-defined teams and more interested in company admins inviting users with specific roles (which sounds like a common scenario).

We're currently integrating Auth0 for authentication but sticking to our own authorization stuff. Auth0 organizations seem way heavier than what we need, more for like white-labeling an app to a handful of huge enterprise clients, rather than just having lots of small clients with a handful of users each.
You're not characterizing the report correctly. The report that was released to the public is a 9 page preliminary assessment. It is almost entirely fluff. It does state that of the 144 reported cases of UAP over the course of the period of study, there were 21 reports written. Those would be the interesting reports, and precisely none of the those were released to the public, redacted or otherwise.

Here's the report for anyone who's interested.

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelima...
Obviously I don't agree with the guy but I do think Russia invading Ukraine has woken up the west a bit in terms of human nature. Those in the chattering classes in the us tend to think (in my experience at least) that we can mold humans, and this is an example of where taking things too far has backfired (no pun intended). I do wonder how this will shape current children's worldviews
Web3 is a Ponzi scheme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
While not apples-to-apples and less polished, we're slowly building up https://github.com/tonarino/innernet as a fully open-source (and self-hosted) alternative to things like Tailscale. It controls vanilla WireGuard under the hood (kernel or userspace implementations), and is lower level (no graphical interfaces yet), though, but depending on your needs it might still fit :).
Actually, divers recovered them in 2014 to augment a digital reconstruction of the typeface: https://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/
So... an A100 is almost as fast as Perl?

[*] I like my joke, so I'll leave it be, but fwiw I missed an M ><
Best to have a separation of church and state (so to speak). Use your work devices for work, and your personal devices for personal things. It might sound a bit cumbersome, but it can prevent potential problems.

A few years ago, a colleague accidentally pushed a bunch of AWS keys (or something like that) to his person GitHub account when he should have pushed it to his company one. His personal account was public, someone found the keys, and started spinning up AWS instances by the dozen using those keys.
Maybe. That would be 14 weather balloons in this case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyP79v9e84
No crypto in 401(k) retirement plans
Skepticism is not necessarily hostility or closed-mindedness. It is by definition an introduction of doubt (not denial, but doubt) in situations where it's lacking -- like religion.
I've done a fair amount of weld inspection / NDT. X-ray would be the only radiation based method used on a construction site. This would typically be done in batches and require the evacuation of an exclusion zone.
Classical education was incomparable to what we get today, we are all completely uncultured.
> My problem is that C was elevated to a role of prestige and power, its reign so absolute and eternal that it has completely distorted the way we speak to each other. Rust and Swift cannot simply speak their native and comfortable tongues – they must instead wrap themselves in a grotesque simulacra of C’s skin and make their flesh undulate in the same ways it does.

Lol at this. Love this eloquent style, and pretty much agree. However, C's reign is not absolute. Virgil compiles to tiny native binaries and runs in user space on three different platforms without a lick of C code, and runs on Wasm and the JVM to boot. I've invested 12+ years of my life to bootstrap it from nothing just to show it can be done and that we can at least have a completely different userspace environment. No C ABI considerations over here. It can be as romantic as just you and the kernel in Virgil land. Heh.
Symbolic links are an overwhelmingly greater problem than just for "file system engineers".

If you code a program that does Posix file system operations, and may be used where security matters, congratulations, you are a security hole vector.
Just wish it had some more host-level access to get to web cameras/usb devices and serial ports.
This is why you need more than one copy of the source code. Stored on a backup, or servers, in case the original code goes away.

The man was talented, and nobody can replace him. Even a disassembled code would not be as good as having the knowledge to use it.
>I always encourage people who are "learning computers" to actually write a compiler (there are some good starting points for that but online courseware from MIT and other sources can get you the lecture material too). Doing that helps broaden one's perspective of what language designers and implementers are up against with regards to pretty much every computer working the "same" way (Von Neumann or Harvard architecture wise)

Isn't it dependent on what IR do you use?
I make a little audio gadget. Something like a guitar pedal.

My first product, I rather arbitrarily priced it at 4x my cost of materials. Then I began keeping records.

I use PayPal for everything. It comes with a Visa card. At the end of the year, I download the entire year's transactions as a CSV and work out my numbers in a spreadsheet. I keep procrastinating on doing it in Python. Money in, minus money out, is my profit. Next, I have a decent estimate of my hours.

