skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SU indeed had bright minds who had clever ideas, but its economy favored copying over own innovation. So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast. "Made in USSR" was used mostly in sarcastic phrases by its own population.
As a React dev for half a decade, I strongly disagree with many of your points.

> React [includes] so little that you become reliant on a ton of external dependencies

React, since hooks, includes a full state management solution - Context, Provider, and hooks.

Second, even if you want an actual state management library, both mobx and Redux are quite stable. Applications I have built in 2016 are still running and building with no pain points today, except maybe that the tooling is way better now.

Third, all this noise about "the JS scene has so much churn" is kind of crazy. I don't know what kind of library evaluation techniques everyone else has, but React is backwards compatible with techniques they've been saying they'll deprecate for years, version pinning works perfectly fine, and with TypeScript there's less and less churn and mystery than ever before.

> Ultimately though, I just shudder to think about writing large, complex enterprise Apps in the latest and greatest

This is a comical take. Facebook is powered by React. Large, complex, enterprise, and fully powered by the cutting edge of JS frameworks.

> React now looks completely different from React 1-2 years ago

But still fully supports the previous way of working, meaning not only has none of your knowledge been invalidated, but you have additional tools at your disposal.

> Libraries fall in and out of favor

react-router-dom has been my goto for quite some time, as has mobx. Again, you can version pin and stick with any solution as long as you want to - my things powered by react-router 3 are fine still.

> I would much rather take "boring", stable languages and frameworks

> I'm an ML Engineer

Is it not true the entire ML ecosystem has been reinvented in the last 5 years? My React code still builds & runs from 2016. I really feel like this is a case of "external person overestimates complexity in external domain, underestimates complexity in internal domain" because everything you're saying sounds like you dipped your toes, and didn't actually build applications.

Final thoughts: you don't need to update Webpack to resume building your old project. Your build scripts work just fine. Better yet, don't eject from Create-React-App or some other build provider and you never even need to think about this stuff. React is boring and stable, speaking as someone who has used it for half a decade and sees no reason why that won't just become a full decade.
You make bets on where the puck is going, not on where it currently is.

"How would a city with tens of thousands of HDDs transition to SSDs in the near future?"

It happens over time as products move to compete.

Client side machines matter less, the server will transition to ARM because performance and power is better on RISC. The military industrial complex relies on government cloud contracts with providers that will probably move to ARM on the server side.

It's not necessarily rewriting for Apple hardware, but people that care about future performance will have to move to similar RISC hardware to remain competitive.
> Burnout is a real thing but it's ridiculously overblown.

True burnout probably isn't as common as the internet makes it out to be. But, actual burnout is a real thing and can be completely debilitating.

It's a lot like over training when exercising. It's serious when it happens, but it isn't that common among the workout for 30-60 minutes/day type people.
The Media Trust Crisis
I don't really believe that such thing as a shortage exists in a free-market economy. Executives who complain of shortages are just way too rigid with their planning and are not willing to pay the increased price. Exactly this goes for VW.
Very nice points. People are not that averse to metered pricing. There is a strong aversion towards unpredictable charges.
Exactly. I wasn't saying that charging was impossible, rather that drop-in replacements for gas stations are impracticable and certainly would not be "cheap". The widespread use of EVs will require a very different physical infrastructure.
Reminds me of the time a dealer tried to convince me with "math" that I was guaranteed to save money by buying the extended warranty. I asked if that meant they were guaranteed to lose money, and if so, why they were trying so hard to sell it to me. They moved on pretty quick from that.
How do you deal with updating the local database when a client was offline for an extended period of time and missed a lot of transactions?
That's not true. It doesn't load the content through your browser, it loads it through its servers. They indeed copy content, and it's up to you to develop your own opinions as to the legality or ethicality of that. :)
Is it possible that the reason for this is that the desktop simply isn’t that important anymore?

For a non-trivial number of people, a “real computer” (i.e. a laptop or desktop) is still just a web browser with a nicer way of typing.

People don’t care about customising their computers as much anymore because they have several devices and almost all of them are for accessing internet services (even “apps” are generally just an optimised UX for a web service).
Smart people use loopholes. They are legal so why wouldn't you pay less tax?

If you hate large companies not paying their share, encourage government to do their fucking job and legislate in order to prevent companies from cheating the fed out of billions. Ironically, (as much as I hate the guy) Trump is the only president in recent history who's made clever moves to target Amazon. Unfortunately, companies lobby to have their tax cheating ignored by congress and government at large.

This is glaringly obvious, when Biden criticizes trump and rich americans for "cheating" on taxes where his returns clearly show he uses similar - sometimes identical means of dodging taxes.
It’s a fair comparison; a Civic hatchback isn’t non-comparable for any reason that’s related to its weight.

