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In this case, keeping those in the commit might be worth it, if you come back and find that the regex wasn't right after all. That way you can make sure you (or others) don't repeat your mistakes. The comment could go in the commit message instead I guess, though I tend to keep those brief.
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Looks very interesting! Any plans to support DynamoDB/Scylla?
Ouch, using the top level path for something dynamic like that is rough. Hope someone learned the right lesson from that :p
Serious question -- is it still called "reentry" if it's entering a different atmosphere than it started from...?
> PHP and HTML (though I don't think I ever saw a time where those were treated as two things rather than one weird mash of the two in a single file)

There's (still) plenty of that out there. But this was literally the reason why the MVC paradigm was brought in to web dev from the GUI/windows (lower case w) world
Lack of engineering talent + accessibility of the cloud + buzz words got us here. Looking forward to the end of this cycle.

This is somewhat reminiscent of the abuse of higher level languages and the mindset computers are so powerful there's no need to think too hard. However, the consequences are no longer limited to a slow and buggy program but many slow and buggy programs and a large AWS bill too!
> - a solid (but wildly misplaced) basis in reality

can you explain this more ? I recognize some traits of these in me and siblings but we're not on meth at all.. so I find the psychological flaws interesting.

sorry about your friend too
Exact same experience here. Ultima 8 came free on a CD-ROM that I think accompanied a Creative Sound Card my father had purchased? The same disc had Wing Commander 2...

Anyway, I played Ultima 8 to death as a child - explored the map obsessively. Eventually I hit first jump puzzle and "abandoned" any attempt to play it properly after that.
I had taken for granted that RAII was a good and useful pattern, from my dabbling in rust and what I've overheard in C++. So I was surprised and interested that Zig rejects that, in favor of a `defer` construct somewhat a la Go to free resources. I'm not sure I agree, but it shows that "advances" in PL design aren't universally agreed as such.

I guess what I'm getting at is I agree with the article that it's great that programming languages develop new ideas and constructs, but it's not always obvious which ones are "winners". How do you even really judge that? The quantity and quality of software in the language? Polls of developers?
I only have one question. Was the name inspired by Stargate?
Yeah, my PredictIt winnings (also from betting against Trump after Trump lost) are on a 1099-MISC as "Other Income", which I believe is what gambling would be. Still, the point stands that gambling sucks since not only are you likely to lose more often than you win after fees, but taxes eat your winnings too! But then again, it's hardly gambling when you are betting against Q.

Hilariously, on PredictIt you could see the market inefficiency in action as the site has a cap of $850 risked per bet, but after the election you could make essentially the same bet a dozen different ways. Which party will win? Which candidate will win? Will the winning candidate also win the popular vote? What will be the electoral college margin of victory? Will a woman be elected VP in 2020?

Of all those different ways to make the Trump/Biden bet, the most straightforward ones like "which party wins the 2020 election" had the highest Trump prices, while the less prominent markets like "Will the SC Dem Primary winner win the general election?" had lower Trump prices.

Now, why would I and other gamblers not sell my bets from the expensive 88c "SC Dem Primary Winner" market, and move the money into the cheaper 84c "Which party wins" market? Why would the prices not equalize since they are, at this point, bets on the same outcome? Because I'm already at the $850 cap in the "Which party wins" market. I can't put more in. Or, if I wasn't betting on that before the election, I might not even be able to because PredictIt also caps each market at 5,000 total traders.

In other words, the more obvious markets filled up to their limits earlier in the process and had their price influenced more by people who thought Trump would win, and had less price movement after that due to the distribution of traders already locked into the market. The obscure markets were low-volume before the election, but filled up after-the-fact with people like me eager to find "free money" bets, so the price on the Biden side ended up a few cents higher.
In the vaguest sense possible. Dreams for me feel very concrete but definitely aren't. If I was debugging something in a dream and became lucid, and attempted to read the "code" on the screen, it would be impossible. Just a swirl of letter-like things that made no sense whatsoever.
Python packaging tooling and infrastructure is exactly like this: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Everybody uses it, but the work of maintaining it is thankless and doesn't receive nearly as much attention as you would expect relative to the popularity of the language.

The unfortunate thing is that there's only a very small number of people actively maintaining, and they have so little time available that it's nearly impossible even to contribute something substantial.

