Calculate but Don’t Shut Up
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Friday, 31 December 2021
Quebec government faces backlash over New Year’s Eve curfew.
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Bella Hadid rocked a daring pants-free look in New York City
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A New Year and a New Leader, but Germany’s Focus Remains on Covid
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Many people hospitalized in the Omicron surge are there for other reasons and have only mild COVID-19
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Thursday, 30 December 2021
Pub patrons have shocking close call as stolen car smashes through beer garden
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New top story on Hacker News: Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence
Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence
31 by colinprince | 21 comments on Hacker News.
31 by colinprince | 21 comments on Hacker News.
Judge says she doesn't understand how Vos could have so few records regarding Wisconsin's election review
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Noah Cyrus hits the beach in hot pink bikini ahead of sister Miley's New Year's Eve gig in Miami
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Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Suspect in deadly hit-and-run tussles with courtroom guards
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How to Clean Suede Boots and Shoes
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Trail cam catches 5 bobcats roaming together in Ohio. Here’s why the sighting is rare
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Doctor: Patients discharged after COVID are so sick they're returning to the hospital
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Tuesday, 28 December 2021
Sharon Gless Admires Eddie Redmayne and L.A.’s Union Station
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Officers urged cop to 'slow down' before he fatally shot a suspect and 14-year-old girl inside a Burlington Coat Factory, body-camera footage shows
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J.D. Crowe, Banjo Virtuoso and Bluegrass Innovator, Dies at 84
By BY BILL FRISKICS-WARREN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3pvQ6cu
Experts open time capsule found at Gen. Lee statue site
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Monday, 27 December 2021
‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Dad Runs to Bannon, Claims ‘Election Was 100% Stolen’
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Blame Canada? Steelers offense regressing under coordinator
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Kamala Harris says she's looking for ways to 'creatively' solve the $1.7 trillion student debt crisis, reminding many of her plan that was criticized as overly-complicated when she ran for president
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Omicron variant causes holiday travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled
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Jury signals verdict not near at Ghislaine Maxwell trial
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Sweeping private-sector vaccine mandate goes into effect in N.Y.C.
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Prosecutor to seek reduced sentence for trucker
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I’ve Spent 25 Years as a Joan Didion Thief
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Greta Thunberg: “Strange” that Biden would be considered a leader in climate
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Sunday, 26 December 2021
Salsa dancers take to Cali's 'Salsodromo' on Christmas Day
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Hundreds more flights are canceled as Omicron scrambles air travel.
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Major storm dumps snow, closes mountain routes in California
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Saturday, 25 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
13 by marinesebastian | 5 comments on Hacker News.
13 by marinesebastian | 5 comments on Hacker News.
As Prices Rise, Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers
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Rich kids and poor kids face different rules when it comes to bringing personal items to school
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Winter Storms Threaten to Disrupt Travel in the Northwest
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As Russian Threat Looms, Ukraine’s Government Is No Laughing Matter
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Space telescope launched on quest to see 1st stars
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Friday, 24 December 2021
South Africa ends quarantines and contact tracing, and authorizes booster shots.
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‘Beverly Johnson Told Us About Him Back In 1995’: Beverly Johnson’s 25+ Year Restraining Order Against Chris Noth Resurfaces Amidst New Sexual Assault Allegations
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South Africa ends quarantines and contact tracing, and authorizes booster shots.
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2 dead in submerged car as California storm worries spread
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Thursday, 23 December 2021
In an Evolutionary Race to Dominate the Seas, Ichthyosaurs Were the Winners
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Woman who texted boyfriend to kill himself pleads guilty
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Here are the charges that Kimberly Potter faces.
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How last year's Christmas trees are rebuilding New Orleans' coast
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Wednesday, 22 December 2021
The flu makes an unwelcome comeback as Omicron surges.
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Mudcat Grant Sang Out Against Racism on the Baseball Field
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The Devastating Observations of Janet Malcolm
By BY SASHA WEISS from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/3HarOe9
Brigitte Gerney Was Crushed by a 35-Ton Crane, and Lived
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Did Larry King’s Obsession With Death Fuel His ‘Indomitable’ Will to Live?
By BY JAZMINE HUGHES from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/3J9WlKJ
President Biden extends freeze of federal student loan repayments until May 1.
