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I understand but come on, look at that RAM price. If I can find a 20x better deal with 10 seconds on Newegg, presumably Apple can get those components for like 100x less than they're selling them for.

Also $400 for some nice rolly wheels, or $700 if you decide to buy them separately: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...
Whoops, that was an aspirational demo!
All this really does is add a three second step to their students' day:

- Turn off WiFi

- Open TikTok on 5G connection

Everyone talking about VPNs is overthinking this.
18 cents per kWh is something like 5-6 times the wholesale price of kWh. This means that using EV for large scale storage is highly uneconomical.
Starting early trumps everything else.

You can still try and be competent in a year or two, but you'll sound weird saying certain words.

Read more, speak more, and try to not translate from your native language to english.
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I second this comment. I spent the first 8.5 years of my career at JPL as well. My first project out of college was writing testing support tools for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Project. I sat 10 feet from a small window into the Spacecraft Assembly Facility (SAF Building 179). Got to watch the rovers take their first steps. Got to do a ton of interesting things, from Satellite Radio Software Stack Testing (QA), to Project Planning Systems, to first steps into Cloud Computing. Got to fill out forms that placed some of my work into the National Archives.

Also don't forget there's other FFRDCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_...) in the US.
I'm surprised that this was an exhibit in the first place tbh with that limited information. My comments were related to the hyperbolic comparison OP did.

Trans people exist. Full Stop. Anything more than a 5 min scan of our history and scientific back to recorded times show they do exist. And there's lots of research being done today that was not done decades ago when people started to formulate their opinions. We obviously don't know everything yet but like I mentioned I expect in 50 years a lot of questions will be put to rest.

> There's no objective and empirical measurement to support anyone's claim of an alternative gender identity. Choosing to believe such claims, and then acting upon them (e.g. by housing males in women's prisons, letting males compete in women's sports, etc.) is an ideological stance.

^-- That also is an ideological stance whether you intend it or not. I don't believe the harm in the claims. The amount of people that are affected by your 2 examples seems to be in the hundreds, maybe thousands world wide so I'm perplexed why people spend so much time worrying about such edge cases.

That feels quite controlling and oppressive and I expect you would hate others to do the same to you.

What I don't understand is how this personally affects you, and why this matters so much to yourself. Were you in a prison with a trans person? Did a trans person beat you in a swimming competition last night? What did a trans person do to you?
Official openconnect client source is on gitlab btw: https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect

To avoid this problem, once I know the name of the project, I research it to find the official site / project page and then follow their links to source.

To answer your original question, security is very complex and it's not hard to hide backdoors or malicious functionality from the uninitiated. If you're not an appsec person by trade, it's probably safer to pay to have it professionally audited.

That's usually cost prohibitive. You can try free SAST and DAST scanners for code (run in a VM or on a VPS for DAST scanning - VPS has the added benefit that if it's serious malware that includes VM escape, your system is still safe) as well as multiscanners like virustotal for compiled binaries, but do not assume that a lack of findings in those means a tool, project, or binary is safe.
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The scale of Ringworld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2296df-bc
And what happened? Did your blood pressure return to normal? Did the years of medication have any permanent side effects?
It is the same spelling of the word, but the first is a noun and the second is a verb. Yay for homonyms :)

If you want to avoid repeating that word you could go with

"The ware on wages is being conducted by..."

I'm sure there's other, equally good ways to phrase this, too.
Replace $500 and travel expenses with broadband internet and websites hosting text/audio/images/video content where one can learn about the world.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/

You can create your own "extension collection", and change the default one used by FF on Android. I use the Fennec build of FF from F-droid (Playstore build doesn't support this).
It's strange how much difference a year can make.

I went from taking four BP medications, feeling like I would have a stroke in the next year and would probably die.

To now - I'm on a single BP medication (lisinipril), I've lost 40 pounds (Mounjaro), and am optimistic about my long term health.
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It turned when you decided to pretend that you thought all OOP meant smalltalk style OOP and when you chose to act like you were talking about relations in terms of sets and not sql. You pretended you didn't know the context when it's fairly obvious what the context is. You are playing a part.

