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> The magic deterrent value of nukes (mutually assured destruction) doesn't work if one side can't assure destruction of the other. Even if Taiwan can manage such a show of nuclear force, China can (credibly) threaten to annihilate it if it attacks, but the reverse isn't true.

Exactly!

China has ~350 warheads, and they play a shell game where they have more silos than ICBMs and they are swapping the ICBMs around the empty silos and nobody knows which one is full and which one is empty. Which means if you are targeting their nuclear forces you need to spend much more warheads to knock out all of theirs. That is a lot of warheads (and delivery mechanism) to “secretly smuggle in”. And even after you somehow knock out all their nukes China has their conventional forces, they are angry and fair to say justified in tearing Taiwan apart.

If Taiwan decides to target chinese cities. Do you think China will say “whoohooo, you won”? They will be very angry, the Chinese people will demand the attacker’s head, on top of Tawain just lost significant international support for basically killing civilians by the millions.

Of course they can also aim at invading conventional forces, but if China is just a little bit competent they won’t bunch up enough of their troops to make a nuke justified. Meaning that Taiwan would waste a whole warhead and delivery mechanism to sink a single ship, or knock out an enemy harbour. They can do it, but they can also probably do it conventionaly.

I don’t think brandishing nukes is going to help the Taiwanese government here.
Whatever the next IP is, it needs to be interoperable with the Internet aka IPv4.

It’s clear to me that IPv6 won’t reach critical mass (e.g. 80% of connected devices/servers using IPv6 addresses).

I’ll just wait for a new IP with an actual transition plan.
Most kitchens have plenty of electricity outlets. If a kitchen can run an electric jug and an electric toaster at the same time, it has sufficient power to run an induction stove.

It's probably just a matter of dedicating sufficient wattage to one appliance for most people. Most people won't notice any difference in their kitchen electrical setup.
> We’ve put a lot of work and resources into growing the platform and maturing our engineering organization. But that work has lagged growth.

I fundamentally don't understand why people are in such a big hurry to get 'famous'. I've worked a couple of places where the marketing side was working as hard as they could to make sure that our heads were on fire at all possible moments. At one job I had a (very, very junior) manager come up to me and say great news we landed <big customer> and my immediate reply was, "fuck me". We were already running to stay upright and now we're about to have twice as much scrutiny. Wonderful.

If you push hard enough, eventually everyone looks like an idiot. The number of humans for whom that is not true could fit into a book. Both alive and deceased. They most definitely do not work for the companies I've described, at least not enough of them so you'd notice.
B2B SaaS That Offers Monetizable and Embeddable AI Widgets
if you add Akamai (Linode ) or Alibaba Cloud - then it will be come MAAG
There is also the puzzle kind like Urbek, which has a nice SimCity feel but you need to make sure that building type X is (or is not) within Y squares over several levels of development. And more along that line there are a bunch like Farlanders that aren't really builders at all but pure puzzle games that happen to use buildings as graphics.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/urbek_city_builder_prologue

https://www.gog.com/en/game/farlanders_prologue
Honesty and playing by the rules is often the domain of the new, shiny-eyed initiates. Unfortunately, not having integrity is often easier for most people.
> Are you suggesting they paywall the chronological feed that's been free for 16 years?

Yes. It's not very nice, but there is nothing that'll prevent them from doing this.

> It's too late. Twitter killed the custom clients, and the client developers have (angrily) abandoned them. That bridge has been burned entirely. The devs would never be dumb enough to trust Twitter again.

That's true. But some might come back, for example, if Twitter takes some of the Twitter Blue revenue and, say, give 20 cents per month for each Twitter Blue users that sign in through a list of sanctioned app. Yes, Twitter would have been in a better position if they didn't burn the bridge.
Why, how, and at what latency is tolerable?

All anyone can ever manage is some hopefully representative cross section of some set of events, at some reasonable latency.

