skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can't help but wonder why there isn't more of them around in the "real world".

I think the biggest strength (and weakness) of the ideas both present in LISP and Plan9 is the consistency and internal integration. And, I see two big challenges with that.

One is technical: It is not that easy to reinvent everything and do it in such a way that makes it more consistent than existing systems. If we believe Conway's law such an effort would require a team as small as possible, optimally just a single person. Note that Plan9 for example does not fully integrate, the programming language and standard library are not composed of the same building blocks as the underlying system, there is a divide there.

The second is economical / political:
While such a consistency and internal integration is desired by the users and developers, it is not very beneficial to business. Image if all components were actually integrated with one another. How would management divide that into projects? How would you make marketable products from it? How would you implement your branding and vendor lock-in? Where would SaaS and subscription models fit in?
It's even worse than that. Major repairs are prohibited even in a fully enclosed garage.

Minor repairs are prohibited in a great many cases as well.

If I use a torque wrench to reinstall my wheels (even in a garage), I'm in violation. If I change the brakes on a friend's or girlfriend's car (even in a garage), I'm in violation. If I plug a flat tire for a neighbor or a passing motorist in my garage, I'm in violation. If I start a brake change in the driveway on Sunday morning and need a part from the parts store that I get and install on Monday, I'm in violation. I've certainly done all of those things and am not seen as a "bad neighbor".
Aren't the issues created by over-regulation and bureaucrats throwing their spanners everywhere to cover their own incompetence?
AZ is not applying for approval and the EU cannot (apparently) force them to apply for it. Since the EU has (so far) had unrestricted export of vaccines AZ does not have much of a hurry to change the status quo.
Even if you have your prod database on RDS, you might be able to spin up a local instance for testing. My Postgres-using applications have a script that sets up and runs a local Postgres instance for the duration of the test. It takes about 2 seconds on first run, and less than noticeable time when the DB has already been initialized.

https://github.com/sapcc/keppel/blob/master/testing/with-pos...
Discover as in finding out they where there. The plant that made them had not applied for, and so had not received, permission to supply the EU. Since they were officially not fit for use in the EU, it's perfectly plausible that AZ did not report their existence to the EC.
> Hardware wise it's been the save revision since the postmarketOS edition.

Except the bug with the backlight [0] is still present and I sometimes see screen flickering at lowest brightness (although rarely).

[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_v1.2b
Doing some research on the place you're about to sign a lease on seems like an important step. I've done this for every place I've ever chosen to live and it usually works out great. "We were here first" is plenty of justification of a whole lot of things.
These secret scanning integrations have been very helpful. We had a client ask to take a project open source recently that had started a few years ago as closed source. We of course checked over the current version of the code and have had linters in place to look for secrets for a while but not in the very early days of the project. In that one codebase we had:

- AWS IAM token for S3 upload access to a throwaway dev bucket. The bucket had already been deleted but still... Got an email about it informing me the IAM token had been revoked by AWS within 5 minutes

- A Slack webhook notification URL/secret. Committed as a example on a working branch and then git rm'ed but still active. Got an email about it and token revoked by Slack automatically within 5 minutes.

- A Mapbox API token. This one was funny. The token was indeed in there and functional but was in the docs/sample code for a dependency. Still, we got an email within the hour about it and were able to investigate.

Edit: In this case we intentionally kept the commit history. A safer alternative (and one we normally practice) is to start a fresh repo for the open source variant.
In case people really have concerns about the newer mRNA vaccines, perhaps they can choose the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is a more traditional one.
It's basically unenforceable, if the general public can buy the tools.
I see an article written by someone I don’t know and a comment by someone I also don’t know. Do you have any reasons you can provide to lead me to believe there is no truth in the article? It doesn’t really appear to be anti-vax to me, but rather advocating for better treatment options.
I was seriously impressed when a few days ago I accidentally pushed my secret Discord bot token to Github and literally one second later I received a Discord message and an email letting me know that I leaked my token and that they deactivated it.
Because normally they can get away with a drawn out process that takes years, and if in one country some medication is curing cancer and in another country is not approved, nobody bats an eyelid.

It’s a big bunch of fiefdoms that all want to do their own checks and it is a political minefield. Witness the ridiculous situation with the vaccination shutdown last week. Has nothing to do with science, everything with public image and politics.

And it’s setting themselves up to fail as well because in this situation if a manufacturer has contracts with countries A and B and A pays more, they’ll just focus on approval for country A and delay approval for country B, so it’s perfectly defensible to only deliver to country A and not the country who isn’t going to use it anyway.

Unfortunately this is all smoke and mirrors that goes way over the head of the general public so there’s no backlash for failing.
Are you happy with how the application looks and behaves on the Mac?

