skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Death Star sequence (specifically the trench run) was based on, and sometimes lifted scene for scene from the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters." [0,1].

Substitute these experimental "bouncing bombs"[2] for Luke force-bending proton torpedoes and you have the end of Star Wars.

[0]https://www.starwars.com/news/the-cinema-behind-star-wars-th...

[1]https://youtu.be/lNdb03Hw18M

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb
Social practices where an underclass of people are locked into agrarian or manual labor largely on the basis of hereditary differences is something that spans most agrarian societies. Serfdom, caste systems, slavery, etc. all essentially lock large demographics into limited labor opportunities. Certainly each of these things have significant difference, and there's substantial differences even within them (e.g. Feudal Japan's caste system of farmers, warriors, artisans, and merchants is different from South Asian caste systems. Classical slavery is not identical to transatlantic slavery). But people in power using social institutions to ensure that significant portions of the population are unable to acquire wealth or power beyond subsistence is fairly universal across agrarian civilizations, and didn't really change until the industrial revolution.
Nope, that's not legally safe -- we've been told by data authorities that the verification methods cannot be "overly burdensome" to the data subject.

I live in dread of subject access requests (and thankfully have only had one, and it happened to be really easy to verify).
The FCC says 5G is safe, but that won’t stop conspiracy theorists
Ask HN: Modern day web development for someone who last did it 15 years ago
TL;DR -> Want to build a relatively simple responsive website like say Hacker News with Authn support (custom and Google OAuth). What is a minimal set of JS/CSS frameworks, templating engine, deployment tools, IDE I need?

Details:

I am a professional Software Engineer (Google) and well versed in "Backend" Infra stuff and creating APIs. But when it comes to building anything with GUI, I am completely lost in the maze of modern day web dev! Last time I built a website was a bunch of mostly static pages (all hand generated - no templates either) with some JS plugins for a top bar nav. Life was simple with a simple SFTP to the webserver (Geocities or similar!) for hosting.

Of course over time, web development has become much more complex (primarily because Websites do much more now a days than they used to), and I see a plethora of frameworks, transpiled languages, etc such as: Gulp, Typescript, JSX, Dart, Angular, React, Bootstrap, Babel, Wordpress, Drupal, Flutter, NPM, Web assembly, Vue.js, Minification of code before deploying, jQuery, and a gazillions others. It's hard to build a mental model when things are happening at 4 level of abstractions away, e.g., Typescript translated to some JS framework code which then uses jQuery underneath and which finally calls something I can actually relate to: document.getElementById()! Also missing from my skillset is debugging Websites using tools such as Chrome dev console.

Has someone in similar situation tried to learn modern day web-dev toolchain? Any suggestions, tutorials, etc are well appreciated! For backend server side, I am comfortable with Python (so prefer Flask or Django), but Node.js is also fine (used it a bit couple of years ago). Suggestions for an IDE/plugins are also welcome (I have been using Vim for most of my life).
Even if compression is the solution for most users, I would love to have a generator on the web site where I can click on "blue" and "orange" (because that's my color scheme and my site will never use teal), not click on "forms", "buttons" and "hover", and I get a quasi-minimal version of the CSS file.

My smallish sites don't use build pipelines and post-generators and so on, I'd just like a reasonably-sized CSS file to include.

(I realize that's a niche use of those frameworks)

Oh, and if I may dream, https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-apply-rule throughout all browsers would be great!
Sounds like a very bad idea.
Legislate everything is not the answer. Bus that's prob what's going to happen.
Let's see how far the law suite can go to make these executives pay.
Sounds like you'd gladly switch seats with me on a 4 hour flight next to a horse.
Which cars are being traded in most for Teslas
> So yes, there is an additional burden in understanding my versions of the code. But that burden amortizes very nicely over a lifetime of getting the advantages of having all that plumbing just there when you need it.

I definitely didn't argue this point (although I admit to skepticism).

