skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency between page going blank and FCP, poor recovery mechanisms. Significant number of users is still on occasionally bad connections (e.g. on a train, walking into the part of the building with poor signal etc). If interaction in SPA does not work, they can try again, because they still have the UI. If page goes blank and does not load, not every user will recover from this.
You don't need to convince me, convince the people who keep sending the ballons, invading allies, and using NATO countries as rocket flyover paths.
https://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor...
I'd rather my own government spy on me than China. I'd rather Hannibal fucking Lecter be able to see me through my webcam than China.
> Even if you use React in small areas where it pulls its weight but generally try and stick to simplicity of sending plain ol' HTML

The reason why so many apps use React/Vue/whatever for everything is because this hybrid setup is far from simple. It leaves you with two different ways of rendering views, which creates unnecessary context switching for developers, and the interface between the two is often ugly and complicated and prone to memory leaks if you're not careful. It also prevents you from taking advantage of the most powerful patterns in these frameworks, which rely on the assumption that it's running as a single page app.

The fact is, if your app has functions that require a JavaScript framework to work, the most straightforward answer is to build the whole app in that framework, rather than trying to cobble together multiple front end systems.
Yeah then law enforcement would actually have to catch Kadyrov for you know, murdering civilians rather than for moving money. That sounds awful.
See Windows on ARM based PCs.
It's like Israel's "Iron Dome" interceptors. $50,000 each to take out what amounts to a $50 Estes model rocket.
No, it is just as likely to be a reporter's garbled understanding of an explanation. In mysterious matters wait until you have 2 or 3 datapoints before using a heuristic.
I’m genuinely curious where the gymnastic is? I am asking in good faith. What is Russia’s interest in sabotaging it? They can’t sell gas to fund their war machine.

What’s the US interest? Now Europe must buy LNG from our fantastic gas companies. US exports of LNG are at an all time high price. Europe is pissed off at our rival. Not to mention our commander in chief threatened to blow it up, why?

Everything here says it’s in the interest of the USA, not Russia. I don’t feel like I’m bending any logic, in fact I feel like this is the only common sense way to think about it.
> never be tempted to stab the goose who's laying the golden eggs

Isn’t the whole point that there are no golden eggs? People don’t want to pay and people don’t want ads. Where would you get income for the authors and for the platform itself?
Why "luckily"?

Do you mean it would have been lucky in a different situation?
Look at Russia as an example. The war has been longer and less popular than expected and economic sanctions have hurt the working class the most.

China imports 66%-75% of its oil. That would drop dramatically in a hot war, as oil imports via the South China Sea would likely be blocked. This would require any imports to sail around Australia, which would likely be stopped by the US.

Russia would happily sell China oil, but it doesn't produce nearly enough to cover the gap.

No oil, no military. No oil, no economy.
What are you using to do this?
Some writers were attracted to Medium because it was easy get started.
It was frustrating to me as a reader, because I was getting enough links there each month to hit the limit. I wished that writers would just set up their own site, which is also better for building their personal brand.

One interesting aspect of the Medium business model is that it can really deliver money for writers who get a lot of traffic. Medium effectively shares some part of the paid user subscriptions with all the sites they visit. So if you only visit one site in a month, they get all the money for that month. If that's a popular post, the writer might make a lot of money. But it depends on the subscriber not visiting many sites.

There is a theory that people will discover the writer's content just because it's on Medium, but that's certainly not how I find things. I follow links from social media or web searches.

If a writer consistently has a lot of good content, they will make more money at Substack, as they keep a larger percentage.

So the business model of users having a subscription to Medium as a destination site for discovery doesn't work particularly well. It doesn't benefit writers with consistently good content, and it doesn't benefit readers. So you end up with medium-value content that might get a windfall. It's kind of an SEO game.

Reminds me that I have hardly seen any interesting links to Medium lately, and I should cancel my subscription.
>This seems like conjecture.

It's conjecture for me to presume the sky is blue without looking out of my window, but it's a safe bet on days with good weather.

