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I guess you weren't looking hard enough. I am writing this on a fairly light and slim machine, equipped with Ryzen 5800 and a 16:10 2560x1600 @ 120Hz display. I used to have a 14 inch model with an even higher resolution at same refresh rate. Both were ~1k euro, depending on exact configuration.
You can only have so many seed planting drone companies, I mean, really.
I think it's worth pulling out three points in particular from the article.

One is that packaging choices (vial size) made to optimize mass vaccination are now somewhat of a hindrance. This isn't exactly unsurprising that packaging should have to evolve with the type of demand. I know that changing vial sizes probably would require the manufacturers to re-run all of their shelf-life and shipping validations. I wonder where they are along that process. One would have hoped that these validations would have been run earlier - the change in consumption patterns was somewhat predictable.

The other is that other countries are -refusing- vaccine donations. As it turns out, infrastructure and logistics constraints, as well as vaccine hestitancy continue to be a problem. Here's another article about that from earlier in 2022 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/africa-asks-covid-v...).

The article claims the US has a ~12% wastage rate. I'd argue that while that's not insignificant, if the rate can be held at 12% (big if to be fair...), that doesn't seem -that- bad. There's quite a lot of literature on vaccine wastage rates even prior to COVID. From what I've found, a 2.5%-5% wastage rate was considered normal for vaccines in steady-state use in developed countries, while flu vaccine wastage could potentially range from 5-40% (https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports... Figure 6).
The fact they're wasting time on that is a sign that Facebook decay phase has already started.
The freedom to live in a fictional world where Facebook safeguards your data is just as available regardless the reality of the situation.

The reality of the situation is that Facebook is a walled garden built on the labor of it's users and it is objecting to those users reclaiming the fruits of their labor by scraping.
They rebuilt a lot of that in the decade after the war with extensive aid from Russia and China. Their economy was actually doing better than South Korea's up until maybe the '70s or even '80s (it depends on what metrics you are looking at).

Where it started going seriously off the rails was in the '80s when they adopted a policy of radical self-sufficiency. Unfortunately they can't really be self-sufficient, at least at their current population levels, because the climate and geography limit the amount of arable land and limit how much can be grown on it. They get winds from Siberia bringing bitter cold and heavy snow, making it so they can usually only get one crop per year (compare to two crops per year which is possible in much of South Korea).

So they remained heavily dependent on Russia and China. When the Soviet Union broke up they lost most of their Russian aid, and that really hurt. They never really recovered from that, and their infrastructure suffered as part of the general poor economic conditions.
Note that Wikipedia refers to these as messages[1], not banners, which I feel helps explain the difference in how they're perceived - whereas banners are generally decorative, with contrasting design style, wikipedia message boxes use the same design language as the rest of the article's infoboxes (solid backgrounds, don't span the full content width, thin+dark border with an image or single thick colored side for emphasis)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Clean...
Obama might have tried to do it, but there's more to lawmaking than just writing it - there's also implementing it, which Obama most certainly did not do. And as a member of the Executive Branch, that's kind of his job....

Or are you implying everyone just ignored it for 12 years?

Also, Trump's order is significantly larger than what's in the ACA, and Trump actually implemented his order.

You can give Obama credit for trying, but Trump gets credit for actually doing it, and for doing it much better than Obama.
There's a lot of shit wrong with this world, we don't need to actively add to it, especially since we know how to do it better.
I bought a couple of these from aliexpress fully assembled[0] (along with some massive terrifying batteries[1]). They're cool little devices. You can send messages via the app on your phone or by plugging them into your computer via USB. There's evidently also some wifi connectivity that I haven't experimented with at all.

Message shows up in the chat room on the phone and on the other devices linked to the room. Planning to play with them for camping Soon™.

[0]: < https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2255800992363816.html?spm=a2...>
[1]: <https://www.18650batterystore.com/products/sanyo-ncr18650ga>
The post was posted by a (edit: recently ex-) VP at Facebook, and the posted title, while strictly accurate, doesn't mention that there's a brand new account type that you need to have. I read this at first as "I can finally buy a VR headset and use it as regular hardware", not "FB is still going to track my usage, just under their new name".

"Introducing Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR" is the actual title, and should be used instead of this one.
Repeatedly catching Covid-19 at severity enough to prompt one to get tested / seek medical attention is a sign of poor health in itself?
You might like to explain how population life-expectancy figures correlate with covid fatality rates in a meaningful way.

