skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what case would an npm package for talking to an external database be actually useful for a frontend project?
I mean, yes, if you're only ever running the tool inside a LAN where that access exists, I suppose it's conceivable...
And plenty of frontend packages that rely on storing state in the browser's window object (Redux etc.) would presumably be a bad idea to use for most backend projects, but no doubt somebody's found a way to make it work. I suppose I'm not disagreeing with you, but the GP kinda has a point too.
I think the greater human population is doing just fine - almost exclusively due to scientific and technological advancements. (https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/why-has-the-world-popul...)
I just joined an experimental crypto-Amish community near Austin. I work in blockchain, so all about decentralized community. We're honest about how technology is making all of us craaaazy. No porn here but we get to use solar and arduino to feed the chickens. Grew up in the city but really surprised I really don't miss that shit.
Today’s anti-moralist stance is very moralist itself. It’s funny how cultural colonialism is going at full speed today. Yet many people think this brings post-colonial justice.
In a sense, it's true that it's tautological, but only in that we often don't know for certain what was fit, or why. And we often can't.

For Darwin's finches, we can make a good guess, but some animal appearances or behaviors (e.g. the most beautiful snakes [1]) we just have to shake our heads. We know the snake's beauty (in our eyes) must have increased fitness since it was conserved, but how?

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+most+beautiful+snake&t=brave&i...
It's not really all that simple, it's likely rigidly conformist, and it's totally a grass is greener on the HDR profile than IRL situation. Perhaps you can find a job or hobby working with cool modern technology while spending much more time outdoors?
> False. The current actions are not genocide by any means.

Despite popular belief genocide is not what the pro Russians want it to be, and Russias actions clearly fit within the UN's well defined definition of genocide.

>> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

>> Killing members of the group;

>> Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

>> Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

>> Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

>> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

We already have evidence of many of these individual things (of which any constitutes genocide).

The Russians have already been forcibly deporting children and sending them to Russia, so point 5 is met.

The Russians are on video castrating Ukrainians so we have point 4 met.

The Russians have been indiscriminately bombing civilians so we have points 1 and 2 easily.

> Even raping of civilians is unproved.

I see you avoided the whole indiscriminate killing of civilians, of which Russians are already in jail for.

It seems like you wouldn't be satisfied without video evidence of these crimes, but don't worry the Russians the will answer for their war crimes in time.

> False. The expansion of NATO to the east, 2014 anti-russian coup in Ukraine, the refusal to follow to Minsk agreements(guaranteed by western leaders, who failed them too) and militarization of Ukraine were the major reasons of the events.

Why does Ukraine have to abide by the Minks agreement but Russia is free to wilfully for years violate the Budapest agreement where Russia promised to not invade Ukraine of threaten its territorial borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes?.

None of these are "reasons for these events", what all these are is Russias excuses to try and dominate another country and eliminate their statehood.

> Another false: Putin never claimed Ukraine doesn't exist.

Here's a source from the literal Russian media. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/877224

Here's a quote literally from Putin.

`When it came to Ukraine, Putin flared up. Addressing Bush, he said: "You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, and some, and significant, are donated by us!"`

Everything you said is false, is true, strange that.
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Username: disabledsystemuser
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Wow pretty bad. If I was an administrator I would definitely think this account wouldn't actually work for logging in.
Loosing in attractivity relative to some other languages, for some popular use cases? Yes.

Like, Python is king for data science /ML, and js is king for front end.*

It translates into a community of java devs which is less hegemonic by its relative size than it used to be.

That said, it doesn't imply that Java is loosing ground in other capacities. It makes great and frequent progress in terms of the JVM, language features, inter-operability with other languages. That makes it perfectly adapted to cloud environments. Old and tired statements about start-up times and memory footprint ignore the developments of Java in the last 15 years. Now Java instances can start in milliseconds with total memory footprints of a few mb [0]

Comparisons between Java and Cobol, that are sometimes made (even on this thread), are not enlightning: as far as I know, Cobol didn't evolve very much in the past decades. Not the case for Java - it has a 6-month release cycle [1], and these releases bring ambitious and significant changes[2],
like virtual threads for one.

I would advise to stay updated on Java development by following key accounts of advocates on Twitter (eg, @nipafx), subscribing to the Java Magazine[3] or watch the many videos being posted by advocate devs on Youtube[4]

* even this needs a caveat. Many market leading solutions in data science are actually built in Java / Scala, like the Data Science Studio by Dataiku or H2O.

0: https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/getting-started-with-graa...

1: https://endoflife.date/java#:~:text=Java%20as%20developed%20....

2: https://chriswhocodes.com/jepsearch.html

3: https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/

4: https://m.youtube.com/user/java/videos
"I have computers today with enough storage space to hold entire multi-GB public zone files. The storage capability keeps increasing. However I only use a small fraction of that data."

