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Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays
I once had a bad fan on my heat pump (bearings went bad). I went in to replace it, but none of the local motor suppliers, and nobody I could find online, could offer a replacement. It was a fancy 2 stage motor, I guess...

So I called the big plumbing/heating place in town. They came in with a $750 quote to replace it, but they said: "It's not currently failing, but when we're in there it's usually a good idea to replace the contactors." I asked how much that would be. He looks up in a table "$375". "For a relay?!?" I later looked up the contactor price and it was less than $20, and it'd take me less than an hour to replace it, maybe 5 minutes "while I was in there".
Author's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner

I get the impression he's regarded as something of a crank in astrophysics communities.
Yes. This rule is often formulated as: you can't criticize other people's ideas in a brainstorm session.
> There are few opportunities today to build software that is unambiguously good for the world

He’s coming from a brief stint at Twitter and long stints at Facebook and Microsoft. What could he know about building something unambiguously good for the world?
I think it’s important to “own” what makes you different.

Running your own servers isn’t that important and probably isn’t what makes you different. EC2, Azure VMs or whatever short term project Google is running for compute are all extremely comparable, and you loose very little by using them.

But if your business is owning and operating an IoT platform for your customers, you should invest in a high quality solution, not just buying the off-the-shelf tool. It may be that a provider’s offering is better than what you can do, but it better be a lot better if you use it.

The point is to invest heavily in what actually makes a difference, vertically integrate what matters, externalize what doesn’t.
IIRC the purpose of Bluetooth was to be a patented hardware approach to something, with the intention of it becoming a widespread standard of some kind.

Most importantly, an extremely detailed and ambiguous foundation was established so that copyrighted implementations which would far outlast patents would continue to provide an income stream once the patent expired and the hardware was in the public domain.

Just so happened to be an approach to short-range PC radio communication.
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The demand isn't being made to the product side; Discord and other chat clients already have a chat API which their clients authenticate and talk to, it's all already built and user-facing. They already distrust their clients. They already made everything a third party client would need.

It's a policy change, not a product change, and demanding a company adjust their bad policy is totally normal.
My experience with installing Windows in 2006 was being presented with a 1-800 number I had to call, so that I could read off a massive hex string and type in an endless series of call-and-response codes. That was AFTER having to dig out a floppy drive -- in 2006 -- because Microsoft couldn't be bothered to update their installation media with SATA drivers.

Once that was done I was faced with a nearly-driverless machine, followed by several hours of shuttling .msi files in via USB drive (including a four hundred megabyte printer driver?!), capped off with a four- to six-hour Windows Update marathon, during which my computer rebooted at random.

Installing Windows was what made me investigate Linux in the first place. Since then I have found peace with Apple products, but I seriously think you're looking at Windows of old with some rose-tinted glasses.
Two factual mistakes:

* IA-64 failed primarily because it failed to deliver the promised performance. x86 comparability isn't and wasn't essential to success (behold the success on Arm for example).

* M1's advantage has almost nothing to do with the weak memory model, but it has to do with everything: wider, deeper, faster (memory). The ISA being Arm64 also help in many ways. The variable length x86 instructions can be dealt with via predecoding, sure to an extent, but that lengthens the pipeline which hurts the branch mispredict penalty, which absolutely matters.
I don't think it's an "appeal or ignorance" at all. Furthermore, the story has an example of DNA from a rapekit being used to solve a years-old burglary. That doesn't strike as a good trade-off to me.

The parents may no longer be criminals; they may have done a few stupid things when they were 18 or whatnot. Not excusing it, but also don't need to go above and beyond any lengths to solve these comparatively minor crimes: literally no one is served by that: not the victims of the crime, not society, and certainly not their children. In more serious crimes, it may be worth the trade-off – that I why I used the qualifier "except for some of the most serious crimes".

> make this sort of screening mandatory, much like how its a good idea to mandate vaccinations even if it steps on the toes of the poorly informed in the process.

It's not realistic this will be enacted any time soon, if ever, and any proposal needs to take this political reality in to account.
They are pretty separate. It is like Azure (Google Cloud Platform) and Office365 (GSuite) for Microsoft.
To spell that out a bit more - a ULA to NPT address is IP based and not port based and is way more useful.

When you do a IPv4 "pinhole" port map you get precisely one mapping and it will timeout eventually, which can lead to all sorts of exciting debugging opportunities.

IPv4 does have 1:1 NAT but there are so few IPs so whilst I have a /24, 2 x /28 and 2 x /29 to play with and others, I doubt most do.

