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We have those things, we call them spreadsheet cells.

A spreadsheet cell is an object in that it has a state tied to some procedural code that computes the state, possibly in reference to other cells, possibly just in that the identity function is, indeed, a function. The point is, the vast majority of the procedural stuff, the state updates and the method invocations, are implicit, just as the gotos become implicit when you use while loops.

Using objects to represent real-world entities was always a somewhat loopy idea, and one that obscured the real power of OO as it is now: The ability to abstract over kinds of behavior using inheritance or mix-ins. "This type has the Ordinal behavior set" or "This function can accept any value of any type with the Printable behavior set" is a powerful leg-up for procedural programming and shouldn't be ignored, but it is, fundamentally, an improvement to procedural programming, and not a wholly new way to think about code.
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Feudalism was not entirely new to the Middle Ages - it was partially derived from the Ancient Roman system of Patronage [0] between a Patron and Client. So this kind of hierarchical social structure predates the civilizational collapses that led to the Middle Ages. Of course, Mesopotamia predates Ancient Rome, so perhaps it was even more egalitarian. Although slavery has existed since pretty much day one of civilization.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome
The biggest factors are misleading or false claims, followed by making relatively surface changes to systems or content that they have previously developed, followed by (occasionally) actual high performance.
Tracing a Rare Smooth Muscle Disorder to a Single Mutation in a Non-Coding Gene
yes, well, that illustrates the quality of many "consultants"
This is the way. It's great for templating with .html fragments, extremely easy to maintain and has almost no attack surface. I don't know what "Caddy's template" is but HTML/CSS + SSI for gluing the fragments together is what peak personal website performance looks like.
A group of us at work ended up talking about retirement. I always assumed these guys were paid significantly more than me. They had big houses, expensive cars, and several have their kids in private school. It turns out they’re not saving anything. They’re at max burn rate, cashing out their RSUs as soon as they vest.

At a FAANG table of 5, I was the only one doing anything outside of 401k. I’m also the only one without a Tesla.
>it is actually going to make things worse, that's what regulation does in most cases.

Yes all those regulations that actually make things worse.

Which ones are those again? specifically?

I find that generally people who make hand-wavey boogeyman 'regulation is bad' arguments typically struggle to identify which regulations are bad and why, and conveniently forget about the thousands of regulations that make their life livable every day.
Rust on ESP32 Roadmap for 2023
> WHY YOU MAY NOT NEED CSS

> The fluff does not really matter much.

> WHY YOU MAY NOT NEED CUSTOM FONTS

> Custom fonts are a waste of bandwidth and a visual annoyance

Right-click -> View Page Source. Top of the page is a stylesheet that loads 2 fonts. Hard to take this article seriously.
"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, 1895
Based on the user rank in the BleepingComputer article's screenshot ("kilobyte") it looks forum.exploit.in. Anyone can buy a membership for ~$100 in BTC. I've read some of these places and honestly it's pretty boring. It's basically just a marketplace for software to steal money from people in first world countries (stealers, n-day exploits, crypters, AV scanning services, phishing services) and a bunch of supporting services like residential proxies, hacked RDPs, SSN lookups, and "drop" bank/crypto exchange accounts.

There are others that are public: antichat, wwh-club, bhf. I'm not on it but I think the most "elite" forum is called Mazafaka and requires a substantial deposit and a recommendation from existing members.

Exploit.in is more technical than most of these forums but a lot of these people are not really very technically skilled they just have a very good understanding of how anti fraud systems work and how to circumvent them.
OSHA regulations punish employers for the actions of employees. That has its own set of problems but it's a kind of externality. The law isn't punishing the employee for refusing to wear safety equipment, it's punishing the employer for refusing to provide it.
Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore...

"European Security Officials Double Down on Automated Moderation and Client-Side Scanning" - https://www.lawfareblog.com/european-security-officials-doub...
> you could reduce that by making the surface locally rough or having random geometric segments

That actually makes the problem much worse. Normally with a few flat reflective surfaces around, you'll catch occasional reflections of sunlight and flinch away from them. But with a very reflective rough surface, you catch reflections of sunlight every direction you look and it will burn your eyes.

This is how "snow blindness" works. Fresh white snow is very reflective and very rough, on a bright day with fresh snow, you catch sunlight reflections every direction you look and if you don't limit your exposure, you can get painful UV burns on your eyeballs. Sunglasses or traditional snow goggles become essential if you're outside for long in these sort of conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles

It can also happen when you're on the water on a bright day, depending on the state of the waves. At somewhere around sea state 1 or 2, you start catching sunlight reflections off waves every direction you look and if you don't have sunglasses you'll be in for a shitty time. When it happened to me, it felt like having glass powder trapped under my eyelids.
> Why we can't just require browsers to include DejaVu or another open font is another question

Including a small set of open fonts does seem like a good idea. I'd like to see Inter UI[0] included because it's a very nice screen/UI-optimized font would serve a similar purpose as "system-ui" does now, except without some of the pitfalls[1] that comes with.