Apple is clearly moving to having iOS apps work on the Mac. Do you think the iOS Routine app would work on the Mac?
Isn't it in the rest of the sentence you didn't quote?

> In Firefox 87, SmartBlock will silently stand in for a number of common scripts classified as trackers on the Disconnect Tracking Protection List.

Which, I assume, would be pulled from here [0]

[0] https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection
only one of the five vaccine-production plants listed in the EU contract with AstraZeneca was delivering vaccines to the EU.

The contract lists two factories in Britain, one in the Netherlands (Halix), one in Belgium. Another one in the United States is listed as a back-up supplier. Currently, only the plant in Belgium, run by Thermo Fisher Scientific, is producing shots for the EU.

The Commission has also started a procedure foreseen under the contract with AstraZeneca that could lead to legal action against the company.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BF141
This is a great solution to a problem that seems to becoming more prevalent. Reminder to devs that bolted on third party scripts should not be in the critical path. Meaning, if you are doing something like capturing a click event in a Google analytics handler and blocking the redirect until you’ve tracked the click - you’re going to have a bad time. Many tracking scripts are designed for this and will gracefully/silently fail via something like an array push mechanism but I’ve encountered the opposite as well.

Being an indie dev with a pihole setup has been tough - I’ve gotta turn it off a lot for various client projects - but it’s also helped me build more resilient applications that work just as well for people who don’t have trackers enabled.
The EMA already issued a statement that they can process the approval of the plant within days. AZ has not applied for approval yet and does not seem to be in a hurry to do so.
Nuvectramedical Reviews
"Most DBs" by what metric? If you count them as products, you're probably correct. But I seriously doubt that is true when adjusted for usage - say, number of requests per second, globally, across all deployed databases worldwide.

(in fact, I suspect that SQLite would win that contest handily.)
While confusion around P6 certainly hurt Perl, Python started to conquer over areas previously held by Perl even before that. AFAICT educational establishments didn't like Perl because it embraces expressivity. There's more then one way approach feels good once you grok it, but for the most teachers its anathema - it means you need to explain much more.
Does anyone have any insights as to why it seems like AZ has mismanaged everything from the start?
V8 also has an interpreter which runs first while code is being compiled or has yet to be identified as a JIT candidate.
This looks convenient (and performant). But how does it scale as queries join across tables?

If you need to create test data with complex business logic, referential integrity and constraints we've been working on declarative data generator that is build exactly for this: https://github.com/openquery-io/synth.
Unofficial celebration of the “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl” release
It doesn’t matter much what your web site has today. If it’s available over HTTP an attacker can inject whatever it wants into the page without too much trouble at all.
You really don't want to be on the wrong side of history for this.

Delay 2 weeks to double check some reaction numbers vs rush and possibly cause thousands of deaths?

I think it's good they were willing to put on brakes if not sure, and good they resumed when science told them it was fine.
The article in the NY times regarding what the NIH said yesterday seems very odd. Even Dr. Fauci was not happy with it as seems quite unusually for procedural errors to be made public in such a way.
Also, they mentioned fascism, so somehow we have to spin this to be Trump's fault.
Not necessarily. Newbies enter the field all the time, without the entrenched reflexes. Seasoned Vi users cannot imagine their shortcuts changing, but I cannot imagine getting used to them.
Why not just require that a car being worked on is registered to an owner at the address?

edit: All good points in response. I'm convinced that there is no point in trying to tune the wording of a bad law.
The British press would absolutely implode overnight - the headlines would be tasty though.
Your defense is a combination of “what about” other poorly written laws and “but it’s not enforced”. I don’t have enough time this morning to explain why these are dangerous and ignorant arguments...
Great question. I was very concerned about that, too. I strongly recommend learning Domain Driven Design before diving into Spring, you will recognize a lot of patterns and it then makes sense how things work. Even things like having an interface + an implementation for basically everything becomes apparent. I had a lot of bad experience with Spring and Jakarta EE in the past, but I can assure you Spring Boot does a fantastic job here.

Point being, it is an enterprise setup and in enterprise applications you favor maintainability and friends over speed of development. So implementing a feature takes more files and more time, in a DDD setup you can estimate something like 1 controller method, use case + interface, >=2 DTOs, potentially a domain model if not present plus a repository + interface if not present.

So yes, it is more overhead and you have a slow down in productivity. I have no proof, but I am 95% sure that the time you save upfront in a more flexible environment like node is being paid back significantly worse when it comes to maintenance.

Edit: you can of course use Spring Boot without enterprise/DDD and hence make it simpler. It's actually pretty minimal.
And on Windows it uses WinUI/UWP actually.

The recent XBox dashboard has been remade with it.
Liberal Pluralism Is Fake
Gen X and Gen Y Health Declining compared to parents at same age (U.S. Study)
This is a load of nonsense.

