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I find that my old JavaScript projects and tools such as Jsbin break whenever dependencies are upgraded or I update to the next version.

My python code without dependencies just works. My ruby code breaks all the time. My Java code never breaks but my Java code has very few dependencies.

I wish there was a way to abstract the interface of mechanism in a promise that other people can implement and evolve and outsource decision making to someone else who has more skill or nuance in a way that is looser and more reliable than a particular API.

APIs want to evolve over time but a promise to fulfil a high level goal is different. An API is a mechanism like a particular bottle whereas a bottle mould captures the essence of a bottle but is not a bottle itself. Interfaces (such as in Java) are just APIs themselves so they don't really solve the problem. For example, I want to specify routes that correspond to the URL of my React app or I want to encrypt data with the most secure algorithm. These two example mechanisms evolve all the time. I kind of want to abstract the intent and input. An API doesn't have to be a function call, it can be a data structure. The mechanism doesn't matter to me, but I want the mechanism to adapt with evolution. How do you decouple the method/mechanism with the goal? Evolution in nature tries to find a variable to mutate that can produces better survivability. Like higher body temperature in cats which must have an evolutionary advantage for the mutation to have survived.
This is what happens when advertising becomes the primary economic output of your economy. It seems like there are too many people engaged directly in advertising, or working on products that are supported 100% by advertising dollars. How long until the economy is just 100% advertising?

I'm sure if you really probe influencers, most of them would rather be engaged in creative pursuits. But those don't pay anything, so they have to go to where the dollars are if they want things like a house and food.
>The "V" shape of upside down chevrons can pull people TOWARDS a vehicle vs. direct them away from it.

Is there any actual evidence of this? It seems roughly the same in terms of effect and attention getting.
> The act of stripping git history and attribution while forking is itself malicious,

Well, okay, the forking could have been more politely, but author is a bit fast to pull the pirate card. It's a free/libre fork of a free/libre project after all.

> nanocolors implementation and API are the same as Colorette. You essentially pirated my work.[0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/jorgebucaran/status/1441728642711572486
A question for you, and all self-driving safety proponents. If Tesla's FSD cars are so safe, why are they not taking the liability of the cars. Why have only a regular car insurance punted on to the owners? When the manufacturers of self-driving cars roll out liability of all owners, or taxi services with a monitoring driver with no liability, is the time when self-driving is actually available. Till then it is vaporware.
Minis have had this branding for a long time.
Same for me. While I was experimenting I noticed that my ability to connect without blockages was subject to how much attention I've drawn to myself. That part was pretty eerie.
But if I could go back with the same knowledge I have now, the bullying becomes more tolerable when I know that one of the biggest bullies in high school will have ended up in and out of jail before finally dying of a drug overdose (he had a hard home life which led to his bullying and post high school problems), and that the high school jock that was the most popular guy in school ended up overweight and working in a car dealership... he turned out to be a nice guy though.

It's hard to understand in high school that the class structure in high school completely falls apart at graduation. But the class structure in college is more permanent.
This is super helpful. I was dreading that part of the process. Knowing that its not essential and likely a negative is awesome, thanks!
My question is whether the GGP had something specific in mind.
My fav is that a minimized window won't restore if it is selected. FFS
What? The Wii uses the GX API from the GameCube [0], which is not similar at all to GL 3.3; it was developed in 1999. It does not have any form of programmable shaders; it uses TexEnv-style combinators.

The Wii U has a custom GX2 API, where the official shader language is GLSL (again, see the Mario Kart 8 kiosk demo).

The Switch has NVN, GL, Vulkan, where the official shader language for all three is GLSL (based on NVIDIA's GLSL compiler).

[0] https://libogc.devkitpro.org/gx_8h.html
It saves $3 worth of parts for the manufacturer.
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In reality, if you deliver same amount of cargo from a location compared to a location further, you get paid the same, assuming same contents.

But in the game, you get rewarded for carrying it from a far location for no good reason.
iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -p udp -m udp --sport 123 -j MASQUERADE --to-ports 60000-61000

I don't know why I didn't specify the outbound interface but I probably should have (-o $wan_interface), anyway it did the job for a long time.

The breakthrough I needed to get it to work was discovering that --to-ports option, which I'd never used or seen in the wild before facing this problem.
He can side with whoever he likes. Doesn’t mean anyone has to like him for it.

Furthermore, as Assange isn’t an American citizen and doesn’t get to vote in the USA, none of them have no reason to put personal dislike aside and defend him or his actions.