You don't love to learn new things, that is not your objective here, your objective is to troll. This conversation is over.
I worked on SGI machines back then. They were daylight robbery, but having them (with appropriate software) in your arsenal was a major and key advantage. Not speed only but things you just couldn't do with other systems. This apple machine and video claim? Not so very much.
Why can't the US just accept they lost this one, and just put the effort into creating the next big thing before China does it again?
Please say a prayer for the people of the Congo who will have to mine the cobalt we want.
I just have to say: 8 PETAbytes? What the heck are they storing?
>>Are all iOS/Mac devs buying new machines every five years?

I buy one every three years - just before my AppleCare expires.
So you further evaporate the Dead Sea?

How many competent people do you expect to stay until the end?
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I think this is an example of science progressing one funeral at a time effect. For decades the analysts and intelligence communities had every single action, thought, and breath colored by a bi-polar world on the brink of extinction; that whole paradigm suddenly collapsed in the early 90's and no one really rethought what that meant.

So now our military and intelligence apparatuses are to paraphrase an old quote "perfectly prepared to fight the last war", without taking into account the multi-polar nature of the world.
Considering that most "EV batteries" are actually just smaller batteries glued together to bigger cells, modules and packs, I don't think this is as much of a win as people think it is.

It's like saying "We can green the planet with Duracells." Ignoring what's in the batteries or what it takes to manufacture them. Or how they degrade over time.

We may need to look at hybrid battery solutions with alternative energy storage systems, like graphene supercapacitors.

https://www.laserax.com/blog/ev-battery-cell-types
Maybe I'm being a bit sensitive to price, but $400 seems pretty expensive. Do you know of any cheaper alternatives?
I think a lot of people knew there is something unrealistic about Tesla's video and the promises even back then. But Musk's charisma and fan base sort of pushed this idea deep down. There were super popular websites completely dedicated to praising Tesla or Musk and no chance of any negative/realistic comment ever surviving.

Times have changed, Musk's debt (in every sense) caught up with him. Tides have shifted, his charisma has worn off. And people are starting to notice or remember the cracks that were always there. 7 years after that promise it's hard to imagine anyone still realistically believed in it or him.

In contrast Nikola's video survived scrutiny for far less time. It had none of Musk's advantages, the ability to steal people's imagination and make them just bury those red flags. The fact that they sold trucks didn't help with this.
It depends on your definition of success, but the list is bound to include Adblock, Grammarly, Honey and some password manager. And at least Grammarly and Honey are not specifically targeted at computer literate people.
It's only used for those periods when demand exceeds supply. In Texas, the wholesale price of electricity is $9/kWh during those periods.
The search seems like an easy problem to solve. A set of options to select when you offer up a machine for trade is viable for any self built system. For Apple, they could just link your original purchase data so could be even easier.
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Creative thinking.
Well, it would be application dependent of course. For instance at that price we are talking about a machine that was purchased because it needed to have 1.5TB of RAM and channels able to take advantage of it. I would imagine it indeed could be more than twice as fast if everything being done is cached in RAM instead of having to reference a disk. We are talking about having 4 monitors simultaneously display 8K video editing, or heavy database workloads you usually wouldn't see on consumer PCs for machines like this.
You'll say this until you are the one let go. Companies are irrational and layoffs of this scale are not capable of targeting the poor performers.
He's talked about it before, that editing and then uploading time matters so much they used to ship an iMacPro to do post on site. Now they ship around max specced Mac Studios.

And when it comes to editing 8k video, I'm not sure there are faster options than the macs.
It's too married to emacs right now
Exactly, 30-pin connectors' longevity faded quickly, so they started using Lightning for new devices (on its way out). They sure were flashy though!
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/the-fbi-ident.... Schneier's title seems more HN-friendly so I've kept it.
Putin's economic analysis is different from Xi's. Russia is far less reliant on energy or food imports. Not to mention, not as many gains in recent decades to risk losing, as China does. This changes the options quite a bit.
I still take one BP medication - 40mg of Lisinopril. My blood pressure numbers are much more "normal" - usually around 135/85.

I seem to be caffeine sensitive in general. On days where I drink caffeine, my BP is ~15 points higher on the systolic side. It lasts the entire day. I may be a slow metabolizer.

I've had a ton of anxiety over the years that seems to have vanished with the adrenalectomy. I was always on edge - like I could jump out of my skin. And after the operation, that has vanished.

When I had the hyperaldosteronism, I started to experience these "thunderclap headaches" - where I would suddenly get a super-intense headache on the verge of a stroke. They were awful.

