skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that JS has led WCs for the simple fact that JS is easier to polyfill/prollyfill/ponyfill and there's a lot more infrastructure today for JS modules and JS bundling. Web Components have been a lot of trying to assemble the cart behind you while riding the (JS) horse, simply because web standards are so slow. (I'm not sure if that analogy entirely works, though in my head it adds the unsightly picture that at least some of the material you have to build the cart with is manure, and WCs being built more than partly from JS manure does sound accurate.)

ES2015 modules are about at the point that caniuse statistics show them as nearly viable for production work, with HTTP/2 (or 3) deployment being possibly the last puzzle piece for a global lessened reliance on bundling for performance reasons. (Though not for simplicity of usage reasons: it's still useful to be able to drop an entire third party bundle all at once on a file host and use the thing as a single import.)

Meanwhile, CSS Modules are still something prollyfilled by JS bundlers and there still isn't an official spec yet?! And "HTML Modules" is so barely on the drawing board that it would be optimistic to call what JS bundlers are doing there as anything resembling a "prollyfill" (we're to "wishfill", I guess?). (And most JS WCs are using virtual DOMs or JS-native template tools instead of HTML templates anyway.)
Cash is a technology that is one of the biggest enablers of drug trafficking and child prostitution. Does this serve as an argument for employees of the Treasury Department (which prints and mints said cash) to engage in politics in the workplace?

Much of technology is agnostic to politics, and enables much evil and good alike. This does not, in my mind, serve as justification for technology creators to intertwine politics with the creation of said technology.
It may not be a perfectly repeatable recipe (that doesn't exist), but there's solid, actionable advice here. Particularly "act immediately". Things only go viral when the moment is right, and that moment is usually very fleeing.

One supporting data point: back when the game 2048 went viral I happened to be on a break with nothing to do, so I coded up an AI for it in one night [1]. The next day it blew up on Twitter and elsewhere. There have since been many other, better AIs, but since mine was first and came out when the game was on everyone's mind, it was the only one that got so much attention.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379821
While I haven't seen such a case, I can imagine a mailing list 'leaking' with posts like "like the trick Windows did for fast_malloc()" and such, then being summoned.
Not really. I created and maintained a Linux distribution, and while Perl was sometimes used it was almost never strictly required (i.e., it was for documentation or something that really would have been better if the release maintainer had already generated....). This covers a few hundred packages, like gcc, binutils, glibc, linux, core-utils, util-linux, flex, ...

Notable, also, is that I didn't compile perl for my Linux distribution because perl's configuration system is terrible (there's an out-of-tree patch to make it less terrible, though).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
Oh right... I think I ran into your comment while researching.

Mouser didn't appear to have any, so I decided it must have gone out of stock in the last few years.

Though now I see digikey still have them.

Are they actually still sold by NXP, or do digikey just have one last shipment sitting in a warehouse?
Towards an Infinite Laptop
Justin Sun: the crypto millionaire who acquired BitTorrent
While I with rodolphoarruda that you need a page that sells the product to the user, I applaud the existence of this page.

As the person often tasked with evaluating, approving and deploying software, a page like the one linked to in this article can turn a multi-day review process (or weeks if I have to keep asking their sales people to relay questions to the technical team I'm not allowed to talk to and then relay back half the information they think they understood from said technical team) into a couple of hours.
I would think that anyone who relies on a VPN for safety or is really particularly security conscious (1) isn't using Windows 10, (2) has networking disabled if they are using it, for example, in a VM, and (3) is probably using a dedicated device like a Slate router or pfSense box as their VPN point.
(I didn't have coffee and forgot that Google is indeed the #1 domain)
>that people at Microsoft have actually claimed that the developers must have source code access.

Source?

Arent decompilers and disassemblers pretty good today anyway?
I keep thinking about this.
Nice. He answered most of my questions except one. How big does some object need to be to cause harm to Earth as it gets consumed by the black hole moon? Also, I guess we also need to talk about spin and how the accretion disk and quasar radiation beam are oriented to say if it's pointed at Earth or not.
Laptops for Solidworks
A small guide with which you can choose the best laptop for working in the Solidworks program.
> I was so intrigued with NeXTSTEP as Unix with a polished GUI

Don't forget, also, about NextSTEP being based on the Mach kernel plus code from BSD Unix.
More like, he unambiguously condemned Neo nazis and white nationalists right after Charlottesville, so don't repeat that lie. We have the freaking video. https://www.twitter.com/BarrettWilson6/status/13111436668917...

And the Proud Boys' leader looks pretty black for a white supremacist.
It's a shame getting 68010s is not as easy.

