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I miss forums too, I really like reddit for finding interesting stuff, but the community aspect isn’t there so much.

Back in the late 90s early 00s I was a member of a forum for a chain of video game stores in the UK, it was an amazing community. The store went bust in ‘05 and one guy created his own forum software where most of the displaced members flocked to.

That forum is still going, although there’s probably only 10 or so regulars left - but we still talk on it every day. I’ve even met a few of them in the real world.

EDIT: I think you've hit the nail on the head, the thing that was so great about forums is, while the original point of the forum was to bring together people with a like minded interest (video game(s)/whatever) - the forum would also have separate boards to discuss cross over topics or something completely unrelated. This meant you were talking to people who you might recognise from other areas of the forum and share other common interests, so could build that sense of community.

Whereas reddit just feels more siloed, I wouldn't recongise anyone who visits subreddit X who also happens to be on Y etc
I would consider the geometry and body posture of your winter bike vs summer bike. It's possible that one (or both!) of them aren't fitted properly for exercising in a way that is good for your body and posture, although they are probably just fine for riding about town. Bike fit is one of those things where once you get it right, you'll wonder how you survived any other way.
That doesn’t sound like a situation where the developer is the more intelligent one.
> I find it amusing that you use the example of Python 2 -> Python 3, a breaking change in a widely used language, that has famously been very difficult and long for organisations to deal with.

Why is that amusing? I specifically chose that example for that exact reason. I was highlighting the difference in the audience and use case.

> However I'd suggest this is not one of those cases.

I don't see the argument that supports that, either in the post or your reply.

The thing is, I can see Beepboo 1.0 being announced in 2025 to address the things that went wrong with deno. Because there will be design mistakes. And at what point do you say 'oh too many people rely on this software to fix this, I have to start over'?

Couple this with a very real trend-chasing and resume pushing in frontend dev and I'm starting to understand why people are so cynical about this stuff.

Typescript is something more palatable to me because it wasn't throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The good ones do. You know the guy at work who seemingly knows everything? He did it. He probably still does from time to time. I did it when I was a student and working on free software. If the code is proprietary I am more strict about how much of my time is available.
> the rest of Western Europe has much higher rates of death than the US

Or not, depending on country.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...

Norway and Sweden are in other measures very similar countries. We lie right next to each other, we have quite similar political environment etc. Our societies are in general quite similar. We had a very different response to the corona virus though.
Hey! Thanks for your constructive and honest feedback.

I've been playing it with a few people which has been making it funnier. Trying to gear it like a friend's or family type of game (sort of like charades).

Was going to add difficulty levels (easy - 60sec timer, medium 45 sec timer, etc).

It's a PWA but I added it to play store to get more exposure.

Thanks again for the feedback, I will continue to add more topics and phrases everyday :)
The data collected is collected en masse at the ISP level. Using incognito mode won't do anything for these searches.
Your 2nd and 3rd points illustrate the cultural problem the parent comment mentioned. The “the government is incompetent” trope contributes to the distrust that’s making it harder to deal with the virus.

Like when you say the government is fucking things up, what are talking about here. Federal, state, city level? Because they each have approached the pandemic very differently and it’s unfair to put them all under the same umbrella. I’m pretty happy with the way my local government has responded. It hasn’t been perfect, but I also don’t expect them to deal with a once-in-a-century pandemic without hiccups.

I know at least here in the US it’s common to paint “the government” as incompetent, and overpaid. But when parts of the population are angrily protesting that they can’t get haircuts and flying to FL to party during spring break, it’s no wonder it hasn’t been easy to get this under control. I don’t envy the positions of some government officials.
Servers really need to make sure that everything works, and works properly.
Nice, now do German!
The Beauty of Abstraction
Written like a successful salesperson for competing ERP solution X, well done!
Small site that accesses the posts and comments you save on reddit and allows you to search or filter using elixir/phoenix and liveview.

Also ordered a few raspberry pis to build a cluster as motivation to learn/experiment w kubernetes and distributed systems in general
Because it’s new?
https://www.ezail.com

It's a communication platform for small and micro businesses (spec. emerging markets) to send invoices and orders, keep track of credits/debits, log income/expenses, trade commodities, sell online, chat with customers and suppliers.
This is definitely true, I am just not sure how well it applies to actors. For all data-modelling scenarios and OOP/FP ways of doing polymorphism, composability is a life-saver though.
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Definitely - I used to support a computational lab and have worked on enough other CPU-bound problems to have plenty of things which I wouldn’t recommend Python for. I just think that as a field we’re predisposed to focus on that as the kind of work Real Programmers™️ do when most groups are limited by their ability to implement and maintain business logic long before they hit the wall on what Python can do.
> long-form vs quippy, preserved vs ephemeral

I learned a lot by browsing years old posts in forums and usenet but with ephemeral messaging I would not be able to do that. Makes me wonder how the new generation will deal with that.

