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This is an ideological position. In reality, economies need money printing, although it comes with its own problems, must be carefully controlled, and since 1971 we have not yet learned the correct way to control it.
I take issue with real hardware not costing much more. Amigas are pretty expensive these days. I agree with the other points though.

This is just a cheap ripoff.
I would consider a programming language's native string interpolation as a form of templating, but to each his own.
Benchmarking is often close enough.
Dropping in to point out that Halo Infinite is way too unoptimized/resource-hungry for a PvP/Arena shooter game that loads (mostly, in user experience) simple maps with simple objects. I didn't see a significant difference in terms of graphics quality between this game and the Doom reboots, but Doom can push up to 200+ FPS on Ultra settings in my laptop while Infinite barely manages to scrape 50FPS in its open maps on the lowest possible settings.
20 Years After the End of the World
This is not about how good or bad he is; it's about how the wheels of justice are continually being perverted by both the USA and the UK legal system (Scottish and British) in order to secure his extradition.

A quick high-level list:

- Bugging his conversations with his lawyers (the people involved have been charged in Spain and a trial is ongoing there, and some American nationals added to the Interpol list).

- Preventing an expert witness from testifying in Spain about this bugging by arresting and convicting the expert on laughably bad evidence so that he can't travel to Spain.

- Holding the accused in continual isolation for years now in one of the most brutal prisons in the UK (hell hole doesn't even begin to describe it).

- Holding his hearings in a remote location so as to dissuade people from attending.

- Barring most of the people who do try to attend, including human rights observers (almost unheard of in non-dictatorships, and a first for non-violent offenders).

- Ensuring that the accused cannot hear the proceedings or talk effectively with his lawyers by locking him in a glass box (normally only used for extremely violent offenders).

- Preventing the accused access to his lawyers outside of the courtroom (this alone is enough to declare a mistrial).

- Allowing the USA to change the indictment and submit different evidence months into the proceedings after it became clear they couldn't win, and then giving the defence a single day to prepare (hundreds, possibly thousands of pages).

- Allowing the USA team to flout court proceedings, and then preventing the defence from doing what they are allowed by law to do, preventing expert defence witnesses saying it will take too long, cutting cross examinations short, denying admission of evidence after weak, sometimes bizarre USA objections, etc.

Although the last judge was terrible in many ways, she did block the extradition on the grounds of suicide risk (personally, I think she just didn't have the stomach to be the one to sign him over). What they need now is a sympathetic judge to overrule this one point and disallow any arguments to the other points. That's what this latest chapter is about.
You really shouldn't expect to; everyone knows it's coming, so it'll be largely priced in.
For this, the basic rules of thumb are simple:

#1 Never apostrophe before plural-s.

#2 Always apostrophe before possessive-s.

Some weird possible exceptions noted in sibling comments (like apostrophe before plural-s on acronyms and single letters), but those aren't universal and therefore not mandatory. So if in (even the slightest) doubt, follow rules #1 and #2 and you'll be right far more often than wrong.

Oh yeah, one actually important and non-weird "exception": NO apostrophe "before possesive-s" on possessive pronouns like "his" or "theirs". I think this is because they're actually not ordinary nouns made possessive by adding apostrophe-s, but grammatically their own distinct words which happen to always contain an s at the end. So in that perspective, it's not even an exception; hence the quote marks.

And that ("it's") reminds me of rule

#3 Always apostrophe in contractions.

"Contractions" here means when a verb -- usually "is" or "has"; I don't know if (but don't think that) there are any others -- following a noun or a pronoun is reduced to its final 's' and added to the preceding word, as in e.g. "John's gone". You have to figure out whether the 's' stands for "is" or "has" from context: In "John's gone forever" it's "is", but in "John's gone and done it" it's "has". Usually it's pretty obvious, or doesn't really matter for understanding what's meant.

HTH!
Wikileaks have released a ton of material compromising physical safety and well being of people who confided with US diplomats.

Wikileaks also went out of its way to share this information with regimes it had affinity to, like Lukashenka's Belarus.

https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/wikileaks-belarus-...
> Is the keyboard is non functioning?
Answer: It is non-functioning

Oh man that was an instant buy... then NOT.
Window to the World
Serious question: what's the energy/resource usage tradeoff for CI? When are we burning too much resources on pointless testing and hearing data centers?

I'm not saying CI is bad, but where is the threshold where it becomes wasteful, how big should the tested configuration matrix be?
You describe a tiny fraction of cases. In my opinion most of us are most of the time mostly in tribal mode, therefore "Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL" is indeed 'reductive'... to most cases.

Moreover such a 'tribal mode' mode often impedes the ability to perceive/understand, therefore 'facts' aren't even perceived/understood. You are right: overwhelmingly obviously true facts are very rare, and even less are decisively convincing (only one possible conclusion, without any counter-argument), therefore most facts aren't convincing.