I'm happy with a lower cross section (important stuff filters in despite my best efforts to live under a rock), and longer latency (which also means less uncertainty - a long article a month after an event happened is going to be a better way to understand it than trying to surf the "now" feeds that are full of noise and false signals).

If something is going on locally (storm, rail derailment, etc), I'm a whole lot more interested in keeping up to date than, say, events going on half a globe away from me, which I'll get to eventually.

I don't know if you're the sort to use the phrase "being informed" as an unquestioned good (you didn't use it, but the sentiment is there), and I'd ask the simple question, "What's the difference between being informed and being a news junkie?" There's a line, somewhere, and I'm curious as to where you draw it.
This thread is gold: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1509832349986562048

> I watched a panel on AI (machine learning) at a conference hosted by the European Commission.

> 9 people on the panel

> Everyone agreed that the USA was 100 miles ahead of EU in machine learning and China was 99 miles ahead

> In any case, everyone agreed that in the most important technology of the 21st century, the EU was not on the map.

> The last person on the panel was an entrepreneur.

> He noted that the EU had as many AI startups as Israel (a country 1/50th the size) and, btw, two thirds of those were in London that was heading out the door due to Brexit.

> So basically the EU had 1/3 the AI startups of Israel (this was a few years ago)

> So the panel discussion turned to "What should the EU do?"

> And the more or less unanimous conclusion (except for the entrepreneur) was "We are going to build on the success of GDPR and aim to be the REGULATORY LEADER of machine learning"

> I literally laughed out loud

> Being the "Regulatory Leader" is NOT A REAL THING.

> Imagine it is the early 20th century and imagine that cars were invented and that the USA and China were producing a lot of cars.

> The EU of today would say "Building cars looks hard, but we will be the leader in STOP SIGNs"

> This is defeatism, this is surrender, this is deciding to be a vassal state of the United States and China in the 21st century.

> The EU is already a Web 2 vassal to the US tech companies (none of its own, so it has to try to limit their power)
In film school people would often say "wow thats great, you must have a really awesome camera" and I eventually took to saying "thanks! btw your hair looks great, your hairdresser must have a really amazing pair of scissors"
Snap.js: The Copy-Paste Library
Dokku maintainer here.

Dokku doesn't have an _official open source_ UI. There are a few unofficial OSS ones (Ledokku is the latest) that I'm aware of.

There is have a commercial offering in Dokku Pro (https://pro.dokku.com). It's paid (one-time lifetime license) but only so that I can at least partially cover my development time on it. The project is enough work on top of Dokku that I feel it is justified, especially as there is nothing stopping others from doing so, OSS or otherwise.
It sounds like you are experiencing some guilt about the differences in your financial stability compared to your friend who is working hard as a head chef. It's important to recognize that the way our society values certain jobs and industries is not always fair or reflective of the hard work and dedication that individuals put into their work. One way to alleviate some of that guilt might be to give back to your community in ways that help support those who are not as fortunate.
I guess I tried. Unsubstantiated claims will win again because there's no number of profiles I could link to prove nickthegreek wrong.
The part of the trailer where we zoom-in to pedestrian level gave me an idea.

For all the higher-level systems thinking happening in city builders, we never go into the more subtle signals that can make a city feel great or terrible to its people.

Would be cool if we could zoom-in to a specific person in the game, and ask them how they actually feel living here, what they like or dislike about it. Including useless things that we can't possibly fix as a mayor. But that would give us cues to let us figure out what we could improve.

Then once we interview a few of them in a neighborhood, we'd get a picture of what to change to make them happy. We could also have different types of populations and neighborhood for different types of people.