Hell, he might have been a lot better off now if he was a USA citizen, or even if he’d been officially working for Russia.

Right now, he’s a conveniently unlicensed hot potato: held personally liable by the powers, not even really seen as a journalist even if he was one.
Static linking also protects you from security patches.

I like writing low-dependency software, but what that means is that I pick a distribution to build on and use their packages. If a library is not packaged, it has to be really good for me to depend on it.

Sure, it might break once in a blue moon depending on how stable the distribution you use is, and you'll need to refresh your stuff every 4-9 years when a new version of the base OS is released and the old one goes EOL, but most of the time the result will be extremely low-maintenance.
No one wants to commit to 10yrs because of income concerns. Software developers tend to not be business folks. I'd give a 10yr commitment on a project that was paying me and required minimal maintenance.
Hi, would it using different shapes altogether, instead same circle with different colors, be a better choice? Colors are soft too which makes the contrast between any two circles very low and hard to differentiate.
I don't think this is a fair framing. This isn't left-pad - it's a library that abstracts something people find annoying, and finding the right abstraction can be difficult even if the final code doesn't seem complicated. Add in a few years of bug fixes and whatnot, and it seems pretty rude to dismiss the result as "easily replicable from scratch".
> This really did not age well...

How so? Would you like to explain how you came to this conclusion?
I have no problem driving or biking among the LIDAR-based systems from Waymo and others in the SF Bay Area. I’ve seen them do stupid stuff, but it was always on the side of safety. On the other hand I’ve seen hands-free Tesla drivers reading books, using their phone, etc, which is both stupid and dangerous.
Neither will cannabis. The consumption method is fully up to user choice and in areas where it's legalized edibles are commonplace.
https://archive.is/e0npB
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8924270
7 years ago|23 comments
> nitpick a little around the edges

It is not nitpicking around the edges when the foundation is shaky and opaque.
It's incredibly easy to be a niche influencer nowadays. If I write a blog post on a niche subject that I know a lot about, I can easily take that blog post, re-word it a bit, and record it for Youtube with some light edits -> example data science account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQx1UnmorvmSEZef4X7-6g

Youtube recommendation algorithm is so good at rewarding continuous creators. The difficulty is that the effort in making videos is surprisingly high and scaling is hard.
For what it's worth, this is also all the work of one person who spammed NPM with micropackages to boost his download counts. This meme attacking `npm` for nonsense like `is-odd` is quite literally the result of one person resume boosting.

For every one thing, he broke it down into as many possible packages as possible, and all of his packages depend on 20 more of his packages. It's like a fractal of resume boosting.

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/info-symbol
https://github.com/jonschlinkert/success-symbol
https://github.com/jonschlinkert/warning-symbol
https://github.com/jonschlinkert/error-symbol

My personal favourite is making every single ansi colour into a separate package, and then making `ansi-colors` which depends on all of them, and all of these packages are just a single function call with a provided number. It's honestly insane.

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-black

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-reset

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bold

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-dim

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-italic

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-underline

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-inverse

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-hidden

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-strikethrough

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-black

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-red

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-green

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-yellow

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-blue

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-magenta

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-cyan

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-white

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-gray

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-grey

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgblack

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgred

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bggreen

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgyellow

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgblue

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgmagenta

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgcyan

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-bgwhite
This is really mostly my issue. She'll even get excited.

But by the time I've explained the 15 pieces of background knowledge needed to understand what I mean... I'm not even excited anymore. :D

We've got a whole lot of common ground-- she's a mechanical engineer, and now we're both involved quite a bit in education and coaching. That stuff we can talk about. But late last night I came up with a clever trick to collapse some tedious keypad-scanning-code down into something surprisingly tidy, and in that moment all I could really say was "I got the keypad on those boards for the robotics kids working in a really nice way".
Overwhelming majority of modern web frontend development is done with build tools written in JS. Node is a popular choice for backend and that also generates a lot of lines of terminal output.
This is very interesting and I would love to test out the theory.

I have access to both LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and I'd be curious to see if I could alleviate my anosmia. At this point it's been 7 months and although I have some sense of smell restored there are massive parts of my spectrum that I have not recovered.

I recently accidentally drank spoiled orange juice because I couldn't tell at all that it was spoiled from the smell and even the taste.
My "holy shit" moment was this :

received “sketches” of plans for killing Assange and other Europe-based WikiLeaks members

CIA planned to kill some of my friends
> trucks are required to put their flashers on if they're going under a certain speed.

