skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And don't get me started on banks sending out emails chock full of "Click this link!" It's like they're setting people up to get phished.
Granted, those stats are for JSX, but it’ll be interesting to check out for sure.
> Perhaps there's also a cultural aspect to why the British are so easy to scam?

Ongoing transition from "high trust" to "low trust" society. People don't yet expect to be scammed, but trust in institutions and the rest of the public is falling.
Once 7. (specifically a discrete GPU) is a requirement, your choices become very limited. Either a gaming laptop or a workstation.
The first point you make is really answering the question I was trying to ask, so thanks girl the efficient mind reading!

I am happy with the current volume but clarity and taking out some of the “tin” out of the sound would be nice. I am looking at going from a 15W RMS per channel to 75W (amp was tested by a YouTuber to actually give about 89W before distortion kicks in), going into 100W RMS/200W peak speakers that do 60-20k Hz wit sensitivity of 91 dB. The speakers will also go from 5.25” to 6.5” so hoping that’ll give them a less compressed sound.

But sounds like I should be just riding in the Bose headphones anyways :)
>3 fully loaded 737s

3 fully loaded 747s carry a lot more passengers than Falcon 9 does on one launch, and for a much more effective and better reason than just outer-atmosphere space tourism...

The primary ideal of space tourism is simply entertainment. It's a roller coaster ride of sorts. Especially if the launches grow in popularity, the impact will be far worse. It's is not sound logic to say it's harmless.
>How is that 'the best'.

Hence the quotes wrapping sentence.
Player names are trademarked the same way Louis Vuitton is trademarked as a brand.

For famous players, that may even mean they can introduce brand names that otherwise would be ruled confusing. You can’t start selling Louis Vuiton bags, but Messi clothing and shoes won a legal battle against the older Massi brand (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54193973)
>EA, the stewards of justice and defenders of sports.

Ha. No. But they do apparently literally have a billion very good reasons to stand up to corruption. Total self-interest. But it also sure wouldn't do their reputation any harm at all to claim a few FIFA supercharged-hoovering trough-snouts' scalps.
Linux has had real-time threads (round-robin and, more recently, deadline scheduling) and kernel preemption for a _long_ time. But the kernel isn't fully preemptible all the time, and latencies are not strictly bounded in all such situations (e.g. if you are trying to grab a contested spinlock). PREEMPT_RT is the final icing on the cake, and as far as I know, it makes Linux the first general-purpose OS that has full realtime guarantees.

But I haven't been able to figure out anything that would indicate FreeBSD is better (or is better than what Linux was in 2016). The information is sparse, but it seems to me that it has a scheduler with _some_ support for realtime threads (when the timeslice is up, RT threads take priority in the scheduling algorithm), but not really preemption of non-RT threads by RT threads (ie., when a RT thread is ready to wake up, non-RT threads get kicked out even if the timeslice isn't up), and I cannot find anything at all about the kernel being preemptable by userspace threads, RT or not.
I’m sure there are a lot of people my age that remember EA extremely fondly for the things they did decades ago.

M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold and Archon and many others were the best games some of us grew up on.

I haven’t been involved in gaming except for the 2 I occasionally play with my kids so I’m blissfully unaware of anything EA has done recently. But back then, they were really amazing.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-09-16-seeing-farther...
I agree that often in practice a confidence interval will end up being similar to a Bayesian credible interval. However, having a flat prior is not enough to guarantee this: the post gives an example with a uniform prior and a valid 70% confidence set that only captures 37.5% of posterior mass, and even an example with a uniform prior and a valid 70% confidence interval that captures 0% of posterior mass (because, similarly to your example, the set is empty).
To be fair, they probably should have ID cards since every other country in the EU as far as I know has a national ID scheme.
Stab in the dark — you're in Asia?
money is fake but "printing all that money" cushioned many of the economic side effects of the pandemic
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$99/year is hardly exorbitant.
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What's always missing from stories like this is how the crooks get the money out. Considering that all Western governments have achieved total surveillance on our banking and made it impossible to have anonymous bank accounts, I'd like to see a detailed analysis about why they can't follow the money and see who gets it.

Every scenario I can think of seems like it should be either traceable or actionable.

