skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with a reactionary halt in some area due to a perceived sense of danger is that we often go too far. The campaign against nuclear arms also leaked out into a campaign against all things nuclear. We're only now starting to restore some sanity to the discussion and begin tentative funding of promising technologies in that industry. If you look at the broad history of nuclear power you'll realize that we are far behind where we should be. Power plant design hasn't changed in decades and nuclear power generation is nowhere near as widespread as it should be. Given that the largest contributors to CO2 emissions are electrical power generation and industry you could even make a case that the anti-nuclear movement of the 1960s, which resulted in the drying up of funding and academic interest in nuclear science as well as rampant NIMBYism and political opposition to nuclear reactors, is the reason we are now suffering from the effects of excessive CO2 in the atmosphere. Ironic.
It seems to me that right now, it is easier to identify people who are at high risk of serious infection than it is to identify people who are spreaders.
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>Even if true, it doesn't help much if you have to marshall through JS for nearly every call.

If your particular front end code is dominated by many calls to the DOM, then WASM may be a net performance loss currently, yes.

In cases where you are doing something computationally heavy then periodically updating the dom with results, then WASM can be a huge win.

In cases where the performance is fine either way, being able to use one language server and client is a huge win. I am already doing useful things with WASM and Rust. It is a very very nice workflow.
Perhaps updates to the array content don't trigger reactive computations? Not sure really.
So excited to see this vision come together Eric. I honestly hope one day we're taking HMBradley public on the LTSE. I have never felt more aligned with a mission or a vision, Systematically allowing companies to take a long term view without being punished is what the market needs.

Or put another way ... Adam Smith > Milton Friedman

I cannot wait to see where this goes and the mechanics LTSE puts in place to help reward long term thinking and long term holders
The article does point out that the murals may be accurate:

> "It's important to note that Blacks and other servicemen of color returning to the states during that time were prohibited from taking advantage of the GI Bill, despite that being a promise to them at discharge."

It also looks like the services wouldn't desegregate until at least Korea, or even the mid-1960s:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100723014433/http://www.histor...

> "Originally a follower of civilian society in racial matters, the armed forces moved ahead in the 1950's and by the mid-1960's had become a powerful stimulus for change in civilian practices in some areas of the country."

more of the same at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24333207
Ask HN: How to best expose public data in an intuitive interface?
Recently I found that my country's (Lithuania) parliament provides a way to get quite a bit of data in regards to questions being raised, voting results, business trips, etc. One problem is that the data is in XML format with an undocumented schema.

I am going to clean up and organize the data but was wondering whether someone could recommend any existing tools that can help make this data accessible to any half-savvy computer user?

The goal is to help citizens make better voting decisions in upcoming election. I hope that being able to see what particular politician voted for/against in the past, and other relevant data, will enable make more informed data-driven decision whom to vote for. Thus, what's probably needed is an intuitive user interface for inspecting all this data but I hope to avoid the pleasure of having to build such interface myself.
Having tried both Quasar and Vuetify. I found Vuetify (https://vuetifyjs.com/) way better.
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Yes and almost exactly what the article claims. Only it goes a step further to imply that Amazon is loosing money on other products to encourage AWS adoption. Not sure how the other comment interprets it as "AWS is loosing money".
I can call it whatever I want? I'm not the one committing the fallacy of composition here.

The device in question is definitely not a microphone. It has a microphone.

Smart TVs, Smart Fridges, Smart Thermostats, and Smart Clocks can all have microphones. That doesn't mean you should call them smart microphones. Microphones are used for the UX of a smart speaker because before speakers were smart they were already interacting with your ears, and using your voice is a natural complement to that (just like a conversation with another human). Not because the intention was to make passive listening devices that spy on you.
"go off the reservation" .. I suspect that my father many decades ago engaged in casual references like this, but I recall as a child that it was frowned upon by people who sought to reset and build positive relations between races in North America
Thanks for sharing. Through "link-hopping", researching one of the named figures I stumbled upon quite some interesting theories and learned quite a lot today.

So this gem of trivia provided quite a great procrastination.
Not any technical details. Doesnt make sense. Short time speculators are not an enemy for long time investors. Also, doesnt make sense to enforce long-term view on exchange level.
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> but they haven't been implemented in any browser, much less standardized yet.

Reference types already implemented. GC is not really needed for non-managed languages like C++ or Rust. Interface types in progress.

See this: https://webassembly.org/roadmap
Found tfbvis because I wanted to see more than RPS: specially memory footprint. The headers sortable and can be filtered.