For any like-for-like car, an electric car is significantly heavier. Look at, e.g. the gasoline Kia Soul (2,800 lb) vs the EV Kia Soul (3,700 lb).
The text of Labor Code 432.3(c) is:

An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. For purposes of this section, “pay scale” means a salary or hourly wage range. For purposes of this section “reasonable request” means a request made after an applicant has completed an initial interview with the employer.

Based on the wording, in that it appears to be addressing employers in the law's jurisdiction, I believe the answer is a).
Amazing achievement! Not only the world's first video of this type, but I imagine also the world's smallest salt shaker.
> Text visibility?

In this case disallowing a darker color creates less contrast and visibility because Windows will use white text behind it.

It's also one of those silly limits where one shade is allowed but then you make a 000001 adjustment to it and suddenly it's disallowed. It feels like an arbitrary decision to not let users pick the color they really want.

To me it feels like the complete opposite of user empowerment.
Yep. That MAD prevents nuclear strikes is an absolute article of faith at this point, used to reject unease outright; not an objective, practical calculus. Like all natural phenomena there will be exceptions and deviations. A nuclear incident is inevitable.

The real question to my mind is whether the benefit of nuclear deterrence suppressing non-nuclear conflict is greater than the cost that will be incurred from MAD failures/exceptions. But that's an almost impossible question to answer today. Still, it's a more honest perspective. I suspect we don't look at in this way because the public would almost certainly decide (perhaps irrationally) that they're far more afraid of a nuclear strike than the slow slaughter of conventional warfare, creating pressure to discard nuclear weapons entirely.
I don't get it. How do the sources not pay? Don't they pay for hosting and bandwidth? Aren't edge servers an implementation detail that's inherent in providing bandwidth?
I think the petrochemical industry might disagree with you there. Sure petrol/diesel for transport will decline but pharmaceuticals, plastics and many more items are made that way and they are not going away. This site has a big list. https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-p...
You should compare it to other than the old Apple laptops. The Ryzen models, such as ThinkPad T14 are very fast, and if you want to go tenfold from there, there is no comparison with the modern Ryzen desktop CPUs. Why Apple always failed with Intel and its thermals is why they feel so slow compared to the M1.
Well as it's one of my first "big" project as a developper, it can be scary, but my github project is public https://github.com/Etheonor/multy.me

Feel free to check it and I will be happy to have some feedback on my code. Since I'm self-taught, I'm sure I make big mistakes!
Link? The dev boards I’m familiar with are $10. Not that I really care for hobby purposes - I’m not buying 100s of them.
This definition of net neutrality seems to rule out even offering connections with different speeds. If I'm paying for the 100Mb plan and someone else is on the 1Gb one, my downloads will be slower than theirs. And Netflix here would be making a deal for a really big pipe (oversimplification, obviously).

I don't see a need for net neutrality to say you can't pay for more if you need more. I think "we're gonna charge you extra because of the TYPE of data you are" or "we're gonna charge you extra because we have our own competing service" or "we're gonna throttle you [for those same reasons]" are much bigger concerns.

What's the big concern with Netflix operating as their own CDN vs paying a third party one?
I think I follow but I'm not sure this is correct. Looks like you're saying that jobs with steady salary and job security are stressful. What would be a less stressful alternative?
If you or anyone you interact with has cloud backups on for WhatsApp, which in my experience ~90% of people do, all your chats are uploaded to Google Drive/iCloud in what is essentially plaintext.

If not for this flaw and the fact that we can't tell whether the encryption is implemented as they say in their whitepaper for their clients, I would have put it well above Telegram and closer to Signal in terms of security and privacy.
I for one don't think they deserve Jim Keller. They have been guilty of so many anti-competitive anti-trust moves that imho they have been as much a hindrance to progress in the computer industry - why would they deserve Jim Keller? Just because they forced everybody to buy their products in the past (by blackballing anybody designing ANYTHING else into their laptops) - doesn't mean they deserve ANY success in the future!
If the police had committed the exact same shooting, you wouldn’t be making excuses for it.
>It's half the weight

Its 70% the weight at 70% the volume of the 16". What is the point of comparing the weight of a 13" and a 16" laptop?
On the plus side, MT/mm^2 seems to be gaining steam as a metric. It removes one dimension of cheating and has the whole "bigger is better" thing going for it.
> chat integrated into Gmail before it was branded Google Talk.

Hangouts chat came wayyyy after Google Talk or even its integration into gmail (I know, it's hard to keep track of the chronology of these Google services, they release 2 new ones a year)
Let me elaborate. Even ignoring potential loopholes and just creating new dynamics - they don't want it, the cost is high to adjust to that regulation. Creating some tools may be necessary, just getting familiar with it and creating a plan to follow it is a cost.

