skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the software. Or to torture the analogy a bit: you can build anything out of LEGO if you're willing to use a jigsaw, some Gorilla glue, a blowtorch...

The point of frameworks is to provide the standardization of the "shape" of various bits of software so it's a lot more like snapping together LEGO. But even then, LEGO isn't universally snappable; some blocks just don't click to other blocks in the product line. And then, of course, there's the "illegal" block hacks (https://crafty.diply.com/28429/14-illegal-lego-building-hack...) that work in practice but are not at all using the tool the way it's specified. When software reuse is like LEGO, we should expect (a) some things we want to do, we can't really do without jigsaws and glue and (b) sometimes, people will do things that the software technically allows but no sane person would call "desired" or "intended."

In fact, the LEGO-to-framework analogy works pretty great. And yeah, outside the context of a consistent (and, I'd argue, opinionated) framework, you're about as likely to have two pieces of software interoperate as you are likely to pick two random chunks of matter in the universe, slap them against each other, and have anything useful happen. I just tried it with a brick and this glass of water on my table. Now I have "wet brick in a pile of shattered glass," but I don't know anyone's going to give me a Series-A funding round for that.
My guess is they are doing that because one of AWSs biggest competitors will be Azure. The Enterprise will be riding on Azure+Power Apps with data sourced from Dynamics et. al.
Its weird to me that people in here keep saying this looks like a competitor to [a single specific recent product X] when in fact this type of system has been an entire very popular product category for decades, and there are literally thousands of systems like it. Of course not all of those thousands of systems have become extremely popular or have the same scope or are contemporary.

For example: Access, Salesforce, WordPress, Tableau, 10000 other ones that never became really popular including the simple one I made ten years ago for a client.

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> China is a great place to be if you've got the right connections

This might be true for the majority of China, but for big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, no, connections mean far less even comparing to western world.

> but no so great if you're gay, muslim, tibetan, or like to have opinions.

Do you get this from reading western media or did you actually go there and talk to those actual human beings? I can't speak for everywhere, but being an ethnic minority comes with tons of perks in China. For ethnic minorities, one child policy never applied to them, the kids get extra points during high school/university entrance exams, my Mongolian roommate even got extra financial support due to his ethnicity. People would fabricate document to gain minority status because that gives their kids an edge in almost everywhere. Growing up, as a Han Chinese, I always feel this is unfair and absurd.

As for religions, again I can't speak for Xinjiang itself, but from my experience in east coast, no one cares what religion you believe in. It's only an issue when you try to challenge the government with it. You can find mosque and churches in most cities.

And gay? Believe or not, I know it sounds absurd, but being gay is sort of a hip thing among the youngsters. The will obviously face repulsions from older generations, but this rings true all around the world. Bottom line is, the general public does not actively persecute the LGBT group, nor do they care.

The only thing that would bring you trouble is having an opinion against the government. I am not saying this is not a big issue, but stop pretending that the country is constantly oppressing everyone.
My suspicion from diabetic research I did both prior and during my wife’s gestational diabetes, is that the increase in obesity that may have occurred in the last 60 years is due to bad dieting advice for T1 diabetics.

The fundamental health issue with diabetes is managing blood glucose levels. This is best done with low carb meals with slow carbs along with small amounts of periodic insulin. But for some reason common advice for diabetics is to eat large amounts of fast carbs and then take large doses of insulin. This combination is just begging for added weight (and increased risk of insulin sensitivity to boot).
Deploying the CRUD securely is a problem, though. Things like this and AirTable are entirely managed by their developers and your IT department, and Excel sheets can just be dropped into an email. If I write a cool python script, how is the rest of my team supposed to use it if none of us are developers and haven’t done it before, and with IT probably trying to stop me?
That one's a Quote Investigator classic: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/

Turns out a cruise ship designer came up with it in 1999.
Anonymous attestation is really interesting because, afaict, there really isn't a way to do this right now if my application wants to authenticate a "normal" user with a "normal" phone.
Yes, it sucks for poor people but it's true.

You're better off paying for your email - if you don't want, or can't, you just have to pay with your privacy.
> Isn't that expressing free speech?

Sure it's free speech but it is also a mob mentality and a mob speak. What is the relevance for a javascript framework used world-wide to spam a specific american politics?

Seriously, most european countries have a very small minority that is black and basically very little racism. No police brutality against any group etc. What is the relevance for us?

What is the relevance for let's say an african programmer who live in a place where there basically aren't any whites?

What is the relevance for an Chinese person living in a smaller city in which basically never meets any other race than asians?

