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To be honest, I'd say Beat Saber is the gold standard.

Not the immersive metaworld thing that is so popular in fiction, but a real fun game that is not just about being VR.

VRChat has, I think, a more limited demographic than Beat Saber, and it is probably not where the future of VR is. I mean, it is cool, and I think it is here to stay (or if it doesn't, it will be replaced by something similar), but like Second Life today, I don't think it has much room for growth.
I thought we weren't supposed to do 'shallow dismissals' on this site.
Watermarking was never going to be successful except for the most naive uses.
> A "rootkit in kernel space" already requires a kernel exploit

On desktop? Nope, which is the point. Placing a piece of malware is easy without a kernel exploit. On standard Linux distributions that do not use dm-verity and friends, local root is enough - modify the kernel image or initrd in /boot, and you can do whatever you want with very few ways for a system administrator to detect it upon the next boot. The challenge more is getting local root in the first place, especially as a lot of systems now use selinux or at least have daemons drop privileges.

Windows is a bit harder since Windows refuses to load unsigned drivers since the Win7 x64 days (x86 IIRC didn't mandate the checks), but that's not as much of a hurdle as most think - just look at the boatload of cases where someone managed to steal (or acquire legitimately) a signing certificate to ship malware. Getting local root here is probably the easiest of all three OSes IMO, given the absurd amount of update helpers and other bloatware that got caught allowing privilege escalation regularly.

The hardest IMO/E is macOS, where you have to manually boot to recovery to deactivate SIP and they've been phasing out kexts pretty much already, and you get a crapton of very strong warnings if you mess around with them - you have to manually load them.

With attestation and code-signing done right, it's all but impossible to get your code running in kernel space on Linux and macOS without a kernel exploit, the achilles heel will always be who gets signing certificates that allow loading a module.
They shipped it in their browser without intending to standardize it? That's even worse! If true.
Taking into consideration that Japan is little more than a third of a million square kilometers in land area, while the US is over 9 million square kilometers, and the vertical that would impose to railway systems to develop infrastructure similarly. Comparing transit systems from/to the US and most other countries seems to be apples and oranges.
I (like many others) want fly to succeed and have even moved a couple of (smaller) production apps to Fly.

But it's very clear that over the last few months, the (already quite capable) fly team is just in over their heads and have bitten off way way more than they can chew.

I've had nothing but headaches after they auto-migrated our app to v2. My build machine had to be forcibly destroyed to even work. Then it allowed me to easily just delete an app cuz I wasn't able to deploy to it.

Then the deploys kept failing due to some VM provisioning error (it thinks I want to add another app when I just want to deploy to an existing app within the 3 machine limit) and honestly, I just don't care to troubleshoot this anymore. That was the point of using a platform like this... Any time I would've saved by using this platform has been wasted with these random errors that I don't have the time to troubleshoot.

I destroyed the app thinking "ok maybe I'll also recreate that one" because clearly the migration to v2 failed. And now that all my secrets were destroyed, when I try to attach the new app to postgres (with the existing username and existing database), it won't let me.

I genuinely wish you guys the best of luck with what has to be a tough time for your company, and will reconsider if you build something demonstrably more stable. But right now I just can't afford to drown with you with clients breathing down my neck.
X.com is back 23 years later with the same features planned
While strictly true, that doesn't mean 5C cooling wouldn't eventually result in NYC under ice.
You are right, I was summing both the sewage discharge and clean water supply costs, which gets you 4.42 USD / m3. But looking for San Francisco tariffs, I see you also pay a separate fee for sewage discharge, with is approximately 5.9 USD / m3 [0]...

0. https://sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/accounts-and-services/...
That's very interesting. My experience has been the opposite, that people who are pro-remote are intense about it, that they often deny there being any benefits to working in an office and get angry and dismissive toward anyone who says they want to work in-person.

I would argue that the reason "remote wins" is that to get the full benefit of working in person you really need 100% of your team to work in the same building on the same hours. As soon as one person goes remote, the in-person experience is significantly degraded for everyone else.

Thus, as soon as company allows "hybrid", the people who prefer remote go remote and the in-person experience quickly degrades. This starts a spiral where people on the margin -- who still prefer 100% in person! -- decide it's no-longer worth coming in, which in turn degrades the experience further and pushes more people to give up on the office, until there are very few people left coming in.

