skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The standing field in a massive 60Hz transformer also necessitates robust inrush protection. With a transformer across the mains, losing the input power momentarily can cause a huge surge current when the input is reapplied. With the bridge and filter first, the inrush from being momentarily switched off won't be severe.
I think it‘s the system working as intended. The EU is an international organization whose members are fully sovereign states.

Unless you want the EU to be a super state that can bully it‘s members with a mere 51% of the vote? The EU would fall apart then.
I would be pretty shocked if Facebook was not doing this.

It’s probably done on the device, with suspicious links and media sent to the servers for further inspection.

We are also sure some of their engineers worked on methods to detect bypasses on the checks.

It’s a leak of data and metadata, a privacy invasion for sure, but not comparable to a MITM.
But minsk wasn't the nearest airport and there are reports of a fighter jet scrambling about.
There were also no civilians on the plane - which by most measures takes it to a different and altogether darker level.
Where can the zap DB be used?
If you make an app as a hobby $99/year is quite a lot to distribute something you probably won't make much if any money off of.
To be fair, there were mild protests when US did it. And it was a truly big deal at the time since there was another government official involved IIRC.
The first thing that comes to mind is its c++ implementation, which sets it far far apart from the java project you mentioned
(not the person you asked) I opted to have one done (out of pocket) when I was doing an unrelated blood test, since I had gotten sick around the time COVID started to be an issue in my area. It's just a matter of checking an additional checkbox on the lab request (if you have the blood taken at a lab) or asking your doctor "hey, can you please also check box X" if the sample is taken at a doctor. Would have definitely stuck to the bare minimum of government-mandated precautions if it had been positive.
Misleading title, the study didn't demonstrate anything about the amount of brain activity, but the locale of brain activity. From the study;

> Players who were successful under pressure showed most of their activity in the motor cortex of the brain. This is the part of the brain active during movement.

> Players who were unsuccessful showed elevated activity in the pre-frontal cortex and left temporal cortex areas of the brain.

If anything, this demonstrates the difference between "computational cognition" vs "embodied cognition", latter being more adaptive in this particular task.

That said, I find the explanation of the researchers dubious; we don't know if doing prefrontal computation is hampering motor performance or it is simply trying to compensate a deficiency in the procedural knowledge of the player. Considering the fact that half of the participants were selected from inexperienced players, and the average participant age was around 22, the latter is the more likely explanation.
Wouldn't it increase your odds of a raise/bonus, if you're valued by your current company?
Sure if words don’t have meaning then there’s no difference here.

In Snowden’s case they knew that Snowden could not leave Russia, without being detained and potentially extradited. If Snowden was extradited he would be tried and go to prison, probably. Snowden of course shared state secrets, an act he knew was illegal.

The activist organized protests and his plane was hijacked without prior notice. And now he will likely be executed, for organizing peaceful protests.

Grow up.
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
Similar incident: On October 21, 2016, Belavia flight B2-840 from Kyiv to Minsk (of all places) was told to immediately return to the departure airport, or fighter jets would be scrambled [1]. They were only 50km from their destination country's airspace. After the plane landed in Kyiv, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies escorted a passenger off the plane.

Not quite the same, of course (no third-party country involved and passenger in question was released shortly thereafter), but forcing commercial airliners to land seems to be somewhat more common than I thought.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/378383.html
Gestures around at almost everything.

Cleaning products, anaesthesia, electrical goods, microwaves, internal combustion engines, skyscrapers, hydrogenated vegetable oil and other such ingredients, fire retardant in furniture, blockchains, cryptography, smoke detectors, x-rays, coronary bypass surgery, bridges, hydraulics, reservoirs, water treatment plants, refridgerators. Would you say the people who understand them in some meaningful way is >50% of the people who use/benefit from them them?

If people see others doing something, we assume it must be okay to do. If we see others selling something, we assume it must be okay to buy and use. We default to yes (pretty trusting), unless it's proven otherwise strongly enough to be banned.
Did the stackoverflow architecture change significantly from this series of posts? (seems to mentioning 2016-2019) [1]
The article mentions a rewrite, but it wasn't very specific on the scope of the rewrite, and what kind of stack they are using now.

I thought they were running their own farm with most of the action on IIS with ASP.net and MSSQL, and some elasticsearch for search.

[1] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Not allowing transit into and through your airspace is not exactly the same thing as allowing transit into your airspace then forcing them down in your country.
For me, vsauce exists in the mental zone I have assigned to things that are clickbaity popular science. Sort of the same place as the "I fucking love science" network. Likewise, I've never actually seen a single video, so I suppose it's possible that I'm just inferring that it's bad on the basis of the fact that it's popular. I don't know that I've ever seen a really good Youtube channel with more than a few million subscribers: to be that popular, you have to paint with too broad a brush. Even 3Blue1Brown has fewer than 4 million.
Here's what happens (the same thing happened with Ddoc, the documentation generator build in to the compiler).

