skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual Brutalism embraces the idea that beautiful forms can come from purely functional design not obfuscated by baroque, purely decorative structures to embellish or superimpose skeuomorphic references to building structures from bygone eras. (e.g. decorative columns.) The buildings should be designed to accommodate many people, but the small, modular elements should focus on the human scale. All of this stems from a utopian idea that scaling production can provide functional, beautifully designed buildings for use by all people, rather than just the privileged few.

While the style is polarizing, and there are obviously examples of shitty brutalism out there, I'd say it often accomplished its goals. In my experience, well-designed brutalist buildings are easy to navigate, have large open spaces, have lots of little nooks and crannies to foster human interaction, and have really beautiful forms.

Old images of the Umass Dartmouth (then Southeastern Massachusetts University) library:

https://sdg-migration-met.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upload...

https://sdg-migration-met.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upload...

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/58602929_10...

In its modern form:

https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/fs/7913213...

(though the architect really should have done more to accommodate laptops in that space!)

This quine is rather the opposite of brutalism. Every single page element adds purely decorative :before and :after elements and monospace font not optimal for paragraph text that hinder its function just to reference an aesthetic from a bygone era. Adding decoration to a functional object to make it "brutalist" is conceptually kind of ridiculous. HN is far more brutalist than that page. Its structure is clear, functional, and largely unembellished.
Even John Carmack, the Lord High King Bitdiddler, has said that the most important thing is delivering value to the customer. It's just that you had to bitdiddle and aggressively optimize in order to get a computer of the 80s or, to a lesser extent, early 90s, to do anything useful. Today we have so much CPU power sloshing around it's ridiculous. If compute were money we'd all be Elon Musk compared to our forebears; even if you just had a $200 HP Stream you'd still be like a minor billionaire or something. So there's much less need to aggressively optimize, especially when not optimizing gets you shorter time to market.

And that, boys, girls, and other, is why you can sometimes see Microsoft Teams draw its widgets one by one like a Windows 1.x application.
You can host your "own" roms on a Web server and feed them to it. I don't think that an emulator should provide the content.
Many other places also ran the same news.
I think you're right about those things, so I wonder why passenger airship service was so much safer. The article claims that those two accidents were also caused by inadequate structural strength and flight instrument failure, so maybe the Zeppelins were just better made?
In so much of the world today, "science" is a brand, and everyone is told to listen to "scientists" because they "follow the science" and know the best way. The genpop couldn't possibly even begin to wrap their heads around text written above a 5th grade level, so they are told they need to listen to the "scientists" by "authorities"
I agree with the need for consequences but what I don't agree with is filling up prisons. The US incarcerates its people more than any other country on the whole planet as it is. I mean, drug use always consistently goes up despite harsh penalties for it. I am all for a well thought out solution. For example you can decriminalize all drugs so long as you take the hard drugs under medical supervision. You can make dealing certain drugs outside of approved outlets a very hard crime (30+ years to life for things like heroine and fentanyl).

Also your comment about having them only pick up trash or something menial is interesting because unless you are paying them a lot of moneu that won't happen. There is plenty of construction that should be happening in california where these people can help (after rehab of course), all this land being hit with drought can perhaps be converted to support manufacturing? Also, why is there no "outsourcing" tax? If apple is making all of its iphones overseas, tax the crap out of them to subsidize employers who are hiring undesirable workers at a livable wage (unless you support UBI). My solution is to force the coastal rich liberals to invest their money in the central valley or lose it anyways by way of taxation.

Everyone is saying "rich liberals" but you just don't have millions of millionaires voting to make those props happen. It is usually people who make under 150k that get in line with this thinking.

Prison is simply a waste of money and human potential. But for crimes with an actual victim like theft, I agree with you that there needs to be a consequence. Perhaps fines where if you can't pay with money you do forced labor? "Community service" is already there.

From what I have seen many social issues like this can be fixed with housing as well. More housing means cheaper housing (that you have to oay for, not free). Give everyone involved an incentive to contribute to society and become a healthy human being basically.

I have no idea why bakersfield and fresno are not filled with high rise condos and there isn't a fast rail/train to the coastal cities for the transplants that can't afford to live there (and solve those cities' homeless issues as well).

The one consistent thing I am seeing in cali is there isn't enough innovation, building things, repurposing things. I blame a lot of this on california being such a nice place to live everyone resists change that might affect that (NIMBYism is one such resistance). Specifically central valley though: they're about as tolerant to outsiders as rural texas from what I've seen. Again, competition for resources makes people be hostile and disteustful of each other which contributes to resistance to solutions.

I agree with you about good intentions but the same can be said about laziness and complaining. If Prop 46/47 suck, let's talk about a better way to do things without paying any attention to left/right wing party-line policies.

