skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, I've been working with it for 15 years. I'm intimately familiar with it.

I had sworn off ever touching it again, but I inherited 5 sites with a new client, including one that was built very recently. All are on the latest minor version of PHP and WordPress with up-to-date plugins.

With all that out of the way...

WordPress makes it impossible to do even the most basic modern software development practices. You can't easily separate your data, config, content, design, and code.

It's all mixed together by default, and you'd have to essentially create external databases or repositories to accomplish that. There was a project to try to version WordPress with git and it was abandoned for being too complicated.

There are also a million ways to accomplish the same thing, to the point where it becomes nearly impossible to know if someone's code is stored in a theme file, plugin, or database string.

Having a healthy local/staging/production environment separation is nearly impossible, especially if you need your content people or front-end designers to be able to work in parallel with anyone maintaining WordPress.

Choosing WordPress for anything today is absolutely indefensible. It's old, messy, difficult to harden, expensive to host, unnecessarily complex, and (most importantly) superseded by much better tools that weren't written nearly 20 years ago.
I also purchased Landkit, but eventually found it very heavy. I then essentially remade it on top of Fresh [1]. Code is here if anyone needs it [2].

[1] https://github.com/cssninjaStudio/fresh

[2] https://github.com/saasform/saasform/tree/main/data/themes/f...
I'm surprised they just dump them into a land fill. It seems to me they could be used in something else. The clothing could be shredded and used in blanket filling or house insulation.
Introduction to Geometric Algebra [video]
Your concept is right but that wording isn't quite right. JS runs fine without HTML and thousands of lines in any web app don't even touch HTML. Node is HTML-free, for example. Also, of course, HTML, can be generated in a thousand ways and has no dependencies on JS.

I think what you were going for is the idea that, beyond a trivial application, the visual appearance stuff is always going to be tied to some app logic or business logic or state or whatever word we want to use.

And that's very true regardless of what framework or language we choose.
You're onto something here. As long as accessibility is the job of the developer, software accessibility will reamin "on the roadmap" for many projects. There's simply too much to learn, too many battles to fight, and accessibility tends to offer to little obvious and immediate value compared to other priorities.

Legislation is not really the answer, or we'd already have great accessibility.

In other areas, we've automated and outsourced it - CI/CD, security, infrastructure. Think how hard it was to manage an RDBMS cluster or version control repository 20 years ago, and now even a junior developer is able to have both within minutes. We have frameworks like React.

In that time, accessibility has actually got harder, because of more devices, technologies, network connections, and more people with a wider range of accessibility needs.

I'm not sure what it would look like. Maybe a new way of rendering content, maybe a new framework that puts accessibility as a first-class concept.
> Not eating meat would probally overnight stop the deforestation of the Amazon.

Unfortunately not. The Amazon would still get converted into farm land, but it would be even more palm oil instead of cattle.
Personally, I use the time for a little more sleep.
Based on what evidence? And is the "signal to noise ratio" (I guess something like the ratio of "impressions" containing all true vs. at least one false statement) really measuring anything useful? And need that necessarily be the case? Now information which used to be difficult, expensive, slow, etc. to obtain is accessible to all people with internet access within seconds should they ever try to find it.
Climate change != local climate != local emissions (gases, particulate matter, noise).

The thing that people noticed during the 'rona was almost exclusively the latter... especially the noise and particulates. I could hear birds outside when the windows were open, the street-facing windows accumulated a lot less dust.
In practice this is what we observe, but the combinatorics are so ridiculously large that its hard to understand how it works. A very small protein of say 200 amino acid residues has 21^200 configurations. If every atom in the universe was another universe, and every atom in those universes was a universe, you'd still need 10^20 grandpappy universes to represent each configuration as a distinct atom in the grandchild universe. Given that these configurations confer meaningful chemical and mechanical utility, sometimes with discontinuities in effect, it's really odd to me that it all somehow works.
MacOS, once I learned how to use its particular flavor of terminal. Man, good, damn good. Too bad it's tied to the hardware and vice-versa.
> Assuming we would only need storage for 1/3 of that amount, we would need roughly 20 terawatt hours of storage

Out of curiosity, why 1/3?
Very true!

One small note to the author: the “We are hiring” at the very top, on mobile, is a bit broken. It appears on three lines. It looks great in mobile landscape, but not in mobile portrait mode.
Instead of the "hard problems" of writing numerical integral routines in quantitative finance, the author chooses to try doing something for less fortunate people in poorer countries. I'd argue the latter is far more difficult! Mathematical problems, while maybe complex, are usually well defined, whereas social problems are never straightforward. The author even admits that the app ended up being more helpful to bad actors than to the intended benefactors.

