skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the cool thing about this demo was that I remember when it was first submitted many years ago and thought it a cool demo that demonstrated the viability of WebGL which I expected to take off a lot quicker than it has.

But I also recently came across madebyevan.com again by accident after researching the backing of different npm projects to assess which ones had good momentum or commercial backing behind them to assess their long-term viability, and noticed a lot of npm projects (~2M weekly) relying on esbuild [1] as a fundamental part of their build system due to its amazing performance [1].

All good except that the foundational part of many npm projects feature is mostly being maintained by a single developer [2], a @evanw who was also prolific in responding to esbuild's issue catering for different peoples issues & feature requests. I didn't think this level of investment in a popular OSS project was sustainable and hoped they had good sponsorship behind them, but was surprised that @evanw [3] didn't have sponsorships enabled which I thought strange as most authors of popular npm projects have good sponsorship, but upon further research it's because Evan Wallace's day job is as the CTO and cofounder of Figma - a popular company with ~10B valuation.

Which is great in that esbuild isn't at risk of being sporadically abandoned from its lead developer joining a new/demanding startup, on the other hand a foundational project in npm's ecosystem is being developed in the spare time of a Co-founder & CTO of a ~10B Co - who also creates great demos :)

[1] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild

[2] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/contributors

[3] https://github.com/evanw
Hi, I'm, well, not entirely sure where the line lies between playing with computers, to me, most things worthwhile is some form of play.

Anyhow, I purchased it as a solution waiting for a problem, and I'm trying to find the problem with this post. I didn't mean to come across as overly negative, making such a product for the price point it has, is an achievement no doubt.

However, one can buy used "conventional" computers that are far more powerful than the pi, if one wishes a "cheap desktop computer".

What's attractive about the 400 is the formfactor and, well, it's something new to play with.. I'm truly trying to find out what to do with it, what the things are, where it'd be neat to have this tiny machine, that is totally silent, and can be always-on, probably next to my battlestations for a new usecase that I'd not want to reserve an entire workstation for.

So yea, sorry about the rant, but I'm asking this question not as a way to put down the 400, but to hear what people have used theirs for.
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I’m sure that environmental concerns are a factor, but ski lifts and snowmaking aren’t cheap, there are plenty of reasons why making a new ski area is daunting.

The main environmental constraint I’ve seen is rain in December wiping out all the manufactured snow killing the holiday season. (I am talking about New England so YMMV)
Scientists Discover First-Known Non-Oxygen Breathing Animal Nature
WHO started recommending masks for everyone in June. Fucking June 2020.

They are incompetent.
"Stay hungry, stay foolish"
the thing is, mozilla and firefox is the embodiment of a valiant battle for a sane, honest, human-centric digital universe. a battle that was fought and lost in the last decade. dystopia has won and it doesn't think of itself as dystopic, it thinks that it is doing God's work

there is no point crying over spilled milk, hoping that it can reconstitute into a jug. post-mortems might useful but they need to account for the tectonic continental plate drifts that tamed even extremely well funded actors like Microsoft

what the broader open source community should focus on is where the next choke point will materialize and ensure the same mistakes do not happen again

assuming there is a second chance
And I have mentioned ditching the things where?
It's an argument for not "relying that much" on an unreliable use of such tool like masks.
I'd agree that there's no good reason to start your own renderer from scratch, but I'd argue that there's a great benefit having a competing rendering engine (in this case, Gecko). If Firefox (and, by extension, Gecko) were to die, or fall into obscurity, there would be nothing stopping harmful proposals from being added to various web specifications[1], which is what I was getting at.

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
The existence of and overall success of China's zero covid strategy says you're wrong, human actions can contain it.

If your reply is China's data can not be trusted, then Australia or NZ. But same conclusion, we can and should mitigate the virus.

