skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but at least this is all for money and takes effort to aggregate. A kind of “proof of work” for government privacy invasion.

Central Bank Digital Cash puts it on a central server, time stamped and with access logs.
It is a lovely piece, though I had an advantage of knowing ricochet robots already (which I immediately started thinking about solving).
Agreed.

I have a series of content websites, and at first I used Jekyll and it was fast to load, but everything took 10x longer to do than just using WordPress.

I now use WordPress on a VPS and served with Litespeed Enterprise and the performance (read: load times and CWV/GMetrix scores) is very very good - better than static sites hosted on shared hosting, in-fact.
Are Video Games Good or Bad?
There is no "waste".

Waste is just partially burned fuel. There is only ONE reason why it exists.

We made a political choice that storing partially burned fuel instead of reprocessing is safer than allow people have technology that can also create nuclear weapons.
AFAIK cloud gaming hasn't shown any signs of "taking off" so far, despite many desperate attempts. I think we're safe for a while. And even if, there will be new game companies discovering that now free niche of "cloud free gaming". Some of the other problems you describe already exist for locally installed games though (e.g. most multiplayer games are useless when their matchmaking servers are switched off).
Look at the discussion thread Dang waxes poetically in and note that he doesn't moderate several significantly more flamebait-y, political comments that happen to be on the others side of the political fence.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27164027
Raycast Extensions API and Store Beta Released
I watched the first 15 minutes of this it was really interesting. The video is quite long, where does he discuss exciting hyper violent males?
I hate how Java and C# forces every function to be a method.(i.e. member of a class)
Algorithm generates a marketing funnel made for your startup
You can build Janet in iSH and run it on an iPad that way, which is what I do.
>One of the decisions that payed the most in my later programming endeavors was deciding to learn C and C++ in high school

I started with C++ in high school, but probably not $newest_version_at_the_time and it was mess for me

I felt like I was fighting language / compiler instead of trying to solve problems. "wtf? I remember that it worked fine week ago! <googling again some basic thing like array length>"
or asking teacher about compiler errors

Somebody then showed me C# and I instantly switched
Not to mention, prefacing an opinion with "Hint:" is rather obnoxious.
I avoid discussions which say one of them is "the way to go".
Both are acceptable in my point of view. Both have their drawbacks and benefits.

iPhones for example have had massive security issues in iMessage and still prevents other (more secure) apps to receive SMS. Why?
iPhones could all be targeted with zero click attacks of Pegasus because they have a consistent OS throughout all devices.

Are iPhones bad because of this? - No! But iOS vs Android must not be a religion (same for Windows vs Unix)
Indeed -- the real meat often is in two star reviews. One star is a knee jerk reaction, competitor buying fake review and more, usually useless. But two star typically means someone thought a bit before writing it. I found many genuine problems with products reading two star review -- and more than once, I decided to do buy because the problems were acceptable. This tactic works more often than not but I am worried what happens when this last bastion fails and two stars get flooded with fake BS.
Oh, certainly I mean excise and not excite
What does contemporary mean in this context? i.e. what's not considered 'contemporary'
Deno is using this: https://github.com/swc-project/swc
Amazing. That means he does his job right! As a good CTO you shouldn't have anything to do. If you're caught up in work, you're doing it wrong.
It sounds plausible that he bought it in Bohemia, in 1580 Prague was the seat of Rudolph II, HRE, who loved collecting trinkets like this one. And being a Hapsburg he had an obvious connection to Spain and spanish conquests
I think vite is using esbuild only for TS transpiling in development and esbuild & rollup for production.
To be fair, Russian science was very productive. It didn't outcompete the west in the end, but kept up with far fewer resources. It is amazing what they achieved with what little they had compared to relatively prosperous western nations.

I agree though that quotas will not increase output at all. There are limiting factors that reach far beyond gender and of course they did not have quotas, nor did they treat women better than in the west. Expectations were different but people not having to work was obviously seen as a luxury possible through productivity.
Does this indicate that by not fixing the fake reviews problem, Amazon can, whenever it wants, get rid of a troublesome competitor?

(since the competitors are sort of forced to use fake reviews)
A Broader Take on Parsing
It may have already been used as a backup system, but it was not made for that, and they even answered that in their FAQ. It was this question that stopped me setting it up, because it made me realise I was after a backup solution, not just a synchronisation tool

"
Is Syncthing my ideal backup application?

No. Syncthing is not a great backup application because all changes to your files (modifications, deletions, etc.) will be propagated to all your devices. You can enable versioning, but we encourage you to use other tools to keep your data safe from your (or our) mistakes.
"

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#is-syncthing-my-id...
ASIC process generations. The original MOS 6502 was manufactured in really big process - when "Contact" actually meant making contact on the plastic sheets that became the masks. Huge transistors, 5V power supply etc.

