skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's "better", it mostly depends on what you want to achieve.

Users, except the tech savvy one, will not notice if you do a nice job. (hard to miss with UI framework like fabric, semanticUI, etc..)

If you want a small application that start fast and/or use system look and feel. A react-native approach (like https://proton-native.js.org/) will be better.

If you plan to customize/brand your apps and the app will run for a long time, it doesn't really matter. The downside is that it will take more memory.

Also, v8, constantly improve, reduce memory usage and optimize javascript performance. Soon it will be easier to run faster code with webassembly. It's even possible now to compile your typescript code with AssemblyScript, or do it the hard way with C, C++ or Rust. It's only a matter of time before the performance between the two will be reduce.

As for the problem mention about the whole browser ship with every apps. Maybe we will see a solution similar to adobe air in the future or a way to strip down blink based on the app requirements. Technically a browser is just a standardized drawing library, like flutter uses skia, Qt it's own or GTK uses cairo.
NASA insistence on the human-rating for their own commercial crew spaceflights greatly increases the cost. If I recall right two falcon 9 have been lost to accidents, one on the pad, another 150 seconds into the flight. But the overall ratio of rapid unscheduled disassemblies to successful flights is looking promising.

Compare the predicted likelihood of fatalities with how many FAA licensed amateur/kit built "experimental" airplanes crash each year, killing their sole occupant pilots...

The FAA seems to be relatively OK with that fatality rate, on an ongoing basis, but spacecraft are held to a much higher standard.

If there had been a human in the very first Dragon flight carrying a wheel of cheese, years ago, they would have survived and had a nominal flight.
Oh, yes, I’d agree that contamination risk must be small compared to whatever the dietary effect might be. (I’d say even the direction of that effect is unknown.)
We have app stores. They're gated, slow, fragmented, and sometimes expensive. They require apps to be installed before you can use them. (Google is working on this last point though.) And sure they have upsides too, but it's not the best option for everyone.
I mean, yeah. It just felt anticlimactic.
They were probably trying to slip you up and see if you would say in the trunk or something.
The language in GEB can be a bit much, but I find it to be a consistently effective took for opening someone's eyes to the vast universe of computer science.

There should be a GEB for Hackers or something like that, though. Accessibility is an issue. Maybe not accessibility in the sense of grokking the content, but certainly in staying engaged to it throughout the text. It feels like a lot of work.

Humility is important too. GEB could definitely use some more of that too.

Thanks for your insight
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Some reasons to stay in Canada:

* Your spouse will not be able to work on your visa (TN / H1B)

* "Full insurance coverage" does not mean for your spouse. Be prepared to pay for a delivery if you want to have children

* Your child will have much higher post-secondary student loans

* Crime, Firearms et al.

IMO coming to SV is a young/single person's game (hence braindrain from grads). But a bad idea for established people or people who want a family / social safety.
> Not everyone has a LinkedIn profile, and by only contacting those with a profile, you are potentially introducing bias into the selection

How? Are you saying Canadian graduates that go south are more likely to have a LinkedIn profile?
If the people who control 60% of the nations wealth want to do this, all the complaining in the world isn't going to do anything.

Can you elaborate on this? Why are the wealthy interested in empowering the NSA?
It's because that C makes it easy to confuse the two concepts that it's very important to stress when and how they're different.

What creates the confusion in C is that arrays try very hard to decay into pointers at any occasion and on top of that you have "fake" arrays when they're declared as function parameters (something that's probably the most insane "feature" of C IMO. And don't get me started to the a[static n] syntax that solves nothing and introduces even more confusion on top of adding yet an other completely new meaning to the 'static' keyword). Most crucially they behave very differently when it comes to using sizeof.

