skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is irrelevant and petty to bring it up now – but you have. I think you should either withdraw the comment or point to an example.

Making broad brush accusations of bad faith just doesn't help to get to the bottom of any technical issue. It's fine to express your opinion, but if you publicly say bad things about a community, you should be prepared to substantiate those claims when asked.

HN commentary on Go seems to repeatedly return to increasingly exaggerated and vitriolic claims about the supposed idiocy of the Go team or Go community in relation to generics. The factual foundation of these claims is virtually nil. It appears to be some kind of group false memory phenomenon, where vague second hand reports, endlessly repeated, become accepted as fact.

I would therefore invite you to actually try to find some examples of these bad faith arguments, for your own benefit if nothing else.
Chris (CEO) here. What happened with your billing software experience is unacceptable, but it isn’t the primary use case we are solving for.

Yes, we’ll happily white label/license our tech to other insurers, TPAs, etc. We can license tech, and we can also act as a TPA. We built the technology to solve our own problems, but in effect and to your point, we’ve created a platform that others could leverage. If other players want to imitate us or leverage anything we’ve built – great – it’s a business opportunity for us and it helps more people.

If Kaiser calls us and wants to use our software, we’ll take their call ;)
All EU countries started supplying arms to Ukraine. If it is a plane or anti-tank missile makes no difference.
I had to use OpenJFX for school recently, and while I still hate the Java language, I had to begrudgingly admit that JavaFX really wasn't that bad at all. It more or less did what I wanted it to do, the resulting GUI didn't look too bad, and it performed well enough. I ended up using it for a Clojure app a bit later.

It's good enough to where I think that if JavaFX had come out around the same time as Swing, the Java GUI would substantially more popular. As it stands, when I tell people I'm using JavaFX, they either don't know what I'm talking about, or they'll say "isn't that just Swing? Yuck!"
My apologies. I haven't been in the best of moods lately. I will stick more firmly to the guidelines in the future. I really appreciate the civility of the discussion here compared to the rest of the net, and I want to keep it that way.
Using Google Sheets app scripts to track open source GitHub and Docker stats
Therefore the word "shortened".
What lense do you have to take your picture ? You might want to zoom a bit to make it look like you see it, at least a 100mm equivalent I would say.
> I think there will be a new Cold War, this time Russia/China vs the West. This may not be a bad outcome. I think it will be good for the average citizen of developed countries in a lot of countries if globalization gets slowed a little. We traded cheap crap for a big increase in job insecurity and rising inequality.

I agree. Globalization has had a lot of economic and social negatives (e.g. selling your fishing rod to buy a fish), and it's delusional at this point to think it will do anything to address the deep political differences and fundamental rivalries that exist between the blocs.

There's probably a lesson somewhere in this about keeping economists on tighter leashes.
That sounds really great, good luck with that! I will definitely keep an eye on Booqsi, a social feed sounds really nice :)

Storygraph seems to be attempting something similar with the pair reads, but it feels a bit clunky and isn't there yet.
>Further, if someone who has difficulty with Crime and Punishment wants to read it, there are abridged versions, audiobooks, dramatizations, and other ways to enjoy it.

And if you really want to play Dark Souls and can't be bothered with all the tools the game gives you that make it easier, you can mod it or use cheat engine.
They pay literally an order of magnitude more per stream than spotify. .04 cents vs .003 cents https://www.soundguys.com/tidal-hifi-review-25846/
Github is not an SPA. They use the middle road of dynamically loading HTML snippets, using webcomponents, and lightweight JavaScript. Any problems you see with most of Github's interface should be chalked up to server-rendered pages with sprinkled JS.
The demo is approximately 2 years old. Things probably changed meanwhile.
> They don't want to inflict too much damage

Have you seen what they have done to Mariupol and Kharkiv the last few days? Maybe this was the original plan, but with that botched there seems to be no consideration for damage to civilians.
It seems that the Russian soldiers are making efforts to avoid attacking civilians directly.

