skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forget when this has been discussed before but a lot of major digital companies (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) end up creating their own fonts for legitimate business reasons that are totally unrelated to design/usability. I can't seem to find the reference, but I think it had to do with licensing/commercial reasons.
Wikipedia Has a Language Problem
> AirBNB means you have an entire place to yourself.

No, it doesn't.
The point is if the VCs can tell if we're being sarcastic or serious.
How to Burst the “Tutorial Phase” When Becoming a Developer
Selenium and playwright both allow you to inject javascript directly into the page, which can be nice.

I see your point though. Also when I do playwright scripting I normally use async/await, so I guess the grass is always greener ;p

In python I find a missing async/await is apparently very early on and doesn't really take extra time to solve. Maybe just better tracebacks in python?
They first embraced web standards by building a web based open source IDE called VSCode to get people to convert to it over using Visual Studio.

Now that they attracted people to use it, they embraced Linux containers and offered managed dev containers as a service over it called Codespaces running all on Azure.

At this point, it's all good, this is how a company profits on open source and standards.

But now they are extinguishing by adding proprietary remote extensions, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...

Those extensions being proprietary will lock you to VSCode and their own containers. As a user you might still use it for free, even though they may add future premium features see: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_will-you-char...

But other competitors will not be allowed to use them to compete, and they can't be bundled in anything else, so Sublime wouldn't be able to bundle them in or make use of the remoting features.

The remote extensions are key to the attractiveness of VSCode for use with cloud managed containers, so it's a pretty big differentiator.

On top of that, they purchased GitHub, where most open source software lives, and are now trying to move development on those open source projects to adopt their own proprietary extensions to offer contributors a way to quickly contribute using VSCode and GitHub Codespaces.

Sounds like EEE to me. Maybe it will fail to extinguish, but my guess is we will see a lot of people slowly relying more and more on proprietary extensions owned by Microsoft to the point where if you work for certain companies you might not have a choice but to use VSCode.
Handouts at conventions or other events; provisioning large deployments in a corporate environment; vendors shipping media to customers who need it in physical form (computers don't come with optical drives anymore, and sometimes you can't download); small/medium-scale manufacture of embedded/IoT devices.

Just envisioning some uses off the top of my head.
Doesn't it stand to reason that almost every new election has the highest votes in history due to growing populations?

Obama held the record previously with least counties won. This is not surprising because it's widely known that urban voters are largely blue and rural voters are mostly red. And urban counties are growing very fast, and red counties are suffering from population attrition, so this is going to occur even more in the future.

>Also don't forget, Biden was losing 5 key states, until somehow overnight the mail-in ballot rate reversed overnight.

This only matters to people who treat the counting of the ballots as some kind of race. It's not; the winner is set as soon as the polls close and the last valid ballot is accepted. The process of observation is incidental. Recounts were performed, audits were performed, left wing and right wing members validated the results.

And don't toss that 40% number in with your conspiracy theories to make them sound legitimate. You are doing a disservice to the Americans in that 40% who don't trust elections because they are DISENFRANCHISED.
> Check the video,I would say masks help. It's basic physics

Masks leak. Airflow seeks the path of least resistance. Also basic physics. People are not mannequins in a fume hood with scrap of cloth glued to their slobberhole.

I don't think anyone is disputing the idea that if you could somehow hermetically seal off everyone's face holes, you'd stop the spread of a respiratory virus. But we can't, and we don't, so the question becomes: in the real world (i.e. not a mannequin in a lab), does it make a difference?

All of the real-world evidence on the question is mixed, at best.
Doesn't look like your project Tim? (so the title shouldn't include Show HN). The blog post [0] from James seems to be a better link.

https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web
Hi there, I started a company specifically centered around event sourcing - it's a saas platform for capturing all of your events, gaining the ability to granularly search them and then replay them to whatever destination.

I'd be happy to walk you through the platform - there's no lock-in, since we don't require the use of any SDK's, just run an event-relaying container which will pipe all of your events to our stores.

One big piece is that our platform is message bus agnostic meaning, we are able to hook into any message bus, be it kafka, rabbit, nats, etc.; same goes for replays - we can replay into any destination.

Check it out: https://batch.sh

The relayer is open source - https://github.com/batchcorp/plumber - if anything, the relayer can also be used for working with message busses which could improve your dev workflow for reading/writing messages, etc.
this isn't like mafia movies. there is no way to seek retribution in any physical way
Global supply chain manufacturing for noobs in two parts:

Part 1; make a compelling mockup, post to kickstarter etc and other social media

Part 2: bide your time with product update mockups until knock offs appear on Alibaba. Make a show about complaining about the knock offs and then return the kickstarter deposits.
I'm really not a fan of the next/image component at all. It's so unintuitive to use.
Yup. https://tether.to/legal/

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.
Guys. I'm not even a programmer, but even I could notice right off the bat this is satirical, when they claimed there's some "consensus" about major versions being over.

