skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a great example!

You looked at the size and determined that it might not be worth bringing on a small dependency when you can implement it yourself (or rather use String.prototype.padStart).

It’s not just size alone but size of transitive dependencies.

Both examples you gave don’t have any dependencies (the publish size matches the install size).

Take a look at some popular dependencies like request or jest and notice the number of transitive dependencies.

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=request

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=jest
Is it for laptop? Got any source? I wonder at which place Thinkpad / Lenovo is. And I'm amazed that Asus is better than Apple.
Studios aren’t being replaced.

This isn’t an article about streaming services replacing studios, it’s an article about streaming executive culture replacing studio executive culture.
Are chillies the braces of cuisine?
You can rent all of these for sub £5 on amazon (probably itunes as well).

There isn't a world where you can pay $20 a month and get everything, every movie, every tv show, ever, the finances just don't work.
That's as brilliant as it is cute! Thanks for sharing! Now, get to da chopper! ;-)
The Psychology of Fortnite's Battle Pass (2019)
Oh look more anti-china propaganda published right before the election.

What a coincidence
iOS is the minority smartphone OS in the US and in the world. In the world their share is under 20%. In the US it’s under 50%. In both cases, shrinking.

If Apple/iOS is a minority that means someone else must be a majority. Who, exactly, do you think should be the target of that balancing, and why?
There you go: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544

> 1. If you have a Mac mini (2018) with FileVault turned on, make sure to connect your primary display directly to Mac mini during startup. After you log in and see the macOS Desktop, you can unplug the display from Mac mini and connect it to your eGPU.
Reducing the GHG emissions of <sector> to zero/near-zero/net-zero is not "hysteria". It is the mathematically simplest possible form of understanding the published climate science.

Whats "hysteria" is trying to turn that into a political/social-beliefs debate about "prosperity" or "hating the rich" instead of a simple numbers analysis.
Prepared Statement for Couchbase as an Alternative for RDBMS Stored Procedures
>I believe pattern matching might land in Java sooner than in Kotlin

Depends on what you call pattern matching. Kotlin had pattern matching from day one, but it's just one level, Java might have it recursive by java 19
It's a bit of a joke, really. I doubt there's anyone reading this on here who didn't already know polygraphs don't work. The only people who don't seem to know polygraphs don't work are the ones making national security decisions relating to polygraphs.
Hey, are you up for chatting more about Berlin houses? I'm Dutch and my German is ... not too great. But I am mildly interested in it. So if you're up for it, my email is in my profile.
Our program has documents attached to declarations. These typically come from some integration and is saved on a server/shared drive, in some arbitrary sub-directory to avoid too many files in one directory, and typically with some non-intuitive filename for good measure.

Our users want to be able to be able to open a declaration and email the documents, either internally or to their customers, along with some message.

We don't really want to implement a full email client in our program nor having to deal with their SMTP server setup, including proxies, firewall and so on. So we basically do exactly this, open a new mail in their client with some template text and with one or more attachments.

We use MAPI though and not "mailto:", but use-case is there.
> The amount of code that will become "tech debt" the moment Loom becomes widely available is very large.

1) As I understand green threads will not require vastly different programming model (no colored functions). So my code can stay mostly the same as it is.

2) My microservices are working just fine now, without performance/scalability issues (certainly nothing related to thread count limit) so why would they turn into tech debt?

> That said, Kotlin the language is now stable for quite some time and isn't really changing, so it's a relatively static target.

Yes, but Java is not moving towards it in some respects at all. There's no effort to tackle the nullability problem for example.
I am using IntelliJ's WebStorm for my own project and Visual Studio Code for a company project, because all other team members are using it and we agreed to use the same tool.

I like WebStorm so much better. The inline parameter names on function calls, the local history, the awesome diff tool, the refactoring capabilities (even for Javascript). This makes is well worth the money. Also, I like IntelliJ's perpetual fallback license policy. Feels very fair to me.
Europe's largest 3D-printer prints an entire two-story house
It’s not about choice. It’s about destroying Google as a company. They are a spyware business that have destabilized the entire internet economy.
Germany is a good choice. Very low cost of living relative to job opportunities.
> why do we need

Why not? When we moved from 3G to 4G I felt like it was kind of useless, but now that I have it I definitely enjoy all the things that become possible with it (lower latency everything, mostly). It was the same way moving from ISDN to cable. It's never bad to have better stuff - you'll find a use for it even if you don't have one now.

> can you explain some concerns you might have about 5G

Frankly the only real and reasonable concern to have is that there are very few engineers that roll out 5G networks that aren't Chinese. I'm not opposed to China, but I am opposed to a country's entire infrastructure being built and maintained by another country (that may want to use that to exert political pressure some day).

