skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang said it was an interesting phenomena the first time the story about CHOP was on HN and prevented it to be flagged to death. I thought that it would we interesting to do a little follow up about the summer of love commune. They obviously agree with Trump that walls are important, they have their own police and black people also get shot there. I think they should change the name to Absurdistan.
I was going to say the same. I want to like Stratechery and Ben's writing but most of the time it's a word salad that leads to nowhere.
"is this package 'healthy'?" is a good line of thought, but the proposed metrics are all less useful than just opening the source on Github or unpkg.com and giving the source code a quick skim read.

If it looks too scary for you to maintain, you shouldn't take it on as a dependency.

> It’s not really a technical problem, but mostly a social one.

This is absolutely correct.
No, it's actually pointing out the statement I quoted is fundamentally wrong. Private corporations can and have done the same things you accused state actors of doing
Where did you read peerDependencies was deprecated? It's still valid and recommended, AFAIK:

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#peerdependencies
Software is a collaborative effort, and the easier you make it to collaborate and share information with others, the better. Imagine @ing a GNOME dev in a different instance to comment on a bug report in KDE, or seeing an newsfeed update that your favorite framework is making a breaking change in the next release, or opening a PR/MR in another project without having to create _yet another_ account.

You don't need to use any of those, but I think that the large community is partly what makes GitHub such a valuable tool.
Lululemon to acquire at-home fitness company Mirror for $500M
It's worth noting that this is comparing the Apple Developer Transition Kit (with the A12Z SoC from the March 2020 iPad Pro) to the Surface Pro X (with the MS/Qualcomm SQ1 from October 2019).

It'll be interesting to see what Apple actually ships in production hardware.
> The "western world" created PRISM and Five Eyes

What do you think PRISM and Five Eyes are? It is my experience that people who bring them up as huge evils have no idea what they are. They typically think that PRISM allows the NSA to read anybody's email (as opposed to being an ingestion system for data collected by the FBI) and that Five Eyes allows governments to indirectly spy on their own citizens, both of which are ridiculous ideas that are legally impossible.
The Articles of Unity: A Patriotic Plan to Save Our Republic
> it is able to project exponentially more force globally - it is #2 in the world, period

Is it, though? NATO has 18 aircraft carriers, of those 12 are American, 2 of them are British, and two are Italian. Russia has 1 that is sitting in dry dock for servicing since 2017 and was even further damaged when the dry dock sank[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admir...
I have a friend who is an editor on a topical semi-daily current-affairs show on Quibi. It's all done manually and they now have a semi-established style now, however a lot of it is cropping or shrink-to-fit with a background.

The fictional series, however, are shot with an almost 1:1 ratio since the safe-zone is ridiculously small.
China bans every app ? Xenophobic nonsense ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
If white supremacists can believe contradictory ideas and still be white supremacists, then how are we to determine who is and isn't? By this logic there's no evidence you could give me to prove you're not a white supremacist since contradictions. I don't mean that as a personal attack, but I hope you see how untenable such a line of thinking is.

Also, I do understand the possibility that someone could claim to believe one thing and not actually believe it. It simply requires a higher burden of proof.
I wonder if and when the splitup will happen between the "text" web and "app" web.

I know you can disable Javascript, but this is still different.
for what it's worth "The only good fascist is a very dead fascist" is the title of a song by Propagandhi
Like many here, I don't have questions either, but the Explorabook and Kid's Shenanigans were life changing for me. I always wanted a copy of Earthsearch, but some parts of it really stuck with me from copies I saw in the store (like the spinner and rice game). Thanks for the great memories and fun things learned! I can still hang a spoon off my nose, and can't wait to share with my kid. :)
I am not sure why you believe that case refutes my statements in any way.

Clearly you did not read my statement at all. My entire post is about the different between Free Speech (a concept) and the 1st amendment (the law)
On the other hand, I always have my full book collection with me on my phone. This is priceless, especially if you travel a lot.

As for DRM... Well I lost my entire collection because I moved abroad, and many of the books I love aren't available here. I just resorted to piracy. I never struggled to use an e-book again.
If you’re going to pay the tax, how would not passing it on to your customers make you “not having to worry about VAT anymore”?

You still would have to know how much to pay and have to be able to prove to the tax department how much you have to pay, which means tracking how much value your company added, which means tracking all your sales. Adding an amount you already have to compute and store to each bill wouldn’t be The problem.