That said I wish developers realised more often, how meaningful version numbers are for the users. Zero as a major version screams from a distance: "we're just testing stuff out, expect features to be added and promptly removed because they shouldn't be there, this is not production-ready, use it at your own risk".
Red Cross Nurse Injects 8,600 with Saline Instead of Covid Vaccine
smart contracts are just bits of functional code

I don't know that I'd invest in a deployed smart contract but I suppose it depends on the traffic and the situation of the developer

it wouldn't be hard for the original developer to deploy a competing contract
My favorite is when they call me to ask where I'm going and then cancel if it's not within 5 minutes of city center or an airport.

I'm guessing uber is relaxing their requirements just to keep drivers around
How to find Investors for my startup?
You can sell around $1 as long as people believe it's worth $1, which it's not, so there's no guarantee they will continue to believe it forever. It's supposed to have enough backing to actually represent a $1 which would mean that faith wouldn't be part of the equation, but that's not the actual situation.
There's been a lot of research around organoids but our human platform is unique. Here are two reviews discussing organoids that have been so far for the immune system, though these have almost all been done in mice (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31853049/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32112908/).

The organoids are incredibly finicky until you figure out a culture system they like. Then it is actually very easy to maintain them. This allows us defensibility as it's hard for others to figure out but easier for us now that we have.

We've used the organoid to test 12 immunomodulators and confirmed they matched human clinical data. We also vaccinated the organoids against 8 infectious diseases and they produced a full immune response with class switching, germinal center formation, somatic hypermutation, etc. We're also in the process of using more historical controls to show that immune reactions that were missed in mice and other animals are captured in our system (e.g. there are highly inflammatory drugs that were safe in mice but deadly in people once they got to clinical trials).

By biobanking on diverse patient backgrounds, diseases are emulated in these organoids naturally. Immune disease is typically a function of dysfunctional cells that exist in a patient. By capturing an immune niche that has those cells, we have the disease-causing cells. We can confirm they emulate a disease by demonstrating a phenotype on a tissue of interest (e.g. we can make an MS immune organoid from a patient with MS and then show that the immune cells from the organoid demyelinate neurons). This should be the same for any immune disease as we continue to generate proof of concept.
He was probably talking to the code and not you. You're right he should be tactful, but as a manager, please don't take it personally. It's kind of your job not to.
Yeah, the daisy chain mechanism is quite interesting.
I’m not sure the surge in used car prices was related to the inflationary pressures people are worried about - namely the influx of cash from gov., which is staging another 3T as we speak.

The used car prices surged because of a rental car shortage and to some extent a new car shortage, iirc. Thus, I’m not sure that seeing used car prices level off is a good indicator for inflation risk as a whole. Seems quite apples/oranges.
Nice golden goose you have there. It sure would be a shame if anything happened to it.
hmm no OTC traders here?

When you call the OTC desk and wire them dollars they mint stablecoins using their account with - presumably - Bitfinex. Bitfinex issues Tethers no different than Coinbase/Circle issues USDC in a just in time transaction.

You either receive the Tether you asked for to make your own trades, or they keep the Tether and purchase the crypto you really wanted. In either scenario, someone besides the OTC has the Tether now.

There is no reason to use custodial exchanges for your fiat onramps. They put you at a major disadvantage in speed.

It is strange that this is to be the smoking gun for people against Tether. These kind of juvenile inexperienced arguments (seen in other comments) are why more serious scrutiny of Tether takes so long, because its mixed up with all this benign stuff put in front of regulators who have a huge learning curve already.
Could you clarify why this should concern me as a BTC holder? As I understand, Tether buys come in two cohorts:

1. Retail/Institutional USD/other --> Tether --> BTC

2. {over-minted/under-reserved Tether} --> BTC

I dont see 1 as a problem, as Tether is just a conduit for the actual transaction. I can see the issue in 2, but is that an issue any longer given the current scrutiny?
Don’t worry, it looks equally bad on my Mac.
You can’t just ignore regulation in the jurisdiction you’re doing business. Like it or not, they will have to follow regulation or cease operations.
There is a reason you are not a lawyer.
I don't quite see why free bug fixes/minor features + paid major upgrades model should be any different from subscription model for developers, except giving the users control over when to upgrade. Control that is essential for apps that contain critical data.

