skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the Islamic countries seem to be changing in the same direction. eg from Pinker

>Polls find that young Muslims in the Middle East are about as liberal as young western Europeans were in the early 1960s.
Such as?

Every application should strive for proper quality, just like in other industries.
By framing it as recycling they are setting your expectancy of value to '0' for the input phase.
Ha, reminds me of the days I used WINAPI programming. The message pump would be done with a simple while loop that has GetMessage(), TranslateMessage() and DispatchMessage().
I’m in Denmark. Whenever I buy something using my contactless credit card, the app I have for mobile payments receives a digital receipt. Quite practical.
And yet changes to UK environmental policy have actually helped bring the UK's carbon emissions down to 19th century levels (yes, caveats about where our stuff is made nowadays apply) and companies with more money than all citizen environmentalist groups put together plough far more money into efficiency savings and renewables than disinformation campaigns.

There's a plausible argument that this isn't enough, but it's difficult to see how an unpopular activist group with little to say on actual solutions to climate change is likely to improve upon this status quo, especially since they actively ruled out engaging with supportive businesses because ultimately the aesthetics of grassroots protest appealed more to them than the opportunity to press for tangible emissions reduction.
"during the early eighties every school child in the United Kingdom was exposed to it, spawning a whole generation of bedroom programmers." Erm no. When I was at secondary school, only those deemed to be good at Maths were allowed to work with the BBC Micros, despite having some skills already from owning a ZX Spectrum at home. This maths centric view was partly why I didn't try to study Comp Sci at Uni and went to do Chem, and then fell into more IT classes and post grad and onto an IT career subsequently.
That's the beauty of it, it doesn't mean anything!
It's called democracy man, even when a lot of people disagree with Trump, there are others who agree with him.
Sure, there's been plenty of scares in the past. Many of them even seemed extremely legitimate and had plenty of esteemed voices behind them.

But let's not talk in the abstract here. We're talking about climate change now. In 2019. And I believe very strongly that our planet is going through unprecedented changes that are caused by human activity. Those changes will result in suffering for a huge number of fellow members of my beloved species.

If you don't believe the same things I do, that's cool. I truly hope I'm wrong and you're right.
The distinction between "gives people more freedom to conduct their business without state intervention" and "enables crime" seems very elusive.

I can see an argument that enabling crime under oppressive regimes is moral. Or even enabling particular crimes that you feel shouldn't be crimes.

I have trouble seeing the legitimate use case for cryptocurrency in first world countries. If the main use case is crime, money laundering and speculation, it will either be squashed or remain niche.
> "kid who likes to draw" to "ex-animator"

There is an interesting book in there somewhere.
Yeah, every time there's an article about the United States ever, we should mention the Trail of Tears. That'll help.
There is always something bigger, isn’t it...
Every body writes something like this. Every body. Just because some devs don't write this in a single block of code, and scatter them across program logic doesn't make them any better.

I've had developers balk at other developer's code for writing a series of like 100 if-else's until I show them, they do it themselves only that they scatter it. You could say this thing about nearly every OO programmer out there.

Everybody writes code that mutates state in a way that produces the kind of code you mentioned as an example.

It's only that some developers think they can never write bad code, while thinking other's almost always do.

This is one reason why some shops hire only OCaml, or Haskell or Clojure devs because bad devs tend to use those languages less. So you buy into a great community by default.
New payment API, it was something they have mentioned.

A lesson for next time always read blog posts about new APIs you are planning on implementing, especially when it comes to payments.
Kinda bummed that you weren't joking. The tone of these threads is pretty depressing and I could have used a little pick-me-up.

Anyway, I'm not a climatologist, but from what I understand we will be seeing significant global ramifications in the next 2-3 decades. In other words, it's not just the next generation that's going to suffer, it's going to be a great deal many of us who are alive today.
> any browser with noticeable (maybe 3-5%) market share causes these problems.

No. When Web devs test in multiple browsers and find that something doesn't work in one of them, they will usually pick an alternative solution that does work in all of them, avoiding the bug in the buggy browser, thus avoiding a situation where their site depends on that bug continuing to exist. It doesn't always work out as well as that, but it often does.

