skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GWT is still being used, no one needed to adopt J2CL, and with judicious use of code splitting, the enterprise apps it was designed for worked fine. It’s still being activity developed and used by the open source community.

There are plenty of SPA JS projects that send down a MB of JS.

A lot of the tech JS frameworks adopted in the last few years was shipping in GWT more than a decade ago: tree shaking, uglification, sprite sheets, style sheet languages, compiler directed code splitting, etc

GWTs Achilles heel was it was developed to paper over differences in browsers from the IE4 era, and so the widget model design is a left over heavyweight legacy from needing to make modern and ancient browsers work similarly.
So, tax cuts. Got it.
> That sex is only for procreation and not pleasure is a common misconception of the Christian view.

Yup. Very (perhaps most) common, for instance, among Christians.
Might as well grab Charles Nutter while they are at it.
speaking of this, what hex editor would community recommend for examining (potentially quite large) binaries?
Trying to conclude systemic patterns from single high profile cases will always fail.
What do you define as "worth doing"? DeFi alone has tons of potential answers to that question. Then there's decentralized exchanges... or do you not think decentralized currency exchange is "worth doing"?
Looks like it just updated; margin of error was reduced to 22 hours and the drawn tracks now show the full range.

I imagine that as the rocket gets closer to reentering the page will continue to be updated with more precise estimates.
Population capping out doesn’t mean people stop wanting to use additional energy.

Raising half of the current global population to a Western standard of living would blow past this hard limit, even if we assume a doubling of energy efficiency.

Nothing in this graph[1] should give you the warm and fuzzies that we’ll all somehow band together to avoid this fate.

And keep in mind, we are fewer than five generations away on our current path to a physically-unavoidable global catastrophe. This isn’t the sort of thing we can solve with technology. There’s a hard physical limit on global energy production that cannot be exceeded. We don’t know exactly what that number is given greenhouse gases, but it’s definitely less than a few generations of growth away. How close, exactly, do you think we should creep up to this number?

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
I'm excited by all of the neat hypertext developments we're seeing out there! Like Quotebacks[0] - snippets that are designed to be for all-purpose use rather than dev use.

To me, this is a possible sign that there is momentum back toward general Web blogging and home pages. While native apps have a lot of great tooling these days (like TikTok's "duets" or Snapchat filters), the Web excels at markup and embedding - and it's great to see tools that play to that strength.

[0] https://quotebacks.net
> Earn cryptocurrency

*close tab

More seriously, can we stop slapping blockchains on any problem? For decentralisation, federation is a good low-energy alternative.

https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous
Should it factor in? [1]

I'm not even sure anymore that local demand / supply should affect it either.

I'm still not sure what the right approach is but I can think of a few arguments against this practice.

Re: COL, is it on the company to adjust your pay based on your environment? Should they then not also pay a father of 4 kids more money than a single one (in the same location)?

More generally, consider what different pay based on location does to morale: Say for a single employee in the US / SV the company could afford 2 to 3 employees in India. By extension that makes an US employee more valuable as the company wouldn't spend that much money if they weren't sure that employee delivers more than 2-3 Indian employees. But do they? Wouldn't the US employee then by definition have to be in a higher grade (title) as well?

Also take into account that it's traditionally harder to get promoted if you are not close to / in HQ, so Indian employees would already be at a disadvantage.

I don't know what folks in India think. Maybe worrying about inequality is something people have given up on, but I'd personally avoid a company that "transparently" told me I was worth less for doing the same job just because of were I live [2]. We don't like when that happens to women or underrepresented groups. Why should we be okay with it in the context of globalization?

[1] FWIW, they say their formula does take COL into account, so not sure what's going on.

[2] In fact, and sadly so, I'd probably go for a company that is generally known to pay well but not transparently, instead, even if they end up paying me less than US employees as well. At least nobody's claiming fairness there.
Yes - love one size fits all regulations like this. It’s so rediculous seeing Mazda Miata’s with mandatory backup cameras :p
No, I'm referring to the regulatory capture and revolving door culture at USDA that has allowed Monsanto et. al., to douse your kids cereal with glyphosate, refuse hemp production in the U.S., water down the Organic Governance Board with corporate shills, etc., etc.
So are you fishing for ideas now?

I'm not going to "prove myself" here so that you can give me the blessing to ask a valid question.

In sibling comment I mentioned DAO, but those are a bit out of reach for more than just the technology are far to immature.

Everything else sounds like the next new future fallacy [1]. But no, your "libertarian" ideals won't flourish when you sprinkle in a little crypto and run your servers out of china.

