skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webpack is under active development though, nothing legacy about it as far as I'm aware. Are you referring to abandoned third-party plugins maybe?

Vite and all the other bundlers are really awesome, but Webpack's strenght - and I think this may also be the root of the issues you seem to be having with the tool - is that there's almost no magic and barely any handholding. Freedom and reliability at the cost of having to build your own configuration (it's just dumping plugin config objects in an array, really not difficult).
The science is suppressed because people are and have been fearful to even research and make a claim contrary to the socially allowed claim. There is actually lack of solid evidence of natural evolution of the virus as well and they have yet to find any connection to any animal with the virus, not to mention the viruses spike protein would make it not infectious in bats where the origin was hypothesized. Yet, speaking about natural growth has not resulted in censures or labeling of researchers ass fringe. The issue is not that there isn't solid evidence of a lab leak, it's that there isn't solid evidence that it wasn't a lab leak either. This article goes into detail on why lab leak is still a leading theory: https://bprice.substack.com/p/yes-we-need-to-keep-talking-ab...
https://counter.dev/
So... while I'm broadly in agreement with you, and a huge fan of strict typing, I will note people use languages like Javascript and usually are ok with things like string to integer coercion.

It seems to be that there's a world of difference between "silently truncate string" and "type coercion" even if I readily agree both are sources of security vulnerabilities.

Thanks for the replies though, even though I clearly annoyed at least 2 people due to the downvotes.
> Because it'll be rewritten by later developers using commonly-used tools.

Everything will eventually be rewritten so this isn't much of an argument... What's "common" today won't be that way forever, likely not even for a couple of years (which is the whole point).

There's no reason to use a particular tool because it's common. A proper developer uses the tool that is right. If that happens to be old, so be it. An engineer should be able to decide what to use based on merits of tools not just picking up the new shiny.
> So what exactly did Google spend their money on? What exactly did these "union-busting" consultants do?

I think the sentiment here is that hiring "union-busting" consultants clearly implies strong anti-union sentiment by management and an equally strong desire to quell rising union sentiment within the company.

Companies, especially big tech companies, like to seem friendly to employees and make them feel like they're in charge, and the company is "run by them". They like to keep a facade of being "benevolent" dictators ultimately motivated by being the best they can for users.

In reality, they're corporations, and they'll do what's best for their bottom-line, wether that aligns with their employees' and users' interests interests or not.

In this case, that involved retaliating against employees involved with the Google Walkout, which on top of challenging this benevolent image, is illegal. Of course, Google won't admit it was retaliation. They want to seem unbothered by the fact there's union sentiment within its ranks, and will tolerate the Alphabet Workers Union's existence. Hiring a union-busting consultancy clearly conveys this is not the case.

There's a lot of reason to criticize union-busting in general too; it usually employs misinformation and scare tactics; this has happened at Amazon, for example [1]. Regardless of wether this has been the case at Google, it's clear they're not as indifferent to the organization of their workers as they claim they are.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8dUXRpoy8&feature=emb_titl...
The P vs. NP Edition
> Webpack is a "legacy" bundler

How did you end up with this assessment? I'm not a fan either, but it's still very popular, I doubt it will go away in the next 5 years.
To be clear, by deflecting are you implying that Bellingcat is not closely aligned financially and operationally with the NATO intelligence/media apparatus?
The provider code should start with a 9 for mobile phones. So 7-961-746 and so on
https://simpleanalytics.com is what I use on all my sites and I love it
I don’t have first-hand knowledge of this but according to what I have read about the favelas it’s like a shadow society basically. I.e. they have their own rules, companies, infrastructure. IIRC the book I read it in was probably Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Discipline”.
I kind of agree with the author. There's also a lot of garbage content online and the problem with:

> I don't have anything interesting to say

is that people who truly don't have anything interesting to say often don't have the self-awareness to think like that.

I used to have a blog. Actually, multiple blogs back in the mid aughts and I've learned the following:

- from a game theory perspective, unless you're really good and have truly interesting things to say, you'll be better off not saying anything as you only have things to lose. You're only increasing your 'attack surface' for stalkers, future job prospects, etc.. It's very hard to keep things to yourself especially when you start having a following and then you start to overshare, push out some ideas some might find controversial or even ideas which become controversial as time goes by. You're better off just not saying shit.

- if you have a dry technical blog which may help some poor souls only searching for a technical solution then go for it. But don't try to make a career out of it.

- if you work for a BigCo, you need to self-censor big time. Anything you say can be associated with your workplace (regardless of your disclaimer) and get you in hot water.

- even if you are anonymous, that's not a guarantee you won't get doxxed (see Slate Star Codex as an example).

