skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
having just had to remove jquery from an angular application because it was flagged by static analysis i can say i do not want any frameworks. i just want to make them go away.

it is just extra stuff to learn to debug. the angular part fails even after i think i removed the jquery code. it fails silently, so i do not know where it fails. maybe i missed something. im just a stupid webdev who also works with ten other frameworks on our ten other applications we maintain for this client. but maybe angular/react/etc is just added complexity that was unnecessary in the first place for a simple crud app. framework code also uses arcane language constructs that further obscures things and there are quite a few of those tricks in JS. not to mention that you only use a few bits of it, but all the code is there for you to sift through when it breaks.

then corporate will likely decide they want Polymer and we have to learn to debug Polymer. then polymer fails the static analysis or the pentest and polymer needs to be fixed/thrown away.

frameworks are just parts that can go wrong. yes react can be pretty cool but it also introduces complications. unnecessary complications. unless there is a very good reason to have a framework and there will never be a reason to migrate and you never have to deal with higher-ups, i'd recommend sticking with vanilla javascript.

it is quite powerful these days. maybe include some small library to organise things. jquery was allright in the day, although i would not use it these days anymore because most of the stuff it did can be done easily in plain JS now.

there is something called the KISS principle. it deserves more credit than its getting.
YouTube/ the best of classical YouTube videos for Fun #17 – Funny Cube mix
Seven years is not a long time for a car. My family's last car was kept for almost 30 years. My aunt has never bought more than one car in her entire life -- a toyota camry. Man, if you toss out your car after seven years, you will end up buying almost seven cars(!!!) in your lifetime. That's insane.
I don't think they would need to. Intel has around $20 billion of debt on their balance sheet and I doubt that's money borrowed from shareholders.
it's like they went to consumer reports and picked the absolute worst cars in terms of reliability and satisfaction. prize or curse?
> Use "PST" and "PDT" for Philippine time.

What about us in Pacific daylight time? Now our timezone acronym is ambiguous.
Becoming fantastically wealthy by scamming a bunch of people is probably viewed as pretty useful to most ICO founders.
I think we're talking about slightly different things.

I'm a proponent of proportional amounts of paranoia. Restricting everyone is disproportional. Preventing developers from installing software on their dev boxes probably does more harm than good.

On the other hand, putting tight controls on computers people use for admin access to servers is not a bad idea if your company is big enough that only the dev ops guys really need to be in there with real regularity, or if your company handles sensitive data. Then the practical layer of security might be worthwhile to make getting into the datacenter via a compromised engineer or dev box harder.

That's the scenario I'm familiar with: secure boot on a separate machine, and a tight lid on what software you can put on the system, in order to guarantee a baseline level of hygiene for any system that talks directly with the datacenter.
You think attempting to be polite when you're asking for a favor is "sucking up"?
Is it possible that the information emitted by the universe to queries simply escapes you.
> In fact, I can’t think of a single industry, other than bookselling, that Amazon has entered with significant negative repercussions for the incumbents in that industry.

uh.. aws?
Unrelated to tech or entrepreneurship, but the great Russian filmmaker Tarkovsky published a book with that kind of title before his untimely death.

Tarkovsky may or may not be your cup of tea, but he is remembered for his unique and intricate cinematography. The book's title? Sculpting In Time. When I came across it, I thought "well, that explains a few things".
Yes, I use a modified version of https://github.com/hobby-kube/provisioning
> Everybody remembered the wrecked cities of WWII

Is this actually a thing in American memory, given that no American city was bombed in WWII?
Ad networks are malware vectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising
That $50 angle grinder was also a $5-10 chinese one (unless it's from the 60's when stuff was made elsewhere), there was just more middle men and more markup. The internet just placed you 1-2 steps away from the chinese factory, whereas the hardware store in the 90's was maybe 6 steps away from the factory. It's a disappearing problem: soon the used ones will also those $14 angle grinders, so you can get a used one for $4 or a new one for $14.
That's a very poor headline, seeing as the private key was what was compromised, and not the contract.
Feedly is awesome in terms of keep track of sources, and saving article for general "Read Later" as well as specific tags (can add multiple to any article). Highly recommend for gerneral content aggregation / sorting.
Check your Vitamin D levels, just out of curiosity, before giving Vitamin D3 a try. This doctor here says you need to be at 60-80 ng/ml D3 in the blood to get very restful sleep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF24xmJQK1k

Also, D3 and Magnesium work very well together. In fact, if you add more D3, it's going to use-up even more magnesium.
Complaint – Defense Distributed V. Grewal and Feuer
I say just leave them alone so drunk teenagers can get them tattooed and get laughed at by native Japanese speakers.
> clay tokens representing units of goods were used for accounting (8000–3500 BC). ... The token system had little in common with spoken language except that, like a word, a token stood for one concept. Unlike speech, tokens were restricted to one type of information only, namely, real goods. Unlike spoken language, the token system made no use of syntax.

