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The benefits to native bundling are huge. I really cannot overstate how much they will improve UX, and DX.

The core web file formats: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and images, do not have native multi-file bundling support. Today's bundlers have to jump through serious hoops, which drastically reduces the effectiveness of the network cache, to emulate bundling. And those hoops bring constraints that limit the native features of the web platform that are usable with bundlers.

JavaScript is bundled by significantly rewriting it. At the very least imports and references to imports have to be rewritten. Live bindings from modules require special care. Dynamic import() is severely restricted. import.meta.url usually doesn't work well, or at all. Base URLs for all resources are changed, so getting assets with new URL() and fetch() is usually broken. That causes bundlers to support importing module types that the browser doesn't support, so at development time you still have to run the bundler. The whole thing just diverges from standard semantics.

CSS is bundled by assuming a global CSS scope so that the individual files are not needed separately. URLs within the CSS have to be rewritten. The upcoming CSS Modules specification allows JS modules to import CSS, but since you need to import the actual stylesheet you want, and CSS doesn't have it's own multi-module support, you really need native bundling to make this work well in production.

Images can be bundled _sometimes_. Maybe a spritesheet will work, or data: URLs. It all depends on how you're using them.

It's all a complicated mess that requires complicated tools and WebBundles just fix it all. You no longer have to rewrite any references in any files. If you do build files, it's purely for optimization, not because you have to.

What's important for users is that files in a WebBundle are individually cached. This makes it finally possible to do delta-updates on pages where you only send the updated files. Maybe the initial visit is with a bundle and subsequent visits use HTTP/2 push. Maybe when you deploy you build delta bundles against the previous X versions of the site. With current bundlers only the bundle is cached so you can't do this at all.
Is that assuming HDDs not SSDs ?
If you lack imagination and don't get out into nature much, you might not get it. But read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and you'll gain some understanding for how rich traditional aboriginal life was.
Maybe someone could write an extension to implement it... Oh.
That makes sense. It's specially telling that the top voted reply to my message says Bill Gates donated Billions "without breaking a sweet". Clearly that person never read about his personal involvement and time commitment to numerous researches and social programs. It's 100% prejudice.
For the Porto -> Moscow leg you should be able to get a SCIC (Special Conditions of International Carriage) ticket in any European train ticket office.

The complete list of participating countries is here:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinsamer_Internationaler_Ta...

However, an Eurail pass will most likely be cheaper and you will enjoy greater freedom in chosing your connections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurail

I suspect the Moscow -> Saigon leg to be a bit more complicated, but there are travel agencies specialized in offering exotic train rides.
That's great, thanks :)
He was interviewed a few years ago on "How I built this".

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/23/510576153/zappos-tony-hsieh
I don't think it's luck. A significant part of the very rich are donating huge amounts to charity. With the giving pledge being the most clear example.

It's most certainly not a fluke that the mega rich are solving problem governments can't or won't.
Ah, good point. I just assumed that unqualified dollars on the internet meant "USD"...
I think the root resolvers can handle it (at least so far). It's just that these probably unnecessary DNS request to test for a somewhat rare situation are causing just about as much traffic to root resolvers as the rest of the internet combined.

Note that this will actually be disproportionately higher than DNS traffic to recursive resolvers, because, since these domain names are randomly generated, they won't be cached very well.

I think the complaint is not "we can't handle this" so much as "we don't want to pay for this."

Now, if you are saying that google should run root resolvers so they can absorb some cost of doing this, that might be fair. Although, I suspect it would be cheaper for them to find a different way to accomplish this in the browser.
Two European cases of coronavirus re-infection reported
Because the evidence is nonsense! It's not proof of what the authors, Patrick Lawrence or William Binney, or anyone else, claim!

Their central thesis is, and it pains me to repeat this:

(This is a false claim.) "The DNC files could not have been transferred over the internet because a speed of 23MB/s is impossible."

That is demonstrably, laughably false. The fact that on Hacker News we're disputing whether or not it's possible to transfer files over 23MB/s is absurd! OF COURSE IT IS!

As for why the timestamps might reflect that speed, there are many possible reasons:

* That was the actual speed of the initial transfer/dump from the DNC - whether over the internet or to a USB2 flash drive

* The timestamps were planted to provide plausible deniability or disinformation

* The timestamps were the result of a program producing files at a rate of 23MB/s, such as: a secondary transfer to a flash drive after the hack occurred, an archival or unarchival process, a compression or encryption process, copying to a network storage server, or an analysis process step that touched each file and averaged 23MB/s.

Since there are many possible ways to get to 23MB/s, it's not proof, or even evidence, of what the authors claim.
That started off accurate, but then it got painful. Of course files can be modified. This has nothing to do with being "ASCII" plain text. By the way the article meanders, it seems the author is a pure EE who thinks there could be some software pixie dust that could assure integrity without doing the full work of either trusting the fab house or checking their output. Sorry, there isn't.

