skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good project if you want to anger every vexillologist and people who like their country's flag.
You are still beholden to a single party that can cut you off at a moments notice.

Not in the UK, nor in Europe. Don't project your (presumably US) failed institutions onto the rest of us.
I have no problem with targeted ads based on what I specifically told Facebook. It’s when I’m shopping on Amazon and see the same products advertised on FB that there is a problem.
I think https://blitzjs.com/
exactly tries to bring Ruby on Rails convenience to js apps and makes all the decisions for you.
I’ve never heard that take, it seemed completely botched to me. The first couple versions of py3 didn’t even work well, and they were still pushing people to cut over
Why would they?

Google & co. could have implemented a Web Payment API in the last 20 years, they didn't.

Instead we got Google Pay & co.

It's not going to make them (enough) money, so, again, why would they? Why not build a proprietary thing or even a proprietary blockchain, if we're that adamant it has to be crypto?
RedwoodJS may be something you want to check out.

https://redwoodjs.com/
Gary Kildall of CP/M fame, used the B5500 and was heavily influenced by it.

His graduate thesis involved an implementation of APL on the B5500, using words instead of the special characters that APL usually used, such as 'RHO' instead of the Greek symbol.
I've had a Big Mac in Japan. Like GP, I too have tried a Big Mac in probably a dozen different countries because I'm a strange dude who loves traveling and Big Macs. It was a little smaller and modified for local tastes (more spice, less special sauce) but overall pretty much the same.
A handmade eagle made with cloth, scissors and embroidery for an actual flag can be far worse than a badly drawn icon.
Precisely, and because of the special status of that particular bridge the decision was made to not expose it to further risk.

It's a bit like moving the Eiffeltower out of the way because some moron wants to move a building through Paris, but on a slightly smaller scale and with the bridge section already 'loosely coupled' to the supports. But the risk is real, witness what happened in Alphen and no amount of handwringing will put it back together if they something goes wrong during disassembly, storage or reassembly.

It is now a part of our heritage and should be treated as such.
I think you don't want to support the article's claims, but you kind of support it by mentionning the choice that you need to make between NestJS and Adonis or any other frameworks. With the ruby ecosystem, there is almost always a clear convention on what to do (example: the conventional choice
is to use rails, which leads to a bunch of pre-made choices)
> In contemporary culture I see people trying to ban diverging opinions. There is no depth to it. So nuance is not permitted

Yeah, I can’t say I entirely agree with banning of opinions either.

> I don't see people blankly refuse or forbid statements of experts.

Really? The EU referendum in the U.K. was literally based around the phrase “so called experts” as a way of undermining reports from experts in finance and trade so MPs could focus on the more emotive topics of sovereignty and immigration.

You see it again with COVID about how experts are hiding the truth. Etc etc.

Lately there has been a huge anti-movement against trusting experts.

> There is not a rift between the closed and opened minded people. If so, both sides must be close minded.

I see what you’re trying to do but that logic doesn’t work. You can have a rift with both sides being open minded and still disagreeing.

The fact that science promotes debate and peer review suggests it is open minded. The fact that conspiracies depend on distrusting sources means it is not open minded. One is open to exploring new ideas and research. The latter pretends to be open minded but actually only accepts ideas that confirm an opinion already held.

> That any scientific discovery must hold against scrutiny, it is as simple as that

That’s literally what already happens.

> There is a huge political component. I am vaccinated but have called an anti-vaxxer because I don't support mandates, which are now pretty much off the table anyway.

That doesn’t make you an anti-vaxxer. Whoever called you that was clearly being more emotive than factual. Objecting against vaccines is being an anti-vaxxer. Supporting freedom of choice is being a libertarian.

> > I don’t trust the science

> Nobody is saying anything like that.

I’ve seen people literally say that regarding the COVID vaccines.

> That is pretty unscientific of you as a the diagnostics of hate

Not really. That comment you quoted was me being flippant (hence the wink). The paragraphs that followed that remark explains the rational behind my remark.

Also even if you disagree that people who believe experts are conspiring to deceive them aren’t conspiracy theorists (I can’t see how you’d disagree with that statement but it seems you do), that still doesn’t constitute as “hate speech”.
They're different but not completely so: what I'd look at is the cost to someone's life. For example, glasses don't “cure” bad eyesight but they lower the impact down to the point where most people don't care. Type 1 diabetes used to be a death sentence, it's still uncurable and while it's not fun to have I know plenty of people would have died before graduating high school a century ago who are living normal lives, raising children, etc.

