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> The fact that you don't know whether your codebase uses TypeScript, esbuild or Webpack is disappointing. It means that those worries have been handled for you and you don't care to learn them

En contraire. The problem is that some years ago I did learn the basics, but the ground has shifted underneath my feet multiple times. There's not really an incentive to learn the finer points of ESM-vs-CJS if Typescript hides the input into the system, Angular has its own ideas about modules, uses Webpack or babel internally and then spits out CJS anyway.

The whole JS ecosystem is nice if you edit 10 files by hand, but I just don't know what I should do with the knowledge that I should "require cjs" when I need Typescript for type safety and it'll only let me "import ts" anyway.
If you read my second sentence above, I think we're in almost perfect agreement. Unless I'm misunderstanding you? My definition of "finished" includes provisions for bug fixes and important features.
aha, thanks. xe tells me those are 27% smaller than us dollars, so those prices are respectively 1 dollar, 3 dollars, 13 dollars, 15 dollars, 58 dollars, and 150 dollars, speaking in us dollars

or, using today's mid-market rates from https://preciodolarblue.com.ar/, $1300, $3800, $17000, $19000, $75000, and $190000. $19000 is sure a lot more than i'd pay for five chicken breasts
i’m not even sure what a warranty for a social media account even means
An app is at the mercy of the user, who can uninstall at any time, just as you can kick out people out of your home, but you can't turn off "manipulative" behaviour for them.
Thanks to the themes which are covered in German history lessons, it will never truly disappear.

I can’t remember a single lesson which didn’t cover one of those themes.
I think by "kept in check" they mean good separation of church and state. Some islamic countries don't have good separation of church and state.
Oooh a Matt Levine column. Always a treat.
You'd pay the notary and then you'd also pay Meta.
> fundamentally sound

The language you've chosen is baldly ideological and leaaves no room for good faith discussion.
You have to go to the county courthouse to sue. Even if meta lost all of them they’d be fine because only a negligible percentage of their users can avail themselves of this process. In fact they can save money by not even showing up, and just paying a single person to read the courts judgement and restore the account.

Actually, now I realise this is optimal for FB. They want to kick paedos and contract killers off the platform. Or maybe they are cool with the CK community but know that governments are not, so if their algo declares even the slightest chance you’re a CK they boot you off — they already have lots of users. You object because you’re not a CK, or you are and want to swap tips and inside jokes with other members of the community, so you sue and win.

Now, when you get fingered for a killing you negotiated on the platform, FB can say, “hey, the courts made us let stephenlindauer back on.”
Why do you think they care about fixing the problem? Maybe they don't even consider it problem.
I tend to see a lot of managers calling for it. I see some workers calling for hybrid (which is perfectly reasonable) but not full RTO. Just my impressions though.
My thoughts too, biased by a Margaret Atwood novel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
Interesting. Here would be my must-have requirements:

- Linux-centric, with native support for KDE tags.

- Nextcloud-centric, with native support for Nextcloud tags.

- Holistic: one single tagging schema not only for files/filesystems, but also for emails (Gmail tags), treat photo albums as tags (eg. in Google Photos, or in Nextcloud Memories, or in PhotoPrism, …), tag-based note-taking software. For example, renaming a tag in Nextcloud web filesystem browser will rename it also in all integrated systems…

- With extensibility "outwards" (I have my own homemade tools that use tags to organize information. The tool should manage those tags too) and "inwards" (I use FolderSync to bring WhatsApp pictures into my filesystem, the target of FolderSync should allow to get incoming picturs tagged with #fromWhatsapp, #WhatsApp<Name of Chat>, #yyyy-mm-dd).

- Without AI.

- Local-only (ie. without its own cloud).
Basic news is a commodity when it is reporting on already-public records, e.g. Hansard or the Congressional Record. For reporting on organized events such as press conferences, it is mostly a commodity as the number of reporters present will be broadly proportional to the public interest in its topic.

However, there are huge number of events that aren't automatically included in some official register, and that's where having a reporter on the ground is vitally important to the quality of the journalism. I don't know if you consider that basic news or not; personally, I do. I would say that the major newspapers must move back to that model, in which journalists conduct their own interviews and reporters take their own photographs, to survive. They must produce value, and there's nothing more valuable in reporting than the 'scoop'.
Almost as if communities are neither monoliths nor hiveminds!
Definitely reminded me of the classic Mickens usenix login;logout columns! Just overall a very engaging communication style for adding some entertainment value to what might otherwise be pretty dry to read in one sitting.
Not the parent commenter, but I want those same things, and yes, I'll take a tradeoff of possible inaccuracy. Ideally the tool will give me the answers AND some relevant quotes / links to double check things myself if something feels off.

