skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is why rooks are worth 5 and bishops are worth 3"

Such evaluations are only a rule of thumb intended for beginners.

It's all context dependent. There are positions where a Bishop is more powerful than a Rook. Other things being equal, Bishops tend to be preferred over Knights in serious play (especially when you've got a Bishop pair, which is synergically more powerful than one Bishop times two), even though both are theoretically "worth" 3 pawns. Two minor pieces are usually worth more than a Rook and a pawn, and more often than not it isn't a good idea to exchange the former for the latter, even though the total value appears the same (3+3 = 5+1). And so on.
Our doctrine was built around aircraft, suppression of enemy air defenses, and then domination through missiles and total air superiority. We flew more combat sorties on Day 1 of Desert Storm than both of these nations have flown in two years of this conflict. Soviet (and by extension both of these nations) doctrine places emphasis on overwhelming manpower, artillery, and air defense.

We have an order of magnitude more combat aircraft of all classes than both of these nations combined. We have more AH-64s that are allocated just to training than both of these nations have helicopters in active service combined.

Ukraine is already giving Russia's AD systems a run for their money using our hand-me-downs from 30 or more years ago. Their aircraft have no stealth technology, ancient avionics, ancient targeting systems, last-generation anti-radiation missiles.

Russian AD systems stand zero chance against modern SEAD doctrine: we can see this in effect every time Ukraine uses decoy-based saturation attacks combined with cruise missiles. They simply do not have enough capable batteries to sustain a meaningful air defense when faced with a financially-superior adversary. We have tens of thousands of AGM-88 HARMs in stock: Russia has less than 2000 estimated S-300/S-400 acquisition radars.

Nuclear weapons are Russia's only real military trump card; Russia would cease to exist if confined to conventional munitions in a "peer" conflict. There exists exactly zero chance we end up in a Ukraine style meat grinder, we're deploying nuclear weapons long before that happens.

Also: Ukraine isn't engaged in total war and has no ability to wage it. The United States would (and has in past conflicts) engage in strategic bombing campaigns on absolutely every single manufacturing facility, every supply chain, in every complicit nation. In a US-Russia or US-China conflict, Iran doesn't get to sell drones or any other munitions without receiving 40 tons of JDAMs on their manufacturing facilities.
> Like or hate Bush/Clinton/Obama, nobody was kicking you out of a community because of your political affiliation. I miss the inclusiveness of the 90s.

The 1990s weren't more inclusive, quite the opposite. But the groups you are talking about just all at least tried to work with the community. They actively sought out common ground and were willing to compromise. Today's populists, e.g. Trump, say the aforementioned community is not the real community, they are all crooks, or pests, and in fact only the populists and their followers are the real community and everybody else is the enemy and needs to be locked up, denied citizenship, or be exterminated. There can't be compromise. It is a big part of their sales pitch.

Witness how so called moderate Republicans are treated -- you know, the ones who seek to work within the community and are willing to compromise -- they call them RINO "Republican In Name Only", i.e. they are not _real_ Republicans. There are more examples you are probably aware of. I, for one, can see how this makes it really hard for all involved to find some common ground to work together, don't you?
> If there were ever to be any kind of “meat grinding” war, it would be escalated to aircraft, drones, and long range missiles pretty quickly I think

That's not an escalation, it's a cooling off.
Huh? What here is a bell curve? What would be on the "right side" of the bell curve that invalidates the idea that git info in PS1 is useful?
If your PR is that big and has that many interconnected pieces, then it should probably be broken up and serially merged anyway. Otherwise it becomes a pain for the reviewers to read, and a pain to make any large changes to.
Will this allow Firefox to have extensions now that they’re not limited by WebKit? Or will Apple still axe that as a “third party App Store” or some bullshit?
I'm jealous of how easy it is to import data when using a structured source code like format such as rst, markdown or latex. I'm sticking with word because I can easily do small layout adjustments like decreasing the margins of a table to make it fit on a page, or easily see when a paragraph is 1 or 2 words too long, causing it to shift all sorts of elements across pages.
Leave channels that you’re not required to be in. For some channels it can be enough to disable notifications. (They will still be bold in the channel list when there are new messages.)

Going offline from Slack for 1-2 hours a day might not be impossible? That’s a start. Try it and then evaluate after a week or two.
The sanity checks don't add up to much with speculation etc. Since the Rust compiler has more information about memory management it can optimize some things a c++ compiler can't.