We must define "efforts" or "avoid" very differently. At the very start of the invasion, there was a video of Russian tanks deliberately trying to run over civilian cars.
They don't call it a war in Russia, it's a "special military operation". Calling it a war is perhaps a small step away from Putin for Abramovich, or a mistake.
Ask HN: Do you think nuclear armageddon is plausible?
With all the talk about escalation amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis, I have been reading about this and am wondering about the odds of this occurring.

The main counterargument I see to this happening goes like: any world leader calling for nuclear armageddon will not be obeyed/will be assassinated because they cannot convince the entire chain of command to commit suicide. This seems flaky to me. One other thought I had is that perhaps that we are not capable of nuclear armageddon, because this has not been tested end-to-end, although ICBMs and nukes have been tested quite extensively.

What does HN think? Could it happen? And why do we assume that the tech is sufficiently advanced to e.g. take out every major city at the push of a button?
They don't need to be profitable to be worth a lot of money. His asking price is 3B GBP.
Generally they just measure recovery time in days on average. It's much simpler and easier to explain to a layman than using half lifes when it isn't necessary
Is that negative? Do you have something better in mind?
This BBC report has a bit more context, but to summarise:

- Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003 for £140M

- In total, Abramovich has loaned the club more than £1.5bn.

- Abramovich, 55, is alleged to have strong ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which he has denied.

- Other Russian billionaires have already been the subject of European Union sanctions where their assets have been frozen. The United Kingdom government is yet to sanction Abramovich.

- Billionaire Hansjorg Wyss had told Swiss newspaper Blick he had been offered the chance to buy the west London club.

- Wyss said Abramovich wanted "to get rid of Chelsea quickly" after the threat of sanctions was raised in Parliament.

Chelsea: Roman Abramovich says he plans to sell club: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60585081
I'm not sure I'd agree because they haven't even used their ballistic or cruise missiles in any significant number either. And we know they have a lot, lot more of those even if we just count Soviet stock. To me that indicates that there is something more to it than just lacking the munition itself.
Yes, but how do we know, GPT-3 not just copy/pasted someones anglistics homework?

By the way, it claims to be a poet.The term has its origin in the Greek poiētēs, from poein, poiein "to make, create, compose," which implies an agent. So who is the maker, creator, composer here?
Forging in Closed Dies (1955) [video]
Yes I see that, incredible work done you guys have done. Just based on a surface level glance. Surprised this hadn't been done before (great ideas always seems obvious in hindsight), but you guys nailed it. Congrats.
There are some universes where old software or hardware is still heavily used or valuable. One area where I dabble is electronic music. Sure there are lots of new things, but a 50 year old guitar is still a viable instrument, so why not a 30 year old synthesizer? So in this universe, some people go to great lengths to maintain software that supports these instruments. I have a Yamaha VL1. Released in the mid 90s, it was Yamaha’s flagship “tech preview” for waveguide physical modeling software. You could play the instrument and tweak some very basic parameters without a computer, but if you want to actually edit the modeling, you need the “expert editor” which requires MacOS System 7 and a direct serial MIDI port or Apples long gone “midi manager” software. I keep an old 68k laptop around for that purpose alone.

Korg released an audio DSP playground in a PCI card called the OasysPCI which never got OSX drivers, so I have a MDD PPC Mac to run that. There are probably better things running natively today, hey instruments are things that shouldn’t be obsoleted, since they all have their own sound. Most of the rest of the ancient software I run is run under Wine (which worked quite well up to Mojave, but became difficult when Apple killed 32 bit support) because Microsoft has done better at retaining backwards compatibility. So now I have a laptop permanently stuck on Mojave.
The issue is mainly with mobile browsers, as mobile data is expensive..., Firefox on iPhone doesn't have about:config.
My pet theory is that, in addition to (1), Putin believed his own propaganda and thought that the Ukrainian people (and even parts of the Ukrainian military) would welcome Russia with open arms. This is somewhat backed up by Putin urging the Ukrainian military to perform a coup on the second day of the war[1].

