skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not just build some text web sites without ads or trackers?

If I am visiting a site I've never visited before, I have no guarantee what it will do or try to do until I load it/use it. Yes there are ways to control what sites do but the ways to block or manage them always seem to be changing and require keeping up on plugins, whitelists, extensions, which browser is better this week, which NewFeatureKit or TurningWebBrowserInToOSKit needs to be disabled or settings adjusted this time, etc. It's tiring.

We can have an inclusive Internet without this bullshit.

With Gemini, there's pretty much never going to be ads or trackers, because it's as physically impossible as it can be from a protocol standpoint. I can also tell people "install this Gemini browser and you're good" instead of having to explain how modern Internet properties seek to pervasively surveil everything and what needs to be done to prevent it.
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"is a" or "goes by"?
Here is what seems to be the full case:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrjogbzve/...
> Freenet's default feature is

bad developers that make excuses for a network that won't stop the delivery of child pornography by hiding behind false ethical arguments
And don't even think about using "npm audit fix --force", it wants to downgrade the react-scripts dependency from 4.0 to 1.1 and introduce another 50 vulnerabilities.

Not the smoothest first impression for what's supposed to be the "on rails" introduction to react development.
Easy to say focus on health, hard to do it. We’ve been “focused on health” for decades and people just keep getting fatter.
Fitting Concrete Images and Abstract Concepts with Evolution Strategies
Sounds a little bit to more like:

We are using every new technology because why not, but we don't think about our use cases.

Things like "/items/12345/detail" let me believe that this is not a spa really? More like a good old MPA?

I'm not sure if the chosen technologies are the right ones for the jobs.

In general, I don't understand the trend to default to something like reactjs. We have and had alternatives.

What I see is that people complain about technologies which are not build for what they are using. To get good performance and bundle size out of SPA like apps, you really need to put in work. Maybe a simple Laravel/RubyOnRails website would have been the better stack for a lot of projects which are right now written in reactjs/nextjs.
> The content of those sites is whatever their authors want it to be :)

A network vending child pornography should not be happy about this. This should be a terrifying warning to you.

Unfortunately you don't see it as a genuine problem, so you explain it away.
This sounds completely improbable.

Phones / telegrams and cameras existed.

Nagasaki happened 3 days later, I find it hard to believe information couldn't travel that fast.
I didn't even know that these were available. I'll have to check them out. Thanks!
A geometric constraint solver for Blender
I'm considering an MBA for that reason.
I agree on all points, except I prefer my watches mechanical, rather than electronic.

So I got one of the cheapest Seiko automatic watches. Being mechanical it's obviously going to cost more and keep time much less accurately than a quartz watch. Other than that, I identify with your comment.

The cheap automatic Seiko is always there, and it always works. Don't have to worry about putting it away and then needing to replace its battery – it has no battery. I can bang it about and while I'm sure it might break at some point with the way I treat it, it won't be too painful to get another one.

It's no-frills, keeps the time as accurately as I need it to, and doesn't take a lot of space on my wrist. Couldn't be happier.
Powered trailers exist so why not.

That there is no physical coupling feels dubious though.
trees flattened in a radial pattern might show up in the geological record somehow.
> I remember reading in the ClickHouse docs some time ago that it does not have DELETE functionality. Does this pose any problems with GDPR and data deletion requests?

Altinity is fixing this. The project is called Lightweight Delete and it's for exactly the GDPR reason cited. The idea is that there will be a SQL DELETE command that causes rows to disappear instantly. What actually will happen is that they will be marked as deleted, then garbage collected on the next merge.

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.
Live virus vaccines are actually a proven technology. I'd much sooner take a live virus than rushed to market mRNA technology.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-a-live-virus-vaccine-...
The full Phase 3 results for the J&J vaccine will be released on January 2,2023 : https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04505722
I stopped using readers after the open ereader maker alaratek stopped making them. The brands left are twice the cost and do not support as many formats.

If anyone knows of a good non-amazon, kobo brand is please share.
I think you mean ‘Your country’. The US is notoriously bad at prioritizing people over ‘Level of Service’ for cars.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
In the very first days of Gemini's design, I was arguing with other implementers for using a large subset of CommonMark (no raw HTML, no inline images, but pretty much everything else) as the preferred content-type to serve over Gemini. In the end, the goal of ease of implementation for client authors won out. The main arguments were that while there are Markdown parsers for many languages, most of them are narrowly aimed at converting to HTML; Markdown has known ambiguities; the line-oriented markup we ended up with was a strict improvement over Gophermaps while remaining equally simple to parse.