Unless this balloon -- or whatever it was -- was diamond-bedazzled and platinum-plated and filled with alien technology it's a safe bet that it was a fair amount cheaper to produce/launch/maintain than sortieing one of the most expensive and exclusive modern aircraft in the world and shooting off a missile that costs 600k/ea -- and that's not even considering collateral costs associated to the action.
> Welcome to America, we're broke because we spent all our money on guns rather than infrastructure, healthcare and education.

This sentiment is completely untrue. Defense is approximately 12% of US government spending, healthcare approximately 24%, education approximately 15%, and social security roughly 20%. Infrastructure is harder to categorize, but the truth is that the US government spends at least 4x more on healthcare, education and welfare (combined) than defense.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2023USrn_...

The fact that this 12% of government spending amounts to the largest military on earth is in large part a consequence of the fact that the US is really, enormously wealthy compared to most of the rest of the world, has a fairly large population, and still has a larger GDP per capita than any other large or even medium-sized country.
"Refreshes can be very fast, and often essentially invisible in modern browsers"

That's thanks to a fantastic browser feature that was introduced a few years ago that hardly anyone knows about: Paint Holding - https://developer.chrome.com/blog/paint-holding/

"... where the browser waits briefly before starting to paint, especially if the page is fast enough. This ensures that the page renders as a whole delivering a truly instant experience."

This is why you don't see flashes of a blank white page while a new page is loading on most sites these days.
> I wonder if some degree of folks just getting sick of the craft beer craze could be a confounding factor.

Yup. I'm a (former) home brewer. I have quite a few friends who are current or former home brewers, too. We're all basically done with the craft beer trends at this point, preferring classic styles that are in the <= 5% ABV range.
Doing it for old hardware makes a much more compelling case for the general public to rally behind.

For lots of folks, as long as things are working, they don't care how. Limiting such a law to out-of-support hardware would give a clear value-add of "Your phone stopped working, but if this legislation got passed, it could keep working".

(I personally would love the right to control all my hardware, but that's a much tougher sell.)
I don’t think it’s unhackable, it’s probably more just unviable because any software exploit just gets quickly patched and becomes useless. Along with the difficulty of having to find a whole chain of exploits to work your way up the privilege layers.

The hardware exploit is still usable in the latest models but it’s harder to access. You require soldering a mod chip to the switch rather than sliding a jig in the controller rail.

But regardless, I think hardware security is outpacing hackers abilities. The cat and mouse game is becoming increasingly one sided.
> Successful blogging has three elements: (1) writing a lot...

How much truth is in this often-repeated statement?
I wasn’t critiquing Catholics. I am Catholic and believe in demonic possession and ghosts. I was trying to make HN aware of this Catholic trivia.
Countries have political skews so it's entirely possible for truth to be heavily skewed conservative in the USSR and liberal in the USA. This is why the let's cover 2 points of view press is garbage. 2 points are 2 conservative war hawk dominated parties in the US.
Oh we just chose one (I just used slashes because different systems used different names). In reality we had only two builds - the "daily" preview that was built automatically when PRs merged and were used by developers and beta testers (we published to beta channel) and the actual releases that went to production (which were market with git tags).
He literally says "For what it is worth, my own view is that too many universities use DEI paperwork as a lame replacement for the actual work of trying to reach a wider range of students"

We've got an academic posting on his blog that "others" think this is a political litmus test of, effectively, academics. Does he believe this conspiracy theory? Well it is complicated! He's just telling you what "others" think. He does think DEI is lame. He's doing a lot of work here to get these uncited "other" ideas into the conversation.

He is in the perfect position to call bullshit if this view was false, because these are political litmus tests targeted at his community. What he should be saying is that "I'm an academic with X years experience and this just isn't how it works! These statements are an important plank in promoting minorities!". The fact that he is putting that the ideas are lame and amplifying the idea that they might be diversity statements is a wild position for him given his usual approach to politics.
The enshittification cycle has always been here, but progress continues. It just feels like things are getting worse as the programs we grew up on enter the shit-zone part of their lifecycle.
ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can.

