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> No system can survive for long if this is widespread.

Scientific collaboration can obviously not only survive but is enhanced by the EU dropping its xenophobic institutional barriers to non-EU countries working with them.

What you mean is that if European countries realize they can leave the EU and still work together, then the EU itself as a political institution can't survive long. But if you believe that then it is another way of saying the EU isn't actually useful and exists only due to its cartel-like "all or nothing" stance. In which case good riddance, Europeans and the rest of the world can work together much better without it.
Any parent probably invented the equivalent of one within the first six months of their kid being born - but I guess this is one of those things that are bloody obvious and desired, but not supposed to ever become products, like pacifiers on an elastic band.
"Might makes right", the last word in every argument on the EU.
This analogy doesn't work, because it assumes that "roads any vehicle can drive on" is the default position outside the EU. But that's precisely not the case here - the default position in the Non-EU world is that cross-border cooperation and financing bears prohibitive problems. So Horizon is a significant improvement on the default position.
What they described is exactly the case. Hence the controversy. Your company should be worried because these ToS changes have been applied retroactively. I agree with you that this is not legal but that is what's happening. Check Unity's own FAQ:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packa...

Q: Are these fees going to apply to games that have been out for years already? If you met the threshold 2 years ago, you'll start owing for any installs monthly from January, no? (in theory). It says they'll use previous installs to determine threshold eligibility & then you'll start owing them for the new ones.

A: Yes, assuming the game is eligible and distributing the Unity Runtime then runtime fees will apply. We look at a game's lifetime installs to determine eligibility for the runtime fee. Then we bill the runtime fee based on all new installs that occur after January 1, 2024.
So just in case people forget. Bard initially launched with the lamda model (the one that got that guy fired) [1]

Bard was soundly mocked for how bad it was and they relaunched it with the Palm2 Model[2].

I suspect at some time in the near future, if they haven't done so already, they'll just quietly move Bard's underlying language model to Gemini.

[1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
[2] https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-lan...
Oh, critical issue again. Looks like Gitlab needs security officer to help to prevent this.
I wonder why is this on HN. Gitlab has like 10 Security releases/year, this is the first i see on HN. If you self host gitlab you should be subscribed to the security newsletter.

It would save a lot of time on my end, if gitlab had a :stable release tag for docker.
My mileage varies.

In my FidoNet nodes and the ones I visited there was explicit moderation. We were just called sysops.

For Usenet, in all sci. & comp. there were heavy moderation, and of course little to no moderation in alt. at least what I saw.
I think it depends on world region. When I asked the same "when is your cutoff-date", I get "September 2021" as a reply. They probably choose to test the US market first.
I think that assuming that technology is secondary is a trap that skilled developers encounter when moving into management-they assume that development is as easy for others as it is for them. When I moved into technical management, I was fortunate enough to work with high performing teams for a while, so when I encountered a poor performing team (the team lead didn’t know basic good practices, and bug counts rocketed up because of an inexperienced dev team) it was a nasty shock.
It’s exactly what you’re talking about. The claim was “i was in industry -> therefore i know if you control the other variables you can tell the difference”.

For one, controlling the other variables is an obvious step you need to take when testing the effect of particle size. For two, it doesn’t follow that the OP is magically correct in his hypothesis about the effect of grind size just because he thought of this step and works in industry.
You can in fact eat quite a menu of inedible things but this will probably harm you sooner or later. Edible or inedible is not a meaning, it's a convention. There even are some things which are considered inedible despite being harmless and possibly tasty, especially if you know how to cook them right and don't eat too much of them.

Did you know radium used to be a popular "edible" ingredient one day? They said it was good for your health. Then one day people realized it's poison. Sugar used to be promoted as having ealth benefits as well (as did cigarettes). And it has to be declared inedible to stop destroying health of billions of people.
> and killed 90% of Europeans & North Americans at the time (55M people).

That’s very far fetched.

> which is believed

By whom? The little ice age peaked in the 1600s.
I once wrote an image generation program that used every color in a provided palette exactly once, then ported it to a few different languages. The main data structure was a kd-tree to store RGB points, with each point being marked as used after returning it.

Rust and C++ were both within about 10% of each other. Python was about 3 orders of magnitude slower. The surprising result was that JavaScript was only about 7-8x slower than the C++ version, which was much faster than I had expected.
Sigh, Eurasmus, Euratom, mutual visas for people in the arts wanting to work in Europe etc. etc. need not even be associated with being in the EU but we needlessly harmed ourselves and left them all. The UK electorate has been told a fiction about sovereignty for decades, I’m not sure how to stop the lies and conspiracy theories that have permeated a lot of society now. We are set to become a very poor and unhappy country if we keep being unable to discuss reality and focus on how people feel.
Imagine something like Baldur's Gate 3 with AI generated, infinite stories and characters in those stories. Including voice acting.