I bore witness to an attempt by my colleagues to replace the legacy XML-RPC APIs (which have been publicly declared as deprecated for years with no replacement even today) which completely fell through because the maintainers didn't want to (or have time to) provide any feedback whatsoever. It was basically requested that a 100% implementation with 100% test coverage be provided before they would even spend the time to evaluate the API design concept and give feedback.
Many things are "inefficient", such as building stairs and a ramp where just stairs would be cheaper. Then again there's more to life than that.
Agreed, public defenders should be a last resort. Criminal and/or civil will depend on what specifically they are being accused of. There are criminal laws pertaining to hacking and unauthorized access.
Some discussion here, though these people also don't seem to have much info either: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/39862

One person seems to have narrowed the violation down to a zipfile version of the docs available on the site.

I can imagine an automated warning system like this providing some value to web users as a whole, though the process doesn't seem great to me if such tech-savvy people are still scratching their heads after 2 days.
>...Walmart took out life insurance on its employees because they were betting that their horrible working conditions made people more likely to die than the insurance companies thought.

No, Walmart was doing it since they thought the policies would be tax deductible. They ended up losing money and eventually ended up bringing up a case against their insurance companies:

>...Discount retailing giant WalMart cannot sue its insurers just because it gambled and lost $1.3 billion on getting a tax break from thousands of insurance policies it took out on employees, according to a brief filed by the insurers in the Delaware Supreme Court.

>WalMart is contending in an appeal that it was entitled to rely on its expert insurance brokers to warn the company of the inherent dangers of buying COLI policies. WalMart has asked the high court to revive its bad-faith and breach-of-duty claims against its insurers, which the Delaware Chancery Court had dismissed.

>Such policies lost their attraction for corporations long ago but disputes over liability for the tax consequences continue for companies in a position similar to WalMart’s.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dead-peasant-insurance/
There was news out on Wednesday about YC-backed Kalshi raising $30 million: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/online-trading-platform-wil.... The big difference is that they are approved by the CFTC, hopefully resulting in higher trading limits and more liquidity.
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why did you not go with a self hosted matrix (aka element.io)?
When hurricane forecasters predict that a hurricane will strike a city, would that be evidence of their pro-hurricane bias? If they were consistently overeager to predict hurricane strikes, would that be evidence that they supported hurricanes, or merely were overcalibrated to predicting them?
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I've tinkered with it, and had poor experiences hiring people to run FB ads, so any specific resources you can recommend would be appreciated. Kind of like how I would recommend Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial for someone looking to explore Rails in a productive way.

There is certainly a lot of information out there but much is generic, others are paid, and many are scams.
They saw the number of users who actually migrated, and how the negative media reaction dissipated quickly, and realized that it was barely a blip on their radar. They have years of experience introducing changes and waiting out the scandal period. They know they can do anything without much in the way of consequences.
> the burden is then on the developer to make sure that they build essentially 3 (maybe more) UI's on platforms that might change under their feet

Is this really different from the current state of web development? Front-end developers have to test against Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, at a minimum. For apps that are basically installable websites (like Slack, which has a perfectly functional webapp) this doesn't seem like that far of a stretch.
Same here - though Dark Age of Camelot came close. It wasn’t sandboxy but the RvR did scratch the PvP itch!
Here’s a link to a description of ULID, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/ulid/spec
But Steam doesn't charge the same rates - they have a regressive commission strategy whereby Indie developers (who cannot leave the platform due to the quasi-monopoly nature of Steam on PC) are charged 30%, whereas titles that exceed $10m are charged 25% and $50m 20%.

From insider accounts Valve/Steam is basically a money-printing operation on Autopilot, with Gabe Newell checking into the office irregularly, and otherwise living in New Zealand.

Change the Steam commission to 15% to everybody, and Valve would still be clearing immense profits, developers would have higher revenues which would be invested back into better software and conditions for workers, and this whole competitive situation would become irrelevant.
Without wanting to attack Tauri's author work in any way, for me, the only sensible alternative to Electron are native webviews and daemons/services talking to the user's installed browsers.
In France you can buy a very decent MTB with hydraulic brakes for less than €400. The sky's the limit if you want to spend more, of course, but for that amount of money you can get something that isn't bad at all.
I loved Ultima VIII because of the little details, like the sounds of the Avatar steps changing according to the surface that he was walking on.
I agree with you but IMO there needs to be more of a political push for this to happen. We need much larger production capacity. Ideally everyone should be making mRNA vaccines, and we also need faster approval processes. We can't do a full 3-phase clinical study every time the vaccine formula is tweaked. We need faster turnaround times.
The forces involved in CNC machining is a large complicating factor, compared to laser (or 3d-printing). In a laser one can just throw the material onto the bed, and the results will be fine - not so on a CNC. And that one is quite inherent to the paradigm.