It is also about centralisation vs each community hosting their own servers and not having to adhere to the arbitrary rules that some company enforces upon them.
https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix

I built an electron app for organising and watching saved movies. In my part of the world, a lot of people still rely on external storage devices to share movies and music.
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You get to clear out your TODOs? I'm very envious of you.
> That there were internment camps in the US?

I think the challenge is for evidence that the broad principle (either internment camps or limitations on the franchise) conflicts with current application of Constitutional law, rather than that the practice occurred in the US.

> There are more recent examples as well from America that house immigrants and prisoners from the Middle East.

Yeah, that's a weakness of the claim, not evidence for it.
I've been building out new features like crazy on my recipe app Reciplay (https://getreciplay.com/) including a Google Vision and FastText powered recipe scanner.
Where did you get?
> That pretty clearly qualifies as a personal attack

Okay, let's take the obscurity up one level: I used to moderate a very small internet forum, where there was one user who had certain mannerisms in his writing. I also had reason to suspect this user was mildly suicidal.

A troll began to mimic these mannerisms as a way to make fun of that user, and talk about how horrible their life was. The troll wasn't overt about it, but if you knew the history between these two, you could tell what was going on. The troll of course feigned innocence, but as he'd been given warnings before, I made the call to ban him.

I firmly believe I was acting within the forum's stated policies—but I am not 100% confident a judge would agree. If these types of actions could lead to lawsuits, I don't know what I would have done.

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> There is a significant difference between a forum and a business critical software distribution platform.

Great—but where's the line? Is Youtube critical, for example?
Holy shit this is so cool. Sadly I don't own a Minilogue but a friend does and it really is an amazing piece of hardware. I've been wanting to do something music related (except making music) for a while now but audio processing seemed like a very daunting task. So for now I made a youtube to mp3 converter because all those you find on google have a billion ads.

But this project is way more exciting!
Don't be so dismissive. Collapsing groups is coming up, you can even enable its preview version through a chrome flag.
The real Chuck Norris did an extra iteration at the age of 19 by stotting as first bipedal also called bronking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting
Mostly trying to get my 5 year old into some light programming :D

- I bought her Lego Boost (well, mostly myself, but we still have fun with it) and she is getting better at actually programming it

- I installed scratch junior on the chromebook she's been using (nice for mostly lightly interactive animations), we wen't through few of the work-assigments and she likes to fiddle with the included project-samples
> Take a look at all the places that high speed rail works, and you'll note that they're all pretty linear lines.

I'm not sure that's correct..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_France#/med...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#/medi...
Definitely it's worth a shot.

You'll love the language.

It's very expressive and flexible. The community is super friendly.

If you're into more serious things, there are some projects you might like.

For example cro - framework to develop web APIs.

As for production readiness - I have used the language at my devops @job for a couple of years.

Best.

Aleksei
AFAIK, Show HN posts are supposed to be something the HN crowd can interact with. I think the only meaningful interaction on your website is the order form. The service is interesting but i'm not sure that this is the right place to post it.
Hmm, rereading my comment...nope didn’t say anything about it being open source....said something entirely different...
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One of my gripes with Firefox containers are that I still can't search for tabs across containers in the awesome bar using the % char
Is there no transparency for subreddit moderation?
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Amazing. Cheers dude.
Maybe the horse will learn to sing? https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sufism/Nasrudin#Nasreddin_and_...

Maybe putting the laptop in the data center lets you do the launch. Maybe the launch is a flop because you forgot to advertise it. Maybe you raise series A funding; maybe you don't and the site dies in three months, still happily running on the laptop. Maybe someone decides to re-write the product in a different stack. Maybe the product was wrong and needs to pivot.

A lot of products have shipped and succeeded with absurd hacks in them. Hex-editing the binary to change "EMM386 Memory Error.." to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander", etc.
Are these separate containers (like Firefox containers) or just some UI to visually group certain tabs?
Ok thanks for the heads up!
I want to share my opinion on this as it's something that I've spent a lot of time thinking and talking to the Chrome Web Store team about.