Also, the economy is doing fine. Some places better than other, but we're much better off now than in 2009, the last global recession. If this is a crisis, it's milder than the last, from an economic standpoint.
What facebook (meta) bought was access to a treasure trove of data which they will sell to advertisers to make billions of dollars.

It's nothing to do with a "funny picture company" and $400 million was a good price for what they got.

The fact you don't understand that is a you problem.
Is that they do not want to pay or is it that the big 3 carriers have bought up wide swaths of spectrum in the "auctions" from the FCC and are just holding them, not using them.

This is the big problem, the FCC is far to lax with allowing the big wireless carriers to buy and hold spectrum for years (in some cases decades) never using it for anything just so no one else uses it either
It's sad that they don't keep these sets going. Somehow my parents bought me a Technik set when I was a kid. I say somehow, because it's expensive to me now, and I grew up in the economic climate of the 90s in the USSR. I am almost 100% sure this set is the reason I am comfortable working on technical stuff ranging from code to mechanics to building computers, etc. The set in the OP actually teaches you how a transmission works - that's something few adults understand from tutorials, but its hard not to understand it when you build it.
Basatissimi
Why would you want such a fast language to be replaced by what is the slowest of the mainstream languages?
Perl missed this great opportunity to compile to JS even before Node appeared…
> you are aware VSCode is an entire web browser [...] Jetbrains IDEs [...] are at least native code

So? You wouldn't tell a non-programmer something like this about an app that they use and expect it to make a difference. The results—the effect that the program produces—is the only thing that matters. If JetBrains manages to produce an IDE where you're constantly confronted with bloat while you're using it, and using something else would alleviate some of that pain, whether the alternative is "native code" or not, then that's the only thing that matters—not architectural purity.

(Side note: is the fundamental theorem behind your statement even true? If I download and run IntelliJ right now is it bytecode running on the JVM, or is it Java/Kotlin AOT-compiled to native object files? Poking around 'ideaIC-2021.2.3.tar.gz', there are an awful lot of classfile-containing JARs in `lib/`, and `bin/idea.sh` ends like this:

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run the IDE.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
IFS="$(printf '\n\t')"
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
"$JAVA_BIN" \
-classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
${VM_OPTIONS} \
"-XX:ErrorFile=$HOME/java_error_in_idea_%p.log" \
"-XX:HeapDumpPath=$HOME/java_error_in_idea_.hprof" \
"-Djb.vmOptionsFile=${USER_VM_OPTIONS_FILE:-${VM_OPTIONS_FILE}}" \
${IDE_PROPERTIES_PROPERTY} \
-Djava.system.class.loader=com.intellij.util.lang.PathClassLoader -Didea.vendor.name=JetBrains -Didea.paths.selector=IdeaIC2021.2 -Didea.platform.prefix=Idea -Didea.jre.check=true -Dsplash=true \
com.intellij.idea.Main \
"$@"

Non-side note: no matter what the answer is, don't get sidetracked into thinking that it makes a difference to what actually matters.)
that's a neat idea
I've been to Trivandrum a couple of times - Trivandrum's roads are less lethal than most in India per-collision, but they make up for it on volume.

Having visited Buenos Aires, with similarly infamous roads, I thought I knew what I was in for. No. I've never been so terrified to ride in "normal traffic" in my life. High speed mayhem with everything millimeters apart and constantly pushing for position aggressively.

I cannot even begin to imagine engaging with those roads as a cyclist.
The WHO has lost all credibility in my eyes. I’d bet all of my money on the South African health system, which has not only dealt with HIV/AIDS but many tropical diseases. They literally have the best ID departments in the world.
Not to mention homonyms, like the JS runtime Deno: https://deno.land/
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> So Mozilla tries to move in Chrome's direction, removing configuration options and "dumbing down" the UI, which frustrates its existing user base (including me) while apparently also failing to eat into Chrome's market share.

Well, no surprise there. Technical people like us experiment. Mainstream users just use what they know, and what their techie friends recommend them. They're not suddenly going to use Firefox now that it's more like chrome. They'll just use the real chrome. And they don't like touching something that works.

