skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial products usually aim to satisfy its paying customer's needs. FOSS is, not always but most times, about satisfying one's own needs. So it won't be that easy to change a developer's mind who is determined about their way of doing things even if it is not the best way for others.
I already use my Windows system like this. Between the anti-cheats and Microsoft's push for telemetry in Windows, I just don't feel comfortable using my Windows as my own private system. So I don't.
While we don't have termites. Don't forget about carpenter ants which can and do damage wooden buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_ant
what are you talking about, webpack has nothing to do with Facebook or React.
Agreed. AMEX really goes to bat for you. The few times I have had an issue they go after the issue with tenacity. No hassle to me beyond a 2 min phone call.
FIFA is basically a cash cow unprecedented in gaming. Unfortuantely for EA that cash has to be "equally" split with FIFA.
"Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language." - Peter Norvig, https://norvig.com/design-patterns/

I have to say that I agree with this. In my experience design patterns in Java lead to overly complicated, over-engineered code, think abstract factory factory factory. I've seen it and had it described as "best practice", decoupling, design patterns, etc.
> Maybe our curious mix of laziness, stupidity, superiority complex, and greed combine to make us the perfect targets.

Such self-hatred only from a Labour voter I bet
That's a big if - why would a scammer risk the liability of operating in the EU if they can trivially outsource to somewhere untouchable?
So working a shit ton then.
Are there any five eyed nations where I can get a group of my friends together then block a major arterial road to protest some issue without expecting to be arrested?
Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a VC ahead of Gitlab’s $10B IPO
I guess I'll just have to pay $49.99 a year for iCloud!

Why isn't this a lawsuit yet?
You are correct that the "easy interpretation" is not valid for confidence intervals. However, it is the correct interpretation for Bayesian credible intervals. Re-read my comment. I think I'm pretty clear that you need to use a method to convert confidence intervals into probability / credible intervals to make them useful.

You can treat many frequentist statistical methods as shortcuts to Bayesian methods with flat priors, thus allowing you to exchange confidence (a meaningless concept in practice) for probability.

You demonstrated in your simulation what confidence means, but in applications, we only have one confidence interval per parameter, not 1,000,000, so the "reliability of a procedure" interpretation is not useful.
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Jolla Turns 10 Years
Because not everyone has updated yet, not everything related to the vulnerability is fixed yet, the vulnerability is kind of bullshit, people are still figuring out if there are lots of adjacent or similar vulnerabilities to handle, etc. Not sure which of these is the case here.

You can, of course, disclose vulnerabilities whenever you like. But don't expect to get a bounty if you piss off the vendor in the process.
Did you report the wage theft crime that you suspected?
It's being discussed on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/q7mice/a_ne...
Madden hasn't changed in a decade and it still tops the sales charts every year. It has to have the best economics of any game franchise in existence.
I have a script that takes a btrfs snapshot, uses borg to back up the consistent snapshot (to rsync.net), then removes the snapshot again. It then instructs Borg about which snapshots to retain, so my space shouldn't grow without bound.

For extra extra snapshotting fun, rsync.net then takes ZFS snapshots of the borg backup. So even if my snapshot cleaning gets over-enthusiastic, I'll still have a snapshot of the snapshot.
Zooming works fine on iOS Safari.
You can't even talk to a live support person on the phone anymore. Just moved to the UK (from Czech Republic) and was shocked how everything is IVR here. We are all just numbers in the database here.
Many languages target 'novice' audiences. Smalltalk is a classic example https://squeak.org ; a more recent example is Pyret https://www.pyret.org
You can absolutely run it during development! In fact, many people will use an editor that automatically does this and highlights any potential errors - which means you don't need your compiler to display them (or even block compiling) as well.

And yes, type checking is relatively slow, and also strictly extra work, since it's not required to make your code runnable.

You'll often see that people do still do a more thorough production build in their CI systems, but not necessarily by using a bundler that includes type checking; rather, they just run type checking and bundling as separate tasks. That way, you do indeed get all the verification you would like without having to delay deployment.

(To make it somewhat more confusing, a project like Vite does use a fast bundler (ESBuild) during development and a more thorough one for production (Rollup), but that's independent of type checking. It's more about the latter doing more optimisations, and the former merely making the code runnable by the browser.)
Coherency, security, stability, ZFS... Perfect on a server (e.g. a VPS), may not be as good as a desktop or as something to run on a laptop (depending on hardware).
This is a reasonable intuition, but consider the same statement in the context of physical exercise:

> Using such techniques to correct a [body] that's already out of balance isn't something I've got a problem with, but altering a healthy/typical [body] is to be avoided.