The very core of the issue here is less about the manual review process (although that sucks) and more about how the review process is necessary due to how extension permissions work in browsers to-date. The current process works similar to how Android and IOS permissions worked back in the day by requiring the user to grant all permissions up front (equivalent to giving an extension sudo permission to your browser).

The feedback you'll most likely get from Google on this isue is that the solution to this is to narrow down what URLs your extension works on... but that comes with a pretty big assumption that an extension can declare that information up front. Many extensions (including developer tooling) don't need to run on EVERY page - they need to run on specific pages where some extension-specific code is running (this is the case with Urql, Preact, React, Rexux devtools). Narrowing down by URL just isn't possible and an ad-hoc solution where extension-specific code on the webpage can trigger permission requests (similar to how a website requests access to your camera) is needed.

I've written up a proposal for this case which I think addresses 90% of use cases where "sudo permissions" are being requested up front and in reality, could be requested on an ad-hoc basis. Whether it's an agreement or some criticism, anyone who is able to get involved in this discussion - please do! Every other platform is using ad-hoc permissions and we need to push for the same with browser extensions.

Here's the proposal: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

Here's my rant on Twitter about this problem (see retweeted comment): https://twitter.com/andyrichardsonn/status/12529205656960040...
Hacker news does the opposite. It's hard to collapse child comments thanks to the absurdly small collapse button.
Are you seriously suggesting COVID-19 might have such long term repercussions in "recovered" patients?
Yes, and Rust doesn't protect you from memory leaks, BTW, although it does make them less likely. The overall value of a language can only be evaluated after years and many projects. My personal favorite to replace C/C++ is, by far, Zig, but I can't claim that it's the one to beat because it's years away from proving its worth, as are Nim, Rust, and, well, Bosque, I guess. Fashion forums like HN can pass judgment quickly -- that's what fashion forums are for, and why they're good entertainment but not to be taken too seriously -- but the real world of the software industry takes much, much longer, and has a far higher bar for evidence.
Sounds like at least #1 is a hit.
I like this because it organizes my tabs in the same way I do mentally... however it doesn't actually reorder my tabs. What I mean is, Ctrl+Tab surfing through my tabs doesn't iterate the list as it is displayed sequentially.
Jane's has spruced up its site
A rebranding exercise at Jane's to reflect its move out of IHS.

https://www.janes.com/
The worst part is that % cannot search across containers

I'm baffled how firefox hasn't figured this out yet
Would depend on the local loop as far as I know a traditional modem should work on POTS.
https://www.janes.com/

Edited to add:
The rebrand has decided that Jane's no longer needs the possessive. Slippery slope, methinks.
I'm hooked on Logitech "MX Anywhere 2S" mice. They are smaller and fit my hand better. The Logitech "ecosystem" is really nice:

- One USB "nub" serves up to 6 devices - mice and keyboards. The newest nubs are really low profile (barely stick out of the laptop).

- The mouse works on glass even - my desk top is glass.

- I can just leave a keyboard and mouse at the clients and take my laptop home or to my office where I have mice+keyboard sets ready to go. Its kinda like a docking station for the keyboard and mouse.

- Easy to delete and add new devices; the USB nubs are generic so I can use them with any Logitech device. I keep a few Logitech mice and a few nubs in my brief case.

Note: The original MX Anywhere wasn't very durable. I had to replace them every 7-12 months. I haven't had any failure with MX2's. I'm a windows developer - lots of mouse movement.
But New York has over 1400 COVID deaths per million [1]. New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets are all more than double of Sweden's deaths per million, and still climbing steadily. The US only looks good next to Sweden because there are big areas of the country that are way more spread out.

[1] https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states...
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I'm finally building a tree hut for my four kids.
Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric cars and the grid
If the bill does not pass in any form, the Patriot Act dies — do not amended anything, let the Patriot Act bill die.
11 Cognitive Biases That Influence Political Outcomes
And I still disagree with that comment that "mutable state is rampant". There are realities which we all have to take into account. To give an extreme example, should we get rid of all mutable databases and use append-only journals? That might help eliminate another class of bugs but there are a number of (practical and political) limiting factors in commercial projects.

But maybe we'll talk the same language if you give a few examples. I was under the impression that my parent poster made the point of "but your FP code gets compiled to imperative mutable code so FP is not good" or something. If I was mistaken in my interpretation then we're talking past each other.
That's just simple survivorship bias. Many cars from 50 years ago haven't survived just like that Tesla.
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TrialScope is hiring a mid-level (or higher) developer familiar with TypeScript/React and one of: Ruby/Rails or C#/.NET. The role is fully remote, working roughly eastern time, with the option of working from our Jersey City, NJ headquarters.

