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The saddest thing about Star Citizen is that so much money and human effort is being burned for creative development which is almost certainly going to end up buried, unappreciated, in a failed project
It worked for me. Actually I was really happy to see it on the store. One less application to update manually.

I try to get as many applications from there as possible. Firefox is there. Blender even has both the latest greatest and the LTS available.
There's an internal tool showing how many total employees (~1m at that time iirc) where hired after/before you for . After somewhere between 6months-12months I was somewhere in the middle, meaning about 500k employees must have left and new 500k joined.

Just to give an estimate. Covid might have contributed to that though, probaly more temp workers than usual.
Management is often not convinced that justice can be done.
Yep I fell the complete opposite. I suspect that long term people who prefer in-office will gravitate towards companies that are in-office and the opposite will be true for people who prefer WFH. I personally will never ever work for a company that isn’t WFH flexible.
I'm merely pointing out that the lack of human license plate isn't much of a barrier.
Does this also work between two peers that are behind NAT's / routers?

From what I vaguely remember when I tried playing around with this stuff, some NAT's / routers have some sort of port randomization thing so that the same ports don't always reach the desired location behind it.

Does WebRTC make that port connection persistent due to the streaming nature of it; is that the idea? Does the stream ever break and does it require getting ip and port information from the STUN and ICE servers again? If so, how often does that happen?
That’s what I’d like to think too…but why not then say something about competitors or same industry, etc? It’s so wide reaching the way it’s stated.
The idea of having a "field" is that a 2d slice of it allows calculating light elsewhere from the field using optical propagation calculations. But this requires phase measurements in addition to intensity which is only what conventional cameras capture.

It could be easier to understand by looking the parts of a light field camera. Compared to a conventional camera, one type of light field camera has a micro-lens array just before the sensor. So this is like placing a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor over the image (apologies for another technical term, but that roughly explains the concept and is easily looked up, implementation details might be different though).

An ordinary photograph only stores intensities, so changing the focus given the recorded image is not possible using physical optics calculations (ML/AI algorithms might do the trick, but that's something else). Based on the image formed from each lens in the micro-lens array (i.e. the displacement of the focus from the sensor), it is possible to retrieve the wavefront or lightfield which allows subsequent optics calculations, like post-focusing.

The tradeoff is that each micro-lens in the array needs a decent number of pixels for analysis, so the effective 2d resolution is decreased as compared to using all the pixels.
Residential smart locks I've seen are wireless, with batteries and a keypad, so any networking (zwave, zigbee) or lack thereof doesn't affect that basic operation. And egress is never blocked by anything.

If the batteries die and you need to get inside, you need to have a physical key or an alternative ingress.
It's like an analog expert system!
It’s a perennial wedge issue in American politics. These wedge issues ultimately benefit the two party system at the expense of the governed, as the underlying issues are never resolved, just papered over for a term or so.
There's a lot of people on "both sides of the aisle" (clown show) that would be okay with saying it was all a crapshoot, and that that was kinda known.
There's several different government bodies working on tech in Singapore. GovTech is the more 'elite' group that pays better and generally rolls out decent products.
Areas that are too remote aren't typically the ones that get deforested though - generally trees are removed either because they're valuable (and if you can bring trees out, you can bring seedlings in) or because the land is wanted (which usually means it's accessible).

It's neat technology, and I hope they succeed, I just worry it's a cheap way to say "we're planting thousands of trees" while doing very little of value.
I once said that nobody can distinguish between Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans living in Britain today and that no one claims to be one rather than the other, to which an English woman in my class responded "well, except the Neo-Nazis".

I guess there will always be someone, even 900 years after the fact :)

(Just to clarify, I don't mean to imply those people you know are like that, just something that I'm reminded of.)
Outstanding effort. However, and as usual, some improvements can be suggested. For example, users are asked to execute npm and webpack commands as a part of some lessons. What is npm is explained (by supplying a link), any clarification related to webpack is missing. Those topics could have been expanded upon, perhaps taking the whole space of the lesson devoted to building a browser extension. This subject feels to be more marginal whereas knowing what bundlers do and why is more fundamental.
> Ledger (whose CEO was, before creating Ledger)

You mean their CTO aka btchip, right? Current CEO is non-techie and was not directly part of founding team.
Maybe it’s in the MVP?
Re multiple maintainers with release capabilities, each release could include a list of all authorised maintainers key, but only signed by one of them. Changing the list (or just additions as well as significant removals) would trigger a trust change in the client. Any maintainer can add/remove other maintainers (or maybe use a quorum if enough maintainers to make that workable).

