skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Dee is a fascinating character from a fascinating age: the early enlightenment. It was a time (in Europe) when early science, both orthodox and heretical Christian theology, occultism, medieval grimoires and folk magic, imported ideas from the East, and loads and loads of other things were swirling together in this crazy brew. It's the primordial soup from which modernity and the industrial revolution emerged.

Oversimplified "pop" narratives of the enlightenment often taught in school tend to edit out all the wild-ass spooky shit. The reality is that the enlightenment was not a linear transition from medievalism to modernism but a period of extreme experimentation and "counterculture" similar in character to say 1920s Germany or 1960-1970s California.

I've come to believe that this is what periods of extreme creativity look like. They are not "pure" in any way. They're not linear movements toward something. They are chaotic soups of wild and often contradictory ideas merging and fracturing and fighting and being synthesized together.

In a learning sense we would say that they are not stuck at a local maximum; they are exploring state space. When new local maxima are found you get convergence there. That's when things get once again more stable, but less creative.

Here's a BBC documentary that goes into some of Isaac Newton's other interests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNW4vprgM1c

More for others who love this history:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935408356

There is way more if you tug on this string.
Also from my experience with the NHL games, things change at a snails pace and not always for the better. It's been a few years since I've played one, but I remember the same buggy moves being possible for multiple years and then strange quality of life decreases in various seasons modes.

I quit when the gacha team stuff was starting. I'd hope the whales led to huge game improvements, but I wonder if they actually used that money to make huge changes would they just piss off their fanbase?
You might be engaging in a straw-man argument by comparing 1 person being killed with a billion deaths.
Even if I did know Jony Ive, I would probably still have no business with him. His site is a mess.
Indeed, the tooling is the most important aspect on which (a good) developer's productivity hinges these days. As to the languages, according to my observations (and conversations) more experienced professional developers care less about languages and think little about switching from one to another when necessary. (Also, they stop being fans of any language in particular.) Their focus is simple: getting stuff done in the most straightforward and coherent way possible given the constraints imposed on the various aspects of their work.
It's also kind of arrogant of FOSS advocates to say "just make a pull request" whenever there's criticism of anything FOSS. You could spend weeks working on something only to have the maintainer say no and I've seen this happen and every time it does I just think to myself "welp there's another person who will never make another pull request again".
> The clean from gradle deletes the folder entirely and creates a new one in it's place.

Maybe it's possible to .. not do that?
I've heard it used to describe professionally multi-skilled people in significantly different domains.
Front matter are YAML. I wouldn't call parsing it trivial, though if you want to create a simpler alternative and don't think about it, you're probably going to end up with something worse than YAML.
> has a deep understanding of a problem (and has likely solved it once already), can churn out code far, far, faster

Is this a bad thing to discourage? Perhaps one way to increase your output as a developer is to narrow your focus (rather than jumping on the latest framework or build system which require constantly re-learning new solutions to the same problem)
Per capita GDP says Chinese people aren’t that productive. China is an economic powerhouse because it’s got 1,400 million people.

US ranks 15th by per capita GDP(PPP), Hong Kong would be 19th, and China 100th. China is still recovering from some horrific mismanagement by the CCP, but it’s got a long way to go.
American football is a niche sport outside of the US. I've never heard of anyone playing Madden or seen it on any top sales lists.
Monetary size doesn't matter in this case. In the least

Do you think, in a (more moral than financial) dispute between EA and NBA who would win? It's like that but x10

Most people don't even know who EA is, they just want to play FIFA.
I've been running OpenBSD more than 15 years, and it does have a learning curve.

One area to consider as a happy Debian desktop user is using OpenBSD as a router OS. PC Engines (I have no affiliation to them) makes a very nice router called "Alix" and OpenBSD works well on it. Previously, people were installing it on Soekris routers before they went out of business.

OpenBSD's firewall pf is by far my favorite, and it and OpenBSD have a lot of nice networking features and tools to tinker with. It's free of blobs (in the default install), free of known bugs (in the default install--but generally your router will work well with only the default install), and configured to be reasonably secure by default. The documentation is also frequently praised.

How many other modern, full-fledged, well-maintained and open code OSes run in 32 Mb of RAM?
It's a GO runtime setting. Has nothing to do with Syncthing.
If by letting bygones be bygones you mean accepting people brazenly lying about their history, then no.
Serverless Infrastructure Component for a Translation Solution
Maybe makes it harder to get caught (and let's face it it's already kind of hard?), doesn't make it any more legal.
You're right, i should have been more precise
GPT3-alike, not GPT3 specifically. Google’s bot can’t detect when it’s being fed plausible gibberish, or worse, stolen content with random keywords injected. I’m very curious if your Googlebot surfing comes up with any interesting outcomes!
>John Gruber started writing in August 2002.

