skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not know about the <details> element, that's really neat. The less I can do with JavaScript, the better!
India is manufacturing AstraZeneca and other vaccines for export. Prior pandemic India manufactured 2.3 billion vaccines annually. Patent fees are big part of expenses.

RNA based experiments are doable in most university labs. It is 2021.
> hypothetical bioterrorist due to the difficulty in detecting them, their durability and also the delay on effects.

Terrorism is about fear, and that comes with spectacular actions even if it kills relatively few people, not with stealthy poisoning of big population.

You're not gonna have anything remotely as impactful as 9/11 with prions, even if you killed a million people in the long run.

Is it a good weapon for a nation state going at war, or committing a genocide. Definitely yes! But it sucks for terrorism.
It’s just like C or JS but the first paren goes to the left of the function name.
I've been using this in a script I wrote for myself which is basically a huge image gallery. This gallery may consist of thousands of images on a single page. When the browser always had to load all of those thumbnails, it consumed a lot of bandwidth and was very slow. In fact, the user experience was strictly worse because images are normally loaded in the order they appear on the website, so it took several seconds until the thumbnails at the end of the page were available. Now the browser just loads those thumbnails that I can see (or am about to see), and they are there pretty much instantly even if I scroll to the end of my gallery.
That's... exactly the point of that section. You should continue reading the part right after the section title you mentioned.
Yes, I also was confused because this Pixie [1] already is open source.

[1]: https://pixielang.org/
Hi. Hotlinking doesn't work directly, but I figured out what you were pointing to: the portal from Dr. Strange.

I took the liberty to illustrate how I remember it, note that the picture is randomly from the internet and not as it was: https://i.postimg.cc/3NbJ0tvT/HNUFO.png .
That's category A isn't it?
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More than half of construction firms use agency workers to grow their workforce on-demand. Firms rely on a multi-layered structure where 1,000+ recruitment agencies sit between them and workers. Agencies vary drastically in their performance and with no quality control, workers don’t know what they’re getting into before they get into it. To thicken the plot, agencies outsource payroll, adding yet more complexity and confusion for workers.

We're a purpose-driven early-stage startup who've just raised a pre-seed. We're building tech tools (eg, crowdsourced worker sentiment, CV-builder, better job boards) for gig tradespeople. Let's make construction work, and give tradespeople the tech solutions knowledge workers take for granted!

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You made a valid point about building in vacuum, that's exactly what I was doing with one of my projects last year and was wondering why I couldn't get any users who were sticking around. Sometimes, it can be the painfully bad UI but when that's not an issue either, you know, it's probably the problem you picked to work on itself.

So I'm assuming, before working on anything that you think might make some money or be useful to others, there always has to be some form of idea validation.

Nevertheless, what about the developers who don't have extensive developer networks nor the budget ( think : high school student or a 30 year old who can't convince colleagues to just quit their jobs and start working full-time with them ) but great ideas, which let's assume pass the Mom test. What do they do to get the word out for developers to start working with them, after all?
> In Europe pretty much nobody builds stick frame houses today

You'll have to exclude Scandinavia there
Betting and porn websites are the most visited by Ghanaians
The reason violence doesn't represent reality: check out data on what makes people suffer and die.

Self-harm is about equal to interpersonal violence, conflict and terrorism combined. But by far the largest cause of suffering and death is disease.

https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease#how-do-differen...
> RNA based experiments are doable in most university labs. This is 2021.

There is a huge difference between doing RNA experiments versus manufacturing millions of doses of mRNA vaccine without errors or contamination.
Sending AWS metrics into Prometheus using operator and cloudwatch-exporter
What is the advantage over Nuitka, another Python re-implementation?

https://nuitka.net/
Her pronouns are she/her.
Portability is complexity. Complexity is diametrically opposed to reliability.
Its not a reality check its more akin to mindfulness meditation. Momento mori, a reminder that it is so easy to die of stupid things in this world.

> I can imagine that it sends some people down the drain and incentivises violence.

As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.

Propoganda for terrorism and cartels is a whole other argument though.
I’m sorry to hear about your anxiety, it sounds terrible to have to process those feelings in such everyday situations. You shouldn’t feel bad about the way your mind has dealt with experiencing horrific videos, and how it has led to anxiety around death and risk assessment.

It’s not normal to witness or experience such events, especially when they are concentrated and amplified on a site like LiveLeaks. We simply haven’t evolved to predictably handle such an intense cross section through human suffering. Everyone will handle the emotions differently.

