skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm already seeing a lot of enterprise companies gearing-up to go all-in on Blazor. Having a single language (C#) for web, mobile and all other back-end services must be huge draw for them.

> What's funnier too, is that it's been possible to write F# on the frontend for a while now, compiling down to javascript (like clojurescript). It makes me wonder why this approach was never done with C# too, even if there are pitfalls in compiling to javascript.

There have been several initiatives which allowed you to do that. None of them really successful. I've worked with one specifically in the past (can't remember the project's name though), which even had C# types/bindings for Knockout.js.
I'm fine with it. I'm not fine with a surprising number of blogs being left-aligned and capped to a width of like 4 pixels on a 27" monitor.
Well, that is a highly subjective opinion.

As with everything, moving every 2 years has pros and cons. The flip side of what you said is that a person who spent >5 years at the same company has only really seen a limited number of problems, methodologies, technology stack. And that could also count as "junior", right?
Your account name is ratg13, yet you're making wildly incorrect claims about RaTG13.

> RATG13 had to be retrieved from the trashbin of history

The WIV is the institute that publicized the existence of RaTG13 and highlighted its relation to SARS-CoV-2. They published a very high-profile Nature article on it early on in the pandemic.[0]

What's the conspiracy theory here? That the WIV secretly turned RaTG13 into SARS-CoV-2, and then when the pandemic broke out, proceeded to publish a detailed description of RaTG13 and its relation to SARS-CoV-2 in one of the most prominent international scientific journals?

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7
Ok, he's most likely wrong.

Interbreeding is pretty much proven.

Do you know why he thought they didn't have strong language skills and how he linked that to deception and such or was he guessing?

Because we have genetic tests nowadays, and it looks like they all bred in from the high percentages people have.
>> How do I know which emails I can trust as having useful unbiased information (i.e. satisfying my needs), and which are potentially misleading junk adverts (i.e. satisfying the site operator's desire for profit)?

> Because ads are clearly marked with a "sponsored" label.

You've already demonstrated that you're willing to go back on previously held principles and commitments for profit. Why stop with just putting in ads? Why not stop marking ads with a sponsored label? Why not include a cryptominer payload? And why should anyone believe you when you say you won't?
Ask HN: Have you ever switched personal email providers?
I use Gmail now, but I care about security and I don't want Google reading my emails. I'm evaluating Protonmail, and like its focus on security and its minimalist design. Not sure its worth the pain of migrating my personal email over. I do use a custom domain so I wouldn't need to change my address.

Has anyone migrated to Protonmail from Gmail?
The consensus seems to be that “it’s transitory” still. I’ll believe it when I see it
Sometimes I think that FAANGs real power comes from their nontechnical hires. They pay top dollar for their CxOs, market strategists, domain experts, etc. With this kind of firepower, they can get along with any engineers. They just need to fill seats. The high salaries for software engineers are just to shackle their engineers with golden handcuffs so they'll stick around long-term, and not spread any secondhand strategic vision to competitors.
> This is the default mode for startups. It results in failure. "If you build it, they will come," doesn't work in the marketplace.

It worked for many open source products. It worked for games like Minecraft and Factorio.

Looks to me, if you're unique enough, they will come, but if you're not, tough - perhaps nobody really needs another crappy version of what's already out there.
>I'm sorry, do you have any idea of the cost of doing these things?

Oh indeed yes, which is why for years now I've been warning people to not write to proprietary APIs in the first place. It's a faustian bargain and sooner or later the bill is going to come due! If not because of legal requirements, then because MS or Amazon saturates the market, and has to increase revenue somehow. This is an example of where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The upshot is that ignoring the warnings of people like me was a mistake.

(It's funny how people have moaned for years about "vendor lock-in" WRT Oracle. "They charge for every core!" But the cloud providers charge for every invocation, which is infinitely worse. And yet no-one seems to worry about it. It's really odd.)
There are 3 different kinds of web applications:

* smart front end, dumb back end. This is the SPA model
* dumb front end, smart back end. This is the old school model
* smart front end, smart back end. This is the new school model

If you can get away with the SPA model, by all means do it. Liveview is not going to challenge that. What it is doing, is to give new live to the old school model so you can avoid the complexity of having both a smart front end and a smart back end for a large percentage of applications. A smart/smart system is an asymmetric distributed system, a beast to handle for gurus and novices and everyone in between.
As a Canadian whose partner was initially very excited about the Target launch, what killed it for her/us was primarily the logistics issues— you'd go into the store and like 20% of the shelves would be empty including everything that was supposed to be on markdown, and even some of the stuff that was there wouldn't scan properly at the till.