It sounds like you're actually aware that it's easier to read the redundant code when you are not an expert, so we don't have any disagreement there.
Not sure why this is being downvoted.

Kubernetes is 5 years old. This is very, very young for mission-critical infrastructure management software.

Having a certain level of doubt in young open source projects is responsible, in my opinion. I'm interested to hear other people's perspective on production-readiness of k8s for mission-critical applications.
Unlike in C++, Zig makes it easy to do compile time type introspection to see what the types passed as parameters are capable of, and then emit useful error messages if it doesn't satisfy the necessary contract. It's less streamlined than Rust traits, but you also get HKT for free (in theory) by making parameterized types be functions.
Yeah so someone actually made a Django app for it: https://github.com/timonweb/django-tailwind

I've used it and it is easy to use. It will generate a base.html file for you which pulls the built css from the static directory and you can extend that in your templates.
I recall booking through google flights, as I understood they simply booked on my behalf through the carrier but I was entirely in Google eco-system.
> We switched part of our operation to local hardware because wouldn't get both the fast GPU's and the fast CPU's in the same node.

And how did that work out? Upfront costs but should be significant savings overall right?
Probably controversial, but eelco dolstra's PhD thesis was eye opening for me.
Not private keys, secret keys. "A Secret is something you tell one other person [So I'm telling you]".

But yes, that's exactly the problem, the Credit Reference Agencies actually sell this as a service. They think it's a big improvement, and if they're right that ought to be terrifying - what was being done before this crap? "Nothing" is likely to be the depressing answer.

"Hey, we can tell if this is really Dave Smith, because we'll ask "How much did you spend on your credit card in May?" and the real Dave knows the answer, and so do we. Well yes, and so does anybody who saw Dave's card statement, and people at Dave's bank, and the card company, and... also when Dave answers $849.28 that won't match and gets a bad user experience. Oh you mean the _other_ credit card. Yeah, Dave only spent $30.26 on that, he mostly uses it to buy fuel for his jet ski... So you try to solve this "How much did you spent on the VISA ending 4282 in May?" now you've given away a useful fact to an adversary. Idiots.
Will it kill 30-50 feral hogs?
>Basically every year there are fears of recession.

Not if you're an economist. We have some standard indicators to gauge economic growth, and those years you mentioned looked fine according to most indicators.

The "economists don't know what they're doing" trope is overused. Economists are always wrong, but they still have a track record of being less wrong than everyone else.
Oh believe me, I’d believe.

My Haskell background comes from building upon academic proofs of concept during a stint at CSAIL. Never again.
It's more than that because of land use changes caused by animal agriculture: https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1159831081798864898...
Ugh, my Austrian bank is currently trying to force me into using a system like this. The "standard" way is via an Android or iOS app, the "alternative" is via a smartcard reader thing that seems to work with Windows only.

They claim that this is mandatory due to some EU regulation, but they conveniently forget to say what regulation that is supposed to be.
As with anything in security, this will depend on your threat model and the benefits of using k8s.

There is some good information about securing k8s around, although we could always do with more.

There's a free oReilly eBook on k8s security from aqua (https://info.aquasec.com/kubernetes-security)

Also the CIS benchmark for k8s is reasonably up to date, although could use expanding, which should be happening for the next version.

On top of that there have been quite a few conf. talks now about k8s security https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKDRii1YwXnLmd8ngltnf... for some examples
Maybe not infallible, but most finance professionals have heard of these indicators. Isn't a it a bit hubristic to think that the HN front page will feature economic news that surprises wallstreet?
Radiation Is Said to Be Released in Russian Military Accident
This is presumably here because the Trump Administration just reauthorized their use: https://www.ktvq.com/news/national-news/trump-administration...
Yeah I definitely considered the parsing method, but that is definitely too much work there.

I didn't consider using the @apply, good idea. I'll have to give that a go, thanks!
That was a very fair and insightful comment. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond intelligently and respectfully.