Something more complex and organic than "people in this neighborhood don't feel safe, so you need to add a police station". This would add a layer of discovery and aliveness to the game.
What I imagine is happening right now at Google:
"Shit shit, layoff is coming, time to push the 60th redesign of the UI with its blog post to show that we are important people"...
Just like we can assume that Texas or Florida are independant sovereign countries in their own right according to the will of their people. Once DeSantis gets his private army going, I'll remember to cheer for Flordia's freedom and independence https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/politics/florida-state-guard-...
We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week...
Stages of Denial (2020)
What I find frustrating is people who write history and don't put enough thought into telling the story. The word story is right there in the name "history". Instead they put more emphasis on listing a chronology of events, the personalities and a description of the surroundings. That's all well and good, but the story really ties it all together.

For example, I like WW2 audiobooks to fall asleep at night. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer or "The Second World War" by Sir Winston Churchill are pretty standard, but then you listen to "Barbarossa - Hitler’s Fatal Gamble" by Jonathan Dimbleby and notice a big improvement in the story telling that holds your interest. And once in awhile you get really surprised by how good something is (by an amateur no less) such as "Red Road from Stalingrad" by Mansur Abdulin.

Edit: If you want an example of prime, top notch story telling look no further than "Spare" by Prince Harry ghost written by J. R. Moehringer, who has won awards including the Pulitzer Prize. Whether you like Harry or not, the writing is almost flawless and really makes Harry's case I feel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Moehringer
There's other physics to do, but it's not fundamental physics. The science questions for which we need accelerators can't be answered any other way.
A ten year old can transcribe arbitrarily complicated speech in their native tongue but could have difficulty summarizing it or generating it. There are more tasks to unlock with larger and larger language models, but the language model for figuring out the most likely utterance given the audio doesn't have to be nearly so big, just like a reasonable language model for summarizing can be much smaller than one for dialogue.
I find it entertaining that the best solution, "Not reading the news as regularly," is happily enforced by their paywall.

> LIMITED TIME OFFER

Well, as my time is clearly limited, I'll take your offer and go elsewhere!
Thank you so much for your tremendous work!
People say, "stop reading news". But you might have to for your work, for example, if you're trading equities.

My suggestion is to have a, "who cares?" mentality. Bus full of baby elephants got hit by a tank? Yeah, who cares? Someone in a state far away did a horrible thing to someone you've never met? You know it... who cares? Did your local chieftain cheat on his sister's husband? You get the idea.

Despite the quality of posts being much higher than the internet at large, I still maintain a "who cares?" attitude towards 90% of Hacker News posts. It's great! Highly recommend.
> leave the country if they can’t afford to do business here

Be careful what you wish for.
You’d imagine the same thing about New Mexico.
You bet, that guide is gold.

I encountered a few issues. One was definitely something to do with older postgres. From memory, I tried downgrading it using apt, but then other things played up and I put the project aside.

Another rails 6 app I tried to move into fly encountered this: https://community.fly.io/t/rails-app-problem-with-node-modul...

I followed Sam's suggestions to regenerate the Dockerfile with dockerfile-rails (btw, thanks for your work on dockerfile-rails, super excited about it) and solved a couple more issues, but I again ran out of steam when new issues kept coming and coming. I'm sure when I'm more comfortable with docker these will become trivial to solve.

These were not super determined attempts by me, more playing around. I look forward to more serious attempts when I'm more capable with docker.
I disagree, because as of now the vast majority of top sites are IPv4-only (see e.g. http://www.delong.com/ipv6_alexa500.html for semi-fresh stats) so if someone gets bad experience on my IPv4 site, they will not assume that the problem is with my site, as that will match their overall experience with most sites on the web.

Perhaps you will diagnose the issue as caused both by the combination of your ISP flaws and my choice to be IPv4, however, the vast majority of users definitely won't, they will notice that most of the web (i.e. IPv4 web) sucks for them but doesn't suck for other ISPs and will put on the pressure on your ISP to get their stuff working to properly support the IPv4 net (or take their business to another ISP) instead of putting the pressure on IPv4 sites to switch to IPv6 or taking their business to another site.

