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I am a seasoned JavaScript dev (15 years now) and I don't mind writing jQuery plugins and dealing with old ES3-5 style code bases.

I am working with an Angular project where everything is just wrong by just enough to make it totally impossible to actually fix properly without massive refactoring. We have lots of imported bits of CSS even though we are using a framework, several libraries that kinda do the same thing just squished in there. Lots of jQuery (yes in an Angular project that screw with angular animations) and generally people didn't RTFM.

The only way to make something that is somewhat reliable is to just delete it and rebuilt each module piece by piece. I don't want to fundamentally change the product. I just want something where I am not constantly fixing bugs that could have been avoided by just RTFM.

The reason nobody wants to work on code-base that isn't their own is that it is frequently either crap, or it is undocumented and partially crap, or there is fundamental problems with it that make working with it painful. I can't lay out forms easily (even though we are using a popular CSS framework) because somebody who is long gone decided to put !important all over a stylesheet and if I remove anything the whole web app breaks. I frequently fix many display problems through deleting code.

As for comments about state-management ...

Your app has a state. If you don't manage it properly it becomes a mess. State management is essential. You might think it is a trend, but it isn't. It is simply good practice because once you start using it the benefits are obvious.
That's a lovely policy. Well done.
Indeed. A case in particular was Benjamin Levin who was the Minister of Education in Ontario

> Levin was ultimately nabbed conversing with police officers posing as single moms. He encouraged them to sexually abuse their kids and in some cases shared photos. [1]

> In one case, Levin sent photographs to a New Zealand police officer, one showing a “close-up of the face of a crying child, her face smeared with black makeup.” Levin suggested to her the image was “hot,” according to parole board documents. Another photo he sent showed a young female bound and leashed, with a gag in her mouth and Levin commented, “Mmm, so hot to imagine a mother doing that to her girl to please her lover.” [1]

> On May 29, 2015, he was sentenced to three years in prison. He only spent 3 months of his sentence in jail before being paroled [2]

[1] https://torontosun.com/2017/10/07/ex-deputy-education-minist...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Levin_(academic)
Burning natural gas is not a solution to climate change.
These cases of people actually claiming to want people locked up without due process are pushed by a vocal minority (same with us - even hacker news posts with maybe a million views mean than 1% of U.S. adults read it) - almost everyone wants due process since we want the truth to come out in the most verifiable way, and the court system provides that, even if it involves humans that can be bribed, persuaded, and manipulated by rich & powerful people.
I wonder how much of this is just a psychological effect from knowing it's Electron beforehand.

Sometimes I think I can almost perceive a little bit of slowness compared to e.g. Sublime—but then I lose sight of it.

Certainly in comparison to any similarly fully-featured IDE I've used its feel is notably quicker.
But does the network function? I built a Solaris Sparc Qemu machine before but the supported network card emulation didn't work.
I covered Hong Kong for decades. Now I am forced to flee China’s ‘white terror’
Someone replied:

> "Ryan here from Microsoft. This is certainly a worded incorrectly. I’m filing an issue with the Learn team to have this worded more factually."
We need to do this for many reasons, because without data we have nothing. This is a baseline requirement for prioritizing/strategizing/triaging, but also offers a mechanism for imposing carbon taxes.
doesn't sound bad tbh. who cares if some random person at work is pissed at you? most colleagues are not friends, they're just professional acquaintances
absolutely agree with your gripes with the Economist app. I use it every day. Confuses the hell out of me.

The old android app was terrible too because of frequent crashes.
Stingle is a privacy-focused, open source photo backup application
> I guess I had a somewhat emotional reaction to the criticism...

I agree wtith the rest of your post there.

> I think our abstractions let us communicate intention in a way that computers are far far away from achieving.
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> Show a webpage with "identify all the traffic lights" to a child and, it might take a little while (especially if they can't read!) but the human will build up abstraction and leverage prior knowledge and solve the problem.

Ah. I don't measure progress using computers relative to the human brain. So when I say programmers are using bad abstractions, I am not envious of human pattern recognition etc. at all. Likewise natural language abstractions are messy and culturally loaded and so much more I don't want to get into.

When I say abstractions I am just talking about the rigid formal ones we program.

I think the field is too focused on A.I. stuff because of old romantic notions about human vs computer, piss poor education making programming knowledge scarce, and general laziness among the non-technical powers that be about defining the requirements. I don't think should be the main thread of how we use computers in society.
Just casually skipping over the highest peak (Windows 7) I see...
I’ll also add that many things which seem boring from an abstracted and removed perspective can be quite fascinating when you get into the weeds.