Similarly, when I was growing up HIV was a death sentence and it was tearing through many social groups. The gay friends I have, especially the slightly older ones, have talked about the trauma that caused because their social networks were decimated _and_ a lot of people blamed the suffering on them. Now, it's not ideal to be on medication but it means that people are reaching close to average longevity with far more manageable health impacts — again, not perfect but decades of extra time with friends and family is a transformative change.
I'm pragmatically a materialist, just because I don't find use in speculating about the immaterial (by definition.) But although I thought I was so much smarter than Descartes when I was younger, I still can't figure out why I'm in me and not as much in you, and somehow partially in the computer I'm typing on. That I'm more in my head than in my hands, but I'm in both.

I really have no access to that. I've just taken a couple of extreme positions, and hope that one day somebody can come up with some way to reduce or test them materially, although I accept that I can't even speculate about a way to do it.

One is a panpsychism. The material world exists within a substrate of perspectives, and as material objects pass through them, the perspectives momentarily attach to those objects, and whatever is mechanically connected to them. This happens at an arbitrary rate (depending on the density of the perspective substrate and the relative speed of the material passing through it.) If we call the amount of time that a perspective is located "centrally" enough in a human nervous system to have access to it a "moment," then for a moment, that perspective thinks it is me. This assumes that perspectives are distinct for purposes of explanation, but they don't have to be - maybe an infinite number of perspectives think that they are me at any particular moment, and in the next moment, an entirely different set.

The other is that there's a particular geometry of electromagnetic activity that captures perspectives, and minds happen to conform to that geometry.

I don't think these are any more insightful than "the soul talks to bodies through the pineal gland." I can only hold onto them as more abstract and generalized. There's no material way to tell when you've captured a perspective, and we each only know of the existence of one with certainty. We could be Buddhist and say that the universe is one fragmented confused perspective, or say that we're a bunch of islands; either way, we have no material basis for those beliefs. The only thing we know is that we're not P-Zombies. We don't know that others aren't P-Zombies, just us.
Tyranny definitely has a negative connotation
As others have pointed in this thread, there's NestJS, Sails.js and AdonisJS, which are closer to Rails than Express or Next.js. And there's Meteor too, like the sibling post mentioned.

But to be fair 99% of JS backends I see are using Express (or AWS Lambda). Considering there's lots of choices I wonder if the problem is the fact the community never focused on a single solution. I wonder if a Merb/Rails-style merge between some of them would help that.
Or have very high labor productivity and a constrained labor supply. Switzerland comes to mind.
Wow this was insane. Having lived in both the UK and US, I always felt that there was a difference in portion size. But it's pretty bonkers to see the comparison before me like this.
The first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive. The exact value of the second is debatable, but I feel confident saying it is at least not clearly substantially negative. Slightly negative at best and I can't give a lot of evidence for that.

The sum total of that disruption has not yet burned through our buffer, though it has caused a noticeable rise in prices. However, it is not wise to wait for our buffer to be entirely gone before being willing to identify the problem.
Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and severity of Covid-19
Apple invented IDFA at the time as a compromise to prevent companies from building much more complicated and invasive tracking systems of their own.

But of course they did anyway, Apple's ability to control those systems increased, and so it was time to stop providing it so easily.
Even if it isn't, LuaJIT is half a meg, and regular Lua is about half that.
DNA as a cold data storage solution
Well, I can understand being enthusiastic about storing a 2-4GB blockchain, but today we're already at 390GB, growing by about 60 GB a year. And that's just bitcoin, Ethereum is another 350 GB (up 100 GB last year).

Just the cost of hardware, download and energy makes this prohibitively expensive for "banking the unbanked" at least.
I wish them all the best. There's nothing like a clear dark sky.

Meanwhile, my neighbors are all doing their best to recreate daylight brightness all through the night with flood lights in their driveways, begging for ever brighter street lights, etc.

I feel like more than half the population would truly end nighttime if given the opportunity.
I sometimes wonder if social media companies think threats like this hold weight the way it would if a car factory threatened to leave. I just see “Europe” shrugging at this one.
It's more about my privacy being worth a lot more than what Google is willing to pay in the form of services. As an individual, the only thing I can do is stop using Google and Google wouldn't miss me.
Arrghh... This week was the first in years where I didn't FOMO. And here comes Nest.js.
I desperately need an ad blocker though for shiny new tech thingies.
Cloud CISO Perspectives: January 2022
They killed it because it didn’t work on mobile.
EasyAdapter
Android Annotation Processing library to generate different kind of adapters depend on your model class in the compile time
Human beings are not designed to operate at 120% for 6-12 week long periods; they're designed to survive it. The difference is important.

Working at such a rhythm helped me learn much. It also durably damaged my body (both because it chipped away at my health and because it made me forego health check-up), my mental health, and made me lose personal connections. To this day, I'm still picking up the pieces.