- if you think it will help your job prospects, even if you have a dry emotionless uncontroversial blog, think again. Nobody actually gives a shit about your blog except if you're on a very VERY narrow technology niche with few professionals. I don't know about others, but in most of my employment efforts, hiring gauntlet maintainers barely care about your actual experience and your blog is not even a data point.
Check out Umami (https://umami.is/). Should be GDPR compliant. Not as advanced as Google Analytics, but it has pretty good features.
It's certainly a fast moving space. It's not perfect but the NLP scene has made huge strides the last couple years.
I need to digest that article a little more, but on the mandates piece, what do you mean by < 5? R0?

If a mandate came out tomorrow in the US, and you got everyone their next shot that day, what do you think would happen?

It takes 2 weeks for the effectiveness to fully kick in, and I think I recall hearing that there may even be a potential little temporary dip in immunity directly after the shots. Omicron will likely have peaked in the States by then, and at best you end up with no better results. At worst you end up worse off because of the temporary dip (if that is a thing).

In any case, mandate + everyone jabbed tomorrow is beyond impossible anyway. Even if it was possible, there would be minimal benefit for a hefty cost (that I think a lot of people don't realize).
Oh, cool. How does the lightning network handle stuff like chargebacks?
What means legal? It is part of Brazil, and therefore the same rules applies there, so its not legal. If there is murder in Favela that the Police cannot investigate and punish the responsible for that? For sure. Specially if who died was criminal.
2-3% "tax" isn't really a tax, it's a small cost to increase the buying power of people without debt and its a small fee for the recourse action buyers have in shopping protection.

For example, with my costco card I get extended warranty on everything I purchase, fraud protection, buyer protection and I get cash back. If i was a retailer, I'd be super thrilled that people use Costco cards because my products I sell are backed by that cards extended coverage and consumer protections. They file the extended warranty claim with the card carrier, not me. Sure, I can sell junk coverage - which many electronic stores used to do but those were always junk and didn't turn into revenue streams when the cost of selling junk caught up to people refusing to shop there and hating the store/service. (Looking at your Circuit City)

Prior to credit cards, we'd never have a TV, Microwave or computer in every home.

Not saying that I "Love it", but we can't deny the buying power of debt and what that has done for consumers and more importantly retailers over the years.

Interestingly, for many purchases if the bank chooses to charge it as a debit, then you have no recourse and some banks consider debit a cash transaction and charge YOU a transaction fee (non bank cash use) that is much more than 1-3% fee in the end that would be in the product...

I have no idea about censorship resistant... i can use my card to buy porn, legal weed or whatever...
I guess that’s how it has also been in parts of Italy (and maybe still is, to some extent…?)
The use of quantum seems appropriate as it's referring to quantum tunneling, which is something that comes up a lot with CPU architectures as they get extra tiny.
You clearly skipped over the part where she talks about the 9 years she spent teaching, getting to work early and leaving late and working additional hours after getting home.

And the part where she talks about not needing a glamorous job, just one where she can make a difference without having to pretend like she's saving the world.

My advice to you: stop being so judgmental. Based on your other comments, you implement Three.js into projects. What you do is not going to change the world, and stop expecting your future co-workers to sacrifice their lives for a job that ultimately isn't that meaningful in the big (or even little) scheme of things. TBH, you come across as the kind of boss/coworker that millions of people quit their jobs last quarter to get away from.
A friend got a lot of help from AWS support and he spends less than USD 10 a month. Even if they don't help you at least they answer, it's a nice touch for those of us with anxiety issues
Something interesting in American history circa a century ago was the party machine, which combined both roles into one. The fact that it's not around today could be a sign of either a decline in corruption, or a decline in the importance of getting voters to be really strongly on your side (as opposed to being 1% less bad than the other candidate).
You could use the tax income to subsidize healthy foods. Or just redistribute it to low income people.

It cuts in many ways: save money and gain health by drinking water/tea/coffee instead of softdrinks. Use the money for healthier foods.
If you're only writing for yourself why make it public? Writing for myself I'd expect lots of internal thoughts I don't really want to share.
This website says that the IKEA brands are equivalent to the Eneloop Pro and Lite, but not the regular white ones:

https://eneloop101.com/batteries/rewrapped-batteries/

(Scroll/search to "IKEA")
The only thing I keep disposable batteries for is my key code door lock
Judge rules FTC can move ahead with bid to make Meta sell Instagram and WhatsApp
I am very happy with my Eneloops. I used Ansmanns before (and still use the Ansmann recharge device), but they died after like 20 cycles (note: those Ansmanns were models from before the low-self-discharge era).