Of course there exists dangerous excess in both cases. You can exercise yourself to death, or ruin your health with horse testosterone. But that overindulgence can do harm doesn't automatically indict a daily hour of cardio, or even HIIT and a bit of protein powder or whatever.

edit: Granted, some of the stuff in this "psychonetics" book seems a bit nonsense. But some of it certainly isn't.

For example: What it systematizes apparently for the sake of systematism as "(VM.PDA) Planar Deconcentration of Attention (PDA)" is just a very highflown and rather silly description of something I learned from a great-uncle as one of a hunter's techniques for easily noticing movement. The way he put it was not to look at anything, but just look, and eventually I got the hang of it.

I don't hunt, or at least not with a rifle, but I do regularly use the technique in wildlife photography, and it's extremely helpful and not at all as complicated or esoteric as Kusakov would seem to prefer. Too, Uncle Bram seemed perfectly sane when I knew him as a child, and I'm likewise not aware of any particular harm the use of this mental technique has inflicted on me.

I wouldn't make the same assertion for everything in here, or even claim that anything in here is useful other than by coincidence, but there is at least one thing in here I can vouch for, albeit again preferably without all the nonsense with which Kusakov hedges it around. So if nothing else he's no worse off than a broken clock, I suppose.
I think it's a mix of the convenience factor being low enough* that it mostly appeal to technical people, and the complexity factor also being low enough that a lot of said technical people think they can do it in a week-end (I did my first prototype in 2 or 3 evenings) or two.

You can start simple with MAKEFILEs, perl scripts, pandoc and other basic/builtin unix scripts etc... and go up to build a full SSG site in Node or Ruby / Python etc... with a million dependencies if you wish to.

*: every time you want to publish something you have to run a command , wait and push the output to a webhost configured properly, as opposed to installing something once and writing in a webform and your words appear on the site.
What an absolutely infantile comment.
Consider the perspective of the unbeliever:

Catholicism teaches that the laying of hands can endow a person (of male biological sex) with the power to transform bread and wine into flesh and blood through the ritual utterance of certain words.

It's going to be hard sell to explain how that's not superstitious...
We're using Vite and enjoying it, would you say much of Vite could be replaced with pure esbuild?

I guess Vite provides a nice development experience but is built on esbuild.
Glad to see another option out there for file sync. Browsing the FAQ I noticed:

To further limit the amount of CPU used when syncing and scanning, set the environment variable GOMAXPROCS to the maximum number of CPU cores Syncthing should use

Are they using an environment variable shared by other Go programs? Seems like bad practice... why aren't they using a variable or or switch that's unique to Syncthing instead?
I don't think rejecting a comparison with an uncomplete nightly build is unfair. It looks like it was added a little after this issue was closed because the blocker was fixed.

Parcel 2 was released as stable yesterday though and Evan has already updated comparison.

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/commit/186446eae8cc8c7439eb...
It's not a British thing, people get scammed in the US by the simplest and dumbest scams every day.

The news is always warning people not to transfer money to the IRS etc if they call
And the following year FIFA will give the licence to another developer, any everyone will switch to that. PES was a far better game than FIFA, but everyone wanted to play with their favourite players and teams. There's no way EA will kill that cash cow
Problem here is that the legislators have skipped making laws on this area because of expedience, politicians have hotlines to the big tech where they can call in ask for content to be removed without any transparency or records whatsoever. And not only that big tech are in many cases subsidized by governments, decided by the same politicians that make the calls. We are talking about massive corruption on the highest level.

This new way of governance is not confined to social media but it also been used excessively during the Covid pandemic, instead of doing the hard work of passing legislation in a legislative body, governments are using back channels to pressure companies, NGOs, cities, etc to do their bidding, without any transparency or records.

It is obviously anti-democratic to its core.

Free speech is not absolute, government has the right to censor, however is has to do it properly by passing legislation, using courts and other transparent institutions.
Given the quantity of video uploaded to youtube I'm not sure human moderation of any significant amount of it is even possible anymore. Humans are definitely better at handling many situations but are also prone to their own biases (e.g. there were facebook moderators a while back who would take down reported content they disagreed with for religious reasons), they are often not given enough time to reasonably review a report, and when exposed to the kind of videos being reported can experience serious mental health problems

Some of these could be dealt with by the companies investing more in moderation (make them employees/better pay/healthcare etc.), but if you want to moderate at the scale of youtube/facebook/etc. then I don't see how you could do it without some automated tools
Yikes - the time period the BBC and ONS have chosen for those statistics is close to maximally misleading. It includes most of the 2020/2021 winter wave of cases and deaths which ended before the UK had widespread vaccination whilst almost entirely excluding the summer 2021 wave which happened after most of the adult population was vaccinated. Of course most deaths are going to be amongst people who weren't vaccinated if you only count the ones before vaccination was widespread.