I also miss inline emphasis and other kinds of text-oriented typography, but the reasons gemtext omits them are fairly good.
Even an idle computer consumes power. How could it be literally zero? As it could have been shut off otherwise.
If you’re suggesting everyone should get Covid without being vaccinated, then that’s a really great way to cause millions of unneeded deaths. Just because you’re ok with that outcome don’t expect everyone else to be.

edit: that's not what they were suggesting. I misunderstood!
The localized 'useful name of timezone' is part of the Unicode CLDR, which lets you map to the IANA and Windows timezone identifiers. Avoiding scope creep is a good thing, especially when there are other groups better positioned to do the work.
Into Auckland (from Hamilton), not NZ. Breaching public health rules, and not specifically singling out KFC.
It would be cool if there was a micro-USB port on the other side to read the SD card. Maybe that's a bit optimistic in this form factor, though.
Solar geoengineering isn't a solution for ocean acidification, and once we start we have to keep doing it until we figure out carbon sequestration.
Do you complain about knives because they're not good at scooping? When something does one thing well, I don't care if it does auxiliary things poorly, or at all.
They half-assed the capability to mix two liquids with my Kindle, as well, IPX8 certification nonwithstanding. Useless. I'm sticking with spoons.
Agreed, definitely a kind of muddy term right now.
The best thing with Kobo is the Pocket integration
Why would they have to be stored near populated areas for this purpose?

Even if you were gonna hit the meteor during significant downward trajectory (which seems unlikely), that would still have to be done at quite a distance from the impact location.

Also wondering when there was ever a "politically stable world without conflicts"
Using Gitea as a Blog Management Tool
The Remarkable is the device that convinced me of the value of e-readers, but it's not so much the screen size as it is the ability to just scribble notes in the margins, and underline, circle etc. easily. You can install Koreader on the Remarkable, but then it's just another ereader without a frontlight, rather than something more tangible like a book.

I convert everything to PDF before moving it to the device though, for a lot of reasons, some aesthetic and some related to lack of functionality in the built-in epub converter. It's a shame there is no software that does a perfect job at converting epub to PDF though. I use one of three different workflows depending on the source material.

One tip for those using the device: the built-in margin trimming feature for PDFs also lets you add margins on whatever side of the document you want, which is a bit counterintuitive but really useful if you like scribbling in the margins.
Natural antibodies seem to last longer, based on the current research. My simple algorithm is:
P(long-term damage | short observation window) = non negligible
P(death | previous infection, age (30), healthy, etc.) = incredibly low

P(vaccine worth it | aforementioned) = low

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928365
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
You only need both hands on the handlebars when starting from a stop. It is very easy to ride with one hand even at slow speeds, and bikes can be ridden with no hands at moderate speeds.
I don't know what the "correct" answer is (and highly doubt there is a one size fits all answer). But there are thousands of developers not using them as well, so this argument is not valid.
Introduce them to both and let them do what they like. Other games or exercises would work as well.
Really? Let me try

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaers-deaths/fact-...
Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players
From the report: "Meta-analysis of 15 trials found that ivermectin reduced risk of death compared with no ivermectin (average risk ratio 0.38, 95% confidence interval 0.19–0.73; n = 2438; I2 = 49%; moderate-certainty evidence)." There's futher meta-analysis from 64 studies on Ivermectin as a treatment and prophylaxis for COVID-19: https://ivmmeta.com/

There is much commentary in the media about Ivermectin being a "horse dewormer" when it was for human use first and then for animals. There are many, many drugs for humans which obtain FDA approval for animals. The real question here should be whether off-label use is appropriate and warranted, not whether the primary use for this drug in western countries is for quadrupeds.
> Luckily, Freenet did that right (even though it was the first anti-censorship + privacy network!)

This isn't even close to true.

There are many networks that predate you, provide real anonymity, and still remove the child pornography that would otherwise taint them and their maintainers.

You just play games with the definition of censorship.

When people tell you "you shouldn't be the vendor of the sexual abuse of children," you try to turn it into a censorship issue. Like people somehow have the right to publish this.

Except they don't, and you've become so addicted to a decade of hiding behind that shield that you don't realize what a villain it has actually turned you into.

The reason the other networks exist is that people actually to want privacy, but they won't shame themselves by swimming in your child pornography filled pool.

Stop telling us the way to fix your network is to participate, and water the numbers down.

Fix your miserable problem.
Hasn't the sea level "lowered" in the Persian Gulf ? Silting made the sea significantly further away from the Sumerian heartland nowadays than it was back then.

I've always thought the flood narrative archetype had to do with uncontrolled river floods, predating early state building and large irrigation projects. It's certainly that way in China.
I probably should’ve clarified that this stack is geared toward our enterprise-facing cloud dashboard. There’s a lot of data flying around and it needs to be displayed real-time. But most websites really don’t need this stuff. Front end needs to learn what backend has figured out: the stack has to fit the use-case.

