skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very devastating and a blow to open-source and privacy if true. Regardless, it has been admitted and the confession is already there on Wikipedia. [0]

> He was actively involved in the Aadhaar project, which provided a 12-digit unique-identity number to Indian residents based on their biometric and demographic data.

Oh dear.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_B._Shah
"Tesla hired him"

Does this mean that Tesla is the owner of the loan?

I'm skeptical that Tesla will be helping random banks get their money back like this, but it sounds like this is direct financing through Tesla.

Also, keep in mind that this is just a tweet with a picture of a car on a trailer. This is absolutely not verified as true. Tesla nor the car's owner have verified or commented on this from what we can see in this article. Literally just some guy who says "a friend told me."
I did this for a couple of years as well.

I think the experience was invaluable, and I don't regret it, but I arrived at the conclusion that doing a startup is largely overrated.

Why stress out for 60 hours a week for years on end watching your savings dwindle when you could have been making great money at a medium or a big company with great benefits that doesn't force you to work on the weekends and allows you to take paid time off? If you land at FAANG or similar, you'll make more money than most startup people ever do anyway.

The startup community loves to talk trash about regular corporations, but for me the work/life/stress balance has been a great trade off.
Isn't the point that they could potentially do either and its any third-party concerns that get flattened?

So something more like a permissive-cracy.
I used https://neocities.org/ recently to make a simple static html website with no issues and no configuration. And I'm someone who usually uses the more "advanced" stuff. It's nice having the freedom to chase a little nostalgia sometimes.
I simply deleted my LinkedIn account, no regrets
> where it successfully navigates the most dangerous road in America

Twistiest, maybe. Most dangerous, not even close unless you or someone driving towards you do something dumb.

Historically Autopilot's weak spots have been crappy/ambiguous road markings, low speed corners on high speed roads, and large vehicles stopped on/across the road. This video hit none of those points. The lane markings are clear, the posted limit is low, and large vehicles aren't even supposed to be there.
Burn the Universities and Salt the Earth
Well all my bikes are "muscular bikes" for one thing, and I build most of them out of spare parts. And I haven't jumped on the electronic shifting band wagon either. I don't necessarily see all these technos as bad but I spend enough time in front of my computer and I want my bikes to stay part of the analog world.
Hook Reducer: easily set up a webhook endpoint with custom logic
I am glad to see HTTP Toolkit back on HN: The author is an old friend who dedicated a lot of time and resources to make this tool and as someone who fiddled with it, it's a great alternative to Postman - which I used to love but now it's a little bit too heavy on pushing their marketing agenda.
Also how on earth is Postman a $5.6 billion dollar company - I am super curious to see how much money Postman actually makes from enterprise sales - it must be a lot from the looks of that valuation.
That's the word I was looking for. It really does look like that.
Seems pretty accurate to me
Question: Are people using tailwind for layout? Even when CSS grid is available? If so what is the benefit of tailwind layouts over modern CSS, beyond what tailwinds usually brings?
The one you have the most experience with.

Unless you have specific requirements where that stack isn't a good fit, or other reasons not to choose it like it's too niche to hire people for.

Or if you're doing this for fun, use the most exciting one that still looks like it's at least somewhat stable and won't cause you too much trouble.
Maybe you're interpreting the words "effort" and "manipulation" too strictly. During a meditation session, the brain could still be doing the activities from the definition, even though you might not feel like you're doing much at all.

Or, conversely, perhaps during meditation you're less conscious.

NB: I'm not an expert on anything related to this.
What is your favourite stack? Django and Rails are both accelerators.

Personally, I'd go with Django and React with PostgreSQL and probably Bootstrap, because that's what I know. I would be running on my domain on day 1.

What frameworks would have you and your team up and running on day 1? Pick those.
That actually didn't look like much of a challenge. All the Tesla had to do was drive slowly and stay in its lane on curves.

There were no obstacles that Teslas have had trouble with in the past, like stopped firetrucks, ending lanes, or people changing tires.
Well, your use of the word "irrational" is for a very specific definition of rational. The German legal system is said to draw on the roman tradition, so there's about 2000 years of development in this. Some of the concepts of rationality might be more correct, but they are comparatively very young.

I also think you are overestimating our ability to rationally observe, understand and predict things in society. Part of the reason why we have these laws is that it is so incredibly hard to predict the outcomes of any intervention.

Of course there is the threat of over-reach, but it's always there. On the other hand, we have plenty examples where lack of regulation lead to massive harm (environmental pollution, medical experiments, monopolies etc). So there is no easy solution, and "irrational" regulation is definitely on the spectrum of sane ones.