Human beings are also "designed" to survive long period of hunger if need be, but no one would argue that going without for a week is a fine and healthy way to lose weight.
One caveat here is serialization. Writing your (or another package's) enum to a database will get you in trouble if you ever want to add another value in the middle. Sure, you can be careful and should document this, but who knows
I would really love to see default parameters and struct values. I jump between Python and Go in my day job and Go is a much better language overall but things like this make it painful
Unfortunately Ruby's typing story is abysmal. I hope they manage to improve it soon, otherwise I fear the language will continue to flounder
That's because mortgages are secured by real property that can be foreclosed upon in the case of a default.

You cannot foreclose on a business.
I joined FB in 2004 as a stanford student. I used it religiously in college because it was the cool new thing at the time, but after that I mostly didn't see the appeal. I really never gave a shit what some guy from high school who I haven't spoken to in 10+ years is posting about. When there is so much more interesting content to consume in the world, why would I bother with the crap someone is posting just because we happened to touch paths at some point in the past? I care about good content, not content just because it comes from someone I know. If it's coming from a close friend, like news about a new job or a baby, I'll find out about it anyway when I see them. So for the last decade or so I sign into Facebook on avg once / month for maybe a minute at a time (only when someone tells me I need to check something), and it always perplexed me how people could spend so much time there. If everyone used Facebook like I did, it probably would have folded long ago. So I am either just a hermit or ahead of the curve, I guess time will tell.
I was in McDonald’s yesterday in the UK and saw this was a product here now. I thought it was a new product hah, I hadn’t even considered it would be more readily available elsewhere
I recall that when Active Storage was publicly announced[0], Laravel's Filesystem (itself a thin layer over Flysystem) had already been out for at least 2 years[1].

[0] https://rubyinrails.com/2017/07/21/rails-introduces-active-s...

[1] https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/releases
Some fast-food places in the US went drive-through-only in 2020 and are still that way. I think if you're in the kind of rural or suburban place where almost everyone drives almost everywhere, then the drive-through does the majority of fast food business anyway, and many people who would have gone inside will switch to the drive-through rather than not buying your food, so the cost savings from not having to hire more staff to maintain the dining room might make up for the lost sales. Obviously in an urban area that gets a lot of foot traffic, this would not be the case.
Your reply is confusing. So you maintain that most people are stupid, and still want to give them voting rights. What is the logic behind that? To clarify, I don’t think most people are stupid, and I advocate for direct democracy.
this remind of a great article written by DHH https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html

> Rails is omakase. A team of chefs picked out the ingredients, designed the APIs, and arranged the order of consumption on your behalf according to their idea of what would make for a tasty full-stack framework.
Alright. I kind of agree. At least I wanted to draw some attention to it at least, as I think it's promising.
Researchers report game-changing tech to remove 99% of carbon dioxide from air
I think that’s the point. It was 2014, a long time ago, and those people are still free. Russia is spoiling for a war in the region and clearly doesn’t care about the part they played.
Most any Craptop will do, but one with a styless is better for drawing.

Install

1. GCompris

2. Gimp, Inkscape

3. Rosegarden

4. https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/

Don't install a bunch of games.
51 looks kinda prime, too.
Apple Apple argue buying iPhone was only the hardware while 30% cut was for their IP. And yet accuse Qualcomm charging them 5% for IP and selling them hardware modem ( with rebate ) as double dipping.
That's absolutely incorrect. The data-loss bug was created by Ubuntu developers when they developed a bad patch for a less-severe upstream OpenZFS issue.
Not everyone places money above all other concerns.
You mean designed to get you to pay/watch ads gaming.

There's lots of great mobile games, why bad them all?
YouTube already saw this with Vines, though. TikTok is just a thousand times better than Vine. But ultimately the access to long-form content is going to help YouTube more because of the inherent access to more advertising. From what I know, people on TikTok make almost nothing from view counts. YouTube going to shorts is going to start eating away at those creators.
Yes, agreed they are more like a mob running amok in a neighborhood but for the moment I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and looking at it purely as a transaction processor.

I wonder how all of those defending Apple in this thread would respond if they jacked up the prices to say 75%. And why stop there?
> In the UK, we now have "Open Banking". Which means my bank offers an API which I can plug into. It also means that loads of 3rd parties can now offer banking services on top of the "centralised" core.

I don't think you can though, not without passing an expensive certification process, right?

I mention this because as a German, the EU Open Banking initiative made my life worse. Banks are phasing out actually open FinTS standard, for which their are a pletora of Open Source libraries, and many apps by independent developers that were able to connect to any bank. /I/ was actually able to start up a shell and pull data from my bank accounts. This does not seem to be the case with Open Banking, where I have to pay a service provider that has passed certification to allow me to access my bank data.

This is an important aspect of crypto currencies - the goal is to be permissionless. The decentralization is merely a requirement to achieve this.
No, I mean that even in the above 60 cohort, Israel is not above 90% vaccinated. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-omicron-in-isra...

