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> "Eventually a big grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and major donations from tech firms, funded the restoration of the site and the building of a museum ..."

Personally I find ironic that a monument to the use of math to help win a war gets big funds from the lottery, which essentially is a tax on the lack of knowledge of maths. ...Or maybe it's the most brilliant way to make good use of that money.

However, I would also expect the military to donate the most money, due to the huge number of soldiers lives saved through intercepting Nazi communications. Also they would deserve some form of tax exemption. It's not just about maintaining some buldings and people working there, but also keeping that memory alive, which is priceless.
To be clear here, CarPlay is not an OS. CarPlay (as is Android Auto) is an app that steams an interface to the car’s system.

It’s a replacement interface that runs on your iPhone, but it’s not an infotainment system. It doesn’t do any of the heavy lifting those systems have to do to make CarPlay possible.
Doesn't it concern you that it would be possible for critics to look at your scientific software and find mistakes (some of which the OP mentioned are not "minor") so easily?

Given that such software forms the very foundation of the results of such papers, why shouldn't it fall under scrutiny, even for "minor" points? If you are unable to produce good technical content, why are you qualified to declare what is or isn't minor? Isn't the whole point that scrutiny is best left to technical experts (and not subject experts)?
the book of Leviticus? Its the 3rd book of the Torah/Old Testament of the Bible. A lot of it is there and would be where I would start.
Why would anybody in government support UBI? If it works, a huge amount of decision making power is moved from the government to the free market.
Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4B SPAC merger
Many manufactures use the Intel Windriver distro of Yocto. SQLite3 is king just like on a mobile phone. Dbus/Qt for GUI applications. Froglogic Squish is a PITA https://www.froglogic.com/squish/editions/qt-gui-test-automa... - need an open source alternative.

Test builds should have ksan/asan turned on by default.

Production builds should ruthlessly remove unused binaries and make heavy use of --gc-sections to cull dead code. Even SQLITE3 should have features whitelisted to make it more safe.

Several TLA+ and Alloy specs need to be written to ensure distro saftey.
The tricky part is that it depends on the human.

For instance, I don't find natural forests or mountains more beautiful than well maintained cropland or pastures or gardens; they are just different kinds of beautiful. (Since I grew up on a farm, I call this "the farmer aesthetic".) I also don't think I would find well-maintained, visible -- even colorful! -- wind turbines to detract from a scene of natural beauty; it would just be a different scene than it was before, not inherently worse for that difference.

But I acknowledge this is not a universally-held aesthetic.
I don't think it's about disease control at all. I don't believe AIDS was around back in biblical times and the other STDs had to rank near the bottom of concerns 5000 years ago. Besides, many other cultures practiced marriage.

In my mind marriage developed as an adaptation to large civilizations. Whereas we once lived in roaming nomadic tribes, and fluid small groups (as can be observed in some remote tribes today), I think once agriculture flourished and towns started to outgrow the individual it became necessary for something like the nuclear family to develop. With families belonging to clans and clans belonging to city-states.

You're making a lot of assumptions about Covid and long term effects. The Spanish flu was many times deadlier and yet it did not change anything once it faded out several years later, things went back to normal.
1. I tend to doubt they did it intentionally.

2. I could see a company with various ethical lapses like Uber not prioritizing an unintentional bug for a speedy fix.

3. In the intentional scenario, it'd be a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing (popularized by Superman 3 / Office Space). Easier to get away with than a public rate cut, with the downside of bad PR if you get caught.
It isn't really component focused, but there are patterns like active search:

https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/

Htmx can be used to implement reactive components, however. Ben Croker created the Sprig component framework based on it for Craft CMS, for example:

https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/sprig
> Any reasonably complex interface is essentially a game whether it's a music composition app, simulator, MMO or even a basic form.

I've been out of the game development arena for a while, but I can't help but pause here. Are people really writing DAWs and big desktop app interfaces in Unity?

The last time I played with a game engine, I would have said UI was its weakest aspect. Clunky, slow controls, visually unappealing, and certainly lacking in accessibility. Without researching more, I would feel pretty confident placing a bet that if I pointed JAWS at a Unity Window, it would say "Game Window" and that's about it. Windows accessibility hooks and tab navigation certainly didn't work out of the box, and I would say that is bare minimum for a UI toolkit.

So while it's valid that Unity is a beast and game engines will eat the world for games, I have a really hard time taking them seriously for UI-driven application development.
Intermittent errors are degrading authentication services for School Districts
> The police are fundamentally a low paid blue collar labor force with union protections

Please keep in mind that this is not true worldwide. In various countries you're only admitted after 1.5-2 years of police-specific education. You might still not be a police officer if they seem you unfit.