You might like to explain why they don't, given the death-rate exponentially increases with age.
No one can be absolutely certain of a future event, but you are being unreasonably negative.
It doesn't matter if something is "OK" or not. It matters what your options are. And they are:

1. Spew the waste into the air (fossil fuels)

2. Contain and bury the waste (nuclear)

3. Go without electricity when the weather is not favorable until major tech improvements in storage

So unless you want to argue for 3, and I don't think you do, 2 is clearly the best option.
>I can't tell if these arguments are being made in bad faith or it's just denial.

I think it's a combination of denial and an absurdly strong desire to be seen as "above the political fray." That or they're all auditioning for writers positions at The Atlantic.
You published them for the world to see... so yes, presumably.
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> You lose out on any meaningful, even if small or quaint, connections

An 8 year old girl should have other opportunities for ‘meaningful connections’, so I don’t see this as a huge loss.
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We have tested it successfully with 4 nodes last week at the Fusion Festival in Germany - one of those where you have to battle constant cellular network outages - and were surprised to randomly see fellow meshtastic users extending the mesh network. It was one of those "open source technology is amazing" moments :D.
Eh. As a city person you’ll have developed certain instincts and as long as you follow those instincts while you wander, the probability of something happening is usually quite low.
Interesting. I do get the feeling when scrolling aimlessly, usually I relent to aimless consumption when I'm stuck on something hard I can't figure out. Whereas walks I view more utilitarian: they're good for me and the changing of environments helps me stay focused.
I'm still disappointed that Facebook bought Oculus. I was a big Oculus Rift user, but I switched to a Valve Index when Facebook got involved. I don't want Facebook monetizing my data and my gaming life.

It sucks because the Valve software just isn't anywhere close to being as good. And they haven't shown any meaningful signs of improvement in the last two years. I don't think they are ever going to get it like Oculus used to. I think they'll eventually decide VR is not worth it because of a lack of user engagement, when in reality the problem is that no one wants to constantly fight with Valve's obstinate software just to play VR games.
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if it's used a standalone app then what functionality is it providing beyond "user admin". Like, what problem does it solve in that use case?

> a Go framework/toolkit that enables you to build your own custom app specific business logic

that definition applies to literally every framework and toolkit. It tells me nothing.
Have any good resources for these OSs?
It's indeed possible, but during discussions (here and elsewhere) nobody have said something in the line of "Hey, you're telling this, but the idea behind this is documented there, go take a look".

Instead I got angry answers about how systemd is much better than what came before it, and I'm telling these things because I'm used to old ways and just resisting change. The mailing lists I read also had the same echo chambers of finger pointing and blaming.

Heck, I even read Lennart's blog w/o knowing the page is his, and thinking "He has a arrogant team, what kind of language is that?"

Moreover, do I need to remind that one of the systemd developers has been suspended from contributing to kernel [0]? Does this signal a project which is giving due credit to criticisms directed to it?

Again in the same article there a link to a mail message from Ingo Molnar [1], which openly says that systemd refuses to use existing infrastructure and does things their way, w/o listening the kernel developers' advice.

As you know, kernel is not an important component of an OS, so a couple of devs can just ignore the maintainers of the platform which underpins their system, and creates the foundation for their software to exist.

[0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2175826/linus-torvalds-...

[1]: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01727.html
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Which to be honest is the wrong metric to look at. The right metric is whether you get sick from it. If previous infections or vaccinations downgrade the virus to just a cold, then it’s good enough. Clearly we have no mean to stop this virus, not even slow it down. But if it is mostly harmless, is that really a problem?
This has been what I've found frustrating about most past VR headsets or attempts to build one: I don't want a VR headset to be like a phone or laptop and have its own computer and app ecosystem; I want a peripheral that attaches to my phone and laptop.
Nothing prevents infections anymore, just infections getting out of control. The later part is a huge silver lining.
You can't be a master in the abstract. I think it's reasonable to say that a React master needs to be familiar with a great deal of the React ecosystem.

Otherwise you're diluting the meaning of "master".
> I'd readily grant that most (maybe all?) supernatural claims cannot be falsified, but that doesn't prove they're false.

