skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious to see how it was able to run so snappy. It actually feels like the help section for a native app. I found the source code:
https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
It's not really using a client side framework and runs Sinatra on the back end. I will definitely dig more into how it all works.

Thanks for sharing!!
So how exactly do they get recruitment posts on the frontpage?
Wikipedia has it's fundraisers. Medium has its claps and sign in with TwitBook. I'd miss Wikipedia. Meidum perhaps not.

So long as Wikipedia does not start A/B testing a fake paywall like PBS has been doing recently on my IP address with Ken Burns's Vietnam War, it has not violated my notions of working toward the public good.
I find it absurd that we are spending half as much on military spending as we did around WWII, despite not being in a World War. What value are we getting for our money? How am I supposed to feel that a significant amount of my taxes go to Predator drones bombing people across the globe, occasionally including innocent civilians, instead of feeding, clothing, and educating downtrodden people back home? How does this spending compare to other countries?
Hogline
I wasn't suggesting an end-of-world scenario.

Merely that no investments are going to hold their value.
The title should be "Run your own local Ethereum instance"
Deja vu.
I think the primary use for layouts is for people that want complicated layouts of windows at startup that would be cumbersome to set up every time you log in.

I think in practice with as many workplaces as you like the most productive layouts on medium to small screens, which is to say most of them, is a number of workspaces each with a relatively simple layout and 1-3 windows only.

You can wrap the layout saving restoring functionality in a tiny bit of scripting to make it more useful on the fly. Basically the json isn't useful right from the rip because you have to manually uncomment whatever fields make a given window unique but a script can pretty much do that unless it requires a regex and window title to distinguish between 2 windows.
> Wait, they invented internet messaging? That existed since forever...Nothing strategically new.

WhatsApp enabled low-cost internet messaging on a global scale by taking the existing messaging technology, perfecting the user interface and positioning the product correctly (i.e. text messaging instead of instant messaging).

Sure, people could have used AIM, but then they would need to collect the emails or screen names of their close friends and encourage people to use AIM with that system. WhatsApp succeeded by framing it in the context of text messaging (something you do on your phone with friends) instead of in the context of internet messaging (something you do at a computer, and less personally). Tying the messaging to something that was already familiar and ubiquitous (phone numbers) while keeping the interface essentially the same was a real innovation.

There is a tremendous amount of innovation opportunity when two situations collide: 1) a new platform of user software emerges or becomes realistically cheap, and 2) useful systems or software exists that is extremely useful, but decentralized or frustrating to use. Mobile app stores and taxis are a good example, which resulted in Uber and Lyft.

Your criticism is substantially the same as people dismissing Dropbox’s legitimate innovation because rsync already existed. If you dig deeply enough, most real innovation can be described as a kernel of something old enhanced by something that’s new. It’s more consistent to use this heuristic for identifying innovation than it is to go by whatever personally impresses you.
Ex-Googler is bringing self-driving excavators to construction sites
I've been looking forward to Python 4 for a long time now.
As someone who works in a WeWork, the "business services marketplace" aspect actually just feels like "oh also we bother you with advertisements all the time"
Do you have any pointers to info on using Hammerspoon as you describe above? I have a low dpi 4K (43") monitor and would like to be able to assign windows to pre-determined regions of the screen.
Look into Wyam (https://wyam.io/). It has a concept of "recipes" which are in essence a custom static site generators themselves but which feed into the core Wyam engine.
The admin corps does need some kind of reform - the place is hostile to newcomers, it doesn't use real-world expertise well (in academia we have secretaries to keep the cranks away), competing interests and astroturfing are an ongoing problem, nevermind the internal politics. The Wikipedia Movement stuff that the donations pay for do not address any of these issues meaningfully. The dropping admin and editor count would support this thesis.
The OP isn't arguing that they can't raise enough money this way, he's arguing that they way they are doing it alienates wikipedia users.
Elon Musk’s Boring company readies its second, poetic tunnel digger
Different people are different: I find running almost painfully tedious.
sorry, your opinion is wrong. look into it.
sinx(x) can be still object-oriented. Actually, really neat object oriented systems which implement multiple dispatch, like CLOS, tend to use this notation.
A little off topic, but I think it'd be cool if you could pay someone (a hotel chain? Airbnb?) a monthly 'rent' to live in any of their locations. The locations are guaranteed to have highspeed internet and some easy standardized way to move between them.

This would be really cool for remote work since you could live everywhere and nowhere without having the overhead of having to do all the planning yourself.
What are people looking for in a coworking space? What does your space provide you beyond a desk, Wi-Fi, and coffee?

Whenever I've researched spaces nearby, I've treated proximity, price, and hours as the three biggest selling points for a small business, work-from-home type like myself. But I guess that's only a small segment of the overall market.

