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Ask HN: Would a CLI to download a JSFiddle, CodePen, etc. be useful?
Hello everyone, I'm a maintainer at the PixiJS project. I fix bugs very often and to do so I have to setup a reproduction of the bug locally - that usually means copying code from an online IDE and linking it to the local build of PixiJS. I thought this process could be automated, and I wanted to know how useful it would be for other people.

Example command: fiddle download <URL>

This command would setup a mini webpack project, possibly linked to local builds of any dependencies (otherwise, downloaded using npm). You can run the project using another command like "npm run start".

If you think this is useful, would you pay and how much?
I bet you $10 the jackboots are already buying and selling drugs
Why Developers Should Learn Kubernetes
Ironically, didn't Theranos casually fail along the way with paying customers?

I would imagine that VC would be required to build the machines, but I'm not sure how many rounds. It seems like if their tech worked, it should have required far less than what they raised to hit sustainable revenues. Maybe 10%?
No, because if you really suck, you can’t win at all.

It is like poker, which is a combination of skill and luck.
Hah, I literally helped make these as a kid! My family has a cabin in the Carpathians that would often serve as our summer vacation destination. The people are hardworking, tough, and stoic. It feels like lifetimes ago (we immigrated to the States in '97).
Reminds me of a bo-jack horseman quote: "everyday it gets easier but you have to do it everyday".
Are you serious? Confucius ask people to follow tight caste system and all the emperors love it to death. It’s actually great for dictators
This is why I use the high contrast mode in MacOS. It ads nice solid black borders to all inputs. Originally I tried it out while fixing a bug, but now I can’t go back lest everything looks so monotonous and washed out.
It's interesting how solutions to basic problems like storing hay can become markers of cultural identity. In Slovenia, kozolec hayracks are permanent structures that have evolved beyond being purely functional into elaborate works of art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayrack
> Gas cars have leaky oil and combustion happening (my old high school car caught on fire under the hood). Users are regularly handling gasoline at stations.

It's worth considering that during the life of the car, far greater time will be spent charging as opposed to time spent fueling one, and even then, a fueling station can easily be outfitted with specialized safety devices that combat fuel fires.

> Yeah, batteries are "dangerous". We're all still carrying them around in our pockets and purses.

Stored energy is dangerous. The higher the density of that energy, the more danger it presents. Vehicle battery packs are designed with integrated cooling, and thus can be far denser than what's in your pocket.

Not to be completely negative, but to expect that there won't be a "safety learning curve" with larger and larger numbers of battery operated vehicles does not seem like sound planning. Met correctly, I'm sure we'll be able to manage it.
This is a scene straight out of Ayn rand's "Atlas shrugged".
Hey throwaway! I think this could work, but it might not be the highest priority. Think about this perspective:

The API is entirely HTTP, and tries to meet users where they are by providing tools that they are most comfortable with. Frequently, these users are familiar websites or mobile apps. As such, webhooks are implemented over HTTP.

If there was an alternate way to integrate with events, it'd be something that's either:

1. accessible to novice users, or

2. delivers on high throughput/latency needs of the largest users, or

3. resolves a storage/latency/compute cost incurred behind the scenes

Thinking about these:

For #1, websockets would score better than SMTP

For #2, kafka (or a managed queue like SQS) would score better (many support dead letter queues and avoid the latency at the mail layer)

For #3, it isn't clear that SMTP reduces the latency, compute, or storage costs

SMTP might be familiar -- and it's possible for you to build your own webhook → SMTP bridge if you wanted it -- but doesn't score well enough on any of these metrics to be built in-house.

[Disclaimer: I work at Stripe, and these opinions are about how I'd approach this decision. They're not the opinions of my employer.]
The lawsuit is not rediculous. These are marketed as being games of skill, which means there's always the ability to win on every turn. This is obviously false and people lose tons of money on this thinking it's fair.
True but I continue to think (hope) they plan to include a touch interface for, ahem, maciOS.
Thoughts on Racket and Chez Scheme
Reminds me of the Beaverslide haystacks you can still see in parts of Montana.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverslide
I recently did a comparison of cloud storage options:

- If you want "personal storage" (no programmatic access) the options are generally around $5 per TB/month - but that's a lot of drag-and-dropping and praying the connection doesn't die during transfer.

- If you want object storage (think S3) the cheapest is $5 per TB/month, the average is $10 per TB/month, and the "high end" is $20 per TB/month, with extra costs for bandwidth ranging from $10 to $120 per TB/month.