What is the meaning of a claim whose truth has no impact on my sense experience?
I am actually no longer working for Meta. I do think the title reflects the news and is factually correct. But happy for @dang to change it back as it’s not exactly the title of the article
The Supreme Court is not a political organization. The rulings being made now are a continuation of 140 years of judicial precedent that alloted states enormous latitude in instituting their own laws, and that only ended in 1937, when FDR interfered with the SCOTUS's independence by threatening to "pack the court".
The pex tool lets you build single file python executables which are well suited for server deployments.
People living past the age of 85 is not extremely uncommon, especially not in developed countries.
Yes to both. My laptop has HDMI & TRS out. AFAIK, the soundcard is not capable of emitting to both HDMI & the TRS port simultaneously, but it's also not something I've ever wanted to do, so I'll admit that the limit of my use case there.

(I'll use a bluetooth headphone, if I want audio while pushing something to HDMI. Though I could see using TRS headphones being a nice to have, and I honestly don't know how to configure that, or if it is even possible, since it's all represented as one card in PA.)
This looks like a great solution for rapid prototyping scenarios where you want a basic CRUD backend with as little friction as possible. The API preview feature in the admin dashboard is a really nice touch.
Does the wikimedia foundation actually run/fund WT.Social? It doesn’t look like (with my quick googling) that they are affiliated aside from sharing founders.
Good points. I had not thought about oil at all. I’ve become aware through light skimming that wars, coups and similar incursions have occurred around other resources.

This feeds into the point I was aiming at. The tech megacorps now have tooling to protect a narrow aspect of their customers lives from state incursion, regardless of which country that customer live in. I’ve not read the link you shared yet, so I don’t know the angle it takes or the angle you want to dig into my ideas from.

Thanks for sparing me the satcasm.
>so you think they are confident enough to link somebodies randomly created alias, let's say "InteretDude420" to a real name?

After a certain amount of fingerprinting, absolutely. It's not as if they are solely relying on user-submitted information such as a handle to make that link. And if no link can be made right this second, they can just continue to collect data under "InteretDude420" until they reach a certain amount of confidence to link it to a real identity.

And, even if they get it wrong some % of the time, who would ever notice or find out? Eventually they just get more data and increase the confidence rating for the correlation.

It is surprising how little information (even "anonymized information") is needed to de-anonymize someone. Plenty of papers on the subject if you are curious.
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Not sure how things may have changed since, but when I left the UK (now live in US) in the 80's, this norm did certainly not exist, and was quite shocking to me to see in the US.

I do remember the cringe factor in hearing that my mother had once convinced (against normal policy) a UK retailer to take back some clothing item she had simply changed her mind on! It'd be like ordering a steak at a restaurant then sending it back because "I changed my mind - I'd like the chicken".

As others have noted, there's a difference between consumer protection laws supporting return of faulty goods, and this ability to return stuff because you no longer want it (and may have even used it!).
Uh, did you actually read the source I posted?

For Fukushima for example, the deaths from evacuation ARE included in the death toll (the total number is estimated to be 2,314).

You have a detailed article about the data here [1].

But I am open to change my mind. Can you give a source that compares the mortality rate of energy sources and that, in your opinion, better accounts for all deaths? What is the highest mortality rate for nuclear someone has every estimated?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
The Income Tax Act already abolished the right to privacy.
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The article mentions CTX is similar to IBM’s OMI, which they use in their high end POWER boxes. Their goal is to have separate processor and memory drawers on their servers to better mix and match workloads and capacity, trading latency for flexibility and bandwidth. I suspect their mainframes are next, as their RAM is located in the same drawer as the processors, but attached to a system controller chip (z15’s chip had almost a gigabyte of EDRAM working as an L4 cache on each drawer). With z16’s cache architecture, it may be better shielded from extra memory latency and able to work on a simpler NUMA topology.
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It’s just that kids, despite their best efforts, are really stupid. Think about how much effort is put into teaching them to look both ways before crossing the street and that is an easy concept to understand.
What’s more important is hospitalization / severe disease / death, which it seems to be much better at.
I think NFTs will become used culturally to fight the perennial "Eternal September" -- or the phenomenon whereby a place gets ruined because its too popular; They will be used to signal identification with some group and then network with them. Societies/tribes/subcultures are about including/excluding who they do and don't want.
I bet! I can imagine festivals being a good disaster simulation.