It's also very important to understand the difference to be able to understand `const char p = "abcd"` vs `char p[] = "abcd"` or `struct s { / ... /; char data; }` vs. `struct s { /* ... */; char data[]; }`.
The Game of Everything, Part 8: Civilization and Government II
So, 1000 out of a few hundred thousand employed as software engineers in the area?
I have been using jitsi for the past year or so and the experience is pretty much what you describe.

https://meet.jit.si
There were times I thought that I'd have to give up, but it is much better than it used to be. I've been running my own email since 2002. There were some rough years, but I think we are past the days where you'd try to send to someone at {{big company} and get rejected. It's been quite a few years since I've thought too much about being rejected or fighting spam.

It is a pain to setup DKIM, SPF, etc., but it all works now. I had to say "etc.", mostly because I don't remember all the hoops I jumped through. THe good news is that it has been so long I don't remember.
>What the hell does Facebook need 600MB for?

Cache. Phones have limited storage, but they're also limited by bandwidth, latency and power. If the Facebook app did no caching it'd run slower, consume more battery and eat up the data allowance of people on limited plans.
It's a common practice throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world (and Russia until recently). Compulsory military service for males at 18, for a varying amount of time but enough to a) make a tangible difference in the number of young guys loitering about because they have nothing to do in the bad economy; b) have a large internally deployable force to quell any unrest at a moment's notice; c) indoctrinate young men with the idea that being a man / being a patriot / being of good character means supporting the regime and its ideology (while also giving young men a group identity as a veteran of the armed forces loyal to the government).

Fighting a war with another country is not the reason most countries spend money on their armies that could be spent elsewhere.
Have you tried spacevim? https://spacevim.org/
Ask HN: Implications of honoring do not track (DNT)?
For anyone who's chosen to honor the do not track flag what are some of the implications of doing so? I'm thinking of using it to disable Google Analytics / Facebook tracking. The only issue that's come to mind so far is not having the full picture when it comes time to sell the business. The last time I looked roughly 18% of the audience had DNT set. Thoughts? Also what besides removing analytics scripts are you disabling?
There's a tragedy of the commons effect here, no? Using Ad Block doesn't really change the landscape so long as there are a sufficient number of people without ad block out there. But if everyone acts that way, then things will change and IMHO mostly not for the better.

A lot of the alternatives to ad models aren't great (e.g. paywalls everywhere) or require a lot more resources to implement (e.g. selling sponsorship opportunities that aren't ads). For some sites, especially smaller publishers, I don't think there is a viable alternative and they will simply cease to exist.

Disclaimer: my company runs a network of ad-supported business news sites
Yeah, I totally agree. I use VSCode and I'm happy with it. Electron apps are slower, but not to the extent that I won't use Electron based apps. Personally, I'm excited to try out Oni.
Vancouver has changed a lot in the past 5 years. There are now two tiers of tech pay: the smaller companies that pay from low to ok and then a handful of SV companies that have moved in and are paying top tier money.

The dollar numbers are almost on par with the top SV salaries, albeit not with the current exchange rate. That fluctuates though.

Amazon opening up a new HQ in Vancouver will just strengthen this. The downside is that right now it is just a half dozen or so companies paying in this top range.
I think emails to Apple would be more effective. Petitions to companies tend to have a bandwagon effect and seem to be largely ignored, especially by Apple.
Why not?

What exactly is the big deal with having just static content?

I don't have JS enabled when I read HN. I just hit reload to load and read new comments. What exactly is the problem with doing that?

When I read some article on some news site or web forum, I don't need JS to just read a bunch of text or look at an image. All of that can be and often is static. JS is totally superflouous here.

The only legitimate uses of JS I can think of are for things like games, or data that you really need to be updated in real-time like stock market tickers. But those are a relatively minor subset of the web and can be made in to standalone apps anyway. I'd much rather have a standalone app than expose myself to all the malware, spyware, and tracking that comes with a JS web ecosystem.
> Do you have particular application areas or problems you want to apply ML to?