Also, you don't seem to value plumbers or construction workers. A colleague used to be a construction worker. It's very interesting to hear the knowledge he has on that. Plus pretty damn handy for understanding how to improve your house. Just because he did a lot of work with his hands doesn't mean he isn't damn bright.
One example: My code used to crash for a long time if you set the thermal speed to something greater than the speed if light. Should the code crash? No. And by now I have found the time to write extra code to catch the error and midly insult the user (It says "Faster than light? Please share that trick with me!") Does it matter? No. It didn't run and give plausible-but-wrong results. So that is code that I would call "science-ready" but I wouldn't want it criticized by people outside my domain.
I would regard (from experience) "science ready" code as something that you run just often enough to get the results to create publications.

Any effort to get code working for other people, or documented in any way would probably be seen as wasted effort that could be used to write more papers or create more results to create new papers.

This kind of reasoning was one of the many reasons I left academic research - I personally didn't value publications as deliverables.
Yeah, I think the attack surface would be in the integration. The Emacs developers are very good in general, but I don't know if they're well placed to address the security concerns of a browser integration, especially in such an otherwise laissez-faire platform as Emacs. Webkit should be pretty secure, I'd expect, but that only helps until you get to where Webkit and Emacs interact in Emacs' own process space.

You make a good point about X. I don't know a great deal about its security either, and most of what I do know comes from jwz's various salty comments about the risks of poorly
implemented screen lockers. Based on that, and for whatever it's worth, the strong impression I have of X server security is that, for any client permitted to connect in the first place, there is likewise little to none of it.

It's been a while since I looked in detail at Emacs' xlib integration. But it's evidently comprehensive enough for EXWM to exist, and looking at the EXWM readme, I find it's based on a pure-Lisp X protocol implementation. So I assume that anything an X client can ask an X server to do, you can ask an X server to do from within Emacs, and you don't even need that Emacs to have been specially compiled with support for the protocol - you just need it to evaluate some Lisp, and you're off and running.

I think I'll stick with eww for the foreseeable future.
According to the Danish Companies House they haven't been very Danish since 2015. They've moved ownership 100% to Singapore (and from there, who knows).

Still 300 FTEs in Denmark, though.

https://datacvr.virk.dk/data/visenhed?enhedstype=virksomhed&... (the original company with David Helgason etc)

https://datacvr.virk.dk/data/visenhed?enhedstype=virksomhed&... (IP company)

https://datacvr.virk.dk/data/visenhed?enhedstype=person&id=4... (reference to the Singaporean company)
The question I would ask is how accurate all those other mileage trackers are? If they are based on GPS, then they have all the same issues with fewer engineering resources trying to correct defects.

The only mileage tracker that matters is the vehicle odometer on a stock vehicle with stock diameter tires with most of its tread. You'd need a device connected to the vehicle via ODB2 where you can press a bunch at the start and end of each trip.
As a trained physicist ... finding Christians in Physics really shouldn't surprise as you.

As a field we've gotten a lot of mileage out of deciding that something simply must be true due to the aesthetics of a set of equations, and our heroes (Dirac and his positron, Higgs and his Boson) are people whose faith in their aesthetic judgment was retroactively rewarded by experiment.
Rapid growth software company with most of the sales coming product should have price/sales to be abowe 10-20 at least.

Should we expect $5 -10 billion market cap?
> Hopefully all this public money will get them to make a saner serialization format for their scene files. Unity's relationship with version control is... tense.

They had money before, it's not like they were running at a loss. The source control situation affects other engines (e.g UE4) just as much.
I think the idea that scientific code should be judged by the
same standards as production code is a bit unfair. The point when
the code works the first time is when an industry programmer
starts to refactor it -- because he expects to use and work on
it in the future. The point when the code works the first time
is when a scientists abandons it -- because it has fulfilled its
purpose. This is why the quality is lower: lots of scientific
code is the first iteration that never got a second.