Also, you can write unsafe rust just like c++ and preallocate pools of memory and stuff etc
You as a parent probably know best when you can trust your child enough. Children are very different from each other, especially during the first ten years.
It's not so much that a single case affects state in both the frontend and the backend; it's that in some cases, you're going to have to reason about the lifecycle of your backend, whereas in others, it's the frontend lifecycle that's relevant. Both come with their own set of concerns, and it's more context switching and lifecycles to keep in mind.
Apple uses the excuse of security to hold a monopoly.

You are shown that this is by no means as secure as they want you to believe.

Then you argue that "of course, with a market that big!"

So basically you are proving that Apple uses the excuse of security to hold a monopoly.
there is absolutely NOTHING in current science that proves or demonstrates that the universe started with the same amount of matter and anti-matter. because we can do experiments in accelerators showing there is matter and anti-matter does not imply, nor prove, that the universe started with an equal amount of matter and anti-matter.

the universe could have started with ONLY matter. and we can find matter and anti-matter throught experiments...

the problem is we have people all around, including dumb scientists, asking themselves "why, why the universe did lose all its antimatter at the start" when there is no proof nor demonstration any anti-matter would have to be present at the start.
> What is your point here?

The point is that we do not know if our seven million year old ancestors were peaceful or not. The assertion is unfounded.
Maybe I'm stupid, but does he mean that as long as the task at hand is solved it doesn't matter how we categorize it. In the submarine case it would be "move through water", for example. Or is it deeper than that?
It feels like a bit of doomed a project simply bc browsers don't open EPubs. You can link a PDF and while it's a bit of a context switch, the browser will open and display it

Since as described EPubs are basically HTML its kinda dumb browsers don't open them - but good luck convincing the Chrome/Mozilla bureaucrats

I think another discouraging aspect is HTML CSS are so huge and bloated at this point that few people can implement a "reader" for EPUB/HTML. It's basically "go implement a new browser". It makes one think a easy-to-parse markdown (like Djot) with some extra rendering bells and whistles would be a more likely long term solution

My personal interim compromise solution is embedded everything (CSS, svgs, scripts and base64 images) into an HTML file. It's similar to an EPUB. It's a bit bloated and ugly but with a bit of care it works and naturally browsers (and by extension basically every user) can open it

Unfortunately a user has no way to really know "oh I can download and store this web page offline". It'd be nice to have some thing like a .htmls extension that indicates it's an HTML but it doesn't have any external resources.
(2021) - rehashing a paper published in 2017...

I think I still remember the discussion from back then, and it centered (as usual) around doubts if samples from Computer Language Benchmarks Game are really representative, and if some of the differences aren't due to the different levels of polish that the solutions in some languages have vs. others.
Not just safety. There's research showing that improved physical skills like balancing, coordination and so on at an early age correlates with improved performance in school.
It's all cycle. Remember when XML was the future ?

Money quote from https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles:

> geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Even more so than the average person, because they believe they are less susceptible to it than normies, so they have a blind spot.
I fail to see where anybody is being tricked in your quote.

Research has indicated that Americans are progressively becoming more risk adverse, obese, and more injury prone over time. If only 23% of Americans qualify for military service now that number will become much smaller in the future. The potential rarity of viable recruits could become a new unexpected driver of personal wealth as military service becomes a new form wealthy exceptionalism available only to those gifted few.
Not only that, they're going to try and scare users away from third party app stores with warning dialogs:

> The changes also include new disclosures informing EU users of the risks associated with using alternatives to the App Store’s secure payment processing.

There are 22 instances of the word "risks" on that page. Pathetic.
I didn't have kids until I moved to Iceland but it's pretty idyllic for them here as well. We live in downtown Reykjavik and its perfectly safe for them to walk to and from school alone and do stuff around town together. I'm not sure how that differs to the UK now but my childhood was filled with building tree houses in farmers fields and that sort of thing and I can't really see them growing up differently even if we had to move back.
It would have been nice if it was dual licenced like their GPU drivers.
The channel Not Just Bikes did a video on this, he had the same experience as you.[1]

Growing up in Germany myself, I also feel that this trend is getting noticable here.

I have no data on this, but I feel like safer cars lead to higher speeds and therefore perceived higher risk from a pedestrian/children point of view. The fact that there are more cars and they are bigger, while speed enforcement is basically non-existent (because freedom) are probably also doing their part.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=mV7kT0Oj2z6ic18L
Why would you think the Benchmarks game is relevant in any way?
"Why we chose Java for our High-Frequency Trading application"

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"Senior Low Latency Java Developer" at Barclays

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"Senior Rust Developer" at James Joseph Associates

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"Software Engineer Java Rust eTrading" for an hedge fund

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I don't know why you're making fun of him, because he's absolutely right.