But apart from that, I think we got the impression that there were some market positioning issues too. Like, in the US, Wal-Mart has a reputation for being the absolute cheapest, so Target being the "step up" option is a pretty reasonable place to be. Whereas in Canada, Wal-Mart was already occupying that step-up space (relative to discount department stores like Giant Tiger and the old Zellers locations that Target Canada bought up), and those overseeing the Target push hadn't really committed on whether they wanted to fight Wal-Mart directly for that space, or try to go a level further up and take on the "nice" department stores like the Bay and Sears.

Neither option was great, given that Wal-Mart was well-entrenched and the nice department stores having been dying for decades anyway. But not choosing a path at all is often worse than either of two bad options might have been if they'd at least been fully committed-to.
Nobody ever lived in caves.

Artefacts were left in caves because they're the only place where the artifacts can persist for hundreds and thousands of years, and ancient man knew this just like the modern man.
They should start selling 1500A kettles though. Bring a pot of water to the boil instantly.
The basic assumption here is that inflation reduces inequality. That's plausible (it certainly was a strong contributing factor to the great reductions in inequality that occurred between 1920 and 1950). But inflation is also an extremely blunt-force instrument: lots of people who aren't very wealthy also get hurt. I'm not sure why we'd want that in a world where fiscal policy (i.e., taxation) exists, unless we've just thrown up our hands and abdicated all responsibility about what kind of society we want to live in to unelected Central Banks.
What did you do for them?
The job market seems to be tight because the folks hiring are unwilling to pay folks to keep up with the inflation we're seeing. It's not worth it for many people in a family to take outside work when childcare costs so much more.
Cryptocurrency firm MakerDAO offers record $10m in newly launched bug bounty
I'm hopeful that Nix can help with this. By putting system configuration into a config file, it should be easier to set up a system -- point it at the file and let it install everything.
PG initially blocked Germany in order to appease the court (defying a court order may have affected their case). They repeatedly asserted, however, that the German courts did not have jurisdiction over them since they had zero presence in Germany, and only fought the case because of the various punishments the German government could have meted out otherwise. Germany blocking PG was not something the court had presented as in the cards, and obviously PG would have found that acceptable since they blocked Germany themselves.

The onus should have entirely been on Germany to block PG if they didn't comply with German laws, not on PG to block Germany so that users in Germany couldn't violate German law.
I believe part of the reason is they completely changed their enterprise resource planning & supply chain software. There were a LOT of changes, and yet not enough - not accounting for Canadian price sensitivity and the distances/warehousing difference.

This is a fascinating read I bookmarked at the time :)

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-cana...

I believe (but could be wrong) Home Depot did essentially the same thing - used Canadian market as test bed for SAP, except they already had an established stable presence here.
Yep, I'd be happy to chat. I'll try to DM you on Twitter
>> Ovulation generally corresponds to periods of increased randiness in women.

Which doesn't mean women only fuck when they're ovulating.

>> can't resist

I'm not sure how you've implied that from what I've said. You sound awfully defensive and angry. I haven't stated any opinions here, in case you didn't notice.
So this isn't a case of Apple fucking past employees over. It's just a case of them not wanting to give the titles to Experian. What a lot of hullabaloo over nothing.
I checked my data on The Work Number [1], and see that my prior employer shared details on pay, overtime and even Bonuses received!

It seem my prior employers were providing information down to gross and net pay PER pay cycle, with details about my medical, dental and vision insurance coverage [!!]

This is from Equifax, the company that got hacked and lost PII, and they are getting extremely detailed information!

[1] https://employees.theworknumber.com/
Sure you can! Michigan has a ban on smoking indoors and business grew for just about every bar and restaurant! Just gotta ban the right people. From what I can tell Twitter is doing that; but their business model is terrible and the platform is clunky. Their lack of growth has nothing to do with banning people.
All of that was going to happen, regardless. The only difference is now compensation will ramp up (COL increases will eventually have to match real inflation) and the (bigger) expense of mortgage interest will be smaller as a proportion of income.

Or are you suggesting that inflation will drive wood etc. to be a relatively larger proportion of a homeowner's future expenses? I would strongly disagree with that thesis.

Re-reading your comment, it looks like you're arguing that increasing home values are bad for homeowners. I also strongly disagree with that.
About 3x quicker at the same frequency and the performance is comparable to a Z80 clocked at 150 MHz if fast memory

... according to wikipedia!
> So some advertising is ok, while the vast majority of online advertising today falls into the bad category?

I have no idea, it's an extremely complicated problem, especially considering trade-offs between privacy and competition.