Before Ddoc, there were documentation generators like DOxygen, a third party tool. Doxygen was a fine documentation generator, with lots of great features. The trouble was, it was a third party tool:

1. There were other documentation generators, all different.

2. People would install D, and not have a documentation generator. They'd have to do research, pick one, and install it.

3. The third party tool may not work that well with D.

4. The third party tool may be out of sync with the version of D that the user is doing.

5. The third party tool always comes with a large and intimidating manual.

The end result was, maybe 1% of D users used a documentation generator. 10% wrote documentation as a separate file. 89% just wrote zero documentation at all.

Even worse, the 10% documentation rarely matched what the function actually did. In fact, sometimes it was unrecognizable.

This was the state of, for example, the D runtime library documentation. All of it was either totally wrong, out of date, or missing entirely.

Enter Ddoc. Yes, Ddoc is inferior to DOxygen. But every D user now has a documentation already installed, and a perfect match for the version of D they have. Now writing documentation becomes trivial, as Ddoc can read the function headers. When one modifies the function, it's trivial to fix the documentation, as it's right there. When submitting a pull request, the reviewer goes "where's the documentation".

The result was a night and day difference. Suddenly the Phobos documentation was all there, and accurate.

The same effect happened with builtin unittests. Sure, D's builtin unittest framework isn't as good as advanced third party testing frameworks. But it's always there, and always works, and the difference in results is stunning. Take a look at the Phobos source code - half of it is unittests.
I haven't gotten any feedback on my github stuff (which isn't quite useless, just not useful to many), but it's pretty easy to ignore feedback in general, and it's not too hard to turn off issues; not sure if you can turn off pull requests though.
Let’s say you were a foreign actor who wanted to disrupt Belarus. Calling in a bomb threat of this kind would be a pretty smart way to do it.

Of course, it could be much more straightforward than that (it could just be that Belarus did this for their own reasons). But it’s interesting to think about.
I had purchased a set of 10 earbuds for $10 or something. They were horrible, like really bad with muffled sound. It had a card that if I post a review they’ll give me $15 gift card.

I wrote a review with how bad they were and also made a note of the $15 gift card offer. Last I checked my review was not deleted and it was available. I don’t think it made any difference though since the product is full of 5-star reviews claiming they are audiophile quality earbuds.

Just curious if you had also reviewed the hub or just that it had a gift card offer?
The web push notification restriction is exactly what makes people create quick and dirty websites in a native wrapper.

Let websites be websites. If you cripple them without a good technical reason then they become exactly the sort of app you're complaining about.
You could just grab an image from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
It's not a "good deal" in any case....

The minimum purchase price on iOS is $0.99, so at worst you'd be paying basically the same rate (~30%).

But most payment processors offer separate pricing for micro-transactions (e.g. Paypal is 5% + $0.05 IIRC). Which works out at around 10% for a $0.99 transaction.

And actually - Adyen offer much better pricing than the "Stripe rate" of $0.30 + 2.9% in the first place.
yeah not exactly the same, but worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
LZ77 is basically the "scaffolding" for every compression method that uses symmetric compressor and decompressors to replicate state so you don't need to transmit it. So the moment you add a function on top that does more complex prediction than copying from the existing stream, you have a general framework that is far more powerful than basic LZ77.

NNCP is such an algorithm on top of that general idea.
"Longest car in the world at 20m. 2m car, 18m smoke"
Have you been actually paying attention to the actual right to repair content? It is still relatively Apple heavy, because that's his business, but he's had medical device repair people on, and he's talked about the much broader scope of the issue basically every single time. I'm very confused by this criticism tbh.
What does Termius offer that Panic’s Prompt doesn’t? One-time fee and Panic make some of the best software I’ve used on Apple devices.
In San Francisco, Walgreens is responsible for providing their own security force, so they decided to stop operating there.

Companies that can't secure their operations can hire others, like Shopify, Paypal, etc to conduct online operations for them. We've all heard the many stories of professionals making security recommendations and being overruled. If you don't want to invest in security, then don't have valuable data in computers connected to the Internet. Experian exposed our data and faced basically zero consequences, so I don't have any sympathy.
Just because a previous intervention was ill advised does not mean a later one was; quite the opposite; you could even consider it taking responsibility for damage caused.

It's clearly not disingenuous to include the 2014 intervention in the list of the more reasonable ones.

I mean, if you present it as somehow excusing the earlier mistake; that'd be a different issue.
Wasn't really my experience. Besides, github have tons of useful smaller projects that either don't have any issues filed by strangers or have them while author happily ignores those.You have make something pretty big to have big enough community for it to cause issues.

