skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What about short videos used as replacements for GIFS? Loading the gif would actually use more bandwidth.

It seems reasonable to have an option to lazy load gifs and video. Same with audio.

My browser does this right now with flash: if I want to play flash content, I have to opt in. I never want to opt in.

> All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain.

I don't understand why you seem to think the browser should serve websites' interests over users interests.
> "coordinated inauthentic behavior"

Shouldn't they come out and say propaganda campaigns.

I still have questions about what they deem as acceptable and where they place hte line.
http://archive.is/u9WHs
Is that really what you think? Google Cloud is far and away the best service for machine learning right now. There's a reason why basically every company that has ML training needs is switching from AWS to GCP. Not only is Tensorflow, which is the only production machine learning framework that anyone uses, basically 100% integrated with GCP, the Google Compute Engine is the only way you can get access to TPUs.

At my company, we use GCP almost exclusively with preembtible TPUs as our primary compute for training models. It's not cheap, but you can't beat the performance and quality. Plus when you compare it with how much the engineers here are getting paid, it's a drop in the bucket ultimately.
Learn to meditate and make a commitment to stop avoiding flying if you actually need to fly somewhere. Avoidance just feeds the anxiety. Try to remind yourself of the positives of flying - you can travel far distances in a short period of time and enjoy more time at your destination than you might have otherwise if you took some slower mode of transportation.

Also, I always remind myself that the higher up the plane is from the ground, the longer the pilot has to correct things or come up with a plan to land safely if something does end up happening. This won't help with anxiety about takeoffs and landings, but it may help for the large majority of the flight spent cruising at high altitude.
Primarily the Name JASC was short for “Just Another Software Company” but later it was changed to “Jets and Software Company”.

[1] https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/pages/old-brands/jasc/
I have a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and the structural/functionality tests these planes go through is intense. That combined with systems engineering (so, so many things have to go wrong for a plane to crash) and statistics (it is extremely unlikely that you're ever going to be someone that's in a plane crash), I haven't even been concerned in turbulence strong enough to cause other people to cry.

Planes are built for turbulence- passengers are not.
Project Loom with Ron Pressler and Alan Bateman
Only in specific circumstances, like email, and even then it's only illegal if you don't have an opt out. At least that's how it's enforced.
This static website seems to be down.

Archive link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180731143228/https://pxlnv.com/...
The problem is not that there is no way. The problem is most people are lazy and don't care until they need to. For example, we all know that diet and exercise are the key to good physical health (at varying levels but diet/exercise are the constant almost every time). But we don't have enough motivation or the will to take care of our own body. Genetics does play a role but I still believe that good diet/exercise can solve most problems organically.
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> (1) accept the input string in pieces (i.e., lazily)

I think re2c may have at least parts of what you need:

From https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/blob/master/re2c/doc/manual...

-f --storable-state
Generate a lexer which can store its inner state. This is useful in push-model lexers which are stopped by an outer program when there is not enough input, and then resumed when more input becomes available. In this mode users should additionally define YYGETSTATE () and YYSETSTATE (state) macros and variables yych, yyaccept and the state as part of the lexer state.

[EDIT] : A slightly better explanation is found here:

http://re2c.org/manual/features/state/state.html

Code example here: http://re2c.org/examples/example_18.html
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> Before you reply, consider that underground homes have the benefit of

Enhanced opportunities for radon accumulation and also for becoming sealed tombs in the event of earthquakes?

> being a constant temperature all year around.

Sure, the ground is fairly constant temperature if you are 20+ feet down so you avoid the variability from surface heating. Which is a good case for geothermal heat pumps for temperature regulation, maybe not so good a reason for building residences underground.
> If you take spin, which can't exist by itself in classical physics

There are literally dozens of papers you can readily find that reproduce spin predictions using classical statistical mechanics. You denounce this as "model building", but every physical theory was model building.

> Try to build a classical theory of the photoelectric effect, it's impossible yet it opens the door of your elevator.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..TSS.C1003E
The article is talking about a party. Its not in the bussiness context, which as a Brazilian myself i can say, it works with punctuality as expected.
> The point is that I don't have to change any of my source code in order to change what registry I point at.

Apparently it's a matter of opinion, but I consider that a feature, not a bug. It means the import path, as the identifier of the package, identifies the package. If two source files refer to the same name, they mean the same code.

> code has no place dictating where it's downloaded from, yet go packages do that.

That is still not actually correct. The webserver listening on the domain is dictating where the code is downloaded from. i.e. the owner of the identifier of the code you are downloading.