"Bread & Circus" has been used for a long fucking time already and if you have no knowledge of the history of the CIA, or Mossad, then you should educate yourself.

It's not a conspiracy theory when it's the world we live in. You should definitely feel shame.
Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
Great comment. I see you use rankings and ratings as synonyms, but there's a crucial difference here. Knowing that your level is 500 or 1200 (rating) is useful feedback for seeing yourself improve. Knowing that you're on the 10th place and someone else on the 1st (ranking) is much less useful.

The Nordic sports model is specifically against rankings for kids. It's fine to give them detailed scores or ratings or evaluations that help them improve. It's not fine to order their results and put them on a list of winners and losers.

Generally, sports feedback (and also goals) should be centered on things that you can control (like technique). Ranking – the place you earned in a competition or a tournament – is outside of your control, as it depends on the performance of others (and also on the quality of the judging and judging systems). Rankings are based on comparison and have a number of issues – take Uber ranking inflation, for example.

If your kid scored 3rd place in a competition – what does it tell you exactly about her/his technique or quality of coaching? Pretty much nothing. Only the fact that 2 other kids scored higher. Unfortunately, it's not rare in sports to see how the general national level of coaching in some sports goes down, while everyone still have their ranking and medals.

Using (measurable) ratings and scores as feedback also needs to be taken with a dose of caution. These systems are developed by humans, they're imperfect and usually measure only what is measurable. Sometimes, they're even wrong. Back to the IJS example – the system that was designed for Olympic-level athletes – it is often used for kids' competitions. For the lack of other options, judges enter entry-level elements into the system and assign base values. Instead of "quad lutz" it's a "shooting duck" entry-level exercise and assigns points to it. Then, judges pretend that they can "measure" this child's exercise – was it 0.4 points or 0.5? Needless to say, there is no actual measurement of "shooting duck" – it's just when all you have is a hammer, everything seems like a nail. Then, the parents fight over whose kid is judged more harshly. So, these systems can be pretty flawed.

And yes, of course, I don't attribute the Norway Olympics' success to the lack of competitions till the age of 11. Rather I'm showing that the policy of late specialization and withholding competition till kids mature a bit is not against the goals of high-performance sports.
One of the strengths of C++ is just that, that the more information you can provide, the better opportunities for optimizations. If you're saying that Rust adds more information than C++, then sure, it would be possible for it to optimize better. But is that the case right now?
Even if you have a lot more than that you could easily use SQLite with FAISS. It works great.
The author is a post-doc advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi [1], the author of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (PLAI), and one of the authors of Data-Centric Introduction to Computing (DCIC). I am currently reading both PLAI and DCIC and I am truly delighted by the minute care the authors have put into making the books pedagogical works of art. That's true love!

[1] https://willcrichton.net/
That would run afoul of anti-circumvention clause of the DMA.
The shift to commercial open source with a hybrid financing model is what's driving the trend. It makes it possible to get enough funding to build high-quality software while bringing the costs down for everyone.

We're doing just that with our own CRM [1]. It couldn't have been a side-project as you need thousands of engineering hours to build something decent. But with only a few millions in engineering spend, we'll have something that is genuinely as good as the products from billion dollar behemoths.
Open Source software will never be able to monetize as well as closed-source. We might only capture 10% of the value we create. But being open source inherently creates strong network effects that tends to push towards a limited number of winners, and the addressable market in CRM is so big that it's still possible to build a multi-billion dollar company while massively driving the costs down for everyone.

It's kind of like the Prisoner's Dilemma: If every company keep their software proprietary, they can all make moderate growth/profit. But if one goes open-source, they could attract a large community, drive innovation, and potentially reap long-term profits while reducing the overall market size.

[1] https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
Hmm, time will tell on this rivalry. OOP may not be as harmful as GOTO, but it does seem to be falling out of favor. Dijkstras point of view may be as vindicated with one as with the other.
From seven failures to 10x growth
Cool! Nice work!
Is this the state of the art asteroid detection we have?! We're doomed.
> I think Apple should have just allowed third party app stores without any guarantee of malware/fraud protection

No way they can do that, because the second something malware or fraud happens, you can imagine the headlines. Apple advertises the iPhone as a secure and private device. By notarizing third-party store apps, they still have the ability to remove malicious apps.
Looks like this is in the EU only

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Requirements

To qualify for the entitlement, your app must:

Be available on iOS in the European Union only
Be a separate binary from any app that uses the system-provided web browser engine
Not have the default browser entitlement
[...]

