skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...encourage those who reach for a SPA for every project to give it a second thought.

Every time this subject comes up I always get a sense of "These hipster kids are bad programmers and their react apps are killing the web" from the anti-JS crowd.

To me, this feels like the developer equivalent of blaming immigrants and poor people for systemic economic issues.

Directing your ire at the "Show HN: Look at my React app" or the kid at your meetup, or even your issue tracker, is an easier target, but not the correct one.

People reach for SPAs because:

1. Unified development experience for interactivity provides very good developer ergonomics.

2. Dirt-cheap, stupid-simple, five-nines reliable hosting as static assets on S3 or equivalent.

So long as these developer-quality-of-life advantages exist, people will choose them, especially for independent projects. Yes, there are downsides with bloat on initial-load, yes there are web apps that would be better served as server-generated HTML.

The "bloat" problem is mostly coming from content-heavy sites from media companies that keep injecting tons of various scripts for ads, tracking, and other BS. These organizations have no excuse, and should definitely not be using an SPA if they are, but they will keep doing it so long as the economic incentives of these scripts persist.

Edit: PS, I fully support articles like this and welcome discussion on better ways to build web apps. Hopefully we'll figure out a way to have the best of both worlds. Some attempts have existed but are nascent or die quickly before they can mature. Its a difficult problem.
Or... cities see self-driving cars, draw the correct conclusion that they can put some smaller, cheaper and more efficient self-driving buses and blanket ban cars in places where there are too much of them. You either walk or take the bus.
or more importantly -- no one has the battery building abilty that Tesla do.
[edit: just wanted to say these are my initial opinionated responses to your points. Not stating these as facts necessarily]

* Eh. Running around the Charles in the fall is glorious. Mt Auburn cemetery is awesome. There's a crazy diversity of architecture from Mass Hall in Harvard Yard to the Stata Center.

* It's a windy city. The average wind speed of the Boston area is higher than Chicago.

* Affordable housing is a serious issue in a lot of cities, especially ones with a rapidly growing population of high-salary tech jobs.

* As much as people hate the Red line, it's old, and it works. Yes it's delayed often, but at rush hour it's packed with people who don't want to use cars.

* Central is central. There's tons of ok restaurants, and it's lively enough for me. As 'downtowns' go, it's not intolerably dirty or worse, dead. As public art goes, it's not Lisbon, but it's quite fun.

* They're clearly trying to improve the bike lanes. It's gotten a lot better over the 6 years I've been here.

* More specific road issues: yes, it's in a state of change, and there are a bunch of old streets. I'll always have complaints about cities. Considering it started as the oldest grid-planned town in the US, it's not all that bad.
Background:

Oracle made a complaint to the Government Accountability Office last year that was essentially "it is unfair to award ALL $10B to just one company." The GAO disagreed with the following reasoning:

> the Defense Department’s decision to pursue a single-award approach to obtain these cloud services is consistent with applicable statutes (and regulations) because the agency reasonably determined that a single-award approach is in the government’s best interests for various reasons, including national security concerns, as the statute allows

So now Oracle is suing the US Government with exactly the same complaint.

Oracle Senior Vice President Ken Glueck is a statement claimed that they're worried the DoD is going to be "locked into" another cloud vendor and that a single vendor "is out of sync with industry’s multi-cloud strategy" Make of that as you will.
I expect that Google will also charge for retrieval. Their egress is really really expensive.

There may also be a minimum storage period, like Amazon has.

Let's wait and see.
There is some overlap because articles can reach a wide audience via forwarding. It would be used more if there weren't easier ways to do it.

Unfortunately this would also mean spreading the sort of crap as debunked on Snopes.
They are absolutely legit.
It was time to panic about privacy in about 1998, and don't think i haven't been!
Because usually you are treated as being a citizen of the country whose passport you are travelling on. If you flew to China and were arrested of a crime, you are much better off having used your US passport than the Malta passport you purchased, or worse, the Sudanese passport you bribed an official for.
It’s the opposite: most of the military money goes to the stuff which, if actually used, ends the human civilisation as we know it.