Thanks for your insight, I feel like I have a better perspective on the complexity of the problems now.
The design looks a lot like the Navy “tic-tac UFO” patent that was discussed a lot in 2016.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
I really liked the old model where Class Components were used when there was state, and function components were used when there was no state.

Hooks have always seemed so weird. And turns out it's the same for many others.
Supabase + SkyMass
A demo Todo List app using SkyMass for UI and Supabase as the database in ~80 SLoC

https://skymass.dev/app/skymass-demo/supabase-todolist

SkyMass is a new cloud UI server [2] that provides the entire frontend stack as a service (UI components, Auth etc...). It lets you build modern apps by simply writing backends that deal with data access, application logic and describe their UI with very high level widgets.

[1] https://github.com/skymasshq/skymass-demo/blob/main/supabase_todolist.mjs

[2] https://skymass.dev
It's a running joke in youth circles these days that when they first learn HTML/CSS they call themselves coders. Then the older kid that knows JS will smirk and say, "Um, actually..."

I made an app that seeks to make app development accessible to all. This is a demo video I made for aigrant.org - wish me luck :)
This is called print-read consistency in the Lisp world: an object is printed in such a way that the syntax can be read to produce a similar object, or else is given a deliberately unreadable notation like #<...>, where the #< combination is required to produce a read error.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70797208/what-is-print-r...
The East India Company had its own armies and navy. They subjugated entire nations of people before being incorporated into the British state.

In the US, the capitalist mine owners, railroad owners and factory owners all employed paramilitaries to crush worker uprisings-- the tactics often included murder. In the case of Blair mountain, the capitalists' paramilitary forces even used aircraft to drop chemical and explosive bombs (left over from WWI) on striking mine workers.

The use of paramilitaries by corporations continues with e.g., Exxon accused of murders of environmental activists in the Niger delta. But, often corporations use state apparatus to affect violence for their advantage-- e.g., the many US illegal wars of aggression / regime change to steal resources of other nations. Or, the domestic use of police to e.g., attack indigenous protesters attempting to block an oil pipeline (Keystone XL) being built across their land against their wishes-- the police fired tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets, and water cannons (in the middle of winter) on the protesters, in service of TC Energy Corporation.

Governments engage in violence, but large scale government violence is usually at the behest of the very same rich powerful entities that historically employed their own henchmen or even their own private armies. Small scale government violence may just be sadistic and/or corrupt officials. While this petty violence is terrible for the victims, it is insignificant compared to the large scale violence committed in service of the rich and powerful.

The rich don't seem to care if a police department/FBI engages in theft/murder, as long as it doesn't affect them, and state apparatus to inflict violence is simply too useful to the rich to reign it in. Governments are not the problem. The capture of government by the rich and powerful is the problem. Unfortunately, many states seem to have designed their systems to ensure the rich control policy while the masses remain powerless-- the US, where money is speech, is a good example (159 rich people were responsible for 59% of SuperPAC campaign money, and 93% came from 3300 rich people-- they will expect a return on their investment).

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/05/disturbing-d...
> Trust is a beautiful thing. Let the trust-breakers not get a free ride.

Trust has to be earned. If you trust anything by default, you are just being a fool.
I recently read an article about how most modern mainframe deployments (IBM excluded) are software emulation running on x86 platforms. That's really interesting to me. If it wasn't for the proprietary nature of the software, I'd think mainframes would be more accessible than ever.

It got me to wondering why old architectures that were consumer-targeted aren't also emulated for much more than nostalgic gamers and the niche who swear WordPerfect was the peak of word processors.

My theory is that, for the most part, consumer hardware for small businesses and home offices ran consumer software. If my Apple II running VisiCalc dies and my business runs on it, I'm probably going to adopt Windows and Excel instead of trying to run VisiCalc in an emulator.

With large businesses running COBOL apps on mainframes, that software is probably highly customized to their business and their workflow. It's probably cheaper to buy a license for an official emulator rather than trying to port or rewrite the software.

Although, a part of me thinks it would be cool to run a web server on a blindingly fast, emulated Commodore 64.
SCIM integration is for legacy apps that don't support modern auth. I'm not an expert, but I believe Okta is essentially filling in the legacy app's login page automatically. By definition this action requires a password to be transmitted in plaintext.

The answer is for the third-party apps to add modern auth, but this is dependent on the vendor, not Okta. The only alternative is to have unmanaged logins, which is arguably worse than SCIM.

SCIM is there as a last resort, its use is heavily discouraged.
If you were a mapmaker hired to make maps of the city for people, yes you should absolutely be shamed for trusting some random guy on the street without verifying it.

What the study exposed is that science journalists, whose literal job is to understand this stuff and explain it to the general public, suck at their jobs. You absolutely can blame them for just publishing whatever anybody says without verifying it.
i dont think it's foolish to verify the claims made on a page!
> Smart people aren't a resource that can be reallocated promptly like workers in an RTS.

