skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For concrete buildings that matter, stainless steel rebar is the way to go. Epoxy covered mild steel rebar turned out not to hold up. But it took several decades to figure that out. Stainless coated mild steel does not work, either.
sorry, at what point do we have to watch this guy bully an ex intern and be OK with it? your example does not make sense and frankly you should probably not structure arguments in this way. its good for making people feel like they are wrong, its not good for convincing anyone you are right.
I've been in that! :-)

Was way past its prime, and smelled like human excrement.

But yeah that was a loooong time ago.
I'm not saying they should regulate price, just that they are a pretty significant barrier to entry, cost a lot of American lives through inaction, and seem to miss and even endorse plenty of dangerous drugs anyway.
Unwilligness to pay for developer tools or desktop software is what made me gave up and just focus on Apple, Google, and Microsoft platforms.

I rather work for ecosystems where customers see a value that developers keep their job.
Can someone explain simply why it is supposed to be so hard to track ransomware bitcoin payments, if all bitcoin transactions are in a shared public ledger?

If the victim pays someone we know which account it goes to, right? Then we know that account is criminal.

If bitcoins move from that account to other accounts we know that accounts that receive them are essentially "hiding stolen goods". So they are criminal accounts as well.

Then at some point they want to get dollars, and FBI can catch them by following where the dollars were sent. No?
What country are you talking about?

The best way to get more time off is contracting instead of being salaried. You don't need to ask for less money, so it's a simpler transaction to negotiate.
We're just rolling our eyes that people actually believe that the full control apple wants over their products has anything to do with security.

It's the most profitable course of action, that's all there is to it.

But to address your question: if apple allowed other stores, they could be significantly more picky about what's allowed on their store. This would consequently increase the security for people only using the official store.

This is obviously a no-go however, as that would be less profitable then the current situation.
This seems to be a project that was derived from or a fork of Morphic.js, which in turn was inspired by the Smalltalk-based Squeak: https://squeak.org/
This is not how it generally works, I would say. It is more about how much you pay Google and how good your page is. I worked with several SEO experts and none of them suggested scams like this. The risk of doing something like this is too high for many companies.
Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not.

The title is not misleading. It's incomplete, as titles are by nature. Titles are not supposed to include all caveats and modifications. The title also doesn't say that the decline is measured in dollars. Probably the price has dropped much less or much more when measured in other currencies that have moved relative to the dollar. The title also doesn't mention whether it's adjusted for inflation. It also doesn't specify whether that's the price at the consumer level or the price paid by manufacturers. Whether it's when you buy the battery in America or somewhere else on the planet.

As long as a title doesn't deliberately seek to mislead, it's not misleading. The intended audience expected this to be about lithium ion batteries.
Trying to study textbooks effectively: a year of experimentation
Yes but. Seeing the eye rolls one gets 'just' talking about proving properties on one's code... Might wanna start 'soft'...
I agreed with you up until the last paragraph. Generating data that cannot be told apart from any real data, cave ins and all, is probably one area where this can succeed.

Your other comment about picking the horizon of interest is really on point, that's where automated interpretation as it's been buzzworded to hell to date as had had no chance and has never lived up to how it was pitched. Many tools just made the problem worse.

That fact that this might change in some distant future, well it may be solved in some capacity but is it really worth the effort? Given that exploration has a limited future.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner works reasonably well for me - at least on motherboards with removable BIOS chips.
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> The resolution is still too low. It does not compare to even having 1080p displays. It is almost like having multiple 720p 40" displays

Surely this is the killer for using VR in this way, we can move our eyeballs to concentrate on sections of 2K or 4K physical monitors. Apples retina displays correspond to resolutions of 60PPD at a foot distance which only the most expensive headsets have (like Varjo) but with a much narrower fields of view
Just like a couple of street musicians happen to hit gold, the large majority doesn't.
Socrates’ Examined Life
I would use it where I don’t have full control over the document structure (for example where my checkbox can’t sibling select because something third party wraps it in a div).
Or even foreign state actors
When enough money is at stake, it may become near impossible to deny a buyer, no matter what the founders initially thought.
To be honest it's not really "Android development on iPad", but more like "Android development with iPad".

This setup doesn't work if you, for example, are not connected to your computer running IntelliJ.

I'm not saying that it's bad, I'm just pointing out the fact that you still have a dependency which makes it kind of meh. You could probably achieve something similar (although in lower quality) with VNC
Randomware attacks on energy (oil and potentially electric grid) and hospitals. And that's only what we've seen so far.
I think this is the first time I hear of somebody bringing up the negative past of their family so directly.

