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I agree with you 100%.
HN usually has better quality discussions than reddit (for example), but any discussion about Japan seems to have /r/anime level comments.
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ES6 is a compile target.

The actual languages are often Typescript and jsx, to say nothing of the Svelte compiler or Elm.

You can write vanilla JS without all that, of course.
With the exception of Tokyo, I absolutely LOVE Japan... As a place to visit. I would NEVER want to live/work there.
I can’t speak for the artist but I find these places quite drab because of the material choice and color. Grey/white marble, satin paint, light flooring, etc all make it dull to me. The problem I see though is to sell a unit at that those asking prices it’s not Home Depot marble or $2/f flooring it’s the crap Davis was sculpted from or whatever. That’s cool and all but yawn…
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Don’t cherry pick your favorite bits of the past. America used genocide and racial persecution to create living space. Remember when the Germans tried that using lebensraum as justification? We could have it again too if you just decide to go wipe out a less advanced race somewhere in the world and give their land to your people. It solves both your homeless problem and your need to squat on national resources at the same time.

But if you want people to be able to settle on truly unsettled land, I hear Mars is opening up soon.
What should scare you is it's becoming apparent procedures are being put in place so that when the 'computer says no' the person affected isn't given the information they need to fix the problem they have.

Banking computer closed your account. Why? We can't tell you why.

Google or Apple rejected your app from their app store. Why, won't tell you why.

Me trying to get my prescription refilled at Walgreens. Walgreens computer shows they never got it from the doctor. Doctor sent it 5 times. Turned out the computer was marking it invalid each time. Pharmacist isn't allowed to tell neither me or my doctor why.
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My current setup is coming close.

I host a public Matrix instance that offers bridges to signal, Telegramm, whatsapp and instagram. This in Addition to tge Matrix native contacts, results in a single ui wäre all my messages arrive.
I could als bridge E-Mail, but the combined inbox of k9 mail works good enough. Bonus that this works independant oft my phone.

I still miss my blackberry Bild from a Hardware perspective.
Maybe it’s a reflection of the industry as a whole? Or maybe these communities are elsewhere now.
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What I have always wanted to see is a recommendation chart, something of the form "If you like (common apple), you might like (rare apples), which are also (characteristics)." That way when I have a few unusual options in front of me, I can make better guesses as to what's going to be good.

It would also help if I knew better places to seek out unusual, fresh apples. Even here in the heart of apple country, they lie low. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
They like real buttons, lacking flat nonsense, and densely-presented functionality. I do too, so I get the impulse to resist calls for change, but agree with you that a light-touch reorganization of some of the buttons & menus, and some filing-off of wholly-unhelpful behavioral rough edges would go a long way. It’s one of those pieces of software I’m constantly nervous using, because I’ve seen it do weird, destructive things for no other reason than some piece of the UI is “quirky”.
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Who exactly is going to sign up to ally with Oracle?
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As you said, mission critical is not always treated as mission critical. Ariane 5 maidens launch failure was due to a software bug. Here some footage from the launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_yguLapgA

But then for space probes on the other hand debugging live system is a real possibility: https://medium.com/machine-words/scientific-debugging-part-3...
Condos like this aren't really marketed in public. The exclusivity is part of the draw. It took some effort for her to look the part, they won't show them to just any rando who shows up.
They can, if the public providers let them. It's a choice in that regard, since the government can simply say "we'll offer at 10% of our cost, and subsidize it with taxes", in which case you can't compete unless you're insanely more efficient than the public provider.
I love crazy shader stories!

My crazy shader story: 8 bit floats.

Back in 2007-ish, I was having a hell of a time porting a shader from my desktop to my laptop. For the most part it seemed to work but the output was all one color. That isn't particularly strange for a bug in the shader world, so I went about bisecting it and narrowed the problem down to a critical statement. The input parameters were correct, as verified by color-mapping them, but whenever I performed a division the output would fix to a single color. I could get division to work by feeding it different parameters, though, so what could be the problem?

My big break happened when I noticed that a tiny zone around the edges was outputting a different color. The calculation was happening, it was just unexpectedly almost always producing a single value due to extreme rounding. With the problem identified, it was easy enough to work around by using a scaling factor. After paging through Intel documentation I finally found the cause: the integrated graphics card supported floating point all right, but with 8 bit floats. Implicit, mind you, and there was no compiler warning. I asked for a float and it gave me a float, what's the problem? ¯\_( ツ )_/¯

I'm guessing someone tasked the Intel Integrated graphics team with supporting floating point but didn't really give them the transistor or TDP budget for it, so some evil genius noted that they never specified the bit width and cheerfully squared that circle.
Basecamp is offering severance packages for employees after policy changes
I am so tired of constantly hearing about politics at my workplace. Politics have already made their way into the tv shows, music, video games, and online forums that I enjoy. At least let me disconnect from that outrage-fuel at work. It also affects team cohesion. I can easily collaborate with just about anyone when I don’t know their political beliefs. As soon as I find out someone holds opposing views on a topic I feel strongly about, I can’t help but dread my interactions with them. I would strongly prefer to not know what my coworkers think about (most) non-work related topics.
Humans lose moisture for a variety of reasons normally, you don’t need to be sweating in order to lose it, although that obviously drives the loss rate up. You lose a ton of water through just breathing.