Scenario 1: The crooks cashed out the victim's $270,000 at ATMs. That means they set up 270 fraudulent bank accounts, each tied to a separate ATM card, and each with a withdrawal limit of $1000. There should be a cornucopia of leads to follow. It's a major hassle to set up a bank account. You need an address at which to receive each one of those 270 ATM cards. Did the bank(s) send 270 cards to one single mailing address? Were these online accounts or did the crooks visit each bank with fake IDs? What did the surveillance cameras at the ATMs show? If they hired duped people to cash out at the ATMs, can't the police catch at least one of those persons and continue following the money?

Scenario 2: The crooks create one master British bank account into which the stolen money is funneled (say $1,000,000) and then they transfer the money to overseas to Third World Bank. Why doesn't the British bank (or the British government) demand that the $1,000,000 be returned by Third World Bank? It's now the Third World country's job to track down the crooks if they want to. If they won't return the funds, they get blacklisted by the British banking system.

Perhaps there are very good answers about why and how the crooks can get away with it but it seems so implausible when money has been so traceable for the last 20 or 30 years (except for certain cryptocurrencies but that's recent).
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10xer is not about churning out code.

"Why is DJ Bernstein so great? I too can churn out CRUD apps very fast in ruby rails" - some webshit says this every day on HN.
> Can someone explain to me how this makes sense when they are letting insulate britain block motorways? Like which protests are they trying to stop?

They are letting them? I'm pretty sure they get arrested every single time. Or are you wanting a instant jail sentence for being suspect of making people late?
I think op meant, that the government should make video.gov.tld webpage to post government videos there, instead of posting them to youtube.
Also the effects on the politics of water availability, especially across borders. See this article [1], and many others besides. (I chose this one because of its recency and also because it seems less sensationalised than much of what I've read - even in journals/news sources usually considered to be reputable/level-headed.)

[1] https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/ethiopia-s-mega-da...
We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star
It's also because the britanic banking system decided that, on the safety / usability balance, they would choose usability.

Banking in britanic banking system is way easier than anywhere else. I remember when I was a student, they sent a bus to the university, so we could just hop in, arrive at the bank, and open an account as an immigrant in 15 minutes.

Try to do that in France, you would get your card, what, next month at best?

It was only a matter of time before the criminals realize the door was unlocked and feast on them.

In fact, I'm expecting Australia to be next, for the very same reasons.

Have you tried to do any paper work in Australia ? It's. So. Simple. Seriously, for a french, it's a video game on easy mode, and you never leave the tutorial.

But there is trust everywhere.

They are either going down, or make the system harder to work with.
> Which is collusion and we have remedies for it.

Have you been living in a cave? What would you call today's cross-company bans except collusion?
There must be something about the names as well too. The names used in PES were a continuous joke: https://www.theversed.com/51686/pro-evo-names-years/#.LcxSir...
It's 4 because tiger lake CPUs have 4 pcie lanes and the usb ports are thunderbolt and thus require an entire lane for full speed
That's an interesting point, although for that we should be using hospitalization numbers instead of deaths.

I think you would agree that if the rest of the population got vaccinated, the load on the hospitals would probably decrease by some amount. Knowing how much merit the argument of the hospitals being overwhelmed has requires some careful analysis based on the actual numbers.

Sadly, that seems to be too much of an expectation from the people who call themselves journalists (and fact-checkers seem to only do marginally better).
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...
I had the opposite experience: the one time I've tried to use this with Amex they were completely useless. We had a fraudulent $200 charge on our business card, and Amex ruled in the merchant's favor after being presented with an unsigned PDF "receipt" that was nothing but the text "Digital Software... $200"
There are organizations creating thousands of bank accounts to cash out transactions like this for a percentage. They use fake IDs, there’s no way to stop them.

Catching the people opening the accounts leads you to nowhere, they rarely even know their bosses.
Adonis.js is a sort of Laravel clone for the node eco-system. Its been around for years, but i don't see it used very much
True, though I haven't seen any in decades. Not much old forests left.
Is it really the case that not much can be done, or just that the resources aren't there to do it? Your average scammer isn't a criminal genius. You'd think a bit of good old fashioned police work would suffice in a lot of cases – if there were actually some police officers available to do that.
You now have to paid FIFA, every single team in the European League, and Champion League for using their name, logos, colour of their shirt. etc etc. Extra money for having big name player faces for marketing on the box or graphics as well as their 3D face modelling appearing in their game.