If the claim in this piece is "you don't need to work on technical problems, you need to work on social problems" then I could agree. I believe there is pretty much an ethical imperative, for anyone with the freedom of choice in their work, to choose to work on social problems of poverty, climate change, etc. But these are far from being easy problems!
My friend had a HIV vaccine about 5 years from some London kings college trial - has always been fine. On a related coincidence I had the moderna vaccine today.
Assuming you are from the US, the most effective way to help Afghanistan would be to lobby your government to not instigate another civil war there.
Because even if I did point to official stats, you would say they are just lying?

A few months prior to the AMA survey, Long Term Care Facilities reported a 75% vaccination rate amongst physicians at their facilities. So presumably higher now.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7030a2.htm
Shifting the goal posts. The article and the comments were not talking about ecological profiles, but rather deforestation.
especially since synthetic fibers will probably end as microplastics. I have no source for this, just my opinion.
> been on a week long business trip to CA

I understand your point, but people who do this are still paying 100% of their federal income tax and 100% of the income tax for the state they reside in.

That gets complicated if you live in an income tax-free state. But it feels substantively different from the person who parks their money off-shore to pay no tax to anyone.
> There was no plausible pathway by which the Internet didn’t become commercialized. Blaming “commercialization” for the Fall of Eden is like building a shoddy bridge that collapses, and then blaming gravity for it: if you didn’t take into account the inevitable, omnipresent force, that’s on you.

All bridges will collapse eventually, but we blame the people who build shoddy bridges, not the people who build bridges that someone else comes along and willfully knocks over. It was inevitable that the internet would decay, but not this quickly, nor into this state.
We'll reach the stars thru life sciences. Future humans will become space and time adapted. Hardened against radiation. Metabolism so slow that years will feel like minutes.

The future will be pretty wild.
The mainstream media blasted the entire populace with a cold war, KGB thriller, pee tape conspiracy theory for 4 years straight. It wasn't just cable news, it was NYT/WSJ/WashPo piling onto the misinformation.

In the end it turns out there was much hoopla about nothing, a giant psyop by the establishment powers that now want to earn your trust back.
Took around 5 unlatched ones off me this summer, about 5 more latched and unlatched from my dog and a few off my gf. We live close to a national park. Apparently the dog lyme vaccine is the same as the one that was approved for humans in the 90s. I wanted to buy it and shot myself with it. Theres some folks who say its fine.
> Any tips on extending the life of our clothes? I love new t-shirts, but they seem to wear down quickly.

Buy better quality. I know it's hard since most clothing is "fast fashion" crap that is designed to be worn three, four, five times tops. Thin material, thin yarn, it simply breaks down physically.
You're oversimplifying the issue which is described in some detail in the article. Yes, the antivax movement is killing thousands of people with their opposition to COVID vaccines, but that doesn't mean every vaccine ever studied was good, or that the FDA is infallible.

I'm not saying it was good that Lymerix was pulled from the market. I think it's unclear. I just think we shouldn't let (justified) passion on one controversy cloud our understanding of another controversy.
It depends on a number of factors. Access is a huge one where I'm at. Public lands can be basically hunted out while the deer have moved onto private lands where nobody hunts and created huge herds (30+).

If your area doesn't have the access issue, then I would guess it could be an issue with the number of hunters - if there aren't enough, then they can't harvest the number required to bring down the population (or the limits make it difficult - seems like that's the case the way they handle doe permits). Many states have a program that allows hunters to donate their deer to a food bank through a participating butcher. This can make a big impact in areas that allow more harvests (MD allows 10 doe per year/season without any special permits).
Python seems fairly pleasant to me. Experimenting with code using the interpreter is straightforward -- even when re-using methods or classes from large codebases -- built-in help and documentation is available in the same interactive environment, and the online reference and API documentation is well-organized and versioned, snappy and quick to search.

In the rare situations where something requires especially detailed debugging, the core libraries themselves are open source, and the bug tracker is equally open to help trace down any existing conversations and unexpected results.
Can we get over these 4 fallacies of great design already?
We can go down a very deep rabbit hole with this question, because you're absolutely right there isn't just one accent spoken in America.

But for what it's worth the term is defined as the "umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans and widely perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics". You can read about that more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English

If you do have the chance to jump into the app and watch some of the videos that our speech coaches, Ron and Eliza, have produced, you may notice they also refer to their own accents as "this accent" as a nod to the fact that ultimately what they are able to teach is the accent they are themselves demonstrating.
A few years ago I tried to formalize my thoughts on why some people/teams create good software while others don't. I narrowed the problem down to couple of things. The biggest one was people not considering alternative solutions and getting mentally anchored to the very first idea they have. The second one was lack of meta-awareness (e.g. redefining hard problems to be easier or designing your own tools when existing tools don't fit the job).