Now, regarding physical models, you are assuming there is a universal truth or reality that is the same for everyone. And that is just a belief. I don't think you can force anyone to believe something. You are also free to believe in whatever you want to believe.
> it's not like plant growing industry is any better in terms of emissions

Animal agriculture is enormously more resource-intensive than plant agriculture:

https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1159831081798864898...

How are we still having this debate?
As if on demand I just got my first recruiter spam txt message. Thanks man, I think you cursed me.
You’re wrong, it’s possible. [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/travel/answer/7515668?hl=en
But then "just don't keep the data" is not an effective response to these attacks of requesting someone else's data.
Out of curiosity is jQuery really that bad ? I am not exactly sure why I would not want to use jQuery and prefer SPAs. What is actually missing in jQuery lodash handlebars combo ?
You never know, something like "The Hand of Alan Turing" might be a fairly decent draw for hiring
It's part of the CNCF graduation criteria now, that any project which is going to "graduated" status has to have a 3rd party security review, so you should be able to get one for any of the projects in that category.
Has it ever occurred to you that Haskell programmers prefer single-letter variable names in some contexts because it makes the code better? Perhaps it is not the children who are wrong.
I started with Delany's Nova when I was about 12 or 13. What an incredible story! For something published in 1966, it really pushed the boundaries of science fiction not just in terms of topics (race, drugs, society, etc.) but also in terms of bringing literary sensibilities to a genre that many people regarded as imaginative yet immature trash.

Delany was not the only science fiction author doing this during the 60s and 70s, but Nova was so magical and effective. It even stands up today -- I reread it every few years, and it doesn't seem dated (although that comment maybe dates me!)

I have to say, however, that his big novels of the 1970s -- Dhalgren and Triton -- were hard reads. As TFA notes, he kept pushing the boundaries of science fiction, but the boundaries went too far "out there" for me to appreciate. They were long and abstract, and it made me feel bad that I was too obtuse to really get into them.
You specifically called out China for high emissions. If you measure per country, then if China were to split up into several smaller countries, all of which keep the same per capita emissions, by per country they would all be low emissions countries. That nicely illustrates the absurdity of per country.
The way to deal with recruiter spam (and drive up wages) is to ask for a breakdown of the expected range of total compensation.

Do not budge until you get this (do not take a call).

It forces them to put skin in the game and gives you information on market rate for your time.

Even if you have already made up your mind that you are not interested, I do this and then disengage by saying sorry that is below my market rate.
It is not exactly a "book", but I have found HAKMEM to be an invaluable source of knowledge.
^ This is the exact kind of message that makes me want to pull out of the market. Although, I already did a few weeks back when the S&P did a head and shoulders (which turned out to be a false positive, apparently). Still not rushing to put any more money in the market, though.
It's not really that misguided because in general it does work.

One has to understand that the inconvenience you feel by being inconvenienced by a protest is truly a tiny fraction of the "inconvenience" that motivated the protestors to protest. You know, have some empathy.
Your comment feels very doom and gloom for me living in the Northeast USA. Where specifically do you live? If you look at the forecasted outcomes of climate change, the most likely losers are NOT in USA/Europe, which is where most of HN readers are based. India, the Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Mexico, low-lying island nations - these are the really scary places to be based out of in the next 100+ years. I don't think rich folks in the developed nations have the most cause for alarm, sad to say.

Still, there's reason for hope. Many people care very strongly about saving the planet/biosphere, new businesses and research are cropping up all the time in this space. By the time 2050 rolls around, we very well may have technical solutions to some of our pressing environmental issues that seem to be killers now. Just consider 2019 -> 2050, that's 31 years. Back in 1988, wind and solar were a dream, EVs were nonexistent outside the golf course, and very very few people were passionate about fighting climate change.
Please stop seeing *isms everywhere. It's equally possible that he isn't a native speaker.
What underlying costs?
Sure, I can clarify. By critically potent, I mean specifically philosophy that can serve as a value critique--"moralizing philosophy" if you will.

