skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A combination of:

[ ] Will probably be abandoned in less than a year

[ ] If it does not get abandoned, it will not follow semantic versioning and introduce breaking changes outside of major releases. A routine `npm upgrade` may or may not break everything

[ ] If it follows semantic versioning, there will probably be a major release with breaking changes every few months

[ ] Probably has a 500MB+ dependency tree

[ ] Frequently has security issues with a dependency 4 levels deep and you can't upgrade without conflict with another library or because a dependency 2 levels deep is abandoned

Do these issues exist in other languages? Sure but those incidents are quite rare and isolated. But these issues happen *way* too often in the JS ecosystem.
Now Is the Time to Start Biking (2020)
Having kids in this world, knowing what’s coming, is to set yourself up for a lifetime of fear. Basically every friend I have with kids is terrified of what the US (and the world) will become in 10 years.
Internet woven from ‘spooky’ quantum links could supercharge science, commerce
What do Java or C# offer that Typescript cannot offer? Genuine curiosity as I’m not quite sure myself.

It seems, through my experience, that Typescript isn’t “hacked together” as you imply. It’s just another Type-system, just like Java or C#’s?
Based on the list of authors, this study was overseen and mostly executed by UNC Chapel Hill.
They also didn't have nuclear submarines with hypersonic missiles.
Nailing public figures who lie for personal gain to the cross serves a very important function by dissuading other public figures from doing the same. Otherwise, the math suggests that every public figure should be lying for personal gain since they can just get away with it. At least in the US, there are far too many politicians who think they can get away with lying through their teeth to the public.

However, it looks like Fauci has outlived his usefulness to the ruling class, and they are currently in the process of throwing him under the bus.
Nobody, especially not Apple, decides something like that in one email or even a single conversation. Also this is the company that goes to great pains to hide what everybody can see about their plans. Keep that in mind.

Obviously, This is something that has been discussed over and over and over since they started planning the iPhone. I've watched Apple work, they don't hash out what their products are going to do through emails.

Sorry, but you're wrong. The idea had clearly occurred to them way before any of these emails that you're referencing.
I love JS. JS and its big brother TS are my #1 choice for front end development.

What I hate about them is two things:

1. Rules for semicolons. Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't.

2. = and ==. Ugh. The Bug Maker.

3. + for concatenation. Yikes!

4. Arrays are objects except when they're not but objects aren't arrays. :-(

JS is essentially Lisp w/o parens. Everything is an object. Everything is by reference. And everything is mutable. Lisp is what we use on the backend and these two are kissing cousins.
Regarding explicit vs implicit imports, elixir supports both. However explicit aliases are preferred both for clarity and compilation speed. Perhaps discuss with your team why they are (seemingly) preferring to import rather than alias?
I second your nomination of Euler's formula as the most beautiful mathematical statement!

Another candidate in my mind is the generalized variant of Stokes' theorem (there's nothing wrong with the basic calculus variant, but the general variant is just so succinct): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Stokes_theorem

In addition to being pleasingly succinct and symmetric in its very statement, it couples shapes and functions on them in a beautiful way.

One more with this pleasing connection is the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. However, it loses some points for requiring a bit too much setup for the statement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%E2%80%93Singer_index_th...
The word “law” is very misleading.

It gives you an illusion of control. That’s why these kind of “secret of success” books are popular, but worth nothing.

In reality there are now “laws” everyone obey, or even rules that gives you stable predictable results.

People are dynamic chaotic systems, they’re not computers.
How can the most popular language in the history of computing be abandoned in less than a year? There is more code right now running JS than there is in all other languages combined.
I believe you are correct based on my research and having had COVID.

Doesn't take really detract from the points though.
In many English speaking non American countries fauci gets as much or more air time than their domestic experts
You can neuter it with JTAG, stop trusting Wikipedia as complete.

At best, usually incomplete.
They are a heavily custom fork from a very old version of Django, but apparently much is still "recognisably Django".
>IBM acquired redhat

Yes that is my point. Redhat acquisition was entirely the current CEO's making. Before that I am not so sure.
FTA:

"In one State Department meeting, officials seeking to demand transparency from the Chinese government say they were explicitly told by colleagues not to explore the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s gain-of-function research, because it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it."

In an internal memo obtained by Vanity Fair, Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, wrote that staff from two bureaus, his own and the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, “warned” leaders within his bureau “not to pursue an investigation into the origin of COVID-19” because it would “‘open a can of worms’ if it continued.”

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (or "Who will guard the guards?")
My sister asked me to build an autosampler
I agree with your other points, but:

> little booths into their warehouses to try and improve mental health

If these are anything like toilets, they’d do wonders for my mental health.