> there is a tendency by the group to form an echo chamber

In this case I really don't think it's that, it's mostly that you posted information that's just wrong and then you retreated to a (frankly lazy) defense as to why you're spreading misinformation. It makes you come off as the kind of person that's really unpleasant to talk to, because the lies tend to be so sticky and pervasive. It's exhausting to have to revisit every component of what you know just because someone else couldn't be bothered to figure it out for themselves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum

TL;DR No, there aren’t.
You’re not wrong.

OTOH the other day I heard someone in the Netflix doc about Alberto Nisman’s murder that described a terrorist network as a “matrix”.

I grumped as card-carrying pedants are duty-bound to, but then realized that if there’s a 1:1 correspondence between graphs and (adjacency, incidence) matrices, then there’s very little loss of meaning in referring to graphs as “matrices”. Maybe in some communication contexts it’s even clearer.
I think these ads front a range of schemes, from boring old check fraud (as described) to pyramid schemes to money muling.
The advantage of Amazon over buying directly from China is the fast shipping (if you have prime) and the no hassle return policy. I made the mistake of buying some masks through an ad on a website. While the masks were fine, what they didn't mention was that it took six weeks to deliver. There are plenty of negatives with Amazon (fake reviews, fake products, etc.) but fast shipping and guaranteed returns cover a multitude of sins.
This is especially true for the NES due to tools like NESMaker http://makenesgames.com/

There are so many new NES games now it's impossible to stay on top of it all.
Human beings never used to write reviews. They were either repeat customers or they weren’t. I have never felt writing a review. So what if you have a good product, or something I may like. Why should I tell the whole world? I’d rather do word to mouth. Your product - good or bad - will adjust based on demand and supply on its own.

Amazon’s reviews are like old Yahoo’s news comment streams (same as YouTube today). I’d like to think average/sane human beings do not spend their time compulsively hanging out at such joints.

The best sensible thing Amazon could do is list the number of repeat customers against the number of sell. That would be honest and fair.
Most of the USA doesn't have a land tax. Instead, there is a property tax, which is determined by what's sitting on the land.
Extreme WebAssembly 2: the sad state of WebAssembly tail calls
> In the UK, suppose I want to watch Forbidden Planet, or Gone With The Wind, or Carry on Screaming. Show me a streaming service that has those films

They're on Amazon UK. You can stream them right now. What are you talking about?
Quite rightly! I recently used the multiplatform features on a side-project and was able to share a decent chunk of business logic between iOS and Android. As someone coming from JS and Swift it was fairly straightforward to pick up.
I'm not convinced this is as big an issue as has been made out here.

Why would you click a link and then voluntarily send an email with a file called "passwd" or "secring.gpg" in the attachments list?!

Perhaps you could show a scarier warning or something, rather than just declaring the functionality unacceptably dangerous and removing it. There are genuine use-cases discussed in this thread. At the end of the day, the user needs to accept responsibility for things they voluntarily do on their machine.

Generally though, I'm not sure this functionality makes much sense if it's initiated from a web-page. If you had another app on your machine though, that already had disk access, it might make sense to be able to launch the email client with something pre-attached.
If I understood correctly, the database was on a publicly accessible network. Wouldn't the problem be averted by putting the database in a separate VLAN, where only specific IP's from the public VLAN could access it, and not IP's from WWW??
Still lots of kotlin-features I don't see land in java soon.
My favorite is passing a lambda in brackets when it's the last argument to a function. Makes it easy to make semi-dsls and nice-looking code. So instead of

myFun(someVar, { it.something() })

it can be written like

myFun(someVar) {
it.something()
}

or if no parameters to the function other than the lambda like

myFun {
it.something()
}

making the function almost look and behave like a language keyword. I also use extension-functions a lot. Especially for libraries or legacy-java code we wont touch. Where I work we now use Kotlin for all new backend code. And we don't do any Android.
No, the point does not stand. Not at all!

The fact that there's methane breaking down in the atmosphere right now does not matter at all. It's the wrong mental model.

Each kilogram of methane you emit today is as bad as 25 kilograms of carbon dioxide over the next hundred years. That's it.

The battle for global warming is going to be won or lost over the next 100 years, easily. We'll have the energy to capture our current emissions and turn back the clock by then.
In Oslo a while back there was a faulty billboard that started outputting all its log data to its main screen.

It was essentially tracking everyone who passed it by characteristics like gender, if they had glasses, where they were looking.

But yeah, every person was just an entry. There was no way for it to know who that person was.

I wish I could find the story but my google-fu isn't helping.
This could be fine as long as there are very strong regulations against de-anonimizing the data (including jailtime for violators) and there was a regular rotation of the keys used for anonimization.

People's privacy usually isn't impacted until datasets are combined, compromising pseudonimity.
>As per YOUR LINK, you don't need a monopoly for antitrust; just "the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market."