We live in a very messy information space, both publicly and privately, and we navigate it with messy, sometimes-inaccurate brains. I don't expect LLMs to operate at a higher level of formal logic than a human brain does.
IANAL, but let's be real, it's essentially a DoS attack, which the Facebooks and Comcasts of the world have enthusiastically and successfully prosecuted in the past. In a perfect world, we would just replay any abuse-of-service lawsuit that they won in this area back against them. Without even invoking cybercrime, a quick search says that DoS against private interests has apparently been prosecuted under chattel trespass and ToS violations, etc. I would think the government can take care of itself at least as well as private corporations when it's roused to anger.

Honestly though, public outrage alone may be enough to decide the case, since at the highest levels judges seem to ignore precedent and do whatever they want anyway. This isn't a low-level patent-troll making a living off a little light abuse of the system, these are billion dollar companies that are not only screwing people, but then getting us to pay for downstream effects as well.
> If you put the appropriate amount of dark matter in there, with the right distribution, you can reproduce the observed rotational curve.

What is the "right distribution"? If it's not roughly uniform, it's unlikely to result in a uniform flatness of rotation curves, across the distances in the galaxy. This seems almost impossible when accounting for clustering within the galaxy. I would believe such a uniform distribution of DM would be possible, if Dark Matter is something that exists/acts differently than matter. For example, if there were space-time bumps that form. Small bubbled/hilled spacetime is created in reaction to masses traversing it? ie the classic ball on a sheet, except it behaves more like a liquid than a sheet.

This feels like a blow to Dark Matter theories, regardless.
You'd have to do the math, but similar to boots theory, if you're spending 2-3 times as much for something that lasts 5-10 times as long (50k hours for a good LED vs 1.2k hours for incandescent) you will save a lot more money in the long run (lets assume the 4/$1 deals are a thing of the past with inflation and reduction in production). Also cheap DC converters create more heat than the bulbs with decent ones. It's worth slowly buying expensive bulbs, at least start with the most used lights in your house and replace those with the expensive ones. You can keep cheap bulbs in your closets, spare rooms, etc assuming you don't forget to turn them off often (then you should get the most efficient/long lasting or get one with a motion timer).

I actually swapped out my shower light because it got so hot the insulating wire melted and it created a short. Took forever to figure out, but once I did, I got a nice $30/$40 shower light fixture that went right in the same spot and its much nicer now. I'm just glad the short was running through metal wire/fiberglass and never started a fire.
Fantastic news.

They should not have pirated so many books during COVID.

The economics of local and physical loaning don't translate to online, which is global and instant.
The puzzle fails spectacularly.

Without additional action all that wine will go bad.

Important detail is one must recork each bottle immediately after sampling & refrigerate. Now the wine will be preserved, and the very slight pre-drinking oxygen bump is likely to improve it over first corking.

A little overlooked & underrated trick.

(Remember to decant reds and allow them to reach room temp before drinking.)

Also left out is value/opportunity maximization, which is a crucial implicit factor in any gamed, especially adversarial, situation.

Math & algorithm problems without complete context value optimization are just ivory tower toys!

The real world, Machiavelli, your ancestors, and your shareholders demand better!

The poisoned bottle, once identified, is worth a great deal. Minimum value realization is obtained by rebottling, and re-gifting it to its original source. Anonymously. Of course!

Or you can save it for a special occasion! Sometimes the best move is no move. Accumulate optionality.
they don't need to understand intent, they just need to find exploits. they don't even need to do it by reading code alone - give them a vm running the code and let them throw excrement at it until something sticks!
IMO, shared utils must be a library, like:

features
auth
login
libraries
dates
strings
...

I don't like to have a package / library called `utils`, `commons`, `shared` and other generic words that does not indicate me what's the context of this folder.
> It's a Chinese company, why would they care about the US trying to sue them?

If they had no physical, legal, and financial presence in the US, then sure, it would be somewhat impossible to sue them.

However, TikTok is registered as a legal business entity in the US, they have employees in the US working for that business entity, they have physical properties (that they likely lease) where said employees work, and they have money going through their US accounts.

In the TikTok scenario specifically, it makes perfect sense to me why and how the US would sue them.
Except churches would still be tax-exempt. All they would have to do is make their finances public, so that the people donating money to them know what that money is going towards.

If they don't want their congregations to know how much they spent building a giant mall or buying private jets, then they can choose to pay taxes instead. If you don't think your congregation will care about the private jets, then by all means, keep your tax exempt status.
As I understand it would go like this:

Normally, some percentage of the population will get HIV in any given year. So what you do is give a bunch of people the shot and track them long term. You count how many got HIV after N years, compared to what would be expected in a normal population.

