skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on PHP doing html templating well, however it just seems not big enough of a strength, if you will.

I also had a decade of PHP experience before transitioning to nodejs in the last few years. I first transitioned for my day job, and then also started using node for hobby projects. For hobby projects I like to keep things as simple and quick as possible (translation: so no React frontend and all that stuff), so I was trying to emulate how PHP does things and just have my node server render html from the server. I've found that almost any way I try to do it, it's a little bit more awkward in node and you end up having to choose from one of the dozen of templating libraries and learn their syntax (no-go for me).

In PHP one of my favorite things is, say you pick up a super simple routing lib like ToroPHP. In your route handlers you could skip all templating libraries altogether and simply require() a .php file that is your view html. It would simply be a file that contains HTML where you could sprinkle php statements anywhere. It's just about the the best/easiest way to template HTML output from the server for hobby projects (and I argue even for larger projects too in many cases).

What I end up doing for hobby projects in node now is usually going JAM stack. Build my frontend in Svelte (which is as close to no framework as possible), and build API server in node with Fastify. I guess where I'm going with that is that a setup like that isn't much more hassles than doing PHP and html templating for these small projects.
The problem being that forks work for ideological differences, not for resources differences.

If you forked Firefox and made unambiguous improvements, Mozilla would presumably incorporate them, because why wouldn't they? Then everybody would get your improvements from firefox.com instead of notfirefox.com because that's what they're familiar with, and with Mozilla's default search instead of yours, so they still get all the money.
If you can't convince your users to fund the development of your software with a subscription then perhaps it's not delivering real value to them. After all, if your users are indifferent to your software disappearing into thin air because you can no longer afford to pay the bills, perhaps they never cared that much about it in the first place.
If they won't be able to support iOS, they can just launch their own "store" for Android. Similar to Amazon's. Though I'm half surprised Steam hasn't done this.

I do question the justification of the 30% cut they all seem to take.
It must have taken a special effort to write all those words without once mentioning the false positive rate of the PCR test (~2.3%), which (unlike earlier in the pandemic) is now in the ballpark of reported case numbers: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v...
I've read this article before and it is great, but needs a [2017] tag.
An important tool for businesses to use! Personally, i know many people who work at tech places and don't even know how some of the tech works. I think it's extremely important, especially for startups, to have your employees take the time to learn every aspect of all products/services you are selling. confidence is key in startups people!
Do any of these have the ability to be used as a forward proxy?
How I Almost Made the Game of My Dreams
Agreed. Where I work we have a core team that created a framework that manages the Kubernetes configuration for us. As a backend developer I basically just have to throw a config file into my service with some basic options like which port to listen on and where the docker container is, and then it gets deployed with everything setup for me (using helm I believe).

I really hope we move more towards these opinionated tools that can handle 90% of the use cases. Most people just want to host an app on a port, and it's a pain to have to develop that pipeline at every company that wants to adopt Kubernetes.
I mean I think he knows it's a novel lol.... That's his point, that this is the same as in that novel.
Approaching the web as an end user, I have also found this to be true. Most websites rarely change their document structure in such a way that breaks simple text-editing scripts. Keyword: "Most". In most cases no specialised tools or libararies are needed for extracting text or other resources. Again, keyword: "most". Personally, just because there may be a few exceptions does not mean I am going to change a strategy that works almost 100% of the time.

Understanding "web APIs", which did not exist when I first starting using the www in 1993, other than as a way to try to control and/or monetise scraping continues to escape me. I do like the increased usage of "endpoints" though, serving only data with no markup. Although XML and JSON are too bloated compared to something sensible like netstrings.

Similarly, on the client side, I fail to understand all the parsing tools and libraries and related promotion; it is just as easy to break any solution that depends on them and in many cases they are obviously overkill, more brittle than simple scripts using generalised text-editing tools.

One example is "jq". In many cases it is clearly overkill and is slower than sed.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/59806699

As a data source, the web is messy. "Standards" cannot be relied on 100%. Some people try to pretend the web is clean and can be tamed, or they "give up" because it is not "perfect" and things can break. Getting hands dirty works the best and most things do not break if kept simple, IME
Thanks for the feedback here, I really appreciate it! You make many solid points here, and some are totally new points I had not considered before.
When you actually dig into the deaths in Sweden, the vast majority were in the over 75 demographic, which is vulnerable to any disease or cause of death. They had several early outbreaks in nursing homes and assisted living facilities and once they got those under control, the virus fizzled out on its own among the younger population. There are currently only 13 hospitalizations in the whole country at this point in time. Sweden's economy has suffered the least in the Euro zone. There's also no great reason to not compare Sweden to France, UK and Spain. While Sweden and Denmark may have Scandinavian culture, it's not as if Covid discriminates based on culture. If you want to make some sort of genetic argument, you're going to have to back that up with some data and studies.

