skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think I've seen a US/UK MSM article comparing China to us favorably in at least 5 years. Ive seen dozens or hundreds beating the drum against them..

There is no shortage of articles published by Western media suggesting that China is out-hustling and out-innovating the US, and that the West is in decline as China rises.

This alone doesn't entitle China to praise or admiration. It's an authoritarian total surveillance state in which information is censored, citizens have little to no recourse when harmed by government action, enemies of the state disappear, and ethnic minorities are rounded up and sent to camps for "reeducation".
Yes, if you haven't got at least some autonomy then move on.
Tesla doesn’t advertise.
I had ignored this space for a while as I didn't see any need to fiddle with it. But there does seem to be quite a lot of movement now on Webpack alternatives. The speed improvements do look very interesting, though I'm not so sure how much of the delays I'm seeing with Webpack/Create React App are from the Typescript checking. I mean Typescript is awesome, but it's also not all that fast in building and type checking.

Vite seems to be one of the more interesting CRA alternatives. Though it uses esbuild only for development, and Rollup for production builds. It'll be interesting to see how this develops, and if the fast bundlers keep catching up in terms of features without getting slower.
Storing and Reading Information in Mixtures of Fluorescent Molecules [pdf]
Somewhat my point, yes.
I wonder if Google indexes with browser user agents sometimes: unless the site used source IP tricks, it’d let Google detect this sort of thing.
A lot of reviewers try to be relevant by reviewing new things before they hit the market. That makes the manufacturer the only source of the product and the manufacturers have no reason to provide early access to people writing bad reviews and writing a review a month after everyone else just doesn't attract nearly as much attention.
I need no nobel prize, thank you. That is reserved for great peace makers like Kissinger and Obama.
Is there any information other than this home page? like an announcement somewhere, a demo video, or anything similar?
It's not the implementation that is my concern, it is that a digital currency makes it even easier for banks to impose negative rates than cash.

I doubt that you really think central banks, retail banks and the imf have no intention to abolish physical cash. Abolishing it is all upside for them.
Rehype is an HTML processor with an ecosystem of plugins: https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype/
A former Apple person reminded me
that the new major version iOS must ship on the same day as the new hardware, as the new hardware (this year, the new iPad Mini, and iPhones 13) will not run iOS14. They are developed in lockstep with the next OS and will ship with it, and cannot ship without it.

The software is going out the door alongside the latest version of their biggest money-making product.

Note well how quickly 15.0.1 was released.
This reminds me of a game I used to play as a child: Broken Sword. It was a series of point and click games. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror is all about the main character George Stobart, who finds an obsidian stone and soon discovers he must find two other stones to lock up Tezcatlipoca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Sword_II:_The_Smoking_M...

Such a cool game.

https://www.macgamestore.com/images_screenshots/broken-sword...
That’s not an easy way to enforce that! An easy way is just to have people check ids, like they’re going to do I assume -same way most of Europe is doing it.
As a Purepecha Mexican I find it very eye-opening the other way around. Very weird to see people consider our empires ancient, we are very aware we are the new kids on the block. As an aside, I have always found it interesting when people talk about the Mayans as some mythical lost thing, have had a few beers with them, good people, but not mythical by any stretch.
It’s very easy to believe that when you’re one of the winners (as most who frequent this forum will be) but according to the 2020 US census there are 37.2 million people living in poverty in the US alone:

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

There are numerous examples of where capitalistic businesses have gone out of their way to exploit their customer needs. Not “wants” but needs. Such as companies that buy up mobile home parks and then hike up the land rent forcing people out of their own house. The health sector is a biggie too. Clearly the victims of those businesses are not equal “winners” in such an arrangement.

I focus on America here but that’s not fair because the rest of the world have their fair share of problems too.
I can read his posts logged in or not...
Answered in the FAQ:

Why is esbuild fast? https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast

- It's written in Go and compiles to native code

- Parallelism is used heavily

- Written from scratch with performance as a goal

- Efficient use of memory
Pretty sure the Expo folks are working on this!
> The 5 stars are basically baseline if the product is good enough for the price it's sold at

That is absolutely not my interpretation of such a scale. I would naturally map 5 stars to "exceeds expectations". If the best a product can do is meet expectations, how do you disambiguate from the truly excellent?

One of a multutude of issues with reviews is our differing interpretations of what a score represents
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I'm so confused, I really thought Texas had at-will employment?
Combating Software System Complexity: Conceptual Integrity and Uniform Metaphor
This article emphasizes the need for consistency, unity, and universality of concepts, to capture the essence of things, and to cover and explain the widest range of phenomena with the fewest number of concepts.
Naw. That doesn’t address anything. For one thing it says kids are at risk, which they aren’t. That entire speech is pure fearmongering. It says “everybody, this is Space Ebola. Remain frightened.”