What this means is that I do not need to store entire zone files. I only need to store the data for the domain names I will use. The point about storage capability is that this is no longer a limiting factor. When I started using the www, storage space was a limiting factor. I could not store the DNS data for every name I would ever use on a personal computer. Even the RAM on today's computers can be larger than the size of HDDs from the time when I started using the www. Everything has changed.

"For example, I am able to use the www quite effectively for information retrieval (not commerce) without using auto-fetching.^3 I treat www pages as "simple" ones with only one significant component and none controlled by third parties."

What this means is that the set of names I will use is (generally) deterministic. For example, if I aim to access the index.html page at https://example.com, I only retrieve the DNS data for example.com. The set of names for which I must retrieve DNS data is known, a priori.^1 To give a more practical example, I start with a list of all the domain names represented in HN submissions (cf. comments). I retrieve DNS data for those names only. (NB. A small minority of www sites submitted to HN do change hosting providers occassionally or change IP addresses relatively frequently.)

Thus when I read HN submissions, I am not performing any remote DNS queries. At an earlier point, I have performed bulk DNS data retrieval for all domain names in HN submmissions. The DNS data is stored in the memory of a localhost forward proxy or in custom zone files served by a localhost authoritative nameserver.

Another example might be domains found in Google Scholar search results. I collect these names from a series of searches then retrieve the DNS data in bulk. Then I can search and retrieve papers from many sources found through Scholar without making remote DNS queries.

There are a variety of sources for bulk DNS data. Some potential sources are

Public zone file access programs (Contact the registry. Many zones are available through ICANN's CZDS program.) https://czds.icann.org

Public scan data (Sadly, Rapid7 recently stopped publishing their foward DNS data.)

DoH open resolvers (Using HTTP/1.1 pipelining.)

Common Crawl archives (By extracting WARC-TARGET-IP.)

1. In contrast to using browser auto-fetching where I have no idea what other domain names might be automatically looked up when I visit example.com.
Kids are actually pretty easy if you don't have a ton of distractions. Most complaints about how kids are difficult are about how they keep you from the things you want to do.

They also have huge economies of scale.
How do companies like Arris keep getting work?

I have an ISP supplied Arris Cable Modem (luckily not vulnerable) and it is dreadful. The UI is shonky, looking at the HTML & CSS underlying it is enough to make you weep, outdated JS libraries, and - seemingly - no software updates.

I could just about understand if it was stable and gave good WiFi - but the ISP's forums are full of people complaining about it.

All I can assume is that Arris is £1 cheaper than the next model, and the ISP have decided that dealing with customer complaints is cheaper than a higher CapEx.
https://youtu.be/d31jmv5Tx5k. Freenet creator has a new thing called Locutus.
Here are the 3 big problems with the pro-nuclear argument:

1. Using deaths as a metric;

2. Focusing on operational cost of a nuclear power plant rather than total cost (ie including capital cost). The total cost is borne out in the relatively high cost of nuclear power to users. If that point is even acknowledged, let alone conceded, it's just dismissed as the fault of government regulation or that scale will somehow magically solve the problem; and

3. Writing off disasters as irrelevant outliers because they're inconvenient to the argument. Less than 700 nuclear power plants have been built and we've had multiple huge disasters.

So are deaths a bad metric? And by "deaths" here I mean any form of the metric (eg absolute, per-kWh generated, etc). Because deaths doesn't capture the negative externalities and consequences of nuclear power. Chernobyl killed less than 100 directly. Who knows how many contracted various cancers in a wide area. But 1,000 suqare miles of land remains uninhabitable nearly four decades later with no real end in sight.

Deaths as a metric doesn't capture that, which is precisely why pro-nuclear advocates focus on it. Nuclear power has its own propaganda just like the oil and gas industry does.
In [1]: html.unescape(users_table.find_one(name="graderjs")["about"])

Out [2]: 'https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com'

It looks like your about changed more recently than my BQ data pull?
I think it will be viewed as a common vice like alcohol and gambling. I wonder if we will see something like a temperance movement.
Total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert
Some of the links are definitely down. If one link in a profile was active and "interesting", I just included all their links.
I think you misunderstand my criticism. It's not that vitrification can't be done, its that efforts in the US to perform it are behind schedule and woefully inadequate to process the existing waste in US in a timely manner, let alone the waste from numerous additional plants. Despite decades of pubic debate, billions spent, we still cannot agree on where to put it.

Plans to vitrify waste at Hanford are only barely reaching operation, more than a decade behind schedule. The plant won't be able to process all the waste on site when running at capacity until after 2100.