This 'tribal mode' seems natural to me because we learn thanks to analogies, and therefore are prone to imitate the most-enforced beliefs/behaviors: our tribe's.
Ask HN: Are there “Hacker News”'eque sites for other professional disciplines?
HN is generally a site frequented by people with mostly software/hardware/<other-eng-backgrounds> with a slanted focus on all things software related (please forgive the generalizations here).

Are there any sites focused towards other professional disciplines (other than various subreddits) with a similar model of user-content submission with the level of discussion of HN?

e.g. Is there an HN for finance? Or HN for natural sciences? etc...
That is a very nice design, did You use a diode laser to cut it?
React Conf 2021 Replay
> If you live somewhere where cryptocurrency gains are taxed as income, how do you handle the reporting of this at tax time? It seems like it would be tedious to keep track of every transaction across multiple defi platforms.

It's so country by country right now due to how early we are. Tax rules will be more clearly defined assuming Web3 and DeFi continue to be adopted over time.
This is rather a broader problem in the UK: the country is run by an extremely small group of people who all know each other and who have the capacity to appoint each other to positions of power, all the while getting sympathetic coverage from the press, who they also crossover with.

(I wonder why Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM won't investigate the House of Lords cash-for-peerages scandal? https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-urged-to-launch-cash-f... - but why do we have a permanent unelected legislature anyway? That has to be a corruption magnet)

I do find the hyperfocus on Assange rather weird though.
Imagine a court that consistently rules in favour of a richer party. Imagine that the richer party is not THAT interested in doing business with you, so they can tell you to take it or leave it. How do you think it will work?
There is no critical functionality on my website. :)
could you elaborate please? I'm especially interested in the Play/Akka part.
So what would the alternatives look like, using common Java Frameworks instead or none at all?
Getting all the data in the world into the blockchain and coding smart contracts to infer judgement from it would be too complex and expensive.

A more practical approach is to transfer the funds to Bob once he clicks on the checkbox and have some lock-up period, so that Alice has the opportunity to trigger a dispute if she needs to.

Then the dispute can be resolved by a private court (composed of humans) that both Alice and Bob agreed on beforehand. See: https://kleros.io
> Most voices in support of Assange seem to come from people with strong conviction that he is clearly a good guy (unsurprisingly). I don’t really have an opinion.

Aside from already expressing your opinion.. you then continue to give your opinion in much more detail.

You lack even the basic understanding of what has been done to him yet you've somehow formed this fully fledged opinion on the subject?

Your post reeks of CIA shill.
As someone who’s opinion on the simulation hypothesis is “we are either a solipsistic allegory of the cave style input response simulation and everything is fake, or we are a physical simulation of the emergent results from basic energy/particles/waves constraint with the entire rules of physics known and unknown, anything between these two is unlikely otherwise you are either cheating or risk the subject discovering the simulation”

With the solipsistic simulation everything is fake, don’t worry about it, the input to the visual cortex simulation doesn’t even need to be what we think it is, because as a fake simulation of a mind, not even a brain just a mind… in a virtual box I’m being told all this exists by right down to the latest results at CERN it makes sense because the entire set of inputs is wired for me to make sense of this reality.

With a physical simulation however you can’t “forget” fundamental properties when simulating a universe of wave/particles. The atoms do “exist” when you aren’t looking at them otherwise how does the simulation know precisely what to show you when you look back? How does it know how those atoms are part of a ribosome, involved in an intricate quantum mechanical dance as they fold a protein and contribute to the growth of the plant on the shelf behind me.

Unless your suggesting somehow we’re in some weird middle ground when the simulation is full of shortcuts like we program into gamers today to save cpu or memory and somehow we haven’t noticed while probing the intricate workings of the universe via particle accelerators and other cutting edge experimental physics.
This feels like a false narrative.

Samsungs provides 3-5 years of updates for current mid and high end phones. Does your iPhone last 5x4=20 years? Will it be worth much even in 5 years? But if you trade it only after one year, how does that in any way reduce ewaste?

When I got my current phone it was 1/3 of an iphone and 1/5 of the most expensive Samsung (the fold thingy). It works well and is guaranteed at least 3 years of updates. But I plan to use it as my daily driver for 2 years, maybe 2.5. After which I will probably keep it and use it for something else around the house.
Right-to-Left Styling 101
Vivaldi didnt. All they said was they wont remove anything themselves aka it will be removed when it vanishes from Chromium codebase. Vivaldi cant afford to maintain their own fork of v2 code, they barely manage the UI as it is.
E.g. mass downloaders have become quite a bit less useful because they can only download into the OS downloads directory without prompting for each and every download.
Well, Assange is not in the US quite yet - right now he is only being tortured by the British. Apparently, this will change soon, so ...
> before he gives the green light on an invasion

And the reason why the USistan should entangle itself in that mess is ... what exactly?
couldn't this be a major security issue since you could integrate your own js to any url on the domain?
A little bit of UX like this would go a long way towards fixing the problem where the first root comment gets all the activity, because people get sucked in to one of many subthreads as they scroll past.
what other enforcement mechanism do you suggest? The smart contract method call where Alice murders Bob should not validate unless signed by Bob's private key?
I like those lower back tattoos, sitting above a nice looking ass. That's a party girl and who doesn't like to party? lol
Hey there,

Love the philosophy behind the theme.