It doesn't take very many people to set off this spiral: in my anecdotal experience, once a team goes 10-20% remote, the office is pretty useless.

So what I see is there's a "tyranny of the minority" effect. I think the long-term response is going to be more sorting of companies into all-remote or all in-person, with fewer companies in the "hybrid" space that's so common today.
If they really cared about the spam, wouldn't they crack down internally on use of bots for manipulation? To my knowledge no ToS or internal rules against this type of deception exist.
My commute has always been an hour each way. If the job is going well this isn't bad (podcasts and Audible), but it's a time sink.

One day I realized I was falling asleep on the hour-long, 12-mile route home. (Los Angeles traffic is no joke.) I sold my car and now use metro/bus to commute, or do remote work.

ps: I also can't work from home in my PJs, I "dress up" by putting on jeans :-D
If a human can't verify whether distinguished text is actually AI or not, detection will be full of false positives and ultimately unreliable.
Fascinating. By this measure de Santis and practically all Republican mainstream candidates would be considered far right.
No. That's a wrong analogy. There's no way around having to navigate the text of the program back and forth, by character, by word, by statement, by definition and so on. This is bread and butter of people who write code.

If you complain about doing this, this is because you don't know how to perform the basic functions necessary to write code. Heuristically, this is because you are either using a bad editor or didn't learn how to use a decent one.

I.e. your complaint is more comparable to Amazon reviews coming from people who don't know how to use the product and then write something asinine, like that one about a loo brush that feels too rough when used in the capacity of toilet paper (though I believe that one was actually a joke inspired by similarly stupid but less funny reviews).
TBH it's a really good point. Any time Mozilla has tried to appeal to users in a way that would actually be profitable their users have lost their minds over it.
It is 'funny' how much the supposedly anti-government freedum fighters in the US are 100% behind 'back the blue' and the government agency that has the monopoly on the 'legal' use of physical force/violence in society.
The US South had 5ft gauge during the civil war. There was a massive post-war effort to standardize the gauge that took place over a 36 hour period. All the southern railroads not already on standard gauge did so all at once from May 31-Jun 1 1886.

Tens of thousands of work crews pulled the pins of the west rail and moved it 3in inward. Simultaneously crews at rail yards modified the primary rolling stock.

Service resumed Jun 2 on standard gauge and for the first time passengers and freight could cross the boundary without a changeover stop.
>A quant trader analyzes real world events, both inside and outside the market, to predict stock prices. This is a proven and successful strategy, and in some ways it is essentially automating what people already do with fundamental analysis, just getting an edge by being faster.

You're being very loose with language here, to the extent that your entire point is suffering.

Systematic Market Trading (the sole strategy of the RenTech and Two Sigma's of the world) is almost exclusively trading on systematic market data that is largely neutral to the underlying tickers. Sure, they'll do some Alpha Factor modeling in some trades, but look at the CV's of the people that work at those shops and you'll see people talking about modeling momentum, crowding, pairs, etc.

Speed matters in the sense that you're operating in an adversarial market, but plenty of quants just have better ideas (I think you're confusing market-making HFT with quant - they're related but separate things)

Fundamental analysis is a completely different ballgame where the ticker does matter. These are the Citadel Equities, Tiger, Coautes, etc. of the world that emphasize the value of a human stock picker over all else (they have small quant trade execution teams, but it's a rounding error in terms of headcount).

>Technical analysis involves looking at a single data point – the past price and volume of a stock – and making a future projection.

If this is how you define TA, then sure, that's not what Systematic Trading is, but that's not how most people define TA (The most common example of TA is a form of momentum trading).

>When a company releases an earnings report a quant algorithm will analyze it and make trades before you can even click on the link. A technical analyst deems the earnings report useless information. Where the stock will go depends on how it has traded for the last 3 years.

