skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a long time to get used to not seeing mountains all around when I moved down out of the boonies to the seacoast. My parents' house looks out south across a wooded valley at this ridiculously picturesque ridge of rolling, almost perfectly rounded hills. When I head home, it isn't until I hit those first foothills at the edge of the Appalachians that I really feel like I'm where I belong.

The other thing that I miss dearly is being able to see the stars. You can't get away from the ever-present orange street light haze around here, and it never actually gets dark. There's nothing like those cold, cold, clear still nights in the middle of the winter, with the moonlight on the snow and a Milky Way that you can actually see.
Interesting idea... it didn't though of that for sure. I thought of talking about how permissive the providers are with certain type of contents (like legal adult content), but it is an information not easy to collect and so I went with the official legal terms/ToS instead.

I'll have to think about that, and how collect that information. Thanks!
I wanted to be sure you weren't describing a DHT for url shorteners ... a distributed content-addressable hashtable of shortened urls
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Sorry, what is this about? The first 2-3 paragraphs are almost incomprehensible.
The way you speak is really similar to what I would expect of a Press release in response to these comments.

Are you a professional in the marketing industry?
Oh, they know- they pay alot to get a condensed version on the XBox or PSwitch.
I dunno. Sample size may have something to do with this. I live in a rural section of the US now, but spent a year living in Eastern provincial France and the difference in the cheese case makes me cry when I think about it.

Americans stock their shelves with "swiss" "american" "jack" and "cheddar" with almost all of them being made in about a week in cheese factory somewhere.

Contrast that with having TWO versions of Cantal, one of the blander AOC cheeses, in every cheese case we encountered in France. To say nothing of blues I'd never heard of, and small batch regional cheeses in many supermarchés.

It's all hearsay and conjecture, really, but I think the outsized influence of American chefs is just due to TV culture which is pervasive and consistently unfortunate.
The highest official DDR3 frequency is 1600Mhz. My 8320e board is happily chugging along at 2400Mhz. That's 50% faster.

In fact, my motherboard is advertised at a 2133Mhz max, and so is my memory.

"Official" frequencies are a very poor metric. You might as well run your memory as fast as you can, so long as it's still stable. If you are concerned about stability, just run a few iterations of memtest86.
> All forums with large threads have to paginate for performance, including HN.

I can read "War and Peace" [1] as an HTML document on my 7 year old cheapo Android phone. The browser even "streams" the data, displaying each chunk as it loads over a slow connection.

As far as I know, you're correct that all forum software I've used paginates large threads, but I'm curious if they "have" to - as in, I think a team could probably build forum software that didn't paginate large threads (for reasonable definitions of "large") and still have good performance on a wide range of devices, if they were willing to make the necessary trade-offs. Whether those trade-offs are worth making, I don't know.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600-h/2600-h.htm
I would expect this to be a way to pressure software providers to publish to the store. With opt-in model, even if it's free, you can assume that there will be a sizeable chunk of the market that will not opt-in to upgrade to Pro.
Intel discovered to their cost that you can't trademark a number (hence 80486->pentium). Don't know if one letter is enough :-)
I guess I can get a really expensive yoga mat :-)
Yeah, benefits are generally poor in the US compared to Europe. Salaries tend to be higher and taxes tend to be lower in the US. It's American culture to value those more.
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True, almost every remotely important page uses HTTPS now so the TOR traffic doesn't really stand out as much as it did a couple of years ago, but it still might look suspicious once you look at the overall bandwidth.
From my somewhat limited reading it seems that the only inherent performance hit in Erlang's implementation is that all its processes can be interrupted externally, I think the term is cooperative multitasking?

Otherwise I think the rest of Erlang's performance is because it's optimized for reliability and distribution rather than raw performance.
Is there much benefit from pledging a shell?

I thought a fork/exec (seems like a core requirement for a shell) didn't inherit the pledge from the parent?

> promise: exec
> Allows a process to call execve(2). Coupled with the proc promise,
> this allows a process to fork and execute another program. The new
> program starts running without pledge active and hopefully makes
> a new pledge()
> -- openbsd pledge(2) manpage
I hate to sound cynical, but these are only admirable if these features are the most valuable to users/customers. I see way too many entrepreneurs enamored by technology to find a year later there's no one using their software.