I've tried to price my goods, so I can pay myself somewhere between $50 and $100/hour. I try to make very sure that I'm not robbing my family by spending time on a "business" that's not actually a business.
Has anyone actually made an NFT that you can share between two games made by completely unrelated developers? Crypto fanciers keep on offering this as a usecase for NFTs despite the myriad game balance, developer time, and cross-compatibility issues it would create.

Games that are not available don't count, neither do games that say you'll be able to do it "soon". Pointing a game to an ugly monkey jpeg you "own" doesn't count either. Getting a character, weapon, costume piece, companion, etc, in one game, and transferring it to a completely unrelated game does count.

Someone in the crypto ecosystem working on a framework to make it easy for a game developer to allow import/export of game items as NFTs in a standardized way halfway counts.
Removing alert is nonsense, and I don't think they will ever do (without breaking a ton of websites that use it). Why as a developer should I have to make a modal with HTML+CSS+JS to show it to just have a prompt that inform the user about something?

Ok, alert is ugly, but for a lot of situations (= industrial software) it's perfectly acceptable.
Not something I'd have looked for as my ISP does not have that issue, but yeah, that's a killer feature.
I agree that there's something in these videos - at least in Gimbal. I don't think it's a saucer-shaped thing or necessarily of extraterrestrial origin. It could be a drone (either ours - another branch of DoD/govt - or another nation's) etc. Still an interesting mystery, but no proof of anything extraordinary IMHO.

In the case of relying on Christopher Mellon's credentials, I'd point out that he has a commercial interest of some kind with To The Stars Academy, the production company which seems to be behind all of these videos' presence on the History channel.

In their 2021 annual meeting notes [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5a458fe749405f83225...], To the Stars Academy notes that "Christopher Mellon, a member of TTSA’s advisory board, [is] no longer with the company" implying he was employed by them in some fashion. Thus prior to 2021, he likely stood to benefit commercially from these films' distribution, particularly when he was quoted alongside them.
Yes, PHP is faster than C#
I think we have to resolve that a real person (or at least a discrete identifiable group) has the actual power, and the responsibility lies squarely with them. That may require them to take heat directly rather than fire some random employee the Internet has decided to hate, but I don't think they get to deflect responsibility for taking the easy out.

That doesn't necessarily address the suicide part, except to observe coldly that the person directly responsible for the suicide is the only one who can stop it, unfortunately. So they have to figure out how to stop the assault from reaching them.

I don't have any particularly good answers, this is a fairly hard problem to solve. Probably some combination of things, up to and including involving law enforcement and giving them the tools to identify people and hold them accountable (as much as we'd like the Internet to be an anonymous place, that may be a pipe dream). Of course, what constitutes breaking the law? If someone on the playground taunts you, they're not breaking the law, and the risk to you is pretty low. But if a million people on the Internet taunt you, this is a different thing.
You're missing the point.

The government can and should print money to turn unutilized resources in the economy into utilized resources. What's best for the economy is for every capable person in it to be generating stuff. Everything else is an abstraction around that end.

In my thought experiment, there's simply more stuff in the economy because the government printed the money, and the whole is more prosperous for it.
To be fair, CF workers is much older than Deno by a few years. I don’t see us as dismantling anything - do you blame the wind mill or Don Quixote for tilting at them?
This is a very competitive space too. Cloudflare is but one player and I don’t think the ones who do well will focus just on the serverless infrastructure piece. It’s more about having a very complete product story that solves pain points better than anyone else for a price that’s better than anyone else (ie build on a more solid foundation).

Since Workers started before Rust was a thing, Deno have a mild advantage on development velocity of the runtime (C++ is more annoying in some ways). They’ve also compounded that velocity by writing most of the runtime in Typescript whereas our runtime is in C++.

However, our runtime is far more battle tested at scale which means trickier distributed systems problems solved and more efficiencies of scale (+ c++ has less of a memory hit than TS so it will be interesting to see if they can hit the memory scale needed to support many customers simultaneously). Personally I wish them the best as I think competition is always critical to force you to focus on making a better product.
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Video games are a likely candidate, as they seem to be the medium of the 21st century.
One does have to deal with the social aspects--not that all scoial aspect of secondary school are positive. But it seems obvious that 1:1 tutoring is generally positive beyond the cost. Certainly I got a lot out of independent study classes in grad school (and to a lesser degree undergrad).
At this point we can't even talk conspiracy theories without someone bringing up the meta conspiracy theories, like the Chinese saboteurs sowing division in this comment section...
It has been increasing since 2008, without Covid the same graph would look very different. Its just that the fed just increased the scale so much that the previous level seems puny now, even though the y axis is 1000s of Billions of dollars.
Maybe unsecured plastic falling onto the element prior to the dry cycle.
The biggest issue I've seen with things like that, is certain actions with form validation can have unexpected surprises on keypress... so depending on how you're doing form validation, that is usually what will throw off the timing and things drop to a crawl.