This is a gross mischaracterization. Some quants do NLP and sentiment analysis, but that is a small part of the landscape.
I imagine, even if equity prices are imagined to have an ideal or true value based on fundamentals, nearly all of the work of making a profit comes from maneuvering appropriately relative to competition, and the data on that is nothing but "technical".
I did not make the claim it did, the parent comment above the one you replied to make the claim I just did not challenge or research it because I do not care which wins they are both gross

which one wins is irrelevant to the primary point about rebranding things
Let me make it clear: OoL science has not answered the question of OoL. There are enormous gaping holes in the story. Asking about these holes, or pointing them out, is allowed. Pretending OoL has filled in these holes when it has not, and bullying those who ask the questions, questioning their motives, is not.
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Nice, reminds me of my high school computer lab. I wrote a trojan horse in VB6 and distributed it among the lab PCs somehow, then from mine I would open and close peoples CD trays, turn their monitor off, send them to... questionable websites where they would swear it wasn't them! Haha, good times.
Managing the state of Angular apps without third-party libraries
> Mozilla has had to make the tough calculation of whether to be pure with zero users and therefore zero good impact, or to be beige to try to get some of these fickle users back and maybe have SOME good impact.

I can't really recall any decisions made that were unpopular with existing users, but likely to lure new users in. Ads on new tabs doesn't seem like something that would bring new users in. Pocket doesn't either, since iirc you could install the extension in Chrome if you really wanted it.

Most of the controversies I remember were either to increase Mozilla's revenue, or boondoggles like their mobile OS. My major annoyance was that the increase in revenue seems like it was spent on boondoggles or weird, unrelated charity rather than going back into improving the browser.

I'm still also a Firefox user, but it's like 99% because ads are not their primary source of revenue rather than any remaining fondness towards Mozilla.
> If it was a human, it would be much easier to reason with them (normally!) and find a solution that works.

The Internet has shown that if you drive down the cost of interacting with this human gatekeeper to zero (you can be anywhere in the world rather than a specific place and time), social engineering attacks inevitably result. That's how we get hackers getting into your bank accounts just because they are eloquent and they make a great case reasoning with the human gatekeeper.
> "this is receiving far more attention than long influenza or long any other infection"

Yeah, because a loooot of people have caught COVID in the past three years, lol. There was a whole pandemic about it.
One of the authors works for Meta - J. Millican, Meta Platforms
Nate Silver? More like Nate Bronze. (Enough of the cheap shots).

He's a mid-level data scientist who writes competently and has turned that into a very successful contrarian/thinkfluencer career. The work is mediocre, but the results are excellent.

There are two lessons here:

* trust "charty" press coverage about as much as you trust onboarding projections from your most recent data science hire – in other words, positively correlated with the underlying but my no means definitive. Polling companies generally publish their methods; you can use that to make calls on their individual methodological rigor;

* being 7/10 at two things (in this case, data science and writing) is in many cases more valuable than being 9/10 at one thing _if you can find the right niche_, which Nate Silver did. 538 is the outcome of a very, very well-timed pivot from sports analytics into political analytics. (With legalized gambling in the States, I suspect the pivot these days should be the other direction).
Are you trolling? That's 4 lines of code any Java dev can type from memory.

package foo;

public class Hello {

public static void main(String[] args){

System.out.println("hi world"); } }

As for the build and run,

javac foo/Hello.java

java foo.Hello

That's it. This is covered in chapter one of any Java book.

Am I misunderstanding your point or something? It sounds like you are complaining that Java is hard to get a simple hello world running without IDE help, but I must surely be misunderstanding you, because that would only be the case if you refused to do even the most cursory reading beforehand
You should meet my web developer colleagues. They consistently insist that I should switch from Firefox to Chrome any time I point out that something they implemented was not cross-browser compatible. Never once have anyone said that I should switch to Safari to get something to work. I think that speaks volumes.
This would change the world of it was true
The comments for this article are surprisingly shallow. A much more interesting article about Technical analysis can be found here : https://elite.finviz.com/help/technical-analysis/backtests_r...
They also found the SMA indicator to be useless.
Hardly worthwhile to say all TA is useless since SMA is useless, when people that are in favor of TA say SMA is useless.
Oh absolutely. Environmental scientists are very conservative and anti-alarmist with their predictions, and every successive generation of derived data skews towards the more conservative end.
> The "hype cycle" is a neat idea but doesn't really map to reality in a way that makes it useful.

What do you propose as a more accurate alternative, or do you think that the whole idea should be scrapped? Because personally I feel like certain tech/practices certainly go through multiple stages, where initially people expect too much from them and eventually figure out what they're good for and what they're not.

