skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting downvoted, but I absolutely agree that the ecosystem is a problem.

It's not the JS/TS language/syntax that is the problem per-se, but all the tooling that needs to exist around it for a decent DX.

NPM, Yarn, Babel, Webpack, TSC, ESLint, Prettier, even VSCode itself all contribute to an ecosystem that is a nightmare if you are trying to do anything outside of a handful of common scenarios

Tooling like Vite, Expo, CRA all try to reduce the headaches here, but at the end of the day just end up moving the headaches up an abstraction layer, and reduce the amount of supported scenarios.

That being said, there's not much support for using those languages outside of the ecosystem. Typescript is an incredible language, and if it was possible to transpile it to a language other than Javascript, that'd be ideal for me.
Ah, thanks. Sounds like their API is still fairly limited, huh.
Helion is the only fusion startup I know of that is not obviously a scam.

They count on D-D side reactions for neutrons to use breeding tritium, which decays over decades to the 3He they need. I don't see how that could produce enough. If not, their thing might still end up usable to power outer solar system space probes, using 3He decayed from the usual CANDU-produced tritium.

The Princeton FRC design is intended for spacecraft propulsion. I don't know if it is more or less practical.
That's exactly why HTMX was a good fit for this: it covers exactly the kind of Interaction patterns you'd find yourself writing in vanilla JS where React is overkill, except without having to write all that JS.

Though I don't know why you'd bother with jQuery these days unless you had to deal with ancient browsers: venerable as it is, it's obsoleted itself as just about everything it did is now covered by browser APIs.
Curious, what are those hints?
I didn't know that either!
> I don't think Palmer has ever published anything on quantum mechanical systems, so this claim seems questionable and might be some kind of ideological viewpoint. Seems to wander well beyond the author's sphere of expertise.

I don't think anyone can be an that much of an expert in quantum foundations. It's a research topic full of questions and not much answers, so you don't need deep expertise to grasp the current situation and the limits of current knowledge. In that sense, it should be a free game for almost anyone with a PhD in physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foundations
Fair point.

> I am curious why he is not naming the Emerati prince that hired the law firm.

I suspect that he doesn't have enough evidence to prove it, or he doesn't want to poke the bear, because the Prince wasn't really after him; it was just collateral damage.
After a while you come to expect this to be the default state of the world. Then what surprises you is how often people believe benchmarks without asking to see the code.
Yeah, no. There is no need to listen to what the media tells us, we can ask our still living grandparents about the attrocities the russians did in the second world war. They were worse than the nazis.
Just what we needed.... something else to make the economy tank even more.
You can look at Jessica Wade's contributions to Wikipedia there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jesswade...
> There was a civilisation in the Sahara that had tunnels in the mountain that provided water, I imagine they ran dry.

Was that the Garamantes?[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes
That’s just what I want, an OS from google for my embedded systems
Good example of ignoring users is the Google Photos app, which has an option to turn off motion photo playback, but turning it off just makes a shorter, even more jarring animation instead. Its actually nauseating, and impossible to disable, without reverting to static photos only (I let it record motion photos because its often helpful to catch an action frame you'd otherwise miss, but I want to choose when to playback, not google)
This is what CMD-Shift-? should be.

I think this paradigm along with more app developers putting all the important functions in menus is a strong contender for Maximum Intuitive Productivity
Not my experience at all. The fewer frameworks I use, the more solid and reliable the software tends to be. And you avoid the yearly “our current framework is crab so let’s try something else” rewrite that everybody else seems to be involved in.
> It kinds of smells like superdeterminism?

Yes. From your link: Physicists Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer have argued that superdeterminism "is a promising approach not only to solve the measurement problem, but also to understand the apparent non-locality of quantum physics".

(Tim Palmer is the author of the posted article.)
>>So yeah people who hate CloudFlare and Google Analytics with passion are more likely to have issues to getting on google search result page.

This sounds like something the FTC and /or anti-trust should be looking into.
It isn't a hard coded timer, it's the "loading" animation you see while an app or a page bootstraps a new view. In macos it would be the equivalent of the spinning beach ball.

In iOS I think there is just no way to disable all the animations, while android gives you that switch that is quite literal.
It’s sounds like you simply misread the comment you replied to, and the two of you agree.
It seems there is space for newer search engine then.
Of course there are:

* Hossenfelder's own toy model, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01327v5

* Gerard 't Hooft's cellular automata model: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/gthpub/FFP11_2010.p...

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714819

Models that violate Bell's theorem are in fact simple to construct. Everyone agrees that superdeterminism can evade Bell's theorem, the key is making this evasion as plausible or more plausible than accepting many worlds or the absence of counterfactual definiteness.