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2018/11/esri-dominates.html
Agreed. Many people who have the means don't mind paying for things that bring them value, and they would much rather just pay for consistency than have that value eroded over time.
Pentagon Shot Down Object over Alaska, U.S. Officials Say
It's not that the bullets won't fly a long ways. It's that the range where the gun is accurate is fairly small. Sure you could theoretically shoot it from 20 miles away as long as you're 15 miles above the target and can successfully plot the ballistic arc, windage, etc. But fighter jets aren't flying artillery pieces so their computers don't do that kind of targeting.
Where do you encounter roads that lack sidewalks and are also unsafe to walk on? I've frequently experienced the former in Seattle, but usually they're very low speed residential streets that are safe to just walk on. The only real counterexample I can think of is 5th Ave NE by the golf course.
AppRun is a JS/TypeScript library inspired by Elm: https://apprun.js.org/

Does very well on comparisons of performance and code size: https://medium.com/dailyjs/a-realworld-comparison-of-front-e...
The problem is the schema and validation is the hard part and XML doesn't help with that at all.
The F22 is America's superiority fighter, still beating the F35 in stealth and capability for anti flying things action. The F22 will probably be the default in most intercept circumstances.
How timely, I, too, am in the market for a new job and I've noticed that ridiculous new buzz of "HTML over the wire" or related to "over/on the wire". Thanks for writing this.
Don’t necessarily disagree and I don’t know sufficient details to form a responsible opinion, but I imagine there’s expenditure for training, whether they hit actual stuff or not?
Your food will be flash frozen to preserve taste and nutrition!
You could train an AI chatbot to do those fixes for you, but it will also make plenty of mistakes. You could train yet another AI chatbot to compensate for that, but at some point somebody has to get their hands dirty, or else it's AI chatbots all way down.
Yes it's possible for feature branches to look a bit like feature flagged code, but other than that, the administrative and organizational implications seem very different.

The most obvious being, it's a lot easier to see everything when it's in one place.
Indole is also used in perfumery. "It contains indole" is not a slam dunk argument.
Had way too many errors trying to set things up, so I just switched to render.com, which I love.
> If it was not a drone, and "not a balloon", what could it be?

It could be an unmanned glider with some solar power.
Several companies make those. Including Google, which was considering them as data relays back around 2016.
I would too but Europe sold all its companies to the US and China.
Sounds remarkably similar to Oracle, or other "too big to fail" things that sell ridiculously priced software to CTOs.
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While I tend to agree, I’m also somewhat hopeful it can be a force multiplier for myself. I don’t think it will actually replace designers, anymore than WYSIWYG editors/Squarespace/Wix et al did. But it might make some design processes quicker for those who are already skilled, and that would be pretty neat.
Related—others?:

Motherduck Raises $47.5M for DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610218 - Nov 2022 (2 comments)

Modern Data Stack in a Box with DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191938 - Oct 2022 (5 comments)

Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035803 - Sept 2022 (38 comments)

Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32684424 - Sept 2022 (28 comments)

Show HN: CSVFiddle – Query CSV files with DuckDB in the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31946039 - July 2022 (13 comments)

Show HN: Easily Convert WARC (Web Archive) into Parquet, Then Query with DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867179 - June 2022 (15 comments)

Range joins in DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31530639 - May 2022 (24 comments)

Friendlier SQL with DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31355050 - May 2022 (133 comments)

Fast analysis with DuckDB and Pyarrow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217782 - April 2022 (53 comments)

Directly running DuckDB queries on data stored in SQLite files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801575 - March 2022 (23 comments)

Parallel Grouped Aggregation in DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30589250 - March 2022 (10 comments)

DuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Arrow and DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29433941 - Dec 2021 (13 comments)

DuckDB-Wasm: Efficient analytical SQL in the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29039235 - Oct 2021 (58 comments)

Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010103 - Oct 2021 (79 comments)

DuckDB is the better SQLite with APIs for Java/Python/R and it's got potential - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692997 - Sept 2021 (2 comments)

Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28328657 - Aug 2021 (27 comments)

Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27634840 - June 2021 (32 comments)

DuckDB now has a Node.js API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289574 - Dec 2020 (4 comments)

DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531085 - Sept 2020 (160 comments)

DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23287278 - May 2020 (67 comments)
It's not like this is new. We know there were 3 during the T administration. Now for some reason we've decided we need to be paranoid about them.
For some number of balloons N, the operational experience our fighter pilots get is priceless.
You could say... you've SLAMmed QGIS onto your robots

