jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Terminals did not have:

* a client-side data structure (the DOM) and rendering engine that can be manipulated by a client-side platform-independent language/VM. Modern web applications would not be possible without this.

* a persistence model (cookies) that allows users to behave as if they have a long-lived session with the application, when in fact they are communicating over a stateless protocol and may be getting directed to different servers every time. One instance of the web server can crash; this does not interrupt the session.

* a link structure that allows applications to effortlessly direct users to other applications in a user-friendly way.

* a security model that lets different applications interoperate, allowing them to exchange data, delegate authentication, or embed parts of one application into another.

* an application loading/launching system where a user can type a short string that they saw on the side of a truck into their browsing application and be instantly running an application that is hosted literally anywhere in the world.

We haven't "reinvented" anything, we took an idea that saw limited success due to numerous practical limitations and evolved a better version of it that scales to billions of users and millions of applications.

It's like saying "it's funny to me that going to the moon is being heralded as 'the thing for the future' when all we've really done is reinvent the biplane."
I got the same domain-names in the same search-result. A bug you probably could fix pretty easy. Neat tool, thanks.
Huh?

Netflix is a going concern, and has been for quite some time. Even the streaming business is a few years old.

It may be an up front investment since the full benefits may take some time to accrue, but it is an investment made based on a great deal more information than a typical startup has.

Further, it sounds like an investment that is providing them with an immediate and valuable benefit, they now have a foundation for ramping up their streaming business. This is going to be a big growth area, and it's is one that they are well positioned to succeed in. Or, you could flip it around, failure to secure a strong position in the streaming business will be the death of the company, and a squandering of the business equity they have been building, since their founding, to be well positioned for this transition.

And finally, if you have doubts about the value of making up-front engineering investment in order to reduce forecastable operating costs (and avoid what is probably an even larger up-front investment in datacenter buildout), well, what are you doing here?
I have heard the exact same thing. Any patent attorneys on here who can explain the things that can go pearshaped?
As an extension to your point I would also like to add one aspect that is often forgotten when discussing lockdowns. Which is that a complete lockdown might potentially be worse. Because what more important than social distancing is keeping young and old apart. Families that have elderly and the young in them would just be locked in and cause the elderly to get infected and potentially die due to the virus affecting them more. Furthermore what about the medics and their families? in a lockdown they would have to return home and potentially spread it with children and elderly. So a more surgical approach is needed in which isolation happens for the vulnerable groups specifically and the young would be able to participate in the economy and we could weather both the effects of the virus and the economy but im afraid a complete lockdown might cause us to end up in a lose/lose situation. In which case i only see a vaccine as saving grace.
At least try to stay serious. If you can't maybe write nothing at all?
I did not decide anything and i did not mention feelings
It's more like the gnome people picked up abandoned torches.
GTK integration in terms of look and feel on windows and macos has been so bad for so long that I think the only valid use case for it is if you're targeting gnome specifically.
Western nations certainly do protect people by force. There are a lot of circumstances where this is true--both protecting people from others as well as from themselves.

In the current circumstances, in a lot of places in the U.S. people are being told to stay home unless they have a specific, approved reason to go out. These are legal orders--not suggestions--that are ultimately upheld by the threat of force.

If things get really bad, we could see the National Guard deployed to enforce curfews and such. And there are other uses of force that are legal in emergency circumstances.

I assume things are similar in Germany and other European countries. The German government could order people to stay home under threat of fines or jail time, even if they haven't done so yet. (I'd be very surprised if this isn't the case.)

Now, I'm not saying the U.S. or Germany is equivalent to China or anything nonsensical like that. I just don't see why people need to keep saying we don't do this or that (e.g., use force) when we clearly do.

I don't have much optimism that people, on the whole, will do the right thing and self-quarantine. Being forced to stay home is probably the only thing that will work.
Please don't post shallow dismissals or flamebait here.

No one knows what's happening right now, so it's natural and inevitable that are different views. As long as people express their views thoughtfully and respectfully, that's within the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dying patients are still in contact with tons of people: doctors, nurses, relatives, etc; and these people go on infecting, unless they are traced and isolated. One case in Southern Italy resulted in death, but the body was incorrectly released for the funeral like a regular case. Result: dozens of infections at the funeral.
This isn’t really possible due to Prettier’s design, unfortunately. It basically lays out each statement on one line until it gets to the maximum width, then tries a variety of ways to break the line until it’s under the limit.

We also don’t want to look at how the code is formatted coming in because one of Prettier’s goals is to make sure everyone’s code looks the same, which wouldn’t be possible if we looked at how the input is formatted too much.
Does anyone worry about a slippery slope in all this? Yearly flu lockdowns? What if it’s a swine flu?