It doesn’t highlight anything. It’s just doomsday nonsense and is yet another example of exactly what I’m talking about.

Covid isn’t space aids. It’s a damn respiratory virus. The vast majority who get it recover. It’s a non event for kids. These are facts backed by solid data. President didn’t state that at all.

And gaslighting about a “piece of cloth” is another example. It’s a “piece of cloth” that doesn’t do a damn thing besides divide people. Masks should never have been raised to the pedestal they were raised to. It’s people acting like they have some kind of moral high ground when they occupy anything but.
It's an open secret that stores on amazon will send out free goods in return for positive reviews. The people "buy" items by the dozen and then resell them as third parties.
FYI, the weather is about to get worse in Chicago as well: https://twitter.com/wqad/status/1448469294061342722. I heard similar things from Seattle, too. And you won't find anything about it in the "free" press. It's like that scene in "V for Vendetta" where V blows up a building and talking heads on TV are like "it was controlled demolition", and everyone knows it's fake.
Wow, this game was a staple in my childhood! Just wanted to let you know that your work brought me lots of happiness as a kid, so thank you :)

Out of curiosity, have you ever written about the experience? Technical challenges, the development culture, etc?
> You’ll never get anywhere complaining without having a path to act. China, evil it may be, actually acts.

Acts for whom?

> Go and call your congresspeople. They’ll listen to you over the sound of money that is pouring their way to look the other way.

You taunt Americans, suggesting that politicians in the US ignore their constituents, but what do you think happens in China? Do you believe that the CCP gangsters who run just about every level of government listen to the Chinese citizens they govern?

Do you know what happens to plebs in China when they make too much noise?
The US spends Jeff Bezos' entire net worth on its military alone every 90 days. The US military has burned up over 4x Apple's entire market cap in the time since the iPhone was introduced in 2008, and this is just one part of the government in one country (where only 1/20th of humans live).

The wealth and power of individuals and private corporations is absolutely trivial compared to that of governments.

Hundreds of billions is pocket change to the state. They own the arena in which the game is played. They legitimately operate the databases that track the value of money, and run the printers that produce more. There is no practical amount of wealth that brings a private citizen's stature into the same realm.
Fishing quotas have the advantage to not be racist for a start.
A vast majority of discussion about CBDC is about retail CBDC.

Interbank and internation transactions are already digital. The Fed already has wholesale digital liabilities
Current solar cells range in the 15% - low 20s% efficiency.

So I'm immediately sceptical, but click the link anyway.

It's a typically badly written modern clickbait-journalism article, but I'm certain this isn't gonna result in solar panels on your roof delivering 4 times as much power at the sunlight falling on them.
No port forwarding though. Must use ssh

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
I use this for syncing game files (like MMO extensions, ui files. WTF folder when I used to play WoW or the FFXIV folder in my documents) and my code workspace folder between 4 devices, one being a homelab server.

For the game files it's just my gaming laptop and gaming desktop

I setup a connection for the folder from every device to every other device. Syncthing has a unique ID for the share, so they all share the same ID for that folder and it does all the work syncing. none of my project files are ever out of date on any device. Lets me sit down on any device and just work. (Desktop, windows laptop, Linux laptop, or ssh into server)

Another great thing is is you set it up in WSL2, it just works, and all it has to do is be on a different port. Lets me sync my workspace files into there and get full Linux filesystem file watching ( the \\wsl$\ path doesn't work well from windows side)
Can't that extra be something unrelated to your current project?

I like how Google lets employees use 20% percent of their time to work on other subjects that their current projects. More companies should do this. The value is huge: less bored developers, less burnt out developers, innovation and development of potential very useful features for the company.
Okay, you get nerd points for that.

I write my website in Emacs org mode, then export to html. I like to think that I win on nerd points :-)
... unnecessarily, because the government freaked out.
Those can be fake too
Very well written. Unfortunately I already tried all these kind of tricks in some competitions but others were still able to beat my code. Are there additional resources for improving it even further?
Not on Debian though.
> But it is a business

This is why I was disappointed, because it marks a departure from things auspiciously done with consideration "for all mankind".

A publicity stunt I wasn't disappointed in, was the twitter account for the Philae Lander. It also got a lot of media coverage. https://twitter.com/philae2014

The point isn't humour, rather the context. One stunt is for the benefit of a business, with what I find dubious goals for launching a rocket to start with, the other, to promote a project for "all mankind".
even if i have this individual opportunity fit, that doesn’t really correlate to a decent exit, right? i could have a monopoly on X in a market but that might not necessarily get me the exit i desire, right?

this question isn’t about ideation or product market fit or product founder fit, it’s about what commands a high multiple of current revenue/profits
I'm not sure I understand the point about asyncIO: yeah, the Lambda CPU isn't spinning, but don't they count actual runtime? So even if things are async, the Lambda still needs to be up to respond to the event when the async IO is finished.