(I’m not a lawyer, certainly not one who happens to know what VAT looks like everywhere in the world)
that's a good point. there is no such thing as "chemical science", or "physical science"
Apple Just Killed the MacBook as We Know It: ‘Don’t Buy a Mac’ Is Good Advice
I think this is so ironic given that a company in the UK manufactures the navigation payloads for the Galileo satellites

https://www.sstl.co.uk/media-hub/featured/navigation
If it costs $1M, I'd rather pick the WC virus.
but isn't the world of "private property" what the right wants? This kind of world, where there are no longer any public squares, but everything held in private is the world the right asks for. This is the kind of world we end up with. The irony should not be lost on them right?
I don't know what the rest of you are reading, but reddit now explicitly allows hate speech against a majority. Seriously, it's right there on their site: https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/acc...
/r/politics not being banned completely invalidates your point
For one, YouTube does not have a private army.
Yes, those terms are definitely imprecise.

My target audience for that blog post was "anyone vaguely technical, from programmers to managers". I therefore attempted to minimize the amount of technical detail and to focus on the core algorithmic concepts.
This article made me think of the graphics in this piece from WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/23/a-stu...

Ever since coming across that visualization a few years ago I've been thinking about it. I wonder what the endgame is.
Maybe, but on the surface a lot of moralic values seem to somewhat align.

Also I wouldn't say that YouToube is controlled by an " fascist-lite corporate oligarchy". It something different then fascism, maybe even worse.

It's also off topic in that TikTok being banned doesn't mean YoutToube is better or shouldn't be banned. India just didn't have to fear a militaristic invasion of the US corporate oligarchy...
How is "tolerance" relevant to banning apps based on national origin?

This is nothing but good old fashion economic escalation.
> What, should these people build their own consumer credit company too?

Why would racist Whites stop there? Pretty soon they'll want to build their own governments: literal White nationalism. Republicans are already talking about secession in a positive light…

To protect minorities, the 2nd Amendment has to be gutted as much as possible before that kind of thing happens, even if we must seriously bend the existing Civil Rights legislation to do so (Republicans can't stand up to the NRA, even if they wanted to).

Biden has the right kinds of policy ideas, but he needs to go further. https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

> Close the “hate crime loophole.” Biden will enact legislation prohibiting an individual “who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission” from purchasing or possessing a firearm.
Maybe in the case of Twitter it makes sense (I'm not using Twitter myself), but in general, as the OP notes, the UX is worse with PWAs than it is with native apps. So, to rephrase your comment to reflect this

> Why would I use the app, when I can get /something worse but workable/ out of the PWA and not have to download a hundred meg update every week

And then the answer might be --- because your phone has 128 gigs of memory, your home wi-fi has unlimited bandwidth, and the updates all get downloaded automatically while you're sleeping, you might decide to go for the better UX in exchange for nothing at all.
Apparently the entire south China sea belongs to China, even the Philippines seas.
This is definitely an issue, and well put by the student you spoke to. Who wants to be surrounded by odoriferous, socially challenged young men, in any scenario? I occasionally consider myself as part of that group, and I'm irritated just thinking about us!

What knowledge could be worth the risk to your social life, computers!? You'll make more money and meet more interesting people elsewhere. Even just across the hall, the math class looks like they're having much more fun.

CS 101 should be cracking the enigma machine and defeating the damn nazis, not writing Python (Bleegh!).
> Edit: Free speech absolutists, isn't down-voting my comment moderation? Ironic. How about just replying instead. I'm willing to engage in debate.

Hey if you don't like it, build your own hacker news.
This thread has made me feel a bit better about my situation. I'm a 25-year-old who may end up having to move back in with family if I can't find new work by the end of August. So far June has been pretty fruitless. Optimistic about the next couple months but moving back in is definitely a last-resort for me, mostly because it would be a huge hassle to move all my stuff into storage and travel from California to Idaho.
I don't have to go full PWA to make useful apps

And don't have to go through an app store, creating an account, paying Apple, waiting for their opaque reviews and giving them 30% of whatever amount I make through my app.

Android has Firefox, thanks to Apple iOS doesn't.
To be clear, a Poseidon is not a cruise missile; it's a torpedo. It has different characteristics from an Oscar class loaded with Granits. Being a torpedo (which doesn't fly) a Poseidon can only attack things on or next to the water (probably ports / coastal cities.) Because a Poseidon is slow (relative to a missile) it seems an unlikely choice for a first strike attack; it's more likely to be intended as a retaliation weapon that's hard to intercept. Russia may also be planning on creating Poseidon "silos" on the seabed of the Arctic Ocean. Possibly related to this, Russia has a single submarine capable of carrying a Poseidon, the K-329 "Belgorod" which is a stretched Oscar-II. It can also supposedly operate as a mothersub for small submarines like the Losharik; the plan may be to use a submarine like the Losharik to install Poseidons on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean to act as a 'Dead Hand' system. However after the Losharik fire, I wonder what their plans are...