That is, for 4.5ky Sumerians had a form of abstracted accounting record very unlike a writing system proper, and it was used on a large territory where people likely spoke different languages / dialects.

(In a sense, it was an early era of digital communication.)
You are on Hacker News, have you never tried some genetic algorithms? Then try to calculate how many parallel “computers” are available on Earth, and how often, and for how long. It all fits.
What you are calling "epigenetic factors" have been known as regulatory molecules since the origins of biology.

Epigenetics refers to the theory that some of a parent organism's phenotypes arise as a consequence of its environment/experiences and those traits can be passed on to its offspring without alterations to the gamete's DNA sequence.

With that in mind, how does any of this relates to epigenetics? Everything described here fits under the umbrella of 'basic regulatory milieu' required for sperm maturation, so it can fertilize an egg and commence embryonic development. The Smithsonian article is trying to spin this as something it's not...

"It turns out that sperm small RNAs undergo post-testes turnover, picking up intel on the father’s physical health (or lack thereof) after they’re manufactured, but before they exit the body."

It seems like they are trying to sell a classical misconception. They might as well have said: along the way the sperm picks up epigenetic information by absorbing its fathers tRNA, which pass on a variety of information about the father's life experiences, like that he was a body-builder, but also an alcoholic; and so this offspring will likely develop into that sort of person.
Books, audiobooks, games, music, good food, time with friends and family, time spent in nature. That’s what makes me happy 99% of the time I’d say. Sadly I didn’t think I could shoehorn fried chicken and a concert into my biblical homage, but games fit in nicely!

:)
Everything one needed was available; it just wasn't practical in the "consumer goods" sense. You needed an apochromatic flat-field lens, generally optimized specifically for the magnification levels involved (since sufficient optimization over a very wide range of focal distances is an extremely difficult thing). The film has to be extremely low sensitivity to have good enough acutance (think ISO 6-12 as "high speed", since the emulsion needs to be extremely thin). You need consistent lighting so you can have a decent idea of what your exposure will be like, and before Polaroid polarization film cropped up, keeping glare under control was a bit of a bugger. You needed a rock-solid setup, since your exposure was going to take a while. The film needed to be kept very flat - there's far less room for any deviation than there would be for taking general photographs of the big world. In a world of silicon wafers, it's hard to remember that keeping pieces of floppy (and often tightly-rolled) plastic flat enough was once one of the hard parts. Processing was pretty critical - a little too long in the soup, and the black bleeds (that's how halftones are created using a line screen). So, you could get it all going with a decent copy stand and lights, the right (expensive) camera and lens and a goodly amount of faff... or you could get a service that had a dedicated process camera that paid for itself through constant usage and craftspeople who do that sort of thing for a living do it for you for a smallish fee. If you had regular archiving needs, the cost of the set-up wasn't horrible - it was certainly cheaper than a process camera for printing plates. It just wasn't a home-and-small-office thing by any normal standards.

Most of it, though, you could do now with an "eBay special" camera and lens and a bit of ortho-litho film. It's still available as sheet film. That would mean red reads as black and non-repro blue is a thing. Panchromatic repro work would be a lot harder since Kodak killed off Technical Pan. Tech Pan was kind of super-fast film, though - you'd use it at "ISO" 20-50, depending on the application - so while it was spectacular for general photography, it was just at the edge of what would be useful for microfiche.
This so much! There was this amazing aerobatics squadron in Aurora, IL named the Gauntlet Warbirds that would take you up in an Extra 300L and teach you aerobatics for 30 minutes. I managed to do it and it was simply unbelievable.
You're right, I'm wrong.
Ublock origin[1] already does this.

> uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites

1: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
The questions remains, probably, what it means for a book to be 'read'. I'd posit that that books are only valuable in your possession if you know it - this specific book - exists, maybe even where exactly in your house if you have a lot, and you have a basic idea of the contents. So you have to open them at least once and get a general overview of the index, maybe the illustrations, maybe even a bit more. Is this book still unread? I'd say truly unread books are worthless without a search function, which is not yet well implemented in the physical world.
I wouldn't say so. I have a queue of books I want to read, but the ones I actually acquire are just a small subset of that.
Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles are my favorite movies from him.
A store could be used and things get cleaner but the overhead increases too much.
I got downvoted for confirmation bias.

Let me try again. Can we crawl out of the Dark Ages?
That only covers the errors due to aliasing. There's still going to be additive noise introduced during the transfer that will build up each time the content is transferred.
Show HN: Visual UI Testing with WebAssembly and Selenium IDE
nope. maybe read the article and you'll get it
You never heard of social hierarchies? It’s definitely a thing. It’s abstract.
27 - How to use a Film Camera (but also a lot about photography in general)
I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm curious what stack you're using for your blog. I like the minimalism of it, and I've been looking for a lower-effort way to maintain something like that.

RE: your actual post, I've also personally noticed this, and a similar concept that when you reveal that the bulk of your experience is on a "dinosaur" language, you are automatically lumped into the set of less competent programmers. It pretty explicitly informed my choice of programming language for interviews.

Fortunately, I've found that there's a fairly direct correlation between people you would want to work with and learn from and how much this signalling affects them. Many of the programmers I respect most openly don't care what your language background is, just that you can wrestle your tech stack into good software. That's been my experience too: the good ones can ship great software on pretty much any (reasonable) stack. The okay ones ship okay software on pretty much any stack.
> when I told other software people I’m a web developer, I got treated like shit. I was a lower class of coder because I wasn’t “solving cool problems” because making web sites is easy.

Of all the stupid arrogant awfulness in tech that has crossed my path this one is definitely high on the list of the most baffling. Web dev is the hardest and most intimidating dev work I've ever done, by a country mile.

(Whether that complexity is 'justified' is an entirely different discussion that, while no doubt interesting, has nothing to do with this person's post)
And very reasonably so. What you want, right, is a two-tier system: a kind of limbo state for the partially-read, a liberal scattering of them about the house, where they will healthily compete for your time - some will prove themselves under these conditions, others will recede into a shameful cupboard or the basement or wherever - and then a glamorous on-display shelf where your approved, appreciated selection sits, guilt-free and proud, having floated upwards due to their superior quality.

If the book churn is too low, any old rubbish makes it to the top.
Genuinely curious, do you mind explaining?
This was entertaining to read, I like your style.

I also find the webdev low status pretty unjustified. It's true that it's less mathy than other disciplines, but at scale, "webdev" is every bit as architecturally challenging as anything else, and in some cases moreso because of the sheer number of different technologies and stacks you have to be fluent in to make it all work together.
I'm not sure have over 100k glyphs in random fonts solves anything. I'm also not convinced fonts samples are something a character encoding should care about or try to standardize.

For practical use Googel's Noto font is under an open font license and covers so many glyphs it's collection is split into an multiple OTF files because of the 65k glyph limit per font. The goal of Noto is much the same as the one you propose - to have an open representation of every character (and in a consistent font).
Most interest (that I have to deal with) is calculated monthly or yearly.

Internally your bank is almost certainly doing daily, and across many accounts rounding errors do need to be controlled, even if the retail customers never see that side
A todo is a little too little to do. How about pair programming between to coders adept in two stacks?

For that matter, how about in Android and iOS?
styled-components[0] or death.

0: https://www.styled-components.com/
Thanks.

"Also, injection of the epididymal small RNAs into the embryos is apparently sufficient to rescue it from abortion"

From my point of view at least, this is still "genetics": tomato, tomatho, RNA, DNA. RNA has just one "building block" (and there are many of the same in each) different than DNA: no thymine but uracil. Because something is in RNA and not in DNA it's not by magic "not genetic." It's all the part of the same complex mechanism of carrying the genetic information using some complex molecules, all based on the same principle. It's just that the mechanism is more complex than some obviously unsubstantiated simplification.

Whoever ever tried to see how it actually looks like knows how complex that is:

https://youtu.be/DfB8vQokr0Q?t=193

The "life" building blocks are mind-bogglingly complex to whoever expects something where 3D forms and small differences and immense parallelization don't work at the same time in astounding number of instances (e.g. a single human body has some 37 trillion of cells.. all made from a single one!).