The same goals that US has could be achieved with orders of magnitude less military spending, while also reducing the risks for the whole humanity.

So every alternative to the current practices is infinitely better.
Encouraging people to exercise and not drive gas-powered vehicles is a net win for not only their long term health but also the environment. It's worth it.
It makes some short-term sense.

It seems like they're focusing on the enterprise element of their business, which is what's making more money, has fewer players to work with, etc.

I'd imagine they see their future closer to HP than Apple.
A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias
> The one about the CIA arresting or disappearing a man living in an Ecuadorian embassy in the center of London is interesting

Was arrested by local police and is currently sitting in UK Met Police jail.
Mission budget is around $100 million (including launch costs).

Which is modest for moon landing attempts, but still well outside of a one-shot fully privately funded initiative.

Perhaps still a possibility of being crowdsourced.

Google Lunar X prize was $20 million, which is more realistic for a private program.

Still, this is a _great_ leap forward. Now, students routinely design and launch satellites (around $50k for a CubeSat launch); I hope that someday the same will go for lunar probes.
Some of the pressure for parking spots should be reduced by the people who are now biking. It's not clear it will even out, though.
Another thing, their motors are lighter, cheaper and produces more horse-power than their competitors (in this case, comparing the Chevy Bolt and BMW i3)
In case you haven't seen it, this read on the SPLC was eye opening:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-mo...

From a recent issue of The New Yorker.
That's a very US-centric (and outdated) viewpoint, coming from a perspective of bike infrastructure being entirely non-existent in the US back in the 1970s. Contrast with Amsterdam's approach, where cycling is a properly treated third form of at-grade transit that has all its own paths just like cars and pedestrians do. That's way safer and has much higher usage than you'd ever see if no separate paths were provided for cyclists at all.
Almost certainly done so that Assange can be brought to USA for testimony in the fallout of the failed Mueller probe. Calling it now: Assange will walk free.
Your only two options on mobile are Apple & Google and he is calling out Google (in fairly extreme terms) on a point where they are easily the better of the two.

It shows what a silly contortion he was going through to tell us to hate Google.
Backblaze also offers that option. You can mail them up to 8tb on an external HD and have it loaded into their system for $190, up to 256gb on a USB stick for $100. [1]

You can also request a "B2 Fireball" [2] from them. It's basically a small array that they mail to you for $550 with 70tb of storage. You fill it up and send it back to them within the month, and they'll load the data into your account.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html (Bottom of the page)

[2] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/datatransfer/fireball...
Some people are anti-immigrant. Many others are anti-illegal immigrant, including myself.

I favor very liberal immigration laws since immigrants have immeasurably bolstered American culture and society. Asylum seekers should be welcomed with open arms, and their claims should be verified to preserve the integrity of the asylum system. We as a nation have the inherent right to control our borders as a matter of democratic policy (as all other nations do). There are legitimate national security (and economic) concerns with small numbers of those who would do harm to our country.

The alternative to reasonable restrictions on immigration is open borders, which I think would lead to poor outcomes.
Because as of leaving Sweden, they had only released the Collateral Murder video. The Iraq War documents and Cablegate happened while he was in the UK.
No idea why OP found it interesting, but this really caught my eye:

“Given the properties of bilinearity, orthogonality and magnitude, a nonzero cross product exists only in three and seven dimensions.”
It's about density and available space. I don't think most people around here think of Cambridge as a suburb of Boston. I'd say Newton is a suburb of Boston. Lexington too. But not Cambridge or Somerville.

Suburb evokes lots of single family homes with yards, and a fairly car-centric environment. That doesn't fit Cambridge, which is much more urban. That said, there are ultra-wealthy pockets of Cambridge that look and feel a little more like a suburb, but they are small.