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
India a major player in batteries and EVs after major lithium deposit discovery
American no abstract good
Some of the propaganda videos people are posting on douyin (OG tiktok) are hilarious (even if the historical events they're inspired by are very serious). It's interesting to compare foreign propaganda about the US military to US propaganda about foreign militaries.

https://www.douyin.com/video/6946497713223585028

https://www.douyin.com/video/7081571993102961958
A Close Read at NIST’s SP 1800-35 Definition of Zero Trust Architecture
How long till we get prompt injection on OWASP top ten XD
We should figure out a way to harvest the helium.
We do not have many red light cameras, although there is some recent talk of increasing them (and rolling out speed enforcement cameras). There are a handful.
> Substack isn't a technology platform - it's a business model. They paid a bunch of well known writers a bunch of money to come to their platform and it paid off. I think they have wisely bet that there is no shortage of content on the internet, and focusing on curation is more important than access.

I would say Substack is both a technology platform and a business model, but I think the point you're making is the technology platform is very simple and easy to replicate, so not the focus of their success or lack of it? Which I'd agree with.

What I would not agree with is that Substacks business model has anything to do with curation. I do subscribe to a couple of writers on Substack, but my decision to subscribe to each was independent of the fact that the other one was on Substack, or who else was on Substack. The Substack brand isn't reader facing at all.

And in fact, Substack doesn't actually do curation. Anyone can sign up, and when they were signing their advance deals, they were fairly clearly offering them to anyone who their models predicted would bring in enough subscribers to bring a profit. Which in turn later harmed them, as people imputed some sort of editorial opinion to the deals.

In short, I'd say their suceeding so far because of their business model. but the business model is that there's a lot of content out there that people are willing to pay for, so they'll offer a technology platform with zero curation that lets people pay for content.
I totally get how this bug would end up in the game

Someone probably manually tested the feature originally and thought “yeah this feels random”
Actual weather balloon?
Those UFOs were lens flares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Turns out we like to spend gobs of money even when we're just chasing our shadow.
You're sharing misleading information here. While this is true recently, it's not like France has been consistently short of energy. Typically it's Germany that imports energy from France.

"Due to the technical problems affecting French reactors, Germany for the first time sold more power to France than it received from its neighbour, doubling its year-earlier export volume there.

France produced 15.1% less power in 2022 and the volume fell short of national usage by 1%."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-...
The US doesn't have any heat-seeking missiles. They use multi-spectral imagers that can see in the infrared spectrum among others.
Russia is the only country who could do it without risking provoking a war.

Russia knew they weren’t going to make any money on it due to the strong reaction to the war on Ukraine.

Russia could have decided to do it to remind Western Europe that it could do the same to other pipelines they depend on.

None of that is determinative that Russia did do it, but it’s sufficient to me to indicate that they could have done it, and insisting that it’s absurd is, well, absurd.
Shoot first ask questions later? Why not intercept it, disable it, and then dismantle it to figure out what and why it is?
Real estate is the ultimate legal grift in the US. The whole tax system is wired up to the benefit of real estate investors.
Exactly. My rule of thumb is that SSR is good when you optimize conversion (hence focus on bounce rate, FCP, time to interactive), SPA is good when you optimize UX (hence focus on interactivity, response time, recoverability etc). On the customer journey SSR is usually everything before registration and login, SPA is for most of the things after (except some embeddable static content like help pages).
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I don't like pull-quotes in web articles. Their purpose is to get you to stop flipping pages in a magazine, where they serve a real purpose. On a web page they just give you a spoiler.
> Reason and Elm died off

I'm still quite sad that Reason died. The syntax was much more comfortable and familiar than OCaml's while still delivering a ton of power. Have an optimizing compiler run on your JS was actually quite helpful. As a bonus you could have your backend running either Node or OCaml depending on your needs (ecosystem vs perf).

Was really unfortunate when the drama around Reason the language vs the Bucklescript compiler blew up and resulted in ReScript (a language that appealed to approximately no one in the existing user base).
>The result of which is indistinguishable from xenophobia.

Yeah, but it's not xenophobia: it's mandatory compliance activity associated with a framework that - if it did not exist - banks would not do. Motives matter. Xenophobia wouldn't be distributed in accordance with weak national finance controls etc.