[1] https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/putin-urges-ukraine-military-to-o...
I've been thinking about this a lot, and the one thing I love about SPAs is that everything the user can do from the front end. They can do from the API. The trend has essentially tricked tons of corporate apps into opening up APIs to their users. My screen scraping skills are starting to get rusty, but it's worth it.

I sometimes daydream about a framework that allows me to build a spa and a server side app at the same time using the same url scheme.
I mean, C# only got created because Microsoft wasn't allowed to add native GUI features to Java. I feel like you might have missed all the critical history with J++ and the lawsuit from Sun.
I still can't see how (b) doesn't still lead to (c). He needs to control the security apparatus, and that means essentially being an occupying force. It's not like the Ukrainians have not already have their security trampled all over already, so the usual limits on a popular uprising are gone already.
Ahh damn, should fix it!
For now, you can edit the URL manually to take a peek.
If you're interested, feel free to send a DM on Twitter @recursiveSwings, I'll let you know once it's in Beta! :)
Qt applications that try to look native are a bit weird for me. They are like a counterfeit product. I prefer an Electron app with a non native look that looks good.
but both of them store notes in a proprietary way, so if they shut down (or I just wanted to move), wouldn't it be harder to migrate off?
Thank you for the Manifest V3 critique, the examples you give make it really clear how many things are regressing with this upcoming change :/
> In addition, 1/4th of human DRG neurons express mRNA for SARS-CoV-2–associated receptors and deploy ACE2 protein. Thus, virus or spike protein fragments may attach to them, promoting formation of antibodies that can also target adjacent neural epitopes.

The paper briefly mentions this, but is there a biological difference in how the body responds to SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins from COVID infection versus vaccine-induced production of these proteins? I feel like this question is often labelled as "anti-vaxx" but it's a valid concern. It could explain some of the rare neurological side effects some people experience from the vaccines. It seems to boil down to some immune response, so it may make sense that vaccine-induced protein generation from within the body produces a less intrusive immune response, but this is just a layman's understanding.
Not 4, but for me at least it's often 3. docker-compose has a bad habit of re-using the existing container, i.e. `docker-compose restart <service>` won't stop the existing service container and create a new one, it restarts the current container. Often the reason I'm restarting the service is because I need a clean, new container to pick up some env change or for some debugging or something, so habitually I restart containers with `docker-compose stop <service> && docker-compose rm -f <service> && docker-compose up -d <service>`.

I mostly like docker-compose just fine, but this is an annoyance & when I first started using docker-compose some years back I definitely lost more time than I would have liked trying to figure out why some change I'd just made didn't seem to have applied. I feel like destroying/creating containers is pretty cheap (that's one of the great things about containers!), so I'm not sure why docker-compose behaves this way. I presume it's for historical reasons and they don't feel comfortable changing it because of backwards compatibility.
I thought the same thing when I saw that video - how the heck did the people in the car survive that?
Are you saying you would enlist if Germany, France, or the UK was invaded, but specifically Poland isn't worth enlisting for, because it's a former Warsaw Pact country?

Or are you saying that you just don't believe in NATO, you would like the US not to have mutual defense alliances at all, and the expansion of NATO is completely irrelevant to your feelings about NATO?

Poland and Hungary have done autocratic things I don't agree with, but their governments seem to come much closer to following the will of the people then they would if they were again inside Russia's sphere of influence, and I think bringing them inside NATO was good for them.

I'm not sure whether it was a good maneuver strategically, but I'm also not sure it wasn't.
So then the hospital or lab are under HIPAA, but not the forensic lab.
It was not impressive when this documentation was written, but it's for sure not impressive today.
Deploying “Temporary” Microservices
Wow that comment was wrong in every single claim it made it seems (outside of the claims it cited from somewhere else).
It's not ideal, but it is comprehensive. Infinitely superior to the Wordpress or Joomla documentation. It helps the system is less baroque to begin with.
> Why destroy & rebuild when you get it for free and can start draining the country immediately.