Note that this approach didn't work for Microsoft either (and they went a lot more 'like chrome' than Mozilla!). They're having some success with Edge but it's mainly because they push it really hard to enterprise users with their O365 integration, so people are getting to know it at work and bringing it home.

> [...] If open-source projects can't access the same data as proprietary ones do, we can't expect them to be able to react to user demands in the same way, and so we can't expect them to be able to compete in today's market.

I don't want them to become like the proprietary browsers in this regard. Telemetry is not an all-seeing oracle, it's often used to confirm their own bias because it doesn't say why the users like something or what they'd prefer. What they should be doing is listening to users instead of blindly trusting telemetry. Google and Microsoft make the same mistake but they already have a monopoly on the browser and OS markets respectively so their mistakes are easily absorbed. It's not like their products have become a lot better since they started relying on telemetry so much.

But no, I won't allow telemetry and I block it for Microsoft and Google too in my DNS. The reason I use Firefox is because I don't want to "get with the program". If I have to change my ideology, I would be changed so much that the primary reason to use Firefox is no longer relevant.
I think it is unreasonable to ask for iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, who still see regular content, to fall into public domain because they've become more analogous to a trademark (Mickey Mouse might even be trademarked?). However original media like the 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoon "Steamboat Willie", absolutely should.

I look at like how a song might be in public domain but that doesn't mean the singers voice is. Likewise for actors vs TV shows.

edit: getting downvoted but no explanation why people disagree. I'd love to hear why

edit 2: there seems to be some confusion about my statement above. I don't like nor agree with how Disney 'steal' public domain stories. I don't like nor agree with how Disney extend copyright. However there is a difference between published works (like the 1920s cartoon exampled above) and a mascot that is a trademark and still in common use (like Mickey Mouse). And that is the only point I'm arguing. You can just assume I'd agree to all the other points about how "Disney is evil" etc because I've made those exact same points myself in other conversations in the past (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26805071)
Horn, OK? Please!
Did not Feynman use rat experiments in his book to lay heavily into social studies? As i recall in the book, there was only one guy whose rat/mouse experiments had enough rigour, eliminating data disturbing experiment influences, systematically.
I think a scaled cost would be more interesting, although the chances of it being implemented enough to test it anywhere is probably nil. E.g. you get 5 years for free without registration, to get another 5 years you must register and pay a small fee, for another 5 years you must pay 10x the previous fee, etc. Scaled in a way where it is relatively cheap to keep a copyright for 2-3 decades, but keeping one for much longer becomes financially prohibitive
Ah, and then the 'allow push notifications', 'allow this website to access your location' and so on. Utterly ridiculous for just a visitor to go after them in such an aggressive way, and a surefire way to get me to never visit that particular website again.
I use firefox exclusively. Every few weeks, it installs an update and refuses to open a new tab until a restart. It frequently fails to restart. It occasionally nukes my session so I can't restore my tabs. It seems to occasionally forget/unset my preference to not auto-update. If it just had a status indicator to show that an update is available, I'd happily update at the end of a workday. Instead, it's interrupted a talk I was giving at work because it silently updated and spontaneously wouldn't let me open a new tab. It's not even stable for tech people.
washing and also soaking for several hours/overnight and/or boiling it with lots of water (and pouring it out) can greatly reduce it iirc

btw, afaik, naturally, brown rice has more has alot, basmati rice seems to have the least

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/arsenicandyou/arsenic-in-rice-an...
They have a point. We used to use Hipchat until Atlassian retired it. We took a good look at Slack, negotiating over the price. In the end the decision was made to use Teams as we were already paying for Office, so effectively it was free. It's very difficult to argue against a value proposition like that.
Fact check sites like the one you listed will increase their stature when they acknowledge that science is not a process of consensus. I look forward to reading a "fact check" site which "debunks" this ridiculous turn of phrase. Even if we accepted this misnomer in your quote, we can easily observe that "scientific consensus" has shifted throughout history.