This is not correct. Many states in the US do not allow the use of hazard lights while moving.
GLSL and HLSL are close enough; as a professional engine developer I'm biased towards HLSL but just learn whatever you can.
Yep plus

> there should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand, when seeing the full rear of the car, which direction is being indicated.

How do they propose to guarantee that the full rear of the car will be visible in all cases when the turn indicator is observed?
> Looking at the open issues, it doesn't appear to be actively maintained

I'm not sure if this is intentionally ironic or not, but it does seem like if your small libraries aren't getting updated regularly because they are done, you at least want the meta library (in this case the single file libs repository) to be updated regularly with new small libraries.
Well, I was hoping to disprove it, and then I looked at things I'd written recently in high-level languages, for which I had logs of how long it took me, and came to the opposite conclusion: Python might be more productive than Ada, but not by an order of magnitude. Of course someone else might be a much better programmer than I am in Python, but in all likelihood their improvement over me in lower-level languages would be even bigger.

The library ecosystem is a great bright spot: the cost of modularity has fallen to such a point that leftPad is its own NPM module. The fact that Python has a separate leftPad as the .rjust method on strings seems less significant than the reduction of duplication within each ecosystem. Historically if you wanted your library to be usable from anywhere, like D-BUS, you wrote it in C, and that's still a viable option; but Rust is shaping up to be a better alternative there.

I do think we can be more than 2× more productive in a barebones project with better programming languages, because I've been programming in assembly language this week, and it is pretty slow going. But I reluctantly came to the conclusion that Brooks was right: the big leap in raw productivity was from assembly to Algol 60, not Algol 60 to JS. (And, separately, from batch mode to interactive programming.)
> But you still can trust someone's credentials are better than your own and that they are giving you a better judgement than your own.

You should also understand that scientists are human and subject to all of human foibles like racism, sexism, etc.

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

Not to mention politics, such as when "jewish science/math/etc" rejected.

You should trust the replicable experiments, not the scientists. Especially so when "science" and politics gets intermixed.

When a "scientist" says "trust me" or when a politician says "trust the scientist I say to trust", that's when you should be the most distrusting.
Agreed. The problem is the word 'influencer', it also connotes that their followers and mindless drones that need influencing, because they can't think for themselves.

Let's just go back to calling them celebrities, or wannabe celebrities.
Not just that. It is "highway miles driven in a high safety rated premium car by a younger set of drivers on better roads in better weather"
I'm not sure in what sense do you are using "compromised", it is unclear for me in regards to context.

He is not a US citizen, and he was never a "pro-western-mainstream" or "pro-establishment" type (he was born into a cult with a history of systematic children sex abuse in Australia, one of the leaders was close to the AU government, Assange then became a teenage hacker, etc). He was a contrarian against the West from the start, while being of the West.

Do you use the term in relation to some of Wikileaks goals or mission statements, some hacker ethos, in the sense that he compromised himself in regards to some personal conviction of his ?
That's because you were young and had no idea what was going on.

A hilariously depressing exercise is just reading old news paper headlines from whatever decade you want to pick and seeing what the world was like then.

I've yet to see a decade where the average person wasn't a hairs breadth away from dying in various unpleasant ways, some musical accompaniment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
>"Most people here probably follow and respect some influencers"

Count me out. I do not follow a single person. When I need info I search.
All of these services are more useful, more accessible, and more inclusive than their corporate counterparts. They work better on older browsers and low-end devices. They have better performance. They aren’t spying on you. In short, they are rejecting the domestication of their users that the platforms they interact with have been trying to do.

No matter how much I want to like and recommend these projects, mainly for those last 2 sentences, unfortunately the rest of picture this paints doesn't seem to be completely true for me: while Nitter for example is ok, I've tried to switch to e.g. Invidious so many times and in the end it's just a pain to use. Most of the time it loads slower, if it even loads, and every x days I have to try another server, etc. So in the end it is simply worse than the counterparts on those fronts, and I have the impression using e.g. youtube in private windows gives most of the other benefits as well.
Safari, made by Apple, was the lone holdout for WebGL2. You’re familiar with Apple’s relationship to Flash. No I won’t be surprised at all if Safari holds out on WebGPU, and it will be precisely because it offers functionality that Metal already has.

> Enjoy your pyrrhic victory.

I don’t understand why you’re repeatedly spending time on WebGL threads sharing sour grapes about Flash. They don’t compete. At all. WebGL is not an authoring tool, and Flash was. Your sentiment is just laughably misplaced. Adobe killed flash, Adobe alone is where your ire should be aimed, for not making an ecosystem that could withstand abusive content creators.
I'd give them all the nuclear power they want.
In one very short and intensely hot burst.
DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian, they wanted me
That's "nitpicking" though. Unless you want to claim the existence of a very large population of "autopilot accidents" not present in these reports, it's just not possible to construct a scenario where autopilot is significantly more dangerous than a human driver.