How much of that $60 you are paying actually goes to the game and not some licensing?

I am not against licensing fees per se, but it is getting out of hand. You would expect they have more resources with all the success to continue to improve football / soccer games. But no, I have so much more fun with Winning Eleven / Pro Evolution Soccer in the late 90s and 00s than all the crap we have now.

It is actually a lot of the same with Remasters, something about the act of making games is lost.
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This practice has similarities to Rudolf Steiner's Six Exercises for Basic Esoteric Development. I've been practicing at least a few of these, nearly every day for most of my adult life. I've found them to be a great help.

My 2 favorites are:

The Control of Will
Choose a simple action to perform each day at a time you select. It should be something you do not ordinarily do; it can even be a little odd. Then make it a duty to perform this action at that time each day.

Rudolf Steiner gives the example of watering a flower each day at a certain time. As you progress, additional tasks can be added at other times.

This exercise is as hard as it is simple and takes a very strong intention to complete. To start you might think of it as you think of a dentist's appointment - you do not want to be late. It can be helpful to mark your success or failure on the calendar each day. If you completely forget at the time, but remember later, do it then and try to do better the next day.

My other favorite isn't on this list, but is a related practice:

Draw the same plant or tree every day for 5 minutes. This offers incredible insight into the observation of small changes taking place as part of the change in seasons.

https://leadtogether.org/six-basic-exercises-esoteric-develo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner%27s_exercises...
I feel that they should promote this more. Not everyone can afford to sync their own 300GB DB... Especially for testing. As a developer, I want to test things with someone else's backend before I even bother setting up my own.
I'm a somewhat frequent player. While yes player updates are a part of it there's is more. Firstly players and rosters usually gets updates throughout, so if I open my FIFA 21 now it would certainly update rosters.

In new titles usually we'll get some new leagues (nice for people who wants to play a team/league in their country).

IIRC in FIFA 22 you can create your own team now (waited for that one for a long time).

Worth noting that stuff that people want like a much better player career mode seems to never be updated.
I recently did this looking for an under-sink water filter. It’s usually useful, but in this case the recommended products were from a Reddit post from 2.5 years ago. More recent Amazon reviews indicated this was a good product initially, then the quality declined over time.

That’s another tricky thing to fix: products have the same page and information, but the product does change over time. And that’s hard to indicate in a review because the changes are so subtle.
I had been wondering this exact thing. Does typescript have good metaprogramming tools?

I feel like you could build a good Rails-clone (trails?) in typescript that serviced regular old HTML well and have something extremely useful.

Selfishly I want this so I can pair it with htmx.
Coronavirus aside, I wonder how many of these deaths are related to TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter use.
Gitlab Exceeds IPO Target Price to Raise $801M
Here is my most cynical opinion. The fragmented JS "build your own stack" community prioritizes quick prototypes and developer employment over long term developer productivity.
It's easy for a company to get stuck with a quickly prototyped piece of garbage JS software that works quickly but then the developers can spend years reinventing every single crud wheel and calling it a "feature".

Hence you end up evolving a large community of people who could stay employed by keeping company's on the hook vs developers who actually managed to get their project into a fully working state and become obsolete.
I'm a programmer from in3d. Insanely excited to work on our human scanner. I hope HN users will like our application too.
I think the British and Americans have a lot in common which likely makes us equally susceptible, but perhaps some of the reasons are slightly different. To overly generalise two entire countries:

British: tend to defer to authority, tend to be overly polite.

Americans: tend to question authority, tend to have strong self-belief.

As a theoretical scammer I'd likely be looking at different approaches in the two countries, but with probably the same underlying scam. I imagine this is true for most countries, and I'd be curious to see how much of the approach has to change for different places.

Edit: I should add, I think the American fear of the IRS and the UK fear of HMRC are effectively equal. Everyone's scared of the tax man :D
In theory, you would first call your bank consultant to verify the number is legitimate. (Supposing the existence of a process which is not completely broken.)
> Upvotes imply aggreement of the original post therefore do not need further explanation.

Agreement isn't useful feedback. An upvote implies that the comment is funny, a virtual laugh if you will, which is useful feedback to allow you to hone the entertainment value of your comments.

I suspect the next person will have a different take, though. Which ultimately means that the votes mean nothing at all beyond that someone, assuming no bots are at play, pressed a button.

