skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fictional books are always fun for me, and one of the things I love about Cthulhu mythos stories- the Necronomicon is well-known, but also Unaussprechlichen Kulten and De Vermis Mysteriis. In a similar, but earlier vein is The King in Yellow from Robert W. Chambers.
Thanks for the Kaseya reminder - it had vanished from my memory. For a period, these attacks seemed to be coming thick and fast. According to wikipedia [1] :

9 July 2021 - phone call between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. ... Biden later added that the United States would take the group's servers down if Putin did not

13 July 2021 - REvil websites and other infrastructure vanished from the internet

23 July, Kaseya announced it had received a universal decryptor tool

I'd love to read the real story behind that. Perhaps "guns to heads" did happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaseya_VSA_ransomware_attack
>Yeah what's next? Making other behaviors that have a small but established likelihood of endangering the lives of others or their property illegal at little to no cost to the liberty of an individual? Pretty soon I won't be able to drive my car under the influence, or without proper insurance, or while not wearing a seatbelt, or I won't be able to discharge my firearms in my 0.2 acre backyard in a suburban area.

I wonder how many lives we could save if we required every car to have a breathalyzer that has to be used to start the car, and maybe a second test once 2 miles have been driven.

Also, if you want to get technical, most of those car laws only apply to public roads. On a private road you can get away with far far more.
That 30% covers a lot more than just processing payments.
What’s the chances this platform [1] actually uses AI vs a relatively simple rules based formula?

[1] https://www.juggernautai.app/
I mean you also assume that it will be line-item'd instead of "give us 30% of your revenue made through iOS" in the ToS to publish an app which has any paid features or content.
I don't remember where, but Ross Anderson said something like "It's not 'identity theft', it's personation.".
Well historically Taiwan could argue China is the renegade province. See other comments in this thread for the context.

I think you are missing the main point. Despite an arbitration court ruling against it, China decided all of the China Sea is theirs:
https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/style...

"The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of Philippines v. The People's Republic of China)"
https://pca-cpa.org/en/cases/7/

Started making artificial islands in the middle of nowhere, and now says all foreign vessels need to report in their ‘territorial waters’.

"China to require foreign vessels to report in ‘territorial waters’"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395358

Have a look at a map, and see the distance from Yonaguni ( Japan ) to Taiwan and the distance Yonaguni to mainland Japan. You think China will do what they are doing in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, South China Sea and suddenly...Come to their senses and stop, specially if unchallenged for previous actions?

If they do this in the other side of the world:
"Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412691

What will they do at their door?
> Are we really going to bother digging up the copious video evidence this is a lie?

It seems you're either a bit confused or you didn't bothered to even watch the very same video you posted.

I watched the video and nowhere in it does anyone promise anything about infections magically go away.

In fact, the infection disease specialist in the video says quite clearly that the observed reduction in spread was around 60%, and this statement is repeated in multiple occasions throughout the video.

The video was also posted over 7 months ago, prior to some of the major vaccines having been approved and made available to the public.

Please do not throw baseless accusations of anyone lying when the best proof you can come up with just refutes your accusation entirely.
I hope this doesn’t hurt customer experience.
Your comment is confusing to me - the article is quite clear that when they say "white supremacist", they mean "a white person who committed a hate crime against Jews".

> Patton pled guilty to involvement in a 1990 shooting attack on a synagogue in Tennessee

Doesn't seem very ambiguous to me.
You can test for things type checking just fine without special stuff. In Haskell

type Test1 = TypeExpressionImTesting ~ ExpectedType

Thus, you can also easily check type-level computation as well.

A concrete example

type AddTest = 2 + 2 ~ 4

^ This is valid Haskell and will confirm the addition function does what you expect
So spoiled by Rust now when using one of these "documented" APIs.

* Rust's examples work, because the default behaviour of Rust's automated testing is to test your documented examples (as well as any unit tests you wrote), so, it's actually more effort to write examples that don't work. If you're too lazy for that, you're going to not write any examples, so then I at least know I'm in uncharted territory.

* The relevant Rust source code is linked. Mostly. Rust's source links don't chase macros, so it's conceivable your link tells you that foo(X) is just the result of the macro make_thing!(foo,X) and you need to chase how make_thing!() is defined which is annoying. But 99% of the time you discover immediately what's actually going on.

This week I would say about half of my time was spent fighting with the C# library for talking to the Microsoft Graph API. Both of which are, in theory, "documented" and yet I repeatedly ended up cribbing from Stack Overflow answers or, after beating my head against a wall, pasting URLs (which I already know will go stale in a year or two) and Microsoft's uselessly bland explanations for the obviously broken stuff as the excuse for why we can't do things you would obviously anticipate being possible.

