skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah react, the biggest crap of them all. A 12 year old with basic programming skills is definitely capable of designing a better "framework". Yes, everything frontend is quoted because it's nothing more than a joke at this point. Back to react, and ignoring all the underlying problems coming from the pile of crap that is js, let's kick things off with jsx. The fact that someone developed their own syntax(I'm not sure if I should call it syntax or markup or something else) makes it idiotic: It's another step added to the gibberish generation. It's full of esoteric patterns and life cycles which don't exist anywhere in the real cs world. React alone provides little to nothing so again you need to add another bucket of 1000 packages to make it work. Compare it to a solid backend framework that isn't js: all the ones I've ever used come with batteries included. The concept of components and the idiotic life cycles turn your codebase into an unmanageable pile of of callbacks and sooner rather than later you have no clue what's coming from where. Going into the size, the simple counter example on the react page is 400kb. Do I need to explain how much stuff can be packed in 400kb? For comparison, I had tetris on my i486 in the early 90's which was less than 100kb, chess was a little over 150kb. Christ, there was a post here on HN about a guy who packed a fully executable snake game into a qr code.
Given the state of civil, religious and legal rights in 1600 and the living and working conditions of the majority of the English population, being kidnapped and forced to appear on stage would probably have appealed to many people.
I'd think that getting them to confirm what methods they're using would shorted the shelf-life of those methods a fair bit. Which I suppose fits with them pushing back as hard as they can.
I don’t find this to be a compelling argument.

Sure, the old person might be saying “I wish I’d worked less”...it doesn’t follow that working less will actually make you any happier for most of your life.

Constructing your life so you’ll be happy on that deathbed seems like a gross misapplication of life’s potential.
Is the basic idea that you only transmit the new content when they click a link? Rather than a JavaScript application rendering it?

So it's effectively similar to just a normal HTML page, but without things like headers and sidebars etc. being retransmitted?

I guess I am old but I don't understand why this requires a multi-million dollar marketing effort and all of the other stuff they invented on top of it.
My European country used to do that with phone contracts as well, then it was outlawed.

Now some of them will just make you pay a penalty if you recede early, but you can still cancel at anytime.
This reminds me of the Hollywood con which was recently busted: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/con-queen-of-hollywoo...

Also, in other industry mysteries, I did (late to the party) recently learn that the great glitter industry mystery buyer is boat paint! https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/duw480...

Manuscript stealing is interesting... I'm going with it being some sort of some machine learning AI software text editing startup developing hacker. Compare the published texts to the manuscripts, automate, profit.
For me, the line is an optional survey.
>If they’re not suing to stop it, that means it’s likely legal.

Pre-9/11, I would totally agree with you. The last 20 years, all that is necessary is the law enforcement agency needs a lawyer that has a somewhat convincing argument or technicality that they could argue is legal. Think "enhanced interrogation techniques," which has been argued is not torture, which would be illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq...

It helps if there is a technique that keeps it out of courts altogether, like civil forfeiture which charges the property with a crime and not the person. To get back property, the owner must prove their innocence rather than the state proving their guilt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
CHF 1 per day here. (~EUR 340/household year)

https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/electronic-medi...
Thank you for your interest!

I'm a hobbyist songwriter but pursued it in college at Middle Tennesse State University. I learned you got to be the best of the best and then luck needs to fall onto you as it did for my songwriting classmate, Luke Laird (wrote many Carrie Underwood and country number one songs.. was best writer in class.. not sure how he got his break). During college I was able to intern at record labels and attend fun industry functions like CRS (country radio seminar), NARM and the parties that happened after each day of the event. At NARM in Orlando I went to the events during the day and then found the parties the labels held for record store (2001 when record stores existed lol) people. At one of the parties I met some executives and partied with them and then one introduced me their friend. Her friend was the guy I mentioned and we hit it off, gave him my business card and a month later he left a message on my voicemail (was back in Nashville) saying he wanted to hire me for a marketing job at RCA/Victor (jazz label ... Etta James was on it).

I only lasted 6 months (he forced my boss to hire me and she hated me) in my supposed dream job in NYC, but it was a fun and interesting (witnessed the twin towers falling from Times Square in my office's 41st floor) time in my life.
The ISPs and network manufacturers know all of this stuff. They likely already have superior modelling ready.

It is just not profitable. The towers cost money, the equipment inside those towers cost money, the power to towers cost money, if not using radio-links the network to towers cost money, the core network in these rural areas cost money...

And really you can get only so much money out from single tower. Considering how plan prices are fixed for cell services it could be that even over decades of time such installation won't pay itself back.