Therefore, votes are just a poor man's analytics system. They give some vague feedback that someone was near your comment and nothing more. Which button was pressed makes no difference.
> uses his name to sell artwork

Sure, because that's the extent of his corruption.
>What exactly is there in the definition that ties this to an implementation?

In definition nothing, but I believe there are very popular implementations (mostly one) of given design pattern that people are aware of and associate with given design pattern

and I guess it may kinda improve communication? idk.
It's not just old people. Plenty of young tech savvy people fall for these scams as well.

The scammers are extremely well practiced, and are extremely good at using misdirection and pressure cooker situations to make it extremely difficult for people to recognise the scam in the moment. Some of the scariest aspects of these scams is that they frequently use the banks own fraud protections and alerts against victims, creating transactions they know will be declined, or inducing the bank to send legitimate login warnings, to create evidence that a victim needs to act soon to protect their money.

Scammers will also falsify phone numbers, calling from numbers that are either identical, or almost identical to the banks official number, and then ask the victim to compare the caller ID to number on the bank of bank card to build trust. Finally there's frequently a significant delay between the initial scam email/SMS and final scam. A victim will accidently enter their card details into fake package website, but nothing happens. Then three weeks later when they've forgotten about the fake website, the fraudsters will ring, using the data to "prove" they're from the bank, then ask the victim if they recently put their data into any dodgy websites (which of-course they did). Once they created the strong impression they're calling from the bank, reminded the victim of the earlier fake website, the victim is then perfectly primed to believe someone is trying to steal their money, and person on the phone is going to help prevent that.

TL;DR, these scams are extremely sophisticated, and perpetrated by intelligent individuals who's full time job is figuring out how to socially engineer people into handing over their cash. Don't assume your somehow "better" or more "immune" to these scams, or that victims aren't educated and intelligent. That grossly underestimates how capable these criminals are, and induces people to ignore the issues and victim blame instead.
Exactly; there is no faulty algorithm without a human being behind it.

"I just closed my eyes, swung my fist repeatedly, and started walking! How should I have known you'd be standing there?"
That's pretty much what happens if you're running multiplayer through a third-party server, except that instead of sending video data, it's sending you game input and having you render the video locally.

But that's just the difference between downloading a starcraft replay file and watching it in starcraft, versus downloading a video of a starcraft game and watching it in a video player. One is a compressed video, and the other is also a compressed video, but with a different compression scheme.
That's very true. I think the most frustrating thing (that I regularly see) is people trying to do a minor fix in a wizard (let's say on the 5th step) and going through every step again just to see if the bug was fixed. Things like HMR can help here.

That's why things like mock-service-worker or having prefilled Redux stores (or whatever state management you use that allows something similar) are a real time saver.

Of course fixing the bug based on test is always better, but often you have to fix something visual which is a little bit harder to do with tests.
Well yeah.. but again, the number could also be in the footer of the banks website.

People usually get scammed when they have the card with them... when they lose the card, they're the one actively looking for a phone number, and not presented with one from a scammer.
Is it better to spend money subsidising bank branches? Or generally improving security and beefing up the police? I would say the latter - it benefits everyone and reduces crime.

The actual actions of the government have been to do neither.
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If a build system produces an adverse outcome, it is often possible to customize it so that it does not delete things which you would rather not have deleted. (I've no idea whether this is specifically easy or not in gradle)
"You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied, and well know that if you ask a person what numbers make up twelve, taking care to prohibit him whom you ask from answering twice six, or three times four, or six times two, or four times three, ‘for this sort of nonsense will not do for me,’—then obviously, if that is your way of putting the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he were to retort, ‘Thrasymachus, what do you mean? If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one?—is that your meaning?’—How would you answer him?"
We need a street football (soccer) game and procedural generated stadiums, players, teams. OpenAI can contribute a top engine to an open source game.
>Sure, because that's the extent of his corruption.

Definition: Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's private gain

What position of authority has Hunter Biden been entrusted with that he has abused?

What illicit benefits has Hunter Biden gained?

Shame on you for playing this partisan game. Unlike Invanka, who was nepotistically elevated to public service, Hunter has absolutely no role in the American government and thus cannot in any fair sense be corrupt.
So what is your proposed solution? Outlaw non-renewable energy sources and simply let energy prices to go up by any amount?