This kind of thinking that's coming from american movements is that the entire world depends on what the situation is in america. I don't really know what it's like to be either black or white in america and I don't really care either. I'm just getting pissed off by the virtue signaling bullshit and the agenda to make every country like america.

I have ended every subscription service that panders to BLM, I stopped using Vue because of it. American politics rarely should impact technologies in my opinion, only when it is about said technology.
I fell out of love with NPR and Ira Glass a long time ago.

NPR is unfortunately an actor in the current culture war.
The subject of the story is a POC, therefore by definition innocent victim of "systemic racism", "white supremacy", "implicit bias" or whatever fighting word the left comes up.

Check any past story where the subject of the story is a POC, those are never in any way responsible for their own misfortunes.

If in the current story time will show that the investigative lead was indeed correct to point Mr Williams you won't ever see a retraction or update on NPR.
Declining Antarctic Sea Ice Could Disrupt a Major Carbon Sink
Is there any non-paywalled variant of this story at another news site?
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On my 2011 MacBook Pro I have run various Linux distributions since 2013. Mostly debian and now solus. Both have been a joy. I have not experienced the same issues that you describe. All my hardware just works out of the box.
I mean, the project kinda died in the 2008 timeframe...
As long as you can email anyone with your ISP's email, it's not a walled garden.
What was the 2010 Rakudo Star release then? Is 2015 language spec stability?
Maybe his wife is super technical and actually said, "I want a distributed multi-tenant schema-free json document full text search engine so I can more easily organize my recipes"
I find it surprising that the 5S has had 6 more updates since it was dropped from support when iOS 13 was released. The last was just over a month ago.
I hope that this is a sign that Apple will continue to provide security updates even after they no longer provide feature updates.
Of course, the upgrade to the 1st gen SE is the obvious path for those who had a 5S so continued upgrades aren't so important, but it might be relevant with the 1st gen SE if Apple don't release a smaller iPhone 12.
Rando.js: Skip all that convoluted “Math.random()” code
Is there a similar tool that you can throw at Electron/NodeJS apps to figure out why Slack and Teams are eating all the CPU and memory again?
The whole point of the backup is that you'll be able to access it even if you your device and it's keystore are destroyed.
> But for some reason common advice for diabetics is to eat large amounts of fast carbs and then take large doses of insulin

That's odd, I've been diabetic for about 10 years now and have never heard this advice from any doctor or dietician that I've seen.
If curious see also:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816

2018 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921251

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948

Any others?
Chinese person saying something you don't believe yourself? Must be a brainwashed party drone! Sigh, the racism is running wild on HN too. It really is becoming the new Reddit.
In practice it's been massively successful for decades.
Is the second (not directly quoted) part of the Analects reference important to understanding the essay?
Right, even extreme Excel macros require logic, and is also a programming gateway. The nice thing about Excel (or the article's example of Visicalc) is that one doesn't need to jump into the deep end of logic problem solving, at least at first.
I haven't seen a flash animation in years.
No, Apple does not allow the same level of integration with OneDrive. You can't backup to the cloud, you can't automatically prune old photos/videos that are backed up in the cloud, you have to manually open OneDrive to have it "automatically" upload your photos/videos even though camera upload is enabled in OneDrive.

Android doesn't have most of these restrictions so OneDrive works more like iCloud there.

Despite that, I'm not paying an extra $10/mo on top of the $99/yr I pay for Office 365 because the limitations are artificial. I can launch OneDrive to sync photos/videos just fine, all my contacts are already in the cloud and I can make manual backups of my phone directly to my PC but frankly all the content I care about is not on the phone so I only do that before any major upgrades.
No, native apps UX comes with installation, worrying about it wasting the device resources and ultimately uninstallation. The distribution is also centralized through App stores rather than self-hosted web sites.

Both PWAs (using web app toolkit) and Instant App / App clip are trying to fill the gap across web and native apps but both seem like band-aids.

So a more concerted effort seems necessary. I remember Google's Fuchsia was working towards such a thing but idk how much progress they've had.
I share your perspective, but it's not a good perspective to encourage, imho.
And turn it off 3 months later? :-)
I'm really happy to see that this is an example of really selling free software: no non-free software in sight. I'm so used to the usual response to "how do I sell free software?" to be "write some non-free software and sell that instead", that I was surprised and pleased to see that Guacamole really is selling 100% free software. All they had to do was attach a price tag, not change the license.

Another counterexample to the proposition that you have to make your users give up their freedom in order to coax them to pay you.
Half of this thread should be flagged for racism.
what "data warehousing"/"data management" tools are missing?
Rich Hickey addresses this in his famous 2011 talk, titled Simple Made Easy.