NPTv6 maps an entire address space from A->B and is actually not designed to deal with NATv4 anyway. It is for outbound connections.
It's their brand. Apple continues to use aluminum because they've invested a lot into it and they're good at it. I occasionally hear a quote get thrown about on apple-centric tech podcasts that Apple probably has the greatest concentration of aluminum material science expertise not just of tech companies, but of any company that exists. So much so that Elon Musk poached one of their engineers to work on aluminum for Tesla.
Haven't thought about that and this should certainly be addressed - especially if I'd use Tailscale for business.
What are you talking about? You claimed the plastic gears were used as a failsafe. That's not true, higher quality equipment uses metal gears. Drills already have fuses and overload detectors built in.

Go watch some teardowns of cheap stuff vs expensive stuff and stop being a jerk.

I'm not your mom. I'm not gonna explain everything AND shop for you.
Your internal networking should not be affected when you use ULA - those won't change, and IPv6 devices tend to have multiple IPv6. Yes, it won't allow you to address your internal nodes from the external network, but that is something that you didn't have with IPv4+NAT either.
This is the latest of a rapidly growing list of shitty behaviour from Substack.

They seem about as trustworthy as Meta at this point.
It's surprising that Mitchell Bakers still is Mozilla's CEO. Firefox has been bleeding users for years, but no change in the command.
> Think e.g. one of Loki games like SimCity. The audio will not work (and this will be a kernel ABI problem...). The graphics will not work. There will be no desktop integration whatsoever.

I have it running on an up to date system. There is definitely an issue that it's a pain to get working, especially for people not familiar with the cli or ldd and such, as it wants a few things that are not here by default. But once you get it the few libs it needs and ossp to emulate the missing oss in the kernel, there is no issue with gameplay, graphics or audio aside from the intro video that doesn't run.

So I guess the issue is that the compatibility is not user friendly ? Not sure how that should be fixed though. Even if Loki had shipped all the needed lib with the program, it would still be an issue not to have sound due to distro making the choice of not building oss anymore.
I don't know much about this town, but I will say that your approach of yelling at people won't work. It rarely does. My suggestion is that you at least act like you care about their concerns. Go to their meetings. Even a few that are unrelated to your building permits. When their offices are open, go to ask them what they need to hear from you. Be nice. Ask people what they want. Make them feel comfortable. Be prepared to say "sorry" a lot.

Politics in small towns is about relationships. You need to build them if you want to build anything else. There's a reason you got this building for a deep discount: it's going to cost you a lot of time to get anything done. You didn't pay a lot of money for this building, and that was for a reason: you're going to have to pay in other resources.

Alternatively, if you're going to yell, you need to back it up with some persuasion. In this case, legal threats from actual lawyers (no pulling a C&D letter off the internet and changing a few things - you need your threats to be legit). That is going to get expensive very quickly, but it may work - small towns don't have a lot of legal resources and neither do their residents. The guy whose building got demolished for not doing disallowed repairs probably has a big payout waiting if he sues.
Scylla (and Cassandra) provides cluster-level replication. Even with only local NVMes, a single node failure with loss of data would be tolerated. But relying on "ephemeral local SSDs" that nodes can lose if any VM is power-cycled adds additional risk that some incident could cause multiple replicas to lose their data.
Who is "us" here? Abusive customers? I can't fathom someone coming into a store being nice as expected and a retail over fucking them over just because.
It makes sense in another light though. You should try to hire people that will bolster your weak areas. In this case a lack of experience managing larger teams.
Lots of people do this. Come up with a theory with testable set of predictions that isn’t just a patchwork of models glued together to explain data and then you’ll convince people.
Unfortunately, peak electricity demand is in the evening right as the sun sets.
Absolutely not. This is an average, I bet their peak could be in the mid hundreds of thousands

That's my point. Per-second numbers are far more useful than per-day numbers.
Curious, I googled "In the radio astronomy of Pulsars we find that the shorter wavelengths of the leading edge of the pulse arrive before longer wavelengths. The velocity of light, c, is NOT constant but varies by wavelength" and something interesting came up:

"interstellar clouds of electrons retard the velocity of radio waves in direct proportion to their wavelength" in an article from a 1968 edition of Scientific American written by Anthony Hewish...the same guy who discovered pulsars
Putin critic Alexei Navalny says he's in solitary confinement
Another reason to avoid Apple. Manufacturing defects! Why isn't that being called as so?
Respectfully, why would there be any valid use case for understanding the private format stored by this DB? In ideal circumstances it is private, is it not?
There seems to be greater participation of this subject at this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32475958
Saw that they’re using a NanoPi - I just picked up an R5S (dual 2.5gbe + single 1gbe) and it’s a pretty neat device. Haven’t done any significant benchmarks yet, but I was able to use the FriendlyElec wiki to build FriendlyWRT and run it, which makes me feel a little better about running no-name hardware out of China.
Why didn't NASA just give the $20b to SpaceX to build a rocket to the moon?
Yep, see the discontinuation banner at the top of https://cloud.google.com/iot-core
There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon. From an engineering point of view, I'd like to believe that using all MIL-SPEC components which are rated to last longer and in harsher environments would amount to a more reliable product. But maybe a product is more than the sum of its parts, and it's possible a company can build a more reliable product despite not using MIL-SPEC components or obtaining that certification. Just something to think about.
Westport, WA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8814889,-124.1041651,3a,75y,...