Today I particularly liked: There are five documented ways to make an educationClass. Most of them simply don't work (unanswered Issues on github), and the error responses for these methods are undocumented and lead nowhere. But one of them does work. However the C# library drops the output of the API call for that method on the floor, presumably because coping with this case was hard, and so the best option (as a Stackoverflow post explains) is to reach inside the library, dredge out the HTTP request it's about to do, and perform that request yourself, then do all the heavy lifting they couldn't be bothered to do with the HTTP response to get what you actually wanted (including a polling loop because apparently nothing after the 1980s happened for Microsoft).

However, in the months since that Stackoverflow post was written, the C# library API has changed, enough that the example code wouldn't even build.

The change is undocumented (of course) and involves an enumeration (also undocumented) which was auto-generated for some reason. This feels like somebody was hoping it wouldn't matter if they changed it, and that somebody was wrong. But if they'd been forced to document it then maybe they'd have either decided it wasn't worth it (still works as before) or I'd have saved ten minutes guessing how the API now works.

But now it's the weekend and I'm going to write Rust.
>does this mean that if disney resorts open up to third party vendors (assuming they haven't already), they can't require them to accept the disney payment wristband?

No, this is equivalent to the vendors having the ability to accept other forms of payment, such as cash or other credit cards, if they choose alongside the wristband.
You previously used "freedoms" in mocking quotes. Which freedoms are you referring to now and why do you think they don't deserve the same mockery? You also confidently throw around terms like 'benefits' and 'collective' as if those terms have objective meanings we can all agree on.

What you're describing sounds like the happy path to techno-totalitarianism. You're only saying what you said before, that you'll be fine ("completely ok") with that outcome. Will you be content when you have to present digitally signed 'papers' to participate in what today we would consider normal functions of life? It sounds like the answer is 'yes', because you see it as the cost of 'scaling humanity', whatever that means.
The current state of affairs arises because insecurity is an externality that is not considered by consumers. As soon as security has a monetary value, consumers will start to demand it and manufacturers will start to meet that demand.
Java running in a container is somewhat amusing because of this. So you have a several solutions to the problem of agnostic packaging (java/jar/ear/war/etc) running inside another whole solution for agnostic packaging.
I think it would be more like Apple IAP($1.43), Your Local payment($1.43), Paypal($1.43).

They will add something like a bonus if you choose the alternative ones. I'm baffled why people expect that the margin will go to the user. Do you think that Epic sued Apple because altruism? To help users save money? They are are after the margins.

Because of the "Your Local payment" option, binary sizes will grow(Uber has this problem, they need to ship the framework of numerous payment providers on every market) or you will start maintaining different binaries for each country.

Also, each payment provider will come with its own rules. One will say "this is too close to gambling, no unless put this text next to the price to clarify" the other will be like "is this related to crypto, you can't do that", the next one will be "I think you must provide 3 months refund guarantee. Also, coins allowed boxes not allowed".

Then you will have to do the legal work for each country separately or work with publishers who do that for you for a hefty cut.

The business side of things is a full time job. That's why when you publish a book or release a song you tend to get tiny amount of the price payed.

I am afraid, this fragmentation has the potential to turn the App&Game business into Books&Music business where you don't make money unless you are superstar.
"THIS. IS. BOSTON!"
WhatsApp backups can now be end-to-end encrypted
Thanks for the reply. I think you make a fair point regarding shells as programming languages.

I guess what I meant regarding missing the point is that, from my perspective, the shell was and is a basic way to interface with your computer system. Basic is a keyword here -- there are other ways to do it (native programs, syscalls, etc), but as a basic interface into operating and running programs on a computer, I think most shells do a pretty good job.

As I said in my original comment, maybe they could be doing a better job and I'm just not seeing it, but this is in essence my thought. If Bash is too messy, there are a wealth of other highly portable and maintainable languages to do cross platform scripting on. Python comes to mind, as does Rust, and even older things such as Perl.

I'm rambling a bit, I'm not sure my thoughts on the matter are that coherent. I guess in summation I'd just say, I think it's fine if shells are shells, and if they can't be stretched to accommodate hyper specific workflows and patterns, maybe consider writing it another language? Do shells languages have to be as capable as general purpose programming languages, and if so, why?
>> the prospect of survival contingent not on your wealth as in a traditional war, but on your interpersonal and improvisational survival skill was certainly looked upon with scorn.

Why wouldn't wealth come into play?

The wealthy have more resources to prepare for any kind of contingency to include nuclear war:

https://www.cnet.com/features/inside-the-survival-condo-nucl...

Granted, the reaction time needed to get into a protective bunker is greatly reduced in a thermonuclear first strike, but the poor don't even have a survival bunker to escape to.
An unvaccinated child has less chance of severe covid compared to a vaccinated adult. Covid is different between child and adults, reasonable to hypothesize that transmission is also different.