The biggest advantage of a Skyfall missile over a Granit is obvious; range. If a Skyfall missile works as they plan, there'd be no need to sneak an Oscar anywhere close to the target, or even use a submarine at all. Furthermore it could strike inland targets beyond the range of a Granit fired from an Oscar sitting in coastal waters. An Oscar would need to sneak it's way up the Mississippi River if it wanted a chance of hitting a target in Nebraska with Granit missiles, which leads into:

ICBMs. With respect to ICBMs you're mistaken. Russia does have a variety of ICBMs and SLBMs still in service with plans for more. They have enough already to easily overwhelm America's extant ABM systems, which are primarily a defense against smaller nuclear threats (e.g. North Korea.) Poseidon and Skyfall are hedges against the possibility that ballistic missiles are rendered truly obsolete by ABM systems, but that scenario hasn't [yet] become reality.
> As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box, there is no guarantee that China isn’t conducting misinformation campaigns via the platform.
Is it possible that there are places in the United States which are neither the Bay Area, nor NYC, nor Oklahoma? Surely at least some residents of these places, if they exist, might in fact dispute the broad-spectrum superiority of our most culturally legible cities. Some of these hypothetical humans might even work more than 100 hours a week, perhaps even outdoors!
I don't agree with them, I don't believe that a statistically observed difference in a particular trait according to racial phenotypes implies that racial phenotype is "inferior" or "superior" to begin with. And it turns out that just as I originally said, he didn't say them.

To clarify, what exactly is it that you disagree with, that the statistical observation in question exists, or that if it does exist, it doesn't necessarily imply that the racial phenotype in question must be "superior" or "inferior"?
Worth noting that AnyList automatically subscribed me to a marketing list without double opt-in or any kind of consent, which is exactly the kind of behaviour that makes me not want apps to have my real email address.
> The worst of the alt-right are far, far worse than the worst of the extreme left (antifa, maybe? Though there is no alt-left).

There are people that support Stalin and Mao, which is just bad as supporting Hitler.
Because China hasn't done anything remotely qualifies them to question to any other country ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
Pretty interesting that the biggest benefit of moving out the Bay Area is not having to worry about food. Many SV tech companies provide lunch and dinner.
The iron fist is a double edged sword in some senses.

Although reddit acted as a free speech haven for a long time, it was only overall, and not ever in major specific communities. True free speech is valued because it fosters debate, and allows bad speech to be rebutted by more speech. A marketplace of ideas, and maybe more importantly, the counterspeech doctrine, are incredibly important principals in justifying the existence of free speech. Fiefdoms more often than not were echo chambers, where to see a response to bad speech, a person would have to know where else to venture. By creating filter bubbles, tribes, echo chambers, reddit was not an exemplar of a free speech haven, but instead a collection of lopsided megaphones pointed in opposite directions, strewn across a hard to navigate map.

Strong moderation is what allows communities with strict quality guidelines to function, but also amplifies division.

And on the topic of history, a part of me finds it unfortunate that this banning will make historical, sociological, and psychological analysis of trends, thoughts of the times, past bad behavior etc much harder. It's no what.cd or house of wisdom or library of alexandria loss, but it is still a historical record loss of a huge event that happened. I may not have personally liked The_Donald but it was quite the experience, as a fish out of water, to go look at how other people think, communicate, and reason. The culture that developed there will continue to exist, but the ease with which one could passively observe it, and learn lessons from it is greatly diminished. Another double edged sword.
I am surprised that this article doesn't connect the dots or state the obvious. The US has been moving farther and farther to the left for generations now. It is dragging the moderate line with it. When will it swing back to the right? The systems that have been set up by a divisive, emotionally led left (largely owning the media, tech, unions and educational institutions) is applying a constant pressure while controlling the narrative and limiting healthy discourse by accusing so many of sexism and racism ETC based on cherry picked data. Nearly all Classic liberals agree with this.

The biggest underlying factor though. Belief in God. Why would an atheist care about same sex marriage? Gender as a social construct? Abortion? and many other "sins". Of course the Bible predicts this polarization of human behavior which is interesting.

There are certainly ugly things about the history of the US, but it is undoubtedly the greatest nation ever. The values that shaped it are being torn down by progressives, and their arguments are always generalizations and cherry picked statistics or emotional stories.
The Node.js core packages and eg express.js + middlewares on npmjs.com are the "standard library" for Node.js, developed cooperatively as part of the CommonJS effort back in 2010-12. Modular JSGI (connect/express) middlewares can target both Node.js' core http and express. Almost all modern asset management pipelines run on npm (webpack et al) anyway. What do you miss and where should this mythical "standard library" come from in your opinion?
If you are already in a business savvy position like M&A, then I'm guessing you understand accounting and finance. If you want to be an entrepreneur, I don't see an MBA helping much - it's just a credential to help you get a job working for others.