Traffic stops to check your temperature?
At work I am building a new internal project in Phoenix Live View and the developer experience so far is sublime. The entire Elixir ecosystem is an absolute joy to use. In the early life of an application, you get the incredible productivity of Ruby on Rails, while building on the battle-tested OTP platform that can scale with your business. The language itself combines the best of Erlang, Clojure, and Ruby all under one roof.
Thanks for the response. I have several questions.

What is the division of labor between developers who work on the tests and (perhaps non-coding) QA analysts?

What software are you using?

How large is the application, and would you mind describing the nature of the application?

Do you have any clear cost metrics on the effects of automation testing? E.g., are you able to operate with a smaller QA team, measurably lower incidence of bugs discovered in production, etc.?

Thanks again.
Comments here are geared against picking a technology just because it is brand new and exciting, but sometimes you need to pick up something that is just different from what you or your team know well.

In a project I worked on once, we went with "what we knew" (standard normalized SQL schema) to build an analytics engine. The problem with "going with what you know" is you are likely to badly reinvent well-established patterns. If we had stop for a minute and learnt about star schemas, the project could have ended in a much better shape than it did, and maybe the effective time to release would had been shortened.

BTW, learning "new things" is almost always useful but isn't always precisely exciting. Data warehousing is one example :-).

Becoming proficient with a selected set of technologies is still a good idea, but I'm willing to learn and try new things all the time. First thing I ask myself is if a problem was already solved by someone else, and how.
That's the thing, our jobs are already super easy and super low-risk compared to the chimney sweeps of yester year. We sit down and just write stuff down on a computer. There's no heavy lifting, no angry foremen, lots of job security, frequently there's even some time for personal projects on the job... everything is already mostly awesome. We have already achieved a society of leisure. It already is the future. We do almost no work. Most things are automated and easy. We already have George Jetson's job.

And despite all of this, no, not enough, now we must campaign for no more than 2 mandatory meetings per year?
Early on the author states
"the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a very narrow sense."

He then proceeds to stay in this narrow sense, while explaining the theoretical framework driving the Fed's decision. While it is of course interesting to better know their reasoning, this article does not amount to a more nuanced response than "the Fed is keeping them low because the Fed thinks its best".

Personally I think that's close enough to "the Fed is keeping them low" to not really bother with the distinction.
> Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together. [...] To do this, we designed the largest open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people.

Almost reads like an Onion article. I'm sure that they thought this through though before spending so much money.
They might have a chance if these big name artists, and their record companies, agree to pull their music from all the other services.
Why didn't you go the co-CEO route instead? From my experience CEO has a tendency at some point to dominate other CxOs for whatever reasons (usually business guys view tech as inferior).
Where are you based? San Francisco "strongly urges" single-occupancy restrooms to be unisex. I've worked out of a fair number of SF cafes and I think this is noticeably less of a problem there than in other cities.

http://sf-hrc.org/compliance-guidelines-prohibit-gender-iden...
Looks like your real problem is that the new overlords actually give a shit about the people. They don't invest in anything unless it is strategically valuable infrastructure.
I think there is an important point to be highlighted: We often blame the system for being expensive but in this case an individual doctor was able to say we will not collect. These decisions to charge patients a literal fortune for treatment probably always falls to an individual or small group of individuals. We should highlight this on billing documents, instead of "please pay XYZ hospital" the individual accountable for the largest share of the bill should be named: Dr. X is requesting payment of $500,000.
I wonder if this FINALLY allows Discworld Noir to finally work again!
It is possible I am overreacting. However, I think there are is a key difference between this and your example.

A male bodybuilder, specifically, has chosen to flaunt their muscles. There is an element of control and consent to the objectification of those muscles. While pop stars obviously use their image, too, the fixation on breasts feels different to me. It is not something that the artist has invited . It reduces Spears to her physical attributes, rather than engaging with the image she has put out. It places the viewer first, not Spears.
Yes but what is your proposed alternative? It is still the lowest possible amount of interference in terms of tx power. If you decreased it the WiFi would not even be useful (if it would only work within a single room)...
This Week in Virology and their other podcasts are also greatly recommended! https://www.microbe.tv/
I agree that there would be plenty of horror stories to fill the news, even if such events were extremely rare, but multiplied by 300 million.