Meanwhile 56 million gallons of high grade waste is slowly seeping into the water table of the Columbia River basin.

My problem is with the lack of success in this area towards competently reducing risk and sequestering waste. It hardly seems like a solved problem when we our concrete implementation of a solution has yet to arrive.
Some certainly do.

There was an ex-Amish programmer at my current employer's, a few years before I started.
We do have SS7 level protection but we're unable to offer it to consumers.

About insurance, it's limited to Sim Swap/Port outs
Wondering how in compares with Imba.io … which is the first way I heard of virtual DOM. I vaguely remember watching Imba demo videos and being astonished to discover that, despite the playback controls, they were _not_ videos but rather fully interactive and you could edit them on the fly. Imba seemed amazingly performant at the time, but then I never had a project the could really use it (except one the sunsetted before I could make major alterations to it).
This is what I suspected. There were issues with iPhone photo rotation being incorrect after upload so you had to do it manually. I think this is because the EXIF data was missing.

I think people on this thread are confusing uploading in the browser with uploading via the Facebook app
I've got all the data pulled down now, so if you have any specific ideas for additional questions, feel free to share!
> It's funny how atheists believe in evolution in theory, but fervently religious groups like this are the ones winning at evolution in practice.

There's a logical disconnect here: I can believe in death, but I really don't want to "win" at death.
> And why do they have so much power, so frequently?

A business managed by a sociopath has a larger margin of profit, due to arseholery like: misleading customers, dumping stuff on rivers, bribing authorities, etc. That makes the business able to expand faster, more resilient to eventualities, and more attractive to vulture capital injecting money in it. Those sociopaths will also see no issue whatsoever on amassing power elsewhere, for the sake of their business.

As such, businesses playing by the rules are outcompeted by the ones managed by sociopaths. Darwin style.
I've been told that part of the explosion of Amish is that more than ever are coming back from Rumspringa than before.

Their actual fertility hasn't changed any - what's changed is that since the 80s the outside world has become more phone-obsessed zombies. We've crossed some sort of technological Rubicon where our technology has become less appealing to primitive people.
I agree with you in principle but I think you're missing the magic that makes this all possible.

That magic is the cheap and ubiquitous GSM wireless network which is something that wasn't possible in the 80s.

I agree that we should have cheaper innovations in medicine, that we're held back by entrenched interests, and that we could have had cheaper elecommuncation network access a decade or so ago, but some of this simply wasn't possible in the time frame that you're talking about.
I agree. It has been flagged. It has been marked flagged. It has been re-added to the front page. If Dang wants people to stop arguing about it, then the flag moderation framework needs to stop putting crypto back on the front page. That may well involve banning people who are otherwise good commenters, like when China issues come up.
Whatever that boosts your confidence.
It seems to come down to different views on what this means. Some people want leadership who will listen to user demands and apply pressure to the community to push them to work on things in those directions.

Clojure has more leadership along the lines of "hey, other devs, I am open sourcing this cool stuff that I think is good. Here is my philosophy on why I like these types of libraries and would love contributions if you agree with the direction. I'm happy there are other directions being taken as well, that's great. Oh, also, some non-contributors have been making demands that I spend time on their problems and my answer is a firm no."

I think it is a hugely positive aspect, but I also open source my own libraries and have the same feelings towards people who make demands of me without being willing to contribute so I'm certainly biased.
Anecdotally, I've met a ton of people who balk at Node for backend stuff. I've been at two companies where it was actually prohibited.

> At the end of the day, all these languages can interoperate with all the others in a bunch of different ways, and an organization’s ability to engineer and maintain systems is mostly orthogonal to its choices of “driver” technologies.

I think people say that in an interest to keep the peace, but the assertion doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. Poor technological choices kill companies, or at the very least, make them perform more poorly. Choosing the right technology is a core skill for technology companies.

The problem is that each company is a goddamn unique snowflake. Company X has a bunch of front-end developers and spends most of their money on headcount. Company Y has a bunch of back-end developers and spends most of their money on infrastructure. The "best language for a project could be R, Python, Go, Rust, C++, TypeScript, C#, Java, or something else. Picking the wrong language can sometimes be outright disastrous compared to picking a good language. But most of the time, there's no clear "best" language.

Even though there's no clear "best" language, these people balking at Node may have a point.
The economy is about distribution of stuff. Money is an abstraction; it's like points in a video game. We made it up. You're asking if one abstraction (ownership of a piece of a factory, land, or other business) ever needs to be converted into another (fiat money) to be worthwhile.

No. It doesn't.

I have a modest bit of savings. I hope to never spend it. I live frugally, since I see no upside to living lavishly. My savings means I can have the job I want. If my boss doesn't like what I do, they can fire me. If I lose my job, I'm not bankrupt, and have time to find another job. Money has less sway over me. Historically, that's actually been super-beneficial to my career, since I could focus on long-term things over short-term ones, and that's always eventually been recognized.