The basic assumption is, that if you take some code and put it somewhere else, you are assuming ownership, so you should actually own the identifier of that code. If someone wants Library X, they should be sure to actually get Library X, not your fork Y.

> I can't use the go package management ecosystem if my canonical import path doesn't resolve (e.g. dep won't work, go get won't work, vgo won't work).

To me, this seems to be a weird and unfair comparison.

gopkg.in exists. There is nothing in the Go ecosystem that is preventing what you want to have. The equivalent to Rust's cargo+crates.io isn't go-get+custom-domain, it's go-get+registry. And the equivalent to the import path "github.com/user/package" isn't (import of the "package" crate plus a mirror-directive in your cargo config), it's just the string "package". Because that's the identifier of the crate.

You could make the argument that Go still doesn't allow you to have mirrors, which is fair on the one hand, but will be solved with modules on the other.

Really, IMO it's just a fallacy to think of the import path as a download location. It's an identifier and the only reason the domain must resolve, is because go-get must consult the owner of that identifier what code to fetch. And DNS is the canonical tool to do that. Just like you need to resolve a hostname to get a Let's Encrypt certificate or use the Google Webmaster tools - you have to prove ownership of the name.
I think they're the same thing, though IIRC tree grammars are usually defined to operate on actual trees rather than strings of text.
I have no idea what to do here, maybe pre-populate it when first time visiting to show the concept, add a button (with confirm) to start over?
> The platform and shipping are relevant in a product review.

Totally disagree! The product should be the same every time, but each customer is going to have a completely different shipping experience based on stock levels, warehouse proximity, carrier selection, and even based on whether the warehouse employee packing your order had enough sleep last night.

You saying the shipping was good, bad, fast, or slow, tells me virtually nothing about what my shipping experience will be.

It would be cool if there was a meta-item in Amazon inventory to represent Prime or the "Amazon experience" where you could leave reviews like this, but they don't belong on individual item listings.
I had no idea who Scott Aaronson is, so the context was useful to me.
If we're going to pick arbitrary metrics to fit our world views, the world 's largest democracy is France [1].

[1] Measured in quality of cheese and wine [2].
[2] Suck it, Italy.
what was the name of the simulator?
It took me many months to work through the book with exercises, and I found it quite challenging. Maybe I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I was already a developer with many years of practical experience at the time. Didn't have a CS background at the time though - maybe it would be easy if you already know all the theory.

I agree Scheme is pretty easy to learn, that was not the challenging part of the book. Exercises like implementing a logic language were pretty challenging, not to mention the math.
This town disappeared overnight after being swallowed up by huge cracks in Peru
I received their spam, reported it to mailchimp (their provider) and was told that they were suspended.
The only valid safety model is airgapped computers, stripped of any networking equipment, fed data only using dedicated thumbdrives coming from another computer running a different OS

VM are a problem waiting to happen.
Thanks!

When we were teaching an electronics design course at Berkeley, we were lucky to have a couple of desktop mills handy.

When we coupled JitPCB with the mills, we could completely sidestep the need for breadboards completely, even during prototyping. We went from code to fabbed board in half an hour.
They're hiring 10,000 full time moderators this year to help police this stuff. It's a serious attempt, and the cost of this on their projected earnings is why the stock crashed.
xanax!!!
Cornfielding good discussion looks terrible on you HN. Please stop.
So bring a trash bag or take it with you like everyone else does already?
I don't think thats a meaningful comparison. Moby Dick is a book, written by 1 guy and maybe an editor or two. NYT employs 1,300 people.

When you read a book all you get is the text. NYT has text, images, related articles, analytics, etc. Moby Dick doesn't have to know what pages you read. NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product and you can only achieve that with javascript tracking pixels (Server logs aren't good enough).

If Moby Dick was being rewritten and optimized every single day it would be a few mb. Its not, so you can't compare the two.

Yes NYT should be lighter, no your comparison is not meaningful. A better comparison would by Moby Dick to the physical NYT newspaper.
I have to say that this is essentially insignificant, they have only removed 32 pages where there are likely 100s of thousands of pages that are run by scammers. This is not something that can be solved without requiring every page that could be verified to have this be done.

Maybe a year back, I was contacted by a fraudster claiming to be affiliated with the FBI, they had a facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/FBI-of-Cambridge/161182553906...), which has still not been taken down even after my report saying what exactly this was.