If the service providers thought they could make money by offering service to area they would be doing it.
It did not ban anything based on magazine capacity, as is often stated.

You are right, it was mostly a ban based on superficial features like the much feared bayonet mount. But there were two bans based on magazine capacity.

It did ban magazines with more than 10 round capacity. It also banned semi-automatic shotguns with more than 5 round fixed magazine or a detachable magazine when in combination with folding stock or pistol grip.
It's more related to the superinflation during the Weimar period than the Nazi state. The Nazi's rise can be directly correlated (if not caused) by the inflation.

That's why the Bundesbank have always been inflation hawks and had to be convinced that the Euro would remain similar in focus to the Deutschmark.

Whether that is still true after 2008 is an interesting question :)
I don't think app complexity and sophistication grew that much. Most of the problems common apps are solving can be dealt with standard CRUD-like interfaces and old boring tech and it works just fine.

I think what drives this crazy train of overengineered solutions of SPAs and K8s for hosting single static page is deep separation of engineeres from the actual business problems and people they are trying to help. When all you have are tickets in Jira or Trello you don't know why you should do or if they actually benefit someone then it's natural to invent non-existant tech problems which are suddenly interesting to solve. That is natural for curious engineers and builders. Then mix in 1% of big apps and companies which actually do have these tech problems and have to solve them and everybody just wants to be like them and start cargo culting.
Show HN: AI Basketball Visualization
See also

Vim koans https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/vim-koans/
Terragraph: Solving the Urban Bandwidth Challenge
Did you know that boat paint turned out to be the glitter industry mystery buyer? https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/duw480...
The US regulates financial markets and transactions. It's hard to be surprised by this.
It’s a matter of principle. Plus I don’t want to be forced to hear them beg to stay.

You know I want to leave, let me leave and stop being abusive.
You don’t have to do it manually nor do you require labour. There are no till/no burn methods to using seed drills .. but .. https://www.thequint.com/news/india/air-pollution-in-delhi-n...

[..] A happy seeder is a machine that helps farmers get rid of the crop residue without burning the straw. Hence it is considered the answer to the issue of stubble burning that is one of the biggest contributions to pollution in and around Delhi-NCR.
The happy seeder not only removes residue but also allows the farmer to seed the new crop without involving manual labour. It is usually mounted on the back of a tractor. Typically, in the month of October, a farmer sows wheat while removing paddy straw in the process.
However, despite the government subsidising happy seeders, not many farmers want to use the machine. Here’s why:
1) ‘Single Happy Seeder Can’t Till Land Beyond 8 Acres Per Day’
2) Govt Subsidy Not Enough
3) Potato Growers Can’t Rely on Machine
4) Big Tractors Not Available
5) Moisture in Stubble Forces Farmers to Partially Burn It
[..]

You know..there are solutions. Small acreage farm automation as a service. Unless India steps up and stops farming like they used to..it’s going to get ugly.

But I can’t even get small acreage robots going here in the US..so I am really the last person who should be thinking about this.
Did your old password contain an apostrophe?
What about people that didn't die this year, but experienced a high degradation of life quality? What about people that experienced a 'low quality' year this year, being in ICUs for weeks?

A scientific analysis about years of life lost was done for COVID fatalities. It was in the press about half a year ago. It was a little over 10 years on average, even considering the preexisting conditions.
Running out of time before running out of money
> We made the change to call-to-cancel on December 1st, as part of the playbook Xenon installs at every company they acquire.

Sounds like there's a long list of SaaS apps to avoid:

https://xenon.io/
He did also, in fact, write more about "every sexual encounter in a different language is a different eros" in My Unwritten Books.
Quite handy, also check out dgl-lifesci for utilities dealing with molecule-graph-specific GNNs
Restrictions on SBRs never made sense anyway: it was a hold-over from the NFA back when they wanted to include pistols as well, but ultimately ripped that out of the legislation.
I’ve had a gym that required you to show up in person to fill in a form to cancel - really enjoyed finding this out after I moved abroad.
I am waiting for someone to name their programming language yafpl - yet another functional programming language.
Just for reference in Techemppwer Benchmark, the same guy who utilizes H2O HTTP source code for benchmarking, wrote h2o.cr for Crystal language and pico.v for V language. It’s isn’t mean for general use in any projects.
XSLT/XQuery is like that

With XSLT you put the XPath on the outside and update the elements choosen by the XPath. With XQuery you put the XPath in the HTML (actually XML) and it inserts something.