Meshtastic appears to use a simple flooding algorithm which is appropriate to what I understand to be the application - a small group of outdoorspeople keeping tabs on each other with short messages. One of my takeaways from a similar project I worked on in a past life was that flooding works well for use cases like that and just about anything more sophisticated is a pretty serious research project. BATMAN etc looks like fun to experiment with.
Do you still hold stock?
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In a word, yes.

> Messages: Most message attachment types other than images are blocked. Some features, like link previews, are disabled.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...
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I take it that you're looking only at the "All Infection" efficacy? While the original vaccines are clearly less effective at totally preventing infection with the latest variants, their efficacy against symptomatic infection and hospitalization is nothing to sneeze at — ~50% and ~90% respectively with a booster, eyeballing the table.
Their songs speak controlled chaos. I've known them only for 4 years and I have been captivated with how meditative their songs sound, inspite of the genre.
What kind of bandwidth and latency would you get using this? Say, in the suburbs of a major city, two people 5 miles apart... how many bytes/second?

I'd love to see something like old school BBS systems take off again, an off the grid/off the internet network for hobbyists.

According to https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/data-bandwidth-and-late...
"But for the default very long range config it takes about 3 seconds to send 60ish bytes." Hmm, a bit slower than a 300 baud modem.
Ideally the submission title would have matched the blog title and then not only would it have been factually correct but it would have also not had any omissions. It seems disingenuous to me to post a submission with that title knowing how unpopular the FB account requirement is in this circle while tacitly omitting the fact that a Meta account is going to be required. It might not have been your intent but it did come across as suspicious and as it is it comes across as a Lie of Omission.
Interesting...a badly formatted command crashed the radio. It should have rebooted itself, but a software bug prevented that. Later it was restarted by the system and communications were restored. That must have been a frightening 24 hours or so for mission teams.
I've joined their discord a while back

But few time a year I go online and just try to find a simple Lora device with good range a qwerty keyboard and a simple OS

It still doesn't exist . Maybe in a few years
I just don't see the relevance considering the absolutely insane amount of things that have happened that would cause nobody to act in this fashion again, namely...uh...many public people are using the project publicly.

The fork stuck because it was still an alpha, as far as society was concerned.

It's currently in a grey area between a social movement and a FOSS project, and it simply started as a FOSS project.

I think it's important to characterize what occurred with this context. Devs won't get another chance at that without the project (and movement!) ending — and everyone knows it.
It does not reflect the news accurately. Very few people here distinguish between "Meta" and "Facebook". An account is still required to use the device, and that account is still owned by Meta/Facebook.

(As an aside, you should probably update your HN profile, it still reads "Now VP of AI at Facebook.")
The material might actually help. I'm guessing that as you slide the blocks against each-other, friction melts the surfaces. When the blocks settle, the surfaces re-freeze, gluing them together.
Most kids need both of those at various times, because they’re kids.
What's a typical range between nodes for systems like this? Just looking for order of magnitude -- are we talking 1km? 10km?
I like calling them chores. It correctly conveys that they are boring tasks that have to be done.
US citizens living abroad would want to disagree with regards taxes and the government watching _at_ you.
Now make a true b/w version and that will be a hit.
I'd still wrap it in tinfoil before use :D
>Is this a supply or demand issue?<

Cold-chain transport, storage, distribution, staff to inject, syringes and sundries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dérive

Debord defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances." It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and "let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there".
All E2EE does is keep the general herd of users safe from malicious insiders and script kiddies. It's valuable but doesn't make these apps worthy of the catch-all "secure" descriptor.

For anyone worth targeting, there are so many options available to actors with moderate resources. They will pwn your OS with an RCE exploit; or interfere the next time you update that "E2EE" app via Google or Apple's servers; or your laptop will take a few seconds longer to reappear at airport security; etc.

Marketing messengers as "secure" because they use some derivative of the Double Ratchet is like your bank saying your funds are secure because their website uses TLS.
Kids have a lot of information at their fingertips these days. I don't think that I heard about "transgender" until maybe highschool. Kids also can see the extra duties, requirements for behavior and dress, discrimination and harassment that end up on girls and women.

My thought is that if a child sees all this, and that they'd be subject to it, why wouldn't that child avoid those extra expectations, burdens, duties, harassment and discrimination by saying "I'm not a girl"?
Even in underdeveloped countries most have probably been exposed multiple times and built up natural immunity. Although AIDS and other comorbidities could be a problem in Africa and perhaps China needs lots of doses to mitigate consequences of zero COVID. If their official case stats are to be trusted that is.