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Making Multi-Platform Games with JavaScript – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Did you read it? I don't deny it's changing, it is. I typically quote the authoritative reports that show it's not as dyer as alarmists would make you believe.
Show HN: DFlex - JavaScript Project to Manipulate DOM Elements
I wish the article had gone into more about the unjust Chinese occupation and enslavement of the Tibetan people, but that’s not newsworthy enough it seems.
Tweet from US-linked RFA depicted Wuhan resident collapsed on street from Covid
I have personally enjoyed community SparkFun events in Boulder, Colorado, which were hosted at a level that was both cool and fun for kids, adults, and experts alike. A really creative and intelligent company. Thanks Nathan for the courage to publish this, and helping other entrepreneurs inventing the future, to not be afraid to call fraud (and prior art) exactly what it is.
2017 and 2018 were exceptional but the trend going back decades is less hectares burned every decade. This is true world wide.

I've planted six hundred hectares myself to give you perspective, these burns are easily replanted where desirable.
It is small for the laptop screens too. Like letters are unreadably little.
They consider them immoral, because humans, like cattle, have no right to decide for themselves.
If you want to see what's there you're probably looking for https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/mass-observation....

"Free, four-week trials are available on all Adam Matthew Digital products by completing the trial request form below. A member of the team will contact you with confirmation of your trial details on submission of the form.

Trials are open to teachers, faculty and librarians of universities, colleges, and academic institutions (private and public)."

Good to see the 80s archive is embrancing 80s tech.
What will stop us from reaching back to a zero sum game, when The minimum wage goes up, but then the price of everything goes up, including rent and food, So that the increase in income will be negated by the increase the prices?
Could you give us a link to a good starting point for exploring it?
There is SeaMonkey - https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

It's essentially a continuation of the Mozilla Suite (formerly Netscape). However they're falling behind on Gecko integration, with the latest version still on Gecko 60 (2018) with backports.

The reality is that Mozilla doesn't focus on embedded applications of Gecko besides Firefox (even Thunderbird is sidelined these days). Projects that are essentially third-party, like SeaMonkey, really have no visibility at all. This is the reason why the Chromium Blink engine has become so widespread, especially when it's been nicely packaged up by the commercially-backed Qt project.
A bit more specifically, because Cosby was no longer facing criminal charges, he was not eligible to plead the 5th amendment in the under-oath depositions he was required to make on the civil cases, so he didn't and he admitted to giving women quaaludes, etc. If the DA's office had not informed Cosby that they were dropping the criminal charges, Cosby would not have been forced to make those incriminating statements.
No, you can't lock it down without letting its owner unlock it. That's indeed the point. But your original comment said you have to give up your encryption keys. That's the lie I was getting at.

Now we can debate whether or not it's a good thing that the user gets full control of his device if he wants it. I think it is. You?
> Python 3 looks like it's UTF-8

No, it never looked like it was UTF-8. It did look like it was Unicode (of an unspecified encoding), but Python allows unpaired surrogates, which makes for ill-formed Unicode. Python lets you have '\udead'. Well-formed encodings of Unicode (such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32) cannot represent U+DEAD.

There’s a big difference between “Unicode” and “UTF-8”.

> PyPy, though, finally went UTF-8.

Oh cool! I remember vaguely hearing the idea being mulled over, years ago. Good to see it happened: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/03/pypy-v71-released-now-....

Wonder what they’ve done about surrogates; the only way they can truly have switched to UTF-8 internally is if they’ve broken compatibility, which I doubt they’ve done; I’m guessing that they actually use WTF-8, not UTF-8.

(In the meantime, I’ve changed “Python 3.3” in the grandparent comment to “CPython 3.3” for accuracy.)
> But high heat which approaches the wet bulb temperature is just stressful on the body.

Note that "wet-bulb temperature" (WBT) is not a specific value for temperature, it is a way of measuring temperature. You can cave a WBT of 0C, or a WBT of 35C. WBT is the temperature shown by a thermometer covered in a wet cloth over which air is passing.