You're attempting to use uncertainty or controversy in the measurement mechanism to stand in for an argument for the contrary point, and that doesn't work logically.

It's not killing more people, basically. That's what "safe" means.
Government regulations mostly state that it must have a certain brightness and area. It passes because it meets those requirements.
C# OpenGL OpenTK Path Tracer
You're making a claim that in a counterfactual world, FSD might be safer than human drivers. Even if this were true (which obviously there's no evidence of), why is that an argument against FSD in the real world?
They are not even trying to be sneaky about it. If you look at layers #42 and #43 at [0], you can see they are cloning and building xmrig/xmrig [1].

[0] https://hub.docker.com/layers/minecraft101/minecraft-server/...

[1] https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig
I'd look at "equality" as a statistical measure over time. If the imbalance is less than 10% in each parliament, and the frequency of male- and female-majority parliaments (say, over the last century) is similarly balanced, I'd call that pretty darn equal. Thus far, Iceland has only elected a single female-majority parliament in its entire history, so I'd agree with your implication that equality has not been achieved. I'd also agree with the article, that this is a landmark.
An aside question. Does Egypt or other countries sell these artifact to Britain to put in museums? Also why would the prefer giving rare artifacts to another country instead of displaying them in their own museums?
No. Prior expectations are not the only way how one gets resentful. Being tired is another. Realizing you have not done something you like for long time is yet another.

And all of it is healthy. Being submissive doormat and not having boundaries is not healthy.
free/libre does not equate to unlicensed.

Fork has violated the license of original by stripping the attribution and history.
It's not a buzzword, it's a very salient point. Code reuse, a consistent UI and a much greater development velocity across a much greater number of platforms (web, desktop, mobile).

It can be done poorly, and there are plenty of examples of that, but it's not a universal rule and the trade-off gives real benefits. At the end of the day you do need to ship and maintain _something_, and maintaining one thing is better than maintaining Web, MacOS Desktop, Windows Desktop, Linux Desktop, iPhone and Android.
This is a massive leap and really shouldn't be on HN.
Well, it has it's limits, but wouldn't call it "flawed".

Regarding the psyche part, I have actually written an article about that which might change your opinion https://boris-marinov.github.io/logic-thought/
Is this not NFTs?
I certainly won’t be, but I think disasters where entire communities become unlivable because of groundwater or water supply pollution are more likely. Maybe there’s a slowly developing disaster in progress.
Global government intervention disincentivizing fossil plants for everyone would be a net positive. And if the miners are subsidizing the sustainable power industry, that would also be a net positive for everyone as the state of the art advances to keep up.
The distaste for the term 'influencer' arises because the job description is basically 'gain a social media following and then influence that following to buy products, adopt political views, or do other things that your actual clients want you to do.'

In this scenario, the product being sold is access to that following, and the influencer will - like Facebook - sell that product to anyone for any purpose. It's a bit creepy because the influencer can care not at all about the following, happily pushing crappy supplements or other junk with no qualms.

It really comes down to 'do you have any ethical or moral concerns about how your flock of followers (and perhaps a good chunk of their personal data) is being used by your paying clients'?

In contrast, consider the term 'creator' which we think of as someone producing artistic or engineering etc. value, sharing that with the world, and perhaps selling their work online, with limited (and curated) need for the junk advertising / opinion manipulation / political shenanigans cash flows.
No it's not? It's about whether a specific company who has an extensive history of irresponsibility and killing people should be allowed to test. Tesla is far behind the competition and taking extensive risks to catch up.
There are companies who are much further along and take safety seriously.
100% agree that I’d love to see them release more raw data. It’d be fascinating to dig through.

I wonder if they have some internal cultural scarring from the TSLAQ debacle. People were weaving (now verifiably false) damaging stories about sales rates by flying private planes over parking lots. More recently, the media was claiming a Tesla ran into a tree on autopilot… until a regulatory agency tested it and concluded that couldn’t possibly have happened.

I could see the thought inside Tesla being “any data we could possibly release would be twisted and used against us; therefore, why bother?”
It is interesting; both in title and content. Environmental criticism is not exactly that new, but happens to coincide governments realizing that it may be a little hard to contain. Environmentalism is an easy reason to give for shutting it down. Some will even cheer it.