Modern Cortex M0+ chips are probably manufactured using 90nm, 65nm process nodes (or possibly even smaller - but the die size will become I/O-bound. Though you can then add more memory easily without driving up the die size). They have much lower core supply, much better I/Os - and low power modes.

In our specific case, we used I believe 250 nm, or possibly even 350 nm ASIC process. And size in this specific case also related to the package. We used a QFN. Today you can get a M0+ based MCU with low number of exposed I/Os in a small BGA or WCP packages that is just a few mm2.

The idea we had at the start was a chip small enough to fit inside the connector of a serial wire, require so little power to not need external power (basically harvesting), be fast enough to not reduce bitrate. Add very low and fixed latency. And be transparent to (after configuration) be totally transparent as seen from the application. Basically a secure serial cable. But reduced to be an extra cable connector that is inserted between an IoT, SCADA device and its serially connected modem.

Due to the process node we didn't really get there. But today this is basically feasible using off-the-shelf MCUs.

I actually found a few of the chips and one of the cable connectors/dongles Yesterday. So I still have a few 33 MHz 6502s ;-)
I looked at using ESbuild and I use Typescript. It was all looking good until reading the docs and it said ESbuild doesn't typecheck Typescript and to rely on your IDE to flag errors.

Is that correct and how is that working for you practically if it is? The whole point for Typescript for me is to have a compiler typecheck my code and block errors at compile time. ESbuild not typechecking seemed like a major contradiction to using Typescript so I set up a Webpack build using the standard ts compiler.

I've been out the loop of client side stuff a couple of years so to start was bit of a rabbit hole. Grunt/Gulp had gone and now Webpack seems common with a growing fanbase for ESbuild because of it's speed.
Historically anti-cheats are about as big a mess as AV engines in the kernel.
The only realistic solution to this problem is to move the audio and video rendering server-side and stream final output to clients from the edge.

You have to attack this from an information theory perspective. If the client receives the information in any manner whatsoever, you must assume it is being used in the most adversarial way possible.

The AI problem is more complex, but that's more a function of how deep the gameplay is than how good the hacker is. Time constraints make pure machine vision bots subpar for fast-paced games that also have a complex tactical element.
The rocket itself was clearly suborbital at the time.
So modernize them.

Germany is obviously unable to produce sufficient renewable energy. It's far too inelastic.

It's Germanys fault the electricity is so expensive.
While we're all sharing, here's mine:

https://git.sr.ht/~evan-hoose/SSSSS

Is it garbage? Yes. But it's my garbage, and does what I need it to!
Julia is a great language and has a lot going for it in areas where Python (and the ecosystem) has weaknesses - my favourite are composability (experienced with math libraries) and the ability to reach high speed.

If, on the other hand, you take Python's core strengths like the simplicity, to my mind Julia does not necessarily match these. I have seen people being able to extend Python programs without any Python training or tutorials or even programming affinity just by imitating the code next to where they want the program to do something. I have a hard time imagining that that would be quite as easy with Julia.

Similarly, if you take the ideas from the Zen of Python, you might find that Python (code) fares better on them than Julia.

Now, any of the features that contribute to Julia being more complex in the above sense has a good reason for existing, but there is is value in Python's simplicity that can be easy to overlook.

Of course, one might wonder whether Python started to depart from that - with := and structural pattern matching being examples of things that are valuable features but at the same time adding quite a bit of complexity while being much more controversial than, say, list comprehensions.

Note that this is not about being able to write programs that are easy to understand but about any given code being easy to understand (at the "what does this line of code do" level).

It may also be instructive to compare the (English) Wikipedia entries of both, I think they are to some extend reflections of the different philosophies behind the two languages.
it was the most joyful game that shipped with windows and it was also fun! I would like to play it again :)
How Much SETI Has Been Done? Finding Needles in the Cosmic Haystack
If you want to play a modern, hi-resolution 3D version of Space Cadet, there was a Visual Pinball port recently by JPSalas: https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=47560
My use cases may be simpler than yours, but I don't copy files around.

I usually sync PDF and epub files to my iPad and open them directly from the sync folder in Apple Books.
> How do you know you didn’t get the “old strain” of the virus when you contracted COVID?

Because the immunity still works. Both empirically and according to the antibody tests. Despite (or thanks to, if this actually works like booster shots) regular contact with many new people and all strain waves declared. If by some miracle all my immunity comes from the first contact and has nothing to do with anything newer then Ok, cool, but this doesn't mean the vaccine based on the same or older strain is better. Given the antibodies level I don't think need to boost it or have higher chances of infecting anybody than vaccinated people do.

> What about when

Perhaps I will get a shot once an updated vaccine gets released and about a year passes.