This is relevant because it indicates the temperature that human skin can reach with any amount of sweat and wind. It is normally much lower than air temperature because of evaporative cooling effects; but, as humidity increases, WBT and air temperature get closer and closer; at 100% humidity, there is no more evaporation, so WBT becomes equal to air temperature.

The problems for human activity start at a WBT of 32C (90F), and a WBT of 35C (95F) means that even healthy humans with access to unlimited water will die of heat stroke in the shade after a few hours.
there was also custom firmware that someone had written for one of the cheat devices (i think maybe the "gameshark"?) with that, and a $40 mail order ISA board, and some time building a MIPS cross compiling gnu toolchain, you could write programs in C and run them on the consumer/production PS1 as a hobbyist.

i'm trying to remember what the OS situation was though. i remember some really thin libc that made syscalls into some rom maybe? or maybe it was just a thin libc. i do remember being able to access the audio device without doing anything super low level...

edit: here we go! the firmware was called caetla and here's a nice 22yr old webpage that describes it: http://hitmen.c02.at/html/psx_faq.html
According to that test, I’d have Aphantasia, I guess. I could answer none of the questions immediately, even though I can imagine a table and a ball and somebody pushing it. I guess visually it would be like if you replaced a ball on a picture by the text “ball” and made the table out of “table” labels.
Southern BC leeward of the mountains, that is.
I spent lots of time during the quarantine on learning music (theory). My consensus is: 99% of what is considered "music theory" is purely interpretative cruft. 1% of it is based on physics.

The only reason why we (westerners) learn the same cruft is because we have been agreeing that this cruft is the least confusing one we have come up with (so far).
Apple is now Google's largest corporate customer for cloud storage
Not a single word about how many jobs will be lost. Would anyone know how many jobs might be displaced at a construction site if the equipment is autonomous?
I work with highly seasonal data (city-wide water consumption) and Prophet has been a great tool for us.

In terms of performance, it has been the best for a few of our forecasts, compared to GRUs, LSTM, ARIMA and SARIMA. When it wasn't the best, it wasn't too far from the best model. But, to be fair, our forecast are of quite stable data, so most models do well.

However, I would say that the key strength of Prophet is how easy it is. You can produce results really fast, you can throw data with missing range, holidays, and it has interpretability components out of the box. It depends on what do you need, but for most of our tasks, we and our stakeholders are more than happy to sacrifice a bit of performance for this features.
Milk is pretty big in India but I have read that majority of Indians are lactose intolerant. So its a bit weird that lactose intolerant population uses milk heavily in its diet.
I think you were going with the “governor” definition of Kubernetes, but “pilot” is closer to the mark.
So the mechanism is normal but there is just more energy being pumped into the system lately? That sounds crazy to me given the latitude but the geography explanation makes sense. The article said it's like a giant Death Valley.

My understanding is the hot air is high pressure, meaning no cold air can get in, and the mountains block movement of the system as a whole. This implies to me that the hotter it gets the more 'sticky' it might get in staying around for longer. Not sure if that's true but thunderstorms in dry heat are never great, they're a regular source of fires.
Ability to bulls****
Unexpected observation of thermal waves in germanium semiconductor
Compounding growth does fine.
Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
These 'it's all the same' arguments are obviously false, beyond the meaningless truism that 'nobody's perfect!'.

> it’s hard to say at the scope of world powers

No it's not, at all. Some governments and forms of government are far more corrupt than others. Nobody compares Sweden or the US with Russia or Nigeria.

> They span the gamut, and they span democracy through authoritarian regimes. The only difference is how it’s conveyed/portrayed to citizens ... let’s not kid ourselves into believing China has done anything terrible that the USA has not already done in spades.