> Evidence from studies primarily done before vaccine approval for those 12 years of age and older suggests that staff-to-staff transmission is more common than transmission from students to staff, staff to student, or student to student.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
...don't. This movie was horror on an existential level, and left me with a firm conviction that surviving a nuclear war would be the worst of all outcomes.
Thank you for this! It is super valuable.
Thoughts on the App Store (2020)
I don't believe the ISA dictates the implementation, so theoretically someone could implement the D extension to get 64-bit precision floating point in a more performant way than other implementations. If someone altered the ISA in order to get performance, I don't think you could accurately call it RISC-V anymore.
>Worlds can hurt just as much if not more.

I'm sorry but that only applies if you are thoroughly infantile. I don't mean this as an offense but that behavior is proper of literal children.

If some random person says a word and that has serious consequences upon the mental health of an adult person that person needs therapy.
That board looks like it might have been a prototype of a Fusion-io card. Compare:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanDisk_Fusion_ioMem...

It's basically useless for SoC development, though, as there's no memory on board, no I/Os other than PCIe, and no practical way to add any.
Why on earth wouldn't you be able to use Apple to pay (with the normal 2-3% transaction fee)?

Does Apple not support paying in arbitrary websites like Google Pay?
The US has plenty of defects too. Not sure what really stands out as a good one to me that exists in the real world. Australia seems to have some good bits...but maybe that's just because I'm not familiar with it.
Level 5: Axies: Smooth Love Potion Machines, & Play and Earn's Social Contract
Maybe if we rechristened them “radicles” they’d come back into vogue. “Cubicles” sounds sad.
There are several options, each with their own pros and cons.

Qt [1]

The main codebase is C++, but bindings are available for Python and several other languages. I have developed and shipped multiple cross-platorm applications using Qt, using both C++ and Python. Documentation and source code examples are readily available.

JUCE [2]

Another C++ framework, with Python bindings. The focus is on music and audio apps, but a cross-platform GUI framework is also part of the library.

Blazor Desktop [3]

I have developed C# web applications using Blazor and WASM and moved them to the desktop easily. Using C# and the Dotnet ecosystem is really interesing and worth looking at.

Flutter for Desktop [4]

Still in beta, but has the support of Google, for better or worse.

JavaFX [5]

A Java cross-platform still under active development. I think it is pretty nice if you like Java.

Red [6]

Let's add an outsider just to keep things interesting!

This github site seems somewhat current about other Electron alternatives as well. [7]

Good luck! You will find there are lots of alternatives out there.

[1] https://www.qt.io/

[2] https://juce.com/

[3] https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/02
/17/net-6-preview-1.aspx

[4] https://flutter.dev/desktop

[5] https://openjfx.io/

[6] https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

[7] https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives
This might depend on the state in which you live:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/companies-mu...

This makes the practice even more egregious as you know the website has the ability to allow cancellations they just choose not to enable it for people living in other states.
The 100-year-old fiction that predicted today
A headless ecommerce platform is an API first ecommerce platform where you build your own FEs on it.
If someone were to gain some kind of advantage that could prevent a retaliatory nuclear strike, then I could see it. Otherwise I highly doubt it. World War 2 offensives were made possible by the advances in mechanized and aerial warfare.

Interestingly enough the US has been retrofitting their nuclear arsenal with better targeting systems, making it much more effective. The Russians don't like this, which is why you hear talk of hypersonic missiles, autonomous submersibles carrying nuclear warheads, etc.

Perhaps some kind of neutron-based weapon could be developed to counteract large numbers of incoming ICBMs in the upper atmosphere, or to destroy an enemy nuclear arsenal in place. There we concepts like this, and the US even built some for defense against ICBMs (The W66 warhead).
This talk forever changed my views on metrics.
Trying NixOS on the Desktop
then the question that will never be solved: scale down/simplify the laws to what can be enforced, or exoand the bureaucracy to try to meet the demand signal...
Rust Verification Tools a Retrospective
Or Utah government falls for fake AI claims.
> Publishing introduces a systematic bias, because it's difficult to get published where p>0.05 (or whatever the disciplinary standard is).

That explains why the p-values above 0.05 are rare compared to values below 0.05. But it fails to explain why p-values above 0.02 are rare compared to values below 0.02.
It's possible they could use the difference for promotion too. In the PC world there's things like nexus.gg that I've been seeing more of lately. It allows creators and streamers to set up a game store so you can buy from them and the creator gets the (rough) equivalent of Steam's cut.

That's a much better model IMO. The creators and streamers are actually promoting your product to a core audience that's likely to buy, so they're more deserving of that big cut. For example, the YouTube channel where I learned about that is from a creator that plays the style of games I like, so their nexus.gg store is actually pretty good as a discovery mechanism (for me).

So smaller developers can keep uniform pricing, but leverage other forms of promotion where the people that are actually driving sales benefit instead of some rent seeking middle man like Apple or Google.