I build my webpage with my own XQuery processor: https://github.com/benibela/site/blob/master/style.xq.html

The HTML code looks very presentable at first. Although it is not, since the browser dies at <script.../>. Perhaps it was labeled as xhtml...
Email isn't secure. It's unreasonable to expect that to be sufficient to cancel anything with consequences on its own. I agree that the company is in the wrong here, but not because they wouldn't take significant and possibly irreversible action based on just an email that could have come from anyone.
So what you are still saying is:

I think microplastic is a problem. -> right?

Do you have the feeling every human needs to solve all problems?

We are big, we have in theory enough resources, why not saying something like:

we need to fix the microplastic issue; Its priority is behind air pollution and climate change.

Instead of:

Microplastic is not a problem!!111 Issue y and z are much bigger issues!!11

I personally think it should be feasable to work on all those topics in parallel as also often those issues can't be solved by everyone as not everyone is the expert in the same field.
> In a lot of respects, the original Android did this with Linux.

Android vendors keep doing this over and over again with Linux, which explains why so many phones are stuck on old versions of Android.
I think we've seen enough evidence for that theory that its not longer a theory. Why would so much money be spent on social media if it didn't work? Thats the business model, and people are paying.
My Covid update: day 44 of symptoms
Why should someone who wants to be an ex-customer care that you want to improve things for your customers? You’re not entitled to my time anymore than a big company.
If it short circuits, the circuit breaker on that circuit will open up and cut power within a couple of milliseconds, before anything has had a chance to catch fire. Though I definitely second the sibling comment about the multimeter.
What's crazy is that they have to pay a fee if they lose a chargeback, so this is essentially a revenue-negative move in addition to being terrible PR.
Sounds like an excuse to not tackle universally despised problems like disease.
SWIFT used to take a days. Since Ripple was started, SWIFT have already created their new SWIFT gpi platform (which they say settles most cross-border payments in in minutes), signed up 4000+ members and apparently are now is doing over $300bn in transfers a day. Most developed countries already have free, real-time domestic transfers (UK Faster Payments, Australia's New Payments Platform, etc.), and it looks like SWIFT have just announced a next step of further integrating with these to speed up cross-border payments to seconds [0].

For small payments though, I've just used something like TransferWise which is great and really fast too.

The biggest problem with Ripple was that there was never actually any compelling need for the XRP token, because you'd need an extra currency conversion for a cross border payment... So I believe mostly the only way that they'd got partners to test out their system was to actually pay them from money they'd got selling XRP tokens to speculators.

1. https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/swift-gpi/instant-cross-...
From my understanding, wireguard makes it so that all traffic between two physical nodes shares the same 5-tuple. In addition, ECN nor DSCP are copied in or out of the packet. Do you ever run into trouble with ensuring your flows are well balanced across ECMP?
CSS has a fundamentally different cognitive kalkül. You can do things fast, but if you do not have a deeper understanding, it can get pretty frustrating. At least historically.

It is like asking a Python programmer to write Prolog. Anyone can write Prolog, but only if you are willing to learn. The difference is: Prolog is an optional choice for most, CSS is a must for certain applications..
Another possibility, discussed at depth in Freakonomics, is that reducing unwanted children reduced crime rates. There is some controversy about this, but it may be one of the factors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...
If we were talking about some federal, nationalized internet infrastructure, I'd agree. Municipal broadband isn't that.
The NSA operates at a much different scale than a municipal broadband provider, which is small and basically transparent. Local broadband providers have no capability to undermine cryptographic standards, use libraries of 0days to take over your PC, or anything like that. NSA et al aren't going to grant them that capability either. I'd at least like the option of an ISP that is under indirect voter control, to complement the usual 900lb gorillas that line their pockets at everyone's expense and are basically unaccountable.
Sure, but you can exchange credentials over the phone with acceptable safety in most situations, after which it's reasonable to accept that the other person is who they claim to be.

Obviously if someone does email asking to cancel, a suitable method of cancellation should be explained to them.
> Would that imply every function that takes a mutable data structure will be impure?

That always has to be true, no? Reading from a mutable datastructure is impure in the same way that reading from standard input is.

> Edit: I just noticed that `List.toArray` -- which just returns a new array, so no concern over references or mutation -- is also marked as impure. This seemed wrong to me, but then I noticed that even `Array.new()` is marked impure. To my mind, a function that allocates a new mutable collection is itself not inherently impure.

Two different arrays with the same members are not generally equivalent. E.g. (x.toArray, x.toArray) is semantically something very different from {val y = x.toArray; (y, y)}.
Apple support document on turning off secure boot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198
This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just "feels like home". Thank you to everyone who contributed.
This is not true. Public servants are paid according to a different pay scale (TVöD [1]) than doctors at public hospitals (TV-Ärzte [2]). With a university degree, you get at most TVöD E13 (sometimes only E11), which is lower than the lowest pay grade for hospital doctors.

