skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
create-react-app is built on Webpack, for hot module replacement (HMR), and that requires a webpack loader. There's babel-loader and ts-loader. The stats in the projects are similar, but babel-loader is part of the babel project while ts-loader comes from an independent project, so it may be better integrated. Also ts-loader suggests using it with babel-loader. I'm not sure why, but if you install ts-loader and babel-loader you'll wind up with more dependencies than if you just install babel-loader. https://github.com/babel/babel-loader https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader
I suspect that in some cases there may be a mild premium due to rarity.
There's a lot of ocean and sea out there so 'just exploring' uncharted regions probably won't produce much in a reasonable amount of time. In this particular case, the relative absence of marine biology at certain depths (and, of course, proximity to the settlements of ancient civilizations) is part of what makes the Black Sea interesting to archeologists.
It's actually a hard problem that people who do this encounter and seems impossible to get right. We actually can tell if a friend is walking in the distance by looking at gait+clothes but could make mistkes as well, it's not 100% accurate. For surveillance reasons it's much easier to get 100 accuracy with just tagging people with microchips and that'a that. Why would we want to excel at gait-fingerprinting people?? That's a scary thing to want to perfect. Very Science fictiony and hopefully not prevalent in the future
Same. I am a lifelong atheist and I think the CoC is great.
I too am waiting on VR to be good enough for monitor replacements and tv replacement I.e. a personal theatre I can put on while laying in bed.
I understand your opinion here completely, but personally I feel that among a group a lexicon can be developed whose meanings outside the group are irrelevant, so long as everyone involved understands and appreciates the additional meanings the words hold for others.

I've always been okay with dark humor, never thought any subject (e.g. holocaust, cancer, etc) should ever be taboo matter for humor regardless of how dark it is in reality. I would never presume to tell a comedian "the material you used for that skit, that's really not something to joke about."

To me it's the same principle. I certainly would never mean to mock those with autism or their families who struggle alongside them, and you have my utmost respect for the difficulties involved, but I don't feel that the subject is of such gravity that I can't use the word as hyperbole in a private context.
Do you live in the bay area?

I live in Colorado (the first state to legalize recreational use) and I never smell weed on the streets. When I was traveling to the bay area for work (while it still wasn't legalized), everywhere I walked I would smell dank ganja. And I don't mean that as a compliment.

Terms like skunk when describing weed aren't thrown around without reason.

Here in CO most people I know that still smoke have moved from bud and use vaporizers much like e-cigarettes to "vape" concentrates.

The concentrates smell nothing like their burnt bud cousins... it smells lightly floral if at all.

I'm not so sure areas like the bay really set a proper example as you are probably smelling some shwag from the homeless dude walking down the street rather than what the legal market is providing.

Or maybe people in Colorado are just more conscientious of others.

As a side note, regarding weed smoke:

> it's smoke is even more potent and disgusting than tobacco

That's just not true. While the dankest bud might be more objectionable to the nose, most tobacco is grown in conventional soil where it is essentially a sponge for metals like arsenic and cadmium. Weed is much the same type of plant, but being grown in controlled environments in man-made soil (and often soilless growth mediums), it isn't exposed to anywhere near the same levels of toxins and therefore doesn't assimilate the same toxicity as stuff like tobacco.
Growing up in rural America, they were both a delight and a source of necessities.
If you enjoyed reading this story, which is about our fifth Freedom of Information lawsuit, you might also enjoy reading about our eighth and newest lawsuit, which we just filed against the parent agency of the New York City Municipal Archives a few days ago:

https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/22/

Teaser: “Welcome to the single stupidest lawsuit that our organization has ever had to file.

Alternately, we could subtitle this story let’s all gather round and watch the NYC Department of Records light taxpayer money on fire!”
Black Sea is dead below 100-150m due to lack of oxigen - there is no live there, and this is the reason why we can find preserved recks from 2400 years ago.

Edit: so there is no much interest from maritime biology.
The End of Middle-Class Art
Ask HN: Any career path for engineers that won't require all day screen time?
Perhaps management or product management. Maybe education but these all still seem like I'm destined to be looking at a screen all day. Anything I'm missing that might set me free?
> In a dynamic language you still have to mentally understand what the type of a function is. You can't just throw any data in to it and have it work.

JavaScript would like a word with you.
To paraphrase Jimmy Buffet, It is always between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM somewhere.
That's how they found this one.
This is neat, but I think it'd be interesting to see a writeup that talked more about why they needed a new solution and what they did differently that solved their particular problem.