68010 is IMO a bugfixed 68k, and what should have been used for any design that would otherwise target 68k, since the moment it became available.
Would it help if we made a standard for communication between web components, so whatever tools they use internally, you can wire them into your code or to each other?

Web components are abstraction boundaries, and you have to define boundaries carefully or you still end up with a big ball of mud, now with extra layers of indirection to make your life even worse.
Nexus Framework sunset, to focus on Nexus Schema
Nicolas Cage on His Legacy
I just watched The Royal Tenenbaums again. (It's available for free right now on Amazon Prime!)

This sounds like the fairy tale version of that. Probably doesn't make for great cinema. But I imagine a lot of people here would have loved to have grown up in a family like that.

I think I would have. Then again I asked to be excused from the honors program in elementary school because it conflicted with PE. (Begged to get back in once I hit junior high and got my first taste of an ordinary junior high English class.)

Royal Tenanbaums trailer just because I love this movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMgokYWboU
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Yes, if it will bring about more regulations and protections.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/treasury-plugs-gap-in-anti-mone...
How is that remotely "owning the libs"? Sounds like this person just wants to be free of them (or those that would try to get him fired).

It's not an attack if people just don't want to be around you.
The current working hypothesis seems to be that wearing a mask protects other people from getting infected by the wearer, rather than the wearer himself. Testing this hypothesis in a randomized control trial sounds extremely difficult, since it is usually not known who infected whom. On the other hand, masks are basically free and reducing the amount of saliva we spit at each other sounds like a resonable measure during a pandemic.
One of mine is on 531ms at the moment, but that's guaranteed traffic on a dedicated slot. General wifi stuff on BGANs in background mode tends to be twice that.

By comparison, my office in Sydney is currently 276ms rtt from London.
Tiny chip, HUUUUGE heatsink. Assuming a similar chip size to what we currently use that would be 3.4kW of heat you need to dissipate from a tiny 2cm^2 contact patch. Some sort of liquid cooling would probably be necessary, just to move the heat fast enough to avoid melting the package.
Someone else in this thread has pointed out you can still buy the 68SEC000 from digikey.

But it's not recommended for new designs.
What do you think it should be done about the chilling effect of those taxes? Talented graduates who select to join a different city instead of Seattle, a city perhaps less hungry for their hard worked money. Enthusiastic founders who never decide to start that startup anymore and rather get a job because why bother when others get to enjoy most of the fruits of your labor?

Business never started, money never made, growth stunted. Is it worth to sacrifice the future so that politicians can add another checklist to their re-election campaign?
Even if somehow the leaked XP code were legitimized, it wouldn't do anybody much good since the driver model has changed significantly since XP and none of the hardware OEMs are going to go back to producing XP compatible drivers again.
I love her description of using a dependency-laden component:

> Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically because “here is my truckload of dependencies, yeah, what”. Many steps are even omitted, likely because they are “obvious”. Often, you wade through the maze only to find the component doesn’t work anymore, or is not fit for your purpose.

That is so true. The "unapologetically" thing is important. I see this all the time. There's often a fair bit of 'tude, where I am looked at with condescension, for not knowing something "obvious."

The fig tree pic is perfect.

EDIT: Removed phrase that was possibly corrosive to the narrative.
A fake narrative being built against India. To be honest everything boils down to religious issues. The dominant two world religions see India as an unfinished conquest. But this is not politically correct view so all other weasel issues are created/spread. Always follow the funding.
I actually see a market for 5G towers to use Starlink as an uplink. Imagine a pre-packaged solution that gives a 5G provider a solar-powered all-in-one box that can be placed at any high point, without the need to run power or data lines to it.
I wonder if this is related to the vampire accelerator (new amiga).
None of those examples are political in so far as to be a problem. Reasonable people understand this. Maybe that's the major issue: the boundary of reasonable is being pushed to the extremes by those who are unwilling to accept anything else.
3.3v 68Ks could be made available.

They do exist in the form of M683XX microcontrollers.
Related issue with some workarounds that people are reporting various levels of success with: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5068
I'm still using a Galaxy S3 with no problems. YMMV.
You can, but it's your problem if you don't stringently configure SELinux and have clear policies for yourself. If you use Linux like Windows thinking it's more secure, and run everything with 'sudo' "Just to make sure it doesn't crash or pop an annoying prompt.", you're worse off.
Oh sorry- if it wasn’t clear from the post I think it’s terrible and not only corroding human society but also our planet. The post is arguing for building a tech workers’ movement to oppose capital.
How was your experience with react-data-grid? I've heard it can be painful to work with sometimes?
Voting is literally an infinitesimal part of politics. Voting is an instantaneous act, and then it's done. That is not politics.

All labor is "activism" performed in service of a specific outcome, because every action is inherently ideological. Only tools are morally neutral -- not the actions performed with them.