Evidence-based policy-making is rare because there is lots of policy-based evidence-making.
But surprise for you — I have. And I know that it is more than possible to develop your young ones without engaging them to electronics until they reach at least 2 years old.
Yes, it happens within seconds. It's not VESA blanking.
Right but I used to feel the same way. After years of programming, raw api spec and documentation started making sense. And I found that the answers I needed were more often than not in there
Jesus… not React.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21

Link to paper
For you requirements, you can't wrong with postgres, nodejs and react. Why juggle between two languages when you can just use one?
Populated areas with a high subscriber count would get the lowest codes to reduce the number of pulses required

This is true, but there was also a bit of politics.

New Jersey got the lowest/first in order area code (201) because that's where Bell headquarters was.

And since Washington, DC was the capitol, it got the next number in line: 202.

Only very rarely are area codes tinkered with in this manner. The only other one I can think of is 321 for the area around Cape Canaveral.
> Do you actually prefer the subscription hell we are in now with companies like Adobe deciding we can no longer actually own any software and have to continuously rent it?

No, I don't prefer software subscriptions with monthly fees. I don't find the "maintenance" required for software annoying or onerous. However, I really don't like car maintenance. Waiting for an oil change, tire replacement or rotation, or really any repair is the worst part of car ownership and I could die happy never having to do any of that again. I don't place a lot of value on ownership in general because of maintenance or storage burdens.

I do like pay-as-you-go for most of the stuff I use, for whatever it's worth. Food, electricity, gas, that sort of thing. I use cabs when I go on vacation and look for opportunities to travel by bus, train, or plane instead of driving. A self-serve on-demand auto rental service would be ideal, for me.
a friend of mine is a security guard at Facebook and I asked her if she knew how to unlock my years-ago hacked account and she told me tons of people ask her the same thing and that there's nothing that can be done about it. perhaps it's different if it's a developer instead?
I find it helpful to contemplate just that. Helps me realize that I am in all of my relationships through choice and to appreciate them before their inevitable end.
downside: you have to run on windows
Ok, that seems then to be a matter of personal interpretation then and not completely what I meant. I don't know about "February" specifically but clearly 100% claims were being made at some point early on.

People get their information from the newsmedia, and this is what it was reporting. So either our newsmedia isn't truthful or our scientists aren't, or - as my original (flagged) comment was saying - time and reproducibility matter, and may affect the efficacy ultimately reported.
"except for PP and PVC"

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21
>What is better in this day and age?
That is highly subjective, as certain stacks are only available for certain kinds of tasks. What a web developer finds enjoyable is not the same as the Linux kernel contributor will enjoy.

Personally what motivates me is the domain of the problems I am trying to solve, such as contributing to the digitization of my countries' companies and industries.

Once you find that for you, you won't think much about technological stacks, unless the one you are stuck with is god-awful.
> Windows have been teaching users to install from third parties

? Installing directly from the source instead of from an intermediary is good, not bad. Walled garden and 1P-only app stores are worse than the problems they fix.

> added auto-run features to removable media

Imagine computers just working. Who would want that.

Seriously, Microsoft has a lot to be criticized for, but none of the things in your comment make the list.
I would pick what I know best and get the product out with that. Or better: I would pick the most popular framework I know best.

Most known and good frameworks can do what you want. If the product becomes succesfull, scaling up your team with good engineers is harder than scaling the product.

As long as you can do raw queries on your complex database, I do not see how a backend framework you don’t know yet will help you. You will sell the product, not the framework it is running on. If your current stack is still widely used in the industry, focus on the product, not on new tech

Small addition: if it is for hobby or learning: pick one new framework and keep the rest of the stack.
Why I Joined Square
> It came out the summer before 9/11. It is petty and weird and, maybe I’m pilled, but it’s pretty good.

I remember thinking it was OK when I watched it when it came out. I watched it again just a few months ago, for the first time since then, and found it to be about as bad as a movie can be. Not even accidentally entertaining, like some bad movies are.
Depends.

If you ask me to build a web app, I'll role with Flutter Web and Firebase for hosting / auth/ data storage.

But your sorta limited with that. Vue is cool too
The problem is that expectations changed, so now you're "required" to do more in certain contexts.

I absolutely loath frontend developments in companies with more than 5 engineers.
In the past you may have found some spaghetti code and various abuses of jQuery but you could probably grasp the codebase in an afternoon. Nowadays every mid company codebase is a spaceship.
For sure, you'll find a pseudo technical VP of engineering which enable whatever cool technology to be used and resume driven developers happy to pile on the latest Big Tech framework - which is likely to be an over-engineered, over complicated exercise in engineer retention and engineer roles marketing.

Then you have Pieter Levels pulling a mil per year with PHP and jQuery.
It's not owned by the bank until you foreclose, after which it's most certainly owned by the bank.