Generally I wouldn’t be too happy using a dependency where there are lots of users with access to create official releases.

Re npm and transitive dependencies, this isn’t a code signing issue as much as it is a version pinning issue. Specifying latest as the version is a poor approach imo. Also the primary dependency should not be releasing a critical security fix as a breaking change. If it has to be a breaking change then there’s marginal additional effort to having to deal with the transitive dependency too given you’re already having to change things to support the primary dependency.

I’m not saying TOFU signatures would be a silver bullet. They, in conjunction with other security measures, best practices, etc, would help a lot though.
FWIW I've owned 2 4K chromebooks (replying on one right now, Pixelbook Go)
I thought they were talking about oceanic bedsheets
And yes, that's true. Geographic concentration is a real risk.

if you purchased a world wide index, you will not suffer from such risk.
The historic average for interest rates is considerably higher than it is right now.

Considering the amount of public debt outstanding - it's extremely unlikely we're returning to those levels of interest rates long-term (short-term I suppose anything can happen).

Interest rates have a huge effect on P/E. I wouldn't expect CAPE to match historic trends if interest rates don't.
Completely agree. Generally, when hyperbole is used, the underlying argument is week or poor, and the writer is trying to argue from emotion.

Sadly, it often works.
Java Simple Web Server in Java 18
Why can't technological advancement stave off climate change damage? Why cant renewables replace fossil fuels, and continue human expansion? Why can't space exploration and settlement be where the future growth occurs?
What makes you think this ticket had anything to do with automation, and wasn't just an incompetent traffic cop?
I’m also a European migrant to America and the way I see it is that while we kept our unions in Europe, America haphazardly abandoned theirs. The only remaining unions are the ones with the strongest power structures and the chances of someone misusing their power in such a power structure is quite high.

In my opinion workers in America (my self included) desperately need to re-unionize. While I do admit that my working conditions are personally no worse then back home (I certainly get paid a lot more here; though I wouldn’t mind some health care) that is not the case most for American workers, including close friends and family.

Most Americans are lacking basic labor rights that we in Europe take for granted, such as paid sick leave, parental leave, paid holidays, higher overtime pay, guaranteed rest period, heck they don’t even get mandatory breaks and refreshments doing hard manual labor. This is something that collective bargaining, cross industry worker’s solidarity, picket lines, and strategic voting got them in the early last century but they have since lost.

In Europe we don’t need it as much because we have maintained our unions (and most—but not all—of these rights). In Europe the unions don’t need to be as political because the political victories from the prior years still stand. In America, not so much.

With that said, this doesn’t mean America should just take any union. If the union isn’t working—or worse it is actively harmful—it’s leadership needs to be replaced. If you don’t have a union you should try to get one, and you should try as you can to elect a good and competent leadership that will work improve labor conditions for all workers.
Ask HN: How to Become a Go-To Person?
Some context:
I am in the process of constructing a house. Recently, I contacted a lot of people in areas such as mortgage loan, building contractors, architects. To my surprise, hardly anyone followed up. That implies, they must be getting a lot of work. We could say the same for doctors, lawyers etc.

One the other hand, if we look at the software industry, everyone is replaceable no matter how good they are. So how does one become a go-to person?. Not necessarily at work. But outside of work too, so that one doesn't have to depend on the employer. I know that having skills in niche areas will help. But then, there will always be a dependency on the employer. Also, the entry barrier is very low in tech. Anyone could learn any technology.
Yeah, you absolutely don't need to overthink keto once you have a good idea of what foods provide the ideal set of nutrients that you need. You just have to keep those foods stocked, and eat whatever you have on hand when you're hungry, until you stop being hungry. As for avoiding junk food, just STAY OUT OF THE JUNK FOOD AISLE. Don't walk through there, don't daydream about chocolate, make a conscious effort to keep it out of sight, and it will be out of mind. That part takes some self-discipline, but once you make the conscious decision to keep it out of sight, your mind will go wander to some other distraction or stimulus and you will forget about it, and it will become a habit soon.

The truly hardest part of all of this in general is finding a suitable form of substitute stimulus that keeps you from being driven to seek your default vices. The unfortunate part is that there are not a lot of accessible/healthy things in life that provide the adequate stimulus that we seek/need in order to feel "okay". We're drawn towards drugs and junk food and etc because it's easy to acquire and satisfies our needs for stimulus in the short term.
It's even the right shape.
Yep. Which is why I walk away from companies that are not WFH flexible. No pitchforks wanted or required. As for drama: there seems to be an equivalent amount of drama on both sides of this issue. I have seen people who want to force everybody to work in the office just because they prefer it that way. I suspect there is a fair amount of incompetent micro-managing middle managers in that group. While competent middle managers are flexible and wants to do whatever makes sense for the team, negotiating a solution that works for everybody.
Major subject from about 1880 to 1955, then irrelevant.