Hospitalizations in the U.S. are currently plummeting, we've never hit anywhere near capacity for hospitalization, and the virus is fizzling out on its own. Each state has gotten to choose its own policy for Covid-19 (as they should, by the way), and some states have banned gatherings of more than 8 people, mandated masks in public, issued various stay at home orders, jailed business owners for daring to reopen, etc. Some states like South Dakota have never issued any restrictions whatsoever. There is no clear pattern in the data for policy, between countries or states. Indeed, there's a lot of confounding factors that make it difficult to infer the effectiveness of any region's policy choices. Taiwan, for example. Are their results on account of that they are an island nation with tight inflow and outflow controls or the fact that SARS1 and other weaker coronaviruses already disseminated in the population and therefore a higher amount of the population have natural immunity from fighting off a similar disease? If they haven't developed herd immunity, are they simply kicking the can down the road in the hopes a vaccine works? If not, will they forever be isolating visitors in 14 day quarantine to avoid an outbreak? That doesn't sound sustainable to me.
I'm have about ten years experience with macOS and iOS development. I have not yet taken the plunge to do SwiftUI development exclusively, but from what I've seen, it's the future of UI development on iOS and macOS. If you're interested in iOS development, definitely learn it.

It uses a declarative language to describe the UI, so I think it should be much easier to learn than the previous imperative paradigm.

For the most part, you can get away with the standard "visual defaults" as you call them on the platform. You can easily create a complete app without having to customize any UI, although it obviously adds to the look and feel if you do.
Just add "Y" and "no Y" to the criteria. We can handle having competitions with age, weight, ability, and formerly gender.. Just add Y chromosome, and then no prejudice, or assumption, and nothing to take offense to.
Vegan for 20+ years (now 40). I've never had any protein deficiency or any other nutrition related health problems. I weight lift so I take a scoop or 2 of brown rice/pea/soy protein which gets me to what any muscle gain diet guidelines recommend.
The part where there is only one party who can make the scary warning go away and doing so requires paying them.
A number of studies have been done over the years exploring wind, solar and other alternatives. Unfortunately, they aren't perfect. non, including the two turbine solution, comes even close to providing the energy required and will still require diesel generation and LPG on the island. there is no more room for anything beyond 2 turbines on the island so it a partial solution with no scalability. Emrod can provide x5 the current energy required on the island, cheaper, replacing Diesel and LPG, future proofing supply continuity, with a far smaller environmental footprint.
If that’s a lot of emoji to you, you’re going to be in for some pain as more zoomers age into the workplace. This wouldn’t be out of place in professional communication at several places I’ve worked.
As an Apple user, I think you’re crazy. It being locked down is the worst part about it and the main reason I’m considering moving off Apple in the future. Also as a developer deploying anything Apple-related is a pain.
> Not saying Norway or whatnot is not doing better, just we don't really know.

But we do, excess deaths have all causes integrated. Comparing to the Nordic neighbors makes sense because they have more similarities than comparing to Portugal but feel free to compare to all the countries in that website. Sweden is worse than most.
You’re probably onto something.

There’s also an issue with black box language vs something like HTML, which has semantic value besides pure presentational function.

I don’t care if the auto generated PostScript is ugly as long as the printed work is perfect.
Javascript ecosystem in a nutshell
A contraption let lets you record your dreams so you can play them back. I'm always dreaming of great ideas but when I wake up I totally forget them
Fantastic job. Works great.
Here the TMI writer "spins" a conversation that took place last year (injecting concepts whose relevance became public concerns months later, e.g., aerosol vs particle transmission in air).

Contrast the TMI article with another referencing the Woodward "revelations":

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/while-fauci-who-and-pelo...

>"Update (1445ET): Well that didn't take long. Woodward's apparent 'gotcha' moment which is now spreading in an interestingly coordinated fashion across the MSM has been out-bombshell'd by none other than Dr.Fauci (he who speaks science truth and is above reproach).

Fauci just went on Fox News and said that President Trump "did not distort anything and acted immediately when he was presented the data."

Dr. Fauci says that he never got the sense that President Trump was downplaying COVID-19:

"I didn't get any sense that he was distorting anything. In my discussions with him, they were always straightforward about the concerns that we had."
Your last point resonates with me. I had neither previously considered where the big bang might have taken place, nor that this would somehow be an erroneous concept. I scrolled through a bunch of disjointed answers on Quora that left me more confused than before. Could you point me to some good resource on that topic?
We could have leaders who are capable. Unfortunately, we would never vote for them because we'd find them boring, or assume they're venal baby-killing sociopaths like every other politician, or vote for someone else because we believe government is inherently evil and should be hamstrung by idiots.

