skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principle, yes. But wild land is being encroached upon worldwide. And other stuff is already trying to live on what is left.

When the seas rose from 20kya until 8kya, inundating millions of square miles of prime habitat, people moved uphill. But other people had already been living there for millennnia. Often those were peoples who had been driven out of prime bottom land, and were making do in marginal circumstances. Guess what happened then.
There are lots, it's just that many mostly advertise themselves as component libraries for particular frameworks. Oftentimes you'll find that the common core is just plain ol' CSS with a little bit of JS in the background.
It's hard to maximise profit and have consistent internal moral principles. As the other child comment mentioned, I would have preferred if Apple doesn't collaborate with these regimes and build their systems in such a way that they can't stand in the way of people doing what they want. But when you try to maximise profit, you have to interpose yourself as the gatekeeper, so you can extract as much value from the flow. And that of course makes you vulnerable to these kind of regimes.
> the cartels

"The cartels" is not a single organisation. Yes the largest best-organised gangs could build firearms factories - or more realistically just bribe some soldiers or cops to "lose" a few truckloads of weapons, just like they do with automatic weapons right now.

But there is a huge difference in a weapon being available by the dozens to the highest tier of the top 2-3 cartels (like machine guns or rocket launchers or IFVs are right now), and a weapon being available by the hundred thousands for anyone with a few dollars to their name!
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Ask HN: Up and running web framework for 2021?
I realise the old adage is use what you know, but sometimes it's worth picking something new up. I was wondering what people would currently reach for today as a "batteries included" framework that lets you get to building as fast as possible, but keeping an eye on how it might grow.

I've heard rails is getting a bit too unwieldy, the js world is focused on front end and Laravel is growing for smaller SASS solutions.

Are there any areas outside of the JS/Ruby/Python worlds that we should be looking at here? Is Server Side Swift ready yet?
A submarine is not a nuclear powered weapon, or even a weapon unless they’re going to be using them to ram adversaries
LOL, virus escaped from "Vector" BSL4 lab in Novosibirsk, Russia, 16.09.2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7SAeNcXA8 .

They were not played at home. They were not amateurs. But, as you can see at 1:04 (see soldier in background), first responders just cracked bio-laboratories and stole equipment after blast, because they are "checking building for fire" (поетажная проверка на загорание).
The trascendental instructions are slow and have low accuracy, but the "normal" x87 fp ops are still fast (except for the lack of vectorization).
> People are allowed to change their minds.

But that doesn't make it ok when you specifically say you won't and use that as a justification for your actions many, many times in public. Title doesn't seem sensationalist at all.
Likewise. I watched a course of his and enjoyed it, followed his Have I Been Pwned stuff, and generally respected him. Then he came out with this article as well as some takes on Twitter about Apple's CSAM scanning, and I lost a lot of respect. He has some authoritarian leanings that seem at odds with his security work. He seems like he's interested in security, but not that interested in privacy.
I got interested in atomic CSS a few years ago and used it on numerous projects for over a year. In the end I actually found the real world application of it a step backwards. What you gain in getting up and running quickly you loose in maintainability in my experience.
To quote ambassador Spock: "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"
you might be thinking about this[0] written about 17 years ago

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20091008202313/http://www.ccc.de...
> Which has been implemented and delivered.

what good is it when it was delivered in a broken state for many legacy GTK applications?
https://www.jhipster.tech/
The Parfit version is one of the central ideas expressed in Douglas Hofstadter's "I Am A Strange Loop", which is a loose followup to "Godel, Escher, Bach" except centered around Hofstadter's ideas about consciousness and "life". I personally was a little cold on I Am A Strange Loop despite being a great lover of GEB, but I would recommend the book to others who liked GEB, and the Parfit short story stuck with me.
It's just another person not learning enough from history.

Soviet Union actually looks better... before their fall
I am sorry, but that's bullshit. Do you see Russia threatening Microsoft for not banning certain apps from Windows? No, because they can't. Apple and Google have build their ecosystem in such a way that they have full power over these decisions, and now they are forced to use that power.

Edit: Google has a slight advantage here because people can still sideload apps on Android, but that's not possible on iOS.
Good news. China will likely prove thorium reactors work and then sell them to other nations. US&EU will give lectures to the world on renewables and how terrible nuclear power is, yet will keep using their coal plants. Plans on shutting coal will keep moving indefinitely into the future - 2020, 2030, 2040, yadda

https://www.power-eng.com/coal/eia-u-s-coal-fired-generation...