The role is for a team whose software aids clinical trial recruitment, allowing trial sponsors to recruit quickly. Our hope is that this will allow pharmaceutical companies to bring high quality drugs to market faster than they can currently.

We’re a small team (4 full-time across product/eng) inside of a larger, established company. We would love to hire someone who is interested in contributing to the product & culture, as well as the engineering efforts. The interviewing process is practical, with no algorithms, trivia, or whiteboards involved.

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People's basic survival needs have been threatened before this when they would get laid off.

The entire rust belt became a cesspool of opiate and heroin addicts and no one cared when companies moved manufacturing offshore. No one cared that healthcare is tied to jobs.

I've talked to a lot of people who said yea I need to work, but I don't WANT to work, I have to. And that is not a failure of the lockdown. it is a failure of this very nation to take care of its own so that the rich can get richer.
Also you can get most of the benefits of async/await without all the downsides of promises: https://www.npmjs.com/package/casync
I've started to make a simple website where people can share useful snippets of code, handy Linux commands or just anything useful regarding code. Urbandictionary-wise you can view topics, or go to a random snippet. Probably use this as a personal fun wiki
I've been working on an open source online database tool called Baserow [0] as a side project. In the current form you can compare it with a simple version of Airtable, but Baserow can handle much more data, you can optionally host it on your own server, you can write plugins for it and it's (going to be) open source. Everyone can try out an early test version at the website [0]. More features are going to be following soon! The open source release will probably take place in Juli as I still need to write lots of documentation and I want to create a plugin boilerplate.

The stack is Django, Nuxt.js and PostgreSQL (also MySQL and SQLite are going to be supported). For this project I've been learning Nuxt.js and Kubernetes. Normally I work full time as a full stack freelance developer, but due to the corona outbreak I've lost one of my biggest clients. This resulted in more time for Baserow, which was already a side project for a while now. I would like to make a business out of this in the future because I really enjoy working this.

[0] https://baserow.io
It would be common enough to have laws that say only businesses of a certain size are fully obliged to comply. GDPR has this for some clauses, for example. I guess the idea is along the lines of the market determines whether you're critical by letting you become a huge company?
As someone who lives in New York right now, I can tell you that this is a terribly dangerous decision.
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Should we not consider that this personal is a health professional? While they aren't a M.D., they have studied the body more intensely than most people in other professions.

I also don't think you should just blindly believe anyone, even M.D.s, without doing research yourself.
Why do dragons have eyes on the sides of their heads?
I’ve been on the fence about getting a Lego Boost for my five year old as well. Your comment made me pull the trigger finally, thanks!
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> embarrassingly knotty around its ObjC bridging (there’s a basic impedance mismatch between those two worlds)

I think they've done an incredible job with their ObjC interop, given said mismatch.

But you're right — the person above who said that

> The world has enough cookie cutter procedural and OOP languages.

definitely isn't looking for Swift.
Moderators can't get posts up, they can only take them down.
Great job! I had pretty much the same idea a couple of years ago, but I thought of a different approach: a bot that will clear my Pocket backlog on schedule.
Isn't this worth some contest ? 1000$ to whoever figures it out.
> I do most of my browsing in private mode anyway.

What do you think “private mode” is, exactly?

I’ll tell you what it is: It’s a mode where your local web browser doesn’t save its history, which only means that people who has physical access to your device cannot see this saved history. Your ISP can still see everything of consequence, and your DoH provider can see most of it.
Just tried with a random stock image, results were not significantly better https://www.leisurepro.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/s...
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Thanks, fair points, no offense intended.
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It's also still early days.

Norway has an order of magnitude fewer deaths than Sweden, despite otherwise being very similar countries. Yet randomized tests of citizens in Oslo, the capital and one of the hotbeds for COVID-19, show only ~2% had antibodies[1].

So we went into hard lockdown unlike Sweden, probably saved a lot of people initially, but what will happen now that we're opening the country again?

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/bare-to-av-hundre-med-antistoff-mot...
Yes, that's what being an admin looks like
> Do they think they're shaping society?

I am thinking that they think "yes".

I can imagine teenagers that are still developing their personal values, and exploring the site, are most suseptible to being influenced by the big subs.
I believe the correct translation is "in the fullness of time as we address technical debt."
On weekends: laying pavers in my front lawn :)
During week (between work): learning lisp
QNX is hands down amazing! No car manufacturer could ever come close to having their in-house infotainment system being as snappy as QNX...which is why they gave up and switched to QNX! Fine print: Tesla not included.