BTW, I think they do have an option that you pay for 3 years upfront. At least, that was one of the options they mentioned when I complained about the lack of the option to buy a license. To me that did not seem an acceptable solution because you pay upfront and still have all the drawbacks of the subscription model such as being dependent on the trustworthiness of a quite obviously untrustworthy company. Add to that the removal of local vault option, and it becomes even less acceptable.
Andromeda Strain - stuck in a high-security bio-research facility with a deadly alien pathogen.
Uh, this is completely unethical behavior from an engineer. In no way, shape, or form is the insertion of a deliberate, hidden flaw that breaks the intended security properties of a system an acceptable form of protest.
Here is what a16z said about bitcoin in 2014.

"use case for Bitcoin is micropayments",
"Switching to Bitcoin, which charges no or very low fees" ,
"Another potential use of Bitcoin micropayments is to fight spam"
https://a16z.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters-nyt/
> there’s some runway to dial things in yet.

At their current rate of progress, they're gonna need a runway longer than the one at the end of Fast and the Furious 6.
I personally can’t stand reading Twitter, but I do like posting jokes and comments for my small group of friends. I built this to delegate posting to Twitter via GitHub actions from markdown files in the repo.
https://github.com/reidjs/markdown-tweet-scheduler
Twitter's chirp webfont is almost 100k. On optimized sites, that can easily be larger then all of the HTML/CSS combined.
Did you read the post? This project does exactly that. (but focuses in IndexedDB for now because it's the only cross-browser thing that works. I actually tried a webkitFileSystem backend and it was slower)
> “Strengthen the construction of the national ‘Internet + supervision’ system, and realize the integration and aggregation of data from supervision platforms by the end of 2022.”

I'll bet they're pleased with you-know-who's you-know-what.
In Australia you are forbidden to communicate with fellow citizens in public.

I don't recall China demanding that. You guys live in a bubble.
Predictable movies are always predictable, but knowing the categories and Save the Cat structure is fun because then you can see when truly talented people subvert it and twist those "rules".
>Great reply, I would say this is the way to go to learn and then if you get lazy, mailinabox https://mailinabox.email/ it combines everything above into a few hours to deploy.

Thanks!

A fair point. Although the bulk of that deployment time is, regardless of platform, going to be the configuration.

And since pretty much all the tools needed can be installed via 'apt-get'/'dnf install', etc. through default software repositories, is there any real advantage for more technical folks (as we generally see here)to use mailinabox over someone's preferred *nix configuration?

I'm not being snarky here, I'm not familiar with mailinabox and genuinely curious.
You use opinion pieces for 'science'?

The modern day Covid Evangelist... views opinion pieces and the media as science....

Also...it's an opinion piece from....a university....in San Francisco...the two most notoriously political places in the entire universe and you're saying I'm convinced by MY MEDIA.

Despite that terrible citation....even the opinion piece you linked says there are 'compelling strands of evidence'.

NOT CONCLUSIVE.

> You also cite lies.

Whatever off the wall data set you posted seems to disagree with Statistica which puts TX in the bottom half of states for population adjusted rate of new Coronavirus cases.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covi...

Here's a publication stating that Mask usage INCREASED chances of infection thats NOT AN OPINION PIECE FROM UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

Here's a collection of studies showing the ineffectiveness of face masks.

https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/

You're clearly radicalized, anti-science, and pro-fascist from your media/peer group and you would support supression of discussion, demonizing dissent, and controlling of the narrative through force.

You would destroy Democracy to be right. It's sad.
I know I mentioned land area in my original post, but I am speaking more specifically about housing.

A 10 year old TV is inferior in every way to a new one that costs less in absolute and real terms, the value is incredible. The same is true for cars, clothing, and most other things we buy.

Housing hasn't improved, but the cost has risen incredibly. Housing, as a good, is rather unique in this way, and this isn't true globally. A 30 year old housing unit in Japan is something that gets torn down. In North America the age of a home has little to do with its price.
I'd not trust Salon to know what billionaires, or science/technology, will be able to do.

Modern Salon is even more ideology-addled than the historic NYTimes, which editorialized human flight was a million years away in 1903, when it was… 2 months away.