Not particularly, no. I've spent a ton of time reading about the math behind it and I feel as if I had been reading about functional programming or OOP without actually writing a single line of code... So I'm basically looking to get the practical approach, getting my hands dirty so to speak.
Both. From an end-users perspective - someone who doesn't know the inner workings of the app store - then it feels safe. In a world where common people are becoming trained not to click to download random links on the internet and look at the 'lock in the address bar', going to the App Store app and seeing the familiar UI feels safer. For us tech folks, then yes, we know it is safer.
Since people are complaining that the article is misleading, we changed the title to more factual text from the article.
If you click the link I posted above, you will get a permissions dialog that asks to access your microphone. You can say no upfront, or revoke permission at any time. It's not open to spying.

Edit: to be specific, it's a lot easier to allow access temporarily in a browser than it is using the Android permissions system. Not sure about Apple but I'd bet it's about the same as Android.
I find it hypocritical that NVIDIA is trying to spin this as an effort at "clear branding" when they also do things like releasing a lower power version of the MX150 without changing the branding.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12565/nvidia-silently-rolls-o...
The nation needs a “tax sit-in” - everyone ridicules this, but wtf do people think the boston tea party was about.

If you want governments to listen without armed rebellion, the only thing one can do is refuse taxes.

They know that this is the inly othe tool you have - and thats why taxes are woven into the fabric of the economy such that its automatically taken without you having any control over them.

Its also why you can never truly own land. Dont pay taxes on land, and they will take it.

You can only pay for the privilege to rent land. Forever.
Thanks for the shoutouts for Mapbox here. I'm Ali from Mapbox (ali@mapbox.com) hit me up if you have any questions.
Sure, there's no competition for the 1080 Ti, Titans, Quadros, and Teslas but those are a small fraction of the market. For other GPUs, AMD and NVidia are pretty evenly matched.
Yep, far worse.

They were very nice when I activated my PR card though.
Ethereum is/was just as ambitious with its digitalapps and services and everything. TelegramOnNetwork is aiming to be a better Ethereum. If they have solid PieceofShit from the beginning it could be interesting.

Maybe stop abbreviating without explaining.
> the pointlessness of that job to my coworkers

What if you were older/disabled and had trouble lifting a medium-large suitcase?

Seems like not the most useless job in the world, especially since it helps keep things moving in the airport and reduces congestion by getting people their bags slightly faster.
> without diluting

If the tokens don't grant a stake in Telegram's business, does this mean the ICO is essentially an independent system (where tokens have value regardless of how Telegram performs as a business), and only loosely related to Telegram in the sense that their name was used to initially promote the opportunity?
I think part of the problem lies in the fact that the consumers aren't the ones who have control over the dataset. The NSA pressures the Telecoms.
Not enough! These should be read at least once a month.
Not really universal though: maybe some people who write about axe-murderers would be really good at axe-murdering, but for some reason they never tried. (At the opposite end of the spectrum you have professional sports and those who write about it)
Don’t worry, the Chinese government stores all your Wechat data for you on a cloud ;)
and who can afford one.
I think I know why you say that, but I didn't communicate that something can't be equally oriented toward both knowledge and affect; in fact I'd say that's exactly what people are experiencing when they characterize a theorem, equation, proof, or algorithm as "elegant." And I'm not calling the OED an "arbiter of all knowledge," I'm merely making sure my eccentric use of "affect," isn't being taken as a mistaken "effect."
What he is saying, I think, is that because of Citizens United, money controls our politics at this point and it really doesn't really matter what Joe Smith thinks.

We can prove that wrong in November, of course.

EDIT: Its true that the democrats are just as bought, but I have faith that they would also appoint a supreme court that would rule the other way as well.
Do you tell your clients to install the PWA and how to do it? Or do customers find and install the PWA without interacting with you? Or both?
Except, they're not using it for NAT.
They're using it for device management (mostly CPE, if I recall.)
As I have pointed out in other comments discussing strategy without seeing the room makes finding a strict ordering difficult.