(Of course, not all scientific code is discardable, large quantities
of reusable code is reused every day; we have many frameworks,
and the code quality of those is completely different).
Middle-class tourist travel is responsible for something like 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe you meant that it was locally non-polluting? That jet fuel and gasoline burning doesn't pollute the tourist destinations much more than everyplace else, although it pollutes more than almost anything else.

edit: changed 20% to 8%. Removed "IIRC."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/tourism-responsible-for-8-of-glo...
I'm aware that reasonable humanities people don't really believe anything, but it cannot be denied that ideological adherents exist. In fact, there are a lot of them and they write a lot. A great deal of work happens within ideological camps (like "marxism" or "analytic philosophy") which are not valued at all to people outside of them. Within the camp, arguments are compared, but outside of it they are seen as having no merit. Using my example again, most analytic philosophers would find Foucault's writings totally uncompelling, to the point of seeing them as epistemically equivalent to blank paper. The only place you see that in science is with the so-called "crackpots," but they are actually wrong.
It depends on the department, but raw arrest counts are absolutely part of individual officer performance metrics, with low arrest count officers being "pressured to find something" at the end of the month.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nypd-officers-arrest-q...
I agree with you.

For some reason, every now and again studies like this -- ones that are interesting but under-researched -- are posted on HN, and I don't get why. People then treat these studies as if they are conclusive evidence of something. Luckily nothing ever comes of it, but still
It really helps with debugging if your MC code is deterministic for a given input seed. And then you just run for a sufficient number of different seeds to sample the probability space.
That's interesting. My side project, StatusGator, monitors and aggregates status pages and I've been wondering recently if we should target the education... and how to.

We've had a handful of school district customers sign up recently and use us to build aggregated status pages or send notifications to teachers and administrators when Zoom (or Blackboard or whatever) is down. So there seems to be a use case there beyond the "DevOps" market we currently cater to.
> I don't think you understood the writing at all.

That's probably true.

I got married at 23 to a girl I'd known for all of a year and a half, and we've been happily married for eight years now.

So whatever perspective this author is coming from is probably by definitions something I'm unfamiliar with.
FTA : "The teacher ought also to be especially on his guard against taking unfair advantage of the student's immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher's own opinions before the student has had an opportunity fairly to examine other opinions upon the matters in question, and before he has sufficient knowledge and ripeness of judgment to be entitled to form any definitive opinion of his own. It is not the least service which a college or university may render to those under its instruction, to habituate them to looking not only patiently but methodically on both sides, before adopting any conclusion upon controverted issues."

The above is even more important in schools, where teachers impose their ideology on even younger students, who have no concept of multiple opinions. This can only be called brainwashing.
This has nothing to do with Tech and everything to do with his MBA and business knowledge. The way he markets, writes copy and actually builds communities is what is making him a shit ton of money, not the single index.php
How about a drone with computer vision to identify birds and chase them away?
Author here, no plans for that right now, but it does look like it would be an interesting project so who knows :)
Using WebAssembly Modules in C#
It doesn't take much effort. Win + '.' opens up the emoji selector, and just start typing a word to search the emojis.

Why bother? Sometimes they help to convey emotion that would otherwise be missing. Other times it helps to break up dryer blocks of text.

That, plus it's fun :)
Yeah, I would recommend adopting htmx (or intercooler) incrementally, where it adds the most value. And when it doesn't "feel right" for a particular use case, don't use it there. This minimizes your commitment to the approach and lets you use the right tool for whatever UX job you have at hand.

EDIT: I should have read your comment more closely. With respect to two end points, one html and one JSON: I view the JSON and HTML end points as separate problems that both benefit from not being conflated with one another.

Your HTML end points are tuned to the particular use cases for your UX (e.g. active search) with the caching and tuning required for your specific needs.

The JSON end points need to be general and support unknown 3rd party client needs, and thus require more expressivity (e.g. GraphQL) at the cost of not being tuned for particular use cases.

I tried to get this idea across in this older blog post:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
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This is unfortunately not true anymore. Both Tanium and crowdstrike run on Linux for example.
OK I see what you're getting at.

But yea my concern has always been with the "existing" investment. So say I'm Comcast and I've invested $X millions into laying infrastructure, it seems "unfair" to me to just come commandeer that investment in the name of net neutrality.

Especially if you're going to expect me to further invest and/or maintain the existing.

So I understand your perspective around expansion (e.g., limited/time exclusivity or a usage fee).

But I still think the infrastructure cost (adding, maintaining, upgrading) is probably one of their larger costs? No?
I think GP meant that a lot of patterns that are common in game dev could also be applied to other kinds of software.
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No doubt martians will find other silly ways to divide themselves.

Domers rule, ok?
Tunnels Tunnels #1! #1!

We use sols.
They use mars seconds.

