jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a subjective debate. But having to run all that interpreted code in the background is probably not making the engine leaner and faster. I am sure it would be much more efficient to declare your intent in html and having the native renderer handling it. And certainly a lot less verbose and subject to bugs.

Say you add to the input tag a validation attribute with an URL and the browser posts the content of the input box in the background for validation, and give feedback to the user in a standard but customizable way.

For auto-completion, same thing, just adding one attribute with a url and a standard feedback.

Also an attribute to allocate a change to a css property when clicking on an element, to enable css pop ups.

There are probably a dozen more attributes like that and that would pretty much make javascript redundant on 99% of the website without making the HTML syntax much heavier (and overall your page would be lighter, because you don't have to write the plumbing every time). And you save having to interpret javascript so it has to be more efficient in term of performance too.

One counter example is something like bootstrap, where javascript is used to adapt the formatting to the form factor. But this is a good example of a horrible use of javascript, having to use javascript for presentation. It is just a case of html not being fit for purpose (since its purpose has evolved).
Really? A 1080 TI still produces a few dollars a day easily.
Shopify may have an audit trail of exactly which stores had data compromised, and perhaps even a trail of which specific customers.
That still hasn't been fixed? It's been so long it's become an old meme at this point. People still mock Linux for it...
Is there any state or nation wide search for good utility prices? We've got Check24[1] in Germany which basically is a no brainer to find good price for stuff like this.

[1] https://www.check24.de/strom/
For anyone curious, this variant of chess where both players are trying to lose is simply called "anti-chess" and many chess programs have an anti-chess mode. Playing it is really weird.
That's the whole point; now you are getting it.

"Yeah because driving a 50 square mile city is the same thing as driving on unrestricted roadways in dozens of countries around the world with totally different road markings, traffic patterns, rules, and even directions of travel… therefore we are justified in saying Waymo is more impressive since Tesla is not doing as well as Waymo with an orders of magnitude larger problem compared to the toy problem Waymo is dealing with."

This has got to be the weakest argument I’ve ever heard on this topic.

We both know that Tesla's FSD isn't working yet.

That goes without saying.

Where we disagree is that you think there is something wrong with this picture, when Waymo can solve the problem and Tesla can't. But the problem is a completely different problem, so I am saying the comparison is ridiculous. You are making the comparison as if it is not a ridiculous comparison, when it really is.

And Waymo keeps moving the goalposts. They gave up on Austin. They dropped the term "self driving." They limit their left turns and instead do three rights. They are just dumbing down the problem as they go. Easy path, I guess.
Wow, that is expensive! $16 a month for analytics.
With free power? iirc the RTX 3080 draws 200+ W.
It’s also the airport layout information, including doors. From most US airports, you specify your pickup point by door (Arrival E6, for example), and I think some of that information lives in the app, along with the snap points that are rendered on the map (or even just the logic). There’s usually also a specific UX when requesting the ride where it asks you to select your airline to guess which terminal and egress to set as the pick up point.
Yep. A simple no-insertion editor could just mmap a file with in-place editing. But you could support insertions by weaving together the mmap'd buffer with other buffers. This is how the suckless vis editor works: https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1409/23497.html

The advantage is that your document can be a simple list of (ptr, length) pairs. The price you pay is error handling: mmap reports errors through raising SIGSEGV or SIGBUS, which are very painful to handle properly.
Good point surely, but I'm trying to think of something that will actually happen in our political climate. Of course I'd prefer complete openness, but they'd never do it...
I still think it was a brightly colored sign with a speed indicator that slowed the cars down, not the "lottery" part.

In Soviet Russia the Limit Camera Speeds You..

A few years ago there was an experiment in which similar camera (with speed reading) was installed on a inner circle of Moscow (called smth like "3rd transport circle"). The result? There was a huge increase in speed - people were actually COMPETING who can set a record! (Even worse - they were trying to catch a photo of the sign showing their extreme speeds). The camera was removed (as far as I know). Never seen any other cameras with actual speed indicator in Moscow ever since.

Actually there was another experiment that did work in Russia. On a highway a local group placed funeral wreaths (I'm not sure whether this is what they actually called in English) along the highway (there were no dead people, just wreaths). Net result? Everyone were driving within speed limit (which is almost unheard of in most of Russia). When pulled over drivers were asked about "why", the usual response was something like "well, it got me thinking that maybe it just isn't worth it to drive fast..."
- We've known about the value of talking to babies since Hart & Risley published their study in 1995: http://www.amazon.com/Meaningful-Differences-Everyday-Experi...

- We've known that there is basically no value in reading to your kids since Scarborough & Dobrich published their report in 1994.