What you spend your time doing, introduces an influence that drives nature and society in one direction over another. If you make tools for microlending, you are contributing to the economic activity of disconnected portions of the world population. If you make tools for surveilling undocumented immigrants, you are contributing to the apparatus which continues to strip and violate the human rights of large groups of people.

Different degrees of separation warrant different levels of attribution. But no one is completely inculpable.
There are other forms of cooperate governance than co-ops and corporations, and there are other ways to ensure non-investor stakeholders like employees (and the community) have a say in some business decisions. Unions are an obvious one. The German model for corporations is another: employees get an actual seat on the board with an actual voice and a vote, by law.

None of these are perfect solutions, but any of them would be a step in the right direction. When manufacturing was the engine of economic growth in America, workers figured out how to get it to work for them. Tech is becoming the new engine now, and it's time for us (the workers) to figure out how to implement systemic changes to ensure our concerns are heard and addressed.

As to your main point, I agree. Whinging about your employer won't change anything - the systems themselves need to be changed.
Agree. Obama stopped testing for swine flu - pandemic gone.
My personal view on this is that these "activist employees" are a predictable natural side-effect of any organization is:

1) Large

2) Has a culture that embraces optimism, reject cynicism, and has "Change the World!" type mission statements

3) Have overly-strict culture fit parameters.

Political activists share a lot in common with founders: They are stubbornly optimistic (Why fight for social change if you think it's pointless or impossible?), they want to change the world, and they have interests in building movements/organizations. If your hiring process is designed to weed out candidates cynical enough to know your organizations mission statement is bullshit and recognize you're just here to make money not change the world - or pessimistic enough to think they'll never be part of positive change - don't be surprised if you find yourself with a team full of activists... just saying.
They are not. Cases are up slightly in the past few weeks, but on par with where they were in July (after
which they saw a decline). You have to be extrapolating wildly to call this a rapid increase.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102193/coronavirus-case...
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"The harder I practice, the luckier I get' - Gary Player, a legendary South African golfer.
1) If you want to get that technical, like fuel, battery cells aren't structural either. The battery casings like the fuel tank shells, are the structural components that can be used as structural elements. And on some planes, they are used in that manner for weight-saving.

2) Irrelevant. They're still more efficient than EV planes at any height, so comparing the relative efficiency of ICE to itself is pointless.

3) Neither can EV planes, unless someone has discovered how to turn gravity into electricity without water and a massive turbine.

4) ICE vehicles have higher power density (see previous Verge link, also https://www.topspeed.com/cars/warp-coils-seem-closer-to-real...). It's not even close. 43x-100x the power density of batteries, depending on the type of fuel and the type of battery. ICE vehicles are bigger because they are used to carry more things and people: hundreds of people or hundreds of tons of cargo on trips that can go almost halfway across the world without stopping. In contrast, an EV plane can currently carry itself, a pilot and a passenger, for almost long enough to get from LA to Fresno. (No EV currently on the market can even make the trip from LA to SF.)

And they don't have to to beat ICE in the market.

You're right. EVs will never be able to compete at the ranged market; they'll be limited to short-range hops. This means they won't be a viable option for the corporate/personal jet market beyond limited hobbyist use.
People keep moving the goal posts on this.

Unless Sweden's health system implodes because the pandemic overwhelms it, their approach has obviously not been a total failure.

The rationale for the brute force lock-downs, AIUI, has always been to preserve the ability to treat patients. i.e. to not have all hospitals resembling the early scenes coming out of Lombardy Italy or Wuhan China.

Sweden didn't institute draconian lock-downs, and never lost the ability to treat patients, never devolved into the utter chaos many predicted.

We can't meaningfully compare other statistics like total deaths and economic impacts until the pandemic has run its course.
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
> I'm not sure how to take the "lack imagination" bit, but I'll accept it.

No pun intended. I automated stuff in PowerShell more then decade almost every day, and there is no calming down visible. You could:

- Automate your dev/main Windows machine - control panel, installed apps, etc.

- Automate web stuff (check here for awesome sample [1])

- Create reports of various kinds

- Automate databases on various aspects - backups, seeders, metrics

- Whatever really... every day something else

> Why do you think moving away from MS at this time is bad? I'm curious.

Because MS is the best company today since it opened - bunch of x-platform tools - .NET, PowerShell, Secret management, VSCode, Terminal, WSL ... clearly light years away from MS during 90's or first 2 decade of 20's.

BTW, forgot C#. With .NET 5 this is probably one of the best programming languages and ecosystems around.

> I'm also hearing that things like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. are starting to wear thin with serverless objects being the new thing.

