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McAfee Total Protection 2024: Recensione dell'Antivirus con VPN Illimitata

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If you don't happen to be "the government", it's not exactly in your power to decide that.
There is a large degree of “this is normal” that creeps into your mind. You begin to assume that all cities are exactly like it. You can’t comprehend it being otherwise. As a native San Franciscan who moved to DFW TX area, I vividly remember walking into a TX Walgreens for the first time and being flabbergasted by how nice it was: orderly, minimally locked shelves, etc. It almost seemed like it was a fake store in some hidden camera prank or something, no way a Walgreens could be like that based on all my time in Walgreens in SF. It was normal, like a commercial or something.
According to the folks on discord, the dev is busy redoing the base simulator logic, in preparation for some bigger changes.

At any rate, the game as-is today is a worthwhile purchase. People have built e.g. whole RISC-V CPUs in it, and you can interact with disk and/or network if you want, so it’s pretty flexible.
I suspect investors sometimes enable this thinking. Making founders feel like it’s still their company can be a subjective, low-cost perk investors can “offer” when negotiating terms.
Was this a case of city workers (including police) pulling a lot of overtime prior to APEC, and that can only go on for a little while? Is there a labor shortage in SF for this kind of work at least?

I am especially interested in hearing actual current SF residents comment on whether or not this article is roughly speaking accurate.
Despite various attempts at Linux async file APIs over the years, it turned out using a well-implemented thread pool for file I/O was the fastest way to do async file I/O on Linux, in most cases. In cases where it wasn't fastest, it was still close.

A thread pool was also more reliable than the kernel APIs at ensuring overlapped I/O for throughout. libaio (kernel API) calls sometimes turned into blocking calls depending on filesystem internals, in a way that thread pools don't.

POSIX AIO, on Linux, just uses a userspace thread pool. It's implemented in libc and is not particularly fast. You can do better with your own thread pool.

Perhaps Linux threads got faster, faster than the APIs got better.

Even with io_uring, in my tests on fast NVMe storage RAIDs where it should make the most difference, I found io_uring wasn't noticably faster than a well-optimised (for Linux) thread pool.

io_uring can potentally adapt better to shared workload and different cache situations, because it has access to kernel information that userspace thread pools are not granted. But I was surprised to find no significant random-access I/O performance increase between my thread pool and io_uring, when I was trying to optimise both methods to get the best throughput out of a system.
You’re right, Apple is evil, and they actually want you to have a terrible experience with their products.

They actually don’t want to be a profitable company, they really just want you to suffer in subtle and insidious ways.
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4
Are you using an HDD maybe?
She and her VC husband bet on Nvidia - in restrospect, a good call. Congress has its winners and losers like the rest of the economy.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/business/nancy-pelosis-2023-tr...

> The Unusual Whales report also notes that of 100 stock-trading members of Congress, a third beat the S&P with their portfolios.

> Last year, the average Democrat nabbed returns of 31% – well ahead of the average Republican’s 18%. Unusual Whales notes Democrats are more invested in tech stocks – which surged in 2023 – while Republicans are more exposed to the banking and oil sectors.
Each field has its own culture and its own way of thinking. People are often socialized to a particular culture in the university or even earlier, and it sticks. You can learn other fields on your own, but it's hard to adopt the culture without socialization.

I did theoretical computer science in the university, leaning towards more applied stuff by the end of my PhD. I'm still a computer scientist at heart. I can follow some topics in research mathematics, but I don't think like a mathematician and I'm not interested in the same things. I work in bioinformatics these days, but I often zone out when people start talking about the stuff that goes in the results section of a paper. I'm not a bioinformatician, and I'm not interested in the same things. I've seen a similar culture gap between bioinformatics and "proper" biology, but I don't have first-hand experience with that.
The easiest way to not get fired like Sam Altman is to not take investor dollars. But like anything there are massive tradeoffs to either taking investor cash or not taking it (something I am personally grappling with right now).

When you take investor capital, you suddenly have the power to do things you would not have had the ability to do for years. You can quit your job day job, hire other engineers, your development speeds up, you may even have a budget to spend on marketing. But the tradeoff here is your entire business shifts overnight, you are no longer the sole authority (ie. the benevolent dictator) and by that you no longer have complete say over the direction of your company. You might want one thing and your investors want another thing, and your job quickly becomes managing the relationship between your investors and the company you founded.