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Arizona Republican calls Elon Musk America’s ‘richest African American’
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NSA Declassifies Internet Surveillance Files from 2011 Case
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Bounce back Bulldogs? How Georgia can beat Michigan
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Tuesday, 21 December 2021
5 creative ways to wrap presents without wrapping paper
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‘Why Did They Protect Betsy DeVos?’: Federal Marshals Deny Request for Security Detail to First Black U.S. Attorney In Massachusetts Despite Direct Death Threats
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Here’s what we know about Biden’s coming speech on the U.S. Omicron response.
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We Need to Start Thinking Differently About Breakthrough Infections
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Players with Saudi releases have to decide if it's worth it
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Monday, 20 December 2021
U.S. and Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault
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Police: Stolen Ohio bridge found, man facing theft charge
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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
45 by abelsm | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, quit our jobs in 2019 to work on a cross-platform mobile app that ultimately failed. It was a learning opportunity, and it also led us to feel the pain of the slow iteration process every time we wanted to roll out a new experience. We were able to experiment with various landing pages within hours, but building new screens and app experiences took weeks or even months. For over a year now, we’ve been tirelessly working on fixing this problem. I first fell in love with coding by pure luck as a kid in Ethiopia. My father, who at the time owned an internet cafe, decided to start taking night classes in CS in the late 90s. Ultimately he didn’t use his degree professionally, but I ended up with learning materials and a compiler, Turbo C++ 3.0. As I grew older, eventually ending up as an engineer at Google, I started to appreciate that as engineers we were often tasked with solving problems even when the solution didn’t necessarily involve writing code. Alex comes from a physics background, doing his undergrad at Stanford, and transitioned to study CS and AI there as well. In 2016 he joined the team I was on, a small ML group within Google Maps. He’ll often admit he had underestimated the amount of skill involved in building beautiful, fast and functional apps. And he certainly didn’t expect to love building with Flutter as much as he does, having been entrenched in ML for most of his career. Yet here we are. There has recently been a healthy amount of skepticism towards no-code tools, mainly due to concerns of extensibility and scalability. This is definitely the case for some apps - a good example is a tool such as FlutterFlow itself. It would be very difficult to build all of FlutterFlow recursively. We do use it internally for many of our pages, but using a visual builder to implement our code generator seems far fetched. This doesn’t imply however that there isn’t a middle ground that enables fast iteration in a visual builder, coupled with the ability to write code that seamlessly integrates with the overall experience. We’re not quite there yet, but we believe this is the right direction. Finally, we believe Flutter is going to be the catalyst that drives this movement. It’s composability, the fact that it’s super cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop/Embedded), and the vibrant and passionate community it fosters give it a unique advantage. Whether we do it or someone else, the application builder of the future will be built on Flutter. Huge thanks to our users, the Flutter team and the Flutter community. We’d love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts. What do you think the future of application development is going to be? p.s. we were on HN when we announced our launch back in May: https://ift.tt/3u8glot We’ve made a lot of progress since then, enabling app store deployment, payments, ability to add custom code and much more: https://ift.tt/3sqPqa6
45 by abelsm | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, quit our jobs in 2019 to work on a cross-platform mobile app that ultimately failed. It was a learning opportunity, and it also led us to feel the pain of the slow iteration process every time we wanted to roll out a new experience. We were able to experiment with various landing pages within hours, but building new screens and app experiences took weeks or even months. For over a year now, we’ve been tirelessly working on fixing this problem. I first fell in love with coding by pure luck as a kid in Ethiopia. My father, who at the time owned an internet cafe, decided to start taking night classes in CS in the late 90s. Ultimately he didn’t use his degree professionally, but I ended up with learning materials and a compiler, Turbo C++ 3.0. As I grew older, eventually ending up as an engineer at Google, I started to appreciate that as engineers we were often tasked with solving problems even when the solution didn’t necessarily involve writing code. Alex comes from a physics background, doing his undergrad at Stanford, and transitioned to study CS and AI there as well. In 2016 he joined the team I was on, a small ML group within Google Maps. He’ll often admit he had underestimated the amount of skill involved in building beautiful, fast and functional apps. And he certainly didn’t expect to love building with Flutter as much as he does, having been entrenched in ML for most of his career. Yet here we are. There has recently been a healthy amount of skepticism towards no-code tools, mainly due to concerns of extensibility and scalability. This is definitely the case for some apps - a good example is a tool such as FlutterFlow itself. It would be very difficult to build all of FlutterFlow recursively. We do use it internally for many of