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https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

Given that Congress is in a stalemate, I don't see this coming to the US anytime soon.
To continue the comparison, some of common law's shortcomings can be overcome with an entity like the UK's law commission, eg, rewriting statute (or the code of conduct) to incorporate changes based on new precedent. Which does appear to somewhat be what has happened.
This sentence is explained on their homepage:

> it takes 2 RTTs to complete a consensus request from the view of a client. One RTT takes place between the client and the leader server, and the leader server takes another RTT to broadcast the message to the follower servers
>plus the 15-30% you paid to Apple if you charged money anywhere,

well yes. That's part of the rub. You'll pay $100/year even if you never launch an app so that makes sense. That's the cost of using Apple's SDK.

But you may now pay $.50 per install even for a free app if you don't/can't host outside of the App store, unless you declare your company/business a non-profit or educational instituion. This was previously $0. So the price hike can become absurd, to say the least.

>Apple isn’t interested in letting anybody just co-opt their baby.

Well tough luck. you made more money off your "baby" than many country's GDP. Microsoft got co-opted for much less decades ago. Governments' interest is in making sure companies do not in fact hoard all the money in the world, and when your product becomes a centerpiece of society something's got to give.
bullsit decoy article.

where the door was made : we don't care.
we KNOW (because when building a plane, EVERYTHING is paper-traced with each worker having his/her own personal stamp to put on those papers) that the plane structure and door was build WITH THE BOLTS in place...

the plane structure was then moved to Boeing and they DID NOT put the bolts back when they worked on it.

an insider has already put that information out... so the only company at faut here is (1) not the builder of the door nor the structure, (2) spirit built the structure and the door WITH the bolts in place and (3) boeing screwed up.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

boeing is dead.
I think we're on the same page. More from the board members specifically is most likely to falsify my hypothesis, as they would be unlikely to speak at all if this is correct; more from the interim CEOs may falsify or be compatible with my hypothesis.
30% app store cut is also similar to a VAT.
This is the paper referenced in the article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qute.202300230
(as a PHP web developer...)

This is interesting, though of course it's only a partial picture: it doesn't talk about database optimisation or caching, and most of web development efficiencies for large sites are from things improving your table indexes, caching or periodically generating frequently consulted output etc.

Also (personal opinion) I think people often over-engineer projects which might sit comfortably on a single box, and of course that contributes to overall energy use.

Finally, this is all for the birds if everyone remains obsessed with mining crypto, training AI models and watching videos when reading a bit of text would do.
https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bhtuah/production_dep...

"Because Rust" and safety, of course. I wonder if programming on Windows just sucks in general, and all these are Windows trading shops. Do you even have all the tools you need to write large programs on Windows? Valgrind, libfuzzer, etc. etc.
A couple of nukes missile will be more than enough to fragment it and split the trajectory to less denser population. But just like Leonardo movie look up, nothing will be done as everyone will just quarrel for attention and inaction.
What does that have to do with the browser's engine?
Ahh, I see.

Maybe we should expand it then? Make a rule that all subscription services shall to use Apple's iStore – it is after all the simplest possible way.

I have not cancelled anything on the Apple store, no. I have not yet had the burden of owning an iPhone, but I have cancelled a lot of things elsewhere. And the only situations where it has been anxiety provoking has been for US companies.
I mean to be fair, we criticize google for the opposite with their extensions and app store.

And now they cracked down on small developers to revert that. So it's not a totally invalid point from Apple.
> Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play—and risky play in particular—have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than focusing on serious and fatal injuries.

Of course. "injuries" don't matter, only serious and fatal ones do. A scratch is nothing and is healed in a couple of days. Even breaking a leg should not be considered serious. It's annoying, esp. for the parents, but it's in no way life-threatening.

Although I'm sure it has happened, it seems unlikely that any kind of play in a playground could result in serious injury or death. Let the kids play outside. And don't force them to put a coat in cold weather if they don't want to! Let them decide!
Any idea why this code is using two measures of the body at all?

Per the RFC, in HTTP/1.1, the Content-Length is the authoritative information for how long the HTTP request/response body is. Any data on the wire past the content length is part of another message, by definition. Conversely, if Content-Length is larger then rx_message.BodyLength, that means that we didn't yet receive the whole message, so we should either wait more, or issue a timeout error. Either way, rx_message.BodyLength is a bogus value if it's not guaranteed to be equal to Content-Length.

On the other hand, if you want to be more permissive, then why look at the Content-Length header at all? Just use rx_message.BodyLength as the buffer size and try to interpret all the data on the wire as the received message.

The current version of the code is needlessly complex, and that is how bugs like this make it in.
I wonder if this is related to the Carta scandal that recently happened. Just suspicious timing amongst the "startup elite crowd"