And if that really bothers you, you can turn off issues in github.
First of all, I don't want to have to download a different store every time a big app decides that they're too big for the App Store, a la that EA piece Origin, the Epic Store, the Curse Launcher - or whatever it's called this month - and the Ubisoft Store, all competing with Steam. I just want 1 and no more. That's the best user experience.

Second, I shouldn't have to remind you how well competing regulators worked for the financial sector

Basically, I think something needs doing, but this ain't it. Maybe Apple need their cut cut. They make enough damn money. You could take their cut down to 5% and they'd still be raking it in by the truckload
Either could happen. Normally the choice to reveal this information is up to the employee, not some other company.
> This is exactly what Belarus just did.

No it's not?!
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Apple's corporate charter is pretty simple: keep the girl with the hammer from getting too close to the screen.

Yes, they won important victories against the cellular carriers -- victories that we all continue to benefit from -- but let's not kid ourselves regarding why they fought those battles in the first place. They didn't just set out to defeat the incumbent gatekeepers, they set out to become them.
> But charging them simply because they make money while on a device that an end-user owns?

What Apple are trying to do is to make back the CapEx of developing the OS frameworks developers are relying upon. Those frameworks often make up a non-negligible fraction of an app's USP, i.e. they're partly why the developer is making money.

Apple see whatever slice of market value their OS frameworks added to the developer's product, as morally being their money. Whether there's a legal/contractual framework in place to grab that money or not, they feel like they should be pursuing it.

Compare and contrast: music producers sampling some other IP-holder's work. You'd expect, as a producer, that if half of your song was just sampled from another particular song, then 50% of the revenue of your song would be morally owed to the IP-holder of the other song.

And also, if you had a contract with the IP-holder that paid less than 50% out to them, that'd certainly be legal, but you'd also likely feel that it'd be you getting one up on them — you'd be coming away with more margin than you "deserve", and them with less than they "deserve", given the amount of work each of you put into the final product.

Apple thinks that they "deserve" 10–30% of the value App Store apps capture, because they do 10–30% of the work in making every App Store app (in advance, by building frameworks.) It's not about how the app wants to capture that value, any more than income taxes are about how you make money. They're both about the fact that you did make the money, and the 'infrastructural substrate' that 'invested' in you to help you make that money, wants what it sees as its implicit preferred-shareholder-dividend for that 'investment'.
There is a lot they could do but the question is what they are willing to do. Right now they only appear willing to "object loudly" which they know will accomplish nothing.

If they really want to get this guy released and set a deterring precedent they would start playing hardball, which could include things like:

* Deny Belarus aircraft the right transit anywhere in the EU.

* Do so while some Belarus aircraft are on the ground in the EU and don't allow them to leave. This effectively holds those planes hostage as a bargaining chip, though it's really leverage on the Belarus airlines (and the planes themselves are probably leased). But it still creates problems for the regime.

* Refuse to allow the transit of any Belarus top officials anywhere in the EU. Start expanding this list daily to include more people and their direct families and make the directive permanent until the guy is released. Once you get the spouses of a couple dozen of the top people in the regime contemplating spending the rest of their lives without Italian vacations or Parisian shopping - much less just being able to go anywhere other than Russia - you're starting to cause some hard conversations about how much making an example of this guy is really worth.

Sadly, I doubt the EU will do any of this type of stuff but barring that, there's really no incremental cost to Belarus, nothing will happen and this guy is screwed.
Please, do share a “number” of sources, that was my question: where are you getting the info you’re using to speculate? From my own sources (Google search), it seems like you might be exaggerating.

What is your point is about the YT revenue vs the repair revenue? Why do you assume they’re separate things? Maybe the YT channel is marketing for the repair business, and both operate as a single entity? Highly monetized YT channels frequently require a staff to maintain, to do filming and editing, writing and research, marketing and SEO, not to mention the time investment to produce a lot of content. How do you know what’s involved behind the scenes of this particular channel? Why are you certain the expenses are negligible and don’t involve employees? People just baselessly assuming YT vids are easy and cheap is one of the reasons so few people make money on YT, and so many people share myths about who’s getting lucky and by how much.
It uncovered international political coercion to catch dissidents and that sets a much more troubling precedents.
Zap DB was built with intention of having a reliable storage for Slack/Discord bots and essentially replace JSON blobs.
I actually agree. The EU really doesn't like the politics of Hungary and Poland (which can be understood), but the system is working as intended.
They already tried to do a runaround when Poland and Hungary threatened to veto a Covid recovery fund - basically, just set it up anyway for the rest of the 25 as a side deal that wouldn't involve the two and they wouldn't get any funds. In the end Poland and Hungary acquiesced, yet in a petty dictatorial fashion claimed they had won by forcing the EU to include them.
> Maybe Greenpeace would argue that we’re already endangering the biosphere a bit with selective breeding, and going any faster would dramatically increase the danger.