However, many people's "hearing" is a slightly less biased sample than that. It's that every American they have personally talked to about any visit to a hospital seems to have a horror story about (at very least) crazy bills, hours on the phone with insurers for months to years afterwards, etc. That's also not unbiased since people like telling these stories, but at least the denominator is two digits not seven. (The stories may also not reflect the latest reality, as you say.)
> When Facebook notified the acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014, it informed the Commission that it would be unable to establish reliable automated matching between Facebook users' accounts and WhatsApp users' accounts. It stated this both in the notification form and in a reply to a request of information from the Commission. However, in August 2016, WhatsApp announced updates to its terms of service and privacy policy, including the possibility of linking WhatsApp users' phone numbers with Facebook users' identities.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...
>Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship.

I think we are already starting to see fruit of his work. Intel doesn't need Jim Keller for CPU uArch design. Intel has had their uArch roadmap ready, and they were the best in the Industry if it wasn't for the 10nm delay. They also have work in the pipeline all being held back by their process node.

Jim described it in one of his interview ( Sorry I spent 10 min but couldn't find the source, so I may have remembered it wrong ) about not having process node held back your chip design, where he has experience in doing so in AMD and Apple. Being flexible enough to back port your design should anything happen as Plan B. Where previously Intel was just keep waiting for the process guys to fix it. That in itself is a huge workflow changes. It is hard to imagine the amount of work required to push this through especially with all the internal politics at Intel.

And Intel is at least looking at TSMC / alternative paths for some of their product lineup now ( Gaming Focused Large- Die Size GPU ) . Whether that is decided or not is unclear. But at least we have Rocket Lake launching soon which is sort of a half baked Willow Cove ( Used in Tiger Lake ) ported back to 14nm on Desktop. And we have Sapphire Rapid as well as other product roadmap hinting at multiple node ( Shown in Investor meetings notes ). That is at least showing Intel has changed their Internal design to be flexible enough in case of another 10nm like fiasco. And I think Jim Keller has some credit in this transition.

That is of course, having flexible design still doesn't fix their problem if TSMC is 2 years ahead of Intel in leading edge node design, volume and cost. And as I have repeatedly stated, Intel's problem is not design, but their business Model. And It would not surprise me if TSMC have shipped more 5nm wafers last year ( 2020 ) than Intel's entire 10nm production history since 2017.

Just let that sink in for a bit.
"Syria, which Palestine is a part of"

What an extraordinary claim. It demands an explanation. There is no part of Palestine in which Syrian law runs. There are no Syrian cops or troops in Palestine. There are no Syrian government offices in Palestine.
This story is clearly related to Trump and would not have happened without his statements.

Just because he didn't say anything 100% explicitly the cause it and may have been misinterpreted is honestly besides the point. When you are given the power of the presidency, you should either treat your public words with care of just quit forever for all our sakes.

This is just how having power _works_. It's a two-way street, and the idealistic American Way.

EDIT: Anyone care to explain the downvotes? This is my opinion on those gifted with power in all situations. It goes for companies as well. If you're the CEO, VPE, whatever. There should be checks to balance that gifted power. One check is a higher standard of public speaking due to your newfound influence.
> I'm not saying he can do no wrong, but I'm just flabbergasted that there are still so many armchair critics and naysayers when it comes to Elon Musk.

That's why you're a fanboy. Nobody is perfect, and Elon Musk likes to make fun of the competition quite publicly when they have an issue, while ignoring his project's own failures.

It is hard to even discuss the man on HN as anything that could even be taken as critical gets downmoded or flagged. Just look at yesterday's hyperloop discussions, nobody could say anything critical without being very actively attacked. By the way make sure "show dead" is turned on to see the full discussion.

Honestly his track record is very impressive indeed. His aspirations are also impressive. However his fans are insufferable as is HN's general attitude about the man. When someone is treated as if they're beyond reproach and their ideas are also, you're just asking to get led down the garden path.

The hyperhoop concept in particular is pretty bad, and the white paper leaves more questions than it does answers. The cost is too high and the value too low Vs. normal high speed trains (e.g. Japan). Plus there are massive safety issues surrounding it (as you can see from the thread yesterday, that were largely just ignored and downmodded).

Overall I'll be happy when people start acting rationally around the guy again. Currently I feel like I at a One Direction concert surrounding by a bunch of screaming teenage girls (on HN in particular).

PS - I wouldn't dream of criticising this rocket failure. Rockets are hard, the last 80 years have proven that again and again.
So the AJAX request goes out, and what comes back? HTML or data? It will have to be turned into HTML either by the server or the client. And you need some logic for that. So there's really no escaping this.
I think I said "marketing (as always) is brilliant as I would expect it as a nice push for iTunes & Ping."
I do think their marketing is brilliant. Apologies, but that's my opinion. If you think that's incorrect, I'd ask you dictate (1) why its not and/or (2) perhaps an example of another company who does it better. That would probably be more productive + interesting than calling me out personally for my view on the subject.
I do think your point about "a day people would never forget" is a fair one. Probably a bit over the top, but I think it is an exciting day for Beatles fans at least and they might never forget it.
Well Fedora/RHEL and the systemd people have something of a relationship.