>the exhaustion of having to put so much energy and trust into therapists that ultimately never work out

Are you speaking hypothetically or have you attempted to talk about these feelings before with a mental health professional?
Marshall McKusick produced a 10-hour video course for LiveLessons in 2015:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/introduction-to-the/978...
I keep waiting for something like skyTran[0] or Hyperloop, but I don't know if it's just vapor.

[0] https://youtu.be/XCVuXfugRRk
Ah yeah that's a good idea. Assuming there's no reasonable way to do an iframe breakout, that is.

I suspect any way I attempted to put this together, ner-do-wells would upload a game that adds upvote/like/subscribe/logout to every event handler. Now that I think about it, I can't remember any reason why I wouldn't be able to do that from inside actionscript.. I ran javascript from inside flash all the time..

The fact those flash sites didn't just unravel from shenanigans is pretty astounding in retrospect.
I don't think it makes sense to compare interactions between, on the one hand, different groups of primitive humans on Earth and, on the other hand, interactions between interstellar intelligences, which might be (and in my opinion probably would be) some kind of distributed AI which does not think or behave like a living organism, the product of biological evolution.

My guess is that an extraterrestrial intelligence investigating the Earth would be very stealthy, for two reasons: firstly because, like scientists, they want to observe life on Earth without disturbing it, and secondly because they will naturally suspect that other extraterrestrial intelligences are also lurking around the Earth and will also want to observe those, if possible, and will understand that they'll have a better chance of spotting those other extraterrestrial intelligences if those other extraterrestrial intelligences don't spot them first and take evasive action.

So my conclusion from all this is that it's quite plausible that multiple extraterrestrial intelligences are already lurking around the Earth, with their probes disguised as tiny insects, for example, and probably they are not all aware of each other's presence.

They may be observing you now!
It is important to remember context. At the time, Apple was absolutely not a services company. In fact, their services were terrible (eg: MobileMe).

All of their revenue came from selling devices - the improvements year over year were more significant than they are today. Each year would bring new features that would open up entirely new market opportunities for developers and it was happening at such a pace that even Apple engineers could not keep up. Apple needed developers to sell devices much more than they do today.

Steve's argument that having an intermediary between Apple and developers would delay the implementation of new technologies and capabilities is entirely valid in that context. Of course, the context has now changed - Apple is increasingly a services-oriented company, and that means their objectives are to both sell more devices AND sell more services, which puts them at odds with developers who were typically responsible for providing the actual services that ran on top of the platform.

The 2010's was perhaps the single most transformational decade in technology, and while the shift from devices to services may be obvious now, it was far from obvious back then. Steve's clarity is even more impressive when you consider the era in which it was written.
> I feel like this is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The Covid vaccines are one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine ever, and are literally worth trillions.

And it took a global pandemic for pharma to realize it so maybe they aren't totally up to the task. And it seems the consensus is that states provided much needed money to turn mrna vaccines into a real thing.
As an European I'm always amazed at how much lumber North Americans use in their houses, with their timber frames. I didn't know that was a thing until I stared exploring Youtube.

Where I live all houses are brick homes. Wood is something that one might use in a "forest cabin"; a "real house" will have wood perhaps on doors, window trims and and maybe to pave the hard cement floors. And that's it.

I assume bricks are also more expensive, but perhaps not as much?

Perhaps North Americans will start building more brick homes.
- localStorage is broken in Safari 14.1 (the latest version) on macOS [1]

- Apple added support for blob.stream() in Safari 14.1 but calling the function causes a null pointer exception and crashes the renderer process [2]

- Read this summary of Safari changes in iOS 14.5 (released a few weeks ago, and without an official changelog for nearly a week) and tell me that Apple isn't trying to kill PWAs through neglect [3]

[1]: https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1389493762129375232

[2]: https://twitter.com/feross/status/1386835131780931587

[3]: https://firt.dev/ios-14.5/
> Hopefully it is enough like natural language that non-techies wouldn't run away at first sight

Written law itself is also not "enough like natural language that non-law people wouldn't run away at first sight".
Wow. You're a creative person and they're wasting your energy on work arounds for absurd problems.

I've been relatively fortunate in my public sector experience: Management have allowed me to use tools other than Excel.
I don't send proposals. Clients come to me with what they want, we send a few emails back and forth to clarify things, I build it. I charge an hourly rate for however many hours it takes me to build it.
It would be nice to set arbitrary (or at least Bearer) Auth tokens too in case you put it behind some oauth enforcing gateway like authelia
That's true if you write everything on one line. But how could you fail to notice that most Lisp code is written on multiple lines and indented? The structure is visually laid out, so as not to be maintained in anyone's head.
Showing these kind of things has always been against the ethical standards of journalism and exceptions to it used to be discussed intensively by editors - excluding the tabloid yellow press who make their living from this trash, of course. I guess some of the more recent American TV channels realized at some point, after they had gained fame for showing everything, that quotas are not everything and that relatives usually don't want the death of their beloved ones displayed all across the Internet without their consent.