Based on the title, I had thought this was going to be about ways to create a trojan by modifying only the unpopulated PCB. Once you're playing with components, you can just stick a second chip on the SPI bus that eg corrupts a few firmware instructions to avoid setting critical processor feature flags. The footprint likely already exists for supplier diversity. Although by now attackers have probably made integrated chips that contain the flash and the implant in a single package.
str_starts_with() and str_ends_with() . It's a little late, but okay. I can't wait for it to be released immediately.
wait, just to be clear - you changed the title and URL without actually reading the thing that I linked to?
In 2019, WHO started administering a malaria vaccine in 3 countries, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya. The vaccine has already passed Phase 3 trials, and 360k children will be immunized annually between now and 2023 [1].

[1] https://www.who.int/malaria/media/malaria-vaccine-implementa...
The stuff I have is Salem Stoneware, from Salem, Ohio I think it is.

It's remarkable. Despite being probably around 40 years old the surface finish of the plates (which took many a steak knife) still looks brand new.
I don’t understand why it has to randomly generate new domains each time. Surely all that matters is that it’s testing for domains that are statistically unlikely to exist, right? Why not seed the RNG with something like the current date, such that the domains are still random, but all instances of Chrome generate the same domains every day? That way the NXDOMAIN results should be able to be cached by upstream resolvers, thus significantly reducing the load on the root servers.
If you read the changes of 0.8.7, you will see e.g. the bumping pathfinding. I stopped playing on trying out GemRB for the first time when NPCs stood in the door and I simply could not advance; that's game-breaking. The next version will also have a major refactoring on another part, still lots to do.
> Only 250 customers?

Likely all government entities with 5~10 year contracts. Customer concentration is only an issue when there is a possibility of churn. This isn't the case.
it wasn't OT before the mods changed the URL that i originally posted: https://mailchi.mp/theprepared/the-prepared-4ydgzm58vl
I don't know if you did it in purpose to make a point, but vine is gone, isn't it?
I felt your way actually about it at the time. I like the 3 year timescale and greater level of self led work. I pretty much avoided doing any "taught" courses for the reasons you outlined, but I have found some of my students did benefit from them. I think it comes down to individuals and what they need. It wasn't right for you or me, but I think there are some students who perhaps come in needing a little bit of a push on some of the supporting skills, and they found some of the courses helpful.

I definitely don't like the trend towards the 4 year PhD with taught courses in year 1 though - I had enough time in 3 years to mess around on side projects and other things I didn't need, but which were fun and interesting, even if irrelevant. When you add the inevitable consulting and startup advice on the side, it seems to me 3 years should really be the upper bound, rather than extending the process any further.
> Just pretend you're messaging a co-worker in plain-friendly-English. And be genuinely interested in solving my issues

This is what caused service reps to waste everyone's time with elaborate fake displays of empathy and forced unwanted small talk. I'd prefer an efficient robot.
I want to also counter-balance the negativity towards Hsieh with my own experience. From 2015-2017, I worked at Edmunds.com which was (to put it lightly) a bit obsessed with "Delivering Happiness" and Zappos' culture. So much so, that the leadership team visited Vegas to get a tour of the Zappos HQ (this was before I joined). But Edmunds based their entire cultural approach, including hiring, interviewing, and onboarding on Zappos.

The Edmunds onboarding experience has been by far the best out of any company I worked at. Sure, it was silly games and scavenger hunts that didn't really have anything to do with "work," but I look back at the entire experience with a lot of nostalgia. I loved the onboarding so much, I've been contemplating doing a startup that literally just focuses on improving cultural onborading at companies. It made my first few months at Edmunds not only incredibly productive, but also intellectually and socially stimulating.

And they were doing something right. Over there, I had the honor of working with one of the best managers I ever had (he's now at Amazon), and with one of the best software architects I've ever worked with (he's now at Facebook). My team was made up of motivated, smart, folks from all walks of life (recent grads to data science PhD's in their 50s). I still keep in touch with my old team even though we're spread all over these days: doing our own startups, at Facebook, Uber, Amazon, and beyond.

I have the utmost respect for the cultural revolution that entrepreneurs like Tony Hsieh brought to the fore. People that call it a "cult" are missing the point. It's no more a cult than cheering for your school mascot or being in a club. We seem to forget that people are inherently social and need a sense of belonging.
How are you supposed to generate Kindle-format content on AWS, then?
We’ve been committing mass murder of mosquitos for decades and, as far as I know, nobody has ever found evidence that it’s problematic. Mosquitos seem to be one of the few truly unnecessary (and universally unwanted) bits of the natural order.
I use OverDrive on my Kobo Forma. I have had no problem checking out books and reading them using that method. I have not looked into the other services you listed here.
iOS + Android is at least as big of a deal as Windows was back in the IE vs Netscape days. The bar for antitrust isn't "you literally cannot live without the thing".