[0]: https://rsms.me/inter/
[1]: https://infinnie.github.io/blog/2017/systemui.html
One take on it is better exemplified by saying something like "A day always begins and ends on the same date".

For the purposes of what the calendar says this it's ridiculous to assert that it's a falsehood. For other purposes, it might make perfect sense, for instance a "business day". When I was younger I worked at a bar. We opened at 11am and closed at 2am, and for accounting and legal reasons, the time period of 12am - 2am was the same day as when we opened. Technically we weren't even supposed to serve 21st birthday drinks after midnight, the lawyers said that violated the rules attached to the liquor license, but it wasn't ever enforced. From an accounting point of view - running reports, figuring out how much stock to order, how many people to staff, etc it makes a lot more sense to consider the business day than not.

We had a point of sale system that didn't have a business day notion, and frankly it did nothing but cause problems. Trying to figure out if our Friday and Saturday specials were working was a mess - a very large portion of sales at a bar catering to younger crowds happens after midnight. We were closed on sundays, but still (according to the PoS) realized a pile of income on Sundays. So to do our reports for the accountants we had to do a lot of manual handling of things. To the point where I had to figure out their DB storage and write a bit of code to pull things based on our business hours, just so I could get home before the sun came up when I did a busy weekend close.

Presumably there are similar notions of Month and Week that map to the same sort of reasoning, and there is such a thing as a fiscal year, in which the start and end of year may not be in the same calendar year.
If that’s “not in control of where you go” then it is an entirely different sense. By that reasoning our movement is out of our control because we are physically incapable of walking away into the sky. And because it’s neither physically possible nor allowed to drive everywhere.

The analog to what I’m saying would be something like disabling your legs and asking for permission to walk on a public sidewalk.
follow the money
Yes, the ellipse of the orbit would change a bit, while still passing through the point where the impact happened. Most of the change would be on the opposite side of the ellipse.

However, I think that for such a small velocity change, it is a reasonable approximation to assume that the ellipsis around the sun stays pretty much the same, and only the phase of the object (i.e. where it is on the ellipsis at which time) is affected.
If you graph the % I think it'd look more noisy, at least when I look carefully it's not actually following it as close as it feels when I first look at the graph.
It's not about a smartphone, you're welcome.
So, if I'm using URLs for dependencies, effectively I can't code while I'm offline? I know it's not the norm, but there have been plenty of times I needed to work without internet.
A small orange sure has changed. It used to be dirt cheap crappy shared hosting. Now it's expensive compared to just getting a full VPS nearly anywhere else.

Their VPS offering is $55/month and is comparable to digital ocean's $18/month.
What stack are you using and are you familiar with Ruby on Rails?
No, but successful new ideas in the space are _relatively_ rare. Twitter itself ultimately acquired most of its features from third party apps, Tumblr, Pownce and other contemporaries, or just user behaviour (eg users invented retweets without any platform support); the _original_ Twitter was _very_ bare-bones.
Actually in the source text.

It currently isn't.
> I'm quite certain that a large part of the web would need no CSS or just a few lines of it, if the basic (browser applied styles) were good. As in: designed

I think we would win a lot if browsers default styles were beautiful (as in: really good, not merely fancy) designed. Many websites then would need just a few lines to set some colors, style that weird-custom thing they do or make it feel just a bit more personal.
We're specifically referring to an emergency here. It's not "better" to have taxis around if they cost a thousand dollars. That's equivalent to them not being accessible. The goal is to get people out, but the algorithm only understands regular market operation.

These are the sorts of boring AI mistakes I'm talking about: in every other case, the market algorithm works. But suddenly, you have it price-gouging terrified customers trying to flee a tragedy. It doesn't know!
lots of tax money going to cloud providers and use of agencies to clean up their mess at our expense. meh.
The lead sentence of the story sounds quite different from that:

> Netflix does not want to pay European internet service providers (ISP) for rising traffic costs due to the popularity of streaming video content.

Edit: Yes, your "somewhat related to" is a pretty reasonable disclaimer. When I'm not trying to read too fast.
Why, is that true?

They interoperate fine with older iPhones, Macs and iPads that don't have those features.
Compare these two websites:

http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/sample.html

https://www.columbia.edu

Which one is:
* Easier to navigate?

* Nicer to to look at?

We don't live in a HTML only world because no one wants to live in a HTML only world. Some techies might but 99% of ordinary people do not.

No one wants to look at black and white text all day, with every website looking exactly the same.

