skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one scenario I can see is a possible anti-war faction in the NSA or CIA trying to decimate the military industrial complex...but I feel other countries with talented devs have more incentives to create this than US based orgs that are protected by this complex.

I should probably mention, for those that are unaware, removing power from central banks (aka what Bitcoin does by existing) makes large scale drawn out wars extremely difficult to fund and sustain.
There's a lot of authoritative claims about what meditation is in this thread, so there's also a good chance that what I do is considered "not real meditation" but it's what I learned at a meditation center, so I'm going to go ahead and tell you what got me over it when I had a hard time starting:

Just allow yourself to be bad at it and repeatedly apply the rule that when observe that your attention has wandered, you just consciously bring it back to what you're supposed to be focusing on. You haven't "failed at meditation", you're learning it. Don't beat yourself up for your mind wandering, just acknowledge that the repeated application of the redirection is what it takes and it's all part of the practice. At first it's non-stop, and eventually you get better at it. Sometimes it's excruciatingly boring and tedious and sometimes it's immensely relaxing, and occasionally you get weird hallucinatory stuff out of nowhere (although that to me feels like just going into a dream state, which I've always interpreted as "I'm so relaxed I fell asleep and dreamt").

That's really all it is for me. A way to relax and slow down.
Don't think that a Clinton presidency would have nudged needle one way or the other in regards to Covid. The only thing we did that had a real impact was get the vaccines, and that would not have been any quicker with Clinton.
I've considered "a CSS DSL for X", though unfortunately there are already several projects that call themselves a "CSS DSL", by which most of them mean "a DSL for expressing CSS in general_language".
Are you streaming across the room or actually from a datacenter? The impossible part seems to be that there is some latency that is pretty much unavoidable when you stream from 500km away.
I have been doing Waking up and meditating 10 minutes a day and really liking it for exactly this reason. It almost feels like I am "training" my mind like I train my body with exercise whereas previously my thoughts and feelings would just run away on me and I would be along for the ride. Whereas now I am getting a bit better at realising I don't just need to be dragged along by whatever pops into my head moment to moment.
Shame, I liked the 4-star in Westfield Topanga. Nice selection of stuff in a pretty small space.
> While eloquently written, this article seems to make the mistake of myopically focusing on just speed in web performance, when web performance is much more than that.

Also funny is "Gmail loads orders of magnitude more resources and makes more requests than full page reloads" but "it's fine because we can change just a part of the page and add chat there that no one asked for"
Bandcamp was the only music store I was happy to throw my money at. I guess the ol' tricorn hat may be getting dusted off real soon if anything material about the company or the selection changes.
Turkey has closed the straights, there is a direct economic embargo on Russia, and Belarus just joined the invasion to cut NATO supply lines. Russian armor is getting decimated by Turkish drones.

This is as "direct" of a conflict as it gets before Russia and NATO actually start shooting at one another. ...and it is not comparable to any other prior proxy war.
This is definitely not the case for everyone with severe ADHD. I think you have to define "severe" and you have to define "meditation." If your ADHD allows you to hold a steady professional-level job, I suspect you can do TM, for example.
Whoa. Here's more info https://blog.aboutamazon.co.uk/shopping-and-entertainment/in...

Seems like a way to show off the AR capabilities Amazon is working on. Secondarily, many haircare products are only sold in salons and this effort could eventually be a way around those restrictions.
It's really sad to see these almost "public goods" platforms be acquired by other companies, which will probably turn them in something else at some point because their vision isn't the same.

This could probably be avoided by using different strategies. For instance, if Bandcamp was an NGO of some sort, or has a social contract attached to it, etc. it could have terms for not being acquired.

You, capitalism. Again.
As an aside: given the appalling state of Russian army in Ukraine, I wonder what their super-killer-invincible nuclear weapons are like. Not that I want to test this out.

I've been thinking the same thing. It's clear we've been overestimating Russian military capabilities for some time. The West is learning the emperor has no clothes when it comes to the Russian military (in reality it's more like the emperor's clothes aren't made of the finest material as we'd thought). I'm with you though, I really don't want to test out their nuclear capabilities.
SEO for SPAs is a solved problem
Need UI sliders for animation speed, # of arrows, hiding arrows! This is sick.
also why does it need a new foundation? A foundation he controls (or controlled by someone he controls) is a cool way to get some money off his books but still control it.
Should be back now - was doing some maintenance and brought it down for a few minutes.
This was really cool project and a great writeup!

It's interesting to think what would happen if a tool / technique like this one became super popular. Would we see more variation, as more people could choose schemes that look good? Or would we see convergence as there are no longer people actively making decisions (similar to what may be happening in the stock market due to the rise of index funds: [1])?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/the-autopi...
I guess Blazor WASM is the elephant in the room. OOP as much as you want, js codebase required near to 0.
Awesome!