I probably should’ve titled this post better, since I’ve been wanting to write more about how to make appropriate front end tooling decisions in general... not just our extremely dynamic use-case. The entire web seems to be running bloated React apps despite most sites’ needs being solved by the old stuff or new things like 11ty.

Just to clarify as well (since I didn’t in the post), we’re still using Next despite nuking the SSR because the filesystem-based server is useful to us and we like the patterns they provide for running server-side code.
why do you care what a vendor of child pornography thinks of other designs
Yeah i've been saying the same thing. Makes sense esp if you're younger.
Dimensionality reduction for Billboard Top songs
> I don't think so, they mention that it's only 1m wide, which is 25cm wider than the average bike.

And thinner than a Canta.
Ask HN: Why are all my pretentious art friends joining signal?
All my non-technical contacts from art school have randomly been joining signal in the last two / three weeks. None of can give me a straight answer as to why. Is this a larger trend or maybe just a coincidence?
Look into Kindle X-Ray [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_(Amazon_Kindle)
To be honest I think this will be the case with any such autopilot. Any system that doesn't require regular attention will be ignored or forgotten. Even drivers without autopilot become inattentive when driving doesn't take their constant attention. Human beings are just not good at this.

This is why military watch standers are often asked to make rounds instead of standing in one place. Paying attention to something that requires no intervention will make even heavily trained soldiers start to daydream, fall asleep, and wander off.

I think training would be necessary for people to safely use autopilot in cars. However, getting people to take driving seriously is an uphill battle already.
NPR knows who pays the bills...
Hi HN-

This was built by our former intern @akubecka. There are lots of good SQL parsers out there, including things like hyrise (https://github.com/hyrise/sql-parser) but we needed something that would let us edit the parsed SQL and then replay the changed version. Couldn't find that so we decided to build.

We figured others must sometimes have the same need. Alex agreed to maintain it as an open source project, so CTM agreed to make it available under the MIT license.
My understanding is that most virologists believe we will end up in an endemic situation so that is what is going to happen in the long run (the crux is how we get there).

> natural immunity to more antigen sites than just the spike protean

Current studies show that natural immunity does not seem to be superior to immunity from the mRNA vaccines (for immunologically naive persons) - so heuristically speaking it seems to be better to 'train' antibodies on one thing rather than several antigen sites at the same time (this may seem counter-intuitive at first but is in line with many other infectious diseases).

However, once you have been vaccinated (or resp. have recovered from Covid-19) exposition to the virus (or resp. to the mRNA vaccines) will have additional benefits as you suggested!
The problem is when you have a large app with multiple components and plenty of state to manage. These things always look easy when they are small toy isolated projects.

This sort of thing in a production app would be littered with global state, it would be difficult to change anything / refactor without serious anxiety, if you have multiple developers good luck getting them to program the same predictable way, importing libraries see previous point, etc, etc.
From your link:

- Actual Primary Completion Date : January 22, 2021

- Estimated Study Completion Date : January 2, 2023

There are quite a lot of secondary outcomes listed!
I wish there were a Netflix like model for books. I think Amazon has a service like that, but without very much content (last time I checked). If the selection was good I would be happy to pay monthly for what is effectively a library card (which is basically how you do that today with ebooks but for free. Much worse user experience than piracy unfortunately)

I too love ebooks by the way. Between that and audiobooks I now consume more books than any other kind of content. It has been pretty amazing, highly recommend it.
There's a lot in here that seems off if not quite wrong.

Throwing errors to be caught higher up, the way they manage redirects, and the lack of discussion around managing state (which could on its own solve lots of these problems).

So much of this seems convoluted and unnecessary for a very simple goal of building a dashboard. Their use of Apollo seems to provide no advantage over a basic REST API.

There's frankly very little discussion about actual front end architecture. I'd expect a conversation on a React application architecture to focus on things like how is client side state managed? How is server state managed and kept up to date? Are the two mingled together or kept separate? How are they kept separate? How can you build reusable components? How can you avoid components bloating in size and scope etc

Front End development today - especially with React - is so easy to get running with and there are tons of better articles that actually discuss front end architecture including lots of courses on common patterns. Beyond articles, open source projects themselves often provide great architecture discussions.

Higher order components, react-query for server state, react-router for client side routing, building reusable behaviors with hooks are all good places to get started for actual architectural design
Please share the code! That project should be in the Internet Archive!
Chess, Piano, Logic, then code.
It's a good read, but I still maintain that the immovable zero page and stack make the '02 sub-optimal. The 816 lets you move both around, and the WDC C compiler at least does some nice things with this to allow a proper stack frame.

