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30% flat tax is worse than the current corporate tax in the US, what's insane is it's been like that since forever, and Valve also get away with it, even more insane considering they are all a monopoly

Google/Apple control the mobile app market, where is the self-regulation capitalism is supposed to promote? It sounds like a mafia at this point

30% flat tax, on top of your own taxes, it's not sustainable
As I said, this is a blog about Illumos, not Linux (which wasn't notable, because it Just Worked on Linux)

Illumos is not Linux.
Format drive with NTFS and you got compression
I don't know what WAI means, but note that I said discovered above. There's a separate conversation to get that work funded and that's where the managers come into the picture. Managers don't discover the work - they decide whether to fund the work.
General Atomics Announces Concept for Fusion Pilot Plant
Does it make sense to cache something that takes 1.7 seconds though?
I do rock ubo but hadn’t heard of sponsoreblock. Problem is 50%+ of my YouTube consumption is on a tv where extensions can’t help
Based on the number of quality job applicants they get and the relative randomness of their current hiring processes, they could make salaries much lower and they wouldn't notice any decline in engineering quality... They might even notice a significant increase in quality if they dropped salaries and improved hiring processes.
Take up woodworking with hand tools. Sawing your lumber, then planing it, should improve your upper body strength as well as your hand/eye coordination.
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As in the book, a Poisson process is an arrival process -- omitting the math, some of which is amazing, the vanilla example is Geiger counter clicks. One of the special things, actually an easy calculus exercise, is: Suppose the clicks come on average once a second. Suppose have not gotten a click for time t >= 0. E.g., maybe t is 2 seconds. Now what is the average time to the next click, less than the 1 second? Nope, the average now (a statement in conditional probability) is STILL the 1 second.

For a Markov chain, that is a discrete time, discrete state space Markov process. Halt: In a Markov process, at any time t, the past and future are conditionally independent given the present. E.g., for predicting the future, if know the present, then also knowing the past does not help (or hurt, really). So, Markov is an enormous simplification. In particular, a Poisson process is a Markov process.

For the discrete time, discrete state space Markov process, i.e., a Markov chain, subordinated to a Poisson process, the time to the next change (jump) is a Poisson process. A discrete time, discrete state space Markov process does not have to have anything to do with a Poisson process and, instead, can have, say, one jump an hour on the hour.

But with subordinated to a Poisson process, the expected time to the next jump (arrival), the parameter of the process, can depend on the state.

E.g., in the war at sea problem, as the ships sink, the rate at which they sink can slow down.

There was a WWII calculation by Koopmans that gave the encounter rate of multiple ships at sea. The formula used the area of the sea, the number of ships, etc. So, that is where I got the encounter rates.

Then the main input was the number of Red ships, the number of Blue ships, the speed of each ship, and for any Red-Blue encounter the probability the Red dies, the Blue dies, both die, or neither die.

That was enough data to generate sample paths (war simulations) of the assumed scenario. Silly, sure, but okay for one grad student in a rush in just two weeks!

The above may be enough for you to read and understand the details in the book quickly. But for more the book also covers limiting distributions (as time evolves, the probability distribution of the states approaches a limit), Kolmogorov equations, branching processes, etc. An example of branching processes is some of the simple cases of nuclear fission.

Now you have saved quite a lot of time and gotten ready for a fairly easy time in the book!
Searle's Chinese Room?

Say, you put three individuals in the room. Say, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Steve Balmer. Say, the experiment is plus or minus Jack Ma. The room follows the script. I guess 30 minute runs of the experiment generates a kind of collective consciousness in the conversation content between participants that is completely off script.
The rx/tx separation in over-the-horizon radars (OTHR) serves to increase isolation between the transmitter and receiver. The received signal is tiny, as it has not only bounced off the target but done a double bounce off the ionosphere. Doppler shifts are also very small, so one needs to minimise the clutter at zero Hertz, and a direct signal will appear as zero Hz clutter.

You can get an idea of the precision of the timing required by considering how far a radio wave travels in a unit of time corresponding to the uncertainty in your time source and comparing that to the repetition period of the waveform. OTHRs typically have large ranges and use long period waveforms to minimise range ambiguity, so the timing requirements probably aren't too bad.

Summary: A passive OTHR should be doable, especially as a cheapish SDR+computer can digitise and process the entire HF band. Front end sensitivity might be a concern? Low phase noise is critical. Phase noise is where many SDRs fall down?

It's always been in the back of my mind that a distributed passive radar would be a cool project. Something like the existing network of hobbyist ADS-B receivers but pumping out timestamped HF samples which could be used for all manner of purposes. GPS could probably achieve a precision of single digit nanoseconds, which might be small enough to consider the receiver outputs as coherent, allowing synthesis to be done.