Also, assuming any of the responsible thought about this beforehand at all (which IS an assumption), they probably expected further economic sanctions of SOME sort from invading. Rebuilding costs money. Rebuilding things like high-tech fighter aircraft costs truly ridiculous amounts of money. There were plenty of reasons they would have hoped to be able to do this all on a modest budget.
Thanks for looking like a dump ass to my coworkers for hammering my mechanical space-bar for 5 minutes strait......
Please actually read my post, since that's not my claim
Some of the new LookAndFeels for Swing are really slick. Take a look, for instance, at FlatLaf:

https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
Sure, there's a limit on how many servers are worth purchasing. 3x servers might get us a 10% UX improvement, but that doesn't mean that 9x servers would yield a 20% improvement.

We should stop buying servers when it stops being cost effective. That may or may not be 3x the number of servers we have now. It could be we're already over provisioned, or that you should only buy 2x, or maybe you can afford 5x, or 9x, and the number may change over time as the costs of maintenance and the number/value of your users rises and falls.
Biden: 'It's time for Americans to get back to our downtowns again'
> And, there's a strong possibility that we're experiencing some psyops here, to make the Russians appear incompetent.

Given their unencrypted radio communication they have done a fair effort to support that idea themselves.
At the end of the day the Russians can even run their own exchanges. They have fuel and food, they're self sustaining.
> Of course, then the definition of Nazi was widened to include many people who where unliked

> However, if the principle is to be neutral until someone does whatever polite society has deemed unacceptable

Why talk in hypotheticals? We have SWIFT for almost 50 years now and Bretton Woods system since late 40's. That is a long enough time to judge their track record. How many countries were banned because their behavior was deemed unacceptable? Wikipedia says only Iran and now Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT#Use_in_sanctions
Hum, no. The purpose of a principle is that if you follow it you will very likely get a good result.

Being easy to understand is nowhere on it. Why is it that everything must be dumbed down? If thousands of people can't get the principle, but it gets good results to the people that understand it, it is a good principle, and those thousands of people either study a bit or decide to live with their worsened condition.

If you take the GP's single paragraph that explains the principle and tries to use it to discuss a particular design, you will see that it's perfectly possible. The fact that people can't do the same if they read a paragraph less and stop at the name is not very relevant.
It's easier (and usually more rewarding) to start something from scratch than to fork.
The video I think you are referring to shows the tank swerving to avoid incoming fire and (presumably accidentally) running over a civilian car.
Yes I mean the original version of it.

I'd love to watch people attempt to implement some of the stuff I pulled off with that back in the day now. Occasionally, very complex data driven page flows are required and you could nail that entire problem domain trivially with them.

There is a very large and well known company with a front-facing product used by millions of people which took 5 years pissing around with three different front end technologies to reimplement what we did in 3 months with that and it was slower and heavier and basically reimplemented web forms in python in the end.

It broke the the www intentionally because it sucked. And it still does.
> destroyed Libya

I guess you seem to forget the civil war that was happening before NATO got there. The one the was so atrocious that not even China or Russia vetoed it when the proposal of interfering was voted on at the UN.

This is not morally equivalent to what is being done to Ukraine, not even close. There is criticism to be put on the mission in Libya, but it should be that NATO didn’t stay long enough to stabilize the country and support peaceful nation building.

Or maybe you think war crimes are just fine and no one should ever try to do anything about them.

I’d like to see you defend that position to people that survived nazi concentration camps. Or a Rwandan who saw their family butchered over arbitrary tribalism.

You’re a cowered.
So I read a bit more about Donetsk and Luhansk and while I can see the similarities where
Ukraine = Serbia and NATO = Russia, unfortunately the similarities stop soon when you realize that Kosovo (= Luhansk or Donetsk), establishes a democratic society that includes Serbian minority by default in the government, where Donetsk and Luhansk start banning Ukranian passports, banishing Ukranians, massive antisemitism movements, and basically want to become dictatorships similar to Belarus.