Picture them entering the room and the boxes are on a round filing cabinet. There is no obvious #1 to pick so some of the 100 would pick different #1's. Again, as a math problem it's reasonable to assume they can agree on an order, but it's not stated.
Since it feels like you missed mine: you are not in a position to tell people what legal things not to do from the comfort of their own home.

Make a plea if you like, try to convince anyone you want, but being obtuse and arrogant with people who don't share your views is just lame.
The educational system of Texas is in no way a good example of fixing privilege issues. It assumes that all students come to school on equal footing. The 10% that get automatically accepted to a state uni are going to be biased on class. Also, the idea that they can be admitted doesn't mean that they can attend uni.

It's not a simple as what you describe.
I think the point was that they were noticing a change in sociability among those who were already taking the vaccine. Having a higher baseline level of sociability wouldn't be relevant.
I've always faced much tougher scrutiny coming back across to the American side. Had lots of friends and family in Quebec, and we went fishing and hunting up there multiple trips a year, usually with a truck loaded for a week or two of being out in the woods. Even bringing firearms across, you just step inside the office and fill out the paperwork. Usually when we told them that we only had the legal limit of one case of beer or bottle of wine per adult, they'd joke and ask us if we were going to get thirsty while we were fishing...

The one thing that is a little sticky is that you can't get across the border if you have had a DUI within so many years. An issue for some of my dad's hunting buddies.

The US side coming back was always a bigger pain in the neck. Part of that is because of the way Border Patrol rotates their agents. You could always tell the ones that had recently rotated from the Mexican border because they were twitchy and kept a hand on their holster at all times. I'm sure it's a hard habit to break, but not really appropriate at a backwater crossing in Northern Maine where 95% of the traffic is log trucks and local Canadians coming over to fill up their gas tanks or pick up things they've ordered online.
Thank you. I've read about twenty explanations in the past month and none of them have been helpful at all. This makes it clear.
The wealthy dont care what the NSA does so long as they can remaim wealthy.

The 1% can pay whatever is required to protect their wealth - and its why the panama papers is the biggest scandal of all time.

So long as the 1% can live without consequence, they dont care how anything the government does affects the masses.
I found it online, looks fascinating! Thanks so much!

That's the best kind of book to read, the kind someone wrote after reading a bunch of other books.
California Now World's 5th Largest Economy, Surpassing UK
Tom Impallomeni: Oculus Go alone won’t change the market. Awesome content will
I disagree. The income disparity increases at senior levels. I hit a ceiling in Toronto where I hard trouble growing my career and making more than $180,000 CAD TC. Moving to silicon valley my experience was able to fetch over $500,00 USD TC. Sure it meant that for a year and a half my spouse can't work but that's not a big deal.
Has anyone heard of "substitute [presumably AMD] GPUs hidden behind a pile of techno-jargon"?
Certainly. Most around here (UK) tend to make more ornamental than functional stuff nowadays, but skills are definitely out there. This being a somewhat “horsey” area, there are also plenty of farriers.

It’s also somewhat accessible to hobbyists. My sister has done some pretty neat stuff.
The problem is w2 employees (i.e. most of the workforce) get their taxes taken out of their paychecks automatically. It would be nearly impossible to withhold those taxes from the government.

Interestingly, the more independent contractors in a population, the easier it would be to stage a tax sit-in.
Since this obviously inspired https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16996306, I'm going to move the spacecraft replies to that thread. The database replies can stay here. Beautiful analogy tlb.
I am on the train that the idea of using SQLite for a webapp, even one where SQLite can handle the traffic just fine, isn't nearly as good of an idea as some would have you think. Nevertheless, the idea of switching a local end-user application off of SQLite in favor of a client-server RDBMS is bonkers IMHO. You would be making everything about the application dramatically more complex for no real benefit. This blog post is considerably nicer than the idea deserved.
Lesson 8:
Serverless isn't the solution for everything / everyone.
I haven't compared it to gvim, but gvim seems like it would have the upper hand there since it is native. There's also the fact that no matter how fast the renderer is, it can never be faster than the neovim instance running under the hood. I do not have any detailed knowledge of the internals though, so I could be wrong.
> So I tried Ruby

fwiw https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> If you’re doing native mobile app development, you’re doing it wrong.