Hype or overkill for 99.9% of companies. Literary almost 0 companies need k8s. The complexity involved is not worth it on premise. Docker is more useful, but also requires a lot of involvement. I had big gov projects in all, and didn't see any benefit compared to projects not using them, contrary, yet another realm you need to handle.

As for serverless, I don't know what to make of it ATM.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...
Who pays for delays? Is it that calculated in the price of the the launch, or covered by insurance?
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There is a difference between being aware of the negative externalities of your work, and using your position in your company as a platform to accomplish your own partisan political goals. The former should be encouraged and the latter discouraged.

Much of the discussion here today is confused by the intermingling of so many concepts under the singular term "politics".
I think what they're saying is that will work to make the environment within the company as welcoming as possible. However, they will not try and solve that problem for society at large. Although you may disagree with the approach, it doesn't seem contradictory to me.
The important thing about web components is that we _can_ import the component's script and then have new useful HTML tags.

You can drop this on a page and it _just works_:

<script type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/chessboard-element?module"></script>
<chess-board></chess-board>

And this is built with LitElement.

Live demo: https://jsbin.com/kicelemara/2/edit?html,output

Having dependencies doesn't change the external interface to an element, or prevent it from being drop-in. Dependencies are very often good, because they are well tested implementations of a common need, rather than ad hoc implementations that may be brittle or duplicative.
Are you talking about "3D Pinball"? Looking around it seems to be available for later versions of Windows (but I didn't look into the details of whether it's a port or something else).
To be fair, that test way way above legal speeds. I don't think it's representative even of motorway performance.

I don't see your point however - what I'm saying is that at 130kmh (standard motorway speed in most of europe) a 70-90hp subcompact (by far the most common car in europe and the world in general) is running at above 80% max power (testified by the fact that as soon as there's a significant incline their speed will fall back to 110-120). So running long times under heavy engine load is quite normal for cars
Surely it can be run in compatibility mode on modern Windows?
hmm. that's exactly what stayed with me as well.
Each birthday is another victory. You made it another year. some don't. rejoice.
Whoa. I thought when that was leaked, that there would be no way it would be able to compile or, well, run without Microsoft's extensive and extremely complicated build setup. What an accomplishment.
Does it matter? There are refrigerated burgers of all sorts available in the supermarkets, you only have to microwave or bake them after unpacking. I think I've even seen some where you leave them in the packaging during microwaving. Never tried them, so far. I really mean fully 'assembled' and prepared burgers, not only the patties. In a box like the ones from the golden M, just printed different.
And what about when the business performed by the company you are working for has political consequences?
Because the outbreak slowed without any strong controls.

Well, yes, people wake up eventually, when their friends are dying. That said, new cases per capita in Sweden are still an order of magnitude higher than in Finland and Norway. Denmark caught up last month, but that may be because they are so much more urbanized there.

See graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
I appreciate this. The point, succinctly: This is a manufactured problem for a manufactured solution that hasn't evolved utility.
35,786km above the equator.

Equator is 6,378km from the centre of the earth, so GEO is 42,164km, or 26,200 miles, so not sure where 28,500 came from.

> Then again, the mythical perfectly spherical radiation pattern dipole antenna that we base all dBi off of isn't a thing either.

It got knocked over by a spherical cow.

(I did have a colleague lose a satellite connection in Libya once which he blamed on a herd of cows. I think he aiming fairly low on the horizon to the east, with the disk near ground level, so I give him the benefit of the doubt)
Human rights are intangible and the few organisations that tout them concentrate on smaller countries.
Exactly luck can connect to a certain point but if efforts are not there, its no use
They are a common standard for building web apps.

Dart itself hasn't kept up with web standards in general, but that's another story.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=perl
Crossover.com has been doing this for YEEAARS
By that logic, you can't separate church and state either.

And that's to say that you can and you should.
Sure, now convince my 72 year old mother and the rest of my family to do the same. We understand the underlying problems of social media like Facebook and Twitter, but we are in a bubble. Most people outside tech don't have the same insight or understand the underlying issues to make the jump or even seek alternatives. Those who understand it somehow would simply stop using social media, but the large majority are either oblivious, don't understand the ramifications of lack of privacy in the Internet or don't care.

This is a really hard problem to solve, and would require those in power to help enlighten the people of this problem. At the same time, those in power are the one that benefit the most of the current trend of less and less privacy, so we can't really rely on them for educating people on this.
Potential workaround: is it possible to configure VPN clients to _ignore_ the WSL2 runtime and instead run a VPN client inside WSL2?

That way the Linux network config can deal with the Linux side of things and the Windows network config can deal with the Windows VPN routing.

Of course you can just configure OpenVPN inside WSL2 and also run a VPN on the desktop but that's tunnels in tunnels and that way madness and network issues lies.