The workers didn't get to those roles promptly either. They saw an opportunity and took degree programs that would get them there.

> The type of person who works at a FAANG or an investment firm...

This is a generalisation that perhaps doesn't hold true for everyone. But what if adtech was banned and the Faang job didn't exist?

> Governmental investment is not sufficient to create massive salaries

a) change it then. b) I am sure there are plenty of very smart hn types who would have chosen academia without a faang salary, if they felt a research rules was a feasible way to make a decent living. There is middle ground here.
Yup, I could earn the double too, if i wanted to go back to office, be manager, or simply moving to Switzerland.. but as it is, is fine. We can be idealist and say: I work here because I like it, because I like the stack, because i like the product, etc.

btw in Germany, people are already sharping their pitch forks too..
It would sure be cool if they fixed this bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521

Note: The spiciest comments are labelled "admin reviewed" and collapsed by default.
> But clearly it has to have some value right? Why is it so popular?

Popularity doesn't mean much. I mean, look at React.

And Tailwind isn't that popular. From Twitter you might get the impression everyone is using it, but if you look at the State of CSS you'll see is not even close to something like Bootstrap or SASS.

https://2021.stateofcss.com/en-US/technologies
Oh wow extremely similar! Thanks for sharing.
As far as fissile fuels go, fortunately Russia isn't the only (or even the biggest/best) option. Many countries produce Uranium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
Huawei’s “New IP” Proposal – Frequently Asked Questions
What do you mean? It's hilarious. Anyone with a bit of common sense knows you're gonna gain weight eating a chocolate bar a day
Swamp gas...
Distributed Charge: Grid, Electric Metering with Bitcoin Lightning Network
I almost didn't believe you that the effect of contrails could be that large, but I searched and it sounds crazy: https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-airplane-contrails-are-he...
I have a vitamix blender and every day I make smoothies with carrots, oat milk, protein powder, PB2, ground flax seeds, and frozen fruit mix. Apart from that I really never think about protein. My understanding is that our meat-centric culture focuses too much on protein, and if you eat a good amount of veggies you will get a fair bit of protein as it is. But protein powder in a smoothie is great.
Of course they did, the billing departments at hospitals are pathological in many, many ways, and there's no punishment mechanism in sight.

I was receiving care from a couple of doctors who worked in the adult outpatient care branch of a large hospital. I was fortunate, and insurance covered my care from them in full, without any sort of haggling or harassment on my part.

On many occasions, I received collections notices for bills from the hospital that I had not received prior, for IDs which, when I called the hospital's billing department, they said "those are paid in full, you shouldn't be hearing about them" - "...and yet I'm on the phone with you about a debt collector you sold it to, now aren't I?" "...well, we can't do anything about it."

Fortunately, the debt collector, of all people, made it straightforward to resolve each time this happened - once I reached out, they went through each bill and went "yeah this seems like it's paid in full", "yeah this seems like it's paid in full", "okay no this looks like it's the leftover from a copay", and then I followed up with more documentation from my insurance, and it went away.

But it kept happening. It was one of, though by far not the largest, reason I stopped getting care there - having to spend hours doing back and forth on the phone over bills that were nominally paid on time every couple months was quite draining...
How Airplane Contrails Are Helping Make the Planet Warmer
I am thankful for this study. I haven't trusted diet news articles about studies for at least a decade, and since the "Venus has life", I am very sceptical of any paper claiming "novel" things (I am a researcher myself).
Libertarian anti regulation think takes are not a reliable source for opinions on new regulation. It’s like going to a peta or vegan website to see their opinion on whether more meat eating would be good.
The G in "GUI" stands for "graphical." People forget that when they defend shitty, undiscoverable UI. The examples in this article are right on point. Apple (and others) far too often simply punt and give up on doing the necessary design work, burying functionality behind some bullshit like "long presses" or "gestures" or modifier keys or modifier-key-clicking on a text label that isn't even demarcated as a control.

UI design takes time and thought; that's true. But why does a company with Apple's resources not bring the necessary effort to bear on it? It's not as if they can't afford it. Sure, there are time constraints, but if you're going to fold to those and trowel out shitty UI, then don't presume to publish "human interface guidelines" or other such bibles.

And it's high time to stop tolerating smug douchebags who denigrate any complaint about missing functionality and declare, "Well, you simply long-press Option-Shift-Command-Q to bring up the configuration menu."
I have experience at this.
Don’t do any work.
Research your own hobbies on work time.
Look for new jobs.
Browse Hacker News articles.
Use work time to organise all your normal affairs such as tax, paying bills, being on-hold to companies sorting out things. All the time consuming activities that normally consume your life hours. Transfer these to work hours.
Plan your dinner meals.
Build new skills and learn a new tech stack.
Don’t answer emails. People will call you if important.
Don’t answer calls outside of work time. Especially unknown numbers.
Arrive late, go do some exercise, show your face, have a long lunch, more afternoon fitness. Leave early.