I know this might feel sad for software engineers to hear, but there's a lot more Benioff's than there are Jan's in the world.
We will. (12 year Red Hat veteran speaking)
OTOH, how did displays get away with jacking up DPI to unreadable levels? (I'm not talking about Retina.)
In 2013 a very highly-placed Goldman Sachs exec, a friend of a friend, told me his AMFAR contacts predicted a 'genetics-based cure' in a 3-4 years instead of the 10 years they publicly projected. The rationale was donations would stop if people knew how close they were to a cure.
All in all not a really in-depth article, but the author has some valid points. All parameters exposed by the browser should be variated, especially the scroll bar size which seems to be the real offender here.

Not sure how the Tails [0] distribution handles it, but IIRC it notified me of the screen size / view port size problem as I maximize the browser.

0: https://tails.boum.org/
1) Red Hat has orchestration, that Docker doesn't have.

2) RedHat is well positioned in the big enterprise market with support/vendor contracts, containerization is just one more lateral offering in the portfolio.

3) RedHat is a well known and trusted brand, Docker is not.
rkt is still not fully functional as a container runtime for kubelet[1]. kubelet is the underlying daemon used by Kubernetes and OpenShift for running containers. I am not sure if and when rkt will reach feature parity with the docker runtime but once it does, we wouldn't need to do much and enable it in OpenShift.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/
Bank of America running h1B Visa scam
So I go to Bank of America for an interview fo sennior software Engineer, and there is a room full of about 200 Indians. Is this america or Indian I say to myself.
They bring me in sat me down with not so much as a HELLO.
And gave me 19 questions to answer in 45 minutes. I looked at the questions
and walked out. The guy sees me heading for the door. I turn around walk over and whisper into his ear. I have 20 years as a software engineer and I can't do 19 things in 45 minutes and march out. I head to the water to get air and two Indians come out on there lunch break. I sad let me guess. You two are here on H1B visas and they said YES. Well look at that, BOF advertised the job, brought me in and could not find the right candidate so they can bring in more H1B visas. What a SETUP/ Bank of America is running a SCAM over there and gaming the system.
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Advertisers wouldn't work with them. Advertisers want to stand out (and have since the beginning of time) and at this point, a simple static image or text seldom stands out. (Exceptions might be the sponsored ads that your eyes have to go past when you do a google search, I guess).
What do you mean by gloss?
In other words, ultra-small ultra-low-overhead businesses are good for consumers.

Problem is, most places in America there's a certain baseline red tape cost that exceeds the budget of these types of operations.

In an unrestrained market environment, people can make money by eating up little inefficiencies like a swarm of ants. When you make the baseline energy cost of existence too high (e.g. with onerous incorporation or registration or licensing requirements), you kill off all the ants. Now those small but myriad inefficiencies go unconsumed, and society loses.
Also me, so I wondered what experience he could have had to lead him to this conclusion. I found this:

> His research focus on anti-anonymity technologies combines fields as vast as ergonomics and child development to artificial intelligence and theoretical biophysics.

(http://www.hackerfactor.com/about.php)
Best phrase: idiosyncrasy credits

TLDR: Develop your eccentricities.
I'm somewhat ambivalent on text size since I typically zoom web content when I find the text size uncomfortable. There are some cases where there is a severe mismatch between the size of body/text and other elements, which poses a challenge for zoom. But for the most part, zoom is a sufficient tool.

Still, I could potentially agree with the overall sentiment that slighter larger default sizing might be good.

But I find the presentation of this argument ironic thanks to poor body contrast:

background-color: white;
color: rgb(60, 72, 88);

Pulling the body color numbers down to increase the contrast made it immensely more readable for me. Unfortunately, while browsers have decent zoom controls, they don't have contrast controls without plugins. So designers should be especially careful to not specify insufficient contrast. (Aside: I generally find light text on slate backgrounds even easier on my eyes.)
Preventing fraud is one thing. Holding fraudsters responsible is a thing. However, barring access outright to (properly labeled) experimental medicine is completely different, and that's what the FDA does (as well as enforce a bunch of monopolies).
That's exactly the same. Don't sell yourself short. You're doing operations with a different audience, and that type of behavior is just as common in external-facing operations. Hell, it doesn't even have to be an off-the-shelf product; I've been through that song and dance with in-house software.
I disagree with those laws ideologically, but they're a footnote. The vast majority of people do not live in one of those states. My county (in Maryland) is building a fiber network and wiring up towns in the rural part of the county that's not served by FiOS: http://archive.aacounty.org/News/Archive2013/News%20and%20Up....