You can wish for something better than the Web platform, but it's a tall order. You want a platform that's not controlled by a single vendor, that has multiple open-source non-patent-encumbered implementations with significant market share, that is available across just about every device, that has a vibrant content/application ecosystem and developer community, that supports everything from simple static content to extremely complex applications like office suites and 3D games. Good luck with that.
Ghost_Executor08
Give me all the skin
Reminds me of react.
Pros and Cons of Being a Jack of All Trades
Semi-related: Does anybody know any good online tools/apps for learning piano scales and chords?
Interesting video but is it legal? Assuming permission was not granted to use the image and music of Michael Jackson?
> "your code can be used by company X" in the event of a takeover

The FSF is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charity; if it would institute policies to benefit a single for-profit entity, the inevitable IRS audit would be excruciatingly painful and likely result in jail time for directors.
Since gravitational waves travel at the speed of light there should be a delay as well where the gravity of one body is affecting another from where it was not where it is. For earth that is where the sun was 8 minutes ago. Technically the galaxy might be orbiting something too.
I'm sorry that my forceful language offended you so much. Let me assure you I am 100% not a fascist :)

Democracy doesn't actually work a "certain way". There's many forms of democracy all over the world. Given that they're a human construct, one thing they all share in common is that they're deeply flawed in every permutation.

I'm not interested in throwing anything away. I'm interested in iterating on what we have and striving to make it better. For me, that's what it means to be human.
Yep, again the anti-WebComponents message.

Angular, Vue, Polymer, Svelte and a couple of Web based RAD editors look like tooling to embrace them to me.

Since I don't have any plans to ever use React, how does your magical component work with my tooling?
And add "Distortion" effect for Camera apps, that would give good-old behavior.
The World’s Most Insane Energy Project Moves Ahead
Is the page broken? Random paragraphs look like links but you can't click them.
When did anyone say there was no invention/innovation ?

It was about Huawei's record of IP theft.
Pretty cool. I had one of these growing up. It's a bit before my time but I remember getting one with a bunch of games at a garage sale like 10 years past its prime.

Just a heads up, I nearly had a heart attack loading your page. That sound you auto-play is out of control loud.
Google has a lot of power in the Web platform but it's definitely not complete. If it was just a matter of manpower then they would have forced (P)NaCl/Pepper and Dart down everyone's throats and we would have been stuck with Web Components v0.

Sentiments such as "Google controls everything, there is nothing we can do" are inaccurate and also counterproductive.
What about testing it for aerial imagery?
We happen to live in different developer communities, it seems.
Since I saw a female dog performing pelvic thrusts on a female cat for no apparent reason, I'm a lot less skeptic of this kind of headlines.
Good perspective.

I can probably stick with the 20KiB Vue dependency, particularly when it doesn't require any build system or other dependencies.
I am being as explicit as my NDAs allow me to.
Thanks for the suggestion :-)
They don't care, they want to push them into approved content rather than recommended content. Aka "these are the topics that you are allowed to speak of".

See current Pinterest scandal and banning from Youtube of any video mentioning this.
Would it be better if we went back to the good old days where those with an authoritarian streak vote parties into power that like to oppress (and worse) their critics?

Put differently, even if you disagree with the rhetoric of the German Green Party, surely you would agree that they're definitely not as bad as other certain parties that have come before in Germany? :)
> holes in the ozone layer

Funny you mention that. No one needed to panic, 1980s politicians appeared to remember what some of their job was. Two rather right leaning free-market monetarist politicians - Thatcher and Reagan - championed international action to phase out freon and other CFCs. Very successfully. The ozone hole closed.

At the exact same time Thatcher was making speeches - to the UN and many others about the need for strong international action on climate. That was less successful. Had anyone bothered to listen we might have sorted emissions by now. Here's one snippet from her 1989 UN speech[1]:

"We should work through this great organisation and its agencies to secure world-wide agreements on ways to cope with the effects of climate change, the thinning of the Ozone Layer, and the loss of precious species.

We need a realistic programme of action and an equally realistic timetable.

Each country has to contribute, and those countries who are industrialised must contribute more to help those who are not."

How prescient.

> sea levels world rise 100m during the next decade

He did not say that.

[1] https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817
I wonder wether this center of mass moving around in the sun, is producing - time delayed of course- the "sun-weather" aka, the dark spots and solarflares..

Something else:

Technical the orbit, is a spiral of the whole system around the center of mass, slightly deteriorated by remainders of old interactions.

Which got me thinking, if you run a astronomical simulation backwards- can you computate old interactions and "gone" missing bodys from that?
Use celestial motion as a sort of archive-trail to go back along?
Good news this guy is out of our hair now, but unfortunately the sentence wasn't related to patent trolling and doesn't seem to have set any precedents there. The business model was similar though: create a situation where it's cheaper to pay up than to defend in court, collect, and then weasel around in the court system to stay out of jail... for a while.
Yeah, I was excited about Polymer when learning about Web Components.