On your walks you’re probably burning glycogen, the carbohydrate we store in our liver and muscles for easy access energy, and exhaling a lot of water. We store about half a kilo of glycogen which is then bound up with 3-4x as much water still. While you’re not likely to consume all your glycogen in a 20km walk (you need a marathon to do it), burning a decent chunk of it on top of normal water loss isn’t an unreasonable hypothesis.
This is a really interesting moment in AI. An AI spontaneously commits a crime and engineers have to teach the AI how to obey the law.

We have the AI allegedly emitting illegal fiction and the engineers have to fix it and all they can try to do is word filters. What happens next in this story?

This reminds me of the Chinese virtual girlfriend who got neutered for saying politically illegal speech that the Chinese government objected to.

Another one, was when the Google image labeler was mistaking people for animals. That was extremely distasteful, but not illegal. Google's solution was to get rid of those labels.

Also, all the restrictions on drone activity are another thing. However the drone problem is solveable with reasonably simple rules.

Imagine if Alpha Go made a pattern that could make people have seizures or something, but most people could detect it and not do it, but nobody could make a simple rules based approach to detect it. I guess you'd need a whole nother alpha go size model to recognize that pattern perhaps?
> This attitude toward change (anti-change) comes from SF and has migrated elsewhere. NYC was the antithesis to this attitude but apparently it's not immune to this line of thinking.

NYC created the world's first zoning laws in response to a building casting shadows: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/background.page
And just by chance you decided what ‘it’ was.
I expect this to be flamewar post.

Modi administration gags news and media.

Author (Arundhati Roy) is established as “urban naxal”, supports Kashmir separatist group.
Naxal insurgency is seen as tool used to keep India destabilized.
Depends on what you’ve eaten recently. It’s pretty easy to burn fat on a hike if you go while fasting.
I certainly wouldn’t, and I’m willing to bet people like me are in the majority.

Why waste a day in a train when I can drive for way less cost and stop wherever I please or fly and get there much faster?

Not to mention that if I drive some place Im not worried about transportation locally which would, in most places in the US, require renting a car or paying for ride shares.
More recently too: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/290/work-...
article clearly states that other governments have raised similar concerns. Its not just brazil

in fact, article states brazil wasn't even the first
You ignored the part where the electron decays back to the lower energy state. The ending states are the exact same as the initial states, since the electron decays back to the lower (initial) state by emitting a photon. The photon carries away momentum, but the mass of the two particles is unchanged.
Absolutely correct - and it's not "like" the Mafia system...a lot of it is the Mafia system.
The Mafia in Japan has official office buildings and isn't illegal per se. It runs most of the entertainment sector (Movies, Music, Clubs, Concerts, Bars, Restaurants, Talent agencies, etc.) and all of the construction / real estate sector and sex industry.
And it's used by the government as a secret police force.
Most Yakuza "busts" happening in Japan are set-up for showing the outsiders (non-Japanese) that Japan is acting on organised crime. But they aren't. It's one foundation of their culture.
Thank you for dropping the "causal consistency" term. I read the wikipedia article.

So, causal consistency in this context means that 1) it does not matter if a write to object A or object B came first, because they are seen as "unrelated". This obviously allows for performance improvements over general "strong consistency" but still offers more guarantees than eventual consistency.

Second, for every "writer" (which would be a 1:1 relationship to the number of S3 objects) an amount of metadata needs to be kept in-memory for such cases where the access to an object _might_ lead to an outdated read or where an "older" write would potentially overwrite a "newer" write.

All that being said, there still is one single instance that, if it goes down, makes the whole system unavailable for the S3 objects it manages until it is replaced. So that means a lower availability compared to a solution that uses eventual consistency (like Cassandra).

Would this be equivalent to having an in-memory SQL database to store the metadata for some other system (such Cassandra) with a quick failover but still single point of failure to enhance the consistency guarantees - just more optimized/customized so that it can work with a huge system like S3?
33% of all US Covid deaths have happened in nursing homes. Those 180,000+ deaths happened across the country. Some of the earliest US deaths happened in a Seattle nursing home. Some other early death clusters happened in VA hospitals. This is a public and private national disgrace, not just a Cuomo one.