I wonder if the walls are made of graphene reinforced concrete, if I drill some holes, how dangerous is it?
I'm in the same boat as you.

I think there's a lot we don't know about human psychology, the brain and self-help practices, but I haven't seen convincing evidence that meditation works.

This 2017 publication sums it up nicely: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691617709589
> It seems that the Russian soldiers are making efforts to avoid attacking civilians directly.

That doesn't apply to apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, etc. The shelling is very intense in multiple cities.

So yes, most Russians aren't directly firing on people in the street, but in larger cities they're destroying their homes and local infrastructure.
I'm wondering the same thing. Both MicroW8 and WASM-4 seem to be unlimited, whereas it'd be nice if there was some standard for CPU speed in case I wanted to, say, port it to a retro console.
> At a time when everything was on Windows and its UI was actually reasonably coherent

Hmm... no. Even ms software on windows had different appearance and behavior. Actually, being a mostly proprietary ecosystem, apps tried to be different from one another to get attention. An xp machine running winamp, corel draw, ms office, windows messenger and internet explorer had 5 different themed apps at the same time and it was common at the time; it was the rule.

Consistency on windows was always a problem.
Of course now Russia is itself under economic siege. This doesn't seem like a winning approach for Russia.
> If a 10% improvement comes from 3x the servers you are moments away from hitting the wall with Amdahl's Law

If your bloated SPA loads tens of megabytes of JS and makes fans spin on all your users' computers, ... will you think about Amdahl's law, or is it fine then?
It's basically akin to Canada deciding to invade the US because of the existence of the Proud Boys.
Ask HN: Let's be honest, how many hours do you work in a day?
No companies, no names. Just your role and the amount of time you actually work in a given 'workday'.

What do you do when you're not working on a workday?

IME, I've surveyed 2-3 colleagues over 5y across 3 different companies. We average about 3-4 hours of video games followed by web browsing, video watching, and maybe 3 hours of work total. I'm in security.
So it is ok to favor whites over Asians?
Complaining about concentration is like starting to train soccer and complaining that you are not on a Messi level and dropping it.
> I'm physically incapable of visiting a good independent bookstore without buying something.

I'll join the club.

In Japanese, there's a word for it: tsundoku. It describes a person who buys books and mostly doesn't read them.

Often they pile up on the floor, on shelves, and assorted pieces of furniture.

Virtually my Audible resembles this.
We have not seen what the Germany Army is capable of since 80 years ago. Does Putin really want to find out what has changed since then?
I think JavaFX could have been more successful if they would have managed it differently. I really liked it. The JavaFX developers were all great to deal with and would help you as much as they could.

One of the problems in my opinion is that once you went up the chain beyond the developers, it seemed like there were some people that didn't understand what they were doing or didn't care or possibly both. They had targets to meet (or something) and the health of the project was a secondary concern. Part of this could be seen by the messaging saying they were investing in JavaFX, mobile, etc., but most of the commits to the repo were done by a few people. I can't remember what the numbers were, but I remember being shocked and thinking that if one of the top two contributors disappeared the project would be in trouble.

However, the biggest mistake in my opinion was forcing JavaFX into the JDK way too quickly. You can tell that's the type of decision that comes from the top down. They wanted to be able to say the JDK had a next generation GUI toolkit and checking that box was more important than letting the project develop in a healthy manner.

Before JavaFX went into the JDK it was really easy to contribute to the project via the dedicated bug tracker and you could get quick, friendly, helpful feedback directly from the developers. Bugs were fixed and would land in the next release. After it was part of the JDK you had to use bugs.jdk.com and it became much harder to participate. Factor in JavaFX having to adhere to the JDK release schedule rather than iterating quickly like they had been and it was impossible to figure out what Oracle was trying to do. Was having JavaFX on the JDK marketing material really worth stalling the development and ruining any chance it had of becoming more popular? I still can't get my head around it.

The fixation on the browser plugin and applets always confused me too. It was obvious for years they'd eventually get locked out of browsers, so I don't know why they didn't push things like Web Start a lot harder. Web Start was a pretty decent distribution system and if they had improved it to fetch JREs, like OpenWebStart does now, it would have been one of the best options at the time.

To this day I'm convinced that JavaFX was a missed opportunity. I'd love to try to build an app that uses Gluon [1] stuff for direct framebuffer rendering on a Raspberry PI with Mender [2] for distribution. I think you could combine something like that with JxBrowser [3] to build a digital signage system that's much better than anything on the market, but the licensing is a huge pain and too expensive for a hobbyist project.

