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For personal projects I just use plain javaScript, ES5 even, without any compile steps, everything loads instantly and runs on every browser that supports JavaScript, and the development can be set up in any environment/OS without headaches.
I do use minification for production but that is not really necessary if the browser supports loading JS-script tags async (all major browsers). The bundle gets very small without any frameworks attached. Debugging is easy with the browser built in dev-tools - with small error messages that always have the correct line (eg. no source maps). I'm currently working on a 100,000+ line JS project that uses the plugin pattern with script tags and it's very manageable, adding new features is fast and fun.
There are of course trade-offs, I can't just "npm install react-x-y-z", but the browser API's are extensive, you can do just about anything on the front-end with just the native browser components and API's.
Don’t underestimate the power of left hands not knowing what the right hand is up to.

A previous employer was once sent a C&D by the lawyers of a well-known British corporation, demanding that my employer stop distributing a certain app, apparently oblivious that said corporation had paid my employer to make and distribute that app on their behalf in the first place.
A few months after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the background radiation where I lived in Anaheim, CA went from like 0.08 - 0.12usv to 0.40 - 0.70usv depending on the day.

I had a radiation detector because I lived in a historic home and was a little paranoid about things like lead, radiation, etc.

It's of course anecdotal.
I think what OP is getting at is that it's suspicious that this became a "mainstream" news story this year when it was known last year.
New York ends up being a problematic comparison point, because they were at zero restrictions until mid March 2020, so most of the infections through near the end of March were effectively a "no restrictions" test case. I.e. people testing positive late March were the highly symptomatic cases (because of limited test availability), so these were generally people infected 10+ days before, which means they were before any restrictions. Restrictions on mass gatherings happened on March 12th, but the stay-at-home order didn't happen until March 22nd.

What I'm getting at is that, if you want to use New York as a test comparison for loose vs tight restrictions, you're going to have a much deeper analysis to do, and a large portion of the deaths in New York were effectively resulting from a period when there were zero to minimal restrictions.
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I don't think they are. They are deliberate choices to not please everyone. It’s product management at its best.
Yes. A lot of fad diets and supplements work on this principle; dehydrating you appears to lose weight really quickly initially. It's not sustainable.
This is computer science, not algebra.
the correct tweet is the one where the local elected leader was targeted[1]. the leader made police run around to help the person. cops found foul play.[2]
What am I missing?

[1]https://twitter.com/elsamariedsilva/status/13867600304818954...
[2] https://twitter.com/amethipolice/status/1386982878328758273?...
Yes, I agree. But this does help people both mitigate AND move away from Google services. The main sticking point for me with Google is having all your history searchable and now it’s possible to set that up over your takeout data as you move to someone else for email, calendar etc.
This was known in March-April, when he rammed through a bill to give himself emergency powers and one that indemnified nursing home operators -- his donor base.
The problem is prosecuters have a history of seeing just how much they can get away with (just like cops, except they have the power to shoot you in the face). Your attitude is a bad one, because "they're just trying to do their jobs" has been used for centuries to advocate for the government to take more and more freedom away from citizens because it "makes their policing powers easier". I'm sure the Stasi liked it that their police powers were quite ample, but it doesn't make it right.
It depends on your target platform: ES6 modules are basically supported in every browser I care about, so the major reason for Babel is JSX
So when democrats drag zuck in front of congress and ask why he isn't banning more right wingers, no government coercion?
The final bit that locked it in for me (and someone please correct me if this is wrong) is that going to the bathroom (which what many people assume is where weight leaves the body) is actually the last stage of "energy input" to the body and doesn't really play a role in "energy output".
> Design they have gone downhill.

Ups and downs. The M1 iMac is very interesting. I am not sure I love it but it is encouraging to see some more playful design and new approaches.
Having a policy to have to extend something is proper bad already. For actors likely you need lock-free queue and much preferably a bounded one - so each message is a CAS (very likely uncontended) and there is an upper limit how much stuff can be enqueued.

I do believe there are tons of incredible horrid code (esp. when it comes to concurrency) - but most games tend to use already established engines, less likely to have glaring concurrency design blunders.
It is also interesting in that they are doing it in a seemingly un-Jobs-like manner. For example, take a look at the current models they offer for the iPhone[1]. Wikipedia lists 7 distinct models in production, that grows to 20 when factoring in storage size, and it likely balloons to over a hundred when considering different carriers and colors. Their approach is now basically "whatever your budget is, we have an iPhone for you". That seems antithetical to Jobs' traditional approach.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Models
Interesting question where TC got that information. The e-mail only states "This exposure impacted a small percentage of our customers." but no explicit percentage.

EDIT: Rereading the article helped: they received a statement from DO.
Realistically there is going to lot of pain.