Often, if you have a form action button, separate from your validation, best to update state as part of on-change or isolate form state until the action button itself is pressed to push to the redux state.

But I do understand the sentiment... I've run apps, and even forms with some relatively complex and large state via redux without much issue. The biggest hurdle is often getting everyone working on something to understand how redux works, and how the difference comparison works for state changes. Also, dealing with when/where an action should be created/dispatched, how to use the thunks for async handlers, etc.
Yeah, I think the launch of our own registrar service simplified onboarding of custom domains (by default all workers are available on workers.dev domains).
Don't worry, when inflation really gets out of control the Fed will step in with a new currency (CBDC) and save us.
Another downstream consumer is the Unity Hub (software to download & manage Unity Engine versions) via Vue.
Nixos website has very nice example of minimal docker images: https://nixos.org/#asciinema-demo-example_4
Wasn’t that during Yellen’s term who was replaced by Powell in 2018? The same year the tax cuts went into effect. The following year the rate cuts started and then Covid hit.
That and a wildly escalating pay scale for reoffenders.
So he’s a criminal now? Under what law, of what nation? Russia?
Colt McCoy is older and still has a backup job. Lots of other crappy QBs bouncing around for years too... If not for the right-wing shitshow, someone would've taken a flyer in the last five years on a QB who once led a team to a superbowl appearance.

We also, if we want to say it's just about results, can look at Dave Chappelle, who falls on the opposite side of the "woke or not-woke" line but remains famously un-canceled despite that. So I could see someone reaching the conclusion of "the lines of 'what you can't say' aren't as strong as they're made out to be on either side, if you can bring in the money" OR the conclusion that it's not a one-sided "wokeism" thing... but "this is purely a woke thing and it's a huge problem" seems unsupportable.
You think it was the owners who cared directly themselves, not the pressure generated by a right-wing fan and media shitstorm?
When I read the article I thought about this in terms of the school system as well. There is so much you need to do only to get to the next "level" in the system, which makes it difficult to innovate or explore outside of that.

To me, it seems like the aristocratic tutoring gave those people the opportunity to work outside the system.
Honestly a very harmful sort of "doing something about it". As if deleting someone's (presumably, normal people) files will make them more understanding of the difficulties in the ongoing conflict. Lying about it is also petty, as seen below. Malicious software is malicious regardless of any intentions and should be prosecuted as such. And if one really feels obliged to make their part as they wish, there's many examples of relatively harmless ways to do so, for example Notepad++ used to open a new tab with text inside, that is not particularly harmful.

>It is documented what it does and only writes a file if it does not exist. You are free to lock your dependency to a version that does not include this until something happens with the war, like it turns into WWIII and more of us wish that we had done something about it, or ends and this gets removed.

from https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233#issueco...
Looks like typical SWE ladders / profiles for roles in FAANG. One can go this route, and then create N-1 preso/diff for "L3 to L4" , "L4 to L5", "L5 to L6" etc.

But that seems something old companies with a ton of bureaucracy would have, not suitable imo for a "young tech company".

For those, I highly prefer this fits-in-one-tweet definition of L3, L4, L5, L6: https://twitter.com/ZainRzv/status/1502550200396750851
BastionZero is a similar product which gives you multiple roots of trust, one to BastionZero, and one to your identity provider (Google, Okta, etc.) https://www.bastionzero.com/security-model
Ask HN: Ways for a RU sysadmin/DevOps to relocate to EU?
Hello dear HN,

I understand that I'll probably get a lot of flak for this post, but bear with me.

I'm a Russian Linux admin in my 30s with 10+ years of various experience looking for a way to relocate into EU due to the obvious.

I have never supported this madness, have friends in Ukraine (who of us Russians doesn't?...) and have been mildly politically active since about 10 years ago (election observer, low-key pro-privacy activist).

My partner lives in Berlin and I'm currently residing in Yerevan, Armenia, still working for a RU company and trying to seek jobs in EU. Because of family matters, I can't apply for a partnership visa unfortunately. Also I'd hate to say that, and I know not all of you folks are easy with this but we're an LGBT couple.