Not always a single linear process, like NFTs/crypto refusing to die despite numerous scams out there and projects that seem to go nowhere, yet people still falling for the scams due to promised profits. However, the amount of people critiquing the blockchain as a crappy database seems to suggest at least some lessons learnt along the way and hopefully some actually decent use cases.
Depends on how "real". A microbe discovered on some rock 60 trillion miles away isn't really going to move the markets. An alien attack fleet entering our solar system...maybe go long Raytheon.
Fatigue due to the 5 hour Wimbledon final he played about a week ago, not from long COVID.
How does that 5C drop interact with the rise that we're currently concerned about? (Heatwave, wildfires in the med etc).

I'm guessing it's hopelessly naive to assume it'll just... kinda cancel each other out?
There's some discussion in section 3.2 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10683.pdf
The timeline isn't clear to me, but another aspect is that new data became available over time. I'd expect far more speculative comments early in the pandemic compared to later.

Another factor that tends to trigger a lot of cynicism and suspicion is the general behaviour of autocratic states like China in such cases. Their behaviour certainly made the investigation harder and removed potential evidence, but we have no idea whether that was because they tried to actually cover up something or just because it's what they always do. They might not even wait until they know anything and just control the information by default and suppress investigations.
> [E]ven if Covid did lab leak, that doesn’t lend any credibility what-so-ever to the rest of the lab-leak conspiracists who claim that the vaccine is just a 5g killbot.

No one operating in good faith is conflating these ideas.
I wish the editor (or team) did a better job in proofreading their article. The multiple spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes makes me question the credibility of their ability to report.
Anecdotally, I found using psychedelics regularly kind of left me estranged from sober reality. Better to do it semi annually at most, imo. If you need them more frequently then that you are probably missing the point.
Waaay harder than meth.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If half the people you're interacting with are in the office, isn't there something to still be gained by interacting with them in the same physical space? There might be a detraction by having the other half work remotely, but why would that outweigh the positives of working in-office? All you'd have to do is get the remote workers on a call or Zoom, which you'd do at home anyway, except you could also meet in-person with other coworkers. I guess I don't see how there's "no point." Apparently, in your example, the positives of just working at home outweigh the advantages of working in-office when both are proportionally 50/50.
Isn’t it the same as losing your keys, phone, wallet, passport, etc.?
The fundamental problem is that everyone else—particularly people with unfathomably deeper pockets and much better access to information to you—can do the same TA as you. To whatever extent it does work, that opportunity is rapidly exhausted.

So all that’s left is the unpredictable bits, and those are what you’re at the mercy of. And the unpredictable bits are happening constantly.
Garbage and nonsense, sir. The quasi-religion is claiming certainty when the science has not delivered anything close to it and rejecting attempts to question this false certainty. I see this all too often in OoL and SETI discussions.
Accessibility isn't just about screen readers. I use extensions to alter page CSS to fix text sizes, contrast, fix Reader Mode, etc. With the Integrity API these could be blocked by the website.
I love Arc. They've built a browser that's truly so pleasant to use.
It wasn't always this easy to get psychedelics I'd say. Previously much of the LSD in America flowed from large labs (which were busted) and would get distributed throughout the country through scenes like jambands (eg: the Dead, Phish). Throw in a healthy amount of War on Drugs/D.A.R.E propaganda. Things dried up for a bit. These days however acquiring psychedelics can be as easy as a few clicks of a mouse and some crypto.

I also noticed the spike on the graph in 2019. That's when Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence" book came out and it seems to have got quite popular. In this time the push for psychedelic-assisted therapy began in earnest.

I'd say psychedelics are becoming more popular these days because the old stigma about them is waning, mainstream acceptance is increasing, and supply is readily available. It's trivial to grow mushrooms or extract DMT.

I fully expect to see psychedelic-assisted therapy become an accepted form of treatment in my lifetime. Few things in America these days bring the left and right (AOC, Crenshaw, Gaetz, etc) together, but psychedelics are one that does. Psychedelics ain't just for hippies to melt into the music anymore.
> Technical analysis is predicting stock prices strictly from the previous price history.

Is this true? For example, is using AI models that take into price history, current and historical events, insider and/or institutional trading, analyst opinions -- would that not be considered technical analysis? I know this is just a matter of semantics, but curious as to what is considered TA nowadays.