> No advertising of certain controversial things (alcohol, tabacco,... I don't know who'd define what's ok)

That last bit is the kicker ;).
There are seniors with 5 years of proper experience that will run circles around the seniors that have 15 years doing the same 1 year of experience.
Fly-Region: fra
Factory contamination ruins 6.5M terabytes of flash storage, prices may rise
The EU as a block is pretty comparable to the US, so it wouldn't be that surprising if they came up with their own information infrastructure. I think you've answered your own question: why limit it to the EU? No moral reason, but it is a difficult project, you need a US/EU/China sized economy to have a good chance to pull it off.
"We kill people based on metadata." - Former NSA Head Michael Hayden.
But like how useful is that even? That's what I take issue with. All this cost for a pan to heat up 2 mins faster. So many products in this world exist to simply to add a crumb of convenience and imo something like a pan heating up slightly faster is one of them. It's like, did we need to spend this engineering effort (which is a finite skilled resource) making something 5% more convenient? Did I really need to spend all that money on 5%? On something that I already don't think much of at all? That I didn't even consider a problem until a tech blog or whatever wrote an article about it? Capitalism is truly a bizarre system.
Yep, next to be banned is fake news articles, then entire sites that contain some fake news articles, then sites that contain links to other sites that have fake news....

[Edit] for clarity
These are good points.

Personally I already have a MS account so the migration wouldn't affect me much, but I'm actually going to hold off and see what happens on the 10th of March. Perhaps MS will back off or something.
This is likely because language uptake is most successful when "unrooted" to a pre-existing language framework. You're utilizing distinct memory/knowledge graphs.

You sound like a bumbling fool because you're having to forge novel connections between the two recall graphs.

It's why I look on awe on people like my high school Spanish teacher who fluently spoke 11 languages. When she got upset, you never knew which was going to come out!
The ublock origin creators deserve a Nobel peace prize. No kidding or hyperbole.
Is it though? I remember injecting <php> tags in the middle of JS scripts to fill out variable values. I'm sure someone somewhere was using PHP to inject conditionally dependent JavaScript onto their page. Is that much different from Next rendering a React component on the backend, injecting it into HTML, and then injecting its corresponding component state into the JS bundle?
Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong?

The answer is almost certainly "yes" because the economy is complex and you can't really distill it into a single number that gives a clear signal for "good" or "bad". Skew in the price of individual goods (like luxury cars, or food staples) can make the inflation number out of sync with the impact on average people.
This is not my experience having recently set up web servers in a cloud virtual network with no inbound ports open. I can tailscale in and connect to web servers behind traefik configured to use the dns-01 challenge. The only way to access these webaps is through tailscale.
The incident this piece revolves around seems strange. I can't find the avalanche report to confirm this, since only fatal accidents seem to be publicly available [1] (all reported US avalanches are cataloged publicly [2]).

First, it seems like the burial victim was on the surface for 30 minutes and wasn't found by his companions - who also had avalanche beacons. It's very common for people to panic after an avalanche burial - the comments of any youtube footage of avalanche rescues will be full of people screaming "you idiot, why did you take off your gloves/not spread out/forget to set your transponder to search". Because these are simple things that people forget. But I've never heard of rescuers, for a full half hour, failing to notice a fluorescent float bag on the surface of the avalanche field. Is it possible this was uncovered by rotor wash?

Then, the professional rescuer is described as asking on-site amateurs - twice! - to remove his shovel from his pack. This should never be necessary. All alpine packs are designed to hold avalanche gear - shovel and probe - in an isolated compartment for rapid ease of access. It's just an odd note that makes the reader wonder what inaccuracies have crept into the story, or, if it actually happened as described, makes the reader wish the author had the expertise to notice and explore these anomalies in the incident.

1. https://www.slf.ch/en/avalanches/destructive-avalanches-and-...

2. https://www.avalanche.state.co.us/caic/acc/acc_report.php?ac...
Have we found diseases that could propagate across the world either (1) with virality greatly in excess of modern diseases, i.e. R0 >> omicron or (2) untreatable/curable and potentially latent for weeks to months?

A disease capable of coming close to ending civilization would need to have properties far beyond any disease observed so far. Either it needs to infect massive populations before we detect it, or it has to transmit over long distances (miles) despite e.g. moderate precautions like masking, air filtering. I think there's good reason to doubt such a pathogen could exist. The closest I could imagine would be an HIV-like immunodeficiency virus that can be transmitted via aerosol - but even that would have to cause disease much more severe than HIV without resistance among even .01% of the population.
I think it's quite necessary to differentiate two different values that advertising delivers. Advertising allows products to overcome obscurity so that consumers are made aware of the product and Advertising allows products to stimulate demand in the market.

The first kind of advertising is the one we can pretty much all get behind - if you offer a service that's better than a competitor advertising can allow you to overcome the natural knowledge and networking advantages that your competitors might be skating by on to keep their sub-par product selling. This kind of advertising allows goliaths to be thrown down by davids and can help improve folks quality of life by minimizing the amount they're spending on unnecessarily inefficient products. This kind of advertising has been around forever and constituted the vast majority of advertising up until very recently - once a brand was well established they'd start slashing advertising since their reach was already pretty effectively covering the market space.