Instead of picking one sentence out of context, why not quote the entire thing? Does it still support your claim?

Here is your sentence in context for those who care about truth:

"the Supreme Court, in other cases, seems to have articulated standards for 'monopoly power' and 'market power' that, at least linguistically, are incompatible. In NCAA v. Board of Regents, [FN33] the Court defined 'market power' as 'the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market.' [FN34] By contrast, the Supreme Court has consistently defined 'monopoly power,' at least for section two cases, in accordance with the definition articulated in United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. [FN35]-i.e., as 'the power to control prices or exclude competition.' [FN36] Strictly construed, the Court's language appears to require a higher burden of proof to establish 'market power' than to demonstrate 'monopoly power,' because proof of a defendant's ability to exclude competition would not suffice to demonstrate the existence of 'market power.' Moreover, even the price portion of the du Pont monopoly power definition is broader than the NCAA market power standard because the latter ignores the ability to prevent price decreases."

Did you ignore what is current case practice? Did you ignore that the article cited more cases supporting my position than yours? Your out of context quoting is intellectually dishonest.

Some more quotes you ignored - go ahead and post them in context if you like.

"Most antitrust rules require the plaintiff to show that the defendant has or is likely to obtain 'market power' or 'monopoly power.' The offense of monopolization requires, of course, proof that the defendant has monopoly power."

"According to the Supreme Court's latest formulation, a tying arrangement is not illegal unless the seller has 'market power' in the tying product."

> Seriously. It clearly states what I said,

Yes, indeed. It's so clearly stated you removed the context that clearly states the opposite of what you said.

I guess I should have found a clearer explanation, since you quote things out of context.

Here's an easier read [1], and here's some legal standards applied from there with case citations:

Under cartels and collusion:
"if the enterprise (as an economic entity) has not acquired a monopoly position, or has significant market power, then no harm is done."

Two questions:

1) Why did you remove the context of your quote?

2) Can you cite a successful anti-trust case where monopoly power was not shown in the proceedings?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
Yep lived there in the early 90's, it was a little rough back then but it was still a cool place to live, I did kind of wrap it up with my generally Tampa area along with Clearwater, I really don't make a distinction between the 3, until you get north to Tarpon Springs or south to Ruskin, it's kind of all the Greater Tampa area.
List of Weather Forecast APIs for Developers
Speaking of not immune to scapegoating, I loved Bulgakov's conspiracy theory in which The Passion turns out to have involved a roman false flag op.

https://www.weblitera.com/book/?id=205&lng=1&ch=25

> "The information is that one of Ha-Notsri's secret followers, revolted by this money-changer's monstrous treachery, has plotted with his confederates to kill the man tonight and to return his blood-money to the High Priest with a note reading:"

> "Take back your accursed money!"

Do your own research: jet fuel can't melt pieces of silver!
It really depends on the price. At 150k€ they're not worth buying, at 1€ plus taxes, deposits and various renovation works... Maybe.

One might get a nice vacation house for cheap.

One of such houses (not those shown in the video) was actually near the places where I grew up. Such place is nowadays decently connected (still sub-optimal, but decent). If somebody was forward-looking enough could have bought property for extremely cheap and would be working from there now.

In my opinion, one of the big factors in evaluating a house is the nearby infrastructure, mainly connectivity and railroads / public transport in general. You'll need those anyway. If they're either not present or subpar then you should value the property less imho.

Edit: decently connected means a fttc (fiber to the cabinet, copper on last mile) connection, max speeds being 1gbps down / 100 mbps up, for 25-35 €/month -- you'll never reach such speeds of course, but even one tenth of that would still be usable for most things.
Since it's a static site, splitting the content across multiple pages and still being searchable would mean you'd need to push the whole search index down to the client and have the search operate locally. Not that it couldn't be done, and I can think of a few optimizations, but for the "very large docs" use case that's called out in the readme, it might still amount to a lot of data on top of the "a lot of data" that constitutes the docs themselves as rendered. Relying on browsers' built-in text search makes a lot of sense, especially to start with; I'd likewise wait to see a very strong use case before building out my own search to supersede it.

I don't know how I feel about the way they're managing the URL fragment. The way they're calling pushState, it adds history entries while scrolling, and that makes the back button behave nonintuitively; I think I'd rather see history entries created only when I click a header, or otherwise take some specific action to demonstrate the intent. That makes the back behavior easier to reason about, and also preserves the easy deep linkability that they are, imo rightly, going for.
> it is insane to me that anyone would point to china as a example of how the rest of the world should operate. If you do clearly you place no value on what most people call Basic Human Rights.