Now this cost is additional entry cost for new companies, unless the law is passed specifically with the original company name with it, which I think should never be the case because law should apply equally to everybody.

High entry cost is exactly how monopolies are created.

Creating a youtube clone is much simpler than creating a youtube clone that doesn't brake any existing laws and regulations. Every additional regulation is making it harder.

Case in point, I've run a forum for coders for 15 years with thousands of users. When the GDPR came out, I did not have time to make sure I follow it, the cost was too high, I shut it down. And of course the law was to protect users privacy from big evil companies. Guess who had money and resources to make sure they follow it.
I use Arch as an example of how to predict if someone is very software savvy. Although I did not know that Gentoo was a 'parent' of Arch. Silly me.
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Good to know, and very cool that it works for iMessage, but using a proprietary protocol for bridging when all of the competitors are using a standardized one that is likely to grow in functionality much faster than yours may not be the best choice.
What does this have to do with ADHD? I've always been this way as well. Do I have ADHD? I would have assumed the opposite.
Remember, M1 is on the leading edge 5nm fab process. Ryzen APUs are coming and may be competitive in terms of power consumption when they arrive on 5nm.

Apple software is also important here. They do some things very much right. It will be interesting to run real benchmarks with x64 on the same node.

Having said all that, I love fanless quiet computers. In that segment Apple has been winning all along.
It's shocking to me that anyone would chance the background on a work pc.
I don’t think it depends on the subsidies, personally. Tesla doesn’t have them on a federal level anymore and they’re able to compete against the larger market.

Also, the national security implications for keeping gasoline autos as a primary mode of transport are extremely concerning for many countries. China, for example, will never allow gasoline cars to be part of their long-term future. The discussions some countries have regarding completely banning personal automobiles running on gasoline are serious discussions.

So, I’m not sure one can really separate subsidy or penalty/tax from the overall value proposition of owning a product, and one can’t necessarily count on those subsidies or restrictions going away.
If you haven't lost your job then your savings are both up (markets) and not being spent (as there's nothing to spend them on.)
I’ve also heard “shall we all get out then get back in and see if it works?”
There are a lot of complications to this, but I'm optimistic that eventually this will be a more common user experience.

1. Credit card vendors have flat fees that will eat up a whole transaction if it's too small. For instance, strip has a flat 30c fee. This means the only reasonable way to do this is to have a user pre-pay a large sum and reduce from that, or to batch their transactions and extend them some credit. The former dissuades people from making a payment at all, and the latter runs the risk of bounced charges or users never purchasing enough to justify the charge.

2. There is no universal payments API. Browsers are starting to work on this with the w3c web payments standard https://www.w3.org/Payments/ but this is just for user input. You still have to work with companies like Stripe or PayPal to then actually make the charge.

3. Dark patterns are more successful. You see this with a lot of game currencies. By forcing users into larger purchases, you can get them to justify spending more (e.g. bundling multiple items into one package, maybe with "discounts") and if you sell your own currency, you can make the values not add up evenly so that the user has leftover balance that they perceive as being "wasted" unless they buy more.

I work on a web extension that provides a javascript API for making payments using the Bitcoin Lightning network: https://lightningjoule.com/. I really love the possibilities that small payments open up, and have been working to smooth out the UX of having to confirm a payment every time: https://medium.com/@wbobeirne/introducing-joule-allowances-2.... However it's still a long way from any mainstream adoption.
Texas Instruments AM335x the BeagleBone uses is also fully documented. There's a huge PDF manual publicly available that describes every functionality. It's such a welcome change from Raspberry Pi's mostly undocumented Broadcom SoCs.
I think the story we're all commenting on demonstrates how unlikely a single email is going to fix it.
One of the keys for a successful migration is the strategy. It doesn't make any sense to re-write the whole platform and launch the new one after a year of work or so. Adoption is super important so an incremental migration is a key (you start coding as other teams get onboard in the migration). A microfrontends strategy could be a good idea.

Internal support from eng teams is a must, without that the migration won't work.
Yes, years before the accidental crash I'm talking about.
Auto-hiding elements are one of the worst trends in "modern" UIs. I've had countless times where I had to waste a lot of effort trying to find controls that were hidden and only appeared if you hovered for long enough in the right place. It reminds me of this amusing comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293
Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer
Of course Google killed it, meebo was great and way ahead of it's time back then.
> This isn't true in reality. For example, it's significantly more expensive to deliver video traffic from say, my computer to yours, than it would be to deliver from Netflix to your computer.

At which side of the setup? To get the data from the neighborhood hub to my computer? To get the data from the start of the ISP's network to the neighborhood? To get the data from you to my ISP's network?