Yes, so it wasn't 20 years ago, it was 19 or 18. So? As good as 20. In any case, I've read him during the 10.1, 10.2 and such eras and up to around 2012 (a few years after the iPad) or so less frequently.

>Otherwise I just don't see what you found interesting about his blog 20 years ago.

Coverage of Apple in more exciting times (when it was basically a computer company), more humour, better reviews, more relevant links, less baseball and Kubrick BS, less politics for dummies, less "facebook is bad" for dummies, less open shill and more genuine enthusiast coverage, and so on.
OT: excellent bio
>Should we "assume the best" by assuming this was taken down by AI, and without human check?

How is that 'the best'. Only Silicon Valley thinks that is a valid legal excuse for anything. If you can't operate within the law you can't operate.

The US better start regulating their companies or you end up with a trade war due to the whole world including Europe just kicking these vendors out of the market entirely and permanently
What? This does not follow at all. You’re implying that any degree of involvement in activities that have negative consequences is equivalent. That’s incorrect!
Thats my understanding also, but I never know with how terms change quickly. So willing to be corrected!
Part of good design is that it's discoverable.

I wasted literally 30 min trying to figure out how to turn one of those on in a photo lab in college (before Google and wifi were in all pockets all the time).

Even the lab tech had no idea.
A while ago I read a french news article that talked about bullying in japan and what was mentioned in it was way beyond what counts as bullying here (except for the most severe cases).
Bullying is always really bad and even just "mild" verbal or physical abuse can scar a child for life. But what apparently counts as "regular" bullying in Japan truly gave me the chills. Mentioned were things like stripping others naked, throwing away their clothes, burning their stuff, hitting them with sticks, spitting among other horrible things.
The article also mentioned that this went on just as a bad online with encouragements for suicide being a frequent part of the cyber bullying.

Does someone here have any experience with japanese school life? Is it really that bad? Or did they just pick a number of the worst cases?
> Lots of controls, especially in the forked android client.

Here's that fork: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

You can also search up Syncthing-Fork on Google Play.
Caveat: your point about level of loneliness is a study on high-school students. They are a small part of one-person households. I think a study on young adults (20-25, 25-30) would be more relevent.
Thieves abused Apple's enterprise app programs to steal $1.4M in crypto
I think the idea that you need something like ECS to deal with mutability everywhere is a misconception. Traditional architectures you'd use in C or C++ are all going to more or less have a tree-based ownership graph, and these translate very well to Rust. Long-lived pointers to things that you don't own are a great way to get UAF errors or similar, and having a collection of entities you can look up by ID is a common pattern to use outside of ECS.
> But at the same time it was useful to play with that pattern because it's in common usage in the Rust community.
And in doing so it perpetuates it. ECS is a good solution for lots of problems (in particular I don't agree with jblow's take) but parading it as _the_ way to make games in Rust feels a lot like how OOP has been championed in the past. If you're going to teach someone how to make games in Rust, doing with extra patterns that don't add much other than complexity (in this case) doesn't seem like a good strategy for teaching or introducing people to the language.
QuestDB Is Hiring Customer Success Engineers
Typo “ laud fans” should be “loud fans”.
Because it was posted on HN and I opened the link.

Had already exhausted reading the shampoo bottle labels in the shitter...
Consumer GPUs could be run from a botnet, actually... Yikes.
https://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeature...
Only because those countries rebelled against the British.
Dutch site tweakers.net has an interesting solution to this. When you engage in excessive opinion voting, where you downvote only because you disagree, whilst the comment in itself is valid (not harmful, high quality)...you get a voting ban.

The voting ban is handed out by volunteer moderators whom scan for such comments. They tend to stick out, so easy to find. Likely a relatively small group is so emotional in voting.

The only problem of such an involved system is that it may take a day before comment votes are returned to their "fair" state. The question is if it still matters then, as people have moved on to the next topic.
Sure, like anyone can be Usain Bolt if they are familiar with their body and has a deep understanding of running.
New LIDARs from Waymo and Others Produce Amazing Results
Some protestant denominations believe the host is the body of Christ, others that it only represent the body of Christ.
Yes, freedom of choice, et cetera. But what do you think? Is this a defensible, ethical behavior by the taxi driver or not? Is it by Google or not?
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Just see this:

https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html

But if your video is Nvidia, you are out of luck until they open their drivers.
I've seen a few pop-documentaries about children in japan (and korea and china), where they show kids leaving their home at early hours, then doing a lot of work in school, then afterschool scholwork, aditional lectures, and then they come home at late night hours, sleep, and repeat.