Other aspects could likely be simplified and automated to a larger degree than today. In many areas solutions exists, but are quite high budget - things like tool changers, material loading and unloading.
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He did need 1 million dollar simply to make a one time 50k return, and it also seemed like it took considerable effort to do it. I don't know how many people with that money also have the know how, are aware of these betting markets, and care much that they'd make an extra one time 50k.

I think it'll be interesting to see how crypto based betting markets evolve and if regulations will strike them or not. I don't really know what to think about people simply full on gambling on whatever world event, is that a good thing?
1. Gmail (once per day)

2. HN (all day, every day)

3. YouTube (Here are the channels I subscribe to)
https://www.youtube.com/user/ka9dgx/channels

4. Slashdot (It once saved me from having my office without internet for 6 months, when our ISP suddenly went away, and I got in line first for 2 replacement ISPs, we always had 2 after that)

5. Reddit (Lots of programming related stuff)

6. Twitter (To vent into the void, rather than here)

7. Facebook (To see what my friends are up to)
Be sure to use this url for reverse-chronological listings: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

There used to be more.
... And now I get your point.
This entire thesis hinges on targeted advertising being effective. There is a growing group of people who are increasingly doubtful of this [0].

I personally have worked as a data scientist trying to assess the value generated by various advertising campaigns, and I personally found that the field is rife with egregious statistical misuse, usually because it was necessary to prove significant ROI on advertising.

[0] https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
Spoony's Ultima retrospective is an absolute classic.
Heres VIII https://youtu.be/wpui9EKNTzE
Recommend finding the whole series.
Underworld were not real Ultima games. At least the first one was a different game on which they stamped Ultima for brand recognition
I’d say the majority of news consumers get by without getting the details behind stories. They want to get a sense of what’s going on and drill down on a few items of interest. If I read sports (which is almost never), I want the scores, to know who won or lost, but the details of the game or games are unimportant. The same with politics or local news - I don’t need the details, my mind is already made up.

Note, I’m not saying this is a good thing, just using myself as an example. And I am guilty of just skimming headlines most days.

But this is the problem publishers face. Facebook and Google, et al, provide news from publishers in a format that is good enough for most people. I don’t think they’re wrong for doing this. In fact, I think the onus is on publishers to be compelling enough to draw people in further. They may have one or two good writers, but they’re hidden in a pile of manure and ads.
Yes, I think also that the word freedom is a bit ambiguous which lends itself to being distorted. The left wing view is that freedom means not being dominated by authority figures, and the way you fight back against authority is to band together to pursue your common interests, which means that to obtain freedom you have to take collective action. So freedom is seen in terms of power relations. The right wing idea of freedom is being alone or being independent; but we on the left would say that being alone just makes you vulnerable, unless you are already in a position of considerable power. But you know, independence from other people is a kind of freedom too, so I can see the idea there.
I have to post it here because it's on top: On Windows the new WebView is Chromium.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...

Old one is, of course, kept for compatibility reasons.
The media chose to stop covering it?

Or maybe not even that. The 6pm BBC radio news just read out the latest 500+ dead and apparent R number. It's just ... not important to the discourse somehow?
we also know that social isolation causes depression and anxiety.

"As the pandemic ushered in isolation and financial hardship, overdose deaths reached new heights" [1]

Again, What is their basis for what is ok and what is not. Emotions. correct?

Who are they to decide which population is expendable.

1. https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/16/as-pandemic-ushered-in-i...
The problem? You would have to ask the poster that you initially replied to.
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I disagree with the 50:50 split; I think you're giving away your equity unnecessarily. Understandably, you're not a marketing genius and you want to leverage the marketing potential of someone else who is skilled, knowledgeable, and gifted in that field, but you can do much better than 50:50. This is your baby, be confident your product will attract investment (time, money, other resources) from others than those who are looking for an easy paycheque. You deserve to be rewarded for your ingenuity, intellectual property, and sweat equity. You can find marketing genius in every corner of the internet - don't give away your future and profit on a lack of faith. Personally, I would consider discussing your product with a company such as Homebrew (https://homebrew.co/); they're in the business of helping start-ups such as yourself achieve success.

A quick edit/addition: regarding a fair split if you're going to hire/partner with the person you're currently considering. In that situation I would default to a merit-based approach. Base pay plus commission or stock options for every deal the person puts together, or for every predetermined financial goal achieved. Let him put in the time, as you have, to earn his share and prove his worth.
I actively participated in the prediction market this election cycle on Predict-It. I didn't know anything about the Ethereum applications so this was an insightful read.