All very important to know, but at this point this is kind of a useless article because it's highlighting only one random result out of hundreds of studies that have looked at these issues.
Check out my side project JQBX: https://www.jqbx.fm

It's like a modern day turntable.fm that works w/ Spotify. It's not video, but it's definitely a more fun hangout than Zoom or something.
Lids are thin, much thinner than a phone. You can’t really feel bigger optic in there.
No. The brogrammer culture is not real.
Except you can't assume a healthy economy if no one has any savings to spend.

In a healthy economy, people save their surplus in expansions and spend it in recessions, or for larger purchases.

Interest on debt means that the return on investment for projects financed by debt must be positive even after the interest payments, or the debt cannot be paid off. What I often see is that municipalities will do something stupid, like pay for a new, oversized sewage treatment plant, using bonds, and then the very optimistic growth in the sewer system does not occur, and people end up paying $500/month water bills for a plant running at 10% of capacity.

You can't borrow if no one has anything to lend.
> he fact that one C++ implementation manages to outperform all the others (including other C and C++ implementations and of course Rust and Nim) by more than one order of magnitude leaves me perplex.

This uses a "pruning" algorithm and is a different algorithm than all the other implementations use. It shouldn't be used to compare the different languages, as it's just not doing the same work.
If you can get someone experienced to handle logistics, it isn't that bad. I know a few companies that routinely turn to grey market parts when st hits the fan for their mass manufactured product supply chains.

In my experience, Marvell is one of the worst to work with but their fabricators make a lot of grey market copies of Marvel's chips during off hours. If you can find a reliable source (fabricator who makes chips for Marvell during the day and grey market copies during the graveyard shift), it will usually be pretty reliable.
Check out IBM Bluemix.
Seconded. If you do please ping me (email on profile page).
Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on them.

As far as dealing with my taste in UI I use Hacker News Enhancement Suite[0] for computers and MiniHack for mobile[1](not affiliated). The primary reason I switched to MiniHack was I really wanted the ability to log in and comment. I spend a lot of time working on just an iPad (writing, etc.) and it's great to be able to comment as myself without any of this fancy browser stuff.

[0] https://github.com/etcet/HNES
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...
I am typing this response on my iPhone. I'm sitting in the living room of my mother's house in backwoods Connecticut. There is no network access here, aside from my phone.

So there you go: a use case that doesn't involve maps or directions.
I'm not the one who downwoted, but here's a few things I do with my iPhone:

* even though I lived in San Francisco few years, I still find maps great and use them frequently
* public transport directions within the city
* reading books on kindle while on bart
* listening to my vast music collection while on bart
* yelp to check if an unknown restaurant is good and find nearby places
* check twitter
* make photos and save them instantly with instagram
I have my doubts if smartphones can ever cost the same as regular phones. Like @ams6110 said smartphones come cheaper only after it is contracted with a 2 yrs data plan, cause this would only make $$$ sense for both the carrier and the manufacturer.

ps: I own a iPhone 4 which come heavily subsidized with a 2 yr data plan and a $35 non-smartphone which I bought, without any long term contract.

Also, another issue with smartphone is the battery life. They drain out really fast, finding a charger recharge a mobile twice a day just dun make sense in quite a lot of places in the world.

Till these issues are resolved, and unless countries are willingly to upgrade of their telecommunication infrastructure, my guess is that smartphones and non-smartphones are likely to coexist for a quite number of years. Sure, developed countries will continue to upgrade to something like Japan and South Korea.
Aren't parts of Twitter in Scala now?
Please change the title to "Slick Linux Commands"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had this phone while backpacking in Asia. It's the most well designed and simple phone I've ever used.

Now I have the Americanized version which has a color screen which hurts the eyes, terrible software, and a cheap feeling case.
I need a map about once in every six months, and when I do, I just point my dumb phone's browser to maps.google.com.
Fortunately, only the copyright holders (i.e. the people who have contributed code to Linux) could sue for GPL licence violation, so we can hope it's not in the interest of the Linux developers to stop all distribution of Linux...
"Bitcoin banks are institutions that allow customers to store their Bitcoins in an account with them to facilitate and speed up transactions, which now can take as much as 10 minutes to validate."

Out of curiosity, what's the time complexity of BitCoin transactions over time? I have a basic understanding of how the system works but I've been curious as to how it's supposed to scale to, say, the size of a small country's economy from the computer science perspective. If a transaction is already taking "10 minutes", are we looking at hours or days after the economy expands, again just for the sake of argument, 100 times?

(Yes, I've expressed skepticism here about the whole thing but I'm still interested in the system over all, and would love to be wrong about how it won't work, so I really am just asking about whether there's a computational complexity analysis somewhere I can look at.)
I've been a seller on amazon for the last 6 months. Your order to cancel ratio needs to be below 7%. If it's above this, your account will be restricted (you won't get paid during this time). It happened to me...but it was lifted after about a month.