Even if you make a case that for Epic it doesn't matter that much, the Hey mail case was another big one: if you try to make a new email service and ignore Apple/Google, you're dead on arrival. That's a problem.
One technique I've seen for tomatoes is that if you cut two slices in half you can make a square with the rounded edges facing in towards each other: I'm sure you could do the same with bananas. You could possibly extend your algorigthm to match similarly sized slices to get the most optimal pairings.
Frama-C, Why3, and Coq are written in OCaml. :)
Zappos was free returns.
It stops being okay when the analysis tools are built specially for the 3 letter agencies instead of for another socially useful purpose.
> It will be interesting to see how many of these IPOing company employees move this year and next to attempt to avoid CA capital gains tax.

(added attempt to)

If you worked in California while you were earning that stock / options, they'll come after you for the taxes.

California knows. They know that people want to try and have tried to dodge these taxes. They will find you and get their pound of flesh.
I can't stand to see this sort of logical inversion take place.

There are exactly two possibilities:

A. The timestamps weren't modified at all, and the modification time on the file truly represents the time at which they were written. ie: the timestamps are a roughly accurate indicator of transfer speed.

B. The timestamps were modified, but the hackers specifically went through the effort to calculate timestamps that align with 23MB/s, and then set those timestamps on the files.

Possibility B is much more contrived, is unfalsifiable, and yet you're defending it as if those that believe Possibility A are the real conspiracy theorists.

In reality, you're the conspiracy theorist! You're saying there must have been an explicit effort (say, a conspiration) to set modification times to align with 23MB/s. It's ridiculous.
Single-digit weekly deaths for a population of 10 million and extremely minimal restrictive measures, major cities with population densities equal to San Diego Phoenix Denver, temperature somewhat similar to San Francisco or Seattle.

There is no other logical explanation.

I'm sure you'll try to come up with something hand wavy though since it disagrees with your narrative.

You can continue to be afraid if you want. If I were you I would pay particular attention to the sensational news articles that highlight when cases are increasing and then also look at the data and notice that America has been decreasing in cases for weeks straight and ask yourself why hasnt the news media reported this remarkable development?

Mark my words America is heading towards herd immunity as long as we stay this course, and this will be all over by the end of the year.
The minor version gets upped by one every time another game is completable. As Icewind Dale II is not yet finished, it will stay at 0.8.x for a while. You can still enjoy the other games (Baldur's Gate I/II and Icewind Dale being the best supported).
Yeah, the cut is basically irrelevant. It's the power Apple/Google holds that's a problem.
If they were in any way predictable, people would register them, or the broken DNS servers would handle those domains properly while still giving broken results for others.
VSCode/Atom/Sublime snippet generator
They are public, but you have to know where to look. I do think they should be published alongside the builds on archive.mozilla.org. (disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
US gun laws are irrelevant, since the legality of using violence in self-defense (note that we aren't even talking about lethal force here!) is applicable to a lot more than guns. And yes, in most countries, it is legal, although certain limits of proportionality etc may be imposed, and there may be a duty to retreat if possible.

But also, US gun laws insofar as they pertain to the use of guns for self-defense aren't as anomalous as many people think they are. There are a few other countries in which it's possible for a regular citizen to get a permit to carry a handgun openly or concealed - Czechia, for example.
Fair point. To be candid, every time I've discussed this, Apple fans quickly jump on the "but what about Google!!!" train, and it distracts from the original point, so I just got used to putting them together, because it's not important (for this specific topic).
You could, but it's no where near as integrated or smooth. I am not advocating that Rails go away and be replaced by Next, but I think there are certain applications where it makes a lot of sense to use Next instead of rails.
Details here for the curious:

https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/what-is-v...

Summary: Whilst initial immunity is developing after vaccination, attenuated polio viruses can be excreted and cause a rare circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) outbreak. 21 outbreaks have occurred in the last 20 years, with 760 cases, out of 3 billion vaccinated and 10 million polio cases averted. cVDPV is averted by getting as many people in the community vaccinated within a 12-month window as possible. It naturally stops being a risk as the vaccinated population approaches 100%.
Amazon supports direct debit, so you don't even need a card. At least in the SEPA countries.
California's tech boom was created by semiconductor companies pourit toxic waste into the ground and rivers.
Did he or others invest as much as was originally implied? I remember it being spoken of as a long-term project. If it was a little shipping container mall, that's a bit of a meagre attempt. You'd need to loss-lead dramatically to attract people across from The Strip to visit.
Stockholm population density is greater than San Diego and Phoenix Denver and San Antonio.