Nobody is exposed to HIV as part of the study, that exposure would come through the participants living their ordinary lives.
Depends on your definition. Do you only have 1 local hospital if there is another in a city that is a 2 hour drive away? Maybe only 1 hour? 30 minutes? Where do you draw the line?
It would be just as fast if it detected the locale correctly, and used the UTF8 state machine for the UTF8 locale only. Other locales could have their own state machines or just fall back to a generic implementation.
I don't hate this speculation, I just don't buy it at all. 4o's about the same in terms of reasoning as 4. People don't find the text abilities that much more usable over 4 (at least on the LMS leaderboard). It's faster and has audio2audio capabilities alongside new native image stuff I think, but how exactly is that AGI if 4 isn't? These models understanding and reasoning ability is still far too weak to do any serious economic shifts yet.
as a clarification from further down the thread, since you said those are canadian dollars, those prices are respectively 1 dollar, 3 dollars, 13 dollars, 15 dollars, 58 dollars, and 150 dollars, speaking in us dollars

me, i pay $3000 for five chicken breasts, which is about 2.3 us dollars
you need to wake up at 4am and have a cold shower!
Actually non-profits to have file just as much annual paperwork as a regular tax return, plus getting the status takes a long time and involves a lot of paperwork too.

And if they aren’t making a profit they aren’t paying taxes, regardless of filing status.
Meta probably could not survive without a cushion of at least $20B to $40B (20% to 30%) per year? Definitely need to reduce those developer salaries to pay for real person service.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...
There's another version from Unix V10: http://tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10/cmd/wc.c

Also, from V8: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V8/usr/src/cmd/wc...
What if there is something we could do...
Bullsh*t. Im not seeing that cheap energy anywhere here. The Economist has become an economic tabloid. Or maybe it always was, and we didn't notice.
> Another case of the political use of medical terms in completely unsupported ways for political goals. There is no medical or scientific support for the use of the word "addiction" in this context.

Say the language is fixed up replacing addiction with disorder, ... Any other objections?
revealed preference is for there to be minimal change in what people can do and material abundance
If that's an issue, use Cloudflare Workers instead: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-clo...
It's the term straightforward, meaning not unclear in any sense vs "pretty" (meaningless adverb or an attempt to hedge the next term) typical vocabulary. Typical doesn't even make sense in context, given the multiple meanings that can be derived.

These phrases are clearly in conflict. You've already demonstrated an atypical understanding of grammar, twice. I don't care if you disagree. Good luck with whatever.
And other people claim that the personal is political and that there are no truly private interests.

In practice, there is a shared understanding what acting in the public interest means in that particular society. Laws can also provide a non-exhaustive list of examples to clarify the meaning.
Writing a game, or any software in 1987 would be painstaking compared to the luxury we have today. Back then it was normal to run DOS and DOS can only do one thing at the time. You open your editor, write code, close your editor, run the compiler, run your program, test your program, exit program, re-launch editor, etc. Over time small improvements where made to this flow like a DOS Shell and even things like DESQView that allow for basic multitasking.

This is probably a better description (from a code point of view) on what you had to do as a programmer to write a game in the late 80s / early 90s:

https://cosmodoc.org/
Or rather (due to obvious reasons) you just couldn't get a meaningful sample and would just be wasting resources/money if you conducted this test in US/EU.
I think the "actual" in this case points to "commercial game".
The same legal protections already apply.

You can invite a person into your house to perform a service for you. They can define conditions on performing their service: "I'll shampoo your carpet for $50." Those conditions could also be "I'll shampoo your carpet every month if you let me read your credit card bill every month." You don't have to agree to this! If you don't want to let them read your credit card bill, you don't have to agree to this service.

If you let someone into your house to shampoo your carpet, without agreeing to let them read your credit card bill, and they secretly do that anyway, that's already illegal!

What you're asking is the equivalent of saying that, if someone has a business of shampooing carpets in exchange for reading people's credit card bills, you want to be legally entitled to invite them into your house and force them to shampoo your carpet anyway, without giving them what they want in exchange.

(incidentally - if you respond to my post by nitpicking details of the analogy instead of addressing the central point, I'm not going to bother to respond).
yes... though, unlike above, I might be inclined to name the directory "!shared" to pump sorting to the top, which may feel weird/awkward.
Yeah, but I see his point about getting away with this type of humor only because most viewers hardly know Kazachstan actually exists. I might be upset if I were a Kazakh, or I might not be - but I probably would find I hilarious.
Eh, this feels like a bad-faith argument. I think most of us on this site first-hand feel that obsession to update a feed that seems to control us more than we control it.

I don't need the DSM's permission to notice that.

