skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice if your goal is to get the maximal number of people using your product.

But it's not exactly clear how you plan to turn that into, say, revenue. Build it and they will come, sure. And the more leads you stuff into the top of the conversion funnel, the more conversions, right? What do you mean 'qualified' leads?

If your product's viability will rest on turning some percentage of those free users into subscribers or purchasers, then you have to do some upsell, at some point. And if they can get into the full product without any obstacles within milliseconds, you're going to have a very, very hard job getting those conversions. Meanwhile you're winning over free users who cost you money and time to serve in handling their support and feature requests, and you're bringing in ever more people who are never going to give you any money.

It is viable to build your product this way if the primary product your business sells is 'convincing investors that by building up loyal active users, and developing rich understanding of those users' behavior, you will somehow create a reservoir of value that can be sold for 10x the amount of money you're asking them to put in to keep your servers turned on for another few months'

And it's probably viable if you aren't trying to be a business at all.

But as generic 'this is how all products should work' advice, it's pretty terrible, unless your main advice is 'don't try to make a business around offering a software product unless you're primarily interested in selling engagement monetization fairytales to investors'.
My boat has a $1000 piece of garmin equipment which will tell me exactly how far away the landmass under me is, and has another sonar angled forward which tells me a little bit about what's coming up.

It's possible that this type of sensing equipment isn't used when they are in hostile environments?
The vast majority of the time, boats don’t use active sonar. Whilst giving a high resolution view of what’s around them, it also allows any other signals collector (often defined as an enemy aggressor) to accurately pinpoint the location and deploy countermeasures, even if only updating threat assessments.
Ultra detailed charts are used that have the terrain mapped. Occasional positional fixes when a boat surfaces can be used to ‘reset’ where they thought they were whilst running silent.
pro tip: you can also have it as an external keyboard.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

I first thought it would feel cramped but it turns out its work out better than full size keyboard if you are switching back and forth between laptop and desktop.
The economic reasons of collapse of Soviet Union are very popular in the West, yet to say that 1990 was the worst time for SU in purely economic terms is not true. Soviet Union was in a disastrous state in 1920's, in late 1940's after the war, yet it didn't collapse.

The collapse of Soviet Union was simply a dissolution of union treaty between soviet republics, that happened primarily as a result of a struggle for power between Union-level government (Gorbachev) and republican-level (Eltsin of Russia, Kravchuk of Ukraine, etc). After failed coup in August of 1991 Gorbachev effectively lost his support and the fate of SU was sealed.

Again, economic crisis in the 90's in many of the post-soviet states was much stronger yet none of them 'collapsed'. Regime changes often have political reasons, where economy plays a useful backdrop.
diversity manager - wtf??
I use the pwa
Yes but Ottoman rule should be understood to span many ethnic and religious groups. There was no "Ottoman people", the way you have, say, Germans. The Jews were there under Ottoman rule, for example (in fact the Ottoman sultan gave them independence in trade for a lot of money). So while there are long-time-there Palestinian bedouins, there are also Jewish bedouins, and even smaller groups like Druze or even Catholics. There were many semi-states under the Ottoman empire that have since warred and lost or gained territory. The British attempted to keep Ottoman governmental structures largely in place, and they failed badly.

Turkey was conquered by the Turks, from Greeks, Armenians, and various smaller groups. Big parts of it not that long ago (~1 century). Somalia was conquered from Ethiopia. Pakistan from India. Bangladesh from Pakistan. Hell, Northern Iraq was conquered from the Kurds ... by Arab Nazi's. Seriously. History can be funny at times.

Most of these conquests are younger than Israel is. Why don't we see people follow Indian demands for re-annexation (and religious suppression) of Pakistan? Pakistan demands the same of Bangladesh (and yes religious suppression. "There are no sects in Islam" is part of Islamic doctrine. There are no splits in Sunni Islam, but somehow Pakistan and Bangladesh don't belong to the same Sunni Islam ... and are hundreds of millions of believers each).

Ethiopia wants to re-annex Somalia (and restore religions to where they were 100 years ago), and so on. Hell, there exist Indian extremists that would like to see Indonesia annexed too. Oh, and unlike the Israel-Palestine conflict, India and Pakistan are threatening to nuke each other. And China is now threatening them too, also with nukes, so there's plenty of new trouble brewing in that neighbourhood. And we haven't even mentioned China ...

Is anyone seriously suggesting undoing the conquests? For one thing that would be extremely impractical and a massive operation, even if they would cooperate (and I guarantee there'll be war in every case).

