skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your own description, it sounds as though the self-perception as a creative and continual risk-taker different from the nine to fivers is where the ego maintenance lies, so it might not actually be put in danger by failure.
Doesn't seem like a big improvement when they still use web tech.

I'm all for web tech, but that's what makes Electron no better than a browser.

Revery seems like a much better solution.
Without hint what the app does hard to judge. The comments below the tweet compare this to overpriced Apple hardware, phone or the monitor stand which all don't charge per week.
OBAKit – A total rewrite of the OneBusAway transit app in Swift
Servo is quite large and extremely difficult to build from source. We've tried to make it work with Tauri but decided it's not worth it, at least for now.
Introduction to linear algebra: scalars and vectors
And I don't think you realize the impact either. This feels like it falls squarely in the camp of worrying that people will trick self driving cars to murder people. Good news is most people aren't murderers. https://xkcd.com/1958/

Most people aren't interested in sharing slanderous deep fake porn of others online either. There are social consequences to trying that and getting caught. And if they do, metahuman porn certainly is not going to be fooling many people.
One of the arguments made is that land-based missiles should be retired entirely, because they are less effective and strategically riskier than submarines and bombers.

Such a retirement would make the extension of Minuteman III moot.
The CDC recommends this 90 day window because a "positive" test result is more likely to be due to your previous illness than a new infection. Therefore, testing is useless because it gives you no useful information [1]

> for adults recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection, a positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR result without new symptoms during the 90 days after illness onset more likely represents persistent shedding of viral RNA than reinfection

It does NOT mean that you are suddenly susceptible after 90 days - just that after 90 days, you are less likely to be actively shedding the previous infection so the tests are useful again

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isola...
i think the jury is still out.on that
Thanks, that’s a good suggestion.
> Is it worth paying 10% extra

No, cost-benefit-wise, it isn't: it makes more sense to buy a generator and have it handy. Even if you have to replace it every 10 years, you're still ahead. I'm not being entirely callous here, either: I live in Dallas and just lived through 3 days of intermittent power and heat and it sucked a lot. I'll be investing in a power generator in a few months (when they become available again). If half the homes in Texas had been able to switch to their own generators for a few days, the grid would have been able to sustain the remaining load.

The worse problem we have down here is water, and there's not a whole lot an individual can do about that: if we're going to collectivize the winterization of anything, I'd rather it be the pipes.
It takes a while to relearn that. Just normal typing isn't too hard to pick up - the muscle memory generally transfers reasonably well from a normal keyboard. But the cursor control stuff has to be completely relearned. But it's only annoying during that transition period. You do eventually develop the muscle memory for it, and it all becomes just as easy/automatic as on a normal keyboard.

I don't use vi unless I have to, so I can't comment on usability there, but I don't have any issues in normal text editors.

And for gaming... it seriously freakin' rocks :). As long as you're okay with a straight across "asdf" (or aoeu in my case) -- (back/left/right/forward) movement scheme, instead of the wasd cross. Having 20 keys right at your fingertips and all 3 modifiers available on the thumb is pretty much ideal for gaming. I generally customize the key mapping in the firmware per-game, and I'll usually have 2 or 3 modifiers mapped to the thumb, and often some "synthetic" modifier keys for even more combinations.

It's also great for numeric input - I find I have much much better muscle memory for that on this than I even did on a normal keyboard, since the numbers are such a long reach from the home row.
That is not how it works on Windows, as you have to ship either the Webview2 runtime or installer with your app - otherwise you’re stuck with the old rendering engines.

At which point, it’s just easier to ship Electron.
Servo uses SpiderMonkey as its JS engine, and supports some DOM apis.
No, it's got long term consequences that have not fully come around yet.

Government spending redistributes money and in some cases that's probably a good thing. In others not so much. But borrowing to do it is bad long term.
I haven't looked closely at DoH, but based on my knowledge of plugable transports and website fingerprinting attacks, the answer is: probably, but with just a little effort on the client side, detection could be made pretty expensive -- probably expensive enough that ads on unresolved domains wouldn't justify it. Basically, if live classification of network traffic on (obfuscated) metadata were easy, China would have deployed it by now.
> The driver isn't even allowed to refuse customers.

As I said, you are allowed to refuse customers - simply turn off your availability. You are not allowed to decline rides when you've marked yourself available, just as IT contractors aren't allowed to decline jobs after they announce availability.

It's not true that platforms must allow direct provider-customer negotiation or it's employment. Be careful with this, because most of B2B world is running on middlemen similar to Uber (just without an app) - you might suddenly make everyone an employee!

> "there's a job 150 miles away, you need to be there at 6am every morning", and you weren't allowed to decline!