I don't know the politics that went on with opensuse for it to be accepted there.

Debian has had a big dustup going about it for some years.

Ubuntu was pretty much waiting to see what Debian went with.

Arch was pretty much a dictatorial decree (and one "respin" is not adopting systemd iirc).

Gentoo is trying to stay init agnostic, and so has ended up forking udev to eudev (and Poettering has taken to making verbal pokes in their direction in systemd release announcements).

Slackware is making the choice if it ever comes to a head, but then it has been using BSD init rather than sysv or upstart.
Mine was full of eels.
If anyone is interested in the biography of the Manhattan Project in general, including much of the goings-on at Los Alamos, I really must recommend Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Making-Atomic-Bomb-Anniversary/dp/...)

It's an excellent read, cover-to-cover. One of the few assigned books I read with excitement while in undergrad.
Step one: buy car service
Step two: replace drivers with computers
Step three: profit, optimize traffic patterns from within the swarm, decrease accidents, increase fuel efficiency, etc.
This is more about being very good at sed than bad at chess, really :)
This is such a key insight. Coming from a lower-middle class background and working my way up in large corporations, the power of "status" slowly dawned on me. Some kid from a well-off background comes in and acts like he owns the place, and it works with 7 out of 10 people! Meanwhile a guy from a lower socioeconomic class comes in, works his arse off and hesitates asking for a raise because he's afraid of overstepping -- this guy gets looked down on or taken advantage of by 7 out of 10 people.

Would be nice to have learned about this earlier.
I've made something like this for DuckDuckGo, but haven't released it since I want tab-completion (uses a static list for now). Will release as an official UI once DDG gets search suggestions.

http://dhruvbird.com/tty.html

Edit: There is no GA tracking on this page even though I use to for my site (other pages) - to keep with the general privacy experience of DDG
He isn't just sticking you in a bucket randomly. Your language on the subject has an emotional edge that goes beyond dispassionate observation that college education may be overvalued. It actively pushes the reader toward the conclusion that you actually do have a dog in the fight, and the college system has somehow wronged you.

I don't know if it has, but based on said language, I'd be surprised if it hadn't.

My perspective:
Having gone to CMU CS, which on the one hand doesn't have particular brand recognition outside CS, but on the other hand is fairly good at CS as undergrad programs go, I believe I can say that I probably did get 100k and possibly even 200k of value out of the education, quite aside from the piece of paper. A lot of the teachers I had were really seriously excellent (and I don't say that lightly), and I wouldn't have been able to learn from teachers that good in that array of subjects (field theory, abstract algebra, robotics, cryptography, etc) as well in any other situation. Yes, I could have read wikipedia and the lkml and so on, but, having done both, classes from really really good teachers work better.

On the other hand, I think I got lucky not only in terms of the ratio of program strength to brand recognition, but also in which teachers I got within the university; if I had taken different classes in different semesters, I believe I could have done a lot worse. Not remotely all the teachers were good or even passable. And, I could easily imagine getting very little value out of the experience, and I bet a lot of people, particularly ones at big-brand institutions, do overpay for the education they get.

The point is, it's a complicated question. There clearly is some value in some undergrad programs, and there also clearly is a problem with rising prices. Comparing it to a con scheme is not really doing it justice.
They do. That's what they are intended for.

They even make lifejackets with then nowadays.

Pathetic.

Edit: did not see parent mentioned SPOT messenger. These have reduced coverage, as they are not emergency beacons.
That's a bug IMHO which I reported at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-02/msg00052....

I've collated other mishandling of closed pipes at:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/sigpipe_handling.html
Also ive been having more stiff necks/neck pain in the mornings and wondered if getting some sort of exercise would help, i grew up being pretty active, but since the kiddos i think there is a marked difference in level of activity.
You're right. I thought the term 'SSD' implied NAND-based memory. According to Wikipedia, it doesn't at all have that implication. It lists examples of "Early SSDs using RAM and similar technology":

> In 1976 Dataram started selling a product called Bulk Core, which provided up to 2 MB of solid state storage compatible with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General (DG) computers.[16] In 1978, Texas Memory Systems introduced a 16 kilobyte RAM solid-state drive to be used by oil companies for seismic data acquisition.[17] The following year, StorageTek developed the first RAM solid-state drive.[18]