[1] https://andrewchen.com/the-next-feature-fallacy-the-fallacy-...
Hope it get rids of google wrapping URLs in emails
Yes trustless and distributed things have no value, crypto is stupid, BTC is a waste of energy, yada yada yada.
So I looked into this and Go doesn't exactly make it easy.

The process would be to break out the hand-reviewed (but not necessarily hand-written) assembler for this function into a separate source file for each supported architecture (probably x86-64 and ARMv? nowadays), compile from assembler source into an object file, then link the final Go binary together using the object file and the rest of your app's Go source.

However the Go toolchain doesn't make this particularly easy. I think it might be necessary to use the cgo package[0] and import these objects as C-style functions, even if they originally came from Go source. (If somebody has a simpler way, I'd love to know!)

I think calling conventions for pure Go functions differ somewhat from the C ABI, so you might have to tweak the assembly code to follow C calling conventions as well—with the caveat that I haven't dived deeply into this, and could be all wet.

This method would be "fragile" in the sense that toolchain changes would risk breakage with every Go revision, but at least it would be your build that breaks and not your code's timing-attack security.

[0] https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/
wait, replit doesn't have memberless repls ? how much did it change since the last year..
Is it okay to plateau? If HN keeps going, gaining and losing people over time and not growing above X% of the population, and eventually declining for whatever reason, that seems the way of things. Change happens, and the best we can do is guide it and prepare. It’s okay to live and then die.
A small price now, combined with projections that it will rise substantially over time will still affect the calculations of any major capital purchase. Of course, convincing people the price will rise is made difficult by the lack of seriousness to date.
Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
The Constitution Requires the U.S. to Offer Vaccine Passports
that doesn’t make sense from an economic perspective. The larger your bloc is, the stronger your negotiating position is. The stronger your negotiating position is, the more you can make the US pay for your goods and services

It makes very little sense to want simpler negotiations in lieu of a strong negotiating position
It may be misleading to treat noncontextual word embeddings (e.g. GloVe, word2vec) and contextual word embeddings (BERT, ELMO, etc) as equivalent; there's a substantial contextual difference whether you're talking about a vector representing "boy" as a generic string or concept, equal for all mentions of "boy", or if you're talking about a vector representing a specific mention of "boy" in a specific context only, with no grounds to assume that it will be equal or even similar to other mentions of "boy". The former embeddings [try to] capture generic meaning of words, the latter [try to] capture the more specific meaning of particular utterances.
You would magically find a suitable job in days?

I personally have a lot higher requirements for a new position than "a job that pays more than my current one". E.g. working on something that is worth doing, together with great people.

This takes a lot longer than "days" to find.
Why do you buy things when you could only ever save?
It's hard to say. I think the public is desensitized at this point, it might require an event that is more catastrophic than I can think of at the moment.
Man they been working on porting it to Qubes for a minute now
Good point! Thanks also for digging up our website. Two chronic pain patient-founders from Cambridge, UK who built it with a team of kind volunteers
I think we should switch to some of the newer nuclear reactor implementation. There is one that Bill Gates was funding which is supposed to substantially safer according but other similar ones should be evaluated.
Nine motivated women cannot have a baby in one month.
Tesla fixed the exploit in 2020 by replacing ConnMann with Dnsmasq.
> I wish the world could conform to SDLC best practices, but sometimes reality is messy

Reality is messy, but what the OP describes is the denying rather than dealing with that reality. Putting a two day limit on a bug fix is not going to make what could potentially be two weeks of round the clock work suddenly become two days worth of work.
Yes I remember a friend who lives in Hong Kong posting a news article (from a Chinese news source) describing a "mystery pneumonia" the first or second week of December 2019. He hypothesized that it was because of bushmeat. I think the news article got scrubbed. I wish I had saved it.
Violence isn't the answer, but fear is, and the tendency to want violence in this case is due to company leaders involved in malicious activities have nothing to fear.

No jail, no meaningful fines.
My reply was too harsh, and I regretted it after. Sorry about that.

I agree that it is the parent's job to protect them. I just don't think it's fair that multi-billion dollar companies are allowed to do things that make my job harder. I'm one man with a very limited budget of time and money to devote to parenting. Facebook/Snapchat has an army of employees who go to work all day every day to get my kids addicted to their platform. That doesn't seem fair, and if they are able to get children to do things that are unwise, they should be held responsible for that. That's what I was trying to get at.
Yes, they really try hard to make it as obscure as possible. Here is my take. Imagine you publish an article on some complex subject matter - the kind that requires a pause and reflection after each sentence. Imagine that after a paragraph or two there is a widget where you can test your understanding of the above paragraph. It seems useful to me, but of course it depends on the actual implementation.
> buying ethereum at 17 dollars

Not so humble brag...

