skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netlify CEO and coiner of terms here :)

I would actually argue that Jamstack has won to the point of basically just being "Modern Web Development" by now.

In the 7 years since I first presented the term at Smashing Conference in San Francisco, I can't think of a single new successful commercial CMS that hasn't been headless or API first. I can't think of a single new successful commerce platform that's launched in that period, that hasn't been headless or API driven.

On the contrary, big existing players have mostly changed their strategy. Shopify is more and more embracing a decoupled approach of building globally distributed shop UI's with Remix (running either on their own platform or places like Netlify or Cloudflare) pulling in products, pricing and check out flows from their API layer. Most existing CMS companies have started integrating API first approaches into their strategy and in the data space we've seen an explosion of "Database as API" from Neon, to Supabase, to Xata or Converx, etc...

Part of the confusion has always been the conflation of Jamstack with "static" when even my first presentation on Jamstack back in 2016 had a big slide with the word static crossed out to underline that I personally didn't intend to conflate the two. The real game changer for treating the web UI as it's own decoupled application, and the backend as a set of API and services where some are your own running your core business logic, but a lot of them are provided by external providers.

At Netlify we're now focusing less on evangelizing the Jamstack approach of treating the web UI as it's own decoupled, independent layer, running on top of API's rather than stuffed into your backend systems - and more on helping really large companies adopt this at scale for their core web architectures (Composable Architectures). But not because we're any less bullish on the first part, on the contrary - because we don't really have to anymore!

And the article's conclusion that we somehow failed is absurd. Sites and apps on Netlify are visited by more than a billion unique visitors a month, we delivered more than 10 Petabyte of
data out of our network in December alone, have onboarded more than 4 million developers to our platform, and continue to prove that we can scale this architecture to some of the largest and most complex companies in the world, running big complex projects with faster time to market, higher productivity and higher conversions and revenue.
General logging was in the specific list of problems. Servers you're not in control of were an explicit part of point number 1.

Bots can possibly solve the issue of "I need to get logs of arbitrary channels I'm in", but discord in particular makes it difficult in a way that IRC does not.

Discord is in some ways much worse than IRC for logging.

It's also better in some ways. But there are important differences in each direction.

Discord could largely solve this with a ToS change. But until that happens, it's a problem.
Been doing it for years....you're welcome.
On the other hand if we only have 2-3 degrees of warming, if that’s enough to prevent the next ice age, didn’t we just dodge a massive icy bullet? Might we not one day thank ourselves for doing something reckless and stupid that actually worked out?

Yeah a warmer climate brings all kinds of horrible changes. But food still grows in the northern hemisphere. A colder climate is arguably even worse for us.

By the way, that’s no excuse to keep doing what we’re doing. Limiting warning at 2-3 degrees will be nice. Things get really horrific above 4. At some unknown point feedback cycles really kick in and we go to 5-10 degrees and get completely fucked. We really have to not find out where that threshold is.
Across hundreds of years this is largely pointless, but people aren’t worried about that kind of timescale. In the short term planting trees in areas they can thrive can make a signifiant short term impact.
(> I doubt this hardline assertion... )

(I'll cop to having an iPhone, but only because my sister got it as part of a package deal last time she renewed her phone contract. I only use it to communicate with her, and only because we have to coordinate closely on the care of our elderly mother. I have installed no apps, and I removed most of the ones that came with it. Other than that, yeah, I run all Libre/Open software. I rarely actually read it, of course, but in theory I could.)

(⌐■-■) (Sardonic-"I'm so cool" self-deprecatory shades.)
Yup, and the "preprint" (which doesn't have a number of controls in the process) leaves a lot to be desired, so the "real" paper will presumably have some of this worked out.

I expect things like the cooling rate (which affects crystal growth) and oxidation will both have variability in them.
It responds to the comment "I only clicked on the article because I thought it was the age of the samples too." Age is "The length of time that a person or thing has existed." AD and BC are both absolute values from a zero point, both positive ("1 BC is year 0, 45 BC is year −44" [0]). A relative chronological dating by some phenomenological method such as radiocarbon or thermolumenescence might establish a negative date relative to some other known benchmark [1].

How might something dated from the future be found? I'm not certain, but maybe it has to do with aliens that are all the rage nowadays.

If I were 12 years old, I would have been born 12 years ago.

2023
- 12
----
2011

If I were -12 years old, I would be born 12 years from now.

2023
- -12
----
2035

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_dating
This is technically a frontlight. The panel contains a diffuser and has LEDs at all edges of the display.
But there was no new evidence at that time. What there was though, was discussions on how a lab origin's negative impact on research and future funding! You can read more about some of their conversions before and after the paper was published here: https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress...
I’m glad to read that as it confirms my experiences too. Seeing that it is also not that actively maintained I even started writing a similar thing myself as I really only need a small subset of the functionality.
> She posts her kitchen chemistry process over the weekend, at arrives at 2 confirmed Meissner effect levitation stones, beating all other public teams. She posts the pics on Twitter and begins to indulge in her favorite hobby, insulting the intelligence of westerners.