They're still Europeans bro. They packed them in tight there.

Are you just making stuff up to try to discredit things that disagree with your view?

You were right about one thing.
Due to cross-reactivity with other common cold coronaviruses giving previous immunity, they're speculating you only need between 10 to 30% of the population infected with covid to develop herd immunity.
Per this S-1 filing, Palantir appears to be used by the private sector as well.

> socially useful purpose

Who decides what's "socially useful"?
I have read that vitamin D deficiency can play a role in starting multiple sclerosis. I was years working mostly indoors, not seeing sun much and then one day my eyeballs started flickering and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Maybe if I monitored vit. D levels and have taken supplements, I could have prevent multiple sclerosis but maybe not. It is not that easy and clear, it seems.
the fire is moving away from the nearest Sequoia grove near Freeman Creek. wind forecast looks alright too.
I spoke with Hsieh briefly after his talk at Draper University in 2015.[1] I was in Boost Accelerator for Gliph and our group got to sit in on some but not all of the guest lectures that season. (Elon also spoke, but we did not get to attend that one)

Before Tony gave the above speech, Tim introduced Hsieh and his relationship in investing in Zappos.

I may not have this quite right but I believe Tim talked about a time where either Hsieh needed bridge money and either Tim's fund or DFJ had to make a call on whether to bail out Zappos.

IIRC, Tim or the fund he was managing chose not to bail out Hsieh.

It may have been because of the 2000 crash, I can not remember. But Tim was very open about this decision and I believe the choice Tim made was not good for Tony at the time. I can’t say for sure, but I recall Tim saying it hurt their relationship.

He told this story standing right next to Hsieh.

I'm not sure exactly how but they worked it out, not only because Hsieh pulled through and raised capital elsewhere, but because he was there to give that talk in person. The relationship was clearly in good shape.

Wish I could remember more details. I'll try to get them if the opportunity presents itself.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJP_EbqQ-XA
USPS is not a community service either, in that regard. They charge for their services, so does SpaceX.

The assertion was a privately run company could do what USPS does a lot better, for less cost, and likely provide a better end result. SpaceX is an example of that, but there are many others.
Gosh it's almost like different places in the world have different costs of living.
Seems like companies not using all of theirs (and defunct or quasi-defunct companies) could sell off unused chunks.
This was a great read. The subject is interesting, but I also enjoyed how it's written. Thanks.
Nice of Hacker News to relist my submission, as this time it garnered some interest. Here is the first interview of the week with project founder Balrog994: https://gemrb.org/2020/08/25/interview-with-project-founder-...
The legal term you're looking for is "serious bodily injury". Reasonable expectation thereof is the threshold for the use of lethal force in self-defense in most US jurisdictions, for example.
Any link that crosses an international border tends to result in much lower ridership than a link within borders. NYC-Toronto is the strongest US-Canada link, as it connects two cities that occupy similar positions in their countries. Montreal-NYC suffers from the lack of any major population centers between Montreal and Albany.

The real problem with international borders is often related to customs checks, and Amtrak would rather prefer putting the customs checks in Toronto (/Montreal) and sealing the train through Canada to the US border. If the US and Canada were to enter in a customs union, that issue would go away, but I don't see that happening for decades.

(There's another interesting route, which is Chicago-Toronto; this is viable in a no-customs-hassle world because Chicago-Detroit is viable HSR by itself, ditto for Windsor-Toronto, so the only extra piece you need is Detroit-Windsor under the Detroit River).
It's not "his" fortune, it's profits from an illegal antitrust operation.
They deliver in small towns outside of what I would call a major metro area. Probably not in actual rural areas though.
Electric blankets were pretty awesome for this circumstance. Incredibly cheap to operate, extremely effective.

(I always had trouble washing them properly though)
A hundred years ago, Malaria in the United States was bad enough to warrant a dedicated government office (It was folded into the CDC after WW2). This turned into a major eradication program through the use of DDT in the 1940's and by the 1950's Malaria was effectively eliminated from the states through the decimation of the mosquito population. Mosquitoes have of course rebounded over time, but malaria has not.

Mosquito release programs like this are now several decades old and have shown high efficacy with few environmental side effects where they have been tried. It is certainly more environmentally friendly than DDT. Meanwhile, the benefits are enormous and if done successfully in Africa could be directly measured in terms of human suffering.
How is it sexism at all?

What "ism" is the reason reason Warren Buffett is more famous than Charlie Munger?
That is honestly my take away from this letter. Who, knowing anything about Palantir, reads this and is willing to trust anything they provide or give them your money? I know that S1's tend to be aspirational and the most positive/flattering framing possible but...this is just flat out an alternate reality. Anyone willing to build this level of false narrative about the history of a company is not one I would trust to deliver a true narrative about earnings or financial status.