Similarly, Ukranian army is not targeting Russian civilians in these regions and is not banishing them to Russia. There is no displacement of millions of Russians in Ukraine.

If you are trying to say "NATO bombing of Serbia is justified", therefore "Russia war against Ukraine should be too", therefore hypocrites, it does not really work.
I fell off the O'Rourke fan train back in the early 00s when I was flipping thru his 'Enemies List' in a bookstore and came to the realization that if the B-52s were his enemy then I was one too.

Did O'Rourke ever say anything about 'cancel culture'? Because that book is an excellent example.
I'm happy to pay for a game I enjoy playing, the game is made F2P, it becomes inundated with Eternal September players, it is no longer fun to play, I am annoyed.
Big tech companies love wasting money and developing a SPA is a good way to do that.

Whether users prefers SPAs or not is debatable. Amazon, Github, and Aliexpress aren't SPAs because poor usability will cause users to move to competitors. If Hacker news turned into a SPA, I guarantee that it would suck big time.

SPA developers seem to be living in a tiny bubble oblivious of simple solutions to simple problems.
I was going off the investopedia definition, which claims warrants and convertible bonds are securities [1]. As far as I understand, those are a type of derivative. But I hadn't understood that some other types of derivatives are not considered securities. It all makes a bit less sense to me now...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/security.asp
It sounds like a description of the Internet.
Dang it, he beat me to it! I have been toying with the idea for quite some time, but this implementation is great, better than mine would have been, so I'm glad he did it.

Maybe I'll make a CLI implementation (sorta like wget but with this tacked on...)
The only plausible explanation I've heard (other than Putin is just mentally ill), is that Putin has gotten high on his own supply of propaganda. He truly believes that Ukraine is being run by Nazis, and the US/West are building up to a Russian invasion.

Supposedly during Covid, it's gotten a lot worse due to Putin's extreme isolation tactics. He's been truly surrounded solely by yes men over the past 2 years.
Nuclear armageddon almost happened multiple times in the past. To think it can’t happen is a necessary step in ensuring that it does.
Lots of bad things can happen when one sits alone in bunker. On drugs, with some alcohol, health is declining. Whole world is threatening and isolating. One’s imaginary friends are laughing. It’s time to retaliate and show them all!
I don't think anyone who've seen Russian made Lada would dare to buy Russian made fighter jets.
Official announcement (with Youtube video overview included!): https://wasmer.io/posts/wapm-revamp

[0] Previous announcement in HN (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732794

[1] https://registry.wapm.io/graphql

[2] https://github.com/django/channels/

[3] https://nextjs.org/

[4] https://relay.dev/

[5] https://tailwindcss.com/

[6] https://wasmer.io/
Google Sets Its Return to Office Plans for April 4
That is the difference between family business and industrial food production. The cleaning products used in small restaurants are basically harmless. A little bleach residue in someone's food will taste horrible but probably won't kill anyone. Glycol tastes like sugar. It very much will do harm if it leaks into the food. But using glycol allows a food producer to reduce labor costs via automation, automation being a bright line between mom-and-pop burger bars serving perhaps 10 customers per hour and a busy MacDonald's location serving 500.
Fully expected this to be about SV's shitty deal /ponziesque living/vc situation but I guess Wired does Wired. (Not saying they are remotely wrong about any of this.)
Yes you are right - And we recognize this as part of our outreach and contract development efforts. Our collaboration seems to be working and we are getting great reaction from physicians. We believe in a simple approach to keep it understandable and easy to administer to build that relationship
Sending supplies is just business, no different from selling food. Allowing to use the military infrastructure, such as an airport is an act of war. It might seem weird to you, but that's how Russia would paint it.
This is literally a forum made for startups. Businesses that may lose money but are worth a lot. Does that ring a bell?

Abramovich bought a club for £140m, invested around £1.5 billion in it, and now it’s worth twice that. It’s worth is based on what a prospective buyer will pay, not a multiple of earnings.