Editorialized, but quite close.

The original thread is one of the best on Twitter. The character of the Soviet anime lesbian kitchen chemist dropping some amazing lines in between posting pics of casually cooking a superconductor is just chef’s kiss. I don’t even need it to be true, got my money’s worth.
> it does not seem crazy that they exist.

I think that it does seem crazy that they exist. To give a single politician the power to simply override our justice system is dangerous and crazy. If that's really necessary in order to ovoid miscarriages of justice, then we need to fix the real problem, not introduce a new one.

Why is the pardon ability a problem? Because it's the judgement not just of one person, but of a person who is a political animal. There is no way that power will be used in a way that is impartial, and there is no single person who is so wise that they should be entrusted with such decisions. That it's a politician making the decisions all but guarantees that the decisions will be made out of political interest, not some interest in actual justice.

All the pardon power does is to increase the potential for corruption.
In tears laughing. I skipped this movie but I'll be watching it tonight.
EE undergrad from GaTech here.

I did 2 semesters of EE internships at a small electrical and hardware engineering shop that built custom devices for the military and police. I currently am a software engineer.

My sense is that it is about the same. In my internship, I remember the senior engineers waiting around for parts to be delivered, taking unnecessary day trips to local fab houses to check on orders, and waiting around for MIL-STD-202 (military electrical testing that can take 12+ hours per test) to complete.

It didn't seem that much different.
I used to order Chinese take out to watch every new episode of Burn Notice. I’m not concerned about companies knowing this and using it “against me” in targeted advertising.
If you're looking for interesting signals to receive, check out:

* NOAA satellites in the 137MHz range
* APRS packets on 144.390MHz
* ISS and other amateur radio satellites around 435MHz

For the satellites, I really like GPredict as it can drive SDR programs.

ISS, TEVEL, SO-50 are often active.
So they have a batch of the material as proof, but no idea how to exactly reproduce it?

That would be a wild story if true.
Related. (I thought I saw another one recently but couldn't find it...)

Play Basic Computer Games in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377776 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

Basic Computer Games (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572761 - Sept 2021 (12 comments)

Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273866 - Feb 2021 (65 comments)

Basic Computer Games (ported to C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, VB.NET) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324 - Feb 2021 (3 comments)

BASIC Computer Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604142 - April 2019 (120 comments)

BASIC Computer Games (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026063 - Feb 2015 (31 comments)

Atari Archives: BASIC Computer Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3200133 - Nov 2011 (23 comments)

BASIC Computer Games Book, published in 1978 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866103 - Nov 2010 (36 comments)
> I find them visually distracting. I prefer Wikipedia style hover footnotes so they are hidden unless I decide I can't live without the citation etc.

Hover has poor usability on mobile. I don't think that I'm the only one who reads the phone on even short trips.
It is pixel-based, it just doesn't result in perfect updates. I'm not entirely sure why this is the case: maybe the power is too low (as a trade-off between speed and accuracy), maybe clear a cell affects neighbouring cells, or maybe something else.

E-ink displays are hardly new and lots of people have been thinking about/working on the slow refresh rates for over 2 decades. Do you really think that anything you can come up with on HN in 5 minutes without any knowledge of the tech is something people hadn't thought of before?
for approachable summaries of those accident reports, I'd recommend Admiral Cloudberg's "Plane Crash Series" on Medium [0] and Reddit [1], as well as YouTube videos from Mentour Pilot [2].

the latter's videos tend to have clickbait-y titles to make the YouTube algorithm happy, but the content is excellent.

0: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/e6n80m/pl...

2: https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot
Even in the best of circumstances, a tree takes years if not decades to mature. That isn't a timeline that many investors are attracted to.
And somewhat counterintuitively, they don't even make most of their profit off of ticket sales. The big players make almost all their money on the reward cards and membership systems. Some of them even take a loss on their ticket sales just to make the memberships more appealing.

In that scenario, there's little reason to make the flying experience great.
From the Intercept article (quoting Andrew Rambaut, one of the authors):

>> “I personally think we should get away from all the strange coincidence stuff. I agree it smells really fishy but without a smoking gun it will not do us any good,” he wrote. “The truth is never going to come out (if [lab] escape is the truth). Would need irrefutable evidence. My position is that the natural evolution is entirely plausible and we will have to leave it at that. Lab passaging might also generate this mutation but __we have no evidence that that happened__.”

>> Not that discussing it isn't fun

(My underlining)

The email and Slack messages' significance has been overblown. The communications make it clear that the authors of the paper had no evidence to support a lab leak theory.