The Eneloops are 3 years old and still work fine while being used every day (recharge about once per week).
Seems like at least the AA size, model LADDA 2450mAh. You can check they're made in Japan. Not sure about the 1900 mAh, or the AAA size model, it might be a different brand.
Petertriho/nvim-scrollbar: Extensible Neovim Scrollbar
Crime syndicates keep the peace in these communities, and they can be negotiated with.
Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 2
It wasn't a hedge fund, it was Berkshire Hathaway.
Yes. There are alternatives to using facebook and especially instagram. But, when it comes to your ISP, there is no alternative and that makes ISPs a much bigger threat and much more harmful to society. It's especially egregious that ISPs bribe politicians and engage in rent seeking behavior, something we don't see much of from Facebook.

i mean, sure facebook isn't ideal but it's also not the biggest foe we need to worry about.
Thank you, Tom Lane!
Do you have a reference to a paper that demonstrates the empirical superiority of energy-based models to well-tuned "janky argmax-classifiers"? I find it a little hard to believe there's a free lunch here given the relative popularity of basic argmax stuff – if energy-based models were obviously better, it seems like they'd be used more. But I am open to evidence on this point!
Not sure if this is similar, but my janky setup:

Atom (editor) + Hydrogen (Atom plugin).
I like Hydrogen over more notebook-like plugins that exist for VSCode because it's nothing extra (no 'cells') beyond executing the line under your cursor/selection.

Then i just start coding, executing/testing, refactoring, moving functions to separate files, importing, call my own APIs.. rinse repeat.

I tend to maintain 3 'types' of .py files.

1. first class python modules - the refactored and nicely packaged re-usable code from all my tinkering

2. workspace files - these are my working files. I solve problems here. it gets messy, and doesn't necessarily execute top to bottom properly (i'm often highlighting a line and running just it, in the middle of the file)

3. polished workspaces - once i've solved a problem ("pull all the logs from this service and compute average latency, print a table"), i take the workspace file and turn it into a script that executes top to bottom so i can run it in any context.
Atomic State Management in React
I actually did the same thing a week or so ago, but in a more readable format: https://gist.github.com/lc-nyovchev/c42f09a48364665da2634259...

And
https://ath3nd.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/about-wordle/

The idea with the game is to have fun, not to make it impenetrable for techies (in which case a backend would have been nice)
I've seen some minifiers that can restructure your code... replace if{} with a ternary ?: operator or use boolean shortcutting to replace the whole conditional with a ||, and so on. It's supposed to never do anything that actually affects the logic, but that sort of stuff scares me.
I follow a few progressives on Twitter, and I've been flabbergasted by just how naive a lot of younger (supposed) college grads are about gov't finances, modern monetary theory, etc. There's apparently a whole generation who really believe that "money" is just made up - that printing trillions of dollars or wiping away the same amount of debt can be done with 0 consequences, and that inflation is just some myth concocted by evil bankers or Republicans.

Interesting about the Obamacare funds. Obviously all debt payments to the gov't are subsidies to some other group, but I did not know that these indebted students were literally funding another program that they themselves advocate for (though they assume it can be paid for if they just tax the "billionaires" a bit more). Their heads would explode if someone told them that we could have Medicare for all (another huge line item they want) if we just bumped up the interest rates on their own student debt.

Funny how none of the progressive politicians (e.g. AOC) who claim to want Biden to cancel the debt have not come clean with their Twitter fans - that in order to cancel the debt, it'd come at the expense of Obamacare subsidies for people much poorer than most of the indebted grads who want the debt wiped away.
Nice too that it's a compiled language, so you get the end tool in a nice static binary. As a non-Node dev, I hate the experience of hacking on some project and having to install a giant pool of NPM stuff just to run some minifier or linter. Hound is an example of this— the guts of the project are golang, but it has a frontend that uses webpack, jest, etc: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Which is fine, I guess; definitely use the right tool for the job. And maybe Node developers hate finding my Python projects and needing to set up a virtualenv to run them in. But all the same, I approve a direction where more of this kind of tooling is available without a build-time Node dependency.
Patchbox OS – Raspberry Pi OS for Audio Projects
I agree that it would be difficult to implement these practices at once. But the core idea, that all people have the right to organize in a way that leads to sustainable happiness, can be implemented in small chunks in many different, less controversial aspects of our lives. I imagine if the idea gets enough traction, we can then take a good look at how we treat those who refuse to harmonize with the general population.
IP is definitely a fraught subject.
Interesting, a more direct comparison is probably Aurora and they seem to have similar pricing.
I don't believe enough public software developers ask for or expect to receive donations.

The macro goal of OpenFare is to put in place a mechanism that developers can use to receive funds for developing public software. If there is a demand for donations, it needs to be brought to the surface. I don't think we're adequately over that hurdle.