> Are we all not glad we don’t use the Unix method of communicating on the web? Right? Any arbitrary command string can be the argument list for your program, and any arbitrary set of characters can come out the other end. Let’s all write parsers.

The way that I think about this is that the Unix philosophy, which this behavior is undoubtedly representative of, is at one end of a spectrum, with something like strict typing at the other end. Rich, being a big proponent of what is described in the article as "Lego-like" development clearly does not prefer either end of the spectrum, but something in-between. In my opinion as well, the future of software development is somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, although exactly where the line should be drawn is a matter of trade-offs, not absolute best and worst. My estimation is that seasoned developers who have worked in many languages and in a variety of circumstances have all internalized this.
They are limited to 10 megs of storage space. Unless you download the real app they can’t do that.
> the ephemeral nature of web apps while maintaining the native app performance

...that's... what this is?
> the detectives then put the photo of this man into a "6 pack" photo line-up, from which a store employee then identified that man

This is not correct. The "6-pack" was shown to a security firm's employee, who had viewed the store camera's tape.

"In this case, however, according to the Detroit police report, investigators simply included Mr. Williams’s picture in a “6-pack photo lineup” they created and showed to Ms. Johnston, Shinola’s loss-prevention contractor, and she identified him." [1]

[1] ibid.
Really? How is it working considering the number of counterfeits flowing out of the Amazon warehouses daily?
As with my other comment, you'd have to actually come up with real numbers to have that kind of a discussion.
A lot of the points around efficiency of traditional farming vs vertical farming are valid points. Over time however, you would expect vertical farms to catch up to the level of sophistication of traditional ag. The two practices are not like for like and shouldn't be compared as such - vertical farming is still in the 80:20 phase of development where as traditional agriculture is now in the hyper optimisation phase after 000s of years squeezing for incremental improvements. The primary benefits of urban vertical farming come from things like:

- Reduced transportation costs and emissions to people buying them due to being located close to urban centres

- No dependency on natural climate/weather, you can never have a bad yield!

- No need for pesticides that can get into the water table and damage local environments

- Allows for high accuracy estimations of yields that can build better forecasting models for supermarkets etc.
At least five years too late, but I'll take it.
I had a small reserve, and I cut my living costs a lot. I wasn't trying to make money from agriculture in the beginning, was all about learning, I volunteered a lot and did a few courses later. This year we started actually selling produces and I get lots of calls to pruning jobs which I do decline because 2 years down this line I started working with development again because I got out of money. We would be able to live from the land today for sure, but also having economic security and being able to invest in better tools and such is also very good.

I'm now looking to merge this two worlds and work as a developer on solutions for agriculture/forests. I have a product in mind which I'm currently working on, lets see :)
Yeah, that's the symmetric key in this scheme, I should have said session key.
Windows dressing.

It's not in Amazon's interests to reduce business by eliminating counterfeit products, fake reviews, etc..

Real solution is for government to hold platform responsible for peddling fakes and fraud to customers.
I think you have misunderstood what he is saying with that sentence.

He is not speaking about "GA data", but is discussing the very precise issue of whether HTTP 3rd party cookies, set on cross-domain requests to google-analytics.com, being blocked has an impact on the the functionality of GA.

Those cookies being in contrast to 1st party cookies set by GA's javascript code.
Apple has a policy that any app developer who offers "Sign in with ___" for any company, has to also include "Sign in with Apple". That's not something they could do on the web.
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Ladder logic used to be fairly big in PLCs a while ago, but PLCs were rather simple.

frontpage98 was the one to kickstart my web experience.

They are good to start somewhere from, but they'll never be a replacement.
This looks like several Microsoft products stacked together, Sharepoint, Forms, Flow, Power Apps. I already do this with Microsoft and most of the time I don't have all of the tools I need or I want to scream at the screen "just show me the code!".
A neutralizing human antibody binds to the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2
There is a very large target audience which is technical enough to write Excel formulas but not enough to build an app. Your mother or father will never need to use this tool as it is, but those people will.
It'd be really nice to see this working with iCloud Keychain at some point too - so you can have FIDO working as a secure platform thing but with syncing and dealing with the problem of effectively losing your keys over time etc
Do these dolts not realize that their supporters also use encrypted platforms (like signal and telegram) to communicate, especially things that are considered fringe or dissident. One might expect such cluelessness from someone like Lindsey Graham, who is a neocon's neocon, but from Tom Cotton, who is on the Right-wing's preferred side on immigration? Especially, when that position is the sort of position that can get you fired these days?