1. https://gluonhq.com/products/gluon-embedded/

2. https://mender.io

3. https://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser
Yep, that is good enough. What makes Linux so horrible of an experience for many desktop users is so much of the software is built with a server mindset, with a vast array of dynamic linking that often does not work. If the software is an up to date part of your particular distro's package manager, great. But when it isn't, total nightmare.

And your end user desktop application just doesn't need to be built that way!
Those are problems, true, but literally every modern competitive ladder deals with the three problems you're describing: smurfs, boosting, and trolls. Overwatch dealt with all three even when the game cost $40!

In return for those problems, the game gets an instant, massive increase in players. Monetization usually increases, since modern mtx are usually much more effective than either subscription or one-time-purchase models.

I'm not saying there are zero problems with going F2P. Obviously there are. But just as obviously, since so many studios have chosen to go that route, the benefits are worth it for the company. If the revenue benefits are worth it, they keep developing the game, keep running the servers, keep fixing bugs, rather than just letting the game die. That seems pretty good.
I'm definitely arguing that the Lambo is less valuable without gas, and that the number of people with a comparable amount of gas to pour on a soccer club is a very limited group. It's unclear what the actual value is, since some major portion of the value is based on it's desirability/rarity, which is a speculative quality - as a business, Chelsea doesn't seem to have the finances of a top 4 club.
If it makes you feel better, SPAs were a mistake when they were all the craze in Flash. Also way before that in Director.

In those two cases, they signified (or accelerated) the end of the useful lifespan of those languages.

SPAs, like frameworks, always make some things easier and some things harder. As long as you stay within the lines of what is easy, you are good. As soon as you stray outside those lines, you get punished.
Underwriting a whole group actually gives us protection from risk selection and creates a more population based risk which is more stable. Yes there will be individuals that have extreme expenses, which is why we have reinsurance. It is the principle of risk pooling and credibility.
> There is a "PublishSingleFile" option, but that is just a zip file in disguise.

I don't quite agree. These days (as of .NET 5), if you publish a single-file app all .NET libraries live in the executable and do not need to be unpacked at runtime. Native libraries still need to get unpacked at runtime (if your application uses any; many don't) but I haven't found that to be a big deal in practice.
These always remind me of Bob Saget and his running gag on AFHV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By9sHP1MWVk
Controversial opinion: SPAs are great and also SPAs are an admission that Java applets were along the right lines.
sure it is one-sided, but at least it tries to give a plausible explanation rather than all the inflammatory nonsense about putin being a madman hellbent on conquering Europe. I find the general lack of interest in understanding the motivations of the opposition very disappointing

people in this very thread are saying things like "his actions make no sense." Frankly if that's your contribution, maybe realize you're out of your depth? can we at least _try_ to learn from this so we can prevent future war?
Cannon fodder conscripts are cheaper that jets
Just because Asian Australians do better on standardized testing does not mean white/rich Australians do not benefit more from it. The population size of each percentile and distribution across percentiles also matter. White identifying students can represent a larger distribution in the top percentile ranges overall [1].
> as they fucking should because they prepare more and work harder.

Working harder does not increase population size or influence necessarily.

> If someone is going to work harder for something they simply deserve it, that is all there is to it.

Not all jobs, responsibilities, careers, political representation, the list goes on.. are based on merit or even hard work. Their is definitely an element of luck and survivorship bias.

Standardized tests are also bias. They are biased toward individuals who are representative of the typical test-taking participant in background, who have more test-specific preparation beyond ability, and toward individuals who are more familiar and skilled with standardized test-taking in general.

Also grouping all Asians together as a group that represents what you may think is ridiculous, the cultural differences between Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese cultures are very different.

[1] www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highligh t-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/
Could it be they are saving their airforce in case of western involvement?
I kind of want to challenge this "better SPOFs" idea. From what I understand of the ZTN concept, the SPOF is the factory line. If an adversary can compromise what's on the board, it's really hard to prevent that adversary from controlling what happens on that machine.

I have had people tell me in meetings at work that they have pictures of people swapping out parts on an assembly line for unknown parts. If that's happening, unless the machines are verified by XRay, from my point of view, the ZT concept isn't worth a whole lot.
> Nice gesture I say as he didn’t start the war.