I did this for 3 months whilst transitioning to a new job; my old boss was the biggest psychopath in the world. In three months I did absolutely nothing. They would send me to meetings and I’d just sit there! It can be done :)
More, I think, preying on the public's interest in UFOs to justify another massive military budget. All of the wild PR around UFOs with absolutely nothing of substance to back it seems to be a very effective PR campaign.
Why didn't you help your teammate?

A PhD doesn't mean that a person knows everything. It means they made progress in understanding in a narrow area. Might not have included Python.
Where's the patent drawing? I see a cartoony desk lamp UFO in the logo/seal, and then in the article there are a bunch of angular drawings followed by a 3D render of what looks more like a yam with somebody's challenge coin stuck in the middle.
Ask HN: Remote log service for react-native or mobile app
I am working on a mobile app and I am wondering is there a logging service that can accept http or socket call/connection so a mobile app or a web app can send its error logs to. Thereafter it would send the logs to elastic or some other log database. I see there are "logging service" for React to record crash logs. But I am logging for remote logging service not crash logging service.
Oh and make sure you raid the stationary cupboard. 8 years later and I still have a surplus supply of 4-pens!!

Don’t take more than an item a day though.

Stock up on printer paper and things like that.
Chocolate - Phytochemicals : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Phytochemicals
I love browsing the Strange Loop channel on YouTube. So many interesting topics that you wouldn’t normally search for!
> I doubt there’s a reasonable way to capture jet exhaust, and even if it did it would increase the weight of the aircraft.

Just taking it with you is a non-starter.

If your fuel is mostly carbon by weight, then the CO2 will weigh 2-3x as much. At that point batteries are starting to look appealing by comparison. There are battery techs with around 400Wh/kg and various almost-working ideas in the 500-600 region. Once you run 11000Wh/kg hydrocarbons through a turbine at 30% and carry the 2 Oxygen atoms for every C you might only be getting 1000Wh per kg of exhaust you carry.
To be a bit reductive here, it needs to work for everybody for it to be a viable fossil fuel car alternative. You can't have 1% of people for whom it doesn't work for because for 300M people that is 3M people. Often the people for whom it doesn't work for are the poorest and most vulnerable as well. Imagine taking off the cost of battery ownership and having battery leases subsidized, now you electric cars become even more affordable. Battery swapping from an infrastructure perspective is not mutually exclusive to charging either. You can charge cars with swappable batteries at charging stations. You just need the government to force standardization of both charging and swapping connections. Capitalism will take care of where you have swapping and charging stations. Of course you can force people to buy hybrids as well but they are not well liked due to difficulty of repairing them and that still means fossil fuels.

If fast charging car batteries in less than 5min can be done in 15 years and hybrids are acceptable maybe that is the way to go but even then as a consumer a 20second swap is better than a 5 minute charge. Ignoring what consumers want is always a critical mistake.

I have no doubt fossil fuel cars will go away, the question is do you want them to go away in 10 years, 20 years or 30 years. The sooner they go away the better it is for climate change right? If so, long term "holistic" engineering has no place here. Swappable+chargable battery designs are best imo.
The positioning is always weirdly intentional with these designs, too. Something's definitely being indicated by the location of the UFO in the design.
title? it has a "flying saucer", not a UFO
Examples of brutalist websites: Craigslist, Skimfeed, Reddit.

Early Google, Twitter, Facebook also, use archive to take a look at how simple and purely functional they were vs. the bloated mess they are now. In fact, the whole web was that way in those days. Made by engineers for engineers.
Yeah, so without trust this research would take a long time.

First of all, you'd need to know what to learn, which is pretty hard.

In this case that would be what? At least basic and some advanced understanding of human anatomy, metabolic processes, neurotransmitters maybe, some pharmacology, nutrition, that's too much for most people.

It would be easier to just learn how to tell honest people from scammers/liars/propagandists and then trust some of them.
I interview a lot of people and I ask all of them to write code (standard for our company). There's plenty of people that can talk about all sorts of stuff but can't code. Who do you hire to write software? Also do you want to work somewhere where software engineers can't write software? Do you want to work somewhere where the people doing the planning can't write software?
I think the hydrogen-electric [1] development is more promising here because it has the potential to deliver long haul flights with no emissions or contrails.

While H2 isn't great for decarbonization at scale, in specific industries like aviation it might be applicable assuming it's made cleanly.

[1] https://www.zeroavia.com/
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who took the time to post here. I can’t reply to all of you, but this is very comforting and I read every comment.