Now if you decide to not take investor capital then you stay in absolute control. You call the shots, and only you (and your co-founder(s) if you have them). If you are just a founder with no co-founders then there is zero chance a Sam Altman situation will happen, and even with co-founders that scenario is extremely unlikely because you very likely own an equal stake in the business to your counterparts. The only problem with this scenario is the money, or lack thereof. Until you make enough sales you can forget about hiring help, or quitting your dayjob and forget about a marketing budget because you simply don't have enough money for that.

I see these things as opposite sites to a "perfect company" coin. If you have a "perfect company" (as a founder), it means not only is your business generating enough revenue for getting all the cool things you could get with investor dollars, you are also in control like you would be if you didn't take investor dollars. Achieving the "perfect company" is practically impossible so you have to manage which side of the coin you prefer and your business can bear. For a small software company, it's definitely possible to go the bootstrapped route and achieve the "perfect company", though hard. But when you're talking about any capital intensive business (the Tesla's, SpaceX's of the world), then not taking investor dollars means there is a 0% chance your company succeeds unless you're already extremely wealthy.
Not sure how you think “IQ” is particularly meaningful to this, though. At best it measures one small contributor to all the aspects of a person. “Working hard” is also required. So is “natural inclination or ability”. Psychological and physical traits also play a role. Practice is also important. IQ alone is no more likely to make someone successful as any other piece of the puzzle.
What's more interesting to me is that, so far, this strategy has worked fairly well for him and the other shareholders.
Doesn't this give you 2xSPF? Or can I use my local copy of the source to kick of Travis/Circle?
> Do a quick test with the latest JVM.

java: 031s
python: 013s

it's 3x slower to start up… it means that any bash script with a loop calling a java command will run 3x slower.

3x slower isn't my definition of minuscule.
Dive is an amazing tool in the container/Docker space. It makes life so much easier to debug what is actually in your container. When we were first getting started with Depot [0], we often got asked how to reduce image size as well as make builds faster. So we wrote up a quick blog post that shows how to use Dive to help with that problem [1]. It might be a bit dated now, but in case it helps a future person.

Dive also inspired us to make it easier to surface what is actually in your build context, on every build. So we shipped that as a feature in Depot a few weeks back.

[0] https://depot.dev

[1] https://depot.dev/blog/reducing-image-size-with-dive

[2] https://depot.dev/blog/build-context
Age of Empires is mostly written in low-level Assembly code
There were no large structures around accept for the concrete encased stainless steel vacuum tube of the LIGO Livingston Interferometer which runs parallel to the measurement axis and extends for kilometers in both directions.

amazing.
All major browsers have supported it for over eight years. Maybe the problem was between the seat and the keyboard?

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_crypto_subtle
Yep. The entire game is like this, massive amounts of content clumsily tacked onto something that they clearly didn’t realize would become so popular. This also shows in the interface, where basically every piece of gameplay is triggered by plumbing through the massively overcrowded Quick Menu.
If you took angel/VC what you basically did is create a very interesting job for yourself with a lot of upward mobility and a comp package that is strongly tied to the company's performance.

If you want it to be 100% yours you must bootstrap or keep it as a side project (either side income or just FOSS).

Expecting something to be 100% yours after taking other peoples' money to build it feels kind of entitled TBH.

That being said, good investors want the founder to be very committed and to have a personal attachment to the company. They need you to really give a damn. So some amount of attachment beyond "just a job" is good and even expected. I'm just saying there is a continuum between "just a gig" and "it's 100% my baby" and an externally funded company is neither. Closer to your baby than just a gig, but not 100%.

If you don't let go a little bit and put a little bit of boundary up when you take capital, you are setting yourself up for heated conflicts with your investors, co-founders (if any), and other senior employees. You're also setting yourself up for a soul-crushing ego blow if it doesn't go well and especially if it goes sideways for reasons you don't have full control over.
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications
"Our journey developing Vanilla OS Orchid, and what's next."
The real problem is that even though being distributed is cool and can help to ensure
that your work exists in more than one place either for reasons of collaboration or backup, humans still like to cling to the idea of having a "single source of truth".

So, if Alice collaborates by pull/pushing with Bob, and Bob works by patches over email with Charlie, and David exchanges with Charlie and Alice - then what is the "true" state of the repository exactly?