Sites like Liveleaks are very hypocritical, they pretend to show videos for "freedom of speech" while instead their main purpose is simply to satisfy their viewers' voyeurism. Cheap thrills are the main reason for viewing this kind of material - and don't pretend to be someone better, you've looked up that kind of stuff yourself for precisely that reason just like I have. People who watch this material only want to satisfy their curiosity and get the thrills from it.

That's also why Truffault once said "There’s no such thing as an anti-war film." (There are exceptions, like "Taxi Driver", and perhaps also "Deer Hunter" and "Killing Fields", but these are rare.)
As a Firefox user: I cannot confirm this. Which PWAs are you using?
I agree. There are things websites shouldn’t do - like non-consentually collecting and selling user data. Asking users to send private details over unencrypted http. Being inaccessible to screen readers. That sort of thing.

Having content that requires javascript? Eeehhhhhh. When static content like blog posts and news articles require JS it’s annoying. But for a little game like this the dev’s choice makes sense. Losing a few % of their audience is a reasonable trade in exchange for not needing to implement the whole thing twice. It’s really hard to get worked up about server side rendering for toys like this.

I suggest you pick your battles differently. This is a silly hill to die on.
Title of linked article "U.S. court authorizes IRS to seek identities of taxpayers who have used cryptocurrency".

This is puzzling. The IRS didn't have that right before? It seems obvious. Any large transfer from any external entity to your bank triggers money laundering flag here in France and I have to declare and give my Kraken (and other exchanges) user ID to the local IRS.
In that Chrome dictates future web standards, rushes ahead to implement whatever they want, and FF/Safari lag behind, to the point that some web apps will even say "runs on Chrome" only...
> By all accounts of you pluck baby from 10,000 BCE and raise it today it wouldn’t be any different than an average person today.

There are people who would disagree with this.
>from web pages (which are documents)

Why would a document have access to your camera and microphone? I am 100% sure Apple would remove the camera and microphone API from iOS browsers if they could and the fanboys would defend it with "think about children and grandmas".

The Web has a portion that is more then documents, like music/video , games, simulations/animations. It makes sense from the POV of a greedy corporation to cripple say a web streaming app so you get a 30% cut of the subscriptions, or cripple video games 3d performance (with terrilble webgl) so you get 30% of those sweet lootboxes and gems.(BTW why is Apple not thinking at children with the lootboxes stuff?)
I mean the country in the Caucasus, sorry I didn’t think about the American state
Poor company worth $2 trillion and with $275 billion in revenue / $57 billion in profit can't bring its support for PWAs up to par with other OSes.
just kill yourself
This snippet begs all the important questions. How is the value of "aggregate_periods_from_last_five_years of personal.property_ownership" calculated? What does it mean to own a property? Does it count if you jointly own a property with someone else? If so, how much of a percentage of ownership counts as ownership? What about if for some part of the 730 days the ownership of the property was subject to dispute and it could have been owned or not owned by the person in question?

The whole thing smacks of false precision to me. It's precise about things that are not legally complex to be precise about in the current system, and the language gives the false impression that it's actually going to be possible to be precise about everything.

Secondly, it feels like it will have a similar drawback to sql[1] in that it seems on the surface to be non-technical, but actually requires significant technical expertise to avoid numerous beartraps and understand anything beyond the very most obvious.

[1] Which was originally intended to be a formal version of natural language understandable to non-technical people (hence the original name SEQUEL "Structured English Query Language")
When I read that tip I was thinking whether I should use it on https://www.2uo.de/russland-2013/

It's a longish travel report, lots of photos, interspersed with comments. I think it might be nice not to have all of them loaded in the beginning. Especially since random visitors probably won't read it till the end.
This motivated a visit to wiki to look up Code of Ur-Nammu. Some gems (yes, /s) in there:

If a man accused the wife of a man of adultery, and the river ordeal proved her innocent, then the man who had accused her must pay one-third of a mina of silver.

So, here is justice at work. If she drowns, she was guilty. If she survives, someone gets 1/3 of a Mina. Ur-Nammu is vague here as to who gets the money. Likely the husband.