Nobody's kidding anyone; unless you look back centuries, China does things - such as in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Tienanmen Square - that the USA never does. There's no comparison. The USA is not about to round up the populace of a region and put them in torture and reducation camps.
Making everyone a replaceable cog in a machine is a necessary evil for a company to survive past the founding team's heroics in the beginning
Altair Logic actually sued Asus as well in 2019, after the patent had expired in 2018, alleging that Asus sold products infringing exactly this patent 6,289,434 before then. Asus tried, unsuccessfully, to get it dismissed, so we'll see where it goes later.

But the dismissal judgment is enlightening about what happens when you sit on a patent for 20 years and then start to sue people. The 'marking requirement' referred to is that you stamp products with a US patent number.

> The '434 Patent was valid for 20 years from the filing date, meaning that it expired on February 27, 2018. See 35 U.S.C. § 154(a)(2). Because Altair did not bring suit until after the patent had expired, it is entitled to relief only if it can ultimately establish notice of infringement prior to the patent's expiration date. Here, Altair would need to prove either that it satisfied the marking requirement or that neither it nor any of its licensees ever made a product which needed to be marked.

It seems the fact of never having licensed your patent to anyone allows you to avoid having to give notice to infringers. I'm guessing the damages limitations around non-marking are drafted to avoid a situation where someone sees a product, sees it and copies it thinking that because it has no patent number, it hasn't been patented. There appear to be other 'constructive notice' provisions. But it seems a little perverse that you're at an advantage, notice-wise, as a patent troll if you avoid the marking requirements by never attempting to license the patent to anyone in 20 years, and separately nobody takes a second look when searching for patents applicable to their products. Normally both those things point to the patent not being useful or valuable from a licensee perspective.

https://casetext.com/case/altair-logix-llc-v-asus-computer-i...

(Morbid detail: the patent was issued on September 11, 2001. Somehow the USPTO worked through that day.)
The law changes dramatically every time there is a new government. The bitcoin protocol stays the same.
Taktile (YC S20) Is Hiring a Full Stack Developer
That’s a lousy argument. The Fukushima power plant had been operating for decades, as had that Miami apartment building that collapsed last week.

If you limit it to terrorist attacks, the twin towers had been operating for decades.
Problem is determining what that independent basis is, and how to derive moral objective truths from it.
this has been our experience as well - sadly, however, most (all?) teams specialize and silo as they scale, and so you don't tend to see this setup beyond the very early stage
Here's the personal site of the professor involved. It was discovered in 2007, and its a line of stones, not a henge.

https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-...
The final quote in the article is weird:

: The idea of the market standardizing itself “fits a little too well into our modern neoliberal discourse,” he says. “Should we really be using these terms to talk about societies which are so foreign to us?”

It's an example of an apparently self-organizing market, but we can't call it a self-organizing market because that might accidentally help someone they don't like politically?
The key words in the headline are "collapsed condo" -- the reference is likely to this collapse that happened last week:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_building_...
This reads like an Onion headline.
> It really begs the question, what's the point?

To educate the highest number of children possible, as a reasonable cost, to assure a steady supply of capable labor year after year.

Sadly, this results in low-salaried teachers, cookie-cutter teaching plans, and teacher-to-student ratios that are not adequate to cater to the outliers that need attention.
How well does it work with irregularly spaced time series?
Personally most of my neighbours have jobs that can't be outsourced due to the fact they're physical jobs.

Yes I'd love it if they had the training to get good jobs, and the great news there is -- they've already been there and done it! :)

Yes I'd absolutely give up some of my salary, assuming it's a fair question and not "haha well you wouldn't give up half of your salary to hire someone so I'm right" yea I don't give up half my salary to pave the roads either, it's a group effort!
How do you choose to believe something else? Belief doesn't seem like a conscious choice to me. I can choose to seek out things which might challenge my belief in X, and ultimately this may lead to a belief in Y instead, but I can't go from X to Y from merely willing to do so.
The quality of the UI likely reflects the quality of the overall system. If the UI is flashy trash, you really want to trust the same programmers with actual math? Source: programmer for 30 years
That’s fine if storage is your only concern, but memory doesn’t work like that. RAM has to be grouped in powers of 8 and assigned in binary. 1000^n doesn’t make any sense at a low level. It was a convention that followed later when HDD manufacturers wanted to make their drives look bigger.
Sounds exhausting (and distracting) trying to maintain anything beyond a superficial relationship with so many acquaintances gained from all the vectors in the life described above.
Yeah, “six times the power” was a lapse of me. Intended to copy-paste the “five times the energy” part.