Wittgenstein's philosophical work is incredible and was fundamental to the discipline and to logic and mathematics, but his work is typically not value critique (excepting Culture and Value which is not considered important by most readers of his oeuvre).

Heidegger is, I suppose, another contender, but again, I don't consider the majority of his philosophy oriented around value critique (though his essays on technology do fit into this category and are excellent). Heidegger's thought, I find, is also less coherent, and he really stood by this image of the philosopher as "holier than thou" bearer of truths (this is actually touched upon in the article) which is an old model (actually, a mythic model concerned with power) that I think is impracticable. Not to mention, Sarte's conception and formulation of existentialism had a much greater general impact on human thought than Heidegger's, which, though in vogue for a while, has been mostly re-confined to the academy.

I'm not as familiar with Richard Rorty's work as I should be, so he may qualify. But Adorno has him beat on timing--Rorty's Bibliography doesn't start until '52 (https://web.stanford.edu/~mvr2j/rr/biblio_2007.html). Meanwhile, Horkheimer and Adorno had already published Dialectic of Enlightenment at that point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno_bibliography).

I am not familiar with David Stove or his works. So he may qualify. I'll certainly check him out later, however!

As for the works of Adorno's that are worth reading:

Negative Dialectics,
Dialectic of Enlightenment,
Minima Moralia,
Aesthetic Theory,
His works on Hegel.
And there's more--those are the major works.

Your last sentence smacks of someone who has never even read a page of Adorno but rather has some generic, skewed conception of "critical theory" and thinks that's an adequate account of the thought of a philosopher (which, clearly being familiar with philosophers and the depth of their works, seems absurd that you'd adopt such a reductive and uninformed viewpoint on the matter). It's the equivalent to thinking Wittgenstein is reducible to a concern over "mere semantics" or Heidegger is reducible to, and dismissable on account of, his nazism. Rather presumptuous and rather close-minded.
What sort of agreement can you enter with someone if you don't know who they are?

Have you ever walked into a shop, bought some chocolate with cash, and walked out?

There you go, legally binding contract of sale, yet the seller has no idea who the buyer was.
Evidentially these often aren't covered under insurance plans. Maybe the med I was on was just particularly difficult, but it was going to cost me quite a bit of money to do the liquid suspension.

I don't expect pharma companies to take any role, as I understand their position. I was hoping that I had made that clear. I simply believe it as a current short fall of the system.

I don't attribute any blame, it's just something that could possibly be improved. Honestly, the change would likely have to be more on an insurance / governmental level. It shouldn't be an ordeal to get a lower dose -- it should be just as easy and cost-effective as the original medication.
He is very accessible, concerned about preserving knowledge from a previous generation of computing, and not worried about his brand of self promotion. So he goes where interesting discussions are happening - he has been on HN a number of times (user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay1, AMA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851)

I met him at a conference 10 years ago - I basically blew off the whole conference to sit at his feet in the lobby while he told stories and shared pearls. There were 3-4 of us, probably 30-40 years younger than him, and we were all nobodies, but he didn't care. One of my favorite experiences ever.
Alan Kay on “the single most amazing thing that computers have made possible?”
It's a pretty well recognized phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
That would be nice, but quite a lot of kernel code does not work like that, specifically disk cache. 1GB is not enough for 32k PID worth of process kernel stack.
Language barrier be damned... for a moment before opening the article I thought the Brazilian president was about to order SWAT raids on their Amazon corporations offices!:)
Although it would change the headline, I believe adding a "(forest)" after "Amazon" would help to make the context much more clear. ...Not that it would make the news less alarming.
They serve an important purpose: https://youtu.be/Fdjf4lMmiiI?t=9
Yep. About 15 years ago I made the mistake of telling a coworker about a side hustle. He ratted me out to a VP. I had an interesting conversation the next week, but at the end of the day, nothing happened.
"OKL4 shipments exceeded 1.5 billion in early 2012,[2] mostly on Qualcomm wireless modem chips. Other deployments include automotive infotainment systems.[12]"