As an aside, how often is it for the manufacturer/dealer to own the bank that issues auto loans. I got mine from Capital One, and I assumed most auto loans outside of the sketchy loanshark used car dealers were issued by the big national banks
Entwined Web – JavaScript port of the art installation in SF Golden Gate park
Rails 7 with Turbo and Tailwnd. Use the Jumpstart Pro template.

https://jumpstartrails.com/

Host on Heroku.

The boilerplate features are covered. Productive developer patterns are already in place. Great test coverage.

You can jump right in to building out the business logic.
Same. My local Lidl doesn't sell any Glas bottle at all, so that's why they don't take it.
While Duolingo is certainly better than the previous school standard of “here’s a textbook, here’s an audio tape to play on loop”, it’s nowhere near the level of a private tutor.

I’m currently nearing a 2000-day streak and have repeatedly gold-starred the German course as they add more content, and Duolingo isn’t the only app I’m using.

Despite this, while my vocabulary is OK, I don’t conjugate even close to correctly, my grammar in general sucks, and I can only comprehend real-life spoken German if the speaker talks very slowly and clearly and uses a sufficiently short sentences — from experience, the sort of conversation you’d find in an interview in a general interest magazine in the waiting room of a Hausarzt.

I’m also trying to learn Arabic on Duolingo. Over a year into that course, I still can’t even read the entire Arabic alphabet.
The "bugs are eating plastic" articles are the new "scientists discover new breakthrough battery technology" clickbait articles that get posted every few months for the past three decades.
That's a huge misfeature, then. Is it a computer monitor?

Ahh maybe you are referring to dynamic contrast (which is still a misfeature).
Sure. Humans introduced something with a negative potential into the world (created out of things that were already in the world). Because of that negative potential, God (IMO, not a "man in the sky" but a form of positively-charged energy) introduced an organic solution as a starting point for humans to fix the problem. Then, scientists (following what I'd argue is a God-given impetus and capacity to do so) iterate on the discovery of the bugs to improve their efficiency.

The central idea being that one of the great mysteries of life is that things tend to work out in one way another, despite all of our thrashing about. The mischaracterization of negative events being inherently "bad" (I view them as lessons or guidestones) ignores the inherent creative potential of those moments. Bugs evolving or coming into existence to compost the plastic is—as far as I see it—a tap on the shoulder saying "it's okay, try this."

A very good encapsulation of this idea is from Carl Jung and is well-explained in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Jungs-Thoughts-God-Religious-Psyches/...

This is a very deep topic and I'm happy to discuss over email: me@ryanglover.net.
The ever-evading part of the brain responsible for ethics tells me that if safety models have changed - like they did for lead, for example - then yes, it's up to Bob to comply.

If, on the other hand, I've built my house next to his plant and now started to complain about the proximity of a potentially dangerous thing next to me - well, in this case Bob was there first.

And then there are all these questions for extra credit like what's gonna happen if Bob wants to put a second plant right next to his current one?
>> it breaks Agile

It must be "nice" working with an enterprise architect who views agile as a strict, narrowly defined thing.
To be fair it wasn't some conspiracy. The reason why people began using the car 100 years ago was that the car was becoming widely available and it was super convenient even in the days when roads were caked in horse manure. Even in the peak of the streetcar era, the private car was the best way around town, and as more people bought more cars, it continued to dominate as the streetcar would be bogged down in traffic just like a bus today. Intercity passenger rail also didn't stand much of a chance against the convenience and speed of the jet age.
These kinds of features could, and should be optionnally usable by connecting your car to an open source self hosted server.

There is no need to send everything to the manufacturer and a way to avoid that should be mandatory.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

-Carl Sagan
The many multi-paragraph praises from green accounts did it for me.
I wouldn’t go very fancy unless I have specific requirements or challenges. Starting point:

- Backend: Express + Sequelize + Postgres

- Frontend: Svelte + TailwindCSS + Webpack

Do I need to iterate very quickly on the database schema? Use a document DB like MongoDB (JSONB on PG is great but has caveats such as atomicity)

Do I need to handle a high volume of background jobs? throw Redis into the mix.

Do I want HA? Make the app stateless (JWTs help in this case but come with their own caveats), duplicate the server 2 more times and put a cloud load balancer in front of all 3 servers.

Do I need to serve low bandwidth or low power devices? I go vanilla JS and limit how much interactions does the page have, or move to server-side rendering only altogether.

And the list goes on. But with no specific constraint, my personal preference goes to that initial stack (and I’m very productive in it).
The idea is that bulldozers bash through obstacles. You could also use a battering ram as metaphor. The point is that they get crap done regardless of what's in the way.