Given so little effort has been expended in this direction because of incorrect assumptions of superdeterminism, it's not surprising that these models are still rudimentary proofs of concept, but the notion that Bells' theorem is some insurmountable obstacle is just incorrect.
Hmm.. Maybe if the Lord allows, I could make my composition framework before the middle of the apocalypse hits.
... and we know that either the cost to provide all these things is under $5/month, or the company providing that service is using it as a loss leader.

I don't think it's a loss leader; there are too many suppliers.
Your point is not particularly convincing.
I’d agree I’ve been a tad aggressive with the debate style and went over the line a little. I’m sincerely sorry that my words upset you. My intent was to draw out your core argument, not to get our conversation cancelled with a flag. :P I also feel like this conversation wasn’t progressing, and I do take some responsibility for that, maybe I deserved the flag.

What I was trying to get to is why you’re reacting to the term “cancel culture” with consistent disbelief. It feels like there’s probably some core feeling or belief or assumption here that is driving your reaction to the article and to the idea of cancellation, and I’m curious what it is. You don’t seem to like the words, even though along the way you’ve described exactly what it is: online words going viral causing groups of people to enact painful consequences on someone.

To be fair, your top comment that started this thread violates multiple HN guidelines wrt to the article, and I (along with others) was trying to see if you’d reflect on that and explain it, and hear your point of view and understand your reasoning, by arguing with it. I didn’t flag it though. It wasn’t egregious, and I realize you’re making a meta comment and may not be thinking specifically about how it comes off next to the article, so I replied instead. In effect, you responded to a personal account of someone’s problem with what comes off as a tone deaf claim that the problem doesn’t exist, in multiple ways, and have since maintained and insisted you’re right without addressing any counter argument. Your stance so far as a whole is failing to respond to the strongest plausible interpretation.

Words do have power, which goes without saying, it’s not even debatable. I’m just curious why you’re choosing to use the argument repeatedly that tweets are mere words to suggest that cancel culture somehow isn’t a real or serious phenomenon.
Google sucks up a lot of data, and is in a position to do a lot of bad stuff with it, but historically they have never told my spouse about my affair, my government about my accounts in the caymans, or leaked my nude pictures to my grandma. (I don't actually have any of these!)

I really don't care how much data of mine they have while they limit their evil they use it for to deciding if they should show an ad for baseball or football shirts...

And I trust them not to accidentally leak it far more than I trust my government or any smaller/less techy company.
Yeah, still have my blog on WordPress. There is no drama and no account wall. Just keeps serving my 0.75 new blog posts per year, like a champ.
Last I heard, Wikipedia doesn't want to carry an article for every university professor or scientist who has published some papers. In glancing through Wade's entries, it seems like many of them are just published scholars without any additional notability. I wonder if Wikipedia's notability rules are being uniformly respected here, or are they being selectively applied based on the gender of the person?

I think it's great that Wade is bringing more visibility to lesser-known female scientists, but if we are valuing that, I think we should do so regardless of the subject's identity. Maybe Wikipedia should relax its notability rules a bit for scholars.

If you are inspired to downvote this, I would be curious to know if you disagree with my proposal, or just dislike that I brought up the issue at all.
>> Where I think there’s more of a problem is cultural: [...] there’s a subset of programmers seemingly dedicated to layering abstractions faster than the JIT developers can optimize them.

This sounds extremely accurate to me
"The sub was previously rated to 4,500 meters, but the upgrade will make Alvin the only publicly-funded, human-occupied vehicle available to the U.S. scientific community for exploring the abyssal region in person."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I think you're dramatically underselling how complicated and slow this "paperwork" really is. People on their death bed don't have the luxury of bureaucratic approval processes.
> how many people die or need a liver transplant each year because the FDA is being unreasonable here?

That would depend on whether it is effective. Is it?
There are possibilities for removal mechanisms that do not require proportionate input in energy directly. For example, you could perfect growing algae and let the algae extract energy from sunlight on its own. We would just have to ensure good transfer of CO2 from atmosphere to water. Another I have seen is crushing rock -- as silicate is weathering it will naturally extract CO2 and the question is how efficiently you can powder rock.

Another possible solution would be finding a process that will remove CO2 as a byproduct. If you have to put a lot of energy into it, at least get some part of it back.
This is not something I do in a very structured way, but I've always been interested in optimizing my performance and health. To be honest, I sort of assumed most people in tech are similar in this tendency, although when verbalized I realize that's very presumptuous of me.