My main takeaway from this whole election cycle was that the betting markets were not that great at predicting the outcome.
As the article points out, and I agree with, a big reason is just that these markets are underdeveloped. You have to really be interested in politics or gambling to get involved and the transactions costs are high. Because of this you end up with a mix of die-hard partisans and gamblers looking for an edge. No normal people are participating on these sites.
In fact the markets on predictit were sometimes comically wrong because of partisan money. As the author mentions there were contracts trading at 15 cents for Trump to win states after he had already lost them. I bought the NO contracts for 85 cents and made good money on that. For quite a while on predictit there was a persistent pro Trump bias to almost every state level contract. It persisted even after the count was over!

The second reason is that the betting markets themselves were just a reflection of polling data. I'm sure some sophisticated people were using other sources to make bets but most of the predictit discussions were just about polling and how to weight certain polls. There didn't seem to be some big insight that analysts like Nate Silver had missed that the prediction market sniffed out.

In the interest of full disclosure I fall into both the partisan and gambling camps. I wanted Biden to win but knowing that I avoided contracts that were political since I knew I would bias myself. I went instead for proxy contracts where pricing was out of whack. I settled on the total vote count: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/6882
Each bracket has a 3 million vote range and about a month out from the election I saw that the higher range contracts were underpriced. For some reason the predictit market had concentrated the betting around the 2016 vote total which made no sense to me. I knew this was going to be a big turnout (even more partisan than 2016 and everyone was at home with covid). At the very least it was going to be more than 2016. The prices were so low on the contracts I just bought all of them above the 2016 numbers with a bias to the upside and it worked out quite well.

It was a fun game but I didn't think it gave me much more insight into the final result.
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I haven't looked into it myself, but I'll try to understand what they do better, thanks for letting us know.

I will say that:

1. It's not open source, so hard for us to compare other than running black-box experiments.

2. Oracle, so presumably that comes with all the Oracle-ecosystem buy-ins that implies, which might not be ideal for many people.

As a purely personal opinion:

I guess it's good to know that other people are thinking in the same direction as us, but at the same time I personally would like for widely-used ML libraries to be open-source. If these models are going to be used as generator of important decision making algorithms, ideally both the model and the algorithm should be open source. The later is up to whoever is building the algorithm, but I think if we can get the zeitgeist to move towards the later being open source as the norm that can alleviate a lot of potential harm and has little downside.

I.e. Do you feel comfortable with the NHS off-sourcing important decision making to algorithms that are proprietary black boxes? Considering that it's funded by the tax paying public and it's supposed to service that public.

"Secret" laws used to be a norm in the past e.g. in large civilziations like the Roman empire, where the norm evolved to be that only "schooled" men could understand the law due to complexity, or in most of medieval Europe where the bible was foundational for morality but closed off to a small subset of the population that knew Greek or Latin and could get their hands on it. But in general that seems to have caused more harm than good.

It seems reasonable to ask that, if algorithms are going to be used by governments in decision making, those should be entirely open. Ideally the ones used by corporations should be open to whatever degree is possible, to avoid run-off harm from buggy or unaligned systems.
A major benefit of Electron to Google is the amount of FOSS developers helping to turn what is left of the Web into ChromeOS.
Buying likes is a pointless endeavour at the best of times, and these are not the best of times to be buying likes on Facebook (maybe 2008-11 it worked?).
Legality is a signal for safety for most people. The natural gas industry, and the manufacturers of indoor gas ovens, stoves, fireplaces, etc all claim that what they sell is safe for indoor use. People have an expectation that the federal government will regulate things which are bad for us. In my opinion, they're failing miserably in this particular area.
In a similar vein, there was a chap who would appear and end your game very quickly if you stole anything from shops. However, the game let you drag items in stores 1 or 2 pixels without triggering the "crime ghost" (I forget who he was) who would end your game. Eventually we worked out you could drag an item to the door, pixel by pixel, then pick it up and run away without being caught.

I may be remembering aspects of this wrong, it was a long time ago!
It's incredibly sad that by far the best MMO experience --- indeed one could say the only game which lived up to the promise of a shared, virtual, persistent world --- was also one of the first.

It was all downhill after WoW. It was a great game, but it was precisely because it was so good that it soon hegemonised everything. Rather than being one possibility out of many, it became "the" MMORPG, in that due to its success every subsequent game copied WoW, often superficially, and maybe even sometimes accidentally. Its specific conventions became the genre itself.
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They dont do full clinical trials for yearly flu shots either...
And even with all that caution, holes have been found in Tor Browser in the past.

The fact is that software with such a huge attack surface shouldn't be the mode of interaction for Tor services.