> By that logic you should go get Lyme Disease and not the vaccine before it. Build up your immunity.

AFAIK with the Lyme disease the chances it will work out this way - without harm and with reliable immunity as the result are very low if any. With coronaviruses the chance is well above 50% when you are young and fit. Nevertheless I still recommend everyone who doesn't have much antibodies yet go and get the shot already.

> Describe exactly the scientific reasoning that explains what is “tested enough”

Not exactly scientific, just intuitive: it has been deployed to large diverse population in diverse set of places, some reasonable time passed, it helped a lot, no bugs found.

You write a lot (for what I want thank you, and I would feel very grateful if you managed to change my mind, I really value input which can correct or expand my understanding), mostly reasonable, but seemingly ignore (or excuse me if I missed a clear answer) the key question of mine: what's the reason (strictly scientific or speculative, I don't insist) to believe the vaccines will get me better antibodies than those I already have? As for my worry it can actually weaken my immunity I'm perfectly aware it's just a superstition based on nothing else but lack of knowledge + "don't mess with what works" mentality so I don't ask for any counterarguments to this.

And by the way, vaccines are not just a virus/mRNA, there also are adjuvants (a word even the spell checker doesn't know) which contribute a lot to both the intended effect and adverse reactions AFAIK. AFAIK this is why many people (including many of those I know personally) still feel terribly sick the day after a the shot even if they were already immune.

Fun fact: there are places in Europe where you can get vaccinated (legally, with ab approved vaccine) but won't be given the certificate so all the places requiring vaccination will still demand you to get vaccinated again. No matter the antibodies you've gotten in response to the vaccine.
I thought this generation of VR was the future of gaming.

I thought that bitcoin would crash about the time of the pizza purchase story.

I thought more than ten years ago that GNU/Linux would make it on desktop in the next 10 years.

I thought that single life was better for me than having a loving partner and kids.
It's already a thing, check out Kymatio. Currently it underperforms compared to a standard CNN but it's an interesting avenue of research.
No, that is not at all what I meant. But I agree that I could have been more clear.
Most people who care to read the comments to a post about esbuild will know what Parcel is. Why do you prefer it?
I assume that when I press a key on my keyboard, the corresponding character will show up in my code editor. If I couldn't assume that, I doubt I'd see the use of pressing any keys at all.

(For clarity's sake: Not disagreeing at all, just illustrating your point with a reductio ad absurdum example.)
Great job on the landing page — that simple animation tells an incredibly simple and compelling story all in 800x200 pixels.

I wish more products had landing pages that looked like that.
"This was nice, but I lost the flexibility I would have wanted to customize the pages a bit - GitHub let's you pick a theme and that's that."

You can actually make your own themes with github pages
> If you pay out for weak, stuck-in-process bugs, you create incentives that redirect programmer time to those weak bugs and away from more significant bugs; as angry as you can reasonably be about a malicious app being able to snarf your contacts, if you're rational, you're a lot more concerned about memory corruption flaws, which is what you really want people spending their time on.

I don't understand how this isn't already reflected in bug bounty pricing tiers? Like, if I access your contacts, I get $x, but if I can access all your photos, I get $xx. As a user, I couldn't care less for how my data got accessed, whether it's a logic bug or memory corruption…
"The only realistic solution to this problem is to move the audio and video rendering server-side and stream final output to clients from the edge."

Too expensive, requires too much crunching power on the server side.

Here, CS in your browser: https://play-cs.com/
Well abolishing cash is almost all upside for everyone.

For retailers (companies that accept payments) it's easier, faster, cheaper and safer ( zero risk of theft by staff or robbery). For regular people that pay it's easier, faster, more linear ( if you have to spend X now, you don't have to have withdrawn it from an ATM or bank before).

The only downsides are underbanked people and companies, which is an issue in itself and needs to be fixed regardless of cash availability (I'm talking in general, but even more so for developing countries and the US(wasn't it in the news recently that the US Postal Service is going to be cashing checks at some ridiculously expensive rate? Way to get in to the 19th century!)), and of course privacy, for which regulation is needed ( who has access to your payment/transaction data and in what cases) and it's solved for 90% of cases.
Laundering is (tax-wise) the opposite of tax evasion though, which what financial secrecy benefits the most.
In Germany this game was called "Baphomet's Fluch" (Baphomet's Curse). The PS1 demo of this were George is surviving an explosion in a Parisian Café is one of my nostalgic gaming memories.
Unless your site is made of 4 files/modules, you simply must bundle. ESM will download the files in series, as each dependency is discovered. Then compression doesn’t work as well as it will be per-file. Then of course you can’t tree-shake dependencies from npm, so good luck downloading the whole of lodash on your client.