Or do you mean handling things in an async way and Lambda passing the info on to another computing environment?
The answer is less attribution measurement, more incrementality measurement. Incrementality solves the famous "handing out coupons outside the pizzeria door" problem:
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/lower-ad-fraud-will-be-a...
Nothing fancy, just a python script that parses each page's "header" (a set of '='-delimited KVPs), interprets the rest as the main content, and then does some text substitution in the template (in practice, I only have a KVP for the page title that's used in the template).
...if you install via apt. Binaries downloaded from the website still have this issue.

PS: Thank you Debian maintainers.
Walrus from Space census seeks public help to spot animals in satellite images
It refused a few files with unusual characters in their file name, so you’ll want to periodically check the logs, as it is stricter than the host OS. Apart from that, all good
> Not really looking forward to a global currency

Yeah, this is a fascist's wet dream.
Thanks. Yes I wanted array of pointers. So then how would you do a pointer to an array of functions in D? * float function(int)[] ? Edit: or float function(int)[] *
Both of those games have multiplayer components.

I would be more interested to hear about games such as god of war or horizon zero dawn, which have no online play at all, used anti-cheat.
Do you have experience teaching programming to beginners?

Languages are not equally easy to learn. Both Python and C++ are designed to solve problems, but Python is much more approachable for beginners - perhaps because it was heavily inspired by the teaching language ABC.
There's also the argument that business and technology is "the same thing" now. A majority of businesses cannot operate without technology. Technology often does not come to fruition without business.
I didn't understand it either. Than learned assembly for a few months for a project -- switched back to C and everything came as natural.
Playing Songs Directly from Terminal
Better way to play songs for developers and to integrate it into the terminal workflow (Without the ads).
Not a fan[0].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210226183330/https://www.gkaya...
The unstated implicit assumption in the question being asked in both situations is this: you’re being asked for your unbiased opinion. All ads are inherently biased, but by not disclosing your compensation, you’re not answering the question as asked. This bias, even if disclosed, renders your recommendation, and our hypothetical innocent recommendation, suspect.
Indeed. CO2 have a manageable effect in low troposphere, and it takes roughly 20 years for it to reach altitudes where it will have a greenhouse effect. So the climate of 2021 is caused by the emissions from 2001. We will never, in our lifetime, have this climate ever again.
Any fans of Poor Man's Whiskey?

They've done a fantastic bluegrass revision album, "Dark Side of the Moonshine". Well worth a listen if you like PF.

first youtube hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46u1ZwfohE
Note that they used Ghidra (the NSA-developed decompiler), which, in spite of its shady origin, is a wonderful tool.
Indeed, but that's overkill for most personal sites...
Your analogy is much more transparent about it.

Google is more like the following.

"Hi, I would like to go to Morton's meats"

"Sure, I can take you to Shelly's"

"No, I said Morton's"

"Oh, the steak house downtown. Sure, I can take you to Billy's"

"What? No! Morton, you hear me"

"Ah, yeah, Morton, here you go.... by the way, the other places paid for ads"

Much less transparent, much more obnoxious.
Yeah I just checked and at least my SSG code is python3. That's a bit of a surprise to me, actually.

Its telling how, over the years, I've had to keep moving my free-hosted blog to a new provider. This is the third time. I'm hoping ghpages are here to stay and don't start doing a sourceforge ad angle or anything...
Do you happen to have a list of these unusual characters ?
I mean, the radioactive material in tobacco smoke is already included in the carcinogenic nature of smoking, right? So knowing about radioactive smoke might enable us to explain the dangers more precisely, but it doesn't change risks, which were previously known.
Five dead in Norway bow and arrow attack
Okay, I guess I should qualify that and say that there's no iOS client that is actually practical to use.

NextCloud integrates into iOS's Files app pretty tightly as a 'storage provider' or whatever Apple calls it. End result is that my password database is magically up-to-date whenever I go to use it in my password manager, probably because Files sees an app trying to access the file, pings NextCloud to say "yo, is this shit up to date?", and then my password manager opens the file. I don't have to worry myself about background sync and such.

I didn't have to do jack shit to open the database the first time; the built-in iOS file-picker that came up let me select nextcloud as a source, and then my password database. Done. It is two taps to get that database open now - one to hit "passwords" in the keyboard area, and the second is me TouchID'ing to unlock the database.

Looking over the Mobius faq, it appears to be vastly inferior, with no guarantee your files are synced at any point in time, and you have to manually push files from Mobius to Files, and then access them in apps from there:

> iOS apps cannot access each others’ files. This means you will need to copy files in and out of Syncthing using the Apple Files app.

I wouldn't do that even if the software was free. And they want me to pay for that? No?
Suddenly it seems like one should invest in gold or whatever, to counter this.
Maybe he hasn't been in public due to working 996 https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-chin... ?