Those have gone away as well.
To me it looks like Google never intended to turn its AI research into products. It probably sees these LLMs, that it itself was instrumental in inventing as a competitor to search and nothing that could ever get green lit as a product due to internal politics. I see OpenAI as an intentional effort to free this tech from the smothering of Google led by SV insiders in the know on what Google was sitting on.
Depends on time period. Chinese demand will definitely go up in 2023 due to lockdown easing. But I think it'll go down in 2024 and subsequent years.
You could bury it in a script, or in one of the many "copy and paste this command into your terminal" blurbs that we see all over the place.
Sad but true. FF devs and fans will complain, but a look over the Mozilla Foundation's balance sheet/annual report [1], and in particular the share of revenue that royalties received from "search engines" have, is all you need to know.

[1]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202...
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> Alternately once you have depleted all of your current ideas you don't have anything productive for those people to do.

Ok, that can possibly happen. But if it constantly happens, you have problems.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415413.
Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber.

The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication.

Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan.

The critique of Elon's public musings and actions based on a specific idealogy could just as easily be turned back on the author.

dreaming of unbiased journalism...
I thought dark energy was the reason the non-gravitational-bound galaxies are accelerating away from each other? If they are accelerating, that would be a change in velocity, which seems like a change in momentum. ?
You mean despite publicly saying his and Tesla's role is more similar to Edison's? He brings the point of invention being far easier than production up a lot.
Thanks, they are not very helpful because I realized there are too many things to track, too many variables.
It is such as shame that the UK, home to writers and thinkers such as George Orwell have decided to use "1984" as an instruction manual rather than as a warning.
> Why not simply get those rights?

I'm actually living in NYC on a TN visa at the moment, so in a way, I've begun the voting process. If everything goes as planned, I hope to spend the next few decades with ample time in both countries, like my folks do.

I've come to realize there's a lot I love and appreciate about either, despite their flaws. We here in North America are very, very lucky.
Who says it's a small tile? It's common for me to have meetings where nobody is sharing screen. In a one-on-one meeting, someone's face might be taking up my entire screen as we talk.
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ ? Implementations, Quicklisp and ASDF explained
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The difference is with the book your alternative is to not sell it back and getting 0$, assuming you've extracted all value.

In the case of the car, you can choose to not sell it, and use it for driving instead.

The incentives are completely different. You're comparing a scenario where they have you by the balls with a case where both parties are more or less equally powerful market participants.
Nice, he just cloned TBH and sold to Discord but bootstrapped so he has way more stock?

Not a bad strategy.
School buses seem like possibly the only real use case here, since they have a very seasonal usage pattern. For other commercial vehicles, the operators buy them to operate, not sit around and power the grid. When are they envisioned to be powering the grid?
Less so. Many languages have a native implementation of protobuf that uses that language to build rather than a binary (e.g. pbandk), and will generate relatively idiomatic code.
So we've walked it back from "not sacrificing longevity over flashy technologies" to "mistakes while trying new things".

Longevity is a mistake? New things aren't flashy technologies?

> "we forgive them for trying if they are not Apple"

Believe it or not, every so often Google hardware get criticized! MotionSense was...a mistake made while trying new things.
1. Check more than 1 bit.
2. Add glitching detection circuitry.
3. Randomize when you do the check.
Did I read too sloppily or did they simply not discuss actual availability, that is supply, of metals needed?
> Aren't they best suited to do this???

They don't have a million EV batteries, purchased outside the scope of this program, sitting around idle and connected to the grid.

Their customers do.
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Give it a try! The page includes snapshot.zip and a number of scripts to start you off. See also

https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/INTRO.md
> The plaintiffs...assert that Mr. Musk’s actions were responsible for the losses they suffered on Tesla’s stock movements.

So what law are they actually asserting that Musk broke? That a CEO is incentivized to act in the interest of the company's shareholders? Honest question, what specific laws come into play here - is it about stock manipulation?

Also, can what happened be legally considered as a "loss" if an investor never cashed out? AFAIK, that would make it an unrealized loss, analogous to unrealized gains which typically don't officially result in any net change until the asset is sold.
At least in Germany you get a Smartphone for way less than 100€ and a call + SMS + 4GB data flat for 5€.
If that is luxury what is going to the cinema for 20€ (movie and popcorn) for 2 hours?
Or maybe it's just because we're entering a recession which makes it necessary to cut costs.
> Don't ever put anything of value (time, money, energy, emotion) into a Google product.