At this point anybody close to Putin might have a presumption of guilt. It's not good to support decades of growing autocracy, benefit from it and when it started to crumble in agony, step aside and say "I didn't do this last step".
Yes it would be possible - and I know of a couple of benefits consultants that have tried to do this, but bias and independence is a vexing issue. Keep the ideas coming!
Yeah, I used to make some simple games for Java, like for J2ME, and for that it was a pretty good experience. But then I had to use enterprise Java for work and while I could use it, it was such an overcomplicated mess I stopped wanting to use it. I much prefer C#/.Net.
You’d already feel that now even without a seperate division. Ultimately the needs of developing ICE power trains and platforms are a lot different than those of electric. There isn’t much that can be shared except styling which Ford already does across divisions. Even in the transmission the torque and gearing requirements are dramatically different.
could this be the extinguish step of embrace, extend, extinguish?
> They might even end up with the security-hole-riddled java browser plugin

but at least this would let them play Ski Stunt Simulator...
Perfect! Usually mnemonics are activated by Meta-$letter, e.g. Meta-C (or Alt-C) for "[C]ancel" or Meta-M for "I[m]port". That has long tradition. I've just found the I[m]port example in Evolution's (mail client) [F]ile menu. It also works that way in console twin-panel file managers Midnight Commander and almost all menu-like GUI panels in Windows applications.
That's exactly how I came to understand the effect. I was looking at a picture of a sunset I had taken and wondering why the sun looked so much smaller than when I was there. I remembered that the sun, like the moon, is roughly the size of the thumbnail when the arm is completely stretched out, so I zoomed in the image until the sun was the right angular size, and the sizes of all the objects then appeared as in real life, only observed through tunnel vision.
I'm a financial tech senior web app dev. Some days I work 8-10 hours, others I spend a lot of time (even when not waiting for builds!) on things like Gizmodo... or Hacker News... If I had to estimate an average, I'd say.... 6-ish hours a day on average?
Al-Chels is probably going to be the new one.
IIRC Pico-8 does.
It's almost like mixing business with national security is likely to produce bad outcomes.
The German Army isn't capable of much at the moment.

And even if it were, no NATO member will set foot in Ukraine while this war and the following insurgency are happening.

What will happen is, depending on how hard Putin pushes, the reaction will be just as strong. More attacks targeting civilians? More weapons sent to Ukraine. Harder sanctions, with actual teeth. I wouldn't be shocked if by next winter 60%+ of the gas supply for Western Europe will be covered from other vendors, more or less bankrupting Russia (a huge percentage of Russian exports are raw materials, primarily oil and gas).
You can't just compare Fallujah and Grozny. Of course urban warfare is destructive to the city no matter what, but the US and Russian tactics are very different, and so is the destruction. Dropping tons of low precision thermobaric weapons on a city is a Russian thing, unmatched in its destruction. (The is no American equivalent to the TOS-1[1] for instance).

That being said, that doesn't mean I approve US invasion of Irak in any way (because I do not), it just feels you're comparing Pearl Harbor with Stalingrad… (Ok, not literally, because there is a two orders of magnitude difference between Pearl Harbor and Stalingrad, but you get the idea).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOS-1
From the Epic side - they have to be looking at selling music in-game as a source of additional revenue. You'll be able to buy cassette tapes or virtual vinyl for your characters boombox. Of course there will be a matching dance you can also buy but maybe there will be a discount bundle.
A long time ago, I was a dev in Amazon's fulfillment org, and one day a lot of very smart people disappeared. The guy who had done some incredible pioneering work in computer vision for the warehouses; the only principal engineer the org had at the time; and a bunch of other people I know that we're just really clever people. And they joined an org called "JIHM". What's JIHM? They'll only tell you if you join. But it's going to be really cool. (I was in Toronto so I couldn't join- Seattle only).

What I knew: these particular people had left for this project. The head of it was the guy who had lead the Kindle project- he had rejoined Amazon allegedly because Jeff asked him to lead this project. And for whatever reason, this JIHM org had all these new physical book store managers reporting up to them.

Over lunch one day, I proposed a theory to my coworker: "they're going to make that IBM commercial from the 90s, where the sketchy dude grabs a bunch of stuff and puts it in his pockets, then just walks out the door and gets a receipt". It was a fun idea, and given the CV people they had pulled it may have even made sense. "What about the book stores?" My friend asked "It's a smoke screen. That same guy leading JIHM is legendary for leaking false reports that Amazon was going to build a PC to cover him hiring hardware engineer for the Kindle."

6 months later, Amazon Go with it's 'Just Walk Out' technology was publicly announced. The CV guy I knew was even in the commercial ("Holy shit, is that Danny?!").

Maybe this is the final conclusion that those stores were just a cover.

(Caveat: this is all wild speculation, rumours, and probably bad memory on my part, but it's a great story and I swear it's all true!)
If a company has to go onto a pirate website to get a copy, that's going to throw up red flags in all but truly corrupt organizations.

If, on the other hand, a piece of software can be downloaded directly off the company's website, it's pretty easy to gloss over the fine print that says "if you comply with terms X, Y, and Z".
He’s gambling on Putin losing. Which seems an outside bet, but then he probably has information we don’t.
Is that website supposed to be almost entirely empty with just an App Store button?
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