If a node's network connection couldn't support continuous transmission it would still work to do burst mode, whereby each node might capture the first second of each minute (for example) then have a minute to transmit that data over the network.
No, I included Class B charges. Writes are Class A, reads are Class B. That additional $130 is for 30 million writes, of any data size, even 1gb. I know. So $104 + $130 = $234.
I don't think there are CPUs with integrated GPUs from Intel that do AV1 encoding yet. Raptor Lake launched on October 20, 2022, and while RL will decode AV1, it won't encode it.
The Intel Arc cards will encode AV1.
The next generation of Intel CPUs with integrated GPUs are supposed to have AV1 encode. Maybe a year or two away?
many young people still choose Britain over Italy, France, Spain, etc
Ian Hamilton, 97, Who Stole a Scottish Relic from Westminster Abbey, Dies
General Atomics : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics
Nope. Tech companies don't scale like that, especially Google Search or Youtube. Adding more people just makes things worse.
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CS 1.6 can be played on a browser nowadays.
I think croc is a superior solution here. Encrypted transfer. Automatic local peer detection. Human speakable commands. Turns off when you’re done. No firewall fiddling (and unfiddling)

Pythons web server is single threaded I believe so any simultaneously connections break.

https://github.com/schollz/croc
That Disney roller coaster designing game from the early 90s. Also, pretty much all BBS door games. I’m sure there’s somewhere hosting them on the web, but it’s just not the same.
Maybe! The fact that everyone "knows" that doesn't is the 1st concern. Even scientists are not clear on efficacy or long term beneficial/averse effects. Nobody knows why all previous mRNA vaccines were ineffective, yet, the Covid jabs are. Lots of questions still remain.
An alternative way to deal with an unreliable prototype is to make a reliable wrapper around it.

Such as paying time in exchange for reliability (e.g. TCP/IP, retry and backoff), disclaimer for unreliable behavior and law-related issues, version gating for file formats/protocols, redundant storages, and killswitches for going rogue-prone machineries.
In general, such consequences would be applied by the public. If the people feel that the executive overreached and is no longer honoring their oath, the people don't re-elect that executive. There are some exceptions (such as the impeachment power of the federal Congress), but in a system where the public elects the executive, the last recourse of a bad executive is the public's right to elect someone else. And even in cases like the power of congressional impeachment, the punishment they can extend is removal from office and nothing more.

No, if someone broke the law in the process of exercising the executive authority, that's a different issue. But we don't generally have laws of the form "the executive is not allowed to infringe on non-fundamental liberties during an emergency," because history shows that emergencies happen and sometimes people just have to be told what to do (arguably, that's one of the reasons we bother to have an executive at various levels of government).
What? No. I'm not talking about adding tons of judges to the existing US system now. I'm describing a future potential system, likely for a new country
In Sunnyvale the alert hit with enough time for me to grab my mug (so it wouldn't spill on my laptop) and step away from things that could tip (TVs, bookcase, standing desk)...

Followed by a couple of tiny wobbles and then business as usual.
> You have access to internal info that shapes your opinion, etc. Even an innocent post such as this is potentially a breach of your employment contract.

As a Googler also, I question is this really true? The only thing I can think that you are referring to (internal info of something I'm not directly working on) is...memegen. Anything secret I'm exposed to is much more technical than business directions. When we are talking about the general economy, we really are just talking about the general economy.
I can't emphasize this point enough. Hypercard was an amazing tool, in the same class of evolutionary steps forward as the spreadsheet. It's unfortunate that nothing's come along to replace it. (I still have fond memories of Hypercard class in high school)

Relatedly, although it still exists, Apple Numbers is one of the few pieces of software that I really miss since my move to Linux. It has lots of subtle design choices that gently nudge you towards good data organization habits (e.g., If you keep an index column and title row for each dataset, you get rewarded with readable cell references).
Unfortunately the "Bandwidth Alliance" is too ambiguous for my liking. It requires both parties to be transparent and have clear ToS, and no limits, etc. In practice, it's simply not worth it. Source: myself trying to "beat the system".
There's nothing stopping the state from renaming the courts now to conform with established convention in the rest of the nation, in order to reduce confusion.
Smells like a TCP in TCP problem.
Glyder 2. It was a magnificent mobile game that stopped working quite a few android versions ago. I keep meaning to dig up an old phone and sideload it.
I was talking about ordinary Java projects.

Yes, we need a compiler for Java. Java sources are compiled to Java bytecode along with many other actions for complex projects like downloading dependencies, generating sources, running tests which might run platform-dependent binaries and so on.

> That was the advantage given for the JVM. The .jar ran on x86 and ARM.