Ma etc have bought properties and have cash /shares stashed outside China, I'm sure. But deciding to pull the trigger is tricky.

If he gets caught, he's dead. He's probably being tailed by secret services, maybe even his inner circle reports on him.
I did say that the birthday attack doesn't apply!

It only applies if you're comparing a large set of samples against each other. An example would be a "content-based indexing" system where a database primary key is the hash. Every insert then compares the hash against every entry that already exists. If there are 1 billion stored items, each 1 insert can have a potential collision with all 1 billion.

For validation, you have 1 input being compared against 1 valid value (or its hash/crc). There's no "billion inputs" in this scenario... just 1 potentially corrupt vs 1 known good.

Hence, no birthday attack.

It's the difference between two random people meeting and having the same birthday, versus any two people in a room full of people having the same birthday. Not the same scenario!

In practice, cryptographic hashes are always superior to checksums, once both have more than 128 bits. They're both strong enough, but the cryptographic has is resistant to deliberate attacks. The CRC won't be.
> I find the Pioneer Plaque cool and thought provoking. Launching a roadster into space? Not so much.

Maybe the inscription on one of its PCBs will stimulate your unprovoked thoughts: https://i.redd.it/7agxu1qjdz071.jpg
I can't help but wonder for old closed-source utilities and games like this: whatever happened to the original source code?

Is it still around, stashed in a vault a MSFT, or is it lost for ever?

Do you know?

And what would it take to convince a large corp. like MSFT to actually release the original under some open source license ... not like the thing has much value by now other than historical.
Apart from the Baltics who is doing that?
MSFT insists on making itself irrelevant. Most people are sick of the jumping-through-hoops circus act that MSFT makes users do.

But many of them are absolutely too dumb to 'just walk away'.Tell them about all these shenanigans and they'll insist that "It's not a bug, it's a feature".
How is "you have to manually copy files around every time you want to use them" "works flawlessly"? Have you not seen how stuff is supposed to work with cloud storage providers in iOS? Because it's indistinguishable in function from local on-device storage.
Namecheap domains are not resolving due to DNSSEC issues
Packaging the DMD D compiler for OpenBSD
Just saying how any tooling to automate the process would be easy to game all the way down, so the due diligence toward donating has really got to be a manual human effort.
In some meanings of the word "profound". Any kind of hallucinations can be intense or life changing.
They don’t need to. The increased time you spend in the site as a consequence is enough of an upside to look the other way.
> Bundling isn’t my main issue.

This.

Bundling, and even barreling, have pretty much been solved problems for a while. Right now I feel that unit test frameworks, linters, and type checkers are by far the main bottlenecks in the development workflow.
> You can tell people they're wrong if you want. Let me know how that goes for you.

Yes, let's instead all nod and smile to people's inconsiderate knee-jerk reactions. Let me know how that goes for you.
With one exception I have always hated margarine. Some of this is sheer snobbery, it has a long association with poverty and rationing. The health claims were crap mostly, it turns out to have almost always been worse for you. Snobbery affects taste hugely. Like food colour, taste isn't always about inside the mouth. I can't handle green ice cream as strawberry and pink as mint.

The exception was a small, independent chain brand of marg sold in the York university student supermarket in 1979/80 which was somehow, oddly delicious. It might have been the prodigious amount of dope I was smoking in first year, or hunger changing my palette. I really liked that one brand of marg. The supermarket closed, I stopped being able to eat it.

I tried all the olive oil expensive "healthy" margarines and I just prefer butter, or other animal fats. Marg made with animal fat isn't as good as rendered down bacon fat or duck fat or butter.

Something in hydrogenation, preservatives, or water content makes it nasty. Marg made on pure vegetable oils likewise. Something is missing. Marg made with butterfat is not as good as butter cut with other milk liquid to make it spreadable.
...the whole point of syncthing is that you avoid "the cloud" and all its privacy nightmares. I'm baffled people do this.
Knew about ENIAC of course, but seeing MANIAC got a chuckle out of me.

Just read the page on the Deep Blue chess computers, was quite interesting.
> And anti-cheat isn't a money-maker, so they're not going to be spending lots of money storing user data they don't have to.

user data can absolutely be a money-maker
Devs of ‘Stolen’ Game Aeon Must Die Demand Money from Publisher
Ah yes, because "hardware engineer" means "digital ASIC designer" now, and "practice problem" means "pile of barely edited context-free questions without any explanation".
What do you mean? Who cares who did what wrong thing, it would all depend on which news about it the media, twitter, and facebook decide to suppress or amplify, wouldn't it?

Can you not think back to a couple of instances of people running for pretty high offices when that was the case?
I was also puzzled as to why Reuters had chosen a cryptocurrency stock photo for the article.
Games like Call of Duty are a captured market at this point. They will be preordering next years release no matter what.