If society treated governance, politics and civic leadership the way it does any other profession, we would raise up competent leaders the way we do doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.
>The best way to enhance the workings of the immune system is to laugh, to find wonder in the world around you and to wonder at Love. Make others happy, play music, spend quiet time.:)

Is there any science to back that up? I'm not saying these things are not helpful, but to say that "the best way" doesn't involved dealing with essential vitamin deficiencies, seems a little anti-science.

Also - I'm not suggesting that these chemicals are magical fairies that help just by eating them - if you are not deficient, it probably won't help to take more (with the exception of Vit C which is given in high-doses via IV to help)

Here are some articles to help understand that these compounds are important for immune function (the abstract is usually enough):

A: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162863/

B: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7010964/

C: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707683/

D: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/

Vit D deficiency is widespread
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018438/
Eugenics isn't the logical conclusion of the "leader caste" because we know that not only is it deeply unethical, it also doesn't work. We don't really know what makes someone "better", we don't know how to do it, and we don't even know how to define "better". Stephen Hawking contributed an enormous amount to society despite having a devastating genetic condition. Note, correcting devastating conditions in newborns (somatically, not in the germline - i.e. for individuals, not their descendants) might be OK, the only issue is where you draw the line. If you correct for sickle cell anemia or cancer prone-ness, should you also correct for depression? (assuming we ever figure out how to do that).

I think you have a good point about democracy maybe not benig the full answer. It seems to be a very flexible/enduring system so far (more so than e.g. fascism or communism), but technology might poke huge holes in it regarding free will (manipulating people's emotions to vote for someone, for example). Yuval Harari talks about this a lot in "21 ideas for the 21st century".
You can understand how iPhone security and safety helped sell it, even though it was (inaccurately as we later found our) viewed as less secure than Blackberry.

People bought iPhones because they trusted it was secure, and chose it over Blackberry because of features and UX. And they kept buying it because it was secure, had the release of the App Store opened the platform to a horde of malware, we would be saying remember when Apple sold iPhones?

People mostly choose their plane flights based on cost, comfort, and time. Not because safety isn’t important, but because it’s assumed it’s by default excellent. Now how high a priority will safety be for travelers when the 737 Max is cleared to fly again?
> Because that's certainly why you're getting downvoted now.

What terminology would you prefer? Blind zealots?

I'm pretty sure I would receive those downvotes regardless, as they always appear for any comment critical of <insert thing with large following of blind zealots>.
In this case the front may be specious instead of an absurdity but it’s no less a front.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing

2. http://web.archive.org/web/20170128194124/http://www.chronic...
I really like the options of node + cheerio, or node + puppeteer for these kinds of jobs. Language of the browser, easy enough selection/usage, cheerio if it's plain html, puppeteer if it's dynamic/spa content.

In the end, not hammering a site is key... also, on your own end, possibly hashing the main content, so you aren't creating duplicate entries on your own side are important.

As to fragility, that happens... in general, you need to update to match site updates, but most sites won't be dramatically updated more than a couple times a year if they aren't in active development.
Clearpath Robotics Releases ROS Package for Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot
I agree.

I think in many cases the lawyers are overpaid. I'm doing all the legal leg work for my wife - researching case law, scrutinizing statutes, combing through code, placing calls, and talking to my LEO buddies (they think the officer made a mistake).
I'd happily shut down all the bitcoin transactions in the world to power rockets.
What's bad about these ingredients?
Coupling has nothing to do with Emrod tech. Its intrinsically limited to low power and small range. It is also has a much more significant impact on health and safty.
200 kilograms. Motorized wheels. It's not very portable yet. Emergency room, yes; ambulance, no.
Yep that is true. That doesn't justify that Apple _should_ enable side-loading on the iPhone. Just because they _can_ do it doesn't mean they're _legally, ethically or morally_ obligated to do so.

Ultimately, it's their product. I mean, can you imagine the world we'd live in if some arbitrary group of people (who are _not_ the product developers) decided that the iPod should be opened up to side-load any arbitrary software, such as a music store, run by some other company.

In what world is that legal? Just because the iPhone has majority profits of the smartphone market doesn't mean they ought to share that platform with everyone else. If developers don't like Apple's policies they should not build for Apple's platforms. It's pretty simple.

Go make your iPhone, and App Store, and Retail distribution channels and marketing that works to your specification. Isn't that what competition means?
I am curious, if you divided by weight tiers do you think there would still be a significant athletic advantage for men over women in sports like sprinting?
But that’s not the case here is it? Apple didn’t refuse to allow Epic in their store - not even after the lawsuit. They said they are allowed back in the store if they remove their in app payments.