*Back to reading*

Yeah, recently bought a place and yes, the process is hostile to the consumer (200 pages of legal sized dense contract, give me a break).

However, did you ever think that there could be a, you know, simpler solution than, say, CRYPTOGRAPHY LOL

PS: cash-out now if you want to humble brag after ******* happens!
Your points about the harm mandatory conscription inflicts upon citizens are valid.

And I agree that if you're against war, you should not voluntarily go work for a defense contractor.

But i think if you're drafted the calculus is different. Would you conscientiously object to paying taxes in a country fighting a war? How is mandatory non-combat service (say kitchen work) different from funding the military via taxes?
ImHex
You do realize that parameter names are easy to change?
UK supermarket to make plant-based food range cost the same as meat equivalents
Consumption would only be reduced for industries that have a viable alternative. Maybe you can replace steel for some applications, but not all, and for those the costs will be passed on to the consumer who will bear this tax and will have no alternative on the market.
It's for myself finding interesting links. Not for building audience or anything. Probably not a target user of your startup.
More like, cue the crypto critics.

There are a million and one places to talk about the veracity of cryptocurrency. This thread doesn't seem like one of those places.
You're assuming that it was difficult to learn because the features weren't thought through. Have you considered that maybe it was because there were genuinely new concepts not present in other languages?
I disagree with most comments. Thing is simpler than that. Just dont take it too seriously. They do their best to get some shit done and if it fails, it fails. They gave you some instructions, do the best you can with it, get back to your familly when you think you should. It's the best way to deal with it, I'm not saying this is an ideal situation.
There's also a CLI for Send (ffsend):
https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
> I use AdBlock Plus

Isn't uBlock Origin a better extension, both from a blocking (no "Acceptable Ads", for example) and also performance point of view?
My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.
Are there any projects anywhere developing a microkernel with a capability security model?
Love the progress being made!
I'm not sure what you are trying to say in relation to my question. I wasn't asking for the benefit that Musk received in relation to his actions like Tweeting about Tesla's stock price, busting unions, etc. That benefit is obvious. I was asking what benefit he received from fighting with regulators about whether he committed those actions, whether they deserved punishment, and whether the regulators have jurisdiction, etc.

Are you just saying that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" and that anytime Musk is in the news is good for the stock price? Because the original point from justapassenger was that "it pays off to fight with [regulators]" and not "it pays off to commit securities fraud".
> y'know: their mates from the golf club who could be counted on to play ball nicely. This was especially common if the founder was unconventional in any way.

And it's a pretty obvious conclusion from:

1. the fact that GPs have to put up $10s of millions into the fund to get the job

2. most (>50%) wealth held by affluent people (like the people who become GPs) is inherited from their parents.

These are people who grew up in affluent social circles and want people like them managing the companies they invest in.
201X+ headlines in general. Title should be changed to "I imported a python library and used it without throwing an Exception, and so can you!"
Companies can only log information about your interaction with their sites. With very few exceptions, that just means on whatevercompany.com. Basically, they only have the data you explicitly give them.

In the case of some large sites that provide pervasive services like FB, Twitter, and Google, you interact with their sites incidentally as you surf in the internet. It's these sites that are a potential privacy risk IMO.
I worked as a CEO in SE Asia, and experienced the culture differences first hand. It's very real. It doesn't surprise me that there would be a "bamboo ceiling" in US companies because of the difference in styles.

The major one: in the West, the expectation is that everyone will express their opinion and be respected for it, even if their opinion is a minority. If you disagree with the boss, you're expected to say so, even to the point of having an actual argument. In the collectivist view, disagreeing (even privately) with those in authority is a huge no-no. Having an argument with your boss is roughly on a behavioural par with taking a dump on their desk.

It's easy to see how a collectivist boss would be criticised by Western colleagues for not allowing free debate or gathering enough opinions on a subject.
Could we build a static “Google Maps” using really big GeoTIFF files and downloading part of them with the section of a file functionality.

Just like the SQLite example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025829
There is a saying, "Neither a lender nor a borrower be.". At some point I twisted that in my mind to "Neither a leader nor a follower be" and have tried to live by both.
Because we have, as an industry, collectively surrendered our morality to "the market", which is supposed to fix all these problems by its almighty powers.

Because the prevailing voices our country have spent the past half-century telling us that government is Bad, and business (and greed) is Good, and enough of us have bought into the idea that we've systematically dismantled enough of the systems that keep corporate greed from running amok and ruining people's lives that they now effectively run large chunks of government (eg, see ALEC).