If I may ask, how did this influence you and/or your relationship with your grandmother?
> it's unethical to cross in copying a former employer's product (if you don't believe that, you can stop reading now, because no argument will convince you)

I've upvoted your comment for the value of your perspective and information about your own history with replit predating CodeAcademy, and I appreciate that lots of us feel protective of our ideas and the capacity to benefit from the work we put into executing on them.

But... "no argument will convince you?" While it's sometimes true that people hold positions they didn't reason themselves into and can't be reasoned out of, I've found "no argument will convince you" is often indicative of the fact that the speaker considers their position a prima facie reality, which is another way of saying they didn't reason themselves into it either, and therefore may also be underappreciating the merits of a countercase. Or, perhaps as common, they've abandoned the merits altogether and are attempting to narrate themselves or an audience through a lowering of status of those who disagree.

There are real questions about what a knowledge worker has a right to take with them after they leave, and you'd probably find lots of people are amenable to the idea that an employer has some legitimate claims. If it's true that this project "copied even unique, invisible aspects of Replit's architecture that I consider to be flaws" then maybe that might even persuade people if those don't look like natural decisions for the domain, appear to involve some novel problem solving, and/or weren't made public.

But the person on the other side of the argument:

(a) clearly didn't think they were doing anything they needed to hide from you

(b) has already outlined why they thought all their technical decisions were either not unique or influenced by things you'd made public when you made it clear you felt badly treated

(c) sure seemed to be making shows of good faith vs being met with threats of using capital to fund an aggressive legal response.

Those might be the reasons why many here are taking a critical posture (vs, say, reflexively siding with an open source project).

You may find you don't care if you can persuade those who disagree you. Sometimes that's a wise course. You may even exercise the privilege to take this to litigation. But if you really feel your opposition is in the wrong here and want to make a winning case either socially or legally then you're probably going to have to engage some of those points on a more compelling basis.
Looks like it's inspired by squeak. All that is old is new again...
That's not entirely true. Bitcoin is neither anonymous nor untraceable. governments however can't control it. They can only observe what's happening on the chain. Hope that helps.
What they value is the users, not the platform as such.
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> But this is an odd accusation to level against the country that played a foundational role in developing, distributing and administering highly-effective and novel Covid vaccines to a world-leading fraction of its population.

Get your story straight.

Obama/Fauci funded the development of corona, and Trump funded the vaccines.
Food for thought: Telegram estimated costs for 2021 based on 675 million monthly active users (MAU) are $220 Million. Yet, the app is somehow free to use. Where does the money to cover the costs come from?
In "All Quiet on the Western Front" I recall one of the characters teachers encouraging the young kids to go... Did your teacher preach about the glory of fighting for freedom in Iraq?

Reading wikipedia it seems when the book came out it was critically received by some for "it's pacifists agenda".

Sure, we still glorify warfare, but our culture and tolerance for casualties have changed dramatically.
Maybe... Google Duo works in Firefox (and even Opera) though.

Important: Google Duo is available on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

Source: https://support.google.com/duo/answer/6386089
This is fantastic. I added this example to the post. Thanks!
I don't think it's possible to know who wants what or who even contributes to such a decision today, much less who will in the future.
1, but this is exactly the point. Use them for netflix not to coordinate heroin sales.
That's why for certain things Google is useless. Have to add certain keywords to avoid the SEO content to get comparisons, reviews, forums.

One day Google may introduce multiple search rankings, where one of them is SEO and another is the "useful things". But I don't hold my breath.
Semi-related rant : I'm baffled that most AA batteries don't display their capacity. It's literally the most important spec. Models vary between 400 and 3400 mAh!
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Well, because it is not a fancy text editor but a full featured IDE that indexes everything for fast code navigation down the road.
For what it's worth: some do. Signal (and Wickr) are used extensively.
async/await are trivial to understand and use.

Anything Rx beyond the simplest of examples? Nope.
Yeah, looks like they removed it.
"as long as we’re okay with having a single leader, and are fine with last-write-wins kind of semantics, we can drastically simplify this and just facts are enough"

It's not a direct reference to CfRDTs or operational transforms. They're not wrong that last-write-wins is easiest to implement, but some applications it doesn't quite cut it.
Doing their taxes okay, but representing them in court with the goal to free them is the purpose of the justice system...
I'm not installing an exe from someone who doesn't respect me/his readers enough, or doesn't have enough care to use capital letters.
What is great is that things like Pypi and NPM all have packages that require the creation of such files, locking out windows from ever mirroring them.
> Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not.