I'll read more about lit-element. Thanks :-)
This article will probably single handedly produce several hundred “well, actually” responses on Twitter.
But I guess nothing I say here matters because I clearly don't actually believe any of it and I'm just virtue signalling.
Sounds cool. I'll check it out :-)
Yeah I wondered if instead of maintaining a global ordering of all requests, it wouldn't be better to just require timestamps in requests that will need to be ordered. Then you only need partial orderings, which you can resolve when marging the optimistic state, only among those requests that actually need to be ordered, and requests don't need to block each other.

Edit: although now I think about it, if you go that route you effectively have to do the same timestamp ordering resolution on the server too.. so probably more complicated than just keeping a global ordering!
Nothing. Probably the original developer was trying to do the same thing. There is always a context to what some one is doing.
Yeah, I really like the idea of Svelte. I'm just coming from the perspective of wanting to sprinkle in a little JS in my development flow, and avoid pre-processors or compilers, if possible.
One of my simulation software projects for a class last century was to try and recreate the slight “wobble” stars have from suspected orbiting planet pulling on them.

The simulation proved they could but it took a fairly large planet in a closish orbit.

Planet finding techniques have improved considerably.

One problem I remember having was
Setting the initial state so the planets didn’t just slide off my coordinate system with a constant
velocity.
Right... your temporary, disposable e-mail address. Like mailinator.com, 10minutemail.com, and thousands of others. Out of the many online accounts I have, I don't think I have one tied back to my personal e-mail.
If home economics classes in school hadn't been gutted a generation ago, this could be much more viable. It's becoming hard to find anybody that can so much as sew on a button. Much less operate an electric sewing machine.

It's one of those things that is really not hard, you just have to have some exposure to it.
I wonder if other eagles ever do this? Maybe a distant Golden Eagle swimming in a Scottish loch might be mistaken for a large aquatic creature of some kind - Nessie? Birds are dinosaurs, after all..
Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers
Thanks for the suggestion. Really great work keeping the framework so tiny! :-)

Can Preact just be "dropped in" to an existing HTML template, like jQuery?
It's more so the case that dogwhistling and irony have a very blurry line.
Wow because on both sides if you had half a brain a) the lawyers wouldn't have been caught and b) it would be effortless to defend against because there is no proof it was you on your broadband IP unless you flat out admitted it instead of just taking the 5th if it comes to it.

Lawyers could do this all day above board by identifying almost abandonware/media already being shared and buying the rights legitimately and going after sharers without secretly running the sharing themselves.
Show HN: A WIP cloud browser platform
As the saying goes: all models are wrong; some are useful.
My component is "magical" thanks to the React ecosystem and because it uses the tools the React platform provides to greatly integrate with said ecosystem. The tools you suggested are not comparable to React - React Hooks and Contexts are the part I'm most interested in.

If you use different tooling, then it doesn't work, and that's okay. You don't need to care about React and I don't need to care about Web Components. It was suggested that React is useless and should be replaced with Web Components, and I'm simply saying that Web Components are not sufficient to replace React, not that you should switch.
One thing must be pretty obvious but reading the comments it seems like it's not. XR is very explicit about being non violent. I don't believe they would do anything that would endanger the safety of the passengers.
gamergate didn't get 'stronger', gamergate has been over for years, it's just the case that the absurd reaction to the movement created an environment extremely hostile to anything considered 'left' which has now spun out of control.
Ah dang. Requires a bundler. I am really just wanting to enhance an existing HTML template.

It seems many of the JS frameworks add a lot if, IMHO unnecessary, complexity.
GPL is about user freedom. The user must always be allowed to inspect what code they're actually running.

That is restrictive on developers, but that's just the cost of doing business here. If you don't share those ideals, that you should be able to inspect and alter the source of the code you run, you will likely never "understand" GPL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_stars#/media/F...
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_Q4hEqmA
I don't know, I've never been black or a part of a overwhelmingly black community.
I wish more of the comments here were like this. Most of my comments are rubbish troll-bait, I'm glad people like NeedMoreTea exist. Someone who can calmly and rationally make a series of excellent points grounded in fact and history :)
Well it is outside the surface right now, no need to imagine all planets being perfectly lined up.
I don't understand what they did wrong exactly. They had the legit rights over the content and they offered actual pirates to settle instead of litigating, to which they agreed. Where is the scam?
It reminds me of the french Quenelle invented by a french humorist a few years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/opinion/deciphering-the-q... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/world/europe/concern-over...
> Because what value can you get out of "everything gravitates around everything else"?

Expensive numerical simulations!
An important thing to remember if anyone tries to bring up free speech.
There's nothing wrong with "well, actually", despite what the silly meme would have us think.
That is rather horrific. I am sorry to hear that happened.