The most memory efficient results belong to C, C++, Rust and Go, usually using around 1,1.5GB of RAM max. Java programs in the same ballpark RPS use maybe up to 4 times that much.

Not sure how much weight to put in these benchmarks though. After all, they measure performance under stress... How many web apps receive > 200,000 RPS during sustained time?

Is there a clever way to extrapolate an estimation of RAM usage under normal load?. Would be cool to see how the memory usage grows as the RPS grow, for different platforms, but I don't think the raw data has that info.
Hi, author here, I started this project 8 hours ago to solve one very specific problem : organizing a small event with friends in a WhatsApp group. Keeping a list of "who brings what" up to date was a pain. Simply opening this link gives you a plain text, real time editor that you can share in your WhatsApp group, and get all the updates in one place.

The code is very tiny, because it lies on the shoulders of two giants : MeteorJS and Quill

If I see some interest, I'll develop it further.
I think that is common across Europe / social states:

- Half of gross income is taxation

- Half of the net income is rent

- Half of the net-net income is other cost of living

- The remainder is disposable income (~10 % of gross income)
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Sun exposure causes me massive inflammation. So yea, I avoid the sun like the plague. Autoimmune condition.
Vit D is critically low.

I can sort of tolerate a UV index of 1, usually.

So I walk a lot in evenings and early mornings.

During summer I’m basically trapped in house or gym. This past summer it was just the house.
Are you some kind of genius? This opened my mind in so many ways.

¡Muchas gracias por escribrir!
children are an a-priori good for society and they massively subsidized the childless in the long run. Anyhow, try the empathy thing out. Put yourself in the shoes of a hard working parent that up to this point, possible for 10+ years of child-rearing carries the same load as everyone else. Now, COVID has happened an unprecedented pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Maybe they have their hands a little full right now? Employers in general should be helping everyone out right now, not just parents, but I am sure you can see where I am going here? Some people are stuck in a 100% capacity spot for whatever reason. It’s not what I would prefer, but it’s how society is set up.
At least a year or so ago, when I was still working on a Vue project, some external libraries didn't work with Vue reactivity due to the way it was implemented by overriding Array built in methods. I think we ran into this issue with some lodash functions.
Then get off at 6. Who's forcing you to stay til 11?
The way crony capitalism theft works is to look for a way to steal. The way to steal is now clear. Manufacture blow-up mortgages and they blow up on the mortgage buyers (Fed).

S&L 1980s bailouts were an exact copy of 2008 Mortgage bailouts. Theft in creating mass blow-up real estate loans. This is a proven crony capitalism way to steal.

When the Fed has to politically buy them, then crony capitalists will find a way to get them buying blow-up mortgages in 5 or 10 years.
I haven't seen it with Word, which I use quite a lot, but there is one similar and extremely long-standing bug. When you use a keyboard shortcut to turn bold/italics on, then type a word immediately before a non-whitespace character, then use the shortcut to turn it back off, it will un-bold the thing you just bolded. So annoying.
Ask HN: What can we do lower fraud payments in Stripe?
We are in the niche where techsupport scammers, pay for our product using stolen cards.

Thing is we've nothing to do with techsupport but those people find our tool useful, while our target market is not limited to them.

We already check the IP Vs Card location, but it's not helping as they are able to use residential IPs or simply login via victims TeamViewer on some US based person.

So this technique while good, isn't helping us reduce fraud rate.

Is there anyway, to reduce fraud? I like apple's solution where it asks you to show your card on the camera and auto detects its numbers but how can we do it on stripe?
That is a good argument, and I should have mentioned it, yes. For a one-off job, web scraping will probably be the best choice, and maybe even the fastest to implement. I have done my own share of web scraping for personal projects (and thus know about the fragility), but I didn't care much about broken results in the long run.

But in the article they mentioned re-running their program to update their data, so it could be a long-term effort. And anyone planning a long-term project reading that article and taking their advice should at least be warned about this possible problem.
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Browser API calls add 1us of overhead. If your code is conscious of this, then it won’t be a problem. Much of the thought process behind react is to update the dom as little as possible, because it usually takes a while to repaint. Similarly, your WASM code will have this small overhead, but even 1000 calls is just 1ms. Regardless, there is still much more performance gains to be had by WASM-compatible languages when providing computationally expensive features.

My favorite example is Rapier http://rapier.rs/, check out the 3D demos. It blows every JS physics engine out of the water, and it’s using Conrod, a native gui library which has a webgl backend.
Kok (The toolkit of Go kit) is enhanced to support more features
I also have no ad blocker and see just the one small non intrusive ad. No PiHole or custom dns either. Might be worth looking deeper into what’s going on to see if something on your computer is injecting ads into webpages you view.
> but incentivising someone from a field completely unrelated to CS to 'just code' sounds like pretty bad advice.