Honestly, just store less crap. Marie Condo your digital life. Does it not spark joy? Have you not looked at it in the last 6 months? Does it not serve a useful purpose, such as tax records? Ditch it.

Even if you want to keep some pictures/video, either print a copy in original-quality, or compress/downscale it. I took a 3 minute video on my phone and it's 425MB. And it was still grainy! I used to download two-hour movies that were 725MB and looked like a DVD! errrrrrr... I mean, I heard about a guy that did that.
Terrible idea. Families don't want to talk to single, middle aged guys like me. I don't need any new enemies, thank you very much.
My personal opinion is that if the USB enclosure is that flaky then it's not worth trusting it to operate when it's time to do a restore.

You could shuck the drive and connect it directly or find a reliable USB enclosure.

Putting the disk in /etc/fstab by uuid should keep it mounted to the same directory at least, but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well. The following link has an example to remount the drive with udev when it goes away, and if the backup software isn't running as root you can mount with uid,gid set to the backup user (or chown an ext filesystem) but make the mountpoint directory 0700 owned by root to prevent the backup from writing to it while unmounted.

https://blog.backslasher.net/automatically-mounting-usb-driv...
Realism About Vaccine Hesitancy (Opinion)
At the very least it's good for show.
> The FAA letter said the tower could be as high as 480 feet.
> Sorry to have to say this but anyone who tells you you’re going to hell isn’t a Christian. I left the church over similar feelings so I identify. But for the record and the benefit of anyone else who might need to hear this, you’re not going to hell.

What did Christ say about sin and repentance?

Matthew 11:20-24: Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day. Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.”

> The biblical Jesus (he’s the Christ in Christian) hung out with sailors, prostitutes and a tax collector. The fact that xtians tell people they’re going to hell in that person’s name is a disgrace. It’s not the biblical antichrist but it’s sure anti everything Jesus said and did.

What did Christ say about about his role in judgement?

John 12:47-49: If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

> If anyone reads these words and feels pain, feel free to reach out. You’re incredibly loved, at least by me and I’ll have your back no matter what.

What did Paul say about pain?

2 Corinthians 7:10: For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Make sure the gospel you're preaching is of the Word and not of man. Many churches misrepresent the truth, but many others aren't willing to speak it.
The Wayback Machine isn't searchable, or at least not nearly as searchable as Twitter itself. If I have a fight with you now, I can just go to search.twitter.com and put in "bad word from:AzzieElbab" and find any of your bad tweets. To use the Wayback Machine to get you in trouble, I have to know ahead of time what you said and at what URL to use it against you later.
That wasn’t how I read the article. The artist seems fascinated by the way people look emotionless when interacting with computers, not with drawing attention to surveillance mechanisms. He wanted to create a moment of connection between the people in the store and commented mainly on how people ignored one another and kept looking at the computer. I really don’t know where people get the idea the artist’s intent was particularly focused on corporate surveillance.

Of course, death of the artist and all that - if people read it as a piece about surveillance capitalism then that’s what the art is about regardless of what the artist thinks it’s about.
I love this project. But I worry they are going to have trouble getting permission to scale this up. I read that the amount of kg of Carbon sequestered per kg of Olivine put down is roughly 1:1. Let's say the average American has an annual carbon footprint of 16 tonnes. Maybe we can aim to reduce that to 10 with lifestyle changes such as cutting out most meat and driving electric. That is still 10 tons of Olivine each American is effectively going to have to put on a beach somewhere per year to be carbon neutral. I'm personally totally OK with turning all our beaches green if they can show it doesn't damage ecosystems but I can guarantee you there will be a lot of NIMBYism pushing back against this.

Don't get me wrong it's possibly a great weapon against clime change and we are going to need every single one.
"integration" means putting it together/assembling it. At Cape Canaveral, they have the Vehicle Assembly Building for this.
That is an absurd comparison, the sleep would be happening regardless
Jack Ma's only mistake was residing in China.
Fair enough.

I'm intrigued by the "non-believers to demonize God" though. As a thought experiment, replace God by any deity of any religion, such that you would also be a non-believer (I assume you are a believer in the Christian god), which should help with the objective distance.