Moreover without the different "gene expression" mechanisms doing their job there would never be any multi-cellular life, there would be neither me nor you: every multi cellular being starts from only one instance of the "program" yet the cells develop with different functions in every multi cellular body (and all these cells still contain the same program, until some mutation happens in some of them). So there is a fundamental mechanism that allows for the same "program" to behave differently a the different moments and with the different environment, even when the "environment" means the "different neighbor cells." Not to mention that what starts the new being is never just the lone DNA (which would simply not survive alone) but the fertilized cell containing all the mechanisms around that DNA (including RNA and a lot of other stuff... the whole "factories," "supply roads," "transport vehicles", "power centrals" etc, to use the equivalent words we are familiar with. A lot of these mechanisms are provided by the mother, but why should we be surprised that some are from the father too, carried with the sperm cell? We see them there. These mechanisms are all the part of the process, it's nothing "more" than it is, and it was there since the life as we know it exists.

And the (from my understanding still misleading) title about which I asked was that claim that somehow something was "passed on" that is "more than genetics".

In short, it appears to me to be an example of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

"No true Scotsman fallacy" when somebody redefines some term "by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude" what he wants to present as an "counterexample."
> My piles of books, they comfort me.

Maybe you're just joking, but it often happens to me (at least once a month) to just sit on my couch and look at the books on my bookshelves, it gives me peace of mind for a couple of precious moments.
There also happens to be exactly 12 standard ideograph characters that were erroneously encoded in the Unihan compatibility character block (i.e. 﨎﨏﨑﨓﨔﨟﨡﨣﨤﨧﨨﨩).
Why is all advertising immoral? Markets with limited information flow become inefficient. Advertisement just speeds up the flow of information?

For example, if I created a service to file taxes for free [0], what's wrong if I advertise it so that more people can gain from it? Most people don't even know that CalFile exists, for example.

[0] https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/calFile/index.asp
Regardless of the year, you have to hire devs who know what they are doing, and that entails paying a real salary.
Or they give it to charity to spite thier kids. There is no reason to assume that elderly people plan on giving anything to thier children. The days of that societal norm are long over.
The marketing was even worse than you say - the core message of the Remain campaign was "we can't leave because our friendly allies who we definitely want to integrate more with in future will punish us by destroying our economy". Cast in personal terms this argument is clearly disastrous, it makes the EU sound like a cult.

However, it's easy to understand why they did it. What a lot of people didn't realise back then and still haven't accepted now (but mainstream politicians are very aware) is that they lost the positive argument years ago. Polling showed that the EU as a concept only really appealed to about 30% of the electorate. A clear majority felt the EU was bad, with wanting to leave narrowing to 52:48 only because of the fear of retaliation:

https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/screensh...

They're still at it now with these new wave of stories about stockpiling food and medicine and Ireland closing its airspace, etc. This strategy is unlikely to be more successful than last time. Given this desperation it is maybe not surprising that some of the establishment are desperately casting around for ways to censor social media and return to a world where they and a small cadre of broadcast executives control the discussion.
I'm 33. Replace your timing belt on time.
Whoever says web is "easy" never had to build or maintain a large web application. The ecosystem is incredibly deep and constantly evolving, to the point where best practices change every six months.
US 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law (2002)
Not a paradox for a buddhist. Answering will make him open his mouth and lose his grip. Thinking about answering will cause the want, and the suffering as he can not answer without forfeiting his life.

The answer is unthinking- as in meditation, clear thoughts from the mind. It is designed to show how the right answer is no answer, in both senses!

With the proper understanding, there is no paradox. I agree with you that noticing a potential paradox is sometimes a souce of inspiration to learn, mostly when you can not show the way and when it must come by self discovery.

I do not know how familiar you are with Buddhism. If you want to keep learning, ask yourself: if Kyogen was asked 3 times, would he change his "answer" ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635761
The parent made the claim that it's hard to buy a car and expect it to last more than 5 years, which is clearly wrong.
> Well the retina ganglia cells can't be conscious themselves, so it's impossible to have a direct experience of what they're doing

I mentioned those cells because they are considered to be part of the brain and they are extremely well understood (and clearly not something we can be conscious of). The fact that they take input from the outside world isn't really relevant to the point. The output of those cells is input for the next level, whose output is again input for the next level. Point begin, the brain actually has a lot of processes going on, which are mostly things we can never be conscious of.

If you could actually be conscious of it all, you'd probably revolutionize the field of neurology.