Just Going to mars is not really multi planetary. The difference of few years when the first attempt takes place is not going to change much.

I am talking about a self sustaining significant colony. That is going be realistic probably only after 2150-2200.

Climate change and other problems will have huge impact but the humanity isn't going die from it.

You are right nobody would want to go mars today to live and work. To be the first sure, further science, unique experience sure, but regular people will have no interest in living there permanently.

However in 2150 earth is going to be rough enough that mars or space won't look too bad. The economics will also have low enough by then.

My point is that's real goal for life. we can be all eco friendly today, all it will go anyway with one extinction type of event , super volcano/asteroid/earth quake/.. take your pick

We need to keep that in mind, sustainability is important but not if we don't become multi planetary.

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To me it like we are fixing bugs and improving code and efficiency instead of worrying about HA. For uptime that's most important damn thing.

Users(humans) care about the bugs and issues (sustainability) , system (life) should be worried about uptime /reliability. That is lot easier with HA.

As an engineer I would prioritize developing HA/fail over and DR over fixing the bugs if I had to choose, I would only fix bugs which make the application completly unusable and user leave (die?) Until I have a solid uptime solution
It's not easy. Apple does have a consistent "spirit", but it's such a strange combination of idealism and ruthlessness that it's hard to know which aspect(s) anyone is invoking when they mention it. I don't know why that question is getting so many downvotes.
Designers design for usability. The idea that design is about "making things pretty" is on par with the idea that software development is about making computers crunch numbers.
Most people break laws every day without even knowing it.
Role reversal: If a US antivirus company's heuristic and file analysis uploaded a trove of russian zero-day exploits they are using against their adversaries, you better damn well believe they're going to hand that over to the CIA/NSA and the CIA/NSA may weaponize them against our adversaries.

When it comes to US crafted malware, I trust the Russians in detecting it and telling the world more than I would any US-based company.
not needed. if this was FSB or PSB then...
> Most nontrivial Windows program would get very confused if exposed to a trivially mapped Unix filesystem. It's not so bad if every program would use environment variables to locate stuff, but you can't discount the possibility that some of them hardcode paths. Also, application data in Windows is usually kept in a common folder, while in Unix filesystems it is usually split across `/usr/bin`, `/usr/share`, `/usr/lib` and so on.

The application data in windows would not be the same as `/usr/` paths. It would be the equivalent of `~/.config` and `~/.local`. The last thing anyone in Linux would want is for Windows to start populating their system folders, let alone probably creating hundreds of top-level folders in their `~/.config` or `~/.local` directory.

> Many Windows applications store their configuration in the registry. That part is not too bad though; it should be completely doable in userspace.

The Windows registry is an atrocious monster that should have died already. You can rarely ever truly delete an app in Windows, as there will be sometimes hundreds of registry keys leftover.

> TA is significant because it paves the way to an efficient implementation of one of these system calls.

If there is mutual benefit outside of Windows, then sure why not. If it is built just for better Wine compatibility with Windows then I hope to see a rant by Linus telling them how ridiculous they are.
The government can suggest it and they can choose to do it. No?

Censorship is censorship. No one cares about narrowly defining Freedom of Speech as conflated with the 1st Amendment except Americans .. and especially Americans who support censorship on giant monopolistic platforms.
Don't worry, media was complicit too.... because you know, orange man bad because reasons.
I can’t answer for those other issues but I’m an iPad Pro owner and I’ll say the 120Hz screen with the pencil feels absolutely magical. I think any Pro user who uses it for drawing and painting will not want to use anything else. It’s a legit professional tool. Looks like the new M1 version pushed even harder in that direction with its display and colour support.

It reminds me of Macs back in the 90’s. Very few used Windows for creative work. The MacOS had ColorSync and professionals in photography and print, publishing, etc refused to use anything but a Mac due to the need for colour accuracy in their workflows. To an outsider it may have seemed baffling as to why these computers were considered professional tools when everyone else in business was using Windows.
Precisely. I'd advise having esbuild behind Babel if you really need an specific Babel plugin, for ex:

* Transform the file using esbuild first

* Then use Babel with that one specific plugin (Loadable Components, Styled Components, Apollo, React Refresh...)

This is much faster than letting Babel do all the work.
What do they feel like for you? I’ve had a CO2 sensor in my office for a long time, and don’t think I can tell the difference between 500 and 1500ppm.
I, too, want my rocket car Mac.

But we haven’t seen what they can really do yet. The M1 sure “feels” like an iPad SoC, what with the weirdness with some of the ports and bus limitations. (External displays: little off-kilter right now in terms of limitations.)