The easy way out is that everyone pulls/pushes with github and we use that as "truth".
Show HN: Create Beautiful Videos with Text
Hi, Elon?
You're naming things that need handling… which take time to be set up and so on.
Insurers Drop Bid to Exclude Merck's $1.4B NotPetya Claims
Anamorphic lenses do exist; some are indeed very expensive, but there are "affordable" ones too (only slightly more expensive than regular lenses).

https://www.diyphotography.net/the-smallest-full-frame-anamo...
As I said there are exceptions, but most founders should not expect to be able to create similar scenarios. If you walk into the office of a VC in the present market and say I want your money but I want to keep full control, that meeting is not going to go well.
Anyone working in anything remotely tech adjacent is fooling themselves if they thought their career would somehow be static for 30 years. Let's look backwards and think about the drastic paradigm shifts in tech however you want to slice it whether deployment models, monetization models, languages, etc. Server/desktop/web/mobile OR paid-apps/e-commerce/subcription-apps/microtransactions/saas OR C/Java/HTML&CSS/JS/Python/Rust/.. etc. Remember when we were all going to be out of a job when Dotcom imploded, or because of India outsourcing boom?

LLMs give me a similar feeling to some of the car ADAS or Voice Assistant stuff. The first time you interact with the state of the art it is startling and impressive, going to change everything. The rate of change however is not that dramatic on an annual time scale, the rough edges become more obvious and you understand the product is actually quite limited, interest fades.

So, I think a lot of the 1-3 year time frame forecasts are extremely optimistic. However in a 10 year time frame I think we'll have some very interesting viable products. We probably have no idea today what those viable products will look like.
Wow! This is the first Show HN on this site I might actually use. This is a great idea and a good price point. The only suggestion I have is to fix the FAQ section towards the end of the page because there seems to be some formatting issues. But good job bud.
1. "Leaders" want to seem hyper-competent. They don't want to figure out why the existing system was built or defer to previous leadership. So they tear things out and bring their own people, effectively starting over on some aspects. They also attribute blame and appropriate credit.

2. "Leaders" want to create scale and "progress". The company is doing fine with one engineering team? But how would that look on my resume? Let's get two dev ops team to "optimize" $100/month cloud costs for a $2 billion dollar revenue company (yes, you read that right). Let's add 9 more dev teams. Let's completely rebuild the tech stack because a). My friends prefer x to y and z). We can pretend we did something. If I sound bitter, I am not, but this IS a true story - 3 years in, 70 more IT employees (mostly devs), dev isn't any faster and we just go back to where the product started, almost.

3. "Leaders" often can't zoom in, despite the claim that leaders are excellent at focusing at the right scale.

4. "Leaders" like to play leader, because actual leading is hard. Acquiring random companies definitely creates "growth".

5. On top of #4, they come in when there is financing and are basically used to free money, so they throw it around.
Meanwhile, the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU exists and is used in both new portable eGPUs: the GPD G1 (which I own) and the ONEXGPU which is being crowdfunded right now. It is a slightly more powerful version of the 7700S. I am sure this naming makes sense and it's only me who misses something.
Actual subheads:

1. "How the internet reshaped itself around Google's algorithms, including by using SEO tricks, and the company's role in many websites now using similar designs"

2. "How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same."

Neither of which sounds ... perfected.
Show HN: Assistant-TUI, a terminal user interface for OpenAI's assistant API
Hi HN! I just released assistant-tui, a terminal user interface for OpenAI's Assistant API.

If terminal is your thing, it can be a great way to test and evaluate the API and its results.

It implements not only the API, but also all the infrastructure to make it work, including polling, local repository, and more.

Feedbacks and stars are welcome!

https://github.com/dalssoft/assistant-tui
Looks like over the five years they were there they founded it, got it funded, and got them through the first car creation and delivery: the roadster. Pretty big deal, I didn’t actually know that much about these two but that’s incredibly impressive. Thanks for giving me a reason to do some research on the topic.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Eberhard-and-Mar...
Please explain what kind of trouble are you threatening me with by claiming that corporation paying damages for their actions is kind of a good proof that those actions actually happened?
Would explain a lot. It seems like his behavior has gone totally nuts in the last few years - a sign of drug abuse.
This is incorrect. Israel is at war with Hamas and they aren't holding back, and there is a large difference between what is going on and genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide then the entirety of Gaza would be leveled and 99% of the people dead indiscriminately. There are different levels of warfare.
Most people won't buy expensive stuff that is also very fragile.
They have some Screenshots on their website: http://www.dc-swat.ru/

That's pretty damn cool
This is a somewhat cynical take for the last two on your list.