Just like every other console maker and retailer has rules.

Epic tried bypassing the Play Store. How did that work out?
Maybe we ought to "summon" people semi-randomly to work in politics for a few years, the way you get summoned to a jury or get drafted in a war. It's gonna suck for many of these people, but at least it's gonna make it harder for career politicians and predators to assume office.

Issue is you have to protect the "choosing" process from interference.
How can an ostensibly consumer and business targeted company company allow someone so anti-consumer on the board? Why doesn't anyone have the balls to say "this guy shouldn't be on our board because if we have someone in cahoots with the spooks on our board people will buy less dragon dildos and .223 fuel filters and the sketchy SAAS providers will use less AWS for their crap because their customers will be worried about the spooks exfiltrating their data"
Alternatively, just ask for the hardware.
Games are executables, movies are not, nor are songs. Why are people (intentionally?) ignoring this point. Apple reviews all executables.
For those who are not familiar with JetBrains' subscription model:

> A perpetual fallback license is a license that allows you to use a specific version of software without an active subscription for it. [0]

There are some details about which version you are eligible for. The spirit is that if you subscribe for ≥ 1 year, you have some version available when you stop paying.

[0]: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
But after 3 months?? I think not :P I know lungs have amazing recovery capacity but removing 40 years' worth of tar takes a lot of time. I know after 10 years or so they're clean (depending on the age of the person of course)

Great though to hear it goes quickly for Corona. A bit of good news is welcome for once.
What happens when there is fog?
Thanks! Just read up on spark gap radio but it sounds like a primitive radio wave generator.

What do you mean about “doing stuff” to the earths electrostatic sphere?
I find that's the difference between public API endpoints and those APIs written for the page/app itself... if it's tightly coupled and the specs aren't published to the public for general use, I treat it as breakable.

That's just my own take. I've worked in environments with stronger versioning, and depending on your data needs and structures it can work. It's usually not worth it for most use cases though.
EDIT: Never mind, I mis-read the code in the blog...
Indexing and search can be sophisticated & available before downloading any messages; you can ensure completion of complex pop and imap operation (eg working with messages "tagged" by gmail); just a few benefits.

Note, this is in no way an endorsement of middle manning email management and facading as a client.
For reference, here's the list of major western European countries (population > 1M) ranked by deaths per capita attributed to COVID-19:

Belgium
Spain
United Kingdom
Italy
Sweden
France
Netherlands
Ireland
Switzerland
Portugal
Germany
Denmark
Austria
Finland
Norway
Greece

"As good or better than most of western Europe" does not look like an accurate characterization of Sweden's position to me...
If such material exists the public will likely see it in late January or early February of 2021 or 2025 when the nature of its usefulness changes.
Zink like as in Zero-Ink?
How many employees are in your company? Are they all technically inclined? Switching from one to tool to another frequently is quite a drain, imo.
Don’t forget the AppleTV :)
Again so many people defending Apple here just because they love their Macs...

This just shows how Apple has a "deity" like status in the community, fanboys here are willing to die defending Apple and their arbitrary "rules".

Just dare to imagine if tomorrow Microsoft came out and said Steam broke ToS and starting September 11 all accounts signed-up over outlook.com will be disabled.

There would be riots on the streets and buildings burning, Nadella would give a resignation within a week.

Yet for Apple, the rules don't apply (ironically). Tim Cook blatantly commits perjury in front of Congress and no one bats an eye, yet people are still willing to trash Gates how "arrogant" he was to Congress 20 years ago.

The only true hope is for EU step in and completely revamp the App Store
Thanks. I was just going to ask what made it unique.
Why are Twilio's competitors not doing so well?
Ask HN: What is the true death rate from Covid 19?
CDC says (as of now) 190,000 people dead. There are pushbacks saying that most of the deaths are in nursing homes caused by the policy of sending sick people home. Another complicating factor is the number of people with pre-existing conditions. How does one come up with a true representative cost of the pandemic? (Maybe something that worked in the past e.g. spanish flu?)
Few things that spring to mind which aren't possible on MHz systems:

* Graphics design

* Video editing

* Animation

* Monero mining

* 3D CAD

* High end (physics/etc) simulations

* 3D Rendering

* Multitasking

Sure you might be able to do some of those things at a very low resolution on a Mhz system, but not in any meaningful way.
In the book it described Paul feeling almost unbearable pain, almost to the point where he was pushed too far, but the Priestess turned off the gom-jabbar just in time. Wincing was the last of Pauls problems at that moment... Paul was not a cold robotic person - he was subject to great emotions all the way through the book.

Also: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QrCfivcQe48/hqdefault.jpg