I’m optimistic they are preparing some real firepower for a 30-inch iMac and 16-inch MacBook Pro. Or at least, I sure hope so, as I type here, looking at this damned useless OLED strip above my keyboard as my leg hairs are slowly burned away.
Pretty much... they took a pile of crap and kept adding onto it.
The most common implementation of mutexes using futex() is that the userland simply spins a while waiting to acquire the mutex (just atomic operations, no system call). After a while the userland gives up spinning and makes the system call.
> I actually would strongly support municipalities owning the last mile as part of their services, but I'm less interested in them actually providing service.

Exactly. Municipalities should run fiber to the nearest meet-me room, and license at a defined rate to anyone who wants to light up that fiber.
You're right about those user estimates and various knobs having a potentially huge effect on results. When I introduce a Monte Carlo simulation mode, I hope to be able to offer better insights into how distributions around some of these variables will impact likelihood of success. I'll also continue to look for opportunities to create smart defaults and/or links to resources that can be used to help calibrate estimates based on historical data, locality, etc. Thanks for the comment!
I assume anyone left watching 24 hour news channels is not very adept at critical thinking.
> I don't know why twitter does this.

A reality of scaring social media companies with regulatory threats.

People call for regulation and unsurprisingly their priority becomes keeping those who might regulate them happy with them.
The FB investor relations site links to the exact same URL.
> As you said there have been a few blips but I suspect those would have happened under Jobs also.

Oh yes. Jobs could be stubborn and did make mistakes every now and then. The first iMac mouse was another ergonomic and reliability disaster.
Obviously there isn't an original word in this (see the word 'template' in my comment), and indeed it makes sense to not spend a lot of time on this when you're just starting out. That's exactly why I'd recommend to just write what you actually do instead of finding huge text that isn't actually fulfilling the law. Writing up what data you process takes the time of writing a blog post where you barely have to research anything because the subject you're reporting on is yourself. Or just don't have a privacy policy (effectively the same as having one that isn't legal and doesn't say anything): saves you even more time as well as the reader.
12% more ads shown and ad price increases... so... good for facebook, bad for everyone else? I've certainly noticed that Instagram has too much ads for me nowadays and don't use it anymore (maybe once a week).
That's the whole point - the inertial and gravitational mass of the system is proportional to the total energy of the system; changes in electromagnetic potential affect the energy within and thus also the mass as far as inertia or gravity is concerned. The same applies for electrostatic potential and gravitational potential. "Rest mass" is just a form of energy - after all, the rest mass of e.g. a block of lead consists mostly of the rest mass of protons and neutrons inside, but the rest mass of those protons and neutrons does not consist of the rest mass of their components, but mostly of the binding energy between their quarks - so the block of lead weighs as much as (and because of) the stored binding energy.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5
Names from the Bible (Adam, Michael, Paul, Peter, Matthew, David, etc) were and to some degree still are quite common among Americans.
People believe all sorts of things on the basis of false memories.

You know there's a fairly large community of people that are convinced that they were abducted by aliens?

There's also a community of people that are convinced they have had a past life and know the intimate details of it. They don't suffer from schizophrenia, they literally just have false memories.

In the end it shouldn't be about what party X subjectively felt or what they felt afterwards. It should be about what party X actually portrayed and communicated at the time of the encounter. If they legitimately consented and weren't intoxicated but deep down were thinking "I don't want this", then that sucks for them but no crime was committed and the counterparty isn't culpable.

I'm talking generally, not about the specific allegation in question.
That's an interesting angle to the story I didn't think about. I'm an Iranian and Iranian rial has been extremely devalued in the last ten years. Sanctions have been effective at destroying the economy but failed to pause nuclear program. Iranian government didn't spend the $100B relief well and it's trying to get another relief or lift the sanctions altogether. I am not optimistic if cryptocurrency can help their economy in the long term.

What is apparently helping their economy is taking foreign/dual-citizens citizens as hostage to advance their stance in sanction relief talks.
I'd like to see what a 'recovered' Apple can do when a 'not recovered' version has just sold almost $90bn of products in a quarter.
Yes, Florida focused their resources on protecting their elderly population and didn't implement broad lockdowns of people who weren't sick or at-risk. Their per-capita results are better than NY, CA and many other states.

Sweden also deserves credit for getting the public health policy right. They had the right plan but have admitted they could have done better in some of the early execution phase around protecting elder facilities. 7
CISA Releases Second Graphic Novel to Combat Disinformation
"We don't offer stripped down lousy products"

14 years later: base iMac has two ports (three more + ethernet will cost you $200).

Not that it's lousy, but it's definitely stripped down.
That's not what "cancelling" is. That's actual harassment and as you noted it's illegal, and people can and do face criminal charges for it.