I think you're having the right idea.
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> If you're serious about game development you'll have to switch to C# or C++ eventually.

Were the creators of Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, and Hotline Miami not "serious" because they chose to use GameMaker? I understand the pitfalls of using lightweight scripting languages, but not everyone is trying to create Doom Eternal.
I personally very much prefer Typescript as a language to Go; my biggest gripe with it is the ecosystem is far more complex, vast (in the bad way, when you have 1000 options for everything and nothing completely stablished), fast moving and breaking. You have to cope with things like transpilers, etc.

I know this is improving, libraries like React have been #1 for a good while, but even then, they introduce breaking changes constantly.
This definitely happens. At the same time, Superhuman (which is a web app) is insanely fast, and Apple managed to make the desktop version of Apple Music (which is supposed to be mostly native) insanely slow.
This line of reasoning will lead to always using insecure systems over secure ones. We lost much larger percentages due sidechannel mitigations. Layout has more effect than -O1 to -03 (Berger et al). Machines have never been faster than they are now, when will they be fast enough to also safe by default?
I dislike the one-row enter key on US layouts and prefer the inverted L-shape. My standard keyboard is a Keychron K8H3 with German keycaps (that's what is easy to find here), but I use it with the US international layout. But then, I don't look at my keyboard when typing anyways...
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>> An therein is the problem I, and I know many others, have with the FSF and it's followers. This language is just not compelling - in fact, it's a massive turn off, even if you think it's true. This comes off as the ravings of a crackpot!

I suppose it depends on who is talking and what is being said, but the FSF message can be very direct:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
This is interesting thanks for sharing!
It's all made from scratch.
I don’t know this person or this incident, but it seems nowadays if you want to end someone’s career and/or public image, you just need to invite some women they have been with and call it sexual assault. That goes without saying, is there a court order to stop monetizing his channel? He seems to be a public figure, so his main income is .. being public. What did he actually say to have him cancelled, or whom did he annoy?
South Africa used to have some of the cheapest power in the world. I have a friend who grew up there and he said it had never even occurred to him to calculate the cost of running a 100W bulb before he moved to the US. Further, at one point the electrical grid (and most infrastructure) was considered some of the best in the world. For me, it’s telling that solar is cost effective at all given how cheap and stable their power was 20 years ago. By all accounts the corruption in the country has grown to make their power unreliable enough that solar makes sense.
Then neither is the age, so why bring it up?
Yes, it's illegal. They are still doing it. Make sure they don't have your payment information when they start the first wave of billing in February.
Nope. I'm from a different region, although I lived in Montreal too.
Any group that advocates freedom gets pushed outside the mainstream conversation. There is continuous pressure against freedom from any centralised source of power - including the sort of people who set the parameters on what 'mainstream' conversation is. Powerful people rarely see freedom for less powerful people as something that will help them (although the evidence suggests that it is, most people can't handle that sort of indirect and trusting reasoning). Freedom was, is and will be a radical idea.
> Gouraud shaded

I thought it was phong shaded?
I see it mostly with what I would call “industrial applications”: video editing, CAD, etc. Besides games, consumer software tends not to be computationally intensive, so there are few consumer examples (which I think leads to a sort of “JavaScript is fast enough for everything” fallacy among web devs)

I happen to write a newsletter where I interview this sort of company, here are some recent examples that use Wasm:

- Rayon (CAD): https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-ho...

- Modyfi (raster image editing): https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-ho...
The Brexiteers are convinced this shows it’s possible to cherrypick the parts you wanted from the EU. The Remainers are convinced that the interval when Britain was out of Horizon shows the dangers of Brexit.

Neither is really relevant, though. At best this agreement brings the UK back to previous status quo in one area. Where are the Brexit benefits that were supposed to balance out the other side of the equation and eventually show a net positive? Even immigration isn’t actually down compared to EU membership days. All that’s left seems to be those vague ramblings of sovereignty.
The only cynical solution I can think of is someone is getting obscenely rich by keeping Government Digital running effectively
TAL does use garbage collection; verifying that a GC behaves is another can of worms.
At most any model can describe some part of reality with a given validity. Some models don't have any region of validity so we shouldn't use them. I think saying that 'all models are wrong' is kind of, rhetorical rather than instructive.
VCMI dont conflict with licenses because it's not reverse engineering effort, but engine created from scratch and licensed under GPL. Pretty much like OpenMW, OpenRA and other purely open source projects.