Why is this conflict so important? Compared to the India-Pakistan issue, it doesn't affect very many people (Israel and Palestine, even together, are at best the population of a medium US city, India-Pakistan-Bangladesh is 4-5 times the size of the entire US)

But I think I do see some factors. Israel-Palestine is so very, very small that it is actually conceivable that the west actually does something about it. India-Pakistan? We have zero chance to play a meaningful role there. Also the Israeli consider themselves part of the West, so they actually want the approval of the rest of the West.
There was no single person that introduced python at Citigroup that I am aware of. It came in via a variety of teams mostly because of the fact that the alternative was perl, and no one wanted to write perl (yet somehow kdb was acceptable a few years later).
Sounds like a doge to me. An easy out so you do not have have a real conversation and acknowledge the failings of your stance.
I couldn't read past the first few analogies. Is there a TLDR?

Also, why must pages be without styles and so w i d e? What is this, a manpage? Long form text should not need to be so wide.

Basic CSS can be applied to a site to make it readable, don't even need to add classes to the HTML to do it.

https://watercss.kognise.dev/

Here is the page with readability turned on: https://imgur.com/a/0yzRY61
Robot Evolution: Ethical Concerns
Mayors should rule the world (2013)
> You can (could ?) buy these refurbished dirt cheap when big companies update their fleet.

At least for me, this is half the appeal of thinkpads. They cost so little for their performance, I have a mate that even got a couple for free.

Most of mine I didn't even need to change anything. The fans still work nicely (sometimes given them a clean of course) and no real battery problems to speak of. Probably a good idea to anyway, but yeh, they're solid laptops even after all these years
When people actually want just a subset of `eval` to permit some custom computation, the proper thing to do is to define that subset as a language and make an interpreter that will read only that language.

As for mostly-full-featured `eval`: iirc Perl itself has a facility to create restricted sub-interpreters and run scripts that can't do certain things. (Though I might be confusing Perl with PHP here.)
There's also https://www.radix-ui.com/ which is excellent.
It's a common enough view amongst industry insiders, and not exclusive to manned spaceflight. That GPS? It's fantastically useful, but its also designed and operated by the US government for defence purposes. The other GNSS PNT providers are also strategic state projects. Imaging? There are commercial markets for it (as a colleague put it, it's been "just around the corner" of realising its commercial potential since the 1970s!) but if you're putting up imaging satellite constellations you're expecting that directly as funders or indirectly as the largest customers, governments will pay for it (turtles all the way down as their commercial customers are often taking funding from ESA for research projects they hope to scale up in future, probably by selling to governments). And even much of the pure commercial Earth Observation is underwritten by "social science"-type legal obligations to monitor environmental footprints etc not by pure profit expectations. Satphones might be used by private companies paying private companies, but the only major player to start out as a VC funded entity rather than a state project crashed and burned financially before the US govt stepped in; some of the LEO connectivity providers have also headed in that direction. And satellite television is as pure a commercial play as it gets, until you start looking at who funded the first satellites for television broadcast, and try to imagine why private TV channels would have bothered investing in off-world delivery innovation without all that social investment in finding use cases for their launch vehicles and satellite tech.

As for the manned space programmes, they stop looking wasteful and start looking surprisingly beneficial when you consider externalities (from cochlear implants to memory foam), but that's the ultimate example of it being a social benefit of throwing enormous amounts of money at very smart people solving new problems, not a VC-friendly commercial proposition.
Perl does ship a sandbox module called Safe as a standard module, though I don't know how strong it is.
Do you see it as a grave injustice when Syrian or other Muslim refugees settle Europe? I mean they do sway the demography quite a bit in certain places.
You monetize when the user has value that they do not want to let go.

Ready to save your new work of art?

Or higher resolution?

Or premium features?

You do it when the user is hooked.

I was not advocating for “no revenue”.

Also it seems self evident that such advice does not apply to all software…. Do you think I’m saying this is how SAP should be sold? No…, obviously the advice applies to software suited to this approach.
Smart sunglasses with lenses displaying real-time data for cyclers
Bezos is still able to underwrite Blue Origin with his stated $2 billion - then if there are delays with SpaceX Blue Origin would be well positioned to launch it's own parallel project. NASA may or may not be interested?
This would require access to ongoing build specs to converge to a fully compatible vehicle - which may be withheld?
In any event Bezos is fully capable of going all the way on his own project with his own money as, much the same as Musk also can.
It seems really useful. But the fact that this is useful feels like a code smell in the web platform.

It would be cool to go back to HTML=schematics and CSS=styling.

Maybe CSS needs to become more capable tool to place divs more easily?
That's the "pollarding" referred to in the article. It is something that varies in popularity by region:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
Money or less risk of losing money. Partners originate deals and/or manage risk. He was looking for accelerated process to make informed decisions.
When Plan A is money printing then the situation is dire. If the money printing doesn't get you, then the fact that it is the best available plan might.
Someone who downvoted this was right, my memory was wrong.

On x86, reads can be reordered between themselves only for non-temporal transfers.