I’d say this is because “reality has a surprising amount of detail”[1]. There’s a ton of intricate detail in a field like tax accounting. Even if it seems boring, once you’re immersed in it, you realize all the intellectual challenges.

[1] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
The next blog post goes into more detail regarding possible optimizations. https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/how-to-write-slow-rust-cod...

The JVM startup time is discussed, and it mentions that a pre-compiled version using Graal might make for an interesting comparison. It wasn't done, because as mentioned in the blog post, things were getting out of hand with all the extra testing.
the opposite for me: reading HN before bed just make me feel like a lazy slob and makes me feel motivated and demotivated at the same time
Forest management is bad overall, who will pay for it? In US/Canada the heat dome made for extreme weather. In Europe, record heat and rainfall causing extreme floods. We're having both, bad mitigation and climate catastrophe, going on. Plus Covid, pretty much following Hopi prophecies.
Based on this article (and my first rebuttal[0]) I actually think the whole "only photos syncing to icloud photos" part of it is the defining factor making it legal - if Apple specifically only sent themselves photos that were detected as CSAM, it would likely be a felony, while the planned system can use the reasoning I laid out to likely not be charged with such felony.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112312
Not a lot without breaking my NDA. But there was a public talk given by its author, Patrick Bosshart, a few years ago at a Bay Area Lispers meeting:

https://thewikihow.com/video_oGQd-suLvzQ
Specially when most of the audience doesn't bother to go through the standard, or bothers to learn about the history of bytecode formats for executable distribution.
This article does not give any explanation, neither from a business point of view nor from a technical point of view, why a new microservice was needed.

Please, let's have a brief moment of silence for the poor souls who build this system, and especially for those who will have to maintain it in the future.
Yep, I've read somewhere that an enormous amount of oxygen came from rocks, and the Himalayas in particular.
Not to the average person. Even CS freshmen seem to think game design means playing early prototypes of Grand Theft Auto 6.
> Best Ever?

> Lots of athletes come to the Olympics hoping to be the Best Ever. But not javelin throwers. They've been told to dream smaller dreams ("Best Since 1984!") and I think that's a bum deal.

> Why not take this event away from crowded arenas, go someplace safe, design the best flying spear possible, throw it as far as you can, and then whoever breaks the record can say to all spear throwers going back over the ages, "Now I'm Number One, in the truest sense — mine flew further than all of yours!

> That would be true Gold.

Maybe the best design would use a rail-gun as a booster.

And if the goal is to make it go as far as possible, you might want to consider throwing it outside the atmosphere.
We've been in a deflationary cycle (driven by technology & globalisation) for decades, so inflation hasn't been so relevant.

With that cycle now concluding it's likely that inflation concerns will soon be making a major comeback, already some observable echos of the stagflationary 70's: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/18/archives/how-carter-can-s...
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That's a bit shocking about the French inheritance law. It must create awful family tensions when there are more than 2 children.
https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/llvm

Experts happen to know what is actually possible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112982
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I can think of one place where this was the norm. People pair programming, reviewing code. It was really safe to be there. I leaned so much, it's one of the few times I noticed myself achieving a new level I didn't know I could reach.

And, I know of multiple places that were not safe places to make mistakes. It was awful, I was demoralized quickly and wrote bad code and got fired.

It makes my whole body shiver to think about places where the entire organisation would pull to make it psychologically safe. It takes real courage and thoughtfulness for those in leadership to create that kind of culture because there are so many barriers (namely awful people) who will be pulling in the other direction.
> Most iPhones will have automatic photo upload to icloud enabled,

I highly doubt that with how each photo is 10+MB and Apple only gives an abysmal 5GB of free iCloud storage, which includes everything else. My iphone 6s backups got to 4.5gb on their own years ago, turning off photo storage was the only way to avoid paying for iCloud storage outright.
AWS's UI not only sucks it takes so much time to get work done.
I don’t know, maybe you yourself get confused. Why would you say this otherwise:

> I love Postgres but it's "clustering" story is definitely not as user friendly.

Then have a look at YugabyteDB.
Well, it is Google. The engineers are so starved for opportunities for promotion that they've created at least one new chat platform per year for a decade.
Using them for a side project. Very impressed with their developer experience. Their React instant-search plugin is great, and very easy to add. Their documentation is great. Their admin UI is great.
Awesome! Will those capabilities be available in personal computers in the future?
Python: Easy Argparser
> someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact.

This is making it worse : because people with an agenda use CP as an excuse to force immoral behavior into us, now child suffering is always associated with bullshit. Those action are hurting the children by supressong the social will to take it seriously.

Stop hurting the children!
I've been reading [The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes](https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...) which I imagine covers similar material. I like it so far.
I literally laughed out loud.