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/coal-ov...
North Korea can't buy nuclear equipment from those countries because it has withdrawn from the NPT entirely, and it doesn't have a safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
I agree on most of this. My biggest disappointment is Heroku not implementing a reasonable form of autoscaling to mitigate the worst aspects of this if it occurs. Though I’d still contend that for a site like Rap Genius at the time, 3000ms server response times were still wholly unsatisfactory and they needed to get it under 100ms. Because the likelihood of this occurring compounds significantly in proportion to request time _and_ request volume. They knew what the required solution was.

The original “intelligent” routing was possible because the router effectively had a single shared state to track all these things which was also a single point of failure. And because the state of the art of web servers for Ruby back when it was implemented was Mongrel and it was single threaded.

Add in support for nodejs (and other multi-threaded languages to soon follow) and suddenly each dyno can process multiple request concurrently and the request accounting isn’t as valuable. Make the router more fault tolerant and the overhead in trying to manage that accounting at scale becomes almost impossible without adding significant overhead to every customer request and degrading performance for everyone.

I bristle when people seem to think there was some nefarious revenue incentive from Heroku here. They were well reasoned platform changes to improve availability and increase performance for more efficient languages. In the process the marketing got disconnected from the implementation.
Whenever a rankings table comes out with a result like this it probably succeeds in selling some papers, but it also diminishes the esteem of the rankings table

I'm sure that St Andrews is a brilliant college. But very few in academia would say its as brilliant as Oxbridge
They also had questionable engineers and scientists a leaders, that's why horrors like Lysenkoism and the RMBK reactors became a reality.
It is the same in the US.
Then Google employees would start getting arrested, and whatever would be left of Google in the country would comply anyway, achieving nothing but the imprisonment of more people. Google Russia's employees don't have diplomatic immunity.
Such databases would get battered by demands to remove content these days, if not already back then. No one want a database listing their stuff for ad revenue like that because many wouldn't follow the links so see their adverts or be subject to their tracking.

A couple of browser add-ons specifically geared around trimming recipe pages down have been taken down due to similar complaints.
Highlights on leave are found here, which AFAIK never mentions “unlimited leave”

- https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/resources/perk-and...
How a company sides with people instead of the regime that governs the country? Describe please.
Agreed, I've seen better results from algorithmic approaches.

For example, Takahashi for bounded-error on extremely large dot product. Depending on use case even doing a pseudo-Takahashi where you only merge the error back once every N iterations can unblock instruction-level parallelism letting the performance hit be only around 2x relative to naive dot products, but with still effectively the same guarantees.
Is there anything specific in the article that isn't true?
My apologies. I assumed it was in relation to energy use as always.
Due to student satisfaction.

It should be noted that Scottish students don't pay (significant) tuition fees.
> In particular, the resolution says that Apple making DIY and third-party repairs difficult contradicts the iPhone maker’s stance on the environment.

Anybody that reads Matt Levine's Money Stuff column/newsletter is surely wondering why they're faffing about with shareholder resolutions, when they could just sue for securities fraud!

(I realise this is probably much cheaper.) I think it has to go to a vote(?) to even be.. enacted in its non-binding way, but is there any requirement that it actually sees much/any discussion or response before that?
Not an expert here, but cannot you tree shake Bootstrap too?

https://medium.com/@jacobp100/tree-shaking-bootstrap-95d6301...
Mind you, these are not colleges, these are universities. Colleges are not as highly esteemed in the UK.
Former Boeing Pilot Expected to Face Prosecution in 737 Max Probe
Rails 7.0 Alpha 1
And after you've read that, here's a related blogpost: "A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering" [0], because Python being "fast enough" and having enough memory for large dictionaries hasn't always been the case.

[0] https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
> he is uninterested in learning anything new.

You failed to mention that the various dbase versions and clones haven't been surpassed yet, decades later.

If I needed an internal inventory system, I'd first see if there was something like dbase still available.

Also, excusing industry ageism with a single anecdote is the opposite of being logical, especially in a STEM field.
How directors shoot films at three different budget levels
If you cannot live on base pay alone, take different job. Everything above that is just a bet on the future, one that can go well or not.
It's possible. I know a place in a remote part of France with one sequoia. I don't know how it arrived there (there is nothing of interest). However is it a good idea to massively plant sequoias outside their native range ?
It’s a failure of the current political class, not a failure of the system.

In the past western politicians have gotten us to the moon, introduced universal healthcare and created the New Deal. All whilst operating as a democracy.

It seems to me that modern politicians have lost sight of the power they wield to enact change. They’ve certainly lost the ability to convince the electorate of any given position.