Lithium-Ion were not in widespread use 30 years ago. So if we are just considering the price of Lithium-Ion, that would be the price from the first commercial product, which I expect was expensive for the time (it dropped in price around 30% in just a few years).

I read the title and thought it was battery capacity/$, not Lithium-Ion specifically.
Yes, it is very sad that instead of embracing various implementations this has gone down the path of feuds and political wars.
Are you kidding? China is putting people in camps and annexing their neighbors.
"Randomware" sounds much more fun. Like Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, but for software. :-)
SQL is a very useful language for getting data from various database. But troubleshooting is a very hard work. This book is a guide to perform the best practice on this way.
> I find it hard to reconcile these goals with the language you created: Monads, applicatives etc

You know, I've never understood the the "Monad is hard" meme. Monad isn't hard. Functor is hard. Like, really hard, especially when you consider contravariance and covariance. Monad is like a tiny little teaspoon of hard on top of the swimming pool of Functor hard.

But does any of that complexity prevent you from calling `Option::map` in Rust or `Array.prototype.map` in JS? Or from seeing the pattern between them?

"I have an A and a function A -> B, so I can make a B."

"I have a List A and a function A -> B, so I can make an List B."

"I have an Option A and a function A -> B, so I can make an Option B."

"I have an F A and a function A -> B, so I can make an F B."

Is that too steep of a hill for people? I don't think so. It may not be intuitive, but neither is learning to read and write, and it turns out that virtually everyone can do that with enough practice.

Yatima is not an intuitive language, but it is very simple, whereas a language like
Python is much more intuitive, but vastly more complicated. My take is that the former set of properties makes for a more learnable system than the latter. Maybe I'm wrong on that, who knows, but to me it seems like a thesis worth exploring.

> And you need corporations to build the device you are currently using to reply. We do our jobs on the shoulder of giants. Thousands of corporations in a world-wide link that provide the necessary resources and know-how to build computers. Not sure how that rhymes with "computing should belong to individual users".

I appreciate the intricate dance of capital behind making the devices we're communicating on. That is not what I'm talking about when I say "computing should belong to individuals rather than corporations." I simply mean that users should have control and agency of what they do on the computing instruments they buy, in the same way they have control and agency of what they do with the writing instruments, or musical instruments they buy.

Or in concrete terms, I have nothing against Apple selling me an iPhone, great piece of hardware. But I do think that once I buy the phone, it's mine and I should be able to run what I want on it, without the phone telling Apple what I'm doing. It's a question of mental autonomy and integrity; I'm extending my mind through the device, so if Apple controls the phone it's like they control a piece of my mind.

For a programming language this philosophy informs a lot of decisions, particularly regarding build system servers. Consider for example that in JS npm is owned by Microsoft, whereas in Rust crates.io is owned by the Rust Foundation. I think the latter is better than the former. But I think the way Yatima's package management works over the decentralized IPFS network is better than either.
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> Never ever.

Design and business are not absolute truth.
The FBI doesn't have access to every Bitcoin exchange. There are exchanges in other countries that let you trade anonymously, either into fiat or other cryptocurrencies.
"You don't need to remind you the essence of competition is
always been quite simple, any kid working in a garage
anywhere in the world with a good idea can put us out
of business".

Harassing independent developers working is an important component of the Antitrust plot. And that's what the replit guy is doing.

Milo: It would be open source, we offer it free to
everybody, just charge for tech support.

Gary: Wow, free.
It's a cut-throat business we're in Milo.
It's just a matter of time before someone borrows your
technology, improves it and makes a billion dollars on it.
What would you do with a billion dollars Milo?
...
The question really is,
How many of the people you share discoveries with
will be altruistic? and how many will make fortunes
of your generosity?

The movie shows the conflict between open source and proprietary software. Between altruism and financial opportunity.
Based on the name, I was expecting FizzBuzz v2.0, but what I found was squeak.org
It's nicer for "pure" typing speed of letter-only words, but I appreciate that typeracer will include text with punctuation.
Agreed, although some C++11 goodies like smart pointers, STL and RAII were already a thing in pre-C++98.