Of course it would be more helpful if they actually were toilets (re: bathroom breaks)
We’ve been searching for intermediate animal species for 15 months and none have been found (SARS and MERS were found quickly), SARS-Cov-2 is actually quite bad at infecting bats, and the key thing: arginine-based (i.e DNA amino acid, not RNA) furin cleavage site on the spike protein (widely regarded in the GoF research as a great way to increase human infectivity).

To say nothing of the incredible coincidence of the WIV.
Circa 1995: we (company) used RTPatch as the users at the time were floppy based via Post, but enjoyed BBSes (and Prodigy, etc.) as it was a social community due to the nature of the software/industry. We could upload small RTPatch based updates and bugfixes to our tiny company BBS, users could dial in and download a rtpatch a lot faster than a floppy in the mail (besides avoiding the usual corrupt floppies that plagued the tech).
An analogous experience: I once chaired an American Bar Association committee that developed and published "fair and balanced" model software license provisions, extensively annotated. Twice in the following year, in working on client deals, lawyers for The Other Side proposed draft license agreements that were indisputably copied wholesale from the model provisions — but with certain fair-play features omitted.
Woken | Freelance Fullstack Developer (Django+React) | Part-time | Remote

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Our founder & CEO, Rachel Serwetz, is an ICF-certified coach with a background at Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater Associates.

WOKEN is 3.5 years old and actively growing. We launched our most recent version of our custom platform in January 2021 and are now ready to reinvest to ensure that we are adequately maintaining and advancing this platform.

This role would enable you to be the sole, Lead Fullstack Developer on our team, working with our CEO, CTO and Product Manager to manage weekly sprints to improve both the front end and back end of our platform to improve the user experience and increase retention. We are hoping to find someone with 3-5 years experience in Python, Django, HTML, CSS, React, Celery (with Redis as the broker), REST APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS (at least EC2 and RDS), and Git.

If you are interested in reviewing the role description, check out the job posting here: https://angel.co/l/2vkY1R.

If you think this role fits your skills and interests and you have the availability of ~15 hours/week (with room to grow), here are the best next steps:

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It would be helpful to let us know your hourly rate

Let us know if you have any questions!
Errr... yes? None of that is relevant to the claim GP goes on to make. Not only was skepticism warranted toward the lab leak hypothesis (and it continues to be), but going on to speculate that this "regularly" happened is a bit rich.
This is helpful, thank you. And yes, I'm ultra-specific when scoping requirements and the deliverable. I've never had a miscommunication issue with a freelance once I bring someone on, just struggling to hire sometimes
> Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone

Again, the media should be absolutely ashamed of how it treated people who proposed that this virus may have been from a lab, and may have been the product of human intervention. It may still be the case that neither of these theories turn out to be true, but they are certainly plausible given the available information, and perhaps more plausible than the official line.

I see no reason to take big media seriously on anything at this point.
What's anticompetitive behavior is for URLs associated with competitors to be banned. They were. Whether a customer support drone was able to identify them as URLs associated with competitors is immaterial.
I have not implied that Google tried to be evil. It was just a very interesting observation (which I unfortunately did not experiment around longer, by removing ads again, etc.).

Risk is too high for such things to be decided, but maybe someone buried a change in the second decimal place in an to "ad-fraud" prevention subsystem, which required a minimum amount of traffic or some other non-voluntary things like that.

Even more: impenetrable deep learning models trained to maximize ad revenue - imagine pagerank and availability of ads on the site are two of the N features, what would the optimizer suggest you do?
You'll have to more clearly define what precise meaning you pack into "evidence" because I can't really understand your central claim otherwise.
Non-Creepy Technology Purchasing and Gifting Guides
Real estate deed/title records; will take a while to onboard existing records, but would then eliminate the need for title insurance (commonly required for home/land purchases in the US) as well as many types of real estate lend/lease scams.
Doesn't address the docker part, but the syntax for this node -> python bridge looks reasonable, and there's a short comparison section for other solutions: https://github.com/Submersible/node-python-bridge
> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses

The classic rebuttal to this is that the company needs the best chance of surviving today, and can fix it tomorrow.

There are problems with this approach, it's definitely harder to fix these problems later, but "at scale" is that really a problem? The big problem is getting to the scale, surviving long enough.
>rect->minx = min(rect->max.x, rect->minx + a);

Did you mean maxx instead of max.x?
I never see hobos with kids. Does that mean they’re always taken care of before they actually end up on the street? Or does it just mean instant confiscation by CPS?
Delusions that it will not.
It's worth noting that this isn't unique to online advertising: the quote "Half of all advertising is worthless; the trouble is, we don't know which half" is over a century old.
Accessibility Cheatsheet – Practical Approaches to Universal Design
Mods, please correct the editorialized title.
Handling (Messy) Address Data
Incognia's normalization and matching of addresses.
Well "mastering [that] careless design" has made me farore capable than many of my peers at tasks that involve debugging network problems. I can slice and dice data files with ease and much more speed than any of my associates because the power the shell brings, I have gained a much deeper understanding of how am OS and computing works, what is going on under the hood, and consequently have reaped many advantages due to many hours spent mastering the shell.