This is totally false in case of Uber. You can be anywhere in a city-wide zone, you're free to turn on your availability at any time you wish, and you can turn it off at any time you wish, and you can stay offline for as long as you wish - all of this is impossible for employees.

> clearly they are a contractor no more

How so? Are they using their own equipment? Yes. Are they defining their own working hours and place of work? Yes. Are they able to work or not work whenever they choose? Yes. Are they paid per job and not per hour/month/year? Yes.

Please tell me, who is a contractor in your world? Seems like absolutely no one would fall into your criteria. Negotiation never was the defining feature of a contractor, only one of many criteria, and many contractors don't have any ability to negotiate at all (due to long term contracts based on e.g. volume)! And still, in case of Uber there is negotiation, you can decline to work if you don't like the terms, unlike employees.
Just did! I bet they weren't expecting their website to be trending outside of Monterrey.
I then wonder what is the point of then including Tor.
As with most endemic viruses though, unless you hit a level of herd immunity you don't "get rid of it".

It continues on in humans without immunity who may not show symptoms and in animal reservoirs (minks, ferrets etc seems to be the case for COVID).

Unless we inoculate children as well as adults we are unlikely to hit herd immunity (based on the values thrown around of needing 85-95% coverage for an 80% efficacy vaccine)
Woah, this is exactly what I was looking for. I had vaccination data that I wanted to visualise but seemingly nothing in the market makes it easy to put it out there fast.

Google chart library is great (if you have heard of it) but they come with restrictions on their geocharts. They require Google Maps Platform API key in the client which made me reconsider using it. I only needed a simple choropleth chart for which static geojson feature file would work, no need for fetching from Google maps for every user.

Great work. I will check it out.
Bit tangential but there's a way to run Clojure code as CGI scripts with Babashka (Clojure for shell scripting): https://eccentric-j.com/blog/clojure-like-its-php.html
It will be interesting to see Bitcoin sentiment shift as newcomers realize that the bulk of Bitcoin value is held by a small handful of early adopters, and that the bulk of Bitcoin mining capacity is held by a small handful of large mining companies.

Cryptocurrency proponents are trying to get ahead of this by reframing Bitcoin as the people's currency, or an opportunity for average people to get rich while sticking it to evil governments. It's interesting to watch people with $1000 of Bitcoin in their Robinhood accounts feel like they're on the winning end of this deal when they see their $1000 investment go to $1300 in the span of a week.

So much of the investment frenzy is driven by "what if" scenarios where Bitcoin takes over the world and that $1000 investment eventually makes early adopters millionaires in the new Bitcoin world order. The problem with that hypothetical endgame is that reallocating the world's wealth according to how early someone went all-in on a cryptocurrency gamble (and how much capital they had to invest at the time) would create inequality at unimaginable scale, not to mention completely disconnecting wealth from societal value creation. Our current market-based system isn't perfect, but a hypothetical Bitcoin economy would be downright absurd. If we end up with a crypto economy, it won't be underpinned by a currency where people switched over at values ranging from $0.01 to $1,000,000 per coin.
> Those skills need to either be brought in or be taught and as soon as a person has those skills we are back at having a skilled person doing a large amount of unskilled work.

I’m completely in awe of this attitude. Are you located in the USA? I know a bunch of people in small part manufacturing (mostly metal and plastic) that are turning away work on a daily basis. There is so much demand in the USA right now that any worker with the skill to increase production rates is like gold.
I use Chrome, Safari and Firefox on a Mac.

In my experience, unfortunately it isn't true that apps work with very high reliability. This is why I use multiple browsers. I don't want to use Chrome, and I encounter new websites with functionality that don't work properly in Safari or Firefox quite regularly. Some of this is even quite basic functionality.

From things like shopping carts where the final payment button doesn't work in Firefox (nothing happens), to video conferencing that sort-of works in Safari but then the audio breaks while it is reliable in Chrome.

Even GitHub doesn't render properly in Safari occasionally (the page is full of weird size text and giant rectangles). But that's almost certainly a Safari bug.
more than 40% of US adults are obese and >18% of children. why we don't tackle that with urgency is beyond me, considering it's one of the main preventable health problems we have. and getting worse.

"From 1999–2000 through 2017–2018, the prevalence of obesity increased from 30.5% to 42.4%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.

The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was $147 billion in 2008 US dollars; the medical cost for people who have obesity was $1,429 higher than those of normal weight"

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
Epidemiologists have been worried about corona viruses ever since the appearance of SARS and MERS. If Covid-19 manages to innoculate the globe against ACE2 binding spike proteins the outcome is likely a lot better than many have feared. There is a good chance you are right because we should really think of the receptors on human that let in the virus.
Augmented Reality Contact Lens Startup Mojo Vision Develops Apps w/Early Adoptrs
Hm interesting... so if you consider Google's original products search and ads, then Android, Chrome, ChromeBooks and other hardware are down the stack. Google Cloud is down the stack.