Just over 58% of those eligible to be vaccinated in Israel are fully vaccinated by the Israeli definition, and 67% of those eligible to be vaccinated have received at least two doses. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/once-a-world-leader-isra...

> I'll hold my breath for someone to flag out right lies on here.

Feel free to flag your own comment if that's what you really want.
Off tangent but I’m kinda curious how the Moderna vaccine will play out. I don’t understand the subject enough so would love to hear others thoughts on it. From what I can tell, rather than making our immune system respond to the spike protein like the Covid vaccines, it tries to make our B cells react to HIV that’s usually “undetectable” by our immune system.
>That could be a tracking protection feature in Safari?

Heh, that feels like the Web in a nutshell:

Devs: "Hey, wouldn't it be convenient if we cached--"

Advertisers: "Aha! Another means to track people!"
Meh - when it's "free", the customers are less "annoyed"

And if you're viewing on your phone, you probably can't tell much of a difference between 480 and 1080 (it's there, but for most things is totally unimportant on such a small screen)
Can you do it (and will you do it, physically, in fact) in response to this comment?
I disagree.

The problem was never about the ads.

It was about the fact that ads were forced, privacy-invasive (due to customization) and generally were terrible overall (think malware/crypto mining risks, terrible UX - think annoyingly flashy gifs, or those gigantic banners in the middle of a scenic drive), not to mention poorly regulated, leading to lots of "double your money/phallus in 3 days!" type of scams.

There are a few "fair" advertising companies (the name slips me) that I am perfectly happy with. A static, discreet ad need not be bad. Several ads are absolute works of art and passion. The vast majority are not.

What we have is (techy) folks wanting to not have a shitty experience, and the average privacy-conscious user not wanting tracking. Companies do not respect (or care enough) for these which is why you have an anti-ad point of view.
(I should probably write about this.)
MIT Engineers Create New Material Stronger Than Steel and as Light as Plastic
Yeah, that bit made no sense to me. I'm not familiar with the location but clearly it's rural and only accessible by car. They also were living in Vancouver which sounds quite far away, and presumably have friends/family there.

So how are they going to be entertaining people all the time (they specifically mention entertaining large groups being important to them)? Come over for an evening, except one of you can't drink and has to drive 2 hours back at the end of the night??
The Programmer’s Prenup
To be fair, I don't think the IBM PS/1 ever had Linux installed on it. It ran Windows 3.1 and later Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and we had Trumpet Winsock on it to get Internet connectivity through the local library at some point (originally my parents used Prodigy only, I introduced them to the Internet). The 386 system I put Slackware on was a Tandy of some type (I don't remember the exact model) which had a 20MB hard drive in place of where it typically would have a second 3.5" floppy drive. IIRC, I was never able to get sound working on it, but had no problem getting everything else generally working.

A handful of years later my parents bought a Dell running Windows 98 SE and I built my first custom computer which had an AMD K6-2 and also ran Windows so I could play computer games (which at the time were more interesting to me) and it also had the just released Diamond Monster3D based on the Voodoo2 chipset w/ separate 2D accelerator card via VGA passthru. That was my first foray into proper 3D gaming and got me interested in hardware and overclocking, which dominated most of my interest until my later teen years when I started contributing to open source and got back into Linux.
Or in other words,one of the fundamental properties of money is actually being able to spend it.
> Apple owns "America's computer" (50+% of average American's internet usage), and they control it like a dictatorship

If Apple didn't give their users tools to control tracking, wouldn't that be more dictatorial?
> but (deterministic-select cases) hey are peculiar.

It looks for most select blocks in Go code, it doesn't matter whether or not they are non-deterministic or deterministic.

But, if the default is deterministic, user code could simulate non-deterministic, without much performance loss. Not vice versa (the current design).
Why does Facebook even need the IDFA? Isn’t your Facebook account UUID also a unique ID that only you have? It’s not like people are browsing Facebook without logging in.
Cloudflare gets pissy over a lot
Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China
I haven't tried it myself yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to once they complete the pivot (see https://blitzjs.com/docs/blitz-pivot).
The company I work (manufacturing) has facilities in not-so-nice areas. We have had break-ins that used sawzalls or other large power tools to remove the entire door frame of steel doors (set in concrete walls).

If someone wants in, they're getting in.

All the break-ins failed to get anything of value, however... everything gets put away, there are cameras, and we are VERY friendly with people living in the area (imcluding employing as many locals as we can).

Of all the "security" measures, people living in the area were the best defense. We take care of them, they take care of us.
...or they just do what was always historically done and use a neighbour's stable currency, or simply USD or EUR.

Switching from an inflationary currency to a stable one is already tough, switching to a volatile deflationary currency would be a nightmare.
This was probably a fire drill. The alarms sound off, everybody leaves the building at the same time, but it is just for training.
It’s funny as that’s more than what people pay for Netflix. Showing yes your data is valuable and we are getting the short end of the deal.