To give some context for how bad setting the time period to be from the start of January to the start of July is, the winter wave peaked in cases at the start of January and deaths mid-January, and by the end of the month less than 1% of UK adults had recieved both vaccine doses - and remember, the stats in that article are for both doses only. The next big wave saw deaths start to increase around the start of July, by which point three-quarters of adults had both doses; those deaths aren't counted at all.
But how do you know that reintroducing the mainframe model is the mistake, not that we completely got rid of it?

Or maybe the total dominance of personal computers was an intermediate state caused by the low availability of good enough network connections
Sounds like you think everyone should learn programming the exact same way you did?
Honestly, I am not sure who is more disliked. FIFA or EA.
Shit vs. Turd
> This is one we built on openlayers using hybrid data sources, including a tiled background from OSM: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/

That's a really cool map and makes me hopeful for there eventually being more indoors maps! Also, the design itself seems simple, approachable and the illustrations make it more humane!

That said, the performance leaves something to be desired:

- tested it on a desktop with Firefox (93) on a Ryzen 1200 and RX 570, got anywhere between 15-30 fps, usable but not smooth
- tested it on a mobile Android budget phone (Ulefone Armor X7 Pro) with a Mediatek chip, got somewhere between 5-10 fps
- seems like it's related to rendering the building, because panning away so it's offscreen improves the performance
- this appears to be confirmed by also zooming out so less details are shown, in which case the performance improves

That's not probably an issue that actually needs addressing (newer hardware would perform better, the one mentioned performs passably), however there's definitely something to be said about how things will probably get better in this regard in the coming years (Mapbox alone has made plentiful advances) and how mixing different data sources or technologies may incur certain performance penalties until then, which may or may not actually be a concern, depending on the target audience.
From wikipedia: "...[Danny Thorpe] in 1994 while at Borland, he contracted with Santa Cruz startup Cinematronics (David Stafford and Mike Sandige) to build a component model and collision physics engine for a software pinball game. Cinematronics licensed an early version of the pinball engine to Microsoft"
Maybe Borland and Delphi has something to do with the 'T' prefixes.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Thorpe
Ugh, you were correct. I did copy and paste your code to my testing framework and it instantly crashed at that time, but it seems that I put a wrong offset to the output. The resulting code was slightly faster (by 2--4%) than my AVX2 code.
Both the power and simplicity of a program come from its abstractions. Any language that makes new abstraction easy allows for a seasoned professional to easily make simple and powerful programs.

Beyond that, the language itself cannot do this work for you beyond providing libraries where other programmers have done it already, and shared their work.

And the reason for this is simple. To make an abstraction, we must think, and no language can think for us. The power and simplicity of our code is a product of our thinking. The rest is just technical implementation based on specs.

With languages that make abstraction hard, programmers have created tools to help. HTML and CSS have horrible abstraction features. Server-side Perl and PHP and client-side javascript has been used to abstract HTML. Sass, Less, and SCSS are tools invented for CSS.

The learning curve for abstraction itself is language independent.
> Force players to choose between FI-FI-FA legacy league and the new hotness.

FIFA has the approval of nation-states and there's massive cultural capital invested in FIFA, especially regarding the World Cup. Nobody's leaving it, especially not players.
FIFA also doesn't have leagues of its own.

> EA have a direct channel to a huge slab of their market to tear the FIFA politicians with their snouts in the trough a new one.

EA is chump change compared to world football. They've got no leverage, and despite the dislike for FIFA everywhere, a power struggle between the two with EA casting itself as the righteous party will only invite backlash.
Discovery of fire and our brain. How they are related
Banks make no money from retail customers as it is, they certainly aren't going to be reopening branches any time soon.
It seems like it could be made very streamlined. Sit down at a table and press a button on it, then just tap your card when you leave.

Of course in real life you'd have to install an app, make an account, and get spammed with requests to fill in surveys because we've completely lost track of what good user experience looks like.
You know the answer - because branchless operations are cheaper. If you want to mandate in-person transactions, who would you have pay the extra costs?
Bun [1] is a JS bundler based on esbuild’s source, but written in Zig. And it is about 3x faster than esbuild. I think its author Jarred is on HN as well.

Probably worth a submission on its own but I am just waiting till it is fully open source.

Edit: ( Deleted those Stats, since it may not be a fair comparison and it was probably not meant to be a fair benchmark in the first place. The details are still in the linked tweets. I do not know the author or am I in anyway affiliate with Bun. )

I am also wondering how much of those optimisation could be used on ESbuild. Since Rails 7 and Phoenix 1.6 will be using esbuild and not Webpack.