How about human sacrifices, say Vikings or Aztecs. What are your thoughts on human sacrifice? Would you go as far as to demonize the Aztec god(s) that required a human sacrifice?
NAS, definitely. Even hard drives are a ton faster on a local network than most people's internet connection over a cloud service.
This becomes exhausting. Like, it becomes its own workload. There are some decent workflow tools for iPad that make it tolerable to work on while vegging out in the evening or on a plane, but it's definitely a chore to Marie Condo your digital life. And we haven't even gotten to the fragmentation of life as you move, move jobs, etc.
This may be something you haven't considered, but there are ways of using YT with never seeing the front page. Some people don't just "browse" YT, or watch video after video after video following some algorithmically chosen playlist. It is possible to watch a single specific video and then leave the site. Just like you can also read a single tweet without infinitely scrolling through the bedlam.
The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases
The FAA, more than any technical reason, explains why SpaceX bought two oil rigs to perform oceanic launches.
It's like they've never even used their own browser(Edge/Chrome) or something. 4GB for a Windows OS is hilarious.
So pickup artists took this to heart
It could be OK as long as you normalize the power limits (which most people can't do) and don't cherry-pick only single-threaded or multi-threaded tests.
For the age we're living in, these desktop wallpapers are an appropriate clap-back to the famous Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper.
I believe the goal is to have a launch tower catch falcon 9 rockets, then take a starship, rotate it around the tower 180 degrees and put it on top of the rocket that just landed to refuel and launch again.

edit:
super heavy not falcon 9
here is the youtube video I was remembering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdU9RzlHm-o
Russia to build RISC-V processors
Russian outlet Vedomosti.ru today is reporting that the conglomerate Rostec, a Russian state-backed corporation specializing in investment in technology, has penned a deal with server company Yadro and silicon design company Syntacore to develop RISC-V processors for computers, laptops, and servers. Initial reports are suggesting that Syntacore will develop a powerful enough RISC-V design to power government and education systems by 2025.

More at https://www.anandtech.com/show/16827/russia-to-build-riscv-processors-for-laptops-8core-2-ghz-12nm-2025

or original link https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2021/07/14/878092-rosteh-razrabotaet-protsessori, in Russian.
These children, now adults, have stopped looking to their parents. They've estranged them. I'd say in many cases, that's the responsible thing to do.

If a close friend told you that their BF/GF abused them and asked you what was the responsible thing to do, would you not tell them that they should first remove themselves from their abuser? Is it not precisely the responsible and independent choice for a victim to leave their abuser behind and move on?

Blame isn't necessary for estrangement. I broadly agree, blame is often toxic, and it's healthy to have a sense of cosmic empathy towards even people who have wronged you. It's not really clear to me who's ultimately "in the wrong" here, but the person you replied to is clearly taking the reins on their life: evidently, they're now dealing with life without their parents' help.
Anybody else get flashbacks to Manifold: Time?
Eccentric entrepreneur building awesome rockets in the desert while the government tries to prevent him from launching?
Steven Pressfield is an amazing writer. I think he's the one who wrote about the Spartans and how ridiculously tough they were. I encountered the book as a paperback left in a bin for soldiers to take and read during some dumb deployment. Not that one, but a small one to Poland. This was 2002.
Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes
> And Spotlight is a clinic on shitty UI: WTF is the use of a search facility that doesn't show you WHERE it found things?

Holding the Command key shows you the location
I used to code for an hour every week day and maybe 3-4 hours on weekend. But there was also a lot of "background processing" of what I plan to work on next and how to implement it. The more background processing I did, the faster I was in the actual implementation. So those hours I actually spent on the keyboard were really productive.
Absolutely.

If you do the 20 min sessions, you’ll be refreshed and on top of your game.

If you do the 8hr sessions, you’ll die of sleep deprivation in a week or two.
"By the way, a question for progressives: If equity consists in making human beings equal to one another, why is it just or reasonable to rank them?"

Seems like a professor of government at Harvard would be well versed in False Equivalence... (To be clear, I propose that treating people with equal dignity\respect is NOT the same as choosing your preferred representatives in order of preference)

To the rest of the article, I struggle mightily with her first point (roughly, that a voter only REALLY wants their first choice). I don't know about everyone else, but I have never encountered a candidate that perfectly reflects my wishes and would positively relish the ability to indicate a second-best.
Agreed. $10 for some TBs is much cheaper than the time I spend deciding if I will need something or not.

Very similar to just buying a few more items at the grocery than I normally would. My time is so incredibly important that it's not worth $20 in wasted items to have to potentially drive back there if I've missed something.

If I don't have as much time as possible to spend on working/innovating/personal health and family, my income source will dry up and then I'm in dire straits ;)
In theory it could used for payload integration tests, dress rehearsal, or even static fires. But it seems odd to do those at a different pad than you'd actually launch from
Outdoors?
https://xkcd.com/463/ Strictly speaking, your plan is better than the alternative of keeping it closed-source, yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.