Like SF, Boston is somewhat unusual in that the city itself is pretty small both in surface area (48 sq miles) and population (~685k). The Greater Boston area is a different story, of course (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston). But that includes Cambridge, and Somerville, and all the neighboring cities to Boston.

Someone else in this thread said that Cambridge is to Boston like Oakland is to SF. That sounds about right, though Oakland is much bigger (both in population and surface area) than Cambridge.
The Nordic countries, New Zealand, Switzerland and Singapore are perceived as least corrupt by experts and in opinion polls. Do the citizens agree?
...No?

Everything you said remains accurate even if you replace immigrants with illegal immigrants.

Particularly your entire last paragraph is what people have an issue with illegal immigrants for, and why a large number of legal immigrants/H1-bs have issues with illegal immigrants. Did you know it can take as long as 15 years for an H1-b to get a green card? Did you know an H1-b can have their application rejected and then have to return home?

>People are anti-immigrant because they see immigrants are others, as competition who has no right to compete with them, or similarly, they seem them as another people encroaching on their territory. Issues of legality concern the state but they do not concern the individual anti-immigrant.
sources needed please.
I take the T and the buses pretty often. They're quite usable.
A thriving cyberpunk MUD online since 1997
I think you're really overstating the case in blaming bike lanes for the majority of closures of businesses in a given area.
Scientists use editing tool to identify key cancer genes
Such a great hack!

I wonder if we can put some modern-day OS in the BIOS flash.

I think the NetBSD kernel would fit, but I'm not sure how a GUI could be possible...
Both AWS and Azure support Oracle Databases. This is the selection of a cloud provider, not specific software that would run on that provider. They may very well run Oracle Databases in the future.
From Electrek [1]: A Tesla spokesperson has reportedly commented on Nikkei’s report:

> “We will of course continue to make new investments in Gigafactory 1, as needed,”

Update: In a comment to Electrek, Tesla exapnded:

> “We will of course continue to make new investments in Gigafactory 1, as needed. However, we think there is far more output to be gained from improving existing production equipment than was previously estimated.”

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/04/11/tesla-panasonic-suspend-inves...
I appreciate you taking the time to go and find what BBC’s editorial standards are for formal titles in their headlines. It’s entirely possible you’re right and this is why it was dropped, I should have gone and looked for their style guide the way you did.

May have found my own answer much sooner but thanks nonetheless for that bit of information.
Are you merely upset about the timing of the releases?

If so, when would have been a good time for them to release the evidence of DNC corruption?
Rclone only copies stuff. It doesn't compress, deduplicate or version. Some backends to versioning though.
Can I ask you why it's a bubble? I don't work on "data science" but I feel like data, and in particular working with large amounts of data, is valuable.
Agreed, lets skip the automobile lanes and just put bike lanes on those streets :]
And has been for most of the last three or four decades.
Yeah. Machine vision is hard. Really hard.
Google launches: 1500 HN entries https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%20launches&sort=byPopul...

Google shuts: 700 HN entries: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%20shuts&sort=byPopulari...

(thought it would be funny to compare, it's not very scientific of course...)
It's required only during maintenance made as part of a pre-existing 5-year reconstruction plan on roads that were included in the 2015 Bicycle Plan (or any subsequent plan the Council approves). That's still a dramatic expansion from Cambridge's current separated bike lanes, but it's not "any roadway" as the article claims.
I had the same issue. It seemed like with many plausible solutions, there is some bias in the image. I agree there are some reasonable constraints, like it should be energetic stuff in a sphere around a dark sphere, but how many solutions would have fit that criteria?
This part of Baltimore doesn't fit this model, however, since parking was not removed. The bike lane was inserted between the parking zone and the curb. Previously, the bike lane was between the rightmost travel lane and the parking zone.

Poor driving, or factors related to poor driving, may be a contributor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/08/30/dc-...