The contracts clearly state the UK is first in line. There's nothing shady or underhanded going on. AZ is just honoring it's most important contract first.
If you want to get back into web development which is very remote friendly, learn one of the following frameworks, Rails (Ruby) / Django (Python) / Laravel (PHP). The best way to learn and have experience is to build a small project, if you pick Rails, you can use the book by Michael Hartl https://www.railstutorial.org/book, it's a project based tutorial, so it's quite practical. For other frameworks there maybe similar books or tutorials.

Be part of a relevant forum / linkedin group, so you can clarify things when you are stuck.

Once you have built your first app, you can build more advanced features and start your job search. Update your linkedin profile with keywords which reflect that you are into web / software development. Start posting stuff on linkedin / blog and making connections with recruiters. Also connect with companies hiring remotely.

There are lots of companies with opensource projects on github, pick some issues, resolve them and send a pull requests, this will give you experience working with existing code, you will get to know remote team dynamics, and get to know people working on these projects.

Ask questions early, seek help often, I have found people to be very collaborative and helpful. We need more people in software development. I wish you great success.
If JS code is few event listeners to verify/massage the data to submit to the server, then the answer is yes. But for more complex web pages the answer is now. For example, React on web and similar framework may not be feasible without JIT.
Beyond any TOS issues there has always been a technical issue where an app store app cannot write to memory that is marked executable for security purposes.

This prevents JIT's but does not prevent an interpreter from functioning since an interpreter does not directly generate machine code and execute it, it simply reads the code to interpret as data and executes through its own engine.

Most modern JS engines JIT which is why you don't see say electron / node / chromium based stuff on iOS, a lot of it has to do with V8 requiring the ability to JIT.

Hermes does not JIT so it sidesteps the technical limitations on iOS then its just a matter of passing review.

There where some ways around this that have been patched and Apple has recent introduced an official entitlement but does not allow it in the app store yet:

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/02/23/jailed-just-in-time-co...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/06/ios-14-2-brings-jit-compilati...
>but literally every race owns vehicles.

Well, this isn't about owing vehicles though, but about a particular style of vehicles, with work done of them, and specific gatherings to showcase them etc.

Might as well ask "Why make the taco-fest about race, everybody eats". Sure, but those against the taco-fest in some place where predominantly latinos frequent it, more probably than not have racial issues against them gathering near them, and are not just against tacos in general...

I mean the parent comment spells it out "given the relatively high number of hispanics and black who work on their cars", and I think they are right. Those same residents wouldn't have an issue with a mostly-white gathering of rich classic car owners...
Nope, the hardware has not changed since the Manjaro Community Edition, Rev 1.2b. This one has a different magnetometer, part nr AF8133L instead of LIS3MDL which was not available; I am not sure if that warrants calling this one v1.2c or not.
It doesn't sound like that, no. It seems those doses were legal for use in the UK, which had already approved that plant. It seems these were bound for exports, so not clear why the Italians have them.
Probably to limit scope / complexity. Remember that the JS engine here (in React Native) is basically pulling strings to orchestrate a bunch of native modules, not doing any of the heavy lifting. It’s quite different from the current web environment.
Merck was the Oxford team's first choice of manufacturer. But the UK health minister overruled and told them they needed to use a British manufacturer. [1]

"[T]he Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was very nearly the Oxford-Merck vaccine - and under the terms of the agreement with the American pharmaceutical giant, there were no guarantees of supply.

The episode played out against the backdrop of the first phase of the pandemic. During March and April 2020, the University of Oxford negotiated a deal which would allow Merck to manufacture and distribute the vaccine it was in the process of developing.

The arrangement made sense. Unlike British-Swedish AstraZeneca, Merck had experience in making vaccines. Its senior executives had links to Oxford scientist and government adviser Sir John Bell.

Yet when the contract reached Matt Hancock's desk, the former adviser said, the health secretary refused to approve it, because it didn't include provisions specifically committing to supply the UK first."

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-rejected-contracts-and-a...
If you're in the serverless space, a useful addendum: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-write-meaningful-tests-...
Detecting Microcontroller Behaviour with Current Sensing and TinyML
Isn’t one of the main purposes and legitimizers of any government that it protects its citizens? I’m sort of shocked that the EU is allowing export outside the EU during the initial rollout.

It sort of looks from the outside that Brexit was done just in time as the UK government is now saving more UK lives than they would otherwise. If I were an EU member I would be extremely critical of the current regime and truly question how they are legit when the EU is far behind the rest of the developed world in this.

It’s not fair to EU citizens that pay into the pot of mostly unelected representation.
>“Spreading rumours to boycott Xinjiang cotton, while also wanting to make money in China? Wishful thinking!”