Couple month ago I bought Lateral Thinking and was somewhat surprised and somewhat encouraged to see that de Bono's observations overlapped my own. Except his book was written in 1970 and didn't deal with IT. Moreover, his analysis was comprehensive and systematic. I wish I learned about his work earlier.
As someone with a basic understanding of the water cycle, can anyone tell me - where is the water going, or why isn't it being replenished?

I imagine that somewhere else on earth there are locations receiving historically unprecedented amounts of rainfall. Or is it the case that there is less water in the atmosphere due to changes in composition?

Links to any references or primary sources would be greatly appreciated.
But the US didn't attack Al-Qaeda. It attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. It killed their civilians, destroyed their infrasructure, obliterated their states. How is that attacking Al-Qaeda?
Is it really complete list of communities available through Mastodon or is there more? Looks pretty tiny so far.
Here is a better one, how about call a random people and tell them that their kid had terrible accident and they need to come to school imidetly. Its hilarious. /s

Hope there is a special place in hell for people who have cheap laughs at cost of emotional damage of others.
At moment there is PrEP for that case.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html

I think the idea in long term would, should be to replace PrEP.
> more like an assembler than a compiler since there is no mess and it outputs C code.

Yes, translating between closely related languages is often like this: the mapping between their constructs is 1-to-1 and almost trivial. But try translating e.g. λ-calculus into C in one go, without separate lambda-lifting/closure-converting steps: it's absolutely doable but quite messy.
Yep. I’m not familiar with a lot of great web apps anymore. The web has gotten really lazy, these days.

To the extent you understand the tech, though, you understand the problem was never the platform but really the hands it resides in. Nobody thinks its worth the extra work required to heavily optimize a web application.

One needn’t exist for me to be right, as unsatisfying as that may be to a group of folks unfamiliar with frontend perf on the web platform.
> Climate change true believers, on the other hand, refuse to waste even one single word convincing the rest of us as to why we should all drive electric cars, stop using straws, and not run our air conditioners in the summers - things which, if they're serious, are necessary to ensure the survival of the species.

I think this simply isn't true. Am I, personally, out there evangelizing for a greener life style? Absolutely not. But are there people out there doing so? Well, yes, to the extent that it becomes a comic trope among climate-change denialists (who are having a harder and harder time in the face of the increasingly evident reality of climate change). Think, for example, of all the hate for Greta Thunberg.

I think it's just easier to remember vocal denialism—one can always shout "no" louder—than to remember the quieter and, frankly, boring recital of the same evidence.
If you want to roll your own tiles, you get tons of flexibility with your own tileserver, which is great if you want to change naming rules/styles/etc.. It is a rabbit hole to go down, since mapping is inherently fun.

http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782 - they have free tile servers (obviously, donate if you use them) that are relatively styled. They don't get updated and may not be 100%, but for small scale uses, they are good enough versus risking going over the free tiers at Mapbox or getting stuck in the Google ecosystem.
Some vaccines are effective after infection; it's called post-exposure prophylaxis. Some examples are tetanus and rabies.
A BuzzFeed reporter talking about ethics of news reporting, this is so ironic it hurts. For an excerpt of his articles, see: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/josephbernstein
People believe we're storming the beaches at Normandy. There is no time for careful consideration. There is no time to question authority. Do what you're told or we're all going to die. This is not a completely unreasonable position for pandemics or other large scale emergencies. I think most people felt this way during the first round of "15 days to slow the spread". Since then the number of people who view the situation through this lens has waned.
There isn't so much in languages features themselves, but in their implementations. GC can be largely pauseless for many practical purposes and a GC language can be within 2x-3x the performance of C-like languages.

Also the amount/cost of memory has improved so that we can use immutable datastructures and functional style in many contexts, which definitely feels like a 'level-up'.

Concurrency has been getting easier too, with many languages supporting coroutines/async and/or threads. Reference capabilities are exciting as in Pony, Rust, or Clean.

In general there's a great convergence where ergonomics are improving (editors, compilers, build/package systems) and each language evolves to adopt features of other languages.

I just dabbled into the Sorbet type checker after not writing any C++ since the 90s, and it was surprisingly browseable/readable and could copy/paste the concepts based on recent Ruby, Java/Go knowledge.
> or if you're homosexual?