Depending on the category, many things on Amazon sell so fast, it would be very difficult to do this.
I’d love to get my hands on a ticket!
How much do organizations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News etc. plan ahead for holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, or the last day of school, first day of University?

It seems most outages could at least be predicted somewhat just by looking at "cultural patterns", for lack of a better phrase, from my perspective a lot of outages seem to occur during the events I mentioned.

Add to that most people and resources may not be available as much or as quickly during the days when it's busier making it even more likely something will happen.
> IDEA: If someone had an augmented ref-counting system with a runtime containing an optional cycle-detector and something like LINT but for the runtime reference graph, one would get most of the benefits of GC with the efficiency of the ref-counting system. I half expect someone to tell me that this already exists for Python.

Or you could do what Rust <https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/Language-FAQ>; does, and have different types of objects; stateful and stateless. Stateless object cannot have cycles (since you can't construct them in stateless objects, unless you're in a lazy language), and so reference counting can be used for stateless objects. Stateful objects, which can have cycles, are managed by the garbage collector.

Rust sounds like a really interesting idea, and I'd love to give it a try, but sadly it's still in the "some assembly required" stage as they work on bootstrapping it so the only real projects that are worthwhile to do with it yet are helping out with the bootstrapping process.
I'd never go to somewhere like Gooncon, too high a possibility of meeting people who take everything on SA seriously in real life.

Do you ever get a sense of The Truman Show going to cons and meetups with people from the internet? I'd imagine it's really strange to find all these random people who know your name and a shit-ton of information about you at these events.
Famous riposte by John Nack of Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/05/some_thoughts_about_the...

One quote worth picking out: "Wouldn’t it be better if all apps could read/write just one common interchange format? That’s just what Adobe is developing with FXG." Come 2015, and FXG appears to be dead and buried.
The determination of Java availability was largely done on the basis of the Server: header, which does a pretty good job at tracking web-tech.
> Problem with verticals is that people lose interest fast.

That's a pretty funny comment here on HN -- a vertical
Adding white mocha and peppermint to your coffee ruins the effect too, but that doesn't mean it isn't profitable.

Sadly, wanting good things leads to a lot of stress, at least in the US. (Go to Target sometime. Is there anything there that you couldn't get a higher-quality version of on Amazon for less money? Nope.)
I missed the AppSumo deal and have been wanting to switch over from Slicehost so Friday seems like a great day to do that.
most moral codes claim to lead to well being, but in reality many of them do not actually go there.

Good points. It's a tough subject and, well, it's open to interpretation. That's the problem.

As a counter-example, I'd offer up Mother Theresa, who suffered a lot and had severe doubts both about her faith and her work, yet most outside observers believed she was a moral person. I would also offer up early Christians, which surprised the Romans at being more than willing to tend to people stricken by the plague. To them it was the moral thing to do.

Moving to the stoics, it's a common belief among them that you train yourself to enjoy life more by purposely taking away things from yourself: sleep on the floor, or try skipping a couple of meals.

The point is that there is no point. You can look at this short-term, medium-term, long-term, from the point of view of the individual, community, country, or species. Or you can imagine some ethereal world in which important things don't align with any physicality. Good arguments can be made for each of these viewpoints.

Hell, it may be that the reason things are generally more or less moral than others is that they promote advancement of the species as a whole, in which case to truly understand morality you would have to be able to understand the social, political, and technological dynamics of 4+ billion people interacting with one another. It could simply be incalculable.

Beats me. I just wanted to provide a counter-example. Your point is as good as any.

BTW, I've also observed this you notice as well, and it's very sad. Perhaps a noble goal of science would be to help folks identify these cognitive dissonances, both in themselves and in their work. I have a feeling it's much more prevalent than we imagine. Always easy to find the fault with the other guy -- much tougher to find it in ourselves.
Great, now I might signup for a Linode account.
The fact it's been peer reviewed merely means that a group of people have agreed that what it does is fine. There is nothing that says you will agree with that view - it's still all trust, it's just who you trust. Personally I'm fine trusting Amazon because I believe their commercial imperative to behave reasonably is a strong enough incentive.

WGA false alarms are collateral damage (and tend to get resolved very quickly in my personal experience), what you're suggesting by them bricking a device is a very different thing - willingly damaging something with the sole intent of doing so and in all probability no intention of undoing it.
Wait?! Time's person of the year WAS Julian Assange as decided by the online community. TIME just chose to make Mark Zuckerberg the person of the year. In their words "though TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree".