I don't like the human rights abuses in China. But that doesn't mean they don't do anything well. Such an argument is silly. I could makes a similar claim about the US. How does the US do on the right to healthcare for example? Awfully. But that is only tangentially related to the merit of their overall economic policy.

> everyone knows Free markets result in the best economic outcomes

No they don't. There is a lot of evidence that free markets lead to better economic outcomes then soviet-style planned economies. That they lead to the best possible outcomes of all possible economic systems is a highly suspect claim given that the economic outcomes they lead to aren't all that great (e.g. high levels of inequality).

You seem to have in your mind that free markets and planned economies (which you call socialism, although there are actually many forms of socialism that don't use a state-planned approach such as market socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism) are the only possible economic models. But in fact there are many other approaches. For example the scandinavian model is a mixed economy with some free-market aspects but also a large state (32% of the economy is public sector in Denmark vs 17% for the US and 50% for China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_se...), and much stronger regulation than in the US.

> That is not to say there is no issue with capitalism in general, Crony Capitalism which is what you have with Heavily regulated markets like we see in the US is a real problem and is largely the cause of Wealth Disparity in capitalist systems

Regulation is indeed a problem in the US. But that is only because of the regulatory capture leading to ridiculous regulations that enforce monopolies. In other places (I live in the UK) regulation actually prevents monopolies (e.g. we have laws that anybody may start an ISP using the shared fibre/copper infrastructure) and leads to much better outcomes than unregulated markets. I find it hilarious that you think the US markets are heavily regulated when they are some of the least regulated amongst OECD countries

> I am further confused by your statement the Free Markets are better than "remove regulation at all costs" approach. Truly free markets have no regulation, so I am not sure what point you are driving at.

Having no regulation is what I am describing as "remove regulation at all costs". My point is that there is a lot of evidence that such markets don't in fact function better than a more measured approach of "regulate where it's appropriate". The political position that all markets ought to be as free as possible is almost as extreme as the one that economies ought to state run.
So, we now have tldr, and navi, and mnemonic, and cheat, and maybe some more similar tools. But why don't we add these examples to the respective man pages? There's clearly a need for them.

I guess if you wanted you could make a new command that only prints the EXAMPLES section of a man page. It could turn out to be an improvement even since you get all the nice things that man provides like colours and consistent formatting for free.
Sounds like a graph of the quality of his relationships with other human beings would have a spike at only one point and zero everywhere else...
Strong security tips to protect your business from cyber attack
But how is that your problem if you cut Apple away from your life?
Quantifying Shades of Grey
This is a great application. Thank you for creating it. I hope it stays simple rather than falling prey to unnecessary complicated features.

Please do not add Google Calendar sync. It'll just become another time app at that point with 37 time app integrations, a chrome extension with automatic time tracking, weekly email-based reports, Zapier integrations, and next thing you know you're a project management app.

The paper-like simplicity of it is very appealing.
Yes they pay Apple for reinforcing this notion too.
Why don't the finances work?

As an example: I'm paying for Netflix and Amazon prime. I'm not going to pay for more services because I don't value watching TV more than that.

We buy or rent a specific movie maybe once a quarter at most.

So total expenditure on TV services is around $20/mo.

Almost everyone I know is in a similar situation. Some swap one of those services for something else, many are sharing subscriptions with other households.

So right now most people are paying a fairly fixed amount for access to a portion of TV and film. The total money flowing in seems to be enough to support the entire industry.

If a service that cost $20/month for access to everything came out, I'd definitely switch. I imagine most of my friends would as well.

Then the total money flowing into the industry would be the same, but everyone would have access to all the media.
Currently, a monopoly on text generation. And they are not "open" anymore, being a commercial venture closely associated with Microsoft.
I get your point (and agree about 8bit µC) but I would also point out that ARM/Linux and ARM64/Linux are pretty common and accessible these days. Buying an RPi to learn ASM and not have to deal with x86 nonsense would be a good investment IMO.

Maybe not everybody shares my deeply rooted dislike for x86 though.
Napster pitched a $10/month all-you-can-eat subscription, and the Music industry said NO WAY!

Then they were crushed by reality and we got multiple suppliers of Napster's $10/month-for-all-music offer.

Imagine if Napster had got what it wanted and became the only supplier of music? I doubt they'd still be seen as the good guy.
That's because it's not only poorly marketed but also a completely awful idea. It's 8-minute shows, chunks so small that it's hard to get invested because a full season can be less than a feature-length movie but has the ambitions of one. Some episodes are actually less than 8 minutes, most show concepts are horrid (they relaunched Punk'd!) and the people at the helm are... unusual.

This interview gives great insight into the mess it is: https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/is-anyone-watching-quibi.htm...

My favorite quote from that: "When I ask Whitman what TV shows she watches, she responds, “I’m not sure I’d classify myself as an entertainment enthusiast.”"