They’ve become reactive, self-interested hucksters. We need politicians with vision, integrity and backbone. Not authoritarianism.
The market is no magic, it commoditizes most employees.
America's War on Science (2006 blog post)
It's voting for the candidate most likely to win against the main party's candidates. The app's purpose is to concentrate protest voters on one candidate without spreading them over all of them.
Fusion is still a lab experiment.

If a fusion reactor with an energy gain of 100 and stable operation in the 10_000_000 second range were announced tomorrow, we would be only 20 years away from breaking sod on the first commercial-scale plant -- if the process goes very smoothly.

From there it would be only 30 to 50 years before fusion was making a significant contribution on a global scale, if it can compete commercially.
The real threat came from the fine the government intended to impose on the companies. They threatened to fine not the fixed amount, as they did before, but to calculate it from the turnover values. Which could result in millions of dollars. The Russian government recently fined Booking with almost 18 million USD. For Google and Apple the fine could be even bigger.

The threat to employees on the other hand was not real one, there is no one to legally procecute in the Russian subsidiaries of the companies.
The headline is very generous, this is not about merely being "anti-lockdown". The problem isn't that the Querdenkers are "anti-lockdown", but that they are actively spreading much more harmful misinformation, like anti-vaxxing propaganda. Parts of the movement have also been classified as extremist in December 2020 and are observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" ("Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution").
Exactly, remember at school when the teacher stood behind your desk and looked over your shoulder whist you were writing something, doing sums etc. The teacher standing there watching evey move you made was a surefire way of you making a mistake.

Even my partner's cat will stop eating its meal if I stare at it whilst it's eating (yes, it's a bit neurotic). (But unlike Google, Facebook, the Government etc. I'm immediately in trouble for teasing the cat.)
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We are building a DSL for building full-stack web apps (in Alpha rn) - https://wasp-lang.dev/. It is designed to be stack agnostic, but currently we support React & Node.js.
What do you make of the last section of the original article?

Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, backed the new deal and said his initial response was "surprise".

"The irony is that when we chose the French-designed submarine a few years ago we actually took a nuclear-powered submarine and have been spending millions of dollars turning it into a diesel submarine."
Except the students who went there I guess.
I think the point GP is making is that this categorization is counterproductive to solving the underlying issues, regardless of what consensus is reached on the taxonomy of our place in the wider ecosystem.

To make an analogy: It's a lot like calling a student dumb for being unable to answer questions on a test they didn't have a chance to study for. If the goal is to improve grades, demoralizing the student is counterproductive.
No, by buying and using energy that isn't produced in a sustainable way you too are responsible for the damage it does.

But as others already have pointed out, this is not what the article is about.
> Something about having light emitting to my eyes makes it uncomfortable.

How do you feel about dark mode with an OLED screen for true black (pixels off)?

The ecosystem has improved a lot in the past few years and most major OSs and applications now support it. For browsing the web, there's DarkReader[0] which works very well (on Android you can use it with Firefox).

While I've never been particularly sensitive, most of my book reading nowadays happens at night with the lights out, on a 6.67" OLED display with low brightness, pure black background, and amber text.

[0] https://darkreader.org/help/en/
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This is just cherry-picking from noisy data in order to tell a misleading narrative.

If you look at the actual development of electricity generation in Germany [1], it is very clear that nuclear power (pink) was replaced by renewables (bright green) and not by coal (brown and dark green).

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...
> Money is money. Thats sad but predictable. The future web should be decentralized.

The web is already decentralized, by design. It's just that people are all flocking to the exact same services and providers for "convenience". Nobody has to use Google services, or buy an iPhone and use iPhone apps. Google isn't the web.

What the web needs is to be distributed in order to be more resilient or even evade censorship. But users need to care first. Don't give all your private information to Google, don't use walled gardens like the app store...
This is apparantly one of the reasons actions around the ozone hole got broad support. Margaret Thatcher had been a chemist before getting into politics, she understood the science that was being presented to her when the issue first became apparant. She was able to convince Reagan that this was a real issue that was going to affect us all and was something we could fix. Obviously there were lots of other factors at play (there were technical solutions that were largely ready to adopt), but it helped.

I often wonder how different things might be right now if Al Gore had been a well known republican, whether acceptance of anthropogenic climate change wouldn't have been such a political issue, or if all the other forces at work would have been the same.
Only if you're Scottish though, if you're English, Welsh, or Northern Irish you still have to pay full fees.
It wasn't really difficult on RKN part, if true. Just announce something and not act on it.
They're basically a different thing in the UK, I think. At the risk of stereotyping, they're where you go to get vocational qualifications (further, as opposed to higher, education).
You might find what you're looking for if you google "linear systems over finite fields" or "integer linear systems".
This is the main party line right now - "Navalny is Soros' agent and Smart Voting is election interference".
> Continue to let huge ad companies (stop calling them tech companies) rent seek and nickel and dime you on everything

What is he referring to here, out of curiosity? Does a company like Google own an apartment complex, or is it some sort of on-site housing programme?
Even Navalny and his supporters are not calling for foreign companies to all pull out of Russia. What makes you think you know better what is good for the Russian people and the opposition groups than Russians and the opposition groups themselves?