In particular, they mention an onion model - what does that look like for them? Hot/warm/cold can take a variety of forms...
Tech lobby ITI’s Framework to Advance Interoperable Rules (FAIR) on Privacy [pdf]
I think Rust should stop looking at C++ as the becnhmark / comparison point for complexity. The expectations that developers have from languages has increased over time, and Rust itself has contributed to raising that bar.
Hi Brooke, one thing that isn't clear from reading the links you provided, did Ancestry pay the fee requested by the state? From what I can tell, you refused to pay the fee (rightly or wrongly, I have no ability to assess the cost quoted to you). But if Ancestry paid it, would that not explain why their request was fulfilled first?
This is precisely what Mike Masnick & Co over at techdirt.com have been saying for years. Free speech advocates warned us about this in the 80s, when the US deregulated TV station and newspaper ownership. I seem to recall that back then it was not a 1st Amendment issue because corporations and not the government were doing it. What's different today? The quillette.com article fails to recognize history and address that issue. 2/7, would not read again.
Exactly! What's the point in having a graphical user interface if the possible interactions are not discoverable through the GUI itself?!
Bing listens to feedback and made some changes to its Bingbot crawler
You give them $100,000 and they store $5000 of it, at best.

If other people take their money out first you'll end up with zero, if you're lucky though a government bailout will come along and the loss is outsourced onto future taxpayers.

The bank doesn't have your actual money on hold in case you want it.
The right to repair is the antidote. Don't like the device software/firmware? Repair it.
Dream of universal internet access remains far off
What you aren't getting is that those industries would be dead and those companies bankrupt if they didn't evolve. How is Samsung supposed to make money selling dumb TVs for $20 each? Okay, maybe you'd pay them $300 for it, but people with a moral hatred of technological advancement aren't the ones that prop up tech markets. They had to add "smart" capabilities or people would ask why they're charging the same price as last year's model.
I learned a lesson about this back when I was a land surveyor doing a lot of public road work and layout years ago. I had to walk a lot, sometimes in thick weeds, on the shoulder of many public roads and highways. In many places in the US at least, there's always at least some litter and much of it was alcohol bottles, needles, and prescription drug bottles. It made me realise how many people drive while drugged on some substance.
We have always been at war with Eastasia . . .
It seems like the book is "unofficial" and published by someone else so not sure if the author actually gets any royalties.
The standard layout of a keyboard has remained completely unchanged for literal decades. It doesn't update every year with invisible gestures, nor does it remove keys that used to be there in favor of those gestures.
One of the devs (as opposed to owners) is busy with DragonflyBSD.

"Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003." - Wikipedia, DragonflyBSD
It seems like your scheme would require dedicating an entire core to kernel interrupt handling, all the time (because if you let every core run userspace, and then a network packet arrived, it wouldn't be handled until some core went back into the kernel for another reason).

That seems strictly worse than the current design.
Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
History of the Western Village Amusement Park, Japan
That's the only Solaris item on Oracle's github, and it's just the package manager. Where's the rest of the OS?
How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”
Excellent. Now when I crash in a ditch on the side of the road and my phone flies out the window, I'll hang upside down with a concussion and internal bleeding until the morning when someone finds my dead body.
Why do you have to draw a line anywhere? For public companies, anyone can invest in them. I’m sure there is some Saudi money, and some money from all sorts of criminals, invested in every publicly traded company. As a society we seem happy with that, so what’s the difference between privately and publicly traded companies here?
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Look,you're missing two very important points here.

1) yes,vpn providers crunch the numbers and come at a different conclusion. This is because they sell privacy before anything else. You don't gamble on the heart of your business model unless you intended to sell out your users from the begining. And there are well vetted providers run by well known individuals with a lot to lose if they sell out users.

2) It is in the interest of Mozilla's users for mozilla to diversify it's revenue source. So long at they don't forget to make features optional,I don't see the problem.

This partnership is great because both Mozilla and ProtonVPN have similar business models. Heck,it would even make a lot of sense for Mozilla to operate protonmail. Except unlike with Google and Gmail,they would charge you money and that's it. Give us what we want,to be your customers not your product!
This is less ridiculous than it sounds.

There is a long history of entertainers and cultural icons becoming politicians.

And YouTube and other streaming platforms are merely the newest and recently successful platforms for entertainment and cultural influence.

It should not be surprising that these new cultural icons might enter politics.
Not from Tesla.
A lifetime is a long time. I have no trouble believing enclosed agriculture is uneconomical now, but look at the trends: robots and AI are set for a long run of improvement, daytime electricity is likely to get much cheaper with the progress in solar power (when prices have been roughly level since 1970), people increasingly want local and fresh food without pesticides, harm to the ecosystem is an increasingly big deal, and so is variability from climate change. A couple of more speculative possibilities: median income might start going up again (it roughly doubled in 1950-1970) and nuclear power could make a comeback with the new startups tackling it, for even more abundant cheap electricity.