It is obvious this whole thing is played for political gains, much like the email leaks of climate scientists a few years ago where held up by "skeptics" as evidence that the whole climate change thing was made up.
this isn't a measuring contest to see which drug is worse, this is just acknowledging that people can have severe addiction issues with cannabis. Just because you don't die from withdrawals doesn't mean it can't lead to serious quality of life issues and poor mental health.
The Mathematics for Machine Learning course doesn't assume knowledge of Linear Algebra, but covers the basics of Linear Algebra you'll need along with the basics of Multivariable Calculus, Statistics, Probability, etc. it does however, assume knowledge of high-school math and Single Variable Calculus. If you've been out of school for while, our adaptive diagnostic exam will identify your knowledge gaps and create a custom course for you that includes the necessary remediation.

If you're REALLY rusty (maybe you've been out of school for a while 5+ years), or maybe you just never learned the material that well in the first place, then you might want to start with one of our Mathematical Foundations courses that will scaffold you up to the level where you can handle the content in Mathematics for Machine Learning. More info can be found here: https://mathacademy.com/courses

The Mathematics for Machine Learning course would be ideal for anyone who majored in a STEM subject like CS (or at least has a solid mathematical foundation) and is interested in doing work in machine learning.
I like to think of it as scrappy terraforming because we aren't even sure we could handle any of the naturally occurring variation.

Scrappy because, well the planet doesn't quite become uninhabitable and we're starting from the end-game. Science fiction also had me expecting some very cool terraforming infrastructure, not psy-ops to get the serfs to eat bugs.
Yeah, I'm actually thinking something like a socket integrator buying an 8 core chiplet from AMD or Intel to connect via CXL or whatever to the ARM/RISC-V/GPU/Tensor cores in the other chiplets from different manufacturers.
You don't need to wait to find out any of this, the reports are readily available.[0] I suspect I can guess what your opinion will be.

[0]: https://counterhate.com/topic/twitter/
"At field-realistic levels of pollution, neonicotinoids and fipronil generally have negative effects on physiology and survival for a wide range of non-target invertebrates in terrestrial, aquatic, marine and benthic habitats"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284392/
More Control Loading the Maps JavaScript API
Former airline pilot checking in!

Remember the importance of checklists in the "grand scheme of things". It helps maintain proper "authority" during operation and makes sure you don't forget things. If you don't write it down and check it, someone, at a certain moment will forget something.

Also, the "Aviate, navigate, communicate" axiom (as mentioned by author) is really helpful if you're trying to setup incident/crisis response structures. You basically get your guiding principles for free from an industry that has 100+ years of experience in dealing with crisises. It's something I teach during every incident/crisis response workshop.

edit: Although it's not aviation specific, and a little light on the science, "The Checklist Manifesto" by A. Gawande is a nice introduction into using (and making) checklists.
It isn't horrible. I have it running in a docker-compose stack and after initial setup I haven't really thought about it other than checking the Raindrop script I have is still populating it.

I don't really use it interactively, it's more to have a "backup" of websites I find useful after finding some I used to reference for years disappeared and were never added to archive.org or occasionally sending the Readability/PDF versions to my Kindle.

I also setup YaCY[1] at one point with the idea of having my own local personal search engine for the archived sites, but I ended up never using it.

1. https://github.com/yacy
My proposal: More or less what we had pre 9/11. We solved the the vulnerability that 9/11 exposed in under a year - the inability to lock down the cabin to protect it from hostiles. Every commercial plane has newer doors installed now.

This means the only really viable attack on aircraft is to blow them up mid-air which:

1. Is much less impactful

2. Still achievable by a determined actor today
Same as any other book tracker (Goodreads or whatever): if the book isn't already there, you can add it yourself. You can also import it from other BookWyrm instances or from OpenLibrary.
Chest freezers are automatically a lot more efficient. The cold air tends to stay in them when opened, unlike upright models.
I got into an argument with a fellow Tesla owner on a forum who was screaming their car was bricked after their 12V battery died. All they had to do was replace the battery. It wasn't bricked. I sure received a lot of vitriol for saying it wasn't bricked. If you can simply perform a maintenance task, it's not bricked.
You might happily pay more, but 99% of consumers won't. They just look at the sticker price + features and call it a day. And with the prices this low and trying to meet energy goals, reliability goes out the window.
That's a completely bogus number. I wouldn't work a day job if I had $14m ARR :)
> The median income for somebody with a BS, employed full time, is $69k [1]. The median income for a plumber is $60k.

I know you're not arguing for everyone to become a plumber, so you should state that the chart you cite shows that high school diploma holders have a median income of $42k, or $27k less annually than those with a BS. Your data is showing why people go to college.