To be fair, any product that allows them to capture data about your habits and improve their ability to push Ads at you is generally good (e.g., Google Account, Gmail, Android).

But I completely agree with you. They used OR instead of AND in their market research.
Offtopic, sharing a story:

Our gymnasium pays for fortiguard so that they can block games on the web. This includes lichess.org etc.

This is a country with non ascii latin letters in the alphabet, but despite this many domains were falsely banned for being an IDN homograph attack.

Cracked minecraft clients are stored on a shared network drive and LAN multiplayer can still be played during boring informatics lessons.

Is blocking websites on the european eduroam allowed? I suppose it is ... ?
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That explains why so many of the subsequent youtube reviews of the tech years later still aren't that great. I guess I'd assumed it was mild cherry picking rather than outright disingenuous.

I'm sad about this.

(I'm also reminded, thanks to chatting with friends over the weekend, of Grolsch adverts in the UK about 20 years ago: "Stop, it's not ready yet!")
I think https://capnproto.org has gained more traction than flatbuffers.
I have no reason to like or trust Musk since I don’t know him, but I find it suspicious that corporate and social media about him was almost always positive for a long time, he crosses the deep state over Twitter and now it’s almost always negative.

There’s always good and bad and you can pick how you paint the same thing, or how hard you look for good or bad, according to your incentives.
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Web server configuration errors.
There's still no way to change the User Agent in Firefox Mobile. I switched to Vivaldi because at least there when I tell it to show me the desktop site it shows me the goddamn desktop site.
Hey, you're right -- this is a bargaining chip for BigCo, but the "invisible" factor here is that the economy is clearly in freefall and no one is ready to call the emperor naked. Everyone's cutting their losses, and in sectors as important as tech and with companies as big as MSFT, there's always some government support and "insider insight" into these events. If BigTech comes out of this on the other side, I fully expect one big company to be absorbed / dependent upon another. If not, this is prime time for underdogs to really show what they are capable of.
-Biden weaponized social media against us to silence us and ostracize us from society.

Huh?
IF your protobuf is string-heavy then the C++ code is actually not as efficient as it could be because it copies the field into a new std::string.

It does not support std::string_view (or any equivalent).
Google's internal protobuf does support ABSL's string view though, but it's not public.
pypy is pretty well publicised and known about in the python community. Lots of popular libraries specifically call out compatibility etc.

For quite a while it used to have some terrible performance if you ever reached out to C libraries in a hot loop. It's still a bit iffy on the C / FFI front, though the performance issues are much improved

It's certainly good enough for production use, with careful evaluation.
This thread makes me feel like a geezer but I am not even that old. "Resisting to install / use apps" sounds alien to me.

I feel society has moved on and we're pretty much expected to have these devices. I even bought one for my job because they require an auth and I have to verify its me again at random intervals. So secure, so authenticated. I hate it
What part of GP's take on the American federalist system are you describing as radical? Seems to me that the truly radical thing is what the federal government has morphed into over the years, its founding constitutional document notwithstanding.
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, file size for live action or shipping directly in an app is always an issue. I may actually contribute some code, my file format is no rocket science, just a bare set of floats with some metas, not even some diff encoding between frames, so quite easy to interpret between languages and platforms.
ZeroMQ/NNG are the transport layer. Cap'n Proto is mostly data serialization.
I don't think anything you said explains why it would be a Ponzi scheme.

Ponzi scheme isn't a scheme because you pay old people with new people's money, but because there is promise of exponential growth that is unsustainable and often literally impossible.

For this to be true of pensions, they would have to (inflation adjusted) grow, which they don't. Yes, if there's less productive people and more non-productive people, that changes the balance but it is a balance, not unlimited growth of a Ponzi scheme.
I wouldn't take that bet until solid state batteries get better. This is a disaster in the making.
It's not some burdensome 'quest' though. Just get a Nokia 105[0] which uses the Series 30[1] operating system and has no Internet connectivity. It comes preloaded with a few basic games so you can kill time waiting for things or pacify yourself in awkward social situations.

[0] https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-105

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Absolutely love Paul Sellers.

Rob Cosman is also excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/@RobCosmanWoodworking
No, it was very clear that it cannot do that for you at that time. The only implication was that it will do it soon, which didn't happen.