That only requires my wealth to be liquid if a situation comes up.

If I had more savings, I wouldn't need to work for anyone, though. I could do startups and things a lot ore freely. There would be no control over me. I'm pretty good at bootstrapping and operating in the black, but at this stage, the risk profile is too high for me to do this.

Moving up from there, if I had a trillion dollars in wealth, I'd live the same lifestyle, but my wealth would not only free me from control others have over me, but would allow me to control others. I could, for example, hire people to solve hunger, disease, education, or war.

At almost no point do I need actual fiat money.

There's an upside to having my wealth backed by factories, land, and other means of production. As a means of value-store, shares are in every way superior to fiat currency. Fiat currencies tend to inflate, while shares tend to grow in value because they're backed by something real.

Ultimately, there is no perfect value store. Nation-states also don't survive forever, and fiat currencies disappear too. There is value to a robust short-term (e.g. long enough to last my retirement) value store. I do understand that it's all zero sum, in the sense that if WWIII comes up, the zombie apocalypse, or rapture, neither shares nor money will have any meaning.

As a means of exchange, I agree fiat beats shares. I keep a small portion of my money in fiat, and a large portion in shares.

As a footnote, in the acquisition scenario, someone ultimately gets something they want. If I have a company with 1000 acres of land, five pieces of mining equipment, and so on, at the very end, it gets carved up into that stuff. That stuff has real, tangible value.
> Data doesn't need to be artificially grouped if there's no benefit in doing so; its structure can be much more amorphous.

I'm curious, just because Clojure offers that flexibility to a developer when writing the logic in their app, why does this flexibility need to "interfere" (for lack of a better word) with the design of a web framework?
All of those things you list ultimately do require trust.

A trustless ledger documenting that I own the land my house is on, doesn't make me any safer against a government determined to steal my land.

A car lease ultimately requires me to trust that the leasing company is going to abide by their contractual obligations, just as they are trusting that I will abide by mine, and the contract enumerates what happens if either party fails to uphold their obligations, which is ultimately enforced by the court system. A ledger doesn't really change any of that.

etc.
If I had to pick a catalyst, I'd go with monetization based on impressions or duration of use -- e.g. ad-based business models. The feedback loops hyper-optimized addictive behavior targeting serotonin.
Seems the radare2 GitHub readme and website is so much clearer on what’s going on, you don’t even have a screenshot in your repo. For someone unfamiliar I don’t think I would chose your fork. Perhaps update the readme and site to have some images of what the product does. Also your “book” seems completely empty, better to not even link to it
What do you mean by evolutionary pressure?
There are some of those contracts active in the USA right now, and the people who sell part of their future income do not have a fiduciary duty. I predict that this will not change in our lifetimes.
Development, aesthetics, and production techniques of metal’s distorted guitar
I think he means govt in general, not J and K state.

Also apropos of your question in another thread about the Amish, those stories you are talking about are about a specific Mennonite group in Canada. Amish are different from Mennonites (more conservative)
There are a few on TikTok.
I've never seen you make such a comment on an account that repeats pro crypto nonsense.
To see what "the other side" is reporting.

And frankly, RT's reporting style changes massively after the ban.
Biology and culture has prepared us for eating other biological beings, so steak and fish aren’t gross to most people.

For most people, to use a non-food animal product, it has to be significantly unlike the animal itself, eg it’s easy to enjoy leather or fur that is not in the form of an animal.

Even for food, most people are less comfortable with food the more like themselves it seems, eg a pig head on your plate is much less appealing than a pork chop. Lobsters and shrimp are not a lot like people so the disgust factor is significantly less.

Yes, there are people with morbid interests in (actual, not depicted) skeletons and taxidermy but these seem to be getting more rare in modern cultures.

For whatever reason, spiders trigger disgust and/or fear in most people; I can’t see necrocyberspiders ever being popular.
Do we need VDOM for fast rendering?
Would it be possible to make expressions that are re-evaluated only when their inputs change and bind them directly to real DOM?
I mean using immutable values and pure functions gives you the first (already used with react) and in the end VDOM mutates the DOM, so why not skip the VDOM altogether?
I had this idea in 2015. A way for teachers to get equity in the students they teach. A way to lower college tuition. Where is my twelve thousand word write up?
Seems like a close cousin of the effect described here, the "drip drip drip" effect, where problems that arise as a sequence of discrete events and that are easy to solve with a simple top down approach get solved, while problems that are more serious in total, but that are continuous is nature and require a more distributed bottom up approach to solve, don't.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/7/5/heres-why-we-re...