At least martians will be able to agree their chronology has a Year Zero?
I can't believe I'm actually arguing with someone on whether Switzerland is considered a homogeneous society or not but ok.
Group FaceTime.
Excellent point with regard to dev tools not being a successful LT investment, with Oracle being an exception. I find Atalassia being sellers of dev "app", a standalone final product rather than a component in an overall solution that is effectively tax on every copy.
The original bug report for this issue contains the following text [0]:

Although there is apparently some sandboxing in the use of webkit in
emacs (I read that it uses a seperate process, although not anywhere
authoritative), this still seems to be equivalent to shipping a
JavaScript enabled browser without any security support.

Debian packages in stable need security team support. It seems more like a procedural argument about support (i.e., "We don't want the security team to bother with another web browser embedded in Emacs") rather than technical ("It's impossible to have sandboxed Webkit in Emacs").

From a security perspective, this addon seems like the worst of both worlds: it's WebKit, so it's commonly attacked and prodded at, and it's relatively unsupported, so 0days are likely to stick around and fester.

As much as I love the idea of this, I would probably run it as a separate user, or maybe in a chroot or restricted namespace. Unfortunately, it would be pretty inconvenient to use a text editor that can't read my files!

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843462
Can you say more about the steelmanned buddhism questions? I'm interested but not clear on what you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism" or what important ways you think it might be wrong about.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm familiar with the idea of steelmanning, but not what set of buddhist ideas you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism".
> people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study.

How exactly is this a bad thing?

> I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code.

But it should be noted that what you didn't say is that you're here to turn out accurate science.

This is the software version of statistics. Imagine if someone took a random sampling of people at a Trump rally and then claimed that "98% of Americans are voting for Trump". And now imagine someone else points out that the sample is biased and therefore the conclusion is flawed, and the response was "Hey, I'm just here to do statistics".

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Do you see the problem now? The poster above you pointed out that the conclusions of the software can't be trusted, not that the coding style was ugly. Most developers would be more than willing to say "the code is ugly, but it's accurate". What we don't want is to hear "the conclusions can't be trusted and 100 people have spent 10+ years working from those unreliable conclusions".
> it's not like they were running at a loss

Well looking at their income statement, they were actually running at a loss haha
Lowering the "front page" $/mile rate could make the service immediately less attractive to workers, who can select between multiple services based on the apps on their phone. Lowering mileage paid is much harder for workers to detect, since it requires carefully checking each trip and measuring what's actually paid.

This could also be an "unintentional-intentional" bug, meaning its presence was just an accident -- but that the company has chosen to prioritize its engineering resources addressing issues that improve its revenue, rather than decreasing it.
> Whats been really awesome about that has been the fact that I've written some binary data files on big endian machines in the early 90s, and re-read them on the laptop (little endian) adding a single compiler switch.

I want to second the idea of just dumping your floating point data as binary. It's basically the CSV of HPC data. It doesn't require any libraries, which could break or change, and even if the endianness changes you can still read it decades later. I've been writing a computational fluid dynamics code recently and decided to only write binary output for those reasons. I'm not convinced of the long-term stability of other formats. I've seen colleagues struggle to read data in proprietary formats even a few years after creating it. Binary is just simple and avoids all of that. Anybody can read it if needed.
> The printf statement in the header will overwrite the first 64-bytes of the executable

This is cool but also a problem for subsequent sharing of the executable. I thought about doing this as well but decided against having the file mutate into a version that wouldn't work on other systems.

Again, super cool project! I love this kind of thing.
This news could have some concerning implications, but there are also still some plausible, less gloomy scenarios. Some of the details from the Times article worth noting: the man's symptoms during the initial infection were mild, and in the most recent case, he has had no symptoms. This is notable because there have been several conflicting studies measuring the potential immune response of low severity Covid19 infections, with some showing that antibody and T-cell responses are strong, and others showing that they are weak. This means that potentially, mild cases of Covid will not produce long-lasting protective immunity for some.

Additionally, the fact that he fails to show symptoms currently could be an indication that while immunity may not completely prevent reinfection, it may reduce severity. It's been hypothesized that many diseases, including the flu and the common cold, were more deadly upon their initial introduction to the population and, over time, as people gained stronger immune responses from exposure, became less lethal. Additionally, flu vaccines, even if they don't prevent the flu completely, can reduce the severity of the illness. Its possible that this is evidence that, even if it is not possible to completely immunize the population against Covid19, widespread vaccination and infection will lead to it may simply become another endemic, relatively low-severity disease along with the common cold/flu/etc.

Of course, this is all based on literally a single patient, so at this point anything is still possible.