I’m sorry but learning to code very custom or short lived software is just not that hard. I think you’re making programming too precious.

Don’t get me wrong — writing good, maintainable, long lived software, and basically anything with a UI for non programmers, and certainly anything for sale, is much harder and usually something professionals or their equivalents will need to do especially for an institution.

But writing scripts in interpreted languages like python or ruby for the research purposes of an individual or small group is not something people need to (or more importantly can) hire a dedicated team of engineers to do.

IMO it’s good that programming has become more democratic. It’s an ongoing process. And one that has happened in basically all other creative industries to some extent.
The article raises some key issues regarding sustainable tourism. I recall some recent posts on here that had some great discussions in the context of high profile destinations (e.g. [0] and to a lesser extent [1]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20675096

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19996108
> GM has essentially figured out how to fit its battery packs with Wi-Fi. WBMS allows individual modules in the system to communicate through a wireless network instead of traditional cables.

what could go wrong with that ?
This is the worst thing about my 2017 Highlander. No idea why Toyota thought that infotainment system could compete - it’s pretty terrible.

I’ve seen videos of people installing CarPlay compatible head units while maintaining all of the original car features, but it kind of spooks me. I’ll have to build up the courage to make the switch.
It alway cracked me up that some of the archived games I checked out had the same crack screens that I remember. I may have had a pirate problem in my middle school days.

Are they still trying to clean crack games that they've imaged?

The imaging of disks including their copy protection so emulation just works is pretty interesting. The data areas on disks are rather stunning.

https://ia801001.us.archive.org/8/items/Antoine_Vignau_3.5_F...

("Applesauce" creator/author twitter post gives summary of the applesauce disk reader, plus Ultima 1 was in Basic?)

https://mobile.twitter.com/diskblitz/status/1258863201447366...

The infrequent Apple time warp podcast interviewed the author:

https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/episode-6-applesauce-with-j...
> That may include things like endpoint addresses, certificates, secrets, but can also be things like feature flags, authorizations, API tokens. Basically anything that's not compiled in is configuration.

But Kubernetes solves most of this problem in an easier way with Pods, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Services and Endpoints.
Unfortunately, childcare is like most things in the US, cost and quality vary wildly. We had great childcare and preschool experience, but for a period of time was paying more than our mortgage to send the kids there.
> With Fluid Framework, developers can easily add multi-user interactivity to their apps — powered by the same code that drives collaboration in Microsoft 365 experiences for millions of users.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/fluid-fra...
If you print out the API docs for all the resources you might deal with for running apps at A4 (8.5 x 11) it comes in at over 1,000 pages. There is just so much and few really know it.

A UI like this is useful to so many. It makes the experience of creating these YAML files easier. Thanks for sharing it.
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Form is content, content form. How you do anything is how you do everything. Errors in grammar and syntax indicate errors in thought and care.
> It'll be interesting to see the legal fallout from this, as purposely breaking customer owned gear is not going to end well.

IANAL; I wonder if this would be grounds for a class-action lawsuit in the future. Something like suing the motherboard manufacturers to replace every CPU their boards have broken by this method.
That article only says that Prime members spend more than non-Prime, and that Alexa users are more likely to be Prime members. It then uses the high sales numbers of Alexa-enabled devices to conclude that spending on Amazon is going to increase.

The problem is this:

> In a press release earlier this month, Amazon revealed the Echo Dot was one of the two "best-selling products purchased by U.S. Prime members from any manufacturer in any category across all of Amazon" (the other was the Fire TV Stick).

The month in question was December. All those Echos and Fire Sticks were being bought to give as gifts. How many of those get used a dozen times before the new owner loses interest and it gets left unplugged in a drawer? I'll be generous and say it could be as much as 55% since the sales were for Prime members and holiday gifts are frequently exchanged among family, so the Echo will end up in the same Prime household. But why should I believe that giving an Echo to a non-Prime member will increase their engagement with Amazon at all?
>> So how are all these people able to afford crowding our parks?

It is younger people. Whereas young families might once have gone to places like disney world, provincial parks are now the cheap family vacation. Reliable GPS, weather forecasting and cellphones have also made previously "remote" areas very accessible. There are no secret places anymore.
His explanation is that's what google cloud defaulted too, although I have a really hard time believing that.

I'm more inclined to believe he googled and blindly followed an old guide with an old ppa than I am to believe that google cloud by default installed an EOL PHP server.