How hard do you think it'd be to automate theme previewing & distribution? What would the challenges be? Why is this problem not solved yet?

I'm no designer, but in my understanding a theme is a set of colors that's the result of a research on contrasts and aesthetics (I love how pedagogic Ethan is on its Solarized website: https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized )

By theme distribution, I mean making the theme available for a set of platforms and applications, as it is the case for Dracula, to tackle to problem of context-switching as you neatly describe it. Wouldn't it be theorically possible for a tool to generate themes for all the apps / platforms based on a standard theme description? (Imagine the theme-generator descriptor slowly becoming an actual standard adopted by apps & websites...)

By theme previewing, I mean generating (svg-based or sth?) previews of what every target app / platform looks like with that theme, to make testing easier for designers. It must be expensive to test so many themes, so previewing would be key for this tool. The accuracy of previews might be somehow tested by the test suite by screenshoting the themes in VMs.

Congrats on the nice work!
What's new in Svelte: December 2021
I wish it was the other way around. I miss the option to modify requests and re-send them in Chrome each and every day. That‘s something Firefox has.
People need to stop using software analogies for everything.

It does not work for something like laws. You can't just go and change something the following month because you realized there's an edge case you forgot. All that constant churn will just erode the public's faith in the system.
The second paragraph of your comment should have been at the top of the linked article. Thank you for the explanation!
Why would you spread misinformation? V3 removes Blocking part, but doesnt touch Inspecting - every extension can still snoop on all traffic.
ITT, utilitarians discover diminishing marginal utility.
Morbid answer? I wouldn't? Assuming a planet-killer is what you are talking about... If there is zero chance of escaping mortality then just distract people with other things. Individual people are intelligent. Groups of people panic and induce trauma and chaos. There is nothing to be gained from that and it isn't like we have high numbers of high capacity space ships. Even if we did, we are not advanced enough yet to have a pleasant life in space for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Scientists have not yet solved astronauts getting a strange form of macular degeneration among many other issues of prolonged space flight. We would not be able to have enough water and food to last that long without a planet to get supplies from. Yes, we grow plants under ground in vertical greenhouses, but not at the scale to support millions of people in space. We do not yet have equipment that could extract the pockets of water left behind from the earth AFAIK. The list of issues could go on and on. Mars? Caves on the moon? Maybe for a handful of people for a while. Everyone in the mars/moon pods would have to be emotionally stable. One unstable person could end the human race. Regarding space ships, would we even have enough fuel to get 10 AU's from earth and still have life support? Where do we get more fuel? Solar sails? Can't leave this solar system with that and still be able to change course. We would have to point our ship on a path and just survive. We haven't solved extending human life via something like cryo-sleep or similar, have we?
I think you're discounting the value of naming though.

You don't refer to bananas as "the curved sweet yellow food that grows on trees", you simply refer to a banana as a banana.

Sure, for one off items it might not make sense to name it but when you create design patterns then it's incredibly useful to be able to name things.

Yes it may be hard and require you to think, but just because that is so does not make it bad necessarily.
There is even a JEP to remove the SecurityManager!
In the case of Abu Graib there were consequences for the soldiers directly involved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...
I'd argue that this is a design error in glob expansion. It's highly unintuitive that globs are passed "raw" when nothing matches and it's perfectly expected that users will be confused about how globs behave if their behavior depends entirely on the contents of the file system. Human brains simply don't work that way and it's terrible user experience to expect users to be able to predict whether the glob will match before executing it.

A more intuitive solution would be to resolve globs to nothing (the empty string) if they don't match. In most users' mental models "*.jpg" means "any file ending with .jpg" when they pass it to a command like "rm" or "mv", but in reality it means "any file ending with .jpg in the current directory, or the literal string '*.jpg' if there are none" which is nonsensical. If it expanded to nothing, it would be obvious that it needs escaping when passed to commands like find because find would complain about not being passed a file name. The failure case is outright user-hostile and error-prone.