A CS degree probably isn't necessary either. You can take some free or cheap courses online and teach yourself the tech you want to use.
This makes perfect sense from their standpoint - especially since they've had similar problems to what they outline with Facebook sign-in and are now dropping that as well. This is also a win for Apple & end-user privacy, as there's one less app using FB's login feature now.

I think Sign in with Apple is a great step forward even if all it does is eliminate apps that require Facebook and/or Google accounts to log in. I hate that - I actually ran into a feature on my mesh router system that required a FB/G login, which made it a useless feature for me. Fortunately I didn't need it..
Buries the lede. They’ve chosen to drop support for Facebook login rather than also support Apple login. So working as intended!
First Republic Bank
To save the world, the UN is turning it into a computer simulation
One can always choose not to read blogs/websites that don't suit their principles (hidden behind paywall). For example, I always look for a comment from some user who has pasted the article behind paywall on archive so as not to increase traffic to the website whose policies I dislike.

That way if the blogs get no significant traffic, they will be motivated to update their content policies. If they continue to get traffic, then the unwilling readers might reconsider to update their principles. It seems like an ideal ecosystem governed by compromise between writer, reader and intermediate the medium.
This is a fantastically naive. The `modern world` you mention is far from innocent. The Iraq war, the ongoing intervention in Syria, Libya, the struggle to contain China, the whole farce with the Iran nuclear deal. It is absurd you mention the 'modern world' as an absolute positive when that modern world lead by the US caused the death of 500K+ lives in the middle east (Iraq civil war plus ISIS). What is happening with Russia, Europe and China is far more complex and intriguing than your black and white, good vs evil assessment. History is not over yet.
Also, the massive size of the US and it's larger cities isn't helping.

For comparison, (it might be my limited experience with people from the US) but several people i know move across the continent for jobs/school never to move back again.

This is not a bad thing per se, but seeing your parents only a couple of times a year seems very weird to me.

In comparison, most of my peers live in or near the city they lived in their entire lives (i know of only one example of someone who lives further away (2h drive).

Being near your parents/grandparents is important, especially when you have children. It creates a sense of community that is hard to explain.
That sounds worse to me. I don't like the idea of having my identity tied to a device. What if I lose it? My favorite setup right now is to keep my username / password in a password manager that I sync to multiple places to ensure it doesn't get lost. Then I use a YubiKey with FIDO / U2F on sites I consider important. I have a main and a spare YubiKey and both get added to my profile (except AWS who only support one key).
I wonder if we just spent a single term governing by referendum where we would land. It’s probably not sustainable but it might be interesting to see what surfaces.
It is self-realization, not whataboutism ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
"Videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status."

Not for suggesting a group be attacked. Not "hate". For expressing an opinion on a political subject. Prohibiting that is scary. This is not a good thing, and we will probably regret it in a few years.

Trump would like to shut down criticism of himself, and has tried. Black Lives Matter might be muzzled for inciting to riot. This can backfire, badly.

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where ... all the children are above average."
That was an interesting read. Also, they close with...

"These are both excellent points, and it’s absolutely true that some of the arguments above apply to creating an account via Facebook. That’s why we’re also announcing that we’ll be removing the Facebook Login from AnyList."
This should have been done a long time ago. Chinese services have an unrestricted access to their local user base + users of the whole world, while services from any other countries might easily be blocked in China for one reason or another, thus reducing their potential user base by several hundred million of users. Even without the sinister political reasons behind the censorship by the CCP it would be an unfair competition.
What did he do to deserve a ban?
Ignoring that shot doesn’t mean dead, I haven’t seen any reports of over 20,000 people shot dead in NYC over the last 6 months.
I have decided to use javascript strictly for frontend only, no more node.js or express or whatever else for backend. I will just use non-js backends these days, which are plenty.

It's sad I still have to use npm even for frontend development nowadays, along with babel, webpack and a matrix to get started.

I now stick with jquery(yes I know, but its concise syntax matters to me) and bootstrap, and they seem working for 99% use cases for me. super easy to get start and maintain, good enough for my use cases.
I could be wrong, but at first glance, it looks like Eclipse's SWT.
Ignorance of US history of endless human rights abuses (including torture) both domestic and foreign by the US is not an excuse for being condescending and overly confident on an internet forum.
If you implement Sign In With Apple, you don't have a relationship with your customers anymore. They're Apple's customers, and Apple can take them away at any time.