If this is what people wanted, then you'd see a lot more of these plain HTML websites. But you don't.
You're talking about how it should be, I'm tell you how it is.

A teacher's impact is diffuse and spread over 30 students. A parent might only have an free hour to help their kid with homework. But it's still more individual attention than any great teacher can give.

Parents can motivate and enforce standards on their children in ways that teachers just cannot do. No teacher can ground you for failing a quiz, or treat you to Disneyland for winning a science fair prize. Most people would rather make their parents proud than their teachers.
I think this part is the most interesting to me, "Redwood says that the main cost driver in the whole process comes down to logistics, particularly now while there are so few end-of-life EVs waiting to have their battery packs recycled. Redwood says that "in time, as end-of-life pack volumes increase, the logistics cost will decrease so that batteries will become assets that will help make EVs more sustainable and affordable in the long run"

I wonder if we'll see a push for smaller recycling facilities (and the tech that enables them) that are pretty localized to try to minimize transportation costs in the future rather than these massive recycling plants.
There's probably a bias given that this is a website with global reach. For any company posting, almost all readers are not living nearby.
You're contradicting the entire point of the article. You mention increases as of 2017 and 2019 whilst the phone narrative aligns with 2012 and beyond. Mental health fell of a cliff since 2012 and seems to keep degrading ever since. One other study showed that even COVID had a limited effect, it was just a continuation of a trajectory happening since 2012.
If every agency and government with access to this technology could be trusted to only use it for CSAM it would be the easiest no-brainer to approve and turn on immediately.

But they can't. It can easily be used to target people for political and social reasons just as easily, and once that Pandora's Box is opened it can never be closed.

For the most topical example, imagine it being used in a conservative US State to target images of people not conforming to the gender they are expected to.
At that scale there’s no reason to use 401k style personal investments that’s just pointless overhead and risk. Social Security tracks individual contributions and that’s all that is needed. Just pool everyone’s investment and pool everyone into a single safe asset allocation.

We don’t use that system because individual 401k’s are extremely profitable for the companies running them. Fees can reduce the long term payout by as much as 1/3.
I’m fully remote atm and checks slack when I’m off work all the time. If I were to commute 50 mins each way, I wouldn’t be looking at slack after work for sure, hell even 10min commute will make me dislike my job, just thinking of having to get up early to walk my dog..
Many russians regarded themselves as European until recently, though. Perhaps not democratic or free though.
A little while back I built a personal project that ingested the book "A Pattern Language" as embeddings using the OpenAI API – and a front-end in SwiftUI that allows me to 'converse' with the book. [1]

Version 0 was built using the original daVinci model. Last night it took about literally five minutes to switch over to the new ChatGPT API – just a few changes to the request, including a new [message] array that replaces the old 'prompt' style. [2]

It's a pretty nice instant upgrade for the experience. Much faster results, and the responses are a lot more interesting. Doing something similar with daVinci would take a fair amount of 'prompt engineering' and fine-tuning. Not to mention all the manual conversation-state handling.

1: https://twitter.com/dreamwieber/status/1622634396087107584?s...
2: https://twitter.com/dreamwieber/status/1631327342697250816?s...
Reaper is awesome! I did a bunch of research before buying a DAW and Reaper struck me as the most principled and generally well-designed option among those I found.

It's very powerful, which means there is a bit of a learning curve, but it can do everything you want it to, and it has nice stuff like really solid scripting support (lua, python, and some DSL).

I record like 20-30 audio tracks at a time from my rackmount setup and reaper handles it no problem.

Very much worth the $60.
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No word on whether any of the beers had coasters over their tops. I mean maybe they still plan to come back and boy are they going to be pissed if the archeologists have stolen their beers.
How much tech did you remove. I'd imagine writing a good book would require a bit of research and stuff. At least the one you mentioned sounds like non fiction.
There's mixed perspectives on this because in aggregate top line terms it was relatively soft but in distributional terms both the 2001 recession and the subsequent expansion up to the Great Recession were abysmal for all but a very narrow slice at the top (which—on a higher level than the particular housing-related financial shell games that get the most focus, whuch really were just one of the ways the underlying dysfunction was papered over with debt—is pretty much the main cause of the Great Recession.)
CSS could also solve this website's problem of a visitor reading the page title as "FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT EMAIL RSS DONATE" … I thought it was a website about email and RSS and donations for a second.
<dusts off OpenBSD and GrapheneOS>
If you are looking for a super simple VAT Calculator for your chrome browser. Then you are at right place.
We're talking about advertising for jobs on Hacker News. Maybe there is just not much value to advertising location-specific jobs in these threads.
With HTTP/2 multiplexing the latency of fetching multiple files from the same server is not a big issue anymore: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30864259.

One can also argue that Minification is also not really that important with widespread new compression algorithms like Brotli.