I suspect that an LLVM backend for the 816 would have to be something quite a bit different from the 02.
Honestly most names are like that. Sea peoples sounds dumb but The Thalassoi or the Marenians sound badass. Conversely Italians are Young Cattle Peoples, the French are Javelin Peoples, and the English are Peoples from Hook Land. There are some exceptions though - the Spanish are Men of the Ultimate West, the Japanese are Rising Sun Peoples, and Israelis are the God Fighters.
Senior Frontend Dev:

HTML was never gone :)
I have and still working on big e-commerce websites.

For example, Ikea for product lists sends mini chunks of simple HTML. No JS involved.

What I see is the problem that people think that "Frontend development is easier than backend development".

For me, they have different challenges and different ways of thinking. Getting a good full stack developer is kind of getting a good doctor, which has at least to specialities.
This resonates with me. I'm a Millenial(?[1]) and I've chosen not to have children on the basis of climate change.

Talk all you want about how climate change is not a personal issue -- the decision to have children (and how many) is the singlemost environmentally impactful decision you will ever have direct, personal agency in making. For me, it's practicing what I preach, because I view climate change as the most pressing existential threat to our species (albeit on a longer timescale than my own life).

I have other justificiations, too -- in terms of life priorities, I simply consider children as "nice to have". For someone on the fence like me, this is enough. If you disagree... more power to you! It's your decision to make, and I mean that earnestly.

[1]: Born 1996
Energy Transition Readiness Index 2021
How about, what they enjoy doing? I mean, give them a taste of things and let them decide.

"Talented" I think mostly is used to describe people who practised something every day for many years. You will only do that if you like/love/enjoy doing it.

I started music lessons at 4 and still make music every day (age 50). Also I love chess and programming. ..How about music?
In any case, I reported it at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21405.
Trust your instincts.

That gur feeling like you are missing something important is nothing more than psuedo FOMO. Its complicated and contrived for no good reason at all. SSG are good. Plain HTML is even better.
I’m hoping to write a more general post soon about selecting tooling per-use-case, which certainly should not result in this overpowered and complex stack in most cases.
I've seen an incredible outpouring of selfless support for others during the pandemic, and quite a bit before that. Maybe the problem is the people you're surrounded by and pay attention to, not culture in general.
I don't understand why HTTP over TLS could not be used here
If everyone gets a vaccine first and then covid we could be fine though, since the risk of dying is near zero for most people after having it
The anonymous meta-analysis that’s convincing people to use ivermectin
> Agriculture isn't the only way to sustain moderately-sized populations, it's just the most efficient in the short term. Semi-passive cultivation is arguably more sustainable

There is a theory by Jared Diamond [1] of how pre-Agricultural Jomon people of Japan were able to invent pottery 18K years ago: the wild-food rich environment of Japan, being moist, temperate, and surrounded by ocean - allowed them to have very settled lives while other hunter gatherers had to constantly move.

Outside of rate examples like this, there is little evidence that non agricultural societies reached even moderate populations.

1. https://erenow.net/common/gunsgermssteel/23.php
How do you keep your openapi spec up to date?
Restored Vermeer painting finally reveals hidden Cupid in background
My first thought would be one of those mouse sharing programs (synergy, multipliciy, mouse without borders). They really screw up _everything_.

Nothing sucks like mouse without borders. Nothing. Except for Synergy which is worse. But nothing sucks like synergy. Well except Multiplicity.
BlackRock and HSBC funds boosted Evergrande holdings as crisis loomed
https://archive.is/pthgy
I posted the article and was not paid to do so. I genuinely think that the costs of getting rid of fossil fuels will outweigh the benefits. A large fraction of American voters, especially in the Republican party, agree with me. No one has tried to rebut the substance of the article.
When will they finally release a vaccine targeting surface proteins instead of the mutating spike protein? All we got are ancient spike protein-based vaccines that need to be renewed, while it's been sufficient time to develop a proper vaccine targeting all variants, or at least adjust spike fragments to new variants. Is this really just business-driven decision now? Is a vaccine subscription coming next?
> If you’re suggesting everyone should get Covid without being vaccinated

Never have I said that. I'm just saying it's time to get vaccinated and move on with life. Everyone will get Covid at some point.
Chance of death/severe illness between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations makes that type of decision making meaningless.
What's the big difference between this app and another social networking app? You can't assume that all of the features content sharing is authentic just because it is posted on the platform.
The true price of a gallon of gasoline is probably higher than $7.60 if you account for the lasting damage to the planet.

We are subsidizing the use of non-renewables in general by not taxing them enough (or even subsidizing them).
How else are you going to give your front end devs work to do?
Bad idea

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

“If you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “This study shows you are twice as likely to get infected again if you are unvaccinated. Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and others around you, especially as the more contagious Delta variant spreads around the country.”