Cancelling in the way it's being used colloquially is equivilant to "consequences." The vast majority of it takes the form of social media denouncement, boycott attempts, and phone calls stating displeasure with the situation.

The small % of threats and violence are generally the strawman used to denounce the entire concept (which again, is simply the call for someone to face the consequences of their actions)... and generally aren't what people who are inciting someone's "cancellation" are calling for.

If what you're saying was true, there'd be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people being charged with harassment and criminal threat as a result of "cancel culture"... and there's no evidence of that happening, it's a few outliers just like anything else.
Just a guess: Probably the CDN for Q4, which would make sense, as they’re an investor relations company. https://www.q4inc.com/
Their customers are shareholders and consumers are just a product. They'll do whatever it takes to provide value for their customers. It's like turning capitalism on its head and that should be stopped.
> 8% YoY user growth and 46% YoY revenue growth

Curious how well understood the mechanics are of this. I've been fascinated by how clever the whole model works. They know revenue growth needs to outpace their ability to increase available ad space (so user growth or attention growth). So they are heavily reliant on data to improve ad targeting so they can drive more conversion per ad impression.

The power of the ad auction model is that 100% of the improved efficiency of ad targeting is translated to revenue for Facebook. Advertisers will pay $X for a conversion in their ROI calculations - so Facebook will get the maximum amount the market will pay a certain for a given conversion. Advertisers are actually a little worst off as targeting gets better - the conversion cost stays the same and the number of impressions goes down.

To keep growing revenue at this pace, Facebook needs to continually feed the beast with better and better data so they can squeeze more and more conversions out of their existing ad space.

The only other two ways to grow revenue is more users and more time from users. Which is getting tougher and tougher. That's why this Apple fight is so important to Facebook - it's really their lifeblood right now.
You just type them with square brackets, like this [0]. There's no feature [1] involved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_feature
> Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.88 billion on average for March 2021, an increase
of 8% year-over-year.

> Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 2.85 billion as of March 31, 2021, an increase of
10% year-over-year.

Let this be another sign that Facebook's demise is greatly exaggerated: their daily & monthly active user counts are _still growing_ ... and by non-trivial amounts.

Almost _2 billion_ people visit Facebook at least once _daily_ .... that's mind-blowing.

Yes, I know: the common HN refrain is "how many are fake / bot accounts?" etc. etc. Until that's proven to be a real problem, which would lead to significant lawsuits for misleading shareholders, I will lean on the hypothesis that the significant majority of this growth is "real."

You can play "chicken little" all you want and say "Facebook will go away just like MySpace," but doubters should be sweating right now, as the numbers refuse to show that.
This doesn't seem that puzzling to me. It only happens to work because all the debt in the whole town just so happened to form a perfect cycle, or equivalently (I think), everyone in town was owed the exact same amount that they owed. That seems exceedingly unlikely to occur and thus doesn't lead me directly to any conclusions about the absurdity of the real economy.
yeah its a code base millions of years old consisting of spaghetti code with no comments written in a turring tarpit of a language that compiles directly to hardware with ridiculous compile times
Runaway success is exaggerated - those watches were not the coolest thing in the world when they came out (and they looked the same as the current models). They gained more traction as the health features got buffed up and Apple stopped marketing the watch as primarily a notification device.

I don't think that any of this is due to the design either.
Total daily users increased 8% but ad revenue improved 46% because of competition for ad slots. This is because FB targeting works really well, better than any other attention based ad channel. 90% of major ad spenders on FB nowadays are very direct response, ROI based marketing orgs, and they spend where the results are.
No because it's just a friendly suggestion, kind of like the Indian government.

Bottom line: Silicon Valley techies often suffer from a lack of education in civic matters and liberal democratic values in particular. They believe as long as Bad People have their, here's another term they often use, megaphones, taken away, then ethically it's a thumbs up.

The lack of civic education and historical education becomes evident when you ask them, OK, you support censorship and cleansing misinformation: now who decides?
You mean like this? [1]

1. https://something.somewhere.org

Just type it out. There's no magic. You can put them inline (which I prefer) but if they're in the middle rather than at the end of a paragraph it's harder to read.
For those interested, there are other volunteer-run mesh ISPs in other cities in the US and in the world: https://jointhemesh.net/#!/list

(There might be a better list somewhere else as well)
You say this like it's a good thing.
I was updating my post accordingly: https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2021/F... links to it.

I'm still curious, but less concerned. They appear to use Cloudflare, AWS for DNS, and registered through Godaddy. I just haven't figured out who runs it. I wouldn't be surprised if it if were via business wire, but I'm surprised it's hard to find out. Multiple companys' IR teams seem to use it based on some cursory querying.
So fundamentally correct?