So how far is the tipping point for some crops, and then most?
Right. It's the difference in having someone's trust or not.
Superstition, gossip and rumours have been around since long before the internet.

I’d also doubt that half of the people spreading these stories believe half of what they’re saying. Some people just like the attention.
Personal swipes will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong or ignorant another commenter is (or seems).

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.
In this thread you’ve haven’t provided a single specific example. If your viewpoint can’t be supported with specifics, then I’m afraid it’s not very compelling.
I love how fast things are changing. Excited to see where things go
I had the advantage of working with people who had a background in typed languages, so everyone was onboard with giving Typescript a try a year ago.

The thing is, I found you have to be very diligent about how you organize your interfaces and how you might namespace them. I had some C# background, and had made a PR or two to the vscode repo -- so I had an idea of "good" code.

I think without some background in how you'll organize you types and, most importantly, types themselves you'll have some legwork in proving Typescript useful.

___

A suggestion I might have, because I found this mentally pleasing: start your project off small (get a few endpoints and some minimal database interaction). Let your co-workers look over it / maybe even do some small amount of work.

Create a typescript branch, where you convert each file to `.ts`. Typescript's compiler `tsc` can copy over all files `.js` and converted `.ts` so it's not essential you do this all at once, but I also found it not-so-painful either.

Demo this branch and show your co-workers that Typescript provides:

- A nice boost in productivity (autocomplete, hurray)

- Some confidence in how you're using types (this isn't a sound type system like flow)

- A way for people who don't have a background in javascript to feel more comfortable
Dead code elimination in your compiler should be taking care of this, no?
I agree with this post, but outside of a few specific things I don't think the issue is with Apple (or Android, or whatever).

The issue is people; most non-tech people either don't care about learning how to properly use a tool they'd be using for the rest of their life, or are scared to for whatever reason.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Dumbing down the UI for the lowest common denominator doesn't seem viable - it would completely kill any productivity (try to do your job with the children's toy equivalent of your usual tools), and I'm not even sure it would solve this - the "target market" of such change would most likely also get annoyed by it (I noticed that the people we're talking about are outright not interested in spending any time setting up their device, so a 50-step setup screen is unlikely to sort out the issue).

Maybe the solution is to let "natural selection" take its course; eventually you'll be expected to know how to operate these devices if you want to function in society. And honestly that's fine by me. There are already tons of things you are expected to know if you want to operate in today's society (social skills, managing your finances & administrative tasks, etc) and everyone seems to be doing fine with that.
Do people actually use JS for data sets larger than 4GB in the browser?
I’m a current student at 42, myself and my fellow students all had a pretty good laugh at much of their comments. We didn’t really see an accurate representation of our school, and much of it came across as a bitter student who wasn’t accepted.

For example, there is a cat at the Paris campus and the students are asked to ignore it and not pet it. That guidance turned into the ‘rule’ that if ‘the cat touches you, you fail’. I promise the school doesn’t have a secret failure cat.

I’m referring to the reddit link, not the HN comments.
It is something we'd like to do, but it's still a little experimental and it hasn't gotten to the top of our priority list yet.
I said it recently in different words and I'll say it again. There is no good ending for Bloomberg in this story, or at least for the reporters on the story and the editor who let it run. The longer it digs its heels in adamantly and doesn't retract this story, the worse it's going to get. Its deep pockets can handle a huge scandal and embarrassment for a while, but it'll face the ignominy of being ignored by sources in many circles if it doesn't act quickly (one of the ways, perhaps, would be to reveal more information that can be verified by third parties). It's as sticky a situation as it gets, and it will define/decimate Bloomberg for the future.
Elon has always been one of the main drivers of innovation over there, Gwenn has been the one keeping stuff afloat but Elon has been the one driving the "the hell I'm paying that much for a piece, I'll make it myself" culture as well as the iterative process.
Does it matter? The point is that the state made the cost prohibitively high.
TIL! The word "Quebracho" is commonly used in slang in Argentina (it is also the name of a political group), but it never occurred to me (!) the connection with "Quebrar Hacha" (break-axe).

As with other natural resources of Latin America, it was subject to exploitation from developed countries [2], causing harm to Native American people and the ecosystem.

In the book "The open veins of Latin America", Galeano explains the interesting fact that the current poorest areas of Latin America are the ones that used to be richer in natural resources, including "the devastated quebracho forests of northern Argentina and Paraguay".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebracho_(group)

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebracho_tree#Quebracho_explo...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America
I wonder what the vision is for what they want it to become?