I'm not sure how much of this is true and/or a stereotype, but even elsewhere, i've seen parents overcrowding their kids (school)work schedules (+extracurricular activities) to absurd amounts, where the kids can't handle it anymore.

This is in comparison to my childhood, where pretty much everyone had school from 8-until somewhere between noon and 2pm (depending on the year), and after that we pretty much just "went out" and did "stupid kid stuff" (mostly hanging out)
>As an european this feel very US-centristic to me. "Green new deal" is something in the US right?

AOC whose 'end of the world' date is about 10 years from now. Slightly longer, is the one who created the 'green new deal' and that legislation was universally voted against. Even her fellow democrats voted against it. Hawaii's democrats were exceptionally angry about it because the new green deal would actually destroy Hawaii. Afterall, how much diesel is used every day to travel too and from hawaii?

>What I don't get is how the US will ever get to zero emissions. I have a hard time believing that when there is literally no other option than using a car.

The history about north america can dawn why. We were built around railroads, while Europe was built around horses. Everything is much more spread out.

It also won't be a problem. Electric cars are coming with a passion.
You expect me to not use a basic feature of a compiler?

o_O weird take but k
I agree that the article is good and useful, but the title is too much.
>He has a very nice voice.

I guess that's the main attraction to his podcast.
> "The UK is the hotbed of activity for fraudsters. Currently the UK accounts for about 80% of our global personal fraud losses," it said.

> The NECC's Reed said another problem was that just 1% of policing resources were dedicated to fighting fraud, despite it making up over a third of all crime in England and Wales.

Astonishing, but in some ways not surprising given the Met's ability to cover for colossal failings like the Sarah Everard murder and the "spycops" fiasco.

The political system is .. not in a position to improve this, despite it affecting a lot of the supposedly critical marginal elderly voters.
It's funny, you're denouncing CRT, but using CRT to analyze Soviet history in a racially critical manner.
> They would, because all three companies would include a cohort of the same activist employees with the same censorious ideology all pushing to cancel the same people at the same time.

Which is collusion and we have remedies for it. It's just a better place to be all around.

>Splitting tech companies won't do any good for censorship resistance on its own

It really will. The power imbalance is redressed so a multitude of normal policy options become available that aren't against a monolithic standard oil.

But sure, please do focus on the many other benefits of smashing _all_ entities with outsized market power into many pieces wherever such outsized market power arises.

edit:
3 is because I was establishing the point and didn't want to list out 50, which is closer to the right number of competing similar sized entities we'd want. If not a thousand.
Most people don’t and won’t change if change requires effort. In contrast by making a password manager functionality the default on Mac/iOS, Apple carries the average user into better security.
How about non billionaires?

Are those humans human enough for you?
Pair Programming Antipatterns
Because you can buy an android device?
Unless the fraudulent transaction is due to the fact you just lost your credit card.
Makes sense. In that context, I think that verification is nowhere near as challenging as validation when it comes to coding.

Verification is definitely a big concern for junior developers who don't know how to write good tests, however, beyond a certain level of expertise, the big challenge becomes validation.

If written properly, tests do a pretty good job at verification. Formal proofs only take care of rare edge cases (since tests can never be exhaustive), but many times, it's possible (and recommended) to write code in a way to minimize such rare edge cases anyway.
Most terminal emulations follow the ANSI terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code , so these hard coded escape sequences simply happen to work on most virtual terminals, including windows console (running CMD) and windows terminal.
You have to understand that EA makes more than $1.5bn annually with a steep upwards trajectory. They are achieving this with mostly predatory micro transactions. They also have now 4 generations of game engines running the Fifa 22 games. One for the switch, one for pc and old-gen consoles and one for the new gen. If you are playing on anything else than new gen consoles you are paying 60$ for an updated xml file and some art assets players are also loosing all the progress and money spent over the last year.

That said FIFA is at least as shady as EA so they can both burn to the ground.
Hey HN! I'm also working at in3D. We are presenting our app to a big audience for the first time and we really need your feedback!
The numbers seem cherry picked though, I don't like this type of 197.96432100004x faster claims.
> really not much that can be done about most of these scams

I'm surprised that in the surveillance state it's that easy to disappear with the money.
I don't think that's a reasonable question, not all scammers are Nigerian. Some are based in the UK, others in Europe. Also the EU had data sharing agreements and collaboration outreach with police forces all over the world that we also lost access to.