I guess if you're a bigger business maybe you'd get comfortable with a brand name - WeWork in SF should be roughly similar to WeWork in NYC, and they already have your credit card on file.
I don't think that increased automation will necessarily kill jobs. When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin that could triple the labor of a slave, and the number of slaves increased keep the machines fed.

For a more modern analogy, AWS enables one engineer to deploy machines at let's say 100 times the speed of an engineer doing it all manually. If you business scales with the number of deployed machines, each additional engineer adds significant value to your business until you reach a point where adding another engineer does not justify the salary you would pay her.

The issue then is now training engineers to use AWS. Your business could justify bearing this cost if the cost of training does not outweigh the additional value.
Well, you can actually measure the effects that the Paleo diet has on biomarkers, so it isn't nearly as subjective as dating norms..
It'll be interesting to see what happens to Spotify if they go ahead with the direct listing.
Mongo is a marketing company for a mediocre product, but no doubt they're damn good at marketing it.
Amazon’s Uneven Playing Field
>But they’re not a site that posts user submissions. They’re a site that posts certain types of submissions: that’s what distinguishes them from reddit, 4chan, voat, etc.

>A failure to maintain that identity would fundamentally change their offering and lose them their audience. You make it sound like a trivial expenditure of Nothing more than a little bandwidth.

They have rules and guidelines, and they set the overall topic by calling it Hacker News. Users do the rest by voting up stuff that they find relevant or interesting. This doesn't work everywhere, but it works here. I've seen it first hand by browsing my stats, posts that are off-topic don't make it far.

>And you haven’t meaningfully distinguished it from a blog. Blogs host comments; they host guest posts, and multiple authors.

Your blog is still curated. I can't make an account on your blog and post an article to it without being invited by you and presumably having you read and approve it. On HN, on the other hand, every submission is like this. If you make a "blog" where every article is submitted by users, then I'm going to give you the same speech.
This area of Toronto is difficult to get to. It's cut off from the rest of the city by a large elevated highway (Gardiner) and a huge river (Don River). It's neglected for a reason. I really think this would be detrimental to Sidewalk Labs' mission, all of the work would get ignored.
I'm sure that the priests didn't allow their complete control of an opaque judicial process to be affected by their biases. There's no way that their social, economic or political interests could possibly affect the outcome.

Doesn't this system fail when priests believe in miracles? Or when the guilty believe God will spare them? Or when the innocent don't believe in miracles? Or when a guilty nonbeliever considers the same game theory? Or when the accused isn't some homo economicus rational agent? These are hardly edge cases.
They support various sports. One sport they supported for a long time is cycling. In men cycling, a lot of fraud with doping took place in the 90s and 00s of which Lance Armstrong is the most known culprit. After Rabobank was leading with Rasmussen and found out he lied about his whereabouts they took him out of the race. They ended up pulling out of the men cycling team. The next year, the team went without a sponsor.

More info on Wikipedia [1] [2].

In 2017 there are various new banks in The Netherlands since the crisis of 2007. For a list, see [3]. Of interest might be Bunq [4] because of their many innovations (although they recently became more expensive, and other banks are catching up on features).

Interest is very low with all banks. Triodos doesn't even give interest on savings accounts anymore, but the difference between Rabobank is merely 0,05% [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_LottoNL%E2%80%93Jumbo#Rab...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WM3_Pro_Cycling

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_the_Netherlan...

[4] https://www.bunq.com/

[5] https://www.rabobank.nl/particulieren/sparen/spaarrekening-e...
Or Black Mirror style with "freemium-subsidized condominiums". Imagine cheaper condos that you have to watch commercials every couple minutes, and of course they know if you're closing your eyes or not looking (think iPhone X).

Of course you can pay a higher rent to disable them and go "ad free". ;)
Volunteers don't cost money, but acquiring and retaining them does. A lot of these events are chances to get WP volunteers to meet and connect in real life, hopefully making WP more tangible and enjoyable to volunteer for.

Saying that spending money on volunteer outreach doesn't contribute to site content is just absurd. It's exactly the opposite.
Deep Learning Book Club [video]
> white men are all racist and sexist and are priveleged

We are; living in a racist and sexist society leaves its imprint and even the best-intentioned of us have racist and sexist baggage that we need to consciously and continually fight against. I'm sorry that that upsets you so. It exists, and it is real, and it is true, and that it upsets you does not change that it exists, and that it is real, and that it is true.

But for real: it's not that white men "can't comment." It's that white men have a listening problem in aggregate and that perhaps people who are not white men have perspectives that are deserving of being heard. Even if it means that you--and I--should give up our precious, precious megaphones for a sec.