Cause realistically most of the OS bases are covered now.
Some managers can spend more time in meetings than in front of a screen. Maybe you want a role at a non-tech organization?
Why can't the government just compete with a competitive wage?
Show HN: AuthMetrik – detecting unauthorised sharing of online accounts
"Faraday Failure"

Good riddance. They had a good idea (and more competition in the EV space is always good) but thanks to their management they completely ruined whatever was good about them. Now I just wish they'd die and leave space for someone that actually knows what they're doing.
Fellow cord cutter. Commercials are very strange. Like seriously bizarre. Once you've stepped away for awhile you can't re-acclimatize.
Talking cars, dancing animations, crazy graphics...it's all just absurd nonsense.
It's like the the worst of a Salvador Dali painting.
So you fix the government. Fully automated farming seems an inevitability at this point, and the materials costs to build denser instead of wider will be prohibitve so long as we have perfectly arable land to throw combines at.

It sure can feel like you have to design your economy, culture, and society around an unchanging, unaffable government, but none of those are really receptive to bending around something as transient as the ruling class of a given age.
I use pyenv - https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv. Allows me to manage multiple versions of python and switch between them. The only pain I have encountered is the pip cache.
I was a Nielsen viewer years ago (private TV viewing monitor for advertiser demographics). They paid you to participate and covered all diagnoses and repair. Now, your TV provider, Netflix, etc. sell your data in far more detail without most people even realizing it.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this get dropped now that it's interfering with a revenue stream.

That's always the con of revenue streams, they impede Mozillas independence and ability act on behalf of users.
"The candidates must be between 18 and 30 years of age (18 - 45 in Silicon Valley).[14] No previous diploma is required."

Age discrimination at its best.
Cap it at 45?

How many people over 30 (45 in the US) are trying to retool and get educated on programming?
It matters for "does Ancestry.com get preferential access" if they did, in fact, jump through all the same illegal hoops and just had the money to pay for them
We import a lot. Vertical farming will grow local food and provide food security. I think it’s valuable in any urban food system.
Intercom.

Zendesk is an absolute disaster as far as chat is concerned (from an user point of view).

Every time I have to request support from an app and I see it's Zendesk I either give up or find another way or mentally prepare myself for the painful waste of time that is ahead.

I'm sure it's great for the bean-counters' numbers (since less people actually request support because of how bad it is) but it sucks if you actually care about your users.
I know wasm-bindgen exists, and I presume it works. But it's black magic.

Near as I can tell, it serializes everything through the linear memory; this would have a huge impact on the performance of both ends, would it not? (Particularly if you wanted to do DOM manip w/ it.) I believe this is what the article means here,

> You need to pass values into the WebAssembly function or return a value from it. This can also be slow, and it can be difficult too.

> There are a couple of reasons it’s hard. One is because, at the moment, WebAssembly only understands numbers. This means that you can’t pass more complex values, like objects, in as parameters. You need to convert that object into numbers and put it in the linear memory. Then you pass WebAssembly the location in the linear memory.
IMO it's not really web ready until there's one web framework that has a clear majority of mindshare, like Rails for Ruby or Django for Python.
Do you really want to do CS? If not, that is OK! There is no One True Path (TM) to geek bliss.

Is there anything else you'd like to do? Maybe something that's more of a technician role, where you use tech rather than designing it? Say, like an auto mechanic or IT administration, where you'll be using your hands and "doing" rather than cranking out lines of code.

Also, good on ya for going to talk to a professional. I was in a similar jam a while back and it made all the difference.
Too bad I'm over 30.
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On the other hand, there's Huawei that went with Advanced and Simple mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcalxGyLE1w

And for aging parents, the simple mode works fantastically!
The better you get, the worse you think you are.
Canadian Provinces raked in revenue on day one of cannabis sales
I very rarely use iPhones but when I do I have no idea how anything is supposed to work without a back button.
> Rust is the answer to the question "can we have speed, correctness, and expressiveness in one language?"

My biggest gripe is that they left out readability.

I like the semantics of Rust, and appreciate the performance and the transparent memory model. I am extremely excited to try Rust on an embedded project.

Bur honestly, the syntax is gruesome. Coming from Python, Rust looks like two rabid gerbils had a war dance on my keyboard.
There’s no age restrictions for the Silicon Valley campus, you’re more than welcome to apply.
I was thinking about making a similar app years ago that would use an SSH server instead.

The only issue compared to iCloud (and why I wouldn't be using this just yet) is that you loose support for iCloud Photo Library.

If you make a full-featured suite of equivalent apps for Mac that can replicate the iCloud experience I would pay good money for that.
45 is the cap.
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