Whether the ban will work out, open question. But pretending there's no addiction here doesn't pass the smell test.
> Weird though, most Europeans I talk to complain about extremely high energy prices and actually go out of their way to shut their computers/etc off and buy low value high efficiency computers. I suppose the utilities are not passing on the low rates

That's right, and that's exactly why the article is lobbyist bullsh*t.
You're just outlining a major flaw in the X Server protocol, not SDL. That's a unique situation to that specific system due to it's intrinsic network-oriented design and specifically the issue Wayland was designed to handle, which doesn't have this issue.

In addition, there are solutions for cache locality of the pixbuf for SDL that you can code around, if you specifically need higher performance X11 code on Linux.
It's easy to talk about freedom of speech and expression in the abstract. Practice shows that many political forces that do so adopt much less liberal positions on specific issues when it comes to the kind of speech that they don't like, or that they see as beneficial to target from an appeal-to-the-voter perspective.

So, given that this proposal is entirely framed as a way to combat child porn, and that "liberal pedophile elites" are part of the current far right zeitgeist, I wouldn't be so sure that they would be all that strongly opposed to it. Especially if they get to rewrite it in name (but not substance) to claim credit for it.
You are getting downvoted, but presumably, in Russia a significant amount of food is being produced in small family farms/gardens called Dacha [1], with a typical size of only 600 m^2 [4].

Since, original sources are all Russian, it's hard to fully verify via secondary sources, but there are claims that (1) as much as 77% of all vegetables and 59% of all meat [2] or (2) as much as 50% of all food [3] produced in Russia is on these farms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha

[2] https://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/in-1999-35-millio...

[3] https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/84725

[4] https://www.notechmagazine.com/2020/03/a-dacha-for-everyone-...
> I may say something that comes across really snarky to my coworker. Just because I didn't mean it to be snarky does not mean that it won't be interpreted that way.

I think the difference is knowing your audience. You probably have a decent handle on which of your coworkers will appreciate and understand your snark, and which won't. You'll change your tone and what you say accordingly. Sometimes you'll get it wrong, because you're human, and we all get things wrong sometimes. In those instances you might briefly apologize for creating confusion or causing offense, and you both quickly move on with your day.

But if you're writing a blog post, you don't really know your audience. If you have a regular audience, that audience probably exists because they "get you" and like what you write and how you write it. So in a way you do know your audience: by definition, they've self-selected to be people who get your writing.

But then you decide to submit one of your blog posts to a community of varied individuals like HN. Some people on HN are like your existing audience, and will like it. Some people on HN are not going to get it, or not going to like it.

That's... just life. So I think "is it a problem [with] the way it was written?" is the wrong question. There really can't be a problem with how it was written. Certainly there are (mostly subjective) standards for how well something is written, regardless of the way it's written, but you can't really say the author was wrong to write in the combative, extreme style that they've chosen as their entire online shtick. Because it's meaningless to be "right" or "wrong" about that; those terms aren't defined for that. It's only what someone may like or dislike, and the author should (rightly, IMO) not be particularly concerned about that in this context.

I personally didn't enjoy the article that much; I don't find joking about violence to be funny, and it even makes me a little uncomfortable. I read through the whole thing because I found the topic interesting and his opinions on it worth reading. But that's just my own personal subjective take, and it's both fine for me to feel that way, and fine for others to enjoy the humor more than I did.
Paying for a iCloud family plan, but your "country" is different from theirs? Yes you can share storage, but not TV/Music subscription...

Don't even get me started on EV charging apps that are only available in local app store.

Decided to switch country on your account so you can finally download above? Well cancel all your Family Subscriptions first (it might take up to 2 weeks for Apple's servers to update and we will keep iCloud data for 2 weeks).
dot.com and internet changed how we shopped, how businesses conducted commerce, and how we communicate.

Mobile and smart phones put the internet in our pocket.

I dont see how gen-ai is going to change any of our day-to-day workflows. Hence I believe it to be a giant bubble. It will help some small sectors (education, customer support) but the overall impact will be much smaller than dotcom or mobile.
I think it means that administrators appear out of the woodwork to consume any potential profit a hospital may make.
They don't ask people to live their lives any differently than they would, nor do they expose anyone to HIV on purpose; they just track them assuming that x% of people get HIV in any given year. So they compare what X is for people who got the shot, vs those who did not.

As I skim TFA, they say nobody who got the shot ended up getting HIV, which would be statistical anomaly for the population they tested.
> I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

I don't deny the impact of lessening the number of people commuting, but how much of that was commuting and how much was everything being shut down?

I don't know that there would be as large an impact as people may hope.
Yes. Like, you are a laughably wrong. I can literally see the Brave “shield” icon staring right back at me right there in the bottom right of the screen.
EU cancels vote on private chat app law amid encryption concerns