The math still doesn’t hold up, making this article as good as content free for me. History so far tells that we can’t trust their projections on price and delivery date, not to mention full self driving. So, the content for me is “Tesla is working on a hatchback”.
Ok. If he was in FAANG companies the author would be effectively around Staff or Senior engineer caliber.
The Hubble Telescope has suddenly stopped working
Finally an AWS product that i completely understand.
The thing i like most about AWS Infinidash is its security. Even if all of AWS is compromised, i can rest assured that Infinidash will remain unscathed.
While I wouldn't disagree entirely (I've been surprised in more recent years how deeply russophobic ideas have been ingrained in me, and this is after years of working with Russian colleagues), consider that your own perspective is limited as well, apparently mostly to typical media outlets that portray a warped view of the world.

When you get off the internet and just go interact with people one-on-one in person, you'll find although these sorts of stereotypes might apply to some portion of the group they apply to, everyone's a lot more nuanced than comes across in various media sources.
Its not that simple. To make it as a one percenter here in South Africa you have to take home a little over $40k a year. The CEO's of most of the smaller tech firms probably take home less than the starting salary of a US FAANG developer.

There is a limit to how much those salaries can increase before the company goes out of business.

The company I work for has lost a good few staff to EU companies recently. I presume their staff have been moving to US ones.

I fully agree its the Free Market and I'm not sure I would change it if I could but that doesn't mean it isn't painful for everyone.
Making a generalization off of that specific anecdote is pretty unfair IMO, there's a huge difference between Gap and Herman Miller. Gap is closer to IKEA while Herman Miller is closer to a well tailored suit. A range of quality exists in both industries.
Brickit: Rebuild Your Lego [iPhone App]
Yes, though government departments also have overhead.
What is your criteria for calling Axios "moderately left"? You have not given any examples.

Early in his presidency, Axios was basically a Trump backchannel (see https://newrepublic.com/article/142441/axios-donald-trump-ma..., etc.).
Most important is just to play with them. You can't force it on them.
Haha hate to break your bubble but I am born, raised and schooled in Sweden :)

I don't live there anymore though, I left as soon as I could, can't stand the place, but that's kind of a side note, lol.

Finland and Sweden's schooling systems are very, very different.

I wouldn't have enjoyed the Finnish one either, just saying.
The second time around is easier. The hard part was evolution, took billions of years, used huge resources and energy, but in a single run it evolved nature and humans. AI agents can rely on humans to avoid the enormous costs of blind evolution at least until they reach parity with us, then they have to pay the price and do extreme open-ended learning (solving all imaginable tasks, trying all strategies, giving up on simple objectives).
Salted fish in the same general approach as funazushi is still practiced in some Chinese cultures. I wonder if Chinese would find funazushi tasty.
Online fiction - http://www.scpwiki.com/

Offline alternative history - 1632 by Eric Flint, the first in a long series of really engrossing books.
I don't understand where the "typical" speeds come from. For me, typical speed on 4G is 100 Mbit/s in Belgium while it is 30 Mbit/s on 4G+ in France. Same plan and phone, just roaming in Belgium (where I live, but I mostly use my French SIM) and in a city centre both times.

So it seems to me to depend a lot on the operator and infrastructure, and I don't see how there is one typical speed to quote.
I play chess online every day. When I started on statins I lost 200 rating points within a couple of days. To put this in context 200 points would be a decent improvement over a year of play. I had constant brain fog which showed up at work. I was still able to do my job but it was noticeably harder to achieve the same results. I compensated by working an extra hour or two each day. After 6 months I decided it just wasn’t worth it (there was a multitude of other side effects as well) so I stopped taking them. Sure enough my chess rating immediately jumped back up.
Who’s “you all?” Do you have a thread of people on Hacker News, contrarian central by the way, ‘cheering’ on Zoe Quinn and Alex’s death or are you cherry picking moments that simply went against your ‘grain’? Is that why you signed up two days ago?