So, yeah, microkernels are kind of still a thing.
They likely spend a lot of time on customer service via Twitter/Facebook when someone @replies to Etsy with an issue.
Ah thanks. I either didn't know that or I tried it and it didn't really help. I'll take a look at it again on my next long trip.

But basically I'd like TripIt to flag possible problems rather than have me depend on eyeballing it--even though that works OK most of the time.

The printing out of calendar pages is more for trip planning. TripIt doesn't (and isn't really intended to do) anything along those lines.
In America, saying anything unAmerican is "socialist". So advocating things like much stricter gun laws, more public transit, or ending tax breaks and other giveaways to large politically-connected corporations are unAmerican and therefore "socialist" in American parlance.
If you don't use company euqipment could you still get into trouble ? Like let's assume I don't even the gitlab/github page of the project. Will that also cause problems ?
$32B is the market cap of twitter.

You're mixing market cap with annual sales. Twitter's revenue was $2.61B last year.
"Dhalgren" and "Stars in My Pockdt Like Grains of Sand" are two of the most revelatory, liberating novels I've ever had the pleasure to encounter.

Neither is easy. Both reward re-reading.

The man is a treasure!
seeing that his entire business is based on what is essentially a dashcam I understand why he is out saying this.
I agree. I think the assumption is that you'll quit your job once it starts taking off.

I also think that this meme is alive because people are working on their startups and are hoping for them to take off. In some sense, they repeat what they hope is true.
> Our mission is not to make money only,” Mr. Wani said, later adding, “We’re trying to save the world.”

People should probably watch Silicon Valley before giving interviews. Repeating satire verbatim isn’t a good look.
Yes. I use it to research people and companies, keep in touch with former coworkers, and to have some good converstions with people, mostly in industry-specific groups.
I think it mostly stems from the meme that "pure JS is best JS" and anyone who relies on "unnecessary" libs is somehow a worse dev than those who implement everything by hand, regardless of if its required or not.

For personal projects, self education, or fun - go ahead and implement the entire lodash lib by hand! But in a business setting a 3.5kb reduction in bundle size and 10 hours spend refactoring the lodash code out of your project is probably a waste of time and money.

I'll agree with the advice that you shouldn't add dependencies until you need them, but saying "you never need lodash" is bad advice IMO. Absolutism is a bad quality to harbor, especially when it's over trivial things.

I know jQuery fell out of favor with the JS community and now is treated like a sign of incompetence but - just as everything in programming holy wars - at the end of the day everything is a tool, and you need to pick the right tool for the job. If the job is "get an MVP up as quickly as possible" and lodash/jQuery/underscore helps you do that, why wouldn't you use it?
Managing anything more complicated than only a slight enhanced page quickly becomes a big ball of mud when you use jQuery and handebars (fancy string interpolation) for state management and UI updates.
You could apply this criteria to mathematicians or historians, and it would be just as unfair. Philosophy isn’t religion. How one should live is just one of many areas a philosopher might be interested in. Are we to judge the work of artists or writers by their well-being?
For some reason it feels like experimenting on rats or something. You're like, purposely screwing with people's lives to see what happens. It doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of benevolence.

Why do you say that it's out of touch?
>No one in the class could really argue against it because as far as monopolies that Google could possibly create, that's pretty minor.

That’s really goofy reasoning. Just because google is huge and could do much more evil doesn’t mean that a small amount of evil (destroying the airline itinerary quote market) is ok. Is that what you meant to say?
The message that the stock market trends upwards except for random movements that retail investors can't predict was as true last year as it is today.