It may come back. Un-armored warships no longer dare get near an enemy shore. They can be killed by something mounted on a truck. The Admiral Makarov is the second Russian warship to be taken out by a missile or torpedo launched from shore.
I can definitely tell them apart but I'm just to the left of the nazis.
Awesome blogs: https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs
There's a third strategy of "index minus bullshit stocks" where you would include both INTC and AMD stocks for risk hedging, but would leave out things with questionable sustainability like Uber and Netflix that otherwise made it into the index due to the speculative value.
You should see the volume of the last 24 hours. No one is sitting on cash unless they are hobbyists.
Modern Chromebooks do a lot more than just run a single website or a single web app - for example right now I am replying to you in Chrome browser but I also have a docker container running doing some dev work in the debian linux console on a separate workspace.
Good for him. Apple's push for "return to office" is stupid.
Uber's Big Data Platform: 100 Petabytes with Minute Latency
Most of government debt is due in a few years [1]. The interest rate is fixed as long as the government will pay off the debt on schedule. With the current debt load Gov will not pay its debt on schedule. When the debt will become due the gov will roll it over - it will basically get another loan to pay the loan that is due. If at that time the interest rates will be higher then interest expense will be higher as well.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/feddebt/fedde...
Not a software dev or inherently tech-base business. Vast majority of employees are not in a tech related positions.

I'm in Higher Ed analytics, embedded at a high level in an operational division at a university. So, maximizing revenue isn't a primary goal. It's certainly a secondary concern, some amount of "profit" is necessary to plow back into resources for students & researchers and capex, but if we're making a ton of profit it would kind of mean we're charging students more than we need to and putting a higher debt burden on them. Some schools, unfortunately, take that path but not where I work. We are honestly very focused on doing what's best for the student, even at the cost of leaving some easy money on the table.

Minimizing student debt burden is a primary target metric for the university. Of course it's much more complicated than that though, countless variables and interlocking & sometimes competing goals & requirements.

And while Higher Ed isn't perfect and could use some disruption, quality instruction doesn't have much economy of scale. Sure, a very self-motivated person can plow through self-paced college courses without a lot of handholding or overhead costs to get them through, but that's not the majority of students. For most students the ability to get quality help along the way is inversely proportional to class size and directly proportional to support resources. So, high labor costs. Though again, some amount of disruption could probably improve things. As would the realization that not everyone needs to go to a traditional 4-year college, that for many people learning a skilled trade is both a faster path to financial self-sufficiency and better suited to their interests. But that's all a bit off topic so I'll end it there.
Star Citizen reminds me very much of that story about the Danish artist who was commissioned by a museum to produce a new piece for $84k and gave them two empty canvases entitled "Take the Money and Run".[0]

Cloud Imperium is, at this point, a modern art studio that is constantly trying to see just how overtly they can make fun of their patrons while still receiving big checks.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041492941/jens-haaning-kunst...
One princess tree (also called empress tree) will drop tens or hundreds of thousands of seeds every year, of which most usually zero will grow into a new tree.

These trees are valued for furniture in Asia, but are invasive pests elsewhere, yet are still promoted by plant nurseries.
Russia's economy is back on its feet
Exactly my thoughts, the author talks about S&P500 initially (which recovered "fairly" quick after the dotcom bubble burst) and then uses a different index to exemplify how the dotcom bubble took long time to recover.
The situation we're in now is pretty close to what some people were warning about back in 2008 when the feds decided on their massive monetary expansion.

By the time inflation starts to heat up (it doesn't happen right away), there will be immense pressure to delay any monetary contraction for fear of dampening economic growth. Then Covid hit and the economy was goosed with another massive injection while everyone worried about a recession.

Then once inflation starts it's too damn late to put the genie back in the bottle so you just spend the next 5-10 years trying to get it under control while not entirely tanking the economy.
Why would $5.4T in stimulus that, as far as I know, came and went a year ago be causing ongoing inflation?
No one is raising the question of how to handle community name/key management for persistent communities. With n2n, which long predates Zerotier, Wireguard and Tailscale, one of the authors thought there needed to be automatic key rotation and also communication between "signal" servers. Original n2n allowed tunneling over HTTP as a fallback. It should be noted that n2n was never meant to be used for large communities, say, over 100 peers. Sure enough, the author of weron is issuing that same warning here.