That's one of the complications with our data sharing with the EU; they have agreements to share data with non-EU countries on the basis that their data is only shared within the EU, which we are now not. Therefore the EU can't grant us access to databases containing that data until we/they have permission from these other countries. We will, and are sorting it out but it's going to take time. Brexit was always going to come with some costs, that should be obvious even if you think on balance it was the right choice, and this is one of them.
> I am also willing to accept evidence presented once presented

I think what rankles a bit is you are coming up with these pet theories that force others to present easily obtainable (including from TFA) information. So no, you're not wrong to ask the question, you're wrong to have demonstrated contrarianism rather than curiosity.
Don’t know who you are but your path and journey in the industry sounds exactly like mine.
git clone --branch start https://github.com/djkoloski/anima_solver
Cloning into 'anima_solver'...
fatal: Remote branch start not found in upstream origin
The first thing I really like about syncthing is that it does what it is supposed to do very well (besides very seldom glitches), while not being dropbox, nextcloud, owncloud, etc. but p2p and entirely independent of any external tools/devices/etc.

The second thing I like is that it is a successful FOSS project, meaning it works and is being regularly and often improved by its users.

Your comment, as helpful as you may feel it is, is contradictory to my second - very strong - feeling.

I really think to UI works quite good, and by god, if a better solution is so obvious to you, why haven't you proposed it yet, or - god forbid - made a merge/pull request??
I mean you could probably supplant the entire FIFA organization with $10B if you wanted to take a really big swing. Money talks and if you funnel the right amount of money to the best players you will create the best sports league.
That's where effective legislation and regulation can play a role. It's not as if other parts of the same bank aren't making money hand over fist.
Manufacturers probably prefer extra USB ports to a dedicated SD slot since it occupies less internal space than an SD slot and is not single purpose.
>Do you prefer Ivanka or Hunter flavours of corruption?

Such a dishonest comparison. One was nepotistically involved in day to day operations of the American government, put into diplomatic situations in an official capacity, even attempted to be named World Bank President.

The other is completely divorced from politics and uses his name to sell artwork

This kind of false equivalence does great service to the worst-of-all-time American corruption we experienced in 2016-2020, and helps ensure that it will return.

Which flavor do I prefer? Obviously the one without nepotism, where the child has nothing to do with politics, government and serves in no capacity, official or otherwise. And you should to. Shame on you for pretending otherwise.

When you can't differentiate between nefarious nepotistic public corruption and "using the family name to sell paintings", you do your part to ensure it can and will get worse.

>We can't even vote that out so the Military Industrial Complex is pretty safe

The Military Industrial Complex is very mad at Joe for ending the Afghanistan war and actually pulling troops out. While the previous President admitted he would have left thousands of troops, defied the agreement, and continued the war.

Once again, your false equivalence makes you say "both sides" when there is a real difference.

The war in Afghanistan ended because only one side had the cajones to stick it to the military industrial complex and actually end it, regardless of the optics, the politics and the cost. But you're playing cynical games and you refuse to admit actual change, because it makes you look/feel smart to lie about everyone being the same. Ironically you are serving the military industrial complex right now, who desperately want "one side" out and the other side back, because they can't control the current side nearly as well, and are very upset about the end of the war. Good job helping them, as false equivalence is a powerful tool in their propaganda belt.

This is how the worst outcomes become reality -- being unable and unwilling to appreciate any good at all.
Interesting, I don't think about it this way. I don't mind friends at work, though those are usually less close to me than friends I made in school/university/on the internet.

For university, yes you can get the actual education for free, but a diploma is a very good safety net, at least in France, and usually a requirement for people to consider your application. I also liked the freedom it gave me, I had a few years to "breathe" between high-school and working. University is also very cheap in France, I paid less than 1000€ for a master's degree in computer science/software engineering.
US credit card companies aren't any better. I recently had a similar "fraud alert." The company ditched travel notices in 2016 claiming their AI was good enough to replace it. A few weeks after traveling I had a very small purchase flagged (under $20 at a place like Target). When I called the number they asked me for my complete credit card number, social security number, they didn't know my phone number or email and had to clarify which was my first and last name. They then asked me to photograph my drivers license and text it to them.

When I told them I wasn't comfortable doing this, they reiterated that this was the only way my credit card would be restored immediately and once I hung up the phone I would no longer have this option. They did give me another way to verify, they would send me an email to a web portal I could upload the photos to. After uploading I would have to wait 7-10 business days for them to review and restore my card.

Thankfully, I had another credit card I could use. I did submit via the web form after doing my best to make sure it was legit. Weeks later my credit card wasn't restored. When I later called them, it was immediately restored after a few simple questions. I sent an email to their security department describing how weird and sketchy this process was and I never got a response.
It was reinstated after pressure on Twitter.
You do not use caller number review websites?

In some cultures, most callers (private individuals) would not start speaking themselves before hearing a sign of presence from the other side: you filter out auto-diallers, but also contacts you did not have in your address book.
I think you lost the plot - you can publish a competing app that uses the Files app for sync, just like NextCloud does.