That's not some "janky home-made payment processor" either. I set up an account with the primary platform (nexus.gg) and I can buy from / support any creator curated game store I want within that platform.
Many people's kids are, in fact, sent to school with communicable diseases that are deadly for some, just as Covid is deadly for some. But why stop at death? If your child's cold costs me a day of work, then by your logic, I should sue you for lost wages.
And I've done daily running 25 years, pilates 20 years, yoga 10 years and 5 years ago I started krav maga and it has changed my life. I think it is just a lifetime of it or something.
Biden-Harris Administration Aims to Reduce Barriers to Schedule I Research
> It should also have an arm on the door to slap your hand when you open it for the 41st time in a day.

He does say later on that they have kids which perfectly explains why the fridge door is like a turnstile.
Well you are onto something.

Even if it is a joke, people want to have silver bullets. Those are killing the hairy problems which can be named werewolves.

Downside is hairy problems just like werewolves come from people. So it in the end it is people problems not some container tech or other stack problem. There are no werewolves without people :)
I see your point but the market speaks for itself.
I mean on HN I see people praise a lot of tech, which are barely used in real world.
But in India Ford’s are known not to be reliable.
Indians are very frugal when it comes to huge purchases.
We tend to consider a lot of things, so when u say usage pattern, you have to consider what masses need, Indian purchase habits are mostly similar.
Word of mouth is very quick here, if things are either good or bad.
How come Hyundai did it? Their Santro model was one of the top cars of its time in India. It was reliable and economical.
There is not one single model in Ford that even barely reaches some mass. Eco sport could’ve dont good but its got more rivals than ever now.
May be Ford compromised on few things to get the pricing right? It happens a lot with Indian Variants.
You cannot have choice without fragmentation, you cannot complain about lock-in without wanting choice. Choice and fragmentation go hand in hand, and customers get to decide who wins and who loses.
Purism installs it by default, too.
paypal actually does, i used it the other day. they've given their web app a lot of polish recently.
I heard mixed opinions from different guides when I was in the Everglades. On one hand, they want to protect the trees now that they are there. On the other hand apparently the tip of florida was grass up to the beach and then the mangroves took over the whole coast. I guess trying to protect the ecosystem as is now makes more sense than trying to intervene to make FL look like the 1600s version.
How to create a product hunt video?
human intervention is incredibly expensive at the scale Twitter operates at.

They're not going to spend the money.
JavaScript pipeline operator reaches stage 2
The circling ball/shell model is extremely useful and intuitive for high school chemistry though, so changing one without the other probably will cause more harm than good. I am a physicist and to be perfectly honest when I have to understand some kind of chemistry, my mind still uses the shell model.
I think AVIF is a great replacement for GIF (the acronyms even rhyme and all!). For short-video-without-audio, it's as good as it gets.

For still images though, I don't really see any major advantage of AVIF over JXL except AVIF being a bit older and already enabled by default in Chrome. I do see several advantages of JXL over AVIF though.

So the way I see it, the future is:

AVIF instead of GIF (and APNG and animated WebP)

JPEG XL instead of JPEG (and PNG and still WebP)

Disclaimer: I am probably biased since I am a jxl dev. Please do your own independent evaluation (and feel free to share your opinions/conclusions with me).
That doesn't seem like an unreasonable price to me. Do you know of a cheaper alternative with the same performance?
You make It sound like apple's service will disappear over night. If you're fine with them taking 30% then that's your choice. And if your app does become big enough to reap the benefits of implementing mutiple payment providers then thats even better.
This is true, and the solution for Apple is to go cross platform themselves with their functionality. Make IAP a service usable on other platforms/apps. I am not sure how successful they will be though if they go that route.
I was having pretty significant back pain when I worked for a very small company and decided to buy a chair with fancy adjustable lumbar support. It's 15 years later and I have brought my own chair to every office I've ever worked in.
Thanks for building it as open source! Few q's:

1. It doesn't seem to be multi-tenant (that is, hosting multiple shops/companies with one db). Are there plans to add multi-tenancy?

2. What are the major differences vs https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure ? (another nodejs solution, with included Admin panel and storefront)

3. How do you plan to monetize?
I think this the lifecycle of any typical advertisement revenue based social network/community platform.

1. Have an open platform with APIs which can r/w over entire platform.

2. Gain enough market to attract large advertisers.

3. Start restricting the content to please the advertisers.

4. Start restricting the 3rd party apps which offer superior experience and blocks your ads.

5. Start restricting general API itself.

Facebook, Twitter has gone through it, I bet Reddit will start restricting it's API next.
I recently discovered the joy of PostgreSQL via Supabase.io (which is very awesome too, anyone else using it?)

The text thing is awesome but I never thought I could be so excited about Policies. It makes everything feel so much more relaxing knowing you can’t accidentally give someone access to something they shouldn’t be able to edit.