EDIT: Also, see this very good argument in favor of multiple files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34997759
How will it work on computers? Will browsers do the client-side scanning? Will Apple and Microsoft implement it in their OS'es? What about Linux, will Linux be forbidden? (let's not get in the discussion that Linux is the kernel, you know what I mean).
Well, that was what HTML was on track to give us. But once JS and CSS were introduced, semantic HTML that was actually semantic stopped developing, under the assumption that if someone needed, for example, a tab area or slide show, they could develop those themselves with CSS/JS. What we've gotten instead is extremely vague elements like "section" that don't communicate what the elements are.

If HTML were truly semantic, browsers could implement accessibility features around it, but because they're so vague, there's no real way for browsers to do that, which offloads the responsibility onto web developers, who in most cases aren't granted budget to do it. There are a handful of features such as alt properties, but these are pretty limited.

So yeah, HTML should give us that, but that's part of what users gave up when we decided it was acceptable to allow random websites to run code on our machines and tell us how our content should be displayed.
Anyone concerned about running code from ChatGPT?
Metaphorically! Safety is on everyone's mind, but in reality food poisoning is a likelier risk. And there's concrete steps to avoid it, like BisBacter, Smecta, imodium, bottled water, and being thoughtful about how you ease into foods. The difference in food safety and water quality in Bogota is very different from small villages in Antioquia.

If you think you shouldn't be drinking a fruit juice, then you probably shouldn't! You can fulfill the craving with fresh fruit... for my fruit-loving friends, check out Paloquemao market in Bogota.
Understood, but could you not do this by coding style? I.e. calling a method returns void?
Lol! They do have a weird casing to it, so maybe day did
We also noticed that now, we got a few requests for it. So now we're considering to start offering this in the future.
This is why I also fear using Google Cloud. You might do something weird to get banned from YouTube or Google Ads and then next thing you know you've lost access to your Google account including Google Cloud. Good luck if you used any proprietary GCP services.

These worries don't matter as much if you're large enough to have a human sales rep, but as a smaller company, a false positive algorithmic suspension can shut down your business.
Deno does support import maps out of the box. For Node there’s a loader[1] you can use (though a glance at the GitHub issues suggests it’s incomplete).

1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@node-loader/import-maps
And you're comparing the loss of your swarm modem to an artillery shell popping your house like a balloon? Not to even mention nukes.
Is it just word play here - "We do not have production quotas, only performance expectations"? What is the difference?
Small point, but aren't aprons handed out and treated like uniforms in other companies? Employees take them home and launder them themselves? In any job I've had where I had to wear a specific company shirt, they were given to me and up to me to maintain.
one of the big problems about deciding what is the "best" approach is that there is no way of doing this objectively, scientifically or logistically. who is going to pay to have multiple teams implement a complex solution using multiple approaches? and even if someone were mad enough to do this, it would prove nothing, as the teams would be made up of different people.
Intriguingly, the Irish Eircode system is seemingly not used for postal deliveries by An Post (the mail service).

See various contributions to the discussion here: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058233089/is-it-true-that-...

Around the same time as the Eircode was introduced, water meters were installed for every property in Ireland. They have never been used, because of public outcry over the idea of being charged for water use. Don't imitate Ireland.
This should be addressed through the negotiation of peering agreements between Netflix and ISPs.
>People did not go around spreading fear about controlling electricity because you could die if you touch a raw electric wire passing current.

Please sir, forgive me for saying the following statement before hand...

What in the holy fuck are you talking about? Have we forgot the debate around Edison and Topsy the elephant?

I only say this with such an extreme tone because everyone around from then is dead and you're engaging in a rewrite of history yourself by selectively forgetting/ignoring all documented debates from that time.
The way people handle money is a cultural problem. Not only is it a lack of savings, many people have a lot of debt that's growing. The way many view money is to spend more than they take in. Driven by consumerism.

Consider how often people see ads trying to influence them to spend. They work and it's shaping our culture.
> and programming languages can support or hinder expressing those properties clearly.

Surely you would agree that if a language hinders one of such properties to extreme extent, then it would make sense to call such language "definitely non-[paradigm-name]"? For example, take Pascal without procedural/functional parameters: you can write functional programs, by manually applying defunctionalization and lambda-lifting... but it's so cumbersome that I'd argue such a dialect of Pascal is definitely not a functional language.
I'm a graybeard, but I have never stopped exploring new music at all.

That said, I've also experienced enough music that I have a pretty good idea of what sort I like and what sort I don't, and I don't tend to spend a lot of exploring styles I'm not fond of. That's different from when I was younger and had less of an idea of what my tastes actually were.
Despite this, I'm an advocate for martian self-determination when it comes to deciding their timekeeping system. Earthlings, despite their good intentions, should stay out of the matter categorically.
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