This is the mobile equivalent of "($CURRENT_YEAR + 1) is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop!" Every year since 2010 I've heard that web apps are going to replace native mobile applications any second now, and it hasn't happened. I'm not investing in a platform/paradigm that has seen a lot of hype but very little actual demand from users, especially when you can be damn sure that Apple is going to throw up as many roadblocks as they can in front of it.
But they push other tech firms to make their offerings more palatable.
This report is, of course, a distraction from their ability to archive historical reality to a resolution 1 mm and 1 ms.
My guess is that Russia is blocking some servers that affected them and they’re spinning that as Russia targeting them for PR.
Want to see pointless job? go into a nice department store in Tokyo to buy a shirt (if, say, United Airlines lost all your good clothes on the way over-- just as a hypothetical).

the sheer number of people involved in greeting, seating and feting you is stunning.

then there's the five levels of distribution to get any kind of product to market...
Was Color raising 400M to buy color.com domain a scam?

How much did the AR guys that are showing 3D renders raise again? The ones that everybody is calling scam?

I can also present to you an alternative viewpoint (non-scammy) on Telegram:

Telegram has the leading mindshare in crypto space communications which could mean that they will be able to drive day-to-day adoption. Imagine paying back your friends through Telegram. And most of your Telegram friends are anyways crypto savvy and would love to use this. I can fully reason TON being very relevant if they get the tech right.

About getting the tech right - they've built Telegram, right? It's an app that's being used daily. And it works great. And the founder is a very successful serial investor. I wouldn't bet against Telegram that they actually pull this off. With so much money they could easily buy a crypto team to give them the missing skills.

Let's crunch some numbers:

- They've sold for 1.7B USD of tokens. And let's say that they sold 50% of their tokens. This gives them 3.4B market cap.

- Let us look at the coinmarketcap.com - you can see that EOS, which has not launched the mainnet and has an ICO ongoing for the past year (raised ~2B so far). They don't have any real-world usage (remember - they do not have a public blockchain running) and they are currently valued at 14B.

- It's not unreasonable to expect that you will profit from buying TON tokens.

In the end - these are big boys that are investing. They understand due diligence. It's going to be hard for them to scream "its a scam".

And just to be clear, my definition of scam is: "I am lying about what I will do with the purpose of taking the money from you." Here its more of "I have a wish list of things I want to build, but I'm not experienced enough to know that this might be harder than expected." But this is what startups do daily. The only difference is that Telegram (and other crypto projects) is able to get cash at a much larger scale.

PS: I still don't like TON ICO.
That's because Canada is socially liberal and financially conservative.
Tried opening it on mobile Chrome, and it seems there's no way to select "express"? It's there, but I can't interact.
They are publicly denying them access? Source? Beside a PR statement?
The headline is misleading by itself. SquirrelMail is still getting security fixes and is under active (but slow) development.
I worked with a guy whose job was about 50% copying and pasting data from source A to B or going through an Excel sheet and doing the same thing for each entry.

Eventually he automated it in a hacky way with VBA that worked most of the time. He spent a lot of time watching YouTube paylists while the VBA scripts ran submitting web forms etc. It seemed like a pretty sweet gig.
Has anyone written "rationalist fiction" about a zombie setting? Something like what Worm [0] was for superheroes. Something that isn't just a genre-savvy parody of the flaws of characters in zombie films, but a serious exploration of a band of survivors working to build a community/society to survive and thrive against the zombies. It's probably hard to make it entertaining if one is in the mindset of mainstream tropes, but there's probably a way to make it work.

[0] https://parahumans.wordpress.com/