our pages, but using a visual builder to implement our code generator seems far fetched. This doesn’t imply however that there isn’t a middle ground that enables fast iteration in a visual builder, coupled with the ability to write code that seamlessly integrates with the overall experience. We’re not quite there yet, but we believe this is the right direction. Finally, we believe Flutter is going to be the catalyst that drives this movement. It’s composability, the fact that it’s super cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop/Embedded), and the vibrant and passionate community it fosters give it a unique advantage. Whether we do it or someone else, the application builder of the future will be built on Flutter. Huge thanks to our users, the Flutter team and the Flutter community. We’d love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts. What do you think the future of application development is going to be? p.s. we were on HN when we announced our launch back in May: https://ift.tt/3u8glot We’ve made a lot of progress since then, enabling app store deployment, payments, ability to add custom code and much more: https://ift.tt/3sqPqa6
Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements
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Pentagon issues rules aimed at stopping rise of extremism
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Sunday, 19 December 2021
For two U.S. health leaders, a resignation and a birthday as the pandemic marches on.
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Ensnares Audiences and Refills Studio Coffers
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The 1947 ‘Nightmare Alley’: A Dark View of Class as Destiny
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Governors in Maryland, Colorado and New Jersey reject lockdowns and other restrictions.
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Fauci warns Omicron is ‘extraordinary’ and offers holiday guidance.
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How Dasha Nekrasova Is Calling the Shots
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McConnell Stops Another Coup Attempt as Trump’s Grip Keeps Slipping
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LucĆa Hiriart, Powerful Wife of Chile’s Dictator, Dies at 98
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The White House Calls Joe Manchin a Liar After He Goes on Fox to Kill Build Back Better Bill
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Saturday, 18 December 2021
Henry Orenstein, 98, Dies; Force Behind Transformers and Poker on TV
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OSHA vaccine mandate penalties to start Jan. 10
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I Know What a Meaningful Election in Hong Kong Is. This Isn’t One.
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Dr. Fauci says people vaccinated against COVID-19 'can still enjoy a social gathering' for the holidays as WHO warns Omicron cases are doubling in a matter of days in areas with community transmission
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Spokesman: Jaguars owner waited after deciding to fire Meyer
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AOC pushed back on Nancy Pelosi's stance against banning congressional stock-trading: 'We write major policy and have access to sensitive information'
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Vigil held for Illinois Amazon warehouse victims as families question safety precautions
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Friday, 17 December 2021
A Harvard Scam and the Best Podcasts of 2021: The Week in Narrated Articles
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Potter testifies that she never got physical training on weapons confusion.
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‘It Is Difficult to Watch’: Investigations Launched After Two Paramedics Refuse to Enter a Care Facility to Provide Aid to Man In Cardiac Arrest
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Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts
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Thursday, 16 December 2021
Today in On Tech: It’s your printer’s fault.
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Will a Stand Your Ground Self-Defense Claim Save Black Oklahoma Man Who Killed White Intruder? Legal Expert Says It Depends: ‘I Just Leave It to God’
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New Research Suggests That Your Dog Might Have a Favorite Christmas Song
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Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Elfrida von Nardroff, 96, Dies; Won Big Money on a Fixed Quiz Show
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Omicron spreads 70 times faster in airways than delta but 10 times slower in lungs
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3 Residents of The Villages in Florida Are Accused of Voting Fraud
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Florida substitute teacher arrested after alleged Snapchat video showed her having sex with student
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San Francisco car owners take drastic measures as break-ins skyrocket: 'I'm shocked'
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Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Toyota, lagging rivals, outlines plans to expand sales of electric vehicles.
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New photos from court go inside the historic Manhattan townhouse and nude-art-filled Palm Beach mansion where Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein allegedly sexually abused girls
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Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal
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NASCAR champion Larson among many conflicted by F1 finish
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Monday, 13 December 2021
Heirs Sue to Claim Mondrian Painting in Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Some studies suggest Merck’s Covid pill might pose risks to pregnant women.
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