Their response was "Thanks for your report - you did the right thing by letting us know about this. We looked over the Page you reported, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards, we understand that the Page or something shared on it may still be offensive to you. We want to help you avoid things you don't want to see on Facebook."
If it's all the same, why use separate files?
My wife is afraid of flying and uses an app called SkyGuru (I think). It uses your phone's accelerometer to measure turbulence and let you know the plane isn't likely reaching its structural limits and I think it also uses a timer to guess when certain sounds will be heard (landing gear retracting, flaps going up, the ding when the plane reaches 10k feet). She said that it has helped
All the reasons Flutter can make your heart flutter? Or not
iOS 12 Beta 1 allows iphone to boot without valid baseband data
Thank you. This is so embarrassing.
Okay, but whether their system is broken or not, I still need to be able to send emails to it.
These shortcomings of government are very basic to explain. It’s been well understood for plenty of time that private interests erode otherwise healthy good faith public service. To not acknowledge such systemic causality at this stage of things is a failure on your own part.
Going after political subversion groups first seems like a great priority. If they are just now starting for real, they’re starting in the right place.
I haven't, but I have another bone to pick with its authors. They lost credibility in my eyes with the whole Save/Export debacle. Sure, I use a plugin now that changes behaviour so I can save to PNG (who in the world uses xcf directly anyway?), but it's a pain to install everywhere, and I'm afraid it will stop working one day. I really wish they listened to their longtime users.
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Sorry but this piece comes across as entitled and whiny. It's easy to point out how bloated and terrible most modern large sites are and guffaw in disgust at the counts of xhttp requests and scripts that are loaded in order to provide no user benefit.

But just moaning about it probably won't make the problem go away. Simply rendering text isn't a business-model anymore unfortunately, and publishers are doing everything they can to actually make their content profitable.

Look: I hate the modern web as much as anyone and I always browse with ad-blocking on. But I turn it off for sites that I get real value from, and I pay monthly membership fees to news sites that I believe respect me as a visitor. My way of working isn't super great for me or for publishers (and I doubt most users turn off adblock for sites they value).

I was hoping this article would show some empathy for publishers and why they would start down the road of such user-hostile behavior. A complete piece would paint a vision for how to end the madness with a solution that is acceptable both to publishers and viewers. I don't know what that solution is, but I strongly doubt that just moaning and counting xhttp requests is part of it.
It's looks like HN is infected too, so they downvoted you. They are not only posting content, they also trying to ban or dismiss their opponents too (or just kill most annoying ones, as in my case).
Sounds like a gap in the market.
I assume initial habitats will be inflatable since those are easiest to transport.
No scientific journal of any repute pays its authors. Or reviewers.

Authors (more precisely, the grants we get to do our research in academia, or our employers in industry) pay the journal for the privilege of publishing there, and offer our services as reviewers for brownie points.
Have you ever seen this discussed outside of HN or dev-centric subreddits? Your average user doesn't care about this 'issue' at all, and thats why it won't ever change.

Proof the author doesn't relate to any typical user:

> I’m not asking much of it; I have opened a text-based document on the web

Nobody besides devs would open a website and think "Oh this a text-based document opened in a web browser". Its a website, not a word doc.
It doesn't matter whether they're stack allocated or statically allocated; neither is garbage, contrary to the original claim ("Go generates a lot of garbage except when dealing with numeric code"). The subsequent supporting claims ("structs with non-numeric members are heap-allocated", "struct fields that are not numbers are heap allocated", etc) were false (sometimes non-numeric members are heap allocated, but they're often not allocated and never because they're non-numeric and their container is never heap allocated on the basis of the location of the member data).

I think this matter is sufficiently resolved. Go trades GC throughput for latency and it doesn't need compaction to get good cache properties because it generates much less garbage than traditional GC-based language implementations.
I won't say this will work for everyone but I took a Ground School (classroom lecture portion of pilot training) course at a local college. Now that I understand the basics of operating an aircraft, all aspects of flying seem much more routine and less frightening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_training
Isn’t that just HTTP?
I've struggled with this issue myself. I've found that if I want to write a lot, I need to have something unique I want to say, and I need to enjoy saying it. I find rehashing something that has already been written is a joyless task. Similarly, I find writing in a conservative style, or from a detached perspective is also joyless.

Some simple steps that may help:

1.) List the things you're really passionate about

2.) Identify ways that you can talk about those things that is unique. If you're having a hard time with this, think about how aspects of those things relate to unusual aspects of your personal story, and why you care about those things in the first place.