Striving for higher performance and longevity physically and mentally, especially in work-related aspects, tends to be my default state and I find the idea of optimizing myself very interesting. However, I have not managed to find a good balance between that and just relaxing; that default state of self-optimization comes at a detriment to my peace and wellbeing. Over the years I've realized that this is not sustainable, but I can't manage to stop. I would be very interested in taking part in such a community, and hopefully learning more about both performance optimization tactics as well as how to let myself switch off and stop churning.
Built over UDP rather than directly over IP. Introducing a new layer 4 protocol on the internet is not realistic for the foreseeable future.
None of these seem a direct/targeted hostile act towards US. While many of these things are concerning, none of these seems like "crossing a red line" (for eg like USSR basing missiles in Cuba) as far as it relates to the US.

It rather more feels like a policy stemming from ideological preference from Biden and US policy makers.

Also has US expended all possible efforts to diffuse tensions and attempt rapprochment, because this policy seems like a one way steet.

This present measures do seem a unilateral targeted hostile measure from the US, not even considering the interests of the allies of US.

Atleast some of the other Asian nations wouldn't see things in such a black and white manner. Would South Korea, Singapore, even Japan think on the same stark lines as US on this?
Can I Jailbreak 2
And until we have a feature parity moderately complex web app written in multiple languages to compare, we'll never know. In the meantime, all we have to go on is basic benchmarks, and I've not ever seen a _single_ benchmark that puts any js, framework or otherwise in the same ballpark as java, .net or go. When I do, I'll happily change my tune, but until then I'll have to stick with what all the numbers I've ever seen say - js is significantly slower.

One example is the techempower benchmarks Fortune section[0]. It's a fairly basic app, but it tests a full stack web app in multiple languages, and it's pretty clear that js is fimrly in the middle of the pack, far behind the compiled options. If you have any sources to the contrary, I'd love to see them.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
I think this take hits on a good point worth exploring. I've also noticed that people generally fall into these two groups and end up talking past each other when ever this topic comes up - myself included.

I often find myself frustrated by the "billionaires are bad" argument because I interpret it as an argument against rewarding performance and productivity. It is objectively true that different individuals have differing ability and desire to contribute to society. Incentivizing and rewarding productivity over idleness will maximise productivity.

On the other side, I suspect there are those who are frustrated by the argument that "billionaires are not bad" because they observe the huge levels of inequality that currently exist and conclude that this can't possibly be an efficient use of resources.

I think there is a middle ground. Clearly, some level of differential reward structure in society is necessary to maximise innovation and productivity. But perhaps the current levels of inequality are also sub-optimal.

However, I don't think that wealth re-distribution (taxes, etc) is the right answer. That seems to be penalising the player, not the game. Perhaps part of the solution might involve reducing barriers to entry so that more people can participate in the market.

It's also worth highlighting that most wealth is created, not transferred. Most billionaires (in a free market) become so by creating valuable businesses and producing value. If Jeff Bezos never created Amazon and never became a billionaire, we'd all be poorer, not richer.
> The comments cannot be considered garbage, since they ask the most pertinent question: why is this announcement worth talking about?

I disagree. Google's habit of killing projects off is interesting/annoying/frustrating but I don't think a trove of shallow "I wonder when google will kill this? lol" comments on every google product announcement add to the discussion.
It’s often not a matter of “add a wrapper to this one CSS rule” but rather, “add a wrapper to ALL of these rules and some of this inline CSS scattered everywhere”.

This is why, as part of a baseline of proper software engineering, it’s so important to get into a configurability/feature flag mindset, right from the start.

If every feature is treated as something toggleable - if every color and padding value is a variable, and every visible string of text is wrapped in a function call that just returns the string, right from the start, then things like turning off animation, making colors more contrasting, or translating on-screen text to another language becomes magnitudes simpler when you do need it.

This is where I have a problem with the pervasiveness of the YAGNI mindset. So many of these things fall right onto the YAGNI sword.

Sure, you can get carried away with premature optimization, for example, but there are so many simple habits developers can and should develop that, once established, will add virtually no time or complexity to what you’re building but will save time and complexity in spades later on.

And if you truly “ain’t gonna need it”, then you still benefit from a more disciplined code structure.
https://archive.ph/6kaJc
Right, I read your point that readability is as important to a language as other things.

But Rusher isn’t saying “use Clojure because it’s ahead of time as opposed to Rust/Go”. He’s making a point that some (often more niche) languages have built-in features that are better suited to what most of the development work is - debugging - and other languages should look to adopt them.
That cells travel along electrical gradients is not news, or related to the claim that touching “ground” or “grounding” is beneficial for health. Your body has its own weak electromagnetic field.