Many years ago I had each peer run their own smtpd listening on the n2n TAP interface. It was peer-to-peer, encrypted email. This can be done for many other protocols, too. With Layer 2 overlay, there are no middlemen. Direct connectivity to friends and family with no need for Google/Facebook.

Layer 2 overlay networks with n2n can be significantly faster if automatic encryption is turned off. In that case, the user can encrypt and sign sensitive files with a separate program before sending them through the TAP interface. It works quite well.
Hahahaha that’s funny
I have lived in China for the past 11 years. Middle income countries like China (average income per capita same as Thailand) often have people working more than five days a week. That’s a choice. Taking convenience stores as an example FamilyMart has six day weeks with 16 hour shifts. Lawson’s and 7-11, I think have five day work weeks with nine hour shifts. FamilyMart workers make as much as university graduates starting in decent companies.

There are similar splits in professional level work. There are jobs available where you ~never work six days a week and others where it’s routine. Trust me when I say no one at Nike or Booking in Shanghai is working 996.

My logic does not suggest the lack of unions and organized labor causes six day weeks. Six or seven day working weeks are the natural condition. Economic growth allows for different consumption leisure trade offs. Unions can only very indirectly effect economic growth. They matter much less than the ability to quit your job and find a new one easily. Firms desperate for workers are what make working conditions better, much more than unions.
This may be the case for many goods (e.g. cars, furniture, dishwashers, beef) - but definitely not assets (e.g. homes, bonds, stocks, art)
Why not l? If the market returns don’t keep up at 6-7% annualized government pensions will run out of cash.

If rates go up drastically, government debt payments go up.

The game must go on! *until the us empire collapses, taking down with it the western world
> > point to the weekend as a lovely innovation powered by unions.
> No, this is powered by the law.

Those laws were a consequence of industrial action by unions. Here's a backgrounder on the progress made by unions in Australia.

<https://www.australianunions.org.au/about-unions/union-achie...>

Every year, Australian employees are entitled to 4 weeks of paid annual leave, two weeks of paid sick leave, 6 months of paid long service leave after 10 years of employment, about 10% of their salary paid into their retirement investments (superannuation).

Unions even up the negotiation power imbalance between employers and workers. Union power has been severely curtailed over the last few decades and as a consequence workers have seen stagnant wages, rising inequality of compensation and the rise of insecure work.

There's plenty of evidence to support the assertion that collective bargaining leads to better outcomes for workers. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Links chosen from a cursory web search:

<https://www.ehstoday.com/safety/article/21918297/new-study-s...>

<https://www.epi.org/blog/union-decline-rising-inequality-cha...>
Original article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90748492/apple-airpods-pro-creat...

First half of the article: "Teams were innovating for months in silos only to finally converge in the eleventh hour before launch, ending up in five- or six-hour-long daily meetings, causing tremendous friction and burnout. People were frustrated."

Second half of the article: "regular cross-staff sessions, transparency, and shared voice" created the AirPods Pro

Frankly, pretty skimpy on the details – ironic considering the topic.
The worst part of Wikipedia is the arcane rules and procedures.

Wikipedia tries to keep things consistent, but this has created a whole body of “case law” that only experts know.

I once described a law that had been proposed, but not passed, and had my contribution removed because it was “legal advice.”

I couldn’t even wrap my head around that one.
You may also want to consider a Droplet for his next website. He will learn about the plumbing.

That way, when ever he is filled with self-doubt and needs reaffirmation, he would be able to put things together from the ground up and regain confidence.
Wouldn’t global warming increase asset price in many areas.

Food will be more expensive. Housing more expensive.

Green Energy is more expensive. Just look at Germany and California electrical rates.

I don’t see how it’ll reduce prices
Funny that webvan is always cited as an example of a startup that could never work, but really just an early example of do something that doesn't scale and just keep doing it until you somehow make money. But VCs weren't yet ready for the unicorn burn.
The other piece of this is that there are a wide variety of safety razor blades. You should get a variety pack if you make the switch until you find what works best. Some are very sharp (which actually isn't always good), some less so. Some are more flexible than others. You need to find one that fits your skin and hair.
Buying the dip doesn't mean you should try to catch a falling knife.
I’ll affirm that I had fun playing Eve, and I’d be willing to acknowledge a suggestion that this was thanks to playing with the right people. Perhaps participating in large-scale nullsec alliance warfare and industry could also be considered “the right way”.

That was a decade ago, however. When I peek in on the goings-on today, it looks like the game is on life support.
>>> Now worth $8M.

That is the price. Worth and value are different than price.

If that $8M now buys about the same amount of blueberries or house as $3M in 2007, then it kept pace. Except for paying the capital gains on $5M.