Read between the lines sweetie: You guys harassed Byuu and cheered when you were blamed and now you’re still finding ways to justify it. I’m a grown man sad to see an emulation developer gone. You’re no better than any other harassment hive mind.

I know what a ‘cub’ is and knowing your ilk I wouldn’t be shocked to find 2D teen ahegao porn on your hard drive, if you actually had substantial proof you would have let japanese authorities know. Too late for that though huh
Ask HN: What's your favorite mind mapping tool?
All the mind mapping software I've tried hasn't been very good. Usually the UI was clunky and lacked keyboard shortcuts. And/or the design looked like something from last decade. And finally they haven't seemed very powerful.

Are there any fast, pretty, quick-to-use mind mapping tools I've accidentally missed?
I wonder if this is a short-term strategy to force commercial property rents further down, and re-enter when they hit a feasible low.

In India, GAP apparently uses their retail stores in an omnichannel strategy to "warehouse" products closer to customers in an attempt to provide next-day delivery. [1]

[1] https://yourstory.com/2021/06/fashion-brands-omnichannel-fli... (paywalled, use reader-mode)
Germany’s icon group VC bets $30M to back startups
"Time spent doing QA is time not spent writing code"

I wonder, is the time spent fixing inane production issues time well spent? Is the time spent by testers/QA to report obvious bugs well spent?

Devs, test your stuff like if you were the only one doing QA, and everyone else along the chain should do the same.
In a representative democracy, do you have a say, control or checks in what decisions those representatives you elected make? Or do they do whatever they want and, tough luck, wait 4 years? Or do they do the opposite of what they promised and tough luck, 4 years again? And the same 2 parties which are essentially the same can get elected and none else, so... tough luck in general?
Alternatively, try to imagine the situation without these controls in place. Apple recently released figures for how many scam apps and accounts they’ve taken down, and the numbers are astronomical.

> Apple stopped over $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.

> Apple expelled 470,000 teams from the Apple Developer Program for fraud-related reasons. It also rejected nearly 205,000 developer enrollment attempts over fraud concerns.

> Apple deactivated 244 million customer accounts due to fraudulent and abusive activity, including fake reviews. It also rejected 424 million attempted account creations due to fraudulent and abusive patterns.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosys...
I quote from the article:

«I can’t overstate how big this wrench that this is throwing into our local and regional and state economy, actually. Condos and the development of condos and the mortgage brokers that help get the financing, the insurers that insure, the realtors who sell, the investors who buy and flip—if Florida has one main driver of industry, this is it. That is what we do.»

«And I mentioned earlier that condo building is our state’s industry. I literally mean that. The state of Florida was basically considered a wasteland until developers figured out that they could sell the dream of Florida. I’m not exaggerating on this. Our economy over history has basically been a pyramid scheme of developers and people marketing the dream of Florida, to come down to Florida, it’s so beautiful, it’s so carefree. Well, now we have something to care about.»

Those are strong words. The headline doesn't seem overstated or a misrepresentation of those opinions.
Not overcomplicating things intentionally. There's other reasons of course...standards, shorter wavelengths, etc. Not referring to priority(second point) but capacity. Tri band routers as I'm sure you're aware dedicate two radios to the 5ghz range, and one to 2.4ghz.

If you have say, gigabit internet, your capable bandwidth on 5ghz will be much, much faster, regardless if there's any 2.4ghz interference.

If anyone who isn't a radios expert cares... I prefer dongknows when reading about networks. A lot of people for some reason don't seem to like him, but he does a great job of both putting things simply, yet giving enough backing technical specs to not treat the reader like a child.

example: https://dongknows.com/home-wi-fi-explained/
Demo is 404. :(