Accepting and working on being mindful and decent does require effort. And it does mean that the "Kek de MAGA"s (how very subtle) of the world won't cheer you on. Somehow, though, those of us who give it an honest try seem to do alright without them.
Show HN: Serverless Microsoft Teams Gitlab Connector
I hope Neo4j will achieve something similar. Relational does a lot very well but for certain use cases a graph is far superior.
(longtime Emacs user here)

I'd never consider switching; I'm in too deep.
It might be easier to change religions, than change editors.
They are something that can be complicated, but don't have to be.

Gulp and Grunt and Webpack or whatever the new hot shit is, usually isn't used for anything _that_ complex. Grab some files, pipe them through a tool or series of tools, write the output to a destination. This is exactly what Make was built for.
>If every doctor trains an ML algo, then forgets how to be a doctor, then medicine stops dead at that level.

It's very rare that technology becomes ubiquitous and free very quickly. You will still need doctors in poor areas, destitute countries, and in the military.

Still, education and society would likely optimize for getting people to the edge of knowledge more quickly if ML algos truly took over a field like medicine.
If you work somewhere that doesn't respect your autonomy enough to let you work with the tools you like, then you should work somewhere else.
PhilArchive – open access e-print archive in philosophy
I'm a political activist. I'd prefer not to go into specifics while I have [ending charges :)

I don't mean to suggest that I have The Best strategy or tactic that you should deploy right now. These are hard problems we're talking about, and my long-term aims are plotted over 10-30 year timescales, and realistically the chances of achieving those are very tiny. I pursue a political approach because that's where my knowledge and skills seem likely to have the most effect.

I'm not sure that we need to necessarily go back to pre-industrial lifestyles in some sort of neo-primitivism movement. Perhaps I'm wrong and this will be forced upon us, but I believe that our capacities for invention and redeployment of our resources make it possible to change direction as a species. That has never been done before, and it will be fearfully difficult, even dangerous. But I prefer failure to passivity.

I've mentioned the 'deep green resistance' group partly because this thread is focused on ecology and partly because it's a good overview of the different theories and techniques of activism. Maybe if I were talking to one of the authors I'd get castigated for being too focused on political considerations and not putting the environmental issue at front and center of my efforts. But that's where my bets are placed for the time being.
Airbnb does have monthly rates. But no guaranteed internet afaik.
Sonar and YikYak also had lots of users. Until one day they didn't. I think op is spot on - snapchat is destined to end in the same list.
> Many North American cities are trying to get people to bicycle - yeah - that's retrograde ! and good. We don't need tech for that.

When there are no bike lanes it's a problem.
A lot of the bootcamp schools use mongo from what I remember. An interesting comparison would be what devs with 5+ years of experience prefer to use.
Jobs have been made obsolete many times over. There are fewer blacksmiths than there used to be when a horse was a primary method of transportation. Manufacturing jobs declined during globalization/offshoring during the eighties. Did knowledge work take the place of those manufacturing jobs? Would the employment numbers look different if VisiCalc hadn't come along?

The questions are: what do the population numbers look like that are impacted by these changes in job-type demand? How many blacksmiths were many obsolete by the car? How many manufacturing jobs were removed from the pool by moving to offshore manufacturing? How many manufacturing/warehouse/etc. jobs will be replaced by automation?

The last question is probably the hardest to answer, because we don't know yet. It depends on the evolution of the sensors (solid state LIDAR), other hardware, and automation methods.
Is there any online game for this like shown in the video?
i dunno... i just read about alphago zero. Only needed to teach it the rules of the game, and it thrashed the current level of cumulative human expertise (alpha go) 100-0 matches, which had just thrashed a single human the year before.

This seems like its happening at some hedge funds as well for stock picking.

I guess the closed system of the game rules is more manageable than all of medicine, but... I can't agree with "stuck as the current level of expertise".
This article was written in 2016. Other articles have said that the Model 3 design team made modifications to ensure it was compatible with "Camper Mode."
all of your links are walling again, AND deactivating reader mode in my browser.
We agree there for sure. I don't know how they could combat those issues more effectively, but I wouldn't expect it to be free.
How many more of these posts (or knockoff cryto scam coins) do we need?
> We have heaps and heaps of complicated, fragile abstractions to dismantle

Nobody has time to dismantle the complicated, fragile abstractions because they're too busy building new complicated, fragile abstractions to layer on top of the old ones.
It never helps does it?
Curiosity? Redis and Postgres are still above it as the "most loved": https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...
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I see it as the founders needlessly missing out on 30% of money (in this case), which ends up going in the pockets of the Wall Street middle men that get first access to the stock offering.