Because too much of our society—especially in the tech sector, and more especially in the parts of it that are overrepresented on HackerNews—has come to worship wealth and the wealthy, and to believe that they should be allowed huge amounts of latitude to do what they want with their wealth.
I also remember a fairly recent (within last couple of years) where a hacker remotely killed a journalists Jeep while he was on the freeway. It was part of the story he was working on so thankfully it wasn’t unexpected. But I think they should have been in a parking lot and not on a freeway screwing around like that.
> I think this is a complementary thing for implementing B-trees or solving exercises. That is needed as well, but will you still remember the finer details of splitting nodes in a B-Tree a month later? Or six months later? Which might or might not be necessary.

This is a very good point. This is the type of knowledge which I don't care about retaining. I'm pretty confident that I can re-learn it in a few days when I need it later. It's also not critical to have this knowledge at the top of my head as I'm rarely going to be in a situation where I need to recall this immediately.

This is quite different from vocabulary where it is critical that you can find (or understand) the word in seconds otherwise you'll fail at communicating.
Men are definitely far less picky on average, for biological reasons, but that's not even related to this discussion. Hating half of humanity? What are you going on about? You made a scientific statement which was false. The truth is not politically correct and doesn't paint women in a positive light so you resort to accusing me of "hating women". OTOH you have an obvious hatred towards men and are even denying real issues that affect them.
Dont give out your personal number use a burner
Police are quite practiced in finding armed robbers and other people who might use a spike strip (which is pretty tricky to deploy IRL if you want to hit a specific car). But organised crime car theft (with access to key cutting/duplication, remote unlock repeaters, engine immobilizer bypass codes, etc) is a significant problem. I don't see any reason why OCGs wouldn't be enthusiastic users of hacks, the same way that card skimmer gangs operate.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045887.
Tri-tip and beer? If you have any friend-slots open I'd like to apply. :)
The fundamental issue with prions is that they are *not* foreign. Prions are legitimate proteins made by your own body but folded wrong. A misfolded protein acts like a catalyst to cause more misfolding. Prions are *not* alive, they have no ability to reproduce other than through misfolding existing proteins. It's basically a form of crystallization.
achievement unlocked, but seriously, not a single mention of fuckushima this deep in the discussion, oh how quickly they grow up!
I read it as if you were implying that identifying this was only attainable with very senior staff, which I disagree. But indeed perhaps I read too much into your comment.
The saddest part about this is it's not the devs fault, it's management. I'd be interested to see the size of paradoxes growth in terms of management compared to devs in the past 5 years. My only other speculation is that they stopped hiring people passionate about their games. Hence why much dlc that has come out has broke the game or caused it to slow down dramatically. The price is nothing to me. While high, I do like the long term support. But they seriously need to go back to square one here. Because as of late, paradox has just become the Activision of grand strategy and I just can't see myself bothering with them anymore.
Looks like a great book but was unable to download. Tried with more than one emails.

Edit: Looks like they programmed it to work only with Gmail and probably other mainstream email providers.
If dosed properly, it could have made a substantial positive impact. Certainly there is risk involved, but then most things are risky when running a business. Going for safety leads to employment, not to running a company.
The political speech some wish to see silenced revolves around the racial and socioeconomic inequality they benefit from each day. Turning a blind eye to systemic racism does not mean it does not exist, and inherently saying Black lives matter is not a political statement. The ideological aggression against it however is.
>The two investors with whom Zhu seems to take issue were born and raised in South Asia and Turkey, respectively.

You can't simply abstract all of Asia, from Turkey to China, as a singular monolith. Now's a good chance to point out that the MIT 'Bamboo Ceiling' paper from 2020 makes this distinction in the title:

"Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States"

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4590.short
> China has shown no interest that I know of in spying on non-Chinese citizens

I believe China has kept tabs on 2 groups of non-Chinese citizens: 1. foreign nationals within China borders, and 2. foreign nationals who are ethnically Chinese.
Is there any word on if browsers (chrome, firefox, or safari) will support crypocurrency transactions so I don't have to download a 3rd party plugin?
Yes, the evolution might be nondeterministic. I am intentionally not saying much about the details, just that one state gets mapped to a next state. Before one can really think about the properties of the evolution one has to think about the properties of the state and I have no idea what it would look like. Is it a classical state, is it some quantum-mechanical state, is it an infinite collection of substates for each universe in a multiverse?
If the negative externalities that are killing our planet are included in the cost, those killers become less profitable. This can be done via taxes or other means.
I use "sibling" rather than "brother" or "sister" and "parent" rather than "mother" or "father" to reduce information leakage. "Partner" could find the same use.

This isn't any woke thing - its just a "don't reveal information that isn't necessary."