And are you meaning actually from Netflix or from a CDN or from a Netflix node in an ISP's location or what?
I can't help but notice that the author is at the University of Vermont. I know because my sister did her masters in that state that there is a distinct oversupply of Universities that were barely hanging on as is. Even without Covid, I have to wonder about the long term prospects of a department that doesn't take that kind of warning seriously given the existence of multiple entire schools shutting down around them. Maybe the thought process is "It won't happen to us, we're public". Who knows.
> Apple willingly or not has just obliterated the whole consumer pc market.

Apple probably has the best laptop out there as of today, but I don't think Apple sales performances are impacted that much by their hardware perf actually: around 2012-2015 or something they had several years with a subpar mobile phone, both on the hardware a and the software side, and it still sold very well. A few years later, they have the best phone on the market and… it didn't change their dynamic much: it still sells very well, as before. On the laptop market, they have been selling subpar laptops for a few years without much issue, and I guess it won't change much that they now have the best one.

Apple customers will get a much better deal for their bucks, which is good for their long term business, but I don't think it will drive that many people out of the Windows world[1] just for that reason (especially with the migration/compatibility issues which are even worse now than they where running on Intel).

Also, many people outside of HN just don't listen to Apple “revolutionary” announcement, they have used that card too much, for no good reason most of the time, so people just stopped listening (even my friends who are actually Apple customers).

[1]: which is where most people are tbh, and I don't think that many Linux people would switch either.
Lawmakers reintroduce bill to weed out foreign disinformation on social media
This is the first thing I wanted to know too. From raspberrypi.org:

> Are you planning to make RP2040 available to customers?

> We hope to make RP2040 broadly available in the second quarter of 2021.
Why it's bad to have a high GDP
ADHD is an "executive function" disorder -- it's hard for your brain to consistently focus on doing what you "want" it to do.

It's stereotypically thought of as an inability to focus your attention ("can't sit still and concentrate"), but it's also an inability to stop focusing on something you know isn't in your overall interest/plans.
What really irks me are the autohiding scrollbars, especially when working over a VNC connection and I have to wait for them to fade-in over a 3000km link

Give me scrollbars and keep them visible please.
So true. I used to burn out fast whenever I was very motivated about some goal. Now when I feel that motivation, I think about the long term and make it a priority to keep a regular schedule and avoid burn-out.
I think most hydrogen proponents are pushing for it to replace hydrocarbons for shipping, planes, and seasonal energy storage, not cars.

There's not a lot of other great options today if we want to decarbonize those sectors because of the energy density required.
Hydrogen is not toxic by inhalation, but it's a much worse explosion/fire risk.

Hydrogen is flammable when mixed with air between 4% and 75%, and it takes a minimum energy of 0.016 millijoules to ignite. Ammonia is flammable between 15% and 28% and takes 680 millijoules to ignite. It takes much more energy to ignite ammonia and there's a much narrower range of mixtures with air where it can support combustion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability_limit#Examples
Amazon responds to Elastic changing its open-source software license
To pile onto your point, webpack is clearly on its way out, it's all about snowpack now (afaik). I never got a chance to get into learning webpack, and I'm glad now. Throws hands up
All it does it prove how fruitless the prevention of climate change is.

A total shutdown of the entire world economy on an unprecedented scale still doesn't track enough to prevent climate change.

If that isn't a clear indicator of how severe the situation is then I don't know what else is.
Are you angling for some scintillating chub?
Lost a year due to this.

Had to push hard for further testing. Plus just trying the treatment.
Had a big positive response. If I hadn’t pushed they would have just had me come in once a year to “check”.

One of the factors that got me a diagnosis.
Yeah its not that bad, here is a simple bookmarklet example that grabs current url and posts it to your endpoint (mailephant in this case). Might be a good first step.

javascript:q=location.href;if(document.getSelection)%7Bd=document.getSelection();
%7Delse%7Bd='';%7D;p=document.title;void(open('https://mailephant.email/views/curate.html?
showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&
title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Mailephant','toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=700'));
I used the term specifically because their claims about the Thule crash don't add up. A nuclear detonation at Thule wouldn't mean general war (hackles would be raised but lots of other phenomenologies would be used as part of the warning, verification, and attack characterization processes).

EDIT: Also, at the distance the crash was from the base, assuming a weapon detonated on impact the facilities would have experienced ~1 psi of overpressure. I strongly suspect they'd still be operational afterwards.
I don't think that is right in the short term, which is the time horizon the article discusses. Eventually, baring an actual physical resource constraint, the market will take care of it but in the short term something will have to give.
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Don't think dead loved one.

Think rather of people whose job it is to talk and interact.

College lecturer can keep teaching.

From a few hours ago:

When your professor is dead, but teaches anyway

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873661)