That's the system as it's currently implemented, yes. Underwriters have some folks on tap that they'll let in on the IPO. IOW, folks that'll dump money into the IPO. But those folks aren't suckers, they'd like to see a return on their investment, if not individual investments then at least in aggregate. So, in summary:

1. Companies want someone to buy their new shares.

2. Brokerages have such folks on tap.

3. However, those investors wants a return.

4. So the underwriters set the IPO price a bit low so as to increase the chances of investors getting that return, which means those investors will come back next time for, say, pets.com's IPO.

I doubt this is written down anywhere, but that's the impression I get from observing IPOs (tech and non-tech) for 20 years or so.
> HN is far to the right compared even to

Pretty sure that's not true. IMO you're falling into the cognitive
bias we all seem to have, of seeing the community as dominated by your
ideological opposite. The other side sees it just the other way. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15388778,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915, and lots more at
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....

> But in terms of <front page time>/<magnitude of problem>

We can't use such a metric. The magnitude of those problems is so large that there would be nothing else on the front page if we did.

HN is trying to be a specific kind of site—one that gratifies intellectual curiosity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I think it's ok for such a place to exist on the web, don't you? If so, many things follow. The site can't primarily be about litigating disputes or fighting for causes, even (especially) good causes. In fact it can't 'primarily' be about anything, because curiosity shrivels under repetition. Therefore HN's system (community + mods + software) is organized not to have too much, i.e. very much, of anything on the front page.

The issue isn't that HN suppresses discussion of e.g. sexism/gender in tech; it doesn't—there have been tons of threads, often large, often on the front page. The issue is that <front page time>/<how much I care about X> is always, for any X, less than you would like. For most casual observers, "less than I would like" feels like "censored completely". Meanwhile the readers who don't like X have the mirror-image view and say "HN is overrun with X". It's all an undergraduate psych experiment basically.
Interesting! I think I'd rather be dumb than boring, so this game is not for me.
Sounds as convoluted as McDonalds Corp business model...
I am looking for a proper answer to this myself.

But.. If for something real simple (if you are ok with an ugly URL), I have tried Google drive (with a public folder) and Blogspot with some quick and dirty JS in the mix.
I agree with the sentiment of this post and have felt this pain. Interestingly I find that notation and syntax are the first, and most powerful, justification for the new tools. Honest to god blockers to adoption I've witnessed:

1. Makefiles and/or bash scripts are not written in javascript

2. Man pages are not web based

3. The dense syntax of command line tool options is intimidating

I also have a strong sympathy with the position that UX matters at all levels of tool building and its hard to argue that older tools are as approachable, literate, or aesthetically appealing as newer tools.

The real tragedy is that it is so difficult to update the UX, syntax and aesthetics of older tools while maintaining the hard-won stability and separation of concerns they embody.
Thanks so much. I would probably have overlooked that thinking it was out of date.
By default exercise is boring, but you can fix that. Headphones/earbuds for music or to listen to audiobooks. I find that if I don't do that, I notice the exertion and discomfort a lot more and that limits how far/long I can run.

You can also get your exercise from exciting activities like sports or Dance Dance Revolution (but your experience may vary!).
In my experience, how boring an exercise is seems to be inversely related to your aptitude with that exercise. Running started out to be extrememly boring. I would listen to audiobooks while out on a trail. After a few months, I would notice that I'd miss sentences here and there. If I tried harder to concentrate on my otherwise very interesting audiobook, my running pace would suffer considerably. Eventually, I couldn't do books any more and switched to music. After a couple of years, I found the music distracting, and my pace increased when I did away with it. This also seems to be a theme I've noticed while weightlifting in the gym. The more proficient I am with a movement, the more my brain is being engaged.
One look at how badly google has managed their online communities, support, etc. suggests that this should be assumed until proven otherwise. There’s just such a track record of trying to conflate problems which can be automated with the problems the real world actually has.
This was my first time seeing DevDocs, it's awesome! I've used other all in one doc solutions but I always end up going back to google because they slow down once I add all the languages and packages I use.
https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/about-apropos/faq
Exactly. Wikimedia has been quickly increasing spending on things far outside their stated justification for fundraising.

Others in this thread may be interested in extensive discussion on HN of this issue earlier this month (149 points, 121 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429067

and back in May (1054 points, 406 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235
This reads way too much as a "get out of my lawn" post, where old complexity is good, but replacing it with newer complexity is bad.

Yet, I am asking myself if Puppet has ever saved me more time than it spent. It would help if it was stable, but it keeps changing, and outdating my rules.

I would say it has better maintainability than scripts over ssh, mostly because error handling is implicit and things are descriptive. But I would take not having to maintain the rules over maintainability at any day.