HIV transmission is related to sexual activity not sexual orientation. Being in an open relationship, cheating on your partner, performing unprotected sex, are all examples of behaviors that put people at "higher risk". Being attracted to your own gender does not.
> Why is it that, consistently, on specific issues that come up over and over again, the side labelled "disinformation" is so willing to spend so much time explaining rationally why they believe what they believe while the other side is always so uninterested in making their case?

We’re tired of wasting our breath on irrational morons.
The one I saw back in the early 00s walked off the end of the conference table it was being shown off on :-)

Perhaps its gotten better at walking since then...I mean, roomba's can avoid edges - so robot dogs should too, right?
I hear this one might be 6G compatible.

Personally I'm just hoping for Bluetooth LE support.
Boston Dynamics: Atlas – Partners in Parkour [video]
Programmer's Confidence (reflecting on writing Advanced R Solutions book)
>we are nearing a technological plateau and that more research into physics is unlikely to get us to a world describe in traditional science fiction with FTL drives and large metal spaceships that can take you from planet to planet.

strange to me how nobody questions why beavers only make damns a certain size, birds only make nests and don't go beyond that in complexity.

So many people seem blind to the idea that humans might be near their intellectual limit as a species and assume we will just keep progressing technologically. For all we know it's possible we hit a brick wall in terms of progress. Average human struggles with calculus, what if there was a species that could do advanced math as easily as we do 2 + 2?

Seems the limit for human advancement is tied to rate of learning, life span, and general cognitive ability. If you want more advanced tech you need to focus on those problems
Going back to the original comment, the statement was that any experienced engineer could learn a language in a day. At risk of gatekeeping, I'd argue that by definition any experienced engineer would have some experience with an array based language like APL or MATLAB so that no, J does not qualify as a different paradigm.
So, umm, how do you test this vaccine? Are the participants expected to have unprotected sex with HIV-positive people?
I read a bunch of books by Mr De Bono as a teenager, including "Six Thinking Hats" and "Lateral Thinking". As math and science nerd interested in creativity, it really gave me a different way to think.
That's basically how it works in Harry Potter. That's why you have to go to school for magic.
Hey man, right here with you feeling rough after jab #2 :) The roughness is your immune system, not the spike protein itself per se, which is why jab #2 makes you feel a lot rougher - your immune system goes ape the second time.

A little perspective - one way or another, we're all going to be exposed to this damn spike protein eventually, and the vaccine is by far the safer way. If it does do something bad, we haven't noticed it yet, which presumably means it can't be that bad. I haven't seen any reports of people getting long covid from a jab.
MikroTik makes some, like the CRS305-1G-4S+IN[1] which is a 5-port variant at a very reasonable price.

Nice review by ServeTheHome here[2].

[1]: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in

[2]: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-crs305-1g-4sin-review-...
> This looks kind of what Windows NT would have been if NT 4.0 never happened

Why? As I recall it, NT4 was the one that caught the NT line up to the W95 look, replacing NT3.5(1)'s look inherited from W3(.1). So, on the contrary: This looks just like NT4 / W2K.
There are people in this thread who have had people close to them die from Lyme disease complications, and the article describes the experience of an avid runner who has been sidelined by the disease.
I have no idea but from a legal perspective I don’t think it’s relevant to the question of whether or not they’ve committed the crime of money laundering. Although I’m not sure anyone has tried the “my algorithm is beyond of my control” defense yet?
So right. As soon as you are the person paying for people and time to develop native apps, you start thinking, "Geez, I could make an identical UI with web technologies and skip all the platform stuff entirely!"

These apps are identical to native. Not one person could tell you the difference. The complaints about speed are nonsense, too. People don't benchmark apps. They use them! These Electron and other web-wrapper apps are absolutely the future of all client-side app development.

If native apps are the railroad, web apps (w/ or without a wrapper, makes no difference), are the airplane.

BTW, there are many complaints about the Spotify UI, but does anyone ever complain that it's a web-based UI? Who has ever said, "Wow, I like Spotify but, ya know, it's got a UI built with HTML and CSS and JS, so I don't wanna use it."

That's not real. Proprietary app wrappers are proprietary because the companies that make them benefit from lockdown. They will always promote their locked-down platforms, and many enterprises have millions of dollars of sunk costs in these siloed application environments. The way out of prison is through web-based apps that run anywhere without the user even knowing or caring how that happens.
With the COVID vaccines, the locations of the clinical trials were chosen for how rapidly the virus was spreading. Some trials even added new geographic areas with high transmission rates while they were still ongoing. Why wouldn't any large scale HIV trial not choose one of the many countries with a high transmission rate?
It's clearly sarcasm at the first sentence, if you see the allusion to Genesis.