At the same time, I inserted the caveat of importing regulators from Scandinavia for a reason. Public infrastructure in the U.S. (outside of NYC/Chicago) mostly sucks and is poorly run. I say this because I've walked the walk: I used to commute on Metro North every day from Westchester to Manhattan, then on SEPTA from Wilmington to Philadelphia, then on Amtrak from Baltimore to DC, then (briefly) on the D.C. Metro. Metro North was fantastic, but the others are worse than Comcast.

The basic problem is that I don't have the choice to vote for Stockholm's fiber system run by Swedes. My only choice is between Verizon (which is actually pretty damn good in Maryland), or the same folks who run the D.C. Metro.
For the 8086, sure. But modern x86 throws in Mod R/M, SIB bytes, REX prefixes, VEX prefixes, Operand Size Overrides…
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I don't want to believe that it's an article of faith for me :) I've heard convincing arguments for it, and the arguments against market monopolies haven't ever been satisfying. But, I also haven't taken a survey of all monopolies or wannabe-monopolies in history. Yeah, my view on monopolies comes from the base assumption that: "It's never cost-effective to try to interfere with the competition by either buying them out or by a price war." The awesome American example of it is from Dow Chemical vs. Bromkonvention (short description: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/dow-chemical-brom... ) and this is a longwinded account in favor of Standard Oil (and to be honest, I'm jumping around in the article as I'm reading it): https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2008-summer/stan...

For "buying out the competition", the idea is that: If company A with market dominance wants to maintain market dominance by buying out the competition, it'll always come at a bad deal. People who are starting new companies that do the same thing will be able to hold out for a price that makes selling worth it, which probably means that it's a bad deal for company A.

At the same time, the person running the upstart company B can stay in business if they're willing to take fewer profits. Company A should be making lots of profits, if they have economies of scale. But if Company A takes any more profit than the difference in the benefit of having an economy of scale, then there is an opening to a competitor. If we start with Profit=Revenue-Cost / P = R - C, then if (Pa - Pb) > CostReductionFromHavingAnEconomyOfScale, then there is space for a small competitor to come in and make some profit.

Sorry for going on that tangent--- I know that wasn't your main objection, but I wanted to back up my assumptions.

The "misleading advertising" is a new angle I haven't thought of too much, but I would hope that consumers and organizations like Consumer Reports would be able to cut through the bullshit and get the product that's actually the best value. And I feel like, with the pervasiveness of aggressive advertising/marketing, most people, especially people who guide purchasing decisions in households & businesses, are able to look at it with a sharper eye. Not always an accurate eye, but sharp enough to be somewhat guided towards the direction of better value. The way that this applies to the recent election is that I think the effect of "fake news" is pretty overblown.
And charging it!
This is purely personal, but I don't buy laptop solely for its form-factor. What sells the MBP to me is the operating system and frankly that is what keeps me from buying a windows laptop too.
In the end I'm ok with paying a premium for a laptop that just works 90% of the time. MBP usually last very long (I still use a early 2011 machine), so the cost is amortized.
So, was he right?
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> Scrolling is a natural, established pattern on the web—people expect to have to scroll.

But I don't want to have to scroll every 5 seconds, either. I start to feel like I'm reading a children's book.
The cost is all the users who find the "magical guide to speed up your computer" online that involves registry hacks and such, and end up breaking it instead (and blaming Windows for it).

It seems like the intent is to end up in a similar place to iOS, with the entire system "curated" end to end. Which is not a bad place to be for many (most?) users. The problem with iOS model is that there's no way to escape it for power users, but it looks like it's not the case here - you can run 10 S if you want iOS-like experience, or you can run 10 Pro otherwise.
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>A more complicated to manage network in some ways. Lots of fine grain tactical purchasing with multiple competing suppliers, that you couldn't staff at supermarket scale.