YouTube is lateral, but it was an acquisition. Minor business, but being a DNS registrar is down the stack. So it seems that Google did go down mostly.

I would say Apple went "up" in at least one phenomenal way. They started out with computers, and then 20 years later their big success was iPod + iTunes. iTunes is probably 2 levels up the stack, being mostly a media business, not really software even.

Apple also wrote a lot of apps like Keynote, and acquired apps like Logic, etc.
For another perspective on the matter, https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...

Odds are, the licensing issues aren't at all to blame for the supply and distribution problems.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing
> Unlike smallpox, the only virus that humankind has successfully eradicated, there are animal reservoirs for COVID-19.

there are, or there might be? Is there any evidence that COVID-19 exists in an animal population in any significant density? And, if so, couldn't that population just be quickly culled?

Many different viruses (far more deadly than COVID-19) are known to exist in bats and guano, but they rarely escape into the larger human population. Not to say never, but the cross-over is rare and seems to be reducible with increased education.
If I was smarter I could probably use that. I tried it in the beginning and was just basically keeping an infinite history by catting the history from my old machines into my new.

But then I started doing stuff outside of shell (windows, code snippets, jq and path snippets, etc) and it was getting to be a pain to grep through such a big file. So I applied the 5 minute rule and tried to rely on my laziness as an editor.

Also, while my file isn’t public I don’t keep anything sensitive or that would bother any past, present, or future employers and collaborators so sanitizing the shell history was starting to take time and make me worry that I might miss something.
The curve was flattened, but the goalpost changed. We went from flattening the curve to eliminating the virus. With flattening the curve, the question should be "how full are the hospitals"?. Instead, the metric was infection rates.
When infrastructure is built in areas where hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes are expected and said infrastructure fails, we do assign blame. And we should!

The attempts to rationalize this as a “once in a century” event are full of it. This nearly happened in 2011, and similar freezes happened in 1989. This is a “once in a decade” event, and those responsible for building critical infrastructure should have a plan for it.
UO was great. Lots of games from long ago that were good:

- legend of mir 2

- phantasy star online (dreamcast)

- lineage

- myth of soma

- ragnarok online

- many more
This been very informative. I have been using IBM Thinkpad for 9yrs(office laptop). I don't like the keyboard layout of newer ones, I may have gotten used to with the ThinkPad.

Next when I see a GoGreen or Climate change activist, I am going to ask what laptop they are using if answers Windows or Mac, I can say you are not a climate change activist.

One should make a comparison which programming language is greener. Definitely python isn't one when compare to java. My laptop starts screaming I run python and no sound effect on java same program tried switching.
Cost. Missile silos are by far the cheapest source of nuclear weapons for the US. That's why there are only 20 B-2 bombers, and 14 Trident submarines in service right now.
That updated Webview is, still, not the default on Windows. You have to ship it yourself.
YMMV but it's generally possible to improve that sensation over time by conscious appreciation and a return to less information-intensive activities.

Generally philosophical visions of the world are a product of emotions and neurological and physical conditions that are sometimes as mundane as bad digestion.
All my real dreams have been stories, however I've had a few dream like displays after waking up, but keeping my eyes closed. It's usually been repeating patterns of objects that change every 5-10 seconds, e.g fir trees, chairs, cars, hot air balloons etc. However, at least once, it was more akin to a film with people doing something in it like talking, driving vehicles etc. The display only appears in a small rectangular area on the right side of my vision, when I have my eyes closed and disappears when I open my eyes.
It is a bit hard to just explain in a bunch of comments.

In your examples you need to add extra layers, just like you would do with the microservices.

There would be the DTOs that represent the actual data that gets across the models, the view models that package the data together as it makes sense for the views, the repository module that actually abstracts if the data is accessed via SQL, ORM, RPC or whatever.

You should look into something like:

"Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software"

https://www.amazon.com/Eric-J-Evans/dp/0321125215

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Beyond-Object-Orie...
How would one trade this event to hedge / profit?
Page Like ads are the least ROI effective ads on Facebook. You tell their machine learning algorithm to optimize for people who will click "Like" on every page they see. That'll increase your vanity metric and meet your stated objective, but it doesn't drive business results for you because you're getting the wrong type of customer.