They've changed them, though. They used to have a person climbing a hill as the wave comes chasing after them. Can't find a good example on image search. I found the old signs to be morbidly amusing. Like my spindly little legs are going to save me.
I wouldn't consider this a red flag, but a missing feature.

But nothing against keycloak - keycloak is the gold standard. But compared to Authelia, Keycloak is really cumbersome to get up and running and also to maintain.
Slightly disagree. The important thing is to externalise things that multiple providers support. So externalise hosting Postgres, because 20 companies exist that do that. Don't externalise a one of a kind service you can't build against using open standards. Insource that.
Crackpot stuff, unfortunately. The CMB and host of other stuff is evidence for a Big Bang.

The merger stuff JWST has falsifed was never really on solid ground anyway but tuned cosmological simulations. The simulations probably got subgrid physics wrong (same issue as climate models face).
For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer"

A macbook would be like buying a top spec Mercedes when all they need is a no frills base model Ford.
Is it necessary to fully replicate the persistent store onto the striped SSD array? I admire such a simple solution, but I wonder if something like an LRU cache would achieve similar speedups while using fewer resources. On the other hand, it could be a small cost to pay for a more consistent and predictable workload.

How does md handle a synchronous write in a heterogenous mirror? Does it wait for both devices to be written?

I'm also curious how this solution compares to allocating more ram to the servers, and either letting the database software use this for caching, or even creating a ramdisk and putting that in raid1 with the persistent storage. Since the SSDs are being treated as volatile anyways. I assume it would be prohibitively expensive to replicate the entire persistent store into main memory.

I'd also be interested to know how this compares with replacing the entire persistent disk / SSD system with zfs over a few SSDs (which would also allow snapshoting). Of course it is probably a huge feature to be able to have snapshots be integrated into your cloud...
Windows 11 still ships msvbvm60.dll - that's the runtime for Visual Basic 6, released back in 1998. And it is officially supported:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstu...
Googlers and OpenAI legitimately believe this
> These attacks are sophisticated and are capable of bypassing TOTP or mobile-app-based MFA.

To be honest, I wish people would stop parroting that these attacks were "sophisticated". In my opinion, I'd call something like Pegasus spyware "sophisticated". I don't think these attacks were that sophisticated at all - they were just standard issue, MITM attacks using targeted text messages - and they just took advantage of what is always the weakest link in security: people. I think of myself as a general middle-of-the-road software developer but I think I could have easily replicated this attack myself.
The best strategy for countering the preparedness paradox is to prepare, while simultaneously telling everyone else not to prepare/over-react. Then you get the benefit of preparedness AND the proof that it was required. Win-Win(-lose)!
Is this from the same guy who started Birds Aren't Real?
https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1559170813189832706
you have to fight forest fires when you see the camper dropping the butt. Smokey says, hit 'em hard at birth, they don't re-offend within reaching distance.

At least, thats the lesson I teach.
Don't all physical SSDs have reliability issues? There's a good reason we replicate data across devices.
Speculation: I feel like that’s some of underlying value for the valuation, real estate, most likely owned by this known self-dealer.
Not that I'm aware of. They'd be fully justified in shutting down simpleDB since it hasn't had a feature update in over a decade, but they still keep it running. New accounts can't sign up for it and it only exists in the oldest regions.

They were going to retire old s3 path styles, but they changed their mind after customer feedback.
… and say no to Web Extension manifest v3, or at least make long-lived background pages an option instead of short-lived service workers.
Totally agree. The message content should be private and not accessible by employees. Kind of scary when you think that so many 2FA codes are sent via Twilio.
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We just raised a $20 million Series A, and we need to hire more engineers to fully develop our product. In addition, we’d like to bring our overseas PEO contractors to the States to join us more locally and in-timezone. We’re excited about being decentralized – what immigration options are best for us?

— Elated Entrepreneur
Dear Elated,

Congrats on your latest funding milestone! Your funding comes at an opportune time: The recent spate of layoffs and hiring freezes at many tech companies presents a great opportunity for you to scoop up top global engineering talent. Plus, I’m not surprised you raised even in this “environment” – we’re seeing a lot of that going on despite much of the news!
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We could ask the reverse question: how many industries aren't vilified in some social circles? Heck, even the people who gave us Covid vaccines received death threats.
> To spell that out a bit more - a ULA to NPT address is IP based and not port based and is way more useful.