Many content creators (youtubers, gamers, ...) get paid a lot. I think that there is room for public software engineers to ask for their share.
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Maybe there is the possibility of a meta high level language capable of describing/encompassing all the others without exceeding human cognition capabilities. Instead of compiling to a common low level target like assembler, transpiling all the existing sources to a very high level one optimized for human understandability.
Avoiding Cache Stampede with XFetch
In all items less food and energy (Core CPI) these two stand out:

New vehicles: 11.8%

Used cars and trucks: 37.3%
There are now 1.5 V lithium rechargeable AAs. Here's a typical example [1], and there are a ton of others.

I am almost certain they are implemented as 3.7 V lithium rechargeable batteries combined with a buck converter to get the 1.5 V output.

I think they are relatively new. I don't recall noticing them a few years ago, which was the last time I was looking for rechargeable AA batteries.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Deleepow-Rechargeable-Lithium-Batteri...
Never said it was uninformed. I was implying that this really isn't a big deal except for the company who got invested in.
What kind of teeth do you imagine would be required?
IPython (terminal repl) with autoreload has been God mode for me for about 10 years now. No other environment even comes close when it comes to exploring data, sketching out code and hacking towards a solution. And once you get most of the way there, stick stuff in a file and work with vim while IPython silently and reliably hot reloads all the code without losing the data you have loaded in your objects. It’s an absolute pleasure to use.

Thanks for your work on it, it really is much appreciated.
CSS currently cannot model physics based timing functions but there is a proposal for spring() (https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/280)
So what? Everybody that wants to can be protected. Why again do we need to force vaccinated people to wear masks? When will they go away? If vaccines didn’t make them go away, what will?
>CVE-2022-22588

Wow. 12 days into 2022 and we're already up to 22k CVEs filed.

Edit: I was wrong. Thanks @minhazm and @geofft.
Your examples might fit the discussion better if you made unreadable C++03 code that worked. But nonetheless, I don't agree. I can directly read what your first attempt at a loop is trying to do. Your second one hides almost everything from me. If the second one fails to compile and gives me a paragraph-long encrypted complaint, I need to somehow half-comment the thing out and create a bunch of test code so I can go in the debugger and figure out what you are actually doing.

Are you saying the creation of security vulnerabilities has decreased in the last ten years.

edit: and as for: "No-one here is talking about advanced c++, we're talking modern c++."

I am. Reconsider your examples in ternms of not just whether someone needs the improvement, but also whether someone actually needs the preceding alternative you are complaining about.
I find it sometimes zooms in or out when it shouldn't. And I sometimes bump the AR button accidentally.

And reporting some types of map errors, such as incorrect lane guidance, and temporary street closures, never seems to be acted on.
I still can't believe they decided to rebrand it as generic "Optane". The name doesn't really convey how much of a step change in technology it is.
I'd love to read this article but man this site is painful on mobile.
Multiple popups from the top, header that overlays the text, the chat bubble at the bottom.

It really reduces the amount of space for the actual content

When comparing to Reader View in Safari, the native site has at least 40% less viewing area
There was only 1 Denial of Service bug patched. No where as many exploits patched as in prior versions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198901
You don't get exactly what you want no, but you have a vote — which is a lot more than you have now.
You can get lithium ion rechargable AA batteries these days. They have a built in regulator to drop the voltage to 1.5V. Some of them even have micro usb ports on the side for charging.
The Intel C compiler was already well established as a top IA-32 compiler by the late 90s (prior to any IA-64 release). This article[1] from 1999 assumes Intel is responsible for the compiler. My recollection is that the primary focus on 3rd party software was getting systems software ported.

I don't think Intel was banking on 3rd parties making compilers. A lot of 32-bit architectures not named "68000" from the 80s/early 90s suffered from poor first-party compilers and a lack of good 3rd party compiler support; in 1980 an optimizing compiler was not considered an important part of a microprocesor's ecosystem, but by the time IA-64 came around the importance was fairly well understood by hardware vendors. Given the quality of the first-party IA-32 compilers, I think Intel (and everyone else) expected that the first-party IA-64 compilers would be good.

Certainly by the release of Merced (and likely well before), compiler engineers internal to Intel were aware of how hard it was to codegen for IA-64. Certainly during the time period that Intel was pushing IA-64, they had an insatiable desire for compiler developers with advanced degrees.

1: https://www.cnet.com/news/intels-merced-chip-may-slip-furthe...
BitDefender won't let me access the page (untrusted/insecure warning). Not sure if it's just a sketchy TLD or something else you're loading but just thought you should know.
What percentage of CS graduates go onto become computer scientists? Seems like vast majority of CS degree holders aren't practicing "pure" computer science, as you would seemingly hope.