3.) Try to write in a way that is distinctly you. Instead of sanitizing yourself out of the words, find ways to inject yourself into them as much as possible. Be playful, and have fun! Don't worry too much about following style guidelines initially, you can tighten things up later.
Considering all of the issues with usb, you'd be better off using floppy disks or optical drives for data transfer to this hypothetical 'secure' system.

> VM are a problem waiting to happen.

Something something security threat model and personal risk tolerance...
Hacker News.

I'm only half kidding. I once had an issue with a Google product that they only fixed after ranting about it here.
eBay is such a horrible user experience that I wonder how it still stands.
I just remember this feeling "over the big pond" that I was standing in houses of people that I assumed to have a good income looking at things and thinking to myself "if I would buy this now, it wouldn't last me till retirement"...

Another memorable event was learning about the true American religion: Tide. I still cannot believe people seem to be addicted to a detergent that costs a small fortune per bottle. I kind of assume that the typical top loader washing machines aren't much more expensive than the detergent (here I have never seen one of these fake washing machines).

Another thing I remember is design. My father is a hobbyist wood carver and painter with an admiration for the romantic epoch up to the art of the 20ies I would say. I was raised in the firm belief, that a certain aestheticism was lost when artistic and design styles moved ahead. When I was in the US I had at one point an almost enlightenment. I - like many other exchange students - recognised how many things in the us are designed with ornaments, I am not speaking about old stuff things that are produced today. This starts with pens, book covers and furniture, over Greek style columns at family homes and hospitals, and I can only describe this weird feeling with what I assume to an American is the feeling when looking at stuff of Donald trunp. No clear lines but ornaments everywhere. Then I realised that the US has never completely said goodbye to art deco and related styles. Since I know now what the logical continuation of art deco in the 21st century is, j am much less inclined to join my father in mourning the arrival of modern design.
Your comment reeks of hubris, hatred for Americans, and self-delusion. You question the value of ridding the world of bad-actors. Why? Why would this be a bad thing, if one company ensures it cannot accidentally allow foreign powers to interfere in elections?

You have one ‘source’ that claims, without evidence, that the impact of Russian meddling was minimal. To be so confident of your pretty big claim, with only that source to go on, that’s pretty crazy.

You also make it out like all of the US is actively working on this. Ridiculous. People all around their country are attempting to strengthen their democracy, to find ways to make it better.

That you think this is a bad thing... it makes it obvious how much you hate America. Deny it all you want. And I’m not even an American.
Same in Asia
For violating economic sanctions. Go ask Treasury and they’ll give you the lowdown.
Summer Camp for the Ultra-Wealthy Teaches Kids How to Stay Rich
I've noticed that a lot of sites will end up using 100% CPU usage on their Chrome tab. I haven't investigated, but I do wonder what sort of faulty design leads to this. You occasionally hear talk of sites using your CPU to mine cryptocurrency, but I'm more inclined to suspect lousy programming.

I sometimes wish I had an easy way in Chrome to restrict a tab to, say, 5% CPU, for the cases where the CPU usage is clearly not adding any value. Just so I can get through an article without the fan ramping up.
I also had a fear of flying, one that lasted 3 years. It came on because of 3 terrible flights in a row. It was bad to the point where I could not even think about stepping on a plane.

I ended up missing weddings and job opportunities because the fear of flying was so intense.

I now fly regularly, and without issue. It took a long time, but I've found a few things that worked for me:

1. No caffeine on a flight day. This helps for any anxiety that may start to build for me.

2. Noise cancelling head phones w/ ear plugs. A lot of my anxiety came from paying attention to the sound of engines. Was something odd happening? Keeping the sound of the engine drowned out helped keep my mind off the mechanics of the airplane.

3. Neck pillow / comfortable clothing. Being warm and comfortable lets me fall asleep, completely avoiding any anxiety that may have otherwise come.

4. Timing flights to avoid common storm times. I'm in Florida, and the afternoon thunderstorms can be extreme. If I can, I try to fly out early in the morning, or late at night when the storms tend to not occur.
That's the point Hal Abelson makes in the first lecture of the class he taught off SICP. That's all there is to Lisp, just like you can teach someone chess in 10 minutes. SICP is about becoming a grandmaster.
I have a couple of relatives with T1D and that was exactly the first thing they were told to do. However doctors know that many people will not do this, and good doctors are more interested in helping the patient be healthy than being moralistic jerks, and so they prescribe insulin to meet the patients existing needs instead of saying "well you should have eaten better and then you wouldn't be dying so young".