You are right it has some warts, but if a file is really that absolutely critical I make a .bak copy of it before I start my work. The shell has its limitations but so do all tools and the power it gives me is unmatched.

As for other popular software there is plenty out there but other popular software out there destroys something far more valuable to me. My time.
Dark Patterns That Mislead Consumers Are All over the Internet
For comparison, this is the relevant OECD series: https://i.postimg.cc/vmPyCfNL/img4.png

(via https://data.oecd.org/youthinac/youth-not-in-employment-educ...)
People are employed, just not formally, and they're paid in cash.

https://theconversation.com/informal-economies-are-diverse-s...

It's the same situation in many developing countries.
An update on our racial justice efforts
Huh? I’m terrified of what the world will end up like if I don’t have kids.
USA has similar unemployment stats with subsets of their population demographics. This subset largely survives and thrives due to section 8 and EBT/SNAP entitlements.
No manual.

Java, Python, Erlang and some other languages come with detailed documentation of the language and runtime which is sufficient to use the language. You are NOT at the mercy of StackOverflow and Google SEO Spammers if you want to answer simple questions.

In Javascript they blew up the tower of babel and dispersed the manual to the 4000 corners of a hypercube.

There are ways to compensate (MDN, the official ECMA docs punch above their readership weight, ...) and I have a feeling that the frenetic progress has slowed in the last two years but I dread teaching anybody else Javascript since I can't ground it in a epistemology the way I can with Python and Java.
Drag and drop files onto the decentralized web using Skynet and Filebase
It's a textbook copyright violation and could earn the author at least four to five figures when he settles.
Well... this perspective oversimplifies things a bit. Amazon pays little or no corporate tax, but it still pays a lot in other taxes (such as payroll taxes). See, for example, https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2019/02/22/why....

Legal corporate tax breaks are used to encourage incentives that we (as a society) want. We can and should continually monitor and tweak them, but as a concept they are not inherently bad - I mean, Amazon is now this enormous beast, but it's also an enormous beast that created over a million jobs.
Thanks for reading!

>You seem to be far enough ahead of other commercial offerings to slow down the new feature pace. I'd consider going from 3 contract developers down to one so that the project can have better margins. Then, when growth allows, ramp it back up.

Yeah, the focus now is for features that attract enterprise clients or building a SaaS complement. Also, to clarify, it's three part-time developers, so it's about 30-50 hours per week of total dev work across the three of them.

>The 3d printed case also seems like an opportunity. I imagine that's costly both from a materials and labor perspective. There would be a large one time cost to convert that to a molded case, but the per-unit cost would drop a lot. If the design is stable now, I'd consider that.

I looked into that a few months ago[0], and the up-front cost would be $20-40k, and it wouldn't drop the unit price by much. I have an unfair advantage by living in MA, where the state subsidizes 75% of 3D printing costs for businesses registered in the state.[1] I'm sticking with 3D printing for now because the design has changed slightly every few months, and I like the flexibility it offers.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2021/02/#scaling-manufactu...

[1] https://www.mass.gov/doc/946-cmr-800-innovation-voucher-prog...
It's possible that advertisers were looking at sites where their ads were being published to see if they wanted them to remain there..
Government, at least in democratic societies, follows from the will of the people. So it does matter what people believe. If nobody believes that carbon emissions are a problem or that we should actually do something about the problem, then it’s odd to expect that government would somehow step in and work against the believe of people.

The way the people in the thread react to the attempt to resurge a technology associated with huge emissions is worrying in this context. I guess a bit of handwaving around sustainability is enough to make people ignore the issue, while the aviation industry in real life has made close to zero progress in replacing fossil fuels.

United, as part of their announcement on Twitter, suggested that a weekend trip from sf to Tokyo would be possible with this. Even if the emissions per km weren’t higher (which is a stretch at best), it’s still trying to encourage people to burn through a huge chunk of their personal lifetime carbon budget in a single weekend for fun.
That sounds wrong on so many levels.
Their parents feed, house and clothe them.