Amazon:

- currently hosting AI/ML generated reviews submitted by users of the site[0]

- Using AI-generated review summaries (search for "AI-generated from the text of customer reviews" on any product page)

Meta:

- Currently funneling AI generated propaganda to their users

- Attempting to help funnel AI generated propaganda for their users [1]

- Attempting to help funnel AI generated propaganda for their customers [2]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/amazon-reviews-are-being-wri...
[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-ass...
[2] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/generative-ai-feature...
About grml-debootstrap:

https://grml.org/grml-debootstrap/
The last two-ish years have been insane for Python performance. Something clicked with the core team and they obviously made this a serious goal of theirs and the last few years have been incredible to see.
The data from Tesla at present value is of lower value, as with our current hardware/software/AI knowledge, they can't clearly meaningful use of it to drive a car in complex traffic scenarios.

Meanwhile Cruise use lidars which simplify a lot, because Lidars give out better data. It's still crap compared to Waymo, which can actually drive a car very well. Waymo has already won this battle.

Ride a Tesla using FSD, Cruise and then Waymo, I'm sure you'll be surprised by how good Waymo is.

Tesla's Data faces a similar situation to training a LLM with data from the internet, it will be utter garbage. But if you use less data, but good data + RLHF, you get better results.
Who was the company? I've accepted a job via Experient Group with the Chic-fil-a RIOT team and their relationship with Chic seems odd, trying to sniff it out. I am in a position to walk away.
Shenzhen, where China builds electronics, is a 17-million population city where such electronic shops can be built.

If we in the USA are supposed to compete against that, we need to start thinking about how to build our cities or culture to provide similar features to Chinese society.

Not like their human rights or whatever, but their specific production specs. How quickly you can physically shop in Shenzhen in person to look for parts, how easy it is to share designs in the engineering community, the economies of scale and so forth.

We are getting our ass kicked on electronics production. We really should think about emulating China now on this subject.
Every bolt you could see was checked before every flight yes. Every important bolt you couldn’t see during inspection was torqued, witnessed by QA, secured via safety wire or cotter pin, and secondary torque holding was then inspected by QA.

This thing is obviously not just an interior part, look at the meat in those castings, and it’s obviously safety critical, look at the cotter pins on other bolts. Sounds like it was going to be installed behind interior paneling and not inspected every day. For something like that, every important bolt should be secured by secondary methods, torqued and witnessed installed correctly. This looks like a failure in engineering (not having wire on this bolts), then a profound failure in assembly with multiple people not doing their jobs (not torquing, not witnessing, faking logs), risking the lives of passengers.

If this happened at cruising altitude and speed, people would have died. I can’t find the flight number but I believe 9 people died when a jet lost cabin pressure and a piece of the plane while decompressing during cruising altitude over water.
Ask HN: Email newsletters – what service do you use?
Mailchimp? Email Octopus? Sender? Beehiiv? I'm looking to start an email newsletter and I'm curious what experiences you've had with different providers. Is a custom domain important? Thanks!
According to their datasheets, the W65C02S and W65C816S, both still in production, can run up to 8MHz at 3.3V. They can also go down to 2MHz on 1.8V, or up to 14MHz on 5V.

https://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/documentation/w65c02...

https://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/documentation/w65c81...
Theoretical CS pun intended?
Again, I am genuinely not into politics, but to me the idea that she doesn't trade on insider information is absolutely laughable.
Taxing Water Is the Only Way to Limit Use and Reduce Depletion
Python: Faster opcode dispatch on GCC (2008)
corruption at all levels of the government
I've just finished reading Yanis Varoufakis' "Technofeudalism" and it was a much better read than I expected. I'm still unsure if his central thesis will materialise but he does make good points on how Big Tech basically transformed "Internet One" (the one we fondly remember from the 90s-early 2000s) into a internet of fiefdoms, where each Big Tech have tried to corner their own land to extract rent from.

It's the exact feeling I get from the internet today, we have lost the interesting content being put out in a decentralised manner, the quirky websites, the passionate community ones for product reviews (like DPReview), everything has become commercialised, lots of blogs are just fronts for some brand/company/individual trying to peddle their own brand through visibility.

It's just sad.
Operation Triangulation attackers didn't have access to Apple leaks