I'm pretty sure he was a node guy who found himself in the PHP world.
The same kind of people that adopt platform specific game engines like PhyreEngine, and sign console exclusives.

Apple engines are so bad that Cocos2D-x is basically a copy of their features, using C++ instead of Objective-C/Swift, one of the engines that Google and Microsoft give first class on their platform SDKs.

Not every game engine needs to be a bullet point list copy of Unreal capabilities.

And no I am not joking, contrary to many here, I had a past life in demoscene, been a former IGDA member, previous GDCE attendee (London and Cologne), have been inside a couple of known AAA publishers and have kept my contacts from them.
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OH come on, I'm sure you can imagine the complexity of digging grows as the depth grows. the first meter would cost 100$ the second 150$, the 3rd 200$, the fourth 500$ the fifth 550$, the sixth 600$, etc.
Come on. This whole thread was kicked off by a single person complaining how they might possibly have to help otherwise high performing colleagues out by covering for them some during an unprecedented pandemic. I can’t recall a single time in my time in HN (since it started, literally) I asked or thought this was a more appropriate thing to say.
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So, basically the summary of Android 11 is: People + Controls (at 1:37). Funny like it would sound completely different, if it were presented as: Controls + People.

Seriously though, it looks like a step towards how People and Message hub worked in Windows Phone. From the video I can't understand if what they propose is a way to consolidate communication channels (I wish it were), or just more levels of distractions / notifications. And I hope bubbles are nothing like Facebook Messenger.
Nice. It would be great if he won. Even better if we had a joint Trump-Netanyahu win.
Waves from 2005 where people literally could not afford the loan they just were given. I knew a couple of people who just planned on flipping so didn’t worry about the inability to service the loan.
Notes from an earlier era, when computer science was still emerging (separating from mathematics & engineering) and a lot of legitimate work was still “stamp collecting”.*

I remember (I was a kid but watched it — I was fascinated by all things computing thanks to the Apollo program) that in the 70s and early 80s nobody had any idea who might make good a good programmer so would hire musicians, philosophy majors, poets, and math majors. Also a disproportionate number of women, still a small number in that more sexist age, but more than traditional engineering professions in that age. And you can see reflected in the two authors of this paper.

* I used the scare quotes around “stamp collecting” in case the term is unfamiliar and comes off as denigrating, which it is not. The term is not mine: it reflects that most fields start out that way (botany, zoology, biology, chemistry, physics...) until there is a large enough corpus for people to start reasoning about them.
After they had held the game hostage for a year my excitement for the game was very much gone and I didn't buy it in the end.
React for gaming: a Minecraft clone using self-contained components, in 130 loc
Very cool! I couldn't find a trove where I could browse by category or other metadata, although I did find the search interface. Is there a categorised trove?
You can also copyright databases in the US as well as web content. It is similar here. However, many people do not actually register their copyrights to their web content. There is also a lot of misinformation about automatic copyright in the US as it relates to web content. While there is 'automatic copyright,' due to recent court decisions, you must have a registered (paid for, deposited with the copyright office) copyright in order to file a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

I agree that this is what should be done more often for durable content. This is another reason why social media sites are bad: the users technically have automatic copyright to their contributions, but they often also agree to grant licenses to the content website for things like their photos. The US Copyright Office is releasing a new application format intended for blog posts and other short form content that will hopefully be more straightforward to use.
> Satya Nadella made a parallel observation that operating systems have moved off of particular hardware (e.g. running Windows 95 on your PC) and into more of a consistent interface for interacting with all the devices in our lives

They haven't. But Microsoft (and perhaps Google?) would like for this to happen - with their kind of OS, user interface and cloud "services".

> have to acknowledge this is the future.

Well, absolutist monarchy used to be the future, in the middle ages. Never too early to get started on bringing the future after the future.
Decent tool, simple and easy! Glad that XML is still getting attention these days. While JSON is excellent for almost everything, there are still areas where XML excels.
I concur. If I bought a camera lens in New York and it came with a Malaysian manual and a warranty that's not valid in the US, but it's a genuine Canon lens, that's gray market.

But if I buy a similar lens from the camera shop down the street, and it was originally sold in the US and the warranty is still valid in the US etc, it's a USED lens or a second-hand lens, but there's nothing gray-market about it.

I think you're spot-on here; sources quoted in the article are misusing the term gray-market to simply refer to second-hand parts, which are something completely different. They want to make pre-owned parts sound just as shady, but the're not -- the first-sale doctrine would like a word.
And that you can resize without the browser reloading (very slowly) the URL.