Of course to play it you need to buy proprietary assets.
Seems like a technicality to me, although I'd be happy to update the statement in the post.
It's still not compiled in advance and while the technologies you described (asm.js, WebAssemly) exists most web apps discussed don't use them at all.
fheroes2 was great for getting me unstuck on a self-imposed exercise of reverse-engineering the Heroes2 binary data format some years ago :)
> In combination with open source, this is the reason VS Code (as an example) has so many contributions, leading to many features for a variety of languages and so many plugins. As a result, I don't have to learn other editors or IDEs which makes me more productive.

I don't know, (neo)vim and emacs are kind of the counterexample, and they have way more extensions and plugins. Neovim especially is seeing tons of momentum at the moment.
>However, in almost all real-world scenarios, it’s still generally pretty easily beaten by ahead-of-time-compiled languages

The claim to be refuted was not "Javascript is faster than AOT compiled languges" however.

Instead, the claim was: "[Javascript is] around the speed of Java and Go in some cases, which are compiled", which is not far off. Especially given that these two are not in general among the fastest kids like C, C++, and Rust.
Wrong taxon, I guess.
Your statement begs the question, what rules would you put forth for online communities in the same succinct way that also scaled?
> no successful country in the whole continent

Botswana is reasonably successful, and I chalk that up to less focus on revenge plotics (the idea of making amends died alongside Mandela in South Africa).

What's truly heartbreaking is how almost the whole continent has been strong-armed into colonialism. In South Africa, that's Anglo-Plat. Zimbabwe (my birth country) has been completely colonialized by the Chinese and is being stripped of everything (with no expense, much of the beauty of the country is gone - e.g. the Chimanimani mountain range).

Revenge isn't worth it.
> So you would have the government take time, money, and resources from Google - a private company - and require that they unwillingly publish and monetize videos that the government said they had to?

“Private company” is not a magic phrase that makes you unaccountable for your actions. And governments already spend everyone’s time, money and resources to require companies to unwillingly serve protected classes.

> Is that really a standard you want to set?

Yes. What is the standard you want to set? Do you want to allow monopolies to discriminate you because you are of wrong ethnicity, gender or nationality? Do you want to live in a world where you are unable to connect your house to utilities because you are Indian or a woman?

> Am I required now to host your articles on my personal blog?

No, nobody cares about your private blog. It is not a monopoly whose market cap is comparable to the combined market cap of all domestic companies in Netherlands.
Some people needing a sound alert because they have time sensitive duties. For example, a daycare/school needs to reach a parent.
At first I thought you were referring to this case where a crew landed an A300 with a large part of a wing missing and no hydraulic controls, using only differential engine thrust to control pitch, roll, yaw and speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_sho...
How I limit social media
Or looked at another way, it just weakness the parts of the system where there are disagreements.

The most frustrating thing about the EU is that there are both great and awful things about it. Some things almost all EU nations agree on, such as having strong trading relationships and joint research programs, but often this comes bundled with stuff there is far more disagreement on the Schengen Area and the Euro.

I think the EU would be stronger if was purely an opt-in / opt-out model. Forcing such a diverse group of nations to all adopt a single system is neither in the interest the people living in EU or in the interest of the long-term viability of the EU.
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You said "He is alleged to have passed along a girl to a known pedophile."

He is not even alleged to have done that. What's been reported is that he joked on a BBC radio show about visiting Savile and bringing along his assistant.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/russell-brand-ji...

Five years before the allegations against Savile emerged, the older star told Brand he “doesn’t usually meet fellas but if you’ve got a sister then that’s ok”.

Brand explained he didn’t have a sister but instead named a personal assistant he could meet.

“I’ve got a personal assistant,” Brand told Savile. “And part of her job description is that anyone I demand she greet, meet, massages, she has to do it. She’s very attractive, Jimmy.”

Savile answered: “Well, well that’s a good start. You could send her along to do some research.”

Asked by Brand what she should wear to meet Jimmy, the paedophile presenter replied: “I’d actually prefer her to wear nothing.”

Brand burst into laughter as Savile insisted: “There’s nothing wrong with that.”

There is no suggestion that Brand, Savile or Brand’s personal assistant ever met up following the interview.
On my linux box:

$ echo "(2/3)*3-2" | bc -l
-.00000000000000000002
> EU might have geopolitical aims, but not much capability, so I see Horizon as not very strong in that area, if at all.