For the normal case, when the accesses are made to cacheable read-write memory, the reads are not reordered between themselves.
This is a cool “tinkering” project, but my “ultimate” ThinkPad would rarely see the BIOS boot screen, and sleep/suspend/wake would actually work properly.
> Overall, if true, the weak showing of the US seems to be in large part a matter of motivation and persistence than what we’d traditionally call math ability (so maybe we need to change our thinking to include grit to stick it out as part of the math curriculum).

Emphasis on persistence in drudgery is already deeply ingrained in our educational system, because it fits well with our cultural predisposition and moral framework, and is a big part of why our educational system ranks where it does, because it doesn't actually work.

You don't motivate students by training them to endure nonmotivating instructional methods.

Its funny how people think evidence that motivation matters means we should try to change students to be motivated rather than change instructional approach to be motivating.
Stupid webmasters...

https://archive.md/xoIkv

On Street View they even have a glass-windowed lobby:
https://goo.gl/maps/7vJCZtQdpX6DydXV6
Not that many Palestinian were killed in the forming of Israel, at least compared to many other civil wars we can compare to.
The Yeshuv lost 1% of it's population during the war btw so it wasn't one sided at all.
Many Palestinians simply fled so the potential for violence wasn't that high.
In the age of SPAs and Electron, can we really distinguish between "React apps" and "native apps"? The user doesn't care about the technical details - they just want a consistent UI throughout their computing experience.

<rant>

Hell, back in the 2000s, even web apps used native widgets, and we shamed websites that implemented their own UIs in Flash because they were bloated and inaccessible. Now we do it in Javascript and it's considered okay, even though all the same objections apply. And with Electron apps we've managed to combine all the worst aspects of web apps and native apps - they're slow, non-native and not cross-platform, and don't have text search, and still have to be installed.

</rant>
Productivity around the house increased 400%
Reading Generation Kill by Evan Write does not give this impression of the US military...
For anyone interested, the malicious code can be found in the following link:

https://github.com/veged/coa/issues/99#issuecomment-96153687...

TLDR: The attacker injected an attack code as coa's `preinstall` script, which executes an obscurely-named file ("compile.bat"). This file is fully obfuscated, but what it does is basically to pull exploit DLLs from the attacker's server and install 'em.

I think the fortunate part of this accident is that the attacker failed to deploy the malware in his/her first attempt; v2.0.3 only contained the half of the changeset that the exploit needs to work (which accidentally broke tons of CI builds); So some developers could notice that something is wrong a bit early.
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying "change is the only constant in life."

Cutting my teeth with computers from the 80s through to the 00s, it's bemusing to see people resorting to hotrodding ancient shells of computers that in times previous would have been replaced every two years.

Maybe this slower rate of change is more sustainable, or maybe it is a temporary blip. At least the new Apple chips were good, but I'd rather wait for everybody else to catch up, however long it takes.

I am increasingly uncomfortable with how slowly things are moving. I don't remember generations past complaining about decceleration, rather the opposite.
To avoid a repeat crash like a Boeing 737max8, submarines can be equipped with sensors acting at long distances like a lobster's antenna or catfish's whiskers, snake's tongue or slime mold's feelers to map out immediate surrounds and continuously refresh the map.
I mean in the US there are only 2 political parties over 1% anyway, so these policies cannot be very tough especially if these are without any pressure. It's quite an irony actually since the idea of a small state is so popular yet it's not being driven forward. On-and-off I'm since 15 years using private energy providers using exclusively solar, water and wind. It's a bit more expensive but negligible compared to other expenses.

> I won't change my behavior, because I think my effect will be negligible and I'd just be like the Amish, being pious while others enjoy.

Well yes, but this is what I mean, the Amish have an effect. Yet I don't think it's not necessary to live like an Amish. Probably it's fine to just pick the next pricier product. A few percent extra paid don't hurt, have a good effect and will promote these products both towards sellers and other buyers.
That's a great story and it does flesh out the original requirements, thanks for writing it up.
The article does not cover disabling this module. To disable create /etc/modprobe.d/tipc.conf with either

install tipc /bin/true

or

install tipc /bin/false

Given this module is commonly used with user-space applications I would use /bin/false so that DevOps folks don't spend a lot of time debugging why their application does not work assuming they don't get the memo that this module has been disabled.
> Wait, so the idea to close the gap is to lower the standards so you need less effort to score better?

No, its not.
Love my Thinkpad X220. I changed already keyboard, screen, some parts of its case.. It runs on SSD and it has 16GB RAM. I love it. The only issue is with CPU. Mine still running on a i5 and I would love to update it, to at least an i7.. is that possible?
Maybe mentioning it in the same breath as Javascript rubbed you the wrong way, but Java _is_ pretty dynamic.