This is implementation specific: on my Asus I can specify to allow in all ports from in via a NPTv6-ULA hole, a port range, or even a single port.

If I want to only allow tcp/25 in to a particular IP I can do that, if I want 5900-5910 I can do that too, as well as 1-65535.
I have no idea if this is true or not.

But for a moment I was just imagining a world where scientists agreed that the Big Bang never happened. How many physicists' work would be thrown in the trash? How many high school science books would have to be updated? How would the general public's trust in science change?

Would be such an interesting thing to observe.
The number 1 thing I want to see from Firefox is fist-class support for tree tabs. Using an extension and hacking on userChrome to hide the tab bar is getting tiring, especially with the barriers Mozilla have erected to make user styles more difficult to enable.
I use the same strategy. Same as you, the only email address I get spammed on is `contact@domain.com` because I link to it directly in my personal site. I would prefer to use randomly generated UUIDs instead, but keeping track of which service is what would be a huge headache.

That being said, this alone seems to work great! I've always been curious about how many tracking companies have sophisticated-enough logic that they can tell two email addresses from the same domain belong to the same person. Probably not many, since it's such a niche solution.

Now I need to get better at using random names instead of my own, when possible.
I think it would be more apt to suggest they write/consult for science programming, but I certainly agree with your sentiment.
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You have me at fusion reactor.

Stranger than fiction
My friends iPhone got replaced 3 times, every single time the same fault. Something to do with audio interface going missing and mic not working.

His next phone was an Android.

I remember looking it up and there were rumours that Apple had initially acknowledged this fault and replaced them with no questions asked but then withdrawn the memo.
I've done the same for decades, and I definitely receive spam from some of them.

The most spammy of them has been equifax, but that one was so publicly hacked that I didn't need spam to know about it. Confirmation has its value I guess. It'd be nice to know if equifax sold the information and got hacked, that's entirely ambiguous and now equifax has plausible deniability thanks to the hack. Le sigh.
Ec2 classic networking is going away this month.

But that's ancient technology at this point.
But that's the problem with groupthink, isn't it? That is, wrong until it's not and then suddenly everyone pretends like they knew it was true all along. Science has ego-issues the same way sports and entertainment do. Scientists aren't any less human than the rest of us (tho' they often seem to pretend otherwise).
Right, exactly. Aliases are unlimited so I err on the side of creating too many rather than having too few.
>Come up with a theory with testable set of predictions that isn’t just a patchwork of models glued together to explain data and then you’ll convince people.

The dark matter crowd was able to convince quite a few people without hurdling such a high bar, not to mention stuff like string-theory..
Per: https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/healthinformatio...

DNA and other factors available in blood would seem to fall under "individually identifiable health information" by any definition: a blood sample confers the most unambiguous identification of a biological organism.

Do blood samples nonetheless fall under "permitted disclosures"? Why? It goes completely against the stated purpose of laws like HIPAA re: PII to transmit DNA or other identification data.
Freud Was a Fraud: A Triumph of Pseudoscience
https://archive.ph/vwbI2
Ours was almost completely unreachable for about 20 minutes, and is now mostly back online, except that ~10% of requests hang for ~5-15 seconds before being fulfilled. (This time is not accounted for in the 'connect' or 'service' times in the heroku/router log line.)
Rossmann went on a drunken, paranoid rant about how the macbook webcam has secret hardware to spy on him. He took the video down after widespread ridicule.

Original video is mirrored on archive.org https://archive.org/details/Kat.crlouis.rossmann.backup/what...

Not sure if that link goes straight to the right video. It’s the last video of the playlist, titled “what’s up with that 4 gb man”
Part of the issue here is that "Windows machines" could mean anything from an el cheapo Asus to a mil-spec Thinkpad.

I also think that people don't necessarily appreciate how much quality improvements have been made in the last 5-7 years in consumer laptops. Optical drives are gone, everything has an SSD, performance has plateaued and AMD is good again.

Someone walking into Best Buy today and dropping $500 on a laptop will be getting a much more robust machine than when I did the same back in college.
Yeah I am pretty worried about this as a big FF user.
Which version of it? 1.0?
And tensorflow
I’m anecdotally writing this on a 2012 15” rMacBook Pro that aside from some battery replacements just doesn’t want to die…

It blows all the “premium” work laptops out of the water.
Teixeira is a Galician-Portuguese surname.
Usually event organizers keep selling your e-mail address after you gave it to them. Some events are explicit about it, others not really. It's not like they really ask you, it's more or less a condition to join the event in most cases.
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Luckily, it sounds as if they’re relying mostly on lower level primitives vs. these higher level abstractions that are more likely to be discontinued.
Totally, I think I forgot how big of a deal Gmail's spam filtering was especially when it first came on the scene. I remember now :)