How many of Russia's Apple employees think Apple is "participating in dictatorship" by employing them? How many Russian citizens, including the political opposition, do you think blame Apple or Google for participating in dictatorship by selling them phones and providing them with services? Maybe a few take such an extreme view, but it certainly doesn't seem to be a common attitude for Russian opponents of Putin.
They might just try different methods.

Also Telegram is deeply integrated into Russian infrastructure. Fair amount of the private companies use it as the main communication medium. Government entities use it to communicate the news. Lots of common non-political folks use it.

I would bet trade-off of upsetting non-relevant folks to the hit of the unfavorable party doesn't really pay off. Apple and Google may move their employees after these events.
telepathic critterdrug?
"Saving" might be a bit of a controversial turn of phrase in terms of classic cars. Is it really saving beyond aesthetics if you gut the engine in favour of an electric that just looks like a classic on the outside?

(Disclaimer: I don't know anything about cars, its a genuine question)
Imperial College London has a pretty good rep, no? Even when compared to most universities in the UK?
Sure, it's the obvious thing to try. I'm challenging Pinker's implicit assertion that because physical suffering has decreased, overall suffering has necessarily decreased.
I remember reading of a primitive unicellular organism that can link up with its fellows and become mobile, searching for water sources if I recall correctly.
I am a contractor/consultant, and I do occasionally consider going back to permanent employment. What stops me every time is the dread of returning to just 25 days off.

I don't do much dynamic hours like above as I work with/manage others but I do take 40ish days off a year. 2 weeks at Christmas and Easter, 3 in the summer, and 3-5 days off for some of the kids half term holidays.

I prefer just informing the clients when I am unavailable and that is it. Never had an issue since going solo 9 years ago.

There are many downsides to being a contractor, but time off is an upside, if you can afford it.
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Why would anyone believe Handsome Jack to begin with?
This, right here.
Centralization is the danger. In whatever form.

Even the web with single points of failure is prone to this.
Good point, but with 30% of the students there from Scotland (more than three times the UK population average), I'm guessing it's a factor in satisfaction ratings.
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A lot of tech workers are first generation immigrants though, I'm talking about more entrenched immigrant families that are 2 or 3 generations deep
> I don't think a tax is going to fix the underlying problem, which is that ad publishers have no responsibility for the ads they show.

The tax would get passed on to the entity paying for the advertisement. Then "advertising" would probably turn into a dirty word, we'll have "suggestions" and some sort of legal ducking and diving to avoid paying the tax at all.

Advertising plagues the web.
As a student I used to obsess over university rankings, but I realize now that most of them are massively gamed. My alma mater, the UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) e.g. merged with other universities in Paris to form the Sorbonne University, mostly to move up in the worldwide ranking. So, it's still largely the same university with the same funding and the same chairs, but since it's bundled up in a larger package it now gets some extra vanity points.

IMHO, as a PhD student, what really matters is not how well your university is ranked but how well your research group is organized and how much the people there support you. I know students who went to do their PhDs in the groups of nobel prize winners because of the associated fame, only to find out that they're not very "hungry" anymore (in the sense that they're already at the top of their fame and not always eager to pursue new risky and innovative research) and are often so busy that they could only speak with them for a few hours over the entire duration of their PhD. So my advice is to go to a group with people that are still "hungry" and that actually have time to coach you.
Researchers bake malware protection directly into SSDs
I wonder why all modern hipsters ignore email as a platform. Like, Telegram on behest of Apple and Google repeatedly bans flibusta bots (a site with a great collection of pirated books), why don't they make an email bot? What would Apple do, ban their own mail app? Start censoring emails?
I am looking at their document* explaining methodology behind the ranking criteria and I am still to understand which of those indicate quality of programme. All five sections revolve around research and the data is collected mostly from Elsevier.

So St Andrews outranks Oxbridge for the first time. Outranks in what? What does "best" mean? I think these rankings should better explain in the title what they indicate. It seems to me they compete in prestige and not quality of teaching which is what prospective students look for.

All programmes in the country are standardised and cover the same required topics, so the only major difference there can be is the way these topics are presented to students. The research game is separate from the teaching entirely and shouldn't be considered as an indication of anything in the undergraduate realm.

* https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/bre...