>(00:12:30) The climatic record in these deep sea cores tells us that there have been eight ice ages in the last 700,000 years. It also tells us when they have occurred. This provides us with a test of various theories of the ice ages. We now have a theory that tells us that changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit act as a pacemaker for the ice age succession. Since this theory can precisely predict when ice ages occured in the past, it also can predict when ice ages will occur in the future. From this theory we can say with confidence that we are currently heading towards another ice age.

Dr. James D. Hays

https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_206/09-0303/Hays%2...
cruel, leave them alone
20 years should be plenty to recover value. People should be incentivized to continue to create, not live large off of a single lucky break.
best comment I've read today! I wish I could double-vote you.
I love my raspberry pi 400. It's the ideal camping dev machine. My blog post about this is almost ready.
I'm sorry, what?

"The ruling class has proven that they don't actually care about anyone else"—yes, that's a reasonable message to take away from the past year and a half...

"...So we should stop abiding by all the good medical advice and just party" how the hell do you come to that conclusion? The reasonable conclusion to come to from your first two paragraphs is something along the lines of "So we should protest the politicians who want to deny the science, boycott the companies that are actively making things worse, and push for real societal change that prioritizes human lives and well-being over corporate profits."

You're basically saying, "The very wealthy just want us all to shut up and die, but screw them! We should all get out there and die very loudly!"
>CDMA is what they inherited from Sprint

Furthermore, what they're specifically referring to here is Sprint's 3G network. Sprint's 4G LTE network is currently planned to be de-commissioned on June 30 2022, but that will almost certainly get pushed as well.
> We need a huge collaboration of countries.

Go ahead we are listening. Who would you go about coordinating and enforcing 'huge collaboration of countries'?

All i remember is world leaders coming together, year after year - shake hands, thump their chest expressing how sorrowful they feel, give great speeches how everything will change - and then nothing changes.
I think there's an element of national economy to it...

When country A public domains some IP, then country B might use it to earn money.

Whereas if Country A allows company A within the country to keep a license to that IP, total revenue might be lower, but at least it occurred within country A.
The problem is that Servo required a lot of things, including Rust, to be mature.

That being said, Servo resulted in the creation of all sorts of technologies.
After ConstitutionDAO, MarsOwnershipDAO will be the next hot DAO project!
> the public's investment and contribution to keeping characters such as Mickey Mouse relevant

Such as?
I don't know why so many companies feel compelled to needlessly take political stances. I think they can only lose from that.

Although I have heard Nike earned billions with the Kaepernick campaigns, so maybe sometimes it does pay off. But for Mozilla? Do they get government funding?
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Because VSCode is a fancy text editor, not a full-blown IDE like intellij. Even with myriads of extensions, the gap is real between the two.
Audi makes extra-durable horns for cars sold in India.

https://theworld.org/stories/2012-03-26/indiainc-audi-makes-...
Also good dating advice.
Whistler / Blackcomb are in provincial parks as well I believe.

Whistler village might not be, I can't seem to find firm confirmation of that.
> Here in Lithuania, flashing your warning lights (the four orange ones on the corners of the car) means thanks, for example if you let someone merge from one of the very short onramps. I've never seen this in Germany, where onramps are however much longer.

In Sweden it's common to do this by using your blinkers. You blink once in each direction. So first left, then right. Or the other way around.
do you have to sell 100%? is 49% possible?

Also, how small the businesses are? What if you're doing 7 figures ARR?
Some countries (or states in the usa) demand built in emergency services connectivity for when you crash the car for cars manufactured after some date. Before that date, a lot of cars already had that before it became mandatory.
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I did not work with .Net and Windows in a long time so maybe this time Microsoft done something good, from my experience MS does all the evil/stupid stuff first and only when forced they attempt to do a good job.