Still, billionaries are likely happy that creative-writers, like the author of the linked piece, keep Salon-readers smugly overconfident about what billionaires can't do.
First-Generation Inference Accelerator Deployment at Facebook
Both of which fall squarely into the sort of analytics that fit the Wikipedia definition of spyware. Why, Balena?
Require government ID to play? One per account.
Opposite(?) example is Windows NT 5.1 / 6.1
Odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth are low, but higher than previously thought
Don't most users already use mobile browsers (e.g. chrome) which don't support extensions and thus ad blockers?
Previous thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977909
Yep, this is the biggest problem (although I haven't seen it happen after 7 days, at least on desktop).

We will provide a new backend for the Storage Foundation API when it's available.
Seeing the "War on Drugs Lost" and "War On Smoking Won" sections back-to-back highlights how much stuff like this depends on how you define success. Of course, far more people smoke cigarettes in 2021 than consume illegal drugs (or legal marijuana), but we won the battle on the former and lost the war on the latter? Second, a lot of our worst addicts now live in tents in open-air drug markets that exist on a scale that would have been unimaginable in 1991. Is this what progress looks like?
Decoding the Data Mesh
Tim Cook basically lied to Congress when he stated that developers can create web apps as an alternative to using the app store.

Edit: In order for this to be true, Apple (at the very least) needs to enable push notifications and an install prompt for progressive web apps.
Android 12 Beta 4 offers our first look at the new, much-faster search bar
>I've tried fixing the local dev stack - all of the scripts and Docker containers in the world still can't predict the ways in which something might break when it's running on 100+ different laptops with different developers with different unique preferences for how they like to get things done.

Running on a remote environment may sidestep the issues of running on local hardware (poor virtualization, resource limitations, etc) but you'll have to standardize and automate the generation and management of your dev environments either way. Otherwise, you'll have the same problems in your remote space as you currently do locally, plus a few more possible points of failure (low latency network reqs, permissions differences, etc).
it's not that the name means other things, it's that it's a very generic word that is used in lots of other contexts, several of which are programming and even language related. I had the same issues searching for "Nice" and "Clean" back in the day.
How to Be an Angel Investor
Very interesting! My wife (US) and I (FR) always disagrees on the color of things, it's amazing to see that it might be a language/culture thing more than just our individual perceptions.

I wonder if there could be a way to build a "personal" spectrum based on our own answers, to compare with another person's. I would be very interested in seeing how the color names vary between me and my wife.

I am also wondering if those spectrum should have both hue and saturation, I am not sure if people consistently name a hue the same across all saturation values (or lightness values).
On Catalina at least, variable-speed constant-pitch playback is still available, just hidden. Option-click on the fast-forward or rewind buttons to access it. It jumps in increments of 0.1x.
Gitlab Global Survey Highlights a Continued Struggle with Software Testing
Handbrake for MacOS is far better than anything Apple could come up with in-house. It's free as well. Converts anything into anything.

I first heard of Handbrake 15 years ago when a friend told me he borrowed DVDs from the college library and burned them to his HDD using it. I started using it myself only in 2021 to compress videos for web projects. A 2MB MP4 video I've managed to compress to 200KB without much visual degradation on mobile.

https://handbrake.fr/
No matter the improvement, including social improvements like you're suggesting, people just adjust their expectations to the new normal.

We seem to be designed to not be content with what we have, because that would eliminate motivation to make things better.
I used to work for a domain registrar, and was constantly buying new domains to test things out. I've since let almost all of them lapse. I think my favorite was "gravlaxandfailure.com" (an Archer reference).
The Indian government was the entity that first asked Twitter to take action on this issue.
Deploying a containerized app to IBM Code Engine
I don't know what clip they're referring to--this is exactly why this kind of censorship is a problem--but I let the Youtube algorithm do its thing the other day and it took me through several hours of various Rand Paul town halls, senate speeches, and other presentations. So I've seen a solid 4-5h of him talking on this topic. His actual views on this are far more nuanced and intelligent than the topic title suggests.

He's not against masking, he's against mask mandates. From what I understand, the efficacy of mask mandates, not masks themselves, is in fact scientifically disputed. If you think that's a logical contradiction; it's not. For example if people think that cloth masking is highly effective, when in fact it's only slightly effective, they may forgo actually effective solutions like vaccination.

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Furthermore, society must balance measures to address Covid against other health-related and non-health-related concerns. Lockdowns slow the spread of infectious disease, but also cause death/suffering elsewhere through postponed surgeries, increased addiction/suicide, etc. We have to decide which risk to prioritize based on societal values. And by "we", I especially mean the senators/congressmen/ministers/etc to which we've delegated our political power. Therefore it's doubly stupid of Youtube to censor a current member of the Senate, of the very country Youtube is headquartered in, when he's acting in official capacity, giving an interview on a cable TV news channel. Just incredible.