Edit: not sure why this is being buried. I'm not judging, it's just the answer to the question isn't it?
Faster Arctic sea ice thickness decline when accounting for dynamic snow cover
Speaking from experience, AAA games have quite a bit of architecture behind them that can date back a decade or two. So you end up with some tradeoffs. The code may be well-tuned, resource efficient, and mostly crash proof, but some elements can be a bit dated relative to the size and scale of modern assets.
Why would coronaviruses not have arginine?
Is... that good?
... and has done for at least 25 years :-)
Most Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies Online Come from the Same 12 People, Study Shows
I'd say an FTC fine of $5 billion is batting an eyelid. A raised eyebrow, even.
The media also insisted masks were useless for the general public. The media demonstrated a real inability to critically evaluate the statements authority figures feed to them over the past year.
India’s ‘Ugliest’ Language? Google Had an Answer (and Drew a Backlash)
The actual title is: "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence".

I guess the poster wants to downplay the existing "cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses" bit.
> I shouldn't have to constantly worry that a remote code change could turn my hardware into a new source of revenue for you while I am on vacation at the beach.

This is it. It actually induces some kind of anxiety and mild paranoia.

We can also very easily support companies that don't treat their customers this way, or their workers, or business partners...
My favorite use of the term "woo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMKGeICf0Y

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmLUA2yHFE&ab_channel=Borre...
>never off limits, it was ridiculed because it had little evidence and was based on political things

re limits - I got banned from the covid19 reddit for mentioning it and was unable to write about in on Wikipedia, this in Feb 2020, pre Trump

re evidence - there were no bats anywhere near Wuhan and Daszak's gain of function funding and interview were public before the breakout but unmentionable

How is the above that the nearest viruses to the breakout were in a lab politics?

And while people like me being unable to write on Wikipedia etc may seem silly bear in mind 10m people died from this thing and several of those million may not have done if the data was not censored.
Oops! I meant to write e^(iτ) - 1 = 0. I was going back and forth between the various formulations of the identities:

e^(iπ) + 1 = 0,
e^(iτ) - 1 = 0,
e^(iπ) = -1,
e^(iτ) = 1.

The one involving pi looks more elegant when written in the first manner. The one involving tau looks more elegant when written in the fourth manner. I screwed up this one while going back and forth between these options. I have fixed it now. Thanks for noticing and commenting!
Bsdiff and bspatch: libraries for building and applying patches to binary files
Aren't they historically unconnected, as the quote alludes to?

1's origin is in counting.

pi's origin is in the study of the circle.

0's origin is in accounting.

i's origin is polynomial algebra.

e's origin is in the study of exponentials and derivatives.

The relationships between all of these fields is a discovery in itself, and a revelation that was not apparent at all throughout history, and it is still not apparent to most people who haven't studied math in-depth.

Basically, e^ipi + 1 = 0 is proof of the connection, one that is not at all immediately apparent, and has not been known for the majority of humanity's history.
OpenDJ is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service for Java
I do some work with games in the browser, both 2D and 3D, and did try it out mostly because I was curious about the technical side.

First, this looks like a cool idea and could be useful. But we are on Internet so going directly to the problems.

In both Firefox and Chrome on windows 10 the fps was mostly around 30 fps when moving around, some times dropping down to 5 fps. Probably because of this I kept getting stuck in furniture. There was also something that did feel off when looking around using the mouse, not really sure what maybe it only was lag. On most demos on Babylon and Three, and on other games, I get solid 60 fps. I am sure the experience will be much better if you also manage to get close to 60 fps.
New Abuse Research Grants Program
We crashed Republic.co with our crowdfunding campaign
When preparing a campaign you always worry about your own site. You worry 'Will it be able to handle the visitors' etc.

A reminder to worry about your partners sites as well.

We launched a crowdfunding campaign at 7am ET today, and the partner site goes down.

https://republic.co/bucket-list
Elon Messing with the Crypto Market
Elon Musk keeps messing with this market
When I browse around these courses, I see a couple of high-profile names teaching them, but it's interesting to see how the overwhelming majority of the teaching work is done by brilliant people who almost never make it to the spotlight. I hope they are getting the recognition they deserve at least in their inner circles.
Protobufs requires each end of the comms agreeing to the same schema. You'd need something that transmitted key names like JSON, YAML, TOML etc. If you wanted a binary format then you could send BSON (binary JSON), and murex does already support this. But pragmatically a standard command line (or even your average shell script) isn't going to be consuming the kind of data that is going to be latency heavy to the extent that the difference between JSON or BSON would impact the bandwidth of a pipe.

Worst case scenario and you're dealing with gigabytes or more of data, then you'd a streamable format like jsonlines where each command in a pipeline can run concurrently without waiting for the file to EOF before processing it. In those situations most binary serialisations aren't well optimised to solve.