Just because it is C++98, it isn't a recipe to write C with a C++ compiler.
I wrote on the same issue when working on a VR desktop setup. if anyone finds it interesting:

https://rein4ce.medium.com/windows-desktop-vr-c405944b4853

My guess is we need at least 4K displays per eye for VR to be as readable as a 1080 monitor, without distortions beyond the sweet spot in the very center.

There were some Kickstarter projects a few years back for VR headset like this, but I guess none of them got any traction.
German virologist Drosten has his own theory about the origin of the coronavirus
The History of the M-16
I'd say it's just a good argument for using a popular app (like one you mentioned) because it is likely to be subject to the critical eyes of security researchers.
Writing and Speaking
Does Duo send H.264?
I totally agree. I also don't usually trust google to support their 'projects' in long term, but since messages and duo seem to be pre installed in android devices (I think?) I was inclined to try it out. Just hoping that messages and duo are here to stay
‘A career change saved my life’: the people who built better lives after burnout
I’ve discussed this with both doctors and radiologists, and they all seem to back the exact same mantra. So while that might just be anecdotal evidence, I have a difficult time seeing how your blank dismissal has any value in the discussion. Do you have any data, evidence or even just arguments to put forth to support you oppinions?
Introduction: A Practical Guide to Inclusive Research
Very true. I'd be overjoyed to have it if I were in such a situation.
No fancy locked down software can stop someone from just putting another camera in front of the screen to record the call.
The changes feel exciting because for the first time in a very long time most of the announced features are coming to MacOS, too.

But so many of them are minor (background blur and noise reduction in Facetime, really?), a catch up to competition (almost anything related to photo and text), or features for features sake (new Safari design).

How many of these will be badly designed, break HIGs and accessibility, (re-)implemented in Catalyst and abandoned a year later?
It's very unfortunate PGP/GPG hasn't kept up with the times. Today it has two significant issues:

1. The needed trust model has changed significantly.
2. It's not reusable enough.

1. The original PGP mostly dealt with direct person-to-person relationships. Alice and Bob needed to safely communicate. Perhaps Bob could vouch for Carol. But that was the intended model: closely related groups, with maybe a person trusted to act as an introducer. Today our needs are different, and we need to securely communicate with people we never met, or to verify their signatures. Any Linux system contains thousands of packages, which were worked on by many thousands of developers, one may need to communicate with securely at some point. Eg, I want to verify the GPG signature on the Tor browser, but I never met anyone on the team, and how do I know who knows the team?

My personal network actually extends very far. I did the FOSDEM key signing party several times, so my theoretical reach is enormous. But it can only be achived by hacking around GPG's trust model. I need to figure out by hand a path between me and Tor, download the keys, and manually tell GPG I trust each key's signature. This isn't convenient, user friendly, not as safe as it could be.

2. GPG is unfortunately stuck in the "Unix Philosophy" era, where you're supposed to just invoke the binary and parse its text output. I believe this crippled GPG's adoption, because it's slow. GPG has to do the whole startup, reading its key databases and so on every single time. Back when GPG support was introduced into KMail many years ago this added a very noticeable delay to viewing any signed message.

And it's sadly still the case. The world badly needs a GPG library, that allows one to skip those startup costs, and to avoid the whole intended model of ~/.gnupg and just let a program do things like interpret in-memory data for any conceivable purpose. This is still badly lacking.
Rather than looking at it from the view of an employee or founder with power, I am attempting to view it through the lens of a good relationship between two people, with this being mainly defined through the golden rule - treating others as one wants to be treated.

It would seem to me that if I hadn't chosen to train and work with this person, he probably wouldn't have chosen this exact product to release out of all the possibilities in the world.

Let's say that he had an innate inclination for this exact product and would have done it even if he hadn't worked for me. Even then, he wouldn't have been privvy to the various and more detailed information that you are exposed to as an insider.

Going forward, I would be wary of any information I share with this person, given that it could work against me. This would definitely harm our relationship, and I would wish that this person would not do this to me.

If this were a fishing village, and the main thing to do around here was fishing, I would understand. There's not much choice there. But given that there are many different things this person could have worked on besides my exact product, my reaction would be, 'really man?'
goland is also slow as hello. so yeah
What's weird is you cannot scroll this page in mobile chrome or safari. I have a small iPhone.

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overflow: hidden;
}
> do not be afraid of lawyers

Well, the US News coverage and TV made being really afraid of lawyers the norm. Especially when you are poor. In the countries in the EU where I lived, I do not even have to open the threat email, but if I lived in the US, I would be very afraid. No idea if that is true or not but the system seems geared for bullying the little guy over there.