Madness. I wonder what would happen if the NRA started defending encryption as a second amendment issue, as encryption technology has historically fallen under munitions export control legislation.
Things are broken when a well resourced large company can just steal someone else's innovative idea (Airtable or others) and try to muscle them out using capital or a captive customer base. We need new anti trust laws.
A remarkably self-aware comment. Thank you for this.
You can describe "Perl 6" as the dead name of the Raku Programming Language (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). :-)
Cool, I was dancing around it in this thread and recently because I wasn't sure how public it was :) I appreciate it!
What a splendid read! Thanks for the link. Here's the original short story:

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ca.aspx
I bookmarked that site, I hope they keep posting.
The first question I have to ask myself about increasing taxes is,

can the government do a better job of distributing these resources than whoever is doing that Job now?

and what does better mean?

Living in the US with the government that is currently in place I feel confident that the government can't do a better job than the current system in place to handle inheritance, no matter what the definition of better is. So giving the government more money via inheritance tax is a bad idea.
I think piping works well because it's an opinionated framework for IPC. The strong opinions it holds are:

1) data is a stream of bytes

2) data is only a stream of bytes

That's it. And it turns out that's a pretty powerful abstraction... Except it requires the developer to write a lot of code to massage the data entering and/or leaving the pipe if either end of it thinks "stream of bytes" means something different. In the broad-and-flat space where it's most useful---text manipulation---it works great because every tool agrees what text is (kind of... Pipe some Unicode into something that only understands only ASCII and you're going to have a lousy day). When we get outside that space?

So while, on the one hand, it allows a series of processes to go from a text file to your audio hardware (neat!), on the other hand, it allows you to accidentally pipe /dev/random directly into your audio hardware, which, here's hoping you don't have your headphones turned all the way up.

This example also kind of handwaves something, in that you touched on it directly but called it a feature, not a bug: pipes are almost always the wrong tool if you do want structure. They're too flexible. It's way the wrong API for anything where you cannot afford to have any mistakes, because unless you include something in the pipe chain to sanity-check your data, who knows what comes out the other end?
Polar bears a top predator of the eco-system are also in danger og going extinct by 2050 due to lack of food caused from the declining ice.
It suddenly makes sense and isn't so bad.

The $ is a sigil, so it appears before variables like $var, so it's just saying | it out. When typed at the beginning of a one liner it becomes quite obvious what you want. This is clearly not a feature for a large project, but a quick UNIX style one off awk-like script.
You're assuming snark was implied. I honestly do not believe that Amazon feels that this is a problem that needs to be solved. Before Amazon bans sellers/buyers, it needs to have total control of the market. At that point, it can decide what it wants to do.

I've seen you post this reply several times lately (even today alone). Maybe you should attempt to contribute more to the conversation yourself rather than being a 6 month old account playing hall monitor.
> In a London apartment, Shay Banon was looking for a job while his wife attended cooking school at Le Cordon Bleu. In his spare time, he started building a search engine for her growing list of recipes.

This incidentally is one the big reasons why diversity is so important. Often the best software is written to solve problems we ourselves are having or those close to us. If we write software for people we would otherwise not have any contact with, there are going to be severe mismatches between what is written and what is really necessary to solve the issues. This is why I am happy to see startups and teams in places that are not Silicon Valley.
It's also that "it's hot only several days in Summer, why do we need Acs?" and then year over year Western and Central Europe is suffering from "unexpected" heat waves. What makes it worse is that residential buildings haven't been built for this kind of climate.
> Let’s all write parsers

And yet, at least for the Unix tools I've used, nobody did write an elaborate parser. Instead, they all ended up using newlines to represent a sequence. There were never really nested structures at all. That least-common-denominator format they were forced into ended up making input and output really easy to quickly understand.

Maybe the problem with Rest APIs is that JSON does too good of a job at making it easy to represent complex structures? Maybe we'd be better off using CSV as our data format for everything.
Setting aside the privacy and wanting to distance from Big Tech, the fundamental difference is:

- Gmail is a very versatile tool, you can configure it to suit your needs and replicate most of the features of Hey. But they're basically hacks, like your bookmark of a search.

- Hey is a workflow and experience that the authors believe is the best, and it works in a clean way.

Another thing I like about Hey is how clean, light and fast it is. I don't need hangout, google meet, task and links to every Google product (but the Contacts page could be more accessible that buried between Photos and Drive!)

And I certainly need a friggin splash screen while my webmail takes 10 seconds to load. What were they thinking? Did they forget what made Gmail so good to start with??