Some red tape exists for good reasons. We always have to balance thalidomide vs housing crisis.
How does it change the original question?
Or, capitalism vs the EU

I don't think it s a valid axis though because it doesn't encompass most of the political spectrum. It describes only 2 flavors of liberarianism, one is completely individualist, and the other is slightly less so in an attempt to build consensus. Also, what are the intermediate points?
Go, Cassandra, HTMX, Alpine.js.
There is a meme out there in the wild (or at least, I think there is a meme) that many reviewers would simply approve PRs blindly leaving a LGTM (looks good to me) comment when their internal monologue is closer to "...I have no idea what's going on here and I'm too afraid to ask at this point". I suppose it could also be sheer laziness of not wanting to parse many lines of new code, especially if you're in a situation where you don't have a 100% tight understanding of the codebase (as I have been in many a times).
Whilst impressive, that's also a "pretty good setup" for the Tesla - the yellow line is well marked as is the white line; and the Tesla isn't speeding.
> It’s a well-written piece about the importance of direct experience and not rushing through spoken lectures alone.

Where this has been incredibly clear to me personally is with any sort of activity that has an easily measurable skill level. For example, at various points in the past couple of years I have dabbled with chess. There is an amazing wealth of chess knowledge available on youtube, and I find that after watching a lot of videos it's easy to trick yourself into thinking that you understand what's going on and that you could keep up in a high level game. When the teacher says something like "here the best move is bishop to b2 to put pressure on the long diagonal" I think "of course, that's exactly what I would have played". But then I go to play an actual game and immediately hang my queen and lose to a 1000-level player.

However, I would push back a bit on the author's framing of the problem. What he describes is only a problem if your ultimate goal is do something with the knowledge. Like he talks about people who want to do something like start a unicorn company, and they're thinking they need to learn everything first before getting started. That does seem like a mistake, you'll learn more by doing.

But a lot of people just enjoy learning things just for the sake of it, and in that case I don't think there's anything wrong with one approach or another. If someone is really into watching sports and following all the analysis, you don't expect them to be training to become a professional coach. Similarly if you just enjoy listening to audio books at 3x speed as a hobby instead of watching TV, is there really any problem with that? Just because everybody now has the access to enough information to become an expert in a field if they study and practice it the right way, doesn't mean that you need to be training towards that goal.
Wow. This is more than half a decade old joke.
Sounds great to me. Why not manufacture plastics designed to degrade at increased rates in the presence of those enzymes? If turning plastics into compostables was easier, it might keep them out of the oceans.
Am I having a Mandela Effect moment or did Insomnia used to be Mac only? I remember seeing it a long time ago and being disappointed I couldn't use it. Now I'm doubting my memory, lol.

Either way thanks for the recommendation/reminder for Insomnia, it looks so much better than the current version of postman.
I'm really surprised no one else has mentioned this so far, but Hoppscotch (formerly postwoman) is an excellent open alternative: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Maybe some user interface improvements?
Rails with Hotwire, Postgres
There's a detailed Android guide here: https://httptoolkit.tech/docs/guides/android/

In short, most of the time you need to either:

- Connect an Android emulator or a rooted device to ADB, in which case HTTP Toolkit can do totally automated setup for you.

- Use a non-rooted device, and make some minor config changes to the target application (trivial if it's your own application, slightly more difficult if it's not).

That handles 99% of Android apps, which usually don't actually pin certificates - they generally rely on Android's built-in non-modifiable system certificate store instead.

Lots more detail on how this all works here: https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/intercepting-android-https/

For apps that really do manually pin certificates, I've also written a general purpose Frida script that covers most cases out of the box. There's a full guide with more detail here: https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/. And if even that doesn't work, I've also written a "reverse engineering an Android app from scratch so you can write you own Frida script" guide here: https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/android-reverse-engineering/
I agree that this capability should never, ever be in the hands of the state, but don't extrapolate isolated instances and debunked statistics about the police as truths. Your own article demonstrates one of the major flaws of the domestic violence statistic, but doesn't discuss the most egregious methodological flaw: the criteria used for domestic violence, which includes shouting in the cited study.

Cops are sourced from the general population, so incidence rates need to be compared to the general population, and you'll find that police have significantly lower "negative" behaviors compared to the general population in virtually all aspects. That doesn't mean they should be allowed to remotely disable your car though.
How does this play with the Non disclosure agreements ?
I’d write it in assembly and output it to punch cards organized in standard 5ft tall filing cabinets. /s
Personally, Django.

I know it so I can develop relatively quickly with it plus it has so much built in already.

It's also a mature framework so chances of running into bugs for normal tasks is lower than newer/cutting edge and if I do need help there are high chances that someone else has already dealt with it.

Deployment and scaling can also be taken care of by something like Heroku which already supports Django so I can best use my time focusing on the development of valuable business logic rather than reinventing the wheel and maintenance.