In short you lose the advantages of only download what you need pretty quickly.
That's a tragic incident. However, it doesn't look like the author enabled file versioning in Syncthing, which would have retained a copy of all of the deleted files on the computer:

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html
My favourite HN moments are chains of discussions, as if involving two people with opposing views, except every comment by a different person. As if someone else responded instead of you while you stepped away, knowing exactly what you meant earlier. All respectful and upvoted.
> but fails to take into account the apparently inability of many students to master the concept and practice of consistent indenting

I've seen seasoned programmers struggle with this.
> the rule of law and sound economic governance

> Only way to do that which I am aware of is a type of cryptocurrency.

Is there a cryptocurrency you associate with rule of law and sound economic governance?
Something that interests me even more is that the company behind, Kastelo Inc., possibly bears its name from the esperantoan word for 'Castle'.

Can anyone confirm?
NHS Covid Pass: Vaccine records access restored after outage
I think we have two failed concepts in classes: inheritance and encapsulation done wrong.

I don't need to explain why making excessive use of inheritance is wrong. Encapsulation is done wrong because you end up with lots of hidden state and a very complicated dependency graph.
Are iPhones Better for Privacy? iOS vs. Android Apps
True true about the preexisting buildings. But usually the towns can grow wider and that is what's happening at least in my home town of Stockholm.

But they are also building out bicycle paths and a lot of public transportation. When you go in the states a lot of shops etc is so far between so walking between them is possible to not really feasible.

Such places exist in my country as well but they are rare and far between. In the US it seems to be the standard. I visited 4 states and only NYC had good enough public transportation IMO.
We just leave it out on a plate. It keeps at room temperature as long as you go through it in a couple weeks.
off-site backup?
That instantly popped in my mind when I read the post title.

In general, Elizabeth I is solid food for all kinds of folk legends, conspiracies, fantasy pastisches etc.
Employed John Dee, after all.
Couple weeks ago someone posted just this, using an HDMI capture card and a fake USB mouse/keyboard to send inputs back. Got nuked from the 'net pretty quickly, though it made it pretty obvious that with a 20$ HDMI->USB dongle and a microcontroller you can circumvent any anti-cheat, because there is nothing to detect: it's just a PC, with a monitor, and a mouse, and a keyboard.
It's gotten to the point where if you leave an honest review of a bad experience you might face a defamation lawsuit.

I wish I was joking, but: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/before-you-write-that...

Also leaving anything other than a 5 star review is basically criticizing the company and guaranteed to upset.

This is absolutely rubbish; an e.g. 3/5 should be the baseline for acceptable service, and 4/5 reserved for exceptional quality.
The page on the Water Integrator is interesting.
Bad, we just go around in circles, with the browser replacing green phosphor terminals.
An Alternative to the Tractable Cognition Thesis
Monaco is impractical for most tax evasion purposes, since most advantages require to be resident. If you're not resident, Monegasque banks will send your financial information to the country where you're resident. Malta, Liechtenstein, or most "classic" European havens are largely the same: within the EEA your residence country will have all the bank information about you.

They sure have advantageous tax rates to promote certain types of residency/investment, but the financial secrecy isn't really there, which is what this index is about.
People need to wake up and see that CBDCs are literal serfdom. It is the imposition of micro-level, algorithmic economic sanctions on YOU.

Once they are fully implemented and a network effect has taken hold, we will truly own nothing.
Generally I'd say product reviews are one of those ideas like passwords that work but don't survive introduction to the general public and mass use. The problems of authenticity are obvious, but I've also noticed that people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier. And why wouldn't they be? A colleague tells you this e.g. monitor is perfect for your line of work so you get it and find it also good. No fuss, nothing nerve wracking, no time wasted. Compared with reading through dozens of reviews that even when authentic raise good points that are maybe entirely irrelevant to you.

I try to buy stuff in shops now. It's more expensive only if my time spent on reading reviews is free. And these days it's not even more expensive to buy in real shops anyway.
Sorry to say. There are cheat solutions that can ingest video and emulate keyboard/mouse over usb to pretend to be the user. The kernel driver cheat detection might be able to detect this by only supporting keyboard or mouse device IDs on a whitelist? The cheaters could pretend to be one of those too.
I had my own static site generator. A bunch of PHP and Shell scripts, but I moved everything to 11ty a few years ago and haven’t looked back. If you haven’t tried it, check it out.

https://www.11ty.dev/

What I like about 11ty is that it comes with several template languages out of the box and you can pick whatever you want. You can also mix several languages.

Or you can run it in a bare-bones minimal version. I guess it just fits my mental model.

Furthermore, it doesn’t have constant updates. The API is quite stable (although 1.0 will be released soon, which requires some manual work). But I haven’t had to change a thing in a couple years.

Not affiliated, just happy with it.