Well yes and no. Objectively it is more complicated, but it's a sort of complexity that humans can handle intuitively since it's mostly about personal connections and relationships. It's not as abstracted as more expansive supply-chain logistics are.
Big narrative violations:

Mac units up 4% year over year, revenue up 14% year over year. Last quarter it was up 1% and 7%. In contrast Surface revenue was down 26% year over year.

Other products (which include Apple Watch and AirPods) revenue was up 31% year over year. Tim Cook just said on the call that Apple Watch sales doubled year over year.
This is bound to happen when you focus more on core business goals and spend too much time talking about diversity.
As I understand it the majority of Sushi restaurants in the US (dunno about China) are run by Koreans. There was a weird religious cult thing that did the legwork to set up sushi grade fish distribution on a large scale and flooded the market with restaurants.

Sometimes the clues are really blatant that it's not an authentic Japanese restaurant. There used to be a Sushi place a few miles down the road where the hirigana on the sign spelled out Arikato.
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Not totally accurate.

BSD and solaris have had good containerisation engines for a while.

Linux, not so much.
You want everything explained, you want to use it for free and you don't want to participate. Everything that's wrong with the world ;-)
That sounds like a nice plan as well! I have never heard of anything like this in the US.
Depends on the size of your data set. Intel's plan, according to their web site, is to replace the SSDs (especially NVME ones) with Optane based solid state memory. The road map has them shipping exabytes of the stuff eventually.

So as I see it you'd be constrained by 32GB Optane modules today, but they will eventually (one, maybe 2 years) be 2 TB modules like the Samsung 960 Pro modules are today. And an M.2 port is really just a PCIe slot so you're looking at systems with maybe 32 TB of Optane storage on the high end within the next 5 years.
I'm sure they could get that 4mb down if they removed all text formatting, media, quotes, replies, editing tools, user icons, and pagination.
I understand you, but as I said in another comments, I would like to expand the comparison, but in the end is a question of time and costs. If I find a way to sustain the costs, or the providers itself offer me a way to test their machines, I have no problem to expand the comparison.
But in the meantime, I share the tools because I knew from the beginning that I only have limited resources. And after all, reproducibility, independence and transparency are the keys IMHO to have a trustful comparison.
How are privacy issues handled, especially for the schoolchildren?
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There are specific 'model animals' that the scientific community uses however https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_model_organisms
> billionaires running biologic research companies

D. E. Shaw Research is exactly this. Haven't heard of others, though.
Agreed. I was surprised that many supermarket chains are union shops with good wages, paid time off and healthcare. Trouble is they're having trouble competing with non-union competitors and are closing down eg A&P. Chinatown I'd expect a lot of employees aren't even legal.

> Grocery clerks with service of five years or more generally earn the maximum rate allowable under the contracts, between $18.71 and $19.80 per hour. http://work.chron.com/union-pay-journeyman-grocery-clerk-281...
Personally, I have disliked the mobile-first mindset since the beginning because on my primary platform (the desktop) it results in too little content on screen. I much prefer "old" style interfaces like hacker news that give me lots of content on screen. As others have said elsewhere in this thread, I can (and do) use the zoom function when necessary.

I disagree with the article's assertion that larger text is more readable. In my own experience, I find that readability is reduced when scrolling occurs. Increase the amount of scrolling, decrease the readability.
> Right now HIV infections are basically a minor nuisance

I don't understand how anybody can say that. HIV treatment is extremely heavy and has potentially horrible side effects that must be masked with other drugs that have their share of horrible side effects. This + the fact that many people get only diagnosed when they are terminally ill due to the nature of the disease. I'm not even talking about the cost of the treatment.

Your comment is just horrible, whatever the intent was.
For paid leave, you have a point - most European companies don't expect employers to foot the bill for a year of paid leave. For unpaid leave, however, this really is the norm outside of the U.S. Large and small companies manage just fine to "hold a spot" for anyone on maternity leave - either you bake it into your hiring plans, or you hire someone temporarily for the length of the paternity leave.
I doubt that's the case anymore. With Chromebook Pixel, it was understandable because it was plain as day.

In this case, it looks like they put in a lot of effort into design and the overall effort seems to show that they do want these laptops to be sold.