Not going to happen. We need solutions rolled out at global scale by 2030. Nuclear power projects don't have a good track record for speed.

We need solutions that no-one is going to object to and for which the whole supply chain is already huge. Nuclear's cooling water demand alone makes it vulnerable to protest.

I'm hoping that Form's iron-air grid-scale battery is manufacturable, scalable and economical. Shouldn't be too hard to commit a few percent of the world's iron refining capacity to making grid-scale batteries to complement solar and wind power.

If not Form's, then one or more of their competitors' batteries. I sure hope someone cracks it. Last resort, we could use Lithium chemistries, but that wouldn't be so environmentally benign and would take a bit longer to scale out.
It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search
There is a general sentiment that Google's search capability has degraded over the years. Many disagree, pointing to metrics that suggest an increase in utility and successful searches for the average user over time. For the instances where Google users have difficulty finding relevant results, the on-going battle with SEO practitioners is cited, with the difficulty of distinguishing legitimate pages from ad farms and the like suggested as an answer to the question of why we see such failures and an increasing reliance on big-name sites as a trustworthiness heuristic.

I want to sidestep that debate somewhat by describing my experience with a more controlled environment: voice searching for YouTube videos to play on my Google Home Mini device. Many will remember how remarkably accurate searches were at initial release c. 2017; songs could be found by reciting lyrics, humming melodies, or vaguely describing the thematic or narrative thrust of the song. The picture is very different today. It's almost impossible to get the system to return even slightly obscure tracks, even if one opens YouTube and reads the title verbatim. Recently, I was trying to listen to a song from Neil Cicierega's Mouth Dreams album, Aerolong. Just that one song. No combination of terms would bring it up. Several times, my Mini tried to play the entire album as a playlist. But just as often, it would return something that was just off ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith) or completely unrelated (Bohemian Rhapsody). We should be clear: this is an Alphabet-produced device and interface tapping into an Alphabet-built index with an Alphabet-developed search function and being absolutely incapable of returning the correct result. One may wonder if this might have something to do with the obscurity of the track in question, but Neil Cicierega is an artist of note, if not mainstream; and, besides, it found the correct album and, presumably, would have eventually gotten to the correct track while making its way through the playlist. But that's not what I was asking for as a user; if the system found the correct track but insisted on not going directly to it, it's making a decision for me that I did not ask it to. That would be a horrifying finding, if more evidence could be compiled (beyond this being a commonly-encountered scenario) to show that this, specifically, is what was happening. At this point, however, the only thing that can be definitively concluded is that Google searches are not returning results that they ought to; results that, by all accounts, they would have been able to a few years ago; and results that must not have bren influenced by efforts to eliminate the effects of abusive SEO practices. Something else is going on.
> And while I'm sure there's "serious" business uses for that capability :)

There surely is, Java, .NET were there first.

If we leave the browser out, then there are plenty of examples since the early days of 1960's.
That’d probably work with music. But it’d be a disaster for authors. Often it takes more than a decade to go from book to movie, for example.

I think copyright should be much shorter, but I’m not sure it’d be right to have a bunch of knock off Harry Potter books, movies, and merch as soon as 2007.

Tolkien is the counter example. There’s no reason we should be protecting his work still today, 50 years after his death. They should be public domain by now.
Edit: Redacted. See the comment by ecotable bellow

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Use more efficient tools or technical stacks where possible. I was able to bring down CI runtime from about 12 minutes to about 3 minutes, with some not-very-difficult changes in the codebase. Considering CI is run tens of times everyday, and the codebase is compiled hundreds of times on dev machines each day, I like to think I am contributing to clean air.

This might not have a very significant impact, but if every developer makes such small changes... collectively it will be a big impact.
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Does anyone know how Agave is growing wild in India. I was under the assumption that agave is native to Americas.
No, it didn't, at least not legally. There is no federal requirement to scan for copyrighted content (which is an impossible task without $MM in capital and a media library of copyrighted content) - YouTube only does it with Content ID to appease the rights holders and not have them remove all their content from YT outright. The only requirement is to respond to DMCA takedown notices, which they were obligated to do before Kim started scanning for CSAM (which I can't find a story for).
> By default, WASM is pure computing. It can't interact with the outside world. You need to allow WASM to talk to the outside world explicitly.

That only applies to MVP 1.0, the long term roadmap hardly makes it any different from the myriad of other bytecode distribution formats.
They did, there are several capability based research OSes.
Surely there is communication surrounding the child sexual abuse, making plans with other pedophiles and discussing strategies. Some of this may occur over text message. Maybe Apple’s next iteration of this technology can use my $1000 phone that I bought and that I own to surveil my E2EE private encrypted messages on my phone and generate a safety voucher for anything I say? The sky’s the limit!
Well, 3 photos or more are what puts you over the line for an affirmative defense against CSAM possession[0]. It's probably above that.