The second kind of advertising is to drive up demand in consumers that already know who you are - into this bucket falls every ford advertisement since about 1940 and every Coke ad since the 60s - these products are already completely known by consumers. CocaCola doesn't run advertisements because they're afraid you've never heard of their product, it runs advertisements to drive up demand - and the advertisements of competitors products are usually symbiotic - whether Coke or Pepsi sponsored the ad you just saw doesn't generally matter, you're going to end up buying a soda and in a significant number of places you can purchase one there is a local monopoly anyways - rare is the restaurant where you can get a Coke and your date can get a Pepsi. These advertisements intend to modify your preferences and create demand - rather than insuring that their product is known as one of the options to fulfill an existing demand... if you believe Coke advertisers don't believe everyone on earth is aware of their product then I've got a bridge to sell you.

The second kind of advertising makes up nearly all of modern advertising, it is a parasitic practice that reduces the efficacy of the free market (by levying a cost on attention in exchange for no added information delivered to the consumer). It is also responsible for the aggressive increase in obnoxiousness of advertising - since you're not trying to simply inform a consumer but you're actively competing with other advertisers for the limited amount of manufactured demand that each consumer can afford.

In my eye this second form of advertising is utterly without value and if we need to ditch the first form to safely escape the second form its still absolutely worth it.
Could you provide a link to the wrist braces that you use? I've struggled to find a pair that work well with typing.
To clarify, I work embedded systems for aerospace so it's a very different world than most devs exist in. The customer is asking for something defined in a legal contract with the details spelled out for the most part. The issue is the industry is inhabited by dinosaurs so the older I get, the more I realize that *nobody* knows what they're doing. Everyone is just trying to maintain their silo so they can keep getting a paycheck. As such everyone is still using c/gcc/svn/eclipse/windows/vxworks and if you even think about changing any one of those things in the slightest you'll be inviting a firestorm of pushback as it threatens to break long established and scripted personal workflows that only the individual understands: https://xkcd.com/1172/

Corporate almost always wants faster/better/more agile/higher reuse and you see that in postings/interviews but the PMs/Principle types always dig a moat to prevent anything from moving down to Seniors and lower.
I feel you pain. And whenever I do get hired, after 6 months, I have a deeper understanding of the architecture than most of those "fast" coders.

I'm a diesel. But that's not what gets you through jobinterviews nowadays.
> 2. These rules work because there's a significantly smaller portion of the population who truly knows themselves and embraces their eccentric characteristics. We typically lose our identity when going through a formal means of schooling because we want to fit in and thus be "average". Even those valedictorians are quite "average" outside of working harder to get perfect grades. How many do you know that went on to do the amazing things expected of them? Usually it's the people who were eccentric and didn't do so well in school.

I don't know if I agree. If you look at many of the most influential positions in many institutions, it's far and away majority filled by valedictorians, first-in-class, degree havers. Very few times will there be a highschool drop out neurosurgeon, or never graduated college politician. Even the technical geniuses in code of our time often came from wealthy backgrounds, attended MIT or another well regarded technical school or had direct tutelage/mentorship from someone else with that background. You can obviously point to examples, so-and-so dropping out of Harvard... but at that point they were already in Harvard which one doesn't get to do if they sucked shit at school.
Yes.

Even though almost every all pairs of points are almost a full diameter away from each other, they are also almost all almost orthogonal (i.e. the angle they make with the center of the sphere is very close to 90 degrees).
That's orthogonal to strong types. Java isn't the pinnacle of what strong type systems can look like.
To further emphasize that having neural material focused on the appropriate functions is more important vs how much you have, here is a story about a guy whose brain is mostly hollow and filled with fluid, it probably did cause his IQ to be 75 and causes him weakness in his legs, but otherwise he lives a normal adult life more or less.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
>All of that was going to happen, regardless.

And thus you reveal your flippant dismissal of what's happened as things that were going to happen anyway.

> now compensation will ramp up

Like the compensation of people repairing houses, like electricians and plumbers, of those living on fixed incomes (and everyone else)?

>Re-reading your comment, it looks like you're arguing that increasing home values are bad for homeowners.

Lol straw mans all the way up. Pretty clear you're just trying to drive this towards the most disingenuous take possible, so I guess there's not much point in engaging you further.
The paper actually says that you can degas the He-N polymer and produce a polymer with only Nitrogen, called t-N (for tetravalent Nitrogen), which is stable at ambient pressure and temperature up to 1000 K. This t-N has an energy density of 11.3 MJ/kg, which is about 3 times higher than TNT, but it’s arguably not all that impressive.