The EU has quite some capacity to project power worldwide. Especially when it comes to trade and regulation. Surely not like the US or China, since it doesn't have it's own military. But much more than any of it's member states alone or other mid-sized countries like the UK.
With anti-corruption purges, I always wonder how much it gets used as a pretext for getting rid of people they don't like for more political reasons. I never had a high opinion of the Met Police, but even I don't think there are 1000 David Carricks.
This is probably the biggest downfall of policies - long, drawn out prattle about irrelevant topics with weasel words and irrelevant niceties. Distilling them into standards and procedures becomes a nightmare and constant fight.
It's still a little sad that they discontinued the Presto based version of Opera. I used it pretty exclusively from around 2006 until the switch to Blink in 2013. I really liked the developer tools, the UI and speed. I can see why it couldn't continue, keeping up with Chrome must have been a huge financial burden with very little profit.
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I’m a bit surprised that these two concepts are seen together. I’d of thought that financial math and data management would always be done with some level of abstraction so it doesn’t matter at all what your computer’s implementation is.

Then again, 128 bits is plenty for microcents or whatever the minimim unit is.

I’m guessing back in the day when things were 32 bit or less, there were entire financial database implementations that handled this abstraction?
Oh good. This will work out wonderfully.
I was going to post this
The house of lords had major reform at the start of Labour's last stint in government to remove hereditary peers. It's not impossible to go further, in fact I'd put it at about the same likelihood as reforming the EU structure in the medium to long term.

Besides, short of violent revolution there's nothing the UK population can immediately do about the HoL. The Brexit vote was something that the people could directly do to at least de-abstract power and bring it closer to home. This was one of the most-advertised perks of the EU by the remain campaign: It's not the same as a nation superstate because you're able to voluntarily leave. Brexit was just the UK population exercising that right.

The other point is that the Lords really doesn't have that much power when all's said and done. Yes, they can quibble and send bills back for review a few times, but they're nothing like the US senate for example, the commons have the final say over everyone else. Compare to the EU commission, who have much more power, and actually make the laws.
I think it very much could help. As it stands there is a minimal cost per bot account, if it gets banned you try again.

With a monthly subscription you'd be out of pocket for a month, even if your bot is banned the next day. That's terrible ROI for a spammer.

Furthermore getting a supply of "plausible" cards (corresponding to the account's/IPs location) that would pass fraud checks is not as cheap as phone numbers either.

It will be effective. Large state-sponsored actors will no doubt get through it, but it still shrinks the amount of spam significantly.
For fun and learning is good but don't think it's practical... not even close to functionality from search engines in the 90s
Perhaps I'm the odd one out here, but most financial systems I've had the chance to work with don't actually use numeric types to store values, they use strings or other comparable types. Numeric values are passed to all outside interfaces, but the internal states are written in a way where no bit level issues peddle with the values. I'm wondering what the experience of the wider audience here is?
In terms of motivation, online services do save the government money on administration costs like manual data entry, costs of returning forms that have been filled out wrong, etc. And every government likes efficiency savings much more than increasing taxes or reducing government services.

In terms of implementation, the government employs a small number of competent people directly - the "Government Digital Service" - who accomplish some projects.

Other IT projects are done by organisations like Accenture, CSC, Atos Origin, Fujitsu and BT. They are generally paid more if the project is late or buggy, with predictable results. But they'll often produce something eventually, if enough money is thrown at them.

The "VIP lanes for routing work to your mates" are more for things like buying overpriced PPE during the pandemic.
Not OP. But zsh isn't bash, and I am not about relearn my shell-fu.
Debris was found.

https://wpde.com/news/local/missing-f-35b-jet-search-lake-ci...
You can program junk in any language. I've built a pretty neat real time web application using nothing but JavaScript and a little thinking. Could it be better? Yes, no doubt. I could have written it as a native application for all of the platforms that it currently supports (Desktop on Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile phones Android and iPhone). But I really don't have the time or the resources for that so this helped me to scratch my itch, helps a ton of other people as well and keeps the future options open. If you can do it as a web app you probably should do just that.

I've a bunch of ideas on how to improve it that would require much more speed for raw computation, so for now that's off the table. Maybe one day it'll catch up, maybe there are some performance tricks that I'm simply not aware of that could make it happen today. But it's plenty useful as it is.

Teams is typical bloatware. We had video-in-the-browser in 1995 and it worked, by 1998 we had audio as well plus a whole pile of people hanging off high volume events (Shuttle launches, F1 etc). Since then computers have become considerably faster. That there are alternatives to Teams that do not suffer from the same drawbacks makes me think that this is implementation dependent and that MS would really love you to download their native stuff. The web based Teams clients doesn't seem like it was ever priority #1. And because in any Teams meeting with more than five participants there always is at least one person using the web the impression is that the system as a whole just doesn't work.
Given how many government and critical business websites like banks rely on SMS 2FA, I cannot imagine giving an employer that much control.