Question if this cool plugin is so good and is from Microsoft is it bundled in Visual studio or easy to install from a GUI or is still a work in progress and you need to track the git master branch?

I still hate MS they failed to promote C# and .Net, if for example Silverlight would ahve been open sourced and made cross platform then most of the SPA could have been crated today with a decent language with a decent standard library , then for smple web pages and forms we would add some JS here and there. But MS had to try to make the shit Windows only then kill it and embrace the JS/node garbage
Few things that stand out for me when someone is intelligent:

1. The quality of their questions: they're able to get to heart of the matter very quickly through asking relevant questions.

2. Ability to be perceptive, seeing both something that's odd and something that's not there, such as the curious incident of the dog in the night time.

3. Ability to explain things at the right level of the audience: I'm a big fan of 'Things Explainer' for this very reason.
I use it to display Grafana.

I also have a little abandoned side project where I used a Pi + spare monitor to display contextual information. My shell prompt passes data to a python script, which connects to the Pi and sends commands to Sway to display something contextually appropriate depending on what I'm doing.

So for instance if I move to a directory with a git repo, it'll show me the git log, and if the branch is named after a ticket in the bug tracker, it'll add a pane with the corresponding info. In an idle state it shows the chat and mail client.

This made sense at the time since I didn't have a way to hook up a second external monitor to that laptop anyway, and the overall idea of having a display that anticipated my likely needs a lot of the time was useful. Covid kind of put a stop to that since my home setup is quite different, but I still might pick it back up.
Are you sure?

This study [1] finds some interesting long-term effects coinciding with cognitive impairment and might be a good starting point for screening the current state of influenza research (via references to/from this one).

[1] https://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/12/3060
Somewhat tangentially related, but the french government did an interesting ad on this (very entrenched in France too) habit of flashing lights after police checks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsVZu-2IaA
We use O365 for years. It is still a software you install on local Windows machines (almost nobody uses the browser version). Aside from billing very little has changed.

Cloud made IT a bit easier, but it is still the old work. Since we are lacking IT personal, devs have to support IT (2 IT people for 300 employees, we have difficulties hiring IT staff because most of the good ones have build a their own business by now).

But since devs run in a completely different environment in their own subnet, devs can only do so much to support corporate IT. We are delegated to fix old certificates and stuff like this.
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Ask HN: Is there any good Ad Blocker for Safari?
Dear HN,

After being spoiled by Firefox add-ons such as uBlock Origin, I'm finding it very difficult to use AdBlockers in Safari. I'm using my iPad Mini a lot and would love to have a decent ad blocker for iOS. What are HN users using on iOS for adblocking? I don't want to belive that there is no good solution out there...

PS: I'm currently using AdBlock but I'm not impressed with it.
Fast Endpoints
I have couple of uses cases for my actually :)

1. I use it as a wifi access point with hostapd. Where i live net is shared with many residents. This way my devices are isolated from others.

2. I portforward ssh from main wifi router to rpi, when im not at home i can ssh into it and use it at as poor's man vpn - handy at airports/pubs..

3. Its attached to tv via hdmi, i can watch youtube/twitch with it fairly ok (better then most "smart tvs" anyway with ff and ublock).

4. It serves as a "backup", i have usb 1tb hd and some scripts that mirror my github/gitlab repos, this is more as a precaution then as its "real" backup, but if i ever need it i could make it better with md raid i guess.

So, with all above, its a nice device to have for me at least, its not wasted 50-60e :)
I don't understand how owning yourself fixes/changes anything.
>I have this nasty feeling my 3G prepaid

Nearly all major market have plan or are in the discussion of shutting down 3G. Some are even discussing 2G as well. In 2018 the industry sort of expect everyone to shut down 3G and leave 2G for legacy support. Now it seems there are discussions they might as well shut down both 2G and 3G in the future to cut down operation cost.

Given we expect 6G to land in 2030 I dont think that is too bad. But legacy devices like IoT will need lots of upgrade.