[1] https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1390084458724741121
Sounds like a business model, you can try it and see what happens.
Why single out apple? This is the experience for anyone who uses a modern password manager
It depends on what tax you’re theoretically trying to avoid (Your definitely not avoiding property taxes). if you don’t pay tax on the rental income, or capital gains your breaking the law, the question is if the auditors show up, are you really going to be safe? And the answer is possibly? But it would take a ton of work and breaking a whole bunch of other laws along the way (offshore banking relationships in non-cooperation countries, mail drops, repatriation of assets problems etc) , and at the end of the day the government will just put a lien on the house until they’ve gotten what they want.
The thing is that people tend to appear to think it's black magic rather than familiarity with a toolset and a deep understanding of the problem.
There exist plenty of cheater servers where the point is competitive aimbot writing. The fun can come from many places.
From my experience with the NHL franchise. If you're a casual or light player of the game you probably won't notice a difference except for the time rosters.

But if you play the game on a regular basis you will also notice the new feature or the thing they've improved. If you play FIFA 2015 and then play FIFA 2022 you'll notice a massive difference yet people will have been saying for years that they don't change anything. That is because every year they improve a single aspect of the game.

The main revenue source for these games isn't even the actual game. It's the online experience where I've heard stories of people paying thousands for their online team.
This guy works on his channel "Raid Owl" and uploads very nicely put videos, I found the channel while searching for homeserver technology videos, and find that he does a great job (but somehow hasn't been discovered by a greater public, judging by the smallish subscribers number)

He's using Syncthing for backups (by enabling a feature that keeps N copies of each file), which while possible, I hadn't thought of as a possibility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kWJ8JcdtM
This really isn't true. Remember that FB has many, many users and (presumably) many, many scammers, so one would expect to see lots of scams.

I too get those (messages lately) friend requests, and almost always by the time I read the message the account has been deactivated (when it says FB user).

So, overall, I think they're doing a reasonably good job on this particular problem.
is this a new revisionist rhetoric being pushed all of a sudden? I keep hearing the same arguments in Spain about how they brought freedom to the Americas

I understand being unconformable with one's country's past, but the mental hoops to try to get some justification to colonization is so strange.

Even if (and that's a BIG if) those societies ended up "freer" let's not fool ourselves, not a single country went to colonise another for hundreds of years to make it freer, they went there to exploit it. If 500 years later that country is in a better shape now (again a BIG if), that's an unintended side effect.
If the only value proposition of the game, as compared to competition, is to have real team and player names and their real up-to-date stats, then it's only fair to pay properly for that business advantage.

250M per year seems fair to me. If they don't want to, I'm sure there'll be another company willing to pay that amount for their game can be called “FIFA 2022”.

AFAIK, oil companies also has to pay for the right to extract oil from the ground to the owner. Why would this case be different.
It's definitely good to always remember this cautious idea, yet sticking entirely to it seems equivalent to "don't ever go to gym and lift any weights". People around do all sorts of things which are rather far from the stable point to where their bodies rest naturally and get all sorts of semi-sustainable benefits. A human can actually use brains some good ways most people don't know about. Your brain is a machine you should develop some degree of control over rather than leave it to drive itself chaotically based on external and unintentional internal stimuli alone. E.g. it is possible to develop some degree of effortless stress-free emotion control, learning to take your feelings and ideas critically is also very important. E.g. feeling anger doesn't necessarily mean the other person is wicked or have actually done anything bad at all, feeling depressed doesn't imply everything is bad, you can feel debilitating panic without actual danger, appetite is just loosely correlated to actual need to eat, it is possible and good for health to switch (by your will alone) to feeling gratitude from feeling annoyed. Most people are not aware of this but they should be. Also "normal" mind is a sleeping mind, occasionally you sort of "wake up" for a moment and find the time has passed as if it never was so you didn't live it for to full extent.
Professionals, which is anyone who makes a living programming for at least part of their job, suffer from exactly the same sins in the article.

If anything, pros suffer from even MORE sins of the stuff that surrounds the language... tooling, builds, deployment, environment concerns. One big one is configurational dumpster fires-- dealing with reams of brutally unpleasant YAML.
I think this is a regulatory failure. Banks should be stopped, by regulation, from doing things that harm public expectations in this way.
I get that it's all form. Like an ad or a music video. But my experience of it is that it's like someone has shoved something up too close to my face. The feeling I get is that I want to retract from it. Is that what they wanted? As designers were they able to get past their minimalism one trick pony and evaluate the overall experience of what that pony generated?
Whenever I ran the numbers, decommissioned servers were hard to justify. They are cheap to buy, but you pay that back quickly in electricity. And if you want something that's not incredibly noisy you pay a decent premium for that.
Interesting. So the workflow here becomes that the server is the workstation with peoples homes etc.

It will be interesting to figure out how to adjust my workflow. I deploy things in Kubernetes at home so I'd need to mount a remote filesystem which would become my user home.

A Chromium book which loads straight into an IDE (only) would be a nice productivity tool!