Yes, wasm and Java bytecode are the same in that regard. But Java bytecode failed to get adoption outside of Java world. Wasm might not, we will see. One significant improvement of Wasm over Java is good security story. Java sandbox is well known for its CVEs. Browser wasm implementations are battle-tested on billions of devices in the wild Internet. So you basically can't run untrusted Java bytecode without further boundaries like KVM or at least containers. But you definitely can run untrusted Wasm bytecode because that's what your browser does all the time.
> Would you automate your Linux build using VB Script? Why not?

No but Windows builds are automated with Unix tools like Perl and Make :)
A classmate when I was at Harvey Mudd created an Adventure-type game called “Escape from Harvey Mudd” that got sufficient popularity that the administration requested he rename it and it became “Escape from Grid Tech.”
300PB is literally on their example pricing page, so they believe this is allowed.
Hmm... As ZFC specifically cannot identify that number as special (at least as relates to the Busy Beaver function), maybe it is quite specifically "just a number"!
Stuff like this and allowing certain events while vilifying others as "superspreader events" killed a lot of people's belief in mitigation strategies IMO. A virus is a virus and doesn't recognize human needs or wants. Either there are no exceptions for anyone or we shouldn't bother.
MBP 2015 with Fedora 36 Silverblue:

* Camera didn't work.

* Sound coming out from built-in speakers was flat.

* Broadcom Wi-Fi didn't work out of the box.

Didn't spot any other issues during tests.
How to request removal of your contact info from Google search results
> Sounds like FUD

The Alliance for Open Source Media (the group behind AV1) is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the European Commission[1] who, per the article, appear to be threatening those who distribute software decoding with a fine of 10% of global revenue.

According to this article[2], Sisvel, the patent group claims its licensing for AV1 is

> more convenient than licensing from individual patent holders, which in this case include companies like Philips, GE, NTT, Ericsson, Dolby and Toshiba

So, yes there is FUD around AV1, but as FUD goes, it’s pretty legit considering the players and their “nationality ”.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-re...

[2]https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/patent-group-wants-a-new-to...

Going to add that I don’t have any knowledge of the legitimacy of the patents involved, and think the legitimacy of software patents generally is often questionable.
That episode of The Simpsons was very on point.
Tell HN: Falling into “shitty FIRE”, or involuntary sabbatical with few savings
More a vent than anything else...

I am 40 and sort of stumbled into a weird "comfortable but still poor" loop which for me meant working low paying developer jobs on and off, until one final job three years ago where I got laid off, no longer able to get hired again and now just living frugally off the small savings from my jobs.

As far as catching up with others in the field, I have put that aside and given up for now. I'm only learning new stuff for personal recreation projects so long as I still have money left.

Been applying for jobs and practicing interview for 2 years in my 3 year unemployment gap and still got nothing so far. I even took a $5k interviewing course. The 3 year gap is surely a killer at this point.

Also, don't take the title too seriously. I don't plan to retire indefinitely, and I'm just living this way as long as I have personal funds. I estimate about 10 months before my savings run out so long as monthly expenses continue the way they are now.

Some key things about my development "career":

- Graduated with an unrelated degree, so I started with jobs at local small companies, not aiming for big names

- Got fired from my first two junior-level jobs for performance-related reasons

- Majority of jobs are contract or so-called permatemp jobs, the business' intent being to cut corners in product development as much as possible

- Save for one jump from an agency to a startup, I always lose my current job before finding a new one

- My highest annual compensation was $50k

I get that a 3 year gap looks really bad, but all suggestions to fix that lead down a path of solitary effort with structure that you must set up yourself, and that sounds just as depressing. Nothing in the way of having someone else to keep you accountable, as I am single and the closest contacts I have are a few family members over the phone and occasionally meet in person. They are unable to help my job search because they're completely removed from the tech industry.

As someone who's often been told I have basically junior-level skills with senior-level years, the idea that you should up-skill on unpaid time in order to get hired again is laughable to me. That's like trying to climb up in rank when you're not even participating within a hierarchy. I'd rather get re-hired at the bottom and make my most impactful decisions on the job. But as long as my gap and experience continues to scare off employers, so must this "FIRE" continue for now.
Yes, after feedback is given I expect them to fix the behavior or to show progress in 2-4 weeks, if not then deliver the notice, or in some companies formalize a Performance Improvement Process.

The way I give feedback is by investigating first what is going on inside their lives, sometimes things happen and they just need some time to recover.

If there are no problems in their personal lifes then I give clear examples of where they are falling short, how that impacts the team, and what needs to be changed, and then give them incentives, like how fixing this behavior can improve their career.

Generally, feedback given to early hires is due to lack of communication, most new hires that we onboarded had tendencies of disappearing, skipping meetings, and not replying for many hours.