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A#:~:text=(d)...
How does this “business model” survive the massive chargeback rate it must generate when most businesses live and die by a 1% maximum chargeback rate?
I don't think such a site would collapse. Instead, it would fragment into different bubbles, some of which would be toxic to mainstream users, but users wouldn't see any of that toxicity without specifically opting in to it.

I imagine such a platform would turn out like Reddit, only better, since people who opt out of the consensus reality would probably have their messages only visible to like-minded users, unlike on Reddit where each user is trusted by default in each subreddit.
AKA gorilla arm syndrome.
It is an ad, most WebAssembly advocates never bother to study the history from bytecode formats since the early 1960s.

It sells better when "WebAssembly did it first".
So was the FBI. They harassed my friend Aaron for a year when he started snarfing PACER documents from public libraries. In the end they had to conclude it was legal, so they couldn't prosecute him for it; instead he was persecuted by different US Attorneys for downloading papers from JSTOR until he committed suicide.
Also, writing for lifestyle magazines/publications can be like this. Loads of 20s writers competing for few spots. I remember hearing what a friend was getting paid by a recognisable brand to interview/write - I have no idea how she could afford Sydney rent. But countless hopefuls would've fought to steal that job regardless.
There's no competition for people to move to. This is why monopolies are bad.
Yeah, that's the only thing that still works decently. Song radio and custom playlist radio feed you into your own preferences.
Hey, if you're going for magic, why stop at half measures?

Direct matter to energy conversion or nothing!
thats a weird ass name, cool product though
You don’t have contact details publicly available in your profile. Neither does OP.
I have finally got the option to test “Download to Apple Watch”, so only took Spotify 2-3 years after the feature was made available? Not sure if it’s widely available yet

Had to buy the 4G version last time though, as Apples podcast and Music app is horrible at downloading, and Overcast was not much better.
I don't really want/need AR. I don't want a camera, I don't need object tracking, I do not need to augment what is in front of me.

What I would buy today is glasses that allowed an overlay. Give me a screen and an API and let me tether it to my phone and push pixels and I'd buy that immediately.
Nice, but if I were to use an external library to build a CLI interface, I would use click[0]

[0] - https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/
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There's a whole spectrum of agriculture lifestyles available around the world for people to choose from. People who get more satisfaction being an owner-operator farmer or more professional employee farmer can do that by migrating to a country where it's readily achievable. Same for many different types of work.

But people mostly seem to want to be richer and are happy to forgo that kind of lifestyle in exchange for a higher paying job. Who are we to tell them that what they want is not what they should really want?
India just had its first gold in track and fields in 100 years in Tokyo 2020, in Javelin throw, and What might be the intention to post this blog from 2012 now ? Its offensive.
Given the reception of Google Glass I hope it doesn't come to that. But combine authoritarian ambition with money and ingenuity and I guess one day we will all ... uh, I for one welcome our new overlords!
> that doesn't really mean as much as your comment might intend to insinuate.

Mine was an open question. Your speculation about what I might intend to insinuate is perhaps a projection from your own psyche, which you haven't actually articulated, so I can't comment further on it.

If you imagine I was saying something like modern humans were superior to other hominids because they defeated them - I wasn't. In fact, it isn't even true to say species X was defeated by species Y, because the outcome was a merger of (at least) 2 species, not an outright conquest. And as you seem to be saying in your comment, the survival of species is as much about the environment as it is about the qualities of a species.

Your point about modern humans walking long distances efficiently is an interesting one, though I'm not sure how it explains how the world was colonised. Are you picturing some kind of a race to see which species could travel the furthest out of Africa in the shortest time, to plant a flag on America or Asia and claim it for the species?

Wouldn't colonisation have taken place more gradually?

Assuming humans have to exist socially, in contiguous communities rather than solo, generation by generation, human populations would have progressively acquired more land (along the coast, say) by acquiring territory adjacent to their base. This equates to travel in the order of say 100 metres per generation - enough to support new housing and food supply for a population increase of a few percent. The success of this endeavour might depend on inter species competitiveness to a degree, and it would also be limited by genetic adaptability to climate variation as the distances added up over millennia, particularly latitudinally.
Because they have legal avenues in the US that they don’t have in China? Easy.
I won't surely change your mind, that is exactly what I am looking for.

WebAssembly made us regress 10 years, and we lost the great GUI based tooling for Web page creation and 3D games that are actually hardware accelerated without browsers doing blacklists.

https://platform.uno/