Julian Assange led the vote by ~ 150000 votes.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...
Didn’t mean to come across as TOO judgmental... obviously I don’t assume to know the details of every parent-child relationship in the world when it comes to bikes.

But, getting back to the article, I’m somewhat dubious about the assumption that humanity just stumbled upon the idea of a balance-bike due to some mental fog that prevented us from considering it.

I think it might be more likely that parenting-styles have changed a bit and there is now a market for a bike-teaching tool that is safer. In other words, I suspect that if you presented a dad in the 1950s with a balance bike and explained it was a tool to more gradually and safely get a child pedaling, he might scratch his head and say, “why would I use that? When the kid is old enough to ride a bike, I’ll be able to show him how in a single afternoon.”
Do you feel like you need to know this to use git? What did the blog post change about your use of git?
I avoid rebase because it rewrites history, and I'd rather have an accurate log of what happened. Cherry-pick can certainly be useful for grabbing particular commits; although I find myself more often using `format-patch`+`am` to grab particular files (which also works across repos).
There's an algorithm and then there's it's implementation. So much more goes into implementation. That said, September 2019 is much much better than a lot of software I use.
Has anyone tried/considered/researched work-camps for the homeless? Like a mini-city with metaphorical padding built-in everywhere, until they're "rehabilitated" back into being able to (and wanting to) survive in the normal world. That includes giving them a salary, shelter, "banking facilities", shops to buy things in, medical facilities and training, etc.

We spend so much on housing criminals in essentially adult daycare to "rehabilitate" them, so why can't we come up with similar elaborate institutions to care for the homeless that have problems functioning in the society we've built around them?
I've gotten this feedback before. It's probably time to change it from #414141
> I don’t really get anything out of it. I just like to share it. I mean, people like feet, like me, and you have beautiful feet, and I just put it on there. I just think I’m helping other people out. I mean, I do save some for myself.

Yet Sci-hub is not legal.

I think I'm in the wrong timeline.

Are there others out like me?

Where do you go to chat, and may I chat there, please?
I don't think they are making a decision, rather being pushed to make a certain decision, that might not necessarily match their view.

I aknowledge English as the lingua franca of our digital world, but that doesn't mean that we should be attached to every aspect of English speakers cultural environments, basically because we have our own environments too, and are just as valid as theirs.
Physicist. Some people in the community are quite excited because it hints at something beyond SM. The problem is that the quoted theoretical prediction for g-2 is not a settled issue and is a subject of a long controversy between various groups of theorists.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/627852/386
In 1990, a $1000 TV was much higher end, relative to the market as a whole, than a $400 TV now. The idea that $400 today is a fantastic TV is, well, not well-grounded in reality.

The fall of crime is probably more about age demographics than anything else.
Why not build and then wait for DMCA, if not then it's ok to continue.
most Snapchat users are between the ages of 13 and 25

Isn't that an argument for the younger generation being more privacy-conscious? I.e. that they're willing to forgo the convenience of a message history in exchange for more privacy in their communications?
I like it so far, for the most part. Especially that you can quickly switch between the article and the comments, which in normal browsers I'd even a hassle on the desktop. If we some day get the ability to content as well ... :)

Not to much of a fan of the colored bars for nested comments, shades of the same color (we already have an accent color on WP) might be nicer. Might also be nicer to people who are colorblind.

The address/toolbar below the article feels more like Android than WP. On WP you usually get an explanation of icons in the toolbar when stopping up because their captions are right underneath the low end of the screen. Took me a while to figure out what the icons meant which IMHO isn't that great UX. Also a reason why I like the toolbar design on WP, because it's compact and supports labels if the user needs them. Not sure how to incorporate the usual toolbar design into the current workings of the app, though.

When tapping the '...' button the animation of the ellipsis feels like it rotates around the wrong pivot. It doesn't do so when swiping to the left. Maybe that's because the scrolling left animation of the bar is eased when tapping the button and the rotation animation is not. Maybe its even easier to bind the rotation angle to the current horizontal shift of the bar (coming from WPF here, so maybe it doesn't make sense).

Clearing the browser before loading a new article would be nice. Loading takes a while and tapping on a headline just to see the old content can be a bit strange.
Ok, so if you can accomplish this task in two days, it may be cutting on the edge of worth it.

It looks to me like it would take more than a week. That looks more like a slave wage than fair pay for remote work.
> Tolkien didn't invent orcs,trolls,elves or dwarfs,or dragons

I think he actually invented orcs, before him it was a synonym for ogre, IIRC (in fact this was puzzling for me as an young reader in italian, where both words translate to "Orco", either for Little Thumbling's enemy and Tolkien's orcs).

(I agree with your comment anyway)