Re: my work experience, I have good understanding of system internals and tools, but for example my Kubernetes knowledge is lacking at the moment (so I feel like an ancient relic already).

I'd be glad to hear any advice or opinions about what I should do in this situation. Many thanks guys, we should not let one madman and his clique ruin our world.
> I'm skeptical but willing to believe 56% of people can't find $1k on the spot in fiat cash because of the structure of their wealth.

It's not too far fetched.

1. Buy a house in the 80s when they were like 60k-80k.

2. Work a normal'ish non-tech full time job where you make 35k / year.

3. Fail to pay off your original mortgage over 20-30 years and end up getting a 2nd mortgage.

4. Pay your current mortgage, property taxes and other bills every month.

Pretty sure anyone who is single in this position would have nothing left over per month and be living an extremely tight lifestyle with not much to spare a few days before their next pay check.

Throw in a couple of bad decisions over the decades and you could have no savings too. Something tells me a decent percent of 55-70 year old folks fall into this category.
Why an array with zero element should be false? It doesn't make a lot of sense. And writing if (array.length > 0) is more explicit than writing if (array) anyway. Even in python, I prefer to be explicit and say if len(array) > 0 than to rely on implicit conversion rules.
The core claim of this joke of a production is that it’s just lens flare.

They use weasel words to hedge their bets, but their intention is pretty clear.

The facts are that these pilots also saw these things with their own eyes and got radar locks in addition to IR. These are “targeting” pods remember? It can’t just be lens flare.
Is it good game design for every game to look like Fortnite where everyone is running around as a character from a different media franchise?

What does it add to Halo Infinite if Deadpool is a playable character in it? Especially if the developers and publishers do not make money selling you a skin that you bought some place else.
I read Joe Elden Ring.
The James Webb Space Telescope is working as well as astronomers dreamed
Statue of Unity - India might still be around
Everybody's tiktok is different, the algorithm knows you well, and always gives you what you like. If you look at other people's tiktok, it's always very dumb, but when you open your own, it's always good, because you never hate your own taste.
> No other country has managed to accomplish what CCP has in its coordinated campaign across the globe.

How would you know? Maybe others just haven't been caught yet. It would be naive to think that China is the only country doing, or attempting to do, this.
I don't disagree, I see an expectation on the part of driver/API providers that you can write (probably in C) and adapter layer that can talk "glorious language" on the input, and then do the naughty bits and talk to the C API on the output.

My position is that this is less of a burden than writing something that goes from the "glorious language" into machine code.

Understanding why that is less of a burden is gained by writing a compiler where you go right from "expressing what you want" to "machine code that does that".
My fear of using something like this would be to accidentally mess up the format (<PRIVATE, <<PIRVATE, etc), and accidentally commit my private stuff in plaintext. Similarly, if I misconfigure my .gitattributes, I might try to use this on a file which the privatizer program doesn't even get run over.
It's hard to say how much coercion was involved in this rubber hose attack until more details come out. He probably complied after being threatened with arrest and charges, instead of lawyering up.
I think you're reading into the sanctuary cities thing too much. That's just an example of a policy (yeah, there's no legal Def, but that's how they're colloquially known now, plus sanctuary and refuge are synonymous anyways) that Republicans complain about and Democrats complain about them complaning about. It seems the term is widely used by both sides now, although that's not a policy I follow very much.

"It makes exactly zero statements about Democrat policies. It does speak to Republican support and the dearth of Democrat policies, but that is what you'd expect if the intent is to dispute a claim that the Democrat policies are causal or at least correlated with murder rates."

I would agree, except you need to look at the mitigating and confounding factors to draw that conclusion - something this article doesn't do. This is the big point in my positions (just that the article is lacking, engaging in similar foul play, and doesn't present the level of evidence that most people are claiming). There can be disproportionate rates of various socioeconomic factors that's are not controlled for here which could skew the data. Basic things like not accounting for the other variables responsible make it impossible to assign any value to the one being scrutinized, not looking for random errors (eg Gaussian distribution). Along this same vein, there's no explaination of the outliers. This is a political article, not a well formed study.

It seems that we aren't making any progress here, and my comments are becoming more and more misinterpreted. I guess I'm out.
I like your thought process on it. :) Thanks for sharing the Iron Ore Line link that is some fascinating history - it looks like that railway was built out in the 1800s and electrified starting in 1915. I'm surprised we don't see more projects that take advantage of gravity like this but it might be due to the predictable nature of the mining business (vs some other general train or truck routes, etc).