If you tell Facebook's machine learning algorithm to optimize towards purchases on your website or visits to your stores or to users onboarding to your app, then you'll really see the power of their beast. Those are the ads that people are spending billions of dollars on, because the outcomes drive real business value and have too much friction to be faked at scale.
China has implemented zero covid.
Another complication I thought of: permissions. While this may not matter as much for consumer drive product, for Google Drive within an organization, permissions are per object. So 2 people looking at the same folder may see different content. This impacts folder-size, as any given person may only see a subset of the content within a folder.
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valve has been doing a pretty great job on this front. I'm not sure what they actually get out of it but I do think the linux market is a lot bigger than it seems. I game on windows because enough games I play with other people don't work well enough on proton. I do really like this linker approach because it tries to address one of the pain points of developing games for linux.
The issue is that a lot of people are hunting for a way to prove their ideological priors, rather than actually seriously considering the situation at hand.
The people of Texas voted for this.
It is quite popular form of déjà vu called déjà rêvé. Happens to me all the time, more often when I'm stressed or sleep deprived but almost never when I'm physically exhausted.

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/00000...

> Nearly 80% claimed to have had such experiences and the associated frequencies are presented. Age was negatively correlated with the incidence and there was little gender dependence.
Burst pipes can cause $100,000 worth of damage to a house, although it's usually less. There could have been a million houses affected. And burst pipes won't be the only cost of this event, by far.

So the power companies saved a few million dollars and cost Texas a hundred billion.

This is a clear example of where an ounce of prevention would have saved a pound of cure.
Is it inside the database? It looks as though it's actually in a separate server, that is called by the database.
For one, it enables access to hidden services.
Not the parent poster, but I still think a bunch of people getting killed in a war is worse than dying from COVID, even if they are literally the same people dying in both cases.

The latter is just nature being nature, and while we can respond in some ways to reduce deaths, it will never be perfect. I get that in some ways that feels worse, because there's a feeling of powerlessness. But the former is humans being shitty and murdering each other in the name of nationalism, land, resources, religion, whatever.
Since I experienced Underworld first, it was the reverse to me: other Ultimas felt not real Ultims games.
I know BAT's controversial but there's a lot to like about Brave's solution to the surveillance problem, miles better than Google's Privacy Sandbox, and whatever it is that Mozilla is trying to do.

The thing I don't get is, why do such a poor job at implementing a feature?

Tor is synonymous with anonymity. Adding a "Tor tab" without the guarantees just reeks of a "me-too" feature and lacks that serious security and privacy posture Brave is known for (or wants to be known for).

I mean, Brave comes down pretty hard on others [0]; I wish they held themselves to higher standards [1]. Forget about striving for anonymity by resisting all sorts of sophisticated fingerprinting attacks; leaking DNS is plain embarrassing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17970567

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
I'm not convinced that winterizing for Texas would be a 10% upswing in costs. I assume there's some approach that's not the "enclose the whole plant" approach used in cold weather states.
Correct. It is also relevant here because Texas is not connected to the federal electrical grid. That means any amount of excess wind power they produce cannot be harnessed by selling it to other states (or bought, during outages).
The Abuses of Popper
I think sci-hub is useful when you want to see the full paper a news article is citing - not so much for searching/browsing.

I Google for the paper's abstract then copy its DOI into the sci-hub search.
In addition to the failure of some major baseload providers, another point missed was that the grid management was hampered by an out of date control system that didn't have ways to micromanage brownouts. Typically you might have the ability to shutdown 75% of the grid in a crisis (while maintaining power to critical facilities (hospitals, water supplies). If you've only got the ability to shut down 40% of the grid, your ability to control the crisis decreases.
It's either that or a reference to the Tauri civilization that dwindled some 3,000 years ago in the Crimean peninsula. I'm leaning toward the former.
Buggy WordPress plugin exposes 100K sites to takeover attacks
Seems like they are making a lot of progress on that front: https://web.dev/file-system-access/
When the earthquake hit in Armenia, what, 20 years ago?, and the Soviet-built apartments pancaked, people were quite willing to assign blame.
>Conversely the cost of things like Google Maps (as a service not as a consumer in this context) has risen dramatically so naturally big companies are turning to the free offering more and more and the worry is they will have outsized impact in the project and become the dominant body and their priorities will be pushed forward over others

I don't know if this has changed with newer versions of the google maps API, but years ago when I had the choice of using google maps or OSM, the biggest motivator in my decision, when OSM was still a lot less complete, was to do with Google's licensing.

There was a clause that implied they'd have some rights to reproduce and use our data and that was totally unacceptable for our use case. OSM was completely free to use without worries that google was somehow going to be able to use our data in some way.
Poly.Market which he mentions (and where I bet on the US election) just uses a stablecoin (USDC) pegged to the US dollar. Same situation for the DAI he mentions he used. So this is an already solved issue.
It’s not crazy - go run a blank Cocoa app in Xcode and see how much memory it takes.

People have unrealistic expectations on this.