IPv4-only still has enough critical mass (and will have for quite a few years still) to ensure that 100% of ISPs in the world have to support decent service for IPv4 only servers; IPv6-only does not yet have enough critical mass to ensure that all or even half of servers have to support decent service for IPv6-only clients - this is a quite literal chicken-and-egg problem for the motivation to switch.
Isn't that the same setback your are worrying about? But more complicated.
Have you heard of the "circle of concern" vs "circle of influence"?

Do you curate your input wisely?
mDNS has some downsides that can be important for some. For instance, the fact that you can more easily set the same host name on multiple machines, or the fact that it uses a lot of bandwidth.
Right -- and I get that -- but I guess my point is, what can even really be done by rooting a Roku, since all the stuff in user space is close source/proprietary and the drivers are unlikely to be useful with an alternate distro.

A RPi would be a much better choice for a poor kid in a neighborhood who wanted to have a way to program.
If we’re going by Elon’s precedent with a Senior Android Engineer, looks like about 2 hours. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/14/23458247/elon-musk-fires...
voluntary exchange and wage labor are... I am not seeing a contradiction here
No? Order of magnitude conveys the notion of something being 100x bigger, at minimum. A lot can mean much less than that.
From here on I will call this tactic “stopping a charging rhino with a bubble blower”. It does not have a credible chance of hurting the rhino. It won’t stop the rhino directly, but maybe it confuses the rhino? And maybe the confused rhino stops, instead of stomping on the cause of confusion?
Then he should go ahead and rewrite it himself.
The state of physics these days is we have 100 physicists of Einstein's calibre alive right now, but not enough experimental data for them to make any headway on fundamental questions. For all we know, someone already published the theory of everything, but because there was no way to test it, it got ignored completely.
Renting a truck is a pain. A truck that meets your general driving needs and most of your hauling needs is an investment in being able to haul without planning. Flexibility has a price, but it also has benefits. Proper small trucks are good enough at hauling and get good enough gas mileage (especially if you get the 4-cylinder), and have great sight lines. It's way harder to see pedestrians and cyclists with a typical sedan with a raked windshield, huge pillars and not a big window right behind my head. Of course, nobody sells those anymore, so there's that.

I'd like to own a box truck with a liftgate too, because those are really tough to track down on short notice, but they aren't very practical for day to day driving, and a vehicle that sits waiting for the day its useful is likely to develop problems.
An interesting approach, especially the hybrid python + perl bundling. Embrace the 'you can't please everyone, all of the time' mantra.

At work we're using a combination of Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Grafana Loki (can really recommend the latter combined with promtail).

There's some curious artefacts in this repo - the systemd service file calling usr/bin/env to a $PYTHON_EXECUTABLE (set in the env file to /usr/bin/python3) but the python script being called starts with '#!/usr/bin/env python' (which on my Debian unstable system launches python2).

Throwing executables under /etc/ is a .. contentious manoeuvre.

And the - so far as I can see - lack of support for handling journald output I suppose is a reflection of this sentiment:

> There’s endless criticism of systemd in the Linux community and I expect it will be properly superseded in the next few years. [...] It’s a curiously un-robust system.
I can't believe HN is poo-pooing this when all you have to do is send ChatGPT to the asteroid and !poof! it will be done.
They are out there in public exploiting a public resource, sometimes to the point where that resource has been depleted nearly to extinction.

There is no expectation of privacy and no right to it in this circumstance. There should be no opportunity for them to conceal what they are doing or where they are doing it. This in no way constitutes an unreasonable search under the fourth amendment since they operate entirely in or on public waterways open to all.

As far as allowing the government to know where you are at any given time, that ship sailed a long time ago and it isn't necessarily the government that causes the most privacy invasion issues. Many times it is private industry who tails your activities, your purchase habits, your associates, etc. I hope you see the issue with that.

The constitution makes several attempts to guarantee privacy but the interpretation of the amendments which might be useful for defining individual privacy rights is always a function of the composition of the Supreme Court at the time the case is heard. We need to be vigilant and supportive of all rights enumerated, not just our favorite or we will lose all of them to the wrong court.
Yeah, I'm not into expertism either. Even if I'm the expert (or maybe especially if I'm the expert).