This is an interesting point. The practice of using GMOs, including the broad category of selective breeding, could ultimately lead to much less biodiversity which is, at best, not fully understood by us, but seems to be quite bad for life.
The article is interesting and well-written, but the author's initial in the sticky navbar difficults the reading. I hope that he notices that, but then again many people pay for an online journal and have a worse reading experience, so it's not that bad.
Risk of Covid is now low – it's time to stop living in fear: doctor
That is very clearly not what happened.
> the approach rust takes

Quite a lot of D's innovative features have become standard in other languages as well. For example, there was an overlooked feature in Ada that I always liked:

int i = 1_000_000;
int phone = 214_222_1234;

I.e. _ can be inserted in numeric literals to make them easier to read. After D did popularized this, this feature started appearing in other languages.

Other such features include ranges, and staticif. Even static assert.
I've been guilty of doing this to my German friends, as well, but it's because I consider their English almost native level. It's the same to me as pointing out to a Texan that I find their pronunciation funny. In a strange way it's a compliment to them, but after reading your post I will remember to be more thoughtful about how things like that could be perceived.
I think if you drill down on many (all?) anti-GMO arguments you will find the evidence for them really isn't there. It's remarkable how the whole ideological edifice is built on nothing.
15 years ago I worked with integrating services via IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Big companies needed help mapping EDIFACT messages to/from other formats. Interesting at first, mapping hell after a while.
Quite interesting format, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT
And message specs https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d20b/trmd/trmdi2.htm

USA use X12, similar thing.
Two great articles, Ken!
I am not sure I see the contradiction here at all. If the two issues are related, it is in a very tangential manner. I mean no offense, but it sounds like a talking points and not like an actual argument.
Don't miss this one: Tech Ingredients - https://www.youtube.com/user/TechIngredients
Plotting the World in Racket
"Landing windows"?

Why are you straining so hard to give this criminal act plausible deniability?

You can easily look up the track of the aircraft. There is no "tailwind" that would have made Minsk the shorter flight.
Denied to cross airspace is worse than being forced to land at gunpoint?
I'm thinking Heroku. The experiences I've heard from developers writing for them has been super positive.
any plans for a self-hosted version?
I heard this a long time ago, and it has always struck me as nonsense. Sure, mindgames are useful, but for elite athletes technique is second nature. In soccer, you're better off telling someone their sister is a whore (ie Materazzi to Zidane), kicking them in the heels, or exaggerating contact. Maybe complementing someone works better in individual sports like golf or tennis, but even then I think it would only work on the naive. I've gotten compliments in the middle of soccer games, and I usually laugh them off. I can't imagine being fooled with that sort of amateurish tactic.
> how exactly do you render the text with the GPU?

This library uses a prebaked SDF texture.

https://github.com/wwwtyro/candygraph/blob/master/src/assets...

> On top of that, how does that interact with the browser? Can the browser still select the font (size) of the rendered text? Can the user select it for copying?

No.
Apple didn't spark the switching power supply revolution, as Steve Jobs claimed
Thanks a lot for the resources.
What some call working as intended, others look on, and say 'broken by design'.

What's even the point of issuing rulings that can be ignored by the collusion of two out of 27 members?
Not mainstream; it's a niche hobby. Most people have never heard of it, and you won't encounter anyone on the street chatting about the latest demoscene developments. You won't find TV shows about it nor regional clubs dedicated to it. While it is an art, no artist makes their living doing it. It's also not the most accessible since there's some technical skill required.
In Sweden it's pretty good I would say. Of course there are companies and industries that have bad life/work balance, but in general that's not the case, imo.
Hi! You're the second person who asks about this :)
For now I am focussing on the hosted version but I will consider a self hosted option at some point.
A general state rollback technique for C++
The EU is a very interesting thing to watch as an American because the EU has parallels to our Federal Government in scope, but is almost like an alternate history where States had the right to secede and retained nationhood unlike our states.

Also, if the political tensions in our nation continue to increase and don't stop, I would not be surprised in a decade from now if we start talking about replacing the Federal Government with a more EU-like arrangement.
We're having three friends over for dinner tonight. All of us have gotten our second vaccines weeks ago. None of us are ill.

My wife says we're eating outside and the guests won't even come in the house except to use the bathroom. I don't understand -- what was the point of vaccination, then? Why are we living in fear? At some point, we have to just bite the bullet and get back to normal, in my opinion.
This thread is literally about them caring, tho.