Cuomo didn't create our 'standards' for warehousing the elderly. We did that as a society.
That is a surprisingly bad take from Nate Silver, who I am usually a fan of. The fact that Florida has less excess death than the national average does not preclude systematic undercounting. One can both have lower actual deaths than average and also undercount those deaths.

And the article that I linked to quoted a study that used excess death numbers and compared those to the official counts. That is by far the best method to estimate an undercount.
Yes, it would improve discussion quality
Google save 1B a year by working from home
How does this article not bother defining what it means by a "ghost gun"? Do they just mean any gun that uses 3D-printed parts?
This seems like it would be pretty easy to check before you posted. I just did -- they aren't.
Taking "Internet Detective" to new and exotic levels.
I take issue with lumping UML and BPM together. Yes I know IBM/OMG has worked hard to make BPML an application of UML to leverage/repurpose their investment, just like UML itself was portrayed as "unifying" earlier OO and ER modelling techniques. But I don't believe it was for the better of BPM adoption. I know for sure that around 2000-2005 there was BPEL. It sure had its own problems (one being that it was criticized as not being "real" BPM, another being that devs didn't like XML and misunderstood BPEL as a programming language competing with eg Java, a further one being that it went down when the WS-* SOA death star became out of fashion). But it still was remotely successful in describing interactions between "web services" as it was called then, and would still be very useful to describe and execute interactions/integrations in today's SaaS landscape. And yes, WSDL (2001 or earlier) could describe today's idiotic "REST" interfaces squeezing every invocation parameter into URL query params for some reason (and JSON for responses) even if the consumer is neither a browser, nor does HATEOS; we've just stagnated since.
Indian Makers Respond to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Producing Oxygen Concentrators
The fact that Apollo 8 CSM flew to lunar orbit and back to Earth without any LM involvement easily defeats all your arguments.
There are driver boards out there.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272635844177
The problem in Slovakia is that the delivered vaccines are in the form of a lyophilisate (pulver), one dose per vial. The vaccine described in Lancet was in liquid form, five doses per vial.
> Wealthy people ... are most certainly not parking their money in NFTs

The comment you're replying to didn't say they were.
https://medium.com uses it. And I'm working on a little project myself which will use this way of login.

About the frequency: there aren't many situations where a user has access to your application, but not to email. I've been thinking about that, but when you have access to a browser, (most of the times) you have access to your mail.
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I haven't worked with GraphQL before, but looking at those code snippets and reading the description of the vulnerability, it seems like a mess. You're giving a client unfettered access to just... query your database? Of course you're going to get these kind of issues - that just seems obvious to me.

Getting real off-topic, but the syntax is backwards too:

` Interface Votable implemented by Adventure, Comment, Post, Scenario `

The interface lists what implements it? Reminds me of COMEFROM[0].

I dunno. Modern front-end is wild. These live code Notebook things are chaos. Spaghetti begets spaghetti.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
Haha thank you - which part stood out to you?
I think NFTs are great because they move money from the hands of the stupid&rich to the hands of artists.
> My views on some social issues, particularly 'free speech', are considered a conservative now.

By who? Rosa Luxembourg, for example, was a free speech fundamentalist, and she is still far left of many left wingers today.

Free speech is a value that is often adopted, nuanced, and discarded by political projects from all over the spectrum - and it's naive to think that one side of the spectrum has a monopoly on its defense or denigration.
Esbuild is an amazing piece of software. At recurrency.ai we had an app that took almost 5 minutes to compile on stock create-react-app setup.

We moved it to webpack and used esbuild-loader and esbuild minifier. Still using webpack because we needed less and styled-component transforms. Esbuild doesn’t support hot reloading. Also I have a lot of experience tweaking webpack so I’m sticking with it.

Our build times went down to 15-30 seconds. That’s with full minification and sourcemaps.

I did try stock esbuild and that did it in 2 seconds. Webpack adds quite a bit of overhead.

From 5 minutes to 30 seconds without breaking any user facing functionality is still a big win.

Dev loop on hot reload is 100-300ms. Just feels amazing.
The 2-bit part applies, if not the rest, and it’s not really “on disk” but rather “memory for data type,” right?

Given the nature of the questions, I presumed they were interested in knowing “how does JavaScript load strings into memory, anyway?”

And to answer that question, your rough heuristic should be “2 bytes per character” not 1, even for ascii range. That just leads to additional questions, though, because of the oddity of it.

In order to achieve the ability to do Unicode, there’s a reserved set of values within that 2-bytes, to allow you to extend the encoding to reach Unicode.