(All of this is before one accounts for the ability of BS-holders to move up to the higher rungs on the chart; most professional degrees require an undergraduate degree. If a 28-year-old has a BS and gets tired of his profession, he can go to e.g. law school or whatever and potentially earn more as well.)
"Dude, it doesn't take a rocket paleontologist to figure out that ... "
The tank in the photo looks like the second stage pressurization tank. If that's the case (I could be wrong), it carries helium.
>And that left little room for dissenting opinions. Dissenting voices could be silenced easily, without fanfare and awareness by society at large. Now, it's not so easy.

I think it's the opposite. Dissenting opinions were more powerful and more coherent, when there was a coherent "establishment" baseline to go against. Now they're lost in the noise.

The 50s and even more so the 60s where much more potent when it come to rebellion and dissent. Between the civil rights movements, black activism like the Black Panthers, the student and youth movement, the feminists, the anti-Vietnam movement and so on, the US was really boiling with dissent.

In 2023 rebellion and dissent is either fringe or is partisan with corporate sponsorship. In either case, it's voice is drown.

Same for the press. In the 50s and 60s and 70s journalists would talk back to power much more poignantly, and publish incredible exposes. Now they're mostly shills who repeat establishment and party talk points, and the independent voices are let go.
"largely ignored outside of right wing outlets" because of pieces like "Everyone should be skeptical of Nate Silver: And anyone touting the lab-leak 'theory' of COVID's origin at this point" at https://theracket.news/p/everyone-should-be-skeptical-of-nat... .

> Likely in hopes of fostering that illusion of inevitability, as well as of transparency, the Public crew made the Slacks and a separate document trove containing scientists’ emails available for download. This is also a well-worn tactic seen, for instance, in the mass release of hacked emails from Democratic staffers during the 2016 presidential campaign: You put out a document dump of hundreds of pages that few will have time to read, cherry-pick the lines that best serve your narrative, then set a legion of fans loose on the internet to scream “READ THE SLACK MESSAGES” at anyone who disagrees.

> Well, I did read the Slack messages. And it seems my skepticism of Silver, Shellenberger, and their cohort was well-founded.

And I well remember Climategate, which used the same tactic.
Back when they had corporal punishment (i.e. "spanking") in US schools I had to debate against it in high-school.

One teacher, who used the punishment frequently, was the judge and simply awarded the debate to the pro paddling side and all my (sourced and referenced) arguments were ignored. I always knew it was BS. Then they banned the practice. And I quit the debate team in anger.

So, I guess I really kind of won the debate, it just took a couple more decades.
I did an engineering degree but I have to say, the ethics imparted on me were basically “be diligent and don’t build anything that harms people by accident” which… really ought to be, like, table stakes for living in society, right?
Has this post been shadowbanned? I don't see it in the hacker news listing anywhere and yet it's not marked as flagged. (edit: it is now flagged, though notably it dropped off the listing about 30 minutes before the flagged designation appeared)

Also, it's intentionally misleading to call this paper a 'lab leak paper' as it is widely known as the 'proximal origin' paper.
By short term I mean weeks to months not minutes.

I doubt anyone would try and liquidate it in a single transaction on public markets.
That did surprise me. (I also wasn't a huge fan of attributing agency to plastic, but that's more of a stylistic question, I don't want to nitpick.) Still, I wouldn't dismiss the article wholesale. It provides enough references to do followup research.
Etsy can pay 5% interest rate when they hold funds. As simple as that, which these companies don't want to do.

Companies and banks use the same nonsensical reason every time: 'whatever investigation they're doing, they don't want these sellers to flip out any more than necessary!' I don't give any benefit of doubt to any company or bank, unless they are audited by a third party not influenced by these companies.
Who is surprised by this? Money games won't save the planet. What we really need is more pollution. If we block out the sun with lots of greasy smoke then that should cool the planet. Unless the climate is actually cooling (in which case we will need to burn our money instead of spending it).
Similar story in California. My pet peeves are water conserving toilets and washing machines that are so finicky to calibrate that they usually require two flushes or Cycles, defeating the entire purpose and wasting your time.
I've never seen fridge plastic decompose. What are you doing to those materials that makes them do that? I've never in my entire life's existence seen plastic inside a fridge that has "decomposed". I've just seen them get grey/cloudy over time if they're clear-plastic, and maybe crack. Besides that, indestructible.
Duh. Don't try to ship gmail in one file. But there's so much about working the DOM with vanilla JS that is very intuitive, and HTML <templates> are a thing now.

My point, which I'm sure I articulated poorly, was that we found ourselves highly productive by simply using the tools and API provided in the modern browser and a text editor.

Once you have an admin panel and a CMS and a WYSIWYG editor, maybe get yourself a framework you'll start hating in a few years.
AWS NAT Gateway comes with native NAT64 support so GitHub just works over ipv6. No issues whatsoever.
> Weed is illegal, yet I've never seen a bar fight after everyone gets high.

Dude! Who ate all of the pizza?

...

;)