Also if every tool used its own metacharacters, users would have to re-learn them for every tool. It's common for config files to also use globs, for example. Even if we just had one set of characters for shells and one set for other tools, it's often difficult to draw the line, especially if tools use shells and thus would need to translate from one set to another. If this is a design error in find, it's a design error in all tooling that isn't a shell and we need to throw it all out and start from scratch.
TrueNorth Transportation Co – putting more money in the pockets of truckers
It would be awesome, if 3DMark would remake the Lobby Sequence with the latest tech :D
> But its development has stagnated, and it doesn't offer anything over Log4j2 nowadays.

I would say that a logging framework also needs to be boring. I don't understand why string interpolation with access to the JNDI context needs to be in core Log4j2.

Less is more so to say.
This is probably the most preposterous take I’ve seen about this situation. “It’s my phone!! If I want to disable 911, I should be able to!!!” What ridiculousness!

There are so many regulated, built-in fallbacks to ensure anyone can reach emergency services from any cellular device that is within any network range. You don’t need a SIM, an active plan, and you don’t even need to unlock the phone first.

Google should be handling emergency services calls on the cellular network, and should have always prevented any third-party software from interfering.
Is there a word to describe the effect of someone ending a comment in a phrase (in this case “according to the [mainstream] media”) that instantly invalidates the rest of the argument to a reader?
At some point we're gonna need some type of non-profit, open source company that develops massive asset packs for game engines in order to move the industry forward significantly. Companies are wasting a lot of money re-inventing assets from the ground up for every triple A game.
You can try to use context in the logging messages, e.g. the ID of the entity you are currently processing (from the HTTP request), but which might for whatever reason not be available in the code (e.g. you don't want to drill it several methods deep)

As a possible solution you can set MDC variables at the higher level, they are bound to the current thread, and reference them in the format string, and unset them after processing the entity. It's not a great solution due to temporal coupling, and you typically print it outside of an individual logging statements (e.g. add it to all logging statements), but it definitely beats drilling dozens of methods with the diagnostic identifiers.
It seems it already exists!

https://www.brightfingers.com/mirrormethis

> MirrorMeThis is a specially-designed laptop mirror. Instead of your students seeing your face, they see the keyboard area where you can place anything you want to share and talk about.

So it's designed for the classroom, but I don't see why it couldn't work here.
Your comment gave me a neat idea that maybe smart contracts could be used for calculating blame and penalties in long supply chains. Vendor A promises to deliver the widget to Shipping Company B on a certain date who promises to deliver it on another date - but only if Vendor A receives the parts from Vendor X - but only if Vendor X receives the raw materials from Vendor Y - etc. That kind of transparency could be really interesting
Scrum tries to sell a set tools, while the originals (Toyota manufacturing system) were methodologies, a set of processes to build those tools. Scrum is a different abstraction layer
TrueNorth hasn't really had much love here but 100% think they're doing an awesome thing and, hey, they're another Y Combinator success. Any time you can put more money into the hands of workers, you're doing great in my book, and they just smashed it out of the park with their Series B this work.

Bravo Zulu TrueNorth!
Abandonware, I guess. That's why it only contains games from long-defunct publishers (e.g. Zool, Cadaver), and not games for which the franchise is still semi-active (e.g. Lemmings).

> Also, the non-functional keyboard is a little weird. Why even have it?

Because it wouldn't look like an Amiga 500 without one?
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Sorry for your lost.

For others, how do I prevent this? Any tips? Thanks.
Really good stuff. No fluff and very comprehensive.

The author has lots of other solid content on his page. I've now gotten to the stage where I can learn so much from people with half my experience in years.
My reasoning is simple - access to the source code preserves your right to repair. Since closed-source application deny that, they are inferior.
True, but maybe we could run some analysis tools against it.
While the capability of blocking web requests isn't in question, there are some rumblings around deprecating background pages in Firefox, too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578286

Certainly nothing firm as far as it looks, but at the very least they're thinking about it, even though that change is somewhat problematic, too.
Whatever opinion you had about Assange, I think history will not look favourably on how he has been treated during this process.
Stop using us-east-1 by default. Change my mind.
The Zen of Rock Balancing
Not supporting anti-vaxxers.

Anti-vaxxers would be spreading disease, sure. Although it would lower their survival rates, they also affect the survival rates of the out-group by spreading it to vulnerable folks. So being stupid doesn’t affect them exclusively.

Next, once you’ve become an anti-vaxxer and burned bridges with sane people there’s no turning back. At that point becoming “rational” and accepting vaccines is the irrational choice because you lose your only community, and you are all alone. Like I said, loneliness kills.

This is moot because the psychological pain of admitting they’re wrong is too much anyway. So they’ll stick to the group. But my only contention is that post-bridge burning, the rational thing to do is to stick to the community that will care for you.
I do like it for quickly drawing diagrams though. I can be on a call with colleagues, open Pinta and sketch out what I'm thinking with my finger.