Anyway ..

> In fact, it's LARGELY what a daw is when you think people who write plugins.

This is the problem though. Yes, that's how people who write plugins think about the host. But it's nothing really like the actual internals.

Comparing video and audio requirements is rarely fair and balanced. I tend to only be interested in realtime processing, not offline. Video involves far more data processing, but also missing deadlines is rarely noticeable by a human (unless you really miss a bunch of them). A single missed audio deadline (even 1 sample) is audible to any human. That's just a reflection of the different ways our eyes and ears work. So it's a bit of complex thing to try to compare the loads.

It's relatively easy to design and implement a parallel streaming framework, especially one without GUI interaction and realtime requirements. Most of the hard stuff comes from the user interaction side and the requirements it imposes on the realtime side. An engine that just takes a set of processing instructions and applies them as fast as possible to as much data as possible is significantly easier in a number of important ways.
Yeah as an old former-system admin its kind of amusing to be on the receiving end...
The current state has those two items flipped: Randomly-generated IPs is normal, and MAC-based IPs is the exception. https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2014/pri...
Less OS specific and more "compilable", he took a plug in that was written in C and made sure it was cross-platform enough and compiled it on Windows for us.
Darn it, I think the article has some good advice for us:

Tl;Dr:
Practice mindfulness

Try the Bullet Journal method

Declutter your physical space

Reconnect with the people you lov

Edit: oops, deleted
Reduce information overload
Sounds a lot like the US to me.
Extract-msg can separate attacted files from an outlook mail sent as attachment
Psychodynamic therapy as an empirically supported treatment for mental disorders
> But you might have to for your work, for example, if you're trading equities.

And what if you get kidnapped and put on a gameshow where you have to know about absolutely current world events or they'll kill you and your whole family? Then keeping up to date on the Twitterverse would be literally life saving!

Neither one applies to most people.

Subscribe to a news magazine and read stuff a few weeks after the fact when it's been digested and the dust has settled. Way better than trying to keep up with stuff as it's happening.
> The people who get screwed are the multiple-home-owning rent seekers and I'm ok with that.

And people who suddenly find themselves underwater on their mortgage. Assuming they face no economic shocks they might be able to ride it out, but that sounds like a very stressful situation to be in.
I Interviewed ChatGPT on Existence and Meaning [video]
Kenji does it when he's playing with his daughter, he polishes her nails and she polishes his -- I think this explanation would fly even in the most uptight and puritanical of the conservative crowd. I do wonder whether he'd bow to the pressure of being more "professional" if he was still making videos under the seriouseats or ATK banner.

Maybe he would, but he is quite an oddball in more ways than one. Both of his parents were Harvard/MIT professors, he is not silent about his political views (he at one point literally forbade anyone with a Trump hat to come in to his restaurant) so we shouldn't extrapolate from this one singular case one way or the other.
Was it better for you to click through popups and site redirects and dozens of JS trackers ?

GDPR brought a lot of new UI to existing sites, but I don't get the feeling that we were on a good trend from the start, nor that the sites that care about their users got a lot worse because of it.

I mean, at that time we were getting out of Flash inserts and the whole industry didn't seem to ever stop to think about what they were doing. The very notion of user consent was foreign to many agencies before GDPR.

PS: even looking at the sheer amount of "subscribe to our newsletter" splash dialogs out there make the clumsiest cookie popups look cute to me.
China is big
Right, but at least as a user you're not subject to those pitfalls in your own code.
“bridge and tunnel crowd” is not a compliment last I checked
> And who decides which information is valid and which isn't?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY

Hehe

> Who are you to decide what's misinformation anyway?

> That sounds like something misinformation terrorist would say.

...

> First, we'll censor any use related to social taboos. Then we'll censor anything we desire. If anyone complains, we'll accuse them of wanting to engage in and promote social taboos.