These grounding claims smell seriously like bullshit.
Is it really that big of a deal that you can do @app.post("/foo") instead of @app.route("/foo", methods=["POST"])?
Not 100% sure what they mean, but a lot of the api choices really try to make indexing decisions explicit.

ex: Bounds::Excluded

and iterators like the other commenter mentioned.
"Negative-emissions" carbon-capture technologies have essentially intractable problems scaling up, including basic thermodynamics; that isn't even talking about the massive resource inputs to build a system capable of meaningfully reducing CO2. It's a lot easier to to not emit as much in the first place.

Even barring these severe problems, the precautionary principle is the right thing to apply here. If "negative emission" tech has even a 90% chance of working, we still should focus on reducing emissions, because that tail risk is bad.

It's like why people have fire insurance even though most people's houses never catch on fire.
One word: 'Devs'
LinkedIn seems to have become a repository for bad content marketing and a forum for VCs and "SEO experts" to spread around self-congratulatory posts about how what they are doing is Absolutely the Greatest Thing Ever In the History of the Internet™.
> However, not all of Wiki-world was happy with her. Several of her entries were deleted by other Wikimedians, as the most influential contributors and editors are called. She told TODAY.com that they said a handful of the women she wrote up were not all that well-known.

> Wade said that’s right, that’s the problem: they should be better known.

This is my biggest problem with Wikipedia, it sees itself too much as an encyclopedia, when it's clearly more than that. Wikipedia is already full of boring and random stubs, I don't see the obsession editors have with making sure that a person is "important enough" to have an article. I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.

Important is fairly subjective, and you're limiting yourself to things people in the past have written about. Original research shouldn't be discouraged to the extent it is, as long as it is backed up with valid sources.
Seem like total nonsense to me.
I’m assuming a student at Harvard signed up with their school email address, not that Harvard as an institution is using it.
I don't know about "stigma", but I've certainly starting seeing Medium articles the same way that I see blog posts on LinkedIn. There's zero authenticity there... it's just some crap that you're mechanically writing, in order to put "thought leader" on your resume or CV.
Also worth reading is Tog on Interface by an early Apple employee who was Apple's Human Interface Evangelist in that period. One particularly interesting essay goes into the issues associated with the way that developers are used to dealing with abstract models in a way that many users aren't. (He bases his argument in part of Meyers Briggs which is astrology to some degree--but the basic point stands.)
I am using Java occasionally, there isn't any special learning curve if you know basic syntax.
Same as in Python you don't start with Jdango and virtual environments, you shouldn't start using Java with Spring Boot/Spring.

Google library you need "java http client"

https://openjdk.org/groups/net/httpclient/intro.html - it doesn't look complicated.

First example is using "reactive-streams", you don't have to use that syntax if you aren't familiar (same as in Python there are new features, which beginners may learn later), other examples strait forward.

If library you need doesn't exist in standard library, download jar, add it your `classpath` and use.

Skip any tutorials which are using Spring (unless you want to learn Spring). If you want to write more advanced Java code, learn about [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/)

Same thing about JavaEE/JavaSE, if you google about it, you will find that you may use any, there are different libraries included in installation, it doesn't mean you can't add them later.
The paper is about how to prevent production of tritium. It mentions breeding tritium, but not how to extract grams of it, every day and at negligible cost, from a thousand tons of lithium salt. So, my point stands.

Do futile jabs at renewables, which are being deployed at industrial scale as I write this, serve to make fusion startups less scammy?
I assume by "publically expressing" you mean not saying things to friends over a beer but posting things online or that will go online in some fashion.

If I was a doctor it's unlikely I would be publically expressing anything.

As far as I know I've never been treated by a doctor who goes around publically expressing things on any topic.

When I see a specialist it's usually because I got a referral from a family doctor not because "This doctor has an exciting Twitter feed".

I would guess my doctors have no public twitter feeds at all, not that I've ever checked.

But your question is too vague. In this scenario am I a random "doctor" or am I a nationally regarded expert in the relevant field? And did I run my views past respected colleagues and did they recieve it well or tell me I'm being an idiot?

I think the job of practicing medicine is generally about going to conferences and basing your practice on what the doctors regarded as being in the top of their field suggest.

Just like the job of becoming a doctor is about answering the questions on medical school exams in line with what the teacher told you is true, not "sharing your original views" on how the teacher is wrong.

I was born before social networks existed and reject the implicit framing society works better when everybody debates everything on social media all day. Some things might work well being debated on social media, but not everything.
> Will I/my articles get negativity within dev and tech communities because they are written in Medium?

In short: Yes. Medium has earned a negative reputation.

This is due in part to the low-quality Medium articles which rank high on Google and DuckDuckGo. This builds in "ignore Medium articles" as a useful heuristic.

More importantly, I cannot be sure if I will be allowed to read a Medium article without making an account.

Their pricing model is unclear and their ToS is unagreeable, and so far, nothing has incentivized me to compromise here and make a Medium account.