Turns out they had a freelancing background, where doing those things is common since they talk with clients once a week.

So I walk through them to set up their tools, set up notifications, configure a proper calendar, and general teamwork advice, not to just rush through delivering tasks and then they start to ramp up.
You could probably make a pretty good argument. A firefighter deals closely with the population in non-voluntary situations. An athlete or performer is likely quite a bit separated from the crowd watching them, and they're choosing to be there anyway. I don't know if there was actually an attempt to justify the decision, though.

And I imagine someone could also make a pretty good argument in the other direction. A firefighter is probably going to be wearing a mask. Performers by their nature are yelling into a crowded indoor space.
This is 100% correct [1]:

> Mayor Eric Adams plans to announce on Thursday that professional athletes and performers working in New York City will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19, according to a person familiar with his plans.

> This means that Kyrie Irving, the Nets’ star point guard who has refused to get vaccinated, will be able to take the floor at Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the first time this season.

Adams is awful. NYC mayors exist to further the interests of property developers, corporations and the police unions. If that means that a public health measure needs to be sabotaged so some anti-vaxxer can play for the Nets, so be it.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/sports/kyrie-irving-nyc-v...
Can they actually do that? It's not mentioned in their ToS.
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The more reasonable interpretation (backed up by his other posts on this article and his use of "was") is that he is comparing Zig as it stands today to D, Go, Rust, and TypeScript when they were similarly new.
Confusing: you haven't written a sibling comment? What are you talking about? Did you use a second account?
>get people elected who will write things clearly into law

You can pass whatever law you'd like now- the existing judiciary can simply decide that it doesn't apply or isn't 'constitutional', and their decisions aren't reviewable. It's awarding ultimate power in society to a very small group The vast majority of developed countries don't work this way, at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty

At a minimum, calling a law 'unconstitutional' should require a supermajority out of a fairly large body
You’re seeing this play out with student loan forgiveness.

Most legal scholars don’t believe it’s legal and will be overturned. But everyone also agrees any money given out will not be returned, so they’re rushing to get as much debt forgiven before it’s overturned.
Tenure, domain knowledge, and skill are all pretty different underlying things.

Promoting someone with tenure just because of their domain knowledge is an extremely good way to hit the Peter Principle. You can get people who know the system very well but don't know how to take a step back and look around and evaluate the broader context vs just plugging along the same way as yesterday. Especially if you've never hired someone with those skills to teach them. You also run into bus-factor issues and robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul limitations around "this person's domain knowledge would be useful for this new project, but we've never ramped someone up to take over what they're doing now."

Then there are the people who manage to get tenure without actually absorbing too much of that domain knowledge... so you need to be able to evaluate that, plus skills/aptitude/potential, not just years-in-seat, when deciding who to promote, when to hire, etc.
This has two solutions:

1. Devs incorporate an OAuth code based flow. Many apps do this. Passwords should rarely need to exist on a TV device.

2. Paste using the remote app if you have an iPhone.

The first is caused by dev laziness (and possibly better for rare scenarios where there isn't a second device) and the second is perhaps a cost thing (do you have an iphone?)
Unforunately, being able to read the document is already sufficient access to make your own copy and alter it however you please.

The best you can do is a digital signature[1], which proves that the document has not been tampered with. Of course, it's up to the recipient to ask for a signed document and to actually check if the signature is still present and accurate upon receipt. Otherwise, it's very trivial for a third-party to remove the signature and add their own edits.

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/add-or-remove-a-di...
because users on this site really, really dislike Microsoft and really, really like Google.
> Don’t developers face consequences over bugs in their code?

If face significant consequences, there would be no developers left.

> Too many and you might get shown the door.

You are much more likely to get shown the door for being hard to work with, being crass, not showing up to work, not following process (that doesn't eliminate bugs but mitigates consequences), etc...
Wow I totally forgot about that Disney game. You could ride your creations in first person!
You have to scroll down a bit to the image that describes the keyboard in great detail. It includes a mouse trackball. The keys use some kind of clicky switches. The buttons themselves are possibly hard plastic (a good thing). Colour me impressed.

Keyboard image blowup: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3833f7_df1d45d717da4487ba...
These are expert historians, not random people posting an "opinion piece". Do you have information they don't that shows that they're wrong here?
> Vite

On large applications Vite is fast to build, but loading your application in browser issues thousands of http requests, which is tragically slow.

Esbuild is basically instant to build, and instant to load on the same application. It’s a shame it doesn’t do hot reload.

If Turbopack can give us the best of both worlds, then that’s absolutely an improvement I want.
Oh, Lemmings of course! I remember playing a black and white version on an old Mac I think (and never being able to beat the nessy level).