Back to the original measurement, for the string “hello world”, I believe a JavaScript `sizeof`, if it existed, would report 24 bytes (22 for the characters, and 2 (give or take) for either the NULL character or for a length header.
Bro, literally all of it. What a great piece. Down to guesstimating the tire sizes, tracking down the line width, accounting for road camber, etc. Really enjoyed this.
how is it Troll posting?
Apples own specs say 18 hours.
OP says there's no better watch.
I can’t thing of a tech market segment more in need of “disruption” by now, quite honestly.
I’m not assuming anything unhealthy. We mostly use that chat for sharing videos since MMS is basically worthless for that. But conversations stem from the videos or sometimes people grab the wrong one.

We are fairly good at using the main chat for important things. But again delivery is spotty.

Switching to another messaging infrastructure for the 10 of us is going to be a nonstarter.
"Services" doesn't solely mean "subscription services." Apple's cut of app-store app sales is "services" revenue; as are individual songs/TV shows/movies sold through iTunes. Nothing inherently wrong with those lines of business, IMHO.
Just want to say how coincidental it is to have Evan You for vite + vue, and Evan Wallace for esbuild and Figma.

Long prosper the Evans :)
The garbage trucks in Osaka were the cleanest garbage trucks I've ever seen. In fact, they were probably the cleanest trucks of any kind I've seen compared to the West.

Japan is awesome as a visitor, but there are some weird things going on. Some of the older grandpas are just straight up pervs, I think years of being subservient and closer to death, they just give up the charade. I was traveling in Japan with an ex who had large breasts and several old men would literally follow her around and stare at them with zero shame.
Parable of the Banana
>Expecting a city skyline to never change is ridiculous

"In Athens, buildings are not allowed to surpass 12 floors so as not to block the view toward the Parthenon."

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

I'd say this isn't typical of most of the world, but it's not unprecedented.
This is precisely why he should have just been honest about the numbers.
>Apple's software support for all their devices lasts much longer than the competition, and their hardware tends to last many years out of warranty. Not always of course, but this is a numbers game, and there is a robust secondary market in everything Apple makes.

An apple device with upgradeable parts would be even better for the environment. Apple's software support has no effect on the environmental impact of non upgradeable computers compared to upgradeable computers.
Perhaps I'm being overly pedantic, but "theories" are proved. When I read "theory" I assume that it has been proved. Otherwise, people should really start using "hypothesis" or "conjecture" more often.
Haha cheers! Enjoyed every moment of it (though I did spend quite a while on it all!)
I hope NFTs and crypto are a worse, and more popular, place for plutocrats to park their cash.
Context for the lazy: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07589

(Not 500 but 5000+ scientists.)
The issue with depth is 1) you can't do a direct ascent to the surface past...18m or so?...with a high level of safety, for a large number of users, and from 30m or so (the recreational limit for most programs) it's even harder, plus that's the upper bound where nitrogen narcosis starts to set in. I've done down to 40m on air which is the next limit and the point where a lot of people have more serious nitrogen narcosis. Beyond that you really should be doing decompression diving and start to be looking at different gas mixes which makes it all a lot more complex. At depths beyond >50m oxygen toxicity on air would be bad too. The current normal limit is ~56m on air, previously people have done 60-65m pretty consistently on air, and the record is probably 155m (but that is insane and almost certainly caused harm, plus had high risk).

Ascent from depth without having cavities open to equalize pressure will be a really bad deal even from 18m (and really from comparatively shallow depths like 3-6m), but that really just means breathing out at slow rate during ascent. For that it'd be explode vs. implode though :)
Our brain encodes social network structure as a physical space
Fortran has one. But not C. What hath God wrought.
That was my initial reaction to GraphQL as well, but just like a database you can do stored procedures or you can do SQL but both can still support access control if you need it.

I think it's just a function of them not really thinking too much about the potential sensitivity of the data or building an access control model into the application.
Lazy loading for card layout items and tabs → neo.mjs v2.0.10
> Once an employee has built a report with their team, knows their roll

Did you mean "rapport" and "role"? Because that sentence was a bit confusing.
Very interesting write up. Given the price of photo-finish cameras, I wonder if there’s a solution with slow motion cameras which could provide some margin for error as well as a better spectacle for viewers?
it reports that they in fact had the data they needed for the Pfizer vaccine in February. Sounds to me like it was just a communication issue between Anvisa & the Ministry.
two. billion. dollars. per. day. or $23,000 USD per second.

Mostly from advertising, some 87%. Funny to think in their initial whitepaper, Brin and Page were heavily arguing against paid (sponsored) ads in search result of a search engine, as it would skew the results to the point where people would stop using it.
Do you have any repros? So far I’ve found esbuild give the correct output.