Or, it may just be an anti-cycling bias, but I don't have evidence to support this.
If for some reason, we had as many horse riders as drivers, none of that would be true. Horses would be as much a part of modern industry as chicken and cattle already are. IOW, there would be huge enterprises to ensure only good genes went into new horses, enterprises to ensure a steady supply of fodder to keep the horses of megacities fed, proportionately larger sewage system, and so on.
One person's hubris is another person's faith in human ingenuity.

Your pacific garbage patch example is disingenuous. It would not occur if poor countries had proper waste disposal infrastructure (ie collection and landfills).
It's not an outcome I'm particularly worried about. There are a lot of countries with a median GDP per capita greater than or roughly equivalent to the United States[1] with more robust social welfare states and lower GINI coefficients[2]. I'm much more concerned about the effects of runaway inequality.

[1]: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/world-bank-poverty-statistics-lac...
[2]: https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
There's not much overhead on contracted Uber-eats couriers, since they are acting as contractors, not full time employees.
I already mentioned "defer" as in Go or Zig. It's explicitly tied to scope exit, not object lifetime, so it avoids all of the problems inherent in confusing the two.
Both GM and Ford have been hiring a lot of software engineers in Detroit in the past few years. The problem is that they need NASA-style software engineers (crazy-anal nit-picky consider-every-possibility style engineers)--not engineers from the regular software industry. If your car crashes, you can't just reboot it.
I don't know a single cyclist who agrees with that statement.
>A standard R160 subway car carries up to about 250 people in an area that would be about the same as 5 Corollas positioned nose to tail, a starting ratio of about 10:1. If cars are made twice as dense, it's still 5:1.

You're not accounting for the space between trains. They will only take up 5-10% of the available rail space because you need gaps between the trains.
Why would driverless cars be smaller? They still need to be able to carry the same number of passengers; the only difference there is that one of those passengers is no longer also a driver.
I would love someone to explain clearly the strategy of "multi-cloud" products to me, what they do, and how they are long term viable. (I do mean this genuinely because I'm not getting it.)

1. Surely there is no way for any "multi-cloud" company to keep up with the constant changes and growth of products at all these companies that they can abstract between them in any meaningful way without constantly falling behind.

2. And if there is some purpose right now, is that purpose sustainable? Why would Amazon not have every incentive at some point to make it as easy as possible for an existing Microsoft customer to migrate workloads over to their platform, and vice versa. And if/when they get into the game, isn't that essentially game over for any independent product?
> Separate from the political issues at the top level of funding, the entire FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) is a steaming pile of reactionary bullshit, grown by accretion to minimize risk to bureaucrats at the expense of serving the tax payer efficiently.

I don't think people understand just how much of the procurement system has been built out of risk aversion.

A thing needs doing, politicians / government workers procure a solution to that, and that solution ends up going wrong somehow. Lots of egg on the relevant politician's faces, and plenty of ammo for anyone running against them. "$foo wasted millions of taxpayers money on solutions that don't even work!" So they put in a new mechanism to try to ensure that mistake never happens again. Each individual mechanism on its own generally makes sense.