This is why companies like Apple lobby against forced labour laws in the US. Companies must bow down if they want access to Chinese markets.
There is a solution, they even know it is the solution, they just choose not to implement it for other reasons.

"Increase Price. And this is what you’re touching on here. I get this “solution” suggested to me quite a bit, and yes, there is validity to it. If scalpers didn’t see the profits they do, they wouldn’t be incentivized to participate in the first place. But it brings up the pickle we are often in, which is that pesky tradeoff again. Yes, we’d get to line our pockets with money for days, but we like to think of PAX as the show for the every-gamer, and if we didn’t keep badges affordable, it’s not fair to those that can only afford our current price."

You either charge what the thing is worth or you will have people arbitraging your system. That's the world, no getting around it without adding tons of extra costs.

I am constantly surprised how A. Unpopular the idea of charging what people will pay is B. how rarely it is done.
In most of the US until very recently you couldn't grow pot for yourself.

So mix some random chemicals and inject yourself = legal

Mix random chemicals that happen to be a controlled substance and inject yourself = illegal?

What happens if you accidentally rediscover a controlled substance?
Good. If one of these mechanophiliacs moved next-door to you, you'd better believe that they would start working on cars and complain loudly if you tried to stop them. In other words, they would move into a peaceful and quiet neighborhood and change things for themselves too. I have lived through this, it's not pleasant and I'm the one who eventually had to move out of my own neighborhood.
As mentioned by others, they haven't requested approval, and are currently 30 million doses short of their first quarter obligations.

Which makes the number found here really curios.
Besides conspiracy speculations, it could be as simple as that in their planing they want to export 100% of Halix plains production and as such have no reason to seek regulatory improvement of the plant.
As of Node 14.8, you can use await at the top level. In previous versions (not sure for how long), it was hidden behind a flag.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.8.0/
I don't see how that is relevant, but let's consider someone further down the chain.

"Ah yes, Jimmy Postdoc, I see you have published 3 papers with an average impact factor of 3.1. Have a promotion."

vs

"Ah yes, Jimmy Postdoc, I see that you're making progress in improving quantum error correction, as evidenced by the fact that we can now use 80% of the previously required qubits to complete Shor's factoring assuming a surface code - great work, you should get that paper out at some point but keep focused on the work for now.

I'm also really pleased with your contribution to the academic community in the dept, particularly helping out Polly PhD student with her SAT formulation of decoding. The constructive questions in her talk really opened up a new line of enquiry. Great job.

Given all the above, have a promotion."

Metrics are stupid, people are smart, stop using stupid.
There is no "wonder". They did.
Netflix-ication of Investment Management Is Here
Beltalowda! The expense series has an entire faction based on asteroid miners.
Which doesn't contradict my speculation at all. If AZ think it won't get approval yet then they won't apply - to do so and fail would be another PR disaster.

And experience to date is that EMA has been more demanding than UK regulator.
Or if you wanted async request handling, you could use Starlette.
So they were completely fine to manufacture them as long as they were not given to people and countries like UK would accept those.
Well I have already manually disabled and enabled it a few times and it still clearly always uses the fallback. So if disabling fallback is a setting, it's something beyond manually turning DoH on in the preference panel.
> Who says AZ works around the world?

all the authorities that have approved it? all the people that got it? we're talking tens of millions of people and authorities across the planet.
Sorry to say but tbh... the EU is viewed as a scrap yard where you dump politicians you can't afford to have around anymore in the national parliaments.

And these guys shall now solve a problem for real despite having a track record of being unable to do so?
To be fair, I'm a middle-aged white engineer raised in San Jose, CA relocated to ATX in Dec 2020.

I live at the corner of I-35 east-side frontage and 5th in a mega apartment complex. I've tried meeting many of my neighbors and most are asocial/antisocial. There are 2 women roommates and an African-American kid who are legit cool that I've met so far. Also, I don't even know the people across the hall. My conclusion from many interactions is my neighbors are mostly phony, little life experience, selfish, corporate clones who steal shopping carts and leave them blocking the hallways, let their dogs pee everywhere in the hallways and don't clean it up, throw garbage on the floor, don't wear masks, don't talk to one another, sit by the pool on their phones, and act phony cool like they're still in high-school. Heck, my upstairs neighbor complained about my music on the weekend during the day without introducing themselves and not diplomatically. Point being: gentrifiers tend to be mostly uncool and don't care about anything other than forcing their own bubbles on everyone else.

More power to Austin car clubs. Let the gentrifiers pound salt.

Edit: I would like to move somewhere near cooler people, but I'm probably going to have to grow a social circle to find that. Also, I wonder if more upscale or cheaper housing tends to attract or repel cool peeps.
They should ship and sell from Hong Kong or some other place to get around that idiocy.