How would we code this in Catala? I'll start it, someone else can finish it /g

declaration structure Person:
data id content integer

declaration structure Period:
data start content date
data end content date

declaration structure MarriedCouple:
data marriage_date content date
data husband content Person
data wife content Person

declaration structure AccusationOfAdultery:
data couple1 content MarriedCouple
data accuser content Person
data adultery_date content Period

declaration structure River
data id content integer

declaration structure OrdealByWater:
data subject content Person
data river1 content River
data ordeal_date content Period

declaration scope UrNammuLaw14:
context requirements_met condition
context married_met condition
context accused_while_married_met condition
context tested_by_water_ordeal_met condition

...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu#Surviving_law...
The whole thing is a masterpiece of bizarre statements dressed up as reasoning

Take:
Second, between (Ca) spontaneous decentralized hoaxes and lies, and (Cb) hoaxes and lies coordinated by a big central organization, (Cb) seems much more likely.

Apply this to reports of something other than UFOs, like, say fairies, ghosts or angels. You don't need to be an Oxford research associate writing about overcoming bias to realise the most common explanation for the phenomena is clearly (Cc) other such reports are already circulating in the public consciousness, and people are very impressed by them.

Neither spontaneity nor coordination is required to explain a sharp rise in sightings of saucer-shaped starships and little grey aliens after ships which flew like saucers and little grey aliens hogged the media for a decade, just like there isn't any conspiracy required to explain why people were a lot more likely to interact with spirits than be probed by 'greys' a few centuries back. (The great thing about "popular consciousness" explanations is they intersect with honest mistakes and delusions as well as big fat lies)

If Nick's desire for stuff that's in the movies to be real is so obvious he neglects the existence of the actual movies in his reasoning, he should probably consider renaming his blog
There have been many such attempts (e.g. NKRL by Zarri et al., also funded by EU, not mentioned by the paper). There are even societies that have been dealing with such issues for many decades (e.g. http://www.iaail.org). The formalization of law and language is only one of the issues. Like many previous attempts, this one suffers from the fuzziness of human language. Fuzziness is not a drawback; it is what makes it possible to communicate efficiently in the first place. In order for us to communicate effectively, we need an enormous amount of tacit knowledge about our environment that our culture and life experience brings. If one tries to formalize the language, as in the present approach, one must also take this knowledge into account, down to the last detail (an "upper ontology" is by far not sufficient for this, and e.g. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc they have been working on a complete formalization for decades and are far from finished). And the tacit knowledge and also the moral valuation of the same change over time. And there are things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox which stand in the way of a complete formalization. And also works like those of Gödel or Wittgenstein showed the limits long ago.
Can you actually provide an example or not? So far you are only repeating your conjectures without citing from the actual speech.
TypeScript vs. JavaScript: which one is better?
Local storage is persistent when you add a page / app to the home screen (ie take the step to install and enable it as an “app”) and only gets cleared after a while when the site is browsed as a website in Safari.

This, as a user and as a reasonable developer, seems exactly right. The “progressive” part happens when I want it to and initiated by me, so the developer can’t shove it down my throat or trick me into enabling their “app”.

So much of this argument is down to entitled web devs and companies that want to take advantage of the fact I’m reading their website to start installing software, sending notifications, reading from sensors etc. without permission.

That’s not an application it’s malware.
Hmm, I wonder if it's that us Mediterranean people have an easier transitional period and have learned to pace ourselves. I'll go out for a walk without sunscreen, but I'll definitely put it on if I go to the beach, when I'm going to be in the sea for an hour without a shirt on.

Most people here are pretty tan unless they spend all day in an office.
I appreciate what the authors attempted to do in that article, but in my own personal and deeply subjective opinion what they described are not FreeBSD primary strengths. Many features there are not only common to other BSDs but also to Linuxes. I think that a better approach would be talking about project cohesiveness — which is something that BSDs do better than Linuxes — and jails, which can still do a ton of clever stuff.
yep, people just want to believe there is something more than just boring daily life.
Unreal Tournament 2004 ?
Great Meetup about WebAssembly, Golang, RxGo with Alex and PizzaScript Language
Actually, software can be as well "interpretable". It just means that the outcome is not "he has to be convicted because of X and Y" but instead "if X and Y are relevant then he should be convicted". Which means, software cannot automatically handle a case but it needs to be interpreted - however, the interpretation will be more formal and not so handwavy.
I'm a user and I want the web to win, not the 100000 walled gardens out there.

The web is the truly only open platform that's still alive.
Interesting that you mentioned about writing what you're building, there's something I found recently that helps with this https://www.buildinpublic.xyz. I'll be trying this strategy out for getting the word out.
Anecdotal but I know at least one megacorp that is doing layoffs of manager level positions after noticing that their services/industrial processes worked well while them being on furlough during the lockdowns.