[1] https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tvoed/bund?id=...

[2] https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/aerzte/kommuna...
Once upon a time I believe gates said he wants to put a PC on every desktop in the world. But now I think he wants to put a PC inside every body in the world. This man is not a doctor, and neither is his money being used for our good. Only the good he thinks is. But he is a sociopath so his good is warped and nefarious.
Not once has clean living or healthy lifestyle been advised from the gates foundation, only corporate profit making items like toxin vaccines and GMO foods.
This man should be shot at the bottom of a fast filling hole.
It's a family member, stay at home dad with kids still young enough that need to be watched over, but old enough that you just need to be there most of the time.

I wanted to do this for a long time, but always thought that it might be expensive. Until one time my brother in law was on non-paid leave for two weeks and he was looking for anything to do. We decided to give it a go. Everyday he would sit beside me, watch Netflix for all day and just look at my screen from time to time. Productivity rose _instantly_. After a single day I was thrilled, after a week I was absolutely sure that I need to hire someone after he gets back to his old job.

Some tips: the person you're going to hire must be somewhat cheeky. They must cut through your bs, force you to explain why you're on youtube, ask you if you really need that for your work etc. Furthermore, working side by side works better than through Hangouts, Skype and others. I have multiple displays and I've started to cheat the system as vast majority of screen share apps allow you to share single screen only. We're in process on finding an app that allows one to share all displays (you might need couple extra CPU cores if you have 4-5 displays).
Very informative write-up. Claiming that the removal of the police mapping app was mandated by CCP is a leap, though.

I have no doubt that this is a walled garden dilemma where the gardener is held responsible if an app is seemingly used to cause damage. However, the claim that the gardener was influenced by an oppressive power doesn’t hold water given facts available and my personal observations[0].

It’s true that the level of trust required makes Apple hardware unsuitable for users with extremely heightened security needs. However, for the more casual user, trusting Apple is undoubtedly a more reliable bet than trusting their own infosec faculties.

I’d be happy to be proven wrong or given some other example as to why Apple should not be trusted.

[0] First, if they were, one would assume that (A) the app would not have been reinstated in App Store a couple days later, and (B) E2E-encrypted messengers such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram would have been taken off HK App Store, as groups there were used as the source of much more up-to-date information.

Second, considering the political split I have personally witnessed within Hong Kong population itself, a significant portion of citizens likely reported this app to Apple at their own volition.

On a more sentimental note, I was on location at the time and have seen first hand the destruction of property (such as breaking into and destroying ground-floor storefronts and bank branches) when the police were known to be away. It is far from clear to me that those were in fact actions of honest pro-democracy protesters. All protesters I know personally (about a dozen or so) either condemned those actions or were unable to explain what they were aiming to achieve. Meanwhile, the events seemed to obviously play into CCP’s hand, alienating more politically neutral HKers from the freedom movement, and later used by Beijing as an excuse to force the new “security” law on Hong Kong.

Bear in mind that genuinely peaceful pro-democracy protests—attended by many thousands of people—did not require police evasion apps.
I'll admit I'm a Ubiquiti fanboy now. I got fed-up with consumer-grade wifi gear when my old TP-Link AP+Router combi crapped out after ~20 wifi clients connected. Initially I kept the router but disabled its wi-fi AP and started using Ubiquiti APs - just one to begin with, but it handled 50+ simultaneous wi-fi clients like a champ - 6 years later I now have a UDM, PoE switch, LTE failover, three APs, and I'm considering moving-away from Google Nest to Ubiquiti for home-automation now too, because Google/Nest's video service makes no sense considering they don't let you access the video locally or save the video locally (what's the point of a video surveillance system that can be defeated simply by snipping the Internet coax connection outside?!?).
The thing that makes me sad is how little US govt does to protect privacy. It goes the other way where for exaggerated reasons they want as much as they can slurp. Recent bills to ban encryption was a reality check.

EU seems to care a bit more. Mostly because Google and FB aren’t European.

How do we get a sane government that works for the people? Because voting just doesn’t cut it when there is little accountability for those who are elected.
Finally fractional scaling support! Kudos to XFCE team
If curious see also

started https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21329632

4.14 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20672890

oops https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948228

releases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642857

4.12 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9125474

debian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675945

not debian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762472

debian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374089

debian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356197

4.10 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904201

linus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843366

4.8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111106
Do you have an authoritative source for BTC and ETH being considered currencies? I think the article has it wrong. IRS treats all cryptocurrencies as property. SEC has only said they are not securities. That does not imply they are currencies.
I think the demand for it will tamper down quite a bit although, and there are still many traditional places that aren't tech that are itching to get people back into offices.