I like the idea of some sort of head restraint. The challenge with a head restraint would be making something not restrictive, and silly looking, otherwise people would just not use it.
Yeah but you don't get gut microbiota by eating with dirty hands, quite the contrary, a severe gastric infection can mess with your gut flora
I believe Minecraft is something parents play with their children, but that's anecdotal.
I think our ability to look backwards is limited by the precision of our instruments and the precision of floating point computation.

Any error in our measurements would be magnified as we look backwards to the point that the simulation would at some point significantly diverge from reality, I wonder how many years back you can look before that happens?

Also floating point error would compound on top of that.
Javascript was a poorly thought out language designed in two weeks. It is a problem... so much so that features keep getting stacked on it because by now we are stuck with it.

It is such a mess that it is now mainstream to compile some metajs langauge to js.

Is it the worst language every created? Certainly not, but is it the worst language being actively developed and used? Yes. Is it poisoning the minds of young programmers with bad practices and a fear of concurrency? yes.
I've yet to see anything touted as groundbreaking on web front-ends that wasn't thoroughly explored by unix forty years ago or Windows twenty-five years ago.
There's an inhaled form:

https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/inhaled-levodopa-time-moves...
Why don't more American men take paternity leave?
I think he means that there will be a few components that will be able to develop that IP for you. That is certainly the case for PLLs and other analog bits of digital designs.
Oh, and this one, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator
Flying drones close to busy airport is endangering the safety of passengers.
> Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization.

Wish that was the actual title, and not the subheader.

Edit : Also, uBlock Origin blocking "121 or 90%" of requests on that page, so... Last time I ever visit this site for sure.
I think the problem here is many people have heard that statement, but are choosing not to believe it. Instead they're reaching for UK legislation and straw mans to paint XR as a bunch of eco-fascist terrorists.

The only thing that gives me some hope is that generally when someone does something that provokes a ferocious response, it means they've really struck a nerve and gotten people's attention.
It certainly is an attractive idea for the conspiracy minded.
Heck, it doesn't even take conspiracy mindedness. Just anyone hoping to see something.

At the same time, it seems feasible as a concept and quite useful.
I would reconsider if I ever want to have contact with the person suggesting that again.
Global extinction? No, we shouldn’t make trillion dollar policy decisions based on fairy tales.
I wonder why Volvo never went further with this? I can't imagine the cost would be prohibitive to add these to a high end vehicle like Volvo produces, and it would fit perfectly with there safety first image.
Plastic ingestion by people equating to a credit card a week
I work in a lab where some of the researchers are working on the much simpler fly gut. Even in the simpler fly It’s very difficult to get anything approaching causality because they’re are so many variables in gut bacteria populations. It’s a huge ecosystem unto itself.
I looked around a teeny bit and there's some stuff but what you describe doesn't show up right away.

This is a chemical (?) simulator that's been around since 1993 I believe: https://www.wur.nl/en/product/Simulator-of-Human-Intestinal-...

I also found this numeric simulator: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/microbiome/simulator... but I can't view the content right now.
Riot's Approach to Anti-Cheat (2018)
The real poor in this world rely on jobs manufacturing clothing.

Sure if clothing manufacturing goes away or is lessened they could do other jobs like prostitution.

But of you want to help 3rd world people employ them in good decent service jobs like making clothing.

It takes nothing from their environment and gives them as humans, which they also are, money and decency.
Good point. It's not worse than floating point numbers.
Why America is embracing the widening world of non-wheat pastas
The thing is, those Thatcher speeches (and of course all the movement in Europe) worked, we reduced our emissions by almost 30% in 30 years. Which makes it specially bad when a bunch of people from the comfort of their life in here, now decide they can go around with their extremist views of environmentalism causing havoc in no less than in an European country: i.e. the only set of industrialized countries that actually addressed the problem.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu/

And my post was not about not taking measures, but about the catastrophic scenarios we keep being presented.

> The ozone hole closed.

Well, the thing is my point is exactly the exaggeration of those catastrophic scenarios:

1: we kept being told the hole would take hundreds of years to close even if we completely shuted down all CFC emissions at the time.

2: China continues to emit CFCs: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44738952
I can't quite see why this is a hard problem. Surely simply converting to a spherical projection would do the job?
Out of curiosity: if the fabric is made with elasthane or something like it, does that shredding process not release a large amount of micro particles? I could be wrong, also maybe this happens in other common processes?
I believe you are mixing up two separate Linux related lawsuits: the case against VMWare by Christoph Hellwig, who is known for his filesystem contributions, was supported by SFC and the goal was compliance with the license.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vmware-lawsuit...

Some years earlier, there were lawsuits brought by Patrick McHardy, who contributed a non-trivial amount of networking code, that asked for monetary damages; these lawsuits were not supported by any organization.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-g...
Lawsuits against Universal Music expected next week in response to 2008 fire