Object being a valid write destination for any reference means the VM has to maintain type information in all objects (small 'o'), which is a distinctively dynamic thing to do. I mean, simply declare all variables to be Object and you can see a faint shadow of a python-like class system lurking underneath the static types. The fact that nobody does this (I hope!) is of no use to the VM, the semantics say it must do this.

All object allocations are on the heap (and only ever moved to stack if escape analysis proves they could), all methods are dynamically dispatched. Hell, even class loading (i.e. linking libraries) is done at startup, which means you can recompile libraries without re-linking the client code which uses them.
> There are plenty of concrete/building material companies that do make a fortune: Heidleberg 18.85bn EUR Cemex 13bn USD CRH 27.59bn EUR

That's the revenue, if you look at profits they made 1B in 2019 with 57,000 employees.

Also it was founded in 1874...
> While it eventually became just another revenue extraction stream for Hasbro, the OGL pointed out a direction that could have freed the entire TTRPG hobby from capital’s clutches.

So it obviously didn’t point out a very good direction, hence hasbro’s commercial exploitation of it…
I run two 5Ks and my 2019 Intel feels quite sluggish. I still pay that price for the real estate.
The realization of time and the capacity of visualization —

There is a wonderful book showcasing an exhibit at the Montreal Museum of art.

I guess you could say this exhibit’s thesis is to talk about the effect of photography in culture to take what is numinous about nature (vast beyond measure) and to make it concrete and visible.

Similarly the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment changed culture. As I recall it was Keates who lamented Newton for ruining poetry.

Cosmos : From Romanticism to Avant-Garde, 1801-2001 By Clair, Jean (Editor) ISBN 10: 3791320890
What is more innovative, a light IDE with plugins written in JavaScript and backed by a big company or a small Lisp machine disguised as a text editor where every key is bound to a Lisp command and every changes and extensions in its code or extensions can be tested interactively in a "live coding" environment, where the user is empowered to modify and extend what he wants?
Please. Art is as dead as it wants to be.

There will always be a spectrum in the market.

A D&D will always taget the gourmand, no the gourmet.

The gourmets require education.

Be the educator, not the curmudgeon.
There's a whole cottage industry springing up around these.
https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/keyboards-old-and-new/

In future I might pair one with a thinkcentre nano, e-ink or touchscreen and a big lithium battery.
> the scope of education is to improve and spread knowledge. Politics might be important for society but it is not within the scope of education

Why is knowledge of politics not knowledge?
Flutter form builder – Form validation
I see it as "we'll be judging you basing on your skin color rather than your knowledge and skills".
-name "*coa*" is a bit too eager. It will flag other packages too, like the fairly popular babel-plugin-nullish-coalescing
> If the censorship occurred because it was true and they wanted to suppress it, it was true.

I get what you're saying with this analysis, I just don't think it's relevant in this case. The inconsistent and weak suppression by random social media websites isn't what you'd expect if some actually powerful authorities with an actual interest in concealing the lab leak truth were involved in suppressing it.

Your analysis applies best to Peter Daszak, who may have insider info about what WIV was doing and who has clearly been trying to cover his ass from the beginning. But his behavior is equally consistent with a generalized anxiety about what may be uncovered if there is an investigation, because he knows (like we all do) that lab leaks have a long history.

China's behavior is also consistent with generalized anxiety without regard for truth. China zealously suppresses uncontrolled information spread out of fear of what might become widely believed, but they are not at all precise or rational about it. For example, they footgunned themselves by suppressing a doctor's report that SARS had resurfaced in Wuhan. As it turned out, this was false, but it was not far off from the truth. It was not in their interest to suppress this information -- they should have reacted with aggressive investigation and containment measures, as they did several weeks later. But their instinct to censor uncontrolled information of any kind, without regard to truth, is too powerful and too reflexive.

The fact that China suppressed an incorrect but informative report should give you an idea of the weakness of the connection between suppression and truth. They would have also suppressed the report if it had been both untrue and completely uninformative.
Which is good probably
As bad as this may sound, this is why a love Open Source, npm and the JavaScript ecosystem. It super easy to audit and check the code.

What is missing is more automated and recurrent checks in all the packages and downstream dependencies.
For me reading documentation is the major part of the development process and having a good experience and a reduced palette of options helps a lot. I have used css for years but never really learned it properly. I would spend ages trying to debug issues on various css documentation sites. I find that tailwind just has a solution for everything and I rarely need to go outside the Tailwind documentation. I think it helps develop your way of thinking. And one day I might grow out of it and return to normal css with a better perspective. Obviously I should just go an learn CSS properly, but I probably won't.
> It's with bidi control characters

Sure.. in the original HN submission. I was referring to Rust's built-in homoglyph detection though, which is what the parent comment (and its parent) was about.
It is about the article if its conclusion is 'we recommend to use X instead of Y'.