But over decades and decades it becomes such a complete mess that if you take a step back and look at it, it's all kinds of absurdity (There's a fun parallel there to the infrastructure and systems we tend to make as developers and sysadmins). Worse, the kind of absurdity it has become actually ends up costing taxpayers more money than if a bunch of the regulations didn't exist, cheaper things were tried and failed, and replaced with one that does work.
It is a $1B/year contract for 10 years, but the DoD has a number of early-outs if costs overrun or the vendor under-performs.
And Trump cares deeply about both of them.
Just got back from a trip Amsterdam. If you want to see what the future of Cambridge could be - take a trip there. The cycling infrastructure is phenomenal and very heavily used. It seems the majority of streets had dedicated and protected cycle lanes on both sides. Even more impressive is that it doesn't stop at the city limits. It goes far far out into the countryside. They even had parking garages for bikes.
Technological growth is an S curve. Exponential at first but hitting a point of diminishing returns after. The 747 is roughly equidistant from the Wright Flyer and the 787. Aviation hit the wall before we got, for example, routine supersonic flights. In computers, the 1.5 GHz Pentium IV is roughly equidistant between the 8 MHz 286 and the i9-9900k (which clocks up to 5 GHz, but that’s not even a fair comparison because the 286 dissipated under 15 watts, the Pentium 4 was a 60W chip, and the i9 is nominally a 95W chip but in reality can dissipate much more than that during boost.)
I live and work in Cambridge, MA. In my opinion, Cambridge and Somerville are not very bicycle friendly due to the fact that main streets were laid out before cars were common. As a result, there is basically only one route (via Beacon) to work for me via bicycle. Grid-cities like SE Portland, OR where I formerly lived, were much easier because you can ride on a street parallel to the artery, not on it. Its nice to see what Cambridge is doing, but its a much harder job than other cities face.
Chinese scientists put human brain genes in monkeys
you're not limited to a binary choice between "no immigration" and "let literally everyone come in". it could be that there's a certain net immigration than a country can sustain per year. perhaps it's also a relatively enlightened country with a legal structure that allows roughly that number of people to enter. in this case, the legal immigrants are doing no harm, but the illegal immigrants are straining the system past its capacity.
It exists. Pick up a device that support ARM64 Windows 10 and it has compatibility with x86 programs (via an emulation layer like WoW64).

This announcement is for Firefox for ARM64 Windows 10 (without using the emulation layer). So, faster, uses less battery, etc.
* Best in class battery technology (cost and power density),

* Highest efficiency motors in terms of cost, weight and HP (compared to BMW i3 and Chevy Bolt)

* A massive charging infrastructure

* 1 billion+ miles of driving data from its ADAS system to get it closer to FSD.

* A software platform that enables OTA updates that improves performance/features of the car that is unparalleled in the market right now.
Being reported in The Guardian:

> Elisabeth Massi Fritz, lawyer for the Swedish woman whose case against Assange remains outstanding, has given the Guardian a longer statement:

> "My client and I have today received the news that Assange has been arrested in London. It did understandably come as a shock to my client that what we have been waiting and hoping for since 2012 has now finally happened. We are going to do everything we possibly can to get the Swedish police investigation re-opened so that Assange can be extradited to Sweden and prosecuted for rape. No rape victim should have to wait nine years to see justice be served.

> I have requested an urgent procedure [from the prosecutor to extradite Assange]."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...
I've done / seen so many hacky things in web dev I would be surprised how many websites even work properly with screen readers.
Yes. And try to get Oracle to play nicely with Microsoft Technologies.

Having multiple vendors is great, but here they are just talking their book. Do they pitch multiple database strategies too?
The problem isn't that the process is really broken (though it is in many ways) - the problem is that too many companies fail to understand there is a major difference between government and commercial markets. Two totally different mindsets.

Yes, the sales cycles in government are a lot longer (2 years is at the extreme end though, 3 to 6 months is more average but with a lot of caveats) and yes, there are a lot of rules and regulations that don't exist in commercial deals (FAR, DFARS, etc. etc.) - but at the end of the day, you're talking about business-changing scale when you get awarded a decent sized government contract (millions of dollars over a period of 3-5 years on average or longer). You're talking about being able to grow to 100's of employees with just a half dozen or so government customers.

The problem here really is that people need to invest the time and energy into understanding the government market and they can't expect it to be like the commercial one. If you do this, then the payout is very much worth it (and, no, it doesn't require "deep pockets" but it DOES require relationship building, a strong commitment, and a lot of learning).

If you give up in frustration because "it's too convoluted" compared to the commercial market, then, yeah, it will never pay off and it will feel like everything is stacked against you. But if you stick it out you'll find yourself with some incredibly stable and predictable long-term revenue streams.