Anything useful you produce will be community-maintained eventually, and your cloud product will vanish once you complete your amazing journey; anything in-between seems like rent-seeking. Meanwhile, your competitors are Free Software and can out-develop you.
‘Super antibody’ for Covid fights off multiple coronaviruses
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco fame has a nice new book on a strategy similar to this. Haven't read it, but looks pretty good. He talks about how everyone should try one artistic thing and be willing to fail. That gets the Jitters out the way, then they can focus and do something interesting.
On laptop, supposedly the simplest thing to do is to use the dedicated volume keys?

Again, this was back in kde 3 days, where desktop usage was more prominent than laptop, and even on laptop, a mouse with a scroll wheel was still a common accessory since touchpad gesture wasn't really a thing yet.

> Knobs are great in the physical world, never met one on a screen that wasn’t hard to use.

Well, I just gave you a perfect example where a knob on the screen was immensely useful. Of course it will be silly to try copying the physical world as-is, but with a little bit of creativity, applied in the right context, a knob on the screen can absolutely be useful.
I certainly agree. However, many people don't have that dedicated focused time. I wanted to give an alternative perspective on what one can do when you can't find such long stretches of time.
We have a dedicated slack channel and weekly meeting called AV Club - you watch the selected video on your own time and discuss at the meeting or in the chat.
Considering the source of all of his wealth is in China, it would be pretty difficult for him to not reside there and continue to be wealthy.
What Is Motivation? You’ve Probably Been Thinking About It All Wrong
Another option is to drive the data to some place with a fast internet connection and do the upload over the course of a day or two (one time I asked a friend if I could bring my laptop and a hard drive to his university classroom and plug in for an afternoon (I was lucky to know a few of the IT folks there), and I got 940 Mbps upload. It was like heaven!
not only is removing the lock icon a good idea, replacing it with a dropdown indicator is a great idea. there's all kinds of useful stuff in that menu, currently hidden behind something that looks like a status indicator rather than an interactive element.
Years ago, I dismissed photography as a pretentious hobby that would be rendered obsolete as smartphone cameras and digital improvements became more ubiquitous

You just listed a couple tools for photography though. If anything they will lower the barrier of entry for photography and more people will participate (pretty much what happened)
There's a huge market here for something that professional photographers could use. I know several and they all tell each other to keep buying more external 1tb hard drives then back everything up to random cloud image hosts. Most of them end up with a bunch of zip lock bags laying around full of disks and thumb drives.

I made the mistake of building a NAS for one at one point but it turns out that you need to be really diligent about documenting the setup as rebuilding a raid5 array when it inevitably fails can be very difficult if you don't remember what the actual configuration was.

The crux of the issue is that they need massive storage capacity but whatever the solution is needs to be able to manage merging disjoint Adobe Lightroom catalogs while de-duplicating and without the possibility of data loss, all while needing basically no maintenance because these people tend not to be incredibly computer literate.
it's not a "war against http". it's a shift from indicating that http is the normal state and https is the abnormal state, to https being the normal state and non-https being abnormal. which is just a reflection of reality.
I am the author of this blog post. If anyone has any questions about it, I would be happy to try to answer them.
That's waste from bomb making, not power plants. Different subject. We're not producing any more of that, or proposing to.
Looks like they saw your post. Update for week 6/30 up now!
Lol, lighten up
Figma isn't bundled with your application.
If all you focus on are the harmful aspects, you're dismissing the beneficial aspects. All parents will both benefit and harm their child. Hopefully in most cases, the former will be intentional and the latter be unintentional. The extreme focus lately on the latter, harm, has led many to ignore if not outright dismiss the former. That's not healthy.

What's the point in having children and raising them as best as you can if the talking heads in society will treat them to focus on your unintentional harms and resent you?

I myself am one of four children and I'm the only one that had a healthy relationship with both our parents because I ignored society's pressure to focus on people's failures and instead consider parents as flawed people doing their best given their upbringing, values, effort and the knowledge/information they had available to them at the time. My three siblings all have have issues with one or both parents and they aren't doing as well I me emotionally and I feel bad for them but also know it isn't entirely their fault since society has fed them toxicity.

That's right: society teaching people to focus on how others are toxic to you can be as toxic as those people are and often is far more toxic than any toxicity you experienced from the people you're been taught to consider toxic. Yet, we never discuss how all these discussions about "toxic people" are more toxic that the people we're discussing.